Paging occurs for multiple processes that wish to use 3D graphics, much like in an operating system that manages memory via a virtual address space. While it was possible pre-virtual memory to store unused objects on a hard disk temporarily there is no argument that this was as efficient or effective as what we have now with modern operating systems, especially when it comes to brokering resources between unrelated simultaneous processes.
Wikipedia has a list of some of the improvements made in DirectX 10:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3D#Direct3D_10
Indeed this is because it is an integrated card. What is happening in Vista is basically the same as paging main memory out to disk. It pages unused textures out of GPU memory to main memory, and back again when it is needed.
This is another reason for upgrading to a PCI Express graphics card. AGP concentrated on increasing the speed from main memory to GPU memory but not the other way which is obviously important in the new Vista situation. PCI Express speed increases are bi-directional.
Not quite true - UK top-up fees are an order of magnitude cheaper than US institutions and there is NHS coverage for dental, but its not 100% of cost. However, NHS dental treatment is very much inferior to private (which is just as expensive as US).
I do agree that with the amount of stealth taxation going on recently that the balance in Britain is being eroded slowly.
Lower taxation and private healthcare is a better deal for professional workers like IT workers, but for the poorer people who have far fewer benefits in the US and no good free healthcare its not good at all.
I think the key might be that they purchased a ticket using his frequent flyer number. While AFAIK you have always needed a PIN to log into your account, perhaps if you ordered a ticket with the Executive Club number it would allow you access.
I wasn't arguing any of the points which you make in your other post. I was simply saying that technically, as far as an SDK for using the AIM network, OpenAIM is not a "wrapper" for an AIM client - it is a fully functional SDK.
I don't really want to be drawn into a line by line comparison of which SDK is better - it is fairly easy to pick items which each SDK is best at.
Either way I don't see how this can be a bad thing. Having OpenAIM doesn't mean we don't have libgaim.
In terms of being able to implement a custom client or add AIM functionality to your own application there is a huge difference: mainly tested, documented and accepted interfaces to all functionality supplied by the AIM network.
Speaking from experience here doing stuff with OpenAIM is a million times easier than hacking something together to get a client to do what you want.
Yes you might not have license freedom but you have technical freedom. I don't see how this cannot be a step in the right direction.
It is no more a "wrapper" than than the IE interfaces you use to embed IE in applications is a "wrapper".
An SDK is a software development kit normally comprising of documented interfaces to libraries that perform certain functions. That is exactly what you have here.
I don't see what else you might want from AOL here apart from a looser license and adoption of another protocol.
Its not a wrapper around the AIM client at all. You don't need the AIM client for this to work. It is an SDK that gives you the same connectivity as the AIM client has but through a defined interface.
Writing an unofficial "wrapper" around an existing AIM client is not easy, and nowhere near the performance/stability/simplicity of this solution.
They exist but not on the giant underground scale. I've seen them in data centres as an alternative source of power to batteries to cover generator start up time.
The fly wheel is kept spinning via grid power until grid fails. The fly wheel is used to generate power to the data centre until the diesel generators start up.
You are correct that users in the US will perceive these domains as broken. However this is not important: Brazilian users using Brazilian ISPs that have switched to non-US root servers will be able to access their government website even if the US government decides to flex its muscles and remove brazil from the top level domain list of US controller root servers.
Brazil (or insert other country here) doesn't care if US citizens can't access their site as long as the infrastructure inside their own country is still stable.
Yes this is bad for international trade but that wasn't the example used.
Not strictly true,
Technology is a barrier in the form of bandwidth. During the Olympics last time the BBC entered agreements with most UK ISPs to multicast their streams thrus saving a tonne of bandwidth.
This also has the effect of limiting video to the UK unless a proxy is used.
OK, so technically CDMA is better. But does your average end user notice this when they place a call? I don't think so. GSM is basically a world standard apart from a few places. Noteably the US of course. Many CDMA networks are converting to GSM.
A future Iraq mobile phone network supporting GSM would have a larger possible market. Telecom networks charge a premium to allow other network subscribers to "roam" on their network. Many more subscribers will come from European nations than the US (hardly any citizens in the US have a passport).
As for saying Europe is "locked" into GSM. This is not true. Europe now has emergent 3G networks that support much faster speeds than the so called "3G" networks of the US that are coming into existance. Again these will be built on an agreed standard.
Many of these US 3G networks are what are called by experts 2.5G. The combination of GSM and GPRS. Something that is already available in most of Europe.
Most US cellphone providers will admit they do not have the available bandwidth allocated to them to give a service that is on a par with these actual EU 3G networks.
Implementing CDMA in Iraq would benefit noone but the US.
One could argue that implementing a W-CDMA/UTMS 3G network such as are emerging in Europe would be good. However with such large service costs and handset prices being a premium due to the immature technology I cannot believe this would be a sound move.
DirecTV use NDS encryption. NDS is owned by News Corp and the infamous Rupert Murdoch. It follows that Sky (The UK satellite service) also uses this system as it is also owned by News Corp.
DVB was designed so that people could design closed "conditional access" systems and use them with a generic DVB set top box. You would buy a conditional access module (CAM) for your provider's encryption scheme and plug it into any set top box (or TV with integrated receiver)you wanted. (Thats what the PCMCIA slot at the back of your set top box is for).
Unfortuantely NDS does not produce a DVB CAM. All Sky set top boxes have the conditional access component integrated into the same chip as the transport stream/MPEG2 decoder.
This effectively means that only NDS licensees can produce equipment that can decrypt DirecTV or Sky broadcasts.
Locking you into an open solution.
Bastards.
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Paging occurs for multiple processes that wish to use 3D graphics, much like in an operating system that manages memory via a virtual address space. While it was possible pre-virtual memory to store unused objects on a hard disk temporarily there is no argument that this was as efficient or effective as what we have now with modern operating systems, especially when it comes to brokering resources between unrelated simultaneous processes. Wikipedia has a list of some of the improvements made in DirectX 10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3D#Direct3D_10
Indeed this is because it is an integrated card. What is happening in Vista is basically the same as paging main memory out to disk. It pages unused textures out of GPU memory to main memory, and back again when it is needed.
This is another reason for upgrading to a PCI Express graphics card. AGP concentrated on increasing the speed from main memory to GPU memory but not the other way which is obviously important in the new Vista situation. PCI Express speed increases are bi-directional.
Nonsense, You saw it on Mission Impossible :)
Not quite true - UK top-up fees are an order of magnitude cheaper than US institutions and there is NHS coverage for dental, but its not 100% of cost. However, NHS dental treatment is very much inferior to private (which is just as expensive as US).
I do agree that with the amount of stealth taxation going on recently that the balance in Britain is being eroded slowly.
Lower taxation and private healthcare is a better deal for professional workers like IT workers, but for the poorer people who have far fewer benefits in the US and no good free healthcare its not good at all.
I think the key might be that they purchased a ticket using his frequent flyer number. While AFAIK you have always needed a PIN to log into your account, perhaps if you ordered a ticket with the Executive Club number it would allow you access.
From TFA: ...will be banned except in emergency and alarm systems, medical equipment and cordless power tools.
I wasn't arguing any of the points which you make in your other post. I was simply saying that technically, as far as an SDK for using the AIM network, OpenAIM is not a "wrapper" for an AIM client - it is a fully functional SDK.
I don't really want to be drawn into a line by line comparison of which SDK is better - it is fairly easy to pick items which each SDK is best at.
Either way I don't see how this can be a bad thing. Having OpenAIM doesn't mean we don't have libgaim.
In terms of being able to implement a custom client or add AIM functionality to your own application there is a huge difference: mainly tested, documented and accepted interfaces to all functionality supplied by the AIM network.
Speaking from experience here doing stuff with OpenAIM is a million times easier than hacking something together to get a client to do what you want.
Yes you might not have license freedom but you have technical freedom. I don't see how this cannot be a step in the right direction.
It is no more a "wrapper" than than the IE interfaces you use to embed IE in applications is a "wrapper".
An SDK is a software development kit normally comprising of documented interfaces to libraries that perform certain functions. That is exactly what you have here.
I don't see what else you might want from AOL here apart from a looser license and adoption of another protocol.
Its not a wrapper around the AIM client at all. You don't need the AIM client for this to work. It is an SDK that gives you the same connectivity as the AIM client has but through a defined interface. Writing an unofficial "wrapper" around an existing AIM client is not easy, and nowhere near the performance/stability/simplicity of this solution.
They exist but not on the giant underground scale. I've seen them in data centres as an alternative source of power to batteries to cover generator start up time. The fly wheel is kept spinning via grid power until grid fails. The fly wheel is used to generate power to the data centre until the diesel generators start up.
You are correct that users in the US will perceive these domains as broken. However this is not important: Brazilian users using Brazilian ISPs that have switched to non-US root servers will be able to access their government website even if the US government decides to flex its muscles and remove brazil from the top level domain list of US controller root servers. Brazil (or insert other country here) doesn't care if US citizens can't access their site as long as the infrastructure inside their own country is still stable. Yes this is bad for international trade but that wasn't the example used.
Not strictly true, Technology is a barrier in the form of bandwidth. During the Olympics last time the BBC entered agreements with most UK ISPs to multicast their streams thrus saving a tonne of bandwidth. This also has the effect of limiting video to the UK unless a proxy is used.
OK, so technically CDMA is better. But does your average end user notice this when they place a call? I don't think so. GSM is basically a world standard apart from a few places. Noteably the US of course. Many CDMA networks are converting to GSM.
A future Iraq mobile phone network supporting GSM would have a larger possible market. Telecom networks charge a premium to allow other network subscribers to "roam" on their network. Many more subscribers will come from European nations than the US (hardly any citizens in the US have a passport).
As for saying Europe is "locked" into GSM. This is not true. Europe now has emergent 3G networks that support much faster speeds than the so called "3G" networks of the US that are coming into existance. Again these will be built on an agreed standard.
Many of these US 3G networks are what are called by experts 2.5G. The combination of GSM and GPRS. Something that is already available in most of Europe.
Most US cellphone providers will admit they do not have the available bandwidth allocated to them to give a service that is on a par with these actual EU 3G networks.
Implementing CDMA in Iraq would benefit noone but the US.
One could argue that implementing a W-CDMA/UTMS 3G network such as are emerging in Europe would be good. However with such large service costs and handset prices being a premium due to the immature technology I cannot believe this would be a sound move.
DirecTV use NDS encryption. NDS is owned by News Corp and the infamous Rupert Murdoch. It follows that Sky (The UK satellite service) also uses this system as it is also owned by News Corp. DVB was designed so that people could design closed "conditional access" systems and use them with a generic DVB set top box. You would buy a conditional access module (CAM) for your provider's encryption scheme and plug it into any set top box (or TV with integrated receiver)you wanted. (Thats what the PCMCIA slot at the back of your set top box is for). Unfortuantely NDS does not produce a DVB CAM. All Sky set top boxes have the conditional access component integrated into the same chip as the transport stream/MPEG2 decoder. This effectively means that only NDS licensees can produce equipment that can decrypt DirecTV or Sky broadcasts. Locking you into an open solution. Bastards.