Adobe Shockwave is pretty much Winhoze specific and games written in it are very much alive and kicking.
That's fine, but realise that the web is about hypertext. Shockwave and flash are supposed to be on the web in the same way that movies and sounds are: as embedded elements of media. Building an entire site or app in shockwave or flash is NOT building for the web, it's only running a non-web app over http.
Sure. For an average word document, 1k of those pages would be just vertical space. And as everyone knows, professional MS Word users can make blank pages with only about 21 newlines.
Reductum ad absurdum is not simply a logical argument but an overall strategy
Let me try that with your argument a moment...
I seem to recall something about a german dictator whose ideas spread all across europe, killing millions, before people realised it had to be stopped at any cost. That's a long time to wait for the absurdum part to take hold.
It's the same thing as a library except you can't steal the book. So go ahead and shut down every library out there.
No, it's a re-implementation of a great ideal, in an age where that implementation is inadequate, and where the modern re-implementation holds back society rather than progressing it. Moreoever, the ideal behind the modern version is selfishness, rather than the great ideal of years past, which was sharing information.
The closest thing we have to libraries these days is the web itself, and P2P.
Not too clean though. Wouldn't want murderers or war criminals being protected from the people who'd hold them to account. Not that an entire army would have any individuals like that, of course...
A lot of recent games are rendered with some degree of HDR, so there's a reason for the similarity, but it's not texture. Light does affect your perception of texture though (see hard light vs soft light), so that might explain why the video looks the way it does.
HDR is taking frames of varying exposure levels and merging them into a single picture that contains color levels combined from both.
That's one way of building it, but not what it is. Another way of building it is purely mathematical, using a 3d renderer, for instance.
HDR is simply having image information that spans a higher contrast range. Or you could think of it as having a larger colorspace. For example, if you turn the brightness way up on your TV, you're reducing the range so everything looks washed out; a very limited colorspace. By comparison, a properly adjusted TV image might be considered HDR. If you had a crap TV that couldn't display the whole of a normal image, but could be adjusted to display the bright bits or the dark bits, you'd have something akin to the same situation as an HDR image viewer on a standard monitor. It's similar to (but much more important than) the concern people have when talking about contrast ratios on monitors, and how blacks aren't really black on their backlit LCDs. The simplest way to think of it is that your TV can't get close to blinding you, but the sun can, therefore your TV is lacking a lot of light information.
Wiki is not a place, site or person, it's a technology, and one that's available on MANY sites. If you have to abbreviate, try WP, W'pedia or something
Well done sherlock. The point is that, if a major embedded chip designer is producing chips with these features, it may be an early warning of the intent of the device manufacturers.
Yes, but if the OS does care, on an embedded device that you can't bypass the OS startup on, then you've little hope of reverse-engineering drivers etc.
Answering my own question: I guess it is DRM amongst some processor scheduling/bus control stuff, yeah. There's a reference to "data security using the TrustZone memory model" below:
The Snoop Control Unit (SCU) connects one to four Cortex-A5 processors to the memory system through the AXI interfaces. The SCU maintains data cache coherency between the Cortex-A5 processors and arbitrates L2 requests from the processors and the ACP. The SCU programmers model also includes support for data security using the TrustZone memory model.
Broadcom wireless chipsets are used in a staggering number of linux-based embedded devices, such as the venerable WRT54G.
Exactly. The Nokia N900 springs to mind. Nokia essentially abandoned it (to "community support") when they moved to their new OS (meego), citing the N900's closed hardware as something they couldn't support 100% going forward with a new, fully open OS. It'll be interesting to see if they change their tune now that broadcom drivers are open. I doubt there's much else in an n900 that's closed hardware, given that it IS linux, most drivers tend to be open source for it, and that much of the functionality is in the main mobile CPU chip (OMAP3?), which is well known (and, I believe, open).
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In some countries, it's called Axe.
Only bad operating systems, bad driver programmers and alcohol can make your drivers crash.
Is this the fabled Scotch mist?
That's fine, but realise that the web is about hypertext. Shockwave and flash are supposed to be on the web in the same way that movies and sounds are: as embedded elements of media. Building an entire site or app in shockwave or flash is NOT building for the web, it's only running a non-web app over http.
Sure. For an average word document, 1k of those pages would be just vertical space. And as everyone knows, professional MS Word users can make blank pages with only about 21 newlines.
Who, me? ;)
It's OK, I got him a lawyer.
Wound opened.
The only people who take the bible as literal truth are the ones who either haven't read it all, or can't remember it all at once.
1 in 5 people think the earth doesn't orbit the sun? Bullshit. People are dumb, but not that dumb. At least, not around here.
No, I don't think your TV will trust you any less because you like Google. Unless it's a Sony model.
Fair enough. That's why my initial post was a question, not a statement.
Let me try that with your argument a moment...
I seem to recall something about a german dictator whose ideas spread all across europe, killing millions, before people realised it had to be stopped at any cost. That's a long time to wait for the absurdum part to take hold.
No, it's a re-implementation of a great ideal, in an age where that implementation is inadequate, and where the modern re-implementation holds back society rather than progressing it. Moreoever, the ideal behind the modern version is selfishness, rather than the great ideal of years past, which was sharing information.
The closest thing we have to libraries these days is the web itself, and P2P.
Yeah, like how that whole blogging thing just died out in its infancy.
Well said. First thing I thought reading this was "I don't any of Sony's undead books".
Not too clean though. Wouldn't want murderers or war criminals being protected from the people who'd hold them to account. Not that an entire army would have any individuals like that, of course...
A lot of recent games are rendered with some degree of HDR, so there's a reason for the similarity, but it's not texture. Light does affect your perception of texture though (see hard light vs soft light), so that might explain why the video looks the way it does.
That's one way of building it, but not what it is. Another way of building it is purely mathematical, using a 3d renderer, for instance.
HDR is simply having image information that spans a higher contrast range. Or you could think of it as having a larger colorspace. For example, if you turn the brightness way up on your TV, you're reducing the range so everything looks washed out; a very limited colorspace. By comparison, a properly adjusted TV image might be considered HDR. If you had a crap TV that couldn't display the whole of a normal image, but could be adjusted to display the bright bits or the dark bits, you'd have something akin to the same situation as an HDR image viewer on a standard monitor. It's similar to (but much more important than) the concern people have when talking about contrast ratios on monitors, and how blacks aren't really black on their backlit LCDs. The simplest way to think of it is that your TV can't get close to blinding you, but the sun can, therefore your TV is lacking a lot of light information.
Wiki is not a place, site or person, it's a technology, and one that's available on MANY sites. If you have to abbreviate, try WP, W'pedia or something
I was talking in the context of your statements, and talking about their own merits or lack thereof, not whatever context you wrote them in.
Well done sherlock. The point is that, if a major embedded chip designer is producing chips with these features, it may be an early warning of the intent of the device manufacturers.
Yes, but if the OS does care, on an embedded device that you can't bypass the OS startup on, then you've little hope of reverse-engineering drivers etc.
Answering my own question: I guess it is DRM amongst some processor scheduling/bus control stuff, yeah. There's a reference to "data security using the TrustZone memory model" below:
-- Cortex-A5 MPCore Technical Reference Manual - 2.1.8.: Snoop Control Unit
The block diagram:
http://img.hexus.net/v2/channel/news/2010/sep/armeagle3-big.jpg
refers to a "snoop control unit" and "snoop filtering". Is this some kind of DRM?
Exactly. The Nokia N900 springs to mind. Nokia essentially abandoned it (to "community support") when they moved to their new OS (meego), citing the N900's closed hardware as something they couldn't support 100% going forward with a new, fully open OS. It'll be interesting to see if they change their tune now that broadcom drivers are open. I doubt there's much else in an n900 that's closed hardware, given that it IS linux, most drivers tend to be open source for it, and that much of the functionality is in the main mobile CPU chip (OMAP3?), which is well known (and, I believe, open).