I can just imagine those naive days of the internet, where they imagined care free 8 year olds typing "meat.com" into the browser to look up information on meat, without any concerns about whether or not "meat.com" would contain genuine information on meat products.
Can you provide a source? The people who estimate how large botnets are make money by scaring people (e.g. Symantec). The computing power would also clearly be very distributed, and it's hard to think of a criminal use for it.
True, FOSS does have that side to it, but more often than not it's onlookers that apply the BS words to the products, or it's FOSS software which has a "corporate edition". You don't usually see the people who actually write community driven FOSS software refer to their software as "revolutionary".
I was hoping they'd have some sort of transitional.NET language. Remember that Office 2007 breaks plenty of 2003 macros, so forcing developers to update macros for new versions isn't out of the question by any stretch.
It's France; whining is what they do best. Yes over there they all smell, wear berets, smoke hand-rolled cigarettes, eat snails and frog's legs and play the accordion outside of a cafe.
Sarcasm over: Who is whining here?
The judge whining over free shipping? I doubt the judge represents the views of the French people; you think they're going to like having free shipping taken from them?
The French people whining over the judge's bad decision? Aren't we doing the same thing now?
I've always wondered why Americans (I assume you're American) are so anti-French, especially when they helped you get independence from Britain etc, right? (Correct my poor history knowledge)
As I understand it from the article as the number of polygons goes up ray tracing becomes more and more attractive, and that's the major draw. Apparently there'll come a point where scenes are complex enough that it is more efficient to use ray tracing.
He also hinted that ray tracing could make collision detection much better, so that you dont get hands/guns sticking through thin walls/doors, which would also be good.
But hey I'm not rooting for one of the other, game devs will use whatever is best and I'll sit back and enjoy..
Now to click submit before I open that 85MB PNG from the article..
What are you talking about? It's it's 0.2 inches thinner on average than the closest competitor, and it's fully recyclable; if that isn't revolutionary then what is?
Things that were revolutionary, in ascending order:
Refrigerators
Object oriented design
The transistor
Writing
Agriculture
The Renaissance
Renting movies over the internet from your couch
A laptop which is 0.2 inches thinner than the next-thinnest laptop
P.S. I hate the word "revolutionary" when referring to anything computer related. One of the best things about community driven FOSS projects is the lack of BS words like "revolutionary".
I just hope they don't change anything.. I don't get how this fits in to their strategy.
Will they try and make it more Solaris-oriented, or what? It's not like they had to buy MySQL to improve its ability to run on Solaris.
How will this affect MySQL's upcoming Falcon engine? How is this going to impact Oracle?
They used to be all about PostgreSQL, putting it in Solaris by default if memory serves. PostgreSQL's BSD license would have let them fork and develop it as they pleased, so why would they want to spend all that money to get the same control over MySQL that they had over PostgreSQL by default?
Well those are seek times, as you said. Reading/writing continuous data is very fast, and the OS (and some HDDs) will use memory caches so that data access will be continuous as possible. The problem of hard disk seek times has become less and less of a problem as memory has increased.
What's interesting is that apparently they don't know where it came from, and it's supposedly strange to just have a relatively small cloud of hydrogen coming towards us from a totally empty area of space.
When I was younger, we made it at home from real milk, sugar and a bit of flavoring agent in a hand-turned ice-cream maker and it was yuumm. Very different from the goo they sell today
The same holds for about all the things (at least foodstuffs). Oh, well - so much for progress... Then make it yourself.. no-one's stopping you. And stop acting like adding some protein which is in a snow flea is going to make the ice cream taste worse. Didn't you read the summary; it'll make it taste better while still being economical enough to sell.
Just because it contains a protein taken from a soil bacteria/fish/snow flea doesn't make it taste like a soil bacteria/fish/snow flea. It doesn't mean they have giant vats of snow fleas in a blender which they pour into their ice cream which they distill.
I'd be considered a young IT worker (and undergrad student), and I don't expect high wages or an office (and won't after finishing either), I do care very much about the technology (e.g stayed up all last night writing code for a hobby project), and I have never played WOW.
But don't let me ruin your feeling of smug superiority
You should see the channel9 interview with some of the IE8 team which worked on the ACID2 test. The standard is documented in a huge book, and the ACID tests test any number of them all in one document.
It's hard enough to write one of these tests (have you seen their source code?!), let alone write it in such a way that when it fails it presents a clear message explaining why it isn't rendering correctly and giving helpful hints to the rendering engine developers.
Until they observe you stealing your bandwidth you are both stealing it and not stealing it at the same time. (Especially if you're inside a box with a geiger counter activated firewall)
Also they can never know both where you are and how fast you're downloading at the same time; the more they know about one the less than can know about the other.
If you have an HD TV then there's a very noticeable difference, and the DVDs which looked crisp for so long on your old TV look terrible compared to HD media on an HD TV.
Whether the higher quality is really needed depends on what you're watching though. It's great for wildlife documentaries, but not as important for drama, etc.
It is far more plausible that Intel planned this all the way up the ladder than that this one salesperson just decided to be a maverick and try to subvert things without any approval from management. Yeah I bet the multi billion dollar processor giant's board gets together to discuss how to derail the OLPC project. The third-world-kids-on-welfare market is really set to boom.
Also I don't think it's a coincidence that Gordon Moore had to cancel an interview the day before a shipment of OLPCs heading for Nigeria mysteriously exploded..
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I can just imagine those naive days of the internet, where they imagined care free 8 year olds typing "meat.com" into the browser to look up information on meat, without any concerns about whether or not "meat.com" would contain genuine information on meat products.
Isn't that what standards are for?
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You're right! That GUID makes me want to stop looking and keep consuming! Thanks for pointing that out to me
You must have been using Windows 95 for quite a while before Linux came onto the scene.
Can you provide a source? The people who estimate how large botnets are make money by scaring people (e.g. Symantec). The computing power would also clearly be very distributed, and it's hard to think of a criminal use for it.
True, FOSS does have that side to it, but more often than not it's onlookers that apply the BS words to the products, or it's FOSS software which has a "corporate edition". You don't usually see the people who actually write community driven FOSS software refer to their software as "revolutionary".
I was hoping they'd have some sort of transitional .NET language. Remember that Office 2007 breaks plenty of 2003 macros, so forcing developers to update macros for new versions isn't out of the question by any stretch.
There's no way they were going to release an Office suite without any macro capability, but the blow is that they aren't replacing it with .NET .
Mmm; they helped you, you helped them.. Now the hatred makes perfect sense
Sarcasm over: Who is whining here?
The judge whining over free shipping? I doubt the judge represents the views of the French people; you think they're going to like having free shipping taken from them?
The French people whining over the judge's bad decision? Aren't we doing the same thing now?
I've always wondered why Americans (I assume you're American) are so anti-French, especially when they helped you get independence from Britain etc, right? (Correct my poor history knowledge)
As I understand it from the article as the number of polygons goes up ray tracing becomes more and more attractive, and that's the major draw. Apparently there'll come a point where scenes are complex enough that it is more efficient to use ray tracing.
He also hinted that ray tracing could make collision detection much better, so that you dont get hands/guns sticking through thin walls/doors, which would also be good.
But hey I'm not rooting for one of the other, game devs will use whatever is best and I'll sit back and enjoy..
Now to click submit before I open that 85MB PNG from the article..
Things that were revolutionary, in ascending order:
P.S. I hate the word "revolutionary" when referring to anything computer related. One of the best things about community driven FOSS projects is the lack of BS words like "revolutionary".
I just hope they don't change anything.. I don't get how this fits in to their strategy.
Will they try and make it more Solaris-oriented, or what? It's not like they had to buy MySQL to improve its ability to run on Solaris.
How will this affect MySQL's upcoming Falcon engine? How is this going to impact Oracle?
They used to be all about PostgreSQL, putting it in Solaris by default if memory serves. PostgreSQL's BSD license would have let them fork and develop it as they pleased, so why would they want to spend all that money to get the same control over MySQL that they had over PostgreSQL by default?
Well those are seek times, as you said. Reading/writing continuous data is very fast, and the OS (and some HDDs) will use memory caches so that data access will be continuous as possible. The problem of hard disk seek times has become less and less of a problem as memory has increased.
What's interesting is that apparently they don't know where it came from, and it's supposedly strange to just have a relatively small cloud of hydrogen coming towards us from a totally empty area of space.
The same holds for about all the things (at least foodstuffs). Oh, well - so much for progress
Just because it contains a protein taken from a soil bacteria/fish/snow flea doesn't make it taste like a soil bacteria/fish/snow flea. It doesn't mean they have giant vats of snow fleas in a blender which they pour into their ice cream which they distill.
I'd be considered a young IT worker (and undergrad student), and I don't expect high wages or an office (and won't after finishing either), I do care very much about the technology (e.g stayed up all last night writing code for a hobby project), and I have never played WOW.
But don't let me ruin your feeling of smug superiority
You should see the channel9 interview with some of the IE8 team which worked on the ACID2 test. The standard is documented in a huge book, and the ACID tests test any number of them all in one document.
It's hard enough to write one of these tests (have you seen their source code?!), let alone write it in such a way that when it fails it presents a clear message explaining why it isn't rendering correctly and giving helpful hints to the rendering engine developers.
Until they observe you stealing your bandwidth you are both stealing it and not stealing it at the same time. (Especially if you're inside a box with a geiger counter activated firewall)
Also they can never know both where you are and how fast you're downloading at the same time; the more they know about one the less than can know about the other.
If you have an HD TV then there's a very noticeable difference, and the DVDs which looked crisp for so long on your old TV look terrible compared to HD media on an HD TV.
Whether the higher quality is really needed depends on what you're watching though. It's great for wildlife documentaries, but not as important for drama, etc.
If you're on Firefox grab NoScript. You'd have to explicitly allow u8080.com to run scripts for this to have any effect.
Also I don't think it's a coincidence that Gordon Moore had to cancel an interview the day before a shipment of OLPCs heading for Nigeria mysteriously exploded..
But is this a bad thing, or is it protecting against the fickle public?