I don't think you can aquire an open source project. Your comment is a bit misleading. Rather what happened was that the sole developer Jim Hugunin wanted to join Microsoft after meeting with the.NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) team while discussing with them the technical issues he encountered. Jim joined up, and with a team at MS, brought IronPython to it's 1.0 release in September 2006.
There's other Python projects for you purists to get your teeth stuck into, but this one isn't one of them, as it is with a lot of.NET stuff. Here, try Jim Hugunin's JVM based Python called Jython http://www.jython.org/
Read this article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2123859,00.as p as it's a bit more interesting. The open source bits are the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the IronPython language. The DLR sits on top of.NET, so if you are using Mono and IronPython, then I would assume that you would then have all the source from top to bottom.
No problem, Iran is building a fast breeder reactor that will generate lots of tritrium. If the world starts buying their Tritrium fuel from Iran then Iran will build more reactors, thus increasing the supply. I can't see any problem with this afterall we are currently buying lots of fuel from them. I guess they must be thinking ahead as there is isn't really any other practical use for Tritrium except for maybe WMDs.
They won't be sold until Q4 2007 though. From the link
April 20, 2007 - In breaking news today, it would appear that mega-retailer WalMart has contracted a Chinese manufacturer to produce millions of low-cost HD-DVD players. Though somewhat obfuscated by translation issues and the breaking nature of the news, the current internet consensus suggests that Taiwan based manufacturer Fuh Yuan, in cooperation with TDK, will produce the blue laser drives for 2-million HD-DVD players. Broadcom will reportedly supply the system-on-a-chip decoder, and China Great Wall will handle final assembly. The deal represents around US $100,000,000, and it is reported that a new manufacturing plant has already been opened to fulfill the order.
Speculation suggests the players will arrive at retail in late 2007 and will be priced between $199-299. At such cost, WalMart's HD-DVD drives will be far below the current low of $399 for Toshiba's HD-A20 player, and will look cheap compared to the lowest priced Blu-ray hardware on the market today ($599).
If the current details of the plan prove to be true, WalMart's support of HD-DVD will have a significant impact on the next-gen DVD format war. The American retailer operates on a high-volume, low-margin business plan of market saturation, which is exactly the approach required to drive one format or the other to preeminence.
Taking into account broadband penetration and who can be bothered downloading music - say an overestimate of 5% of the population, then those people are downloading 1000 songs per year each. What I want to know is how the hell they can find 1000 songs worth downloading?
Your web page link is broken. Also sendding people to the moon is so sixties, here we are talking about moving thousands of people a day at high speed in a fashion convenient enough that they can use it as part of their daily commute. This adds flexibility to people's living arrangements such that you don't have to make the choice of "Do I live in a tight apartment with my family screaming for space and yet have a good job, or do I live in remote region with a lesser job/drive 4 hours a day". Urban transport technology and infrastructure is cutting edge stuff.
Bugger! Well if you type "westpac vista" into google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" you get the 2nd one. If you type "internal amd memo vista" into google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" you get the first. I was just throwing in some facts refute the grandparent's conjecture that no company is rolling out Vista.
Vista is being deployed at AMD from the top-down, with about 100 users (most of the AMD executives, plus others) using it right now, with many others coming online soon.
I didn't realize that submitting a story made me a "twat".
It's an inside secret. Welcome to the inner sanctom. At least you got "Accepted". Now you can look down all the "Rejected Twats". You don't even want to know what we call the people who actually read the article.
Your right, there would be an incredible amount of uncertainty for game developers if they were developing in just DirectX 10. If I were them I would certainly want to keep a DirectX 9, and maybe an OpenGL like path at the ready just in case. With consoles becoming so popular of late I'm wondering if games on the PC are going to become a bit of a niche market in the future. Even we are toying with the idea of using a PS3 for some stuff. There are other issues though with that. It wouldn't suprise me too much if in 2008 MS brought out an Office Suite for the XBox 360 "Home Appliance Version" or whatever, bundled with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Wouldn't that throw a spanner in works! It would certainly send a shiver through the PC industry.
No need to apologise, your assumptions were fair, and I was being antagonistic. A habit I've developed from spending half my time at work trying to stop bone headed ideas from getting too far, then trying to cool off by posting on slashdot. Probably isn't the best strategy for coping with stress. Have a good weekend.
I'm not writing a game engine. God I wish. I'm working on a proprietry product using COTS (commercial off the shelf) parts. The OS and hardware are completely controlled, as will be the user interface harware. It's a very heavy data exploration system with warning sounds and fine user controls. Sometimes computers have to be used for very serious applications not just games and posting tunnel vision opinions on slashdot. Operating theatre software, mining drill control systems, and military navigation systems all require pretty advanced stuff these days. Games aren't safety critical, they're hardly even cost critical except for getting a bad reputation. 10 years ago this was all done on million dollar SGI hardware. Times have changed a lot. Anything that cuts down the possibility of errors is a boon.
That's what I'm actually doing when I'm writing a sound-graphics-controls engine. I'm abstracting away the hardware. It's a lot of work involving lots of little tricks that have the potential to go seriously wrong on edge cases. You have to try DX-10 to know what it's like.
DX-10 is like an operating system unto itself. The Direct3D part has memory management and context switching of shaders built in extracting away all the tricky texture and shader management stuff. It's like someone just took all the really painful stuff out of my job. With all the other Sound and I/O stuff built in and usable in a consistent way I just don't think I could bring myself to go back to OpenGL. Well, I would if I had to, but I would like to have my 30 seconds of protest before I go back to slaving away at the code.
Yes! No more electricity bills, just put your computer in the sun. Now all those people living in huts in the desert can have computers running. Now all I need is a computer that runs on light.
DRM free music is the only true path to interoperability, but the summary has an interesting alternative. The EU is talking about having a mandatory cooling off period for any DRM infected music where you can return it and get your money back. So anytime you want to listen to a song, you download it, listen to it, then return it.
It's the ultimate! this turns DRM against the industry and gives you free music. Or you can pay for non-DRM music. It would be too cool to screw the music industry by this method. If it became common practice they would have to drop DRM. Of course this would never get passed in the USA, the music lobby would crush it.
You can't be serious. Goddam, people have it so good these days. When I was at uni all our e-mail was on a VMS system and I had to actually go onto the campus site and access it through a VT100 terminal. If I wanted to read my e-mail at home I had take it home on paper after printing it out on a dot matrix line printer that normally had about 2 days worth of jobs queued up ahead of me. With this kind of thing we just put up and shut up. You can't let trivial things make big decisions for you.
Now maybe if they didn't sell my favorite beer in the university bar at breakfast then I might have considered trying to change.
I have nothing to worry about as I'm running Solaris. Despite the fact that people are continuously trying to hack me I have no worries. Right now (I'll look at the network activity) ?? funny someone has telneted in using some -froot argument. I wonder wha[No Carrier]
They are talking about storing digital data on bacteria, so how are people millenia down the track meant to decode it? Like do we store pictures as Jpeg? Do we encode text as Unicode? What I would really like to see is bacteria that I could store all my pictures onto, and to look at them all I have to do is throw some bacteria on a wet floor and wait for them to appear. For a slideshow think of a Conways Game of Life effect. You could control the speed of the slide show by controlling the temperature.
My initial thoughts were the same, then I thought through a user saying everything is dead which normally occurs when the screen goes blank.
What probably crashed was the Multi-Function display driver, thus leaving the pilots unable to operate any of the systems. The report said the fuel system was taken out, but if that was so then how do they fly back. More likely the digital fuel gauge went dead.
Here's a thought. Sometimes theres some actual problem going on that you need the police for like some guy looking through your tool shed at night, but when you ring them they can't get there because they are too busy. So, instead of ringing the cops, just ring the RIAA and tell them there is some hip hop guy making mix tapes in your tool shed. You'll get the SWAT team arrive with guns drawn! yeah!
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I don't think you can aquire an open source project. Your comment is a bit misleading. Rather what happened was that the sole developer Jim Hugunin wanted to join Microsoft after meeting with the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) team while discussing with them the technical issues he encountered. Jim joined up, and with a team at MS, brought IronPython to it's 1.0 release in September 2006.
There's some history on Jim Hugunin's blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/7 41605.aspx
There's other Python projects for you purists to get your teeth stuck into, but this one isn't one of them, as it is with a lot of .NET stuff. Here, try Jim Hugunin's JVM based Python called Jython http://www.jython.org/
Read this article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2123859,00.as p as it's a bit more interesting. The open source bits are the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the IronPython language. The DLR sits on top of .NET, so if you are using Mono and IronPython, then I would assume that you would then have all the source from top to bottom.
The MS stuff is here http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython
This time I even checked my links :-)
No problem, Iran is building a fast breeder reactor that will generate lots of tritrium. If the world starts buying their Tritrium fuel from Iran then Iran will build more reactors, thus increasing the supply. I can't see any problem with this afterall we are currently buying lots of fuel from them. I guess they must be thinking ahead as there is isn't really any other practical use for Tritrium except for maybe WMDs.
This link is more up to date http://gear.ign.com/articles/782/782359p1.html
They won't be sold until Q4 2007 though. From the link
April 20, 2007 - In breaking news today, it would appear that mega-retailer WalMart has contracted a Chinese manufacturer to produce millions of low-cost HD-DVD players. Though somewhat obfuscated by translation issues and the breaking nature of the news, the current internet consensus suggests that Taiwan based manufacturer Fuh Yuan, in cooperation with TDK, will produce the blue laser drives for 2-million HD-DVD players. Broadcom will reportedly supply the system-on-a-chip decoder, and China Great Wall will handle final assembly. The deal represents around US $100,000,000, and it is reported that a new manufacturing plant has already been opened to fulfill the order.
Speculation suggests the players will arrive at retail in late 2007 and will be priced between $199-299. At such cost, WalMart's HD-DVD drives will be far below the current low of $399 for Toshiba's HD-A20 player, and will look cheap compared to the lowest priced Blu-ray hardware on the market today ($599).
If the current details of the plan prove to be true, WalMart's support of HD-DVD will have a significant impact on the next-gen DVD format war. The American retailer operates on a high-volume, low-margin business plan of market saturation, which is exactly the approach required to drive one format or the other to preeminence.
Maybe they polled IRC - where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.
Taking into account broadband penetration and who can be bothered downloading music - say an overestimate of 5% of the population, then those people are downloading 1000 songs per year each. What I want to know is how the hell they can find 1000 songs worth downloading?
Your web page link is broken. Also sendding people to the moon is so sixties, here we are talking about moving thousands of people a day at high speed in a fashion convenient enough that they can use it as part of their daily commute. This adds flexibility to people's living arrangements such that you don't have to make the choice of "Do I live in a tight apartment with my family screaming for space and yet have a good job, or do I live in remote region with a lesser job/drive 4 hours a day". Urban transport technology and infrastructure is cutting edge stuff.
Oh no you've done it now. Here's a t list of the replies you are about to get http://fstdt.com/top100.asp
Bugger! Well if you type "westpac vista" into google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" you get the 2nd one. If you type "internal amd memo vista" into google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" you get the first. I was just throwing in some facts refute the grandparent's conjecture that no company is rolling out Vista.
Then maybe you should look. Just quickly I found these:
From http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/20 07/03/07/internal-amd-memo-encourages-rapid-compan y-wide-vista-adoption.aspx/
Vista is being deployed at AMD from the top-down, with about 100 users (most of the AMD executives, plus others) using it right now, with many others coming online soon.
From http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20 393236%5E16123%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html/
Westpac bank is rolling out Vista onto 20,000 desktops.
It's an inside secret. Welcome to the inner sanctom. At least you got "Accepted". Now you can look down all the "Rejected Twats". You don't even want to know what we call the people who actually read the article.
Your right, there would be an incredible amount of uncertainty for game developers if they were developing in just DirectX 10. If I were them I would certainly want to keep a DirectX 9, and maybe an OpenGL like path at the ready just in case. With consoles becoming so popular of late I'm wondering if games on the PC are going to become a bit of a niche market in the future. Even we are toying with the idea of using a PS3 for some stuff. There are other issues though with that. It wouldn't suprise me too much if in 2008 MS brought out an Office Suite for the XBox 360 "Home Appliance Version" or whatever, bundled with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Wouldn't that throw a spanner in works! It would certainly send a shiver through the PC industry.
No need to apologise, your assumptions were fair, and I was being antagonistic. A habit I've developed from spending half my time at work trying to stop bone headed ideas from getting too far, then trying to cool off by posting on slashdot. Probably isn't the best strategy for coping with stress. Have a good weekend.
I'm not writing a game engine. God I wish. I'm working on a proprietry product using COTS (commercial off the shelf) parts. The OS and hardware are completely controlled, as will be the user interface harware. It's a very heavy data exploration system with warning sounds and fine user controls. Sometimes computers have to be used for very serious applications not just games and posting tunnel vision opinions on slashdot. Operating theatre software, mining drill control systems, and military navigation systems all require pretty advanced stuff these days. Games aren't safety critical, they're hardly even cost critical except for getting a bad reputation. 10 years ago this was all done on million dollar SGI hardware. Times have changed a lot. Anything that cuts down the possibility of errors is a boon.
That's what I'm actually doing when I'm writing a sound-graphics-controls engine. I'm abstracting away the hardware. It's a lot of work involving lots of little tricks that have the potential to go seriously wrong on edge cases. You have to try DX-10 to know what it's like.
Your trolling right?
DX-10 is like an operating system unto itself. The Direct3D part has memory management and context switching of shaders built in extracting away all the tricky texture and shader management stuff. It's like someone just took all the really painful stuff out of my job. With all the other Sound and I/O stuff built in and usable in a consistent way I just don't think I could bring myself to go back to OpenGL. Well, I would if I had to, but I would like to have my 30 seconds of protest before I go back to slaving away at the code.
Yes! No more electricity bills, just put your computer in the sun. Now all those people living in huts in the desert can have computers running. Now all I need is a computer that runs on light.
DRM free music is the only true path to interoperability, but the summary has an interesting alternative. The EU is talking about having a mandatory cooling off period for any DRM infected music where you can return it and get your money back. So anytime you want to listen to a song, you download it, listen to it, then return it.
It's the ultimate! this turns DRM against the industry and gives you free music. Or you can pay for non-DRM music. It would be too cool to screw the music industry by this method. If it became common practice they would have to drop DRM. Of course this would never get passed in the USA, the music lobby would crush it.
You can't be serious. Goddam, people have it so good these days. When I was at uni all our e-mail was on a VMS system and I had to actually go onto the campus site and access it through a VT100 terminal. If I wanted to read my e-mail at home I had take it home on paper after printing it out on a dot matrix line printer that normally had about 2 days worth of jobs queued up ahead of me. With this kind of thing we just put up and shut up. You can't let trivial things make big decisions for you.
Now maybe if they didn't sell my favorite beer in the university bar at breakfast then I might have considered trying to change.
I have nothing to worry about as I'm running Solaris. Despite the fact that people are continuously trying to hack me I have no worries. Right now (I'll look at the network activity) ?? funny someone has telneted in using some -froot argument. I wonder wha[No Carrier]
They are talking about storing digital data on bacteria, so how are people millenia down the track meant to decode it? Like do we store pictures as Jpeg? Do we encode text as Unicode? What I would really like to see is bacteria that I could store all my pictures onto, and to look at them all I have to do is throw some bacteria on a wet floor and wait for them to appear. For a slideshow think of a Conways Game of Life effect. You could control the speed of the slide show by controlling the temperature.
My initial thoughts were the same, then I thought through a user saying everything is dead which normally occurs when the screen goes blank.
What probably crashed was the Multi-Function display driver, thus leaving the pilots unable to operate any of the systems. The report said the fuel system was taken out, but if that was so then how do they fly back. More likely the digital fuel gauge went dead.
Here's a thought. Sometimes theres some actual problem going on that you need the police for like some guy looking through your tool shed at night, but when you ring them they can't get there because they are too busy. So, instead of ringing the cops, just ring the RIAA and tell them there is some hip hop guy making mix tapes in your tool shed. You'll get the SWAT team arrive with guns drawn! yeah!
I don't see how that would make much difference to the current system. If they really wanted to reform it they should at least be using 8 year olds.
Maybe the Mac he got came with a pound of coke and a lifetime porn subscription, which would explain why he had such a good time using it.