They would also need to make a layer of it thick enough to do so. Holograms work because they're in a 3D medium (even though only paper-thin), whereas this method is strictly 2D at this point.
My friends who deal with OpenGL on Mac on a nearly daily basis complain of bugs not a lack of features.
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HOLY SHIT!
NOW I get it. Apple leaves the bugs in so that people focus on them instead of asking for new features! Then their product development group just throws whatever random features they feel like into a new product, and then tell the masses that they want to buy it. Brilliant!
So I don't know why anyone should be surprised at this, Linux has always been OpenGL, Windows DirectX, so having Linux do OpenGL better isn't surprising, anymore than Windows doing DirectX, its just what the platform is made for is all.
As a counterpoint, TFA said that their OpenGL port of L4D2 on Windows ran faster than the DirectX version.
Would you rather all the teenage kids use Win 8 or OSX?
That's the sound of my argument sailing clear over your head. Kids will use whatever's there. We need to convince adults that they want to have Linux around, and you won't do that with a completely foreign interface on a classic PC. Hell, there's still installations of Windows 98 floating around that people are (mostly) happy with.
It didn't help that the original K&R writing style was quite poor
That's because they never intended for it to be used for anything other than UNIX. Ain't their fault everyone else said "CAN HAZ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?".
"We now suck less" is rarely something to be proud of. It's a means, but hardly an end. Let me know when it stops storing what seems to be my entire browsing history since I first starting browsing, back in the 90s.
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They would also need to make a layer of it thick enough to do so. Holograms work because they're in a 3D medium (even though only paper-thin), whereas this method is strictly 2D at this point.
I'd worry a bit more about nvidia and fglrx. They're not likely to support this until well into 2014.
My friends who deal with OpenGL on Mac on a nearly daily basis complain of bugs not a lack of features.
...
HOLY SHIT!
NOW I get it. Apple leaves the bugs in so that people focus on them instead of asking for new features! Then their product development group just throws whatever random features they feel like into a new product, and then tell the masses that they want to buy it. Brilliant!
There already is more than enough food produced to make everyone on the planet fat. The problems are distribution and cost.
CRTs can do 250+Hz, but good luck finding one these days outside of a flea market.
Windows loves developers, OS X hates developers, Linux IS developers.
So I don't know why anyone should be surprised at this, Linux has always been OpenGL, Windows DirectX, so having Linux do OpenGL better isn't surprising, anymore than Windows doing DirectX, its just what the platform is made for is all.
As a counterpoint, TFA said that their OpenGL port of L4D2 on Windows ran faster than the DirectX version.
Would you rather all the teenage kids use Win 8 or OSX?
That's the sound of my argument sailing clear over your head. Kids will use whatever's there. We need to convince adults that they want to have Linux around, and you won't do that with a completely foreign interface on a classic PC. Hell, there's still installations of Windows 98 floating around that people are (mostly) happy with.
A bit, yes. But most that didn't like GNOME 3 switched over to XFCE or KDE, and some then went on to MATE once Fedora packages became available.
Now that they have someone big on their side, they stand a good chance of getting these issues cleared up.
They should work on getting the kinks out instead of trying to go back in time or trying to be a crappy Mint wannabe with no codecs.
GNOME 3 doesn't have "kinks", it has major usability regressions. They can't be "gotten out", they must be destroyed.
New users want something cool and flashy not something that looks like a clone of Windows from years past.
Only if you want all your new users to be teenage kids.
So what you're *really* saying is that it's okay as long as the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?
The primary implementations are written in C. Python is also implemented in Java, C#, and yes, even Python.
compilers, interpreters
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The *people* are Asian. The *products* and *styles* are oriental.
It didn't help that the original K&R writing style was quite poor
That's because they never intended for it to be used for anything other than UNIX. Ain't their fault everyone else said "CAN HAZ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?".
Two 10.1" monitors? Doubt it.
You mean like it's limited the sale of hard drives?
Uh huh. MySQL is missing huge chunks of functionality by default, so this is not all that impressive. Wake me up when it's PostgreSQL-compatible.
"We now suck less" is rarely something to be proud of. It's a means, but hardly an end. Let me know when it stops storing what seems to be my entire browsing history since I first starting browsing, back in the 90s.
But have they fixed the memory issues yet?
Did anyone even know this thing existed?
casual piracy really is hurting the industry.
Lots of "people" say this, but the evidence is lacking.
...until someone hacks one into a X terminal?
They've supported it just fine for a long time. It's their hardware offerings that have been spotty.