Executives are currently discussing if the game should be ported to Linux or not. The only thing they are saying for sure is that the Linux port has been delayed.
Intel should have realised they were heading towards a superscalar architecture when they designed the 386.
IIRC, Intel did try to replace the 386 soon after it was released with a much better design. However, many people were already using the 386 and were not interested in a chip that wasn't backwards compatible.
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I must be the third, but I'm realatively new to GiS. I've been reading/. since about this time last year, but I just got into GiS last week. Downladed em all and listened to them over the course of two days. I'm recovering now, but I'm glad I finally started to listen. It makes it much easier to pretend I'm working if I listen to/. rather than read it (of course, I usually just end up doing both now...)
Dude, this is Slashdot, when it comes to Micros~1, logical thinking goes out the door.
I guess you have to give Bill Gates some credit, though, his company does manage, on a regular basis, to turn this group of geeks into a bunch of narrow minded idiots just by staying in business.
>He knows it's a bad patent but is just too scared to do an about face and admit that he was wrong.
Wrong, grasshopper. Amazon has a preliminary injunction against B&N.
How is this wrong? Just because Amazon is legally right doesn't mean that they are really right. I think the original poster meant that Jeff should know that 1-click is a patent which is wrong in principle and should not be enforced. I don't know if I exactly agree with that, but I wouldn't call it wrong based on what a judge says.
Dude, what planet are you from? I remember having a 12MHz 386 (OK, so I'm not old, I'm 22 and that was in like, 8th grade, but still...) and it sucked. I'm not going to be happy till I'm playing Quake 27 (or whatever they call it by then) in full raytracing mode on a 75 inch wrap-around screen (or helmet, or brain implant...) while simultaneously compiling my kernel with support for the new SCSI cloning device so I can make copies of myself to go to work for me while I play.
. All I know is that blasting someone's guts and seeing blood isn't the highlight of my life. I kinda prefer being happy with my family, girlfriend, and my friends.
I think they were referring to those discount flat panel Phillips HDTVs you often see in the corners of discount stores under the used cat toys. They're down around $1200, now.
 Someone mentioned earlier today (sorry, don't feel like digging it up) that Jon Katz' articles always seem to show up a few days after a/. story that gets more than 400 responses. This one is getting close, could there be a new Feature headed our way? We can only hope...
Feature: ISPs And the Digital Revolution By JonKatz
"Jon, call on line four, it's the President," my assistant says. This is my 12th call in as many minutes. It started with the Boston Globe, Wired, then CNN. Next thing I knew, NASA and the Pentagon were asking for advise. I decided to give up trying to install a spell checker on my computer and got in "story mode", a state of mind which perpares me for the storm of writing brilliance that will follow. Sometimes its difficult to forget how brilliant I am and concentrate on the story at hand, but I'm the best and its what I do.
Just recently, AOL, the largest ISP in the world, was brought up on charges that the latest version of it's software may have a malicious intent.
Let me try to overdramatize this for a minute (it's part of my genius, which was once described as 'terrifiyingly unique' by a web site that I am too important to remember): America Online is engaged in a myriad web of suspense and intrique in an attempt to infiltrate, that's right, infiltrate (I kinda like that word) the hard drive of the helpless user, who is preyed upon by a large corporation that seeks to dominate him and track his every move with their infiltrative software.
When a victim of this Orwellian machine attempts to install the new AOL software they are presented with what is called a 'Dialog Box'. These 'Dialog Boxes' are often a facade, hiding the oppressive regime's ifiltrating software behind it, ready to subvert the customers wishes and infiltrate the hard drive with irreversible effects. By placing subliminal messages on the packaging and inside the install progress bar, AOL has used mind control tactics to convince the customer to respond to said 'Dialog Box' by clicking on the 'Yes' button.
Should we allow these 'Dialog Boxes' to continue to appear in our software? What will happen if any software vendor is permitted to infiltrate hard drives at will? Can capitalizm survive in a world filled with giant corporations like AOL, which will stop at nothing to subvert and suppress the hopes and dreams of every man, woman, and child alive?
Tomorrow, I will look deeper into the issues at hand, and present you with even more rhetorical questions, as soon as I get off the phone with the Pope, who just called and is on hold right now...
Yeah, that seven year development cycle was really pushing it. Win2k has been in the works almost as long as Linux has (from the beginning). Microsoft took their good old time with this one. If you're going to blame anything, start with the amount of code that went into this thing. What was the last count, 17 trillion lines? I'm amazed there are only two security holes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses for the Redmond boys, but you kind of have to expect some bugs to slip through a project of this scale.
Yeah, just like we would never break the sound barrier because traveling that fast would cause the skin to peel off our faces. Moore's law about transistors may not hold, but I'd be surprised if that held back progress in processing power.
Maybe students should only be able to make phone calls to their professors to ask for help. It's not like the students are getting a bargain, tuition gets more ridiculous each year. For what they pay they deserve all the bandwidth they can use.
Could someone post their letter here so those of use who are not the best writers or just don't have as much info on this case can get an idea of what should go into these comments? I'd like to help but I'm not sure exactly what would be the most effective way to do it (unless "DeCSS rules!" counts as a good comment...)
No, the point is that there are nicer ways to phrase it than "you're an idiot." And it really goes beyond that. You claim to be doing Jon a "service" by calling him an idiot. This might have some hint of truth, maybe Jon is at home thinking "I really am an idiot, I can do a better job," but I don't think so.
Let's say calling someone an idiot is doing them a service, but is it the best way to help them? Your original post is poorly worded, and you do little to back your statements up. If it was directed at me, I would have ignored it as just another Troll. If you really want to help someone, try to explain to them where the error in their logic is and suggest better ways of accomplishing what they set out to do.
Can someone tell me more about this thing? Specifically, how big (small) is it compared to the existing handhelds? Also, what kind of GUI were they using? Thanks.
Most of them can be updated, but I wouldn't suggest it for the Star Wars dispensers. Apparently, Lucas won't open source the drivers so performance is dog slow on all but the Darth Vader chrome dispenser, which isn't as fast as it used to be but because of it's processing power it is still useable...
Turns out that the Crusoe is an embedded processor that will be used in the next line of electric Pez dispensers. And yes, the OS is Linux and you can put your Pez dispensers in a Beowulf cluster, but be careful when you try and add a Pez dispenser full of that new mint flavor Pez because it uses a different networking protocol that throws the others off...
A lot of people use D3D because it offers more features. Since Microsoft doesn't have to worry about maintaining a standard they can add in all of the new little features at will. Personally, I don't see this as a big enough reason to do it, but I'm just offering one possibility.
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Executives are currently discussing if the game should be ported to Linux or not. The only thing they are saying for sure is that the Linux port has been delayed.
Intel should have realised they were heading towards a superscalar architecture when they designed the 386.
IIRC, Intel did try to replace the 386 soon after it was released with a much better design. However, many people were already using the 386 and were not interested in a chip that wasn't backwards compatible.
I must be the third, but I'm realatively new to GiS. I've been reading /. since about this time last year, but I just got into GiS last week. Downladed em all and listened to them over the course of two days. I'm recovering now, but I'm glad I finally started to listen. It makes it much easier to pretend I'm working if I listen to /. rather than read it (of course, I usually just end up doing both now...)
Dude, this is Slashdot, when it comes to Micros~1, logical thinking goes out the door.
I guess you have to give Bill Gates some credit, though, his company does manage, on a regular basis, to turn this group of geeks into a bunch of narrow minded idiots just by staying in business.
>He knows it's a bad patent but is just too scared to do an about face and admit that he was wrong.
Wrong, grasshopper. Amazon has a preliminary injunction against B&N.
How is this wrong? Just because Amazon is legally right doesn't mean that they are really right. I think the original poster meant that Jeff should know that 1-click is a patent which is wrong in principle and should not be enforced. I don't know if I exactly agree with that, but I wouldn't call it wrong based on what a judge says.
Well, it's official, you're nobody.
Dude, what planet are you from? I remember having a 12MHz 386 (OK, so I'm not old, I'm 22 and that was in like, 8th grade, but still...) and it sucked. I'm not going to be happy till I'm playing Quake 27 (or whatever they call it by then) in full raytracing mode on a 75 inch wrap-around screen (or helmet, or brain implant...) while simultaneously compiling my kernel with support for the new SCSI cloning device so I can make copies of myself to go to work for me while I play.
Does this include the 2,000 stories that were repeats of stories that were posted earlier?
. All I know is that blasting someone's guts and seeing blood isn't the highlight of my life. I kinda prefer being happy with my family, girlfriend, and my friends.
What kind of sick freak are you?
You're right, that's what I meant. Sorry.
Were you sick the days they explained hyperbole and humor in grade school?
Well, those people in the commercial moved it around the house pretty easily...
I think they were referring to those discount flat panel Phillips HDTVs you often see in the corners of discount stores under the used cat toys. They're down around $1200, now.
 Someone mentioned earlier today (sorry, don't feel like digging it up) that Jon Katz' articles always seem to show up a few days after a /. story that gets more than 400 responses. This one is getting close, could there be a new Feature headed our way? We can only hope...
Feature: ISPs And the Digital Revolution
By JonKatz
"Jon, call on line four, it's the President," my assistant says. This is my 12th call in as many minutes. It started with the Boston Globe, Wired, then CNN. Next thing I knew, NASA and the Pentagon were asking for advise. I decided to give up trying to install a spell checker on my computer and got in "story mode", a state of mind which perpares me for the storm of writing brilliance that will follow. Sometimes its difficult to forget how brilliant I am and concentrate on the story at hand, but I'm the best and its what I do.
Just recently, AOL, the largest ISP in the world, was brought up on charges that the latest version of it's software may have a malicious intent.
Let me try to overdramatize this for a minute (it's part of my genius, which was once described as 'terrifiyingly unique' by a web site that I am too important to remember): America Online is engaged in a myriad web of suspense and intrique in an attempt to infiltrate, that's right, infiltrate (I kinda like that word) the hard drive of the helpless user, who is preyed upon by a large corporation that seeks to dominate him and track his every move with their infiltrative software.
When a victim of this Orwellian machine attempts to install the new AOL software they are presented with what is called a 'Dialog Box'. These 'Dialog Boxes' are often a facade, hiding the oppressive regime's ifiltrating software behind it, ready to subvert the customers wishes and infiltrate the hard drive with irreversible effects. By placing subliminal messages on the packaging and inside the install progress bar, AOL has used mind control tactics to convince the customer to respond to said 'Dialog Box' by clicking on the 'Yes' button.
Should we allow these 'Dialog Boxes' to continue to appear in our software? What will happen if any software vendor is permitted to infiltrate hard drives at will? Can capitalizm survive in a world filled with giant corporations like AOL, which will stop at nothing to subvert and suppress the hopes and dreams of every man, woman, and child alive?
Tomorrow, I will look deeper into the issues at hand, and present you with even more rhetorical questions, as soon as I get off the phone with the Pope, who just called and is on hold right now...
Yeah, that seven year development cycle was really pushing it. Win2k has been in the works almost as long as Linux has (from the beginning). Microsoft took their good old time with this one. If you're going to blame anything, start with the amount of code that went into this thing. What was the last count, 17 trillion lines? I'm amazed there are only two security holes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses for the Redmond boys, but you kind of have to expect some bugs to slip through a project of this scale.
Always one of my favorite gaming genres. I'd love to see Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 ported to Linux.
I'd also like to see some of the older Ultima games for Linux, especially VII since I never had the chance to really get into that one.
Yeah, just like we would never break the sound barrier because traveling that fast would cause the skin to peel off our faces. Moore's law about transistors may not hold, but I'd be surprised if that held back progress in processing power.
Maybe students should only be able to make phone calls to their professors to ask for help. It's not like the students are getting a bargain, tuition gets more ridiculous each year. For what they pay they deserve all the bandwidth they can use.
Could someone post their letter here so those of use who are not the best writers or just don't have as much info on this case can get an idea of what should go into these comments? I'd like to help but I'm not sure exactly what would be the most effective way to do it (unless "DeCSS rules!" counts as a good comment...)
No, the point is that there are nicer ways to phrase it than "you're an idiot." And it really goes beyond that. You claim to be doing Jon a "service" by calling him an idiot. This might have some hint of truth, maybe Jon is at home thinking "I really am an idiot, I can do a better job," but I don't think so.
Let's say calling someone an idiot is doing them a service, but is it the best way to help them? Your original post is poorly worded, and you do little to back your statements up. If it was directed at me, I would have ignored it as just another Troll. If you really want to help someone, try to explain to them where the error in their logic is and suggest better ways of accomplishing what they set out to do.
It doesn't really matter, the Cassiopeia is one of the best WinCE devices out there and it only runs at 133MHz.
Can someone tell me more about this thing? Specifically, how big (small) is it compared to the existing handhelds? Also, what kind of GUI were they using? Thanks.
Most of them can be updated, but I wouldn't suggest it for the Star Wars dispensers. Apparently, Lucas won't open source the drivers so performance is dog slow on all but the Darth Vader chrome dispenser, which isn't as fast as it used to be but because of it's processing power it is still useable...
Turns out that the Crusoe is an embedded processor that will be used in the next line of electric Pez dispensers. And yes, the OS is Linux and you can put your Pez dispensers in a Beowulf cluster, but be careful when you try and add a Pez dispenser full of that new mint flavor Pez because it uses a different networking protocol that throws the others off...
A lot of people use D3D because it offers more features. Since Microsoft doesn't have to worry about maintaining a standard they can add in all of the new little features at will. Personally, I don't see this as a big enough reason to do it, but I'm just offering one possibility.