I may be wrong, as I am no expert in the matter, but it seems to me that X does not have anything to do with "windows". It merely provides a common protocol for applications to render graphical "windows," hence, it is a "windowing system".
X by itself is not a very useful GUI as the term "Windows" would imply your statement.
The X Window System is a network transparent window system which runs on a wide range of computing and graphics machines. It should be relatively straightforward to build the X Consortium software distribution on most ANSI C and POSIX compliant systems. Commercial implementations are also available for a wide range of platforms.
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:
X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11
X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
If you reread my last post I am sure that you will notice I agree with you. But, the original post for this thread was talking about consoles in that manner and as such set forth the context for the thread. I am merely speaking in relation to the top of this thread.
What is this?: http://consoledatabase.retrofaction.com/consoleinf o/nintendogamecube/
How about this?: http://consoledatabase.retrofaction.com/consoleinf o/sonyplaystation2/
We are talking about consoles. While I will agree with the other person who posted a follow up to my reply, consoles are still classified, in bits, by their graphics capability (read GPU). The CPU doesn't really mean anything in console land other than to process input and manage the system overall.
Maybe that makes me an idiot. Or, maybe, that makes me someone who grew up with older consoles.
If you want to look at it this way then the (su)Xbox is a step ahead at 256-bit.
The 64-bit battle is over dude. The only two contenders were the Atari Jaguar and the Nintendo 64 (note: that is not spelled "Game Cube"). The winner of that era was the 32bit Sony Playstation.
I have found that IE really loves fucking up when reading the DOCTYPES. The W3C specification lists the DOCTYPE definition as using three lines (and in my experience won't validate otherwise - at least when writing XHTML) but IE decides that is incorrect and will ignore the definition thus NOT switching to strict mode and totally screwing up the rendering of your document.
I fully agree with using HTML/XHTML strict mode only. It will only benefit you down the line. If it is a personaly site I tell the IE users to get over it or get Mozilla. If that is not an option I just rethink my layout so that all browsers will render the page fairly accurately in strict mode.
Sure, vendor support is a nice thing but it typically means using crappy software. I would rather be able to just mount the device and drop files on it over using after-thought software any day.
I don't think Id has ever made a game for any reason _other_ than to sell the engine. I am not even sure Commander Keen was made just to make a game.
Let's face it, Carmack can write some damn good game engines but the games that are wrapped around them are usually just eye candy. At least the developers of Serious Sam make no pretences about the fact they are just trying to sell a 3D engine.
Don't get me wrong, Quake 3 is still the best LAN game around if only because of the speed. I just think that their "games" get a little more hype as games instead of tech demos than is deserved.
Know ye brave adventurers, of the history of the world...
In ages past, men, dwarves, and elves lived in great kingdoms in the east. Further east, and extending far to the north and the south, was an inpenatrable mountain range, known only as "The Barrier". For many hundreds of years, these people strove to climb the barrier, but to no avail, and they were without hope.
Legend has it that a great ranger, whose name has been lost to time, did make it across the barrier. On the other side, he found that the world he knew was floating upon a great sea. It was not an ocean of water, as we know it, but a vast expanse of chaos. On a whim, he drank from the sea, and was forever changed. He was immortal.
These events ended the first age of the world, the Age of Discovery.
At that first sip from the Sea of Immortality, the great beasts and titans that lived within the mountains surrounding and guarding this chaos awoke. They descended upon and destroyed the kingdoms and empires of the east. All who opposed them were slain. The people were forced to flee into the western land, a great peninsula extending out into the ocean. After many years, the creatures of chaos returned to their lairs within the border, to guard the sea of immortality.
In the east, the civilizations were rebuilt. Now, however, the people knew of the possibility of immortality. Everyone wanted to be immortal. This period of time is known as the Age of Greed. Great sages built great machines to cross the barrier underwater. Magicians experimented with flight. Other, more rugged adventurers took the more old fashioned approach, and attempted to scale the mountains.
Only one group of adventurers was successful. A brave warrior named U Po Kyin led a band of travelers far to the north and east and climbed the barrier, drank from the sea of immortality and returned, unscathed.
U Po Kyin's success ended the Age of Greed and began the third age of the world. This is a time where greed and fear has dominated the way most people think and act. Immortals from the first and second ages rule powerful kingdoms and war with each other, costing the lives of many thousands. Trust is a thing of the past. This is the...
OO only "seriously dick[s] the formating of a document at times" when you put a lot of crappy formatting in the document. If you stick to standard MLA or APA formatting you should never have a problem. I also don't consider an application that has reached 1.0 and has a commercial version "in progress". It is a valid solution to the problem you have expressed. That or buy a copy of Crossover Office and come by the help desk to have MS Office installed.
Those that buy Apple machines realize that they are not going to be able to run everything. I have seen a couple of people with virtual machines on their Macs just so they can run some school applications. They have never complained about it because they realize they are using a system that the majority does not. But then again, the school does have MS Office for Mac.
I am one of the people Sabalon mentions who works at the help desk and runs Linux [ I make heavy use of the local Debian mirror;) ]. I also [sometimes] take classes at this school and a majority of them are math classes [CS is a math major of course]. I can certify that the software required for your math classes will indeed run with WINE. Don't ask me to set it up for you. With your griping I will assume you can do it yourself. The only reason I know that it works with WINE is because one of my teachers insisted that I use it instead of my trusty TI-89 during tests. I just left study works on screen and used my calculator.
As for sending in your papers in Word format: there is lovely little project called OpenOffice.org. Check into it. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
then at least give them some freakin credit. that is clearly a copy and paste on developerWorks' part. an introduction such as "i read this over at such and such site" is plenty sufficient.
OSNews article timestamp: 2003-01-14 02:08:14
Slasdot article timestamp: Tuesday January 14, @02:36PM
well there are actually two versions of the same device for the dreamcast. one is called a "network adapter" and it will only work the browser that it originally came with and homebrew software. the other is called the "broadband adapter" (see other replies for arguments as to why it is called this). this one will work with games that are supposed to be "bba compatible".
Slashdot Mirror
I can't believe it is even still around.
I may be wrong, as I am no expert in the matter, but it seems to me that X does not have anything to do with "windows". It merely provides a common protocol for applications to render graphical "windows," hence, it is a "windowing system".
X by itself is not a very useful GUI as the term "Windows" would imply your statement.
I suppose I could be reading this incorrectly:
http://www.x.org/X11.html
If you reread my last post I am sure that you will notice I agree with you. But, the original post for this thread was talking about consoles in that manner and as such set forth the context for the thread. I am merely speaking in relation to the top of this thread.
What is this?: http://consoledatabase.retrofaction.com/consoleinf o/nintendogamecube/
f o/sonyplaystation2/
How about this?: http://consoledatabase.retrofaction.com/consolein
We are talking about consoles. While I will agree with the other person who posted a follow up to my reply, consoles are still classified, in bits, by their graphics capability (read GPU). The CPU doesn't really mean anything in console land other than to process input and manage the system overall.
Maybe that makes me an idiot. Or, maybe, that makes me someone who grew up with older consoles.
If you want to look at it this way then the (su)Xbox is a step ahead at 256-bit.
The 64-bit battle is over dude. The only two contenders were the Atari Jaguar and the Nintendo 64 (note: that is not spelled "Game Cube"). The winner of that era was the 32bit Sony Playstation.
Consoles are currently 128bits of fun.
http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/ProgrammingGroundUp .pdf
I believe the joke has gone right over your head.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp
I have found that IE really loves fucking up when reading the DOCTYPES. The W3C specification lists the DOCTYPE definition as using three lines (and in my experience won't validate otherwise - at least when writing XHTML) but IE decides that is incorrect and will ignore the definition thus NOT switching to strict mode and totally screwing up the rendering of your document.
I fully agree with using HTML/XHTML strict mode only. It will only benefit you down the line. If it is a personaly site I tell the IE users to get over it or get Mozilla. If that is not an option I just rethink my layout so that all browsers will render the page fairly accurately in strict mode.
Little wonder your site doesn't validate.
Specifically http://validator.w3.org/
No clicky clicky. Nasty nasty.
This probably should have been linked in the article: http://www.iriver.com/company/news_view.asp?idx=35 5&page=1&mode=Total&strque=&field= 1
Also: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/30/006226.shtml
http://ifp-driver.sourceforge.net/
Sure, vendor support is a nice thing but it typically means using crappy software. I would rather be able to just mount the device and drop files on it over using after-thought software any day.
I don't think Id has ever made a game for any reason _other_ than to sell the engine. I am not even sure Commander Keen was made just to make a game.
Let's face it, Carmack can write some damn good game engines but the games that are wrapped around them are usually just eye candy. At least the developers of Serious Sam make no pretences about the fact they are just trying to sell a 3D engine.
Don't get me wrong, Quake 3 is still the best LAN game around if only because of the speed. I just think that their "games" get a little more hype as games instead of tech demos than is deserved.
s/of\ a/of\ a\ guy\ /
This is the biggest waste of bandwidth ever. It is a video of a watching porn at a convention titled "Dreamhack 2003".
Don't click on this. It is one of those gross site links.
host: newton.whit.org
port: 4000
Know ye brave adventurers, of the history of the world...
In ages past, men, dwarves, and elves lived in great kingdoms in the east. Further east, and extending far to the north and the south, was an inpenatrable mountain range, known only as "The Barrier". For many hundreds of years, these people strove to climb the barrier, but to no avail, and they were without hope.
Legend has it that a great ranger, whose name has been lost to time, did make it across the barrier. On the other side, he found that the world he knew was floating upon a great sea. It was not an ocean of water, as we know it, but a vast expanse of chaos. On a whim, he drank from the sea, and was forever changed. He was immortal.
These events ended the first age of the world, the Age of Discovery.
At that first sip from the Sea of Immortality, the great beasts and titans that lived within the mountains surrounding and guarding this chaos awoke. They descended upon and destroyed the kingdoms and empires of the east. All who opposed them were slain. The people were forced to flee into the western land, a great peninsula extending out into the ocean. After many years, the creatures of chaos returned to their lairs within the border, to guard the sea of immortality.
In the east, the civilizations were rebuilt. Now, however, the people knew of the possibility of immortality. Everyone wanted to be immortal. This period of time is known as the Age of Greed. Great sages built great machines to cross the barrier underwater. Magicians experimented with flight. Other, more rugged adventurers took the more old fashioned approach, and attempted to scale the mountains.
Only one group of adventurers was successful. A brave warrior named U Po Kyin led a band of travelers far to the north and east and climbed the barrier, drank from the sea of immortality and returned, unscathed.
U Po Kyin's success ended the Age of Greed and began the third age of the world. This is a time where greed and fear has dominated the way most people think and act. Immortals from the first and second ages rule powerful kingdoms and war with each other, costing the lives of many thousands. Trust is a thing of the past. This is the...
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OO only "seriously dick[s] the formating of a document at times" when you put a lot of crappy formatting in the document. If you stick to standard MLA or APA formatting you should never have a problem. I also don't consider an application that has reached 1.0 and has a commercial version "in progress". It is a valid solution to the problem you have expressed. That or buy a copy of Crossover Office and come by the help desk to have MS Office installed.
Those that buy Apple machines realize that they are not going to be able to run everything. I have seen a couple of people with virtual machines on their Macs just so they can run some school applications. They have never complained about it because they realize they are using a system that the majority does not. But then again, the school does have MS Office for Mac.
I am one of the people Sabalon mentions who works at the help desk and runs Linux [ I make heavy use of the local Debian mirror ;) ]. I also [sometimes] take classes at this school and a majority of them are math classes [CS is a math major of course]. I can certify that the software required for your math classes will indeed run with WINE. Don't ask me to set it up for you. With your griping I will assume you can do it yourself. The only reason I know that it works with WINE is because one of my teachers insisted that I use it instead of my trusty TI-89 during tests. I just left study works on screen and used my calculator.
As for sending in your papers in Word format: there is lovely little project called OpenOffice.org. Check into it. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Campus printing? Yeah, uniprint is total shit.
damn morons
then at least give them some freakin credit. that is clearly a copy and paste on developerWorks' part. an introduction such as "i read this over at such and such site" is plenty sufficient.
OSNews article timestamp: 2003-01-14 02:08:14
Slasdot article timestamp: Tuesday January 14, @02:36PM
if you like windows so much then use it. no one is forcing you to use linux nor mplayer.
some of us dont like being spoon fed.
well there are actually two versions of the same device for the dreamcast. one is called a "network adapter" and it will only work the browser that it originally came with and homebrew software. the other is called the "broadband adapter" (see other replies for arguments as to why it is called this). this one will work with games that are supposed to be "bba compatible".