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Except that a Dreamcast has no built in hard-drive or ethernet adapter, which means that anybody seruously using Linux on it has to look around for rare peripherals.
You, buddy, sure haven't read anything about this engine. Let me give you a hint: Every object casts realistic shadows from Every light. Not only on other objects, but on themselves. And it's fully coordinated with the bumpmaps.
You'll see the difference. Until then, have faith in Carmack. I want "crazy super ultra-violence realism" too, but it's not going to happen for at least another five - ten years.
Yes, there are still people modding Doom 1 and 2... go over to doomworld.com and check it out. Helluva lot more gameplay than today's "walk around corner and kill single enemy" bullshit.
I'm sure the Ph.D's at Nvidia thought about that, and disregarded it. Pretty arrogant for a bunch of Slashbots to second-guess the cream of the crop...
1. If you really need to run from cops, you can leave your PDA somewhere and travel without it. I don't think there will be a situation within the next thirty to sixty years where you'll actually need a PDA on your person to function.
2. I think the location tracking information would be kept under security similar to an IM buddy list, where if you wish to let a friend track you, you authorize his request and then your location will appear. This could by bringing your devices together in person (IR link) and then entering passwords on each device - making it hard for crackers to spoof authorization and track people illegally.
3. Yes, if it's from a private corporation or government then the cops and other law agencies will have access to the information. However, what about a peer-to-peer equivelent? Surely there would be some way to spoof MAC addresses to each antenna so triangulation data would be useless (you would seem to be three people, each on only one antenna, no location known).
Then, using local software (open source of course, for your linux running PDA's;-) monitoring the signal strength from each source, your own location is calculated and sent to the people on your private list.
Kids like to PLAY with the lego, once it is built. Thats why there are Pirate and Space and all those other kinds of lego - with people - so that kids can make adventures with the stuff they build afterwards. The best possible thing for a developing imagination!
There's no reason to take away that great advantage and make kids painstaikingly try to build things in 3D. If they can't do it, they'll give up, and Lego won't be fun for them anymore.
Quote: The precision required to excel at counterstrike is only possible with a mouse.
Sure. But that's when you're PLAYING AGAINST SOMEBODY WITH A MOUSE.
People play games like Halo successfully online RIGHT NOW with a regular Xbox controller. Nobody has the 'advantage' of a mouse/keyboard, so it remains fair and playable.
And there are keyboards/mice on the way from companies like InterAct anyway! So I wouldn't try trotting this excuse out again.
Lastly, I don't see how designing a new mobo, gpu and cpu is necessarily simpler than designing a new console-style console.
It's about the R&D dollars, son. Sony is apparently throwing what, a billion, 2 billion dollars into the PS3's development?
Microsoft on the other hand can cimply take advantage of Nvidia's huge R&D budget, and buy chips (at a bulk rate). No manufacturing processes to build, no R&D work and hiring. So much easier! At the same time, they get a product guaranteed to be competetive and successful in today's graphics market.
Same with a CPU and Motherboard - Microsoft again worked with NVidia, AMD, and Intel, and simply had those companies assemble a board with an AMD bus, an Intel processor, and an Nvidia chipset.
At the same time there is a decent budget at Microsoft to make sure the board is 100% stable. Because it's a PC, it had a semblance of an operating system on it, in the form of stripped-down Windows 2000 with DirectX.
All of the technologies come from other companies or parts of Microsoft, which means in the end R&D dollars are kept at a minimum.
The hardware can then be sold at a loss, while Microsoft still makes enough money on game sales to keep up with Sony, who is $$$ in the hole until they sell enough PS2's.
This strategy would work perfectly, of course, if all the good games actually came out for Xbox.... where is my Unreal Championship god damn it!
Windows 98 never gave me problems with resizing partitions, so that looks like another "innovation."
You really don't know too much about Windows.
Windows XP is based on NT, which means it is capable of using NTFS. Now, I don't know what your partitioning floppy had on it, but if it was only FDISK I don't know how you were resizing partitions anywhere.
FIPS or Disk Druid can resize partitions, but not NTFS. I think only Partition Magic can at this point.
So in other words, you tried to change some partitions, failed miserably, and blamed it on Windows.
Yet, if I tried to install Linux, couldn't get 3D acceleration working, and blamed the whole thing on linux, a million people like you would berate me.
If your machine came with XP, you have a CD. Go try it, at the very least. Know your enemy, if it must be one. At the very least you'll know exactly what's wrong with it, and why.... It will install just fine in any partition that's large enough to hold it. I'd say 2GB minimum, and go for at least 10 so you can see how it handles for an average user. You never tried it, so don't give me bullshit crap saying you did. Trying implies using it for a few days after a complete, working setup.
Yes, Microsoft should release the source for XP, under a license that if you own the OS you can have the source. Or even just a big chunk of the source.... anything but leaving me on top of a binary-only pyramid. That's why I keep Linux dual-boot.
Yes, all of the gnome people SHOULD have quit bitching and joined KDE. This ceaseless reduplication of efforts hurts the community and damages the prospects of an open-source system ever evolving real standards or gaining mass-market mindshare.
AWWW calm down there Sparky. If paying maybe an extra dollar for a fifty pack as opposed to buying it at Future Shop really bugs you, I think you need to work on getting a higher-paying job instead of bitching about government levies.
You've got a point - Bluetooth would make a much better standard for something like this. Not only is it not proprietary (therefore giving it a greater chance of catching on because of multiple manufacturers), but it is a relatively open protocol, which means bugs or security flaws will be noticed and probably be repairable.
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Except that a Dreamcast has no built in hard-drive or ethernet adapter, which means that anybody seruously using Linux on it has to look around for rare peripherals.
talon@khi.local:/root# cat /proc/lawnmower/stats
/dev/lawnmower
/dev/lawnmower-cam &
/usr/local/fourier/image-recognize --camera /dev/lawnmower-cam --control /dev/lawnmower --searchfile /root/pretty-woman.3d
/dev/lawnmower-cam for occurences matching pattern in /root/pretty-woman.3d
/dev/lawnmower to patrol premises.
internet-mower ready.
gastank: 80%
garage door: open
talon@khi.local:/root# echo "mow.begin" >
talon@khi.local:/root# webcam-view
talon@khi.local:/root#
Fourier Image Recognition application
Scanning with
Optimal camera search parameters calculated. Beginning remote control of
MPEG video stream will be saved to the local directory when an match occurs.
"Won't even be that much of a leap"?
You, buddy, sure haven't read anything about this engine. Let me give you a hint: Every object casts realistic shadows from Every light. Not only on other objects, but on themselves. And it's fully coordinated with the bumpmaps.
You'll see the difference. Until then, have faith in Carmack. I want "crazy super ultra-violence realism" too, but it's not going to happen for at least another five - ten years.
Yes, there are still people modding Doom 1 and 2... go over to doomworld.com and check it out. Helluva lot more gameplay than today's "walk around corner and kill single enemy" bullshit.
I'm sure the Ph.D's at Nvidia thought about that, and disregarded it. Pretty arrogant for a bunch of Slashbots to second-guess the cream of the crop...
You should try a reinstall... of your personal humor system. BSOD jokes got old three years ago.
Three points:
;-) monitoring the signal strength from each source, your own location is calculated and sent to the people on your private list.
1. If you really need to run from cops, you can leave your PDA somewhere and travel without it. I don't think there will be a situation within the next thirty to sixty years where you'll actually need a PDA on your person to function.
2. I think the location tracking information would be kept under security similar to an IM buddy list, where if you wish to let a friend track you, you authorize his request and then your location will appear. This could by bringing your devices together in person (IR link) and then entering passwords on each device - making it hard for crackers to spoof authorization and track people illegally.
3. Yes, if it's from a private corporation or government then the cops and other law agencies will have access to the information. However, what about a peer-to-peer equivelent? Surely there would be some way to spoof MAC addresses to each antenna so triangulation data would be useless (you would seem to be three people, each on only one antenna, no location known).
Then, using local software (open source of course, for your linux running PDA's
Kids like to PLAY with the lego, once it is built. Thats why there are Pirate and Space and all those other kinds of lego - with people - so that kids can make adventures with the stuff they build afterwards. The best possible thing for a developing imagination!
There's no reason to take away that great advantage and make kids painstaikingly try to build things in 3D. If they can't do it, they'll give up, and Lego won't be fun for them anymore.
Quote: The precision required to excel at counterstrike is only possible with a mouse.
Sure. But that's when you're PLAYING AGAINST SOMEBODY WITH A MOUSE.
People play games like Halo successfully online RIGHT NOW with a regular Xbox controller. Nobody has the 'advantage' of a mouse/keyboard, so it remains fair and playable.
And there are keyboards/mice on the way from companies like InterAct anyway! So I wouldn't try trotting this excuse out again.
Lastly, I don't see how designing a new mobo, gpu and cpu is necessarily simpler than designing a new console-style console.
It's about the R&D dollars, son. Sony is apparently throwing what, a billion, 2 billion dollars into the PS3's development?
Microsoft on the other hand can cimply take advantage of Nvidia's huge R&D budget, and buy chips (at a bulk rate). No manufacturing processes to build, no R&D work and hiring. So much easier! At the same time, they get a product guaranteed to be competetive and successful in today's graphics market.
Same with a CPU and Motherboard - Microsoft again worked with NVidia, AMD, and Intel, and simply had those companies assemble a board with an AMD bus, an Intel processor, and an Nvidia chipset.
At the same time there is a decent budget at Microsoft to make sure the board is 100% stable. Because it's a PC, it had a semblance of an operating system on it, in the form of stripped-down Windows 2000 with DirectX.
All of the technologies come from other companies or parts of Microsoft, which means in the end R&D dollars are kept at a minimum.
The hardware can then be sold at a loss, while Microsoft still makes enough money on game sales to keep up with Sony, who is $$$ in the hole until they sell enough PS2's.
This strategy would work perfectly, of course, if all the good games actually came out for Xbox.... where is my Unreal Championship god damn it!
Um, sorry. NT is a completely new kernel. Hell, I see "Loading Linux..." and lots of text, hey, it's fucking text, that means it's MS-DOS now?
Everything needs a startup screen, man...
Windows 98 never gave me problems with resizing partitions, so that looks like another "innovation."
You really don't know too much about Windows.
Windows XP is based on NT, which means it is capable of using NTFS.
Now, I don't know what your partitioning floppy had on it, but if it was only FDISK I don't know how you were resizing partitions anywhere.
FIPS or Disk Druid can resize partitions, but not NTFS. I think only Partition Magic can at this point.
So in other words, you tried to change some partitions, failed miserably, and blamed it on Windows.
Yet, if I tried to install Linux, couldn't get 3D acceleration working, and blamed the whole thing on linux, a million people like you would berate me.
If your machine came with XP, you have a CD. Go try it, at the very least. Know your enemy, if it must be one. At the very least you'll know exactly what's wrong with it, and why....
It will install just fine in any partition that's large enough to hold it. I'd say 2GB minimum, and go for at least 10 so you can see how it handles for an average user.
You never tried it, so don't give me bullshit crap saying you did. Trying implies using it for a few days after a complete, working setup.
Yes, Microsoft should release the source for XP, under a license that if you own the OS you can have the source. Or even just a big chunk of the source.... anything but leaving me on top of a binary-only pyramid. That's why I keep Linux dual-boot.
Figures that Slashbots would have a licensing debate before actually finding out if the project is real or not.
Shame on you, don't you know that in some parts of the world it's already April 1?
Yes, all of the gnome people SHOULD have quit bitching and joined KDE. This ceaseless reduplication of efforts hurts the community and damages the prospects of an open-source system ever evolving real standards or gaining mass-market mindshare.
Actually, it will, because the speed of light through a fibre is faster than the speed of electricity through a wire.
:D
If somebody made a fully optical switch...
AWWW calm down there Sparky. If paying maybe an extra dollar for a fifty pack as opposed to buying it at Future Shop really bugs you, I think you need to work on getting a higher-paying job instead of bitching about government levies.
The fact that EVERYONE YOU KNOW has heard of X-Windows should tell you something else about your life.....
More likely, why are you typing math equations into a weblog? That's not the sort of thing I'd advertise about myself.....
Of course the movie was a remake, idiot. It was a remake of the original H.G. Wells book, which the 60's movie was a remake of as well...
The only situation I see the US nuking Canada is if we beat you Yanks at hockey again four years from now.....
xsetroot --host universe:0 --solid midnightblue
Yes, just like all those Outlook viruses that affect Palm or Handspring PDAs and Pocket PC's.
Sorry, try again.
I don't see how this is offtopic.
You've got a point - Bluetooth would make a much better standard for something like this. Not only is it not proprietary (therefore giving it a greater chance of catching on because of multiple manufacturers), but it is a relatively open protocol, which means bugs or security flaws will be noticed and probably be repairable.
I doubt that a webcam would have a fast enough refresh rate to distinguish that kind of data.
They're saying that the computers will be all over the place connected with networks, just like how substations are connected with electrical cables.
I sure hope you failed English in high school.