Well, Gentoo still "breaks the law" but you don't have to. The new FreeType 2.1.3 autohinter is pretty damn good (I'm using it with Adobe Postscript fonts, and they look better than MS's TT fonts ever did) and the AA renderer was never patent protected in the first place.
That hasn't been true for quite some time. FreeType 2.1.3 fixed the auto-hinter to the point where fonts look amazing. Given the inherent trade-off between letter shape and sharpness in AA font rendering, FreeType's rendering is sharper than XP's, without a noticible impact on letter shape. Xft's sub-pixel filtering is much less color-fringed than ClearType's. And with the new Xft-hack patches, even italics fonts (which are an inherent weak area for auto-hinters) look pretty damn good. I'd post a screenshot of my desktop, but I did that on an OS News forum a while ago, and dot.kde.org picked it up and I used up my monthly bandwidth in about three days. You can still get to it, but I'm going to make you work and find the link in the dot.kde.org archives.
Actually, dataplay was just fine technically. I've got one sitting right next to me and it works great. They're really tiny, and the really do hold 500MB. It's the DRM crap that killed it.
But then Apple would only have the super-duper-dying-battery to fall back on to make sure you have to buy another iPod next year. Too risky. What if the battery doesn't die as planned? Much safer to make the hard drive fixed as well.
There are some crazy wackos who say that women caused 9/11. They claim they are Christians. It is a deservice to Christianity to associate these people with Christianity, and it is a deservice to environmentalists to associate the extermists with the bulk of environmentalists.
SUVs have a place. When my family and I lived in Bangladesh, we used SUVs (well, *real* SUVs, not consumer SUVs) because dirt roads in rainy countries become mud roads. When going out to a village, even an SUV wouldn't do, you'd have to use a military Jeep. Same thing for my friend, who used SUVs in Kenya. So yes, there are perfectly valid reasons for owning an SUV. That said, when was the last time a road in the suburbs of DC turned into a mud pit?
That's just what we need. Microsoft registered as an arms dealer. Well, it makes sense. You can kill yourself with a pistol, and you can kill yourself with Windows.
Ah, the stereotypical response to the stereotypical tree-huggers. The tree hugger offers a view based on statistics, and you give "personal experience" shit. For every one of you doing something legitimate with an SUV, there are a dozen yuppies driving the SUV just because they're big and popular.
I'm all for healthy proportions (in fact, I think supermodels in general are too skinny and prefer a body type like Kirsten Dunst to say Kate Moss). But have you *seen* people lately? Being too skinny is hardly what the general population needs to be worrying about at this point. And I'm talking about both girls and guys, lest you think I'm being unfair.
You/. guys are no fun. Somebody comes out with a really nifty hack, and all you guys talk about is how dangerous it is. People who live on the edge like this generally know what they're doing and go in accepting the risk. Personally, I do this stuff occasionally (I OC'ed a 300A, joined the L1 bridges on an Athlon and modded my MP3 player) and I go in fully aware that I might be throwing $200 down the tube. That's okay, because I never try it unless I can afford to replace it if something goes wrong. If something doesn't go wrong, then I just saved a few bucks. So far, I'm ahead. The 300A and the Athlon are still running, but I killed the screen on my MP3 player (which gives me an excuse to get an iPod:)
labels do pay for the packaging and distribution costs to get them into record stores >>>>>> Costs which, btw, don't exist in an internet-centric model... Is it any wonder the RIAA hates the internet? The internet is simply a better, faster, more efficient replacement for the RIAA!
We didn't get them the first time, but that's okay. Just buck up and let's give them another shot! If they don't go down the first time, just keep hitting 'em until they do go down. You've got to give it a full 150%, you hear me? Now get out there and click some links!
Or how about the guy who wrote SkyOS's webbrowser (came out recently) or AtheOS's web browser (came out a long time ago) or gtkhtml, all of which are based on khtml?
Apple is the OS provider. They really shouldn't be making products (like all the iApps) and bundling them with their OS. Especially when they use legal bullshit to keep people from competing with the iApps.
No double standard here. Apple and Microsoft both suck. In fact, I hate Apple just a touch more because it doesn't just plain lies, while Microsoft at least tries to be "creative" about it.
Actually, single address space operating systems with fine-grained (object-level) protection mechanisms suit object-oriented languages perfectly. I looked up some information, and OS/400 apparently is such a system (and is object-based to boot). The whole programming paradigm of having persistant objects that can be shared and protected naturally (without introducing something like files) simplifies the programming model *greatly*.
Um, it's called 'innovation.' I mean, we could have stuck with segmentation forever (or better yet, overlays!) but aren't you glad we didn't?
PS> Hm. I knew AS/400 had a tagged RAM architecture, but I was under the impression that it was for marking crypto data. Could a scheme like the above be implemented on AS/400, and if so, where can I find some reference info about the MMU?
I did a lot of research on VMs about a year ago, and while the different VM systems out there really are interesting they're all kind of limited by the whole "page-level protection" model we've stuck with since the '70s. There are a lot of clever algorithms in the FreeBSD and 2.4 VMs to deal with high load and paging, but the core VM stuff (mapping memory, protection, sharing etc) is largely the same, and is limited by the MMU capabilities of current CPUs. All CPUs basically seperate processes into unique memory contexts, and map (using some sort of page table or reverse page table) physical memory pages of fixed size into the contexts. This solution is sub-optimal for object oriented systems with large scale sharing (the page tables get unweildy, and certain secondary structures, like reverse maps*, grow out of control). What I'd like to see is something new, just for the hell of it being new.
Here's what I'm thinking. Ditch pages and memory contexts entirely. Instead, divy up a 64-bit virtual address space among individual processes, say 48 bits apiece. If a process wants to access memory outside it's 48-bits, it would need to access it through special pointers (which, thanks to a tagged-RAM architecture) could written to by the OS (allowing the OS to define its own protection and sharing mechanisms). Does anybody know of any existing systems that work even vaguely like this? Or of a different MMU architecture at all? I was hoping that AMD might at least include software TLB management, because there is some nifty stuff you can do with that, but it looks like Hammer will use the same VM mechanism that came out with the 386!
The SL-C700 is about $500, which isn't all that bad for a product that isn't in the states yet, and one that uses such cool technology. Comparable to retail prices for the Toshiba PDAs, actually.
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Well, Gentoo still "breaks the law" but you don't have to. The new FreeType 2.1.3 autohinter is pretty damn good (I'm using it with Adobe Postscript fonts, and they look better than MS's TT fonts ever did) and the AA renderer was never patent protected in the first place.
That hasn't been true for quite some time. FreeType 2.1.3 fixed the auto-hinter to the point where fonts look amazing. Given the inherent trade-off between letter shape and sharpness in AA font rendering, FreeType's rendering is sharper than XP's, without a noticible impact on letter shape. Xft's sub-pixel filtering is much less color-fringed than ClearType's. And with the new Xft-hack patches, even italics fonts (which are an inherent weak area for auto-hinters) look pretty damn good. I'd post a screenshot of my desktop, but I did that on an OS News forum a while ago, and dot.kde.org picked it up and I used up my monthly bandwidth in about three days. You can still get to it, but I'm going to make you work and find the link in the dot.kde.org archives.
Coming Soon! Condoms with RFIDs, for those annoying paternity suits!
Actually, dataplay was just fine technically. I've got one sitting right next to me and it works great. They're really tiny, and the really do hold 500MB. It's the DRM crap that killed it.
But then Apple would only have the super-duper-dying-battery to fall back on to make sure you have to buy another iPod next year. Too risky. What if the battery doesn't die as planned? Much safer to make the hard drive fixed as well.
Translation into English:
"My government is fucking me up the ass, and by god, it feels good!"
There are some crazy wackos who say that women caused 9/11. They claim they are Christians. It is a deservice to Christianity to associate these people with Christianity, and it is a deservice to environmentalists to associate the extermists with the bulk of environmentalists.
My point is that the environment is in serious deep shit, it's not just propoganda.
SUVs have a place. When my family and I lived in Bangladesh, we used SUVs (well, *real* SUVs, not consumer SUVs) because dirt roads in rainy countries become mud roads. When going out to a village, even an SUV wouldn't do, you'd have to use a military Jeep. Same thing for my friend, who used SUVs in Kenya. So yes, there are perfectly valid reasons for owning an SUV. That said, when was the last time a road in the suburbs of DC turned into a mud pit?
That's just what we need. Microsoft registered as an arms dealer. Well, it makes sense. You can kill yourself with a pistol, and you can kill yourself with Windows.
Where to you live? I live in Atlanta, and if I could fucking breathe the air outside, maybe I wouldn't believe the "scare tactics" either.
Ah, the stereotypical response to the stereotypical tree-huggers. The tree hugger offers a view based on statistics, and you give "personal experience" shit. For every one of you doing something legitimate with an SUV, there are a dozen yuppies driving the SUV just because they're big and popular.
I'm all for healthy proportions (in fact, I think supermodels in general are too skinny and prefer a body type like Kirsten Dunst to say Kate Moss). But have you *seen* people lately? Being too skinny is hardly what the general population needs to be worrying about at this point. And I'm talking about both girls and guys, lest you think I'm being unfair.
You /. guys are no fun. Somebody comes out with a really nifty hack, and all you guys talk about is how dangerous it is. People who live on the edge like this generally know what they're doing and go in accepting the risk. Personally, I do this stuff occasionally (I OC'ed a 300A, joined the L1 bridges on an Athlon and modded my MP3 player) and I go in fully aware that I might be throwing $200 down the tube. That's okay, because I never try it unless I can afford to replace it if something goes wrong. If something doesn't go wrong, then I just saved a few bucks. So far, I'm ahead. The 300A and the Athlon are still running, but I killed the screen on my MP3 player (which gives me an excuse to get an iPod :)
Actually, NWN was hardly second-rate. It won best RPG of the year in most magazines, and was in close contention for best game of the year.
labels do pay for the packaging and distribution costs to get them into record stores
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Costs which, btw, don't exist in an internet-centric model... Is it any wonder the RIAA hates the internet? The internet is simply a better, faster, more efficient replacement for the RIAA!
We didn't get them the first time, but that's okay. Just buck up and let's give them another shot! If they don't go down the first time, just keep hitting 'em until they do go down. You've got to give it a full 150%, you hear me? Now get out there and click some links!
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Go team
Or how about the guy who wrote SkyOS's webbrowser (came out recently) or AtheOS's web browser (came out a long time ago) or gtkhtml, all of which are based on khtml?
Apple is the OS provider. They really shouldn't be making products (like all the iApps) and bundling them with their OS. Especially when they use legal bullshit to keep people from competing with the iApps.
No double standard here. Apple and Microsoft both suck. In fact, I hate Apple just a touch more because it doesn't just plain lies, while Microsoft at least tries to be "creative" about it.
Actually, single address space operating systems with fine-grained (object-level) protection mechanisms suit object-oriented languages perfectly. I looked up some information, and OS/400 apparently is such a system (and is object-based to boot). The whole programming paradigm of having persistant objects that can be shared and protected naturally (without introducing something like files) simplifies the programming model *greatly*.
Um, it's called 'innovation.' I mean, we could have stuck with segmentation forever (or better yet, overlays!) but aren't you glad we didn't?
PS> Hm. I knew AS/400 had a tagged RAM architecture, but I was under the impression that it was for marking crypto data. Could a scheme like the above be implemented on AS/400, and if so, where can I find some reference info about the MMU?
Uruk-Hai and it was Saurumon.
I did a lot of research on VMs about a year ago, and while the different VM systems out there really are interesting they're all kind of limited by the whole "page-level protection" model we've stuck with since the '70s. There are a lot of clever algorithms in the FreeBSD and 2.4 VMs to deal with high load and paging, but the core VM stuff (mapping memory, protection, sharing etc) is largely the same, and is limited by the MMU capabilities of current CPUs. All CPUs basically seperate processes into unique memory contexts, and map (using some sort of page table or reverse page table) physical memory pages of fixed size into the contexts. This solution is sub-optimal for object oriented systems with large scale sharing (the page tables get unweildy, and certain secondary structures, like reverse maps*, grow out of control). What I'd like to see is something new, just for the hell of it being new.
Here's what I'm thinking. Ditch pages and memory contexts entirely. Instead, divy up a 64-bit virtual address space among individual processes, say 48 bits apiece. If a process wants to access memory outside it's 48-bits, it would need to access it through special pointers (which, thanks to a tagged-RAM architecture) could written to by the OS (allowing the OS to define its own protection and sharing mechanisms). Does anybody know of any existing systems that work even vaguely like this? Or of a different MMU architecture at all? I was hoping that AMD might at least include software TLB management, because there is some nifty stuff you can do with that, but it looks like Hammer will use the same VM mechanism that came out with the 386!
The SL-C700 is about $500, which isn't all that bad for a product that isn't in the states yet, and one that uses such cool technology. Comparable to retail prices for the Toshiba PDAs, actually.