And this is a major argument against DRM. If we lock something up, how will future generations read it? More to the point, what happens when this becomes transparent and everything is encrypted? What happens to future generations
I hope they make it run on other GPUs. Maybe, this will pressure gfx card manufacturers to make some sort of cross-compatible powerful scripting language to run any other embarrassingly parallel calculations... it would certainly be benificial
How about a physics coprocessor instead of an entire board?
Yeah, there's some cycle describing that, about how specialized coprocessors will handle different tasks (much like GPUs), and then merge back into the general-purpose CPU. However, I'm talking about a gfx card, that also happens to be easily programmable (maybe with some driver-level, standard-among-manufacturers, scripting?) so we can do cool things with a massively parallel floating-point processor.
I think it would be great to have another player of graphics. As it is, we only have NVidia and ATI (who both make quality products). However, if there was another player that could do more general-purpose cards (as opposed to gaming), they could probably make some decent money, and indirectly pressure NV and ATI. Maybe open-source drivers? How about a more general-purpose parallel floating-point unit that could be more utilized? Something like the F@H GPU client, but for more apps? As a side effect, it could do graphics.
This, however, is probably wishful thinking. Oh well...
Do all of your work in a ramdisk. Flash has write-limitations, so you want to be limiting the writes to it at all costs.
Obviously, any important changes should be written, but any FS should work for that, since you probably only will need to write on database change, and/or OS shutdown.
...is that this was a corporation. Governments have (and do! *cough*bush) spied on us in the past. Without getting into a more in-depth discussion, they make the laws, so they can justify it. However, when a corporation uses worse tactics, it honestly strikes fear into my heart about how far people are willing to go for the $. The things they are using I'd expect from the FBI if they suspected me of plotting to kill the President, not from leaking some stupid, non-damaging fact to the press.
More interestingly, how about the innocents? Wasn't the father or someone of one of the journalists targeted?
Sir, what in the hell are you talking about? I'm gonna have to call your bluff here... sorry to make you look bad to everyone but maybe you should check your "facts" before posting?
OK, I RTFA, but still don't get it (they're talking about quantum computing; the "teleported" thing being info). So, is this really teleportation, in the traditional sense? Is it instantaneous? TFA talks about "a split second", but as far as I know, that's a pretty qualitative term.
will a physicist explain what this means? I have a reasonable understanding of physics (for somebody who hasn't studied it) and I have no idea what this means. Does it mean that we can apply energy in some way and make it go somewhere else instantaneously (the more traditional definition of teleportation)? Probably not, but then what?
Actually... finally IE is no longer integrated into the shell. Thank God, right?
Really. At least in Beta 2 (haven't tried the RC), if you type a http address in explorer, it opens an instance of IE. And, if you type a shell path in IE (C:) you get a shell window.
This is fixed by IE7 for XP as well, incidentally.
Maybe it will get more people into 3D modeling. I wish more games did that, for stuff like your house, or a hat or something. There are definitely better examples; although they would need to be checked to make sure that somebody didn't import a giant phallus into the game, and stick it on the front of their house.
Still, this is a cool idea. It could make games more interactive, to the people who want to deviate a bit.
But I like my NAT! It helps keep me safe... since nothing outside of my network can initiate a connection to an internal machine. Will we still be able to use it? Why do people assume it's such a PITA?
The tone of your very first statement suggests that you too feel that way about your own parents.
Actually, not really. I don't think they know much about technology, and I think they overreact, but I think that, in the vast majority of cases, they make the best possible choice. Even when I don't like it, I admit that it's what I probably would do myself.
And, if I do say so myself, I feel I have never "hated" my parents, nor think that they are stupid. I feel I have avoided that, unlike most of my peers.
I understand that people have always thought that their elders are less intelligent than they are. There's even a word for it, though I can't immediately remember it. I was merely reflecting upon the most pervasive thought, and suggesting that there seems to be more and more justification for it (think of the children!).
...my parents occasionally look at things like history (snicker). However, I was the most computer-savvy person in my house, and ran the router/server. Now, I go to sites/do things that they might not like, but it hasn't harmed me or warped me in any sort of way. I learned my morals from them, and make my own decisions.
Now, I know that I'm not most teens, and most are stupid and don't give a flying fsck about anything, but children (especially later teenagers) don't get nearly enough respect. Just the question that "should we tell them we're spying on them?" makes me want to throw up. Jeez, no wonder kids think their parents are stupid...
They are all fantasy, right? And, in theory, could train people to do anything they show. Why the hell are games so put upon? Are we supposed to live in a rounded-corners world?
You, sir, are a dumbass. I agree with your facts, however it has been shown that increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect. We are pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at an incredible rate (and cutting down CO2-removing trees), and the world is getting warmer. What is there to miss?
The problem with waiting until there is an issue, is that CO2 takes a while (~5-10 years?) to cause any effect... so if there is an issue and we *stop* all carbon dioxide input, it will still deteriorate for a while.
Oh and by the way, about "abandoning technological civilization", if every person replaced a *single* light bulb with a fluorescent, we would save a hell of a lot of energy, and not have to change anything drastic. Replace all the light bulbs, even better. Still nearly *no* change.
In short, STFU. (Most?) Respectable scientists say this is a hell of an issue, and we need to fix it NOW. People like you only slow down the solutions. It's not like we can fix it instantly...
until I realized that it looked shitty on slower computers and only had Flash 7 on x86 Linux. I can't even play FancyPantsAdventure with it. And, it can be incredibly annoying. Worst is when you force flash to use a site at all. With AJAX technologies and dynamically-created sites, is their really a need for Flash sites? I can see it for games or small applets, but for an entire site (like some car websites), do you even need it? More to the point, should you even need it?
It's good to see people using money to create open-source programs. There is some expectation of support and quality, and you still can modify it any way you want.
Aside from that, is this a better PIM than Evolution, or another? Why (other than the "oh, it's being redone") is this news? Was/is it revolutionary in some way? I have never used it.
Having said that, I think it's fascinating that the programs creator is using his own money to open-source it. Will we see more of this? I hope so.
Why does it seem like everything open-source is a proprietary "killer"?
Having said that, this looks pretty neat. It will probably be more widely accepted, being open source (it is, right?), so it can be ported easily. Features will grow quickly, and other OSS advantages and so forth.
However, why is this better than NFS or Samba/Windows shares? Is it faster? It seems like AoE is offloading more of the low-level stuff to the client. Is this a good thing? It doesn't seem like one...
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And this is a major argument against DRM. If we lock something up, how will future generations read it? More to the point, what happens when this becomes transparent and everything is encrypted? What happens to future generations
Of course, there's always printouts...
I hope they make it run on other GPUs. Maybe, this will pressure gfx card manufacturers to make some sort of cross-compatible powerful scripting language to run any other embarrassingly parallel calculations... it would certainly be benificial
Yeah, there's some cycle describing that, about how specialized coprocessors will handle different tasks (much like GPUs), and then merge back into the general-purpose CPU. However, I'm talking about a gfx card, that also happens to be easily programmable (maybe with some driver-level, standard-among-manufacturers, scripting?) so we can do cool things with a massively parallel floating-point processor.
I think it would be great to have another player of graphics. As it is, we only have NVidia and ATI (who both make quality products). However, if there was another player that could do more general-purpose cards (as opposed to gaming), they could probably make some decent money, and indirectly pressure NV and ATI. Maybe open-source drivers? How about a more general-purpose parallel floating-point unit that could be more utilized? Something like the F@H GPU client, but for more apps? As a side effect, it could do graphics.
This, however, is probably wishful thinking. Oh well...
Do all of your work in a ramdisk. Flash has write-limitations, so you want to be limiting the writes to it at all costs.
Obviously, any important changes should be written, but any FS should work for that, since you probably only will need to write on database change, and/or OS shutdown.
...is that this was a corporation. Governments have (and do! *cough*bush) spied on us in the past. Without getting into a more in-depth discussion, they make the laws, so they can justify it. However, when a corporation uses worse tactics, it honestly strikes fear into my heart about how far people are willing to go for the $. The things they are using I'd expect from the FBI if they suspected me of plotting to kill the President, not from leaking some stupid, non-damaging fact to the press.
More interestingly, how about the innocents? Wasn't the father or someone of one of the journalists targeted?
Sir, what in the hell are you talking about? I'm gonna have to call your bluff here... sorry to make you look bad to everyone but maybe you should check your "facts" before posting?
Yeah, stuff like actually unbreakable ciphers. However, are we really teleporting?
I, for one, welcome our dimension-shifting overlords *ducks*
OK, I RTFA, but still don't get it (they're talking about quantum computing; the "teleported" thing being info). So, is this really teleportation, in the traditional sense? Is it instantaneous? TFA talks about "a split second", but as far as I know, that's a pretty qualitative term.
will a physicist explain what this means? I have a reasonable understanding of physics (for somebody who hasn't studied it) and I have no idea what this means. Does it mean that we can apply energy in some way and make it go somewhere else instantaneously (the more traditional definition of teleportation)? Probably not, but then what?
Actually... finally IE is no longer integrated into the shell. Thank God, right?
Really. At least in Beta 2 (haven't tried the RC), if you type a http address in explorer, it opens an instance of IE. And, if you type a shell path in IE (C:) you get a shell window.
This is fixed by IE7 for XP as well, incidentally.
Maybe it will get more people into 3D modeling. I wish more games did that, for stuff like your house, or a hat or something. There are definitely better examples; although they would need to be checked to make sure that somebody didn't import a giant phallus into the game, and stick it on the front of their house.
Still, this is a cool idea. It could make games more interactive, to the people who want to deviate a bit.
But I like my NAT! It helps keep me safe... since nothing outside of my network can initiate a connection to an internal machine. Will we still be able to use it? Why do people assume it's such a PITA?
Actually, not really. I don't think they know much about technology, and I think they overreact, but I think that, in the vast majority of cases, they make the best possible choice. Even when I don't like it, I admit that it's what I probably would do myself.
And, if I do say so myself, I feel I have never "hated" my parents, nor think that they are stupid. I feel I have avoided that, unlike most of my peers.
I understand that people have always thought that their elders are less intelligent than they are. There's even a word for it, though I can't immediately remember it. I was merely reflecting upon the most pervasive thought, and suggesting that there seems to be more and more justification for it (think of the children!).
...my parents occasionally look at things like history (snicker). However, I was the most computer-savvy person in my house, and ran the router/server. Now, I go to sites/do things that they might not like, but it hasn't harmed me or warped me in any sort of way. I learned my morals from them, and make my own decisions.
Now, I know that I'm not most teens, and most are stupid and don't give a flying fsck about anything, but children (especially later teenagers) don't get nearly enough respect. Just the question that "should we tell them we're spying on them?" makes me want to throw up. Jeez, no wonder kids think their parents are stupid...
Because governments need flying cameras that civilians can't see...
They are all fantasy, right? And, in theory, could train people to do anything they show. Why the hell are games so put upon? Are we supposed to live in a rounded-corners world?
You, sir, are a dumbass. I agree with your facts, however it has been shown that increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect. We are pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at an incredible rate (and cutting down CO2-removing trees), and the world is getting warmer. What is there to miss?
The problem with waiting until there is an issue, is that CO2 takes a while (~5-10 years?) to cause any effect... so if there is an issue and we *stop* all carbon dioxide input, it will still deteriorate for a while.
Oh and by the way, about "abandoning technological civilization", if every person replaced a *single* light bulb with a fluorescent, we would save a hell of a lot of energy, and not have to change anything drastic. Replace all the light bulbs, even better. Still nearly *no* change.
In short, STFU. (Most?) Respectable scientists say this is a hell of an issue, and we need to fix it NOW. People like you only slow down the solutions. It's not like we can fix it instantly...
But still no x64.
until I realized that it looked shitty on slower computers and only had Flash 7 on x86 Linux. I can't even play FancyPantsAdventure with it. And, it can be incredibly annoying. Worst is when you force flash to use a site at all. With AJAX technologies and dynamically-created sites, is their really a need for Flash sites? I can see it for games or small applets, but for an entire site (like some car websites), do you even need it? More to the point, should you even need it?
It's good to see people using money to create open-source programs. There is some expectation of support and quality, and you still can modify it any way you want.
Aside from that, is this a better PIM than Evolution, or another? Why (other than the "oh, it's being redone") is this news? Was/is it revolutionary in some way? I have never used it.
Having said that, I think it's fascinating that the programs creator is using his own money to open-source it. Will we see more of this? I hope so.
So was MP3 (at least implementations) and it was around longer and more widely supported by programs/devices.
Why does it seem like everything open-source is a proprietary "killer"?
Having said that, this looks pretty neat. It will probably be more widely accepted, being open source (it is, right?), so it can be ported easily. Features will grow quickly, and other OSS advantages and so forth.
However, why is this better than NFS or Samba/Windows shares? Is it faster? It seems like AoE is offloading more of the low-level stuff to the client. Is this a good thing? It doesn't seem like one...