And yes, the quality of the boards went sharply downhill when "pay to post" was enacted (though, to be fair, that was also due to the partisan screeching about Iraq and the 2004 election). There was quite the debate about it, especially since the administrators don't seem to care about improving the quality of the forums or avoiding attrition. The biggest argument against it was that if you make the people who generate the content pay, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
There were even comments by admins that if people left because it cost to post, it would decrease the server load and that would be okay.
I let my membership expire this week, and haven't really cared.
How did a bunch of Dutch men become signatories to the Geneva Convention? Answer: they did not, were not uniformed members of a signatory's army, and had no rights under the convention.
Yes, you are being trollish. Opera is a great product, and I'm happy to use it. You don't want to use it? Fine.
Things in Opera that I prefer over Firefox:
Actual MDI support. Multiple windows each with multiple tabs. And if you close Opera, you can reopen with all your windows each with their tabs.
Keystrokes that work. 1/2 for prev/next window, 0/9 for zoom in/zoom out, . and / to search, and many more.
Zoom that zooms the entire page--text and images, instead of just text. Firefox zooming tends to turn pages into a narrow strip of large text in the middle.
A download manager that works far better than Firefox's.
All that in a 3MB package that doesn't make me go hunting around for this extension or that extension.
I'm kind of stunned that you're judging Opera based on a version several years old. Do you judge Firefox based on version 0.2? Opera 6 was the first version I used. Version 7 was a jump ahead of that. I've been using the beta 8 version for a while and I'm now using the 8 final. It rocks.
The single player is excellent. They fixed a lot of little problems in the previous games. You can switch shoulders for your weapon (which was the biggest UI change I saw, which was great). Unfortunately, you can't switch your firing mode for your SC-20 now. It's "pressure sensitive"--so good luck not accidentally squeezing off a few bullets instead of one.
That being said, the multiplayer is impossible unless you play with someone you know and you're using a mic. Also, the multiplayer isn't the same executable as the SP game, and it's probably nearly unchanged from Pandora Tomorrow. Which is irritating because I mouse with my left hand, but the multiplayer doesn't recognize left mouse button mappings.
Also, make sure you've got the latest drivers. I kept getting a BSOD until I realized my audio drivers weren't up-to-date.
Plays great on my laptop. Specs: 3GHz HT processor, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (128 MB).
I'm confused by your reply. Do you mean that each dual-core package will report as 1 package, 2 virtual cpus? That's how HT is currently reported. I'm trying to figure out how to tell the different between a 1-package HT chip and a 1-package dual-core chip.
That is, with HyperThreading, cpuid reports 2 virtual processors per package. How will a dual-core system be reported?
I ask because our calculation-heavy product actually performs worse with multiple threads on an HT system, but speeds up by a factor of nearly 2 on a true multi-CPU system. I know how to test for HT and whether it's enabled, but how will we differentiate HT packages and dual-core packages programmatically?
2. The method of claim 1 where the step of moving the viewing space includes the step of orienting said viewing space with respect to the object, by varying at least one of pitch, yaw, and roll attitudes of said viewing space.
Whew! I'm glad I use quaternions in my code. No gimball lock there.
First of all, as it descends towards the Earth's core, the acceleration decreases because there's less mass "below" it.
To be more rigorous, once you're under the surface, you have to gravity vectors--one pulling you towards the center, one pulling you away. Inside a thin homogeneous shell, the gravitational force anywhere inside is exactly zero. If you model the Earth as concentric homogenous shells, the acceleration force looks just like that of a spring according to Hooke's law. This is a common freshman physics problem (describe the motion an object would have falling into a hole bored through a planet's center).
However, as the black hole goes through the earth, it will accrete matter that wasn't in motion, which is basically the opposite of rocketry. If it weren't for gravity it would slow down asymptotically. With gravity it's (very) dampened harmonic motion.
As the black hole plummeted towards the core, it would accrete matter, which would keep it from accelerating so much. It would come to rest at the center of the Earth, where the molten core would be quickly consumed, followed by the rest of the planet.
Check the laws of your state. IANAL but my understanding is that typically the clause can't be enforced. Things that you do outside of work that don't have anything to do with your day job don't belong to them, regardless of your contract. Things you did (or thought of) in the past that don't have anything to do with your company don't belong to them either.
Google has already shown where this approach will work: when the data is online and you only want to look at a small amount at a time (which will change as broadband gets faster).
Think of Google's current successes
Searching the web
Google Maps
Language Tools
If you have to churn through a lot of data at high speed then your desktop will still win. So where can Google move to find business where the web will win?
I'm on record as saying that once the WWW is available everywhere (wirelessly) it will be as revolutionary as the WWW first was. That thought struck me when Google announced their intent to digitize huge library collections. Someday, I'll be able to read any book anywhere. Wow. And Google will make that happen.
Where's the '-1 Godwin' moderation....can't seem to find it.
Re:They don't understand licensing though
on
OGRE 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 1
Oops. ^neglect^mention
They don't understand licensing though
on
OGRE 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Ogre is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL). This basically means that you can get the full source code for nothing, nada, zip. There is such a thing as a free lunch.
Under the LGPL you may use Ogre for any purpose you wish, as long as you:
Release any modifications to the OGRE source back to the community
Pass on the source to Ogre with all the copyrights intact
Make it clear where you have customised it.
The above is a precis, please read the full license agreement before downloading any source.
Whereas the actual LGPL includes:
You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. If you link a program with the library, you must provide complete object files to the recipients so that they can relink them with the library, after making changes to the library and recompiling it. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.
So as long as you don't mind shipping all the object code to your commercial program, you can use the library. Sure they tell you to read the full license, but only after failing to neglect the most onerous part.
Link looks like a generic 3D implementation of a manga character. Big eyes, no nose, tousled hair. Pick up any manga and tell me if you can't find a dozen characters that look as much like Link as this Wiki avatar does.
Well, the language for one. The so-called "Java Community Process" is Sun's way for asking for free input. But Sun controls the language and will direct it the way it wants.
I think C# is a hideous language with lots of structural problems, but at least it's open to anyone who wants to implement the ECMA standard. Java is so terribly underspecified that half the time you end up guessing what behavior happens in certain circumstances, and if you're an implementor of a non-Sun JVM the only disambiguator is Sun's implementation of the JVM. Which means that it's not a standard, but a reference platform.
With an open standard, if there are disagreements about what the standard means, MS can't just change the spec to match their implementation (like Sun can with Java).
I work on scientific visualization software (using OpenGL). We're looking into 3D textures for volumetric rendering, and trust me, the 512MB could be used easily.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, and according to this thread the attrition rate from first year subscribers to second year was a whopping 33%.
There were even comments by admins that if people left because it cost to post, it would decrease the server load and that would be okay.
I let my membership expire this week, and haven't really cared.
How did a bunch of Dutch men become signatories to the Geneva Convention? Answer: they did not, were not uniformed members of a signatory's army, and had no rights under the convention.
Things in Opera that I prefer over Firefox:
I'm kind of stunned that you're judging Opera based on a version several years old. Do you judge Firefox based on version 0.2? Opera 6 was the first version I used. Version 7 was a jump ahead of that. I've been using the beta 8 version for a while and I'm now using the 8 final. It rocks.
The single player is excellent. They fixed a lot of little problems in the previous games. You can switch shoulders for your weapon (which was the biggest UI change I saw, which was great). Unfortunately, you can't switch your firing mode for your SC-20 now. It's "pressure sensitive"--so good luck not accidentally squeezing off a few bullets instead of one.
That being said, the multiplayer is impossible unless you play with someone you know and you're using a mic. Also, the multiplayer isn't the same executable as the SP game, and it's probably nearly unchanged from Pandora Tomorrow. Which is irritating because I mouse with my left hand, but the multiplayer doesn't recognize left mouse button mappings.
Also, make sure you've got the latest drivers. I kept getting a BSOD until I realized my audio drivers weren't up-to-date.
Plays great on my laptop. Specs: 3GHz HT processor, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (128 MB).
Oh, and the Collectors Edition isn't worth it.
I'm confused by your reply. Do you mean that each dual-core package will report as 1 package, 2 virtual cpus? That's how HT is currently reported. I'm trying to figure out how to tell the different between a 1-package HT chip and a 1-package dual-core chip.
I ask because our calculation-heavy product actually performs worse with multiple threads on an HT system, but speeds up by a factor of nearly 2 on a true multi-CPU system. I know how to test for HT and whether it's enabled, but how will we differentiate HT packages and dual-core packages programmatically?
Yep, you got it in one.
My experience is exactly opposite yours. All my Linksys equipment has been flawless. Everything D-Link I've seen has been crap.
Whew! I'm glad I use quaternions in my code. No gimball lock there.
Of course I don't need it so much now that I've switched to OpenOffice anyway.
First of all, as it descends towards the Earth's core, the acceleration decreases because there's less mass "below" it.
To be more rigorous, once you're under the surface, you have to gravity vectors--one pulling you towards the center, one pulling you away. Inside a thin homogeneous shell, the gravitational force anywhere inside is exactly zero. If you model the Earth as concentric homogenous shells, the acceleration force looks just like that of a spring according to Hooke's law. This is a common freshman physics problem (describe the motion an object would have falling into a hole bored through a planet's center).
However, as the black hole goes through the earth, it will accrete matter that wasn't in motion, which is basically the opposite of rocketry. If it weren't for gravity it would slow down asymptotically. With gravity it's (very) dampened harmonic motion.
As the black hole plummeted towards the core, it would accrete matter, which would keep it from accelerating so much. It would come to rest at the center of the Earth, where the molten core would be quickly consumed, followed by the rest of the planet.
Check the laws of your state. IANAL but my understanding is that typically the clause can't be enforced. Things that you do outside of work that don't have anything to do with your day job don't belong to them, regardless of your contract. Things you did (or thought of) in the past that don't have anything to do with your company don't belong to them either.
How did this get modded as a troll? Did you mean "-1, I don't agree"?
Think of Google's current successes
- Searching the web
- Google Maps
- Language Tools
If you have to churn through a lot of data at high speed then your desktop will still win. So where can Google move to find business where the web will win?I'm on record as saying that once the WWW is available everywhere (wirelessly) it will be as revolutionary as the WWW first was. That thought struck me when Google announced their intent to digitize huge library collections. Someday, I'll be able to read any book anywhere. Wow. And Google will make that happen.
Just think of the possibilities.
Where's the '-1 Godwin' moderation....can't seem to find it.
Oops. ^neglect^mention
So as long as you don't mind shipping all the object code to your commercial program, you can use the library. Sure they tell you to read the full license, but only after failing to neglect the most onerous part.
Fake death? You didn't watch carefully enough.
Link looks like a generic 3D implementation of a manga character. Big eyes, no nose, tousled hair. Pick up any manga and tell me if you can't find a dozen characters that look as much like Link as this Wiki avatar does.
I think C# is a hideous language with lots of structural problems, but at least it's open to anyone who wants to implement the ECMA standard. Java is so terribly underspecified that half the time you end up guessing what behavior happens in certain circumstances, and if you're an implementor of a non-Sun JVM the only disambiguator is Sun's implementation of the JVM. Which means that it's not a standard, but a reference platform.
With an open standard, if there are disagreements about what the standard means, MS can't just change the spec to match their implementation (like Sun can with Java).
I work on scientific visualization software (using OpenGL). We're looking into 3D textures for volumetric rendering, and trust me, the 512MB could be used easily.