It is a simple question of market laws. The x86 architecture is the ruling class, therefore it gets most of the research money, and as a results has the fastest running processors. When the ARM came out, it blowed the 386s (The top x86) and 68020's out of the water. We were talking 3-4 times faster. And when the ARM3 came out with it's cache, it really kicked 386 ass. And remember the Alpha? Another RISC design that was way ahead the rest. The only one left is the PowerPC family, still holding on to the x86 juggernaut. And programming the ARM was a bliss. 13 general purpose registers, the barrel shifter. (Do a arthimetic and shift in the same instruction) Conditonal branching... It was a real joy. The x86 assembler is what programmers do in hell. J.
Am I dreaming? Certenly not! My old RiscOS did this, like, TEN YEARS AGO!. The zip files were handled just like any other folder/directory. Then you could use the OS standard access control and version managment. (Put a cvs repository inside zipped filesystem?) But somehow I think this isn't so important anymore, in times of 100GB hard drives. J.
I refuse to participate in a project that puts USofA in the center of the world map. Obviously, these are meant to degrade us who live outside this country. Bring me back the good old Alaska-to-Siberia map.
A guy who put a fscking alarm clock in his drivebay? What is going on here at slashdot.org? Maybe I'm just grumpy because I thought that my stories where better (IMHO, of course) # 2002-09-12 21:22:32 800-1000MHz handheld (articles,hp) (rejected) -- Is not news that handhelds are reaching 1GHz? # 2002-09-13 06:55:11 Outdoor Quake (articles,tech) (rejected) -- Now this was really interesting news (IMHO). Some University dudes rigged Quake so they could run around outside with wearable computers and frag each other. (They did this with Quake+GPS+HUDs+custom map of campus) Slashdot.org is going to the dogs... News for kiddies, stuff that blows chunks! J.
I don't quite get it, where would battery powered monitors be useful? What are you connecting them to? I assume that you are talking about some kind of portable device, but then why not use a laptop? If it is more specalised, why not use smaller LCD? My Google search came up with this: http://www.ps2modchip.com/flash/dvd013.htm http://www.ktechuk.com/ktprod/ktmarsh/tv_lcdpan_r a nge.htm Good luck! (I'll bill you later):) J.
Think about when some audiophile will try to play the newest SACD in his/hers perfect system: Total silence! I surely hope they complain to the store, "This fscking CD is blank!". J.
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That is about the most useful purpose of this thing is.:)
Do you really have so little faith in programmers? This is an implementation detail that the average Joe User should not worry about. It is in fact sooo simple I can even think up a method right here: 1. User drags a application to his hard drive. 2. The OS checks the file and what libraries it needs. 3. The OS installs those libraries. 4. Profit! (har har) We only need a tiny bit of intelligence added to the OS for this to work. Besides, I have recently begin doubting the existance of libraries. We have plenty of space these days, why not make everything statistically linked? J.
Auto-saves aren't a solution. The problem is that people (and OS designers) still think in 60's style of Memory/Storage world. Of course we should stop doing that. Just use Storage. The Memory is just a fast cache for the Storage. Of course a application with no data should not just sit there, taking up display and memory space. File picker sucks. I just can't agree with you there. They are evil, UI Challenged piece of shit. That drag'n drop problem you describe can easily be solved. You are thinking it backwards. If you want to change a symbolic link, you er... change the symbolic link, not the file it points to! So I disagree there too.
I agree to many points. Modern GUIs use a lot of crutches to make them self workable. Some problems and wishses:
My favortie is the Save/Open Dialog box, a relic from the single tasking days, why do people use crippled version of the file browser? Risc OS did it correctly, drag an icon from the app to the browser, or even other application! Just get rid of the File menu all together. Finding files is still a chore, I do miss BFS instant and always up to date live queries. Can we please have that, Apple/Microsoft/Others?
Installation of applicatons, what is up with that? Why can't I just copy a file from the CD/Net and be done with it?
File ID's are good idea, I could move apps/files around on BeOS and my shortcuts still worked!
Why can't we implement version control transparently in the filesystems? Hardly due to lack of space? Each save creates a new version. Word processors could even use intelligent versioning, like making a new version for each paragraph or chapter. Does Photoshop save undo in its files?
Right now I am using very Explorer-like client for CVS, and it doesn't matter if I am browsing my hard drive or some remote server in Elbonia, it all looks the same, wonderful!:)
I have been using XP for a while now, and it is making me quite frustrating. Why can't I use all that NTFS has to offer? (AFAIK, NTFS is pretty close to BFS in features, not sure about Live Queries, though)
What else... yes... Use open standards when data leaves the application!!!!. I can't <em> this enough. BeOS sort of did this with it's Translator service. Your image viewer/editor didn't even have to know how to load/save JPEG or PNG files!
As a geek (well at least/. geek) you should know that new technology is always very expensive. The cost will come down in time. More effective parts, better understanding on tides/streams. According to the article, this doesn't have much enviromental impact, sure as hell it is nice to have all those ugly windmills hidden from view and birds. J.
This is different. The la Rance generator uses dams, and floods the turbines (Probably both on incoming and outgoing tides). This uses underwater "windmill" (tidemill?) to generate power. No dams needed. J.
There are no fans on the CPUs! How are we supposed to take this system seriously, we all know that any decent CPU needs superfan from hell! But seriously, Can I get this MB and fit it in a smaller/more elegant case? Preferably fanless. Finally I can make a router/firewall/mp3 server that I don't have to put out in the garage! J.
"I suspect that some time was spent re-rendering the digital characters. Yoda, Wattoo and Jex Dexter stood out in close up, looking more real than the human actors." Now, this I could belive. If you have watched the trends in digital imaging, the cameras today are already at the resolution limit of the lenses. Take for example the 2 biggest: Canon 1Ds & Kodak 14n, they are already shotting at 11 & 14 megapixels! Now, maybe I am wrong, but you are going to need seriously expensive glass to go with that resolution. So, the reason why real actors will look fuzzy and CGI generated will look super-sharp is that Mr. Jackson Puss has gone through 8-15 pieces of glass, while digital Yoda only has gone through... ugh, probably none. May Pixar programmers should add lens fuzzyness to the sunlight flair and other defects?:)
But you are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. It has been mentioned by some people here, but the Rigth Thing (TM) would be using communicating standards. We have some already, the USB has few, Mass Storage Device comes to mind. My digital camera just acts as another disk drive, no special drivers needed. We have semi-standard VESA mode for graphics cards. If we only could get good 2D & 3D minimal standards. But what I am trying to say: If we could agree on some minimal standards to talk to all kinds of things, but to make to most of them, you would need specalized driver. Graphics, Video, Sound, Storage, Input, all these would benefit from these "minimal standard drivers". Just plug in a sound card, and you get sound. Maybe not highes quality or Dolby Stereo, but usable for your games. Well you get my drift.
Except for that open source commie pinko faggot beardie part, I agree. Is this what it takes to get a article submitted here? Just flame MS for no reason at all? Get your fscking act together, and try to fix Linux problems before whining about MS. Give me a reason to switch, before I save enough for a Mac! Grumpingly yours, J.
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It will only be worth watching if it is the Seinfeld version!
J.
That would be awesome!
It is a simple question of market laws. The x86 architecture is the ruling class, therefore it gets most of the research money, and as a results has the fastest running processors.
When the ARM came out, it blowed the 386s (The top x86) and 68020's out of the water. We were talking 3-4 times faster. And when the ARM3 came out with it's cache, it really kicked 386 ass.
And remember the Alpha? Another RISC design that was way ahead the rest. The only one left is the PowerPC family, still holding on to the x86 juggernaut.
And programming the ARM was a bliss. 13 general purpose registers, the barrel shifter. (Do a arthimetic and shift in the same instruction) Conditonal branching... It was a real joy. The x86 assembler is what programmers do in hell.
J.
Am I dreaming? Certenly not! My old RiscOS did this, like, TEN YEARS AGO!. The zip files were handled just like any other folder/directory. Then you could use the OS standard access control and version managment. (Put a cvs repository inside zipped filesystem?) But somehow I think this isn't so important anymore, in times of 100GB hard drives.
J.
I refuse to participate in a project that puts USofA in the center of the world map. Obviously, these are meant to degrade us who live outside this country.
Bring me back the good old Alaska-to-Siberia map.
A guy who put a fscking alarm clock in his drivebay? What is going on here at slashdot.org? Maybe I'm just grumpy because I thought that my stories where better (IMHO, of course)
# 2002-09-12 21:22:32 800-1000MHz handheld (articles,hp) (rejected)
-- Is not news that handhelds are reaching 1GHz?
# 2002-09-13 06:55:11 Outdoor Quake (articles,tech) (rejected)
-- Now this was really interesting news (IMHO). Some University dudes rigged Quake so they could run around outside with wearable computers and frag each other. (They did this with Quake+GPS+HUDs+custom map of campus)
Slashdot.org is going to the dogs...
News for kiddies, stuff that blows chunks!
J.
Gives totally new meaning to rich trailer trash...
J:
I don't quite get it, where would battery powered monitors be useful? What are you connecting them to? I assume that you are talking about some kind of portable device, but then why not use a laptop? r a nge.htm :)
If it is more specalised, why not use smaller LCD?
My Google search came up with this:
http://www.ps2modchip.com/flash/dvd013.htm
http://www.ktechuk.com/ktprod/ktmarsh/tv_lcdpan_
Good luck! (I'll bill you later)
J.
Besides, soon we will have cars with ceramic engines and kevlar body... :)
J.
I do recall that pads for this game where available here for the PS2. I do think it sold out. It's the only game that burned some calories, AFAIK.
J.
Think about when some audiophile will try to play the newest SACD in his/hers perfect system: Total silence! I surely hope they complain to the store, "This fscking CD is blank!".
J.
That is about the most useful purpose of this thing is. :)
Do you really have so little faith in programmers? This is an implementation detail that the average Joe User should not worry about. It is in fact sooo simple I can even think up a method right here:
1. User drags a application to his hard drive.
2. The OS checks the file and what libraries it needs.
3. The OS installs those libraries.
4. Profit! (har har)
We only need a tiny bit of intelligence added to the OS for this to work.
Besides, I have recently begin doubting the existance of libraries. We have plenty of space these days, why not make everything statistically linked?
J.
Auto-saves aren't a solution. The problem is that people (and OS designers) still think in 60's style of Memory/Storage world. Of course we should stop doing that. Just use Storage. The Memory is just a fast cache for the Storage.
Of course a application with no data should not just sit there, taking up display and memory space.
File picker sucks. I just can't agree with you there. They are evil, UI Challenged piece of shit. That drag'n drop problem you describe can easily be solved.
You are thinking it backwards. If you want to change a symbolic link, you er... change the symbolic link, not the file it points to! So I disagree there too.
I agree to many points. Modern GUIs use a lot of crutches to make them self workable. Some problems and wishses:
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My favortie is the Save/Open Dialog box, a relic from the single tasking days, why do people use crippled version of the file browser? Risc OS did it correctly, drag an icon from the app to the browser, or even other application!
Just get rid of the File menu all together.
Finding files is still a chore, I do miss BFS instant and always up to date live queries. Can we please have that, Apple/Microsoft/Others?
Installation of applicatons, what is up with that? Why can't I just copy a file from the CD/Net and be done with it?
File ID's are good idea, I could move apps/files around on BeOS and my shortcuts still worked!
Why can't we implement version control transparently in the filesystems? Hardly due to lack of space? Each save creates a new version. Word processors could even use intelligent versioning, like making a new version for each paragraph or chapter. Does Photoshop save undo in its files?
Right now I am using very Explorer-like client for CVS, and it doesn't matter if I am browsing my hard drive or some remote server in Elbonia, it all looks the same, wonderful!
I have been using XP for a while now, and it is making me quite frustrating. Why can't I use all that NTFS has to offer? (AFAIK, NTFS is pretty close to BFS in features, not sure about Live Queries, though)
What else... yes... Use open standards when data leaves the application!!!!. I can't <em> this enough. BeOS sort of did this with it's Translator service. Your image viewer/editor didn't even have to know how to load/save JPEG or PNG files!
Well, enough of this rant.
J.
Oh, you mean it is like an X terminal?
(Sorry, just had to)
As a geek (well at least /. geek) you should know that new technology is always very expensive. The cost will come down in time. More effective parts, better understanding on tides/streams.
According to the article, this doesn't have much enviromental impact, sure as hell it is nice to have all those ugly windmills hidden from view and birds.
J.
This is different. The la Rance generator uses dams, and floods the turbines (Probably both on incoming and outgoing tides). This uses underwater "windmill" (tidemill?) to generate power. No dams needed.
J.
There are no fans on the CPUs! How are we supposed to take this system seriously, we all know that any decent CPU needs superfan from hell!
But seriously, Can I get this MB and fit it in a smaller/more elegant case? Preferably fanless. Finally I can make a router/firewall/mp3 server that I don't have to put out in the garage!
J.
"I suspect that some time was spent re-rendering the digital characters. Yoda, Wattoo and Jex Dexter stood out in close up, looking more real than the human actors." :)
Now, this I could belive. If you have watched the trends in digital imaging, the cameras today are already at the resolution limit of the lenses. Take for example the 2 biggest: Canon 1Ds & Kodak 14n, they are already shotting at 11 & 14 megapixels! Now, maybe I am wrong, but you are going to need seriously expensive glass to go with that resolution.
So, the reason why real actors will look fuzzy and CGI generated will look super-sharp is that Mr. Jackson Puss has gone through 8-15 pieces of glass, while digital Yoda only has gone through... ugh, probably none. May Pixar programmers should add lens fuzzyness to the sunlight flair and other defects?
But you are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. It has been mentioned by some people here, but the Rigth Thing (TM) would be using communicating standards. We have some already, the USB has few, Mass Storage Device comes to mind. My digital camera just acts as another disk drive, no special drivers needed.
We have semi-standard VESA mode for graphics cards. If we only could get good 2D & 3D minimal standards.
But what I am trying to say: If we could agree on some minimal standards to talk to all kinds of things, but to make to most of them, you would need specalized driver. Graphics, Video, Sound, Storage, Input, all these would benefit from these "minimal standard drivers". Just plug in a sound card, and you get sound. Maybe not highes quality or Dolby Stereo, but usable for your games.
Well you get my drift.
Well, it's more like if the government would make it mandatory for hardware stores to remove the claw of the clawhammers... pretty silly. O
Sometimes slashdot amazes me! However, if this is from a Microsoft party, where do I apply?
J.
The Slashdot crowd are the Beavis & Butthead of the IT industry. Well, maybe not all of you. :)
J.
Except for that open source commie pinko faggot beardie part, I agree. Is this what it takes to get a article submitted here? Just flame MS for no reason at all? Get your fscking act together, and try to fix Linux problems before whining about MS. Give me a reason to switch, before I save enough for a Mac!
Grumpingly yours,
J.