Because businesses would rather pay for someone to fix bugs in a common product, rather than updating the look and adding new features. Promise. Just like car rental companies would rather pay someone to repair their cars than have them out on the road rented out.
Businesses are just dealing with renting Model T's right now. But just because they're dealing with it doesn't mean that it's right, or what we should strive for.
But then you have to write your own parser, where you just dump the data into an XML parser and get usable data out of it. If you don't have the bandwidth, then I agree. But XML is definitely the path of least resistance in many data transfer applications.
Actually, ATI finally fixed this bug in their latest drivers. NVidia hasn't spinlocked for a while. You really notice this problem when using graphics in a multi-threaded mode, as in having a data processing thread and a redrawing thread. It used to kill the processing thread because the graphics thread would spinlock, whether or not vsync was enabled.
If you disable vsync, you just start checking the sytem timer and hoping you have a high enough resolution one. If it's passed a certain point, blit another frame to the screen then do your other processing checking periodically. But you have to have a tight, constant-execution-time built loop essentially.
Well, 1+3=4, as does 2+2. There are different solutions to the same problem, perhaps. Primate vision got good up close because of snakes and because of our need to be able to manipulate things up close with our nifty dextrous phalanges. Maybe it was some of both, some of neither, whatever, but it's still something interesting to ponder.
Read this bit about tetrachromats to see where GPP got the info. There are other causes for R/G color blindness, but tetrachromacy is thought to be linked to some.
I know. But I have been keeping things legit lately. Very little pirated software, music, etc. That, and free software is just easier to get to do what I WANT it to do, rather than having to do what it thinks I should do. Rather, what the programmer's manager thinks it should do.
More and more new games, I can't even "just play" on Windows. Far Cry refuses to work with the DVD drive in my desktop, as a result of it's copy-protection software. It's a known bug that they can't/won't fix, the game just won't work with that drive.
It's getting so that gaming isn't even worth it any more hardly.
a) Quake 3 uses multiple cores, IIRC
b) You're telling me gamers won't benefit if all the other system processes are constrained to core 1, while the game runs on core 2? Seems the game will get a slightly larger chunk of processing time to me, without having to deal with context switching
Now ask him how many Mario articles he's read on here... this info is new to me as well. I don't read the games section specifically, so the only time I'd see this is if it filtered to the front page.
On the other hand, I've used my learning remote to "learn" the codes from my infrared keyboard, so I can use that as a complete surrogate on my media center.
Drastical? Your dad should have encouraged english skills...
More on-topic, with your "understanding is not necessary, but only usage" comment, don't you find that's true about cars? Most people have only half a clue about what goes on under the hood. They put gas in it, and if you have someone really bright, they change the oil regularly and get tires checked, etc. But it's gone from an understanding thing to where you just call the mechanic when it breaks. I think the previous poster here had it right... we'll probably know more than our kids about the actual workings of the technology because we're geeks. Just like my Dad has a much better idea about how the powertrain of my car works than I do. I have half a clue, but not nearly what he knows.
Adults shouldn't have the amount of collective free time that children do. This is a way to capitalize (in a communist way) on an untapped pool of labor that the human rights people won't get upset about.
Meh. I never used Photoshop, and I find the Gimp perfectly easy to get around in and do what I need to get done. I'm definitely not a graphics professional though.
I think most people's problems relate to:
a) It's not exactly like Photoshop so they've got no clue what to do with it so the interface "sucks" and
b) It has a REAL multiple-document interface(MDI), which is different from a lot of shit Windows applications like Excel (why oh why does it show the "windows" in the taskbar, but I'm unable to separate them from the base Excel window? I can't put two spreadsheets next to each other! Other than that, Excel is passable)
It's easier to require developers to have secure passwords than to force them to run things like fail2ban on their personal machines. If the attacker compromised the developer's machine, then used that info to log into the main debian server, well... they're still boned.
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I don't think the lawsuit will be against the Mozilla foundation, though. And it's by a company in GB. That makes the waters much more murky:
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Because businesses would rather pay for someone to fix bugs in a common product, rather than updating the look and adding new features. Promise. Just like car rental companies would rather pay someone to repair their cars than have them out on the road rented out.
Businesses are just dealing with renting Model T's right now. But just because they're dealing with it doesn't mean that it's right, or what we should strive for.
But then you have to write your own parser, where you just dump the data into an XML parser and get usable data out of it. If you don't have the bandwidth, then I agree. But XML is definitely the path of least resistance in many data transfer applications.
That depends on your application, mostly. Some applications implement it that way. Are you sure you have vsync turned ON when you test this?
Sorry to reply to myself... I totally spaced it. An example of the multi-threaded graphics toolkit would be something like Open SceneGraph (OSG).
Actually, ATI finally fixed this bug in their latest drivers. NVidia hasn't spinlocked for a while. You really notice this problem when using graphics in a multi-threaded mode, as in having a data processing thread and a redrawing thread. It used to kill the processing thread because the graphics thread would spinlock, whether or not vsync was enabled. If you disable vsync, you just start checking the sytem timer and hoping you have a high enough resolution one. If it's passed a certain point, blit another frame to the screen then do your other processing checking periodically. But you have to have a tight, constant-execution-time built loop essentially.
Just because they say it, doesn't make it so... I can't think that a court would agree that you're a manager if you aren't managing anyone.
Well, 1+3=4, as does 2+2. There are different solutions to the same problem, perhaps. Primate vision got good up close because of snakes and because of our need to be able to manipulate things up close with our nifty dextrous phalanges. Maybe it was some of both, some of neither, whatever, but it's still something interesting to ponder.
Read this bit about tetrachromats to see where GPP got the info. There are other causes for R/G color blindness, but tetrachromacy is thought to be linked to some.
I know. But I have been keeping things legit lately. Very little pirated software, music, etc. That, and free software is just easier to get to do what I WANT it to do, rather than having to do what it thinks I should do. Rather, what the programmer's manager thinks it should do.
More and more new games, I can't even "just play" on Windows. Far Cry refuses to work with the DVD drive in my desktop, as a result of it's copy-protection software. It's a known bug that they can't/won't fix, the game just won't work with that drive.
It's getting so that gaming isn't even worth it any more hardly.
a) Quake 3 uses multiple cores, IIRC
b) You're telling me gamers won't benefit if all the other system processes are constrained to core 1, while the game runs on core 2? Seems the game will get a slightly larger chunk of processing time to me, without having to deal with context switching
Ummm... use two magnets? One on the lid and one on the side then? I mean, I know that's a GIGANTIC leap in logic, but...
So Colombia and Brazil, they all get along great, they're all Americans just having a big ol' party down there? Or do they stop you at the border and ask you for your passport and a bribe?
I call bullshit.
"Traditionally, Colombia's diplomatic and economic interests in the rest of Latin America were limited mainly to its neighboring rival, Venezuela. Colombia did not begin to identify with and pay more attention to other Latin American countries and to the English-speaking Caribbean until the mid-1970s."
Either way, the US has much more right to claim to be Americans, as we've been using the name to describe ourselves as such for a much longer time.
Now ask him how many Mario articles he's read on here... this info is new to me as well. I don't read the games section specifically, so the only time I'd see this is if it filtered to the front page.
On the other hand, I've used my learning remote to "learn" the codes from my infrared keyboard, so I can use that as a complete surrogate on my media center.
Drastical? Your dad should have encouraged english skills...
More on-topic, with your "understanding is not necessary, but only usage" comment, don't you find that's true about cars? Most people have only half a clue about what goes on under the hood. They put gas in it, and if you have someone really bright, they change the oil regularly and get tires checked, etc. But it's gone from an understanding thing to where you just call the mechanic when it breaks. I think the previous poster here had it right... we'll probably know more than our kids about the actual workings of the technology because we're geeks. Just like my Dad has a much better idea about how the powertrain of my car works than I do. I have half a clue, but not nearly what he knows.
Adults shouldn't have the amount of collective free time that children do. This is a way to capitalize (in a communist way) on an untapped pool of labor that the human rights people won't get upset about.
Lego is starting to realize that.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Wouldn't yours be a good case for a fanless thin client with some beefy servers in another room?
Meh. I never used Photoshop, and I find the Gimp perfectly easy to get around in and do what I need to get done. I'm definitely not a graphics professional though.
I think most people's problems relate to:
a) It's not exactly like Photoshop so they've got no clue what to do with it so the interface "sucks" and
b) It has a REAL multiple-document interface(MDI), which is different from a lot of shit Windows applications like Excel (why oh why does it show the "windows" in the taskbar, but I'm unable to separate them from the base Excel window? I can't put two spreadsheets next to each other! Other than that, Excel is passable)
It's easier to require developers to have secure passwords than to force them to run things like fail2ban on their personal machines. If the attacker compromised the developer's machine, then used that info to log into the main debian server, well... they're still boned.
It's actually not a pun, it's more of a double-entendre...
But then you have to play Halo 2 with a shitty control setup (gamepad).
I'll pay a premium to play games comfortably, thank you.