You know, in the whole time I had that game, I beat it *once.* But, aye, I can still remember the shaking head, the voice, the dials and guages on his Evil Genius panels...
I could rattle games off from the C-64 era (Hostage inducing heart-pounding adreneline; the Gold Box AD&D games sucking you right in..I *saved* Phlan, dammit! And it was good!) up to MGS2.
But which one the most? MadROM. Hands down. Even now, the seductive siren's call of that game calls me, but dammit, I simply do NOT have the time that I *know* I would immediately sink right back into that loveable little MUD.
Windows has had a hardware accelerated GUI since the introduction of GDI+ [microsoft.com] in Windows XP. OS X didn't have hardware accelerated Quartz until Jaguar.
I remember my 3dFX Banshee card touting that it was the first card to nativelly accelerate all of the GDI 2d operations.
Please don't make the mistake that a lot of Americans seem to be making; 'decriminalizing' is not the same as 'legalizing.' We're simply turning it into a civil offence rather than a criminal one; some 16 year old toking up probably doesn't deserve a 5 year jail sentance.
Unless you're looking for your game to be able to read and write MS Word files, or print through Excel, games probably wouldn't have used the Component Object Model.
Unless, of course, you're programming your game using, oh, DirectX, which is all COM.
I would not call raw i/o and async i/o, limitations. Its required for any serious database work.
The entire point behind a raw partition is that there's NO filesystem; not UFS/UFS2, not EFS2/EFS3, nothing. The database takes care of everything. And the database uses transaction logs and what not to ensure the no guarenteed-recorded transactions are marked as completed.
This is why, by the way, you either a) turn off read and write cacheing; the transaction IS NOT returned as completed until the data ENDS on the drive, or b) put several days worth of battery backup onto the RAM chips of your SCSI card. Note that option (b) is still playing with fire.
In other words, a journal is great if you're not guarenteeing that a 'completed write' is, in fact, completed; nay, your disk/filesystem is merely lying to you for a performance boost.
Aye, and most computer problems are caused by user inattention/incompetence.
A smart driver knows not to suddenly veer into oncoming traffic. A smart naval officer knows not to type '0' into a 'divide by?' field. In neither case does the car or database stop you from doing it.
Yet when the driver veers into traffic, he's obiviously an idiot. When the naval man tries to divide by zero, well, it's all Microsoft's fault!
Part of the reason is, I suspect, that the bridge is built by trained and accredited engineers; they know how to build a damn bridge.
But when some idiot uses, say, PHP to build an e-commerce site, but fucks it up, because he sucks soooooo terribly at PHP programming, is that PHP's fault?
Aye. The experiment also assumes that he's got equal knowledge of how to maintain a Linux and an XP box; that he's not using strange software on one of the other; that maintenance being done to one is being done to the other, and so on.
Hell, for all we know, his XP box is sitting beside a baseboard heater and that's the problem right there.
Aye, but is that Win95 not emulating DOS, or Win95 not having all the TSRs for sound and the like?
In any event, go get the collector's editions of Tie and X-Wing; uses the TvX engine, which is DirectX 5 or so, gets you 3d accel, and all of the various addons.
If only they'd update it to the Alliance engine....
Get the 'call privacy' service, then, that asks callers to ID themselves before your phone rings. Often, you can define touchtone codes to give to families to let them ring right through.
Actually, the trick here would be to swap the two boxes and see what happens; reformat them both, install XP on the former Linux box, and Linux on the other.
All valid points, but from a business perspective, you've just given several reasons not to use OSS.
Your also bringing up the myth that all opensource programmers are drones and should all work on the same projects and not make competing ones. As has been pointed out a billion times, opensource programmers are not a single pool of resources to be pushed into whatever project YOU feel they should be working on.
Well, damn, then I'll go to the pool of resouces that CAN be pushed onto whatever project I feel they should be working on.
Example? Microsoft customers wanted Internet focus. Microsoft pretended the Internet didn't exist. They pulled a company-wide about face in a YEAR. Full 180.
I'm not anti-OSS; I just finished setting up a pop toaster with qmail, vpopmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamAV, courier IMAP, squirrelmail, and MRTG to monitor it all. But I can't help but think that most of that is built into Exchange 2000 in a neat and compact way.
Microsoft is a different way, but it's not inherently better or worse than OSS. However, Microsoft's way very often coincides with the way a Business thinks things should be.
Do they abandon? Bob may be gone, but he lives on in the Office Assistant and the Microsoft Agent objects; speech-recognition built in and everything, scriptable from VB, even.
And with most of the 2000 era stuff, the GUI simply attaches through RPC or straight sockets to the server; this is why you can run the admin stuff on your 2000 desktop and admin all your servers remotely.
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You know, in the whole time I had that game, I beat it *once.* But, aye, I can still remember the shaking head, the voice, the dials and guages on his Evil Genius panels...
It was worth it.
It's also often available for five bucks at your local EB as a 'classics' game. Pretty widely available, too.
I could rattle games off from the C-64 era (Hostage inducing heart-pounding adreneline; the Gold Box AD&D games sucking you right in..I *saved* Phlan, dammit! And it was good!) up to MGS2.
But which one the most? MadROM. Hands down. Even now, the seductive siren's call of that game calls me, but dammit, I simply do NOT have the time that I *know* I would immediately sink right back into that loveable little MUD.
I remember my 3dFX Banshee card touting that it was the first card to nativelly accelerate all of the GDI 2d operations.
Please don't make the mistake that a lot of Americans seem to be making; 'decriminalizing' is not the same as 'legalizing.' We're simply turning it into a civil offence rather than a criminal one; some 16 year old toking up probably doesn't deserve a 5 year jail sentance.
Console platformer games were what Blizzard did until Warcraft hit gold.
I eagerly await, on the other hand, StarCraft: Ghost.
I don't think it would be an admission of guilt; it would be a wonderful example of creative problem solving.
Not the point. As the other fellow says, traffic shaping.
The point behind a T1 is that you get 1.544 megabytes of bandwidth. Period. Not 'peak of 1.544,' not '1.544 theoretical,' 1.544. Done.
Ah, but a T1 is guarenteed bandwidth, and will have service level agreements in place.
Use a managed switch with per-port bandwidth caps, or use a good traffic-shaping capable router between the switches and the upstream connection.
Then you either a) allow people to buy extra bandwidth, or b) simply put QoS directives onto the P2P and other bandwidth-hungry stuff.
Can it do Audible.com audio books? If not, then it's not sufficient for my needs.
Nothing fills that long commute better than listening to a book. Hey, if you join up, make sure you use me as a referral. :)
Unless, of course, you're programming your game using, oh, DirectX, which is all COM.
The entire point behind a raw partition is that there's NO filesystem; not UFS/UFS2, not EFS2/EFS3, nothing. The database takes care of everything. And the database uses transaction logs and what not to ensure the no guarenteed-recorded transactions are marked as completed.
This is why, by the way, you either a) turn off read and write cacheing; the transaction IS NOT returned as completed until the data ENDS on the drive, or b) put several days worth of battery backup onto the RAM chips of your SCSI card. Note that option (b) is still playing with fire.
In other words, a journal is great if you're not guarenteeing that a 'completed write' is, in fact, completed; nay, your disk/filesystem is merely lying to you for a performance boost.
But, see, that's the point. You only need journalling to work around the limitations of the filesystem.
UFS2 doesn't have those limitations, thus doesn't require journalling.
Aye, and most computer problems are caused by user inattention/incompetence.
A smart driver knows not to suddenly veer into oncoming traffic. A smart naval officer knows not to type '0' into a 'divide by?' field. In neither case does the car or database stop you from doing it.
Yet when the driver veers into traffic, he's obiviously an idiot. When the naval man tries to divide by zero, well, it's all Microsoft's fault!
Part of the reason is, I suspect, that the bridge is built by trained and accredited engineers; they know how to build a damn bridge.
But when some idiot uses, say, PHP to build an e-commerce site, but fucks it up, because he sucks soooooo terribly at PHP programming, is that PHP's fault?
Aye. The experiment also assumes that he's got equal knowledge of how to maintain a Linux and an XP box; that he's not using strange software on one of the other; that maintenance being done to one is being done to the other, and so on.
Hell, for all we know, his XP box is sitting beside a baseboard heater and that's the problem right there.
Aye, but is that Win95 not emulating DOS, or Win95 not having all the TSRs for sound and the like?
In any event, go get the collector's editions of Tie and X-Wing; uses the TvX engine, which is DirectX 5 or so, gets you 3d accel, and all of the various addons.
If only they'd update it to the Alliance engine....
Get the 'call privacy' service, then, that asks callers to ID themselves before your phone rings. Often, you can define touchtone codes to give to families to let them ring right through.
Actually, the trick here would be to swap the two boxes and see what happens; reformat them both, install XP on the former Linux box, and Linux on the other.
Well, by similar logic, isn't Office OS X simply a carbon or cocoa app? And isn't OS X not a UNIX, but a MACH running several common UNIX utilities?
All valid points, but from a business perspective, you've just given several reasons not to use OSS.
Well, damn, then I'll go to the pool of resouces that CAN be pushed onto whatever project I feel they should be working on.
Example? Microsoft customers wanted Internet focus. Microsoft pretended the Internet didn't exist. They pulled a company-wide about face in a YEAR. Full 180.
I'm not anti-OSS; I just finished setting up a pop toaster with qmail, vpopmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamAV, courier IMAP, squirrelmail, and MRTG to monitor it all. But I can't help but think that most of that is built into Exchange 2000 in a neat and compact way.
Microsoft is a different way, but it's not inherently better or worse than OSS. However, Microsoft's way very often coincides with the way a Business thinks things should be.
Do they abandon? Bob may be gone, but he lives on in the Office Assistant and the Microsoft Agent objects; speech-recognition built in and everything, scriptable from VB, even.
And with most of the 2000 era stuff, the GUI simply attaches through RPC or straight sockets to the server; this is why you can run the admin stuff on your 2000 desktop and admin all your servers remotely.