I work on graphic drivers for Linux, which unfortunatly leads to a lot of system freezes. But i recently changed to ext3 and it has been a major time saver.
What really bothers me about all of this is that it took way to much time to try to save the people. I understand that we had to make sure to go slowly not to put the survivors in danger. But after the fourth day, when you know people are starving. Shouldn't they have went faster and took more risk? It felt like they were picking up on rock at a time. I feel like they could've saved a lot more people, if the were a little more aggresive.
Also, I didn't hear anybody talk about the the subway. Why couldn't they go through that?
To tell you the truth I'm getting worried. But it feels like Linux companies are doing bad lately. I know that most tech companies are havin a slump I feel that Linux companies are too fragile for the times.
Feels like all I've been hearing is Top dogs in the Linux world stepping down. Do they know something we don't?
To tell you the truth. I like using Gator. It's a usefull software. True that I shouldn't trust them. But I use Gator for password management for unimportent stuff. And the pop ups adds are usually relevent for something I'm actually interested in. For example, last time I was looking for flowers and a pop up add came up. I decided to click on it. I took it as a suggestion for alternate online store.
Also, with IE and Mozilla/Netscape now offering password management, is Gator relevant anymore?
As long as the user knows what he's installing on his system, there's nothing illegal about it. If I downloaded a program that disabled banner adds when I visited a web site, would that be illegal?
As long a the user knows what's happening when he's intalling the software, the competitors have nothing to say.
I feel like getting wall to wall carpeting in my cubicle. A nice thick carpet where I could ask anyone who comes in my cubicle to take off there shoes.
I believe one of the main problems where because of the difficulty in making a game work under Linux. I'm a big Linux user and had so much trouble getting DRI working properly. The reason I never bought a Loki game was because I didn't feel I could trust DRI. Don't get me wrong I really respect what they do and I'm sure it will be as robust as Windows one day but for now, it's simply to complicated to get it running.
We needed to have out of the box support. i.e. RedHat 7.1 with full OpenGL support no matter the card or at least an easy download for specific driver. And be able to play any of the Loki games withouth too much problems.
I'm not going to buy something just to encourage a company. I'm sorry. It's to bad they're in trouble, but I will only buy something if I really need it.
Of course it took you a long time. You never used Linux. If it was the first time I touched Windows it would take me a long time to do what I wanted. What did the teacher expect, that he would be able to figure everything out the first time he used Linux?
And of course a lot of apps for windows aren't on Linux. It's another OS! A lot of apps for Linux aren't on Windows either.
I'm a big fan of open source development, but I think that O'Reilly is going to be losing money.I bought the first edition and now that the second edition is available online I'll just download the PDF and print the book at work:). I know that people here are saying that they will buy it but I don't think that most people are like that. I'm very happy they this but I don't get it!
That computer was just a decoration in your living room, nothing more. I don't see the use of having a very small cute computer if it's not even portable.
I'm really happy to see this. You see if the software was closed source you would have to wait for a patch. Now people could dive in the code and fix the problem themselves and send patches to Matrox.
My momma always told me that there's no such thing as a stupid question.
So here goes:
What do they mean by organic? When I think organic I'm thinking living things like animals and plants. Are these organic light-emitting diodes coming from living things? How can they emit light? I see they're taking about carbon-based molecules. Is that what they mean by organic?
I don't think that they would use the robot to decide between saving lives or not. It should be used to locate the fire and extinguish it. It could also be used to locate people. But I would think that they would add a camera so a human can take care of making the life or death decisions.
There's a category for kids in 8th grade and below. I wonder how many off them actually build the robots themselves or if it's there parents. I remember back in High school I was in a similar contest. And some of the kids had coaching them on what to say, since they had done most of the job.
I see that they took this in consideration already:
"As far as the students are concerned the goal of the contest should be education and not necessarily winning. We know
that the students desperately want to win, but the adults should let them compete (win or lose) on their own. This
contest is pretty much on the honor system, but we expect that the student contestants are primarily responsible for
the creation of their Robots. If we find any case to the contrary, they will be assigned to a more appropriate
division. We will try to be very fair, and as in everything else, the decision of the Contest Judging Committee is
final."
I'm from Montreal, we see a lot of voice dubs for american movies in french. I really hate watching dubbed movies. Thank god, I'm billingual.
Subtitled movies are not that much of a problem. Everytime I watch a movie with subtitles after 10 minutes I forget the subtitles are there, it feels like I know the language after a while. Don't forget that when you're reading the subtitles you are still seeing the movie screen. Our field of view is bigger than you think.
I know that if the hard drive and network capabilities cost over 100$ US, Sony won't be selling many of them. People do not like to buy add-ons. I own a couple of consoles but I never bought anything other than more joysticks. People rather buy a brand new console than buy an upgrade. It's simply not worth it.
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I'm using Mozilla 0.9.5 on both Linux and Windows. And it now works fine.
I'm now able to access www.msn.com with my Mozilla browser version 0.9.5.
Did Microsoft give access to all the browsers now?
I work on graphic drivers for Linux, which unfortunatly leads to a lot of system freezes. But i recently changed to ext3 and it has been a major time saver.
Push back video driver stuff back in the kernel, make shure it's stable, and leave complexety and crash prone code outside of root code.
So you want to put the crash prone code in the kernel?
Is this tabbed browsing suppose to take less ressources?
What really bothers me about all of this is that it took way to much time to try to save the people. I understand that we had to make sure to go slowly not to put the survivors in danger. But after the fourth day, when you know people are starving. Shouldn't they have went faster and took more risk? It felt like they were picking up on rock at a time. I feel like they could've saved a lot more people, if the were a little more aggresive.
Also, I didn't hear anybody talk about the the subway. Why couldn't they go through that?
No drinking and driving a space shuttle.
The world is upside down. We now have to pay for something for Linux , when we could have it for free on Windows.
Damn! I was hoping for it to be free. I understand they have to make their money someway.
When they can download it for free.
You kidding right?
To tell you the truth I'm getting worried. But it feels like Linux companies are doing bad lately. I know that most tech companies are havin a slump I feel that Linux companies are too fragile for the times.
Feels like all I've been hearing is Top dogs in the Linux world stepping down. Do they know something we don't?
To tell you the truth. I like using Gator. It's a usefull software. True that I shouldn't trust them. But I use Gator for password management for unimportent stuff. And the pop ups adds are usually relevent for something I'm actually interested in. For example, last time I was looking for flowers and a pop up add came up. I decided to click on it. I took it as a suggestion for alternate online store.
Also, with IE and Mozilla/Netscape now offering password management, is Gator relevant anymore?
And you trust Microsoft?
As long as the user knows what he's installing on his system, there's nothing illegal about it. If I downloaded a program that disabled banner adds when I visited a web site, would that be illegal?
As long a the user knows what's happening when he's intalling the software, the competitors have nothing to say.
I feel like getting wall to wall carpeting in my cubicle. A nice thick carpet where I could ask anyone who comes in my cubicle to take off there shoes.
I believe one of the main problems where because of the difficulty in making a game work under Linux. I'm a big Linux user and had so much trouble getting DRI working properly. The reason I never bought a Loki game was because I didn't feel I could trust DRI. Don't get me wrong I really respect what they do and I'm sure it will be as robust as Windows one day but for now, it's simply to complicated to get it running.
We needed to have out of the box support. i.e. RedHat 7.1 with full OpenGL support no matter the card or at least an easy download for specific driver. And be able to play any of the Loki games withouth too much problems.
I'm not going to buy something just to encourage a company. I'm sorry. It's to bad they're in trouble, but I will only buy something if I really need it.
Of course it took you a long time. You never used Linux. If it was the first time I touched Windows it would take me a long time to do what I wanted. What did the teacher expect, that he would be able to figure everything out the first time he used Linux?
And of course a lot of apps for windows aren't on Linux. It's another OS! A lot of apps for Linux aren't on Windows either.
I'm a big fan of open source development, but I think that O'Reilly is going to be losing money.I bought the first edition and now that the second edition is available online I'll just download the PDF and print the book at work :). I know that people here are saying that they will buy it but I don't think that most people are like that. I'm very happy they this but I don't get it!
That computer was just a decoration in your living room, nothing more. I don't see the use of having a very small cute computer if it's not even portable.
I'm really happy to see this. You see if the software was closed source you would have to wait for a patch. Now people could dive in the code and fix the problem themselves and send patches to Matrox.
Hurray for open source!
There are the same speed. The matrox driver are based on the Xfree86 code.
My momma always told me that there's no such thing as a stupid question.
So here goes:
What do they mean by organic? When I think organic I'm thinking living things like animals and plants. Are these organic light-emitting diodes coming from living things? How can they emit light? I see they're taking about carbon-based molecules. Is that what they mean by organic?
Can someone explain this to me?
I don't think that they would use the robot to decide between saving lives or not. It should be used to locate the fire and extinguish it. It could also be used to locate people. But I would think that they would add a camera so a human can take care of making the life or death decisions.
There's a category for kids in 8th grade and below. I wonder how many off them actually build the robots themselves or if it's there parents. I remember back in High school I was in a similar contest. And some of the kids had coaching them on what to say, since they had done most of the job.
I see that they took this in consideration already:
"As far as the students are concerned the goal of the contest should be education and not necessarily winning. We know
that the students desperately want to win, but the adults should let them compete (win or lose) on their own. This
contest is pretty much on the honor system, but we expect that the student contestants are primarily responsible for
the creation of their Robots. If we find any case to the contrary, they will be assigned to a more appropriate
division. We will try to be very fair, and as in everything else, the decision of the Contest Judging Committee is
final."
I'm from Montreal, we see a lot of voice dubs for american movies in french. I really hate watching dubbed movies. Thank god, I'm billingual.
Subtitled movies are not that much of a problem. Everytime I watch a movie with subtitles after 10 minutes I forget the subtitles are there, it feels like I know the language after a while. Don't forget that when you're reading the subtitles you are still seeing the movie screen. Our field of view is bigger than you think.
I know that if the hard drive and network capabilities cost over 100$ US, Sony won't be selling many of them. People do not like to buy add-ons. I own a couple of consoles but I never bought anything other than more joysticks. People rather buy a brand new console than buy an upgrade. It's simply not worth it.