My homebuilt AMD64 machine runs Ubuntu now and doesn't have any problems going to standby. This machine, with a NVidia 6800 GT was practically unusable for games (under the Vista betas), and never was able to wake up from sleeps correctly.
Under Ubuntu, it runs WoW just fine under WINE, and also recognises the sleep key on my keyboard, and actually sleeps, and wakes up correctly.
It's easy to get all crazy about Vista being bad, but I think it really means something when Ubuntu does better at running games and doing basic things like actually waking up after going to stand-by.
"FTFA: Activated Content hasn't explained exactly how it'll use the Microsoft technology, but the company's Web site promotes a very interesting service called ActiveNow. The idea: whenever a watermarked file is played on an ActiveNow-enabled device, the service could dynamically insert some sort of advertising--presumably audio, but perhaps video or text depending on the device being used."
I also use this tool to clone my macs onto external hard drives. Actually it does a file copy rather than a dd, so it's a great way to verify that all files are readable, and defrag my drives into the bargain.
There is also *nothing* like the security of knowing that you can easily recover from a disk failure to where you were within a few days. And I have had a hard drive fail (in my PB), and I did use SD to recover.
It would read a lot better if he had said 'procedural rendering'. In that case, it conveys the idea that code is used to generate what you see, rather than fixed data files.
Here's a Wikipedia linkie. And yup, you've guessed it, there's a picture of Spore.
I believe the answer would be that the stack frames live on the heap, and you have to bind in the appropriate stack frame to the code that accesses the capture variable.
The interesting paper on adding lambda/closures to C++ looks very like it maps a lambda to a function object. The key here, is that the function object cheats by being on the heap so you have access to copies of captured variables when you call the closure. Not sure how this would work if you tried to communicate between two closures using the same captured variable. It would need to be a reference in that case, so is probably not applicable to stack allocated vars in C++.
It's oddly comforting to know that my PS-Algol knowledge is still somewhat useful after all these years. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be an open source compiler for it out there. Java is way too baroque for my tastes.
I'm watching the German GP, and my CPU is tripping along at 5% or so. This is on Ubuntu on a AMD64 3500+. Still kicking ass, even as a two year old machine.
Wow, I've often thought that it would be much faster to board planes if you had little robots that could detect people loitering in the aisle and taser them in the ankle to get them to move into their row faster...
Oddly enough, for surfing Craigslist and checking the web, and finding stuff on Amazon, the iPhone is just adequate. It has replaced my 12" PB for adhoc surfing when I'm hanging out at people's houses.
Also cool for emailing stuff, looking at youtube and playing songs to people, though the inbuilt sound could be better.
Please send me a copy of Access 2.0 in which format I have quite a lot of IP stored, none of which is easily convertible to anything else.
And if you suggest using Access 2007, just forget it, I already tried, and the documenter add-on is the biggest POS ever. This is using a legally installed copy of Office 2007 on XP Pro on my wife's desktop.
I am sticking with.doc format generated by OpenOffice. Ionically I run OOo on Windows, but Office 97 on Linux. Hehe.
Or you could read one of the many iPhone articles available on the net, and simply 'fail the credit check' with ATT and go month to month on the go phone plan.
The *really* scary thing is that if there's just the *tiniest* hint that an iPod without a cell phone is lame, then everyone is going to want an iPhone, or whatever v2.0 looks like. iPhone totally *rocks*, even the battery life is great.
Yeah, I dropped by the att store in the Woodlands and they were sold out and tried to get me to 'pre-order'. I drove up to the Apple store in the Woodlands mall and picked up an 8 Gig in about 4 minutes. It kind of looks like Apple shorted att a bit on quantity, but the experience at the Apple store was awesome. Everyone looked to be having a great time, whereas the att store was deserted. Actually, there were about 20 people between 5 parallel lines at the Apple checkout, and 2 or 3 deep round the iPhone demo area.
I got mine home, and had it activated and working in about 5 minutes. The phone and browsing, and the iPod bits are all fantastic. It totally exceeds expectations, which is kinda sad, since like an iPod, all it really does is *not suck*. All the technology in the iPhone has been in place for about the last 5 years give or take.
The only glitch I have so far is that it refuses to re-authenticate correctly to my WEP wireless which drags. It'll get on, then if I turn off, I have to 'forget this network' and put the key in again. I'm hoping there will be an update that fixes this.
The only problem with that is the 'digital hole' whereby you can immediately dump the decrypted stream to a file. This is the PC equivalent of the 'analog hole'.
My dad bought one in 1994 (133MHz PI, 2GB hard drive, 64MB ram... rocked back then;). In '97ish he bought a new one and I got the hand-me-down. I put win2k on that old thing, and took it to school with me in my backpack between my textbooks (I used to ride my bike to the bus stop). Remember running MSVC++ 6 at 800x600?:D You insensitive clod, my company is still using Visual C++ 6.0 at 800x600!
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You'd need a beowulf cluster of such tiny engines to power the typical US SUV.
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I'm imagineing at least 4 of these under the hood of a Yukon Denali
You forgot one: x86 -> ARM-based iP(h)o[dn](e) Woo. The OS X iPods are coming soon.
Well at least she looks happier than this zune listener.
My homebuilt AMD64 machine runs Ubuntu now and doesn't have any problems going to standby. This machine, with a NVidia 6800 GT was practically unusable for games (under the Vista betas), and never was able to wake up from sleeps correctly.
Under Ubuntu, it runs WoW just fine under WINE, and also recognises the sleep key on my keyboard, and actually sleeps, and wakes up correctly.
It's easy to get all crazy about Vista being bad, but I think it really means something when Ubuntu does better at running games and doing basic things like actually waking up after going to stand-by.
If you're that smart, you should be able to get ahead yourself.
Kids today. Sheesh.
It's not absurd. Welcome to the article:
"FTFA:
Activated Content hasn't explained exactly how it'll use the Microsoft technology, but the company's Web site promotes a very interesting service called ActiveNow. The idea: whenever a watermarked file is played on an ActiveNow-enabled device, the service could dynamically insert some sort of advertising--presumably audio, but perhaps video or text depending on the device being used."
I also use this tool to clone my macs onto external hard drives. Actually it does a file copy rather than a dd, so it's a great way to verify that all files are readable, and defrag my drives into the bargain.
There is also *nothing* like the security of knowing that you can easily recover from a disk failure to where you were within a few days. And I have had a hard drive fail (in my PB), and I did use SD to recover.
Good luck selling this to corporate with a name like GNU/Clinic !!!!
It would read a lot better if he had said 'procedural rendering'. In that case, it conveys the idea that code is used to generate what you see, rather than fixed data files.
Here's a Wikipedia linkie. And yup, you've guessed it, there's a picture of Spore.
I believe the answer would be that the stack frames live on the heap, and you have to bind in the appropriate stack frame to the code that accesses the capture variable.
The interesting paper on adding lambda/closures to C++ looks very like it maps a lambda to a function object. The key here, is that the function object cheats by being on the heap so you have access to copies of captured variables when you call the closure. Not sure how this would work if you tried to communicate between two closures using the same captured variable. It would need to be a reference in that case, so is probably not applicable to stack allocated vars in C++.
It's oddly comforting to know that my PS-Algol knowledge is still somewhat useful after all these years. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be an open source compiler for it out there. Java is way too baroque for my tastes.
I'm watching the German GP, and my CPU is tripping along at 5% or so. This is on Ubuntu on a AMD64 3500+. Still kicking ass, even as a two year old machine.
Where do I get this ... "JavaScript" ?
Yahoo Messenger, the crappy version of MSN Messenger, and my copy of Acrobat all have ads.
Myself and my wife have largely cut out HFCS and soda.
We drink tea, milk or sugar-sweetened drink instead. Soda is also very acidic and damaging tooth enamel.
Start saving: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6832279023.html
Wow, I've often thought that it would be much faster to board planes if you had little robots that could detect people loitering in the aisle and taser them in the ankle to get them to move into their row faster...
Heheh. Zap!!
Oddly enough, for surfing Craigslist and checking the web, and finding stuff on Amazon, the iPhone is just adequate. It has replaced my 12" PB for adhoc surfing when I'm hanging out at people's houses.
Also cool for emailing stuff, looking at youtube and playing songs to people, though the inbuilt sound could be better.
I think you are overestimating the European / British cell markets.
After all, it was not the US that poured billions of $ into the coffers of crazy frog.
Please send me a copy of Access 2.0 in which format I have quite a lot of IP stored, none of which is easily convertible to anything else.
.doc format generated by OpenOffice. Ionically I run OOo on Windows, but Office 97 on Linux. Hehe.
And if you suggest using Access 2007, just forget it, I already tried, and the documenter add-on is the biggest POS ever. This is using a legally installed copy of Office 2007 on XP Pro on my wife's desktop.
I am sticking with
Bill Gates won't be able to use an iPhone in public without getting laughed at.
Oh, wait...
Or you could read one of the many iPhone articles available on the net, and simply 'fail the credit check' with ATT and go month to month on the go phone plan.
The *really* scary thing is that if there's just the *tiniest* hint that an iPod without a cell phone is lame, then everyone is going to want an iPhone, or whatever v2.0 looks like. iPhone totally *rocks*, even the battery life is great.
Yeah, I dropped by the att store in the Woodlands and they were sold out and tried to get me to 'pre-order'. I drove up to the Apple store in the Woodlands mall and picked up an 8 Gig in about 4 minutes. It kind of looks like Apple shorted att a bit on quantity, but the experience at the Apple store was awesome. Everyone looked to be having a great time, whereas the att store was deserted. Actually, there were about 20 people between 5 parallel lines at the Apple checkout, and 2 or 3 deep round the iPhone demo area.
I got mine home, and had it activated and working in about 5 minutes. The phone and browsing, and the iPod bits are all fantastic. It totally exceeds expectations, which is kinda sad, since like an iPod, all it really does is *not suck*. All the technology in the iPhone has been in place for about the last 5 years give or take.
The only glitch I have so far is that it refuses to re-authenticate correctly to my WEP wireless which drags. It'll get on, then if I turn off, I have to 'forget this network' and put the key in again. I'm hoping there will be an update that fixes this.
Netscape for Windows didn't run stably under Windows!
The only problem with that is the 'digital hole' whereby you can immediately dump the decrypted stream to a file. This is the PC equivalent of the 'analog hole'.