I want the ability, along these lines, to not show my debugging code and testing code while looking at my code, then have it display again while writing debugging code.
Programs should do their own code audits which should simply be disabled in proper builds. These audits should not ever modify internal variables or state though; that causes a nightmare.
I'm also in Canada and love beer commercials. Heck, I don't drink beer and I love the beer commercials (the new Bubba ads aren't as good as the old 'I am Canadian' or 'Out of the Blue' ads though).
FWIW, I'd like a compressor on my TV too; to equalize the volume across programming. Maybe its finally time to use my PC to watch TV in the living room...
Back when adcritic.com was open and free, lots of people went to it to view commercials _on purpose_. I sent many people to it a la "did you see that ad? it was cool!"
... but I want a room with 14 people in it, all with that many polygons:-)... I'd be interested in someone doing the polygon equivalent of mip-mapping; showing characters with more and more polys as they get within appropriate ranges of the camera.
There's no need, for example, for individual hairs to show from 100' away, but up close, make it flow like real hair.
I run SSH to remote Linux boxes on a Windows XP box quite a bit and the fact that my video card drivers don't accelerate scrolling text is very irritating. The scrolling speed more than triples if I cover 3/4 of the window (reducing the screen draw times; meaning its waiting for pixel draws).
I still care about text-in-GUI performance, as do many other people -- we just have nowhere to look for information as to whether it works well or not.
My other complaint is a lack of testing of 3D-in-a-window driver compatibility. I do rendering in a window often enough that I want my 3D speeds to not drop from 60fps to 12 because I'm running in a window instead of full-screen.
I have to agree; I like the look of ATI's 16x oversampling along edges better than 4xFSAA in general. ATI's rendering just looks better to me.
I can still tell which arcade machines use 3dfx-derived/built chips; the graphics just look different. I want my games to look amazing; what good is moving grass if its pixelated??
Totally off-topic and on the topic of 'godlessgeeks.com', I'm intrigued by the mention of "concered about increasing god-talk". If indeed atheists don't believe in God and I do, and the president happens to, I would simply be in a better place to understand of what he speaks than you. Just as if he were a chemist, a chemist might understand his references to the study of non-newtonian fluids and how they relate to the issues at hand. I don't particularly care if you believe in God or not beyond the obvious (I think you ought to believe in him, since he's there, but I can see why you might decide not to, or not have decided to; whichever the case).
Ah well... the issue of the supernatural and the geek:)
Some OSS tools will do things like that for you (as with bounce message handling in EZMLM). However, I have my doubts that most corporate droids think like that.
You're taking the wrong angle. The GPL is not developped from the "for the person who wants to not use the GPL" point of view, but from the "all software should be free, screw you if you don't agree" point of view.
If you don't like it, you're reacting exactly as expected; "Use the GPL yourself or go away".
I don't have the attitude, and often use the LGPL, but my GPL'd works better be treated as GPL; you don't wanna do the footwork to invent what I wrote? Use the GPL for your own product too so I can benefit from it.
I too have always had problems with ATI's drivers, but recently they've updated their driver download site to explain why. It seems that a large number of 'ATI' adapters out there aren't made by ATI at all but are just "powered by ATI" and must not use the optimized ATI drivers from their site. They must either use the card-maker's drivers (usually non-existant) or the reference drivers (available on ATI's site). Only true made-by-ATI cards (and they have info on how to identify these) should use the optimized drivers from the site.
This has resolved all my ATI driver problems so far.
I'll second being honest... When that line of layoffs is coming through your employer is looking to keep the necessary people who he/she can trust to keep the business afloat.
Slashdotters who are against the privitization of IP would say that everyone should have access to the information.
However, I wouldn't even claim that half of Slashdotters are against the protection of Intellectual Property, but rather what constitutes valid IP worth protecting. Is it valid to have non-competition clauses in your hiring contract only to be let go 3 months later? Is it valid (or fair) to call something that any shmoe in the computer industry can do on a pocket calculator IP? Is it valid if one owns certain IP to not allow others access to it at all (locking out the competition, rather than leasing / selling the technology)? How long should IP be protected for? Should it be treated like trade secrets?... there are a lot of valid questions that just go unanswered.
If the best has happened, it was all just a ploy to market.NET servers and more importantly, XP and application upgrade sales. Now the service doesn't have to exist, because people bought the software and added to the company's bottom line.
If you use software in the USA that was reverse-engineered in Russia, are you guilty of anything, or just the Russians (who will be exhonerated by a smart jury)?:)
No, but you asked the wrong question. Is it morally wrong for a company to use open source software to produce a closed-source architecture? The reason they benefit from Linux is because it is _free_ (in the free speech, RMS kind of way). They ought to sell the Zaurus, with whatever price they like, with their modifications also _free_ so that I can benefit from that (by being able to diagnose and fix security holes, for example).
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I hate to say it, but Visual C++ will do this. Not quite intuitively, but it does do it.
I want the ability, along these lines, to not show my debugging code and testing code while looking at my code, then have it display again while writing debugging code.
Programs should do their own code audits which should simply be disabled in proper builds. These audits should not ever modify internal variables or state though; that causes a nightmare.
I'm also in Canada and love beer commercials. Heck, I don't drink beer and I love the beer commercials (the new Bubba ads aren't as good as the old 'I am Canadian' or 'Out of the Blue' ads though).
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FWIW, I'd like a compressor on my TV too; to equalize the volume across programming. Maybe its finally time to use my PC to watch TV in the living room
Back when adcritic.com was open and free, lots of people went to it to view commercials _on purpose_. I sent many people to it a la "did you see that ad? it was cool!"
Plants are probably one of the hardest things to do in polys properly; they take so many vertexes for such a small object :-)
... but I want a room with 14 people in it, all with that many polygons :-) ... I'd be interested in someone doing the polygon equivalent of mip-mapping; showing characters with more and more polys as they get within appropriate ranges of the camera.
:-)
There's no need, for example, for individual hairs to show from 100' away, but up close, make it flow like real hair.
That would be impressive
Like scaring politicians into allowing the FBI to wiretap citizens without warrants?
You would never let that happen in America, would you?
I complain about anything under 85 myself.
Just FYI.
I run SSH to remote Linux boxes on a Windows XP box quite a bit and the fact that my video card drivers don't accelerate scrolling text is very irritating. The scrolling speed more than triples if I cover 3/4 of the window (reducing the screen draw times; meaning its waiting for pixel draws).
I still care about text-in-GUI performance, as do many other people -- we just have nowhere to look for information as to whether it works well or not.
My other complaint is a lack of testing of 3D-in-a-window driver compatibility. I do rendering in a window often enough that I want my 3D speeds to not drop from 60fps to 12 because I'm running in a window instead of full-screen.
I have to agree; I like the look of ATI's 16x oversampling along edges better than 4xFSAA in general. ATI's rendering just looks better to me.
I can still tell which arcade machines use 3dfx-derived/built chips; the graphics just look different. I want my games to look amazing; what good is moving grass if its pixelated??
Totally off-topic and on the topic of 'godlessgeeks.com', I'm intrigued by the mention of "concered about increasing god-talk". If indeed atheists don't believe in God and I do, and the president happens to, I would simply be in a better place to understand of what he speaks than you. Just as if he were a chemist, a chemist might understand his references to the study of non-newtonian fluids and how they relate to the issues at hand. I don't particularly care if you believe in God or not beyond the obvious (I think you ought to believe in him, since he's there, but I can see why you might decide not to, or not have decided to; whichever the case).
... the issue of the supernatural and the geek :)
Ah well
You're missing the comparison; its very different from 500 people wanting to sue one corporation though.
That's 500 people who agree that one person is at fault, not one person thinking 500 people are at fault.
That said, it'll be an interesting case anyway.
I've never been asked to take it off my public mirrors page either.
Some OSS tools will do things like that for you (as with bounce message handling in EZMLM). However, I have my doubts that most corporate droids think like that.
You're taking the wrong angle. The GPL is not developped from the "for the person who wants to not use the GPL" point of view, but from the "all software should be free, screw you if you don't agree" point of view.
If you don't like it, you're reacting exactly as expected; "Use the GPL yourself or go away".
I don't have the attitude, and often use the LGPL, but my GPL'd works better be treated as GPL; you don't wanna do the footwork to invent what I wrote? Use the GPL for your own product too so I can benefit from it.
I too have always had problems with ATI's drivers, but recently they've updated their driver download site to explain why. It seems that a large number of 'ATI' adapters out there aren't made by ATI at all but are just "powered by ATI" and must not use the optimized ATI drivers from their site. They must either use the card-maker's drivers (usually non-existant) or the reference drivers (available on ATI's site). Only true made-by-ATI cards (and they have info on how to identify these) should use the optimized drivers from the site.
This has resolved all my ATI driver problems so far.
Thanks for the extra information (consider this a mod +1 informative). This was very helpful in deciding what I should choose for my own JAVA apps.
The original article plus your benchmarking should be combined on the author's page, but aren't (yet). Hopefully it will be soon.
I'll second being honest ... When that line of layoffs is coming through your employer is looking to keep the necessary people who he/she can trust to keep the business afloat.
Unless you work at Enron.
Slashdotters who are against the privitization of IP would say that everyone should have access to the information.
... there are a lot of valid questions that just go unanswered.
However, I wouldn't even claim that half of Slashdotters are against the protection of Intellectual Property, but rather what constitutes valid IP worth protecting. Is it valid to have non-competition clauses in your hiring contract only to be let go 3 months later? Is it valid (or fair) to call something that any shmoe in the computer industry can do on a pocket calculator IP? Is it valid if one owns certain IP to not allow others access to it at all (locking out the competition, rather than leasing / selling the technology)? How long should IP be protected for? Should it be treated like trade secrets?
It works fine, if you don't use IMAP folders.
Oh, and they ripped it out for the XP versions (last version with this feature is Outlook 2000).
One of my clients uses this feature extensively too.
If the best has happened, it was all just a ploy to market .NET servers and more importantly, XP and application upgrade sales. Now the service doesn't have to exist, because people bought the software and added to the company's bottom line.
It begs the question:
:)
If you use software in the USA that was reverse-engineered in Russia, are you guilty of anything, or just the Russians (who will be exhonerated by a smart jury)?
I noticed that too ... all that's missing is the now-proverbial tagline; "Remove SLACKWARE ... "
The EPOC OS is much nicer than Win CE, IMHO.
Look it up from psion at www.psioninc.com
No, but you asked the wrong question. Is it morally wrong for a company to use open source software to produce a closed-source architecture? The reason they benefit from Linux is because it is _free_ (in the free speech, RMS kind of way). They ought to sell the Zaurus, with whatever price they like, with their modifications also _free_ so that I can benefit from that (by being able to diagnose and fix security holes, for example).