It seems it is not an original manufacturer
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The FragBook
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It seems this laptop is just rebranded Clevo.
Compare with clevo pictures.
Nothing new here. Clevo is a Taiwan manufacturer and have a lot of rebranded resellers in US and Europe.
I don't think proxy would help. The system will probaly work like this : customer should show ID to cafe owner, and owner should check that customer logging his ID. Random inspection to check if owners comply. Whenever user use proxy it will show on his log. Though user can use hacked browser, which can falsify log, but that could be not so easy...
They were using zero-point energy powered flying submarine Aurora-X to locate it. They also located ancient underwater nazy base destroyed by UFO crash nearby.
I never tried to learn Japanise, but I've tried to leran Chinese. Looking for character in the dictionary is a science in itself. There are special sytems for look up in the dictionary - "Four corner" and "Root", which are qute difficalt to learn. On top of it there are communist-modified characters and classic character. And prononsation with tones. In fact chines could understand more easy student speaking without tones, then student reproducing tones not perfectly...
Unlike displays we are using to watch movies and play games
However It could be quite good for low graphics, turn based puzzle/strategy games. Think of Minesweeper, soliter, chess, etc. Could be another opportunity for small/indie developers (think of low cost 2$ games), and it can also leverage Linux gaming...If it has WiFi or bluetooth it could be a viable multiplayer platform too.
This word choise resemble former "People's Democratic Republic" communist states, which could be translated approximatly as " people's people ruled people's rule"
letters SCO has sent "were designed to educate the marketplace, and we will continue to try to educate the marketplace,"
in the glorious tradition of the reeducation camps...
Re:QT's licence is BAD!
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A Taste of Qt 4
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How was this post moderated Troll ??? It is in fact very informative. I was looking for free alternative for QT (don't want pay 1500+ $ and fed up with MFC) and found them in this post. Please moderate it up.
I recently wrote a raytracer in DirectX pixel shader 2.0 It traced only 6 point, but actually produce elevated texture , effect similar to dislacment mapping but all in texture unit, without any additional vertices and tesselations. Pity my bosses did't like it because of high aliasing....
Would be about the same if we are talking about graphics. There is no noticable difference in code size for DirectX and OpenGL with appropriate driver with all extensions. Both Nvidia and ATI are shipping OpenGL drivers with all extensions realized in hardware, giving OpenGL about the same functionality as Direct3D. But there is no sound in the OpenGL. Don't know what are standart sound library for Linux...
I'd also like to be able to sync it to my Palm Calender and Address book
Is there a market for such an application if priced around 15$ ? If there is, it will be written soon (may be even by me, but I would have to buy a plam). It may be even on sale already, check handango.com (disclamer - I'm not affiliated with handango in any way for now). If there is no at least couple of thousand people ready to pay for it no one will bother with writing it commertially, though somebody could write it for himself and release for free...
There are two ways Nokia could have pulled it off. They could have either hooked up with Nintendo and sold a phone that also played Gameboy Advance games. Thus they'd have a huge library of games, and both audiences are tailored two. Or if they really wanted to compete, they should have created a standalone console that wasn't tied to the cell phone.
Both not viable alternatives. Nokia pushing Symbian OS. Switch to another OS or make an emulator with limited CPU/memory for niche product is not practical. Standalone console is not what Nokia targeting. Nokia target middle segment between hardcore and casual, people who want have handheld gaming device, but don't want carry another box.Another point is communication. The idea was online gaming through GPRS/WAP. Those games never materialize, but that is another problem (prices still too high). Overall impression of this new NGage - it's more like patched original device , not new. It should be exchanged for old for free (or with huge rebate), or original owners would feel cheated. Trouly new device should have twice bigger screen, twice faster CPU (at least 200 mHz, for now this "gaming" device have 104 mHz vs 150+ mHz of SonyEricsson P800) and, most important - Symbian 8.x OS with hardware OpenGL ES. If NGage 2 will not reach those parameters it will be another falure.
DirectX is great for PC Games - but for real scientific/commercial work it *SUCKS*.
Not exactly. I know that at least in the simulation area DirectX pretty common in the commertial software under Windows. If app intended for windows only DirectX have some advantages (mostly managing texture memory). Thogh difference not so big. Don't forget that both OpenGL and DirectX not much more then the interface to the hardware 3D.
The very nature of quantum cryptography prevents it from working without a wire, or fiber, as the case may be. It is doubtful that wireless quantum cryptography will ever exist.
Laser/maser beam should work though. So wireless probably theoretically possible in the direct line of sight.
There was a similar episode in V.Vinge _True Names_
Hacker steal several millions from a bank and transfered money to thousands accounts, thousand dollar each, himself including. He got only thousand but hide it among thousands others, making himself effectivly untraceble...
They already have flat GPRS rates in the Italy. Then it spread to the rest of the world the WiFi access should became dirt cheap. (Or everyone will use cell phone as a modem). The question is , how fast flat rate practice spread. IIRC it took seceral years until flat ISP rates became common...
That's too narrow definition of chaotic system, because Lyaponov coeefficients and strange attractors realted only to dynamical systems wich have a toplogy - that is some underlying continuity. However there is another type of object which exhibit chaotic behavior, though only in infinite areas - discrete objects like cellular automata, which have no notion of divergence, and discussed more in term of complexity
This chatic computing idea is in fact related to cellular automata. Cellular automata is a perfect example simple, completly deterministic discrete system, which behavior very difficalt and sometimes impossible to predict
suborbital - the root of all evil
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Weapons in Space
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I don't think the militraization of the space could be prevented until ballistic missiles outlawed. If ballistic missiles, including medium-range forbidden there wouldn't be exuse for space based weapon. While a lot of ballistic missiles are around space based antimissile system coud be considered a legitimate defence.
Interesting, that wireless communication was not adopted by military in WWI, but in WWII it made a critical difference. German blitzkriegs in France and Russia were possible because they embraced radio through the all chain of commands. Opposite, russian tanks (on average thechnically superior to germans) and fighters didn't have a radio in the first years of war and were massacred by german. Russians had to learn importance of the wireless communication by hard way. I don't belive in the "Internet Pearl Harbor" in the nearest decade. But in 20-30 years Gibbson-stile information warfare may be possible...
I'm wondering if fuel-cell PDA/laptops will be allowed on the airplanes...How fireproof is this staff is ?
Re:Like the UN would be any faster...
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ICANN Meets Annan
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And UN is suspectible to political pressue considerably more then ICANN. What a can of worms will open if UN will deside wich country should have wich domain name suffixes, and who shouldn't have suffixes at all. And Taiwan is not an UN member at all. What if UN start removing existing suffixes for political reasons ?
The Mach 10 is not enouth...
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X-43A Hits Mach 7
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Mach 10, projected speed to the end of the year is about 1/3 of the orbital velocity. While already in the same order of magnitude it is still a long way toward the space plane...
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It seems this laptop is just rebranded Clevo. Compare with clevo pictures. Nothing new here. Clevo is a Taiwan manufacturer and have a lot of rebranded resellers in US and Europe.
I don't think proxy would help. The system will probaly work like this : customer should show ID to cafe owner, and owner should check that customer logging his ID. Random inspection to check if owners comply. Whenever user use proxy it will show on his log. Though user can use hacked browser, which can falsify log, but that could be not so easy...
They were using zero-point energy powered flying submarine Aurora-X to locate it. They also located ancient underwater nazy base destroyed by UFO crash nearby.
I never tried to learn Japanise, but I've tried to leran Chinese. Looking for character in the dictionary is a science in itself. There are special sytems for look up in the dictionary - "Four corner" and "Root", which are qute difficalt to learn. On top of it there are communist-modified characters and classic character. And prononsation with tones. In fact chines could understand more easy student speaking without tones, then student reproducing tones not perfectly...
This word choise resemble former "People's Democratic Republic" communist states, which could be translated approximatly as " people's people ruled people's rule"
How was this post moderated Troll ??? It is in fact very informative. I was looking for free alternative for QT (don't want pay 1500+ $ and fed up with MFC) and found them in this post. Please moderate it up.
I recently wrote a raytracer in DirectX pixel shader 2.0 It traced only 6 point, but actually produce elevated texture , effect similar to dislacment mapping but all in texture unit, without any additional vertices and tesselations. Pity my bosses did't like it because of high aliasing ....
Would be about the same if we are talking about graphics. There is no noticable difference in code size for DirectX and OpenGL with appropriate driver with all extensions. Both Nvidia and ATI are shipping OpenGL drivers with all extensions realized in hardware, giving OpenGL about the same functionality as Direct3D. But there is no sound in the OpenGL. Don't know what are standart sound library for Linux...
Isn't it about the same as to make a law binding all criminals report to police upon comitting crime ?
I'd also like to be able to sync it to my Palm Calender and Address book
Is there a market for such an application if priced around 15$ ? If there is, it will be written soon (may be even by me, but I would have to buy a plam). It may be even on sale already, check handango.com (disclamer - I'm not affiliated with handango in any way for now). If there is no at least couple of thousand people ready to pay for it no one will bother with writing it commertially, though somebody could write it for himself and release for free...
There are two ways Nokia could have pulled it off. They could have either hooked up with Nintendo and sold a phone that also played Gameboy Advance games. Thus they'd have a huge library of games, and both audiences are tailored two. Or if they really wanted to compete, they should have created a standalone console that wasn't tied to the cell phone.
Both not viable alternatives. Nokia pushing Symbian OS. Switch to another OS or make an emulator with limited CPU/memory for niche product is not practical. Standalone console is not what Nokia targeting. Nokia target middle segment between hardcore and casual, people who want have handheld gaming device, but don't want carry another box.Another point is communication. The idea was online gaming through GPRS/WAP. Those games never materialize, but that is another problem (prices still too high). Overall impression of this new NGage - it's more like patched original device , not new. It should be exchanged for old for free (or with huge rebate), or original owners would feel cheated. Trouly new device should have twice bigger screen, twice faster CPU (at least 200 mHz, for now this "gaming" device have 104 mHz vs 150+ mHz of SonyEricsson P800) and, most important - Symbian 8.x OS with hardware OpenGL ES. If NGage 2 will not reach those parameters it will be another falure.
DirectX is great for PC Games - but for real scientific/commercial work it *SUCKS*. Not exactly. I know that at least in the simulation area DirectX pretty common in the commertial software under Windows. If app intended for windows only DirectX have some advantages (mostly managing texture memory). Thogh difference not so big. Don't forget that both OpenGL and DirectX not much more then the interface to the hardware 3D.
Can anyone explain me, how can Mozilla invoke IE without me expicitly permitting it, and if there are any settings for Mozilla to prevent it ?
There was a similar episode in V.Vinge _True Names_ Hacker steal several millions from a bank and transfered money to thousands accounts, thousand dollar each, himself including. He got only thousand but hide it among thousands others, making himself effectivly untraceble...
They already have flat GPRS rates in the Italy. Then it spread to the rest of the world the WiFi access should became dirt cheap. (Or everyone will use cell phone as a modem). The question is , how fast flat rate practice spread. IIRC it took seceral years until flat ISP rates became common...
That's too narrow definition of chaotic system, because Lyaponov coeefficients and strange attractors realted only to dynamical systems wich have a toplogy - that is some underlying continuity. However there is another type of object which exhibit chaotic behavior, though only in infinite areas - discrete objects like cellular automata, which have no notion of divergence, and discussed more in term of complexity This chatic computing idea is in fact related to cellular automata. Cellular automata is a perfect example simple, completly deterministic discrete system, which behavior very difficalt and sometimes impossible to predict
I don't think the militraization of the space could be prevented until ballistic missiles outlawed. If ballistic missiles, including medium-range forbidden there wouldn't be exuse for space based weapon. While a lot of ballistic missiles are around space based antimissile system coud be considered a legitimate defence.
Interesting, that wireless communication was not adopted by military in WWI, but in WWII it made a critical difference. German blitzkriegs in France and Russia were possible because they embraced radio through the all chain of commands. Opposite, russian tanks (on average thechnically superior to germans) and fighters didn't have a radio in the first years of war and were massacred by german. Russians had to learn importance of the wireless communication by hard way. I don't belive in the "Internet Pearl Harbor" in the nearest decade. But in 20-30 years Gibbson-stile information warfare may be possible...
I have suspicion that some of the Microsoft software not written but visually designed already now. Considering its quality.
I'm wondering if fuel-cell PDA/laptops will be allowed on the airplanes...How fireproof is this staff is ?
And UN is suspectible to political pressue considerably more then ICANN. What a can of worms will open if UN will deside wich country should have wich domain name suffixes, and who shouldn't have suffixes at all. And Taiwan is not an UN member at all. What if UN start removing existing suffixes for political reasons ?
Mach 10, projected speed to the end of the year is about 1/3 of the orbital velocity. While already in the same order of magnitude it is still a long way toward the space plane...