Multiple Alpha processors,(screw that SMP stuff. Three-way!) a G400 and two of these babies
SMP does not mean two processors. It just means that the multiple processors do not take on master and slave roles (symmetric). Three alphas could be symmetric. (I dunno if there are any power of 2 constraints on current bus architectures.)
The G400 only goes up to what, 2048x1536 or something? That's not enough for a 200dpi 16" monitor 2560x1920 pixels. Also, the second output of the G400 only goes as high as 1024x768.
Indeed, video card technology needs to move forward a bit before this is useful. At these resolutions, you're using 7 GB/s of video memory bandwidth just to output at 60 fps, 24bpp!
OPEN THE HARDWARE SPECS, and sit back to watch the magic happen. <br><br> That doesn't even help you much. They can't sell stuff cheap enough for people to afford unless they can go for the big markets. That means Windows. And I don't see people fixing Windows to do pixel-quadrupiling-of-all-apps-that-don't-know-bet ter.. unless those people work for MS or Toshiba or IBM.
If this becomes law then you could be sent to prison if your data is encrypted and you refuse to either supply the key, or the plaintext versions.
I guess if I knew a lot about encryption, I'd know the answer to this, but is there any way to verify that the plaintext version you supplied matches what's been encrypted? Certainly if this law were algorithm agnostic, then there would be no way to verify this.. (just say "I used a one-time pad, which I will not supply. Instead I will provide you with a plaintext version of it.") That seems to me to remove all of the teeth from this otherwise god-awful law.. am I mistaken?
Hopefully, they realize that serving the community in a non-biased way will help their stock portfolios in the long run, while, although favoring VA might temporarily help their stock valuations, will only hurt VA, and ultimately themselves, in the long term.
Call me naïve, but I instead hope that they will (continue to?) realize that serving the community in a non-biased way is more important than helping their stock portfolios and (financially, anyways) themselves. They get a lot of flack, but I don't think that most of it is warranted.
I don't still have the press release, but I recall it well..
You're not a god, but you are the most powerful mortal. You have a hammer, and it's no more of this point and click bullshit - blam! your opponent 90' away falls over dead - killing things with the hammer is hard work, so roll up your sleeves and get started.
I can't realistically believe that anyone who can build with legos can actually be on par with someone who has actually shown a knowledge of the material through a standardized test
I know many people who can build with legos AND have shown a knowledge of "the" material through a standardized test.
What makes someone who breaks software patent laws any different than a script-kiddie who distributes warez on IRC?
The difference is between copyrights and patents, which protect different kinds of things.
Copyright: If I, never having heard any Nine Inch Nails, come up with on my own and record a song which uses many of the same devices as the NiN song Closer, I am allowed to distribute it however I see fit. (proof may be a problem, though)
Patents: If I use the same (or sufficiently similar) process (now patents seem to be applied to simply 'ideas') as a patent holder, this is illegal, even if I researched it myself.
Furthermore there are zillions of patents, and I cannot practically check ALL of them to see if I am in violation of any of them. Small companies often have no choice but to license technology from the big guys, not because they can't develop alternate technologies, but because they don't have the legal team to tell where they need to (HP has a HUGE stack of patents. Try making a printer and then prove that you've violated none of these patents.)
Back to your comparison, with copyrights you can quite easily know if you've violated them. Did you create X yourself? Well, then you should be okay. (Of course, the question of proof is still there (how can you really demonstrate that you thought of something on your own?) but at least YOU can know whether you're behaving legally).
Communism and Fascism are both totalitarian and are fairly similar in effect. The main difference is that Communism has Labor organizations running the show & Fascism has Companies running the show.
Communism and totalitarianism relate to each other in a way similar to democracy and capitalism - one isn't the other, but they have often both been present in the same governments.
If you're not working a day job and doing the coding you love for less than slave wages in your "free time" (wake up people, your time is YOU, there's none that is free), you're doing something wrong
If you can afford to quit your day job and do the thing you love, what's wrong with that?
Someone here on/. once posted that the Mesa implementation is actually faster than SGI's (when hardware acceleration is taken out of the picture) as far as texture-mapping is concerned, which would be a win for Linux gaming.
When hardware acceleration is taken out of the picture, so are any 'serious' gamers.
I think and hope that most time will be spent making things speedy in the accelerated situations, as these really are more relevant - less too slow is still too slow.
If you do chose this course, here are some things I've found that improve things:
Find a local friend to work with on this project. This will get you out of your house at least some of the time, and could help keep you sane.
If you've got hardware you can cart around (a laptop, or a desktop you don't mind lugging with you (what I do)) I do recommend taking it to a coffee shop and hacking there every so often.
Everything else I can think of to suggest is obvious, along the lines of "don't run yourself into the ground"
Should I appreciate the message they sent my by spray painting my wall with, "Your locks SUCK DOOD!!!"?
Defacing a web-page is a little different. It's closer to putting a post-it note on the inside of your door saying "eY3 0wN u!" or something. Scary but not necessarily all that much work to clean up.
That's fine then. They branch off their own version of linux for their use. Does this hurt us? Well, not unless they misuse the technology they developed, but whether that springs out of linux or something else is largely immaterial.
( i know, not charted for domestic use, however, i'm sure they'll/love/ reading China's mail:)
I know that the CIA is not supposed to operate in this country.. I'm doubtful that the same restrictions apply to the NSA.. Are you sure you're not misassociating?
Also, the licensing would be cleaner if they don't want to fully release the source
I don't think this matters. If you use your modifications only internally, I you aren't required to release the source to them. That clause only applies if you distribute the code.
However, if you don't contribute your changes to the broader proejct, you'll have to re-merge your changes in every new release. That holds true for any open source license.
this still doesnt correct the monopoly MS has on the OS market
This has been said a billion times, but I'm going to repeat it because you seem to have missed it.
It is not illegal to hold a monopoly in a given market. It is illegal to use that monopoly to stifle competition, or to establish or support a monopoly in a different market. The DOJ has no obligation to stop all monopolies, merely to stop all abuses of monopoly power. This MAY mean breaking up the monopoly, or may just mean ensuring that it plays fair.
Pray tell me: what would exist in this scenario to keep the OS guys from talking to the Apps guys like (presumably) they do today?
Why would the MSOS benefit from limiting their talks to MSApps? Wouldn't they do better to bring every advantage of using Windows to every application vendor?
Similarly, why would MSApps want to lock people into Windows anymore? If there's a nonWindows platform which they can make a profit on, wouldn't it be in THEIR BEST INTEREST to support that platform?
Sure they could still work together to stifle competition (though it would be much less ambigiously illegal than their current collaborations), but.. why would they wish to?
The thing that makes graffiti good is not that it's just a few simple strokes. The thing that makes it good is that the strokes have a easy-to-remember connection with the form of the letters they map to. It appears that the Unistroke characters have no such property, except by accident.
Slashdot Mirror
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Was this n IS GREATER THAN blah blah blah? I bet it thought it was an HTML tag and stripped it out.
Indeed, video card technology needs to move forward a bit before this is useful. At these resolutions, you're using 7 GB/s of video memory bandwidth just to output at 60 fps, 24bpp!
OPEN THE HARDWARE SPECS, and sit back to watch the magic happen.t ter.. unless those people work for MS or Toshiba or IBM.
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That doesn't even help you much. They can't sell stuff cheap enough for people to afford unless they can go for the big markets. That means Windows. And I don't see people fixing Windows to do pixel-quadrupiling-of-all-apps-that-don't-know-be
If this becomes law then you could be sent to prison if your data is encrypted and you refuse to either supply the key, or the plaintext versions.
I guess if I knew a lot about encryption, I'd know the answer to this, but is there any way to verify that the plaintext version you supplied matches what's been encrypted? Certainly if this law were algorithm agnostic, then there would be no way to verify this.. (just say "I used a one-time pad, which I will not supply. Instead I will provide you with a plaintext version of it.") That seems to me to remove all of the teeth from this otherwise god-awful law.. am I mistaken?
Hopefully, they realize that serving the community in a non-biased way will help their stock portfolios in the long run, while, although favoring VA might temporarily help their stock valuations, will only hurt VA, and ultimately themselves, in the long term.
Call me naïve, but I instead hope that they will (continue to?) realize that serving the community in a non-biased way is more important than helping their stock portfolios and (financially, anyways) themselves. They get a lot of flack, but I don't think that most of it is warranted.
Even the Discordians?
Yes, we scare me most of all.
I don't still have the press release, but I recall it well..
You're not a god, but you are the most powerful mortal. You have a hammer, and it's no more of this point and click bullshit - blam! your opponent 90' away falls over dead - killing things with the hammer is hard work, so roll up your sleeves and get started.
Sounded interesting.
What's next? Robot monkeys in congress? Robot monkeys for president?
Dude, we're already there!
I can't realistically believe that anyone who can build with legos can actually be on par with someone who has actually shown a knowledge of the material through a standardized test
I know many people who can build with legos AND have shown a knowledge of "the" material through a standardized test.
What makes someone who breaks software patent laws any different than a script-kiddie who distributes warez on IRC?
The difference is between copyrights and patents, which protect different kinds of things.
Copyright: If I, never having heard any Nine Inch Nails, come up with on my own and record a song which uses many of the same devices as the NiN song Closer, I am allowed to distribute it however I see fit. (proof may be a problem, though)
Patents: If I use the same (or sufficiently similar) process (now patents seem to be applied to simply 'ideas') as a patent holder, this is illegal, even if I researched it myself.
Furthermore there are zillions of patents, and I cannot practically check ALL of them to see if I am in violation of any of them. Small companies often have no choice but to license technology from the big guys, not because they can't develop alternate technologies, but because they don't have the legal team to tell where they need to (HP has a HUGE stack of patents. Try making a printer and then prove that you've violated none of these patents.)
Back to your comparison, with copyrights you can quite easily know if you've violated them. Did you create X yourself? Well, then you should be okay. (Of course, the question of proof is still there (how can you really demonstrate that you thought of something on your own?) but at least YOU can know whether you're behaving legally).
Communism and Fascism are both totalitarian and are fairly similar in effect. The main difference is that Communism has Labor organizations running the show & Fascism has Companies running the show.
Communism and totalitarianism relate to each other in a way similar to democracy and capitalism - one isn't the other, but they have often both been present in the same governments.
If you're not working a day job and doing the coding you love for less than slave wages in your "free time" (wake up people, your time is YOU, there's none that is free), you're doing something wrong
If you can afford to quit your day job and do the thing you love, what's wrong with that?
I'm not sure which is funnier, a real attempt to do this or this parody (which incidently has been around for years by now).
You really should ought to have capitalized your appostrophe.
Someone here on /. once posted that the Mesa implementation is actually faster than SGI's (when hardware acceleration is taken out of the picture) as far as texture-mapping is concerned, which would be a win for Linux gaming.
When hardware acceleration is taken out of the picture, so are any 'serious' gamers.
I think and hope that most time will be spent making things speedy in the accelerated situations, as these really are more relevant - less too slow is still too slow.
Work days, code nights
If you do chose this course, here are some things I've found that improve things:
Find a local friend to work with on this project. This will get you out of your house at least some of the time, and could help keep you sane.
If you've got hardware you can cart around (a laptop, or a desktop you don't mind lugging with you (what I do)) I do recommend taking it to a coffee shop and hacking there every so often.
Everything else I can think of to suggest is obvious, along the lines of "don't run yourself into the ground"
Good luck and happy hacking.
Should I appreciate the message they sent my by spray painting my wall with, "Your locks SUCK DOOD!!!"?
Defacing a web-page is a little different. It's closer to putting a post-it note on the inside of your door saying "eY3 0wN u!" or something. Scary but not necessarily all that much work to clean up.
That's fine then. They branch off their own version of linux for their use. Does this hurt us? Well, not unless they misuse the technology they developed, but whether that springs out of linux or something else is largely immaterial.
( i know, not charted for domestic use, however, i'm sure they'll /love/ reading China's mail :)
I know that the CIA is not supposed to operate in this country.. I'm doubtful that the same restrictions apply to the NSA.. Are you sure you're not misassociating?
Also, the licensing would be cleaner if they don't want to fully release the source
I don't think this matters. If you use your modifications only internally, I you aren't required to release the source to them. That clause only applies if you distribute the code.
However, if you don't contribute your changes to the broader proejct, you'll have to re-merge your changes in every new release. That holds true for any open source license.
this still doesnt correct the monopoly MS has on the OS market
This has been said a billion times, but I'm going to repeat it because you seem to have missed it.
It is not illegal to hold a monopoly in a given market. It is illegal to use that monopoly to stifle competition, or to establish or support a monopoly in a different market. The DOJ has no obligation to stop all monopolies, merely to stop all abuses of monopoly power. This MAY mean breaking up the monopoly, or may just mean ensuring that it plays fair.
Pray tell me: what would exist in this scenario to keep the OS guys from talking to the Apps guys like (presumably) they do today?
.. why would they wish to?
Why would the MSOS benefit from limiting their talks to MSApps? Wouldn't they do better to bring every advantage of using Windows to every application vendor?
Similarly, why would MSApps want to lock people into Windows anymore? If there's a nonWindows platform which they can make a profit on, wouldn't it be in THEIR BEST INTEREST to support that platform?
Sure they could still work together to stifle competition (though it would be much less ambigiously illegal than their current collaborations), but
The thing that makes graffiti good is not that it's just a few simple strokes. The thing that makes it good is that the strokes have a easy-to-remember connection with the form of the letters they map to. It appears that the Unistroke characters have no such property, except by accident.
I don't have photogrey lenses. I used to but hated them.
You know, it's really easy to turn that feature off, if you don't like it..