Hell, they spent 3 hours on the phone with my mom while she installed a new HD she bought at the local computer store, and her Gateway machine wasn't even under warranty anymore. Gee, ya think that could be part of the reason they're having trouble now?
Perhaps, but if that will convince your mother to make her next purchase from Gateway, then it was worth it. I've always maintained that customer service is the key to repeat business. Short-term thinkers don't always see this.
Wouldn't Loki still be able to update the Linux version. If the win32 port is no longer updated, couldn't this potentially be the killer game app that forces the masses to Linux? I'm guessing this all depends on what rights Loki has to the game code.
This action could seriously impact the US's ability to attract top programmers from around the world to participate in the development of new technology.
Who would want to face jail time for simply writing a program that's completely legal in your native country?
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Early ads for Daikatana claimed "John Romero will make you his bitch, suck it down."
Quite the PR failure, and actually admitted to be a mistake by Romero himself. Obvioulsy something else started "sucking," like sales.
It seems to me that the P4/Athlon debate has brought out a lot of bashing of the P4, as it benchmarks slower than comparable or even slower Athlon CPU's.
These same people, however, don't seem to be bashing the GeForce 3, which in many cases benchmarks slower than some GeForce 2 ultra cards. Sure, it's OK for a video card to change its architecture but not the CPU????
People seem to understand that eventually the GF3 will be the card to get IF games are written to that architectures. The same could be said of the P4 IF APPS are written to the new architecture.
Big corporate America wants to push their content to you in a manner they see fit, when they see fit.
Us techo-geeks want to pull the content in a manner we see fit, when we see fit. This enables us to digitize it, make copies of it, strip out commercials, etc.
Pushing it, corporate America is in control. Pulling it, we are in control. That's what the issue is about.
Scott Bakula's character will "possess" the body of a different Star Trek captain each week, trying to right some of the wrongs that have happened over the years.
First episode, he possesses Kirk's body and prevents him from obtaining an inappropriate hair weave.
Next episode has him entering Jean-Luc Picard's body and basically has a non-stop banging session with Beverly Crusher and Tasha Yar (pre-mortem of course).
There is a "very special" episode planned for when he becomes Janeway, but I'm not sure of the details. Possibly something to do with menstruation, but it could be anything.
I believe with this mod you'll get quite a frame-rate hit, as your "potentially viewable set" of polygons basically increases at least 4-fold. Quite an interesting mod, however; and yet another feather in the cap of open-source.
The beauty of pointers in C code is that you don't have to manipulate huge chunks of data; you can simply point to its memory location and move on.
The RIAA wants the data to be filtered. But we're all using pointers to the data which we can change at will w/out changing the inherent data.
Someone with some grasp of that concept needs to be involved in the ruling. Not that I know the answer, but someone needs to define "copyrighted song."
It's obviously not the "name of copyrighted song" nor "some random encoded bits of the copyrighted song", but the "copyrighted song" itself. Ah, the beauty of digitization - changes the whole meaning of what "is."
Since 7.1 beta has been out for a while (few weeks), I'd be curious to know the differences between 7.1 beta and 7.1 release. Do they post those changes anywhere?
From his page: "MOST CREATORS PRACTICE THEIR ART BECAUSE THEY LOVE IT"
If that is true, then wouldn't it matter the most to you to get your art seen by as many people as possible? Regardless of how they obtain it? I can understand his arguement, but the above statement seems to contradict it a bit. He is fighting hard against free dissemination, yet he claims most artists are not rich and earn their livings via other day jobs.
Many of the part-time open source coders derive their "pay" from the pride in knowing a job well done and the feeling of contribution. Just a few thoughts.
Well there is a subtle distinction between your comparison. When you build a web site, users are willingly pulling the data to their PC's. Handing out pamphlets is pushing the data to users whether they really want it or not.
Could it possibly be less expensive to just use faster hardware than spend time/money on programmer's to optimize code. I would imagine that at some point, code optimization becomes too expensive an alternative.
Don't underestimate the importance of access times in media. I remember when CD's came out, everyone was saying "Wait until DAT comes out, it will replace CD's." Not true. Any tape mechanism makes access times between the beginning and end parts of the tapes take much longer than on CD/DVD. The convenience of nearly instant access weighs heavily in my decisions anyway.
I'm no console fan, haven't bought one since SNES in '91 or so. However, with all the aparent mass exodus from PC development to X-box/console development, one good thing may happen.
Since the X-Box hardware will essentially be frozen for a year (assumption - I'm thinking there will be X-Box2,etc.), developers will focus more on gameplay than fancy bells and whistles. Since the CPU is in reality 1/2 speed of current state of the art, developers will have less CPU horsepower to rely on for fancy bells and whistles, relatively speaking.
This is of course assuming that the titles eventually DO get ported to the PC platform. I'm thinking that's not too big a stretch given the X-Box's similarity to a true PC.
Don't waste your time w/ a DX4/100. I've got an AMD 486/133 and it has trouble w/most mp3's in stereo at 44Hz. Mono is fine, but that's not what you're looking for.
I know there are countless analogies to portscanning. The one I usually make is walking around a mall parking lot, looking inside cars to see if the keys are still in the ignition.
You're not going to steal the car, but perhaps if you see the owner of the car, you may alert him of the condition. More likely though, you have no idea whose car it is, just that it's ripe for stealing.
They're discriminating against those of us without CD-ROM drives.
'Please insert CD "Spank Me, I Deserve it" '
Insert into where? It doesn't seem to fit in this floppy drive thing. Maybe if I stuff it between my drive bay covers that will be good enough. Damn you my.mp3.com! I've scratched another perfectly good CD!
Reminds me of the line in Dead Ringers from Jeromy Iron's character. He describes over the phone the peculiar gynecological findings of his love interest Claire (3 ovaries or something like that) to someone he thinks is having an affair w/her and claims at the end, "Basically, what this means is that you're faahhKING A MUTANT!"
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OK, how the hell do you moderate some of these comments? Not only do you need a phd to comment, but you need one to judge the merits of said comments.
Christ, I thought reading the article itself was hard enough....
Perhaps, but if that will convince your mother to make her next purchase from Gateway, then it was worth it. I've always maintained that customer service is the key to repeat business. Short-term thinkers don't always see this.
Wouldn't Loki still be able to update the Linux version. If the win32 port is no longer updated, couldn't this potentially be the killer game app that forces the masses to Linux? I'm guessing this all depends on what rights Loki has to the game code.
This action could seriously impact the US's ability to attract top programmers from around the world to participate in the development of new technology.
Who would want to face jail time for simply writing a program that's completely legal in your native country?
Early ads for Daikatana claimed "John Romero will make you his bitch, suck it down."
Quite the PR failure, and actually admitted to be a mistake by Romero himself. Obvioulsy something else started "sucking," like sales.
It seems to me that the P4/Athlon debate has brought out a lot of bashing of the P4, as it benchmarks slower than comparable or even slower Athlon CPU's.
These same people, however, don't seem to be bashing the GeForce 3, which in many cases benchmarks slower than some GeForce 2 ultra cards. Sure, it's OK for a video card to change its architecture but not the CPU????
People seem to understand that eventually the GF3 will be the card to get IF games are written to that architectures. The same could be said of the P4 IF APPS are written to the new architecture.
I've always thought that the "price" to pay for open-source software was time and patience.
If you are willing to wait, many open-source projects catch up and sometimes pass their closed-source counterparts.
Big corporate America wants to push their content to you in a manner they see fit, when they see fit.
Us techo-geeks want to pull the content in a manner we see fit, when we see fit. This enables us to digitize it, make copies of it, strip out commercials, etc.
Pushing it, corporate America is in control. Pulling it, we are in control. That's what the issue is about.
Scott Bakula's character will "possess" the body of a different Star Trek captain each week, trying to right some of the wrongs that have happened over the years.
First episode, he possesses Kirk's body and prevents him from obtaining an inappropriate hair weave.
Next episode has him entering Jean-Luc Picard's body and basically has a non-stop banging session with Beverly Crusher and Tasha Yar (pre-mortem of course).
There is a "very special" episode planned for when he becomes Janeway, but I'm not sure of the details. Possibly something to do with menstruation, but it could be anything.
I believe with this mod you'll get quite a frame-rate hit, as your "potentially viewable set" of polygons basically increases at least 4-fold. Quite an interesting mod, however; and yet another feather in the cap of open-source.
Isn't that just instant messenging???? :)
The beauty of pointers in C code is that you don't have to manipulate huge chunks of data; you can simply point to its memory location and move on. The RIAA wants the data to be filtered. But we're all using pointers to the data which we can change at will w/out changing the inherent data. Someone with some grasp of that concept needs to be involved in the ruling. Not that I know the answer, but someone needs to define "copyrighted song." It's obviously not the "name of copyrighted song" nor "some random encoded bits of the copyrighted song", but the "copyrighted song" itself. Ah, the beauty of digitization - changes the whole meaning of what "is."
Since 7.1 beta has been out for a while (few weeks), I'd be curious to know the differences between 7.1 beta and 7.1 release. Do they post those changes anywhere?
..I will wait for the obligatory Mr. Carmack response modded to +5. I'm hoping he's busy writing it now :)
From his page: "MOST CREATORS PRACTICE THEIR ART BECAUSE THEY LOVE IT"
If that is true, then wouldn't it matter the most to you to get your art seen by as many people as possible? Regardless of how they obtain it?
I can understand his arguement, but the above statement seems to contradict it a bit. He is fighting hard against free dissemination, yet he claims most artists are not rich and earn their livings via other day jobs.
Many of the part-time open source coders derive their "pay" from the pride in knowing a job well done and the feeling of contribution. Just a few thoughts.
Well there is a subtle distinction between your comparison. When you build a web site, users are willingly pulling the data to their PC's. Handing out pamphlets is pushing the data to users whether they really want it or not.
As a layman, I ask the following:
Could it possibly be less expensive to just use faster hardware than spend time/money on programmer's to optimize code. I would imagine that at some point, code optimization becomes too expensive an alternative.
Don't underestimate the importance of access times in media. I remember when CD's came out, everyone was saying "Wait until DAT comes out, it will replace CD's." Not true. Any tape mechanism makes access times between the beginning and end parts of the tapes take much longer than on CD/DVD. The convenience of nearly instant access weighs heavily in my decisions anyway.
I'm no console fan, haven't bought one since SNES in '91 or so. However, with all the aparent mass exodus from PC development to X-box/console development, one good thing may happen.
Since the X-Box hardware will essentially be frozen for a year (assumption - I'm thinking there will be X-Box2,etc.), developers will focus more on gameplay than fancy bells and whistles. Since the CPU is in reality 1/2 speed of current state of the art, developers will have less CPU horsepower to rely on for fancy bells and whistles, relatively speaking.
This is of course assuming that the titles eventually DO get ported to the PC platform. I'm thinking that's not too big a stretch given the X-Box's similarity to a true PC.
Don't waste your time w/ a DX4/100. I've got an AMD 486/133 and it has trouble w/most mp3's in stereo at 44Hz. Mono is fine, but that's not what you're looking for.
I know there are countless analogies to portscanning. The one I usually make is walking around a mall parking lot, looking inside cars to see if the keys are still in the ignition.
You're not going to steal the car, but perhaps if you see the owner of the car, you may alert him of the condition. More likely though, you have no idea whose car it is, just that it's ripe for stealing.
So this guy is advocating against advocacy, huh? :)
They're discriminating against those of us without CD-ROM drives.
'Please insert CD "Spank Me, I Deserve it" '
Insert into where? It doesn't seem to fit in this floppy drive thing. Maybe if I stuff it between my drive bay covers that will be good enough. Damn you my.mp3.com! I've scratched another perfectly good CD!
I've installed the latest CVS code (to get the proper DGA mouse code for Quake 3) and it runs quite well w/nVidia's drivers.
http://linuxquake.com/news?start=20
This link provides some more info on how to install the latest CVS Xfree and get it to work w/nVidia's drivers.
Reminds me of the line in Dead Ringers from Jeromy Iron's character. He describes over the phone the peculiar gynecological findings of his love interest Claire (3 ovaries or something like that) to someone he thinks is having an affair w/her and claims at the end, "Basically, what this means is that you're faahhKING A MUTANT!"