What might be relavent here is that 3D Mark might not be culling geometry very agressively, while a normal game would. NVIDIA might use this cheat to keep their cards from getting an unrealistically low score in one benchmark, compared to their performance in other benchmarks.
Does this make their behavior less wrong? Hell no. But it kinda makes it harder to demonize them quite so heartlessly:)
C++ is making progress on this front though. The lambda abstraction in the Phoenix library is actually rather nice, and I've found it useful in some small stuff I've done lately. However, I'd hate to use it in a bigger project until they can resolve the "one mistake and the compiler spews 500 pages of error messages at you" issue:)
Huh? I'm new to the world of functional programming, but you're info is pretty wrong. Ocaml has a very extensive set of libraries to do all sorts of stuff --- XML parsing, networking, you name it. Lisp also has a very significant set of libraries. Ocaml, Clean, Haskell, and Lisp all have native code compilers, so all you have to distribute is the libraries, which you'd probably have to do anyway.
The mullahs that everyone gets so worked up about don't kill people. They teach students to hate the West and Israel. Try researching words you don't know before posting...
PS> Strictly, the word "mullah" means any Islamic religious leader. However, it has taken a rather negative connotation in the US, where the word "mullah" is associated with certain Islamic teachers that encourage hate of the West, and among progressive Muslims, who associate mullahs with the conservative segments of their religion.
Say you've got a file: header.h Say header.h looks like this:... int someFunction() {... }...
Now you assume that someFunction gets inlined. If it doesn't get inlined, then each translation unit contains a copy of someFunction() and when you try to link multiple objects together, you get a redefinition error.
Actually, this is wrong. A 64-bit process cannot necessarily process 2-32-bit instructions at once. The number of parallel instructions a processor can process is entirely dependent on the number of pipelines it has. A 64-bit processor with 3 integer pipelines can process 3 32-bit or 3 64-bit integer operations per cycle (in theory) while a 32-bit processor with 3 integer pipelines can still process 3 32-bit integer operations per cycle.
I understand the concerns regarding the database, but how many people really believe that the government is out to get them? >>>>>>>>>> I do. I've got a "terrorist" last name, which has caused some of my family members to have their pay-checks delayed to make time for background checks. Last time I crossed the US-Canadian border, I got flack from the jerk-ass "security" guard there. I'm a staunch liberal, as evidenced by any political stuff I write on the Internet. I strongly oppose GWB. Do you really believe that if the government had access to all sorts of information about me, I wouldn't get scrutinized more than the average "Joe Smith?"
Um, shootings are clearly terrorist acts? What about a shooting between inner city gang members? What does that have to do with terrorism? Or a jealous husband bombing her ex-wife's car? Or some disturbed 17-year old hijacking a bus for a joy-ride. None of these are even remotely terrorist acts.
Because Americans just aren't used to this. Countries all around the world still have a memory of war raging on their very shores. People in Britain still remember bombs falling over London. The people of Ireland still have to deal with terrorism on a dialy basis, as do the people of Israel. Dozens of other countries clearly remember huge civil wars taking place in their country. In contrast, American's just aren't used to being attacked on their own land. The last time bombs fell on American territory was Pearl Harbor, and that was on an island thousands of miles away. So they take a single event, 9-11, and obsess over it. They don't even think about the fact that murder, gang violence, and even American terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, pose a far more real and dangerous threat than any terrorist actions. As a result of this obsession, they allow the government to do whatever it wants to to "protect" them. It doesn't help that there is a natural tradition of protectionist government in the US, with all the consumer protection laws and such, which means that people are willing to completely trust their government without a second thought.
Although, one of the properties of situations like this is that it is impossible for the citizenry to see it coming. You don't realize that something like this is happening until the process is too far along to stop.
I'm getting very irritated with people saying "you're paranoid, why do you think the government is out to get you?" Just take a look at the f*cking Constitution! A lot of the very basic premises, like the system of checks and balances, if founded on the idea that you cannot necessarily trust government officials. Moreover, you shouldn't *have* to trust them in order to guarentee your freedom. The system is designed to work even if a large section of the government becomes corrupt. All these protections that our founding fathers worked so hard on, have they suddenly become irrelevent? Has human nature really changed so much in 200 years that it's unthinkable that the US government will become corrupt? Nobody thinks it can happen to them, until it does...
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That's not anywhere in the same league. If your company is shipping a product, and doesn't know if there are copyright violations in the code, that's a huge problem. If the police find cocaine in the cupcakes I'm selling to children, the "I didn't know it was there!" excuse isn't a very good one.
I don't dislike the look, I dislike the feel of GTK applications. Hence the "clunkiness" point, rather than something like "boxy" or "square." I use a squarish theme in KDE anyhow. Qt apps just feel more "fluid" to me.
Split pane support is useful when you want to be able to see both windows at the same time without having to manually manage multiple windows.
The nice thing about KIO is that almost all KDE applications use it by default. You can just open up a random KDE application (just tried with kview) and type a KIO url (fish://elf/storage/graphics) and it'll work transparently. GNOME-VFS does the same thing, but it doesn't have as wide a base of support. The main problem with GNOME is that far too few applications are "GNOMErific." Even now, Epiphany is the only web browser that really feels like a native GNOME app (HIG-ified and everything) and it's still rather immature.
Much of Greek and Roman mythology (for example the war with Troy, and the founding of Rome) also have historical basis. However, they are still commonly referred to as myths. Now one can argue that there is more verifiable evidence in the case of biblical stories, or (OTOH) that the veracity of the older mythology has had less study by modern scholars, but that's splitting hairs. The distinction isn't nearly strong enough to seperate the two into wholly different catagories of myth and history.
Why not talk about Christian mythology? We talk about Greek mythology, and Egyptian mythology, and to somebody who does not believe in Christianity, the Christian stories and traditions are no different. Mythology, in the objective sense, refers to the traditions and stories of a culture. In order to make the move from using the word mythology to using a term like "religious history" you have to first believe that the stories in question are true, which is not the case in the objective case.
Too bad Quartz Extreme isn't actually "an OpenGL-accelerated desktop." It only accelerates compositing (window effects), so it's not in the same league as stuff like the Longhorn UI or E17's EVAS, which can actually use OpenGL to accelerate visually complex drawing. Also, Apple's implementation isn't that great. It stores huge bitmaps everywhere, even though DisplayPDF is inherently vector based, and as mentioned above, doesn't take good advantage of the capabilities of current cards. For example, it won't accelerate line drawing, because current cards can only do AA line drawing through OpenGL, which Quartz2D doesn't use.
I haven't gotten a compile problem in Gentoo for maybe six months now? My last install, which I did only because XP tried to mount and fsck my Linux partition, went totally smoothly. Considering this was a release candidate, that's pretty good. Also, once things are installed, any future compiles leave your system usable 100% of the time. So, for example, if I try to upgrade KDE, my existing installation is not touched until the entire compilation process succeeds.
Also, OpenOffice is a rather strange program in terms of compile time. It's a monster, and nobody sane tries to compile it manually. All the other applications compile quickly. From stage1 to a full KDE desktop (including KOffice and KDevelop) takes maybe 11-12 hours on my Pentium 4. Mozilla takes under an hour, and while I haven't compiled Apache in Gentoo, I remember my old PII-300 compiling Apache 2.0.40 in about an hour and a half. In all, a full setup (not just a basic setup) is about one day, rather than one week.
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What might be relavent here is that 3D Mark might not be culling geometry very agressively, while a normal game would. NVIDIA might use this cheat to keep their cards from getting an unrealistically low score in one benchmark, compared to their performance in other benchmarks.
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Does this make their behavior less wrong? Hell no. But it kinda makes it harder to demonize them quite so heartlessly
C++ is making progress on this front though. The lambda abstraction in the Phoenix library is actually rather nice, and I've found it useful in some small stuff I've done lately. However, I'd hate to use it in a bigger project until they can resolve the "one mistake and the compiler spews 500 pages of error messages at you" issue :)
Huh? I'm new to the world of functional programming, but you're info is pretty wrong. Ocaml has a very extensive set of libraries to do all sorts of stuff --- XML parsing, networking, you name it. Lisp also has a very significant set of libraries. Ocaml, Clean, Haskell, and Lisp all have native code compilers, so all you have to distribute is the libraries, which you'd probably have to do anyway.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
The mullahs that everyone gets so worked up about don't kill people. They teach students to hate the West and Israel. Try researching words you don't know before posting...
PS> Strictly, the word "mullah" means any Islamic religious leader. However, it has taken a rather negative connotation in the US, where the word "mullah" is associated with certain Islamic teachers that encourage hate of the West, and among progressive Muslims, who associate mullahs with the conservative segments of their religion.
The problem in the kernel is such:
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Say you've got a file: header.h
Say header.h looks like this:
int someFunction()
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Now you assume that someFunction gets inlined. If it doesn't get inlined, then each translation unit contains a copy of someFunction() and when you try to link multiple objects together, you get a redefinition error.
Actually, this is wrong. A 64-bit process cannot necessarily process 2-32-bit instructions at once. The number of parallel instructions a processor can process is entirely dependent on the number of pipelines it has. A 64-bit processor with 3 integer pipelines can process 3 32-bit or 3 64-bit integer operations per cycle (in theory) while a 32-bit processor with 3 integer pipelines can still process 3 32-bit integer operations per cycle.
I understand the concerns regarding the database, but how many people really believe that the government is out to get them?
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I do. I've got a "terrorist" last name, which has caused some of my family members to have their pay-checks delayed to make time for background checks. Last time I crossed the US-Canadian border, I got flack from the jerk-ass "security" guard there. I'm a staunch liberal, as evidenced by any political stuff I write on the Internet. I strongly oppose GWB. Do you really believe that if the government had access to all sorts of information about me, I wouldn't get scrutinized more than the average "Joe Smith?"
Um, shootings are clearly terrorist acts? What about a shooting between inner city gang members? What does that have to do with terrorism? Or a jealous husband bombing her ex-wife's car? Or some disturbed 17-year old hijacking a bus for a joy-ride. None of these are even remotely terrorist acts.
Because Americans just aren't used to this. Countries all around the world still have a memory of war raging on their very shores. People in Britain still remember bombs falling over London. The people of Ireland still have to deal with terrorism on a dialy basis, as do the people of Israel. Dozens of other countries clearly remember huge civil wars taking place in their country. In contrast, American's just aren't used to being attacked on their own land. The last time bombs fell on American territory was Pearl Harbor, and that was on an island thousands of miles away. So they take a single event, 9-11, and obsess over it. They don't even think about the fact that murder, gang violence, and even American terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, pose a far more real and dangerous threat than any terrorist actions. As a result of this obsession, they allow the government to do whatever it wants to to "protect" them. It doesn't help that there is a natural tradition of protectionist government in the US, with all the consumer protection laws and such, which means that people are willing to completely trust their government without a second thought.
Although, one of the properties of situations like this is that it is impossible for the citizenry to see it coming. You don't realize that something like this is happening until the process is too far along to stop.
Ah! So the first thing to do is take out those hate-spreading mullahs Jerry Falwell and Franklin Graham!
I'm getting very irritated with people saying "you're paranoid, why do you think the government is out to get you?" Just take a look at the f*cking Constitution! A lot of the very basic premises, like the system of checks and balances, if founded on the idea that you cannot necessarily trust government officials. Moreover, you shouldn't *have* to trust them in order to guarentee your freedom. The system is designed to work even if a large section of the government becomes corrupt. All these protections that our founding fathers worked so hard on, have they suddenly become irrelevent? Has human nature really changed so much in 200 years that it's unthinkable that the US government will become corrupt? Nobody thinks it can happen to them, until it does...
That's not anywhere in the same league. If your company is shipping a product, and doesn't know if there are copyright violations in the code, that's a huge problem. If the police find cocaine in the cupcakes I'm selling to children, the "I didn't know it was there!" excuse isn't a very good one.
I don't dislike the look, I dislike the feel of GTK applications. Hence the "clunkiness" point, rather than something like "boxy" or "square." I use a squarish theme in KDE anyhow. Qt apps just feel more "fluid" to me.
This is the second time I've seen this. It's analog! analogue means something else entirely.
Split pane support is useful when you want to be able to see both windows at the same time without having to manually manage multiple windows.
The nice thing about KIO is that almost all KDE applications use it by default. You can just open up a random KDE application (just tried with kview) and type a KIO url (fish://elf/storage/graphics) and it'll work transparently. GNOME-VFS does the same thing, but it doesn't have as wide a base of support. The main problem with GNOME is that far too few applications are "GNOMErific." Even now, Epiphany is the only web browser that really feels like a native GNOME app (HIG-ified and everything) and it's still rather immature.
Ugh. I hate GTK widgets. Too clunky for my taste. My perfect desktop is just pretty much the opposite of his. I guess this is why we have to desktops!
stability, perfomance, and usability,
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I get a lot of this handwaving and shouting. Precisely what do you want that XP has but KDE does not?
Much of Greek and Roman mythology (for example the war with Troy, and the founding of Rome) also have historical basis. However, they are still commonly referred to as myths. Now one can argue that there is more verifiable evidence in the case of biblical stories, or (OTOH) that the veracity of the older mythology has had less study by modern scholars, but that's splitting hairs. The distinction isn't nearly strong enough to seperate the two into wholly different catagories of myth and history.
Why not talk about Christian mythology? We talk about Greek mythology, and Egyptian mythology, and to somebody who does not believe in Christianity, the Christian stories and traditions are no different. Mythology, in the objective sense, refers to the traditions and stories of a culture. In order to make the move from using the word mythology to using a term like "religious history" you have to first believe that the stories in question are true, which is not the case in the objective case.
Quite right. I wasn't really paying attention to the specific rendering technology, but the use of 3D acceleration in general :)
Too bad Quartz Extreme isn't actually "an OpenGL-accelerated desktop." It only accelerates compositing (window effects), so it's not in the same league as stuff like the Longhorn UI or E17's EVAS, which can actually use OpenGL to accelerate visually complex drawing. Also, Apple's implementation isn't that great. It stores huge bitmaps everywhere, even though DisplayPDF is inherently vector based, and as mentioned above, doesn't take good advantage of the capabilities of current cards. For example, it won't accelerate line drawing, because current cards can only do AA line drawing through OpenGL, which Quartz2D doesn't use.
My question is, what about "well regulated" doesn't *he* understand?
I haven't gotten a compile problem in Gentoo for maybe six months now? My last install, which I did only because XP tried to mount and fsck my Linux partition, went totally smoothly. Considering this was a release candidate, that's pretty good. Also, once things are installed, any future compiles leave your system usable 100% of the time. So, for example, if I try to upgrade KDE, my existing installation is not touched until the entire compilation process succeeds.
Also, OpenOffice is a rather strange program in terms of compile time. It's a monster, and nobody sane tries to compile it manually. All the other applications compile quickly. From stage1 to a full KDE desktop (including KOffice and KDevelop) takes maybe 11-12 hours on my Pentium 4. Mozilla takes under an hour, and while I haven't compiled Apache in Gentoo, I remember my old PII-300 compiling Apache 2.0.40 in about an hour and a half. In all, a full setup (not just a basic setup) is about one day, rather than one week.