It's RDRAM only, I guess that means its dead already, huh? I mean being as they can't get it to work, it costs more than a shiny new car, and all that jazz...
At least they're finally not doing that pussy-ass shit like moving from 100Mhz bus to 133... come on, how lame is that? AMD gave us a jump to 200, and we're getting 400 next. When Intel tries to go from 400 to 433, I will rain hellfire on their engineers.
Esperandi I want my 500GHz processor NOW, bitch. Screw your profits, you'll sell enough of them to make up for it.
When the Itanium and AMDs 64 bit chips are out (and BTW, the AMD one already looks like it will make Intel's chip its bitch with 50% better performance running old 32 bit apps and extremely easier programming) you're going to complain that you can't use .
Well, they're doing it in the "real" world too (and what is so fake about it? The electrons are real), they're just doing it while doing something they both love. If they were doing it skydiving or under water you wouldn't whine about it being sad because they we'ren't doing it on the ground...
This is off-topic and its a news story that Slashdot refused to post for some very very bizarre and unpublicized reason. But I happen to think you guys would like to hear about it: There's a company called Bascom Global Internet Services that is starting a program whereby people will be able to donate hardware to the Open Source community. They'll then give it out to the neediest programmers (so if you have a good day job, forget about it) in order to improve their projects.
Wired News reported this yesterday, I submitted it and it was rejected in mere minutes. The link to the Wired News article is here: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34226, 00.html
I'm not bored enough to post this as HTML just so you can see a pretty link.
He matched 5 pairs. There's a chance of 1 in a hundred thousand or so, but it DOES happen (people win the lottery, eh?). After they matched that, they went and ran the check that takes a lot longer on 10 pairs. He didn't match that, so they let him go.
This is like saying that we acidentally killed the wrong guy after releasing an innocent man from questioning. It didn't happen. It didn't even come close to happening, people are just ignoring the guy is sitting at home in his house and that it was the exact same DNA matching lab (the ones that CORRECTLY matched the first 5 pairs) that matched the 10 and said it wasn't the right guy.
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
I think to truly embody the attitude and beliefs of the Open Source movement, this guys disclaimer really ought to be imported into the GPL as the default disclaimer. In case you didn't read, here it is:
WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME? Well, don't come crying to me. Do you think I care if a useless, buggy hack for an unsupported port of a game on a free operating system doesn't work for you? Hah! Think again. Err, but if you, heh, fix anything I'd sure love to hear about it.
Contrary to popular belief, your brain is constantly regenerating brain cells. Brain cells do not live forever, they die and are reborn like every other cell in the body.
There is a catch, however, and its the reason scientists once thot no brain cells could ever be regenerated... they need acetylcholene. Acetylcholene isn't usually found anywhere in your body except one place - the protective "lining" of brain cells. So when it goes to regenerate one, it rips an old one apart and builds the new cell inside, so it seems like no progress is being made. There is one food that contains acetylcholine, though. Fish! It really IS brain food! (I'm not joking, BTW) You can buy choline tablets too at health food stores. Lots of people call it a "smart drug" but it doesn't increase intelligence, it simply stops the brain from autocannibalizing cells when regenerating. Nootropics (smart drugs) is an interesting field. Most are just like caffeine spinoffs (keep you more alert) and a lot are just lies in a bottle, but there seems to be a lot of study done on acetylcholene.
If we could get these series on the Internet (which would require a totally new video file format... cartoons have an ENTIRELY different dynamic than pure vidoe does that makes them look pretty damn bad... but also opens up avenues where simpler compression algorithms that fail on real video could FLY on cartoons) and work out a way to pay the people providing it on a per-view basis (or hell, they could sell commercials just like any normal show but be able to count their viewers much more accurately) I think they could work. I mean, the people that follow The Critic, The Tick, all those shows on Comedy Central's Animation Block, plus shows like Family Guy and Futurama (even tho it has the Touch of Groenig(TM) I think its going to end up in the dustbin because it has too many technical jokes (how many caught that Bender's main CPU is a 6502, the same processor used in the NES and Gameboy?)) have a cult following which is much different than a normal following. A normal following watches every episode - once. In droves. A cult following watches every episode MANY times, picking apart its intricacies, but on a lower scale of people. The numbers probably end up the same in respect to total number of views... plus, think about how easy it would be to aim those advertisements if its going straight to a cult audience...
Yes MSN was partially hit, do some reading. The MSN site itself was not primarily hit, but according to the news I read off the AP Wire (where CNN and other places get their news), many MSN customers were not able to access the web and somethign else (can't recall). It didn't affect all of them because MSN has a lot of servers all over the country.
Heh, bad issue to pick, I live in West Virginia where the majority of this stuff went on in the first place. When the companies turned on the unions, they were fighting fire with fire. The only way to stop force is with force, you can't reason with it and you can't just live with it. I don't think it should have been done the way it usually was done (after hours, drivebys by their homes, etc), i think they should have walked up to the picket line and the first guy to swing a club or throw a punch gets beat into a twitching mass. The next guy gets the same. And the next and the next until there are a few people left who will say "Okay, this obviously isn't working. We're working in bad conditions. If these conditions persist, we will leave and you will have to replace us with inferior help. This will hurt your business. The cost of improving the conditions a bit (no mine is ever going to be heaven) is less than the cost you will lose."
But, strangely, the collective never thought quite as clearly as that, and miners are not stupid people.
People keep telling me to read history, and I've read loads and loads of it. Every country that has taken on any form of socialism from unions to welfare has eliminated more and more of their geniuses, they call it "brain drain". The entire philsophy behind "everyone is just as good as everyone else" is not "everyone is a genius", but instead "everyone is a lout and they can't help what they do" and its used to excuse the real louts, and treat the geniuses like louts, bleeding them into poverty in order to prop up one or two other people. If they resist, they are "evil, heartless, cruel" and cast out of society or killed. Well, geniuses are smart people, they don't take that - they leave.
Do you believe that all people who launch DoS attacks, from these guys doing them on a large scale down to the guys using exploits thru IRC, should be jailed if it can be proven that they committed the crime or do you believe it to just be part of the Internet culture?
The people throughout history that you are talking about did not "jeopardize their jobs by demanding better working conditions", they grouped into a mindless horde and intimidated, maimed, and murdered people to get their petty way that they didn't deserve. I'm not saying they didn't deserve better working conditions as workers, they did. But as thugs, they deserved to be jailed and nothing less. If they take their arguments to their employer and can't get conditions changed, they leave. The company replaces them with someone willing to work in those conditions. An idiot, no doubt. Well, that idiot isn't as good as you, right? Kick back and watch while the company goes under.
If it weren't for unions, bad companies would go bankrupt, not be kept around half-alive.
And leaving is not cowardly. If an equitable solution cannot be had, why would you stick around? That's like saying not buying an overpriced car is cowardly, you should buy it and then bitch about it not being better and send petitions to the carmaker to improve these "inhumane conditions" you were put into - oh, no, wait, FORCED into.
"After all, if one person quits, there's always more cattle to choose from. "
Okay, I agree with you, you are cattle. However, I am not. If they replace me with one of your kind, the cattle, the company will not do as well. If they choose to replace me anyways or choose not to pay me enough to retain me, bad move on their part, the company is never going to be as good as it could have been if I'd been there making my contribution.
I guess my whole problem is that I don't think I'm completely worthless like you think you are.
Esperandi Note about history: Capitalism did not create the sweatshops of early America, it inherited them.
I'm guessing that you are young, single, childless, and working in an industry that has more jobs than qualified people to fill them.
And I'm guessing that so are you, as are 90% of Slashdot. But that's irrelevant. You see, you have to use logic in arguments, what you are doing is a logical fallacy by attacking the speaker. Even if I'm a pathological liar, you hve to evaluate my argument objectively if you ever want to understand anything in the world.
Yes, most icons are fixed at 32x32 and are raster. This is not a problem. There is a format in Windows supposed low-level and all called a Windows Meta File and its a vector-based format that can scale perfectly. We've got to move on eventually. At some point people decided 8x8 was too small for icons and moved to 16x16 then went to 32x32 and now we have 64x64 (Large Icons option in Windows which is what everyone thinks I'm talking about). All of the display except raster images is ready for this kind of display. Everything else in Windows is measured in millimeters, twips, whatever, instead of pixels.
You know, someone ought to go back and do research on high-performance vector monitors...
That's not what I'm talking about.. sheesh... i was talking about underneath. When you program for the Windows API you *NEVER* specify pixels. You specify twips, dialog units, millimeters, and a bunch of other resolution-independent units.
Sizes of things like button bars in Windows are set up as "dialog units" which are resolution-independent, so its not a problem... if a program is hard-coded down to the pixel level it would be a problem definitely, but I think theres a lot of flexibility in Windows. All the units are twips, points (1/72s of an inch), and etc. Even when you want to hard-code the pixel value, you have to convert the pixel value to screen coordinates first... you can have different ways of mapping the coordinates to the screen, all kinds of stuff. Windows looks real cakey and smiley and happy on the surface, but you start programming with the API directly and you see its true face... and but gawd its ugly.
Microsoft Windows is already resolution-independent. Ask anyone who has had to deal with twips or the other few resolution-independent Microsoftian units... also, most fonts are truetype remember, vector-based, so they're already resolution independent.
Esperandi /.s gotta love it when they find out they need to catch up to something Windows did years ago.
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It's RDRAM only, I guess that means its dead already, huh? I mean being as they can't get it to work, it costs more than a shiny new car, and all that jazz...
At least they're finally not doing that pussy-ass shit like moving from 100Mhz bus to 133... come on, how lame is that? AMD gave us a jump to 200, and we're getting 400 next. When Intel tries to go from 400 to 433, I will rain hellfire on their engineers.
Esperandi
I want my 500GHz processor NOW, bitch. Screw your profits, you'll sell enough of them to make up for it.
Because AMD is kicking their ass and they're scared.
Esperandi
It expands to fill the space it is given, its a law of software engineering.
Esperandi
When the Itanium and AMDs 64 bit chips are out (and BTW, the AMD one already looks like it will make Intel's chip its bitch with 50% better performance running old 32 bit apps and extremely easier programming) you're going to complain that you can't use .
Esperandi
Well, they're doing it in the "real" world too (and what is so fake about it? The electrons are real), they're just doing it while doing something they both love. If they were doing it skydiving or under water you wouldn't whine about it being sad because they we'ren't doing it on the ground...
Esperandi
This is off-topic and its a news story that Slashdot refused to post for some very very bizarre and unpublicized reason. But I happen to think you guys would like to hear about it: There's a company called Bascom Global Internet Services that is starting a program whereby people will be able to donate hardware to the Open Source community. They'll then give it out to the neediest programmers (so if you have a good day job, forget about it) in order to improve their projects.
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Wired News reported this yesterday, I submitted it and it was rejected in mere minutes. The link to the Wired News article is here:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34226
I'm not bored enough to post this as HTML just so you can see a pretty link.
Esperandi
He matched 5 pairs. There's a chance of 1 in a hundred thousand or so, but it DOES happen (people win the lottery, eh?). After they matched that, they went and ran the check that takes a lot longer on 10 pairs. He didn't match that, so they let him go.
This is like saying that we acidentally killed the wrong guy after releasing an innocent man from questioning. It didn't happen. It didn't even come close to happening, people are just ignoring the guy is sitting at home in his house and that it was the exact same DNA matching lab (the ones that CORRECTLY matched the first 5 pairs) that matched the 10 and said it wasn't the right guy.
Esperandi
Sorry, replied to wrong post ;)
Esperandi
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
sheesh
Esperandi
sorry, replied to the wrong post ;)
Esperandi
My previous reply should have been posted somewhere else, please completely ignore it.
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
sheesh
Esperandi
I think to truly embody the attitude and beliefs of the Open Source movement, this guys disclaimer really ought to be imported into the GPL as the default disclaimer. In case you didn't read, here it is:
WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME?
Well, don't come crying to me. Do you think I care if a useless, buggy hack for an unsupported port of a game on a free operating system doesn't work for you? Hah! Think again. Err, but if you, heh, fix anything I'd sure love to hear about it.
Esperandi
Contrary to popular belief, your brain is constantly regenerating brain cells. Brain cells do not live forever, they die and are reborn like every other cell in the body.
There is a catch, however, and its the reason scientists once thot no brain cells could ever be regenerated... they need acetylcholene. Acetylcholene isn't usually found anywhere in your body except one place - the protective "lining" of brain cells. So when it goes to regenerate one, it rips an old one apart and builds the new cell inside, so it seems like no progress is being made. There is one food that contains acetylcholine, though. Fish! It really IS brain food! (I'm not joking, BTW) You can buy choline tablets too at health food stores. Lots of people call it a "smart drug" but it doesn't increase intelligence, it simply stops the brain from autocannibalizing cells when regenerating. Nootropics (smart drugs) is an interesting field. Most are just like caffeine spinoffs (keep you more alert) and a lot are just lies in a bottle, but there seems to be a lot of study done on acetylcholene.
Esperandi
If we could get these series on the Internet (which would require a totally new video file format... cartoons have an ENTIRELY different dynamic than pure vidoe does that makes them look pretty damn bad... but also opens up avenues where simpler compression algorithms that fail on real video could FLY on cartoons) and work out a way to pay the people providing it on a per-view basis (or hell, they could sell commercials just like any normal show but be able to count their viewers much more accurately) I think they could work. I mean, the people that follow The Critic, The Tick, all those shows on Comedy Central's Animation Block, plus shows like Family Guy and Futurama (even tho it has the Touch of Groenig(TM) I think its going to end up in the dustbin because it has too many technical jokes (how many caught that Bender's main CPU is a 6502, the same processor used in the NES and Gameboy?)) have a cult following which is much different than a normal following. A normal following watches every episode - once. In droves. A cult following watches every episode MANY times, picking apart its intricacies, but on a lower scale of people. The numbers probably end up the same in respect to total number of views... plus, think about how easy it would be to aim those advertisements if its going straight to a cult audience...
Esperandi
Yes MSN was partially hit, do some reading. The MSN site itself was not primarily hit, but according to the news I read off the AP Wire (where CNN and other places get their news), many MSN customers were not able to access the web and somethign else (can't recall). It didn't affect all of them because MSN has a lot of servers all over the country.
Esperandi
Touche!
Heh, bad issue to pick, I live in West Virginia where the majority of this stuff went on in the first place. When the companies turned on the unions, they were fighting fire with fire. The only way to stop force is with force, you can't reason with it and you can't just live with it. I don't think it should have been done the way it usually was done (after hours, drivebys by their homes, etc), i think they should have walked up to the picket line and the first guy to swing a club or throw a punch gets beat into a twitching mass. The next guy gets the same. And the next and the next until there are a few people left who will say "Okay, this obviously isn't working. We're working in bad conditions. If these conditions persist, we will leave and you will have to replace us with inferior help. This will hurt your business. The cost of improving the conditions a bit (no mine is ever going to be heaven) is less than the cost you will lose."
But, strangely, the collective never thought quite as clearly as that, and miners are not stupid people.
People keep telling me to read history, and I've read loads and loads of it. Every country that has taken on any form of socialism from unions to welfare has eliminated more and more of their geniuses, they call it "brain drain". The entire philsophy behind "everyone is just as good as everyone else" is not "everyone is a genius", but instead "everyone is a lout and they can't help what they do" and its used to excuse the real louts, and treat the geniuses like louts, bleeding them into poverty in order to prop up one or two other people. If they resist, they are "evil, heartless, cruel" and cast out of society or killed. Well, geniuses are smart people, they don't take that - they leave.
Esperandi
Do you believe that all people who launch DoS attacks, from these guys doing them on a large scale down to the guys using exploits thru IRC, should be jailed if it can be proven that they committed the crime or do you believe it to just be part of the Internet culture?
Esperandi
Why would it be a CRT? I said ADVANCED vector display!
Esperandi
Raster didn't stay CRT, don't know why vector would....
The people throughout history that you are talking about did not "jeopardize their jobs by demanding better working conditions", they grouped into a mindless horde and intimidated, maimed, and murdered people to get their petty way that they didn't deserve. I'm not saying they didn't deserve better working conditions as workers, they did. But as thugs, they deserved to be jailed and nothing less. If they take their arguments to their employer and can't get conditions changed, they leave. The company replaces them with someone willing to work in those conditions. An idiot, no doubt. Well, that idiot isn't as good as you, right? Kick back and watch while the company goes under.
If it weren't for unions, bad companies would go bankrupt, not be kept around half-alive.
And leaving is not cowardly. If an equitable solution cannot be had, why would you stick around? That's like saying not buying an overpriced car is cowardly, you should buy it and then bitch about it not being better and send petitions to the carmaker to improve these "inhumane conditions" you were put into - oh, no, wait, FORCED into.
"After all, if one person quits, there's always more cattle to choose from. "
Okay, I agree with you, you are cattle. However, I am not. If they replace me with one of your kind, the cattle, the company will not do as well. If they choose to replace me anyways or choose not to pay me enough to retain me, bad move on their part, the company is never going to be as good as it could have been if I'd been there making my contribution.
I guess my whole problem is that I don't think I'm completely worthless like you think you are.
Esperandi
Note about history: Capitalism did not create the sweatshops of early America, it inherited them.
Oh, so Northwest's employees are worthless? That's a great stand to take.
Esperandi
I'm guessing that you are young, single, childless, and working in an industry that has more jobs than qualified people to fill them.
And I'm guessing that so are you, as are 90% of Slashdot. But that's irrelevant. You see, you have to use logic in arguments, what you are doing is a logical fallacy by attacking the speaker. Even if I'm a pathological liar, you hve to evaluate my argument objectively if you ever want to understand anything in the world.
Eperandi
Yes, most icons are fixed at 32x32 and are raster. This is not a problem. There is a format in Windows supposed low-level and all called a Windows Meta File and its a vector-based format that can scale perfectly. We've got to move on eventually. At some point people decided 8x8 was too small for icons and moved to 16x16 then went to 32x32 and now we have 64x64 (Large Icons option in Windows which is what everyone thinks I'm talking about). All of the display except raster images is ready for this kind of display. Everything else in Windows is measured in millimeters, twips, whatever, instead of pixels.
You know, someone ought to go back and do research on high-performance vector monitors...
Esperandi
That's not what I'm talking about.. sheesh... i was talking about underneath. When you program for the Windows API you *NEVER* specify pixels. You specify twips, dialog units, millimeters, and a bunch of other resolution-independent units.
Esperandi
Sizes of things like button bars in Windows are set up as "dialog units" which are resolution-independent, so its not a problem... if a program is hard-coded down to the pixel level it would be a problem definitely, but I think theres a lot of flexibility in Windows. All the units are twips, points (1/72s of an inch), and etc. Even when you want to hard-code the pixel value, you have to convert the pixel value to screen coordinates first... you can have different ways of mapping the coordinates to the screen, all kinds of stuff. Windows looks real cakey and smiley and happy on the surface, but you start programming with the API directly and you see its true face... and but gawd its ugly.
Esperandi
Microsoft Windows is already resolution-independent. Ask anyone who has had to deal with twips or the other few resolution-independent Microsoftian units... also, most fonts are truetype remember, vector-based, so they're already resolution independent.
Esperandi
/.s gotta love it when they find out they need to catch up to something Windows did years ago.