I remember when as a apoolboy I imported a Amiga 500 (wow!) machine into the then Apartheid South Africa... Was that a mission - the UK government wanted to know the same thing!
What did thay expect me to do with the thing!
I guess it could have been seen as an instrument of mass destruction, since I learned to program BASIC on it. (Which was then written by Microsoft incedentally)
I agree that PalmPilots are bad, but everyone else seem to like them. Personally I prefer Psions (Although I do not have one, only played with the emulators...)
I have colleagues at work with me who own PalmPilots, and some of the wise have stopped using grafitti(tm) and rather the virtual keyboard.
As far as processing, the Psion is also superior anyway. (I had a C64, so no, this is not just for memries sake...)
As for the IR devices, even Laptops have them, so that's not a real disadvantage.
Anyway, the on-chip storage in palmtops are enough for what students need to do, and the processors are becoming alarmingly powerfull as well. (Check out previous SlashDot posts on the subject of ARM processors)
... that ISP's are geared for users who download, with all the caching and all, and not upload.
Napster and GNUtella really use up ALL the bandwidth, and the ISP is suddenly faced with a overload in bandwidth. Suddenly they are forced to make good on their bandwidth promoises.
As an old (-grin-) LPMUD Admin, the first thing I used to do was to set up a list of Rules.
It went something like this: If there is any infringement within the game, it must be sorted out in gamespace. (Even things like abuse etc.)
In this case the communication only happens outside the game world. What would Sony do if someone wanted to sell a song developed on Sony equipment? Hmm...
Another big thing that will put the benchmarking of Linux 3D GL on a lower tier than it's Windows counterparts, is the fact that not all the GL extensions are supported under linux, and as NVidia has decided to go 'the bad route' when it comes to releasing source/specs for the cards, we may not see the propper integration into Linux that we are all hoping for.
And now the threat is looming that S3TC may be scrapped (with it only being available on Windows 5.13 drivers) before Linux userd can reap the benifit from it.
That's also another thing that impacts the performance of 3D cards : Memory. S3 Texture Compression helps with this (quite a lot), but mostly it's impossible to do propper benchmarking on low memory systems, as there is a Texture throughput bottleneck. (It's practically impossible to play Quake 3 under Win98 using only 32MB, whereas Linux may handle that better AFAIK).
I got about 50 FPS on Win98, and 26 on Linux/GNU/XFree awhile ago.
Mind you, with nvidia releasing 'leaked' drivers like the 5.13 (www.reactorcritical.com) which Push my GeForce with all goodies enabled (slowest possible) to over 60 FPS in 800x600x32bit.
I'm hoping the latest Linux 2.4 kernel in combination with the Xfree 4.0 will be stable soon... I'm getting tired of seeing blue...
> find a way to use all the "free disk space" various websites made available to people
He-he, as you can see, that's just whst I did in my previous post... stored a bit of PGP encrypted stuff there... you'll find the redundancy on that string at a minimum.
The problem with virtual disk storage, is that you'll need to build in redundancy, as well as caching... Since access time is a bastard! -grin-
How about asking the user if it can scan the user's driver for stuff, and then tell the user it's findings, and the user can then optionally tell it to submit that information to the game server. This way some users have the option of 'proving' that they are not cheating if they feel they need to establish that fact.
This should not be compulsory then either, just more of a personal matter.
If music was GPLed, and you released it with all samples and scores etc. (including Licence Agreeement...), forcing other people to do the same if they used your samples, etc.
Xemacs tries to be too much, it's too big... and betting bigger. A great plus for vim is it's vi compatibility (although if you prefer notepad-like editors such as emacs, it can be set up to work simalarly)
Emacs is a great news/mail reader amongst other things... yes. Pity this award went to 'Text editor'
Firstly, you really want to hear my opinion, or do you want me to say 'the right thing'? My opinion is not abusive or derogatory, but I shall no doubt be prosecuted for it. THAT was the point I wanted to make.
For one thing, I consider myself an African. That does not give me a black skin colour, so what am I to infer from 'African-American'?
Hmm.
If you want to refer to someone's skin colour, bloody hell, there are words for it that are older than civilization! Just use 'black'.
I do however not think it appropriate calling someone 'that black', I would prefer addressing and refering to someone by their names.
Believe me, there are too few similarities anymore between 'African-Americans' and 'Africans' with regard to culture to warrant the naming. I surely don't think of myself as Dutch anymore! Otherwise I would problably have to start calling myself 'French-Dutch-African'! (tracing my lineage)
Eek! :)
What I do think would have been a better approach is to give a new name to the culture that have originated, instead of attaching it to some 'mother-land' concept.
Coming from a history of severe racial discrimination, I think South Africa has done tremendously well. Things are picking up as more generations of blacks are getting educated to the same standards as everyone. This leads to more respect, and that helps combat racism.
Our country has the least censorship of any other country I know of, including the pseudo-free Americans. We do not hide behind naming conventions like 'african-american' which does nothing for aleviating racial tension.
The internet is as free and anonymous as people make it. Thus it is ludicrous that people can discriminate on racial grounds... (intellectual grounds, maybe)
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Agreed, DVD is a wonderfull thing, it may even make the movie watchable!
I am a great fan of the first '3' movies.
IMHO this one sucks badly.
I shall not buy it.
Jar-Jar IS the phantom menace.
How was 'The Phantom Menace' anyway...
My opinion is that it's Jar-jar.
Anyone else care to comment?
We all knew who the Dark Emporer was, that was obvious.
Anyway, I'm sure this subject has been talked about to death.
I remember when as a apoolboy I imported a Amiga 500 (wow!) machine into the then Apartheid South Africa... Was that a mission - the UK government wanted to know the same thing!
What did thay expect me to do with the thing!
I guess it could have been seen as an instrument of mass destruction, since I learned to program BASIC on it. (Which was then written by Microsoft incedentally)
This makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I feel like taking a trip to Japan...
-giggle-
I agree that PalmPilots are bad, but everyone else seem to like them. Personally I prefer Psions (Although I do not have one, only played with the emulators...)
I have colleagues at work with me who own PalmPilots, and some of the wise have stopped using grafitti(tm) and rather the virtual keyboard.
As far as processing, the Psion is also superior anyway.
(I had a C64, so no, this is not just for memries sake...)
As for the IR devices, even Laptops have them, so that's not a real disadvantage.
Anyway, the on-chip storage in palmtops are enough for what students need to do, and the processors are becoming alarmingly powerfull as well.
(Check out previous SlashDot posts on the subject of ARM processors)
One good thing advertising in the classroom will give: better spam-protection software in the future.
When these kids grow up, you can bet that some of them will develop excellent ways of avoiding The Media.
Can't wait.
-Domini rubs his hands...-
How about using a PalmPilot... or better yet, a Psion?
There aren't many to choose from, and these are basically the best choices. Perhaps get them to pre-load some stuff onto it?
These aren't just organisers, after all.
Suuuure it's because they are servers, yea right!
Does this mean FTP has to be passive mode too?
And what about X servers? (Which is used as a client?) And how about ident daemons? Those ISP's have no problem accessing OUR ident.d servers!
-Laugh-
This is all just an excuse to prevent 'future possible lawsuits' from happening.
Chew on this...
... that ISP's are geared for users who download, with all the caching and all, and not upload.
Napster and GNUtella really use up ALL the bandwidth, and the ISP is suddenly faced with a overload in bandwidth. Suddenly they are forced to make good on their bandwidth promoises.
Just a thought.
As an old (-grin-) LPMUD Admin, the first thing I used to do was to set up a list of Rules.
It went something like this: If there is any infringement within the game, it must be sorted out in gamespace. (Even things like abuse etc.)
In this case the communication only happens outside the game world. What would Sony do if someone wanted to sell a song developed on Sony equipment? Hmm...
I say, leave the Real World out of this!
It was a children's book, stretched out, with some big words here and there, and then sold to adults.
I'm not saying I didn't enjoyed it, it's just too Harry Harrison for me. It was not surprising enough. (It was fun to read though...)
:)
And I shaln't make the obligarory reference to Scientology.
-oops-
Another big thing that will put the benchmarking of Linux 3D GL on a lower tier than it's Windows counterparts, is the fact that not all the GL extensions are supported under linux, and as NVidia has decided to go 'the bad route' when it comes to releasing source/specs for the cards, we may not see the propper integration into Linux that we are all hoping for.
And now the threat is looming that S3TC may be scrapped (with it only being available on Windows 5.13 drivers) before Linux userd can reap the benifit from it.
That's also another thing that impacts the performance of 3D cards : Memory. S3 Texture Compression helps with this (quite a lot), but mostly it's impossible to do propper benchmarking on low memory systems, as there is a Texture throughput bottleneck. (It's practically impossible to play Quake 3 under Win98 using only 32MB, whereas Linux may handle that better AFAIK).
Just my Opinions.
Don't shoot.
:)
I got about 50 FPS on Win98, and 26 on Linux/GNU/XFree awhile ago.
Mind you, with nvidia releasing 'leaked' drivers like the 5.13 (www.reactorcritical.com) which Push my GeForce with all goodies enabled (slowest possible) to over 60 FPS in 800x600x32bit.
I'm hoping the latest Linux 2.4 kernel in combination with the Xfree 4.0 will be stable soon... I'm getting tired of seeing blue...
-grin-
Quake 3 is quite a accelerator hog, you cannot run it without one, but if you have one, it's quite light on the rest of your machine.
Unfortunately under linux we still have the pre-XFree 4.0 server (unless you go beta), and it's quite a lot slower than the Windows counterpart.
I'm using a TNT2 and a GeForce DDR, and have tested a TNT2 under linux as well. I get about 1/2 to 2/3 of my windows FPS on quake.
Quake is a good benchmark program to use for 3D cards, since it gets to run on such a variety of platforms, and reflects actual working framerates.
And to think, it's years after I played the game, and apart from 'xyzzy' it's the only code I remember from the early years.
I still remembering the OMNI magazine having a review on this beast. It really paved the way for quite a couple of games methinks.
Domini.
At least it could withstand an EMP shockwave.
But then again, bugs might litereally have eaten away at the programming.
Dom.
> find a way to use all the "free disk space" various websites made available to people
He-he, as you can see, that's just whst I did in my previous post... stored a bit of PGP encrypted stuff there... you'll find the redundancy on that string at a minimum.
The problem with virtual disk storage, is that you'll need to build in redundancy, as well as caching... Since access time is a bastard! -grin-
Dom.
It's like tying ribbins round your fingers.
q PE
And we're rapidly running out of limbs.
Next we'll have probabilistic memory based on quantum theory. (Such as the latest secure communication proposals)
And to think I used to send email out continuously onto the internet back to myself in the days when my university limited us to 200K network space...
I had dreams to write a virtual disk driver using mail servers across the world.
(I have better sense now though...)
zUE65db/j/nDUFJYb6i88bhwJz26I1SMdr78iB6VjqA+tp6
p7L98Z/QCg/7JD
-grin-
How about asking the user if it can scan the user's driver for stuff, and then tell the user it's findings, and the user can then optionally tell it to submit that information to the game server. This way some users have the option of 'proving' that they are not cheating if they feel they need to establish that fact.
This should not be compulsory then either, just more of a personal matter.
Domini.
Yes, I know.
He chopped of his ear, and sent it to a girlfriend or something...
But my point was that the IRC servers are cutting off their main function, whereas Van Goth did not.
Mind you, a lot of people may just be forced to do something useful, like program something...
... which reminds me, I've gotto do some work.
-wink-
Only if Van Gogh chopped off his hands,
methinks.
It has to do with purpose.
(The way this is continuting, we are "rapidly running out of limbs...")
-grin-
Of cource, this may just force some people to find alternate ways of entertainment, like finding these scripts and trying them out...
IRC is quite a good place for people to vent their frustration.
DoS is admittedly becoming quite a problem, I think this was a good move.
Dom.
Wouldn't it be great if...
If music was GPLed, and you released it with all samples and scores etc. (including Licence Agreeement...), forcing other people to do the same if they used your samples, etc.
Just a thought - does this trend exist someplace?
My Minor $0.02.
Domini.
And you ask: Whys vim, and not Xemacs?
Xemacs tries to be too much, it's too big... and betting bigger. A great plus for vim is it's vi compatibility (although if you prefer notepad-like editors such as emacs, it can be set up to work simalarly)
Emacs is a great news/mail reader amongst other things... yes. Pity this award went to 'Text editor'
;)
Firstly, you really want to hear my opinion, or do you want me to say 'the right thing'? My opinion is not abusive or derogatory, but I shall no doubt be prosecuted for it. THAT was the point I wanted to make.
For one thing, I consider myself an African. That does not give me a black skin colour, so what am I to infer from 'African-American'?
Hmm.
If you want to refer to someone's skin colour, bloody hell, there are words for it that are older than civilization! Just use 'black'.
I do however not think it appropriate calling someone 'that black', I would prefer addressing and refering to someone by their names.
Believe me, there are too few similarities anymore between 'African-Americans' and 'Africans' with regard to culture to warrant the naming. I surely don't think of myself as Dutch anymore! Otherwise I would problably have to start calling myself 'French-Dutch-African'! (tracing my lineage)
Eek!
:)
What I do think would have been a better approach is to give a new name to the culture that have originated, instead of attaching it to some 'mother-land' concept.
Only my humble, uninformed opinion.
-sigh-
Marius.
Coming from a history of severe racial discrimination, I think South Africa has done tremendously well. Things are picking up as more generations of blacks are getting educated to the same standards as everyone. This leads to more respect, and that helps combat racism.
Our country has the least censorship of any other country I know of, including the pseudo-free Americans. We do not hide behind naming conventions like 'african-american' which does nothing for aleviating racial tension.
The internet is as free and anonymous as people make it. Thus it is ludicrous that people can discriminate on racial grounds... (intellectual grounds, maybe)
My R 0.02.