I totally agree. I had an opportunity to go to one of their presentations two months ago, and it appealed to me greatly. Believe it or not, Wycliffe is actually one of the organizations most involved in computational linguistics and language-processing research these days. Not just Christian organization, but organization, period. People from Wycliffe present papers at linguistics and CS conferences every year, just like their peers in academia and industry. For the nerds who know what I'm talking about they've managed to get a lot of revisions done to the Unicode standard (the character set that tries to include every character known to man, more or less.) In short, they're doing a lot of interesting stufs with computers, so one would have a lot of opportunities to do real CS, ie actually solve problems and write software, not just be a sysadmin/IT guy like one would be with any other missionary sending organization.
When flying across oceans or remote parts of the world (many parts of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia), pilots are not under radar coverage, and conventional VHF radio that they use to talk to air traffic controllers and their own airline don't work, and satellite usage is expensive, so they have developed technology called (Airccraft and Crew Reporting System) and closely related CPDLC (Controller/Pilot Data Link Communication) for communications between a plane and airline operations or ATC respectively. These are basically text messaging links carried over HF radio. It's not Internet email, but the concept is very much the same.
These days, an airliner on a transoceanic flight may very well be doing all its communications overwater by HF text messaging, and the pilots will not actually speak to anyone for the entire ocean crossing. While it might seem strange, ACARS and CPDLC communications frees up a lot of frequency congestion for non-routine emergency messages that would otherwise be taken up by traffic such as routine status reports, etc. Think about that next time you cross the pond.:)
From the Visa FAQ linked from the planetpdf.com site:
* Q: How can an applicant learn why he/she was denied a visa at a post overseas?
A: An applicant is always told the reason for denial, orally or in writing. If an applicant does not understand the reason for denial, or wishes to offer further evidence to overcome the denial, he/she should contact the post where the application was made to determine that post's reapplication policy.
From the article:
Nonetheless, visa applications for both ElcomSoft employees were recently denied, she said; no reasons were given.
While I'm glad that India is embracing open-source and Linux so heartily, it's really going to do jack shit for that country unfortunately. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of India.
So, I was in Bangalore, India last March for about a week on business. A bit of background: Bangalore is a special technology development area that the Indian government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that India really ISN'T a moldering third world country with its populace living in utterly squalid, filthy slums. Here, rules are relaxed and IT and other technology is encouraged. Well, let me tell you this, if this is India's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the plane from Delhi (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit, death and cow dung that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and cow dung all over, with many people seemingly near death (or are they dead already) lying in agony in the streets from God knows what. Kids were playing in filthy pools, throwing shit around. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of gibberish that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Indians stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud. And you guys might want to re-think that cow-worship thing -- they aren't exactly the cleanest of animals to be keeping around, and sharing living spaces with humanity.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time India opens up to the world as a purported source for "cheap" IT and other "skilled labor". Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Indian people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap IT services that everyone talks about can be found in Eastern Europe or Asia, where at least the country and its people don't experience stuff like plague and cholera as a day to day way of life.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I was having dinner (by the way, how can anyone eat that curry shit for all their lives, is way beyond me) with a young female business associate, and afterwards, we had a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I paid 1500 rupees (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a bright 25 year old programmer. Boy, those Indian girls sure can get it on -- almost as good as the CHinese. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe.
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's India. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called IT development that's just show more than anything.
They've actually embraced the independent developer very nicely, by first offering their "Net Yaroze" for the Playstation, and now, a actual port of Linux for the Playstation 2..
Sony (and on the software side, many game software companies like id and Valve, with their mod-friendly games) seems to understand that the hobbyists/indie developers of today often are the professional game developers of tomorrow, unlike Microsoft and their efforts toward an Xbox (they've got their "incubator" program, but that is still only for actual game developers, not individuals).
It would be good to provide feedback to other companies to embrace such models like Sony has.
WineX is not the same as Wine -- it's a closed source "fork" of the Wine code, with emphasisgaming support. The reason it's closed source is that it's got reversed-engineered code to support copy protection in games,and releaseing that code could result in legal problems under the DMCA.
Wine itself is still under development very much alive and well.
I'm not surprised that the Taiwanese would be up to stuff like this, and wouldn't put it past them to do such sheningans. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent. I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of Taiwan.
So, I was in Hsinchu, Taiwan last August for about a week on business. A bit of background: Hsinchu is a "Science Park" that the TAiwan government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that Taiwan really ISN'T a drab, overcrowded agarian state that's diplomatically isolated from the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and technology is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is Taiwan's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Taipei (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Americans left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
And do I need to mention Chou Tofu (stinky tofu), a staple of the Taiwanese diet? God, you can smell that shit from a mile away. They put tofu among rotting vegatbles, and they actually eat it afterwards.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Taiwanese stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time Taiwan produces 90% of the stuff that goes into the world's PCs. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Taiwanese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see students trying to score as high as possible on entrace exams, so they can get into a good college, and then to grad school in the US, and if they fail, with tragic results (Taiwan's suicide rate is among the highest in the developed world).
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or China.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 1000 NT dollars (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's Taiwan. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new technology that's just show more than anything.
First off, this is not the first time someone's tried it -- the scheme I describe is also used in 'StarForce' and 'TIES' protections, which also have not been broken (other than via no-CD cracks, of course).
Basically, the system works by measuring the angle between certain sectors. How does it do it? By timing the seek time between these sectors. First, the disc will do several seeks of various sectors with known angles to 'calibrate' it, and then, it does seeks of various random sectors (to compensate for various drive speeds). If the timing of the sectors is not within a certain tolerance, that indicates that the physical geometry of the sectors is not the expected angle, and it knows it's not a real copy.
Because CD burners do NOT preserve angle geometry when copying a disc, and even successive burns on the same burner/media may result in different angles, this is so far a fool-proof way. On the other hand, since production CDs are made by pressing with a stamper, not burning, it's not an issue for them.
What if your private rocket has a malfunction and goes slamming into a major city, killing thousands? With space technology so new compared to all other forms of transportation, I'm guessing that it would be an insurance nightmare, I think, for any private individual or even single company to afford.
Just some suggestions off the top of my head: It seems like that's what you're going to do by writing it in C++ so maybe I'm just repeating what you know, but it lends itself naturally for such things... abstract object/shape class and then go from there.
You should have some sort of independent 3-D rendering layer, if you want API independence. Make it extensible, and don't forget about hardware shaders for quick visualization of textures, etc... even something that many commercial modellers don't support yet. Have some sort of translation layer to translate from your own material model to whatever hardware shading language is in vogue now.
Use embedded Tcl/Tk for UI scripting, to allow maximum flexibility
Perhaps for consumer 35mm yes, the stuff you buy at Walmart, digital is surpassing film. Then again, most consumers like that won't spend $9000 for a camera. But no way digital is better than all film, certainly, not for slide films, and DEFINITELY not the medium or large format films used in most professional photography (eg, wedding studio shots, high-end photojournalism like National Geographic, etc.)
There's more in the world than just the US... think the superhighways in Germany or Italy for instance.
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I would submit that Taiwan itself is more of a deterrent than the US for preventing any hostility between China and Taiwan... the reason is simple: Taiwan is now China's third largest investor, next to the US and Japan -- even despite limits on investment activity set by the Taiwanese government. Other than the most advanced technology, much of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, such as chip fabs, has been farmed out to factories in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, as well as many other parts of China. The relationship is a lot like say, US and Mexico for instance.
Taiwan pumps a LOT into the Chinese economy, and the Chinese know it. The leaders of China may be aggressive, because face is everything, and they want to maintain a strong posture to the world. Nevertheless, they are not irrational or suicidal. A trade embargo between Taiwan and China would be plenty damaging enough, even without US military intervention (which is also a guarantee -- Taiwan and the US are still subject to terms of their mutual defense treaty, signed as part of US switching diplomatic recognition to the PRC in 1979.)
I'm not surprised that the Chinese would be up to stuff like this, and wouldn't put it past them to do whatever it takes to regain Taiwan. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent. I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Unfortunately, most standalone DVD players won't play a mini-DVD (eg, DVD on a CD) because they detect the CD media, and assume it's either a audio or video CD, not a DVD.
But it's certainly playable on any computer though -- much more cheaper than DVD-R for distributing short clips without losing the quality of DVD Video.
Contrary to what the article said, there is a REAL DDR port by Konami for the PC that just came out recently... I've seen it for sale at Fry's electronics. You can use a dance pad that connects via the USB cable.
Re: Windows Media 9, who runs the licensing/authentication servers to authenticate the player? Microsoft? Or does each provider have their own server? The article did not state this.
I'm not surprised that the Chinese would up to stuff like this -- I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent. I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Raycasting and BSP trees are standard methods in computer graphics that have been around since the early 1980s. Turner Whitted wrote his first raytracer in, I think 1980, and that used BSP tree acceleration to speed up ray-object intersection computation, the bottleneck of any renderer that uses raytracing.
It is now new, nor did iD invent those techniques. Maybe using them in a real-time game is, but they are not something that Carmack just thought up on his own, for the purposes of games.
I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent. I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of India.
So, I was in Bangalore, India last March for about a week on business. A bit of background: Bangalore is a special technology development area that the Indian government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that India really ISN'T a moldering third world country with its populace living in utterly squalid, filthy slums. Here, rules are relaxed and IT and other technology is encouraged. Well, let me tell you this, if this is India's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the plane from Delhi (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit, death and cow dung that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and cow dung all over, with many people seemingly near death (or are they dead already) lying in agony in the streets from God knows what. Kids were playing in filthy pools, throwing shit around. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of gibberish that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Indians stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud. And you guys might want to re-think that cow-worship thing -- they aren't exactly the cleanest of animals to be keeping around, and sharing living spaces with humanity.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time India opens up to the world as a purported source for "cheap" IT and other "skilled labor". Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Indian people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap IT services that everyone talks about can be found in Eastern Europe or Asia, where at least the country and its people don't experience stuff like plague and cholera as a day to day way of life.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I was having dinner (how can anyone eat that curry shit for all their lives, is way beyond me) with a young female business associate, and afterwards, we had a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I paid 1500 rupees (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a bright 25 year old programmer. Boy, those Indian girls sure can get it on -- almost as good as the CHinese. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe.
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's India. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called IT development that's just show more than anything.
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I totally agree. I had an opportunity to go to one of their presentations two months ago, and it appealed to me greatly. Believe it or not, Wycliffe is actually one of the organizations most involved in computational linguistics and language-processing research these days. Not just Christian organization, but organization, period. People from Wycliffe present papers at linguistics and CS conferences every year, just like their peers in academia and industry. For the nerds who know what I'm talking about they've managed to get a lot of revisions done to the Unicode standard (the character set that tries to include every character known to man, more or less.) In short, they're doing a lot of interesting stufs with computers, so one would have a lot of opportunities to do real CS, ie actually solve problems and write software, not just be a sysadmin/IT guy like one would be with any other missionary sending organization.
When flying across oceans or remote parts of the world (many parts of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia), pilots are not under radar coverage, and conventional VHF radio that they use to talk to air traffic controllers and their own airline don't work, and satellite usage is expensive, so they have developed technology called (Airccraft and Crew Reporting System) and closely related CPDLC (Controller/Pilot Data Link Communication) for communications between a plane and airline operations or ATC respectively. These are basically text messaging links carried over HF radio. It's not Internet email, but the concept is very much the same.
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These days, an airliner on a transoceanic flight may very well be doing all its communications overwater by HF text messaging, and the pilots will not actually speak to anyone for the entire ocean crossing. While it might seem strange, ACARS and CPDLC communications frees up a lot of frequency congestion for non-routine emergency messages that would otherwise be taken up by traffic such as routine status reports, etc. Think about that next time you cross the pond.
From the Visa FAQ linked from the planetpdf.com site:
* Q: How can an applicant learn why he/she was denied a visa at a post overseas?
A: An applicant is always told the reason for denial, orally or in writing. If an applicant does not understand the reason for denial, or wishes to offer further evidence to overcome the denial, he/she should contact the post where the application was made to determine that post's reapplication policy.
From the article:
Nonetheless, visa applications for both ElcomSoft employees were recently denied, she said; no reasons were given.
Is the US contradicting its own policy here?
Those games are a drop in the bucket compared to Microsoft's flagship Xbox. Besides, they are developed by other studios, MS just publishes the games.
While I'm glad that India is embracing open-source and Linux so heartily, it's really going to do jack shit for that country unfortunately. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of India.
So, I was in Bangalore, India last March for about a week on business. A bit of background: Bangalore is a special technology development area that the Indian government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that India really ISN'T a moldering third world country with its populace living in utterly squalid, filthy slums. Here, rules are relaxed and IT and other technology is encouraged. Well, let me tell you this, if this is India's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the plane from Delhi (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit, death and cow dung that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and cow dung all over, with many people seemingly near death (or are they dead already) lying in agony in the streets from God knows what. Kids were playing in filthy pools, throwing shit around. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of gibberish that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Indians stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud. And you guys might want to re-think that cow-worship thing -- they aren't exactly the cleanest of animals to be keeping around, and sharing living spaces with humanity.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time India opens up to the world as a purported source for "cheap" IT and other "skilled labor". Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Indian people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap IT services that everyone talks about can be found in Eastern Europe or Asia, where at least the country and its people don't experience stuff like plague and cholera as a day to day way of life.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I was having dinner (by the way, how can anyone eat that curry shit for all their lives, is way beyond me) with a young female business associate, and afterwards, we had a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I paid 1500 rupees (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a bright 25 year old programmer. Boy, those Indian girls sure can get it on -- almost as good as the CHinese. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe.
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's India. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called IT development that's just show more than anything.
They've actually embraced the independent developer very nicely, by first offering their "Net Yaroze" for the Playstation, and now, a actual port of Linux for the Playstation 2..
Sony (and on the software side, many game software companies like id and Valve, with their mod-friendly games) seems to understand that the hobbyists/indie developers of today often are the professional game developers of tomorrow, unlike Microsoft and their efforts toward an Xbox (they've got their "incubator" program, but that is still only for actual game developers, not individuals).
It would be good to provide feedback to other companies to embrace such models like Sony has.
WineX is not the same as Wine -- it's a closed source "fork" of the Wine code, with emphasisgaming support. The reason it's closed source is that it's got reversed-engineered code to support copy protection in games,and releaseing that code could result in legal problems under the DMCA.
Wine itself is still under development very much alive and well.
I'm not surprised that the Taiwanese would be up to stuff like this, and wouldn't put it past them to do such sheningans. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of Taiwan.
So, I was in Hsinchu, Taiwan last August for about a week on business. A bit of background: Hsinchu is a "Science Park" that the TAiwan government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that Taiwan really ISN'T a drab, overcrowded agarian state that's diplomatically isolated from the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and technology is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is Taiwan's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Taipei (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Americans left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
And do I need to mention Chou Tofu (stinky tofu), a staple of the Taiwanese diet? God, you can smell that shit from a mile away. They put tofu among rotting vegatbles, and they actually eat it afterwards.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Taiwanese stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time Taiwan produces 90% of the stuff that goes into the world's PCs. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Taiwanese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see students trying to score as high as possible on entrace exams, so they can get into a good college, and then to grad school in the US, and if they fail, with tragic results (Taiwan's suicide rate is among the highest in the developed world).
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or China.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 1000 NT dollars (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's Taiwan. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new technology that's just show more than anything.
First off, this is not the first time someone's tried it -- the scheme I describe is also used in 'StarForce' and 'TIES' protections, which also have not been broken (other than via no-CD cracks, of course).
Basically, the system works by measuring the angle between certain sectors. How does it do it? By timing the seek time between these sectors. First, the disc will do several seeks of various sectors with known angles to 'calibrate' it, and then, it does seeks of various random sectors (to compensate for various drive speeds). If the timing of the sectors is not within a certain tolerance, that indicates that the physical geometry of the sectors is not the expected angle, and it knows it's not a real copy.
Because CD burners do NOT preserve angle geometry when copying a disc, and even successive burns on the same burner/media may result in different angles, this is so far a fool-proof way. On the other hand, since production CDs are made by pressing with a stamper, not burning, it's not an issue for them.
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What if your private rocket has a malfunction and goes slamming into a major city, killing thousands? With space technology so new compared to all other forms of transportation, I'm guessing that it would be an insurance nightmare, I think, for any private individual or even single company to afford.
Just some suggestions off the top of my head: It seems like that's what you're going to do by writing it in C++ so maybe I'm just repeating what you know, but it lends itself naturally for such things... abstract object/shape class and then go from there.
You should have some sort of independent 3-D rendering layer, if you want API independence. Make it extensible, and don't forget about hardware shaders for quick visualization of textures, etc... even something that many commercial modellers don't support yet. Have some sort of translation layer to translate from your own material model to whatever hardware shading language is in vogue now.
Use embedded Tcl/Tk for UI scripting, to allow maximum flexibility
Perhaps for consumer 35mm yes, the stuff you buy at Walmart, digital is surpassing film. Then again, most consumers like that won't spend $9000 for a camera. But no way digital is better than all film, certainly, not for slide films, and DEFINITELY not the medium or large format films used in most professional photography (eg, wedding studio shots, high-end photojournalism like National Geographic, etc.)
There's more in the world than just the US... think the superhighways in Germany or Italy for instance.
I would submit that Taiwan itself is more of a deterrent than the US for preventing any hostility between China and Taiwan... the reason is simple: Taiwan is now China's third largest investor, next to the US and Japan -- even despite limits on investment activity set by the Taiwanese government. Other than the most advanced technology, much of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, such as chip fabs, has been farmed out to factories in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, as well as many other parts of China. The relationship is a lot like say, US and Mexico for instance.
Taiwan pumps a LOT into the Chinese economy, and the Chinese know it. The leaders of China may be aggressive, because face is everything, and they want to maintain a strong posture to the world. Nevertheless, they are not irrational or suicidal. A trade embargo between Taiwan and China would be plenty damaging enough, even without US military intervention (which is also a guarantee -- Taiwan and the US are still subject to terms of their mutual defense treaty, signed as part of US switching diplomatic recognition to the PRC in 1979.)
I'm not surprised that the Chinese would be up to stuff like this, and wouldn't put it past them to do whatever it takes to regain Taiwan. I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Unfortunately, most standalone DVD players won't play a mini-DVD (eg, DVD on a CD) because they detect the CD media, and assume it's either a audio or video CD, not a DVD.
But it's certainly playable on any computer though -- much more cheaper than DVD-R for distributing short clips without losing the quality of DVD Video.
Contrary to what the article said, there is a REAL DDR port by Konami for the PC that just came out recently... I've seen it for sale at Fry's electronics. You can use a dance pad that connects via the USB cable.
It's DDR 3rd mix only, though, I believe.
Re: Windows Media 9, who runs the licensing/authentication servers to authenticate the player? Microsoft? Or does each provider have their own server? The article did not state this.
I'm not surprised that the Chinese would up to stuff like this -- I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Raycasting and BSP trees are standard methods in computer graphics that have been around since the early 1980s. Turner Whitted wrote his first raytracer in, I think 1980, and that used BSP tree acceleration to speed up ray-object intersection computation, the bottleneck of any renderer that uses raytracing.
It is now new, nor did iD invent those techniques. Maybe using them in a real-time game is, but they are not something that Carmack just thought up on his own, for the purposes of games.
I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of India.
So, I was in Bangalore, India last March for about a week on business. A bit of background: Bangalore is a special technology development area that the Indian government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that India really ISN'T a moldering third world country with its populace living in utterly squalid, filthy slums. Here, rules are relaxed and IT and other technology is encouraged. Well, let me tell you this, if this is India's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the plane from Delhi (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit, death and cow dung that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and cow dung all over, with many people seemingly near death (or are they dead already) lying in agony in the streets from God knows what. Kids were playing in filthy pools, throwing shit around. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of gibberish that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Indians stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud. And you guys might want to re-think that cow-worship thing -- they aren't exactly the cleanest of animals to be keeping around, and sharing living spaces with humanity.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time India opens up to the world as a purported source for "cheap" IT and other "skilled labor". Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Indian people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap IT services that everyone talks about can be found in Eastern Europe or Asia, where at least the country and its people don't experience stuff like plague and cholera as a day to day way of life.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I was having dinner (how can anyone eat that curry shit for all their lives, is way beyond me) with a young female business associate, and afterwards, we had a few drinks. One thing lead to another and I paid 1500 rupees (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a bright 25 year old programmer. Boy, those Indian girls sure can get it on -- almost as good as the CHinese. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe.
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's India. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called IT development that's just show more than anything.
A nice sign, at least.
Maybe he's the new spokesman for Viagra -- his name is perfect! :)
IFOEDIT has a built-in software player. It's pretty basic, but it gets the job done.