Actually, you're pulling that quote entirely out of context. If you read the entire interview below from where that quote originates, you'll find the comment is in jest and the whole interview is flippant and comedic in tone; Shatner never gives serious answers. As a post further up notes, "big targets are easy to hit" and though I don't wish to be an apologist, I think you may have mistook his unusual and occasionally brilliant approach to self deprecation via aggrandizement as someone who is actually delusional:
"Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The geologists dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum...lawsuit trolls..."
It would seem, then, that viewing the same number of pages in distinct processes vs within the same process would use more memory.
This is true, but perhaps chrome uses some clever copy-on-write VM technology? Or (gasp) perhaps windows does? Any VM guys want to comment?
But the GP's claimed memory management benefits come from the ability to find pages that cause memory leaks somehow and close their processes, I believe. No idea how well it works in practice, but when I have ventured into windows and used chrome in the past, closing down lots of tabs would indeed free up lots of memory, for sufficient quantities of lots, and it did seem to exhibit far more aggressive reductions than firefox.
The dust is not uniformly charged to one polarity or another. There has been very successful research in low power transparent electrodynamic screens that will remove all the deposited dust, however:
Sure we can: it's not obnoxious at all! (...well, it doesn't bother me at least)
I really do like Idle's layout but joking aside, I definitely agree that/. ought to allow for some background color changing via css menus or user prefs. People spend so much time here, it's sensible to allow for some changeable color schemes just as one could do to his or her own room (without going the way of hokey 'tropical theme' skins)./. really isn't the place for the "one true way" mindset.
He was 25 years old when he left and he was the reincarnation of the guy before him. Many of the prior Dalai Lamas had no issue being leaders at the point, why does this one get a pass? The reason, I believe, is because if we don't give him a pass to all the evils going on while he was the monarch of Tibet it completely undermines his humanitarian mission he claims to be on now.
As a practicing Buddhist, I wholly discount the literal vessel-to-vessel concept of 'reincarnation' espoused by the west and I've found plenty of canon-based support for this position that is in agreement with the Tibetan interpretation of Samsara, especially within the context of the Dalai Lama's lineage. I don't blame western journalism for missing the subtleties due to the contradictions inherent in the different sources, but your "same person in a different body" argument is frivolous mysticism and not the current position of the Royal House.
Thus, he is absolutely not responsible or accountable for the actions of previous Lamas, just as our current pope, prime ministers, and presidents are not responsible for the actions taken by the previous occupants of the positions.
He took the throne in name only at 15, but did not finish school until age 25, when he escaped from Tibet under threat of assassination. I posit that for a man to orchestrate and see to success a social revolution in the span of a year or two, while in the process of political appeals to both China and the world at large for assistance and while his people were being massacred, is unreasonable. The actions the office and administration did take were based on ending active violence against the people of Tibet. Social reform was occurring during this time as well, primarily in organized women's demonstrations and movements.
He gets a pass.
A female Lama? Two Lamas? Seriously? He does remember that he is one of many male reincarnations, right? Sorry, but this is looks to me like pandering to the west. It runs strongly counter to their theology.
He's always wanted the institution to end, as it was intended to serve the people and not hinder them, and he has been on record proposing this termination since the 1960s. According to the Royal House, the continuation of the lineage, and in what form, is ultimately to be decided upon by a popular vote (despite the challenges of doing so when one's people is in exile). People don't always vote for their own best interests, and his radical positions have been asserted in order to coax them toward an unorthodox solution to a long history of social problems.
Calling the whole Tibetan theocracy a load of crap is pretty solid.....He didn't talk so much until government funding for his guerilla activities dried up.
Quit with the straw man argument. I'm NOT defending the historical Tibetan monarchy. I do not support the reinstitution of it. Neither does Tenzin Gyatso. My argument relates to the legitimacy and correctness of his political opinions and positions. He has been making these arguments since prior to his own exile (see Seventeen Point agreement, '59, '61, '65 UN resolutions related to Tibet, etc). There is no link you can draw between any transfer of funds and his stated positions, neither chronological nor substantive.
These "guerilla activities" are empty accusations. 250 resistance fighters were trained in Colorado as a contingency, prior to the Dalai Lama leaving Tibet (and prior to him gaining power as leader of the people) but the USA never planned to actively support military operations to liberate Tibet. The Dalai Lama also did not support or condone a liberation by force. The only "guerilla" activity he was engaged in were working with the gatesmen and boarder guards that secured his disguised escape into India through the mountain passes. This did not involve any subversive or militarized plans, and was limited to a small and trusted circle
The current Dalai Lama is not responsible for the conditions of Tibet prior to the chinese invasion, he was only a student. No one, including myself, has any insight on whether he would have maintained the status quo or enacted sweeping reforms were China not involved.
Most important to note however, is that he is not currently seeking Tibetan independence. He himself has acknowledged that independence is impractical. He's acknowledged that the whole leadership system is in need of change, and would like to see either a female Dalai Lama or two or none succeed him.
Instead he wants Tibet's autonomy under China, with religious freedom. Penn and Teller don't seem to be interested in constructing a balanced and reasoned argument, even mixing the independent US funding of anticommunist resistance way back from the 60s into the argument. WTF?? Most of the money received by the Dalai Lama goes to the schools and charities in the area. He even gave his Nobel Prize money away. According to his own words, he only retains what is needed for his modest clothing and food, and what is needed for his surrounding staff. These folks (including the man himself) fly coach everywhere.
If you need sources, check two PBS documentaries for direct quotes on video that overlap most of these well established stances, '10 questions for the Dalai Lama' and 'women of tibet, a quiet revolution', plus the NPR broadcasts covering the Dalai Lama's responses during the tibetan unrests, all online and archived at NPR.org.
Of course, this only works if 1) your boss checks cellphone voicemail all at once, preferably late in the day and 2) doesn't expect office communication to be done via email/IM/etc...
This is probably more useful for, say, teenagers who know the moment they speak to their mom and dad they'll be told to go home, but with this they can fly under the radar for a few hours.
On the positive side of things, you can certainly convey much more in a voicemail than you can in a SMS text, if you know your friend is in a class or your coworker is in a meeting.
"Hey boss! Sorry I'm leaving ANOTHER message! Working from home today as usual. Are you out of town? I've called three times today but you must be in an area without coverage. I really need to talk with you about some implementation specifics before I can start coding." (goes back to sleep)
The idea is modularization. VNC does one thing, and does it (sort of) well. SSH does one thing and does it well in version 2. If you can't use SSH authentication in a setting, then you're still able to use VNC with some other auth mechanism. RemoteDesktop is inflexible and monolithic, if one component in the chain is a problem you have to abandon the whole solution. The modularity of *nix is it's strength, but it also makes things more difficult for novices. Windows is there for a reason - for people like you, who need things to 'just (sort of) work (with luck)'. Don't complain just because you think you can have your easy to use GUI cake and eat an extremely powerful implementation too. Developer man-hours are limited. They'll get to it when they have time away from their REAL jobs that PAY. Linux distros are so much more userfriendly these days because of many people willing to put hard work into it without reward, not because Blakey Rat sat around complaining on slashdot until someone got off their butt and started working on a trivially easy coding task.
Time for a car analogy: "This Minivan sucks. It can't go fast at all. The designers hate drivers, there's no other explanation." Well, a minivan is cheap and designed for carrying a lot of people. Pay more, get a better solution for your needs - Porsche.
If it results in getting good phones into American hands, I'm all for this kind of cutthroat competition. If not Google or Apple, someone else will release an open platform with reasonable data rates and top-tier features.
Maybe it was someone working as a US mercenary for a private company such as Blackwater? I know nothing about their coverage policies but I would hazard that they're much worse than veteran care.
Thanks! I'll start with that advice. I've looked through a little bit of the examples on the main site. I've been feeling too impatient and very curious as to how folks like flight404 are creating these great lighting and texture effects:
It seems things like that represent a couple years of experience (stuff like the magnetophysics of the ball) but I like to get my hands as dirty as possible, as quickly as possible.
This summer my goal is to start working with Processing. I'm at home in C/C++/Lisp and I have a tiny bit of experience with openGL (probably safe to assume it's worthless though - I pretty much recycled other folks' shaders when I was working with it). Do any folks here have some advice, such as where they started when they began working with Processing? Thanks:)
If it becomes infeasible to deliver very high-resolution video for cheap/free (aka bittorrent), then there won't be as great of a demand for ultra high resolution monitors and better offload-to-IC-decoder chips to spare CPU and GPU work when watching video.
We'll be stuck at ugly, low resolution video for decades, considering how glacially slow comcast and other ISPs are to offer improvements to service for affordable prices. That cap will probably be the same in 2018. I don't understand why people are so gung-ho about this. Even if the current cap is 'secret' it is at least more likely to remain dynamic as web content evolves to utilize extremely high-bandwidth and -transfer capacity.
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WHOOOSH
Somebody missed the joke. But a TV series on dvd produced by Pixar would be more fitting. With internet access to Pizza Hut and Shadow of the Colossus paused but ready in between episodes.
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While these are valid opinions, folks who call for fewer cutscenes in games scare me. They're probably lots of work for game companies and I'm worried we'll see less and less of them. Personally, I love cutscenes. I want to have cutscenes so long, I can order (by pressing x) and eat a pizza during them. I want cutscenes so long, I can just put the disc in and watch 40 hours of rendered cinema in between Shadow of the Colossus style playable boss battles. I also want great voice acting. I'm calling for games designed to be enjoyed by fundamentally lazy people like me. Kojima understands me, and he probably didn't design MGS for you. Please play something else.
The mere idea of higher ups at a previously assumed Big Evil Company paying attention to discussions on Slashdot (with critiques here often ruthless, multifaceted, and heavily biased towards consumer interests) is pretty shocking, and heartening.
If this signals a major shift in Adobe's operating culture, I think it's cause for celebration.
It's frustrating that they act like this, sure, but they're justified in doing so, in my opinion. If I'm using the fruits of other folks' efforts, for free and without doing anything to help in return, they're entitled to act as they please. Though I think forking the project's a really bad idea, I nonetheless fully support their decision. They're allowed to be 'gods', they *are* the creators. When god-developer-overlords disagree, stuff on mortal earth will shake up n' break up.
h.264 does some fantastic things at low bitrates. higher processing power requirements aren't much of a concern if the video can be offloaded to an IC decoder chip on the gpu, moreover.
that being said, i'm not sure if I want to see the same rick astley video for the hundredth time in high definition....
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Captain, they've taken it down! Wayback machine to the rescue, sir!
http://web.archive.org/web/20071015141903/http://startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1086.html
Actually, you're pulling that quote entirely out of context. If you read the entire interview below from where that quote originates, you'll find the comment is in jest and the whole interview is flippant and comedic in tone; Shatner never gives serious answers. As a post further up notes, "big targets are easy to hit" and though I don't wish to be an apologist, I think you may have mistook his unusual and occasionally brilliant approach to self deprecation via aggrandizement as someone who is actually delusional:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1086.html
"Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The geologists dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum...lawsuit trolls..."
It would seem, then, that viewing the same number of pages in distinct processes vs within the same process would use more memory.
This is true, but perhaps chrome uses some clever copy-on-write VM technology? Or (gasp) perhaps windows does? Any VM guys want to comment?
But the GP's claimed memory management benefits come from the ability to find pages that cause memory leaks somehow and close their processes, I believe. No idea how well it works in practice, but when I have ventured into windows and used chrome in the past, closing down lots of tabs would indeed free up lots of memory, for sufficient quantities of lots, and it did seem to exhibit far more aggressive reductions than firefox.
Now you too can raise your own little reaver!
The dust is not uniformly charged to one polarity or another. There has been very successful research in low power transparent electrodynamic screens that will remove all the deposited dust, however:
See Here
If future missions utilize solar panels, this technology will hopefully be implemented.
Sorry everyone, that was me! Silly push %ebp ... Apologies to all...
Sure we can: it's not obnoxious at all! (...well, it doesn't bother me at least)
I really do like Idle's layout but joking aside, I definitely agree that /. ought to allow for some background color changing via css menus or user prefs. People spend so much time here, it's sensible to allow for some changeable color schemes just as one could do to his or her own room (without going the way of hokey 'tropical theme' skins). /. really isn't the place for the "one true way" mindset.
He was 25 years old when he left and he was the reincarnation of the guy before him. Many of the prior Dalai Lamas had no issue being leaders at the point, why does this one get a pass? The reason, I believe, is because if we don't give him a pass to all the evils going on while he was the monarch of Tibet it completely undermines his humanitarian mission he claims to be on now.
As a practicing Buddhist, I wholly discount the literal vessel-to-vessel concept of 'reincarnation' espoused by the west and I've found plenty of canon-based support for this position that is in agreement with the Tibetan interpretation of Samsara, especially within the context of the Dalai Lama's lineage. I don't blame western journalism for missing the subtleties due to the contradictions inherent in the different sources, but your "same person in a different body" argument is frivolous mysticism and not the current position of the Royal House.
Thus, he is absolutely not responsible or accountable for the actions of previous Lamas, just as our current pope, prime ministers, and presidents are not responsible for the actions taken by the previous occupants of the positions.
He took the throne in name only at 15, but did not finish school until age 25, when he escaped from Tibet under threat of assassination. I posit that for a man to orchestrate and see to success a social revolution in the span of a year or two, while in the process of political appeals to both China and the world at large for assistance and while his people were being massacred, is unreasonable. The actions the office and administration did take were based on ending active violence against the people of Tibet. Social reform was occurring during this time as well, primarily in organized women's demonstrations and movements.
He gets a pass.
A female Lama? Two Lamas? Seriously? He does remember that he is one of many male reincarnations, right? Sorry, but this is looks to me like pandering to the west. It runs strongly counter to their theology.
He's always wanted the institution to end, as it was intended to serve the people and not hinder them, and he has been on record proposing this termination since the 1960s. According to the Royal House, the continuation of the lineage, and in what form, is ultimately to be decided upon by a popular vote (despite the challenges of doing so when one's people is in exile). People don't always vote for their own best interests, and his radical positions have been asserted in order to coax them toward an unorthodox solution to a long history of social problems.
Calling the whole Tibetan theocracy a load of crap is pretty solid. ....He didn't talk so much until government funding for his guerilla activities dried up.
Quit with the straw man argument. I'm NOT defending the historical Tibetan monarchy. I do not support the reinstitution of it. Neither does Tenzin Gyatso. My argument relates to the legitimacy and correctness of his political opinions and positions. He has been making these arguments since prior to his own exile (see Seventeen Point agreement, '59, '61, '65 UN resolutions related to Tibet, etc). There is no link you can draw between any transfer of funds and his stated positions, neither chronological nor substantive.
These "guerilla activities" are empty accusations. 250 resistance fighters were trained in Colorado as a contingency, prior to the Dalai Lama leaving Tibet (and prior to him gaining power as leader of the people) but the USA never planned to actively support military operations to liberate Tibet. The Dalai Lama also did not support or condone a liberation by force. The only "guerilla" activity he was engaged in were working with the gatesmen and boarder guards that secured his disguised escape into India through the mountain passes. This did not involve any subversive or militarized plans, and was limited to a small and trusted circle
The current Dalai Lama is not responsible for the conditions of Tibet prior to the chinese invasion, he was only a student. No one, including myself, has any insight on whether he would have maintained the status quo or enacted sweeping reforms were China not involved.
Most important to note however, is that he is not currently seeking Tibetan independence. He himself has acknowledged that independence is impractical. He's acknowledged that the whole leadership system is in need of change, and would like to see either a female Dalai Lama or two or none succeed him.
Instead he wants Tibet's autonomy under China, with religious freedom. Penn and Teller don't seem to be interested in constructing a balanced and reasoned argument, even mixing the independent US funding of anticommunist resistance way back from the 60s into the argument. WTF?? Most of the money received by the Dalai Lama goes to the schools and charities in the area. He even gave his Nobel Prize money away. According to his own words, he only retains what is needed for his modest clothing and food, and what is needed for his surrounding staff. These folks (including the man himself) fly coach everywhere.
If you need sources, check two PBS documentaries for direct quotes on video that overlap most of these well established stances, '10 questions for the Dalai Lama' and 'women of tibet, a quiet revolution', plus the NPR broadcasts covering the Dalai Lama's responses during the tibetan unrests, all online and archived at NPR.org.
More like Suck Cherry.
Of course, this only works if 1) your boss checks cellphone voicemail all at once, preferably late in the day and 2) doesn't expect office communication to be done via email/IM/etc...
This is probably more useful for, say, teenagers who know the moment they speak to their mom and dad they'll be told to go home, but with this they can fly under the radar for a few hours.
On the positive side of things, you can certainly convey much more in a voicemail than you can in a SMS text, if you know your friend is in a class or your coworker is in a meeting.
"Hey boss! Sorry I'm leaving ANOTHER message! Working from home today as usual. Are you out of town? I've called three times today but you must be in an area without coverage. I really need to talk with you about some implementation specifics before I can start coding." (goes back to sleep)
I'm pretty sure I just saw some Tengwar script. That gets my vote.
Feeding trolls is always fun, so:
The idea is modularization. VNC does one thing, and does it (sort of) well. SSH does one thing and does it well in version 2. If you can't use SSH authentication in a setting, then you're still able to use VNC with some other auth mechanism. RemoteDesktop is inflexible and monolithic, if one component in the chain is a problem you have to abandon the whole solution. The modularity of *nix is it's strength, but it also makes things more difficult for novices. Windows is there for a reason - for people like you, who need things to 'just (sort of) work (with luck)'. Don't complain just because you think you can have your easy to use GUI cake and eat an extremely powerful implementation too. Developer man-hours are limited. They'll get to it when they have time away from their REAL jobs that PAY. Linux distros are so much more userfriendly these days because of many people willing to put hard work into it without reward, not because Blakey Rat sat around complaining on slashdot until someone got off their butt and started working on a trivially easy coding task.
Time for a car analogy: "This Minivan sucks. It can't go fast at all. The designers hate drivers, there's no other explanation." Well, a minivan is cheap and designed for carrying a lot of people. Pay more, get a better solution for your needs - Porsche.
Ok, I just compared Windows to a Porsche.
If it results in getting good phones into American hands, I'm all for this kind of cutthroat competition. If not Google or Apple, someone else will release an open platform with reasonable data rates and top-tier features.
Maybe it was someone working as a US mercenary for a private company such as Blackwater? I know nothing about their coverage policies but I would hazard that they're much worse than veteran care.
Thanks! I'll start with that advice. I've looked through a little bit of the examples on the main site. I've been feeling too impatient and very curious as to how folks like flight404 are creating these great lighting and texture effects:
http://www.vimeo.com/935317
It seems things like that represent a couple years of experience (stuff like the magnetophysics of the ball) but I like to get my hands as dirty as possible, as quickly as possible.
(sorry this is tangential to the topic)
:)
This summer my goal is to start working with Processing. I'm at home in C/C++/Lisp and I have a tiny bit of experience with openGL (probably safe to assume it's worthless though - I pretty much recycled other folks' shaders when I was working with it). Do any folks here have some advice, such as where they started when they began working with Processing? Thanks
If it becomes infeasible to deliver very high-resolution video for cheap/free (aka bittorrent), then there won't be as great of a demand for ultra high resolution monitors and better offload-to-IC-decoder chips to spare CPU and GPU work when watching video.
We'll be stuck at ugly, low resolution video for decades, considering how glacially slow comcast and other ISPs are to offer improvements to service for affordable prices. That cap will probably be the same in 2018. I don't understand why people are so gung-ho about this. Even if the current cap is 'secret' it is at least more likely to remain dynamic as web content evolves to utilize extremely high-bandwidth and -transfer capacity.
WHOOOSH
Somebody missed the joke. But a TV series on dvd produced by Pixar would be more fitting. With internet access to Pizza Hut and Shadow of the Colossus paused but ready in between episodes.
While these are valid opinions, folks who call for fewer cutscenes in games scare me. They're probably lots of work for game companies and I'm worried we'll see less and less of them. Personally, I love cutscenes. I want to have cutscenes so long, I can order (by pressing x) and eat a pizza during them. I want cutscenes so long, I can just put the disc in and watch 40 hours of rendered cinema in between Shadow of the Colossus style playable boss battles. I also want great voice acting. I'm calling for games designed to be enjoyed by fundamentally lazy people like me. Kojima understands me, and he probably didn't design MGS for you. Please play something else.
The mere idea of higher ups at a previously assumed Big Evil Company paying attention to discussions on Slashdot (with critiques here often ruthless, multifaceted, and heavily biased towards consumer interests) is pretty shocking, and heartening.
If this signals a major shift in Adobe's operating culture, I think it's cause for celebration.
It's frustrating that they act like this, sure, but they're justified in doing so, in my opinion. If I'm using the fruits of other folks' efforts, for free and without doing anything to help in return, they're entitled to act as they please. Though I think forking the project's a really bad idea, I nonetheless fully support their decision. They're allowed to be 'gods', they *are* the creators. When god-developer-overlords disagree, stuff on mortal earth will shake up n' break up.
h.264 does some fantastic things at low bitrates. higher processing power requirements aren't much of a concern if the video can be offloaded to an IC decoder chip on the gpu, moreover.
that being said, i'm not sure if I want to see the same rick astley video for the hundredth time in high definition....