In the same way, something smells funny with String theory
The string theory may be not in the great shape just now, but there is no better alternative(well, there is the loop quantum gravity, but it's not much better)
The biggest problem of the modern theoretical physics is that it is proven that general relativity and modern quantum mechanics contradict each other. They can not both be exactly right in the same universe. Both theory verified experimentally. So if theoretical physics want to remain sane they have to construct some kind of theory which deal with this contradiction. Better to have theory which have at least some promise of solution then no theory at all.
Actually fermions are "normal" particles, what we usyally calling "matter" - electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks. There two kind of particles - fermions(which represent matter) and bosons which represent interactions or fields - photons, glueons, gravitons. In the string theory they both represented by strings - open (fermions) and loops (bosons)
It depends if the swastika is a backwards Nazi one I guess. A normal swastika has been a symbol of good fortune for thousands of years in India.
That is more of urban legend the the fact.
Nazi were using both swastika, sometimes simmetrically in decorations. More often they were using right-faced swastika - "good" or "normal" Indian swastika.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Nazi_Germany
If those lawsuits become a common practice after some times higly exiprienced prospective employees would ask employer to add clause to non-disclosure agreement preventing employer from lawsuit in case they change a job.
Other similar techincs is hiding messages so it looks like a spam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=hiding+me ssages+using+spam&btnG=Search
I've even read an article (can't find link right now) analizing some samples of the actual spam and concluding that they in fact used as an encripted communication medium by spam originators.
I'm wondering why slashdot have so high amount of dupes. It seems the editors are spending so much time reading submissions, that they have no time to read slashdot itself. The solution could be a two tier system: After any first-tier editor accepted submission second tier editor (who is bound to read slashdot) checking it for dupes, obviuos error, dead links etc.
In conclusion, the truths of penguin life are cute, safe, even rather interesting, but NOT important.
Truth in the eye of beholder. Considering anti-intellectualism of the modern western society, anty-scientific mood, especially in the US, the sublime message of such highly emotional documentary considerably more important then arguably crude and biased political pamphlets such as Moor's Farenheit.
First as was already mentioned in other post, for now native windows OpenGL don't use hardware at all, it's pure software and 1.1 to boot. But no one use it anyway, all Videocard manufacturer provide OpenGL driver and GL.h headers for their card. So situation defenetly will not be worse.
Where they got this wild 50% ?. IMO this number blown form the thin air. The wrapping OpenGL to DirectX is very simple, both API have similar functonality, the only diference go with videomemory managment. But OpenGL have no decent expilicit videomemory mangment anyway, so you may have OpenGL more slow then DirectX, but not wrapper OpenGL considerably more slow then native OpenGL driver.
This cargo vehicle look very similar to russian Energiya rocket (discontinued due to lack of money) and have the same carry capacity - 100 metric tonn. Wondering if there is connection here. Crew vehicle look similar to Zenit rocket - heir of the Energiya program.
2) Symbian is stable and has functionality made specifically for mobile phones. A new Linux platform does not offer this. There are no short terms benefits of switching.
While Symbian may be more stable then Windows CE it's not exactly bulletproof stable. My Nokia 6600 Symbian phone reboot himself by it's own volution about twice per month. Though I'm using a lot of third party applications, some written by me, so it's may be not entierly Symbian fault.
About "functionality made specifically for mobile phone". That is actually one of the Symbian problems, not benefits. Symbian including into OS kernel a lot of thing which shouldn't be there - address books, agenda, calendar, alarm, lexical analysis etc. It would be more stable with small, lightweight kernel. Things like address book should be part of UI, not kernel.
Companies are there to make money not for moral or social values. I'm not saying that's a good thing but that's how the system works.
Exactly. That is why governments exist. Govenment should (often fail, but taht is another question) restrict companies which go against social or moral values too far. If some company went too far it's government function to penalize it. If government failed to do it, government is responsible for whatever damage company did. If government pose itself as the defender of the world freedom, and do nothing against companies which help suppress this same freedom something is wrong.
And maybe the rate appears to be slowing because all of the totally common sense innovations have already been done. The stuff that is left requires a huge knowledge base and a large effort on the part of hundreds to achieve.
I agree, in the modern world to move science forward requierd a lot more effort then before - all easy staff already done. Look at the mathematics , there some complex proofs require dozens of steps and efforts of dozens of people. Or physics - math is becomeing so complex for string theory, that no one exactly understand it. It seems that the processing power of human brain becoming limiting factor in the modern science, and science is the source of all innovation. So as soon as the human brain considerably augmented, be it a brain-computer interface, smart drugs or something else the rate of innovations will climb again.
Anybody with even a little 3D programming experience will tell you that it isn't too difficult to learn a new API. They all deal with essentially the same concepts.
It's not difficalt to switch API and use a new API for a new product. However porting finished product from one API to another present a lot of non-trivial problem, mostly due to unexpected driver-specific side effects, especially if coupled with porting to another OS. (I had expirience of porting quite a big project form DirectX to SGI OpenGL)
Are you kidding? Russia is far from becoming democratic, more like sinking back to dictatorship.
That is not entierly correct. You are mistaking the democracy with the rule of law. Russia is a democracy in the sence that it's ruler is chosen by majority of voters and voters were not coerced by the therat of violence. The rule of the law is another question. Russia always had a problem with it. Though for now it's not conciderably worse then during Eltsin reign.
Luckily, most of Augmented/Mixed reality packages used by researcher is OSS.They are pretty easy to use for any hobbist with web-camera and C++ expirience. Some can be esily ported to Pocket PC.
Most used are :
ARToolkit MXR Toolkit
If big developer houses like EA would stop producing PC titles indie developers step in into vacuum at once. For now inide producing mostly casual games for low-end PC and retro games. But if there will be vacuum in PC games existing indie developers would scale up and diversify their production, and a lot of game programmmers/designers wonna be would move from mainstream IT industry into games.
FBI relying on the cooperation of arbitrary(?) choosen commertial anti-virus developer and implicitly promoting them doesn't sound right. It's as if FBI subcontracted part of their work to private secutity company to break some crime ring. It should be other way around. FBI should have experts of such quality that anti-virus companies would ask them for advice.
I strongly disagree here too. I use a lot of open source programs , but I'm working with Windows and Symbian. OO, Gimp, Axiom, Maxima, gcc (major component of Symbian SDK), Firefox/Thundedbird/Sunbird etc.
And I can't switch to Linux - all my projects for Windows and Symbian (and Nokia SDK windows-only, homegrown windows port require Wine anyway). And all the times I'm telling my clients and coworkers - look how much OO mre convinient then word, how Firebird is more safe, and Gimp have nice features, and Axiom and Maxima - well, you dont have to pay several thousand $/year for Mathematic. To drop support for "minor" platform would be a huge discouragement for people to use OSS. Don't forget that some OSS project are designed for mostly non-Linux platforms. Vincent OpenGL ES implementation is oriented for PPC/Symbian and don't have much sense for desktop Linux.
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Actually fermions are "normal" particles, what we usyally calling "matter" - electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks. There two kind of particles - fermions(which represent matter) and bosons which represent interactions or fields - photons, glueons, gravitons. In the string theory they both represented by strings - open (fermions) and loops (bosons)
That is well and good, but what about latency ? 3G have abysmall latency, one of the reason customers not very fond of it. Hope 4G would do better...
If those lawsuits become a common practice after some times higly exiprienced prospective employees would ask employer to add clause to non-disclosure agreement preventing employer from lawsuit in case they change a job.
Other similar techincs is hiding messages so it looks like a spam http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=hiding+me ssages+using+spam&btnG=Search
I've even read an article (can't find link right now) analizing some samples of the actual spam and concluding that they in fact used as an encripted communication medium by spam originators.
In conclusion, the truths of penguin life are cute, safe, even rather interesting, but NOT important. Truth in the eye of beholder. Considering anti-intellectualism of the modern western society, anty-scientific mood, especially in the US, the sublime message of such highly emotional documentary considerably more important then arguably crude and biased political pamphlets such as Moor's Farenheit.
First as was already mentioned in other post, for now native windows OpenGL don't use hardware at all, it's pure software and 1.1 to boot. But no one use it anyway, all Videocard manufacturer provide OpenGL driver and GL.h headers for their card. So situation defenetly will not be worse.
Where they got this wild 50% ?. IMO this number blown form the thin air. The wrapping OpenGL to DirectX is very simple, both API have similar functonality, the only diference go with videomemory managment. But OpenGL have no decent expilicit videomemory mangment anyway, so you may have OpenGL more slow then DirectX, but not wrapper OpenGL considerably more slow then native OpenGL driver.
This cargo vehicle look very similar to russian Energiya rocket (discontinued due to lack of money) and have the same carry capacity - 100 metric tonn. Wondering if there is connection here. Crew vehicle look similar to Zenit rocket - heir of the Energiya program.
Add a camera to it and I'm sold. Really, Photo browser without camera kind of useless. Camera would make it perfect mobile augmented reality platform
Looks like list auther is not very well versed in PC gaming. A lot of old/mediocre games in the list but not best free or free open sourced games like
wesnoth
Steel Panthers:World At War
Steel Panthers:Main Battle Tank
FreeCiv
There is Symbian OS API for address book and such. Adress book is a user application. There should not be API for it in the OS, micro-kernel or not.
Luckily, most of Augmented/Mixed reality packages used by researcher is OSS.They are pretty easy to use for any hobbist with web-camera and C++ expirience. Some can be esily ported to Pocket PC.
Most used are :
ARToolkit
MXR Toolkit
If big developer houses like EA would stop producing PC titles indie developers step in into vacuum at once. For now inide producing mostly casual games for low-end PC and retro games. But if there will be vacuum in PC games existing indie developers would scale up and diversify their production, and a lot of game programmmers/designers wonna be would move from mainstream IT industry into games.
FBI relying on the cooperation of arbitrary(?) choosen commertial anti-virus developer and implicitly promoting them doesn't sound right. It's as if FBI subcontracted part of their work to private secutity company to break some crime ring. It should be other way around. FBI should have experts of such quality that anti-virus companies would ask them for advice.
I strongly disagree here too. I use a lot of open source programs , but I'm working with Windows and Symbian. OO, Gimp, Axiom, Maxima, gcc (major component of Symbian SDK), Firefox/Thundedbird/Sunbird etc.
And I can't switch to Linux - all my projects for Windows and Symbian (and Nokia SDK windows-only, homegrown windows port require Wine anyway). And all the times I'm telling my clients and coworkers - look how much OO mre convinient then word, how Firebird is more safe, and Gimp have nice features, and Axiom and Maxima - well, you dont have to pay several thousand $/year for Mathematic. To drop support for "minor" platform would be a huge discouragement for people to use OSS. Don't forget that some OSS project are designed for mostly non-Linux platforms. Vincent OpenGL ES implementation is oriented for PPC/Symbian and don't have much sense for desktop Linux.