I think we'll see a renaissance of old-style games, once we reach the point where graphics can't be pushed any more (we're not there yet, I know). Many of the 2D games are as or more enjoyable than their 3D counterparts, and they're easier to make.
It could allow lossless movies, which would be nice. I recently was transcoding a half-hour episode and found it easier to work with a raw.y4m; 50GB's worth, at dvdish resolution (60fps though). I could easily go with at least 2.5x that both horizontally and vertically, call it 7x overall so that makes 700GB an hour - so these disks have enough space for a movie, and, as a bonus, no space for pointless "extras". Sounds like this format could be good.
Historicaly, it's always been the CPU that takes over special-purpose functions, not the other way around (at least in the Intel space).
It has indeed, and there's certainly grounds for caution, but there's a chance that this time it's different. There are different silicon processes involved in making a fast vector processor (as one needs for GPUs) compared to what one does to make a CPU, so putting them together isn't simply a matter of finding enough space in the package. Couple this with the fact that CPUs are already running out of enough space on the motherboard to get the fast link they need to main memory, and GPUs need a faster one to their memory, and suddenly combining CPU and GPU seems a downright bad idea.
Of course, in the long term the whole system's going to be a single chip, but I think it doesn't make sense to move the GPU in with the CPU until you've already moved main memory, which is still some years off. (Transmeta tried it about a decade ago, and the technology wasn't up to it; maybe it's time someone gave it another go?)
It can't be the latency; if it was the latency, the size of the images would be almost irrelevant. I mean, ask for a black and white image and get it in 21 minutes or ask for a full colour one and get it in 23.
Right. I'll bet the Serbs said the same thing about Kosovo - and now look at them. Post WW2 the population of Kosovo was about half Serbian and half Albanian Muslim. Today it's something like 97% Muslim, and more and more Serbs are forced out every day. Kosovo has gone from being a part of Serbia to being it's own mini-state which is more or less part of Albania. It's annexation through overpopulation.
There was a war there. Those have a tendency to change national boundaries.
Or look at Israel - a Jewish state which is facing the very real possibility that within a generation they may become majority Muslim. At which point they have the option of either ceasing to be a Jewish state, or ceasing to be a democracy.
Which actually goes against your point - Israel was an example of exactly what you're claiming might happen, a load of Jews moved in to the Muslim area and changed it into a Jewish state. (But again, mostly accomplished through war). So that it's reverting is a sign that this Muslim conquest wouldn't succeed.
I think the argument is that it's a specialised application and the normal OS widgets aren't really suited to it. To a certain extent I can agree with this; certainly normal buttons waste a lot of space compared to those in such programs.
Given that the interface HASNT changed much in all this time... perhaps its time for the GIVE ME MAYA FOR FREE crowd to go and write their own FOSS 3D app.
I expect this will happen eventually, and when it does it will eat Blender's lunch. But momentum exists; people will go on with a fairly bad project much longer than they should before trying to fork it or write an alternative.
Well, an attacker only knows there to be one account that is on almost every Linux box, root. If an attacker can try to login as root, they only have the password to guess.
But most distros will ship with root ssh access disabled (and there's no way to tell the difference between this and a wrong password, so even if they haven't done that this is no good unless you know it), so you end up in the same position, only with one extra password to crack to completely control their box.
I'll take the odds that the most difficult problems to diagnose are with the custom builds. The video card that has worked loose from its slot. The driver that hasn't been updated since August 2001.
Bollocks. Hardware (other than bad ram, which can happen to anyone - but a custom builder is more likely to test it) generally either fails or works, and as for drivers, you're using the manufacturer's own drivers for each piece of hardware, which in my experience are at least 3x as reliable. Who do you trust more to write a driver for (say) a VIA USB chipset, VIA or Dell?
And why should they? It works. It does precisely the job it was designed to do, and continues to do it at at least the level of ability it originally had,
What happens if it falls over tomorrow? Do they have anyone who remembers how to fix it? At some point a rewrite becomes cheaper than keeping one of the 5 living COBOL programmers on call.
Cultural heritage is nice (and I repeat - go see Brazilians they didn't lose one IOTA of ANYBODY's herritages in the process). When interracial couples marry, we generally respect each others born cultures, and expand our own with elements of one another's that we like (I speak from personal experience here). It is by itself a typical example of the fear behind racism to imagine that you cannot become more than the culture you were born into, without losing that culture.
I'm sorry but it's simply unbelievable that you wouldn't lose anything. Perhaps the children of one mixed-race pairing may be able to maintain the cultures of both their parents fully; but if they continue to mix, will their children be able to retain four complete cultures? And their grandchildren eight? No, there aren't enough hours in the day; inevitably something will be lost. Of course, one can easily argue that the benefits outweight this, but you can't pretend that nothing at all is lost.
As for your final line. Racism's exact definition must depend on what you are talking about, in some contexts it is judging a person by colour. When it comes to mixing of races the answer is simple. Anybody, who in the slightest way thinks he has any right to even FORM an opinion about who somebody else chooses to have sex with is by definition prejudicial. If that prejudice is based on race - then it is racism. If it's based on sexual orientation then it's homophobia. But no matter what it is based on - it is wrong.
No. Of course I have a right to an opinion, and there is nothing wrong in that. It only becomes racism if I start forcing my opinion on others.
Who somebody else chooses to have sex with, get married to, have babies with or any related matter has absolutely nothing to do with anybody except the consenting adults doing it. You could claim that celibacy might harm the population's growth - but it doesn't give you the right to judge or attempt to stop devout catholics from becoming nuns and priests.
Of course I have the right to take a view on it, and yes, to judge. Of course I have no right to actually interfere, but I'm 100% entitled to take, and spread, a negative view of them.
In short, I flat out disagree. You have the right to an opinion. Even a right to an opinion about who I am allowed to fuck - but you have to accept that any such opinion MUST by ipso facto BE a prejudicial one.
Well, no; I can take a view based on the results, without any prejudice attached.
Either you support the right of any consenting adults to do whatever they want to whomever they want, or you are discriminating against somebody - so even your apparently well thought out arguments remain racist - they discriminate based on race.
A mere opinion or argument cannot be racist; it's only were I to act on it that this would be so.
And while you may have a right to hold a discriminatory opinion, neither you nor any government do or should have any right to enforce such an opinion.
Well, I disagree on that. If a certain behaviour is definitely strongly harmful to society then it is the government's right and indeed duty to outlaw it. (Of course this is nowhere near being the case for mixed-race marriage; there is no evidence I know of that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. But in principle, I don't think a right to have sex with who you like is more important than the overwhelming good of society).
The arguments against it are the destruction of racial cultures and heritage - interesting and valuable traditional methods of cooking, dances, etc. may well all be lost, as culture becomes homogenised. There's also the general monoculture worry - a country with only one race (which is essentially what you get as a result - and as a side note, genetic traits don't always combine in the best way) may be a lot more vulnerable to plagues. You may well disagree with these, but to say anyone opposing complete racial mixing must be a racist is a bit of a stretch.
If you're willing to pay $300, just get a last-gen PDA. My ASUS A730 does all of that (I know it's none of this fancy "eInk" business, but the screen is really nice).
I think the "new discussion system" has a stupidly low limit on the number of comments it shows, to hide the fact that all the pointless Javascript makes the site really slow. And the "fetch more comments" link doesn't work; they probably only tested it in Firefox.
Modern systems are already having trouble fitting everything that has to go near the CPU near the CPU; ordinary system RAM still wants latency as low as you can. I don't see this happening until after we start putting main memory on the same chip as the CPU.
My guess is they've announced it because they want the botnet shut down, and are relying on someone with the altruism, nerve, and seven proxies to actually do it.
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I think we'll see a renaissance of old-style games, once we reach the point where graphics can't be pushed any more (we're not there yet, I know). Many of the 2D games are as or more enjoyable than their 3D counterparts, and they're easier to make.
It could allow lossless movies, which would be nice. I recently was transcoding a half-hour episode and found it easier to work with a raw .y4m; 50GB's worth, at dvdish resolution (60fps though). I could easily go with at least 2.5x that both horizontally and vertically, call it 7x overall so that makes 700GB an hour - so these disks have enough space for a movie, and, as a bonus, no space for pointless "extras". Sounds like this format could be good.
It has indeed, and there's certainly grounds for caution, but there's a chance that this time it's different. There are different silicon processes involved in making a fast vector processor (as one needs for GPUs) compared to what one does to make a CPU, so putting them together isn't simply a matter of finding enough space in the package. Couple this with the fact that CPUs are already running out of enough space on the motherboard to get the fast link they need to main memory, and GPUs need a faster one to their memory, and suddenly combining CPU and GPU seems a downright bad idea.
Of course, in the long term the whole system's going to be a single chip, but I think it doesn't make sense to move the GPU in with the CPU until you've already moved main memory, which is still some years off. (Transmeta tried it about a decade ago, and the technology wasn't up to it; maybe it's time someone gave it another go?)
It can't be the latency; if it was the latency, the size of the images would be almost irrelevant. I mean, ask for a black and white image and get it in 21 minutes or ask for a full colour one and get it in 23.
Now, if only I could duplicate the feat while sober.
I've got an ARM device. It's cool, but would be a lot better if I could play TA and touhou on it.
There was a war there. Those have a tendency to change national boundaries.
Or look at Israel - a Jewish state which is facing the very real possibility that within a generation they may become majority Muslim. At which point they have the option of either ceasing to be a Jewish state, or ceasing to be a democracy.
Which actually goes against your point - Israel was an example of exactly what you're claiming might happen, a load of Jews moved in to the Muslim area and changed it into a Jewish state. (But again, mostly accomplished through war). So that it's reverting is a sign that this Muslim conquest wouldn't succeed.
I think the argument is that it's a specialised application and the normal OS widgets aren't really suited to it. To a certain extent I can agree with this; certainly normal buttons waste a lot of space compared to those in such programs.
I expect this will happen eventually, and when it does it will eat Blender's lunch. But momentum exists; people will go on with a fairly bad project much longer than they should before trying to fork it or write an alternative.
/happy Krita user.
But most distros will ship with root ssh access disabled (and there's no way to tell the difference between this and a wrong password, so even if they haven't done that this is no good unless you know it), so you end up in the same position, only with one extra password to crack to completely control their box.
Yeah; are you saying such a person wouldn't have the sense to run memtest86 a bit before using the system?
All of NT was written by the DEC team, no? And it's the same (mostly very good) kernel code that's running even in vista.
Bollocks. Hardware (other than bad ram, which can happen to anyone - but a custom builder is more likely to test it) generally either fails or works, and as for drivers, you're using the manufacturer's own drivers for each piece of hardware, which in my experience are at least 3x as reliable. Who do you trust more to write a driver for (say) a VIA USB chipset, VIA or Dell?
What happens if it falls over tomorrow? Do they have anyone who remembers how to fix it? At some point a rewrite becomes cheaper than keeping one of the 5 living COBOL programmers on call.
I'm sorry but it's simply unbelievable that you wouldn't lose anything. Perhaps the children of one mixed-race pairing may be able to maintain the cultures of both their parents fully; but if they continue to mix, will their children be able to retain four complete cultures? And their grandchildren eight? No, there aren't enough hours in the day; inevitably something will be lost. Of course, one can easily argue that the benefits outweight this, but you can't pretend that nothing at all is lost.
As for your final line. Racism's exact definition must depend on what you are talking about, in some contexts it is judging a person by colour. When it comes to mixing of races the answer is simple. Anybody, who in the slightest way thinks he has any right to even FORM an opinion about who somebody else chooses to have sex with is by definition prejudicial. If that prejudice is based on race - then it is racism. If it's based on sexual orientation then it's homophobia. But no matter what it is based on - it is wrong.
No. Of course I have a right to an opinion, and there is nothing wrong in that. It only becomes racism if I start forcing my opinion on others.
Who somebody else chooses to have sex with, get married to, have babies with or any related matter has absolutely nothing to do with anybody except the consenting adults doing it. You could claim that celibacy might harm the population's growth - but it doesn't give you the right to judge or attempt to stop devout catholics from becoming nuns and priests.
Of course I have the right to take a view on it, and yes, to judge. Of course I have no right to actually interfere, but I'm 100% entitled to take, and spread, a negative view of them.
In short, I flat out disagree. You have the right to an opinion. Even a right to an opinion about who I am allowed to fuck - but you have to accept that any such opinion MUST by ipso facto BE a prejudicial one.
Well, no; I can take a view based on the results, without any prejudice attached.
Either you support the right of any consenting adults to do whatever they want to whomever they want, or you are discriminating against somebody - so even your apparently well thought out arguments remain racist - they discriminate based on race.
A mere opinion or argument cannot be racist; it's only were I to act on it that this would be so.
And while you may have a right to hold a discriminatory opinion, neither you nor any government do or should have any right to enforce such an opinion.
Well, I disagree on that. If a certain behaviour is definitely strongly harmful to society then it is the government's right and indeed duty to outlaw it. (Of course this is nowhere near being the case for mixed-race marriage; there is no evidence I know of that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. But in principle, I don't think a right to have sex with who you like is more important than the overwhelming good of society).
It'll resolve itself. People who've grown up in that environment won't see a male child as so much more desirable.
The arguments against it are the destruction of racial cultures and heritage - interesting and valuable traditional methods of cooking, dances, etc. may well all be lost, as culture becomes homogenised. There's also the general monoculture worry - a country with only one race (which is essentially what you get as a result - and as a side note, genetic traits don't always combine in the best way) may be a lot more vulnerable to plagues. You may well disagree with these, but to say anyone opposing complete racial mixing must be a racist is a bit of a stretch.
I've got one sitting on my desk that says you're wrong.
If you're willing to pay $300, just get a last-gen PDA. My ASUS A730 does all of that (I know it's none of this fancy "eInk" business, but the screen is really nice).
Or are they too 1.0 for the kids of today?
I think the "new discussion system" has a stupidly low limit on the number of comments it shows, to hide the fact that all the pointless Javascript makes the site really slow. And the "fetch more comments" link doesn't work; they probably only tested it in Firefox.
Modern systems are already having trouble fitting everything that has to go near the CPU near the CPU; ordinary system RAM still wants latency as low as you can. I don't see this happening until after we start putting main memory on the same chip as the CPU.
My guess is they've announced it because they want the botnet shut down, and are relying on someone with the altruism, nerve, and seven proxies to actually do it.
they wouldn't have rejected OSX. And I say this as a mac hater.
They did the only good adaptation of Dune.