This is why it's great to have multiple distributions. I would never put mandrake or corel on a server or similar non-desktop machine. But on my main workstation, I would like to live happily without text-mode screens. There will allways be distributions that cater to the server environment - because, as you say - it is one of the primary (and best) uses of linux.
Yes, this is something I thought about. There are two situations in which I can be rash or rude. The net, and the road. And belive me, I am a very timid person in real life. I have done some amazingly stupid things on the road. Less so on the net, but I still notice I'm more 'triggerhappy' here. And I know people who are ok in real life, who are total assholes over any kind of text communication, even if it is not annonymous.
I think the cause is the fact that you don't see or hear other humans, and that you can react instantly. I also thing that you can learn to control this - if you try. The flamers are people who don't try.
Well, if the analog recording is master quality... yes. All music which was recorded before the advent of digital studio recording has been analog at some point even if it is on cd today.
Anyway, I think the RIAA will be mad at you if you even dare mention the term MP3. They are simply scared off their asses... their era is coming to an end!
I suppose a centralized procmail filter database would be feasible... hmm....
The RBL? Off course, since Murphys law rules, I can't remember the URL to it, and I can't even remember what the letter stand for, but I know it's an email spam blacklist supported by many ISP.
If anyone has any real info on this, enlighten us!
One possibility, and I'm not claiming Apple is supporting this, would be to have multiple bitmaps for different sizes, and interpolate between them for intermediate scales.
This is the essence (sp?) of mipmaping, a technique commonly used to scale textures in 3D graphics. Guess what... OpenGL supports this thru some simple funktion calls, and most implementations do it in hardware. C'mon Apple... -
The swedish equivalent (Sunet) is also at 155Mbps, but something tells me it's user base is somewhat smaller... or is it? Maybe the UK universities don't grant their students free 10Mbps connections. (Great for quake *grin*)
An aside: the finnish one, aside from being bloody fast, has the best name: FUNET! -
In my experience they could only mean the receiving end... and thats how Katz read it too. Bullies and predators who prey on kids who are different or "non-normal" aren't considered dangerous... -
So this is it. The w3c has finally given up being impartial and objective. They have finally fallen to the pressure of 'money-for-the-big-corps'. As far as I know, all their previous activity has been good, writing good standards and growling at people who write browsers that don't comply (do any?).
This is the first time I've seen quotes from the W3C that are so saturated with greed. 'Micropayments'? Are they crazy? As far as I'm concerned, one of the great strenghts of the web is that it doesn't cost anything to look twice, and you run no risk of being charged when you follow a link you have less that 100% trust in.
The other issue with the 'license' is of course privacy. Another great strength of the web is that you can go look at information you would never dream of looking at if others could see you. As for the argument 'protecting viewers' - I don't see how any (adult) needs protection from access to any information, as long as you are free to turn it off! Neither child porn nor nuklear bomb plans are going to do damage to my brain, especially if I have a chance to leave real quick. The analogy to driving is of course ridiculous, as many posters have already said.
The remaining question in my mind is: How do we stop this? Would ISP's, content providers (== you and me), and browser vendors implement this? (If it is even technically possible... crypto schemes at this grand scale tend to be cronically br0ken... DVD anyone?)
This depends greatly on your definition of success. If your definition is that the software is working, you can get it, it's legal, and a lot of people are helping make it, then yes.
But my definiton of success is that my friends will ask me to install Linux instead of Win98 on their gaming and schoolwork boxes. And every single game/chat/hardware they could download/buy would be available and supported for. (I'm not saying that there shouldn't be any competitors - long live the BeOS!:)
Of course, there is no 'correct' definition, but one has already been achived... I'd like to go for the other one, wouldn't you?
...when was the last time you had to be 18 to download a piece of software? An -operating system-, no less?
Well, downloading or buying. Has anybody actually read the MS EULA's? I bet they do the same, but nobody gives a shit. Heck, I bought VC++ 1.5 when I was 15.:-) But I guess the language in the MFC source is 'more appropriate' than the Linux kernel source. (But what does MFC really mean? Mo Fo Coderz?;-)
As far as I know, current P6 and K7 cores do this as well... You need branch prediction for pipelining (sp?) to work. Otherwise the pipeline would be flushed whenever there was a conditional jump in the code.
I was under the impression that there were some consumer-targetted RW DVD methods, but that they didn't have the full capacity of the pressed ones for whatever reason... and that thus, the industry doesn't (yet) have to worry about people distributing unlicensed DVD disks so much as online methods...
No, not YET. I think the DVD-R (orwhatever) are missing a GB or two, but the writeable DVD media are still in development, no single standard has 'won' yet. Somehow I think the winner will have large capacity. After all, that is the point of upgrading from CD-R... -
...has traveled to these communist states in their hayday (even today), they'll describe just how depressing they are...it is a certain joyless/dead existence.
(the emphasis (sp?) is mine)
I find it interesting that you say this. Having lived in Hungary and the Czech Republic for 3 and 2 years respectively, my immediate reaction is: 'No way!'. Anyone describing these countries as grey and dull today are normally greeted by the words 'check my website, dude' by me. (Sure, it only deals with lack of physical greyness, which is not the point here.)
My experience of the people in these countries today, is that the majority are living lives little less colorless and interesting that the majority in my home country Sweden. Sure, their houses are colder, their healthcare less good, and their beer cheaper;-) but overall, not that bad.
But, I also know that there are people who are living very poorly. And, importantly,, note that my experience is from two of the countries are best off in this region. I'm sure you are right in the case of Romania, Bulgaria and not to mention Albania, which a stream of Kosovar refugees to make things worse.
The arts, religion, fairs, and other social activities are all crushed in the name of the "people".
This is certainly not true anymore. Prague arguably has more of an arts community today that Stockholm will ever have.:-) But yes, I agree on that it was done, just not that the effects are still in place.
Sorry about the lengthy rant, take it as a paper on the possibility of recovery from communism or something.:-)
Hey, why not use the DVD encryption? It is, as we all know, protected by a large hoard of raging lawyers, so nobody will be able to crack it without being sued out of existance! -
Removing floppy drives from computers because they have USB and Ethernet is about as smart as removing the staircase from a 20 story building because it's got plenty of lifts in.
True. But I would rephrase it: "Removing removable media..."
The trouble with floppies is that they are WAY too small for a lot of modern applications. Example: I'm an amature photographer. The average file size of a scanned negative is 20Mb. For ONE picture. Zip's are in use by the pro photographers I know, but 100Mb (250Mb for new) is rapidly becoming very small. CD-RW is too slow...
Castlewood ORB anyone? Is there any Linux support?
Very true. SGI owns the source of the reference implementation ('driver'). I can't seem to remember any announcements from SGI saying that they were going to open that souce. They get money from licencing that source to hardware makers. But then again, who knows, SGI has been releasing some other cool stuff lately. (Or promising to release...)
There is allways Mesa... and any OpenGL system, be it closed or open, is better that Direct3D. (Noooo, not like anybody on this site would agree with me on that one:-)
Actually the GeForce has a lower clockspeed than the TNT2 Ultra.
Indeed, and by quite a bit. BUT, it also has four pixel pipelines, where the TNT* has two. And yes, these are used even if the scene is not quad-textured - they can render multiple pixels at once.
But, as you say, the real big deal with NV10 is the transform engine.
Yea, I know what you are saying. My TNT2 may smoke my G200 in speed - but NVIDIA Trilinear Filtering is more like Trilinear Noise Addition(TM)... and the colors from the G200 allways seemed more vivid.
However, note that the Quadro is a separate silicon die from the GeForce. To begin with, I think (but I'm not sure) NVIDIA fixed some quality problems when they made the GeForce. They could (and should) have done even more for the Quadro.
Not like any of us mere mortals will ever get to see one in action...;-)
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This is why it's great to have multiple distributions. I would never put mandrake or corel on a server or similar non-desktop machine. But on my main workstation, I would like to live happily without text-mode screens. There will allways be distributions that cater to the server environment - because, as you say - it is one of the primary (and best) uses of linux.
dufke
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Yes, this is something I thought about. There are two situations in which I can be rash or rude. The net, and the road. And belive me, I am a very timid person in real life. I have done some amazingly stupid things on the road. Less so on the net, but I still notice I'm more 'triggerhappy' here. And I know people who are ok in real life, who are total assholes over any kind of text communication, even if it is not annonymous.
I think the cause is the fact that you don't see or hear other humans, and that you can react instantly. I also thing that you can learn to control this - if you try. The flamers are people who don't try.
dufke
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Well, if the analog recording is master quality... yes. All music which was recorded before the advent of digital studio recording has been analog at some point even if it is on cd today.
Anyway, I think the RIAA will be mad at you if you even dare mention the term MP3. They are simply scared off their asses... their era is coming to an end!
dufke
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Ok, ok... I'm an idiot. There is a link just a few posts down. Realtime Blackhole List.
dufke
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I suppose a centralized procmail filter database would be feasible... hmm....
The RBL?
Off course, since Murphys law rules, I can't remember the URL to it, and I can't even remember what the letter stand for, but I know it's an email spam blacklist supported by many ISP.
If anyone has any real info on this, enlighten us!
dufke
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he said "given the 7 other bits"... in that case you could do it. But you are never given which bit is broken, so you are right too.
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Not quite, as MIP-mapping layers are simply pre-scaled versions of the largest version...
Well, this is indeed the most common way of using it, however, OpenGL supports loading the picture levels one-by-one with unique image for each.
But since we don't even know if apple is using the texturing functions to draw things, I guess it's all irrelevant...
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One possibility, and I'm not claiming Apple is supporting this, would be to have multiple bitmaps for different sizes, and interpolate between them for intermediate scales.
This is the essence (sp?) of mipmaping, a technique commonly used to scale textures in 3D graphics. Guess what... OpenGL supports this thru some simple funktion calls, and most implementations do it in hardware. C'mon Apple...
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The UK one isn't more than 155Mbps???
The swedish equivalent (Sunet) is also at 155Mbps, but something tells me it's user base is somewhat smaller... or is it? Maybe the UK universities don't grant their students free 10Mbps connections. (Great for quake *grin*)
An aside: the finnish one, aside from being bloody fast, has the best name: FUNET!
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In my experience they could only mean the receiving end... and thats how Katz read it too. Bullies and predators who prey on kids who are different or "non-normal" aren't considered dangerous...
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Have experience with chronic bullying...
Isn't that what they mean with this?
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So this is it. The w3c has finally given up being impartial and objective. They have finally fallen to the pressure of 'money-for-the-big-corps'. As far as I know, all their previous activity has been good, writing good standards and growling at people who write browsers that don't comply (do any?).
This is the first time I've seen quotes from the W3C that are so saturated with greed. 'Micropayments'? Are they crazy? As far as I'm concerned, one of the great strenghts of the web is that it doesn't cost anything to look twice, and you run no risk of being charged when you follow a link you have less that 100% trust in.
The other issue with the 'license' is of course privacy. Another great strength of the web is that you can go look at information you would never dream of looking at if others could see you. As for the argument 'protecting viewers' - I don't see how any (adult) needs protection from access to any information, as long as you are free to turn it off! Neither child porn nor nuklear bomb plans are going to do damage to my brain, especially if I have a chance to leave real quick. The analogy to driving is of course ridiculous, as many posters have already said.
The remaining question in my mind is: How do we stop this? Would ISP's, content providers (== you and me), and browser vendors implement this? (If it is even technically possible... crypto schemes at this grand scale tend to be cronically br0ken... DVD anyone?)
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Microsoft calles MFC Microoft Foundation Classes.
Thank you, I'm glad you're here to tell me these things.
;-)
(I only tortured my self with MFC for about one month... and while it is quite incomprehensible, at least I got the name right.)
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This depends greatly on your definition of success. If your definition is that the software is working, you can get it, it's legal, and a lot of people are helping make it, then yes.
:)
But my definiton of success is that my friends will ask me to install Linux instead of Win98 on their gaming and schoolwork boxes. And every single game/chat/hardware they could download/buy would be available and supported for. (I'm not saying that there shouldn't be any competitors - long live the BeOS!
Of course, there is no 'correct' definition, but one has already been achived... I'd like to go for the other one, wouldn't you?
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...when was the last time you had to be 18 to download a piece of software? An -operating system-, no less?
:-) But I guess the language in the MFC source is 'more appropriate' than the Linux kernel source. (But what does MFC really mean? Mo Fo Coderz? ;-)
Well, downloading or buying. Has anybody actually read the MS EULA's? I bet they do the same, but nobody gives a shit. Heck, I bought VC++ 1.5 when I was 15.
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As far as I know, current P6 and K7 cores do this as well... You need branch prediction for pipelining (sp?) to work. Otherwise the pipeline would be flushed whenever there was a conditional jump in the code.
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I was under the impression that there were some consumer-targetted RW DVD methods, but that they didn't have the full capacity of the pressed ones for whatever reason... and that thus, the industry doesn't (yet) have to worry about people distributing unlicensed DVD disks so much as online methods...
No, not YET. I think the DVD-R (orwhatever) are missing a GB or two, but the writeable DVD media are still in development, no single standard has 'won' yet. Somehow I think the winner will have large capacity. After all, that is the point of upgrading from CD-R...
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...has traveled to these communist states in their hayday (even today), they'll describe just how depressing they are...it is a certain joyless/dead existence.
;-) but overall, not that bad.
:-) But yes, I agree on that it was done, just not that the effects are still in place.
:-)
(the emphasis (sp?) is mine)
I find it interesting that you say this. Having lived in Hungary and the Czech Republic for 3 and 2 years respectively, my immediate reaction is: 'No way!'. Anyone describing these countries as grey and dull today are normally greeted by the words 'check my website, dude' by me. (Sure, it only deals with lack of physical greyness, which is not the point here.)
My experience of the people in these countries today, is that the majority are living lives little less colorless and interesting that the majority in my home country Sweden. Sure, their houses are colder, their healthcare less good, and their beer cheaper
But, I also know that there are people who are living very poorly. And, importantly,, note that my experience is from two of the countries are best off in this region. I'm sure you are right in the case of Romania, Bulgaria and not to mention Albania, which a stream of Kosovar refugees to make things worse.
The arts, religion, fairs, and other social activities are all crushed in the name of the "people".
This is certainly not true anymore. Prague arguably has more of an arts community today that Stockholm will ever have.
Sorry about the lengthy rant, take it as a paper on the possibility of recovery from communism or something.
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Domain names don't matter. I can server a .com adress from Siberia if I want too. (Which I don't, cause it's cold enough in Sweden.)
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Hey, why not use the DVD encryption? It is, as we all know, protected by a large hoard of raging lawyers, so nobody will be able to crack it without being sued out of existance!
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Removing floppy drives from computers because they have USB and Ethernet is about as smart as removing the staircase from a 20 story building because it's got plenty of lifts in.
True. But I would rephrase it: "Removing removable media..."
The trouble with floppies is that they are WAY too small for a lot of modern applications. Example: I'm an amature photographer. The average file size of a scanned negative is 20Mb. For ONE picture. Zip's are in use by the pro photographers I know, but 100Mb (250Mb for new) is rapidly becoming very small. CD-RW is too slow...
Castlewood ORB anyone? Is there any Linux support?
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Very true. SGI owns the source of the reference implementation ('driver'). I can't seem to remember any announcements from SGI saying that they were going to open that souce. They get money from licencing that source to hardware makers. But then again, who knows, SGI has been releasing some other cool stuff lately. (Or promising to release...)
:-)
There is allways Mesa... and any OpenGL system, be it closed or open, is better that Direct3D. (Noooo, not like anybody on this site would agree with me on that one
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Actually the GeForce has a lower clockspeed than the TNT2 Ultra.
Indeed, and by quite a bit. BUT, it also has four pixel pipelines, where the TNT* has two. And yes, these are used even if the scene is not quad-textured - they can render multiple pixels at once.
But, as you say, the real big deal with NV10 is the transform engine.
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Yea, I know what you are saying. My TNT2 may smoke my G200 in speed - but NVIDIA Trilinear Filtering is more like Trilinear Noise Addition(TM)... and the colors from the G200 allways seemed more vivid.
;-)
However, note that the Quadro is a separate silicon die from the GeForce. To begin with, I think (but I'm not sure) NVIDIA fixed some quality problems when they made the GeForce. They could (and should) have done even more for the Quadro.
Not like any of us mere mortals will ever get to see one in action...
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