One thing I dont understand - why are the triplets out of sequence? The early pictures show the landing site! Is this just some artifact of the transmission process?
Artifact of the transmission process my ass. When will you space guys admit the truth
My company wants to combat this by putting chips in your head.
www.patriot-tags.com
The civil liberties people complain, but only _before_ the implantation, they're a docile as lambs after it. Sometimes they get in trouble, robbing banks to raise money to invest in us, but the tech support guys are working on that.
We've just got a $1B contract from the Chinese, and donated the cash to the Republican party, so we have pretty high hopes in the American market too.
Anyhow, need go, just got that one pesky lone guy trying to screw things up.
Interstingly, people have argued that Microsoft tried to do the same thing with Windows/Office, where they turned a blind eye to unlicensed copies running on home machines. That isn't the case now though, they are trying to get a license fee for every install.
Actually, the more I think of it is that they can compensate for not having a lock in by charging higher prices for support - e.g. if you run n windows boxes, you legally need to have n licenses. For RedHat you need n*(PercentMissionCritical/100), where PercentMissionCritical is the percentage of mission critical boxes. So the RedHat revenue is just LicenseFee*n*(PercentMissionCritcal/100), and they can just increase their LicenseFee to get the same revenue.
Not that they would necessarily want the same revenue of course, they might want to make RedHat cheaper then Windows if they are trying to increase market share, or more expensive if they feel the market will pay a premium, my point being that they could get it.
And the solution to the Dell problem is kind of easy too, they could do a cheap OEM version for corporate customers that over estimate PercentMissionCritical.
Well you're a BBC journalist, with a non technology degree. You don't know too much about law either.
There are two options here
Option 1 1) Do some research on similar cases - it looks as if he needs to have a legimate reason for the domain name - e.g. with Mick Rowe soft. This is not the case here I think. Investigate the trademark filing date - he got the domain name suspiciously close to when Apple filed for a TM. Legally there seems to be a difference between sharing a name for legitimate reasons and passing yourself off as another larger business. You can see this from some of the comments here.
This is hard work, 30minutes of Googling, but there's a quick alternative -
2) Call up the little guy in the case. He'll give his side of the case. Call up the legal department of the big company and get a no comment. Write up the story as a stereotypical little guy vs. big company story, and you can be down the pub nice and early.
So people slag off slashdot for ignoring one side of the story, and they always claim the BBC is quality journalism, but that's not the case here.
"But we could hire 50 Indians for that price" "Well, have you seen the recent study by fud.com - Outsourced work can cost up 7000% more than local work [based on Mum'n'Pops Burgers 1976 project of outsourcing kitchen work in a small restaurant], and there is a 60% chance of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan this week [assuming an all out US/USSR war in the same period]"
The thing that struck me is that it seems to be good for New Europe (UK, Spain, Italy, Poland) and very bad for Old Europe (France and Germany)
Basically God fearing countries who support George Bush in his crusade against evil have nice moderate weather still, but the Lord has punished the heathen appeasers.
Does it not say in the bible
"Thou shalt smite the Philistines when they drive their cattle into your market place, killing your womenfolk, lest the Lord smite you in turn with a terrible heat"
Keep drivin' those SUV's, you're doin' the Lords work!
They tested and consistly got 15-25% differences, even with NVidia's optimised driver.
My experience of multi platform (admittedly ultra low level embedded stuff) is that it's costly mostly because most developers don't naturally think it terms of making code portable and they don't test thoroughly, so you catch the problems they create in testing,and that slows down your releases. It's not that it's theoretically particularly hard, it's more that in practice it causes lots of problems that you'd probably have avoided if you'd stayed on one platform.
But there's a cost to portability in terms of speed, development time and testing. In my experience it's the testing that kills you. Maybe the irrlicht engine can avoid these problems, maybe not.
Certainly, game engines that are portable seem to be noticably slower than the non portable ones, e.g. FarCry and Half Life 2 vs Doom 3. Plus the relative size of a non Windows market tend to make people focus less on portability than raw speed.
E.g. UT2004 is portable and runs on Linux, but the Linux build is unsupported and comes free with the Windows one. The developers did it because they like Linux, but the real money comes from Windows.
And then there is the API issue. DirectX is non portable but very fast, and OpenGL is portable but the Windows implementation is nowhere near as optimised as DX. Partly this is due to Microsoft moving people to DX, but it also suffers from being a lower priority than DX at NVidia and ATI. On Linux there are drivers that are almost as good as the Windows one (but Doom 3 is ~20% slower), but they are closed source which most people won't use. Or you can install the open source ones which are developed independantly from the GPU manufacturer and are even slower.
Of course, the engine could use DirectX on Windows and OpenGL elsewhere, but this is not a cost free feature.
I'm not saying it can't be done indeed UT2004 does it well, just that doing it with zero performance impact is not as easy as you may think.
They reckon 90-100 million rod cells. I guess you could call this 90-100 million pixels.These are sensitive to luminance, i.e. black and white. The colour sensitive cells are much less common, ~ 2 million pixels. That BTW is the reason that JPEG and most video standards use less bits for the colour information than the luminance.
The really cool things about eyes are the sensitivity - they can recognise single photons, at least for luminance. Also, all the neurons in your visual cortex are dedicated to image processing, so any problems with the sensors can be worked around in post processing.
I read a funny review of the Z88 a long time ago. The Z88 had a small LCD display "bought from the Japanese", but that was the result of an epic battle inside Sinclair. Clive Sinclair himself was quoted as saying "LCD's are rubbish, we have the only real portable display technology". This was based on the Sinclair pocket TV, which bent electron beams through 90 degrees with a big magnet. The journalist writing the review said that he saw a demonstration and "you placed your chin on a rest, and saw a ghostly green four lines of twenty characters floating in the infinite distance."
There was a memorable conversation with Alan Sugar who bought the Sinclair
Reviewer: Do you have the rights to the Pandora display? AS: We have the rights to all the Sinclair patents R: Do you plan any products based on Pandora? AS: Have you seen it? R: Yes. AS: Well then.
Oddly, no Pandora based products were ever produced.
One of the hits http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/hamilton/secti on1.html Interestingly, the exact year of Alexander Hamilton's birth is unknown because historians have found two sets of birth records. One set claims Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755, while the other says he was born in 1757. Hamilton himself maintained that he was born in 1757.
Maybe the fuzziness in Wikipedia just reflects the fuzziness in what we know about history.
Slashdot Mirror
Artifact of the transmission process my ass. When will you space guys admit the truth
Yup, this shit is beyond technobabble
Original
"Intel's code drop in the xeno-unstable.bk tree for their super secret VT CPU"
Technobabble
We have quasixenoinstabilities Doctor! Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!
Maybe I need to remodulate the harmonics in my English parser or something, but the technobabble makes more sense.
Xen is the untrained mind asking "What is Xen"
Plus climate change is best explained by a conspiracy theory.
_ warming.htm
And this excellent article by Michael Crichton will assuredly start a flame war -
http://www.pivot.net/~jpierce/aliens_cause_global
My company wants to combat this by putting chips in your head.
www.patriot-tags.com
The civil liberties people complain, but only _before_ the implantation, they're a docile as lambs after it. Sometimes they get in trouble, robbing banks to raise money to invest in us, but the tech support guys are working on that.
We've just got a $1B contract from the Chinese, and donated the cash to the Republican party, so we have pretty high hopes in the American market too.
Anyhow, need go, just got that one pesky lone guy trying to screw things up.
I think fusion research is a bit like watching the bugs in Starship Troopers attack something well defended. The algorithm is like this
1) Send lots of physicists and computing power.
2) Replace any obsolete computers/models, disproved theories/discredited physicists (Pons&Fleischman, Cold Fusion, Muon Catalysed Fusion, Laser Fusion etc).
3) Repeat until it works.
They'll take the damn fortress in the end, it's just a matter of time.
Too late, I've already changed the name from "our fertility" to "our studliness"
Fair enough I guess.
Interstingly, people have argued that Microsoft tried to do the same thing with Windows/Office, where they turned a blind eye to unlicensed copies running on home machines. That isn't the case now though, they are trying to get a license fee for every install.
Actually, the more I think of it is that they can compensate for not having a lock in by charging higher prices for support - e.g. if you run n windows boxes, you legally need to have n licenses. For RedHat you need n*(PercentMissionCritical/100), where PercentMissionCritical is the percentage of mission critical boxes. So the RedHat revenue is just LicenseFee*n*(PercentMissionCritcal/100), and they can just increase their LicenseFee to get the same revenue.
Not that they would necessarily want the same revenue of course, they might want to make RedHat cheaper then Windows if they are trying to increase market share, or more expensive if they feel the market will pay a premium, my point being that they could get it.
And the solution to the Dell problem is kind of easy too, they could do a cheap OEM version for corporate customers that over estimate PercentMissionCritical.
Well you're a BBC journalist, with a non technology degree. You don't know too much about law either.
There are two options here
Option 1
1) Do some research on similar cases - it looks as if he needs to have a legimate reason for the domain name - e.g. with Mick Rowe soft. This is not the case here I think. Investigate the trademark filing date - he got the domain name suspiciously close to when Apple filed for a TM. Legally there seems to be a difference between sharing a name for legitimate reasons and passing yourself off as another larger business. You can see this from some of the comments here.
This is hard work, 30minutes of Googling, but there's a quick alternative -
2) Call up the little guy in the case. He'll give his side of the case. Call up the legal department of the big company and get a no comment. Write up the story as a stereotypical little guy vs. big company story, and you can be down the pub nice and early.
So people slag off slashdot for ignoring one side of the story, and they always claim the BBC is quality journalism, but that's not the case here.
So the question is, is it you that undermines RedHat's business model or the fact that they started off with GPL software so they can't lock you in.
He he, I always tell my clients that
"But we could hire 50 Indians for that price"
"Well, have you seen the recent study by fud.com - Outsourced work can cost up 7000% more than local work [based on Mum'n'Pops Burgers 1976 project of outsourcing kitchen work in a small restaurant], and there is a 60% chance of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan this week [assuming an all out US/USSR war in the same period]"
Hint: Don't say the bits in [].
The thing that struck me is that it seems to be good for New Europe (UK, Spain, Italy, Poland) and very bad for Old Europe (France and Germany)
Basically God fearing countries who support George Bush in his crusade against evil have nice moderate weather still, but the Lord has punished the heathen appeasers.
Does it not say in the bible
"Thou shalt smite the Philistines when they drive their cattle into your market place, killing your womenfolk, lest the Lord smite you in turn with a terrible heat"
Keep drivin' those SUV's, you're doin' the Lords work!
The Doom3 numbers I got from here
2 41 &p=10
http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2
They tested and consistly got 15-25% differences, even with NVidia's optimised driver.
My experience of multi platform (admittedly ultra low level embedded stuff) is that it's costly mostly because most developers don't naturally think it terms of making code portable and they don't test thoroughly, so you catch the problems they create in testing,and that slows down your releases. It's not that it's theoretically particularly hard, it's more that in practice it causes lots of problems that you'd probably have avoided if you'd stayed on one platform.
But there's a cost to portability in terms of speed, development time and testing. In my experience it's the testing that kills you. Maybe the irrlicht engine can avoid these problems, maybe not.
Certainly, game engines that are portable seem to be noticably slower than the non portable ones, e.g. FarCry and Half Life 2 vs Doom 3. Plus the relative size of a non Windows market tend to make people focus less on portability than raw speed.
E.g. UT2004 is portable and runs on Linux, but the Linux build is unsupported and comes free with the Windows one. The developers did it because they like Linux, but the real money comes from Windows.
And then there is the API issue. DirectX is non portable but very fast, and OpenGL is portable but the Windows implementation is nowhere near as optimised as DX. Partly this is due to Microsoft moving people to DX, but it also suffers from being a lower priority than DX at NVidia and ATI. On Linux there are drivers that are almost as good as the Windows one (but Doom 3 is ~20% slower), but they are closed source which most people won't use. Or you can install the open source ones which are developed independantly from the GPU manufacturer and are even slower.
Of course, the engine could use DirectX on Windows and OpenGL elsewhere, but this is not a cost free feature.
I'm not saying it can't be done indeed UT2004 does it well, just that doing it with zero performance impact is not as easy as you may think.
That's a pretty restrained piece of hacking, if it is hacking
J :w ww.sco.com/+&hl=en
The Google cache has it too.
http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:6NanirOL3o4
Lots
http://wdv.com/Eye/EyeBandwidth/
They reckon 90-100 million rod cells. I guess you could call this 90-100 million pixels.These are sensitive to luminance, i.e. black and white. The colour sensitive cells are much less common, ~ 2 million pixels. That BTW is the reason that JPEG and most video standards use less bits for the colour information than the luminance.
The really cool things about eyes are the sensitivity - they can recognise single photons, at least for luminance. Also, all the neurons in your visual cortex are dedicated to image processing, so any problems with the sensors can be worked around in post processing.
Well your human eyes have small aperture, and they work ok.
So it is possibly to get good image quality with a small sensor and no flash.
Actually Microsoft can role out new and incompatible codecs without any user problems.
Windows Media Player knows how to decode and install new codecs. The codecs are small too, so you can realistically download them over a dial up line.
The old files will still use the original codec, obviously. They just make the authoring tools only use the new codecs.
LOL!
Your hands might be trackable, but I wear tinfoil gloves.
I read a funny review of the Z88 a long time ago. The Z88 had a small LCD display "bought from the Japanese", but that was the result of an epic battle inside Sinclair. Clive Sinclair himself was quoted as saying "LCD's are rubbish, we have the only real portable display technology". This was based on the Sinclair pocket TV, which bent electron beams through 90 degrees with a big magnet. The journalist writing the review said that he saw a demonstration and "you placed your chin on a rest, and saw a ghostly green four lines of twenty characters floating in the infinite distance."
There was a memorable conversation with Alan Sugar who bought the Sinclair
Reviewer: Do you have the rights to the Pandora display?
AS: We have the rights to all the Sinclair patents
R: Do you plan any products based on Pandora?
AS: Have you seen it?
R: Yes.
AS: Well then.
Oddly, no Pandora based products were ever produced.
splutter...spit....curse...
Please tell me with a NVidia card?
Just look it up on Wikipedia ;-)
+ &btnG=Google+Search
+ &btnG=Google+Search
i on1.html
Actually, I tried to Google it
http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1757
109,000 Hits
http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1755
138,000 Hits
Hmm, not particularly decisive
One of the hits
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/hamilton/sect
Interestingly, the exact year of Alexander Hamilton's birth is unknown because historians have found two sets of birth records. One set claims Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755, while the other says he was born in 1757. Hamilton himself maintained that he was born in 1757.
Maybe the fuzziness in Wikipedia just reflects the fuzziness in what we know about history.
Yes I am! It's a Asus A7N8X.
2 009&highlight=sp2+firewire
2 .htm
I had a look at the link, and that guy had SP1 and the ports connected wrong. It can't be that in my case, it worked before SP2.
Mind you this sounds familiar
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5
I found an RME page that explains how to get the old SP1 drivers back.
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp
I installed it, and my Firewire external disk stopped working.
Instant un install.
Is it coincidence that is disables USB disks, which are sometimes used to transport warez?
It be a conspiracy I tell's ya.
You look at this headline and think "Someone beat the BBC! Yesssss"
Damnit, what's happened to me.