It's sad for 3DRealms if they have lost their rights to their flag ship IP because they have no more funds, but they were milking the cow for way to long and this is business. Eventually you have to provide a product and not feel strung along. In this case I think Take2 patiently waited through the good economic times, and now it was time for them to recoup their investment.
i wonder what will the dnf designers/developers do now? when they apply for a job in some other graphic/game designing, what will they say they have done in the last 12 years? looks like they milked the cow too long.
i think only people who are infected will need to be vaccinated for this to work. and thet won't be difficult at all. here dengue is a big concern but still there are only about 5 cases annually.
yay! it irritates me to no end when someone keeps saying 'GNU slash Linux'. stupid people will blindingly accept any propaganda thrown at them. at least we refuse to accept any bearded disillusioned person's authority. that's what open source and linux are all about.
These guys are trying to figure out the lowest speed you can run your CPU at during other everyday tasks -- that's tricky to do by just monitoring CPU usage.
why is it tricky? just scale down to half when cpu usage is 0-5%,.75 when usage 10-50% and and full power otherwise. changing clock speed would only take a few nanoseconds i suppose? it works very well on laptops.
For a phone, you do not want background processing tasks - they force the processor to stay "awake" and drain the battery very quickly. Even a simple task that wakes the CPU up every second will easily cause battery life to diminish from the 2+ weeks standby to a few days.
i WANT my chat app to run in the background and STAY connected to skype and gtalk. i also want my sms and call spam catcher to run at all times. i don't care about battery life as long as it gets me through the day comfortably. seriously what use is a 2 week plus battery standby when you have chargers everywhere? in homes, offices, cars, wherever you have a laptop, fast-food joints, everywhere has chargers.
which brings up the question why wasn't the speed faster by default? what is the logic behind slow download speeds and allowing the user to increase them at will?
While I agree with you for the most part, I can't think of any time prostitution has been endorsed by the "Church", which by that I take it you mean the Christian church. Christians are supposed to abstain from sex outside of marriage.
And yet if you do your history, the Roman Catholic church did (this was before ML).
Take the current type, up it to the next, and you can make ever more precise calculation conversions. If the storage type is too small, converting, say, a million miles to micrometers is going to come out wrong.
how wrong? wrong enough to justify an update to an app that's used for casual conversions and not for designing the next space shuttle. what i want to convey is that the conversions couldn't have been so unacceptably wrong that any more accuracy was required.
you could run dapper drake ubuntu (with gnome and compiz and everything) very well with 256mb ram. but the latest ubuntu release (with gnome and compiz) cannot run well on that same machine. the same is the case with windows. if you need to install xfce (or xubuntu) to run on 256mb you can't compare to gnome. because earlier gnome used to run well, but the newer version requires more ram. so, if you want to keep running your ubuntu install, and keep updating it, you WILL need to get better hardware. there is ALWAYS an upgrade treadmill. you just can't expect to run new software on old hardware. why apple pcs have a worse problem is that they are a PITA to upgrade whereas other computers can be easily opened up and modified.
There's a gigantic conflict of interest here. By treating MacOS as a second-class citizen, they can hurt a competitor in the OS market. If MS can make people perceive Windows as the only first-class platform on which to run Office, it makes MS more likely to retain market share for Windows. MS's interests in this case are diametrically opposed to the interests of their users.
I talk a walk around my office the other day - not one desktop machine was running OS X or Linux.
Then I went into our server room - lots of machines running Linux, Windows, Solaris but... nope, not one OS X machine in their either.
This tells me Linux and Solaris compete with Windows in the server space but nothing competes with Windows on the desktop.
So get used to it - OS X is no competition on the desktop. Neither is Linux but I still love it and use it for most of my computing tasks and find that XP fills in for the things Linux cannot do. Thus my computing needs are fulfilled by both OSes and I'm a happy bunny who doesn't give a shit about "The Battle For The Desktop".
You Apple fanbois have a real chip on your shoulders about reminding the rest of the world how wonderful your platforms of choice are - despite the fact that most of the world doesn't give a toss about OS X.
i agree. i am considering buying a new desktop. i looked at dell and hp. for about 60000inr i am getting a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz, with 6gb ram, 21" lcd, 32 gb ssd for vista ultimate x64, and a 750gb hdd. yesterday i just went into the new istore here. i looked at the imac with the price 80000inr (20000 more than hp/dell). and what are the specs? core 2 duo 2ghz, 500gb hdd, 1(!)gb ram, and yes a big shiny lcd the size of which i did not care to find out. why the fuck are macs so expensive? i mean, there is one less company in the middle. so it should actually cost me less. and then there are no game-changing features in osx that i can't get from vista or ubuntu. but let me come to the main point. osx is a BIG contender in the desktop space now. people don't care that they are getting less value in hardware. they perceive the image makeover that comes with a mac as enough to justify spending a LOT more. especially since there is not a very huge glaring difference in speed for usual apps like browsers and spredsheets between a core 2 duo with 1gb ram and a quad with 6gb.
But it really does strike me that this is the kind of problem that would have never happened with Linux. I can run Ubuntu for as long as I want, and just keep upgrading to the latest version. Linux runs well on old hardware, so there's no upgrade treadmill.
no, linux does not always run well on old hardware. ubuntu and kubuntu are very bad in this regard. try and run 9.04 on a 5 year old 256mb 2ghz p4 setup. you will bang your head into the monitor. it's just too slow. there is ALWAYS an upgrade treadmill in EVERY software. i would say there is less of a necessity to upgrade with xp than ubuntu because xp still runs well with 256mb ram, at least better than 9.04.
no, the SPEED was improved, not accuracy and reliability. also, was the converter inaccurate before, like 2m=201cm? because that would suck. how can you make a converter more accurate?
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expensive, eh? game development is one nasty money-sucka!
It's sad for 3DRealms if they have lost their rights to their flag ship IP because they have no more funds, but they were milking the cow for way to long and this is business. Eventually you have to provide a product and not feel strung along. In this case I think Take2 patiently waited through the good economic times, and now it was time for them to recoup their investment.
i wonder what will the dnf designers/developers do now? when they apply for a job in some other graphic/game designing, what will they say they have done in the last 12 years? looks like they milked the cow too long.
um, i don't think afghanistan HAS a seaside.
maybe because it prefers color over grayscale?
hey! i was just trying to get the 'comedian' achievement.
i think only people who are infected will need to be vaccinated for this to work. and thet won't be difficult at all. here dengue is a big concern but still there are only about 5 cases annually.
but lawyers don't suck people's bloo...wait!
yay! it irritates me to no end when someone keeps saying 'GNU slash Linux'. stupid people will blindingly accept any propaganda thrown at them. at least we refuse to accept any bearded disillusioned person's authority. that's what open source and linux are all about.
yes of course! but not vista AND crysis SIMULTANEOUSLY.
is there really a kernel panic in vista? i did not know the kernel was distinct and well defined in windows.
These guys are trying to figure out the lowest speed you can run your CPU at during other everyday tasks -- that's tricky to do by just monitoring CPU usage.
why is it tricky? just scale down to half when cpu usage is 0-5%, .75 when usage 10-50% and and full power otherwise. changing clock speed would only take a few nanoseconds i suppose? it works very well on laptops.
For a phone, you do not want background processing tasks - they force the processor to stay "awake" and drain the battery very quickly. Even a simple task that wakes the CPU up every second will easily cause battery life to diminish from the 2+ weeks standby to a few days.
i WANT my chat app to run in the background and STAY connected to skype and gtalk. i also want my sms and call spam catcher to run at all times. i don't care about battery life as long as it gets me through the day comfortably. seriously what use is a 2 week plus battery standby when you have chargers everywhere? in homes, offices, cars, wherever you have a laptop, fast-food joints, everywhere has chargers.
which brings up the question why wasn't the speed faster by default? what is the logic behind slow download speeds and allowing the user to increase them at will?
Meanwhile - my 2.5 ghz machines will run full speed, 24/7. When I'm not actually USING them, they crunch Rosetta and Seti@home numbers.
actually if you get a core i7, it will scale UP by 133mhz by itself when need arises. yes! above the rated clock speed!
While I agree with you for the most part, I can't think of any time prostitution has been endorsed by the "Church", which by that I take it you mean the Christian church. Christians are supposed to abstain from sex outside of marriage.
And yet if you do your history, the Roman Catholic church did (this was before ML).
what does ml mean?
float->double->long doubles->infinite precision decimals
Take the current type, up it to the next, and you can make ever more precise calculation conversions. If the storage type is too small, converting, say, a million miles to micrometers is going to come out wrong.
how wrong? wrong enough to justify an update to an app that's used for casual conversions and not for designing the next space shuttle.
what i want to convey is that the conversions couldn't have been so unacceptably wrong that any more accuracy was required.
you could run dapper drake ubuntu (with gnome and compiz and everything) very well with 256mb ram. but the latest ubuntu release (with gnome and compiz) cannot run well on that same machine. the same is the case with windows. if you need to install xfce (or xubuntu) to run on 256mb you can't compare to gnome. because earlier gnome used to run well, but the newer version requires more ram. so, if you want to keep running your ubuntu install, and keep updating it, you WILL need to get better hardware. there is ALWAYS an upgrade treadmill. you just can't expect to run new software on old hardware.
why apple pcs have a worse problem is that they are a PITA to upgrade whereas other computers can be easily opened up and modified.
So M$ even gets bashed when they fix security problems. Amazing!
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There's a gigantic conflict of interest here. By treating MacOS as a second-class citizen, they can hurt a competitor in the OS market. If MS can make people perceive Windows as the only first-class platform on which to run Office, it makes MS more likely to retain market share for Windows. MS's interests in this case are diametrically opposed to the interests of their users.
I talk a walk around my office the other day - not one desktop machine was running OS X or Linux.
Then I went into our server room - lots of machines running Linux, Windows, Solaris but... nope, not one OS X machine in their either.
This tells me Linux and Solaris compete with Windows in the server space but nothing competes with Windows on the desktop.
So get used to it - OS X is no competition on the desktop. Neither is Linux but I still love it and use it for most of my computing tasks and find that XP fills in for the things Linux cannot do. Thus my computing needs are fulfilled by both OSes and I'm a happy bunny who doesn't give a shit about "The Battle For The Desktop".
You Apple fanbois have a real chip on your shoulders about reminding the rest of the world how wonderful your platforms of choice are - despite the fact that most of the world doesn't give a toss about OS X.
i agree. i am considering buying a new desktop. i looked at dell and hp. for about 60000inr i am getting a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz, with 6gb ram, 21" lcd, 32 gb ssd for vista ultimate x64, and a 750gb hdd. yesterday i just went into the new istore here. i looked at the imac with the price 80000inr (20000 more than hp/dell). and what are the specs? core 2 duo 2ghz, 500gb hdd, 1(!)gb ram, and yes a big shiny lcd the size of which i did not care to find out.
why the fuck are macs so expensive? i mean, there is one less company in the middle. so it should actually cost me less. and then there are no game-changing features in osx that i can't get from vista or ubuntu.
but let me come to the main point. osx is a BIG contender in the desktop space now. people don't care that they are getting less value in hardware. they perceive the image makeover that comes with a mac as enough to justify spending a LOT more. especially since there is not a very huge glaring difference in speed for usual apps like browsers and spredsheets between a core 2 duo with 1gb ram and a quad with 6gb.
But it really does strike me that this is the kind of problem that would have never happened with Linux. I can run Ubuntu for as long as I want, and just keep upgrading to the latest version. Linux runs well on old hardware, so there's no upgrade treadmill.
no, linux does not always run well on old hardware. ubuntu and kubuntu are very bad in this regard. try and run 9.04 on a 5 year old 256mb 2ghz p4 setup. you will bang your head into the monitor. it's just too slow. there is ALWAYS an upgrade treadmill in EVERY software. i would say there is less of a necessity to upgrade with xp than ubuntu because xp still runs well with 256mb ram, at least better than 9.04.
no, the SPEED was improved, not accuracy and reliability. also, was the converter inaccurate before, like 2m=201cm? because that would suck. how can you make a converter more accurate?
anyone knows the full form of rei?
er...you might want to rephrase that. if the limit was 2000usd, everyone would buy a mac.
ahh, let me imagine!! yes, i'd love the new windows ubuntu edition.
japan is not a deflationary economy now. not for the last two years. but the rate is very low. .3-.1%