Let's hope you didn't get one in Algorithmic Complexity:) It's not because an algorithm takes n time for m inputs, that it takes 2*n time for twice that amount (especially not when it comes to indexing, they usually complicate logarithmically, rather than linearily).
That was original? I don't know for sure but I thought the Search function on the top-right (with different places to search in) was invented by the Firefox designers. But, my only point was that everything is blatantly stolen from something else, in the browser-world, it's nothing to throw at MS now.. I still wonder about that menu-bar..sheesh.
..since Safari (2.0) 'stole' just as much from Firefox' layout as IE. I wonder why so many complain about it. Either way, it seems like their RSS engine is still lagging behind in terms of functionality; there doesn't seem to be an option to make each synopsis shorter/longer, for instance. Maybe in the full version there will be though..
And I wonder where the hell the menubar is located in those pictures.. If this is how Longhorn going to look (has it any relevance to Longhorn's GUI style?), I'm severely worried (/excited/bemused) by the incompetence of MS' staff. I suppose there *is* an end to everything..
I for one would like to see a very myhtical movie about the origins of the Jedi/Siths, and The Force. It shouldn't really be tied in to any characters we know...and it definitely shouldn't be directed by Lucas.
My opinion on th emovie is that it was an unbelievable mess, with no strong scenes whatsoever. I was extremely disappointed by it.
What about making a big "bee-hive" of millions of tiny cells of this? If you'd connect them with microscopically small grooves, it'd work rather well I think for any size of shape. You'd probably get something not very different from what Snake wore in the intro movie to MGS2, which is pretty cool.
Maybe you should watch the movie first eh?, it's not a Frankenstein plot at all. In fact people here keep comparing it to "I, Robot" without having seen it for some reason, while it has nothing in common with that 'flawed creator' type of story at all. It saddens that there's so much prejudiced ignorance about this movie.
It's definitely not a Western movie! It's a lot more Eastern than GitS ever was.
A lot of the so called boring dialogue and quotes from philosophers are about the question of what happens after you die. One of the characters in the movie fears you end up in a world where everything is dark, where you're just amputed from your senses and can only experience silent darkness. This merely lines up with the robot/ghost idea, but all in all GitS2 is a lot less about robots than GitS!
I think a lot of reviewers are just prejudiced by other reviews before them and don't open their eyes sufficiently. I'm not a GitS fan at all and I thought this was a moving and deep movie, and much better than GitS. It has one or two weaker moments that keep it from perfection.
I liked it. The onyl bad things I can think of is that the plot is relatively short and there's some of those obligatory Oshii silences that feel pretentious more than intelligent. But less than I feared for, a lot less.
But there *is* some very intelligent dialogue here, something most reviews run over, I think. You really get the sense of real conversations and feelings-behind-the-eyes, much more than in real-life movies. This is something that's done much better than GitS, and I'm frustrated to see many reviewers didn't take the effort to see it that way.
You need to have seen the first though to understand crucial parts, even if they omitted the reference from the original title - it was simply called 'Innocence' in Japan. All in all, I was very impressed by the overall intelligence, it doesn't underestimate its viewers. And I was never bored.
I didn't mean to bash Yoper by the way; like someone else said here, 'it's all linux, it's all good'.
The thing is I *like* tweaking my OS, it's like tuning your car, or washing it and then admiring its new shine. And people complain about Gentoo's installation, while it's brilliant in my opinion! You can use the tools of a mini-distro to partition your drives with fdisk etc, and you just see your own kernel building; it makes much more sense than another non-standard installation interface that does everything behind a progress bar! And portage is the most futuristic thing to hit the open-source world, in my opinion. Although I don't always use it. (which doesn't pose a problem either)
I just thought the 'benchmark' was completely misinforming and showed ignorance - or eagerness - from the author. I would like to see these optimized binary ideas implemented in other easy distros like Mandrake though.
"The boot time is a tricky one to measure, but if you clock the time taken to reach a login prompt, Gentoo wins but not buy much, about a 7 second difference in my test. But once you go to starting X, Yoper leaps ahead and can have me browsing the web, editing an office doc, and chatting in the IRC before Gentoo got me into a GUI."
I'm not sure what this person is talking about here. Is he talking about KDE again? Well, I use fluxbox and it takes under 2 seconds to get into my X system after typing "xinit". (most of which goes to driving my nVidia card)
I run Gentoo and I don't see where the 'competition' lies, exactly.. I'm sure you can make Gentoo's KDE as 'fast' as Yope's since it can do all those things Yope does with gcc, when you emerge the KDE package. I feel this article misinformed some people really, this distro looks pretty weak in my opinion.
If you hate that about Python, try Ruby. I went berserk for Ruby first, in much the same as people here for Python..I think my first script in it was an irc quiz bot. But for more advanced things than simple parsers, I like Python better. It's also faster and has a lot more support in the form of wrappers for other libraries. I pretty much gave up on Ruby now, although it's a pretty language. I'm quite sure you can do the things at the end of chapter 17 in Ruby too though, they're very similar in that respect.
Not to mention the fact that, even for lightspeed fast waves, it'd take several millions of years to get anything back of an area sufficiently large enough to not have a ridiculous low probability of containing anything that could sense these messages. (although I geuss all areas would have the same infinitesimal probability, but come on..) I once went to a SETI presentation at my university, and they never even mentioned that fact. I suppose it's something we *have* to do as humans but it's still a waste of money, imo. Unless we send something that doesn't decay at all and could survive a few billion of years.
I remember from an article (/. ?) that NASA didn't allow the sending of pictures of naked people, by the way, only their silhouets - because they were afraid of the public's reaction. I think you have the true purpose of this whole thing right there.
I'm speaking quite objectively really, and AFAIK this hasn't improved enough. If you google for complaints about 3d cards and linux you'll see:
1) People who own ATI cards and go through immense pains, to finally, not get them working properly. Nobody can help them either because the problems are always different. Some ATI cards work though, I'm not saying that, but there's always a problem like, a level in half-life with odd textures or whatever (I'm not a pc gamer). The matter remains that linux drivers aren't updated as frequently as nvidia's.
2) People who don't know how to configure their Xorg.conf file for hardware acceleration. They always get helped immediately and then post things like "thanks works great now!" 5 minutes after they told the world linux doesn't recognize their card, or s'thing.
As you can see this overlaps since you need to configure ATI cards too, and problem 2) is the 'problem' you were referring too. Honestly, I think there are by now nearly 10,000 pages available on the internet that explain you how to edit your Xorg (or XFree, same thing) config file to use hardware 3d acceleration. There is probably someone asking this to someone else every 5 minutes, averagely and a high percentage of them makes it to the internet. It comes down to deleting two lines, and adding 2 other ones, basically. nVidia has a perfect installer too - doing 'nvidia-install --update' actually automatically updates your driver.
Btw, if you're using Mandrake you can't possibly have any problems; Gentoo can require some more manual things when it comes to GL libraries but really, nothing illogical.. But Mandrake is prepared for this kind of stuff, undoubtly.
If I were you I'd go for a nVidia card to be on the safe side, the high-end cards are better than ATI's current top models anyway. I always get an "Intel" feeling with nVidia though, as opposed to ATI being more the "amd" counterpart, but I guess that's just a false impression induced by the shininess nVidia has - it's a very open company apparently with good multi-platform support. (although perhaps they should've opened up their drivers but that discussion's been here before, with valid counter-arguments) Eh, I don't work for nVidia btw.. Not yet:)
The only reason I don't like ATI is because I program silly openGL projects - that usually start as immensely ambitious games - on Linux (and I'm definitely planning on running Linux on the G5) in my free time, and ATI isn't very linux-friendly when it comes to updating their drivers, and extensions. To say the least really, it's getting worse all the time. nVidia is very linux-friendly though.
Well you're right, they cut severely on those points and the high-end model is fairly crippled now that I look at it. Perhaps that card is the only one that could work in such a small space.. Glad they stuck with nVidia and not the cheaper ATI though, that'd have pissed me off way more.
I don't mind an 80Gb internal HD myself.
I'm still getting one next week, it's perfect for me:)
I agree they should have put 512 straight into the two high-end models, but adding 256 extra for 80 (and probably less $) is only a click away.
I'm not sure how anyone could object to the price of this thing. I'd be tempted to say this is the most powerful computer you can buy for that money!, but I have a lot of experience with building x86's and using macs, while most people don't, and then they just call you silly. But comparing WinXP machiens with MacOSX machines is just wrong in all aspects, anyone who has worked with a previous generation iMac knows that, they're incomparably more stable. I guess the nvidia card is a bit weird, but if you want a game mac, you should get a desktop G5 and a crt screen anyway.
This is so extreme it wanders off the topic of your post, but sometimes when I'm at my parents' house I do quite intensive photoshop (v. 6.0) work on a 110Mhz PPC 7500. And honestly, it still runs acceptably, after 10 years.
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Because scanning the files takes less time than actually indexing them. :)
Let's hope you didn't get one in Algorithmic Complexity :)
It's not because an algorithm takes n time for m inputs, that it takes 2*n time for twice that amount (especially not when it comes to indexing, they usually complicate logarithmically, rather than linearily).
That was original? I don't know for sure but I thought the Search function on the top-right (with different places to search in) was invented by the Firefox designers. But, my only point was that everything is blatantly stolen from something else, in the browser-world, it's nothing to throw at MS now..
I still wonder about that menu-bar..sheesh.
..since Safari (2.0) 'stole' just as much from Firefox' layout as IE. I wonder why so many complain about it.
Either way, it seems like their RSS engine is still lagging behind in terms of functionality; there doesn't seem to be an option to make each synopsis shorter/longer, for instance. Maybe in the full version there will be though..
And I wonder where the hell the menubar is located in those pictures.. If this is how Longhorn going to look (has it any relevance to Longhorn's GUI style?), I'm severely worried (/excited/bemused) by the incompetence of MS' staff.
I suppose there *is* an end to everything..
No it's not; that's Natalie Portman.
I for one would like to see a very myhtical movie about the origins of the Jedi/Siths, and The Force. It shouldn't really be tied in to any characters we know...and it definitely shouldn't be directed by Lucas. My opinion on th emovie is that it was an unbelievable mess, with no strong scenes whatsoever. I was extremely disappointed by it.
The problem is they only become illegal because they're being shared..
Because it's going to retail for 360$
What about making a big "bee-hive" of millions of tiny cells of this? If you'd connect them with microscopically small grooves, it'd work rather well I think for any size of shape.
You'd probably get something not very different from what Snake wore in the intro movie to MGS2, which is pretty cool.
I'm sure you mean 'on top of' IP. The IP protocol just doesn't contain much, apart from some error coding.. The same could be said about UDP.
Nicole Kidman is born in Hawaii, by the way.
Chances are bigger you'll release a worm that will destroy every windows machine on the planet.
Maybe you should watch the movie first eh?, it's not a Frankenstein plot at all.
In fact people here keep comparing it to "I, Robot" without having seen it for some reason, while it has nothing in common with that 'flawed creator' type of story at all.
It saddens that there's so much prejudiced ignorance about this movie.
It's definitely not a Western movie! It's a lot more Eastern than GitS ever was.
A lot of the so called boring dialogue and quotes from philosophers are about the question of what happens after you die. One of the characters in the movie fears you end up in a world where everything is dark, where you're just amputed from your senses and can only experience silent darkness. This merely lines up with the robot/ghost idea, but all in all GitS2 is a lot less about robots than GitS!
I think a lot of reviewers are just prejudiced by other reviews before them and don't open their eyes sufficiently. I'm not a GitS fan at all and I thought this was a moving and deep movie, and much better than GitS. It has one or two weaker moments that keep it from perfection.
I liked it. The onyl bad things I can think of is that the plot is relatively short and there's some of those obligatory Oshii silences that feel pretentious more than intelligent. But less than I feared for, a lot less.
But there *is* some very intelligent dialogue here, something most reviews run over, I think. You really get the sense of real conversations and feelings-behind-the-eyes, much more than in real-life movies.
This is something that's done much better than GitS, and I'm frustrated to see many reviewers didn't take the effort to see it that way.
You need to have seen the first though to understand crucial parts, even if they omitted the reference from the original title - it was simply called 'Innocence' in Japan.
All in all, I was very impressed by the overall intelligence, it doesn't underestimate its viewers. And I was never bored.
I didn't mean to bash Yoper by the way; like someone else said here, 'it's all linux, it's all good'.
The thing is I *like* tweaking my OS, it's like tuning your car, or washing it and then admiring its new shine. And people complain about Gentoo's installation, while it's brilliant in my opinion! You can use the tools of a mini-distro to partition your drives with fdisk etc, and you just see your own kernel building; it makes much more sense than another non-standard installation interface that does everything behind a progress bar! And portage is the most futuristic thing to hit the open-source world, in my opinion. Although I don't always use it. (which doesn't pose a problem either)
I just thought the 'benchmark' was completely misinforming and showed ignorance - or eagerness - from the author. I would like to see these optimized binary ideas implemented in other easy distros like Mandrake though.
"The boot time is a tricky one to measure, but if you clock the time taken to reach a login prompt, Gentoo wins but not buy much, about a 7 second difference in my test. But once you go to starting X, Yoper leaps ahead and can have me browsing the web, editing an office doc, and chatting in the IRC before Gentoo got me into a GUI."
I'm not sure what this person is talking about here. Is he talking about KDE again? Well, I use fluxbox and it takes under 2 seconds to get into my X system after typing "xinit". (most of which goes to driving my nVidia card)
I run Gentoo and I don't see where the 'competition' lies, exactly.. I'm sure you can make Gentoo's KDE as 'fast' as Yope's since it can do all those things Yope does with gcc, when you emerge the KDE package. I feel this article misinformed some people really, this distro looks pretty weak in my opinion.
Is BBC4 a cable station or can you listen to it with an antenna? (in Belgium, for instance) I'll be somewhere else when they start airing it.
If you hate that about Python, try Ruby.
I went berserk for Ruby first, in much the same as people here for Python..I think my first script in it was an irc quiz bot. But for more advanced things than simple parsers, I like Python better. It's also faster and has a lot more support in the form of wrappers for other libraries. I pretty much gave up on Ruby now, although it's a pretty language.
I'm quite sure you can do the things at the end of chapter 17 in Ruby too though, they're very similar in that respect.
Not to mention the fact that, even for lightspeed fast waves, it'd take several millions of years to get anything back of an area sufficiently large enough to not have a ridiculous low probability of containing anything that could sense these messages.
(although I geuss all areas would have the same infinitesimal probability, but come on..)
I once went to a SETI presentation at my university, and they never even mentioned that fact.
I suppose it's something we *have* to do as humans but it's still a waste of money, imo.
Unless we send something that doesn't decay at all and could survive a few billion of years.
I remember from an article (/. ?) that NASA didn't allow the sending of pictures of naked people, by the way, only their silhouets - because they were afraid of the public's reaction. I think you have the true purpose of this whole thing right there.
I'm speaking quite objectively really, and AFAIK this hasn't improved enough. If you google for complaints about 3d cards and linux you'll see :
:)
1) People who own ATI cards and go through immense pains, to finally, not get them working properly. Nobody can help them either because the problems are always different. Some ATI cards work though, I'm not saying that, but there's always a problem like, a level in half-life with odd textures or whatever (I'm not a pc gamer). The matter remains that linux drivers aren't updated as frequently as nvidia's.
2) People who don't know how to configure their Xorg.conf file for hardware acceleration. They always get helped immediately and then post things like "thanks works great now!" 5 minutes after they told the world linux doesn't recognize their card, or s'thing.
As you can see this overlaps since you need to configure ATI cards too, and problem 2) is the 'problem' you were referring too.
Honestly, I think there are by now nearly 10,000 pages available on the internet that explain you how to edit your Xorg (or XFree, same thing) config file to use hardware 3d acceleration. There is probably someone asking this to someone else every 5 minutes, averagely and a high percentage of them makes it to the internet.
It comes down to deleting two lines, and adding 2 other ones, basically. nVidia has a perfect installer too - doing 'nvidia-install --update' actually automatically updates your driver.
Btw, if you're using Mandrake you can't possibly have any problems; Gentoo can require some more manual things when it comes to GL libraries but really, nothing illogical.. But Mandrake is prepared for this kind of stuff, undoubtly.
If I were you I'd go for a nVidia card to be on the safe side, the high-end cards are better than ATI's current top models anyway. I always get an "Intel" feeling with nVidia though, as opposed to ATI being more the "amd" counterpart, but I guess that's just a false impression induced by the shininess nVidia has - it's a very open company apparently with good multi-platform support. (although perhaps they should've opened up their drivers but that discussion's been here before, with valid counter-arguments)
Eh, I don't work for nVidia btw.. Not yet
The only reason I don't like ATI is because I program silly openGL projects - that usually start as immensely ambitious games - on Linux (and I'm definitely planning on running Linux on the G5) in my free time, and ATI isn't very linux-friendly when it comes to updating their drivers, and extensions. To say the least really, it's getting worse all the time. nVidia is very linux-friendly though.
Well you're right, they cut severely on those points and the high-end model is fairly crippled now that I look at it. Perhaps that card is the only one that could work in such a small space.. Glad they stuck with nVidia and not the cheaper ATI though, that'd have pissed me off way more. I don't mind an 80Gb internal HD myself. I'm still getting one next week, it's perfect for me :)
I agree they should have put 512 straight into the two high-end models, but adding 256 extra for 80 (and probably less $) is only a click away.
I'm not sure how anyone could object to the price of this thing. I'd be tempted to say this is the most powerful computer you can buy for that money!, but I have a lot of experience with building x86's and using macs, while most people don't, and then they just call you silly. But comparing WinXP machiens with MacOSX machines is just wrong in all aspects, anyone who has worked with a previous generation iMac knows that, they're incomparably more stable.
I guess the nvidia card is a bit weird, but if you want a game mac, you should get a desktop G5 and a crt screen anyway.
This is so extreme it wanders off the topic of your post, but sometimes when I'm at my parents' house I do quite intensive photoshop (v. 6.0) work on a 110Mhz PPC 7500. And honestly, it still runs acceptably, after 10 years.