Users cannot violate the DMCA; only developers and distributers can. The DMCA only forbids distributing circumvention methods; if you already own one or create one yourself and do not distribute it you are in the clear.
Companies won't stop making single-player games; they'll just start applying the security lessons learned from MP to the SP mode. Yes, that means you will have to have an active Internet connection at all times while playing the single-player mode; Valve has already made noises about doing this in Half-Life 2.
Movie-like mental state changing special effects do NOT belong in videogames
Why not? Maybe it's just that games have only just recently become capable of performing movie-like special effects. And the survival horror genre, which is unabashedly and deliberately just like the experience you describe, is quite popular.
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the <10.3 Finder with no further effort. In 10.3 it's just a much-better-written Carbon app.
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
Wow, god forbid someone try to examine two different situations on their own merits and reach their own decision instead of just chanting the "DMCA bad! Huge corporations bad!" party line.
Patents are meant to protect the investment required to create a brand-new thing and the ability to recoup those costs. That fundamental concept can still apply to software, if not in its present broken form.
There are lots of minerals, platinum included, which may have significant uses to which they cannot be put today because of the high price and/or lack of supply. Finding a planet of such a substance would destroy commodity prices but provide whole new sectors of industry (in theory).
And there's always 800Mbps Firewire, if you insist on comparing ideal performance. And Firewire was planned from the start to scale up to 1600Mbps, although that might even have been raised to an eventual target of 3200Mbps.
Not really....m4a is unprotected AAC..m4p is DRMed. The iPod will happily play either, but it would be easier for Real to create.m4as (it also wouldn't take much reverse engineering, unless they mean they figured out how to register the new song with the iPod's metadata).
Is there a killer app on the horizon that will come into its own when this kind of power becomes available
There was for every other major leap forward in computer power (and every time someone declared the evolution of technology was over, not just in computers). What makes you think the future will be any different?
Yes. that's what this article made me think of, and it's something that would give much more immediate benefits than the algorithm itself- a small display in a car that tells the driver whether he should speed up or slow down at any given time based on the traffic around him. It would have to run off a "referee" signal from a central system using an algorithm like this one, so it would reflect overall traffic conditions in the entire area. It could be used to break up traffic jams on highways, or get "in the zone" for synchronized traffic lights in cities. Of course it wouldn't actually control the car's speed, it would be rather like the landing assistance doohickey on airplanes.
The files were originally offered with Bittorrent, but the seeds were replaced with a direct download after a few days. I assume demand for the movies had dropped off to levels where Bittorrent didn't have a huge advantage over direct download (until now).
The Xbox has not failed; if it had it would be dead by now (3 years after launch?) and a second generation would not be planned. Microsoft successfully turned a 2-player market into a 3-player market. This whole article is stating that "people don't like the x-box and are not buying it" and "of course, nobody has an x-box" are simply not true.
No, the main catches with the Drake equation are that it involves many assumptions and its accuracy cannot be verified or even determined with current technology.
One other objection I just thought of to the parent's point- there is already an environmentalist/preservationist movement on Earth, why can't there be one in alien civilizations? Why would they immediately sterilize and strip-mine every planet they came across? If we encountered an alien organism that was roughly equivalent to ourselves (capable of communicating with us and on a similar technological level), would we try to conquer or eradicate them, or would we try to establish diplomatic and commercial ties with them? Would they, if they found us first? We really have no experience on which to make these judgements.
You are an entirely mechanical process. So am I. Computers are simply not yet fast or capacious enough to mimic us, and some fundamental breakthroughs in our knowledge of a mind's operation apparently remain to be made, but one day there will be a thinking "machine". It's inevitable.
It's not just for gaming. Mac OS X's GUI can be accelerated by the GPU. 10.4 will also ship with video- and image-processing libraries that use the GPU.
And even if you don't care about gaming at all, this is the only card on any platform that supports the 30" cinema display, so if you want one of those you need the card anyway.
id actually tried that with Quake 3 for the mac- it's very hard to get greatly improved SMP performance out of a game if it wasn't designed from the beginning with that in mind. However, MP macs will be faster than their SP equivalents anyway since they can shunt other processes onto the second processor to free up more of the one the game is using.
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Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing. Right now, the Internet is a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons.
Doom does use OpenGL, but DirectX version compliance levels are a convenient way to separate generations of cards. It's easier than posting a list of OpenGL extensions that must be supported.
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Users cannot violate the DMCA; only developers and distributers can. The DMCA only forbids distributing circumvention methods; if you already own one or create one yourself and do not distribute it you are in the clear.
Companies won't stop making single-player games; they'll just start applying the security lessons learned from MP to the SP mode. Yes, that means you will have to have an active Internet connection at all times while playing the single-player mode; Valve has already made noises about doing this in Half-Life 2.
Movie-like mental state changing special effects do NOT belong in videogames
Why not? Maybe it's just that games have only just recently become capable of performing movie-like special effects. And the survival horror genre, which is unabashedly and deliberately just like the experience you describe, is quite popular.
If you read the article [insert jokes here], one of the main goals is to reduce the outfit's weight.
Damn HTML...
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the <10.3 Finder with no further effort. In 10.3 it's just a much-better-written Carbon app.
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
Wow, god forbid someone try to examine two different situations on their own merits and reach their own decision instead of just chanting the "DMCA bad! Huge corporations bad!" party line.
Patents are meant to protect the investment required to create a brand-new thing and the ability to recoup those costs. That fundamental concept can still apply to software, if not in its present broken form.
There are lots of minerals, platinum included, which may have significant uses to which they cannot be put today because of the high price and/or lack of supply. Finding a planet of such a substance would destroy commodity prices but provide whole new sectors of industry (in theory).
And there's always 800Mbps Firewire, if you insist on comparing ideal performance. And Firewire was planned from the start to scale up to 1600Mbps, although that might even have been raised to an eventual target of 3200Mbps.
Not really... .m4a is unprotected AAC. .m4p is DRMed. The iPod will happily play either, but it would be easier for Real to create .m4as (it also wouldn't take much reverse engineering, unless they mean they figured out how to register the new song with the iPod's metadata).
Is there a killer app on the horizon that will come into its own when this kind of power becomes available
There was for every other major leap forward in computer power (and every time someone declared the evolution of technology was over, not just in computers). What makes you think the future will be any different?
OF COURSE it's a promotional stunt. That doesn't mean it can't be fun and engrossing to explore the site and try to figure out what's going on.
Yes. that's what this article made me think of, and it's something that would give much more immediate benefits than the algorithm itself- a small display in a car that tells the driver whether he should speed up or slow down at any given time based on the traffic around him. It would have to run off a "referee" signal from a central system using an algorithm like this one, so it would reflect overall traffic conditions in the entire area. It could be used to break up traffic jams on highways, or get "in the zone" for synchronized traffic lights in cities. Of course it wouldn't actually control the car's speed, it would be rather like the landing assistance doohickey on airplanes.
Actually, it does mean what he thinks it does in this context. Watch the "heavy traffic" simulator.
This begs the question of why this technology is being limited to rehydrating food instead of being a general water filter.
The files were originally offered with Bittorrent, but the seeds were replaced with a direct download after a few days. I assume demand for the movies had dropped off to levels where Bittorrent didn't have a huge advantage over direct download (until now).
The Xbox has not failed; if it had it would be dead by now (3 years after launch?) and a second generation would not be planned. Microsoft successfully turned a 2-player market into a 3-player market. This whole article is stating that "people don't like the x-box and are not buying it" and "of course, nobody has an x-box" are simply not true.
No, the main catches with the Drake equation are that it involves many assumptions and its accuracy cannot be verified or even determined with current technology.
One other objection I just thought of to the parent's point- there is already an environmentalist/preservationist movement on Earth, why can't there be one in alien civilizations? Why would they immediately sterilize and strip-mine every planet they came across? If we encountered an alien organism that was roughly equivalent to ourselves (capable of communicating with us and on a similar technological level), would we try to conquer or eradicate them, or would we try to establish diplomatic and commercial ties with them? Would they, if they found us first? We really have no experience on which to make these judgements.
You are an entirely mechanical process. So am I. Computers are simply not yet fast or capacious enough to mimic us, and some fundamental breakthroughs in our knowledge of a mind's operation apparently remain to be made, but one day there will be a thinking "machine". It's inevitable.
Open Transport is still present; it's Carbon's high-level networking API.
I don't know why I'm replying to this but...
It's not just for gaming. Mac OS X's GUI can be accelerated by the GPU. 10.4 will also ship with video- and image-processing libraries that use the GPU.
And even if you don't care about gaming at all, this is the only card on any platform that supports the 30" cinema display, so if you want one of those you need the card anyway.
id actually tried that with Quake 3 for the mac- it's very hard to get greatly improved SMP performance out of a game if it wasn't designed from the beginning with that in mind. However, MP macs will be faster than their SP equivalents anyway since they can shunt other processes onto the second processor to free up more of the one the game is using.
Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing. Right now, the Internet is a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons.
Doom does use OpenGL, but DirectX version compliance levels are a convenient way to separate generations of cards. It's easier than posting a list of OpenGL extensions that must be supported.