Trying out Kmail was my biggest mistake, because it had a different interpretation of the file OUTBOX than did my previous mailer. My previous mailer stored every email (6 years worth) in OUTBOX. And kmail took OUTBOX to be the file where messages written offline were temporarily stored until next coming online. The first time I fired up Kmail, a indeterminate-time progress bar came up, and it kinda hung. I went to get a coke, giving it time to snap out of its funk. Unbeknownst to me, during that time it re-sent every email I'd ever sent. When I got back and checked my INBOX, I screeched in horror.
Funny thing is, people from my previous job were getting work related emails from me again, and they didn't seem to mind that (1) they were on outdated topics and (2) the company was defunct, they played right along and replied stuff like "yeah what ever happened to that issue?".
There are two different dialogs you are trying to create. One is a file finder. The other is a file creator. The former is for finding an existing file, the latter is for naming a to-be-created file. These are different ideas!!! One needs a "create new folder" button, the other does not. One needs a place to type in filenames, the other does not. Please stop confusing the two.
Where did they buy this thing, the 1960s? Jeez, once you spend the first 9 $crillion, you'd think they'd throw in the extra ten bucks for color navigation cameras!
2.) The Gandalf/Eagle comment is almost below responding to, but here ya go. Three reasons, first because Mordor is infested with all kinds of creapy crawlies, some of them capable of flight (did you watch the 2nd movie?). This would hamper matters. Secondly, because Gandalf would be corrupted by the ring. Thirdly because this would remove one of the fundamental points of the book/movie.
The Eagles aren't at Gandalf's beck and call. They do what they please.
In the Fellowship (book), the council of Elrond does discuss taking the ring to the Grey Havens and sailing with it to Valinor, but discard this plan as too obvious and thus prone by interception by Mordor. In retrospect: What the Hell Were They Thinking? I'm sure if you get Strider, Gandalf, Elrond, that elf that carried frodo over the stream, and about 40 elf warrior extras, plus three extra decoy parties (each with their decoy hobbit), the black riders are outgunned, treachery should be kept under control, and the war of the ring averted.
my favorite song of the cold storage crop was Cairodrome (which we call eyiyeoh, after the oft-sampled woman singing).
Its a shame about 2097/XL on the PC. Have you tried digging through your video accellerator preferences and maybe looking for something that would clamp glSwapBuffers (or whatever D3d or glide equivalent) to no more than a certain framerate? I've never seen such a thing myself, but its easy for them to do, and I have seen stuf that forces swap-buffers to wait for vertical retrace, which if you checked would hopefully let you lock to 60fps. Then maybe you could play in "beginner" mode and it would be about like "caffine reflex" mode in the good ol days...
The irony of Wipeout XL's soundtrack is that it just didn't fit the game as well as the beautiful in-house "Cold.fusion" soundtrack to vanilla Wipeout. When I gave my playstation to the kid next door, the wipeout CD silently failed to make the trip, because I knew I'd want to play it on an emulator someday... And just yesterday I ripped the audio and was unsuprised to notice this playstation game was in the CDDB.
Frankly, such windows annoy me. If MS forces everyone else to stop using such techniques, I'll be overall happy. My (unuser)friedly local bus company pops up lots of windows sans chrome, and they're just annoying. (not the popups themselves, but the lack of buttons)
A remake of space invaders is like a remake of Tolkein... its been knocked off so many times unofficially, what in god's name would be the point of paying someone to knock it off?
1) Put a big piece of tape/wood/whatever protecting the power switch on the NFS server, and disable software shutdown by non-root. 2) Put your NFS server on the *best* machine, not the worst one, so that users want to use it first. If worst comes to worst, put signs on the other machines advertising the other's superiority. (and without the NFS overhead, it will really outperform its clients!) 3) Put your NFS server on a g3 laptop or other ultra low power system, and hide the system in your closet so others can't find it to turn it off. (hardware suggestions, anyone?) 4) switch to samba (heh heh heh)
I run at about 133 dpi, and find that most window managers (& their themes) have rediculously tiny and hard to configure titlebars etc. I kinda get by with windowmaker and more lately metacity (which has AA fonts in the titlebars), but I'm not happy with either.
I used to use and like windowmaker, but of late I gave up on it because there was no way (that I could find) to get completely rid of the dock/paper-clip/squares. Have you ever done this?
The super-bowl is great, the ads are mostly interesting and various. If you're watching the TV I watch (simpsons, soccer, star trek re-runs), you'll quickly notice that the same 4 ads are replayed every commercial break, and that they are crap. (oh boy a car comercial with pictures of a car driving through the woods - yawn). If the networks wouldn't beat us over the heads with chump advertising, it might actually not get skipped over. You say they have to play what their buyers send them, and I say they should price the advertising based on how amusing/denigrating the ads are. Just another car commercial is the average, a funny commercial costs less to air, a locally produced car dealership sale ad is the the most expensive. Want to put your ad on 8 times in the same hour? Fine, but it costs way more than if you spread them out over several shows.
I've basically stopped watching TV because of ads being stupid.
1) Car racing glorifies pollution to no purpose. (not that other sports don't pollute, but its more a side effect than the main event) 2) The major part of car racing - the driving - is so easily simulatable, they might as well play it in a simulator.
(But I do agree, in general, that sports are a lot of running up and down a court for no purpose, and caring about shit that has nothing to do with your life)
I'm sorry, american car racing is the dumbest spectator "sport" ever. They just go around in a big circle. For crying out loud, once you and your competition have both sweated out which is the best spark plug, and you're left on relatively even terms, one might as well just play a good video game simulation of the race rather than actually driving around in circles all day. It glorifies gasoline consumption and pollution, and its about as interesting as repeatedly slamming your head in a car door.
I'm told, back in the day, americans invented airplanes. I don't believe it, if this generation were warped back to 1903, they wouldn't give a hoot about Orville and Wilbur, they'd be at the carridge races.
Go ahead, mark me troll, mark me offtopic, make me your foe, I've got Karma to burn on this issue.
Note that Apple is not using the "innate RGBA capabilities of the video card" to its fullest extent either. Furthermore, even good 3D cards may not do the right thing for 2D rendering--2D desktop rendering is not simply a subset of 3D rendering.
Why not? I helped build a whole GUI toolkit out of OpenGL primitives, and didn't find anything lacking.
The article you cite is probably a case of a hardware fast path NOT being used, but being advertised by the API. Thus he was asking for hardware operation X, and getting a generic software operation X, which wasn't hand optimized for his particular options. In that case his hand optimized code might be faster by a lot. Such a case occurs fairly often in graphics.
For a non-speculative example, OpenGL's glDrawPixels draws rasters from the lower left corner, whereas most UIs like to draw from the upper left. You can change it by calling glPixelZoom( 1.0, -1.0 ), but in many cases this knocked the gl driver from 1-1 pixel mapping into floating point transforms (basically it started using software to scale the image by some floating point value). A few phone calls to nvidia, 3dlabs, sgi, and intergraph later, and their drivers started special-casing for a -1.0 y pixel zoom, and our software sped up by a factor of about 1000.
In the far future of Moore's law we will not have GPUs at all, merely CPUs with power to burn. So in that sense I agree with you that hardware is/will-be not needed. Now I haven't done any graphics programming since machines hit 1ghz, so that far future may be now.:)
A new X Visual was added to the server. At 32 bits deep, it provides 8 bits of red, green and blue along with 8 bits of alpha value. Applications can create windows using this visual and the compositing manager can take those contents and composite them right onto the screen.
Can someone tell me, are they doing it the right way, or the all-software way? The right way uses the innate RGBA capabilities of the video card (probably through OpenGL) to do the compositing. The software way is good to have if the computer in question doesn't have a decent GPU, but if it also doesn't have a decent CPU, slowness is going to ensue.
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Trying out Kmail was my biggest mistake, because it had a different interpretation of the file OUTBOX than did my previous mailer. My previous mailer stored every email (6 years worth) in OUTBOX. And kmail took OUTBOX to be the file where messages written offline were temporarily stored until next coming online. The first time I fired up Kmail, a indeterminate-time progress bar came up, and it kinda hung. I went to get a coke, giving it time to snap out of its funk. Unbeknownst to me, during that time it re-sent every email I'd ever sent. When I got back and checked my INBOX, I screeched in horror.
Funny thing is, people from my previous job were getting work related emails from me again, and they didn't seem to mind that (1) they were on outdated topics and (2) the company was defunct, they played right along and replied stuff like "yeah what ever happened to that issue?".
Interesting idea. I wonder how to get per-process firewall functionality on Linux.
There are two different dialogs you are trying to create. One is a file finder. The other is a file creator. The former is for finding an existing file, the latter is for naming a to-be-created file. These are different ideas!!! One needs a "create new folder" button, the other does not. One needs a place to type in filenames, the other does not. Please stop confusing the two.
Where did they buy this thing, the 1960s? Jeez, once you spend the first 9 $crillion, you'd think they'd throw in the extra ten bucks for color navigation cameras!
That happened anyway. :)
2.) The Gandalf/Eagle comment is almost below responding to, but here ya go. Three reasons, first because Mordor is infested with all kinds of creapy crawlies, some of them capable of flight (did you watch the 2nd movie?). This would hamper matters. Secondly, because Gandalf would be corrupted by the ring. Thirdly because this would remove one of the fundamental points of the book/movie.
The Eagles aren't at Gandalf's beck and call. They do what they please.
In the Fellowship (book), the council of Elrond does discuss taking the ring to the Grey Havens and sailing with it to Valinor, but discard this plan as too obvious and thus prone by interception by Mordor. In retrospect: What the Hell Were They Thinking? I'm sure if you get Strider, Gandalf, Elrond, that elf that carried frodo over the stream, and about 40 elf warrior extras, plus three extra decoy parties (each with their decoy hobbit), the black riders are outgunned, treachery should be kept under control, and the war of the ring averted.
my favorite song of the cold storage crop was Cairodrome (which we call eyiyeoh, after the oft-sampled woman singing).
Its a shame about 2097/XL on the PC. Have you tried digging through your video accellerator preferences and maybe looking for something that would clamp glSwapBuffers (or whatever D3d or glide equivalent) to no more than a certain framerate? I've never seen such a thing myself, but its easy for them to do, and I have seen stuf that forces swap-buffers to wait for vertical retrace, which if you checked would hopefully let you lock to 60fps. Then maybe you could play in "beginner" mode and it would be about like "caffine reflex" mode in the good ol days...
Ah, I remember that now. How was it?
The irony of Wipeout XL's soundtrack is that it just didn't fit the game as well as the beautiful in-house "Cold.fusion" soundtrack to vanilla Wipeout. When I gave my playstation to the kid next door, the wipeout CD silently failed to make the trip, because I knew I'd want to play it on an emulator someday... And just yesterday I ripped the audio and was unsuprised to notice this playstation game was in the CDDB.
Frankly, such windows annoy me. If MS forces everyone else to stop using such techniques, I'll be overall happy. My (unuser)friedly local bus company pops up lots of windows sans chrome, and they're just annoying. (not the popups themselves, but the lack of buttons)
A remake of space invaders is like a remake of Tolkein ... its been knocked off so many times unofficially, what in god's name would be the point of paying someone to knock it off?
No, I tried like hell, using both wprefs and the other configuration app.
1) Put a big piece of tape/wood/whatever protecting the power switch on the NFS server, and disable software shutdown by non-root.
2) Put your NFS server on the *best* machine, not the worst one, so that users want to use it first. If worst comes to worst, put signs on the other machines advertising the other's superiority. (and without the NFS overhead, it will really outperform its clients!)
3) Put your NFS server on a g3 laptop or other ultra low power system, and hide the system in your closet so others can't find it to turn it off. (hardware suggestions, anyone?)
4) switch to samba (heh heh heh)
I run at about 133 dpi, and find that most window managers (& their themes) have rediculously tiny and hard to configure titlebars etc. I kinda get by with windowmaker and more lately metacity (which has AA fonts in the titlebars), but I'm not happy with either.
I used to use and like windowmaker, but of late I gave up on it because there was no way (that I could find) to get completely rid of the dock/paper-clip/squares. Have you ever done this?
Star Control 2 (now GPL) (I always win)
xpuyopuyo (she always wins)
Chu Chu Rocket for dreamcast (anybody's guess)
The super-bowl is great, the ads are mostly interesting and various. If you're watching the TV I watch (simpsons, soccer, star trek re-runs), you'll quickly notice that the same 4 ads are replayed every commercial break, and that they are crap. (oh boy a car comercial with pictures of a car driving through the woods - yawn). If the networks wouldn't beat us over the heads with chump advertising, it might actually not get skipped over. You say they have to play what their buyers send them, and I say they should price the advertising based on how amusing/denigrating the ads are. Just another car commercial is the average, a funny commercial costs less to air, a locally produced car dealership sale ad is the the most expensive. Want to put your ad on 8 times in the same hour? Fine, but it costs way more than if you spread them out over several shows.
I've basically stopped watching TV because of ads being stupid.
I enjoy TROLLING! :)
There are chiefly two differences:
1) Car racing glorifies pollution to no purpose. (not that other sports don't pollute, but its more a side effect than the main event)
2) The major part of car racing - the driving - is so easily simulatable, they might as well play it in a simulator.
(But I do agree, in general, that sports are a lot of running up and down a court for no purpose, and caring about shit that has nothing to do with your life)
I'm sorry, american car racing is the dumbest spectator "sport" ever. They just go around in a big circle. For crying out loud, once you and your competition have both sweated out which is the best spark plug, and you're left on relatively even terms, one might as well just play a good video game simulation of the race rather than actually driving around in circles all day. It glorifies gasoline consumption and pollution, and its about as interesting as repeatedly slamming your head in a car door.
I'm told, back in the day, americans invented airplanes. I don't believe it, if this generation were warped back to 1903, they wouldn't give a hoot about Orville and Wilbur, they'd be at the carridge races.
Go ahead, mark me troll, mark me offtopic, make me your foe, I've got Karma to burn on this issue.
Note that Apple is not using the "innate RGBA capabilities of the video card" to its fullest extent either. Furthermore, even good 3D cards may not do the right thing for 2D rendering--2D desktop rendering is not simply a subset of 3D rendering.
Why not? I helped build a whole GUI toolkit out of OpenGL primitives, and didn't find anything lacking.
The article you cite is probably a case of a hardware fast path NOT being used, but being advertised by the API. Thus he was asking for hardware operation X, and getting a generic software operation X, which wasn't hand optimized for his particular options. In that case his hand optimized code might be faster by a lot. Such a case occurs fairly often in graphics.
:)
For a non-speculative example, OpenGL's glDrawPixels draws rasters from the lower left corner, whereas most UIs like to draw from the upper left. You can change it by calling glPixelZoom( 1.0, -1.0 ), but in many cases this knocked the gl driver from 1-1 pixel mapping into floating point transforms (basically it started using software to scale the image by some floating point value). A few phone calls to nvidia, 3dlabs, sgi, and intergraph later, and their drivers started special-casing for a -1.0 y pixel zoom, and our software sped up by a factor of about 1000.
In the far future of Moore's law we will not have GPUs at all, merely CPUs with power to burn. So in that sense I agree with you that hardware is/will-be not needed. Now I haven't done any graphics programming since machines hit 1ghz, so that far future may be now.
I, for one, welcome our debian nerd overlords!
Yeah he had no robotic characteristics at all.
So we agree.
He didn't download his memory to another machine.
Anyone can do this, not just a robot (see below)
He didn't have an off switch.
Everyone has an off switch, its called "the head", and you push the button with a knuckle sandwich.
He didn't have his personality overwritten by a dying cybernetic scientist.
So the human "downloaded his memory to another machine", eh?
He didn't even exhibit super-human strength.
So did worf and 10,000 other aliens-de-jour.