Dude, applications, device drivers, and APIs do NOT make the operating system. They are things that are supposed to run ON the operating system. The OS is just supposed to manage things. IE memory allocation, processor time, devices, interrupt handling. All of this other stuff is application software... As in the stuff that the OS is supposed to facilitate. By definition, an OS is MERELY a device that manages these things. Perhaps you should read up on operating systems a bit. Take an intro course to OS programming or something at a community college.
Wasn't this posted here months ago? I know that I read about it a while ago, where a cartridge could take kids pokemon and stitch them out. Perhaps I read it somewhere else. Cool anyhow.
We have several phantom devices at the virtual environments lab at my university. They are pretty pricy (in the thousands) a piece. One historic event that we did recently, is the first international handshake, using phantom devices, at the recent VSMM conference. Pretty neat devices.
Funny, Quake 3 works fine on my 500, with a TNT...
Works great on my friend's dual 300 (note that dual 300 does not mean 500), with a GeForce under linux, and we were in damned good resolution, with awesome effects, on the net, while pounding the shit out of his net connection and that computer working on our CS project at the same time...
So, I'm not sure from whence you come... Unless you were trying to run it on a pentium with no acceleration.
Oh yeah, moderators, read the parent post for a change, eh? My karma doesn't change, and it's still annoying.
Well, this actually averts the need to fall much into the ethics and such of star trek by falling nicely into a niche. They like it because it's a star trek game that lets you kill kill kill, the way that most gaming is these days.
On a side note, Raven actually does to well with their titles and sticking to the plot, however, the way that they got the plot to work this time is matching a plot to the game that they had planned, I'm not saying that this is bad, I am saying, it should be pretty blatantly obvious that this is your standard 3D shooter, with star trek folks in it and a story line to catch it.
All that said, I like all of the above, you can be sure that I'll pirate, er uh, buy it.
RedHat made the decision because obviously spending more time on development for the other platforms that they support is more profittable. When a company makes a stategic move, it isn't a blow to the community, unless it's like, massive layoffs and closing their doors. RH is doing fine...
In my experience with solaris, I have seen that it is actually a pretty damned good operating system. It might not be Linux, but there are a LOT of things that it does well... SOME THINGS IT EVEN DOES BETTER! While I have not written code for distrubuted systems on the solaris platform, I understand that this is a bit easier than under linux (and I have PLENTY of experience with this under linux, thank you). Soooo... I see NOTHING wrong with setting up these boxen with solaris. I love linux, but HELLO... as long as they strive for compatibility, who really cares what platform it is... We're not talking about winchips and win2k here.
I love these devices, though usually you can't use them for much of use being that the objects are 3D representations, not 3D tools. Things that should bounce and such won't of course... and things can break, but it is great for making new toys. We had one for making 3D models of building sites. We also took to making spheres with smaller spheres inside of them, and no seams on the outside!
I was always under the impression that MBONE was designed for the types of communications that you can lose some data and still be ok. Streaming media... Files don't fall into this catagory. Lose a few bytes of a digital tv signal, and its nor really noticeable, maybe for a few seconds it is... Audio, you might hear some fuzz. Your kernel and binaries on the other hand... A little network congestion and all of the sudden you can't get online to fix the problems you just made.
I personally love the CDE. It does what it does, and it's pretty good at it. Not only that, but I think that it's attractive, and intuitive and all that other bs.
It has been, hundreds of times, people just keep writing utilities with security flaws. That's life, then, you patch the hole and get on with life. These holes are potentially in all C/C++ programs, and even programs in other languages. A little overflow here, a little backspace character there, and you've royally screwed with the mind of the given program.
It did NOT take them 5 years to make a barcode reader and write the drivers for it... I have something akin to a week or 2 to write several device drivers for my one class, and the devices are harder to code for than a barcode reader...
It maybe took them 5 years to match up all of the numbers to websites, but that's not really the work of geeks, and it's not really related to us making their barcode reader work.
Heck, so WHAT if we make drivers for a free barcode reader, it could be... USEFUL! You're afraid of people finding something else to do with your barcode reader than look at web content. Look, I can surf the web with barcodes, all linked off a nice little database. I indirectly pay a company to do this for me.
We're not stealing your content, which is what you are really selling, right? I mean, you don't expect every grocer in america to toss their checkout counter for a silly cat shaped laser, do you?
Why not just say it, if people find something USEFUL to do with your barcode reader, they might realize that looking at advertisements on the internet based on barcodes is *GASP* just as boring and stupid as clicking on banner ads....
No offense to your lovely company. I'm sure that the barcodes are put to good use... The shopping cataloges and such come to mind...
1 Most people already have VCR's, and can record to content, unless you scramble it somehow.
2 People have been recording from TV for years, it's a good thing. Now you want to take that away to bleed us even more
3 If you're going to broadcast it, you should be prepared to at least allow people to record it. You don't own the ground lines over which this is broadcast
4 Don't you make enough money not to have to harass us even more?
No offense, but the name makes it sound like it's written for KDE. Perhaps a name that sounds more like it came from M$ is in order (no offense, just thought I could get some interesting suggestions).
(Heh, sorry M$, this joke had to be made).
gettings cable and cablemodem services up at school, + the equipment rental costs about half as much as my RENT for my APPARTMENT with ALL OF THE UTILITIES INCLUDED. This is OBSCENE.
Hey, what can I say, some of the things that these guys do makes sense, and some is just a little too radical, held under the reform party umbrella, schweet move!
Unless it could edit out the commercials, then offering it for download isn't that important, since the commercials would still be in the content and still be generating revenue.
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Dude, applications, device drivers, and APIs do NOT make the operating system. They are things that are supposed to run ON the operating system. The OS is just supposed to manage things. IE memory allocation, processor time, devices, interrupt handling. All of this other stuff is application software... As in the stuff that the OS is supposed to facilitate. By definition, an OS is MERELY a device that manages these things. Perhaps you should read up on operating systems a bit. Take an intro course to OS programming or something at a community college.
Uhh, has this guy read up on OS X? Apparently it's based on an OS that doesn't meet his definition of an OS...
Wasn't this posted here months ago? I know that I read about it a while ago, where a cartridge could take kids pokemon and stitch them out. Perhaps I read it somewhere else. Cool anyhow.
We have several phantom devices at the virtual environments lab at my university. They are pretty pricy (in the thousands) a piece. One historic event that we did recently, is the first international handshake, using phantom devices, at the recent VSMM conference. Pretty neat devices.
Funny, Quake 3 works fine on my 500, with a TNT...
Works great on my friend's dual 300 (note that dual 300 does not mean 500), with a GeForce under linux, and we were in damned good resolution, with awesome effects, on the net, while pounding the shit out of his net connection and that computer working on our CS project at the same time...
So, I'm not sure from whence you come... Unless you were trying to run it on a pentium with no acceleration.
Oh yeah, moderators, read the parent post for a change, eh? My karma doesn't change, and it's still annoying.
Well, this actually averts the need to fall much into the ethics and such of star trek by falling nicely into a niche. They like it because it's a star trek game that lets you kill kill kill, the way that most gaming is these days.
On a side note, Raven actually does to well with their titles and sticking to the plot, however, the way that they got the plot to work this time is matching a plot to the game that they had planned, I'm not saying that this is bad, I am saying, it should be pretty blatantly obvious that this is your standard 3D shooter, with star trek folks in it and a story line to catch it.
All that said, I like all of the above, you can be sure that I'll pirate, er uh, buy it.
Five months is a quickie in the legal system. Heck, people actually sit in jail for longer than that waiting for an appeal.
RedHat made the decision because obviously spending more time on development for the other platforms that they support is more profittable. When a company makes a stategic move, it isn't a blow to the community, unless it's like, massive layoffs and closing their doors. RH is doing fine...
In my experience with solaris, I have seen that it is actually a pretty damned good operating system. It might not be Linux, but there are a LOT of things that it does well... SOME THINGS IT EVEN DOES BETTER! While I have not written code for distrubuted systems on the solaris platform, I understand that this is a bit easier than under linux (and I have PLENTY of experience with this under linux, thank you). Soooo... I see NOTHING wrong with setting up these boxen with solaris. I love linux, but HELLO... as long as they strive for compatibility, who really cares what platform it is... We're not talking about winchips and win2k here.
I love these devices, though usually you can't use them for much of use being that the objects are 3D representations, not 3D tools. Things that should bounce and such won't of course... and things can break, but it is great for making new toys. We had one for making 3D models of building sites. We also took to making spheres with smaller spheres inside of them, and no seams on the outside!
I was always under the impression that MBONE was designed for the types of communications that you can lose some data and still be ok. Streaming media... Files don't fall into this catagory. Lose a few bytes of a digital tv signal, and its nor really noticeable, maybe for a few seconds it is... Audio, you might hear some fuzz. Your kernel and binaries on the other hand... A little network congestion and all of the sudden you can't get online to fix the problems you just made.
People are trying to be compatible with us again!
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I personally love the CDE. It does what it does, and it's pretty good at it. Not only that, but I think that it's attractive, and intuitive and all that other bs.
Log into any Solaris box... Most of them have it on it. I personally love the CDE.
It has been, hundreds of times, people just keep writing utilities with security flaws. That's life, then, you patch the hole and get on with life. These holes are potentially in all C/C++ programs, and even programs in other languages. A little overflow here, a little backspace character there, and you've royally screwed with the mind of the given program.
It did NOT take them 5 years to make a barcode reader and write the drivers for it... I have something akin to a week or 2 to write several device drivers for my one class, and the devices are harder to code for than a barcode reader...
It maybe took them 5 years to match up all of the numbers to websites, but that's not really the work of geeks, and it's not really related to us making their barcode reader work.
Heck, so WHAT if we make drivers for a free barcode reader, it could be... USEFUL! You're afraid of people finding something else to do with your barcode reader than look at web content. Look, I can surf the web with barcodes, all linked off a nice little database. I indirectly pay a company to do this for me.
We're not stealing your content, which is what you are really selling, right? I mean, you don't expect every grocer in america to toss their checkout counter for a silly cat shaped laser, do you?
Why not just say it, if people find something USEFUL to do with your barcode reader, they might realize that looking at advertisements on the internet based on barcodes is *GASP* just as boring and stupid as clicking on banner ads....
No offense to your lovely company. I'm sure that the barcodes are put to good use... The shopping cataloges and such come to mind...
1 Most people already have VCR's, and can record to content, unless you scramble it somehow.
2 People have been recording from TV for years, it's a good thing. Now you want to take that away to bleed us even more
3 If you're going to broadcast it, you should be prepared to at least allow people to record it. You don't own the ground lines over which this is broadcast
4 Don't you make enough money not to have to harass us even more?
No offense, but the name makes it sound like it's written for KDE. Perhaps a name that sounds more like it came from M$ is in order (no offense, just thought I could get some interesting suggestions).
(Heh, sorry M$, this joke had to be made).
Sinking Ship?
You know, you're right. I don't agree with everything that they do, but I do agree, the service is reasonable.
gettings cable and cablemodem services up at school, + the equipment rental costs about half as much as my RENT for my APPARTMENT with ALL OF THE UTILITIES INCLUDED. This is OBSCENE.
@Home charges too much for what they offer already! The prices are OUTRAGEOUS and now they want this too? I am so sick of cable/cablemodem monopolies.
It's called competition.
Hey, what can I say, some of the things that these guys do makes sense, and some is just a little too radical, held under the reform party umbrella, schweet move!
Unless it could edit out the commercials, then offering it for download isn't that important, since the commercials would still be in the content and still be generating revenue.
I meant a NEW TiVo, if you didn't catch my drift initially.