I'm definitely looking forward to Firefly, but that doesn't mean I want to lose Farscape.
Currently, Farscape is still cancelled but is being considered by other networks. Help save the show! The original "save Farscape" headquarters has been unavailable for a few days: Save Farscape
I'm just thinking here, but won't it be easier to come out with an OS that is compatiable with the new OSX, since it is build on *BSD??
Not only that, but the GNUStep project is based on the OpenStep spec, just as OS X is. I believe one of the current design goals of GNUStep is to achieve source compatibility with OS X.
Morals are NOT based on the bad boy punishment hype of most modern religions.
Well, that's certainly a loaded statement.
1) *Your* morals are not based on... modern religions. Please don't say the same for me and many others.
2) From the point of view of Christianity, yes there is a set of laws that defines part of our moral system. (You shall not harm others, you shall not steal, etc.) But you have completely neglected the other part. Because Jesus has shown Christians love, we are motivated to show love to others. "Bad boy punishment hype" doesn't cover that at all.
I would normally leave religion well enough alone, but in this case, as in most cases where it comes up, it is the religious who brought up the discussion and hence warrant a response.
Actually, Larry was responding to a question. It's too bad that you viewed that as an assault on your personal belief system.
There is no afterlife, there is no reason to "be good" here to get some silly reward for eternity later.
You cannot possibly know that, just as I cannot possibly know that there is an afterlife.
When more people start to live in reality the world will be a better place.
I believe that "reality" is more than what we observe. Modern physics leans toward this opinion as well. Do disbelieve everything that cannot be seen is not defensible.
Amen to that. The AI was rather impressive, although the creatures didn't seem to have the ability to prioritize tasks very effectively. Their actions were rather random, which meant that you had to go and do all the real work.
And that is where the sucking started to show. Cast miracle forest, harvest wood/make foresters, build buildings, cast miracle food, repeat ad nauseum. It became micro-management hell. Why did the villagers need to be so freaking helpless? "We need more civic buildings!" Bah. Makes you want to fireball their little loinclothed asses.
And while we're at it: "gestures" are amusing to play around with, but become incredibly annoying when you really need a miracle quickly. Is it that hard to make some hotkeys?
You need to find a coffee with low acid content. I find that Sumatra goes down pretty smooth when drinking it by the pot. You're asking for trouble if you drink an average Columbian brew in those quantities.
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There is more going on in the world of SPAM prevention than the stupidity of adding Haikus to e-mail messages (great waste of bandwidth).
How much more a waste
is sending ASCII email
with HTML?
A "legalize marijuana" badge might be inappropriate on, say LinuxGames or Happy Penguin. But this is Michael's personal development page. He wrote all the games, he wrote the website. If he wants to lobby for something totally unrelated, that's his prerogative. Deal.
Quit spouting anonymous FUD. ATi has generally been pretty good about releasing specs to qualified XF86 developers. The original Radeon is currently supported pretty well by XF86 DRI, and 8500 support is in development. (The 8500 also runs using ATi's FireGL 8800 binary drivers.)
As for the 8500 MAXX, no word yet. Odds are it will probably be a while before XF86 supports both GPUs.
ATI is to be commended for their relative openness compared to NVidia and Matrox.
While I agree that ATi's willingness to release specs is heartening, I don't think you give Matrox enough credit. They have a pretty good history of cooperating with open source developers. I think they keep some portions of their linux drivers closed (DualHead maybe?), but by and large they have been quite supportive of OSS.
To get to the point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring. The term "cover up" would be too strong a characterization which is why I am attempting to carefully (and perhaps over laboriously) choose my words here. I base my concerns on my relatively small, peripheral but unique role in the Moussaoui investigation in the Minneapolis Division prior to, during and after September 11th and my analysis of the comments I have heard both inside the FBI (originating, I believe, from you and other high levels of management) as well as your Congressional testimony and public comments.
I feel that certain facts, including the following, have, up to now, been omitted, downplayed, glossed over and/or mis-characterized in an effort to avoid or minimize personal and/or institutional embarrassment on the part of the FBI and/or perhaps even for improper political reasons:
1) It has recently come to light that two agents from the Unsolved Crimes division are closely investigating reports of what they characterize as an "alien bounty hunter." Our efforts at concealing the existence of this entity (see I.R. #26972, "Roswell Project") appear to have been inadequate. Agent Mulder in particular has sworn before this very committee that he is dedicated to finding, as he terms it, "the Truth." C.G.B. Spender has been instructed to deal with the situation, but some fear the damage has already been done.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
I'm not familiar with the particular drivers RMS refers to, but it sounds reasonable to me that a binary string may fit the definition of "source" for programming firmware. Assembly might be preferable, but only if you have an assembler designed for the firmware. Is the GNU project going to provide that?
I'd want more information before I started condemning Linux programmers for this kind of thing.
Amen. Chalk up another "this sucks" vote from a diehard TiVo user. Next time, give us *at least* 24 hours, preferably with a spoiler warning.
Bah. Good thing X-Files mostly sucks these days. If this happened somewhere in the first five seasons, I would have been *really* pissed.
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This doesn't make JPG2K appear too impressive.
JPEG-2K is really intended for lossy coding, and that is where it shines. The lossless spec is included primarily because you can use the same algorithm for both lossy and lossless coding. The only real difference is in the choice of wavelet transform, which is irreversible (floating-point) in the lossy case but reversible (integer) in the lossless case.
A better comparison pits JPEG-2K against the original (lossy) JPEG. According to a figure given in this paper, J2K provides roughly a 2dB PSNR gain over JPEG for a wide range of bitrates. At the low rate of 0.25 bits per pixel, this gain takes you from 25.5dB to 27.5dB; perceptually, that is a noticeable difference. At low rate, JPEG is also subject to blocking artifacts, so the perceptual problems can be even worse than the PSNR numbers would indicate.
Mmmmm. Leinie's Red is undoubtedly one of the best inexpensive beers. Between Leinie's Red and Johnsonville brats, I've got my taste of home (WI) right here in Michigan.
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I'm definitely looking forward to Firefly, but that doesn't mean I want to lose Farscape.
Currently, Farscape is still cancelled but is being considered by other networks. Help save the show!
The original "save Farscape" headquarters has been unavailable for a few days: Save Farscape
I'm just thinking here, but won't it be easier to come out with an OS that is compatiable with the new OSX, since it is build on *BSD??
Not only that, but the GNUStep project is based on the OpenStep spec, just as OS X is. I believe one of the current design goals of GNUStep is to achieve source compatibility with OS X.
Actually, I was thinking of 'croup', which is a nasty little cough kids get from hanging out with other kids.
My thoughts exactly. That name does not leave a terribly pleasant impression with me.
The concept is good though. The lack of a good Exchange/Outlook alternative has been a strike against *nix in many MS-centric offices.
TypeAheadFind made me want to piss my pants. It's one step closer to total vi domination of my desktop.
But more importantly, it makes mouseless (graphical) browsing feasible.
There are worse things to be tied to. At least Apple has a reputation for making quality hardware.
Morals are NOT based on the bad boy punishment hype of most modern religions.
Well, that's certainly a loaded statement.
1) *Your* morals are not based on... modern religions. Please don't say the same for me and many others.
2) From the point of view of Christianity, yes there is a set of laws that defines part of our moral system. (You shall not harm others, you shall not steal, etc.) But you have completely neglected the other part. Because Jesus has shown Christians love, we are motivated to show love to others. "Bad boy punishment hype" doesn't cover that at all.
I would normally leave religion well enough alone, but in this case, as in most cases where it comes up, it is the religious who brought up the discussion and hence warrant a response.
Actually, Larry was responding to a question. It's too bad that you viewed that as an assault on your personal belief system.
There is no afterlife, there is no reason to "be good" here to get some silly reward for eternity later.
You cannot possibly know that, just as I cannot possibly know that there is an afterlife.
When more people start to live in reality the world will be a better place.
I believe that "reality" is more than what we observe. Modern physics leans toward this opinion as well. Do disbelieve everything that cannot be seen is not defensible.
According to a google search, it is actually spelled "Schroedinger's Cat".
Either that or it's actually spelled in German, and any English version you see is just a bastardization of that.
Amen to that. The AI was rather impressive, although the creatures didn't seem to have the ability to prioritize tasks very effectively. Their actions were rather random, which meant that you had to go and do all the real work.
And that is where the sucking started to show. Cast miracle forest, harvest wood/make foresters, build buildings, cast miracle food, repeat ad nauseum. It became micro-management hell. Why did the villagers need to be so freaking helpless? "We need more civic buildings!" Bah. Makes you want to fireball their little loinclothed asses.
And while we're at it: "gestures" are amusing to play around with, but become incredibly annoying when you really need a miracle quickly. Is it that hard to make some hotkeys?
FYI: Red Bull + alcohol
Just sayin'.
You need to find a coffee with low acid content. I find that Sumatra goes down pretty smooth when drinking it by the pot. You're asking for trouble if you drink an average Columbian brew in those quantities.
There is more going on in the world of SPAM prevention than the stupidity of adding Haikus to e-mail messages (great waste of bandwidth).
How much more a waste
is sending ASCII email
with HTML?
Will I be able to sell my furniture for bobba?
Your choice. And your loss... he does write some nice games.
A "legalize marijuana" badge might be inappropriate on, say LinuxGames or Happy Penguin. But this is Michael's personal development page. He wrote all the games, he wrote the website. If he wants to lobby for something totally unrelated, that's his prerogative. Deal.
"Informative" my ass. When was the last time ZDNet couldn't handle a little slashdotting? Quit stealing their ad revenue.
Is Brian still alive?
He works here now.
Quit spouting anonymous FUD. ATi has generally been pretty good about releasing specs to qualified XF86 developers. The original Radeon is currently supported pretty well by XF86 DRI, and 8500 support is in development. (The 8500 also runs using ATi's FireGL 8800 binary drivers.)
As for the 8500 MAXX, no word yet. Odds are it will probably be a while before XF86 supports both GPUs.
ATI is to be commended for their relative openness compared to NVidia and Matrox.
While I agree that ATi's willingness to release specs is heartening, I don't think you give Matrox enough credit. They have a pretty good history of cooperating with open source developers. I think they keep some portions of their linux drivers closed (DualHead maybe?), but by and large they have been quite supportive of OSS.
To get to the point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring. The term "cover up" would be too strong a characterization which is why I am attempting to carefully (and perhaps over laboriously) choose my words here. I base my concerns on my relatively small, peripheral but unique role in the Moussaoui investigation in the Minneapolis Division prior to, during and after September 11th and my analysis of the comments I have heard both inside the FBI (originating, I believe, from you and other high levels of management) as well as your Congressional testimony and public comments.
I feel that certain facts, including the following, have, up to now, been omitted, downplayed, glossed over and/or mis-characterized in an effort to avoid or minimize personal and/or institutional embarrassment on the part of the FBI and/or perhaps even for improper political reasons:
1) It has recently come to light that two agents from the Unsolved Crimes division are closely investigating reports of what they characterize as an "alien bounty hunter." Our efforts at concealing the existence of this entity (see I.R. #26972, "Roswell Project") appear to have been inadequate. Agent Mulder in particular has sworn before this very committee that he is dedicated to finding, as he terms it, "the Truth." C.G.B. Spender has been instructed to deal with the situation, but some fear the damage has already been done.
Very revealing stuff.
From the GPL:
I'm not familiar with the particular drivers RMS refers to, but it sounds reasonable to me that a binary string may fit the definition of "source" for programming firmware. Assembly might be preferable, but only if you have an assembler designed for the firmware. Is the GNU project going to provide that?
I'd want more information before I started condemning Linux programmers for this kind of thing.
I think that this spoiler for those on the west coast rocketed chrisd to jonkatz status.
WHOA, whoa, whoa. Think about what you're saying, man. Let's not go overboard here...
Amen. Chalk up another "this sucks" vote from a diehard TiVo user. Next time, give us *at least* 24 hours, preferably with a spoiler warning.
Bah. Good thing X-Files mostly sucks these days. If this happened somewhere in the first five seasons, I would have been *really* pissed.
This doesn't make JPG2K appear too impressive.
JPEG-2K is really intended for lossy coding, and that is where it shines. The lossless spec is included primarily because you can use the same algorithm for both lossy and lossless coding. The only real difference is in the choice of wavelet transform, which is irreversible (floating-point) in the lossy case but reversible (integer) in the lossless case.
A better comparison pits JPEG-2K against the original (lossy) JPEG. According to a figure given in this paper, J2K provides roughly a 2dB PSNR gain over JPEG for a wide range of bitrates. At the low rate of 0.25 bits per pixel, this gain takes you from 25.5dB to 27.5dB; perceptually, that is a noticeable difference. At low rate, JPEG is also subject to blocking artifacts, so the perceptual problems can be even worse than the PSNR numbers would indicate.
In other words, JPEG-2K is a Good Thing.
No personal stories, but ThinkGeek was in pretty good form today...
Mmmmm. Leinie's Red is undoubtedly one of the best inexpensive beers. Between Leinie's Red and Johnsonville brats, I've got my taste of home (WI) right here in Michigan.