The idea behind physics processers is that they are designed to perform the types of calculations needed for physics simulations quickly, just as graphics coprocessors are designed to do matrix math quickly.
So your friend putting up a bunch of xmas light strings in shapes with different timers is more impressive than a usb controlled _programmable_ disco floor with 20k hand soldered connections?
It's quite incredible to see/.ers come to the defense of google at every opportunity, particularly when their actions mimic those of corporations we insult daily.
I was curious as to what Slashdot's IP logging policy is, particularly for AC posts. From the faq, fyi:
We log the usual stuff (IP, page, time, user, page views, moderation, and comment posting, mainly). A few other odds and ends too, but mostly the data is used to make moderation possible. We keep the logs for 48 hours.
I can't tell if you're being purposely dense, but what the hell.
BitKeeper is a revision control system. SourceForge is a site which hosts projects which can be accessed and modified using CVS, a revision control system which is (in the opinion of most) dated and shitty.
Ok, I concede, probably not faster than a knowledgable bash user, but close enough that I may use it for some things when I don't feel like, for instance, reading the imagemagick man page which I am not very familiar with but is quite useful.
And yes, I realize there have been similar tools to automater. I simply don't feel they have been as elegant as this solution, judging from the videos and comments I have seen regarding it.
Perhaps I should have said something more like, 'it looks like Apple has finally found an elegant solution to the problem of allowing people who aren't unix-people to accomplish tasks in an efficient fashion comparable to the way unix-people use small bash scripts.'
I just think it's a damn cool idea to have gui tools organized in a way which reminds me of piping and input redirection in a unix shell. I hope GNOME rips this off.
'You guys'? I'm guessing this is flamebait for American students. I'm fairly sure many students in universities in the southwest (like UCLA where Vint Cerf was employed) had internet access far before your university in gb.
I personally find GTA to be completely despicable.
I hung around with some people who played it constantly when I was in college and I simply did not understand the draw of it at all, the gameplay blows, the graphics are typical crappy texture ps2 junk and the controls are irritating. I don't have a big problem with games containing some violence, but when violence becomes the selling point I begin to question the motives of the publisher, developers and artists.
But really, other than complaining what is it that Hillary wishes to do? I have no problem with having strictly enforced mandatory age limits for games, but anything beyond that would be in the realm of censorship.
You made a post complaining that you could not get gentoo to COMPILE and mentioned your video card.
You did not make a post complaining that you could not get to a console. Why did you say that the problem was with compilation when you never even attempted to compile anything?
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Perhaps the imagery itself is, but the interface blows compared to google's.
I think making the Pentium-M a dual core chip would pretty well destroy those power-consumtion and heat benefits you speak of.
The idea behind physics processers is that they are designed to perform the types of calculations needed for physics simulations quickly, just as graphics coprocessors are designed to do matrix math quickly.
Geometry translation/deformation is not performed by the CPU in most cases, assuming you are talking about opengl/d3d stuff.
So your friend putting up a bunch of xmas light strings in shapes with different timers is more impressive than a usb controlled _programmable_ disco floor with 20k hand soldered connections?
No. It isn't.
"Of, for crying out loud! Why do moderators mark someone "insightful" when they obviously couldn't be bothered to RTFA?"
Because the moderators don't RTFA.
And what's the deal with corn nuts?
It's quite incredible to see /.ers come to the defense of google at every opportunity, particularly when their actions mimic those of corporations we insult daily.
Um, that's been going on for quite some time now.
I was curious as to what Slashdot's IP logging policy is, particularly for AC posts. From the faq, fyi:
We log the usual stuff (IP, page, time, user, page views, moderation, and comment posting, mainly). A few other odds and ends too, but mostly the data is used to make moderation possible. We keep the logs for 48 hours.
I can't tell if you're being purposely dense, but what the hell.
BitKeeper is a revision control system. SourceForge is a site which hosts projects which can be accessed and modified using CVS, a revision control system which is (in the opinion of most) dated and shitty.
Not really a grammar error so much as a grammatical ambiguety.
Ok, I concede, probably not faster than a knowledgable bash user, but close enough that I may use it for some things when I don't feel like, for instance, reading the imagemagick man page which I am not very familiar with but is quite useful.
And yes, I realize there have been similar tools to automater. I simply don't feel they have been as elegant as this solution, judging from the videos and comments I have seen regarding it.
Perhaps I should have said something more like, 'it looks like Apple has finally found an elegant solution to the problem of allowing people who aren't unix-people to accomplish tasks in an efficient fashion comparable to the way unix-people use small bash scripts.'
The best part is that I'm a Debian user.
I just think it's a damn cool idea to have gui tools organized in a way which reminds me of piping and input redirection in a unix shell. I hope GNOME rips this off.
Automator has to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a gui.. ever.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html
It looks like Apple has finally found an elegant way to make a GUI accomplish tasks like these faster than I could at a bash prompt.
'You guys'? I'm guessing this is flamebait for American students. I'm fairly sure many students in universities in the southwest (like UCLA where Vint Cerf was employed) had internet access far before your university in gb.
I personally find GTA to be completely despicable.
I hung around with some people who played it constantly when I was in college and I simply did not understand the draw of it at all, the gameplay blows, the graphics are typical crappy texture ps2 junk and the controls are irritating. I don't have a big problem with games containing some violence, but when violence becomes the selling point I begin to question the motives of the publisher, developers and artists.
But really, other than complaining what is it that Hillary wishes to do? I have no problem with having strictly enforced mandatory age limits for games, but anything beyond that would be in the realm of censorship.
My bad, didn't see your reply, figured it was a troll.
You made a post complaining that you could not get gentoo to COMPILE and mentioned your video card.
You did not make a post complaining that you could not get to a console. Why did you say that the problem was with compilation when you never even attempted to compile anything?
This has nothing to do with anything compiling on your machine.
I dunno, but I'm fairly sure your video card has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Either you're pretty damn ignorant or that was a thinly veiled attempt at waving your giant e-penis about.
Yeah, and I have 10 years of c# experience.
You fucking mods are idiots, and you gentoo fanboys invading all these stories aren't much better.
What exactly does it teach you?
How to watch endless output from gcc?
If you want to learn *nix read a few books, including the Stevens programming books.
Installing gentoo isn't going to make you any more knowledgable about *nix.
Yeah, because everyone wants to wait 8 hours for gnome to compile.
Give me a fucking break.
According to most modern dictionaries good can be an adverb. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary Languages change.