(I realise this is an important development for fixing human cancers, but as a pet owner - it would be great to have these working fixes for the little ones it's been demonstrated on!
Unfortunately, the treatment is likely to be insanely expensive for humans. There won't be a mouse treatment because recouping the costs of developing the treatment would be effectively impossible.
They have a load of *nix servers and PCs, yet frequently new M$ products fail to work with 3rd party clients/interfaces/servers. It sounds like he Microsoft's gimp for building systems that their engineers can write software to NOT work on.
Microsoft's interoperability problems tend to stem not from outright sabotage of protocols, but from just not giving a shit.
I've heard rumors that your character will also be able to move both left AND right, but shhh, you didn't hear it from me, I don't want to get sued for releasing trade secrets.
So, don't hold your breath but fairly soon, you will all be able to start bitching about the existence of an abhorrent competitor to Linux which you will never even consider using, rather than bitching about the nonexistence of an abhorrent competitor to Linux which you will never even consider using.
Why not take some substantial CHUNK of partly-finished code, some chunk for which the licensing issues HAVE been resolved, slap on a disclaimer about it being pre-alpha, buggy, etc, and post it somewhere?
Yeah, I guess I was thinking more about how they must arrive at the "minimum frames per second" figure. I just have a hard time thinking of a way that could be a reliable figure.
To be fair a lot of gaming sites have been showing the minimum framerates in addition to the average framerate, for exactly this reason - two cards would yield the same average framerate over a 2 minute test session, yet one slowed to 5 fps over a period, while the other pushed through it at 30 fps.
I wonder how they are measuring. "Frames per second" implies that you are dividing the measured work into discrete seconds, which means a full second of no screen updates could be hidden if it spans second boundaries.
Which probably wouldn't happen, but maybe it helps illustrate the problem: stuttering is effectively reducing the rate at which the screen is updated to nil for a short period of time. "Frames per second" might bury the effect of that. Even if you look at something like the "minimum framerate" you won't necessarily have a handle on how many tiny, perceptible stutters are happening. None of them nearly as long as a second, but still long enough that the user will notice them.
You know, that's a good point that I'd never really thought about. If setup A runs at 60fps for a minute, and setup B runs at 61fps for a minute but then pauses for a full second, then the mean framerate would be identical. Maybe we should start asking for standard deviation in benchmarks?
Well, it might be a bit worse than that. Is there any strong reason to believe a benchmark as simple as "frames per second" can accurately convey all the perceptible stuttering that might happen when you don't have enough texture memory (for example) in all cases?
Haha, yeah. It's funny, Nvidia's stuff is the only thing to ever blue screen any of my win2k machines. The ATIs have always given me a little warning by shitting all over themselves and giving me time to close down and reboot the machine.
I wonder if AGP drivers are a variable which effects the stability and performance of various cards differently. There are always people who swear up and down that they have better experience with one brand or the other, and they certainly seem sincere...
But this article shows otherwise - there was almost no difference having 512MB of video card memory.
No, it does not. It shows the limitations of a benchmark which is focused solely on frames-per-second performance.
The effects of texture thrashing will be perceptible (and distracting) at times to the human player, but they won't do much at all to effect such a benchmark.
If every 30 seconds you need to purge and cycle in through ultra-high speed AGPx8 or PCI Express, that really isn't that great of a hit.
It's a noticeable flaw, every 30 seconds. Doesn't matter if all you care about is "frames per second."
I absolutely do not have the lasest kickass card precicely because there is no open source support for those newer cards. Currently I have an ATI9200se which is the best card I could find that has fully functional open source xorg drivers that do 2d and 3d accelleration. It cost me about 25UKP. Hardly the latest kick ass card.
I am willing to pay around 100UKP for a better card if is fully supported with open source drivers.
The "open source" card being discussed will not be even remotely comparable to the one you have now in terms of performance. Just an FYI.
The first thing that happens when a new video card comes out, even before its general availability, is the benchmarks on various websites. The benchmarks for this card will be... embarassing.
Also, in amongst the papers we were given was a definition of the statute we were to rule on where it stated that posession of drug paraphanelia required an intent to use - which wasn't proven in the case. I actually stopped to talk to the judge about this after the case was over, and he said "Yeah, defense attorneys use that citation of case precident to try to get their defendants an acquittal - it never works, but they have to try it." The way it was presented was in its case form - and to a non-lawyer, that can be presented to it looks like a statute.
I was on a jury that had a similar situation. The jury was hung on one count because we had to know whether the defendent had a certain kind of intent when making "terroristic threats". Half of us thought the statute required us to know what the defendent was thinking when he said whatever he said, the other half didn't agree or didn't care, and the judge wasn't willing to clarify what the law actually intended. Add into that the fact that the victim didn't really want the guy prosecuted and wasn't really verbose...
An effective life sentence is the sort of thing that makes a criminal, a bank robber or a murderer for example, pretty desperate. They will fight pretty hard to keep from getting captured, because they know they are going to have to do some serious time.
So with something like this, or the pink license plates in Ohio or something, you've got someone who is experiencing an effective life sentence, with the desperation that goes along with that, and the great added benefit that they are out on the street.
Desperate people who have proven themselves to be dangerous and are not behind bars. Doesn't this seem like something which is going to end badly?
At the end of the day, prisoners need to be able to pay their debt to society and be reformed. It's a bad situation when we don't let them do that. I guess it comes down to whether stupid shit like this is going to prevent crimes or fuel the desperatin that leads to these sorts of crimes.
That you no longer have property rights to do what you please with your property you own. You can't build without a permit, you can't build without getting your plans ok'ed by local zoning boards. You can't develop on your land if it isn't zoned right.
That is not even remotely a new phenomena.
If you had proper property rights for land you own you wouldn't need the EPA becuase you could sue those big companies that polute your land and get the proper restitution for them destroying your land.
You can do that now.
Good luck with that, by the way, I'm sure it'll work out for you.
In the first half of the 15th century the Persian mathematician Al-Kashi calculated pi to 14 places. It would be over a hundred years until a European calculated it to 9 places. But that's not what makes Al-Kashi cool, the Arabs where so much better at math in that period.
The truth is that Apple is filling the role now that USC Berkeley filled years ago -- stepping back, evaluating what is there, keeping the good and replacing the bad. Unix had been in dire need of a benevolent dictator for years.
I seem to remember something about, um, I don't know... something about... the CSRG's work being available as open source? Apple is keeping its most meaningful improvements private, which makes the comparison pretty bad.
The launchd configuration files are property lists, which are serialized Core Foundation data structures. They consist of key-value pairs.
Oh, key-value pairs! It was really hard to handle those before XML!
The second advantage to plists is that they're self-validating. When a program tries to load a plist, if the file doesn't validate against the PropertyList-1.0 DTD, nothing happens.
This is retarded... how hard was it to validate text config files before you started using XML? Each line either has a properly delimited key-value pair, or not. The values are either useful to the program, or not. It's not brain surgery.
The third advantage is that we ship a handy property-list editor with our operating system. This makes it easy for developers to create and modify plists.
AWESOME!
Finally, plists are always in UTF-8 format. That's vitally important for us, because our system is fully localized. We have to be able to launch services with names that don't fit into the ASCII/Latin-1 character set. Using plists ensures that we can do that, and gives us that capability for free.
Like you needed the XML albatross for that.
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So I think what Apple did rules. They didn't ask requirements from anyone, they had a flash of inspiration, created something awesome that works good for them, and then said 'hey, if you want to use this, go ahead!'
It should be noted that Sun's new startup system in Solaris was created via a considerably less inspired process. Divine grace was not involved. One guy wore a tie. Some of the engineers don't even drive hybrids. I'd steer clear of it, is what I'm saying.
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Unfortunately, the treatment is likely to be insanely expensive for humans. There won't be a mouse treatment because recouping the costs of developing the treatment would be effectively impossible.
Microsoft's interoperability problems tend to stem not from outright sabotage of protocols, but from just not giving a shit.
Apple is making Quake 4? What?
Evidently so, yeah.
You can just stop there. Seriously.
I actually didn't know the official release date until I saw this, I guess I don't obsess about release dates as much as some:r d&idnum=425
http://www.oetrends.com/news.php?action=view_reco
So, don't hold your breath but fairly soon, you will all be able to start bitching about the existence of an abhorrent competitor to Linux which you will never even consider using, rather than bitching about the nonexistence of an abhorrent competitor to Linux which you will never even consider using.
They did. Sure didn't seem to help.
"Vaporware" refers to software which the publisher never intended to release, news of which was intended to have an effect on the market.
Slipping on your release date would make just about every software product "vaporware", you retards.
The description of the magical "open source" graphics card makes it seem more comparable to a Radeon 7000 than a 9200.
Yeah, I guess I was thinking more about how they must arrive at the "minimum frames per second" figure. I just have a hard time thinking of a way that could be a reliable figure.
I wonder how they are measuring. "Frames per second" implies that you are dividing the measured work into discrete seconds, which means a full second of no screen updates could be hidden if it spans second boundaries.
Which probably wouldn't happen, but maybe it helps illustrate the problem: stuttering is effectively reducing the rate at which the screen is updated to nil for a short period of time. "Frames per second" might bury the effect of that. Even if you look at something like the "minimum framerate" you won't necessarily have a handle on how many tiny, perceptible stutters are happening. None of them nearly as long as a second, but still long enough that the user will notice them.
Well, it might be a bit worse than that. Is there any strong reason to believe a benchmark as simple as "frames per second" can accurately convey all the perceptible stuttering that might happen when you don't have enough texture memory (for example) in all cases?
Haha, yeah. It's funny, Nvidia's stuff is the only thing to ever blue screen any of my win2k machines. The ATIs have always given me a little warning by shitting all over themselves and giving me time to close down and reboot the machine.
I wonder if AGP drivers are a variable which effects the stability and performance of various cards differently. There are always people who swear up and down that they have better experience with one brand or the other, and they certainly seem sincere...
No, it does not. It shows the limitations of a benchmark which is focused solely on frames-per-second performance.
The effects of texture thrashing will be perceptible (and distracting) at times to the human player, but they won't do much at all to effect such a benchmark.
It's a noticeable flaw, every 30 seconds. Doesn't matter if all you care about is "frames per second."
The "open source" card being discussed will not be even remotely comparable to the one you have now in terms of performance. Just an FYI.
The first thing that happens when a new video card comes out, even before its general availability, is the benchmarks on various websites. The benchmarks for this card will be... embarassing.
I was on a jury that had a similar situation. The jury was hung on one count because we had to know whether the defendent had a certain kind of intent when making "terroristic threats". Half of us thought the statute required us to know what the defendent was thinking when he said whatever he said, the other half didn't agree or didn't care, and the judge wasn't willing to clarify what the law actually intended. Add into that the fact that the victim didn't really want the guy prosecuted and wasn't really verbose...
All in all a pretty interesting experience.
An effective life sentence is the sort of thing that makes a criminal, a bank robber or a murderer for example, pretty desperate. They will fight pretty hard to keep from getting captured, because they know they are going to have to do some serious time.
So with something like this, or the pink license plates in Ohio or something, you've got someone who is experiencing an effective life sentence, with the desperation that goes along with that, and the great added benefit that they are out on the street.
Desperate people who have proven themselves to be dangerous and are not behind bars. Doesn't this seem like something which is going to end badly?
At the end of the day, prisoners need to be able to pay their debt to society and be reformed. It's a bad situation when we don't let them do that. I guess it comes down to whether stupid shit like this is going to prevent crimes or fuel the desperatin that leads to these sorts of crimes.
I love how the tardacs all feel compelled to post anonymously.
Note that I specified Apple's "meaningful improvements." launchd ain't shit.
That is not even remotely a new phenomena.
You can do that now.
Good luck with that, by the way, I'm sure it'll work out for you.
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Yes, receiving positive moderation is the height of achievement. Why didn't that ever occur to me?
Wait... was he an Arab or a Persian?
I seem to remember something about, um, I don't know... something about... the CSRG's work being available as open source? Apple is keeping its most meaningful improvements private, which makes the comparison pretty bad.
Oh, key-value pairs! It was really hard to handle those before XML!
This is retarded... how hard was it to validate text config files before you started using XML? Each line either has a properly delimited key-value pair, or not. The values are either useful to the program, or not. It's not brain surgery.
AWESOME!
Like you needed the XML albatross for that.
It should be noted that Sun's new startup system in Solaris was created via a considerably less inspired process. Divine grace was not involved. One guy wore a tie. Some of the engineers don't even drive hybrids. I'd steer clear of it, is what I'm saying.
Wow, it's too bad we never had THAT ability before. OH WAIT WE DID.