About time someone (and not the US since the Iraq war has sucked up all our money) went there.
That's funny, if the US has run out of money, how can they afford to stay in Iraq?
The war is costing $720 million/day. I say they scale that back to $700 million/day and give the rest to NASA. That should be more than enough for them to work with!
Well, they're planning on releasing binaries for the MO server, as well as binaries and source for the content creation tools, so users can create their own content. Cyan will still be running central auth and avatar servers, though, so you don't need to start from scratch on each shard.
Oh man, look at what you've done. Don't you know that guys, particularly geeky guys, love to explain things? Now somebody has to go through and mark half of these responses as redundant.
PS: Amdahl's Law predicts the theoretical maximum additional performance you can gain by adding more cores.
Actually, the [] operator of an STL vector doesn't throw any exceptions, and will happily allow you to reference an index which is out of bounds.
That's not a bad thing, because it's more efficient when you already know that your index is in rage. But if you don't know that, you're better off using the at() function.
You mean the ISC License? Well, I appreciate that it's concise, but there's still one clause in there, even though there's no bulleted points. (And that one clause is still equivalent to the two-clause BSD license.)
When it comes to Montreal, "shovel" is not the word you're looking for. In Montreal they just throw salt everywhere and hope the problem takes care of itself, but instead you end up three inches of slush everywhere.
Montreal is extraordinarily slippery in the winter, and I wouldn't want to ride a bike there.
Indeed, it is the same here in Canada. You're not supposed to ride on the sidewalk if your wheels are over a certain size (i.e. kids are still allowed to ride on the sidewalk) and you're supposed to signal and obey all traffic laws.
I installed Ubuntu late last year, and setting up multiple monitors still requires editing text files.
Linux is friendly for people with a lot of skill, who need a lot from their computer and aren't afraid of the command line; or people with very little skill, who don't need to do anything but browse the web, check their email, and do some word processing.
For everybody in-between, Windows is still a clear win.
Don't use raid-1. Raid isn't a backup solution. Raid-1 will only protect you if one of your drives becomes corrupt, but if you get a virus or somebody accidentally deletes a folder, then every drive in your array is screwed. Disks in a raid array can also prove to be difficult to migrate to a different machine.
Instead, just store all the files on your computer and get a number of removable hard-drives. Plug one of the removable drives into your computer and set your computer up to backup all of your data to that drive every night (rsync works for this, but there's a glut of backup software out there if you don't want to write your own script). Then, every week, rotate the backup drive.
For bonus points, make your backup script email you with the results of every backup, and store your unplugged backups off-site. If off-site is too inconvenient, consider a water/fire-proof safe.
Just to drive the point home, don't forget about EA's online store. If you buy Mass Effect through EA's digital distribution service — thereby saving EA bucketloads of cash — your total savings amount to $0. What's worse, EA charges you an extra $6 for their "extended download service", in case you ever need to redownload the game after six months.
It's pretty clear that EA has no respect for their customers. It's a shame, because I'd really like to try Mass Effect, but between the draconian DRM, the greedy sales policy, and the refusal to release a demo (which could be excused if the game wasn't $50) it's pretty difficult to justify buying it.
Why don't you ask Carmack? Back in 2000 he talked about how, although voxels are interesting, hardware support for polys is just too good to ignore. In fact, the hardware support is so good that even voxel engines usually go through the rather expensive process of converting their voxels into polys in real-time because they'll make up that speed penalty by leveraging the poly drawing power of todays graphics cards.
Although everybody focuses on how easy it is to get correct shadows, reflections, and refractions with a ray tracer, another interesting fact is that ray tracers don't really care how much geometry is in your scene. That means that once you get to a certain level of detail, ray tracers can become more efficient than rasterizers!
There's one big flaw, though. Ray tracers need a fast way to intersect each ray with the world geometry. This is a problem, because creating some way to index all your geometry is really expensive, especially if you have to do it in real-time. We need some clever data structures and algorithms to solve this problem.
Most projects don't really depend that much on X.org (or even the X Window System in general). Almost every application nowadays is written with GUI libraries like GTK or Qt, which not only work on different windowing systems, but entirely different operating systems. So if somebody wrote a replacement for X, they would just need to implement new backends for GTK and Qt and they'd already have tonnes of supported apps.
Granted, I'm not convinced anything would be gained by rewriting X. In my opinion, the only thing it desperately needs is a better method for configuration, including programmatic interfaces to the configuration settings.
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A keyboard — Dvorak or not — is not really an alternative to the mouse. If you believe it is, then I think I just met somebody I can beat in an FPS.
I'm a member of the IGDA, and we get this question all the time over at those forums. If everybody read Sloperama, everybody would save a lot of time.
If you want more reading material, check out the IGDA's Breaking In FAQ.
All these magic improvements are in the encoder; the decoder remains unchanged, so none of this affects FF.
About time someone (and not the US since the Iraq war has sucked up all our money) went there.
That's funny, if the US has run out of money, how can they afford to stay in Iraq?
The war is costing $720 million/day. I say they scale that back to $700 million/day and give the rest to NASA. That should be more than enough for them to work with!
It's not unreasonable in such a litigious society.
In a litigious society, wouldn't it be best to save all of your email, so you can use it to protect yourself in court?
If you're deleting all your email, then the only evidence that will come out in court will be from the people suing you.
Well, they're planning on releasing binaries for the MO server, as well as binaries and source for the content creation tools, so users can create their own content. Cyan will still be running central auth and avatar servers, though, so you don't need to start from scratch on each shard.
All this and MORE (pun intended) is discussed on the Wikipedia page.
Ah, and it turns out HotSpot Shield doesn't work with 64-bit Windows... Guess I'm just going to have to wait for them to fix the international feed.
Just found this: http://twitter.com/drhorrible
Working on international. Give this a try in the meantime http://tinyurl.com/3n5xys
Oh man, look at what you've done. Don't you know that guys, particularly geeky guys, love to explain things? Now somebody has to go through and mark half of these responses as redundant.
PS: Amdahl's Law predicts the theoretical maximum additional performance you can gain by adding more cores.
Huh? Are you criticizing the parent for not using alliteration?
Actually, the [] operator of an STL vector doesn't throw any exceptions, and will happily allow you to reference an index which is out of bounds.
That's not a bad thing, because it's more efficient when you already know that your index is in rage. But if you don't know that, you're better off using the at() function.
Despite people saying how evil Javascript and web applications are, I don't see anybody refusing to use Google Maps.
Reply before you mod, jerks...
How can I mod after I reply?You mean the ISC License? Well, I appreciate that it's concise, but there's still one clause in there, even though there's no bulleted points. (And that one clause is still equivalent to the two-clause BSD license.)
When it comes to Montreal, "shovel" is not the word you're looking for. In Montreal they just throw salt everywhere and hope the problem takes care of itself, but instead you end up three inches of slush everywhere.
Montreal is extraordinarily slippery in the winter, and I wouldn't want to ride a bike there.
Indeed, it is the same here in Canada. You're not supposed to ride on the sidewalk if your wheels are over a certain size (i.e. kids are still allowed to ride on the sidewalk) and you're supposed to signal and obey all traffic laws.
Not that I've ever seen a bicyclist get a ticket.
I installed Ubuntu late last year, and setting up multiple monitors still requires editing text files.
Linux is friendly for people with a lot of skill, who need a lot from their computer and aren't afraid of the command line; or people with very little skill, who don't need to do anything but browse the web, check their email, and do some word processing.
For everybody in-between, Windows is still a clear win.
Don't use raid-1. Raid isn't a backup solution. Raid-1 will only protect you if one of your drives becomes corrupt, but if you get a virus or somebody accidentally deletes a folder, then every drive in your array is screwed. Disks in a raid array can also prove to be difficult to migrate to a different machine.
Instead, just store all the files on your computer and get a number of removable hard-drives. Plug one of the removable drives into your computer and set your computer up to backup all of your data to that drive every night (rsync works for this, but there's a glut of backup software out there if you don't want to write your own script). Then, every week, rotate the backup drive.
For bonus points, make your backup script email you with the results of every backup, and store your unplugged backups off-site. If off-site is too inconvenient, consider a water/fire-proof safe.
The Tao of Backup is a good read on this subject.
Just to drive the point home, don't forget about EA's online store. If you buy Mass Effect through EA's digital distribution service — thereby saving EA bucketloads of cash — your total savings amount to $0. What's worse, EA charges you an extra $6 for their "extended download service", in case you ever need to redownload the game after six months.
It's pretty clear that EA has no respect for their customers. It's a shame, because I'd really like to try Mass Effect, but between the draconian DRM, the greedy sales policy, and the refusal to release a demo (which could be excused if the game wasn't $50) it's pretty difficult to justify buying it.
Please, Bioware, find another publisher.
Why don't you ask Carmack? Back in 2000 he talked about how, although voxels are interesting, hardware support for polys is just too good to ignore. In fact, the hardware support is so good that even voxel engines usually go through the rather expensive process of converting their voxels into polys in real-time because they'll make up that speed penalty by leveraging the poly drawing power of todays graphics cards.
Although everybody focuses on how easy it is to get correct shadows, reflections, and refractions with a ray tracer, another interesting fact is that ray tracers don't really care how much geometry is in your scene. That means that once you get to a certain level of detail, ray tracers can become more efficient than rasterizers!
There's one big flaw, though. Ray tracers need a fast way to intersect each ray with the world geometry. This is a problem, because creating some way to index all your geometry is really expensive, especially if you have to do it in real-time. We need some clever data structures and algorithms to solve this problem.
So, how is Carmack solving it? Well, you'll be happy to hear that he's bringing back voxels!
You must be new here.
Most projects don't really depend that much on X.org (or even the X Window System in general). Almost every application nowadays is written with GUI libraries like GTK or Qt, which not only work on different windowing systems, but entirely different operating systems. So if somebody wrote a replacement for X, they would just need to implement new backends for GTK and Qt and they'd already have tonnes of supported apps.
Granted, I'm not convinced anything would be gained by rewriting X. In my opinion, the only thing it desperately needs is a better method for configuration, including programmatic interfaces to the configuration settings.
How appropriate that TFA is about E. coli!