Wrong. Duke Nukem Forever was first started using a heavily modified Quake 2 Engine(much like in spirit of Half-Life which used a heavily modified Quake 1 Engine), then near the end of development cycle a switch to the Unreal Engine was decided, with most of the work done scrapped. By the time they were anywhere close to beeing done UT2k3 was out, so they decided to use Unreal Engine 2. As far as i know they either use the updated Unreal 2 Engine (and inherited the fixes from UT2k4) or are working with Unreal Engine 3. But then again, this is Duke Nukem Forever and Ever, so who knows? Maybe they're waiting for ID Tech 5 to switch?;]
But i have to add: there is some hardware that works better with Linux than windows (due to buggy driver software for Windows). Prime examples are printers : i shudder everytime i have to install another "set" of HP Printer drivers:(. Also, my cx28xx card (unless one can use it with DScaler 3) and my Logitech MX1000 mouse (evdev rocks)
Seems someone didn't RTFA. CK is saying that while he was pushing the kernel to be speedy on the desktop, all the other developers were pushing it to be speedy on the server, sacrificing the desktop performance (and this is because all the others were big-corporation workers).
And yes i know it isn't "either the desktop or the server" but i can see his POV beeing somewhat right.
> What if we're the ones living in a "post-cosmology universe," and the evidence for what really happened has faded so much that we can't detect it?
What's more, what if this is a circular process? What if the universe expands and collapses in a certain time, and no civilization ever managed to evolve so rapidly as to avoid its demise? That would be the ultimate evolutionary shaping process - to create a species which could whitstand the destruction of its universe.
Think for a moment what that would mean.
OSX Tiger has 64bit BSD subsystem (if sufficient hardware is found), but the aqua layer and apps are 32bit (unless the application explicitly does something 64bit which i think is possible, but i can't name any). Leopard will be totally fat-binary eg. it will use 64bit in all components when 64bit hardware is used, however it will have a linux-like/lib32.
Now here is what I don't understand. Some time ago Google Desktop for Mac was released. I believe it also ahs an search-index system in that. Did they attack/tell apple to shut down Spotlight? I believe Tiger doesn't have a way to shut down Spotlight either.
This hasn't been true since the N64 (except maybe for the fmv resolution - A couple of games like Final Fantasy X on the PS2 are squished because NTSC has 480, PAL has 563)
In fact, ill expand on this. As a person owing a couple of consoles, all of them chipped to play imports, ill explain.
First off, you have to defeat region coding. If you get a modchip you've got that done. If not, you have to get a EU copy (or close to EU). France doesn't use SECAM for a long time now, so no worries about that. Besides all games are 'set' to either PAL or NTSC (and if youre talking about variants, then only care if you get a Japan game - they have a modified NTSC there called NTSC-J). As the parent mentioned, the variants mostly relate to the sound, and we don't care about that since most of us use the RCA plugs to get our sound.
Now, if you are getting an import from an US country the console will _NOT_ output NTSC. And before you jump me saying that you did just that and your tv says its NTSC - i know, and the TV doesn't see the difference (well, most TVs don't) because the frequency decoder and the color decoder are usually separate subsystems.
PAL consoles playing NTSC games output PAL-60. What this means is the refresh is 60Hz (interlaced) but in PAL colour. Why should you care? If youre using a tv tuner (like a myth box) you better should because not a lot of TV tuner cards do (and even those that do don't usually have driver support for that strange mode). Setting your card to NTSC will give you a b&w picture. I have fought this for about a month when i arrived at this very resolution, then i had to catch the developer for the cx88 linux module to implement that mode (well, it theoretically was there, but it never worked and no-one tried, so yeah, Hi Mauro;] Thank you for letting me have my Twilight Princess fix!).
Also, if you have a old TV (PAL) that doesnt support NTSC - that will not work. Some PAL&NTSC tvs might get confused by the PAL-60 mix but 95% will do just fine.
If you ask me - grab a MULTI-5 version from some EU country:)
Yeah, sure. Technically nothing. However them beeing apple they wont release a product that doesnt work with all the functions advertised - they wont sell it unless for example they can't make it work with their visual voicemail, or merging calls (anyone care to tell me if the network operator needs a back-end for this to work, or is it done purely client-side?).
Also, important to notice, not all EU countries have iTMS (Poland for example, which i am a citizen of). And it seems one needs a iTMS account to use an iPhone, thus making me royally screwed:(
This plugins does exactly what you want, and more (like blocking flash, which is why i discovered it) - Safari Stand
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
Here's something from me : I'm not a citizen of the UK, so i don't pay for the BBC content, yet i can watch either via satellite or via cable here in Poland. The content from my point of view is top-notch. This _IS_ the channel thats great public service : both for entertainment and educational needs. It simply blows away the local Polish public TV (for which i have to pay a tax - everyone owing a tv or radio has to even if they can't receive the channels). If i had an option to pay for the BBC and get the content without any DRM over the net i would think a split second. The mere fact that BBC allows almost all of the world to see its channels is a gift (i don't know about the US, but all of Europe and Asia gets BBC pretty easily). So rather as taking it as a british channel that the rest of the world can view for free, i would start seeing BBC in a category of citizen-of-the-world tv station.
So to all of the brits that pay for us - a big thank you! Where else could i get my Top Gear fix?;]
I know youre kind of on-topic but this is the 2nd time ive seen you in this thread waving about what cool codecs you have. Thats fine, however, what good is it when i can't hear it/see it since i use Linux and Mac OS X. I _hate_ it when some doofus encodes something i want to see into wmv9 - this means extra hassle for me - either with maplyer and binary codecs, or WMVPlayer from flip4mac.
The upside of _all_ other codecs mentioned here is that theyre all open source (ok, exclude divx, its superseeded by xvid anyway).
So please, stop astroturfing.
Umm, yes! On linux its as easy as:
rm/lib/modules/'uname -a'/kernel/build/somemodule.ko ; depmod -a
on Mac OS X its
rm -r/System/Library/Extensions/YourKext.kext; rm/System/Library/Extensions.*;
See?
> Probably because computer languages aren't designed for dictation. It would be interesting, however, if a language were designed for spoken programming rather than typing.
Like Applescript?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/
Exactly, its starting to be the same here - and that's why were pissed. The police spends less time going after financial frauds and big scandals than hunting the little fish.
Actually no, we just listen to the movie, write down the original dialog, then we write the translation proper, then usually some other person synchronizes them to the movie.
Dammit, i hate how international news skew local ones. Im from Poland, so i know what's going on. Here's the recap:
Napisy.org exist for the sole purpose of providing subtitles for xvid and ogg videos. And videos of everything - Lost, blockbuster movies, you name then - they've got subs for that movie. Now, our local MPAA argued once already that this is illegal - and it's bullshit because what i create is my own and i have the right to do with my creation as i please. They tried this once already with another site - napisy.info and failed miserably.
Now they did this again with this site, but instead of sending a C&D letters they came with the police, but looking for - you guessed it - pirated movies! And they did find some! Why? Because the translators have to work on _something_.
So why is this a story? Because the media-cartel couldn't find any other way of taking down the site. Sounds familiar to you americans?
And please don't post stuff like "let US take over". No thank you, ill have this any day instead of your DMCA-scaring RIAA/MPAA litigation and religious/political censorship and software patent law. Imagine this : not only are we allowed to have modchips in our consoles (yay demoscene!), we could remove the SimLock from our mobile all along (something i hear you can do legally just now) and face no consequence - it's legal.
What we're mostly scared shitless that one day our laws and freedoms may resemble yours.
What you say is mostly right (i see that other people just criticized some points). But i wasn't talking about Quartz or Aero. I was talking specifically about firefox. Now, i can't really relate since by the time i heard of firefox (or rather then phoenix) i had 256MB, and it worked good enough then.
However to address some points - take for granted Im closing this argument only for the windows platform.
XP was release 2001, and i was running 2000 then. Yes, with 64MB of Ram. I didn't play movies in my web browser - thats what media players are for. Hence, the media decoding/encoding factor doesn't apply here, same for sound cards. #5 also is bound for the OS, and back in that day we didn't have most of the stuff you talk about. Also, i believe the number of open tabs for me hasnt changed - i open up as many i need only to stop when i run out of screen space (i *hate* hidden tabs).
What i will agree is this - screen resolutions have changed. Back then i was using 800*600 (and later 1024x768). Now i use 1280x1024 on my desktop (slated for bump) and 1280x800 on my Macbook. Also what has changed - CSS and the whole Web2.0 paradigm is putting a lot of strain - PNG blending and heavy Javascript usage. Silly thing this has not changed though - try to open a page which has a bunch of transparent PNGs - i guarantee under FF2 it's gonna start 'ripping' itself when you scrool. Only when FF3 will start using cairo for graphics will this change.
At any rate, back to my main point - browsers shouldn't use more Ram, they should however exploit the graphics card more - Safari does this now (thanks to the Quartz goodness!) and it shows when scrolling (or any Canvas site - Safari seems to be doing this thru Quartz, FF does it in software, and it shows).
And of course, i wouldn't expect my Gamecube to perform admirably with general-purpose software. However, as i said Opera and Netfront doesn't seem to have a problem with fitting in small memory space, rendering everything your desktop browser renders, take away Flash.
256MB ? Holy crap!
I don't understand why people think we need at least 512MB to run anything decently! In 2001 i was running on 64MB and i can remember i could run a web browser (granted it was IE, but nevertheless!) Winamp and some other stuff. And people _expected_ it to run smoothly with only 64MB ! I know it 6 years from that time, Moores law and such, but i still wonder - why this insane amount of hardware requirements? Notice that Opera for Symbian must run with 8MB of RAM and it has to share. And there's no virtual ram, so swapping is not an option. This of course doesn't count Flash.
Right now both of my boxes have 1GB of Ram, and i don't plan on upgrading that number anytime soon - I don't play games (consoles are for that, and my Gamecube has about 48MB combined too!), i don't run VMs and i don't even have a swap partition - it never got touched anyway.
I would actually broaden that statement : all companies are voliating some other companies patents. However, MS is stepping reaaly close to start a patent war - MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction, for those of you not familiar with the Cold Ware era talk) is ensued.
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Wrong. Duke Nukem Forever was first started using a heavily modified Quake 2 Engine(much like in spirit of Half-Life which used a heavily modified Quake 1 Engine), then near the end of development cycle a switch to the Unreal Engine was decided, with most of the work done scrapped. ;]
By the time they were anywhere close to beeing done UT2k3 was out, so they decided to use Unreal Engine 2. As far as i know they either use the updated Unreal 2 Engine (and inherited the fixes from UT2k4) or are working with Unreal Engine 3. But then again, this is Duke Nukem Forever and Ever, so who knows? Maybe they're waiting for ID Tech 5 to switch?
But i have to add: there is some hardware that works better with Linux than windows (due to buggy driver software for Windows). Prime examples are printers : i shudder everytime i have to install another "set" of HP Printer drivers :(. Also, my cx28xx card (unless one can use it with DScaler 3) and my Logitech MX1000 mouse (evdev rocks)
Yet you get to keep and legally use Pirate Bay :)
I would guess pretty much any of the scandinavian countries (Norway or Sweden for example).
There's the google-made MacFuse and proper ntfs-3g modules for it. Have fun.
Seems someone didn't RTFA. CK is saying that while he was pushing the kernel to be speedy on the desktop, all the other developers were pushing it to be speedy on the server, sacrificing the desktop performance (and this is because all the others were big-corporation workers).
And yes i know it isn't "either the desktop or the server" but i can see his POV beeing somewhat right.
> What if we're the ones living in a "post-cosmology universe," and the evidence for what really happened has faded so much that we can't detect it? What's more, what if this is a circular process? What if the universe expands and collapses in a certain time, and no civilization ever managed to evolve so rapidly as to avoid its demise? That would be the ultimate evolutionary shaping process - to create a species which could whitstand the destruction of its universe. Think for a moment what that would mean.
OSX Tiger has 64bit BSD subsystem (if sufficient hardware is found), but the aqua layer and apps are 32bit (unless the application explicitly does something 64bit which i think is possible, but i can't name any). Leopard will be totally fat-binary eg. it will use 64bit in all components when 64bit hardware is used, however it will have a linux-like /lib32.
>All they have to do is yank iexplore32 and flash dies overnight.
All they have to do is yank iexplore32 and Firefox wins overnight.
There, fixed that for you.
Now here is what I don't understand. Some time ago Google Desktop for Mac was released. I believe it also ahs an search-index system in that. Did they attack/tell apple to shut down Spotlight? I believe Tiger doesn't have a way to shut down Spotlight either.
This hasn't been true since the N64 (except maybe for the fmv resolution - A couple of games like Final Fantasy X on the PS2 are squished because NTSC has 480, PAL has 563)
In fact, ill expand on this. As a person owing a couple of consoles, all of them chipped to play imports, ill explain.
;] Thank you for letting me have my Twilight Princess fix!).
Also, if you have a old TV (PAL) that doesnt support NTSC - that will not work. Some PAL&NTSC tvs might get confused by the PAL-60 mix but 95% will do just fine.
If you ask me - grab a MULTI-5 version from some EU country :)
First off, you have to defeat region coding. If you get a modchip you've got that done. If not, you have to get a EU copy (or close to EU). France doesn't use SECAM for a long time now, so no worries about that. Besides all games are 'set' to either PAL or NTSC (and if youre talking about variants, then only care if you get a Japan game - they have a modified NTSC there called NTSC-J). As the parent mentioned, the variants mostly relate to the sound, and we don't care about that since most of us use the RCA plugs to get our sound.
Now, if you are getting an import from an US country the console will _NOT_ output NTSC. And before you jump me saying that you did just that and your tv says its NTSC - i know, and the TV doesn't see the difference (well, most TVs don't) because the frequency decoder and the color decoder are usually separate subsystems.
PAL consoles playing NTSC games output PAL-60. What this means is the refresh is 60Hz (interlaced) but in PAL colour. Why should you care? If youre using a tv tuner (like a myth box) you better should because not a lot of TV tuner cards do (and even those that do don't usually have driver support for that strange mode). Setting your card to NTSC will give you a b&w picture. I have fought this for about a month when i arrived at this very resolution, then i had to catch the developer for the cx88 linux module to implement that mode (well, it theoretically was there, but it never worked and no-one tried, so yeah, Hi Mauro
>There's nothing stopping Apple
:(
Yeah, sure. Technically nothing. However them beeing apple they wont release a product that doesnt work with all the functions advertised - they wont sell it unless for example they can't make it work with their visual voicemail, or merging calls (anyone care to tell me if the network operator needs a back-end for this to work, or is it done purely client-side?). Also, important to notice, not all EU countries have iTMS (Poland for example, which i am a citizen of). And it seems one needs a iTMS account to use an iPhone, thus making me royally screwed
This plugins does exactly what you want, and more (like blocking flash, which is why i discovered it) - Safari Stand http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
Here's something from me : I'm not a citizen of the UK, so i don't pay for the BBC content, yet i can watch either via satellite or via cable here in Poland. The content from my point of view is top-notch. This _IS_ the channel thats great public service : both for entertainment and educational needs. It simply blows away the local Polish public TV (for which i have to pay a tax - everyone owing a tv or radio has to even if they can't receive the channels).
;]
If i had an option to pay for the BBC and get the content without any DRM over the net i would think a split second. The mere fact that BBC allows almost all of the world to see its channels is a gift (i don't know about the US, but all of Europe and Asia gets BBC pretty easily). So rather as taking it as a british channel that the rest of the world can view for free, i would start seeing BBC in a category of citizen-of-the-world tv station.
So to all of the brits that pay for us - a big thank you! Where else could i get my Top Gear fix?
I know youre kind of on-topic but this is the 2nd time ive seen you in this thread waving about what cool codecs you have. Thats fine, however, what good is it when i can't hear it/see it since i use Linux and Mac OS X. I _hate_ it when some doofus encodes something i want to see into wmv9 - this means extra hassle for me - either with maplyer and binary codecs, or WMVPlayer from flip4mac. The upside of _all_ other codecs mentioned here is that theyre all open source (ok, exclude divx, its superseeded by xvid anyway). So please, stop astroturfing.
Umm, yes! On linux its as easy as: /lib/modules/'uname -a'/kernel/build/somemodule.ko ; depmod -a
on Mac OS X its /System/Library/Extensions/YourKext.kext; rm /System/Library/Extensions.*;
See?
rm
rm -r
I'm not a neurologist (and actually don't do anything related to medicine) but i always believed the connections between the cells were important.
> Probably because computer languages aren't designed for dictation. It would be interesting, however, if a language were designed for spoken programming rather than typing. Like Applescript? http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/
Exactly, its starting to be the same here - and that's why were pissed. The police spends less time going after financial frauds and big scandals than hunting the little fish.
Actually no, we just listen to the movie, write down the original dialog, then we write the translation proper, then usually some other person synchronizes them to the movie.
Dammit, i hate how international news skew local ones. Im from Poland, so i know what's going on. Here's the recap:
Napisy.org exist for the sole purpose of providing subtitles for xvid and ogg videos. And videos of everything - Lost, blockbuster movies, you name then - they've got subs for that movie. Now, our local MPAA argued once already that this is illegal - and it's bullshit because what i create is my own and i have the right to do with my creation as i please. They tried this once already with another site - napisy.info and failed miserably.
Now they did this again with this site, but instead of sending a C&D letters they came with the police, but looking for - you guessed it - pirated movies! And they did find some! Why? Because the translators have to work on _something_.
So why is this a story? Because the media-cartel couldn't find any other way of taking down the site. Sounds familiar to you americans?
And please don't post stuff like "let US take over". No thank you, ill have this any day instead of your DMCA-scaring RIAA/MPAA litigation and religious/political censorship and software patent law. Imagine this : not only are we allowed to have modchips in our consoles (yay demoscene!), we could remove the SimLock from our mobile all along (something i hear you can do legally just now) and face no consequence - it's legal.
What we're mostly scared shitless that one day our laws and freedoms may resemble yours.
What you say is mostly right (i see that other people just criticized some points). But i wasn't talking about Quartz or Aero. I was talking specifically about firefox. Now, i can't really relate since by the time i heard of firefox (or rather then phoenix) i had 256MB, and it worked good enough then. However to address some points - take for granted Im closing this argument only for the windows platform. XP was release 2001, and i was running 2000 then. Yes, with 64MB of Ram. I didn't play movies in my web browser - thats what media players are for. Hence, the media decoding/encoding factor doesn't apply here, same for sound cards. #5 also is bound for the OS, and back in that day we didn't have most of the stuff you talk about. Also, i believe the number of open tabs for me hasnt changed - i open up as many i need only to stop when i run out of screen space (i *hate* hidden tabs). What i will agree is this - screen resolutions have changed. Back then i was using 800*600 (and later 1024x768). Now i use 1280x1024 on my desktop (slated for bump) and 1280x800 on my Macbook. Also what has changed - CSS and the whole Web2.0 paradigm is putting a lot of strain - PNG blending and heavy Javascript usage. Silly thing this has not changed though - try to open a page which has a bunch of transparent PNGs - i guarantee under FF2 it's gonna start 'ripping' itself when you scrool. Only when FF3 will start using cairo for graphics will this change. At any rate, back to my main point - browsers shouldn't use more Ram, they should however exploit the graphics card more - Safari does this now (thanks to the Quartz goodness!) and it shows when scrolling (or any Canvas site - Safari seems to be doing this thru Quartz, FF does it in software, and it shows). And of course, i wouldn't expect my Gamecube to perform admirably with general-purpose software. However, as i said Opera and Netfront doesn't seem to have a problem with fitting in small memory space, rendering everything your desktop browser renders, take away Flash.
256MB ? Holy crap! I don't understand why people think we need at least 512MB to run anything decently! In 2001 i was running on 64MB and i can remember i could run a web browser (granted it was IE, but nevertheless!) Winamp and some other stuff. And people _expected_ it to run smoothly with only 64MB ! I know it 6 years from that time, Moores law and such, but i still wonder - why this insane amount of hardware requirements? Notice that Opera for Symbian must run with 8MB of RAM and it has to share. And there's no virtual ram, so swapping is not an option. This of course doesn't count Flash. Right now both of my boxes have 1GB of Ram, and i don't plan on upgrading that number anytime soon - I don't play games (consoles are for that, and my Gamecube has about 48MB combined too!), i don't run VMs and i don't even have a swap partition - it never got touched anyway.
I would actually broaden that statement : all companies are voliating some other companies patents. However, MS is stepping reaaly close to start a patent war - MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction, for those of you not familiar with the Cold Ware era talk) is ensued.