Unless XFree86 is as easy to install as Windows 98, or if it starts shipping with massive gaming systems, game publishers aren't going to actively port their games to the OS.
Now, try to do anything useful in C, without pulling in a single library.
I can do lots and lots of useful things in C, pulling in just the [single] libc library. Now, try to do anything useful in Perl, without pulling in a memory hogging interpreter. Btw, ever seen the size of a hello world executable perlcc produces? ~500K on Linux/x86
Or better still, how likely it is to be Earth-like in ways that might make it colonisable if we were ever able to reach it...
What is wrong with you people? You make me think the dude in "The Matrix" was right: we're just like a virus.. destroying everything around and then spreading further.
Why the hell do you want to colonise everything? Isn't it a better idea to stop polluting our own planet? Stop wasting its resources so rapidly?
Gee, and they picture aliens as evil in those shitty american movies.
People have been spending billions of sweat and toil earned dollars on video games. Just try to convice me that people do the same with 'digital content creation'...
Dude, you have no clue how many billions of dollars are involved with the digital content creation, simulations and such. Don't even get me started on the space simulations part or the chemistry stuff.
If I understand correctly, the former x11amp folks are working for 4front now. And yes, Linux is a superior development platform. Heck, even a superior gaming platform once the hardware companies start shipping those DRI modules for XF86 4.x.
Just put that patch together and mail it to him. Otherwise, what the hell do you want from him? He releases kernels regularly and participates in discussions on the kernel mailing list. What on earth else do you want from him?
Yes, I remember my enthusiasm after seeing the original Berlin webpage: "Hardware acceleration makes all the difference", "Assembly language is fast" etc. Now it's just an overengineered bloat-vapor-ware.
Repeat after me: X Window System, X11R6.4, XFree86 4.0
Also, DRI will be a XFree86 specific extension, and its purpose is to allow an efficient OpenGL implementation. It has nothing to do with core X architecture or such.
The transport mechanism between a local X client and the X server is not restricted to a Unix socket. The X server vendor is free to implement it as a shared memory queue or such (I believe Accelerated X servers do something of that sort), so this is not a flaw in X architecture.
Your idea about mmapping the framebuffer and allowing Xlib to deal with it directly is completely flawed, OTOH. First off, it disables use of hardware acceleration, which means performance would drop much more than using a Unix socket for communication with the X server. However, even if you have some sort of plugins for the Xlib which provice acceleration for specific cards, there would have to be a single semaphore for serializing access to the card's accelerator between different X clients.
People who designed X were not stupid and really, really experienced. X does have flaws, but not where you showed them.
Anyway, all of the above applies to "classical", 2D operation mode of X. Direct 3D rendering for games is something absolutely different, and your ideas, transformed to some point, are correct:))
Heck, Precision Insight had them half a year ago:))
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Have you _personally_ seen a troll? Not even when you shave?
Dude. Real programmers use
$ cat > a.out
Unless XFree86 is as easy to install as Windows 98, or if it starts shipping with massive gaming systems, game publishers aren't going to actively port their games to the OS.
Dude. XFree86 is not an OS.
Now, try to do anything useful in C, without pulling in a single library.
I can do lots and lots of useful things in C, pulling in just the [single] libc library.
Now, try to do anything useful in Perl, without pulling in a memory hogging interpreter.
Btw, ever seen the size of a hello world executable perlcc produces? ~500K on Linux/x86
Why wouldn't NATO protect Chechnya from Russia, just like they did to Albania, eh?
And kiddie porn is available on the Internet.
Therefore, we should ban the Internet.
Same logic, same reasoning.
Huh? How much more silly can this get? "Ban kiddie porn on internet" seems a lot more like 'same logic' compared to "ban guns in society".
main(){char b[9];while(scanf("%s",b))putchar(strtoul(b,0,2));}
You perl kiddies eat your heart out.
- 1. Do a quick binary->hexadecimal conversion. Quite easy, indeed.
- 2. Remember that 'A' is 0x41 and 'a' is 0x61
That, and the fact that I am so hopelessly in love with her. I'll be damned.Or better still, how likely it is to be Earth-like in ways that might make it colonisable if we were ever able to reach it...
What is wrong with you people? You make me think the dude in "The Matrix" was right: we're just like a virus.. destroying everything around and then spreading further.
Why the hell do you want to colonise everything? Isn't it a better idea to stop polluting our own planet? Stop wasting its resources so rapidly?
Gee, and they picture aliens as evil in those shitty american movies.
Alan,
it is clear from your diary that you don't use {X,}Emacs nor vi for coding. What is the blessed editor of your preference then?
People have been spending billions of sweat and toil earned dollars on video games. Just try to convice me that people do the same with 'digital content creation'...
Dude, you have no clue how many billions of dollars are involved with the digital content creation, simulations and such. Don't even get me started on the space simulations part or the chemistry stuff.
If I understand correctly, the former x11amp folks are working for 4front now. And yes, Linux is a superior development platform. Heck, even a superior gaming platform once the hardware companies start shipping those DRI modules for XF86 4.x.
Just put that patch together and mail it to him. Otherwise, what the hell do you want from him? He releases kernels regularly and participates in discussions on the kernel mailing list. What on earth else do you want from him?
Yes, I remember my enthusiasm after seeing the original Berlin webpage: "Hardware acceleration makes all the difference", "Assembly language is fast" etc. Now it's just an overengineered bloat-vapor-ware.
Repeat after me: X Window System, X11R6.4, XFree86 4.0
Also, DRI will be a XFree86 specific extension, and its purpose is to allow an efficient OpenGL implementation. It has nothing to do with core X architecture or such.
The transport mechanism between a local X client and the X server is not restricted to a Unix socket. The X server vendor is free to implement it as a shared memory queue or such (I believe Accelerated X servers do something of that sort), so this is not a flaw in X architecture.
:))
:))
Your idea about mmapping the framebuffer and allowing Xlib to deal with it directly is completely flawed, OTOH. First off, it disables use of hardware acceleration, which means performance would drop much more than using a Unix socket for communication with the X server. However, even if you have some sort of plugins for the Xlib which provice acceleration for specific cards, there would have to be a single semaphore for serializing access to the card's accelerator between different X clients.
People who designed X were not stupid and really, really experienced. X does have flaws, but not where you showed them.
Anyway, all of the above applies to "classical", 2D operation mode of X. Direct 3D rendering for games is something absolutely different, and your ideas, transformed to some point, are correct
Heck, Precision Insight had them half a year ago
Cheers,
-diskena