I can't imagine ANYONE using a phone as their main phone if they had to listen to ads before every call-- unless they couldn't afford a cell phone in the first place, inwhich case I doubt those ads would attract many buyers.:)
obviously you don't use open source software as you've shown a complete misunderstanding of how the development process works.. also-- KDE 4.0 is in beta, most of the *ambitious* features HAVE been implemented... msfanboi? is that you?
The KDE project is *very* ambitious, especially the feature set for KDE4. Hopefully this turns some heads over in the gnome camp. IMHO they have a LOT of catching up to do in everything from infrustructure to performance.
...but what about all of the physical evidence that suggests a massive asteroid impact that sent a fireball around the world killing off vitually all large land-dwelling reptiles?
I'm sure increased cosmic ray exposure would increase genetic mutation and increase biodiversity though.:)
With the amount of memory imaging devices (digital camera, etc) have these days why not go a lossless compression route, like png? PNGs support alpha transparencies, layers, etc and it is a completely open standard.
at least *some* government understands how big of a waste of resources it is going after 84 year old granny whose 7 year old granddaughter downloaded a britney spears song.
I don't think works even lets you write.doc files-- Openoffice supports most MS formats fairly well. Seems like the market just isn't there for Works, even if it was free and ad free.
the performance hit on 3d rendering will be minimal as most of the time the transform and lighting work is offloaded to the gpu in chunks. i'm willing to bet you cant tell the difference on any system fast enough to be worth playing 3d games on in the first place.
the issue is reliability-- imperative languages are hard to use to write bug free software. The reason I tihnked to the COSA project is it describes a way of programming that is inherently parallel. Inconsistent and unpredictable latency in a "time critical" OS are unacceptable.
I really hope they don't go the "OS for battleships" direction and just take a regular OS and tailor it for cars. An OS that is going to help operate a car should be built using signal logic and work like a low level state machine. Like this: http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/COSA.htm or at least build it around a functional lambda calculus based language like haskell or erlang (see wikipedia). The last thing we need is random segfaults while we're driving.
as an aside-- please don't critize my suggestion without at least first reading up on functional lambda calculus based programming languages and COSA.
before you disagree with a statement someone makes you should do some research. yes- over 1 million systems and probably quite a few nuts and bolts in addition to those systems.
You know how far those poster "blueprints" will get you in building one of the most complex systems ever created by humans-- over 1 million systems comprise the saturn V.
NO! SHUTUP! Astronauts to _not_ pee! that is insulting!
but really-- what i'm getting at is... if i spent my entire life preparing for those days i get in space i wouldn't fuck it up drinking and getting _drunk_ right before the launch. Within the 12 hours before the launch is just _stupid_.
I really expected more from our astronauts. These guys were top of their classes their entire lives, why would they choose to drink right before the launch? Kinda seems like the worst time-- unless they're expecting things to go badly i guess, but i would rather be alert in ready in that situation.
can you imagine the consumer outcry when thousands of iPod owners can't get their iPods to turn on simply because they didn't understand the concept of pairing their iPod with their machine?
Honestly i can't stand the fact that major universities, which are practically ran by their student population, wont even stand up for their students-- at least as far as privacy rights are concerned.
I wonder how long it would take to teach a large scale neural network to start bluffing.:) When it comes to replicating the complex relationships in our brains neural networks are the way to go.
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I can't imagine ANYONE using a phone as their main phone if they had to listen to ads before every call-- unless they couldn't afford a cell phone in the first place, inwhich case I doubt those ads would attract many buyers. :)
sorry, i was suggesting Gnome needs to catch up.
obviously you don't use open source software as you've shown a complete misunderstanding of how the development process works.. also-- KDE 4.0 is in beta, most of the *ambitious* features HAVE been implemented... msfanboi? is that you?
.. well maybe the ps3 will come down another hundred or so bucks in the meantime.
The KDE project is *very* ambitious, especially the feature set for KDE4. Hopefully this turns some heads over in the gnome camp. IMHO they have a LOT of catching up to do in everything from infrustructure to performance.
I'm sure increased cosmic ray exposure would increase genetic mutation and increase biodiversity though. :)
With the amount of memory imaging devices (digital camera, etc) have these days why not go a lossless compression route, like png? PNGs support alpha transparencies, layers, etc and it is a completely open standard.
at least *some* government understands how big of a waste of resources it is going after 84 year old granny whose 7 year old granddaughter downloaded a britney spears song.
I don't think works even lets you write .doc files-- Openoffice supports most MS formats fairly well. Seems like the market just isn't there for Works, even if it was free and ad free.
the performance hit on 3d rendering will be minimal as most of the time the transform and lighting work is offloaded to the gpu in chunks. i'm willing to bet you cant tell the difference on any system fast enough to be worth playing 3d games on in the first place.
That will make it slightly, but measurably, harder for me to walk across that surface!
waht makes you think they won't use a desktop OS? windows NT runs British battleships.
the issue is reliability-- imperative languages are hard to use to write bug free software. The reason I tihnked to the COSA project is it describes a way of programming that is inherently parallel. Inconsistent and unpredictable latency in a "time critical" OS are unacceptable.
I really hope they don't go the "OS for battleships" direction and just take a regular OS and tailor it for cars. An OS that is going to help operate a car should be built using signal logic and work like a low level state machine. Like this: http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/COSA.htm or at least build it around a functional lambda calculus based language like haskell or erlang (see wikipedia). The last thing we need is random segfaults while we're driving.
as an aside-- please don't critize my suggestion without at least first reading up on functional lambda calculus based programming languages and COSA.
before you disagree with a statement someone makes you should do some research. yes- over 1 million systems and probably quite a few nuts and bolts in addition to those systems.
You know how far those poster "blueprints" will get you in building one of the most complex systems ever created by humans-- over 1 million systems comprise the saturn V.
maybe now we can put important documents on paper that can't be so easily and convienantly shredded by (unamed) corporation.
NO! SHUTUP! Astronauts to _not_ pee! that is insulting!
but really-- what i'm getting at is... if i spent my entire life preparing for those days i get in space i wouldn't fuck it up drinking and getting _drunk_ right before the launch. Within the 12 hours before the launch is just _stupid_.
or at least a love triangle related murder of passion.
I really expected more from our astronauts. These guys were top of their classes their entire lives, why would they choose to drink right before the launch? Kinda seems like the worst time-- unless they're expecting things to go badly i guess, but i would rather be alert in ready in that situation.
can you imagine the consumer outcry when thousands of iPod owners can't get their iPods to turn on simply because they didn't understand the concept of pairing their iPod with their machine?
Honestly i can't stand the fact that major universities, which are practically ran by their student population, wont even stand up for their students-- at least as far as privacy rights are concerned.
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Learn how to correctly use the functions of the parts of the API they're touching. YES. 100% is _not_ unrealistic.
I wonder how long it would take to teach a large scale neural network to start bluffing. :) When it comes to replicating the complex relationships in our brains neural networks are the way to go.