This comment will probably never get read by anybody. I hope it does though, becuase I think it's an important question...
Why have I only ever heard of Slackware "in passing"? I haven't used it (unless Mini Linux which has pkgtool counts). I don't know anything about it. And yet, according to the Linux Count some 26 percent or so of Linux users are using it.
I've always used Debian myself, and I've always known about the "big 3" distributions -- RedHat, Debian, and Slackware. All I knew was that it had a cool name.
Why don't you attempt to publicize your distro? There are niches for each distro... Corel for ease of use, RedHat for the average user, Debian for "power users", or whatever. And some of the other posts here have said it's for Power Geek Kings.
Basically... why don't you publicize this, and who is it aimed at?
Hmm, you could use Pen Aiming and just tap the person you want to rail...
...you could use the keys at the bottom (left for left, right for right, and the up/down arrows for forward and backward, and the inner left/right for strafing).
Well, there's OpenGL... but thats only half of the equation.
OpenGL, used as a software renderer, is SLOW. It is much better when used on a 3D accelerator. Software renderinng, on the other hand, can be 100% assembler, and manage to squeeze decent performance out of the little Z80 inside of the Palm 3 series.
Now, if sombody started making PCMCIA cards with TNT2's on them, which would be awesome for laptops and doubly awesome for color Palms, we could get quake 3 running...
...seeing as how doom runs really slow on a palm anyways (I've used betas), 3D accelleration is a MUST.
And that's all I have to say about that. -- Talon Karrde
Rise of the Triad (R.O.T.T.) featured huge levels of up to one million square feet and 16 stories high. Thirteen different weapons could destroy almost every object or pane of glass in the environment - even bullet holes remained on the walls. Other new developments that R.O.T.T. brought to the arena were the ability to look up and down, magical power-ups (remember dog mode and god mode?) and weapons, and support for eleven players on an IPX-compatible network upped the bar on the number of people that could play at the same time. There was also adjustable violence for concerned parents, the choice to play one of five characters, and other unique qualities.
Unlike Doom, R.O.T.T. had more of a story and setting behind it. You played a member of an elite group of operatives called HUNT (High risk United Nations Task force) and were assigned to stop a maniacal cult leader from killing millions of people. Trapped on a remote island and inside the enemy's fortress, it's all you could do to survive.
Other new features were jump pads that could spring you up into the air and over obstacles, walls, and other players, and the "Remote Ridicule" (RTS) files that were assigned hot keys allowing players to send vocal messages to others. Players could also make their own files with a microphone, and soon gamers began trading RTS files over the Internet.
This game is/was definatly a landmark game, and it helped bring in games like Duke3D with it's destructible objects and moving things.
So what if there was no configurable heights or orthagonal walls. -- Talon Karrde
My school uses Linux, and were were on ISDN trying to download from Audiofind at a k a second up until a week ago... now we have 8mb/sec fullrate ADSL.
And I figured out how to get the Qt libs and stuff onto a computer without root, and now we all have Knapster. And lots of MP3s.
I love school!
(Isn't it funny that Knapster and Gnapster both sound the same when pronounced?)
Of course, I love the techno/trance from Raymond Wave much better... Free MP3.Com music.
Fight the RIAA with what is legal... free music only, and set up My.MP3.Com so you can upload the CD's you do have. -- Talon Karrde
Well, you do have a point there. Some kind of laws governing a system like that would easily prevent cases like the recent Etoy vs Etoys one...
but, here's one of the biggest problems: if this is done, you could make an "ibm.com" website, win pubic opinion somehow, and then set up a fake e-commerce site. You could dupe thousands of users out of their credit card numbers within the 8 to 12 weeks it takes to "ship" the product before anybody notices.
Besides, how would people decide? Some kind of poll scheme? Couldn't you just find a couple of free ISP's, dial in with a different IP each time, and stuff the ballot box?
And how would "ibm.com" go to your site and IBM's at the same time?
Betamax and VHS weren't called the same thing. In order for two things to make sense and have the same name, they either have to have two completely different functions, or be two versions of the same exact product (whether from competeing manufactururs or not). You can't have TAPEZ and have "vhs" TAPEZ and "betamax" TAPEZ, and expect people who buy TAPEZ to figure out which is which and which will work in their VCR.
(Also, Betamax was a better, higher resolution format... the reason it didn't succeed is becuase it was Sony vs. The World.) -- Talon Karrde
The Linux community seems to be stronger than any other computer/internet community. We're bound together by more than money, or anarchy: we're bound together by a spirit of freedom, which fully transcends all bounds.
I cannot think of any group which is so willing to stand up for itslef and its members when they are in peril, and is legal at the same time.
Keep up the good work, and show your support. The best way to spread the message is to make sure you're shouting it loudly and clearly. -- Talon Karrde
It wouldn't be Crusoes. Robinson Crusoe (who it's named after, I assume) was stranded on a desert island. Obviously the name is chosen to reflect the fact that it's "stable while away from your desk" and "very mobile".
They'll pick a cool name for their new chip, and by that time, they might not even have to use an x86 layer. They could use a more advanced, highly tuned TransMetaLayer. -- Talon Karrde
The damndest thing is it's name. I like saying, I have a K6-2. That sounds technological and even though it isn't the best chip it sounds like it is good. Athlon sounds like Athlete, and seems fast.... and it is, too. It "outruns" P3. Itanium sounds like Titanium, which is silverey burnished metal (in my mind, at least), and that sounds cool. Titanium is strong and expensive. I want an itanium, in a titanium case. Merced sounds like Mercedes, so it's the pimp-daddy. I want one with a zebra patterened heatsink and a gold plated fan.
But Willamette? I can hear the William Tell Overture. It just sounds yucky.
I want a chip with a sexy metallic name. Name a chip Hydroxide or Matrix or Neuromagic. Not Willamette... it sounds like a chip for grandmas. (Booyah!) -- Talon Karrde
One time I tried to calculate the exact value of the number of little dots on my cieling while half asleep, but I ended up standing on my bed and getting really close to the cieling to see if the dots were fractalic and if there were more as I got closer. I ended up getting lots of little white particles all over my face.
The number was around 13000 per square foot ( counted the number in a few square inches and multiplied:) -- Talon Karrde
What is meant by the statement, "Have your cake and eat it too", is that one wants to buy a cake, have it, eat it, and still have it.
That doesn't make any sense, you say. No, it doesn't. You can either have your cake, sitting all cute on the dresser, or you can eat the cake (sitting all moushy in your tummy).
In order to make sure this is on topic, I'm going to reference this to geek chicks:
I would like a geek chick that's hot and know how to make cake for me.
He he he, but i already have a non geek g/f. -- Talon Karrde
Mister Bob: (hist communicator thingy) *bleep* Computer, please access my stock records for today. Communicator Thingy: Enter your password. Mister Bob: One two lesbian alpha omega sheep. Communicator Thingy: You are losing money. Ha ha. Communicator Thingy: You have mail. Mister Bob: Read mail. Communicator Thingy in really female voice: Welcome to Porno Palace Puss-y-mail! (moaning) (cries of passion, screaming) Visit us at www.pornopalace.com!!! Passers-By: Eew, what is that sicko doing? Communicator Thingy speaks more things inappropriate to this forum. Mister Bob: Shut up! Turn off! My god, how do I make it stop!
The lesson: What do you do with spam and pornomail when you're in public, and people can hear it, and you want it to stop?
-- Talon Karrde
Re:Why it won't work in Linux for a while yet
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Well, beat me with a trout! I really should have checked out their site before blathering. Why aren't they making software anymore, when their software is some of the best available (read: poser 4, bryce, kai's tools, etc) for graphics and 3D imagery? I can't imagine how this would make them any more money or give them any better repuatation than the great one they have.
As for the other replies which talk about the eyecandy interface, it doesnt actually slow down that much. KPT6 on a Pentium 60 is smooth and efficient (read: realtime KPT Gel and transparency/lensing effects. There must be some ASM in there:). Because all widgets on X are done through external libraries (ex QT, GTK, Motif), the Metacreations programs would run as fast, becuase they would simply have their own widget library which made cool curvy semi-tansparent toolbars with shadow effects.
With respect to your reply, in the open letter MetaCreations says that they will continue to support the products they have. If they aren't making any more new products, where did this camera come from?
-- Talon Karrde
Why it won't work in Linux for a while yet
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Well, the site say 95, 98, or NT. Windows, that is.
Not linux...
Why? Becuase MetaCreatons does not develop Linux software yet. And the camera works with Metacreations software. So, let's get some of you people out there telling MetaCreations that you would buy their software if they released a Linux version.
BUY? Yep. Metacreations is not going to open source their software, becuase they make lots of money off of it. But, they might just make a linux version. Metacreation's stuff is already very stable and useable, and a linux port would probably inherit those features. A Linux version would be great...
In other related news, somewhere on the BeOS site it says that MetaCreations is porting some of their stuff (no specifics and this may just be rumour) to BeOS. Once that hurdle is jumped, a port to Linux shouldn't be too hard at all. -- Talon Karrde
Slashdot Mirror
But I'd donate $10 Cdn to it. And I think most other people would do that... the first owned-by-everyone company, maybe..
You have to think about a few things, though:
1. Who's going to run it?
2. Who will supply the phones?
3. Who will pay NASA to go up and fix it?
If somebody could figure out how to get over these obstabcles, you've got my $10.
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You mean, have them go down at 10PM in whatever locality each sattelite is over.
Does anybody know what their orbits are?
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AltaVista is fast and has great boolean syntax.
Metacrawler searches everything, so when i can't find something on altavista, I use it.
But google based? Couldn't they make it a metasearch engine?
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Why have I only ever heard of Slackware "in passing"? I haven't used it (unless Mini Linux which has pkgtool counts). I don't know anything about it. And yet, according to the Linux Count some 26 percent or so of Linux users are using it.
I've always used Debian myself, and I've always known about the "big 3" distributions -- RedHat, Debian, and Slackware. All I knew was that it had a cool name.
Why don't you attempt to publicize your distro? There are niches for each distro... Corel for ease of use, RedHat for the average user, Debian for "power users", or whatever. And some of the other posts here have said it's for Power Geek Kings.
Basically... why don't you publicize this, and who is it aimed at?
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doesnt exist anymore... don't worry about it.
they used to put that on, like a lot of real-audio places still do. but then they realized... this is Free Music, make it free.
(or at least that's what i choose to believe.)
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...a quasi-good techo band.
Ghost in the shell is an Anime, and many of the things you love about The Matrix were borrowed from it. Go and see it.
It isn't as good as Matrix though.
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thats why 386's can use 4 gigs of ram if you want them to but there's really no point...
Anyway, I want to set up Mandelspawn over there and run some fractals
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Hmm, you could use Pen Aiming and just tap the person you want to rail...
...you could use the keys at the bottom (left for left, right for right, and the up/down arrows for forward and backward, and the inner left/right for strafing).
Hehehehe
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Talon Karrde
Well, there's OpenGL... but thats only half of the equation.
OpenGL, used as a software renderer, is SLOW. It is much better when used on a 3D accelerator. Software renderinng, on the other hand, can be 100% assembler, and manage to squeeze decent performance out of the little Z80 inside of the Palm 3 series.
Now, if sombody started making PCMCIA cards with TNT2's on them, which would be awesome for laptops and doubly awesome for color Palms, we could get quake 3 running...
...seeing as how doom runs really slow on a palm anyways (I've used betas), 3D accelleration is a MUST.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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Talon Karrde
C'mon man, how can you shudder about that game?
Rise of the Triad (R.O.T.T.) featured huge levels of up to one million square feet and 16 stories high. Thirteen different weapons could destroy almost every object or pane of glass in the environment - even bullet holes remained on the walls. Other new developments that R.O.T.T. brought to the arena were the ability to look up and down, magical power-ups (remember dog mode and god mode?) and weapons, and support for eleven players on an IPX-compatible network upped the bar on the number of people that could play at the same time. There was also adjustable violence for concerned parents, the choice to play one of five characters, and other unique qualities.
Unlike Doom, R.O.T.T. had more of a story and setting behind it. You played a member of an elite group of operatives called HUNT (High risk United Nations Task force) and were assigned to stop a maniacal cult leader from killing millions of people. Trapped on a remote island and inside the enemy's fortress, it's all you could do to survive.
Other new features were jump pads that could spring you up into the air and over obstacles, walls, and other players, and the "Remote Ridicule" (RTS) files that were assigned hot keys allowing players to send vocal messages to others. Players could also make their own files with a microphone, and soon gamers began trading RTS files over the Internet.
This game is/was definatly a landmark game, and it helped bring in games like Duke3D with it's destructible objects and moving things.
So what if there was no configurable heights or orthagonal walls.
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Talon Karrde
My school uses Linux, and were were on ISDN trying to download from Audiofind at a k a second up until a week ago...
now we have 8mb/sec fullrate ADSL.
And I figured out how to get the Qt libs and stuff onto a computer without root, and now we all have Knapster. And lots of MP3s.
I love school!
(Isn't it funny that Knapster and Gnapster both sound the same when pronounced?)
Of course, I love the techno/trance from Raymond Wave much better... Free MP3.Com music.
Fight the RIAA with what is legal... free music only, and set up My.MP3.Com so you can upload the CD's you do have.
--
Talon Karrde
Well, you do have a point there. Some kind of laws governing a system like that would easily prevent cases like the recent Etoy vs Etoys one...
but, here's one of the biggest problems:
if this is done, you could make an "ibm.com" website, win pubic opinion somehow, and then set up a fake e-commerce site. You could dupe thousands of users out of their credit card numbers within the 8 to 12 weeks it takes to "ship" the product before anybody notices.
Besides, how would people decide? Some kind of poll scheme? Couldn't you just find a couple of free ISP's, dial in with a different IP each time, and stuff the ballot box?
And how would "ibm.com" go to your site and IBM's at the same time?
Betamax and VHS weren't called the same thing. In order for two things to make sense and have the same name, they either have to have two completely different functions, or be two versions of the same exact product (whether from competeing manufactururs or not). You can't have TAPEZ and have "vhs" TAPEZ and "betamax" TAPEZ, and expect people who buy TAPEZ to figure out which is which and which will work in their VCR.
(Also, Betamax was a better, higher resolution format... the reason it didn't succeed is becuase it was Sony vs. The World.)
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Talon Karrde
...have been used for years by retail stores of all kinds.....
i remeber sam the record man specials for stereo stores... that kind of thing.
You can't patent something everybody is using, dammit.
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Talon Karrde
The Linux community seems to be stronger than any other computer/internet community. We're bound together by more than money, or anarchy: we're bound together by a spirit of freedom, which fully transcends all bounds.
I cannot think of any group which is so willing to stand up for itslef and its members when they are in peril, and is legal at the same time.
Keep up the good work, and show your support. The best way to spread the message is to make sure you're shouting it loudly and clearly.
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Talon Karrde
Oh. :)
I guess Oh is all I can say
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Talon Karrde
It wouldn't be Crusoes. Robinson Crusoe (who it's named after, I assume) was stranded on a desert island. Obviously the name is chosen to reflect the fact that it's "stable while away from your desk" and "very mobile".
They'll pick a cool name for their new chip, and by that time, they might not even have to use an x86 layer. They could use a more advanced, highly tuned TransMetaLayer.
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Talon Karrde
The damndest thing is it's name.
I like saying, I have a K6-2. That sounds technological and even though it isn't the best chip it sounds like it is good.
Athlon sounds like Athlete, and seems fast.... and it is, too. It "outruns" P3.
Itanium sounds like Titanium, which is silverey burnished metal (in my mind, at least), and that sounds cool. Titanium is strong and expensive. I want an itanium, in a titanium case.
Merced sounds like Mercedes, so it's the pimp-daddy. I want one with a zebra patterened heatsink and a gold plated fan.
But Willamette? I can hear the William Tell Overture. It just sounds yucky.
I want a chip with a sexy metallic name. Name a chip Hydroxide or Matrix or Neuromagic. Not Willamette... it sounds like a chip for grandmas. (Booyah!)
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Talon Karrde
Actually I have a TNT2. I don't like Glide or any of those lame proprietary APIs ... i prefer DirectX over anything like that.
OpenGL is the best in my standards.
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Talon Karrde
Now, this combined with a GeforceDDR would actually make Quake 3 look real at 1600x1200.
Can't wait for 2ghz athlons to come out.
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Talon Karrde
America Online for Dummies
What do you mean, a book?
Isn't that the thing they keep giving out 540 hours of on CD?
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Talon Karrde
So what did 100 turn out to be?
:)
One time I tried to calculate the exact value of the number of little dots on my cieling while half asleep, but I ended up standing on my bed and getting really close to the cieling to see if the dots were fractalic and if there were more as I got closer. I ended up getting lots of little white particles all over my face.
The number was around 13000 per square foot ( counted the number in a few square inches and multiplied
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Talon Karrde
What is meant by the statement, "Have your cake and eat it too", is that one wants to buy a cake, have it, eat it, and still have it.
That doesn't make any sense, you say.
No, it doesn't. You can either have your cake, sitting all cute on the dresser, or you can eat the cake (sitting all moushy in your tummy).
In order to make sure this is on topic, I'm going to reference this to geek chicks:
I would like a geek chick that's hot and know how to make cake for me.
He he he, but i already have a non geek g/f.
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Talon Karrde
Mister Bob: (hist communicator thingy) *bleep*
Computer, please access my stock records for today.
Communicator Thingy: Enter your password.
Mister Bob: One two lesbian alpha omega sheep.
Communicator Thingy: You are losing money. Ha ha.
Communicator Thingy: You have mail.
Mister Bob: Read mail.
Communicator Thingy in really female voice: Welcome to Porno Palace Puss-y-mail! (moaning) (cries of passion, screaming) Visit us at www.pornopalace.com!!!
Passers-By: Eew, what is that sicko doing?
Communicator Thingy speaks more things inappropriate to this forum.
Mister Bob: Shut up! Turn off! My god, how do I make it stop!
The lesson: What do you do with spam and pornomail when you're in public, and people can hear it, and you want it to stop?
--
Talon Karrde
Well, beat me with a trout! I really should have checked out their site before blathering.
:).
Why aren't they making software anymore, when their software is some of the best available (read: poser 4, bryce, kai's tools, etc) for graphics and 3D imagery? I can't imagine how this would make them any more money or give them any better repuatation than the great one they have.
As for the other replies which talk about the eyecandy interface, it doesnt actually slow down that much. KPT6 on a Pentium 60 is smooth and efficient (read: realtime KPT Gel and transparency/lensing effects. There must be some ASM in there
Because all widgets on X are done through external libraries (ex QT, GTK, Motif), the Metacreations programs would run as fast, becuase they would simply have their own widget library which made cool curvy semi-tansparent toolbars with shadow effects.
With respect to your reply, in the open letter MetaCreations says that they will continue to support the products they have.
If they aren't making any more new products, where did this camera come from?
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Talon Karrde
Well, the site say 95, 98, or NT. Windows, that is.
Not linux...
Why? Becuase MetaCreatons does not develop Linux software yet. And the camera works with Metacreations software.
So, let's get some of you people out there telling MetaCreations that you would buy their software if they released a Linux version.
BUY?
Yep. Metacreations is not going to open source their software, becuase they make lots of money off of it. But, they might just make a linux version. Metacreation's stuff is already very stable and useable, and a linux port would probably inherit those features. A Linux version would be great...
In other related news, somewhere on the BeOS site it says that MetaCreations is porting some of their stuff (no specifics and this may just be rumour) to BeOS. Once that hurdle is jumped, a port to Linux shouldn't be too hard at all.
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Talon Karrde