Hey smarty,
Is his point valid or not? If it is is there a
prevision to run modified gpl'd code by choice or
not?
If we would be totally locked down by this,
I'd be inclined to avoid the thing for general use
too. I might buy it for my kid as a simple ps.
By Ray tracing, I mean tracing the path of a 'light
ray'. I am asking how a physical contraction of the
camera would alter the explanation on the web site.
I am not sure if the contraction is only in the
direction of movement. If so, it would seem to not
counteract the distortions of the simulation but
might exacerbate them. If, on the other hand, the
physical contractions are on all axis, then it
seems to me, the distortions due to the shorter
time for a photon to travel from the pen hole to
the film plane would be offset by the shrinking of
the film plane itself.
If I correctly recall, special relativity and the Lorenz contraction say that the observer would acutually contract.
So, I suppose, because they dropped the speed of light to 30 kmh, the simulation is valid as it only has to deal with the relative position of the camera to the photons, providing you ignore doppler.
If they were to simulate the camera moving at 95% of c, the camera would actually contract, along with all rulers an observer moving with the camera might use to measure.
Does this sound correct? If so how does this physical contraction change the ray tracing of the simulation?
Well, if you accept works as 'pretty well', I'll grant you that.
The cut and paste in a plain ol'timey X window, though is far superior for my heavy use. It is almost as effecient (operator wise) as 'drag and drop', just one more mouse click. Now the MS rip variation of cut and paste takes much more interaction per cut and paste operation multiplying out to much more and slower work for the user.
Darn, you have forced me to examine my memories a bit closer, of course you must be correct.
In 1974 I became active in RTTY (radio teletype) via
amateur radio. The old surplus 60 baud teletype machine caused me to take special note of an extended article in Radio Electronics?? to build a solid state terminal. The Altair came out before I got the parts and all together and I decided to go for that.
I purchased the Altair 680b and Lier Siegler ADM3
terminal, both in kit form for about $3k. 2MHZ
6800, 16k of static ram using 4kx1 chips. A 300
baud kansas city standard cassette interface card,
along with an assembler and 8k basic completed the
package. There was no operating system.
My first hack was to the basic to replace the
cassette I/O routines with serial port I/O to
utilize a 2400baud external cassette data
recorder. I learned manual dissassembly of machine code
for that.
The 6800 UG in town had two guys with Southwest
tech 6800's, one with a Smoke Signal Broadcasting
system, one with a Motorola development board system, one with a totally homebrew wire-wrapped
job (and home brew os via home brew asm in
the works) and me.
My first paid programme was for an eprom to turn
another fellows 680b into a serial print buffer
for his new CP/M system printer, made $100.
I bought a mits altair 680b kit in 74' or 5 when it
first came out. The stuff in this article did not yet run on any 8080 or 6800 of the day. It was all
machine code, asm, basic or fortran. A TOS (tape os)
came along for 8080's and CPM. All these were
command line things, far from the 'drug' influences gui mouse culture described in the review.
Then ibm came out with the pc, still no gui stuff.
Meanwhile... at Bell Lab's me thinks a bit of dope was inuse.... and now we have unix and linux and yes, windoz all with gui front ends.
Methinks a bit of a spin is in use with the book of this review.
Say, one of those pix reminded me of a cubicle (or is it circumacle). If you aimed all the monitors toward the center and sat there at another, you should definitly be able to establish if those monitors have harmful radiation!
The dark energy question is answered by an earlier post.
cosmological constant: a term in Einstein's general relativity equations that leads to an acceleration of the expansion of the Universe. Usually denoted by the capital Greek letter Lambda when expressed with units of inverse length squared, or by the lower-case Greek lambda when normalized to the critical density like Omega.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/glossary.html
You sound like my kinda man! Probably kin to John Wayne too:-).
Rule Number One - Customer First
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SCO On the Rocks
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SCO, it seems to me, has violated every rule in the book, especially that long forgotten one about the customer being right.
A company cannot possibly stay in business without
happy, returning customers.
My dad was in business and his dad before him also operated several small businesses. He once told a salesman who was asking for a job that he did not need one because his customers were his best salesman.
Great Post! But efficiency does matter, it sets the limits to how much power you can derive from the area you have. Low efficiency drives you to tie up more realestate to reach a given power capability. A larger installation also drives up the cost of installation, wiring and maintenance.
The migration/upgrade projects we plan and execute, all come back to us admins to figure out wtf to do and how long it will take. The pm keeps a timeline and gives pitches to upper mgmt to keep them in there cages (and the money flowing, etc).
The benifit of pm to us is simply to keep us honest and make us formalize the plans. Thing is we must fully understand how to get where we are going from where we are. No project mgmt approach can replace that.
Of course if you don't care about a smooth transition to the new..... or if you are throwing out the old and runnning parellel with all new foreign systems, you could lay me off and how you do it is your problem.
" these are mostly sources they do not know, and thus (hopefully) will not trust"
While this reflects the prevailing so called 'wisdom', I find (for example), slashdot to be a treasure chest compendium for things computational.
While one does still need to sift the comments, it isn't hard to gleen much gold, especially when branching into something new or trying to polish a fine point on something old.
While I've no clue how intel is gonna implement this, if they do it all in real hardware (no uproc and no microcode), it'd be right hard to hack.
In addition, for economy and speed, the stack would not necessarily be implemented as serially as it is in a full software implementation. Also most operations would occur in one clock cycle.
Of course upgrades to tcpip would be - replace the card.
I don't know if your idea would work for him. But
if it will and if you can marshall the talent of slashdotters to do it and then hook him via the gui to a distributed computing thing running on all those volunteer open sourced slashdotters screensavers, you could find out.
I wasn't running a custom kernel so I just used the
2.6 precompiled kernel they provided. It is a 16MB download so I guess they compiled in right many options. The win98SE I am running on a 750mhz P3 boots in 15 seconds.
I had to refer to there support knowledge base for several items, all were there, most would have been unneeded had I rtfm first:-).
And win4lin home edition 30$, worked great for me
and now I have to try this Qemu with accelerator!
Of course win4lin only runs win95/98/me under linux.
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Hey smarty, Is his point valid or not? If it is is there a prevision to run modified gpl'd code by choice or not? If we would be totally locked down by this, I'd be inclined to avoid the thing for general use too. I might buy it for my kid as a simple ps.
By Ray tracing, I mean tracing the path of a 'light ray'. I am asking how a physical contraction of the camera would alter the explanation on the web site. I am not sure if the contraction is only in the direction of movement. If so, it would seem to not counteract the distortions of the simulation but might exacerbate them. If, on the other hand, the physical contractions are on all axis, then it seems to me, the distortions due to the shorter time for a photon to travel from the pen hole to the film plane would be offset by the shrinking of the film plane itself.
Lorenz contraction say that the observer would
acutually contract.
So, I suppose, because they dropped the speed of
light to 30 kmh, the simulation is valid as it
only
has to deal with the relative position of the camera
to the photons, providing you ignore doppler.
If they were to simulate the camera moving at 95%
of c, the camera would actually contract, along
with all rulers an observer moving with the
camera might use to measure.
Does this sound correct? If so how does this
physical contraction change the ray tracing of
the simulation?
The cut and paste in a plain ol'timey X window, though is far superior for my heavy use. It is almost as effecient (operator wise) as 'drag and drop', just one more mouse click. Now the MS rip variation of cut and paste takes much more interaction per cut and paste operation multiplying out to much more and slower work for the user.
Yes, It should be deemed a conflict of interest for a lawyer to hold a law making position of public office!
Perhaps one pair should be included for the $100000!
In 1974 I became active in RTTY (radio teletype) via amateur radio. The old surplus 60 baud teletype machine caused me to take special note of an extended article in Radio Electronics?? to build a solid state terminal. The Altair came out before I got the parts and all together and I decided to go for that.
I purchased the Altair 680b and Lier Siegler ADM3 terminal, both in kit form for about $3k. 2MHZ 6800, 16k of static ram using 4kx1 chips. A 300 baud kansas city standard cassette interface card, along with an assembler and 8k basic completed the package. There was no operating system.
My first hack was to the basic to replace the cassette I/O routines with serial port I/O to utilize a 2400baud external cassette data recorder. I learned manual dissassembly of machine code for that.
The 6800 UG in town had two guys with Southwest tech 6800's, one with a Smoke Signal Broadcasting system, one with a Motorola development board system, one with a totally homebrew wire-wrapped job (and home brew os via home brew asm in the works) and me.
My first paid programme was for an eprom to turn another fellows 680b into a serial print buffer for his new CP/M system printer, made $100.
Then ibm came out with the pc, still no gui stuff.
Meanwhile... at Bell Lab's me thinks a bit of dope was inuse.... and now we have unix and linux and yes, windoz all with gui front ends.
Methinks a bit of a spin is in use with the book of this review.
http://www3.ca.com/Press/PressRelease.aspx?CID=640 25
Say, one of those pix reminded me of a cubicle (or is it circumacle). If you aimed all the monitors toward the center and sat there at another, you should definitly be able to establish if those monitors have harmful radiation!
puke
cosmological constant: a term in Einstein's general relativity equations that leads to an acceleration of the expansion of the Universe. Usually denoted by the capital Greek letter Lambda when expressed with units of inverse length squared, or by the lower-case Greek lambda when normalized to the critical density like Omega. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/glossary.html
With ie usage droping and firefox increasing, this alone would cause the flattening - even in a mild growth scenario.
I just finished downloading MD 10.2 rc1. I thing the debian iso's (the complete set) would have helped more, maybe next time.
You sound like my kinda man! Probably kin to John Wayne too :-).
A company cannot possibly stay in business without happy, returning customers.
My dad was in business and his dad before him also operated several small businesses. He once told a salesman who was asking for a job that he did not need one because his customers were his best salesman.
Great Post! But efficiency does matter, it sets the limits to how much power you can derive from the area you have. Low efficiency drives you to tie up more realestate to reach a given power capability. A larger installation also drives up the cost of installation, wiring and maintenance.
Of course if you don't care about a smooth transition to the new..... or if you are throwing out the old and runnning parellel with all new foreign systems, you could lay me off and how you do it is your problem.
While this reflects the prevailing so called 'wisdom', I find (for example), slashdot to be a treasure chest compendium for things computational. While one does still need to sift the comments, it isn't hard to gleen much gold, especially when branching into something new or trying to polish a fine point on something old.
In addition, for economy and speed, the stack would not necessarily be implemented as serially as it is in a full software implementation. Also most operations would occur in one clock cycle.
Of course upgrades to tcpip would be - replace the card.
I don't know if your idea would work for him. But if it will and if you can marshall the talent of slashdotters to do it and then hook him via the gui to a distributed computing thing running on all those volunteer open sourced slashdotters screensavers, you could find out.
Idiot, he doesn't need a notepad, he has perfect memory.
I had to refer to there support knowledge base for several items, all were there, most would have been unneeded had I rtfm first :-).
http://www.win4lin.com/
I really don't blame him for odd behaivor... especially if there are any errant cats in the house.