Another prime example of vapourware. The russians are just making this all up so to shake up the commercial underwater travel industry. They are learning these tactics from Microsoft.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I got on the internet in the fairly early stages - 1995 I think - when Netscape had just released Netscape 1.1 (no such thing as Navigator then). And even then I didn't know what golpher was, never been to a golpher site, and never had the urge to learn how to access a golpher site. Still to this day I don't know how to even view a golpher site, and I still don't want to. Web-addiction.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Even Windows Paint has a line tool, and even a circle and a square tool to boot. But I guess an image manipulation program is only supposed to manipulate existing images that were created in Photoshop.
I'm probably out of touch cause I've only used 1.04 and earlier versions. If they haven't added such shape tools to the 1.1 or 1.2 then I hope they keep taking their blue matrix pills each night.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
What I've been doing lately is have 2 mice connected to my computer.
Mouse 1 (for games): Razer Boomslang (www.razerzone.com) Killer accuracy 2000 DPI, very high quality construction, great for games
Mouse 2 (for everything else): Microsoft IntelliEye No mouse-ball, so it doesnt get gunked up with dirt and dust on the inside of the mouse ball. It'll never have the problem of "sticky" moving that's associated with regular ball mice.
By having 2 mice, you effectively double the time you'll have to replace either one. Personally I've been going without any problems for 8 months now.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
A car system that works like the CD-based MP3 portable players (www.mambox.com) is a lot more practical than installing an entire computer inside a car. A unit that reads a CDR with mp3's is so much cheaper, cause you don't need a harddrive, motherboard, soundcard, operating system.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
This is so similar to a university Ethics 101 course assignment that it's not funny. You're all doing his homework for him. A smart way to do homework I must admit.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I've never played one Star Wars game that was good enough to have repeat play potential. The old Tie fighter game was fun for the first 1 or 2 times you played it, but after that I never had the ambition to even start it up. Jedi Knight was kinda cool, the light saber in a 1st person shooter was sort of fun for a few minutes. But generally Star Wars games are dull, no interesting things to the games except the fact that it's based on Star Wars.
I had the unfortunate opportunity of seeing the Phantom Menace game - holy crap did it ever blow chunks. How anybody can sit down and play Star Wars games for long periods is beyond me, let alone what an Star Wars RPG is going to be like.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
This company made a very simple LZ routine for Javascript:
http://siams.com/root/products/ahp/packer.htm
The source page looks like ascii (like when you view a zip file in a text editor). And there is one self running JavaScript function which decompresses the source and write's it to the document.
It's commercial software, but extremely impressive. The only thing that's better is using JAR files to store JavaScript files.
If anyone knows an open source equivalent of this I would certainly appreciate a url cause I might just have to write something like on my own in order to use it the way I waant.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
CD's outsell every other form of media in existance. They are so cheap, and so popular, that everyone has CD's. It will be 10 years before DVD completely replaces the need for CD.
There is no recordable DVD technology on the market today, and probably won't be for several years. But once it does I'm sure a CD/DVD MP3 player will be created - with the possible capacity of DVD's reaching 17GB it's a whole lot more practical than having a HD built into the unit.
CD's are *much* better than Flash Memory - I've never heard of an MP3 player that has ~600MB of Flash memory. I would never buy a unit with a maximum limit of 64MB. Who would want to listen to the same 10 songs over and over again in a long car ride?
Having the media should be built right into the player is too restrictive. What if I want to trade songs, or bring my mp3's over to a party and play them on a stereo or in a car? I'd have to have adapters ready etc. Once dual CD/mp3's are popular you just need to transport the media.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Once MamboX starts shipping it will own the entire market for portable MP3 music - and destroy the market for audio-CD-only portable players.
I don't want to lug around a 5G hard drive. And if I want to put more songs on it, I don't want to hook it up to my computer, waste 20 minutes copying more stuff to it etc. And who the heck would buy a audio CD player, when you can buy an mp3/cd dual player for just a little more.
A CD-based solution is by far the most practical,. I got like 20 mp3 CD's already burned. Once I get my grubby hands an a MamboX I can play them immediately. I can put my cd's in a pack and easily transport 10GB of songs anywhere I go.
It's the perfect solution. I cannot understand why all these companies are putting so much effort into little 32MB players that no-one wants.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I seem to have problems sleeping often - I just can't fall asleep. My body tends to want to stick to a 30 hr waking day, and a 14 hour sleep. I routinely skip sleeping one night, every other night for weeks on end. If I can't fall asleep After 2 nights I give up and start taking sleeping medication. Your brain really can't function properly after a lot of sleep deprevation because it starts to change your thought process which is what the article was getting at. It should not be taken as an incentive to try to stay awake all the time.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
If he's still the Lucas we all love to hate, then he wouldn't be waiting to release the DVD's. What he would do is release TPM and the original versions of the trilogy on DVD and say that it was the last time that the original trilogy and TPM would be released on DVD. 5 months later the Special Edition Trilogy and a SE TPM would be released on DVD and a notice that it is the last time the SE movies would be available separately on DVD. A few years pass, and when Episode II and III are complete, they are only available in a 6 DVD set of all the movies.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
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Solaris will never be released under the GPL - if it were it would certainly spell the end of Solaris, and Sun knows this very well indeed. Linux coders would simply incorporate Solaris's good parts (SMP etc.) into Linux. Linux would continue steamrolling ahead and leave Solars in the dust.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
It doesn't matter how much profit they make per year, how much market share they really have, how good their actual product is, or how they will last in the long term.
None of it matters because anyone with a significant amount of VA shares (execs, venture capital investors etc) all are a bunch of millionaires right now. Do you really think they care how good a company VA is? The whole point of an IPO is to hype the market into believing that the company is a good investment. As long as you succeed in doing that you've had a successful IPO.
From there they have enough cash (non-liquid mind you) to buy up other companies to make it appear as though they are growing - further reason to keep VA's stock price inflated.
id will be releasing the binaries for all the executables like they always do, as well as all updates to those binaries. So it doesn't really matter which version you buy, you just copy over the game data (map, graphics, sound), download and install the latest binary and away you go. The whole point in buying the Linux version is so they have some hard data ($$$) to show the value in Linux ports.
As the article mentioned, the sequels are going to deal less with the actual Matrix - and more with The Real World which is obviously a smart idea. Since Neo is a God in the Matrix, it would be pointless to have him fight the Agents or spend all the time showing off all the stuff he can do.
I'm sort of a sucker for the "humans fighting robots" cliche so I don't think they can screw up a Sequel too much as long as they stay out of the Matrix for most of the movie.
My predictions for the plot:
After Neo Trinity Morpheus and Tank escaped the sentian? robots, they return to Zion and get the real scoop on the state of humanity, very broken and beaten - Zion ain't gonna be a luxury hotel. Neo spurrs some hope into everyone by showing off all the stuff he can do, to which they reply "Whoa" all the time. They probably spend a bit of teasing the robots in the Matrix, who eventually find where Zion is located and a huge war breaks out killing off most of the remaining humans. It will then be up to the remaining crew from the first film to figure out what to do next, like reform the Zion alliance and begin working to take down the Matrix, thus setting up the storyboard for the 3rd film which will probably have to do with ending the AI threat completely and "waking up" humanity.
Something that I've been accustomed to doing is making my own "start" page, with my most used links, quick sumbit forms to the search engines I need, a clock, and other stuff like grabbing headlines from/.!. Having it load up locally, is a lot faster than visiting a portal site (which are often fairly lengthly) every time you start Netscape, no banner ads, no marketing schemes, no annoying windows that pop up everywhere...
Portals are annoying, I can't even comprehend how any of them actually make money except for Yahoo.
Actually the other day I was looking at a box for a network card - I was very happily surprized to see the words "works in Linux" right on the box. It's good to see companies recognizing the need for Linux support.
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"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I'm probably out of touch cause I've only used 1.04 and earlier versions. If they haven't added such shape tools to the 1.1 or 1.2 then I hope they keep taking their blue matrix pills each night.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Instead of banning 300,000 users, why not ban the trading of Metallica songs on Napster? So much easier, and much more effective.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Mouse 1 (for games):
Razer Boomslang (www.razerzone.com)
Killer accuracy 2000 DPI, very high quality construction, great for games
Mouse 2 (for everything else):
Microsoft IntelliEye
No mouse-ball, so it doesnt get gunked up with dirt and dust on the inside of the mouse ball. It'll never have the problem of "sticky" moving that's associated with regular ball mice.
By having 2 mice, you effectively double the time you'll have to replace either one. Personally I've been going without any problems for 8 months now.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Of course you haven't, cause that would be dumb.
BTW - I'm just using that as an example, really, I didn't actually...
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I had the unfortunate opportunity of seeing the Phantom Menace game - holy crap did it ever blow chunks. How anybody can sit down and play Star Wars games for long periods is beyond me, let alone what an Star Wars RPG is going to be like.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
http://siams.com/root/products/ahp/packer.htm
The source page looks like ascii (like when you view a zip file in a text editor). And there is one self running JavaScript function which decompresses the source and write's it to the document.
It's commercial software, but extremely impressive. The only thing that's better is using JAR files to store JavaScript files.
If anyone knows an open source equivalent of this I would certainly appreciate a url cause I might just have to write something like on my own in order to use it the way I waant.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
CD's outsell every other form of media in existance. They are so cheap, and so popular, that everyone has CD's. It will be 10 years before DVD completely replaces the need for CD.
There is no recordable DVD technology on the market today, and probably won't be for several years. But once it does I'm sure a CD/DVD MP3 player will be created - with the possible capacity of DVD's reaching 17GB it's a whole lot more practical than having a HD built into the unit.
CD's are *much* better than Flash Memory - I've never heard of an MP3 player that has ~600MB of Flash memory. I would never buy a unit with a maximum limit of 64MB. Who would want to listen to the same 10 songs over and over again in a long car ride?
Having the media should be built right into the player is too restrictive. What if I want to trade songs, or bring my mp3's over to a party and play them on a stereo or in a car? I'd have to have adapters ready etc. Once dual CD/mp3's are popular you just need to transport the media.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I don't want to lug around a 5G hard drive. And if I want to put more songs on it, I don't want to hook it up to my computer, waste 20 minutes copying more stuff to it etc. And who the heck would buy a audio CD player, when you can buy an mp3/cd dual player for just a little more.
A CD-based solution is by far the most practical,. I got like 20 mp3 CD's already burned. Once I get my grubby hands an a MamboX I can play them immediately. I can put my cd's in a pack and easily transport 10GB of songs anywhere I go.
It's the perfect solution. I cannot understand why all these companies are putting so much effort into little 32MB players that no-one wants.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
An IPO is all about making money.
It doesn't matter how much profit they make per year, how much market share they really have, how good their actual product is, or how they will last in the long term.
None of it matters because anyone with a significant amount of VA shares (execs, venture capital investors etc) all are a bunch of millionaires right now. Do you really think they care how good a company VA is? The whole point of an IPO is to hype the market into believing that the company is a good investment. As long as you succeed in doing that you've had a successful IPO.
From there they have enough cash (non-liquid mind you) to buy up other companies to make it appear as though they are growing - further reason to keep VA's stock price inflated.
id will be releasing the binaries for all the executables like they always do, as well as all updates to those binaries. So it doesn't really matter which version you buy, you just copy over the game data (map, graphics, sound), download and install the latest binary and away you go. The whole point in buying the Linux version is so they have some hard data ($$$) to show the value in Linux ports.
"the voices in my head say crazy things"
As the article mentioned, the sequels are going to deal less with the actual Matrix - and more with The Real World which is obviously a smart idea. Since Neo is a God in the Matrix, it would be pointless to have him fight the Agents or spend all the time showing off all the stuff he can do.
I'm sort of a sucker for the "humans fighting robots" cliche so I don't think they can screw up a Sequel too much as long as they stay out of the Matrix for most of the movie.
My predictions for the plot:
After Neo Trinity Morpheus and Tank escaped the sentian? robots, they return to Zion and get the real scoop on the state of humanity, very broken and beaten - Zion ain't gonna be a luxury hotel. Neo spurrs some hope into everyone by showing off all the stuff he can do, to which they reply "Whoa" all the time. They probably spend a bit of teasing the robots in the Matrix, who eventually find where Zion is located and a huge war breaks out killing off most of the remaining humans. It will then be up to the remaining crew from the first film to figure out what to do next, like reform the Zion alliance and begin working to take down the Matrix, thus setting up the storyboard for the 3rd film which will probably have to do with ending the AI threat completely and "waking up" humanity.
Or, I could probably be totally offbase...
"the voices in my head say crazy things"
Something that I've been accustomed to doing is making my own "start" page, with my most used links, quick sumbit forms to the search engines I need, a clock, and other stuff like grabbing headlines from /.!. Having it load up locally, is a lot faster than visiting a portal site (which are often fairly lengthly) every time you start Netscape, no banner ads, no marketing schemes, no annoying windows that pop up everywhere...
Portals are annoying, I can't even comprehend how any of them actually make money except for Yahoo.
"the voices in my head say crazy things"
Actually the other day I was looking at a box for a network card - I was very happily surprized to see the words "works in Linux" right on the box. It's good to see companies recognizing the need for Linux support.
"the voices in my head say crazy things"