With Gentoo Linux, you can take advantage of the fact that Disk Utility creates 256MB of empty space before every partition. That's enough room for a bootloader partition and a small root partition. Just bind big directories like/usr,/opt,/home, etc. into your OSX partition, and voila! (I did this on my desktop. There were no issues at all, aside from the fact that HFS+ is nowhere near as fast as reiserfs.)
Only real problem is, Gentoo is not exactly a user-friendly distro.:|
I've thought about what would be involved to get Ubuntu into a setup like that, but the Ubuntu graphical installer is a horrid mess from an implementation standpoint, and I wouldn't know where to begin.
Both PowerPC and Intel/AMD CPUs have a vector instruction that will calculate an approximate inverse square root for four floating-point values simultaneously, with higher precision than this code does.
What's more, the PowerPC (at least, the 604 and above) has a scalar instruction to do the job. I've used it several times in my graphics code. frsqrte. In fact, on the 750, it executes in the same amount of time as a floating point add.
It's one of the few instructions GCC isn't smart enough to use automatically. (another is rlwimi, which is without a doubt, the coolest instruction ever)
Now whether you are smart enough to transfer it into the account of someone you don't like rather than your own is a different question.
Or, transfer it into your own, separate account on the same bank, then use Log Modifier to change the destination account in the transaction record to someone you hate (or someone you're being paid to discredit), and Log Deleter to delete the record on your end. Disconnect before they trace you, and BOOM! Watch your Uplink rating smash through the roof...
You'll probably need a level 5 Firewall Disable (or Firewall Bypass) and version 3 of Decypher. And don't try to hack into the Uplink Corporation's bank; yours is the only account.
I have two, but my left eye is and always has been so much weaker than my right that my brain mostly discards the information from it.
The only "3D" display tech I've tried is the anaglyph mode in Nanosaur II, and while it was kinda cool, all the "3D" was for me was a tiny shimmering on the left side of objects. It was neat, because I see that in real life, but it really didn't matter that much, especially because of the red/cyan separation. I've been wanting to try a different tech some time. *sigh*
"In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man sees all."
The codec acceleration on current video cards is only for decoding. Almost everyone with a current video card decodes video at one point or another, sometimes quite often. How many are using their rig to burn video DVDs?
On top of that, encoding is orders of magnitude more complicated than decoding.
If you want hardware accelerated MPEG-2/4 encoding, buy an MPEG-2/4 encoder card. Simple as that.
So, why don't people do that in real sword fights?
Because real people in real sword fights are fighting other real people who would take advantage. Not to mention the fact that a real sword is a LOT heavier than a Wiimote...
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With Gentoo Linux, you can take advantage of the fact that Disk Utility creates 256MB of empty space before every partition. That's enough room for a bootloader partition and a small root partition. Just bind big directories like /usr, /opt, /home, etc. into your OSX partition, and voila! (I did this on my desktop. There were no issues at all, aside from the fact that HFS+ is nowhere near as fast as reiserfs.)
Only real problem is, Gentoo is not exactly a user-friendly distro. :|
I've thought about what would be involved to get Ubuntu into a setup like that, but the Ubuntu graphical installer is a horrid mess from an implementation standpoint, and I wouldn't know where to begin.
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PDF?
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See here for why that doesn't mean anything.
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Is there a name for that fallacy? "${PERSON} disagrees with my views, ergo ${PERSON} is insane."
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The point is to keep your units explicit. Good habit to be in, makes calculations either nice and clean or obviously flawed.
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Uhh, they sure can. GNU C, for instance, has a complex qualifier.
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My best friend lives over 800 miles away.
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What's more, the PowerPC (at least, the 604 and above) has a scalar instruction to do the job. I've used it several times in my graphics code. frsqrte. In fact, on the 750, it executes in the same amount of time as a floating point add.
It's one of the few instructions GCC isn't smart enough to use automatically. (another is rlwimi, which is without a doubt, the coolest instruction ever)
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OHSHI--*connection to Gateway terminated*
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Or, transfer it into your own, separate account on the same bank, then use Log Modifier to change the destination account in the transaction record to someone you hate (or someone you're being paid to discredit), and Log Deleter to delete the record on your end. Disconnect before they trace you, and BOOM! Watch your Uplink rating smash through the roof...
You'll probably need a level 5 Firewall Disable (or Firewall Bypass) and version 3 of Decypher. And don't try to hack into the Uplink Corporation's bank; yours is the only account.
Wait, we are talking about Uplink, right?
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I have two, but my left eye is and always has been so much weaker than my right that my brain mostly discards the information from it.
The only "3D" display tech I've tried is the anaglyph mode in Nanosaur II, and while it was kinda cool, all the "3D" was for me was a tiny shimmering on the left side of objects. It was neat, because I see that in real life, but it really didn't matter that much, especially because of the red/cyan separation. I've been wanting to try a different tech some time. *sigh*
"In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man sees all."
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disclaimer: this was posted while I was asleep
If you can get past the graphics, Marathon:RED.
Bort... bort... bort... bort... bort...
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Wait, remind me why that's a bad thing?
Or did you mean '<'? ;)
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Very well said. Wish I had mod points today.
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Until the "A computer matched him with her?" line. -_-
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Get a G3.
No, seriously.
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I think killing and eating a fishmonkeyrat is downright weird.</joke>
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The codec acceleration on current video cards is only for decoding. Almost everyone with a current video card decodes video at one point or another, sometimes quite often. How many are using their rig to burn video DVDs?
On top of that, encoding is orders of magnitude more complicated than decoding.
If you want hardware accelerated MPEG-2/4 encoding, buy an MPEG-2/4 encoder card. Simple as that.
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Because real people in real sword fights are fighting other real people who would take advantage. Not to mention the fact that a real sword is a LOT heavier than a Wiimote...
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From Namco... Mappy!
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Most of the time, in the F/OSS world, the people writing the code are under no obligation to continue doing so.
This is, at once, the one great strength and one great weakness of the paradigm.
This comment was on topic until it went from my brain to the keyboard.
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I really, REALLY hope you meant Kbps on that last one. Otherwise, I'll have to kill you and steal your Internet.
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Does a great lot of good indoors or on a rainy day.
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Simple 3D rendering like this is easy. It's just stringing a bunch of math end to end.
Now, doing it fast...
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Titanium PowerBook G4s (either 450MHz or 600MHz, I forget) can get frelling hot.
Like, flash point of some fabrics hot.
Like, I might've killed a blanket or two with mine.
>_>
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