Is that why he keeps sending tornadoes to the Midwest?
Nah, he's been sending tornados there for eons. He's as confused as everyone else why people keep moving there and setting up trailer parks in the way.
They've done nothing to shake that trust, and to be frankly I have good faith that they won't.
Pretty much anyone who has ever dated has been in this situation. And yet the world is littered with broken hearts, cheating/backstabbing boyfriends/girlfriends, bitter breakups, and vicious divorce proceedings. I'm not saying one shouldn't trust people, but your a complete idiot if you think you can't get brutally hurt. At least with love the risk is worth it... what does google give you? Free webmail? Some online storage? Yeah. That's worth handing over my private life for. I can get a service like that for pennies a month. My private life is worth more than that. Is yours really that worthless?
They're a data miner, sure, but they have always done in the least intrusive way as possible.
Ah, so as long as you don't realize it, or even know about it, then its ok.
So thanks for being watchdogs and all, but as of right now, Google has my trust.
If you ever stop trusting them they still have everything you ever gave them, and more.
Your email, your conversations, your documents, your address, the business you associate with, the people you associate with, your friends, your family, the stocks you track, your political leanings, and much much more.
Some us are thinking ahead so that hopefully people like you don't get raped by the future. Your privacy is important, its a shame you value it so poorly.
Personally, I listen to nothing but albums. I *hate* listening to songs in isolation.
I like some albums too, but some good songs only exist in isolation. Stuffing them onto an album full of filler doesn't make the album worth listening to but rejecting the song because of the album is just silly.
Anything more than that, and I skip the album.
Which makes sense from an economic perspective, but raises two questions:
1) You are missing out on a lot of decent songs, just because they were released on poor albums.
2) How do you -know- an album will be good before buying it. Very few albums get full airplay, anywhere. Do you d/l them first? Listen in store? Some albums take time to grow on me; and some of my favorites I didn't care for on the first or second listen. [Really, its a testament to my appreciation for the artist, and/or a particular reviewers opinion that would get me to listen to the album multiple times if the first impression wasn't great.]
When I can code once ((x)html/javascript-ecma if you like/CSS2) and get exactly the same result in IE 7, FF 2/3, Opera, and Safari then if might be time to talk about adding and changing things.
That right there is the problem. The pixel perfect web that most designers want really was never part of the design. HTML was never intended to get exactly the same result in all browsers. Of course, browsers were supposed to comply to the standard too, and they all have bugs and quirks; they aren't perfect either - far from it.
But when you start out with a complicated spec that was never supposed to be pixel perfect, and implement in 5 different ways at varying levels of quality, its no wonder the web is a mess.
We need to introduce a completely new standard, dump the design morass that 'AJAX' is entirely, and try to do it right, instead of applying yet more bandages on top of bandages. Of course, don't hold your breath. It will happen around the same time Linux becomes ubiquitous on the desktop and we make the transition to ipv6.
A. We can't afford another bill, no matter how "cheap" other people claim it to be
You realize that you can often -cancel- your land line if you have a cell phone. Net cost to -switch- could be pretty close to zero, depending on your call habits.
B. We're sick to death of overhearing half of loud inconsiderate conversations on the bus, waiting for the bus, on the streat, in line at the store, etc. and can't fathom being that willfully obtuse to our fellow man.
By your logic you'd refuse to own a car because -some- drivers are idiots cut people off, tailgate, and otherwise make total asses of themselves. And you'd refuse to take the bus too because some riders are loud, dirty, inconsiderate jackasses.
Of course, just because some people are like that -you- don't have to be one of them. A LOT of people carry cellphones and never do this, because they are considerate enough to put them on silent/vibrate/off in their pocket, and don't place or accept calls in places where it would be rude.
Nah, Andy Kauffman had it right. The purpose of creating art is to entertain yourself, both creating it, and watching people react to it. It doesn't matter what they think or even if they think, as long you the artist are having a blast.;)
The reasoning is exactly to prevent what you mentioned: selective enforcement.
Hardly, we already have selective enforcement practically institutionalized.
You know, like speeding, 10,000 cars a day (including the police) drive down a stretch of road at 10-15km/h over the limit for 4 months, then they stick an officer in a bush for a couple hours, who issues tickets randomly to 50-100 cars. And then they aren't seen again for another few months on that road. We end up issuing 1 ticket for what, maybe one in half a million violations.
Everyone's doing it, everyone knows everyone's doing it, and its in plain sight too.
Then one day you are driving along with traffic, the car in front of you is going the same speed, as is the car behind you. Then some guy steps out of the bushes and points at you, and ding ding ding, you win (lose?) the traffic enforcement lottery.
So what's the use of a law if you're not to enforce it?
Selective enforcement.
They only enforce it when you need leverage over someone. And since practically everyone will be a rampant violator, whenever the government wants to shut somebody up, or suspect them of rape, murder, vandalism or whatever and can't prove it, they'll just charge them with 4000 counts of violation of this law, and threaten them with a billion dollar penalty.
Not hard at all, right? Right. But I found that solution on my own.
However try to get it to suppress the flashing of the DOS box whenever you call it, something that users don't like much by the way, and you end up using CreateProcess and writing something like whats in that MSDN article I linked.
The fact you're looking up code on the internet when your job would quite possibly make me feel as if you didn't understand basic coding, and were an incorrect fit for a particular agency.
I consider myself a pretty good coder, but when I recently was tasked with writing a wrapper to run a shell command and capture stdout, stderr, and redirect a file into stdin. I wasn't sure where to really start...
This MSDN article (which I found via google) went a long way towards covering the topic:
And that sample code proved invaluable. It easily saved me several hours. Code like that is very domain specific, and unless you've spent a lot of time around pipes and create process win32, it doesn't matter how good you are at understanding basic coding, or even advanced coding.
I'd managed to write a basic version of what I wanted using ANSI C's popen but was running into popen's limitations (like the dos box window flashing open). From reading I knew that CreateProcess in the win32 api gave me the control I needed to suppress the window, and this example REALLY helped me out.
In Japan, at least, its monthly sales lead has evaporated as the PS3 makes a fightback.
You had me nodding until you got here.
Yeah, technically that's true. They went from ~65k+ per week, to ~35k+ per week. And the PS3 recently spiked up (from ~15k to ~55k) But its a very small myopic view of a much bigger picture.
To start, vgchartz.com (which you have to take with giant grain of salt mind you), is showing that the Wii sold some 640,000 units last week world wide. That, if true, is more than it acheived in a single week during its launch frenzy. And while I don't give too much credence to the exact numbers there, I'm sure there was a -massive- surge in the Wii over the last couple weeks. So in any case, Wii sales haven't evaporated in the big picture, not by a long shot.
Additionally, other less disputable facts include:
1) The wii is still largely supply constrained.
2) The wii is still setting sales records all over the place, in the UK, in Japan, in Australia...
3) Wii Fit launches in Japan next week, and I'll be stunned if it doesn't sell extremely well.
4) The Wii is sold at a profit, and hasn't had a price cut yet. Nintendo is doing extremely well and could easily afford a price cut to boost sales (if it actually had more units to sell - see #1 above) The PS3 has been through a couple rounds of price cuts and is sold at a loss. That says a lot. Sort of reminds me of the situation where someone observed that the brown zune at blowout pricing is outselling ipods on amazon.com. It just doesn't mean much.
To be fair, complaining about the Playstation backwards compatibility, and comparing it next to the Xbox, isn't a fair fight. The Xbox doesn't even come close, especially if you look at the generation 1 PS3's (60 gig, with hardware based emulation).
Aren't those things mostly features of the graphics card driver? doesn't the OS just provide a standardised interface to them?
No. Those are jointly features of the OS kernel. The drivers have to support those features, but the drivers can't do it by themselves. ie you can't meaningfully write gpu multitasking drivers for XP, because XP itself has no facility to USE those features.
Anyway those are mostly features to support the 3D desktop, I don't see game developers caring about them too much.
Well I care about them, and I'm the end user, the one paying for the OS and the one paying for the games too for that matter. And I want to be able run multiple 3d applications at the same time without all but one dogging out, and I will prefer to purchase 3d applications that are stable, can run in windows, etc.
funnilly enough rather than forcing people onto the NT line MS created windows 95
Right because there weren't enough drivers for the consumer market in NT, and the NT hardware requirements were higher, and legacy compatibility (in this case DOS) wasn't great, and NT ran slower... (sound familiar). MS finally dragged consumers kicking and screaming to the NT kernel with XP. Unfortunately, XP based on NT, was already a legacy kernel that almost 10 years old and suffers from legacy issues itself, so they have to drag consumers kicking and screaming one more time to a new kernel.
But its slower, needs all new drivers, uses more resources, and has backwards compatibility issues. Its called Vista. And despite all the BS being bandied about it is significant upgrade over XP. Its not a good idea to just abandon XP and migrate to Vista. The much smaller mac community went through the same transition. For them it wasn't practical to abandon OS9 and jump to OSX. Nor was it practical to just abandon PPC and jump to Intel. They had to wait until enough of what they needed ran reliably on the new platforms. That's what Microsoft is going through now. But businesses by and large don't run macs so it wasn't a 'major IT issue'.
And in the microsoft world we simply haven't really had to deal with this level of change since the mid nineties. NT3, NT4, 2000Pro, XPPro - each had its own new issues, but they were OSX 10.2 to 10.3 type stuff, not OS9 to OSX type stuff. Vista x64 for example is a MAJOR change. And IT is digging in and saying it won't go. And that's fine, and its the right thing to do. They shouldn't just jump off a cliff into Vista, its a big change and not everything is backwards compatible, but they -should- be planning for it. XP won't support gpu multitasking, it won't support 4+ GB of RAM, it won't do a lot of things we expect from a modern or future OS.
the display driver would have to use a driver model that supported those features and bits of the kernel may need minor changes to support that model but everything else about the system should be able to be left alone.
Those 'minor changes' to the driver model, essentially amount to switching to the vista kernel. The DRM stuff is, we can all agree needless cruft, but we are not talking a 'minor change' to XP here.
True, the question is how relavent are those parts to the average game developer?
Which is why all the directx10 games that have come out have been hacked to run on XP. They aren't directx 10 games, they use a couple directx 10 features for the marketing cachet and that's about it.
And I don't really care if 'game developers' want the important directx10 features. *I*, as a user, want them.
Even the IPCC report correctly state that the peak temperature during the last interglacial was significantly higher than present temperatures. (It blames a difference in orbital factors, which is unfounded.) There is nothing climatic that is outside the normas at all, certainly not temperature. The only thing that is outside the norms is CO2 concentration.
Yeah, I misspoke. I started out by simply saying 'norms' which is what I meant, but yeah, I followed up by talking about 'warmer', and then followed that up by talking about how we were way beyond the peak. Chalk it up to bad re-editing, so that the statement about far far beyond the peak followed the statement about warmer, instead of the statement about norms.
Thanks for correcting that. I didn't mean to say the world was warmer now that it had ever been.
What is the purpose of virtual video memory? I assume that's the same thing or similar in nature to pagefile.sys.
Similiar yes.
Wouldn't it be better just to keep it in physical memory?
That's exactly what it does.
Except instead of the game having to manage loading / swapping textures in and out, directx10/vista manages it.
You might be able to make a case for GPU multitasking,
"might"??! There is no good reason why we wouldn't want to have multiple processes running in full acceleration in their own windows.
but only bad things can come of virtual video memory.
1) Why should each game need to manage its own texture memory paging when the OS can do it.
2) How can we have gpu multitasking if one application can allocate all the video memory, leaving none for the other applications, and worse, the OS can't swap it out, because the OS doesn't manage it.
Inserting the OS between the application and the video card does slow it down slightly, but the trade off is worth it in terms of extra flexibility, stability, and functionality. You wouldn't want to go back to the good old days where each program talked directly with the printer, directly with the keyboard, directly with the hard disk, allocated all the RAM in the system for itself and then used its own memory manager internally... sure the performance was a bit better under that regime, but we couldn't have a proper multitasking OS if we stuck with it.
And that's what directx10/vista gives us that windows XP can't. In XP the video card is still handed over to the application by the OS in its entirety, in Vista multiple applications can use it simultaneously, because vista/directx10 mediates access to the gpu and its video memory.
This is a good thing (tm). This is something Vista does right.
So, this is UNLIKE using their US$60 service, as this is using a single 1xRTT voice slot (thus burdening the system no more than a voice call), instead of taking up a chunk of the EVDO channels available.
Why wouldn't your phone try to use evdo when making a 'data call'? Why would it just use a 1x channel? I would have thought a phone would attempt to use the fastest data connection available when making a data call by default.
Just curious, not saying you are wrong. I don't claim to know anything about the handshaking or routing process for cellular data, especially the newer stuff.
You will be open to all devices EXCEPT anything that uses GSM.
Oh come off it. Its not like Verizon is excluding GSM to be spiteful or something. The radios are fundamentally different, and their entire infrastructure is CDMA and doesn't support GSM. They couldn't allow GSM if they wanted to.
That said, much of Asia is CDMA, and the number of imported asian cdma phones that have the potential to work with Verizon is pretty huge.
you completely ignored the absolute truth of my statement that the oceans have been rising since the last ice age.
Probably because the absolute truth about that absolute truth is that it is irrelevant.
With or without the minute contribution to the ocean levels by climate change, the peoples who are relocating because their lands were within inches of sea level would have to do so in future decades anyway, because sea levels will continue to rise with or without man's contribution.
Again, No. The oceans have been rising since the last ice age because the polar ice is melting and the glaciers have been retreating since then. But THIS much ice doesn't usually melt; and the ocean's don't usually rise this much.
In other words, the people who have to move right now due to rising oceans would be just fine, if this was -any- other inter-ice-age period in recorded history.
So, no, they shouldn't 'have to move in future decades anyway'. The ice that is melting NOW, didn't melt after the Ice Age before it, nor the ice age before that, nor even the ice age before that, and on down the line.
This ice doesn't normally melt between Ice Ages! Get it?! But its melting NOW!
Not ALL the ice on the planet melts between Ice Ages. The glaciers retreat, but they only retreat so far. You knew that didn't you? Well THIS time the Ice that doesn't get melted between Ice Ages is melting.
And as a result the oceans are rising MORE *IN TOTAL* than they normally rise between ice ages.
the oceans have been rising since the last ice age, Al Gore forgets that part
No. If you'd actually been paying attention, by looking at the evidence over the last SEVERAL Ice Ages, we have determined that our climate is way outside the norms.
Everyone, even Al Gore, understands that the world gets warmer after an Ice Age then peaks, and then gets cooler as we head into another Ice Age. And everyone gets that we will experience 'global warming' until we peak, and the cycle turns the other way.
The issue here is that the evidence shows that we're FAR FAR beyond where we usually peak between Ice Ages.
Its like gravity and the mantra "Whatever goes up must come down!" And everything we through into the air until the 20th century complied with that rule.
But if you've go up high enough fast enough you don't come back down naturally.
Now at this stage with 'global warming' we don't KNOW we can't come back down naturally, but we don't have any evidence that we will, either. We are NOT within the normal climate parameters for the 'warming periods' between Ice Ages. We are FAR beyond that.
You'd be the guy sitting on Voyager-1 going, "I don't see what all the fuss is about the potential for leaving the solar system never to return. We throw things up, they peak, and then they fall back down! And everything that we have ever launched upwards has always had a stage where it was 'going up'. The people raising this issue forget that part."
You say PS2 which suggests you want to use it with a PC, so I'm guessing Windows or Linux. Keyboards and mice are supported under XP, and I figure if XP can see it as a usb keyboard there's decent odds Linux can too.
Some macs do not have the 'paperclip' hole in the case. The physical drive still had it, but you had to dismantle and open up the case to reach it... this wasn't particularly trivial on some macs.
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If Tim Burton had know this a few years ago, maybe his crappy remake would have been better.
I think the real argument is that the remake would have been better if we'd let the chimps make the film instead of Tim Burton.
Is that why he keeps sending tornadoes to the Midwest?
Nah, he's been sending tornados there for eons. He's as confused as everyone else why people keep moving there and setting up trailer parks in the way.
They've done nothing to shake that trust, and to be frankly I have good faith that they won't.
Pretty much anyone who has ever dated has been in this situation. And yet the world is littered with broken hearts, cheating/backstabbing boyfriends/girlfriends, bitter breakups, and vicious divorce proceedings. I'm not saying one shouldn't trust people, but your a complete idiot if you think you can't get brutally hurt. At least with love the risk is worth it... what does google give you? Free webmail? Some online storage? Yeah. That's worth handing over my private life for. I can get a service like that for pennies a month. My private life is worth more than that. Is yours really that worthless?
They're a data miner, sure, but they have always done in the least intrusive way as possible.
Ah, so as long as you don't realize it, or even know about it, then its ok.
So thanks for being watchdogs and all, but as of right now, Google has my trust.
If you ever stop trusting them they still have everything you ever gave them, and more.
Your email, your conversations, your documents, your address, the business you associate with, the people you associate with, your friends, your family, the stocks you track, your political leanings, and much much more.
Some us are thinking ahead so that hopefully people like you don't get raped by the future. Your privacy is important, its a shame you value it so poorly.
Personally, I listen to nothing but albums. I *hate* listening to songs in isolation.
I like some albums too, but some good songs only exist in isolation. Stuffing them onto an album full of filler doesn't make the album worth listening to but rejecting the song because of the album is just silly.
Anything more than that, and I skip the album.
Which makes sense from an economic perspective, but raises two questions:
1) You are missing out on a lot of decent songs, just because they were released on poor albums.
2) How do you -know- an album will be good before buying it. Very few albums get full airplay, anywhere. Do you d/l them first? Listen in store? Some albums take time to grow on me; and some of my favorites I didn't care for on the first or second listen. [Really, its a testament to my appreciation for the artist, and/or a particular reviewers opinion that would get me to listen to the album multiple times if the first impression wasn't great.]
When I can code once ((x)html/javascript-ecma if you like/CSS2) and get exactly the same result in IE 7, FF 2/3, Opera, and Safari then if might be time to talk about adding and changing things.
That right there is the problem. The pixel perfect web that most designers want really was never part of the design. HTML was never intended to get exactly the same result in all browsers. Of course, browsers were supposed to comply to the standard too, and they all have bugs and quirks; they aren't perfect either - far from it.
But when you start out with a complicated spec that was never supposed to be pixel perfect, and implement in 5 different ways at varying levels of quality, its no wonder the web is a mess.
We need to introduce a completely new standard, dump the design morass that 'AJAX' is entirely, and try to do it right, instead of applying yet more bandages on top of bandages. Of course, don't hold your breath. It will happen around the same time Linux becomes ubiquitous on the desktop and we make the transition to ipv6.
A. We can't afford another bill, no matter how "cheap" other people claim it to be
You realize that you can often -cancel- your land line if you have a cell phone. Net cost to -switch- could be pretty close to zero, depending on your call habits.
B. We're sick to death of overhearing half of loud inconsiderate conversations on the bus, waiting for the bus, on the streat, in line at the store, etc. and can't fathom being that willfully obtuse to our fellow man.
By your logic you'd refuse to own a car because -some- drivers are idiots cut people off, tailgate, and otherwise make total asses of themselves. And you'd refuse to take the bus too because some riders are loud, dirty, inconsiderate jackasses.
Of course, just because some people are like that -you- don't have to be one of them. A LOT of people carry cellphones and never do this, because they are considerate enough to put them on silent/vibrate/off in their pocket, and don't place or accept calls in places where it would be rude.
Nah, Andy Kauffman had it right. The purpose of creating art is to entertain yourself, both creating it, and watching people react to it. It doesn't matter what they think or even if they think, as long you the artist are having a blast. ;)
The reasoning is exactly to prevent what you mentioned: selective enforcement.
Hardly, we already have selective enforcement practically institutionalized.
You know, like speeding, 10,000 cars a day (including the police) drive down a stretch of road at 10-15km/h over the limit for 4 months, then they stick an officer in a bush for a couple hours, who issues tickets randomly to 50-100 cars. And then they aren't seen again for another few months on that road. We end up issuing 1 ticket for what, maybe one in half a million violations.
Everyone's doing it, everyone knows everyone's doing it, and its in plain sight too.
Then one day you are driving along with traffic, the car in front of you is going the same speed, as is the car behind you. Then some guy steps out of the bushes and points at you, and ding ding ding, you win (lose?) the traffic enforcement lottery.
So what's the use of a law if you're not to enforce it?
Selective enforcement.
They only enforce it when you need leverage over someone. And since practically everyone will be a rampant violator, whenever the government wants to shut somebody up, or suspect them of rape, murder, vandalism or whatever and can't prove it, they'll just charge them with 4000 counts of violation of this law, and threaten them with a billion dollar penalty.
Clever.
Beleive it or not, I am not an idiot.
I needed to do that -programmatically- in C++. Which, like I said I did with ANSI C's popen. Which, to do your command looks pretty much like this:
FILE * fp = popen( "command >stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt", "r");
Not hard at all, right? Right. But I found that solution on my own.
However try to get it to suppress the flashing of the DOS box whenever you call it, something that users don't like much by the way, and you end up using CreateProcess and writing something like whats in that MSDN article I linked.
The fact you're looking up code on the internet when your job would quite possibly make me feel as if you didn't understand basic coding, and were an incorrect fit for a particular agency.
I consider myself a pretty good coder, but when I recently was tasked with writing a wrapper to run a shell command and capture stdout, stderr, and redirect a file into stdin. I wasn't sure where to really start...
This MSDN article (which I found via google) went a long way towards covering the topic:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190351
And that sample code proved invaluable. It easily saved me several hours. Code like that is very domain specific, and unless you've spent a lot of time around pipes and create process win32, it doesn't matter how good you are at understanding basic coding, or even advanced coding.
I'd managed to write a basic version of what I wanted using ANSI C's popen but was running into popen's limitations (like the dos box window flashing open). From reading I knew that CreateProcess in the win32 api gave me the control I needed to suppress the window, and this example REALLY helped me out.
In Japan, at least, its monthly sales lead has evaporated as the PS3 makes a fightback.
You had me nodding until you got here.
Yeah, technically that's true. They went from ~65k+ per week, to ~35k+ per week. And the PS3 recently spiked up (from ~15k to ~55k) But its a very small myopic view of a much bigger picture.
To start, vgchartz.com (which you have to take with giant grain of salt mind you), is showing that the Wii sold some 640,000 units last week world wide. That, if true, is more than it acheived in a single week during its launch frenzy. And while I don't give too much credence to the exact numbers there, I'm sure there was a -massive- surge in the Wii over the last couple weeks. So in any case, Wii sales haven't evaporated in the big picture, not by a long shot.
Additionally, other less disputable facts include:
1) The wii is still largely supply constrained.
2) The wii is still setting sales records all over the place, in the UK, in Japan, in Australia...
3) Wii Fit launches in Japan next week, and I'll be stunned if it doesn't sell extremely well.
4) The Wii is sold at a profit, and hasn't had a price cut yet. Nintendo is doing extremely well and could easily afford a price cut to boost sales (if it actually had more units to sell - see #1 above) The PS3 has been through a couple rounds of price cuts and is sold at a loss. That says a lot. Sort of reminds me of the situation where someone observed that the brown zune at blowout pricing is outselling ipods on amazon.com. It just doesn't mean much.
To be fair, complaining about the Playstation backwards compatibility, and comparing it next to the Xbox, isn't a fair fight. The Xbox doesn't even come close, especially if you look at the generation 1 PS3's (60 gig, with hardware based emulation).
While a new 40GB PS3 has NONE whatsoever.
Aren't those things mostly features of the graphics card driver? doesn't the OS just provide a standardised interface to them?
No. Those are jointly features of the OS kernel. The drivers have to support those features, but the drivers can't do it by themselves. ie you can't meaningfully write gpu multitasking drivers for XP, because XP itself has no facility to USE those features.
Anyway those are mostly features to support the 3D desktop, I don't see game developers caring about them too much.
Well I care about them, and I'm the end user, the one paying for the OS and the one paying for the games too for that matter. And I want to be able run multiple 3d applications at the same time without all but one dogging out, and I will prefer to purchase 3d applications that are stable, can run in windows, etc.
funnilly enough rather than forcing people onto the NT line MS created windows 95
Right because there weren't enough drivers for the consumer market in NT, and the NT hardware requirements were higher, and legacy compatibility (in this case DOS) wasn't great, and NT ran slower... (sound familiar). MS finally dragged consumers kicking and screaming to the NT kernel with XP. Unfortunately, XP based on NT, was already a legacy kernel that almost 10 years old and suffers from legacy issues itself, so they have to drag consumers kicking and screaming one more time to a new kernel.
But its slower, needs all new drivers, uses more resources, and has backwards compatibility issues. Its called Vista. And despite all the BS being bandied about it is significant upgrade over XP. Its not a good idea to just abandon XP and migrate to Vista. The much smaller mac community went through the same transition. For them it wasn't practical to abandon OS9 and jump to OSX. Nor was it practical to just abandon PPC and jump to Intel. They had to wait until enough of what they needed ran reliably on the new platforms. That's what Microsoft is going through now. But businesses by and large don't run macs so it wasn't a 'major IT issue'.
And in the microsoft world we simply haven't really had to deal with this level of change since the mid nineties. NT3, NT4, 2000Pro, XPPro - each had its own new issues, but they were OSX 10.2 to 10.3 type stuff, not OS9 to OSX type stuff. Vista x64 for example is a MAJOR change. And IT is digging in and saying it won't go. And that's fine, and its the right thing to do. They shouldn't just jump off a cliff into Vista, its a big change and not everything is backwards compatible, but they -should- be planning for it. XP won't support gpu multitasking, it won't support 4+ GB of RAM, it won't do a lot of things we expect from a modern or future OS.
the display driver would have to use a driver model that supported those features and bits of the kernel may need minor changes to support that model but everything else about the system should be able to be left alone.
Those 'minor changes' to the driver model, essentially amount to switching to the vista kernel. The DRM stuff is, we can all agree needless cruft, but we are not talking a 'minor change' to XP here.
True, the question is how relavent are those parts to the average game developer?
Which is why all the directx10 games that have come out have been hacked to run on XP. They aren't directx 10 games, they use a couple directx 10 features for the marketing cachet and that's about it.
And I don't really care if 'game developers' want the important directx10 features. *I*, as a user, want them.
Even the IPCC report correctly state that the peak temperature during the last interglacial was significantly higher than present temperatures. (It blames a difference in orbital factors, which is unfounded.) There is nothing climatic that is outside the normas at all, certainly not temperature. The only thing that is outside the norms is CO2 concentration.
Yeah, I misspoke. I started out by simply saying 'norms' which is what I meant, but yeah, I followed up by talking about 'warmer', and then followed that up by talking about how we were way beyond the peak. Chalk it up to bad re-editing, so that the statement about far far beyond the peak followed the statement about warmer, instead of the statement about norms.
Thanks for correcting that. I didn't mean to say the world was warmer now that it had ever been.
out-and-out stupid: that's a nice label for facts that contradict prejudices and arm-flapping spittle-flying religious dogma.
It had nothing to do with you. I'm just sick of AC's who blame everything the mods do on 'groupthink'.
What is the purpose of virtual video memory? I assume that's the same thing or similar in nature to pagefile.sys.
Similiar yes.
Wouldn't it be better just to keep it in physical memory?
That's exactly what it does.
Except instead of the game having to manage loading / swapping textures in and out, directx10/vista manages it.
You might be able to make a case for GPU multitasking,
"might"??! There is no good reason why we wouldn't want to have multiple processes running in full acceleration in their own windows.
but only bad things can come of virtual video memory.
1) Why should each game need to manage its own texture memory paging when the OS can do it.
2) How can we have gpu multitasking if one application can allocate all the video memory, leaving none for the other applications, and worse, the OS can't swap it out, because the OS doesn't manage it.
Inserting the OS between the application and the video card does slow it down slightly, but the trade off is worth it in terms of extra flexibility, stability, and functionality. You wouldn't want to go back to the good old days where each program talked directly with the printer, directly with the keyboard, directly with the hard disk, allocated all the RAM in the system for itself and then used its own memory manager internally... sure the performance was a bit better under that regime, but we couldn't have a proper multitasking OS if we stuck with it.
And that's what directx10/vista gives us that windows XP can't. In XP the video card is still handed over to the application by the OS in its entirety, in Vista multiple applications can use it simultaneously, because vista/directx10 mediates access to the gpu and its video memory.
This is a good thing (tm). This is something Vista does right.
Go against the group think, and you get modded down into oblivion.
It happens when you say something just out-and-out stupid too.
So, this is UNLIKE using their US$60 service, as this is using a single 1xRTT voice slot (thus burdening the system no more than a voice call), instead of taking up a chunk of the EVDO channels available.
Why wouldn't your phone try to use evdo when making a 'data call'? Why would it just use a 1x channel? I would have thought a phone would attempt to use the fastest data connection available when making a data call by default.
Just curious, not saying you are wrong. I don't claim to know anything about the handshaking or routing process for cellular data, especially the newer stuff.
You will be open to all devices EXCEPT anything that uses GSM.
Oh come off it. Its not like Verizon is excluding GSM to be spiteful or something. The radios are fundamentally different, and their entire infrastructure is CDMA and doesn't support GSM. They couldn't allow GSM if they wanted to.
That said, much of Asia is CDMA, and the number of imported asian cdma phones that have the potential to work with Verizon is pretty huge.
you completely ignored the absolute truth of my statement that the oceans have been rising since the last ice age.
Probably because the absolute truth about that absolute truth is that it is irrelevant.
With or without the minute contribution to the ocean levels by climate change, the peoples who are relocating because their lands were within inches of sea level would have to do so in future decades anyway, because sea levels will continue to rise with or without man's contribution.
Again, No. The oceans have been rising since the last ice age because the polar ice is melting and the glaciers have been retreating since then. But THIS much ice doesn't usually melt; and the ocean's don't usually rise this much.
In other words, the people who have to move right now due to rising oceans would be just fine, if this was -any- other inter-ice-age period in recorded history.
So, no, they shouldn't 'have to move in future decades anyway'. The ice that is melting NOW, didn't melt after the Ice Age before it, nor the ice age before that, nor even the ice age before that, and on down the line.
This ice doesn't normally melt between Ice Ages! Get it?! But its melting NOW!
Not ALL the ice on the planet melts between Ice Ages. The glaciers retreat, but they only retreat so far. You knew that didn't you? Well THIS time the Ice that doesn't get melted between Ice Ages is melting.
And as a result the oceans are rising MORE *IN TOTAL* than they normally rise between ice ages.
the oceans have been rising since the last ice age, Al Gore forgets that part
No. If you'd actually been paying attention, by looking at the evidence over the last SEVERAL Ice Ages, we have determined that our climate is way outside the norms.
Everyone, even Al Gore, understands that the world gets warmer after an Ice Age then peaks, and then gets cooler as we head into another Ice Age. And everyone gets that we will experience 'global warming' until we peak, and the cycle turns the other way.
The issue here is that the evidence shows that we're FAR FAR beyond where we usually peak between Ice Ages.
Its like gravity and the mantra "Whatever goes up must come down!" And everything we through into the air until the 20th century complied with that rule.
But if you've go up high enough fast enough you don't come back down naturally.
Now at this stage with 'global warming' we don't KNOW we can't come back down naturally, but we don't have any evidence that we will, either. We are NOT within the normal climate parameters for the 'warming periods' between Ice Ages. We are FAR beyond that.
You'd be the guy sitting on Voyager-1 going, "I don't see what all the fuss is about the potential for leaving the solar system never to return. We throw things up, they peak, and then they fall back down! And everything that we have ever launched upwards has always had a stage where it was 'going up'. The people raising this issue forget that part."
They were sold by the bucket load back when the imac was introduced and adb discontinued. You could probably find one used for 5 bucks...
Everyone bashes the iMac's "hockey puck" mouse, but why don't they mention the keyboard?
Think of it like this:
When someones jamming a needle into your brain through your eye you tend not to notice he's also standing on your foot.
So... if anyone knows how to adapt an ADB keyboard to a PS/2 port, PLEASE tell me!
There were a number of adb->usb adapters made when the imacs arrived.
For example: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imate
You say PS2 which suggests you want to use it with a PC, so I'm guessing Windows or Linux. Keyboards and mice are supported under XP, and I figure if XP can see it as a usb keyboard there's decent odds Linux can too.
Some macs do not have the 'paperclip' hole in the case. The physical drive still had it, but you had to dismantle and open up the case to reach it... this wasn't particularly trivial on some macs.