You seem to be forgetting the often overlooked fact that people have a right to be of whatever political persuasion they please, even if that is communism. Let's not forget that the one thing worse than two superpowers having nuclear weapons is one superpower with nuclear capablilty and no deterrent. It would be the ultimate power trip. Perhaps giving the soviets nuclear capablity equal to our own was the wisest thing to do from the point of view of a citizen of planet Earth.
First of all sir you seem to be talking out your ass. It's not polygonized, it's tesselated. And Pixar's renderman is a resolution independant REYES Based renderer. It does not tesselate. See the Aqsis manual for information about this. Damn near ALL renderers apart from reyes based tesselate down to polygons. This has _nothing to do_ with whether the scene is raytraced or not. Polygons are a form of geometry. Nurbs and subdivision surfaces would be other types of geometry. Raytracing is a rendering technique. Most raytracers such as mental ray as well as scanline renderers tesselate (or "polygonize") the geometry into appropriately detailed polygon meshes when they render. It only looks smooth since the mesh is so tesselated. Why do you think displacement mapping kills performance so drastically.
Besides... Dedicated hardware raytracing solutions already exist and are widely used. Ever heard of Renderdrive?!?! Graphics cards now are fast hardware accelerated scanline renderers (no raytracing(there are a few exceptions where it has been done for test purposes)). See NVIDIA's "Gelato" for instance. Or "Parthenon". Both are hardware assisted photorealistic renderers.
And if you already have a hp printer? Then what do you do?
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First off: Fedora runs just dandy with *pretty much* any motherboard on the market today. Bundled software be damned, it's all crap anyway.
Second off: Pretty much any *nix oss application you can think of compiles and installes under OSX with little or no modification. There are even automated tools to do this with such as Fink and darwinports. Often times it is even easier than that. Just simply download Gimp, Wings3d, Blender, or dozens of other oss.apps that work perfectly, installing them by just dragging to the desktop / hdd. (for those that don't already know,.app "files" are actually folders containing the main executable and other required data files. This is what makes it so easy to install (drag to HDD) and dis-install (drag to trash) software on a mac.
Third off: There are Pros and cons to every operating system. I use my Powerbook 17" for image processing, colour critical work (properly calibrated 23" Cinema display HD), high end 3d, and lots of other stuff. I use my windows box for games (just about all it's good for). I use my Linux box as a raid fileserver, xmms, xvid encoding, and rendering.
Fourth off: All three of these operating systems have different target audiences while all three try to cator (sometimes badly) to all three audiences. Linux takes patience, time, but allows extreme custimization and speed. Windows... well windows plays games well sometimes. OSX does everything but (many) games very well.
Well that's my take on this for what it's worth.
Lol. a "Radeon 95-something". Yeah. With that spec you might get 30 fps (if that) at 640x480 in doom 3 at medium detail. I had a 9800pro with 256MB of DDR2 and it crawled in doom3. I upgraded to a Geforce 6800 Ultra with 256MB DDR3(the machine proc is an A64-3400+) Now it runs fine (at damn near any resolution with the detail maxed out) On the other hand, the rest of my games perform about the same or in some cases (such as HL2 which is optimized for Radeons) slower than my 9800. Certain games are optimized for certain cards. Nvidia tends to lean towards fancy (NV40 and the like) pixel shading and massive textures while ATI tends to lead in raw geometry. Doom 3 Was developed on GF6 series cards and uses CG shaders (a notoriously nvidia optimized technology)
You play your Doom3 on that card. Before you compare raw megaherts across completely different architechtures consider the vector processing ability of the PowerPC G4. Consider that on my mac (Powerbook 17" w/ 128MB Radeon9700 Pro) photoshop is faster than on my A64. It flat out blows my A64 out of the water when running wings3d (modeling software).
Like my a64, i can compile and run all my *nix apps. If MacOS was not unix based i would have not bothered buying a mac. I am very impressed with it so far.
Yes some things are slower (mainly badly ported games) but i have my Win/Lin dual boot A64 for that.
Yes i aggree that Doom3 will probably run like crap on a Mini, as it will on most ATI based cards (i haven't tried the X800 series yet), but for many applications it will perform as fast, or faster than a pc.
Sure man... get your facts straight. MacOS and Linux are NOT the same thing. If that were true i would have MacOS running on my x86 workstation. OSX has a lot of the same components that linux has but they have completely different kernels. The OSX kernel is gnu-darwin, BSD based. MacOS does not use X11 for it's native windowing system although X11 is available to run on top of that.
Actually, his sig is a paraphraise of a quote from Voltaire who is considered to be one of the greatest of the Enlightened Philosophers of 18th century France. I happen to aggree with what he said. Perhaps you dissagree with free speech.
Perhaps I jump into things too quickly but i have worked on laptop motherboards and re-soldered certain loose battery connections on the motherboard. Perhaps it is risky, but when Dell wanted 450 to replace the MB and the old laptop only costed me 800, i figured i'd take the risk. If you pay attention and remember how things came apart, taking photos if necessary at times, there is really no reason you can't modify a laptop in the same manner as a desktop. I also yanked the winmodem out of the mini-pci slot. On the other hand, i have three laptops, one is a Powerbook 17inch g4 1.5ghz with 1GB ram and 128 mb video ram, the other two are fairly worthless. I will wait a year (warrenty to expire) or so before i crack that baby open.
Not really. I'm planning a counter spoof right now. I'm gonna use tux as neo. and then get enough pictures of bill to build a model with textures... then... i'm trying to debate whether to use maya or blender. maya gives me a bit more power (a big bit) but blender is open source.
yes... i think some maya live mocap and wirework... and anybody who uses maya knows it only really works under linux... Irix version is ok... windows version... haha.
If they destroy the data with "DOD certified extended charachter 7 pass rotation wiping" (bcwipe)... Or "Darl's boot & Nuke" (or more if you feel paranoid) there won't be any data for the fbi to be annoyed with. All you do is say "Oh... I just wanted to clear everything off so i could install... eerrrr.... yes windows... windows yes... Not that other commie OS good god no... we're good little capitalists and *chokes subtly* love our little billy *mumbles "son of a bitch"* gates."... That should do it. I know someone who works for the FBI's "Computer Crime" section and honestly i find her intelligence lacking at the very most. She'd buy it.
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What you say???? I can't see SCO anywhere in the title.
I just looked at Sco's site. It doesn't say anything about HP sponsoring. Perhaps this was a mistake of The Register. If it is. I suggest a moderator fix the article heading and append that HP is not sponsoring it.
Although i do aggree that these articles are at the very least annoying, I would rather be informed anyway. SCO is a danger and they should not be ignored. That doesn't necessarily mean that the comments should string on endlessly. Perhaps Slashdot should have an "SCO ticker" for the time being where people can take a glance at the latest news and not feel obligated to comment. If it appears on the "front page", (some) people will just have to comment. And at length. And at length. (-1 redundant joke.) for crying out loud, half of the comments on the linus interview were debating whether or not it was ethical to copy and paste the NYT article. Good god people. Don't you have anything better to say?!?!?
The same HP that... no it can't be true. I am rapidly losing faith in society. When will corporations learn that this kind of "i love you i hate you" attitude will get them nowhere. Sheesh. Reminds me of my ex girlfriend. Seriously. The parralells are striking. These people belong on Jerry Springer.
I think the investors are starting to realise what they are up to (finally)... Why don't they just read slashdot?!? (Slightly tongue in cheek)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX
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...And they will take a mile. If it's one thing the "Patriot Act" followed by "Patriot Act 2" has taught me is that governments cannot be trusted to have just that "one little exception" when it comes to unrestricted power. They get a taste and like Heroin, snap, they are addicted. What happens when the power trippin Law enforcement folks discover how well these things work with paedophiles (i can never spell that right) and they decide to extend the reaches of their power into other areas under the rationalization of "Well it works so well with X, so it will with Y"... Before long we have a situation when people are being tagged "just in case". Am i paranoid. Yeah. But the things i'm paranoid about have a habit of happening.
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Buy a 30 dollar wireless nic in cash. Park in residential area (no video cameras). Connect. Do your business. Disconnect. Destroy nic.
If you aren't willing to die for you'r rights you are already dead. Just passing time waiting to be buried. What is living if you are not free.
You seem to be forgetting the often overlooked fact that people have a right to be of whatever political persuasion they please, even if that is communism. Let's not forget that the one thing worse than two superpowers having nuclear weapons is one superpower with nuclear capablilty and no deterrent. It would be the ultimate power trip. Perhaps giving the soviets nuclear capablity equal to our own was the wisest thing to do from the point of view of a citizen of planet Earth.
Passive tags do not require batteries.
You gotta love those default passwords. I manage my neighbor's AP and he doesn't eve know about it.
First of all sir you seem to be talking out your ass. It's not polygonized, it's tesselated. And Pixar's renderman is a resolution independant REYES Based renderer. It does not tesselate. See the Aqsis manual for information about this. Damn near ALL renderers apart from reyes based tesselate down to polygons. This has _nothing to do_ with whether the scene is raytraced or not. Polygons are a form of geometry. Nurbs and subdivision surfaces would be other types of geometry. Raytracing is a rendering technique. Most raytracers such as mental ray as well as scanline renderers tesselate (or "polygonize") the geometry into appropriately detailed polygon meshes when they render. It only looks smooth since the mesh is so tesselated. Why do you think displacement mapping kills performance so drastically.
Besides... Dedicated hardware raytracing solutions already exist and are widely used. Ever heard of Renderdrive?!?!
Graphics cards now are fast hardware accelerated scanline renderers (no raytracing(there are a few exceptions where it has been done for test purposes)). See NVIDIA's "Gelato" for instance. Or "Parthenon". Both are hardware assisted photorealistic renderers.
You must work in management.
And if you already have a hp printer? Then what do you do?
First off: Fedora runs just dandy with *pretty much* any motherboard on the market today. Bundled software be damned, it's all crap anyway. Second off: Pretty much any *nix oss application you can think of compiles and installes under OSX with little or no modification. There are even automated tools to do this with such as Fink and darwinports. Often times it is even easier than that. Just simply download Gimp, Wings3d, Blender, or dozens of other oss .apps that work perfectly, installing them by just dragging to the desktop / hdd. (for those that don't already know, .app "files" are actually folders containing the main executable and other required data files. This is what makes it so easy to install (drag to HDD) and dis-install (drag to trash) software on a mac.
Third off: There are Pros and cons to every operating system. I use my Powerbook 17" for image processing, colour critical work (properly calibrated 23" Cinema display HD), high end 3d, and lots of other stuff. I use my windows box for games (just about all it's good for). I use my Linux box as a raid fileserver, xmms, xvid encoding, and rendering.
Fourth off: All three of these operating systems have different target audiences while all three try to cator (sometimes badly) to all three audiences. Linux takes patience, time, but allows extreme custimization and speed. Windows... well windows plays games well sometimes. OSX does everything but (many) games very well.
Well that's my take on this for what it's worth.
Lol. a "Radeon 95-something". Yeah. With that spec you might get 30 fps (if that) at 640x480 in doom 3 at medium detail. I had a 9800pro with 256MB of DDR2 and it crawled in doom3. I upgraded to a Geforce 6800 Ultra with 256MB DDR3(the machine proc is an A64-3400+) Now it runs fine (at damn near any resolution with the detail maxed out) On the other hand, the rest of my games perform about the same or in some cases (such as HL2 which is optimized for Radeons) slower than my 9800. Certain games are optimized for certain cards. Nvidia tends to lean towards fancy (NV40 and the like) pixel shading and massive textures while ATI tends to lead in raw geometry. Doom 3 Was developed on GF6 series cards and uses CG shaders (a notoriously nvidia optimized technology) You play your Doom3 on that card. Before you compare raw megaherts across completely different architechtures consider the vector processing ability of the PowerPC G4. Consider that on my mac (Powerbook 17" w/ 128MB Radeon9700 Pro) photoshop is faster than on my A64. It flat out blows my A64 out of the water when running wings3d (modeling software). Like my a64, i can compile and run all my *nix apps. If MacOS was not unix based i would have not bothered buying a mac. I am very impressed with it so far. Yes some things are slower (mainly badly ported games) but i have my Win/Lin dual boot A64 for that. Yes i aggree that Doom3 will probably run like crap on a Mini, as it will on most ATI based cards (i haven't tried the X800 series yet), but for many applications it will perform as fast, or faster than a pc.
Sure man... get your facts straight. MacOS and Linux are NOT the same thing. If that were true i would have MacOS running on my x86 workstation. OSX has a lot of the same components that linux has but they have completely different kernels. The OSX kernel is gnu-darwin, BSD based. MacOS does not use X11 for it's native windowing system although X11 is available to run on top of that.
Actually, his sig is a paraphraise of a quote from Voltaire who is considered to be one of the greatest of the Enlightened Philosophers of 18th century France. I happen to aggree with what he said. Perhaps you dissagree with free speech.
Amen. However, it is not the knowledge of the geeks here that is in question. It is rather the testicle size.
Perhaps I jump into things too quickly but i have worked on laptop motherboards and re-soldered certain loose battery connections on the motherboard. Perhaps it is risky, but when Dell wanted 450 to replace the MB and the old laptop only costed me 800, i figured i'd take the risk. If you pay attention and remember how things came apart, taking photos if necessary at times, there is really no reason you can't modify a laptop in the same manner as a desktop. I also yanked the winmodem out of the mini-pci slot. On the other hand, i have three laptops, one is a Powerbook 17inch g4 1.5ghz with 1GB ram and 128 mb video ram, the other two are fairly worthless. I will wait a year (warrenty to expire) or so before i crack that baby open.
Not really. I'm planning a counter spoof right now. I'm gonna use tux as neo. and then get enough pictures of bill to build a model with textures... then... i'm trying to debate whether to use maya or blender. maya gives me a bit more power (a big bit) but blender is open source.
mmm... crush up and snort lots and lots of linux... wheeeeeee... i'm high as a kite...
yes... i think some maya live mocap and wirework... and anybody who uses maya knows it only really works under linux... Irix version is ok... windows version... haha.
hee hee... yeah... My answer would be... ummm... Yesterday... oops.
If they destroy the data with "DOD certified extended charachter 7 pass rotation wiping" (bcwipe)... Or "Darl's boot & Nuke" (or more if you feel paranoid) there won't be any data for the fbi to be annoyed with. All you do is say "Oh... I just wanted to clear everything off so i could install... eerrrr.... yes windows... windows yes... Not that other commie OS good god no... we're good little capitalists and *chokes subtly* love our little billy *mumbles "son of a bitch"* gates."... That should do it. I know someone who works for the FBI's "Computer Crime" section and honestly i find her intelligence lacking at the very most. She'd buy it.
What you say???? I can't see SCO anywhere in the title.
I just looked at Sco's site. It doesn't say anything about HP sponsoring. Perhaps this was a mistake of The Register. If it is. I suggest a moderator fix the article heading and append that HP is not sponsoring it.
Although i do aggree that these articles are at the very least annoying, I would rather be informed anyway. SCO is a danger and they should not be ignored. That doesn't necessarily mean that the comments should string on endlessly. Perhaps Slashdot should have an "SCO ticker" for the time being where people can take a glance at the latest news and not feel obligated to comment. If it appears on the "front page", (some) people will just have to comment. And at length. And at length. (-1 redundant joke.) for crying out loud, half of the comments on the linus interview were debating whether or not it was ethical to copy and paste the NYT article. Good god people. Don't you have anything better to say?!?!?
The same HP that ... no it can't be true. I am rapidly losing faith in society. When will corporations learn that this kind of "i love you i hate you" attitude will get them nowhere. Sheesh. Reminds me of my ex girlfriend. Seriously. The parralells are striking. These people belong on Jerry Springer.
"Their" referrs to SCO just to clairify.
I think the investors are starting to realise what they are up to (finally)... Why don't they just read slashdot?!? (Slightly tongue in cheek)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX