Virginia Tech has been working on their "cave" system for a few years. You are surounded by thin screens with high-res stereoscopic video back-projected on them. It even tracks your head movement to generate the correct perspective on the screens. They use it for scientific/engineering applications and the system is controled by some very expensive hardware.
These tiles would be a very cool addition to their system.
Believe it is the G3 torrent client which has a "friends" list of IPs you want to give priority to. I suppose you could add every IP from your subnet to that list.
But as long as I can max out my adsl line I don't care about saving my ISP some bandwidth on their trunk. I doubt they would share the saving with me anyway.:-)
The two different links on the website use two different trackers (the server that coordinates the whole thing). Try the other if one is bad.
Most BT clients use different colored circles to indicate the health of the connection:
Black/Grey - can't connect to tracker
Red - can't connect to any peers
Blue - definitions varry
Yellow - firewall issues may be slowing down your download
Green - w00t!
BitTorrent is a great idea, but it still can be confusing for people new to it. seeding, leeching, trackers, port forwarding, ratios. It certainly is more complicated than an http download.
Also some companies may consider it a bad thing that there is no RFC or any kind of official specification for it. Other than the general info and sample source (in python!) on Bram's site.
Let's not spread rumors about Windows Forms being some un-needed web application junk. Windows Forms is part of the.Net BCL (base class library) and is used for UI in plain old applications. And it makes programing in MFC, ATL, VB6, or straight Win32 feel like programming with punch cards.
companies are using the Microsoft server tools because they're designed to work with Internet Explorer
Did it hurt as you pulled that out of your ass? Okay a couple years ago people complained about IIS doing some nonstandard TCP tricks to get pages to load faster. But that this is a completely insane reason to choose a server platform even if it isn't complete BS.
once everything standardizes on a platform-independant browser who needs Windows anymore
Now you are claiming that consumer's choice in a computer is based solely on accessing the fucking web! For christ sake, you could probably find a perfectly acceptable web browser for a fricken Amiga.
but perhaps for a company that doesn't need Windows-specific applications, they might switch
Good god man. Do you do anything but browse the web?!?!
Right, you are absolutely right. I lost my head. I guess I was trying to say that things which are currently hard can be made easier. For instance garbage collection systems removing some of the memory management grunt work. But natural language is indeed too, umm, well, 'wordy'.
The reason we have C, asm etc is because the concepts in programming are not easily expressed in English
Of course the concepts can be expressed in english. Look at the comments in your code.
/* Copy the TV show titles and times from the html table in the webpage. */
That perfectly expresses what you want.
Low level languages have thrived, not because programming concepts are low level, but simply because computers are still too stupid to understand anything else.
Going back on topic. I believe expert systems are very difficult to do well. MS Bob and Clippy are useless. So I'd have to use it to believe it.
"Yeah, it's ordinateur"
The Ordinater? Yeah, I think I saw that movie. It was a ass kicking robot from the future on a mission to convert the entire human society into helpless ordinal numbers. right?
No doubt many viruses will be transfered at the convention, but it really is a private matter between the senator and... oh, did you say computer viruses?
I for one was extremely happy that the Stanley Cup finals were available for download on the net this year. In holland no ice hockey is available at all on TV. I didn't mind watching each game 1 day late because nobody talks about it here anyway, so no accidental spoilers.
Sure, I'll give it a shot. VCR lowers the quality of the recording. VCR is a pain in the butt to use hense people are less likely to use it. And with broadband and p2p software, your group of "friends" suddenly becomes 10,000 people around the world who you've never met.
Why this would be a bad thing for the content producers... I don't know. Maybe bad for your cable company if you drop your subscription and just download your favorite shows.
Okay, at first I thought the submitter was on crack. The interview has nothing to do with free bios stuff. The only relavent statement is this:
However, I think that development of a free BIOS is particularly important. The main obstacle is that computer manufacturers have not released all the information necessary to do the work. We are looking for companies willing to cooperate with the community in this way.
Big deal, of course hardware manufacturers don't like to release the details of the hardware.
Right, put another way, curse words are offensive because we are taught that they are offensive. If nobody found them offensive they would no longer be curse words.
Thus, by restricting PBS's right to freely swear, the FCC is actually defending the english lanuage's right to have curse words.
We should all thank the FCC for protecting our right to swear.
This is a good idea for any application. It includes function reordering (to get things to fit in cache lines for example), function inlining, better register allocation, local var reordering. Basically re-examine all the compiler optimisations based on actual usage statistics.
The next (or next after next?) version of MS Visual Studio will include a new profiler that does part of this. The developer will compile an instrumented build of the app. Run the app in common senarios. Then recompile the app with generated statistics.
Doing this in realtime might be useless though. Difficult to gather statistics fast enough. Plus the lack of info about the source code (i.e. debug symbols).
IMHO, this suggestion should be given to the GCC guys and gals, not the firefox folk.
Sorry for the late comment. But, dude. Did you mean to imply that Lucas could actually make an existing product better? I think you just violated the nerd prime directive!
Yeah okay, grandparent post did read like a subtle troll. But perhaps it was talking about rendering features, not interface features? Or do you think firefox can render everything that IE can? I use 0.9 fulltime now, but still have problems sometimes.
Heck, even just now the slashdot homepage had the sidebar overlap the center block. Refreshing the page didn't fix it. But restarting firefox did fix it. Strange. Never had problems like that in IE.
Slashdot Mirror
These tiles would be a very cool addition to their system.
At some point do they see each other as holo-elements, sized correctly for the holo-distance involved?
Well, that and holo-dirt, holo-water, etc.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; EN-US;196271
Speaking of which, has Windows Server 2003 had _any_ service packs yet?
But as long as I can max out my adsl line I don't care about saving my ISP some bandwidth on their trunk. I doubt they would share the saving with me anyway. :-)
Most BT clients use different colored circles to indicate the health of the connection:
BitTorrent is a great idea, but it still can be confusing for people new to it. seeding, leeching, trackers, port forwarding, ratios. It certainly is more complicated than an http download.
Also some companies may consider it a bad thing that there is no RFC or any kind of official specification for it. Other than the general info and sample source (in python!) on Bram's site.
Let's not spread rumors about Windows Forms being some un-needed web application junk. Windows Forms is part of the .Net BCL (base class library) and is used for UI in plain old applications. And it makes programing in MFC, ATL, VB6, or straight Win32 feel like programming with punch cards.
I can't believe this drivel got +4 insightful.
Right, you are absolutely right. I lost my head. I guess I was trying to say that things which are currently hard can be made easier. For instance garbage collection systems removing some of the memory management grunt work. But natural language is indeed too, umm, well, 'wordy'.
Low level languages have thrived, not because programming concepts are low level, but simply because computers are still too stupid to understand anything else.
Going back on topic. I believe expert systems are very difficult to do well. MS Bob and Clippy are useless. So I'd have to use it to believe it.
Would that be the ministry of the painted breast?
In other news, 50% of patients given a drug containing mostly sugar remained cocaine-free for a period of four months.
I couldn't resist either.
"Yeah, it's ordinateur" The Ordinater? Yeah, I think I saw that movie. It was a ass kicking robot from the future on a mission to convert the entire human society into helpless ordinal numbers. right?
No doubt many viruses will be transfered at the convention, but it really is a private matter between the senator and... oh, did you say computer viruses?
I for one was extremely happy that the Stanley Cup finals were available for download on the net this year. In holland no ice hockey is available at all on TV. I didn't mind watching each game 1 day late because nobody talks about it here anyway, so no accidental spoilers.
Why this would be a bad thing for the content producers... I don't know. Maybe bad for your cable company if you drop your subscription and just download your favorite shows.
But, the interview is interesting.
So, "Is there demand for such a technology?" Yes!
Thus, by restricting PBS's right to freely swear, the FCC is actually defending the english lanuage's right to have curse words.
We should all thank the FCC for protecting our right to swear.
D'oh! I guess I've been locked in a room with no walls...only windows. lol
The next (or next after next?) version of MS Visual Studio will include a new profiler that does part of this. The developer will compile an instrumented build of the app. Run the app in common senarios. Then recompile the app with generated statistics.
Doing this in realtime might be useless though. Difficult to gather statistics fast enough. Plus the lack of info about the source code (i.e. debug symbols).
IMHO, this suggestion should be given to the GCC guys and gals, not the firefox folk.
Sorry for the late comment. But, dude. Did you mean to imply that Lucas could actually make an existing product better? I think you just violated the nerd prime directive!
Heck, even just now the slashdot homepage had the sidebar overlap the center block. Refreshing the page didn't fix it. But restarting firefox did fix it. Strange. Never had problems like that in IE.