C'mon, EWAdams. You are really only person here who didn't noticed this "scientist" is damn hot chick? Why is it bad? If there was Usain Bolt baking solar cells instead of her, would it be also not correct to mention this guy is scientist *and* very fast, I mean "lets just keep on subject, his above-average physical abilities are not limitation of any kind in science and we should never mention it in 21. century!"
my parents have old 512MB Duron computer for Web/Mail/Skype and Ubuntu (Gnome) runs there nicely, including Compiz. Actually, each new version of Ubuntu seems better and smoother on this computer. I thought this PC will be temporary solution but we have no reason whatsoever to buy new one in foreseeable future.
Actually, I noticed exactly the same thing. There were 2 guys sitting on our *linux* news-server day and night and waiting for any article on, specifically, eee or OpenOffice. As soon as there was one, they immediately started stupid trolls on how windows rules (sadly, no rating system on that site) so I asked them: Are you guys professional trolls? I mean, PR agencies could easily be involved in this, so I am asking. They didn't answer and I learned they always quit discussion (trolling) after this little question. I wonder why, they could lie they really believe in what they are saying.
wag-the-dog? Oh pleaaaase, there are tens of thousands Albanian civilians at Kosovo right now alive instead of being dead and millions living at home instead of refugee camp in Albania and Macedonia. Comparing to this, who cares about one building of Chinese embassy? Clinton/Albright had no options, after they SAW what Serbian forces had done previously in sites such as Srebrenica/Bosnia, Sarajevo/Bosnia, Vukovar/Croatia,... , in the face of inept European Union politicians. They warned Serbian forces not to do same in Kosovo, Serbian forces responded by killing lots of civilians at Racak/Kosovo, secretly burying bodies into mass grave (one of many they used during these wars). And that was it, check these events from any reliable sources before accusing anyone for wag-the-dog campaign.
Idea of linear progression of Science in time is not what I believe in. Our view is distorted by living, for the most part, in 20th century, when scientists found huge unexplored land, land of electricity (home equipment, computers) and advanced chemistry (oil-related products). Lets look on CPU, the best product mankind invented since sliced bread and perhaps most advanced one. 10 years back it seemed sky is limit for CPU clock and therefore speed. Now we know its not easy to go much above 5 GHz in consumer-grade generic CPU, even if you employ some of the best scientists and engineers around the globe. Yes, 500 years from now there certainly will exist 10 GHz CPUs, but will it be much faster than that? What if basic laws of physics (that limits current CPU development going beyond 5 GHz) simply *cannot* be avoided? Add to it problems of many chemical elements being exhausted 100 (let alone thousands) years from now, more rather then less expensive energy (pushes consumer-CPU frequencies down), inability of programmers to utilize massive multi-core designs for general applications, possibility of global-scale nuclear wars that might bring our development back by centuries, possibility of global-scale dictatorship or economical crisis (think overcrowded planet with 300 billions of people) that brings science to halt, unknown development of average IQ on 1000s-years scale. Well, I don't think Power 6 will look like cave-painting even 10,000 years from now. Maybe it will look like Arabic numbering system: we are happy they invented it back-then so that we can use it now.
This is where Java shines. In C++, you can use platform-independent frameworks, but still you need for each and every platform to setup (possibly virtual) machine with compilation build-chain, installation process, and you better test if final result really works or some library is missing. Assuming you don't use 64-bit version of each platform, which doubles maintenance/QA effort. After all this you just *hope* you don't recieve that "Your app regularly crash on my FreeBSD x.y.z !" e-mail. For big projects like KDE/KOffice obviously this is problem, hence delay of KOffice Windows version, for small development team it is *huge* problem. This is why I really love Java, I almost forgot all STL incompatibility issues and C++ compiler nuances. Its not that Java program cannot behave different on various platforms, its that I encountered it once for last 3 years, and its fixed already in Java 6.
perhaps every person in the world sometimes has some (or all) of: unwillingness to forgive someone something they've done long time ago; unwillingness to accept the current state of something over a longer period of time; perceived loneliness , so that one (even if true) would not help much.
if any country other than yours gets an early monopoly on AI, you can bet they are going to use it to kick your country's ass. I see this line of thinking very dangerous. Many European countries, including one I live in, are certainly able to obtain nuclear weapons, but simply refuse to do so. So, what if "bad guys" (say, terrorists) activate nuclear bomb in here? First, society is reasonably certain our military is not *humiliating* civilians in other countries by randomly killing (especially children) or torturing people. That, we think, makes us reasonably safe from this kind of desperate retaliations. Second, If it happens anyway, what you can achieve by nuking (or sending AI killing-robots) "their" cities? Let alone fact that none city is "terrorist capital" you can target. Kill more civilians - create new potential desperate people ready for revenge. And third, how super-advanced nuclear-capable military secured USA against this kind of threats? If this kind of attack ever happens, I think it is 100 times more likely it will be in USA then any other country, no metter how perfect AI robots military builds. Its all about motivation and agony. If I was head of US army (which is President), I would try to re-think *image* USA has in the world, actual methods army is applying to achieve its goals in poor countries and how this actions can backfire later. Terrorism actually levels playground between huge highly sophisticated army and organisation of few individuals. Trying to win this game by pushing more in WWII-style heavy army bombing residential areas, with AI robotic or ordinary soldiers is plain stupid. Best way to win against this kind of threats is to cut supply of people willing to join this kind of organisations.
I think its more like any team coached by Jose Mourinho wins, no metter if it is blue, green or naked. I mean ManU, Liverpool and Arsenal (all red) looked very angry all the time, but his *blue* team won everything, every time.
Providers of pay-per-GB-transferred internet exists since forever, at least here in Europe and especially for mobile access. It was never popular among users and never will be, because people don't like to think about amount of data transferred all the time. Plus, there are programs like Skype and Windows malware that transfer data all the time when computer is on. However, 40GB cap sounds much more reasonable then anything I saw here...
You could do it in software, render a hemicube in the buffer, use a pixel shader to map the appropriate pixels onto the circle, done. Except that to get to 'done', you have to go through some very expensive (in terms of performance drop) steps. Not really, this transformation can be done easily by lookup table where each pixel of distorted destination bitmap is mapped to one pixel in the source (undistorted) bitmap. Remember Second Reality Demo and bald guy? It worked smoothly on 486 (AFAIK).
No need for CLI in Windows, if you click "Hardware Settings", there is huge button flashing in many colours, saying "sc config intelppm start= disabled", just press it!
- I guess his primary objective will be to ban Atari ST computers.
- I am glad for Fairlight but did Northstar made it to goverment already?
- If he can program all Amiga specialized chips in his demos, he can run any city in the world easily.
- I will vote him only if he promise free copy of Photoshop for all, with license key generator.
- For whatever reason, his speech always ends with "Greetings to" section.
As long as they call all non-Chinese media "Western Media" they clearly cannot seriously criticize it in any meaningful way. I mean, Fox News, Slashdot, BBC, FAZ and Corriere della Sera are all part of same group of anti-Chinese conspiracy? With that argument, dear Chinese blogging friends, you are becoming pretty laughable.
Some years ago I had many binary proprietary blobs on my computer: SUN Java browser plugin (now OSS), Adobe Acrobat (don't need it any more, OSS alternatives are equal now), nVidia driver (still needed but solution is on the way -> looking forward to switch to ATI as soon as GPL drivers get there), MS media codecs (don't need it any more, Flash ate MS' streaming video pie). Now, only Flash player remains that I don't see replacement in OSS world in foreseeable future. Add to it security concerns, 64-bit version and it clearly becomes major PITA of Linux desktop users. Doesn't look it will change any time soon.
God knows I installed on that notebook each and every Anti-Spyware, Antivirus, Anti-everything in order to get rid of it. I traveled each and every "advisory" site with my HijackThis logs, removed numerous keys from registry. Still, every now and then goddamn popup window with site "pc-on-internet.com" appears. I spent altogether perhaps 3 working days trying to remove stupid thing, there is lot of data and SW installed so I am trying to avoid re-installation. Now I am in sitting-in-the-corner-and-crying phase.
Don't know about USA, but here in Europe Christians killed all male civilians (including young boys, all unarmed) in city of Srebrenica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_genocide), Bosnia, in 1994 only because civilians were - guess what - Muslims. It happened thanks to namely UN-appointed Holland troopers let Serbian terrorists go to city they were supposed to protect. UN declared it to be a genocide, first in Europe since WWII.
As Intel couldn't compete with ATI/nVidia on 3D rendering performance, they simply redefined rules of the game. Now they seem ahead of everyone else in Real Time Raytraycing, at least based on publicly presented papers. Now, they need to integrate this into some bigger picture of "new gaming platform". If they manage to integrate this graphics with Java JVM in coherent way, so that developers can easier utilize multiple cores in games and be able to write games once, run on all platforms/future consoles as a bonus. That would be big step towards letting developers focus towards gameplay and not on DirectX/OpenGL/PS3/... API generations, extension nuances, tricks for simulating shades, optimizing polygon count in big scenes,... ray-tracing is making all this simple without requiring effort on developer's side. Yes, I know Java is some percents slower then C++, but in Java it is so much easier to utilize multiple-cores (especially when it comes to debugging) that I am sure performance will be gained, not lost on modern CPUs.
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C'mon, EWAdams. You are really only person here who didn't noticed this "scientist" is damn hot chick? Why is it bad? If there was Usain Bolt baking solar cells instead of her, would it be also not correct to mention this guy is scientist *and* very fast, I mean "lets just keep on subject, his above-average physical abilities are not limitation of any kind in science and we should never mention it in 21. century!"
my parents have old 512MB Duron computer for Web/Mail/Skype and Ubuntu (Gnome) runs there nicely, including Compiz. Actually, each new version of Ubuntu seems better and smoother on this computer. I thought this PC will be temporary solution but we have no reason whatsoever to buy new one in foreseeable future.
Actually, I noticed exactly the same thing. There were 2 guys sitting on our *linux* news-server day and night and waiting for any article on, specifically, eee or OpenOffice. As soon as there was one, they immediately started stupid trolls on how windows rules (sadly, no rating system on that site) so I asked them: Are you guys professional trolls? I mean, PR agencies could easily be involved in this, so I am asking. They didn't answer and I learned they always quit discussion (trolling) after this little question. I wonder why, they could lie they really believe in what they are saying.
wag-the-dog? Oh pleaaaase, there are tens of thousands Albanian civilians at Kosovo right now alive instead of being dead and millions living at home instead of refugee camp in Albania and Macedonia. Comparing to this, who cares about one building of Chinese embassy? Clinton/Albright had no options, after they SAW what Serbian forces had done previously in sites such as Srebrenica/Bosnia, Sarajevo/Bosnia, Vukovar/Croatia, ... , in the face of inept European Union politicians. They warned Serbian forces not to do same in Kosovo, Serbian forces responded by killing lots of civilians at Racak/Kosovo, secretly burying bodies into mass grave (one of many they used during these wars). And that was it, check these events from any reliable sources before accusing anyone for wag-the-dog campaign.
... but for TV audience around the Globe, image was different, they used CG to convert BSOD into neato Compiz Cube animations.
The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking
They should yell to that machine: "Will the real Higgs boson please stand up?"
Idea of linear progression of Science in time is not what I believe in. Our view is distorted by living, for the most part, in 20th century, when scientists found huge unexplored land, land of electricity (home equipment, computers) and advanced chemistry (oil-related products). Lets look on CPU, the best product mankind invented since sliced bread and perhaps most advanced one. 10 years back it seemed sky is limit for CPU clock and therefore speed. Now we know its not easy to go much above 5 GHz in consumer-grade generic CPU, even if you employ some of the best scientists and engineers around the globe. Yes, 500 years from now there certainly will exist 10 GHz CPUs, but will it be much faster than that? What if basic laws of physics (that limits current CPU development going beyond 5 GHz) simply *cannot* be avoided? Add to it problems of many chemical elements being exhausted 100 (let alone thousands) years from now, more rather then less expensive energy (pushes consumer-CPU frequencies down), inability of programmers to utilize massive multi-core designs for general applications, possibility of global-scale nuclear wars that might bring our development back by centuries, possibility of global-scale dictatorship or economical crisis (think overcrowded planet with 300 billions of people) that brings science to halt, unknown development of average IQ on 1000s-years scale. Well, I don't think Power 6 will look like cave-painting even 10,000 years from now. Maybe it will look like Arabic numbering system: we are happy they invented it back-then so that we can use it now.
This is where Java shines. In C++, you can use platform-independent frameworks, but still you need for each and every platform to setup (possibly virtual) machine with compilation build-chain, installation process, and you better test if final result really works or some library is missing. Assuming you don't use 64-bit version of each platform, which doubles maintenance/QA effort. After all this you just *hope* you don't recieve that "Your app regularly crash on my FreeBSD x.y.z !" e-mail. For big projects like KDE/KOffice obviously this is problem, hence delay of KOffice Windows version, for small development team it is *huge* problem. This is why I really love Java, I almost forgot all STL incompatibility issues and C++ compiler nuances. Its not that Java program cannot behave different on various platforms, its that I encountered it once for last 3 years, and its fixed already in Java 6.
perhaps every person in the world sometimes has some (or all) of: unwillingness to forgive someone something they've done long time ago; unwillingness to accept the current state of something over a longer period of time; perceived loneliness , so that one (even if true) would not help much.
if any country other than yours gets an early monopoly on AI, you can bet they are going to use it to kick your country's ass.
I see this line of thinking very dangerous. Many European countries, including one I live in, are certainly able to obtain nuclear weapons, but simply refuse to do so. So, what if "bad guys" (say, terrorists) activate nuclear bomb in here? First, society is reasonably certain our military is not *humiliating* civilians in other countries by randomly killing (especially children) or torturing people. That, we think, makes us reasonably safe from this kind of desperate retaliations. Second, If it happens anyway, what you can achieve by nuking (or sending AI killing-robots) "their" cities? Let alone fact that none city is "terrorist capital" you can target. Kill more civilians - create new potential desperate people ready for revenge. And third, how super-advanced nuclear-capable military secured USA against this kind of threats? If this kind of attack ever happens, I think it is 100 times more likely it will be in USA then any other country, no metter how perfect AI robots military builds. Its all about motivation and agony. If I was head of US army (which is President), I would try to re-think *image* USA has in the world, actual methods army is applying to achieve its goals in poor countries and how this actions can backfire later. Terrorism actually levels playground between huge highly sophisticated army and organisation of few individuals. Trying to win this game by pushing more in WWII-style heavy army bombing residential areas, with AI robotic or ordinary soldiers is plain stupid. Best way to win against this kind of threats is to cut supply of people willing to join this kind of organisations.
I have Munch on my wall. Very relaxing and inspiring when you are behind schedule.
I think its more like any team coached by Jose Mourinho wins, no metter if it is blue, green or naked. I mean ManU, Liverpool and Arsenal (all red) looked very angry all the time, but his *blue* team won everything, every time.
designed to run on multiple platforms.
Finally, pass a link dude, I already gave up looking for Java version.
Providers of pay-per-GB-transferred internet exists since forever, at least here in Europe and especially for mobile access. It was never popular among users and never will be, because people don't like to think about amount of data transferred all the time. Plus, there are programs like Skype and Windows malware that transfer data all the time when computer is on. However, 40GB cap sounds much more reasonable then anything I saw here ...
Actually, this site exists for that specific reason.
No need for CLI in Windows, if you click "Hardware Settings", there is huge button flashing in many colours, saying "sc config intelppm start= disabled", just press it!
- I guess his primary objective will be to ban Atari ST computers.
- I am glad for Fairlight but did Northstar made it to goverment already?
- If he can program all Amiga specialized chips in his demos, he can run any city in the world easily.
- I will vote him only if he promise free copy of Photoshop for all, with license key generator.
- For whatever reason, his speech always ends with "Greetings to" section.
As long as they call all non-Chinese media "Western Media" they clearly cannot seriously criticize it in any meaningful way. I mean, Fox News, Slashdot, BBC, FAZ and Corriere della Sera are all part of same group of anti-Chinese conspiracy? With that argument, dear Chinese blogging friends, you are becoming pretty laughable.
Some years ago I had many binary proprietary blobs on my computer: SUN Java browser plugin (now OSS), Adobe Acrobat (don't need it any more, OSS alternatives are equal now), nVidia driver (still needed but solution is on the way -> looking forward to switch to ATI as soon as GPL drivers get there), MS media codecs (don't need it any more, Flash ate MS' streaming video pie). Now, only Flash player remains that I don't see replacement in OSS world in foreseeable future. Add to it security concerns, 64-bit version and it clearly becomes major PITA of Linux desktop users. Doesn't look it will change any time soon.
God knows I installed on that notebook each and every Anti-Spyware, Antivirus, Anti-everything in order to get rid of it. I traveled each and every "advisory" site with my HijackThis logs, removed numerous keys from registry. Still, every now and then goddamn popup window with site "pc-on-internet.com" appears. I spent altogether perhaps 3 working days trying to remove stupid thing, there is lot of data and SW installed so I am trying to avoid re-installation. Now I am in sitting-in-the-corner-and-crying phase.
Format name itself is cheating and (deliberately) confusing, to begin with.
Maybe MS could contribute some developers to Nouveau project and then insert hooks into it for their specific kernel?
Don't know about USA, but here in Europe Christians killed all male civilians (including young boys, all unarmed) in city of Srebrenica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_genocide), Bosnia, in 1994 only because civilians were - guess what - Muslims. It happened thanks to namely UN-appointed Holland troopers let Serbian terrorists go to city they were supposed to protect. UN declared it to be a genocide, first in Europe since WWII.
As Intel couldn't compete with ATI/nVidia on 3D rendering performance, they simply redefined rules of the game. Now they seem ahead of everyone else in Real Time Raytraycing, at least based on publicly presented papers. Now, they need to integrate this into some bigger picture of "new gaming platform". If they manage to integrate this graphics with Java JVM in coherent way, so that developers can easier utilize multiple cores in games and be able to write games once, run on all platforms/future consoles as a bonus. That would be big step towards letting developers focus towards gameplay and not on DirectX/OpenGL/PS3/... API generations, extension nuances, tricks for simulating shades, optimizing polygon count in big scenes, ... ray-tracing is making all this simple without requiring effort on developer's side. Yes, I know Java is some percents slower then C++, but in Java it is so much easier to utilize multiple-cores (especially when it comes to debugging) that I am sure performance will be gained, not lost on modern CPUs.