People have been predicting the demise of the PC as a gaming platform since goodness knows when but it is still with us.
There could be many reasons for this. Perhaps it is because within a year high end PCs are always able to outperform the most recent consoles. Perhaps it's because certain styles of game (e.g. Civilisation or the best selling (PC) game of all time the Sims) just works better with a default PC setup. Perhaps it's because PCs have a bigger installation base.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I prefer console games (actually the only console I own is a GBA and very good it is too) but it's too easy to fall into the trap and write off PC games. Most of the popular online games are still PC based and the fact that Square has chosen to release FFIX for the PC (rather than the Xbox) shows that it still considers to be a viable platform. Also note that the requirements state that it needs Windows (not Linux). Just because Linux runs on the PS2 doesn't make it any more viable as a gaming platform.
I believe this post has it spot on. What Hyatt is pointing out is a technicality (the window bar probably worked in a similar fashion to tabs) but Hyatt's not wrong - it wasn't tabs.
Blimey that certainly does sound like it was a whole lot of hastle. However, I would argue that if you are willing to compile from source you should expect to be in for a rough time. Because there are so many parts to it (this library that library this compiler etc), it's just more likely to go wrong...
If you want the easy life then wait until your distro brings out a packaged version of the DVD players. I myself fought with hand compilation until I found that Mandrake packaged Xine themselves and I just installed the RPMs. I can't stand the interface but things did work. The Debian guy downstairs also seemed to have things go quite smoothly with Ogle...
I guess the moral is that if your distro is old then getting new things to work with it is going to be difficult. That's the time to sit back and wait for the next update to be released with what you need packaged in it, unless you want to upgrade half your installation by hand. If that's what you want to do - good luck. You might need it.
...suggested some modifications to take into account the "age" of each link to reduce Pagerank's tendency to bias against newly-created pages.
Shouldn't Google have said bias for (in favour of) rather than bias against if what you are suggesting is correct? I'm just confused by the way they have worded it...
I remember that my BIOS created a (VIA motherboard) bug that the kernel stomped on by disabling DMA, so while the bug was fixed I was left with very slow hard drive access.
Upon upgrading the BIOS this rather horrible solution was lifted and now my hard drives feel more than a little faster:)
I'm not a Microsoft advocate but I do know that they often sell vast pieces of their software at third of the retail. Over here in the UK a student can pick up a copy of MS Office for £100UKP (retail it was £300).
Ok it's not super cheap but that's less than half.
One things that I noticed when I was looking about for a place to study was that departments were keen to point out the sheer number of computers they had. If you are not planning on doing all your work on your home machine (and why should you?) it far more helpful to know the number of useful computers. Talk to the students in the room. Ok one of them might have an axe to grind or they may have all been specially selected but if the room is busy this is less likely. Whatever you do don't just stand there like a lemon when you can talk to real students - after all that's going to be you in a year. Many students are willing to talk but won't volunteer information. It leaves an impression of you too (someone willing to ask irritating questions or someone who genuinely interested in the department)...
Some of the things that make a computer unuseful:
It's broken. This happens an awful lot and can happen in non obvious ways. Ranges from it doesn't power on to it doesn't see the printer.
The network is too slow. This one is a killer at busy times of the year and doesn't just apply to logging in. If your uni/college's connection is unreliable and you are trying to fetch something from home it doesn't matter that it's fast...
The computer doesn't have the software you need on it. It's all very well having a library of hundreds of computers but if the software you need is only in the Compsci lab your options are limited.
Most important of all computer counts really mean very little in terms of your education. Theory doesn't always need you to be sat a keyboard to understand it.
I have a 486 DX 33 with 24mb ram running as a firewall/router for the cable modem in my house and it work great. Only problem is that to upgrade the current uptime of 49 days is going to have to go...
I just rebooted into Windows to watch the trailer and then just at the end when it was putting up 2003 it made a long beeeeep then crashed with a Program Exception. These trailers become more inventive all the time!
Take a look at The nightly directory. Inside it you will find mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz which is a nightly build with talkback enabled and it's not stripped. I'm guessing you haven't seen it because of the strange filename...
If you are in the UK then a good place to start is to read a magazine such as Edge which has lots of adverts for positions in it's recruitment pages (along with yearly features about how others have gotten started working within the industry).
I guess another source of good information is the Gamasutra website.
I have friends who have gone on to work for games companies and they are encouraged to tell the company about other good people... So just knowing someone who can certify your qualifications is one of the best ways to go.
Both nautilus and konqueror already support this in Mandrake 8.2 if you enable users to be able to share their directories -
Do you want to allow users to export some directories in their home? Allowing this will permit users to simply click on "Share" in konqueror and nautilus.
There probably are more news stories about *hacking* linux than *hacking* windows (altough how many of these are news it's difficult to say). Cracking, well maybe that's a different matter:P
For a laugh I did a quick google search and it seems there are more sites for Linux than Windows but I doubt you can read to much into that.
While it looked pretty cool as a gun, the original Megatron was a bad toy. As a robot toy Megatron looked awful and the number of pieces that the scope had were just annoying. Coupled with that the thing was just too fragile and there was barely anything to "transforming" it.
I just hope that the reisuence of the transformer toys are Quality, not the plastic crap that they came out with later on, that stuff sucked and barly worked.
Same here. Around or just after the time the headmaster's came out Hasbro seemed to switch to some super nasty cheap grade plastic for the toys. While they could get away with this for the physically smaller toys and insignificant characters (like the micromasters) I think they lost credibility with PowerMaster Prime (I think that was the one). So plasticy and the paint and colours were too dull. Having said that the orginal Optimus Prime was pretty fragile - it's rare to see which was "used" and doesn't have a broken trailer...
I received the conclusion to the American (and UK) comics in a graphic novel for Christmas and surprisingly it was still facinating to read. I would love to see the DVDs released here in the UK - my boxed video collection is starting to suffer over the years.
In terms of links for Transformers, I'm told the place to go in general is BigBot. Another good link is the Transformer Episode Guide - I was amazed at just how few I'd actually seen.Finally if you like the UK comics don't miss Steve's Transformers fansite - Homepage which has links to the original Marvel comics. If you ask me, I think the comics were better than the cartoons but the movie did a remarkable job of trying to bridge the two.
I've only played with XSLT but from what I've seen it helps if you can think in a functional mindset (e.g. do loops via recursion). This can be quite nice when dealing with things that have to be opened and closed like tags because you think about everything as nesting...
Even with the latest release (with the mem=nopentinum option) I can't run all the gl xscreensavers like cage and mobious (which work with older drivers). In fact 2D DGA acceleration with UAE crashes the entire machine which doesn't happen with the default nv module.
However, I'm glad that I they release the closed source binary drivers because they are much faster than anything else out there. Would that be the case if they gave people the specs? I don't know (I can't hack that code but others might).
However, in saying you don't care that the drivers are closed you are taking a very shortsighted view of things. What about BSD (will Nvidia support or won't they)? What about if Nvidia decide to stop supporting linux in the future because they don't consider it viable (and then XFree86 5 comes out)?
Also anyone who has been using them and has a problem will never have a kernel bug report looked at seriously (I know:) and I've tried sending mail about bugs shown by gears in earlier drivers (long before the nopentium business) and I've never heard anything back...
As one of the other comments suggested deleting your profile/mozilla directory an reinstalling may fix this. Take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137952 for further detail.
Quick plea - if you have filed an unconditional bug that hasn't seen activity for a month or two check whether it is still valid. If not resolve it worksforme. Thanks.
With all this increased testing, more and more bugs are being filed at increasingly speedier rate and the Bugzilla database could always do with an extra hand to stop bug counts spiralling out of control.
Plug Over in #kill-unco on irc.mozilla.org we are trying and reduce the number of unconfirmed bugs. The more help we get, the sooner people's complaints are serviced and the sooner they can be fixed.
Sometimes unconditionals slip through intial net of bugzilla marshalls and just wind up being forgotten about. This can happen because the intial marshalls don't have access to the same platform or don't use a particular component much (macs, mail and news/java spring to mind). Other times the reporter doesn't file enough information and needs to be prompted for more. Often unconditionals are filed subsequently fixed by other bugs but not closed by their original reporters. All these things make for a messy database and engineers could use up time marking dups rather than fixing bugs.
A few moments of your time could save engineers from going mad seeing the same bug reported by reported in 30 different places. If each slashdot reader helped resolve just two mozilla bugs a day then we could all get a better browser...
No, the original author can't create closed source from other people's GPL'd contributions without asking their permission. This situation is covered in the GPL faq.
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People have been predicting the demise of the PC as a gaming platform since goodness knows when but it is still with us.
There could be many reasons for this. Perhaps it is because within a year high end PCs are always able to outperform the most recent consoles. Perhaps it's because certain styles of game (e.g. Civilisation or the best selling (PC) game of all time the Sims) just works better with a default PC setup. Perhaps it's because PCs have a bigger installation base.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I prefer console games (actually the only console I own is a GBA and very good it is too) but it's too easy to fall into the trap and write off PC games. Most of the popular online games are still PC based and the fact that Square has chosen to release FFIX for the PC (rather than the Xbox) shows that it still considers to be a viable platform. Also note that the requirements state that it needs Windows (not Linux). Just because Linux runs on the PS2 doesn't make it any more viable as a gaming platform.
I believe this post has it spot on. What Hyatt is pointing out is a technicality (the window bar probably worked in a similar fashion to tabs) but Hyatt's not wrong - it wasn't tabs.
Blimey that certainly does sound like it was a whole lot of hastle. However, I would argue that if you are willing to compile from source you should expect to be in for a rough time. Because there are so many parts to it (this library that library this compiler etc), it's just more likely to go wrong...
If you want the easy life then wait until your distro brings out a packaged version of the DVD players. I myself fought with hand compilation until I found that Mandrake packaged Xine themselves and I just installed the RPMs. I can't stand the interface but things did work. The Debian guy downstairs also seemed to have things go quite smoothly with Ogle...
I guess the moral is that if your distro is old then getting new things to work with it is going to be difficult. That's the time to sit back and wait for the next update to be released with what you need packaged in it, unless you want to upgrade half your installation by hand. If that's what you want to do - good luck. You might need it.
...suggested some modifications to take into account the "age" of each link to reduce Pagerank's tendency to bias against newly-created pages.
Shouldn't Google have said bias for (in favour of) rather than bias against if what you are suggesting is correct? I'm just confused by the way they have worded it...
I remember that my BIOS created a (VIA motherboard) bug that the kernel stomped on by disabling DMA, so while the bug was fixed I was left with very slow hard drive access.
:)
Upon upgrading the BIOS this rather horrible solution was lifted and now my hard drives feel more than a little faster
I'm not a Microsoft advocate but I do know that they often sell vast pieces of their software at third of the retail. Over here in the UK a student can pick up a copy of MS Office for £100UKP (retail it was £300).
Ok it's not super cheap but that's less than half.
Some of the things that make a computer unuseful:
Most important of all computer counts really mean very little in terms of your education. Theory doesn't always need you to be sat a keyboard to understand it.
I have a 486 DX 33 with 24mb ram running as a firewall/router for the cable modem in my house and it work great. Only problem is that to upgrade the current uptime of 49 days is going to have to go...
I just rebooted into Windows to watch the trailer and then just at the end when it was putting up 2003 it made a long beeeeep then crashed with a Program Exception. These trailers become more inventive all the time!
It's funny! It really brings home the phrase "Being your own worst enemy"...
I know there is a port to FreeBSD... are Open and Free so different that this doesn't help?
Take a look at The nightly directory. Inside it you will find mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz which is a nightly build with talkback enabled and it's not stripped. I'm guessing you haven't seen it because of the strange filename...
If you are in the UK then a good place to start is to read a magazine such as Edge which has lots of adverts for positions in it's recruitment pages (along with yearly features about how others have gotten started working within the industry).
I guess another source of good information is the Gamasutra website.
I have friends who have gone on to work for games companies and they are encouraged to tell the company about other good people... So just knowing someone who can certify your qualifications is one of the best ways to go.
Both nautilus and konqueror already support this in Mandrake 8.2 if you enable users to be able to share their directories -
Do you want to allow users to export some directories in their home?
Allowing this will permit users to simply click on "Share" in konqueror and nautilus.
There probably are more news stories about *hacking* linux than *hacking* windows (altough how many of these are news it's difficult to say). Cracking, well maybe that's a different matter :P
For a laugh I did a quick google search and it seems there are more sites for Linux than Windows but I doubt you can read to much into that.
When GCC 3.0 compiles everything perfectly? I hear there can be problems using GCC3.0 to compile the kernel and Mozilla...
Can you tell us a little more about who Test Drive is for? Things aren't very clear from the linked web page...
While it looked pretty cool as a gun, the original Megatron was a bad toy. As a robot toy Megatron looked awful and the number of pieces that the scope had were just annoying. Coupled with that the thing was just too fragile and there was barely anything to "transforming" it.
Same here. Around or just after the time the headmaster's came out Hasbro seemed to switch to some super nasty cheap grade plastic for the toys. While they could get away with this for the physically smaller toys and insignificant characters (like the micromasters) I think they lost credibility with PowerMaster Prime (I think that was the one). So plasticy and the paint and colours were too dull. Having said that the orginal Optimus Prime was pretty fragile - it's rare to see which was "used" and doesn't have a broken trailer...
I received the conclusion to the American (and UK) comics in a graphic novel for Christmas and surprisingly it was still facinating to read. I would love to see the DVDs released here in the UK - my boxed video collection is starting to suffer over the years.
In terms of links for Transformers, I'm told the place to go in general is BigBot. Another good link is the Transformer Episode Guide - I was amazed at just how few I'd actually seen.Finally if you like the UK comics don't miss Steve's Transformers fansite - Homepage which has links to the original Marvel comics. If you ask me, I think the comics were better than the cartoons but the movie did a remarkable job of trying to bridge the two.
I've only played with XSLT but from what I've seen it helps if you can think in a functional mindset (e.g. do loops via recursion). This can be quite nice when dealing with things that have to be opened and closed like tags because you think about everything as nesting...
Even with the latest release (with the mem=nopentinum option) I can't run all the gl xscreensavers like cage and mobious (which work with older drivers). In fact 2D DGA acceleration with UAE crashes the entire machine which doesn't happen with the default nv module.
:) and I've tried sending mail about bugs shown by gears in earlier drivers (long before the nopentium business) and I've never heard anything back...
However, I'm glad that I they release the closed source binary drivers because they are much faster than anything else out there. Would that be the case if they gave people the specs? I don't know (I can't hack that code but others might).
However, in saying you don't care that the drivers are closed you are taking a very shortsighted view of things. What about BSD (will Nvidia support or won't they)? What about if Nvidia decide to stop supporting linux in the future because they don't consider it viable (and then XFree86 5 comes out)?
Also anyone who has been using them and has a problem will never have a kernel bug report looked at seriously (I know
As one of the other comments suggested deleting your profile/mozilla directory an reinstalling may fix this. Take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137952 for further detail.
Quick plea - if you have filed an unconditional bug that hasn't seen activity for a month or two check whether it is still valid. If not resolve it worksforme. Thanks.
With all this increased testing, more and more bugs are being filed at increasingly speedier rate and the Bugzilla database could always do with an extra hand to stop bug counts spiralling out of control.
Plug
Over in #kill-unco on irc.mozilla.org we are trying and reduce the number of unconfirmed bugs. The more help we get, the sooner people's complaints are serviced and the sooner they can be fixed.
Sometimes unconditionals slip through intial net of bugzilla marshalls and just wind up being forgotten about. This can happen because the intial marshalls don't have access to the same platform or don't use a particular component much (macs, mail and news/java spring to mind). Other times the reporter doesn't file enough information and needs to be prompted for more. Often unconditionals are filed subsequently fixed by other bugs but not closed by their original reporters. All these things make for a messy database and engineers could use up
time marking dups rather than fixing bugs.
A few moments of your time could save engineers from going mad seeing the same bug reported by reported in 30 different places. If each slashdot reader helped resolve just two mozilla bugs a day then we could all get a better browser...
No, the original author can't create closed source from other people's GPL'd contributions without asking their permission. This situation is covered in the GPL faq.