These are major and invasive changes to POSIX. No reasonable person would expect to be able to do things like change PID semantics or shared memory. Yes, it might solve the problem that they sought to solve. But I would be very surprised to see this meet with any large-scale deployment.
It's better to work with the system than to just arbitrarily decide Unix is wrong and rewrite it.
When using Xinerama (which you really ought to be if you want control over your multi-screen setup), many tiling window managers can do all sorts of neat things. I personally use Awesome, although I'm told that xmonad is also good at this.
Buh? As far as I can tell, Google doesn't have a platform called "AppLogic". Perhaps they were referring to App Engine?
And it's not even the editors' fault this time -- TFA has the terms wrong too. That really inspires confidence...
I've found that Verilog is much easier to learn and teach (at least, for an undergraduate engineering-type class). But, as others have mentioned, do NOT think of it as a programming language. Think of it as a convenient way to draw schematics, a very sophisticated keyboard layout for Xilinx. You should ALWAYS write synthesizable code for everything except your testbench, and you shouldn't have to synthesize it to know what it looks like.
As to why not VHDL, well, VHDL is the COBOL of HDLs. Way too verbose for me.
Yeah, that seemed a little unlikely to me as well. There are 2**128 addresses in IPv6. Even assuming that all of these were allocated in 64-bit subnets (fairly common), that's still 5*10**15 subnets. Which is a hugely ridiculous amount, many times larger than the IPv4 Internet. Something's fishy about this number...
Except for the fact that nobody's going to buy the PS3 or a hypothetical HD-DVD-equipped Xbox360 for the drive. People don't care about or understand details like that. Furthermore, multi-format drives don't necessarily signal death to single-format drives. I know a lot of people still using DVD-R/w and DVD+R/W drives, even though DVD+-R/W drives cost the same amount. That's what I think HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray is going to come down to- the same thing that DVD-R vs DVD+R vs DVD-RAM came down to. Namely, nothing.
Also except for the BIG issue- price. If it costs hundreds of dollars to make a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive, I'll bet that this HD-Blue drive will costs even more. Your average Joe Schmoe cares about his wallet first and foremost. He probably won't be buying any next-gen drives for a few years.
Also, I know that Sony/PS3 hating is in vogue now, but, please. Keep your herd mentality to yourself.
Actually, their math is wrong. If the great red spot is twice as wide as earth is, then its radius is 12,756.3 km and the earth's is 6378.15. That means that the great red spot is an area of approximately 510950815.6266 square kilometers and the earth's cross section has an area of approximately 127737703.90665 square kilometers. As you can plainly see, the area of the great red spot is 4 times that of the earth. If Red Jr. is half the size of the Great Red Spot, then it must have half the area, namely, 255475407.8133 square kilometers. Thus, Red Jr. must have twice the area of the Earth and half that of the Great Red Spot. Da. Somehow, I think they meant that Red Jr. has half the diameter of the Great Red Spot. But whatever.:P
I never had trouble finding the plot in HL2. I read all the exposés after I finished the game and found very little that I hadn't already figured out... Maybe you are just too used to having some sort of deus ex machina come down from the sky (or out from a chair in front of a bank of video monitors) and explain everything away and you are out of practice at analyzing fiction?
Yes, I understand the logic of a compositing manager. I was just pointing out the minimum framebuffer size (ie: single-buffered non-composited drawing).
1,310,720 pixels = 1280x1024 (41943040 bits of raw data, approx 5.2MiB)
2,304,000 pixels = 2048x1125 or 2134x1080 (73728000 bits of raw data, approx 9.2 MiB)
That, of course, assumes 32-bit color depth, which I think is likely since they have alpha compositing, and an 8-bit alpha layer is pretty standard these days.:-) Anyhow, they're under a 10 MiB framebuffer even at 2.3 megapixels. I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Erm. Most Firefox extensions most certainly are cross-platform compatible. As a matter of fact, I've never run across one that didn't work equally as well on Windows, Linux, OS X, and BeOS. So what are you talking about?
Perhaps, if your attention span is so short that you are unable to focus on a 10-minute video, a complicated strategy game spanning billions of years of evolution isn't the right game for you.
Except you don't install the game onto the drive, the drive is just for updates, saves, and your personal ATRAC3 collection. Haven't you ever used a console?
Vendetta Online. I like it. Plus, we're approaching a big new release. Some features (new station UI, new ship class) are already in; more are about to appear. Cool stuff, man.
(This Post Is Not An April Fool's Day Post)
Gtk uses cairo to render everything (buttons, etc). Cairo is a vector graphics library. Thus, it is already all vectorized. Many Gnome and KDE themes are also vectorized, with SVG icons and window decorations.
As of Qt4, KDE will also have a vectorized toolkit.
And, really cool, Cairo has something called glitz, which uses GL to render. Therefore, all of these really cool scalable desktops will get measurably faster once the X server starts using GL in a big way. Check out the following links for more info on vector stuff:
You're absolutely right. Movies, rather than being funny and entertaining, should only enforce good Christian morals. Movie directors shouldn't be self-promoting, but instead community oriented. Kind of like priests, only without the whole "anally raping alterboys" thing. Even if he's but one of the people involved in a movie, his involvement must mean that he, as an egotistical maniac, is attempting a huge publicity stunt, and therefore the movie has turned into a steaming pile of shit. We should work together and lead a charge to purge movies of all the sex, violence, and entertainment. Bring the power back where it belongs- The Church Channel.
It's the online version of a print magazine. Do you expect them to have external citations? When was the last time you read a tech magazine that linked to reviews of products done by other magazines?
Who decides what's PG, what's PG-13, what's R, etc? Who picks what gets censored? Does an image of a military strike in Iraq get censored? What about an anatomy page from wikipedia? How about slashdot? What if the holy rollers doing the censorship decide that the liberal media is bad for kids' brains and decide to restrict anything fromy nytimes.com from port 2085. Does that mean that those kids don't even get the option?
Um. Explain why 1900x1200@4xFSAA is worse than 1280x1024@2xFSAA... I know, it's interlaced. So's the television that most people love and enjoy. Unless you've got amazing vision, anything over 70Hz is irrelevant anyhow, especially on an LCD or plasma screen (where the pixels don't fade out in the fraction of a second that they do on a traditional CRT).
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These are major and invasive changes to POSIX. No reasonable person would expect to be able to do things like change PID semantics or shared memory. Yes, it might solve the problem that they sought to solve. But I would be very surprised to see this meet with any large-scale deployment. It's better to work with the system than to just arbitrarily decide Unix is wrong and rewrite it.
When using Xinerama (which you really ought to be if you want control over your multi-screen setup), many tiling window managers can do all sorts of neat things. I personally use Awesome, although I'm told that xmonad is also good at this.
Buh? As far as I can tell, Google doesn't have a platform called "AppLogic". Perhaps they were referring to App Engine? And it's not even the editors' fault this time -- TFA has the terms wrong too. That really inspires confidence...
I've found that Verilog is much easier to learn and teach (at least, for an undergraduate engineering-type class). But, as others have mentioned, do NOT think of it as a programming language. Think of it as a convenient way to draw schematics, a very sophisticated keyboard layout for Xilinx. You should ALWAYS write synthesizable code for everything except your testbench, and you shouldn't have to synthesize it to know what it looks like. As to why not VHDL, well, VHDL is the COBOL of HDLs. Way too verbose for me.
Yeah, that seemed a little unlikely to me as well. There are 2**128 addresses in IPv6. Even assuming that all of these were allocated in 64-bit subnets (fairly common), that's still 5*10**15 subnets. Which is a hugely ridiculous amount, many times larger than the IPv4 Internet. Something's fishy about this number...
Reprased: Watch as sales of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players go from approximately 0 units to approximately 0 units
Except for the fact that nobody's going to buy the PS3 or a hypothetical HD-DVD-equipped Xbox360 for the drive. People don't care about or understand details like that. Furthermore, multi-format drives don't necessarily signal death to single-format drives. I know a lot of people still using DVD-R/w and DVD+R/W drives, even though DVD+-R/W drives cost the same amount. That's what I think HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray is going to come down to- the same thing that DVD-R vs DVD+R vs DVD-RAM came down to. Namely, nothing.
Also except for the BIG issue- price. If it costs hundreds of dollars to make a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive, I'll bet that this HD-Blue drive will costs even more. Your average Joe Schmoe cares about his wallet first and foremost. He probably won't be buying any next-gen drives for a few years.
Also, I know that Sony/PS3 hating is in vogue now, but, please. Keep your herd mentality to yourself.
Actually, their math is wrong. If the great red spot is twice as wide as earth is, then its radius is 12,756.3 km and the earth's is 6378.15. That means that the great red spot is an area of approximately 510950815.6266 square kilometers and the earth's cross section has an area of approximately 127737703.90665 square kilometers. As you can plainly see, the area of the great red spot is 4 times that of the earth. If Red Jr. is half the size of the Great Red Spot, then it must have half the area, namely, 255475407.8133 square kilometers. Thus, Red Jr. must have twice the area of the Earth and half that of the Great Red Spot. Da. Somehow, I think they meant that Red Jr. has half the diameter of the Great Red Spot. But whatever. :P
I never had trouble finding the plot in HL2. I read all the exposés after I finished the game and found very little that I hadn't already figured out... Maybe you are just too used to having some sort of deus ex machina come down from the sky (or out from a chair in front of a bank of video monitors) and explain everything away and you are out of practice at analyzing fiction?
Yes, I understand the logic of a compositing manager. I was just pointing out the minimum framebuffer size (ie: single-buffered non-composited drawing).
1,310,720 pixels = 1280x1024 (41943040 bits of raw data, approx 5.2MiB)
:-) Anyhow, they're under a 10 MiB framebuffer even at 2.3 megapixels. I just thought I'd throw that out there.
2,304,000 pixels = 2048x1125 or 2134x1080 (73728000 bits of raw data, approx 9.2 MiB)
That, of course, assumes 32-bit color depth, which I think is likely since they have alpha compositing, and an 8-bit alpha layer is pretty standard these days.
Except Netscape already had 1,2,3,4,6,and 7 releases...
Erm. Most Firefox extensions most certainly are cross-platform compatible. As a matter of fact, I've never run across one that didn't work equally as well on Windows, Linux, OS X, and BeOS. So what are you talking about?
Doesn't Windows Explorer support mounting WebDAV volumes just like a mapped drive? I thought it did...
Perhaps, if your attention span is so short that you are unable to focus on a 10-minute video, a complicated strategy game spanning billions of years of evolution isn't the right game for you.
Except you don't install the game onto the drive, the drive is just for updates, saves, and your personal ATRAC3 collection. Haven't you ever used a console?
Vendetta Online. I like it. Plus, we're approaching a big new release. Some features (new station UI, new ship class) are already in; more are about to appear. Cool stuff, man. (This Post Is Not An April Fool's Day Post)
Gtk uses cairo to render everything (buttons, etc). Cairo is a vector graphics library. Thus, it is already all vectorized. Many Gnome and KDE themes are also vectorized, with SVG icons and window decorations.
As of Qt4, KDE will also have a vectorized toolkit.
And, really cool, Cairo has something called glitz, which uses GL to render. Therefore, all of these really cool scalable desktops will get measurably faster once the X server starts using GL in a big way. Check out the following links for more info on vector stuff:
"I think there is a quantum world market for maybe five computers."
- Since the USB port doesn't supply any juice, you can't use a keyboard or mouse.
- It's not supposed to...
- Are you crazy?
- XP won't run on ARM
- XP won't fit in the 64 MB of Flash ROM that Linux fits in
- What gaming do you expect to do on a four-inch touchscreen?
Hmm. I should stop replying to flamebait.You're absolutely right. Movies, rather than being funny and entertaining, should only enforce good Christian morals. Movie directors shouldn't be self-promoting, but instead community oriented. Kind of like priests, only without the whole "anally raping alterboys" thing. Even if he's but one of the people involved in a movie, his involvement must mean that he, as an egotistical maniac, is attempting a huge publicity stunt, and therefore the movie has turned into a steaming pile of shit. We should work together and lead a charge to purge movies of all the sex, violence, and entertainment. Bring the power back where it belongs- The Church Channel.
It's the online version of a print magazine. Do you expect them to have external citations? When was the last time you read a tech magazine that linked to reviews of products done by other magazines?
Who decides what's PG, what's PG-13, what's R, etc? Who picks what gets censored? Does an image of a military strike in Iraq get censored? What about an anatomy page from wikipedia? How about slashdot? What if the holy rollers doing the censorship decide that the liberal media is bad for kids' brains and decide to restrict anything fromy nytimes.com from port 2085. Does that mean that those kids don't even get the option?
Um. Explain why 1900x1200@4xFSAA is worse than 1280x1024@2xFSAA... I know, it's interlaced. So's the television that most people love and enjoy. Unless you've got amazing vision, anything over 70Hz is irrelevant anyhow, especially on an LCD or plasma screen (where the pixels don't fade out in the fraction of a second that they do on a traditional CRT).