Well I for one had more OS X crashes in 2 weeks of owning a MacBook then x years with Windows XP. Maybe it is that I don't really know the OS , but I am still a bit disappointed.
Quaternions are basicly used as a trick in Computer Animation , because you can "misuse" them inorder to describe a rotation as vectors. And the good part is that you can use all the Quaternion math to manipulate them ( it's fast). Also they have no problems when the first rotation is exactly around 90( with Euler Angles it kills of 1 dimension).
But they aren't really used because it is by far simpler for the animator to use Euler Angles ( turn 40 at the X , 50 at the Y and 60 at the Z) .
You say you use Win98. Are you also of the kind that screams "WINDOWS SUCKS" at every chance they get? Because that would explain allot of the things I keep reading in \. .
..google is just a fad. I mean it has only these tiny little text ads. They will never make any money with this. It will just end when the venture capital runs out.
History repeating? Probably. I visit youtube.com everyday , and not to watch copywrited material but check out all the cool E3 vids that are out now. Or watch AskANinja . Or some other clip. Or a music video clip. Or something.
It really is amazing . I would think that simply having a video on the top page will get you 1.000.000 people watching it , and that is worth ALLOT.
I found the idea of a 100$ Notebook IDIOTIC from the start. Either make it free ( as in beer) or let it be. Even if a kid wanted to save up 100$ do you think the poor family will allow it's kids to save up 100$ to buy a computer? Are you kidding me? That 100$ are needed for the family to survive.To buy animals.To buy clothes.
And he is also right on the whole support issue too. What are the kids supposed to do with the "notebooks" if they can't connect to the internet and there in nobody to show them how to use it? These are kids that have quit school to help support their family.
This whole thing is a stupid idea from the start , by people who have no ideawhat the 3rd world needs. Gates has enough experience in the matter to express his critic.
Now mod me troll if you want.
Remember this is a beta and right now everybody is trying to use it. But it shows potential.
In 1 minute I had set everything up the way I wanted it with feeds from Slashdot , Engadget , Wired , BBC World,my Hotmail inbox and the weather prediction for tomorrow.
The search results are pretty good , I even found a user review of a product that google wasn't able to.
And to all the people saying "you can't see how far down the list of results you are": The list doesn't end. ( well atleast for a couple million search results down the line.) The results aren't divided in pages. Numbering of the results would be usefull though.
All in all I am suprised at how nice everything feels.
...Apple made a huge mistage from a marketing point of view.
First they hype the Intel Dual Core saying it is 4 times faster. OK.
Then they release the top of the line MacBooks that cost 2000$. Ok.
But here is there the trouble starts. You got people all hyped about Dual Core technology yet you only offer 2000$ machines, while in the PC market Dual Cores are starting to pop up everywhere for ALLOT less money. Example: The new Sony VAIO SZ line will launch in 10 days. A 13.3" WXGA, Dual Core , 80GB HD , 1GB RAM , "sub" notebook for 1600$ . And if you go to a normal sized notebook you can get Dual Cores at 1400$.
All the consumer is seeing now is 2 notebooks made from 2 well known companies ( Sony/ASUS/DELL , Apple) both with Intel Dual Cores but the one costs 600$ more and is lacking in some departments. So what does Apple now offer? Basicly a more expensive notebook ( because they haven't released the Intel iBook) with a different OS.
So to sum up Apple created this huge hype around Dual Core , but somehow managed to get nothing out of it. Unless they release an Intel iBook really soon , they will miss the boat completely.
Because in all honesty people have no idea what is worth donating for. This might seems a bit cruel but it is a fact. They have the right idea , just lack the interest to find out what the "world" really needs right now. People donating to Child's Play , are just people that want to do a good thing and buy something / give some money. That is great and I admire them for that. It is more then most people do.
But would they donate a GameCube to a hospital somewhere , if they knew that the same 90$ would provide fresh water for a whole village in Africa and possibly save allot of lives? Or that it would provide with enough vaccine to protect 100children from common ( in the wester world) illnesses that are ( in 2rd world countries) 50% of the time lethal?
..but I can't help but think that maybe the money should be split up and be given to other organisations aswell. For example 100.000$ to the MSF ( http://www.msf.org/ ) would SAVE allot of people from death. After a certain amount , around 200.000$ , you really need some people with experience organizing when and to whom the money should go. Dumping 500.000$ at once at an organisation that is not used to handling that kind of money isn't efficient .
Don't get me wrong I admire the PA guys for doing this , I just think that if this turns out to be such a big thing every year , they should change their "model" a bit.
in all the past OpenSource topics everybody was using OpenOffice as the example of good OpenSource use. Now is seems that " OpenOffice isn't OpenSource" , "It was closed source until x years ago" .
If OpenOffice was your girlfriend you would have been dumped by now people.
Windows is buggy? Have you even used Windows XP? I am sick and tired of people judging Windows on the bases of an out-of-the-box Windows 98 installation.
Install WinXP spend a little time configuring it and then come back here and tell be it isn't stable.
I am sorry for the flames but Windows XP IS NOT BUGGY.
How wonderful do Microsoft's products perform when they have no competitor on the horizon?
Win XP Home doesn't have a competitor in the Home PC market. Linux might put up a fight in the server market , but at home it is lightyears away.
I have been using Windows XP Pro for 5 years without a single reformat , without ANY problems and I have never seen a BSOD. And I am trying all sorts of things on this machine. I run only LiteStep , modify the services running , pretty much that is modifiable in Windows I take advantage of.
So saying that " OMG WINXP BLUES SCREENS OF DEATHZ OLOLO!!" is simply put wrong. An experienced user will be able to setup Windows XP just as good as he will be able to setup a Linux Distro.
I recently changed my CPU , Mainboard ( which includes Network ) and Graphics card. I booted Windows and without complaining it installed everything , even though not the latest drivers,and I had a fully functional system, WITHOUT A SINGLE RESTART.
When will I stop hearing this argument? Windows XP IS STABLE. Yes it might not be the ideal choice for running a server 24/7 for 6 years without a reboot , but that is not what WinXP is about.
Summary: Put the same amount of time that you put in configuring a Linux Distro , into configuring Windows and you will see that it runs equaly stable and FAST.
I am sorry if I trailed a bit of topic , but I can't stand that BSOD argument sorry.
PS: I am not saying that Windows is better. Why can't we all just get along?:)
... but you also need to keep in mind that the game costs 30Euros , that is 20 Euros LESS then normal games.
Also the reviewer seems to totaly ignore the fact that you can play the game in Co-op mode , something that is incredibly fun and I only wish more developers added coop to their game.
It's not an amazing game , but for 30Euros , you get more then what you paid for.
A yes now that you mention those I remember them. I don't live anywhere near regions where hurricanes form , so the only one I could remember where the last ones . That combined with the fact that most bad stuff are named female , I kinda jumped to conclusions.
But why did they start using the Greek Alphabet? I mean there are more then 21 names ( Rita , Katrina etc. ) so why not just continue naming them the same way?
Just adding MALE names would give you atleast 20 more easy names. Why are storm names female? I suppose it comes from the old days when only men worked as sailors , and thus named everything female.
Someone with a bit of backround in the thema can help , maybe?
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Well I for one had more OS X crashes in 2 weeks of owning a MacBook then x years with Windows XP. Maybe it is that I don't really know the OS , but I am still a bit disappointed.
Quaternions are basicly used as a trick in Computer Animation , because you can "misuse" them inorder to describe a rotation as vectors. And the good part is that you can use all the Quaternion math to manipulate them ( it's fast). Also they have no problems when the first rotation is exactly around 90( with Euler Angles it kills of 1 dimension). But they aren't really used because it is by far simpler for the animator to use Euler Angles ( turn 40 at the X , 50 at the Y and 60 at the Z) .
You say you use Win98. Are you also of the kind that screams "WINDOWS SUCKS" at every chance they get? Because that would explain allot of the things I keep reading in \. .
.. for the last 2 hours I was in class listening about FFT. I swear to god they are out to get me.
I imagine that photo-heavy sites will be more then interested in a format that halfes their bandwidth use.
..google is just a fad. I mean it has only these tiny little text ads. They will never make any money with this. It will just end when the venture capital runs out. History repeating? Probably. I visit youtube.com everyday , and not to watch copywrited material but check out all the cool E3 vids that are out now. Or watch AskANinja . Or some other clip. Or a music video clip. Or something. It really is amazing . I would think that simply having a video on the top page will get you 1.000.000 people watching it , and that is worth ALLOT.
I found the idea of a 100$ Notebook IDIOTIC from the start. Either make it free ( as in beer) or let it be. Even if a kid wanted to save up 100$ do you think the poor family will allow it's kids to save up 100$ to buy a computer? Are you kidding me? That 100$ are needed for the family to survive.To buy animals.To buy clothes. And he is also right on the whole support issue too. What are the kids supposed to do with the "notebooks" if they can't connect to the internet and there in nobody to show them how to use it? These are kids that have quit school to help support their family. This whole thing is a stupid idea from the start , by people who have no ideawhat the 3rd world needs. Gates has enough experience in the matter to express his critic. Now mod me troll if you want.
but if somebody donated 50$ for Firefox , and then it turns out that Mozilla is making lots of $$$ I would be pretty pissed.
Remember this is a beta and right now everybody is trying to use it. But it shows potential. In 1 minute I had set everything up the way I wanted it with feeds from Slashdot , Engadget , Wired , BBC World ,my Hotmail inbox and the weather prediction for tomorrow.
The search results are pretty good , I even found a user review of a product that google wasn't able to.
And to all the people saying "you can't see how far down the list of results you are": The list doesn't end. ( well atleast for a couple million search results down the line.) The results aren't divided in pages. Numbering of the results would be usefull though.
All in all I am suprised at how nice everything feels.
...Apple made a huge mistage from a marketing point of view.
First they hype the Intel Dual Core saying it is 4 times faster. OK.
Then they release the top of the line MacBooks that cost 2000$. Ok.
But here is there the trouble starts. You got people all hyped about Dual Core technology yet you only offer 2000$ machines, while in the PC market Dual Cores are starting to pop up everywhere for ALLOT less money. Example: The new Sony VAIO SZ line will launch in 10 days. A 13.3" WXGA, Dual Core , 80GB HD , 1GB RAM , "sub" notebook for 1600$ . And if you go to a normal sized notebook you can get Dual Cores at 1400$.
All the consumer is seeing now is 2 notebooks made from 2 well known companies ( Sony/ASUS/DELL , Apple) both with Intel Dual Cores but the one costs 600$ more and is lacking in some departments. So what does Apple now offer? Basicly a more expensive notebook ( because they haven't released the Intel iBook) with a different OS.
So to sum up Apple created this huge hype around Dual Core , but somehow managed to get nothing out of it. Unless they release an Intel iBook really soon , they will miss the boat completely.
So that means it is 6 times faster right? RIGHT?
Does the cluster option take so long , because it is a hub/authority search?
I am not accusing them for anything. You might not agree with me , but don't turn my words around.
Because in all honesty people have no idea what is worth donating for. This might seems a bit cruel but it is a fact. They have the right idea , just lack the interest to find out what the "world" really needs right now. People donating to Child's Play , are just people that want to do a good thing and buy something / give some money. That is great and I admire them for that. It is more then most people do. But would they donate a GameCube to a hospital somewhere , if they knew that the same 90$ would provide fresh water for a whole village in Africa and possibly save allot of lives? Or that it would provide with enough vaccine to protect 100children from common ( in the wester world) illnesses that are ( in 2rd world countries) 50% of the time lethal?
..but I can't help but think that maybe the money should be split up and be given to other organisations aswell. For example 100.000$ to the MSF ( http://www.msf.org/ ) would SAVE allot of people from death. After a certain amount , around 200.000$ , you really need some people with experience organizing when and to whom the money should go. Dumping 500.000$ at once at an organisation that is not used to handling that kind of money isn't efficient .
Don't get me wrong I admire the PA guys for doing this , I just think that if this turns out to be such a big thing every year , they should change their "model" a bit.
Anyway a big bravo to everyone involved in this!
in all the past OpenSource topics everybody was using OpenOffice as the example of good OpenSource use. Now is seems that " OpenOffice isn't OpenSource" , "It was closed source until x years ago" .
If OpenOffice was your girlfriend you would have been dumped by now people.
Windows is buggy? Have you even used Windows XP? I am sick and tired of people judging Windows on the bases of an out-of-the-box Windows 98 installation.
Install WinXP spend a little time configuring it and then come back here and tell be it isn't stable.
I am sorry for the flames but Windows XP IS NOT BUGGY.
involve Microsoft!
How wonderful do Microsoft's products perform when they have no competitor on the horizon? Win XP Home doesn't have a competitor in the Home PC market. Linux might put up a fight in the server market , but at home it is lightyears away.
I am really tired of the "No BSOD" argument.
,and I had a fully functional system, WITHOUT A SINGLE RESTART.
:)
I have been using Windows XP Pro for 5 years without a single reformat , without ANY problems and I have never seen a BSOD. And I am trying all sorts of things on this machine. I run only LiteStep , modify the services running , pretty much that is modifiable in Windows I take advantage of.
So saying that " OMG WINXP BLUES SCREENS OF DEATHZ OLOLO!!" is simply put wrong. An experienced user will be able to setup Windows XP just as good as he will be able to setup a Linux Distro.
I recently changed my CPU , Mainboard ( which includes Network ) and Graphics card. I booted Windows and without complaining it installed everything , even though not the latest drivers
When will I stop hearing this argument? Windows XP IS STABLE. Yes it might not be the ideal choice for running a server 24/7 for 6 years without a reboot , but that is not what WinXP is about.
Summary: Put the same amount of time that you put in configuring a Linux Distro , into configuring Windows and you will see that it runs equaly stable and FAST.
I am sorry if I trailed a bit of topic , but I can't stand that BSOD argument sorry.
PS: I am not saying that Windows is better. Why can't we all just get along?
..but can you stop referring to Microsoft as M$? It immerdiatly voids any argument you are trying to make.
... but you also need to keep in mind that the game costs 30Euros , that is 20 Euros LESS then normal games. Also the reviewer seems to totaly ignore the fact that you can play the game in Co-op mode , something that is incredibly fun and I only wish more developers added coop to their game. It's not an amazing game , but for 30Euros , you get more then what you paid for.
A yes now that you mention those I remember them. I don't live anywhere near regions where hurricanes form , so the only one I could remember where the last ones . That combined with the fact that most bad stuff are named female , I kinda jumped to conclusions.
But why did they start using the Greek Alphabet? I mean there are more then 21 names ( Rita , Katrina etc. ) so why not just continue naming them the same way?
Just adding MALE names would give you atleast 20 more easy names. Why are storm names female? I suppose it comes from the old days when only men worked as sailors , and thus named everything female.
Someone with a bit of backround in the thema can help , maybe?