The unstable gets the security patches just as fast as stable. Testing is the one of these three that may occasionally lag significantly in this respect, due to the variable-length delays in the propagation from unstable to testing.
On windowmaker, the default functionality for F12 is to bring up the application menu. Works finely on top of applications even if they are fullscreen.
If it happens to conflict with the keybindings of some application, it's configurable.
...that the gibberish would just indicate that spammers have consumed so much their own wonderful medical breakthrough products that their brains had finally completely rotten.
Why not use something like Panorama Tools and a suitable GUI frontend for the creation of the panoramas? I think that PT is even available as Photoshop plug-in. It does really nice work with perspective/barrel distortion etc. correction and with a frontend, is easy to use as well.
Perhaps Rawbrainsky should just have chosen a profession that leads to a smaller number of conflicts with law and less negative opinions of other people.
Stupid to whine about having a hard life in this case, as the choice of profession is entirely his own.
Then again, I guess most of the people that use Amiga more than to occasionally play some old games from the late 80's / early 90's have acquired 68060 / PowerPC boards (which can accept more memory than the 16 + 2 megabytes that e.g. A4000 accepts). It would not be an unbelieveable speed demon, but probably usable, at least if running natively on PPC. 68060 would probably be quite painful.
(I've not myself upgraded much, because I've used Linux quite exclusively the last around 6 years; 68040/25, 16 megabytes and no GFX card. Almost bare-bones A4000. Little interest to upgrade, although you never know.)
Studies show that computer-illiterate people are easily confused by multiple buttons. You'd be surprised, but it really is a problem. The concept of "left-click" and "right-click" seems intuitive to us... but some people really can't grasp it.
I just hope that none of those persons is driving near me. After all, cars have several pedals, steering wheel, possibly gear stick and many other things and if a person has problems with two mouse buttons, N controllers and such person sound like a catastrophe.;)
(well, to be honest I know one person with occasional problems with two-button mouse.)
The 21st century is not PaxAsia. It is PaxAmericana. The hordes of immigrants flooding into this country to get the hell out of Asia should have been a big hint.
Only about 97 years of this century left - are you sure that your conclusion isn't somewhat bold?;)
"While supporting a 400MHz FSB, this is no where near enough to handle what is needed by todayâ(TM)s games and applications."
Somehow this comment at the conclusions of the TweakTown review feels a bit funny, as does the difference between 3D Mark 2003 performances (4998 vs. 4765) commented as "3DMark03 shows that the gaming performance of the Pentium 4 3.2GHz is much more advanced than the AMD Athlon XP 3200+.". These folks seem to have a slightly different definition of "much more advanced" than I. Personally, I'd say that difference of about 5% is somewhat minor.
IMO performance of both CPUs is more than enough for a large majority of current games and applications.
Maybe you haven't seen some of the famous french viedogames before ? (Like Rayman,.. can't remind all of them now)
I remember games such as Kult, Purple Saturn Day etc. created by Exxos and distributed by Infogrames label; those were very different from the average 2d-shoot'em'ups and other similar games of the late 80s.
Well, editor, that may be your opinion, but to us gamers first person shooters are most 1337 game there is.
I think myself an occasional gamer (with too little time for it), but personally I find non-realtime games more appealing than first person shooters. It's nice to be able to take a little break by reading newsgroups, browsing web, talking to phone etc. That's just not so simple with first person shooters.
About the lack of time; the non-realtime games tend to have amazing features like "save game" too.;) I've been playing Jagged Alliance 2 for a long time now, it doesn't really hurt if it's one battle per month or so.
Personally, I haven't noticed any specific slowness in X for years. Some applications manage to be slow (openoffice sometimes redraws its window pretty slowly after switching workspace, as one example), but in the vast majority the speed of drawing feels practically instant, just the same than on other operating systems (or their GUIs). So I think that the only slowness that I notice is caused by the few applications themselves (or their GUI toolkits) rather than X itself.
Sapphire's melting point, for instance, is too high. And steel conducts heat too well for a hot spot to develop.
Somehow that gave me a mental image of a woman and a man being attacked by Time with more down-to-earth method instead of using parapsychological powers. (I wonder if anyone recognizes the reference;)
And of course this all was done a long time after their initial start with 8-bit computers, where they had a quite nice success with several hits to top-20 lists and such. Information about their existence as Ultimate is either nostalgic, interesting or the mutterings of near-dead old-as-stars zombies, depending on your viewpoint.;)
and one they should update for the XBOX..... R/C Pro-AM!!!!:)
IMO Rare's best game was Underwurlde, produced when they were still called Ultimate and produced games for 8-bit computers.;) Sabre Wulf was not bad either, and I guess Knight Lore was pretty good, but I never saw it. All these games were mentioned on rareware.com, but sadly the information seems to have disappeared since. But you can get all that information on the Ultimate-Wurlde and get either nostalgic, enlightened about history or just plain bored.;)
Works nicely with 1200 MHz Thunderbird and Geforce 2MX (yeah, I know, a mismatched pair;) up to 1024x768. After that it suddenly gets far too jerky to be comfortable. But 1024x768 is sufficient for me anyway as far as a 3D-shooter is concerned.
The difference between OGG and MP3 is... pretty much in the licensing.
And the sound quality at low bitrates. Honestly, vorbis audio with around 64 kbit/s average bitrate sounds quite lot of better than something encoded with lame to mp3 with ABR set to similar value. That 's good for things like audio streaming; either the user gets considerably better sound quality at old rate, or same quality at smaller bitrate.
Nevermind the fact that you, like most other Linux hippies, are in denial of widespread adaption of proprietary formats. MP3? No! Ogg! Flash? No! SVG (or whatever it is)! GIF? No! PNG!
Well, the users with relatively recent versions of eg. Winamp and XMMS should hardly have any stress about 'weird minority format called Ogg Vorbis', because the players already have support. Thus the songs just play, no brain activity needed:P So there's hardly downside using it. Similary, PNGs are widely supported by programs these days, so the mainstream users shouldn't have stress about those either. Not even if they personally won't create one PNG in their whole life.
What about machines that stared life with ipfwadm and have been firewall/routers for about 5 years now? Updating to the newest kernels pretty much means you have to rewrite all of the rules in ipchans/iptables
Well, even the 2.4 series have support for using ipfwadm or ipchains - style syntax if desired. The options are available under Networking options -> IP: Netfilter configuration.
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The unstable gets the security patches just as fast as stable. Testing is the one of these three that may occasionally lag significantly in this respect, due to the variable-length delays in the propagation from unstable to testing.
How do you think my digital camera with USB connection works with my Linux installation, if there is no support for USB1.0?
Likewise, an USB mouse works finely for me at work.
On windowmaker, the default functionality for F12 is to bring up the application menu. Works finely on top of applications even if they are fullscreen.
If it happens to conflict with the keybindings of some application, it's configurable.
...that the gibberish would just indicate that spammers have consumed so much their own wonderful medical breakthrough products that their brains had finally completely rotten.
Why not use something like Panorama Tools and a suitable GUI frontend for the creation of the panoramas? I think that PT is even available as Photoshop plug-in. It does really nice work with perspective/barrel distortion etc. correction and with a frontend, is easy to use as well.
Perhaps Rawbrainsky should just have chosen a profession that leads to a smaller number of conflicts with law and less negative opinions of other people.
Stupid to whine about having a hard life in this case, as the choice of profession is entirely his own.
Then again, I guess most of the people that use Amiga more than to occasionally play some old games from the late 80's / early 90's have acquired 68060 / PowerPC boards (which can accept more memory than the 16 + 2 megabytes that e.g. A4000 accepts). It would not be an unbelieveable speed demon, but probably usable, at least if running natively on PPC. 68060 would probably be quite painful.
(I've not myself upgraded much, because I've used Linux quite exclusively the last around 6 years; 68040/25, 16 megabytes and no GFX card. Almost bare-bones A4000. Little interest to upgrade, although you never know.)
I can't imagine anyone still using a 9600 baud modem, especially someone serious enough to want to use X remotely.
GSM data? GPRS and friends have somewhat more speed, but not everyone has upgraded their phone...
Do you still remember what was the name of the show?
As another Finnish former C-64 user, I seem to remember that the show was known as "Silikoni" or something like that. ("Silicone" in english.)
Studies show that computer-illiterate people are easily confused by multiple buttons. You'd be surprised, but it really is a problem. The concept of "left-click" and "right-click" seems intuitive to us... but some people really can't grasp it.
;)
I just hope that none of those persons is driving near me. After all, cars have several pedals, steering wheel, possibly gear stick and many other things and if a person has problems with two mouse buttons, N controllers and such person sound like a catastrophe.
(well, to be honest I know one person with occasional problems with two-button mouse.)
The 21st century is not PaxAsia. It is PaxAmericana. The hordes of immigrants flooding into this country to get the hell out of Asia should have been a big hint.
;)
Only about 97 years of this century left - are you sure that your conclusion isn't somewhat bold?
Somehow this comment at the conclusions of the TweakTown review feels a bit funny, as does the difference between 3D Mark 2003 performances (4998 vs. 4765) commented as "3DMark03 shows that the gaming performance of the Pentium 4 3.2GHz is much more advanced than the AMD Athlon XP 3200+.". These folks seem to have a slightly different definition of "much more advanced" than I. Personally, I'd say that difference of about 5% is somewhat minor.
IMO performance of both CPUs is more than enough for a large majority of current games and applications.
Maybe you haven't seen some of the famous french viedogames before ? (Like Rayman,
I remember games such as Kult, Purple Saturn Day etc. created by Exxos and distributed by Infogrames label; those were very different from the average 2d-shoot'em'ups and other similar games of the late 80s.
Well, editor, that may be your opinion, but to us gamers first person shooters are most 1337 game there is.
I think myself an occasional gamer (with too little time for it), but personally I find non-realtime games more appealing than first person shooters. It's nice to be able to take a little break by reading newsgroups, browsing web, talking to phone etc. That's just not so simple with first person shooters.
About the lack of time; the non-realtime games tend to have amazing features like "save game" too. ;) I've been playing Jagged Alliance 2 for a long time now, it doesn't really hurt if it's one battle per month or so.
Personally, I haven't noticed any specific slowness in X for years. Some applications manage to be slow (openoffice sometimes redraws its window pretty slowly after switching workspace, as one example), but in the vast majority the speed of drawing feels practically instant, just the same than on other operating systems (or their GUIs). So I think that the only slowness that I notice is caused by the few applications themselves (or their GUI toolkits) rather than X itself.
Sapphire's melting point, for instance, is too high. And steel conducts heat too well for a hot spot to develop.
Somehow that gave me a mental image of a woman and a man being attacked by Time with more down-to-earth method instead of using parapsychological powers. (I wonder if anyone recognizes the reference ;)
The point probably is that a few million web pages use DOM to manipulate the page real-time.
And of course this all was done a long time after their initial start with 8-bit computers, where they had a quite nice success with several hits to top-20 lists and such. Information about their existence as Ultimate is either nostalgic, interesting or the mutterings of near-dead old-as-stars zombies, depending on your viewpoint. ;)
and one they should update for the XBOX..... R/C Pro-AM!!!! :)
IMO Rare's best game was Underwurlde, produced when they were still called Ultimate and produced games for 8-bit computers. ;) Sabre Wulf was not bad either, and I guess Knight Lore was pretty good, but I never saw it. All these games were mentioned on rareware.com, but sadly the information seems to have disappeared since. But you can get all that information on the Ultimate-Wurlde and get either nostalgic, enlightened about history or just plain bored. ;)
Works nicely with 1200 MHz Thunderbird and Geforce 2MX (yeah, I know, a mismatched pair ;) up to 1024x768. After that it suddenly gets far too jerky to be comfortable. But 1024x768 is sufficient for me anyway as far as a 3D-shooter is concerned.
Why the quick jump to version 7?
Um, between 6.1 and 7.0 have also been 6.2, 6.21, 6.22 and 6.23 ;)
The difference between OGG and MP3 is... pretty much in the licensing.
And the sound quality at low bitrates. Honestly, vorbis audio with around 64 kbit/s average bitrate sounds quite lot of better than something encoded with lame to mp3 with ABR set to similar value. That 's good for things like audio streaming; either the user gets considerably better sound quality at old rate, or same quality at smaller bitrate.
Nevermind the fact that you, like most other Linux hippies, are in denial of widespread adaption of proprietary formats. MP3? No! Ogg! Flash? No! SVG (or whatever it is)! GIF? No! PNG!
Well, the users with relatively recent versions of eg. Winamp and XMMS should hardly have any stress about 'weird minority format called Ogg Vorbis', because the players already have support. Thus the songs just play, no brain activity needed :P So there's hardly downside using it. Similary, PNGs are widely supported by programs these days, so the mainstream users shouldn't have stress about those either. Not even if they personally won't create one PNG in their whole life.
On Linux, suitably new version of hdparm should do the trick with switch -E.
What about machines that stared life with ipfwadm and have been firewall/routers for about 5 years now? Updating to the newest kernels pretty much means you have to rewrite all of the rules in ipchans/iptables
Well, even the 2.4 series have support for using ipfwadm or ipchains - style syntax if desired. The options are available under Networking options -> IP: Netfilter configuration.