Re:It's gonna be a corporate giveaway this session
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Damn right. It's all about money and power. If either party can gain either of those key resources by piggybacking, they are gonna do it in the blink of an eye. This is also the source of many of the smear campaigns near voting time... "Bob Jones voted for [insert anti-party-line legislation]! He must be a piece of shit!"
The thing that really scares me about the current situation is the fact that anyone that votes against these anti-terrorist bills is going to be booed and heckled. Prepare for some horrible legislation, my friends.
But, hey, if they make nuclear powered cell phones, the radiation would treat the supposed cancer risk. Right?
There may be more truth to this than you expect. There's an article in the Dec 2002 Discover concerning the reintroduction of homeosis as a real and potentially useful effect. Unfortunately, they haven't updated their site to the Dec. issue, so I can't give you a link. Expect to hear more about this in the near future... whether the news will support or debunk homeosis, I don't know.
That's true, but they also aren't "Teach Yourself Enough to Maybe Want to Really Learn About This Subject." My warning was for those who are considering actually reading this book, and have had no experience with the "series."
I've read a couple of the "Teach Yourself X in N [days|hours]" books. I have not read this one, but my experience with the others is that they can be best considered an "entry point" into the subject, and a reference for only the most basic questions. Anyone who thinks they will acquire even an intermediate level of skill (starting from an unskilled base) by reading these books are, IMHO, mistaken.
Might reduce memory latency for the frame buffers of the future.
Except for the games that want to read the color buffer... then you'd have to make the Card->Monitor interface cable have good 2-way bandwidth. Of course, that limitation would probably just force game programmers to figure out a way around it, which would probably use more CPU/GPU time, which would push gaming technology even faster!
Seriously, though... for "business" level video cards (read: Secretaries, Data Entry folk), this could potentially be a cost-saver.
I forgot to mention one thing... if the refresh rate ends up being definitely be bad for gaming (at least the kind of gaming that goes on today, with real-time frame updates that actually have a bearing on gameplay).
I think this really depends on how much more/less power is needed to change the pixels compared to how much power it takes to display a pixel with other technologies. As for sticking with your CRT for now... it's not like you can go out and buy an iMoD display today... so I'm with ya there;)
Maybe once a third-party actually does a real comparison between the varying screen technologies, we can make an informed decision about the future of iMoD in the marketplace. Once again, PR's rule the day...
What I hope the Playstation 3 can do is amazing. However, that means exactly jack shit in terms of reality. I really wish we could get news of some real advancements, rather than PR announcements of new research projects.
I understand what you are saying, but isn't each point on a sphere defined by three values: Latitude, Longitude, Radius? Or do we ignore the radius component since it is constant by definition of a sphere?
Wouldn't your "three-sphere, two-dimensional" object mean that the 2D "space" that the three-sphere exists in must be curved into a 3rd dimension, and thus would be 3 dimensional?
I don't see how one can claim that an object, being defined as a collection of points, each of which having 3 components (x, y, z), could be considered two dimensional.
No one is forcing you to buy software that uses publicly-funded code.
I think the underlying point of this matter is that the GPL is too restrictive for publicly-funded software products. So you are telling me that I can use this software that I paid for with taxes, but I can't use it in a closed-source fashion?
I think too many people are seeing this as giving money to corporations, and I suppose that in a way, it is. However, corporations pay taxes, too... and many small businesses/startups could really use a helping hand by being able to use these products to facilitate making a profit. Which, by the way, creates jobs for coders like myself.
I agree with you 100%. When someone is talking about putting any large number of $1200+ drives into a PC-clone case, it makes me wonder why they dont use a real case solution instead.
I mainly use SCSI for my home lab, but I've started looking at using RAID5 IDE stuff with those cool 8MB cache drives from Western Digital. 240GBs usable RAID5'ed space for $600 including controller?? Sick!
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Damn right. It's all about money and power. If either party can gain either of those key resources by piggybacking, they are gonna do it in the blink of an eye. This is also the source of many of the smear campaigns near voting time... "Bob Jones voted for [insert anti-party-line legislation]! He must be a piece of shit!"
The thing that really scares me about the current situation is the fact that anyone that votes against these anti-terrorist bills is going to be booed and heckled. Prepare for some horrible legislation, my friends.
But how the FUCK are you gonna use the command line with this thing.
:-p
ssh into it? Or are you planning on carrying a keyboard around for your tablet PC?
But, hey, if they make nuclear powered cell phones, the radiation would treat the supposed cancer risk. Right?
There may be more truth to this than you expect. There's an article in the Dec 2002 Discover concerning the reintroduction of homeosis as a real and potentially useful effect. Unfortunately, they haven't updated their site to the Dec. issue, so I can't give you a link. Expect to hear more about this in the near future... whether the news will support or debunk homeosis, I don't know.
And you cannot telnet into the dead body to kill -9 some runaway process.
We should work on fixing that!
That's true, but they also aren't "Teach Yourself Enough to Maybe Want to Really Learn About This Subject." My warning was for those who are considering actually reading this book, and have had no experience with the "series."
The problem is you might actually learn open heart surgery in 24 hours, whereas with Unix System Administration...
I've read a couple of the "Teach Yourself X in N [days|hours]" books. I have not read this one, but my experience with the others is that they can be best considered an "entry point" into the subject, and a reference for only the most basic questions. Anyone who thinks they will acquire even an intermediate level of skill (starting from an unskilled base) by reading these books are, IMHO, mistaken.
but it's a handheld... how fast does it need to be?
;-)
Well once the linux version of Doom 3 is released... need I say more?
Might reduce memory latency for the frame buffers of the future.
Except for the games that want to read the color buffer... then you'd have to make the Card->Monitor interface cable have good 2-way bandwidth. Of course, that limitation would probably just force game programmers to figure out a way around it, which would probably use more CPU/GPU time, which would push gaming technology even faster!
Seriously, though... for "business" level video cards (read: Secretaries, Data Entry folk), this could potentially be a cost-saver.
I think it'd probably do better with an "Operation" charged poker... just rub it across the screen to reset the pixles
So really, it'll only use less power for those damned campers!
One day I'll learn that if I use < in a post, I need to either pick Extrans or use <...
For the parent of this post:
s/ends up being definitely/ends up being < 60Hz, it will <b>definitely</b>/
I forgot to mention one thing... if the refresh rate ends up being definitely be bad for gaming (at least the kind of gaming that goes on today, with real-time frame updates that actually have a bearing on gameplay).
I think this really depends on how much more/less power is needed to change the pixels compared to how much power it takes to display a pixel with other technologies. As for sticking with your CRT for now... it's not like you can go out and buy an iMoD display today... so I'm with ya there ;)
Maybe once a third-party actually does a real comparison between the varying screen technologies, we can make an informed decision about the future of iMoD in the marketplace. Once again, PR's rule the day...
Sure... here you go!
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What would the world come to?
What I hope the Playstation 3 can do is amazing. However, that means exactly jack shit in terms of reality. I really wish we could get news of some real advancements, rather than PR announcements of new research projects.
What, no level 2 or 3?!?
Yes, that does help. Thanks for clearing that up for me (and thanks for not making it a formal proof!).
I understand what you are saying, but isn't each point on a sphere defined by three values: Latitude, Longitude, Radius? Or do we ignore the radius component since it is constant by definition of a sphere?
Wouldn't your "three-sphere, two-dimensional" object mean that the 2D "space" that the three-sphere exists in must be curved into a 3rd dimension, and thus would be 3 dimensional?
I don't see how one can claim that an object, being defined as a collection of points, each of which having 3 components (x, y, z), could be considered two dimensional.
No one is forcing you to buy software that uses publicly-funded code.
I think the underlying point of this matter is that the GPL is too restrictive for publicly-funded software products. So you are telling me that I can use this software that I paid for with taxes, but I can't use it in a closed-source fashion?
I think too many people are seeing this as giving money to corporations, and I suppose that in a way, it is. However, corporations pay taxes, too... and many small businesses/startups could really use a helping hand by being able to use these products to facilitate making a profit. Which, by the way, creates jobs for coders like myself.
Anyone think there's a market for DRM'ed Lego Harpsichord music?
I agree with you 100%. When someone is talking about putting any large number of $1200+ drives into a PC-clone case, it makes me wonder why they dont use a real case solution instead.
I mainly use SCSI for my home lab, but I've started looking at using RAID5 IDE stuff with those cool 8MB cache drives from Western Digital. 240GBs usable RAID5'ed space for $600 including controller?? Sick!