You know, people have tried this on me before and like now it doesn't quite work. All I get is a normal grey elephant, actually the first thing to come to mind seems to a national geo type video of an elepant with the musk streaming down the sides of his head. But he is certainly not white.
That is probably a correct analysis. That is/was/will be the MS battle plan, Be open, give stuff away, etc... However, I pity you when version 4 comes out which, in order for MS to innovate had to make certain "changes" that "unfortunately" will cause some compatibility problems with competitors products not integrated into Windows.
Ok, I will tell you why functional languages do not compile directly to assembly but first I need to translate what you implied:
If the O'Caml compiler generated the ASM code directly it could make serious optimizations and not have to deal with the cruft the C compiler adds.
It seems to me that you, like many linux users, are really saying "why don't they compile directly to x86!" The world is bigger than x86. Most scripting languages want to be cross-platform. And no that does not mean run on windows and linux-x86.
If you took a second to look at how much code gcc is then you would realize how fscking big a task that is.
Well, this like many things, is addressing the chicken-egg problem. Yes there is nothing to use the data but the reason for that is obvious, there was no data. Maybe now that we have it someone will find the motivation to do something world-changing with it. Or not.
You still read the stupid sigs? I turned those off long long ago.
It seems that other people did too. I guess if you were paying attention you would have known about that feature.
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As someone who works with JPEG 2000 I have to call you on your misinformation. JPEG 2000 uses wavelets. Most all image codecs to date use some kind of DCT. The software implementations for the wavelet engines is not optimized, as would be expected for a pre-standard implementation meant to show functionality.
And also, JPEG 2000 is not a mammoth unusable standard. I've actually read the entire standard (the non-optional parts). It is small enough that a mere human can read it in a reasonable timeframe.
Also, what software were you talking about that is 4 times slower? The JPEG2000 VM? Jasper?
Is everyone here stupid? Look at the name, it's "CmdrTaco (editor)", not "CmdrTaco". And further, his user ID is #564483. That's a big fsking clue. The real CmdrTaco has a user ID of #1. gosh what a suprise.
getting really annoyed by the user name manipulating posers.
This insightful comment could only have been said by someone who has never used an FRS radio in a busy area. It especially sucks on a ski slope. It's hard enough to tell everyone to meet at 11:30 much less 10 digits worth of coordinates. Smart people would realize that they won't be very far apart and can thus leave off the degrees portion, probably more.
Not to dog your idea but I think the GPS antenna sticking out would be rather obvious. I have no idea how Lojack works, but I doubt it uses GPS, otherwise it would be too easy to locate and disable.
Well if you look at the mutant flies story the other day, judging from the number of references to the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons being used as evidence as to what kind of DNA mutations can result from radiation exposure, it would appear that you need no technology more advanced than plain old cell animation. Some of the other people were not so easily fooled, it took the likes of Jurasic Park to fool them.
As you can probably guess, my confidence in peoples ability to tell fact from fiction is very low. And we're not even talking about the computer illiterate types here.
I think it's great. The more the big companies like Sony et al realize that MS is not going to stop till they butt rape everybody the sooner these companies will stop collaborating with MS on anything.
Remember the cable companies? MS tried to offer their software to them, they basically said fuck off because if we give you an inch you'll eventually butt rape us."
What if that something was a GPS and you were in the middle of fscking no where. Nothing personal to you but everyone here is so narrow minded. There are uses for this. If you can't think of one then it's not for you.
This is a News for Nerds site. Thus if you do not consistently find the news articles interesting then you must not be part of the target nerd audience.
Wow, halfway down the page and this is the 1st comment that specifically states that if you make a claim in court that you must show proof/evidence to support your claim. Imagine that, a court of law demanding proof.
Is everyone else so clueless?
I'm glad that someone has finally called MS on their crap. They've continually being doing this throught the entire trial, "it's technically impossibly to do...", followed by some lame attempt to do "remove program" or some other such nonsense.
Actually/. ate my redirectors. I wasn't refering to the script but rather the use of 'cat' since you can redirect a file into a program without having to 'cat xxx.txt | '. No offense meant.
Use one of those cheap clocks that auto-set by using the timecodes embedded in some radio frequency. They make a lot of travel alarm clocks with this. Then get a cheap usb camera or something and some OCR (optical character recognition) software tuned for just numbers. Focus the camera on the clock, make sure it fills the whole frame and every hour/day check the time and correct.
This method will work when you have no line of sight to the sky for GPS and no network access or modem access.
I've been thinking of doing this with an array of devices. Monitor voltmeters or something. Useful when you want extreme optical isolation!
Moron. You do realize that apple makes their money selling hardware with an OS to support it and quite frankly could give a flying fsck what software you install on it. M$ on the other hand....
That's awesome. I wish all boxes were like this. No more needing to pay gobs of cash for a UPS. Just buy a couple of marine batteries with a charger and you can handle black outs days long.
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You know, people have tried this on me before and like now it doesn't quite work. All I get is a normal grey elephant, actually the first thing to come to mind seems to a national geo type video of an elepant with the musk streaming down the sides of his head. But he is certainly not white.
It works even less so for abstracts.
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Monkeys, keyboards, shake vigourously.
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It seems to me that you, like many linux users, are really saying "why don't they compile directly to x86!" The world is bigger than x86. Most scripting languages want to be cross-platform. And no that does not mean run on windows and linux-x86.
If you took a second to look at how much code gcc is then you would realize how fscking big a task that is.
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Your troll might be believable if you had any clue as to the true $ amounts of bribbery that you describe.
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And by the way, phunhippy said "... show its theoretical place today" not 100% accuracy.
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You still read the stupid sigs? I turned those off long long ago. It seems that other people did too. I guess if you were paying attention you would have known about that feature.
And also, JPEG 2000 is not a mammoth unusable standard. I've actually read the entire standard (the non-optional parts). It is small enough that a mere human can read it in a reasonable timeframe.
Also, what software were you talking about that is 4 times slower? The JPEG2000 VM? Jasper?
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getting really annoyed by the user name manipulating posers.
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Sure, here's a few pockets. If you get one I wanna know if its full of shit.
As you can probably guess, my confidence in peoples ability to tell fact from fiction is very low. And we're not even talking about the computer illiterate types here.
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Remember the cable companies? MS tried to offer their software to them, they basically said fuck off because if we give you an inch you'll eventually butt rape us."
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Yes this reply is 6 days later. I'm bored.
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Move along, nothing to see.
Is everyone else so clueless?
I'm glad that someone has finally called MS on their crap. They've continually being doing this throught the entire trial, "it's technically impossibly to do ...", followed by some lame attempt to do "remove program" or some other such nonsense.
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This method will work when you have no line of sight to the sky for GPS and no network access or modem access.
I've been thinking of doing this with an array of devices. Monitor voltmeters or something. Useful when you want extreme optical isolation!
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