What would be cool would be client-server situation. A moderately priced (US$300 ? remember no monitor) server with some ultra-cheap clients. Just dumb terminals. Then a community could invest in a community computer. For that amount of money the server could have a decent sized hard disk and a more than adquate processor. Nascent developers could start working with emacs & gcc +gdb and everyone could email & chat with each other. Maybe a dial up connection to an ISP could allow the box to act as a web server and allow people in the community to keep in contact with their family and friends abroad.
My god slashdot is full of knee jerk flamers. You people are all nuts! All you who started out their computing experiences with ENIAC and used to warm their buttocks with vaccum tubes and therefore just know that MS is satan spawn can't even comprehend a simple post. The above poster meant that MS is partially responsible for extending the popularity of computer to the masses and thus providing an economic incentive for the rapid increases in computing power that we all adore.
Even if he did mean that MS was responsible for creating the PC who gives a shit?
Use BMRT (www.bmrt.org) for great rendering. It will render scenes written in the RenderMan shading language (originally developed by Pixar). Lots of packages should be able to output RIB. There are lots of good modelers on NT.
Hang on... what about the certifying agency?
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Who's going to certify that the certifying agency is Y2K compliant?
It looks like these products are for high end embedded/industrial systems. Not something you would put on your desktop. Not unless you have a couple of grand sitting around you want to get rid of fast.
The ultimate guide to C has got to be K&R. No one should be allowed to program C without it. Read it. Live it. Love it.
And if you need the linked-list-hash-table-b-tree stuff get a good algorithms book. I have heard Sedgewick (?) has written some good ones for C and C++.
"If PC's ever finally do get the abilty to boot driectly from a CD, then you will see floppy drive dissappear from them to. "
Sorry bud, but PCs have been able to boot from CD for quite some time now. El Terito (mmmmm... nachos) standard or somesuch thing. Floppys are cheap and ubiquitous to don't expect them to dissapear soon.
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I disagree. "Crackers" are crunchy food items that go good with soup.
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What would be cool would be client-server situation. A moderately priced (US$300 ? remember no monitor) server with some ultra-cheap clients. Just dumb terminals. Then a community could invest in a community computer. For that amount of money the server could have a decent sized hard disk and a more than adquate processor. Nascent developers could start working with emacs & gcc +gdb and everyone could email & chat with each other. Maybe a dial up connection to an ISP could allow the box to act as a web server and allow people in the community to keep in contact with their family and friends abroad.
Just a thought
My god slashdot is full of knee jerk flamers. You people are all nuts! All you who started out their computing experiences with ENIAC and used to warm their buttocks with vaccum tubes and therefore just know that MS is satan spawn can't even comprehend a simple post. The above poster meant that MS is partially responsible for extending the popularity of computer to the masses and thus providing an economic incentive for the rapid increases in computing power that we all adore.
Even if he did mean that MS was responsible for creating the PC who gives a shit?
Use BMRT (www.bmrt.org) for great rendering. It will render scenes written in the RenderMan shading language (originally developed by Pixar). Lots of packages should be able to output RIB. There are lots of good modelers on NT.
Who's going to certify that the certifying agency is Y2K compliant?
Just buy an alpha
It looks like these products are for high end embedded/industrial systems. Not something you would put on your desktop. Not unless you have a couple of grand sitting around you want to get rid of fast.
I think you mean a quackwhore.
Sorry.
The ultimate guide to C has got to be K&R. No one should be allowed to program C without it. Read it. Live it. Love it.
And if you need the linked-list-hash-table-b-tree stuff get a good algorithms book. I have heard Sedgewick (?) has written some good ones for C and C++.
"If PC's ever finally do get the abilty to boot driectly from a CD, then you will see floppy drive dissappear from them to. "
Sorry bud, but PCs have been able to boot from CD for quite some time now. El Terito (mmmmm... nachos) standard or somesuch thing. Floppys are cheap and ubiquitous to don't expect them to dissapear soon.