You can choose: Push the data to shader, have it processed, pull it back into normal RAM, push it out to framebuffer to display in X. Or you can push the data to the pipeline, through the shaders and then have it land where it belongs in the GPU for display purposes.
Essentially, you can use the GPU either as a bunch of separate specialized devices and micromanage each of them, moving data to and from each by hand or you can use them as a production line, just push input on one end and have the ready final image on the output.
Matter of semantics: compositing Z-ordered 2D layers using GPU-accelerated shaders, AKA "doing graphics in 3D" versus managing all the composition, live modification and layering in CPU, pushing this to a flat framebuffer and using the GPU only to push that framebuffer to the screen, AKA "doing graphics in 2D".
PLEX is the bridge between dollar and ISK - can be purchased with or sold for both.
Once the real money goes into the game, there is no -official- way to get it back. But the market where you can sell PLEX to other players for dollars is thriving and quite successful. You CAN earn real money on EVE.
Imagine this:
Guy A, overworked businessman with lots of income, little time. Guy B, a basement-dwelling no-life nerd. Guy C, a casual with some cash and some time.
Guy A wants to play the game; buys 3 PLEX $15/piece from the official game shop, uses one to prolong account, sells two other for 2bln ISK to guy B, buys an awesome ship with the 2bln ISK.
Guy B is running some corporation, earning heavy ISK on various in-game activities. He spends 2bln ISK on the 2 PLEX from guy A. Uses up one to prolong account, puts up the other one for sale for $13 on a forum.
Guy C decides his subscription is running out, not enough ISK to purchase PLEX for it, but he happens to know there's the forum with PLEX cheaper than the official shop. He pays guy B $13 over PayPal and gets his PLEX which he uses up.
Note Guy B didn't spend a single penny on his PLEX and turned 1bln ISK to $13.
This is all completely legal and within the framework of the game. Since the game creators are the only ones that can create new PLEX they will always get the money, no matter if the PLEX is used up or sold for ISK or sold for $. Sooner or later it will get used up, decreasing in-game supply, increasing the price in ISK and encouraging purchase in $ - both for prolonging and for obtaining a lot of ISK easily.
From what I read: He was about to gate (send) some of big guns there, instead he pressed "Jump" instead of "Gate".
The target was a small pirate corp they wanted to "teach a lesson". They would, easily. Except the pirates got a sniff of what was about to happen and called in help from another corp, who intended to turn it into an ambush - crush the force meant to destroy the pirates.
Of course that meant reinforcements meant to save the titan from the pirates were nowhere enough to save it (and themselves) from the ambush...
A classic example of lossy compression. Since zeros are, well, zeros, or nothing, if you remove them you still have nothing. Thus only saving the ones is important.
Actually, I believe the man-hours projecting the thing were *less* than projecting and making the first prototype of a buyable kit that sells for $50.
And then the production itself not only took minimal man-hours (pour more powder, dust off printed parts, assemble them like LEGO, run more printing overnight). The effort replicating the plane - building a second one - would be VASTLY less than assembly of the $50 kit or toying with hot wire cutters and Xacto knives. Not to mention cost far less than $2k, with all the prototype stage mistakes ironed out. Probably more than $50 but that's a matter of raw materials price dropping and projecting models that are economically viable, as opposed to proof-of-concept that flies and doesn't break.
Yes, it's not ground-breaking. We knew it's possible and someone making it was only a matter of time. It's kinda cool that it was done. Though I'm still waiting for a really affordable and truly self-replicating rep-rap...
Yeah, a detailed printout of a photo on a fancy glossy paper, all with less than $50 in hardware costs is definitely just result of information processing. No material processing technology here, none, nada.
Yep, the primary advance was LiPo batteries. They weight little enough and can provide enough power, that you can make a lawn mower fly. In essence, acrobatic model planes don't need -any- lift from their wings, the hull contributing just room for parts and steering, the planes essentially acting as fancy helicopters with vastly overpowered, small rotors.
Well then, why doesn't the article suggest performing such tests and checks, but immediately jumps to conclusion that they are all bad? Maybe they should just get certified and have the offending logos removed instead?
Did anyone else think Borderlands is a sequel to James Cameron's Avatar?
The RDA nuked the Tree of Life from the orbit roughly 200 years before Borderlands take place,
This pretty much destroyed the ecosystem, leaving only few very vicious breeds of creatures. The natives almost completely died out, but some of their secrets remain. The mines of Unobtainium got depleted, and Pandora remains dull and gray, and worthless.
The appearance of the "ancients" (or their ghosts), the vicious remaining wildlife, the backstory about depleted mines, the cutthroat corporate morality of the powers-that-be, There are things that are somewhat mismatched. Na'vi don't seem to be an "advanced civilization" though they had their tricks and secrets indeed. It's lacking the predominantly 6-limbed fauna typical to Cameron's Pandora. The gravity seems normal. But then, the writer of the game might have been "inspired" by Cameron, while the artists/designers were not.
Modifying fingerprints on your fingers to generate a hash containing malicious URLs when fingerprints are scanned may lead to corrupting the police database.
I really wonder how critically faulty the system would have to be to scan in a signature data and execute it. You could just as well create a license plate with SQL injection code to corrupt photoradars.
The problem is advertizers don't trust their customers not to cheat. What's to stop you, a site owner, from requesting the ad a billion times and sending it to/dev/null? Only a customer-originated request hitting your adserver assures the customer got the ad.
Then, client-side adblocks would still be able to block the ads...
For me,the greatest yet-unrealized advantage of data URIs is what the article lists as its disadvantage: ability to easily integrate rich user content, without need to upload it to some servers. Posting an image to a forum? Don't upload it to imageshack or other services that will delete it in a month. Don't have a fancy system of uploading to the forum host. Simply have some javascript create your [IMG]data:image/jpeg,base64;86fciyitv==[/IMG] and hide the actual base64 content in the message typing preview.
Also, the new touchpad will be very good for power saving, less than 540,000,000 ergs/hour. Would you prefer that in horsepower?
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Don't be so bold in claiming most embedded platforms are something.
Most embedded platforms use Keil, Assembler and all kinds of various odd proprietary compiler suites that suit their 8-bit and 16-bit nature better. The elitist, narrow though visible of 32-bit ARM is using GCC.
I assure you your refrigerator temperature thermostat was not programmed in GCC.
I can't tell much about placement of hands, screen and keyboard, but there's one type of chair that lets you sit in it for hours without problems - precisely designed for that purpose. Car seats. Visit your local junkyard and grab a neat car seat for peanuts (very low demand as replacement part, no valuable components to be recovered, and even getting the metal is a pain, so they cost very little). Screw on some plywood base sticking out backwards so that it doesn't tip over. You may add some more elevation by adding some planks or such - use your creativity, but essentially, turning a car seat into a computer seat is pretty trivial. And a quality car seat will keep you comfortable for many hours a day.
You install a computer game The game claims to install counterfeiting and cheat protection What you also get in the bundle without consenting is a backdoor/rootkit
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You can choose: Push the data to shader, have it processed, pull it back into normal RAM, push it out to framebuffer to display in X. Or you can push the data to the pipeline, through the shaders and then have it land where it belongs in the GPU for display purposes.
Essentially, you can use the GPU either as a bunch of separate specialized devices and micromanage each of them, moving data to and from each by hand or you can use them as a production line, just push input on one end and have the ready final image on the output.
Matter of semantics: compositing Z-ordered 2D layers using GPU-accelerated shaders, AKA "doing graphics in 3D" versus managing all the composition, live modification and layering in CPU, pushing this to a flat framebuffer and using the GPU only to push that framebuffer to the screen, AKA "doing graphics in 2D".
A predator drone with napalm bombs?
Told ya a few grams of C4 will suffice!
PLEX is the bridge between dollar and ISK - can be purchased with or sold for both.
Once the real money goes into the game, there is no -official- way to get it back. But the market where you can sell PLEX to other players for dollars is thriving and quite successful. You CAN earn real money on EVE.
Imagine this:
Guy A, overworked businessman with lots of income, little time.
Guy B, a basement-dwelling no-life nerd.
Guy C, a casual with some cash and some time.
Guy A wants to play the game; buys 3 PLEX $15/piece from the official game shop, uses one to prolong account, sells two other for 2bln ISK to guy B, buys an awesome ship with the 2bln ISK.
Guy B is running some corporation, earning heavy ISK on various in-game activities. He spends 2bln ISK on the 2 PLEX from guy A. Uses up one to prolong account, puts up the other one for sale for $13 on a forum.
Guy C decides his subscription is running out, not enough ISK to purchase PLEX for it, but he happens to know there's the forum with PLEX cheaper than the official shop. He pays guy B $13 over PayPal and gets his PLEX which he uses up.
Note Guy B didn't spend a single penny on his PLEX and turned 1bln ISK to $13.
This is all completely legal and within the framework of the game. Since the game creators are the only ones that can create new PLEX they will always get the money, no matter if the PLEX is used up or sold for ISK or sold for $. Sooner or later it will get used up, decreasing in-game supply, increasing the price in ISK and encouraging purchase in $ - both for prolonging and for obtaining a lot of ISK easily.
From what I read: He was about to gate (send) some of big guns there, instead he pressed "Jump" instead of "Gate".
The target was a small pirate corp they wanted to "teach a lesson". They would, easily.
Except the pirates got a sniff of what was about to happen and called in help from another corp, who intended to turn it into an ambush - crush the force meant to destroy the pirates.
Of course that meant reinforcements meant to save the titan from the pirates were nowhere enough to save it (and themselves) from the ambush...
Unfortunately, the radiation from Pu239 will keep compromise any computational value of the device, corrupting the memory continuously.
Remember how electronics used to be embedded in epoxy?
Do the same but replace epoxy with C4. Drive one GPIO pin to a blasting cap. The electronics will be "dissolved" completely.
A classic example of lossy compression. Since zeros are, well, zeros, or nothing, if you remove them you still have nothing. Thus only saving the ones is important.
Actually, I believe the man-hours projecting the thing were *less* than projecting and making the first prototype of a buyable kit that sells for $50.
And then the production itself not only took minimal man-hours (pour more powder, dust off printed parts, assemble them like LEGO, run more printing overnight). The effort replicating the plane - building a second one - would be VASTLY less than assembly of the $50 kit or toying with hot wire cutters and Xacto knives. Not to mention cost far less than $2k, with all the prototype stage mistakes ironed out. Probably more than $50 but that's a matter of raw materials price dropping and projecting models that are economically viable, as opposed to proof-of-concept that flies and doesn't break.
Yes, it's not ground-breaking. We knew it's possible and someone making it was only a matter of time. It's kinda cool that it was done. Though I'm still waiting for a really affordable and truly self-replicating rep-rap...
Yes, I suddenly boggled how a Seed Drill allows me to manufacture at home. Sure it helps manufacture food, but items we need every day?
Yeah, a detailed printout of a photo on a fancy glossy paper, all with less than $50 in hardware costs is definitely just result of information processing. No material processing technology here, none, nada.
Yep, the primary advance was LiPo batteries. They weight little enough and can provide enough power, that you can make a lawn mower fly. In essence, acrobatic model planes don't need -any- lift from their wings, the hull contributing just room for parts and steering, the planes essentially acting as fancy helicopters with vastly overpowered, small rotors.
I know Gargamel was trying to catch the Smurfs to turn them into gold. But Hobbits?!
Well then, why doesn't the article suggest performing such tests and checks, but immediately jumps to conclusion that they are all bad? Maybe they should just get certified and have the offending logos removed instead?
Did anyone else think Borderlands is a sequel to James Cameron's Avatar?
The RDA nuked the Tree of Life from the orbit roughly 200 years before Borderlands take place,
This pretty much destroyed the ecosystem, leaving only few very vicious breeds of creatures. The natives almost completely died out, but some of their secrets remain. The mines of Unobtainium got depleted, and Pandora remains dull and gray, and worthless.
The appearance of the "ancients" (or their ghosts), the vicious remaining wildlife, the backstory about depleted mines, the cutthroat corporate morality of the powers-that-be,
There are things that are somewhat mismatched. Na'vi don't seem to be an "advanced civilization" though they had their tricks and secrets indeed. It's lacking the predominantly 6-limbed fauna typical to Cameron's Pandora. The gravity seems normal. But then, the writer of the game might have been "inspired" by Cameron, while the artists/designers were not.
Modifying fingerprints on your fingers to generate a hash containing malicious URLs when fingerprints are scanned may lead to corrupting the police database.
I really wonder how critically faulty the system would have to be to scan in a signature data and execute it. You could just as well create a license plate with SQL injection code to corrupt photoradars.
The problem is advertizers don't trust their customers not to cheat. What's to stop you, a site owner, from requesting the ad a billion times and sending it to /dev/null?
Only a customer-originated request hitting your adserver assures the customer got the ad.
Then, client-side adblocks would still be able to block the ads...
For me,the greatest yet-unrealized advantage of data URIs is what the article lists as its disadvantage: ability to easily integrate rich user content, without need to upload it to some servers. Posting an image to a forum? Don't upload it to imageshack or other services that will delete it in a month. Don't have a fancy system of uploading to the forum host. Simply have some javascript create your [IMG]data:image/jpeg,base64;86fciyitv==[/IMG] and hide the actual base64 content in the message typing preview.
Also, the new touchpad will be very good for power saving, less than 540,000,000 ergs/hour.
Would you prefer that in horsepower?
Don't be so bold in claiming most embedded platforms are something.
Most embedded platforms use Keil, Assembler and all kinds of various odd proprietary compiler suites that suit their 8-bit and 16-bit nature better. The elitist, narrow though visible of 32-bit ARM is using GCC.
I assure you your refrigerator temperature thermostat was not programmed in GCC.
I can't tell much about placement of hands, screen and keyboard, but there's one type of chair that lets you sit in it for hours without problems - precisely designed for that purpose. Car seats.
Visit your local junkyard and grab a neat car seat for peanuts (very low demand as replacement part, no valuable components to be recovered, and even getting the metal is a pain, so they cost very little). Screw on some plywood base sticking out backwards so that it doesn't tip over. You may add some more elevation by adding some planks or such - use your creativity, but essentially, turning a car seat into a computer seat is pretty trivial. And a quality car seat will keep you comfortable for many hours a day.
Do you think the EULA states "You agree that any party can do anything ever to your computer"?
Also, it's a backdoor program that gets installed by piggybacking itself on top of a computer game.
That very much matches a definition of Trojan.
Wait, not really.
You install a computer game
The game claims to install counterfeiting and cheat protection
What you also get in the bundle without consenting is a backdoor/rootkit
This is the very definition of a trojan.