...in zsh actually rips off a windows idea, if you can believe it. if you turn on tab completion in windows (see below) using tab will auto-complete with the first matching candidate, while tab will cycle forward through matching results, and shift-tab will cycle backwards. i wish there was a way to make it stop for more info like bash or tcsh though. but i guess it's better than nothing. at least zsh shows you the list that you're cycling through.
tab completion in windows (cmd.exe)
run regedt32
open reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Command Processor
change the CompletionChar key to 9 (in hex or decimal)
close regedt32, and open a new shell. voila: tab completion.
It sounds like gaps and holes in Darwin may be an issue hindering development, but I'm having trouble figuring out whether this article is bemoaning the lack of developers, or the lack of publicity for the project, or the lack of Apple support for the project. It seems like some clarification may be in order.
What I'd really like to see is a Quartz/Aqua port for Intel and nVidia, so my geForce can power that nifty-looking eye candy...
Cloth can be a great effect, visually (What would the lobby scene in The Matrix have looked like without the flowing trenchcoats?), but at such great expense it's probably not worth the realtime cost. But to pre-animate the effects on the mesh, storing it as conventional mesh deformation may be an acceptable shortcut in many situations.
It would definitely enable much larger meshes rendered with greater accuracy. Before realtime is practical, there's always precomputation.
This review accuses m$ of creating this thing specifically for use with AoK, but they completely fail to mention how it works with any of the supported titles (are the presets adequate?), and unsupported titles (can you really make this thing do what you want?).
And what about the memory problem: how hard is it to keep track of the... what... 72 commands? Is it practical?
Someone who owns one care to comment? I play alot of RTS games, and i'm interested in this thing, but this review really didn't clarify anything...
while i'm interested in the whole stephen king deal, i personally don't like his writing. but i think his experiment is interesting, so i read through his little report. i was kinda galled to see him "quote" heinlein, with "TANFL". i mean, the gist is there, sure, but it is, correctly, TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. if i had time, i'd quote title and page.
The observation can't possibly be dated, as both websites may still be observed to be in contradiction.
I'm only pointing out irony here. Gimme a break. I mean, it's nice to know that there are/. readers who understand an follow OpenGL issues, but this isn't one. =D
An amusing note regarding Mesa and the use of the license trademark "OpenGL": Mesa does not claim to be an implementation of OpenGL (and it can't, not without Brian Paul paying much money to claim this). The Mesa website specifically requests that Mesa 3D NOT be referred to as "Mesa OpenGL". Great. That's cool. They provide an excellent "workalike". Mesa is extremely useful.
The humor comes from noting that opengl.org, the official OpenGL website, refers to the Mesa 3D library as "Mesa OpenGL". Which, according to their own rules, they're not supposed to do...
but since i have not moderator points today, i'll just post it. =)
seriously, though, while i suppose there is such a thing as elegant perl, as neat perl, as organized, modular, and even object-oriented perl, at its core, perl is a way to get things done quickly and simply. and, at least to some of the people whose perl i've had the "pleasure" of wading through, quickly and simply also seems to imply sloppy and quirky. which i suppose doesn't sound too bad, but when another coder comes along and extends sloppy and quirky code with messy, odd-ball code...
maybe i should just go back to c++, where things are always so straightforward... (heh)
Some sites may be leary. Legal agreements would have to be signed. Some people may object to adbanners (i know i wouldn't want them tacked on. to me, ad banners are a distinguishing hallmark of corporatism. Wouldn't want them added to my site, personally.)
But i think the biggest obstacle would be: getting permission. It takes time. People may not check their mail. It may take a day or two to get a reply.
They may not have a very portable site, constructing the mirror may expose additional problems.
Your idea is interesting... but could prove to be impractical, and at the very least would create a barrier to timely news.
But don't get me wrong, i truly feel for all the small-time admins who've had their sites utterly crushed by madly clicking droves of slashdot minions.
Everyone seems arrogant if YOU SUCK...
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...so why stereotype?
god, i hate katz. so ignorant, it's a waste of time to enlighten him. and i know others feel the same.
so then he calls us arrogant. sure, he attempted to disguise it as a book review, but we all know the truth.
okay, look, i know Apple owns all the NeXT stuff, but seriously: the PlayStation2 looks like a NeXTStep and now that they're coming out with a cube... is it gonna be big and black, 'bout a couple feet square?
there's even some similarities between the colors of the PlayStation logo and the colors of the NeXT logo...
``Maya is the most complex and powerful 3D graphics application ever to run on Linux,'' said Linus Torvalds, the Creator of Linux. ``This is a historical day for the Linux community.''
not that alot of linux users will benefit from this port -- maya is rather expensive -- but with the recent advances in linux clustering that we've seen, and the price of intel hardware being as low as it is, and site licenses for linux being what they are (ie, $0), render farms will be cheaper than ever.
i just have to say that when you can download a gig of mp3's in a couple hours, you download all kinds of interesting stuff. you run out of stuff you've heard of in a couple weeks.
then you start to explore.
and, guess what? a lot of those mp3's got hisses, pops, get cutoff at the end, are poorly ordered, sometimes it can be a real chore to get the whole album (always missing a track and whatnot). know what this means? you get a great preview. a really great preview. you hear most of the album. and if it stands out... you (OMG!) buy the cd!!
now, don't get me wrong. you download a hell of a lot more than you buy. but you don't have to buy cd's only to find that there's only one good track anymore.
so after you buy it, whaddya do? first thing: rip it. rip it properly: no hisses, no cutoffs, numbered tracks, etc. and burn it so you can listen to it in your car (on your mp3 cd player -- you have one, right?), at work (on your computer -- you are a geek, right?), or at home (on your computer through your badass sound system).
it's truly a beautiful thing. and if i didn't buy your music, the reason is simple: i didn't like it. at least i found out before i spent anything.
Will be released for Macintosh, as well.
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In order to prevent a meteor attack, raise chocobos until you have an ocean-going chocobo, and then summon Knights of the Round a few times!
ah so.
tab completion in windows (cmd.exe)
so go figure. ^_^
Sun's got a bunch of info at JavaSoft.com if you wanna switch from the consumer angle to the developer angle...
What I'd really like to see is a Quartz/Aqua port for Intel and nVidia, so my geForce can power that nifty-looking eye candy...
It would definitely enable much larger meshes rendered with greater accuracy. Before realtime is practical, there's always precomputation.
And what about the memory problem: how hard is it to keep track of the... what... 72 commands? Is it practical?
Someone who owns one care to comment? I play alot of RTS games, and i'm interested in this thing, but this review really didn't clarify anything...
while i'm interested in the whole stephen king deal, i personally don't like his writing. but i think his experiment is interesting, so i read through his little report. i was kinda galled to see him "quote" heinlein, with "TANFL". i mean, the gist is there, sure, but it is, correctly, TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. if i had time, i'd quote title and page.
I'm only pointing out irony here. Gimme a break. I mean, it's nice to know that there are /. readers who understand an follow OpenGL issues, but this isn't one. =D
The humor comes from noting that opengl.org, the official OpenGL website, refers to the Mesa 3D library as "Mesa OpenGL". Which, according to their own rules, they're not supposed to do...
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my suggestion? delete bitchNWhine;
but i guess that's just cuz it interests me...
anime varies. it's not all for kids. as for cowboy bebop, try google
cowboy bebop rocks! (and escaflowne was and still is one of my favorites...)
seriously, though, while i suppose there is such a thing as elegant perl, as neat perl, as organized, modular, and even object-oriented perl, at its core, perl is a way to get things done quickly and simply. and, at least to some of the people whose perl i've had the "pleasure" of wading through, quickly and simply also seems to imply sloppy and quirky. which i suppose doesn't sound too bad, but when another coder comes along and extends sloppy and quirky code with messy, odd-ball code...
maybe i should just go back to c++, where things are always so straightforward... (heh)
But i think the biggest obstacle would be: getting permission. It takes time. People may not check their mail. It may take a day or two to get a reply.
They may not have a very portable site, constructing the mirror may expose additional problems.
Your idea is interesting... but could prove to be impractical, and at the very least would create a barrier to timely news.
But don't get me wrong, i truly feel for all the small-time admins who've had their sites utterly crushed by madly clicking droves of slashdot minions.
god, i hate katz. so ignorant, it's a waste of time to enlighten him. and i know others feel the same.
so then he calls us arrogant. sure, he attempted to disguise it as a book review, but we all know the truth.
"...well, it certainly does _suck_"
there's even some similarities between the colors of the PlayStation logo and the colors of the NeXT logo...
anybody else see this?
the idea that you can't tell the difference is "ludicrous, and insulting to all the developers and contributors."
you don't have to read the article very far to see that it speaks of netscape 6, rather that the opensource mozilla.
i was responding to the article.
precisely! =D
aol bought netscape. aol ships ie. so obviously aol has dealings with microsoft. regarding browsers.
so microsoft supplies the browser for the company that owns netscape, and that company fails to compete with microsoft.
except over instant messaging.
on another topic: you can warn yourself with AIM, thus eventually blocking yourself from using it. brilliant.
my opinion: censorship is a total crock, whether or not it's accurate. the fact that it is embarrasingly inaccurate only makes it more obvious.
i wonder if BAIR would block apartment6.org? it has lots of skin tone.
then you start to explore.
and, guess what? a lot of those mp3's got hisses, pops, get cutoff at the end, are poorly ordered, sometimes it can be a real chore to get the whole album (always missing a track and whatnot). know what this means? you get a great preview. a really great preview. you hear most of the album. and if it stands out... you (OMG!) buy the cd!!
now, don't get me wrong. you download a hell of a lot more than you buy. but you don't have to buy cd's only to find that there's only one good track anymore.
so after you buy it, whaddya do? first thing: rip it. rip it properly: no hisses, no cutoffs, numbered tracks, etc. and burn it so you can listen to it in your car (on your mp3 cd player -- you have one, right?), at work (on your computer -- you are a geek, right?), or at home (on your computer through your badass sound system).
it's truly a beautiful thing. and if i didn't buy your music, the reason is simple: i didn't like it. at least i found out before i spent anything.
There's a story at MacCentral.com talking about an upcoming Mac release, as well.