... are teens channeling that angst, trying to convince other teens to put themselves out on display as well. The other 50% consists of sparkling "Thanks For The Add" graphics, bad poetry, stolen music video clips, and copy pasta from chain letters.
No, I'm not kidding. It encourages ports of games developed for other next-gen platforms to the XBox 360, and it gives developers a warm fuzzy to aim for the 360 as their baseline target, and then tweak it to run on the Cell and/or Dolphin platforms.
If we want to talk about "who are the winners here?", I'd have to say it's the developers!
The Jaguar was in the same position as the Sega Saturn. At the time, 3d acceleration hadn't yet made it into VLSI designs so they tried to just make a "really good" version of what the competetion was doing before. I'm not really sure why they thought coupling a 16-bit CPU to 1M+ of memory and 64-bit coprocessors was a good idea for an architecture that needs to be relevant in 5 years. It wasn't easy to program for, in any case, and that would be its' downfall. The release titles were HORRIBLE, and that doesn't encourage other companies to try to jump on the bandwagon and push the state of the art on that architecture.
The Saturn, at least, started with a decent CPU and tacked on some support chips from their arcade designs... and there were some nice arcarde ports on that system because of it. (What they should have done is just figured out a way to take "Model-1" or "Model-2" and put it into mass production).
Atari was too concerned with catching up with the Jonses and totally discounted the impact of the PSX.
No self-respecting female plays the sex card when she's losing. The majority of people who claim to be girls are guys who are looking for the competetion to ease off.
Lame but true.
You probably play with girls more often than you realize. On the internet, no one knows if you're a dog (or a bitch).
Your post broke slashdot. You are the last comment in the database that can be replied to. Go ahead, try replying to my post. You can't. It'll end up under the this article itself at the very bottom instead.
You should make t-shirts and sell them through Cafe Press to celebrate.
we succeeded in throwing the Iraqis out. But see, that's not what the Saudis and Kuwatis wanted out of us, they wanted repayment/resources from Iraq and a buffer against Iran. We tried to do that as expediantly as possible (it would have cost us too much to topple and set up the government), but the plan backfired. We got them resources back in the form in payments for "services" (like using their airfields, transportation, food, etc.). But there was cultural/political instability, and we've been waiting for an excuse to try to fix that.
Only we waited until AFTER 9/11 to try to do it... big mistake. That was the tipping point where we should have realized that that idea was a forgone conclusion, and the "secular" Iraqi government would be better than anything else (which would be seen as overt western imperialism).
Forget about whether going into another country to change things is right or not on priniciple, it was just DUMB all around.
We launched Desert Storm under dubious pretenses then as well. It started out as a border dispute, of which our regional ambassadors and CIA analysts were not concerned. However Iraq was also looking for a way to get out of it's war debt to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait itself. Saudi Arabia, and especially Kuwait wouldn't have that... so they encouraged the countries downstream from OPEC to make it right -- * Exaggerated reports of Iraqi troop buildup on Saudi border * Kuwati $10M+ ad campaign to get public support with falsified reports of Iraqi attacks
So we go in, and the plan was to kick Saddam out and prop up a government that would help pay them back for the Iraq/Iran war (which we didn't handle so well).
It was too easy. So we didn't follow through because we thought we could control them economically. Instead they diverted funds to re-buffing the military and sponsoring ethnic warfare within the country. This drove the Kurds into Iran and Turkey, and provided the basis for growing militant Islam in the region.
I find it assisine that our leaders tried to go back in and finish what they started, thinking they could fix it. But they hadn't gotten the taste of urban warfare back in the early 90s (like I said, it was too easy), so it seemed simple enough to sell the idea of going back in and somehow undoing the damage. The theory being, by putting a democratic regime in charge, and re-uniting the ethnic groups, they could stifle militant fundamentalism that had culminated in 9/11.
So this time, they use "War on Terror" to sell the idea, rather than Madison Avenue.
None of the publically stated causes were ever just. There were other reasons (some of them with good intentions), but only to be revealed later. Many of them, however, were shortsighted and encumbered with hubris.
So yeah, I totally disagree that 7 years ago the world was telling us we should do this. The world was never telling us we should do this. We need to stop listening to the Saudis.
If you are currently jumping through hoops to get java to work on your platform, you'll notice, because it'll get easier. I was address an Anonymous parent comment (which you probably couldn't see) that was complaining that the GPL would somehow restrict his existing source rights/access.
I'm holding out for the port to GLslang. Take that stack-based VM and turn it into a 64-register-sliding-window monster that can multithread directly on your GPU. Hooah!
...the MPL and CDDL are more restrictive than GPL, and those two licenses are the ones I would have immediately associated with Sun.
Apache, BSD, Artistic, and others don't give Sun enough control to ward off competitors trying to pull a fast one. At least GPL makes the core relevant to GPL-related projects (which is a large universe, currently devoid of official Java).
Java (the VM), class libraries, etc. will still have the same distribution restrictions they always have (effectively none). But implementations of the VM, and changes to it, are now free for anyone to make, and integrate into projects that are GPL compatible. A static VM obtained from Sun will not require source distribution when included in your product, since Sun maintains that. So anyone using Java now won't notice the difference.
It's open source, and there's no way it can be used AS THE BASIS of a 3rd-party product that isn't open source without Sun's permission, which is how they want it.
Who loses? If you want sole modification/closed distribution rights, you can get a source license directly from Sun, just like you do right now.
I keep bringing this up, time and time again. It's not the people trying to sell the crap that are the real issue, its the middle-men who sell the dream of "internet marketing". Moreover, I blame those "Work at Home, make Million$" ads you in magazines and on TV; these are essentially proxies for Internet marketing and the people who do well in those jobs turn to botnets and other illegitimate means. Meanwhile the parent marketing company can distances themselves from them, calling them "consultants" when people bitch about spam campaigns.
If you "fix" SMTP, how can you expect all those people running "perfectly good" SMTP servers right now to upgrade, even if they won't do something simple like implement SPF?
64-bit support is being worked on currently now that the source code is intended to be used in multiple products. If and when this occurs, we could expect to see a 64-bit flash plugin (finally), as the main blocking factor was the ActionScript VM, according to developer blogs.
This is very important to understand, students and teachers both when it comes to Wikipedia in academia. Since Wikipedia only purports to be a collection of knowledge elsewhere, the question of whether it is legitimate to cite it in a paper is immaterial, since you could always cite the original sources. It works out for everyone, whether they believe in Wikipedia or not.
Clearly you should NEVER cite a Wikipedia article (even if it is appropriate for the assignment) which itself does not cite its sources.
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1) It's fast.
2) No unnecessary hardware initialization or checks
3) Stupid bootstrapping tricks (if your onboard bios can't boot from it, linuxbios probably can)
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They are firm and delicious.
you sad little man.
... are teens channeling that angst, trying to convince other teens to put themselves out on display as well. The other 50% consists of sparkling "Thanks For The Add" graphics, bad poetry, stolen music video clips, and copy pasta from chain letters.
No, I'm not kidding. It encourages ports of games developed for other next-gen platforms to the XBox 360, and it gives developers a warm fuzzy to aim for the 360 as their baseline target, and then tweak it to run on the Cell and/or Dolphin platforms.
If we want to talk about "who are the winners here?", I'd have to say it's the developers!
The Jaguar was in the same position as the Sega Saturn. At the time, 3d acceleration hadn't yet made it into VLSI designs so they tried to just make a "really good" version of what the competetion was doing before. I'm not really sure why they thought coupling a 16-bit CPU to 1M+ of memory and 64-bit coprocessors was a good idea for an architecture that needs to be relevant in 5 years. It wasn't easy to program for, in any case, and that would be its' downfall. The release titles were HORRIBLE, and that doesn't encourage other companies to try to jump on the bandwagon and push the state of the art on that architecture.
The Saturn, at least, started with a decent CPU and tacked on some support chips from their arcade designs... and there were some nice arcarde ports on that system because of it. (What they should have done is just figured out a way to take "Model-1" or "Model-2" and put it into mass production).
Atari was too concerned with catching up with the Jonses and totally discounted the impact of the PSX.
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and fer god's sake, upgrade to flash 9 already (the beta is more stable than 7 release)
No self-respecting female plays the sex card when she's losing. The majority of people who claim to be girls are guys who are looking for the competetion to ease off.
Lame but true.
You probably play with girls more often than you realize. On the internet, no one knows if you're a dog (or a bitch).
Your post broke slashdot. You are the last comment in the database that can be replied to. Go ahead, try replying to my post. You can't. It'll end up under the this article itself at the very bottom instead.
You should make t-shirts and sell them through Cafe Press to celebrate.
we succeeded in throwing the Iraqis out. But see, that's not what the Saudis and Kuwatis wanted out of us, they wanted repayment/resources from Iraq and a buffer against Iran.
We tried to do that as expediantly as possible (it would have cost us too much to topple and set up the government), but the plan backfired. We got them resources back in the form in payments for "services" (like using their airfields, transportation, food, etc.). But there was cultural/political instability, and we've been waiting for an excuse to try to fix that.
Only we waited until AFTER 9/11 to try to do it... big mistake. That was the tipping point where we should have realized that that idea was a forgone conclusion, and the "secular" Iraqi government would be better than anything else (which would be seen as overt western imperialism).
Forget about whether going into another country to change things is right or not on priniciple, it was just DUMB all around.
We launched Desert Storm under dubious pretenses then as well. It started out as a border dispute, of which our regional ambassadors and CIA analysts were not concerned.
However Iraq was also looking for a way to get out of it's war debt to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait itself.
Saudi Arabia, and especially Kuwait wouldn't have that... so they encouraged the countries downstream from OPEC to make it right --
* Exaggerated reports of Iraqi troop buildup on Saudi border
* Kuwati $10M+ ad campaign to get public support with falsified reports of Iraqi attacks
So we go in, and the plan was to kick Saddam out and prop up a government that would help pay them back for the Iraq/Iran war (which we didn't handle so well).
It was too easy. So we didn't follow through because we thought we could control them economically. Instead they diverted funds to re-buffing the military and sponsoring ethnic warfare within the country. This drove the Kurds into Iran and Turkey, and provided the basis for growing militant Islam in the region.
I find it assisine that our leaders tried to go back in and finish what they started, thinking they could fix it. But they hadn't gotten the taste of urban warfare back in the early 90s (like I said, it was too easy), so it seemed simple enough to sell the idea of going back in and somehow undoing the damage. The theory being, by putting a democratic regime in charge, and re-uniting the ethnic groups, they could stifle militant fundamentalism that had culminated in 9/11.
So this time, they use "War on Terror" to sell the idea, rather than Madison Avenue.
None of the publically stated causes were ever just. There were other reasons (some of them with good intentions), but only to be revealed later. Many of them, however, were shortsighted and encumbered with hubris.
So yeah, I totally disagree that 7 years ago the world was telling us we should do this. The world was never telling us we should do this. We need to stop listening to the Saudis.
If you are currently jumping through hoops to get java to work on your platform, you'll notice, because it'll get easier. I was address an Anonymous parent comment (which you probably couldn't see) that was complaining that the GPL would somehow restrict his existing source rights/access.
I'm holding out for the port to GLslang. Take that stack-based VM and turn it into a 64-register-sliding-window monster that can multithread directly on your GPU. Hooah!
...the MPL and CDDL are more restrictive than GPL, and those two licenses are the ones I would have immediately associated with Sun.
Apache, BSD, Artistic, and others don't give Sun enough control to ward off competitors trying to pull a fast one. At least GPL makes the core relevant to GPL-related projects (which is a large universe, currently devoid of official Java).
... kill off any related library development?
I mean, doesn't that just cover sun.* and java.*?
Java (the VM), class libraries, etc. will still have the same distribution restrictions they always have (effectively none). But implementations of the VM, and changes to it, are now free for anyone to make, and integrate into projects that are GPL compatible.
A static VM obtained from Sun will not require source distribution when included in your product, since Sun maintains that. So anyone using Java now won't notice the difference.
It's open source, and there's no way it can be used AS THE BASIS of a 3rd-party product that isn't open source without Sun's permission, which is how they want it.
Who loses? If you want sole modification/closed distribution rights, you can get a source license directly from Sun, just like you do right now.
I keep bringing this up, time and time again.
It's not the people trying to sell the crap that are the real issue, its the middle-men who sell the dream of "internet marketing".
Moreover, I blame those "Work at Home, make Million$" ads you in magazines and on TV; these are essentially proxies for Internet marketing and the people who do well in those jobs turn to botnets and other illegitimate means. Meanwhile the parent marketing company can distances themselves from them, calling them "consultants" when people bitch about spam campaigns.
If you "fix" SMTP, how can you expect all those people running "perfectly good" SMTP servers right now to upgrade, even if they won't do something simple like implement SPF?
You're throwing out legitimate email either way.
MS will open stuff up, and I will take and run with what I can get away with.
64-bit support is being worked on currently now that the source code is intended to be used in multiple products.
If and when this occurs, we could expect to see a 64-bit flash plugin (finally), as the main blocking factor was the ActionScript VM, according to developer blogs.
Well that's something. I've had problems with eVGA-anything when it comes to NVidia, but PNY Quadros, Asus 6800s and 7800s, no problem.
This is very important to understand, students and teachers both when it comes to Wikipedia in academia.
Since Wikipedia only purports to be a collection of knowledge elsewhere, the question of whether it is legitimate to cite it in a paper is immaterial, since you could always cite the original sources. It works out for everyone, whether they believe in Wikipedia or not.
Clearly you should NEVER cite a Wikipedia article (even if it is appropriate for the assignment) which itself does not cite its sources.
Don't buy eVGA. Problem solved.