Well, without looking up documentation (and relying on my Gentoo experience from about 4 years ago), I think he means that a Stage 3 Gentoo install (where most things come pre-compiled for you) where you re-compile the basic tools yields similar performance to beginning from an earlier stage (which takes much more work, since you're bootstrapping the system from the ground up, essentially).
Californians are spoiled. Apparently due to game companies' abuse of programmers, software engineers and programmers must be hourly employees, not exempt. If they ask me to work 80 hours a week, they're going to be paying me overtime on half of that.
Ethanol, it looks like you're trying to run that command in Cygwin, and that you don't know about the pipe operator "|". For instance, the command "cat encoded_echo" prints the file "encoded_echo" to standard out (i.e. it will show up in the terminal window), and the "|" character after it causes that text to be routed to the input of the "openssl enc -base64 -d" command (which specifies to decode the input from base64 to a byte stream and display it on standard out). "> decoded_echo" instructs the shell to send the output of the openssl command to a new file instead, named "decoded_echo".
Early in the 19th century, when experiments using electricity really were blossoming, there was a common belief that electricity was a sort of life force (or at least related to life), since a muscle would contract when shocked. While it's true that neurons use electrical charge for some portion of their communications, it's a separate thing from bringing them back to life. It's not like you could power a brain back up by running a few microvolts through it, or something. If any of the cells are still alive, you may start a flurry of communication between them. The brain is essentially a huge collection of pattern-matching "circuits", chaotically interconnected. I doubt that the communication generated would be terribly meaningful.
I think they probably have dissolved gasses in their bloodstreams, just like anything else. That's what gills are for: capturing dissolved oxygen from the water.
Those are apostrophes. Smidge's text entry isn't set to the standard setting, and Slashdot doesn't know how to interpret the character-representing numbers that Smidge has entered into their database.
I remember replaying this game, over and over and over with different characters....even just playing the beginning segments, and experimenting with things that I could do. And then cheat codes, and playing around with those (e.g. try and build the most munchkin character I could). Simple pleasures, sure, but I *was* maybe 15 when I first played this game...
Ultima was true 3d; there were ramps going up and down, bridges you could pass over and under, even a few polygonal props in the game. Doom was pseudo-3d. The maps were 2 dimensional grids, with properties assigned to each cell (elevation, textures, enemy/item locations, etc). There *was* no up or down, except for when it made decisions about if you could walk into a square. //Spent *huge* amounts of time playing both games...and still have original copies of each.
What's so hard about that? You aren't a programmer, are you? Dealing with 3d (even pseudo-3d) adds a whole new level of programming difficulty. And the parent was giving ways that Doom had better graphics than Wolfenstein, not making an apples-to-oranges comparison to a game in a completely different genre.
Doom's graphics were several steps above Wolfenstein's. Wolf didn't have textured floors and ceilings, didn't have raised and lowered sections of floor, didn't have views outside, didn't have animated textures on the ceiling/floors/walls, ran fewer sound effects at a time, and had fewer enemies and variations in the environment. Doom was *amazing* after seeing Wolfenstein.
ummmm....what? Neither of those things would be dictated by a growth of government. They're social changes that are originally dictated by law, but come to be accepted only over the long term.
vmdk is an openly documented format. The most basic form is a file with drive metadata, and a flat disk image. All of the possibilities are documented though, and open for use elsewhere. Whether VirtualBox can boot it depends more on the guest OS installed into the image than it does on the image format itself.
It always bugs me a bit when people say "Wine Is Not an Emulator". Sure, it's in the name and everything, but from a certain perspective, it *is* an emulator. Wine is a re-implementation of various Windows-based APIs. Another way to put it is that it *emulates* the behavior of those APIs. It's a compatibility layer to allow software from a different OS to run on Linux, just like a hardware emulator allows software designed for other hardware to run on your x86 machine.
CPUs and GPUs are designed to handle *very* different kinds of instructions. GPUs are meant to work with matrices that are streamed into them. CPUs are designed to take a single stream of instructions and run it efficiently. While CPU-type instructions can theoretically be run on a GPU, you aren't going to get the kind of performance that you're dreaming of. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way.
I don't think that's off topic. Parent was try to demonstrate a half-dead keyboard on a laptop....when the lines get broken, they send out all sorts of crap that becomes some very interesting output on the other end...
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Wow, and I thought *my* pastor told crappy jokes...
Well, without looking up documentation (and relying on my Gentoo experience from about 4 years ago), I think he means that a Stage 3 Gentoo install (where most things come pre-compiled for you) where you re-compile the basic tools yields similar performance to beginning from an earlier stage (which takes much more work, since you're bootstrapping the system from the ground up, essentially).
Californians are spoiled. Apparently due to game companies' abuse of programmers, software engineers and programmers must be hourly employees, not exempt. If they ask me to work 80 hours a week, they're going to be paying me overtime on half of that.
Ethanol, it looks like you're trying to run that command in Cygwin, and that you don't know about the pipe operator "|". For instance, the command "cat encoded_echo" prints the file "encoded_echo" to standard out (i.e. it will show up in the terminal window), and the "|" character after it causes that text to be routed to the input of the "openssl enc -base64 -d" command (which specifies to decode the input from base64 to a byte stream and display it on standard out). "> decoded_echo" instructs the shell to send the output of the openssl command to a new file instead, named "decoded_echo".
The Beatles were pop music...some good songs, some that I would classify as "weird crap".
Except that the healthy person has a right to live, and to keep on living as long as they can.
Early in the 19th century, when experiments using electricity really were blossoming, there was a common belief that electricity was a sort of life force (or at least related to life), since a muscle would contract when shocked. While it's true that neurons use electrical charge for some portion of their communications, it's a separate thing from bringing them back to life. It's not like you could power a brain back up by running a few microvolts through it, or something. If any of the cells are still alive, you may start a flurry of communication between them. The brain is essentially a huge collection of pattern-matching "circuits", chaotically interconnected. I doubt that the communication generated would be terribly meaningful.
13.6cm is large enough to pass a CD through. 13.6mm is closer to a chicken wire size.
I think they probably have dissolved gasses in their bloodstreams, just like anything else. That's what gills are for: capturing dissolved oxygen from the water.
That would be if everyone replaced their sets en masse, rather than the change occurring over 5 or 10 years, as is more likely.
Those are apostrophes. Smidge's text entry isn't set to the standard setting, and Slashdot doesn't know how to interpret the character-representing numbers that Smidge has entered into their database.
I remember replaying this game, over and over and over with different characters....even just playing the beginning segments, and experimenting with things that I could do. And then cheat codes, and playing around with those (e.g. try and build the most munchkin character I could). Simple pleasures, sure, but I *was* maybe 15 when I first played this game...
Ultima was true 3d; there were ramps going up and down, bridges you could pass over and under, even a few polygonal props in the game. Doom was pseudo-3d. The maps were 2 dimensional grids, with properties assigned to each cell (elevation, textures, enemy/item locations, etc). There *was* no up or down, except for when it made decisions about if you could walk into a square.
//Spent *huge* amounts of time playing both games...and still have original copies of each.
What's so hard about that? You aren't a programmer, are you? Dealing with 3d (even pseudo-3d) adds a whole new level of programming difficulty. And the parent was giving ways that Doom had better graphics than Wolfenstein, not making an apples-to-oranges comparison to a game in a completely different genre.
Doom's graphics were several steps above Wolfenstein's. Wolf didn't have textured floors and ceilings, didn't have raised and lowered sections of floor, didn't have views outside, didn't have animated textures on the ceiling/floors/walls, ran fewer sound effects at a time, and had fewer enemies and variations in the environment. Doom was *amazing* after seeing Wolfenstein.
When I first played the demos for Doom 3, I had a computer that was 3 years old, and the game still ran fine. I have no idea what your problem was.
And that quote is from about 200 years ago, when there wasn't welfare (at least not in its current, government-mandated form).
ummmm....what? Neither of those things would be dictated by a growth of government. They're social changes that are originally dictated by law, but come to be accepted only over the long term.
Depending on the school of thought to which you subscribe, your perceptions might define your reality.
vmdk is an openly documented format. The most basic form is a file with drive metadata, and a flat disk image. All of the possibilities are documented though, and open for use elsewhere. Whether VirtualBox can boot it depends more on the guest OS installed into the image than it does on the image format itself.
It always bugs me a bit when people say "Wine Is Not an Emulator". Sure, it's in the name and everything, but from a certain perspective, it *is* an emulator. Wine is a re-implementation of various Windows-based APIs. Another way to put it is that it *emulates* the behavior of those APIs. It's a compatibility layer to allow software from a different OS to run on Linux, just like a hardware emulator allows software designed for other hardware to run on your x86 machine.
CPUs and GPUs are designed to handle *very* different kinds of instructions. GPUs are meant to work with matrices that are streamed into them. CPUs are designed to take a single stream of instructions and run it efficiently. While CPU-type instructions can theoretically be run on a GPU, you aren't going to get the kind of performance that you're dreaming of. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way.
I don't think that's off topic. Parent was try to demonstrate a half-dead keyboard on a laptop....when the lines get broken, they send out all sorts of crap that becomes some very interesting output on the other end...
Dutch is rather similar to German. I speak a (somewhat) decent amount of German, and I often have no trouble reading something in Dutch.
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