I think with version 3.0, KDE has started to mature and stabilise as a development platform. In many cases, updating your code for KDE 3 is just a few small changes, as opposed to GTK/GNOME 2, which has had a major rewrite. KDE already went through this with version 1->2, but back then there were far less KDE apps as there are GTK apps now. Hell, Evolution isn't going to see a GTK2 port for quite a while yet.
There was a mod for Tribes I played a few years back along similar lines, except it was a flag. The difference was you could only hold the flag for a few seconds or you'd explode. Not *that* required team-work:)
The memory system wasn't a problem, but it's becoming a bottleneck now. When I look at the latest benchmarks, it looks more and more like the P4 catching up to the Athlon in terms of IPC. This is probably due to the memory bandwidth holding the Athlon XP back.
Eh? The house robots only act if the bots go into the house robot's zone or if a bot is disabled.
The idea is to allow more inovative robots that can disable rather than outright destroy, such as flippers or robots that can push the opponent into the house robots. Just having robots with either a big axe or a big disc could easily get boring.
Still, my friend on the Storm team will be disappointed, he wanted to get into Battlebots because they pay a lot better than Robot Wars.
I find these lock-up stories interesting, seeing as I've been using Mozilla all the way back to M4 and it's not locked up my system once in that time. It's not as if it's only one machine either, I've used Mozilla on something like 20 different configurations using Linux and Windows (95/98/ME/2000/XP) and I've not seen it once lock-up the system.
The reason it'll only work on NVIDIA cards is because the drivers for other cards simply aren't up to it. They don't support the appropriate extensions, such as texture compression.
Er...have you actually ever used KDE? KDE apps are as controllable from the keyboard as Windows apps. GNOME might be a different story, but I can't say for certain.
Qt and GTK will have support in a future release (Probably the next point release wouldn't surprise me), but Mozilla's a bit undecided at this time. Red Hat have been pussing to get Chris Blizzard's work into the main tree, but there has been resistance to Blizzard's methods from a few Unix heads.
There's a difference between a typo and just flat out refusing to acknowledge the existence of the word "you're", as soom people seem to be implicitly doing.
It's due to the whole real-time communications, such as IRC and instant messengers. When a lot of them started using those systems, their typing speed isn't that fast, thus they love shortcuts. Also, before mobile phones got predictive typing, typing a message took an age (It still does, but a much smaller age, like the Roman age compared with an ice age), thus shortcuts were appreciated there too.
Why on earth they still insist on using it in things like e-mail and weblogs, where typing 100 words or so shouldn't take particually long compared to thinking of what exactly to write, I will never know.
And don't get me started on their piss poor grammar. "You are" becomes "you're", not "your". "Your" is a word, "you're" is a contraction.
That's not a particually large margin for error in these sorts of things. Can you tell me to the nearest hundred million how many Christians there are in this world?
I wonder what they do with "atheist" then. After all, it's not a religion, not one that actually requires any upkeep really. Therefore, I propose the money just go straight to the atheists, instead of some organisation representing them.
Hmm...what would I do with my share? Probably buy a penny sweet:)
Well, the things you listed all have good reasons to be subscription only. Every time you use any of those products, you are using their equipment, be it phone cable, water pipes, bandwidth, etc.
Music, on the other hand, costs nothing to keep up once you have it. I buy my CD/download my track and that's that. When I play it, I'm not using their equipment, no matter how many times I play it, it will not cost them a penny. This is why I'm not keen on things like subscription software (Except for stuff server based like online games) . Of course options are nice, such as when you want to rent a DVD, but then it's just a one-off thing for a short period of time.
Then the code would revert to bog standard copyright law and Sigma would have no right to distribute the code. Either they GPL the code, or they must stop distributing it immediately.
Err...they did have Rhapsody (Original title for Mac OSX) running on x86, I've seen screenshots from somebody who got hold of a disk image with it which ran in Virtual PC. It was quite interesting; it looked quite like OpenStep with MacOS widgets and finder.
"First off, some of what this guy is saying is totally false. Opera IS cross platform. Opera IS ALREADY embedded in more devices than Mozilla." My point was Opera has to be ported to each toolkit, and behaves differently to some degree on each platform. It can't be an insignificant effort either, considering how long it took for version 6 for Linux to come out.
"Of course the other side of the "Mozilla created a platform" argument if they spent less time creating a platform and more time creating a browser... Don't get me wrong, I think what they did is great and very useful (as Komodo proves), but it wasn't absolutely necessary to create a platform to create the browser and the time they spent out of the race benefitted IE greatly. If Mozilla 1.0 had come out 18 months after they started, the browser market would probably be a lot different than it is today." Nah. The main reason Netscape got such high marketshare in the first place was because every consumer ISP bundled it. Netscape's market share collapsed because: 1) They lost their main distribution channel 2) IE was already on every new desktop, so people just used that. 3) Netscape 4 sucked.
Of all of those, I'd wager 3) wasn't as important as the other two. Of course, Netscape wasting 18 months trying to produce version 5.0 on the old codebase certainly didn't help. Thus, they felt they had to shift their focus, especially since they no longer had the resources to port to many toolkits.
"I'm not sure what the "Mozilla and IE can do far more than Opera" refers to." Well, it's quite simple. Mozilla has a complete and powerful DOM engine. It's so powerful, you can create full-blown applications using it. It's so powerful, somebody created XHTML2 support using nothing but XBL. IE has a powerful DOM engine too, just about powerful enough to also allow XHTML support to be written.
Opera's support for DOM is very, very poor. I've used simple DOM stuff to toggle hiding and unhiding of elements and Opera couldn't even do that. I had to create a fall-back version anyway since I had to support Netscape4, but I wouldn't not have done it just to support Opera, unless somebody volunteered to do it for me. Their fixed position support (In CSS) either doesn't work on their Linux version or at all. Come on, Konqueror 2 supported it, although IE doesn't for some reason.
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Eh? KDE only breaks binary compatibility with every major release. 3.1 will be binary compatible with 3.0 programs. I've seen this in action.
There is the GCC problem, but with a bit of luck 3.2 will provide the much-promised stable C++ ABI.
Qt 3.0.5 was an exception. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but I think it was a pretty major bug they fixed.
I think with version 3.0, KDE has started to mature and stabilise as a development platform. In many cases, updating your code for KDE 3 is just a few small changes, as opposed to GTK/GNOME 2, which has had a major rewrite. KDE already went through this with version 1->2, but back then there were far less KDE apps as there are GTK apps now. Hell, Evolution isn't going to see a GTK2 port for quite a while yet.
Bluetooth is actually quite complex and getting it working on a small, embedded device is a nightmare.
The textures aren't the ones that'll appear in the full version. They reduced the resolution of the textures to keep the size of the demo down.
There was a mod for Tribes I played a few years back along similar lines, except it was a flag. The difference was you could only hold the flag for a few seconds or you'd explode. Not *that* required team-work :)
The memory system wasn't a problem, but it's becoming a bottleneck now. When I look at the latest benchmarks, it looks more and more like the P4 catching up to the Athlon in terms of IPC. This is probably due to the memory bandwidth holding the Athlon XP back.
Eh? The house robots only act if the bots go into the house robot's zone or if a bot is disabled.
The idea is to allow more inovative robots that can disable rather than outright destroy, such as flippers or robots that can push the opponent into the house robots. Just having robots with either a big axe or a big disc could easily get boring.
Still, my friend on the Storm team will be disappointed, he wanted to get into Battlebots because they pay a lot better than Robot Wars.
I find these lock-up stories interesting, seeing as I've been using Mozilla all the way back to M4 and it's not locked up my system once in that time. It's not as if it's only one machine either, I've used Mozilla on something like 20 different configurations using Linux and Windows (95/98/ME/2000/XP) and I've not seen it once lock-up the system.
The reason it'll only work on NVIDIA cards is because the drivers for other cards simply aren't up to it. They don't support the appropriate extensions, such as texture compression.
Er...have you actually ever used KDE? KDE apps are as controllable from the keyboard as Windows apps. GNOME might be a different story, but I can't say for certain.
Qt and GTK will have support in a future release (Probably the next point release wouldn't surprise me), but Mozilla's a bit undecided at this time. Red Hat have been pussing to get Chris Blizzard's work into the main tree, but there has been resistance to Blizzard's methods from a few Unix heads.
Err..."up to" 25%. 3DMark scores shot up, but pretty much every game benchmarked showed marginal improvements.
Please don't buy the hype before seeing the reviews.
There's a difference between a typo and just flat out refusing to acknowledge the existence of the word "you're", as soom people seem to be implicitly doing.
It's due to the whole real-time communications, such as IRC and instant messengers. When a lot of them started using those systems, their typing speed isn't that fast, thus they love shortcuts. Also, before mobile phones got predictive typing, typing a message took an age (It still does, but a much smaller age, like the Roman age compared with an ice age), thus shortcuts were appreciated there too.
Why on earth they still insist on using it in things like e-mail and weblogs, where typing 100 words or so shouldn't take particually long compared to thinking of what exactly to write, I will never know.
And don't get me started on their piss poor grammar. "You are" becomes "you're", not "your". "Your" is a word, "you're" is a contraction.
Netscape 6.0 was based on Mozilla 0.6.
That's not a particually large margin for error in these sorts of things. Can you tell me to the nearest hundred million how many Christians there are in this world?
I wonder what they do with "atheist" then. After all, it's not a religion, not one that actually requires any upkeep really. Therefore, I propose the money just go straight to the atheists, instead of some organisation representing them.
:)
Hmm...what would I do with my share? Probably buy a penny sweet
FWIW, your first post (hehe) was a godsend to me.
Shame Omniweb has questionable CSS2 and DOM support.
Show me a PS2 playing Warcraft III, Neverwinter Nights, Counterstrike, RTCW at a resolution of at least 1024x768 and I'll consider it.
Well, the things you listed all have good reasons to be subscription only. Every time you use any of those products, you are using their equipment, be it phone cable, water pipes, bandwidth, etc.
Music, on the other hand, costs nothing to keep up once you have it. I buy my CD/download my track and that's that. When I play it, I'm not using their equipment, no matter how many times I play it, it will not cost them a penny. This is why I'm not keen on things like subscription software (Except for stuff server based like online games) . Of course options are nice, such as when you want to rent a DVD, but then it's just a one-off thing for a short period of time.
Then the code would revert to bog standard copyright law and Sigma would have no right to distribute the code. Either they GPL the code, or they must stop distributing it immediately.
It was from a regular in the arstechnica forums. Seeing as nobody there didn't believe him, I'd wager they were genuine.
Err...they did have Rhapsody (Original title for Mac OSX) running on x86, I've seen screenshots from somebody who got hold of a disk image with it which ran in Virtual PC. It was quite interesting; it looked quite like OpenStep with MacOS widgets and finder.
"First off, some of what this guy is saying is totally false. Opera IS cross platform. Opera IS ALREADY embedded in more devices than Mozilla."
My point was Opera has to be ported to each toolkit, and behaves differently to some degree on each platform. It can't be an insignificant effort either, considering how long it took for version 6 for Linux to come out.
"Of course the other side of the "Mozilla created a platform" argument if they spent less time creating a platform and more time creating a browser... Don't get me wrong, I think what they did is great and very useful (as Komodo proves), but it wasn't absolutely necessary to create a platform to create the browser and the time they spent out of the race benefitted IE greatly. If Mozilla 1.0 had come out 18 months after they started, the browser market would probably be a lot different than it is today."
Nah. The main reason Netscape got such high marketshare in the first place was because every consumer ISP bundled it. Netscape's market share collapsed because:
1) They lost their main distribution channel
2) IE was already on every new desktop, so people just used that.
3) Netscape 4 sucked.
Of all of those, I'd wager 3) wasn't as important as the other two. Of course, Netscape wasting 18 months trying to produce version 5.0 on the old codebase certainly didn't help. Thus, they felt they had to shift their focus, especially since they no longer had the resources to port to many toolkits.
"I'm not sure what the "Mozilla and IE can do far more than Opera" refers to."
Well, it's quite simple. Mozilla has a complete and powerful DOM engine. It's so powerful, you can create full-blown applications using it. It's so powerful, somebody created XHTML2 support using nothing but XBL. IE has a powerful DOM engine too, just about powerful enough to also allow XHTML support to be written.
Opera's support for DOM is very, very poor. I've used simple DOM stuff to toggle hiding and unhiding of elements and Opera couldn't even do that. I had to create a fall-back version anyway since I had to support Netscape4, but I wouldn't not have done it just to support Opera, unless somebody volunteered to do it for me. Their fixed position support (In CSS) either doesn't work on their Linux version or at all. Come on, Konqueror 2 supported it, although IE doesn't for some reason.