How it works The Georgia Tech system essentially exploits the "retroreflective" property of digital camera lenses. When light strikes a retroreflective surface, a portion of the light bounces back to the original source. While eyeglasses, bottles, watches and other glass surfaces are retroreflective, a coating on virtually all digital camera lenses puts cameras in a class of their own.
I basically open the browser once a day, and then deal with the tabs after that. So my homepage is set to http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ because I like the pics, and then go elsewhere from then:)
I think you're confusing the button with the menu... look up between View and Bookmarks, and you see the word Go... that's what people are talking about.
And you wonder why people are stranded on the side of the road with a flat they can't change. You can't abstract out all the mechanics of anything, no matter how advanced.
The problem is that "content" without proper mechanics loses all of it's value, and without proper mechanics built into the content generation process, thoughts are muddled and incoherent. There's no structure enforced. That's why people start thinking crap like Scientology is a good idea. They have no rational thought processes, they're governed solely by "content", ie "emotion". Kinda like the gorillas and monkeys you see in zoo exhibits.
False? Show me where they said anything false.
Now, I realize you work for the beast of redmond, and you have a vested interest in this, but really, your bitching is just silly. It's out-of-context quoting, which has done for ages with the powerful and influential. If you'd noticed, people have already posted the entire relevant snippet, so it was mostly a bit of fun and sensationalism at BillG's expense. But that's what anyone in the public eye gets.
Short answer: Get over it. Having an aneruysm over other people having fun at your boss' expense is stupid.
Wait, where'd the "unbiased" part come from? I think you spew shiite from thine oral cavity.
Slashdot is an OSTG site. Do you know what OSTG stands for? I'll leave it as an exercise for you. Wonder if MSN search returns any hits on it... either way, Open Source as a social movement is diametrically opposed to the way Microsoft does business. Deal with it. Not like anyone is forcing you to read this.
I'd wager to say "no". Video Toaster and the like are very specific for running videos... a current system still doesn't have the bandwidth in software to run many streams like that. Try playing more than 2 or 3 videos at the same time, see if your computer slows down.
But either way, this is meant for video editing, not for broadcasting as far as I know.
Science still said it was wrong hundreds of years ago. It's the basis of scientific thought, after all. Theories from evidence, rather than immutable certitude. Or were you talking about things like Galileo recanting?
I don't know about you, but I just get bored sometimes, and want something new. Why does the old one have to be broken before I get a new one? The resale is better if it's working.
He took through deceptive, dishonest (bot) means that which did not belong to him (rare world items) and sold them for real-world profit (which he did not "earn"). I'm sure there's a law in most jurusdictions that cover that kind of fraudulent acquisition of value. You are operating under the assumption that many people seem to have that if something can happen, then it must be permissible, otherwise it's the developer's fault. It's Toyota's fault that I can drive my car faster than the speed limit. If it wasn't meant to go that fast, they should have put a speed limiter in it that made sure I couldn't go faster than the speed limit on any given road in America.
Nice troll. Shall I explain how our entire financial system is set up for you? You realize that we're not on a gold standard any more, right? All worth is completely "virtual"? It's only got the worth that people assign it. My point is that his virtual property had a very tangible worth that the guy stole, and as it was acquired through dishonorable and extortionate means, and as such he should be charged.
Except that those virtual objects have real-world value. Money is just a virtual object when you get down to it. It's just a scrap of paper with some printing on it. Guess I'm within my rights to steal it from you, it's not REAL value.
Get off your high horse... I don't play the games myself, but you make it sound like it's deviant behavior to play them.
Who says the people writing the worms hate Windows? The stupid little shit spray painting stuff on my fence doesn't hate me. He's just wanting to destroy property and get credit for it with his pseudonym. Same with most of the virus writers.
The people who refusse to authenticate aren't always pirates. I have a legal, paid-for copy of XP that I used the authentication bypass on since I don't want to send any info to Microsoft. My system, my info. Not theirs. I barely boot into Windows anyway.
But yes, companies with people working for them have to do damage control because some idiots decided to cause trouble. It happens. It's not just because people "stole" (that's for another discussion) Windows though. It's because Microsoft's patches have a habit of hosing things, so it's sometimes better to not patch.
Sorry, had to rise to the troll. Mod this however you feel is necessary;)
Because they said so. Massive will limit any opengl in a window to OpenGL 1.4. It's in the damn specs. So that hamstrings any app that wants to use the new OpenGL 2.0 features.
Secondly, let's see: Unreal Tournament, anything from id software off the top of my head. But that's neither here nor there... they run in full-screen, so they aren't limited by the massive (or whatever it's called) framework. It's the apps that do windowed 3D that have the problem.
If that doesn't explain it to you, nothing will.
Other apps that use windowed GL: Max VNS Blender Wings 3D Solidworks
And those are just off the top of my head. ALL of them will take a massive performance hit from this maneuver by MicroShaft. Direct3D will still suck as an API, DirectX will still suck, and even worse, even though OpenGL will be supported, it'll be frozen at 1.4. There go all your shaders and anything nice you might want to use in OpenGL 2.0 except in a full-screen app (read: games. MS ain't dumb enough to alienate their gamers, but they may just force the professionals to *nix).
But hey, they're MS. Now be a good little consumer and bend over.
He extorted them to release the information, if I read the article correctly. Which was actually more "responsible" to the information than him releasing it, since they know more about it and can make at least a semi-informed release of the information, rather than putting up a bunch of random data he swiped.
So? It doesn't necessarily not have GTK+. It just doesn't have Gnome. I have GTK+ on my Windows partitions, and I also have it on my Linux partitions, but I still don't install the abomination of a DE that is Gnome.
I hate saying it, but I could see this working.
What about popping up an ad during a required "dead" period, after your character gets killed, waiting for the next round or whatever. It's not really a loading screen, so it'd get around Namco's patent... I really hope the ad execs aren't reading this.
Actually, mileage stickers are calculated via an EPA equation. That way you don't have manufacturers trying to game the system.
But since there are so many advances and differences in cars and so on, what you see on the sticker is rarely related to actual milage under real driving conditions.
Mmm, gotta love RTFMing.
a) Make bigger trout to have bigger fillets, because that's what the consumer wants
b) Catfish doesn't taste like trout. People want trout.
c) Twinkies growing on trees... mmmmm.... oh, wait
d) I'd say it's a lot better than many uses of our tax dollars, but that's just MHO.
Have you ever tried, I don't know, ASKING your doctor about the pills that're being prescribed? A decent doctor will tell you what, why, how and anything else. If your doctor won't, find someone else.
Blaming a bogeyman like "the establishment" is like blaming "the government" for our problems. We are the government, are are all cogs in the establishment... if you want something changed, you have to work for it.
Not hard. Surreal. Academics live in a totally different world, for the most part. The only professors I ever really liked were the ones that took a few years to go work in the "real world" before returning to teach. They actually had a modicum of common sense.
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Read the goddamn article:
How it works
The Georgia Tech system essentially exploits the "retroreflective" property of digital camera lenses. When light strikes a retroreflective surface, a portion of the light bounces back to the original source. While eyeglasses, bottles, watches and other glass surfaces are retroreflective, a coating on virtually all digital camera lenses puts cameras in a class of their own.
I basically open the browser once a day, and then deal with the tabs after that. So my homepage is set to http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ because I like the pics, and then go elsewhere from then :)
I think you're confusing the button with the menu... look up between View and Bookmarks, and you see the word Go... that's what people are talking about.
It can't be an exact copy! It says Microsoft® on it now!
And you wonder why people are stranded on the side of the road with a flat they can't change. You can't abstract out all the mechanics of anything, no matter how advanced.
The problem is that "content" without proper mechanics loses all of it's value, and without proper mechanics built into the content generation process, thoughts are muddled and incoherent. There's no structure enforced. That's why people start thinking crap like Scientology is a good idea. They have no rational thought processes, they're governed solely by "content", ie "emotion". Kinda like the gorillas and monkeys you see in zoo exhibits.
False? Show me where they said anything false.
Now, I realize you work for the beast of redmond, and you have a vested interest in this, but really, your bitching is just silly. It's out-of-context quoting, which has done for ages with the powerful and influential. If you'd noticed, people have already posted the entire relevant snippet, so it was mostly a bit of fun and sensationalism at BillG's expense. But that's what anyone in the public eye gets.
Short answer: Get over it. Having an aneruysm over other people having fun at your boss' expense is stupid.
Wait, where'd the "unbiased" part come from? I think you spew shiite from thine oral cavity.
Slashdot is an OSTG site. Do you know what OSTG stands for? I'll leave it as an exercise for you. Wonder if MSN search returns any hits on it... either way, Open Source as a social movement is diametrically opposed to the way Microsoft does business. Deal with it. Not like anyone is forcing you to read this.
I'd wager to say "no". Video Toaster and the like are very specific for running videos... a current system still doesn't have the bandwidth in software to run many streams like that. Try playing more than 2 or 3 videos at the same time, see if your computer slows down.
But either way, this is meant for video editing, not for broadcasting as far as I know.
Science still said it was wrong hundreds of years ago. It's the basis of scientific thought, after all. Theories from evidence, rather than immutable certitude. Or were you talking about things like Galileo recanting?
I don't know about you, but I just get bored sometimes, and want something new. Why does the old one have to be broken before I get a new one? The resale is better if it's working.
Oh yes... how about we just tie everything together so it's completely seamless. Throw a media player in with it, and a web browser, too. Choice just confuses users. Modular architectures are too confusing for users. We need authority telling us what to think!
Oohhh! I've got it! Microsoft© Linux! They'll make it just work without the user having to think!
Seriously, these concepts exist because of the modular nature of the system. This "frankenstein" is what allows you to have the choice. It's also quite good because it allows you to leave off parts that aren't necessary. That doesn't happen with systems like Windows. Gotta have IE and WMP even on a server. Where's the sense in that?
Anywho, go drink the other kool-aid. Stop talking about central authorities relating to systems that are ideologically opposed to such a viewpoint.
He took through deceptive, dishonest (bot) means that which did not belong to him (rare world items) and sold them for real-world profit (which he did not "earn"). I'm sure there's a law in most jurusdictions that cover that kind of fraudulent acquisition of value. You are operating under the assumption that many people seem to have that if something can happen, then it must be permissible, otherwise it's the developer's fault. It's Toyota's fault that I can drive my car faster than the speed limit. If it wasn't meant to go that fast, they should have put a speed limiter in it that made sure I couldn't go faster than the speed limit on any given road in America.
Nice troll. Shall I explain how our entire financial system is set up for you? You realize that we're not on a gold standard any more, right? All worth is completely "virtual"? It's only got the worth that people assign it. My point is that his virtual property had a very tangible worth that the guy stole, and as it was acquired through dishonorable and extortionate means, and as such he should be charged.
Except that those virtual objects have real-world value. Money is just a virtual object when you get down to it. It's just a scrap of paper with some printing on it. Guess I'm within my rights to steal it from you, it's not REAL value.
Get off your high horse... I don't play the games myself, but you make it sound like it's deviant behavior to play them.
Who says the people writing the worms hate Windows? The stupid little shit spray painting stuff on my fence doesn't hate me. He's just wanting to destroy property and get credit for it with his pseudonym. Same with most of the virus writers. ;)
The people who refusse to authenticate aren't always pirates. I have a legal, paid-for copy of XP that I used the authentication bypass on since I don't want to send any info to Microsoft. My system, my info. Not theirs. I barely boot into Windows anyway.
But yes, companies with people working for them have to do damage control because some idiots decided to cause trouble. It happens. It's not just because people "stole" (that's for another discussion) Windows though. It's because Microsoft's patches have a habit of hosing things, so it's sometimes better to not patch.
Sorry, had to rise to the troll. Mod this however you feel is necessary
Because they said so. Massive will limit any opengl in a window to OpenGL 1.4. It's in the damn specs. So that hamstrings any app that wants to use the new OpenGL 2.0 features.
Secondly, let's see: Unreal Tournament, anything from id software off the top of my head. But that's neither here nor there... they run in full-screen, so they aren't limited by the massive (or whatever it's called) framework. It's the apps that do windowed 3D that have the problem.
If that doesn't explain it to you, nothing will.
Other apps that use windowed GL:
Max
VNS
Blender
Wings 3D
Solidworks
And those are just off the top of my head. ALL of them will take a massive performance hit from this maneuver by MicroShaft. Direct3D will still suck as an API, DirectX will still suck, and even worse, even though OpenGL will be supported, it'll be frozen at 1.4. There go all your shaders and anything nice you might want to use in OpenGL 2.0 except in a full-screen app (read: games. MS ain't dumb enough to alienate their gamers, but they may just force the professionals to *nix).
But hey, they're MS. Now be a good little consumer and bend over.
He extorted them to release the information, if I read the article correctly. Which was actually more "responsible" to the information than him releasing it, since they know more about it and can make at least a semi-informed release of the information, rather than putting up a bunch of random data he swiped.
So? It doesn't necessarily not have GTK+. It just doesn't have Gnome. I have GTK+ on my Windows partitions, and I also have it on my Linux partitions, but I still don't install the abomination of a DE that is Gnome.
I hate saying it, but I could see this working.
What about popping up an ad during a required "dead" period, after your character gets killed, waiting for the next round or whatever. It's not really a loading screen, so it'd get around Namco's patent... I really hope the ad execs aren't reading this.
Actually, mileage stickers are calculated via an EPA equation. That way you don't have manufacturers trying to game the system.
But since there are so many advances and differences in cars and so on, what you see on the sticker is rarely related to actual milage under real driving conditions.
Mmm, gotta love RTFMing.
a) Make bigger trout to have bigger fillets, because that's what the consumer wants
b) Catfish doesn't taste like trout. People want trout.
c) Twinkies growing on trees... mmmmm.... oh, wait
d) I'd say it's a lot better than many uses of our tax dollars, but that's just MHO.
Have you ever tried, I don't know, ASKING your doctor about the pills that're being prescribed? A decent doctor will tell you what, why, how and anything else. If your doctor won't, find someone else.
Blaming a bogeyman like "the establishment" is like blaming "the government" for our problems. We are the government, are are all cogs in the establishment... if you want something changed, you have to work for it.
Not hard. Surreal. Academics live in a totally different world, for the most part. The only professors I ever really liked were the ones that took a few years to go work in the "real world" before returning to teach. They actually had a modicum of common sense.