You didn't read what I wrote either (you even quoted it).
OK, so if it crashed, it would be a massive disadvantage, right?:)
But I want to know what the "massive advantage" is that can be gained by a call to some undocumented API. Come on, I'm a programmer, I can take the technical details. Give me a DLL and a function name. Maybe I can call one of these secret APIs myself! Until I see hard details, I will not believe any of this paranoia.
An application doesn't call the NT kernel directly, it calls an intermediate personality layer, one example of which is the Win32 API.
"Inconceivable"! Hahaha have you seen The Princess Bride? I just love your "Argument From Personal Incredulity"! (BTW, "i before e except after c"!)
Look, no-one has posted a *single instance* of an undocumented API called by Microsoft Office. Until someone does, I shall remain unconvinced. And the original poster said (although he has since softened) "massive advantage". I'm a game programmer, and I am having a hard time thinking what I could do with an undocumented API. Microsoft Office? What could you possibly want to do that you can't do with the Win32 API?
No need to be rude, I just asked a question, it wasn't even a stupid question.
Seeing as we're talking about a vector display, not a raster display, perhaps the mirrors need to do something more complicated than just "spin"?
OK, the site is slashdotted so I'm not gonna flame you, but essentially that is exactly what happens. Tiles are not revealed until all of their neighbours are submitted.
??? The XBox is not a PC, and it doesn't run Windows. The only similarities are the Intel processor, and a bit of scheduling code from Windows 2000.
What the hell has it got to do with WINE?
Oh please. That's not the problem with the GPL. The problem is that you have to open source all of your source if you use any GPL'd code.
No-one has a problem with releasing changes they have made to open source. That's so not the issue.
Gotta agree...
Trivia:
1) Lalla Ward is married to Richard Dawkins
2) Paul McGann lives just around the corner from me, although I've never seen him around.
3) But I did see Trude Mostue, the Norwegian bird from "Vets in Practice", in Sainsbury's
Sadly there wasn't a special instruction for switching the banks. You had to set or clear bit 14 of $f02100.
You could move single values to/from the other bank with moveta/movefa instructions.
I agree with many of your points, but I must insist that the Saturn did indeed render only quads. Not only that, but they were rendered in a funny way... Normally, the destination pixels would be rendered one at a time, and the corresponding texel would be fetched for each pixel. The Saturn iterated over the source texture, and stretched it over the destination, replicating texels as necessary.
In addition, the textures (more accurately, "stretched sprites") were stored in a linear fashion rather than the PSX's 2D layout, and you couldn't skip texels at the end of each line. Essentially, you couldn't provide texture coordinates (although you could lie about the start position and height of the texture).
This meant that you couldn't easily subdivide polygons (which would involve subdividing the texture coordinates) in the u direction. If you wanted to do this, you would have to copy out a slice of the texture.
Well, OK, I don't know if I would call a Land Rover an SUV. Maybe a UV. Maybe a British upper-class twatmobile. My mum used to have an old short wheelbase diesel, it went about 45MPH downhill, and you needed a new set of bones after every trip. Not exactly a sporty vehicle.
But we don't have billions of the fuckers.
Anyway, they're owned by Ford now... You USians are just lapping it up...:)
BTW my Mum is not an upper-class twat. She used the Land Rover to move logs. Just to clear that up.
It's a pity that your republicrat two horse race is marginalising Nader & his Green Party.
Because, let's face it, the US of A really needs to start being responsible for what it's doing to the environment.
The country that gave us SUV's...
You lot produce something like five times as much CO2 as anyone else in the world.
Nice one.
Anyway, I was watching this documentary about Hillary Rodham, and I was wondering about something they said... Of course, if she gets the NY Governor job, then she becomes a potential candidate for President in 2004. The thing is, they reckon she only has a chance if the Democrats lose this time. What's the deal with that? Is it extremely unlikely for a Democrat to beat another Democrat (ie. Al Gore) after a bad first term? What about if Gore gets two terms, surely it's not a given that the Republicans will be in next?
Sorry, I'm not USian, I'm just curious.
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You didn't read what I wrote either (you even quoted it). :)
OK, so if it crashed, it would be a massive disadvantage, right?
But I want to know what the "massive advantage" is that can be gained by a call to some undocumented API. Come on, I'm a programmer, I can take the technical details. Give me a DLL and a function name. Maybe I can call one of these secret APIs myself! Until I see hard details, I will not believe any of this paranoia.
An application doesn't call the NT kernel directly, it calls an intermediate personality layer, one example of which is the Win32 API.
"Inconceivable"! Hahaha have you seen The Princess Bride? I just love your "Argument From Personal Incredulity"! (BTW, "i before e except after c"!)
Look, no-one has posted a *single instance* of an undocumented API called by Microsoft Office. Until someone does, I shall remain unconvinced. And the original poster said (although he has since softened) "massive advantage". I'm a game programmer, and I am having a hard time thinking what I could do with an undocumented API. Microsoft Office? What could you possibly want to do that you can't do with the Win32 API?
No need to be rude, I just asked a question, it wasn't even a stupid question.
Seeing as we're talking about a vector display, not a raster display, perhaps the mirrors need to do something more complicated than just "spin"?
How do you deflect the beam?
OK, the site is slashdotted so I'm not gonna flame you, but essentially that is exactly what happens. Tiles are not revealed until all of their neighbours are submitted.
Oh, wow, I wish I could be as sarcastic as you ;)
Well, like, DUH, because the web did not exist in the pre-Net era... That statement has zero information content, so why bother to say it?
Heh, I was wondering WTF you were talking about! This is Slashdot, after all!
"Neat stuff"
Agreed...
"a very nice example of something that couldn't be done in the pre-Net era"
Er, no... Maybe it makes it a bit easier, a bit more accessible, but... I think some people take the Net a bit too seriously...
??? The XBox is not a PC, and it doesn't run Windows. The only similarities are the Intel processor, and a bit of scheduling code from Windows 2000.
What the hell has it got to do with WINE?
Wrong. Time to re-read the GPL...
You might be thinking of the LGPL.
Oh please. That's not the problem with the GPL. The problem is that you have to open source all of your source if you use any GPL'd code.
No-one has a problem with releasing changes they have made to open source. That's so not the issue.
Gotta agree...
Trivia:
1) Lalla Ward is married to Richard Dawkins
2) Paul McGann lives just around the corner from me, although I've never seen him around.
3) But I did see Trude Mostue, the Norwegian bird from "Vets in Practice", in Sainsbury's
... But why not spend your money on a dual processor solution?
Oh BTW, that was for the GPU, for the DSP it was $f1a100, before some smartass pipes up...
Sadly there wasn't a special instruction for switching the banks. You had to set or clear bit 14 of $f02100.
You could move single values to/from the other bank with moveta/movefa instructions.
>"What in the entire Universe is easier to share than information?"
Somewhat ironically, it's easier to share entropy!
I agree with many of your points, but I must insist that the Saturn did indeed render only quads. Not only that, but they were rendered in a funny way... Normally, the destination pixels would be rendered one at a time, and the corresponding texel would be fetched for each pixel. The Saturn iterated over the source texture, and stretched it over the destination, replicating texels as necessary.
In addition, the textures (more accurately, "stretched sprites") were stored in a linear fashion rather than the PSX's 2D layout, and you couldn't skip texels at the end of each line. Essentially, you couldn't provide texture coordinates (although you could lie about the start position and height of the texture).
This meant that you couldn't easily subdivide polygons (which would involve subdividing the texture coordinates) in the u direction. If you wanted to do this, you would have to copy out a slice of the texture.
Heh, I guess you didn't read the article then...
The original guy was right. The ARM is in the sound chip.
Check this page out...
"The 13-month calendar was devised by Auguste Comte in 1849"
You know, for a moment I thought you were voting for Ali G ...
Maybe the Staines massive can annex some new territory...
Booyakasha!
Well, OK, I don't know if I would call a Land Rover an SUV. Maybe a UV. Maybe a British upper-class twatmobile. My mum used to have an old short wheelbase diesel, it went about 45MPH downhill, and you needed a new set of bones after every trip. Not exactly a sporty vehicle.
:)
But we don't have billions of the fuckers.
Anyway, they're owned by Ford now... You USians are just lapping it up...
BTW my Mum is not an upper-class twat. She used the Land Rover to move logs. Just to clear that up.
It's a pity that your republicrat two horse race is marginalising Nader & his Green Party.
Because, let's face it, the US of A really needs to start being responsible for what it's doing to the environment.
The country that gave us SUV's...
You lot produce something like five times as much CO2 as anyone else in the world.
Nice one.
Anyway, I was watching this documentary about Hillary Rodham, and I was wondering about something they said... Of course, if she gets the NY Governor job, then she becomes a potential candidate for President in 2004. The thing is, they reckon she only has a chance if the Democrats lose this time. What's the deal with that? Is it extremely unlikely for a Democrat to beat another Democrat (ie. Al Gore) after a bad first term? What about if Gore gets two terms, surely it's not a given that the Republicans will be in next?
Sorry, I'm not USian, I'm just curious.
Yes please, post some examples of VP code, I'm a little skeptical...
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