Yeah. OSX really inherited the great bundle from NeXT, including a unified imaging model for graphics. They learned a lot, and did a great reboot, jettisoning parts that didn't work and upgrading others. Similar to NeXT hardware, where loading the whole OS and storage from a single R/W optical was ambitious, but ultimately impractical. The changes were for the good, mostly.
DirectX began in the Windows 9x series. It was a way to bypass the Windows imaging and windowing models, and blit direct to hardware. Programmers at the time laughed and said, "Oh yeah, DOS!"
MS were going for the Workstation market. They couldn't match OpenGL performance, and HW partners bitched. MS bought SoftImage as a part of this campaign to take over in the segment, and also did a backroom deal for SGI to have Rick Belluzzo take reigns as CEO and introduce the Intel-based Visual Workstation line.
I still have a couple of IRIX 6.5 machines here as space heaters. Screw Windows.
Yeah. The original NT microkernel was not VMS derived, but was a salvage-job from the design work that Cutler and team started for DEC Prism, in their Portland R&D location.
DEC cut Cutler over the period that they re-targeted for Alpha as their RISC evolution. Gates swooped on him, to deliver the kernel of his vision for "32-bit OS/2", and break away from the control IBM held over roadmap. IBM OS/400 business was effectively gatekeeping a 32-bit PC OS, even as 32-bit CPU's were effectively mainstream.
Once NT was faced with competitive challenges and requirements to match earlier windows desktop use cases, the microkernel design fell rapidly to the wayside, with principal OS modules run as additional processes in Ring 0, or completely included as functions of the OS kernel. You saw this in graphics first, I think as early as 3.51, but it MIGHT have been 4.0.
Thanks for bringing up Hitler. I advance the proposition that his tally can be clearly added to the "Capitalist" column of body count, on the same basis that one could attribute that of Stalin to "Socialist".
Hitler had the absolute backing of corporate capitalist and banking interests throughout the rise of his leadership, from his ascendancy in the Reichstag, until capitulation and surrender in 1944.
Also, add African slavery, American native genocide and the colonial enslavements by Portugal and Spain as enterprises of capital that exterminated countless millions, with casual indifference, even celebration.
20% of the population of the Korean Peninsula was killed by the US lead "police action", between 1950-53, alone. This is a median number close to three million innocent men, women and children. During this period, close to 100% of rural villages were obliterated by US and allied airpower assaults.
If one is to asses the victims of capitalism, events like this - and the number of CIA operations to destabilize and topple independent nations like Iran and Guatemala, must be considered rationally, without recourse to political advocacy or aligned position.
They have been returning command syntax for queries like "ffmpeg deinterlace" since last year, at least. ffmpeg -i input.vob -vf yadif -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 19 -c:a aac -b:a 256k output.mp4
Good to see you, Jeff! My kids just had 18th birthday. They arrived the day Sega.com and the Dreamcast site went live, at EC3. Yeah! My VMs run applications for which we used to dedicate Sun Enterprise boxes.
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Yeah. OSX really inherited the great bundle from NeXT, including a unified imaging model for graphics. They learned a lot, and did a great reboot, jettisoning parts that didn't work and upgrading others. Similar to NeXT hardware, where loading the whole OS and storage from a single R/W optical was ambitious, but ultimately impractical. The changes were for the good, mostly.
DirectX began in the Windows 9x series. It was a way to bypass the Windows imaging and windowing models, and blit direct to hardware. Programmers at the time laughed and said, "Oh yeah, DOS!"
MS were going for the Workstation market. They couldn't match OpenGL performance, and HW partners bitched. MS bought SoftImage as a part of this campaign to take over in the segment, and also did a backroom deal for SGI to have Rick Belluzzo take reigns as CEO and introduce the Intel-based Visual Workstation line.
I still have a couple of IRIX 6.5 machines here as space heaters. Screw Windows.
Did the occupying legions of Rome know shit about Cumberland, as they "Defended" Britain at Hadrian's wall?
I could go on with appropriate analogies, but I see self-reflection is not among the virtues you revere.
If I work on an oil rig, after six years do I automatically know fuck-all about the Getty fortune and the family influence on politics and economics?
Yeah. The original NT microkernel was not VMS derived, but was a salvage-job from the design work that Cutler and team started for DEC Prism, in their Portland R&D location.
DEC cut Cutler over the period that they re-targeted for Alpha as their RISC evolution. Gates swooped on him, to deliver the kernel of his vision for "32-bit OS/2", and break away from the control IBM held over roadmap. IBM OS/400 business was effectively gatekeeping a 32-bit PC OS, even as 32-bit CPU's were effectively mainstream.
Once NT was faced with competitive challenges and requirements to match earlier windows desktop use cases, the microkernel design fell rapidly to the wayside, with principal OS modules run as additional processes in Ring 0, or completely included as functions of the OS kernel. You saw this in graphics first, I think as early as 3.51, but it MIGHT have been 4.0.
OK. Apologize for genocidal destruction and Nuremberg-level war crime by "who started it" and political positions. It's a real good look.
from his ascendancy in the Reichstag, until capitulation and surrender in 1944.
1945, obvs.
Thanks for bringing up Hitler. I advance the proposition that his tally can be clearly added to the "Capitalist" column of body count, on the same basis that one could attribute that of Stalin to "Socialist".
Hitler had the absolute backing of corporate capitalist and banking interests throughout the rise of his leadership, from his ascendancy in the Reichstag, until capitulation and surrender in 1944.
Also, add African slavery, American native genocide and the colonial enslavements by Portugal and Spain as enterprises of capital that exterminated countless millions, with casual indifference, even celebration.
I guess my PWNie Express sticker is not helping me any?
https://www.pwnieexpress.com/
20% of the population of the Korean Peninsula was killed by the US lead "police action", between 1950-53, alone. This is a median number close to three million innocent men, women and children. During this period, close to 100% of rural villages were obliterated by US and allied airpower assaults.
If one is to asses the victims of capitalism, events like this - and the number of CIA operations to destabilize and topple independent nations like Iran and Guatemala, must be considered rationally, without recourse to political advocacy or aligned position.
Doctor Victor Frankenstein Addresses Panicked Slovenian Village
"Listen to me! My creation is to better understand life itself."
They have been returning command syntax for queries like "ffmpeg deinterlace" since last year, at least.
ffmpeg -i input.vob -vf yadif -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 19 -c:a aac -b:a 256k output.mp4
You had one job...
https://twitter.com/RomulusJoh...
These are the end times. Signs and portents we can not ignore.
I used to know a guy who sold Crystal he made in a lab....
Natch. A requirement.
Same. Slashdot rendered so badly, with fixed width graphics and no CSS. If I could read it on a CE phone, then I could see anything.
Good to see you, Jeff!
My kids just had 18th birthday. They arrived the day Sega.com and the Dreamcast site went live, at EC3.
Yeah! My VMs run applications for which we used to dedicate Sun Enterprise boxes.
Sounds like him. He was generous, in the bigger sense of the word.
Look at em, nowdays. You were here, almost before the beginning.
Bye, Rob.
And great user handle.
That's a module? Damn. I meant to build it in, for boot.
Look at all the low UIDs who never post anymore, coming out with remembrance and farewell for Roblimo.
Thanks for all the fish.
Remember? Reloading several times, while a kernel-build finished?
Hail, 3-Digit UIDs.