I got 20fps with software (MesaGL) rendering four years ago on a 400MHz K6-II. On any relatively recent computer, not even software rendering should be that slow.
How much for the visible light part? If someone bought that part, could they sue you for seeing?
Some college kids in Australia got an exclusive license to the 550nm spectral band, and had a few days of fun threatening to sue anyone making unauthorized use of it. Of course, the license was revoked in a hurry once the regulatory agency realized 550nm was the color "yellow".
Can somebody please explain in plain language what the big deal is??? At first read, it sounds just like you just need to include a little extra text. Am I missing something?
The practical answer is that Mandrake would need to put a little extra text in a hell of a lot of places. Finding all those places could delay the release of Mandrake 10.0 by a month or more.
The legal answer: The new license is not GPL-compatible. It'll take a while to figure out what all is affected by the changes, and Mandrake doesn't want to ship potentially-infringing software.
Gee. Next thing you know, someone'll patent the "A method for gas exchange by alternate inductions of overpressure and underpressure", aka "breathing".
Could someone please explain how a long (several kms) unshielded wire is different than an antenna?
It would seem to me that transmitting "broadband" data, which will span a wide range of frequencies if it is going to be high-speed (and immune to noise), isn't going to just cause broadband interference?
Cable modems get away because the cable itself is coaxial and thus shielded.
Even most telephone wire is buried in the ground...
But powerlines? I just don't see how it is going to work
It isn't. BPL will wipe out ham radio, many emergency services, and some of the military frequencies.
Who modded this insightful? Lamps are hot because that's how incadescent technology works. Fluorescent and LED lights do not get hot.
Not even LEDs are 100% efficient. However, for an optical system, the heat production is related to the duty cycle of the lamps, rather than the switching speed, so the heat production should remain constant regardless of clock speed.
On the one hand, this means you don't need to improve cooling to overclock. On the other, it means that you can't improve the overclock level with improved cooling.
So you're trying to tell me that.sh,.pl and.py scripts *aren't* associated with anything on your KDE desktop? Last time I used KDE - they were.
I don't know about your KDE system, but on my computer,.pl,.py, and.sh files have "open with nedit" as the default action, with the other available actions being to open in assorted other windows. The only way to actually run one is from an xterm.
"Lunokhod 1 actually toured the lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program" I wonder how they managed to get them to hold up (and be potentially useful) for that long? sheer dumb luck?
Battleship-quality engineering. Nothing about the Lunokhod rovers could be described as "fragile". No finesse, but very little that could break down, either.
The article makes it pretty clear why Linux can't run directly on the Crusoe: Linux expects the hardware to have a virtual memory manager, which the Crusoe doesn't have. Consequently, any port of Linux will need to be running on an emulated memory manager.
As a side note, the Crusoe is also missing native support for certain other helpful features: *Memory protection -- without that, a segfault can take out the entire OS. *Running code from user memory -- without this, any application code will need to be piped through the OS to the CPU.
Maybe IHBT (- Score?), dunno. I wonder the same thing myself (sort of) except I think IR goggles in a burning buildng would blind you.
If the Rover can take IR images with just a camera & IR filter, what are the technical difficulties in doing the same with simple hardware? Is an IR filter hard to obtain?
The rover deals with near-infrared wavelengths, and it's fairly simple to make a camera that can do so: you just need an unfiltered CCD matrix and an IR filter for the wavelength you want to see. The filters aren't hard to find, but usually cost a few hundred dollars.
Fire departments use cameras that see in the thermal infrared wavelengths to look for hot spots where the fire might still be burning. They're a lot harder to make, since the camera needs to be cooled to a temperature lower than that of the target -- otherwise the only thing the camera would see was itself!
Actually, you can add land through software. It would be simple enough to create a 512x512 region, but computation and bandwidth limits would keep the total amount of construction in the region the same, and the number of avatars allowed in at one time wouldn't increase. The result is a region that looks a lot sparser, and a population that's a lot more spread out.
This pretty much screamed financial trouble to me and a lot of other players, though Philip and Cory vehemently denied it and stated that they were growing faster than ever.
I suspect it wasn't actual financial trouble, but an inability to continue growth. Under the old system, they needed approximately 30 players per region to afford to open a region, but the actual ratio was lower than that, yet the demand for land was much higher. Consequently, they couldn't afford to open new regions fast enough to keep players interested. Under the new system, subscription fees are tied to the amount of virtual land owned, and the growth rate is directly proportional to the number of people who want to own virtual real estate.
One of the SCO lawyers "...went on to claim that they have identified 400 million lines of Unix code and 300 million lines of Linux code affected, but also admitted that SCO has not submitted everything required by the court order."
Where did they find 300 million lines of Linux code to begin with, much less 300 million infringing lines?
Hmm... How do we make SCO go down in a ball of fire? I remember in my BBS days in elementary school there were a lot of plans for bombs and stuff, but my dad told me those were fake!:)
Google is your friend. There are plenty of workable plans out there for building atom bombs: see, for example, http://winn.com/bs/atombomb.html
Aw, crap! If KDE has it integrated, my little cron-and-perl script for GNOME is so *totally* last year... Just goes to show how new technology replaces old....sniff...
I don't think the KDE changer is able to update the wallpaper image list automatically.
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Apparently, it leaked through the predecessor to SSI.
Maybe it's even rendering with software?
I got 20fps with software (MesaGL) rendering four years ago on a 400MHz K6-II. On any relatively recent computer, not even software rendering should be that slow.
How much for the visible light part? If someone bought that part, could they sue you for seeing?
Some college kids in Australia got an exclusive license to the 550nm spectral band, and had a few days of fun threatening to sue anyone making unauthorized use of it. Of course, the license was revoked in a hurry once the regulatory agency realized 550nm was the color "yellow".
I've found that software problems are best solved with the sacrifice of a chicken.
Can somebody please explain in plain language what the big deal is??? At first read, it sounds just like you just need to include a little extra text. Am I missing something?
The practical answer is that Mandrake would need to put a little extra text in a hell of a lot of places. Finding all those places could delay the release of Mandrake 10.0 by a month or more.
The legal answer: The new license is not GPL-compatible. It'll take a while to figure out what all is affected by the changes, and Mandrake doesn't want to ship potentially-infringing software.
It's an apples to oranges comparison.
Judging from the comments on the article, it's more of an Apples to Dells comparison.
Because the real world doesn't have bugs, right?
The first rule of programming is to realize that all input is intended to crash your program, so code accordingly.
Gee. Next thing you know, someone'll patent the "A method for gas exchange by alternate inductions of overpressure and underpressure", aka "breathing".
Could someone please explain how a long (several kms) unshielded wire is different than an antenna?
It would seem to me that transmitting "broadband" data, which will span a wide range of frequencies if it is going to be high-speed (and immune to noise), isn't going to just cause broadband interference?
Cable modems get away because the cable itself is coaxial and thus shielded.
Even most telephone wire is buried in the ground...
But powerlines? I just don't see how it is going to work
It isn't. BPL will wipe out ham radio, many emergency services, and some of the military frequencies.
Seriously, photonics looks like it might be the Next Big Thing.
You mean like dot-coms were the Next Big Thing?
Who modded this insightful? Lamps are hot because that's how incadescent technology works. Fluorescent and LED lights do not get hot.
Not even LEDs are 100% efficient. However, for an optical system, the heat production is related to the duty cycle of the lamps, rather than the switching speed, so the heat production should remain constant regardless of clock speed.
On the one hand, this means you don't need to improve cooling to overclock. On the other, it means that you can't improve the overclock level with improved cooling.
So that's why Prescott runs so hot!
...building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality...
So they've broken the lightspeed barrier? Amazing!
Does this violate the DMCA? I don't want to get arrested for trying this...
Maybe it does violate the DMCA, but I'm gonna fight the MAN by cheating in a video game! It's the moral thing to do!
Anything's better than the guy who bought an LED display for his case, then kept the server on the top shelf of his closet...
I bet the display was screaming bloody murder about the heat!
So you're trying to tell me that .sh, .pl and .py scripts *aren't* associated with anything on your KDE desktop? Last time I used KDE - they were.
.pl, .py, and .sh files have "open with nedit" as the default action, with the other available actions being to open in assorted other windows. The only way to actually run one is from an xterm.
I don't know about your KDE system, but on my computer,
"Lunokhod 1 actually toured the lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program" I wonder how they managed to get them to hold up (and be potentially useful) for that long? sheer dumb luck?
Battleship-quality engineering. Nothing about the Lunokhod rovers could be described as "fragile". No finesse, but very little that could break down, either.
The article makes it pretty clear why Linux can't run directly on the Crusoe: Linux expects the hardware to have a virtual memory manager, which the Crusoe doesn't have. Consequently, any port of Linux will need to be running on an emulated memory manager.
As a side note, the Crusoe is also missing native support for certain other helpful features:
*Memory protection -- without that, a segfault can take out the entire OS.
*Running code from user memory -- without this, any application code will need to be piped through the OS to the CPU.
Maybe IHBT (- Score?), dunno. I wonder the same thing myself (sort of) except I think IR goggles in a burning buildng would blind you.
If the Rover can take IR images with just a camera & IR filter, what are the technical difficulties in doing the same with simple hardware? Is an IR filter hard to obtain?
The rover deals with near-infrared wavelengths, and it's fairly simple to make a camera that can do so: you just need an unfiltered CCD matrix and an IR filter for the wavelength you want to see. The filters aren't hard to find, but usually cost a few hundred dollars.
Fire departments use cameras that see in the thermal infrared wavelengths to look for hot spots where the fire might still be burning. They're a lot harder to make, since the camera needs to be cooled to a temperature lower than that of the target -- otherwise the only thing the camera would see was itself!
Actually, you can add land through software. It would be simple enough to create a 512x512 region, but computation and bandwidth limits would keep the total amount of construction in the region the same, and the number of avatars allowed in at one time wouldn't increase. The result is a region that looks a lot sparser, and a population that's a lot more spread out.
This pretty much screamed financial trouble to me and a lot of other players, though Philip and Cory vehemently denied it and stated that they were growing faster than ever.
I suspect it wasn't actual financial trouble, but an inability to continue growth. Under the old system, they needed approximately 30 players per region to afford to open a region, but the actual ratio was lower than that, yet the demand for land was much higher. Consequently, they couldn't afford to open new regions fast enough to keep players interested. Under the new system, subscription fees are tied to the amount of virtual land owned, and the growth rate is directly proportional to the number of people who want to own virtual real estate.
They might run out of money first... then they have to start selling the Linux and Unix again.
Who'd buy it from them?
I like this quote from Groklaw:
One of the SCO lawyers "...went on to claim that they have identified 400 million lines of Unix code and 300 million lines of Linux code affected, but also admitted that SCO has not submitted everything required by the court order."
Where did they find 300 million lines of Linux code to begin with, much less 300 million infringing lines?
Hmm... How do we make SCO go down in a ball of fire? I remember in my BBS days in elementary school there were a lot of plans for bombs and stuff, but my dad told me those were fake! :)
Google is your friend. There are plenty of workable plans out there for building atom bombs: see, for example, http://winn.com/bs/atombomb.html
Aw, crap! If KDE has it integrated, my little cron-and-perl script for GNOME is so *totally* last year... Just goes to show how new technology replaces old. ...sniff...
I don't think the KDE changer is able to update the wallpaper image list automatically.