Creating a root shell is a system call. So if you only have access to fopen(*, "r"), you can't open a root shell. No matter what library you ask to do it for you, it's still your processor doing the asking.
I think you're confusing more optimizable and easier to otpimize.
That's the deal with RISC and EPIC and all that crap, it has a really high theoretically maximum performance, if you can tweak everything right. If your compiler is not way smarter than, say, me, that potential is unrealized.
Not to be confused with the actual town named Wooster, MA. (the difference is that Worchester is pronounced "W-ster" and Wooster is pronounced "wooooooo-ster"
Even when new, that was a shitty card. But if you constrain your experience to the capabilities of your hardware, than no matter what hardware you have you can say "it works for the way I use it".
Video RAM is way faster than system RAM generally, since: it can be relatively pricey, since you tend to have less of it, and since the video card's architecture is designed around memory bandwidth (for instance: the gf2 GTS had twice as wide a memory path as the main system did). Add to that the bottleneck of getting from system RAM to the GPU (AGP 8x is still a lot slower than the other stuff), and add to that the fact that the CPU and the GPU are then contending for the same memory, and ow, performance hit.
Devoting equal resources to the linux version as you are to the windows version is basically like sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "la la la la" instead of listening to any sort of demographic information (in the common case - there are products where this is not true, of course).
Let's also make sure that the FreeBSD, Macintosh, BeOS, and QNX port are all done and QA'd before we release anything
The biggest problem with this, from a buiness point of view, is that now suddenly you have to wait for the linux version to deploy the windows version. Which is probably a mistake, financially. Releasing them separately avoids this problem.
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Well, the Japanese DVD is region 2, which not all dvd players can be hacked to play, the special features are untranslated (if it's anything like the other Ghibli DVD's) and retails at $60 in this country.
Other than that, sign me up!
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I thought Moro's voice was actually better with in the dub. However Billy-Bob Thorton was awful, and Princess Mononoke herself wasn't so great either. On the whole, it's one of the best dubbed anime I've seen, but I still prefer the sub.
First time I saw it was on a japanese laserdisc - no subtitles or dub. I had no clue what was going on, but it was still cool.:)
The Totoro dub is moderately good. My roommate prefers it to the subtitled version, but I don't.
Evolution is a theory that's well established, and accepted by 99.9% of scientists (according to one of Newsweek's crappy polls.) Newton's law is a theory as well.
The scientific method is really bad at proving things. It's good at disproving things however. Theories which are continually not disproven (that is, they are "upheld") by experimentation and research seem like they might be correct, but the fact is Science will never know how what happened prehistorically as a fact. All it do is say "there's overwhelming evidence for evolution, so it's probably how come there are people".
As far as biological evolution, this will happen to an extent. But not so much really, remember the plague, black death? Well less than 5% of Europeans has any immunity. We discovered hand washing and rat control before it really reworked the genome. Condoms and medicine will do the same for HIV.
Since memes evolve in a Lamarkian fashion, and can be exchanged many times over the course of one host's lifespam, they're much more volatile than biological elements. So it seems more likely that we'll learn how to avoid or cure HIV through "technological means" (ie, using a condom, or (in the previous Black Plague example) washing your hands).
I believe there are today some cases where people infected with HIV do not ever experience any symptoms (namely, AIDS). If memetic evolution failed, that phenotype would pick up the slack, though of course a lot more people would die.
It's not really fair to say that the OS can prevent bad drivers from crashing the system - there are many cases in which misprogramming the hardware will cause problems that the OS can't reasonablly avoid. For instance, lots of DMA or bus-mastering devices don't know about the memory virtualization, so they work in the space of physical addresses, without protection.
I don't understand what demands PHP has on version control that C++ and static HTML don't. I think CVS is just as good at PHP as it is at any other language...
To address your other concern there are several graphical CVS clients for windows. Most of them suck, but Tortoise CVS is my favorite of all the interfaces I've used to version control (which include integrated MS Visual Studio IDE support, Continuus, and Perforce), though of course it has the limitations inherent to CVS. (If you get Tortoise, I also recommend you look around at some alternat icon overlay packs so it looks nice)
Alright, if you're doing anything over the real internet, you will encounter packet loss. So what do you want to happen when packet loss occurs? Here are your options:
Automatically and transparently timeout waiting for the packet, and ask for retransmission. In this case, use TCP.
Anything else. In this case, use UDP.
As an example of "Anything Else" maybe notice that a packet is missing, ask for a retransmission, and draw a little rendered animation of a gerbil chewing on a length of cat5utp in the corner of the screen.
I'm pretty much hitting the edge of what my GeForce 2 MX can do. While it's not got the fillrate of the actual GeForce 2, either one of them will be lacking features required by Doom3, and my card certainly is struggling on most recent titles. (i.e. Dungeon Siege, America's Army, hell, even RTCW could have run better with a faster video card)
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Creating a root shell is a system call. So if you only have access to fopen(*, "r"), you can't open a root shell. No matter what library you ask to do it for you, it's still your processor doing the asking.
Yes, the title bar, but not the menu bar, which is the point of Apple's unified menu - you don't close apps as often as you use their menus
Yes, they use references instead, which are identical, except:
They're called references instead of pointers
They can't point to arrays
They are garbage collected.
I think you're confusing more optimizable and easier to otpimize.
That's the deal with RISC and EPIC and all that crap, it has a really high theoretically maximum performance, if you can tweak everything right. If your compiler is not way smarter than, say, me, that potential is unrealized.
Not to be confused with the actual town named Wooster, MA. (the difference is that Worchester is pronounced "W-ster" and Wooster is pronounced "wooooooo-ster"
Replace "ster" with "stah" if you're local.
Even when new, that was a shitty card. But if you constrain your experience to the capabilities of your hardware, than no matter what hardware you have you can say "it works for the way I use it".
Video RAM is way faster than system RAM generally, since: it can be relatively pricey, since you tend to have less of it, and since the video card's architecture is designed around memory bandwidth (for instance: the gf2 GTS had twice as wide a memory path as the main system did). Add to that the bottleneck of getting from system RAM to the GPU (AGP 8x is still a lot slower than the other stuff), and add to that the fact that the CPU and the GPU are then contending for the same memory, and ow, performance hit.
That's true of Trademarks, not copyrights or patents. If it were true of patents, the GIF compression patent wouldn't ever have been an issue.
Devoting equal resources to the linux version as you are to the windows version is basically like sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "la la la la" instead of listening to any sort of demographic information (in the common case - there are products where this is not true, of course).
Let's also make sure that the FreeBSD, Macintosh, BeOS, and QNX port are all done and QA'd before we release anything
The biggest problem with this, from a buiness point of view, is that now suddenly you have to wait for the linux version to deploy the windows version. Which is probably a mistake, financially. Releasing them separately avoids this problem.
Well, the Japanese DVD is region 2, which not all dvd players can be hacked to play, the special features are untranslated (if it's anything like the other Ghibli DVD's) and retails at $60 in this country.
Other than that, sign me up!
I thought Moro's voice was actually better with in the dub. However Billy-Bob Thorton was awful, and Princess Mononoke herself wasn't so great either. On the whole, it's one of the best dubbed anime I've seen, but I still prefer the sub.
:)
First time I saw it was on a japanese laserdisc - no subtitles or dub. I had no clue what was going on, but it was still cool.
The Totoro dub is moderately good. My roommate prefers it to the subtitled version, but I don't.
No, those were inventions. You can't discover something that doesn't exist.
I thought that the reason for the name change was legal trouble with the consumer electronics company by the same name.
Evolution is a theory that's well established, and accepted by 99.9% of scientists (according to one of Newsweek's crappy polls.) Newton's law is a theory as well.
The scientific method is really bad at proving things. It's good at disproving things however. Theories which are continually not disproven (that is, they are "upheld") by experimentation and research seem like they might be correct, but the fact is Science will never know how what happened prehistorically as a fact. All it do is say "there's overwhelming evidence for evolution, so it's probably how come there are people".
Even if they live long lives, unless these congenitally deformed people reproduced as much as everyone else, they're being selected out.
As far as biological evolution, this will happen to an extent. But not so much really, remember the plague, black death? Well less than 5% of Europeans has any immunity. We discovered hand washing and rat control before it really reworked the genome. Condoms and medicine will do the same for HIV.
Since memes evolve in a Lamarkian fashion, and can be exchanged many times over the course of one host's lifespam, they're much more volatile than biological elements. So it seems more likely that we'll learn how to avoid or cure HIV through "technological means" (ie, using a condom, or (in the previous Black Plague example) washing your hands).
I believe there are today some cases where people infected with HIV do not ever experience any symptoms (namely, AIDS). If memetic evolution failed, that phenotype would pick up the slack, though of course a lot more people would die.
It's not really fair to say that the OS can prevent bad drivers from crashing the system - there are many cases in which misprogramming the hardware will cause problems that the OS can't reasonablly avoid. For instance, lots of DMA or bus-mastering devices don't know about the memory virtualization, so they work in the space of physical addresses, without protection.
I just finished re-reading this. Goddamned brilliant. Yeah, it's not really dystopian, but read it anyways.
The abstract isn't necessarily as specific as the actual patent, it's just intended to give a general idea of what it's about.
I don't understand what demands PHP has on version control that C++ and static HTML don't. I think CVS is just as good at PHP as it is at any other language...
To address your other concern there are several graphical CVS clients for windows. Most of them suck, but Tortoise CVS is my favorite of all the interfaces I've used to version control (which include integrated MS Visual Studio IDE support, Continuus, and Perforce), though of course it has the limitations inherent to CVS. (If you get Tortoise, I also recommend you look around at some alternat icon overlay packs so it looks nice)
And until the second, the first is the only one.
The ships would decelerate at their destination by releasing a second sail that would reflect the light from the home laser back to the ship
What?!
- Automatically and transparently timeout waiting for the packet, and ask for retransmission. In this case, use TCP.
- Anything else. In this case, use UDP.
As an example of "Anything Else" maybe notice that a packet is missing, ask for a retransmission, and draw a little rendered animation of a gerbil chewing on a length of cat5utp in the corner of the screen.I'm pretty much hitting the edge of what my GeForce 2 MX can do. While it's not got the fillrate of the actual GeForce 2, either one of them will be lacking features required by Doom3, and my card certainly is struggling on most recent titles. (i.e. Dungeon Siege, America's Army, hell, even RTCW could have run better with a faster video card)