something interesting to note is that apple doesn't do directx, they do opengl. nvidia tends to do opengl stuff a far bit better/faster than ati (at least in the past anyway)...
yeah and what doesn't seem to set this apart from every movie that was shot entirely in front of blue screen is that it looks like it was done that way too... ugh.
i wholeheartedly agree. thanks for pointing them out too. there's a guy in the popfile team that wrote an awesome windows installer that not only installs but configures the application just like any normal windows app. it's a great addition to the featureset and makes the program more appealing to the general userbase.
stuff like regression testing each time a new release comes out, good ui designers, code porters... yeah, the list is long.
i think folks that write documentation for open source projects are often unsung. think of all of the documentation that exists for projects like linux, apache, perl, etc. these projects wouldn't be nearly as useful if there wasn't good documentation for them.
documentation is one of those non-sexy aspects of open source that is often the hardest part to find someone to get it done, and even harder to get done in a way normal folks can understand. tech oriented folks, like programmers, often have a hard time communicating complex ideas to non-tech folks in a usable form.
fortunately, i know my work was well appreciated and helped lots of folks out with questions via the faq (i wrote lots of the documentation for the earlier versions of popfile). sadly, i lack the free time these days to continue working on the popfile project, but i'm proud to see lots of my work on the faq living on in the wiki and extended by others. btw, there's a new release of popfile today, thanks john & team!:)
no, they will just charge you an arm an a leg each month to use that feature of the ultra expensive phone that you already own and should already have access to all the features of...
neat, but pricey. kinda annoying that you can't play a dvd disc on it, as you aren't going to always have access to a pc to rip it. it'll be interesting to see if and how these translate from the bleeding edge buyers to everyday folks...
hmm... ibm disagrees with the "no known major issues" and says there are some issues with incompatibilities between sp2 and some of their business software... read here.
or when folks that run reviews or meta-reviews (*cough* simoniker *cough*) and post an unbalanced series of stories for one game system over another. tends to bug some folks...
are you figuring in all the little things like fancy round ide cables or a decent heatsink/fan? cost of windows? what about support costs? they also have to have some profit on it too.
but yeah, i'm with you. just upgraded my machine, using a few devices from the previous machine, to a monster for less than $550...
actually, i'm curious how much NOT having a demo of the game available before release has to do with piracy, especially with a company that built itself on the try-before-you-buy theme...
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science + catholic haven't historicall sat well together. i'd guess this was another allusion he was making...
microsoft home is where microsoft bob lives of course! ;P
or
"do you want to play a game?"
something interesting to note is that apple doesn't do directx, they do opengl. nvidia tends to do opengl stuff a far bit better/faster than ati (at least in the past anyway)...
yeah and what doesn't seem to set this apart from every movie that was shot entirely in front of blue screen is that it looks like it was done that way too... ugh.
i wholeheartedly agree. thanks for pointing them out too. there's a guy in the popfile team that wrote an awesome windows installer that not only installs but configures the application just like any normal windows app. it's a great addition to the featureset and makes the program more appealing to the general userbase.
stuff like regression testing each time a new release comes out, good ui designers, code porters... yeah, the list is long.
i think folks that write documentation for open source projects are often unsung. think of all of the documentation that exists for projects like linux, apache, perl, etc. these projects wouldn't be nearly as useful if there wasn't good documentation for them.
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documentation is one of those non-sexy aspects of open source that is often the hardest part to find someone to get it done, and even harder to get done in a way normal folks can understand. tech oriented folks, like programmers, often have a hard time communicating complex ideas to non-tech folks in a usable form.
fortunately, i know my work was well appreciated and helped lots of folks out with questions via the faq (i wrote lots of the documentation for the earlier versions of popfile). sadly, i lack the free time these days to continue working on the popfile project, but i'm proud to see lots of my work on the faq living on in the wiki and extended by others. btw, there's a new release of popfile today, thanks john & team!
eeerrrr... nope! the dude that created the ogg project has stated that the processor in the ipod should have plenty of power and extra left over to do vorbis decoding on the ipod. what you read was speculation posted on /., which was then updated and refuted by the dude himself, "According to Monty from Xiph.org (author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself), it should very well be possible to run Ogg on older generation iPods."
no, they will just charge you an arm an a leg each month to use that feature of the ultra expensive phone that you already own and should already have access to all the features of...
neat, but pricey. kinda annoying that you can't play a dvd disc on it, as you aren't going to always have access to a pc to rip it. it'll be interesting to see if and how these translate from the bleeding edge buyers to everyday folks...
a small laser disc...
yes, but we will only know for sure when sp2 of the virus emerges...
oh no, more terrorist "chatter"... there go my rates!
btw, opera only displays ads in the unpaid mode (kinda like eudora), once you register it the ads are gone...
actually rotoscoping is *much* older than that...
max fleisher developed the technique for koko the clown (out of the inkwell) in 1916.
got any good links to a free go game?
correction:
the only folks that compete with gateway are gateway. a once decent company that just can't seem to direct their head out of their collective ass...
next comes the inevitable beowulf comment... oops. guess mine was it.
so, how much do you lose w/ formatting?
hmm... ibm disagrees with the "no known major issues" and says there are some issues with incompatibilities between sp2 and some of their business software... read here.
or when folks that run reviews or meta-reviews (*cough* simoniker *cough*) and post an unbalanced series of stories for one game system over another. tends to bug some folks...
playing devils advocate here...
are you figuring in all the little things like fancy round ide cables or a decent heatsink/fan? cost of windows? what about support costs? they also have to have some profit on it too.
but yeah, i'm with you. just upgraded my machine, using a few devices from the previous machine, to a monster for less than $550...
what i wanna know is whether or not commander keen is in the game! ;P
pix please!
actually, i'm curious how much NOT having a demo of the game available before release has to do with piracy, especially with a company that built itself on the try-before-you-buy theme...