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Nice to see you getting into the swing of it Johnny boy.-)
FYI - there was ~100 posts in this thread, a lot of which were 2/4 some 5. All got slapped down to -1 between page refreshes for me. Someone scripted em down.
> Incidentally if SGI is selling the patent portfolio I doubt that a sale of their other
> assets can be far behind. It is pretty much their crown jewels.
My guess is that this isn't the crown jewels they've let go - remember Fahrenheit? I bet this sale is all the co-developed technologies that came out of that (deadly) partnership.
> The only way OpenGL can compete is to attain
> strong developers, maintain a good ease-of-
> programming and give game deisgners and card
> venders a solid reason to support it.
OpenGL aint just about the games man. If your developing a visualisation system of oil field sensor data, do you think you really use DirectX?
Nope, you go to the real guns, SGI.
Microsoft have a huge way to go before they grab that share of the market. For one thing, there is a whole heap of legacy apps in these scientific visualisation areas that rely on OpenGL backwards compatibility.
Hey that is pretty cool. What kind of 'training' is it you use? Do you just compute the number of elements different from existing glphs, or use something more complex? (neural net/other AI stuff)?
Big kudos:-)
Go revscat. I'd love to see JBoss in a position to market to suits higher up in companies - until they have certification, thats a steep hill to climb.
Whilst your IT director was (just a little maybe) helping to establish his power angle, he is a diamond as managers go. Nice to hear there are some nice ones out there.
lol. Either my text books and my education are out of date, or this is something that people can't agree on.
You can sleep safe in the knowledge that my comment will get modded down to -10 (Must be english used colour instead of color).
Anyone using update click and pop on a production server should be taken to one side. Thats what your test and staging servers are for. Once you know the process, and your backup box is ready, you do the upgrades, updates and fail over.
Methinks its just lazyness on your part to use something like red-carpet on a production machine:-/
I've tried using both the french rpm mirrors and the UK based ones. I consistently get FTP file not found errors, so I switch it back to the default one.
Next time it occurs, I'll submit an email or something detailing when/where the problem was.
Peter, I am one of the 'freeloading home users' using your red carpet updater, and I've gotta say I'm fantastically over the moon with both the quality of the software and the service.
Were I a corporate customer (I'm a contractor, so I don't get to make the cash decisions:-/), this would be without doubt my preferred way to keep any in-house boxen up to date.
I wish your company the best of fortune in these difficult times for IT - particularly Linux.
Don't forget the majority of slashdot readership is about 15 years old and thinks paying for a CD is expensive.-)
They really went to town on the physics didn't they.
They even went so far as to model the rotational momentum of the engine/prop shaft correctly, so when braking engine speed had to be taken into account too.
In an interview with the developers, they mentioned that this extreme realism was, they feel, one of the reasons why it didn't sell like hot cakes.
Moderators on crack.
Man how can this be offtopic.
This place has really turned into 12 yr old script kiddie linux activist newsgroup where you are lambasted for not having the right opinion.
I feel for you Sorthum, I know what these idiots are like.
Slashdot Mirror
Nice to see you getting into the swing of it Johnny boy .-)
FYI - there was ~100 posts in this thread, a lot of which were 2/4 some 5. All got slapped down to -1 between page refreshes for me. Someone scripted em down.
Nice isn't it.
I'm more than willing to burn the karma in the hope that some moderators MOD UP the parent post.
It's intelligent, factual, and above all interesting.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Was this inbetween solving all those t.v. murder mysteries and eating lots of cake?
Thanks man. Thought provoking, intelligently put, and above all, little to do with Microsoft.
Fan-dabby-dosy.
Mr Thinly Sliced
> Incidentally if SGI is selling the patent portfolio I doubt that a sale of their other
> assets can be far behind. It is pretty much their crown jewels.
My guess is that this isn't the crown jewels they've let go - remember Fahrenheit? I bet this sale is all the co-developed technologies that came out of that (deadly) partnership.
And I bet SGI is saying 'good riddance' too!
Mr Thinly Sliced
Do you like silicon? Do you like implants? Do you like barely legal operations?
Then you'll love neural implants.
Bet you thought I was going to mention tits didn't you.
> The only way OpenGL can compete is to attain
> strong developers, maintain a good ease-of-
> programming and give game deisgners and card
> venders a solid reason to support it.
OpenGL aint just about the games man. If your developing a visualisation system of oil field sensor data, do you think you really use DirectX?
Nope, you go to the real guns, SGI.
Microsoft have a huge way to go before they grab that share of the market. For one thing, there is a whole heap of legacy apps in these scientific visualisation areas that rely on OpenGL backwards compatibility.
Mr Thinly Sliced
I take it the one part kitt is in fact the cutting edge fashion
Hey that is pretty cool. What kind of 'training' is it you use? Do you just compute the number of elements different from existing glphs, or use something more complex? (neural net/other AI stuff)? :-)
Big kudos
Go revscat. I'd love to see JBoss in a position to market to suits higher up in companies - until they have certification, thats a steep hill to climb.
Since slashdot will lameness filter out the asterisks in it, heres a perl script to decode it (sorry about the crap code):
/g;
:-(
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
my($out) = "";
while()
{
chop;
s/1/*/g;
s/0/\
$out = $out . $_;
}
# Remove first 69
$out = substr($out,69);
$rowlength = 127;
my($nextrow) = "";
do
{
$nextrow = substr $out, 0, $rowlength;
print $nextrow . "\n";
$out = substr $out, $rowlength;
}
while($out ne "");
exit;
The output wont go through lameness filter
But its here anyway.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Whats phase 2?
Hehe totally with you man.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Quick - you, me, IPO.
Call me.
Not only that, but I just hacked their site, and downloaded the entire source tree here it is:
01101011
Pop that baby in an executable shell script. Its a self extracting
./configure
./make
./make install
Shh. Don't tell anyone.
Mr Thinly Sliced
They claim 100:1 compression for random data. The thing is, if thats true, then lets say we have data A size (1000)
compress(A) = B
Now, B is 1/100th the size of A, right, but it too, is random, right (size 100).
On we go:
compress(B) = C (size is now 10)
compress(C) = D (size 1).
So everything compresses into 1 byte.
Or am I missing something.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Whilst your IT director was (just a little maybe) helping to establish his power angle, he is a diamond as managers go. Nice to hear there are some nice ones out there.
I know its cheap but this is actually +1 interesting and +1 informative of all the stuff on here.
lol. Either my text books and my education are out of date, or this is something that people can't agree on.
You can sleep safe in the knowledge that my comment will get modded down to -10 (Must be english used colour instead of color).
All they had to do was open a computer graphics text book to the section on colour spaces.
Peaks are:
Red at 630nm, green at 530nm, and blue at 450nm.
Its kinda a bell curve at each, with green having greatest sensitivity, followed by red then blue.
The human eye can distinguish about 128 different hues, and about 130 different tints (source Computer Graphics, Prentice Hall 1986).
Mr Thinly Sliced
Anyone using update click and pop on a production server should be taken to one side. Thats what your test and staging servers are for. Once you know the process, and your backup box is ready, you do the upgrades, updates and fail over.
:-/
Methinks its just lazyness on your part to use something like red-carpet on a production machine
Mr Thinly Sliced
Er, you can turn auto-update notification off in both windows 98 and windows 2000. Dunno about XP, but I've a feeling its the same.
Mr Thinly Sliced
I've tried using both the french rpm mirrors and the UK based ones. I consistently get FTP file not found errors, so I switch it back to the default one.
Next time it occurs, I'll submit an email or something detailing when/where the problem was.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Peter, I am one of the 'freeloading home users' using your red carpet updater, and I've gotta say I'm fantastically over the moon with both the quality of the software and the service. :-/), this would be without doubt my preferred way to keep any in-house boxen up to date.
.-)
Were I a corporate customer (I'm a contractor, so I don't get to make the cash decisions
I wish your company the best of fortune in these difficult times for IT - particularly Linux.
Don't forget the majority of slashdot readership is about 15 years old and thinks paying for a CD is expensive
Mr Thinly Sliced
They really went to town on the physics didn't they.
They even went so far as to model the rotational momentum of the engine/prop shaft correctly, so when braking engine speed had to be taken into account too.
In an interview with the developers, they mentioned that this extreme realism was, they feel, one of the reasons why it didn't sell like hot cakes.
It was too hard for people
Moderators on crack.
Man how can this be offtopic.
This place has really turned into 12 yr old script kiddie linux activist newsgroup where you are lambasted for not having the right opinion.
I feel for you Sorthum, I know what these idiots are like.
Dan