Well, I have a few Pocket PCs at home and work, including Dell Axim X5, iPAQ 3970, iPAQ 1940 and iPAQ 2210 and frankly, I like X5 less than any others. I think the best solution is iPAQ 2210 that has both CF and SD card, internal bluetooth, 400MHz Xscale, replacable battery. It has a powerfull IR diode usefull to control any device remotely (using the program Nevo that comes with iPAQ). In many benchmarks iPAQ2210 is significantly faster than X5 and personally I think the build quality of iPAQ is much higher than Axim. Also the screen of iPAQ A LOT better than Axim. The price? Well, you can only get Axim from dell directly and here in Switzerland the 400MHz X5 is round 450 swiss francs and I could find iPAQ2210 as low as 440 swiss francs so basically they are the same.
Very interesting. In some Islamic phylosophies, God is an infinite being who is not inside or part of the universe (he has no physical attributes) and hence not limited by any means, who has not been born, is unique and does not produce any child or such. His prophets, on the other hand, all are normal human beings with all of the limitations.
I believe the problem is not with AGP bus, but rather with the GPUs that are NOT designed in the first place to transfer anything back to the memory. In normal 3D applications, you just feed the graphics card with all sorts of data, like the texturs, geometry, shaders... and the result goes out throug the VGA connector! You don't need to give it back to the CPU or the memory. The GPU and the memory architecture of the graphics card is simply designed to just recieve the data with highest speed from the CPU. However, this does not mean you CAN'T get a high bi-directional throughput in AGP if you're going to design a special GPU for offline renderings.
Actually, there has been reports of using such hardwares to produce the similar results of the high-end, software based methods like those used in films. The trick is to break the job (typically the complex RenderMan shaders) to many passes, and feed them to the graphics card to process. By many passes, I mean 100~200 passes. The outcome will be like rendering a frame in a few seconds (we're not talking about real-time renderings here) which is MUCH faster the software based approaches. The limit in the past was that the color representaion inside the GPUs used a small number of bits per channel and by having a lots of passes on the data, round-off errors would degredate the quality of the results. But now, nVidia supports 32 bit floating point representaion for each color channel (i.e 128 bits per pixel for RGBA!) and this brings back the idea of using the GPU with many passes to complete the job. Please note that in the film and TV business, we're talking of large clusters of machines and weeks of rendering and bringing it down to days with smaller number of machines is a very big progress.
Think UNIX for a second, and give me an example of something in C++ that has lived so long and so well.
Very cleaver indeed. You know what, I go even one step further and extend your argument to C#, Java or any other programming languge created after C!
Actually, they both worked fine. Yes, later I upgraded both drivers (and my other drivers) and do so every few months but at least they have been working fine when I had a fresh install. Also, remember that when I finished installing XP and reboot the computer, I didn't crash right on the first boot....
Then again, I say I don't bash Linux. I just had a bad luck (or anything). The point is the installation of Linux sometimes (like my case) is not that smooth.
Apple put in the LEAST DRM it could get away with.
I think it's more of a technical inefficiency and incompetence than trying to make life easier for the hackers.
Really, if I use a protection/license management system for my new software and use a weak one, do you think I'm acting friendly or you think I'm just stupid?
First of all, linux is EASIER to install than windows.
Well, not always. Last year I installed Mandrake 8.1. It was fine, but I could never get my sound card work correctly and apparantly it was not using my graphics card's accelerator at all. After a while I felt tired of reading post here and there to find the solutions and deleted that and added back the partition to my NTFS with partition magic. This year, I tried again now with Mandrake 9.2. The system could not boot at all after the install. I didn't bother more and did a FDISK/MBR and ever since live a happy life with my XP...
Before calling this a troll, I have to say I have nothing against Linux. It simply didn't like work that smoothly for me...
I don't know about you, but when I program, I *do* think visually about it.
But when I write programs, I hardly ever think about it! After all, aren't we supposed to only think in the design phase and just mechanically translate it to code when we write the program?;)
A bunch of these vulnerabilities have been known for months and Microsoft hasn't announced them.
Would you please point us to some more information about such exploits? Known for months? Can you please direct us where we can see the evidences for your claims? It's rather simple to say "yeah, yeah, we knew it for months" when everyone like to bash MS but I think it will be a little bit difficult if you'd need to back your claims...
3D graphics on the accelerated cards without video drivers? Anyone?
I mean, at least for the most interesting news would be to hear about opensource, fully functional video drivers for major cards. By itselt, 3D desktops are not original ideas, lots of people have good ideas about them but only if Sun or anyone else could push nVidia or ATI to provide what we really need (and miss) in Linux, then I'd be impressed.
This can certainly be classified as a torjan. Being malicious or not has nothing to do with classifying a program as torjan. The simple fact that you have a way to spread it, implemented some form of call-home functionality in it is sufficient to classify it as a torjan.
About being malicious or not, some may say that sending private information (like IP address) back home can be considered as a malicious act.
Project Guttenburg CANNOT release their books under the GPL because the copyright has already expired on these works.
Why not? They can prohibit any commercial use of their work by stating it is not allowed to directly use, change or convert their e-books to any other format unless it be free for public. Anyone who wishes to make money, can scan, edit and proof any original book with expired copyright.
I don't feel it's right to just convert the txt files to PDF files and start selling things that are basically free. You say it's a difficult task and requires time and money? Then how about providing many different formats of the same book (txt, PDF, Microsoft Reader,....) all for free? I know that www.blackmask.com has this free service for more than 15,000 books.
I think the free books should remain free. Maybe the PG group should also something like GPL to ensure such things do not happen again.
Actually, in many scientific applications thanks to the templates you can have a very efficient code WITHOUT disabling exceptions, RTTI,... and beat the pure C code simply because you could not write so much inline code that the inline expansion of all sorts of usage of all your template classes would result.
In a simple tight loop with simple operations, calling simple function C may beat C++ but in a more complex application C++ can be faster.
C++ as a programming language is perfectly portable. Now, you may write programs that depend on certain feature of the platform (like many libraries out there) that make them not portable.
Surprizingly, Java is very poor when it comes to portabilities. How many of you know of Java programs running on other platforms other than the Java VM?!! The point is in the Java model, you actually port the whole platform to run on top of a different one, not the just the Java complier alone. So portability in C++ is in language level but for Java is in platform level.
It's crap!
I have XP on my machine. Downloaded and installed the desktop manager, and guess what: the first thing it did when I activated it was to change my wallpaper to default Windows 98!! Hey, at least it could change it to XP's default wallpaper but not 98!!!
Besides that, it is very sloooooow and when I tried to change the wallpaper back, it crached the desktop process and disactivated itself. I'll let be disactivated for ever....
Microsoft already supports Farsi language in XP and also Office. (yeah, the keyboard layout has a bug but there also some fixes available).
Besides that, a number of Iranian companies over the years have produced a lot of hacked versions of Windows (3.1... XP) with Farsi support, including the Persian calendar and fonts and sell these products (obviously without licensing anything from Microsoft) with a low price.
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Actually, I think they have used window not windowS.
Well, I have a few Pocket PCs at home and work, including Dell Axim X5, iPAQ 3970, iPAQ 1940 and iPAQ 2210 and frankly, I like X5 less than any others. I think the best solution is iPAQ 2210 that has both CF and SD card, internal bluetooth, 400MHz Xscale, replacable battery. It has a powerfull IR diode usefull to control any device remotely (using the program Nevo that comes with iPAQ). In many benchmarks iPAQ2210 is significantly faster than X5 and personally I think the build quality of iPAQ is much higher than Axim. Also the screen of iPAQ A LOT better than Axim. The price? Well, you can only get Axim from dell directly and here in Switzerland the 400MHz X5 is round 450 swiss francs and I could find iPAQ2210 as low as 440 swiss francs so basically they are the same.
Very interesting. In some Islamic phylosophies, God is an infinite being who is not inside or part of the universe (he has no physical attributes) and hence not limited by any means, who has not been born, is unique and does not produce any child or such. His prophets, on the other hand, all are normal human beings with all of the limitations.
And think of all those idle times! We can actually exploit this and run SETI@home on all of them!
I believe the problem is not with AGP bus, but rather with the GPUs that are NOT designed in the first place to transfer anything back to the memory. In normal 3D applications, you just feed the graphics card with all sorts of data, like the texturs, geometry, shaders... and the result goes out throug the VGA connector! You don't need to give it back to the CPU or the memory. The GPU and the memory architecture of the graphics card is simply designed to just recieve the data with highest speed from the CPU. However, this does not mean you CAN'T get a high bi-directional throughput in AGP if you're going to design a special GPU for offline renderings.
Actually, there has been reports of using such hardwares to produce the similar results of the high-end, software based methods like those used in films. The trick is to break the job (typically the complex RenderMan shaders) to many passes, and feed them to the graphics card to process. By many passes, I mean 100~200 passes. The outcome will be like rendering a frame in a few seconds (we're not talking about real-time renderings here) which is MUCH faster the software based approaches. The limit in the past was that the color representaion inside the GPUs used a small number of bits per channel and by having a lots of passes on the data, round-off errors would degredate the quality of the results. But now, nVidia supports 32 bit floating point representaion for each color channel (i.e 128 bits per pixel for RGBA!) and this brings back the idea of using the GPU with many passes to complete the job. Please note that in the film and TV business, we're talking of large clusters of machines and weeks of rendering and bringing it down to days with smaller number of machines is a very big progress.
Guess you got it wrong. I have nothing against Apple, DRM or even the hackers! All I say is having a weak implementation is nothing to be proud of!
Actually, they both worked fine. Yes, later I upgraded both drivers (and my other drivers) and do so every few months but at least they have been working fine when I had a fresh install. Also, remember that when I finished installing XP and reboot the computer, I didn't crash right on the first boot.... Then again, I say I don't bash Linux. I just had a bad luck (or anything). The point is the installation of Linux sometimes (like my case) is not that smooth.
3D graphics on the accelerated cards without video drivers? Anyone? I mean, at least for the most interesting news would be to hear about opensource, fully functional video drivers for major cards. By itselt, 3D desktops are not original ideas, lots of people have good ideas about them but only if Sun or anyone else could push nVidia or ATI to provide what we really need (and miss) in Linux, then I'd be impressed.
This can certainly be classified as a torjan. Being malicious or not has nothing to do with classifying a program as torjan. The simple fact that you have a way to spread it, implemented some form of call-home functionality in it is sufficient to classify it as a torjan. About being malicious or not, some may say that sending private information (like IP address) back home can be considered as a malicious act.
I don't feel it's right to just convert the txt files to PDF files and start selling things that are basically free. You say it's a difficult task and requires time and money? Then how about providing many different formats of the same book (txt, PDF, Microsoft Reader, ....) all for free? I know that www.blackmask.com has this free service for more than 15,000 books.
I think the free books should remain free. Maybe the PG group should also something like GPL to ensure such things do not happen again.
Actually, in many scientific applications thanks to the templates you can have a very efficient code WITHOUT disabling exceptions, RTTI, ... and beat the pure C code simply because you could not write so much inline code that the inline expansion of all sorts of usage of all your template classes would result.
In a simple tight loop with simple operations, calling simple function C may beat C++ but in a more complex application C++ can be faster.
Not really funny. Guess you've never tried to compare the performance of Ms Word and Open Office on the same machine...
C++ as a programming language is perfectly portable. Now, you may write programs that depend on certain feature of the platform (like many libraries out there) that make them not portable. Surprizingly, Java is very poor when it comes to portabilities. How many of you know of Java programs running on other platforms other than the Java VM?!! The point is in the Java model, you actually port the whole platform to run on top of a different one, not the just the Java complier alone. So portability in C++ is in language level but for Java is in platform level.
I bet you've never seen an iPAQ 1930/1940.
It's crap! I have XP on my machine. Downloaded and installed the desktop manager, and guess what: the first thing it did when I activated it was to change my wallpaper to default Windows 98!! Hey, at least it could change it to XP's default wallpaper but not 98!!! Besides that, it is very sloooooow and when I tried to change the wallpaper back, it crached the desktop process and disactivated itself. I'll let be disactivated for ever....
Microsoft already supports Farsi language in XP and also Office. (yeah, the keyboard layout has a bug but there also some fixes available). Besides that, a number of Iranian companies over the years have produced a lot of hacked versions of Windows (3.1 ... XP) with Farsi support, including the Persian calendar and fonts and sell these products (obviously without licensing anything from Microsoft) with a low price.