OpenGL commands on windows are sent directly to your video hardware. Currently in Linux, the commands go through X, so there is an extra context switch. However, this all changes with XFree86 4.0 (due out later this month) so hold onto yer hat.
Sure, I may occassionaly stay up an entire night coding, perhaps several nights in a row (GL stuff is sooooo cool). But, I also lift weights everyday, play the guitar, eat a balanced diet, play soccer, watch football, or go on a date. In fact, a lot of girls these days find the geek/engineer/intellectual thing quite attractive. I have a roommate that is similar, and some more engineer friends that have geek interests but otherwise don't fit that mold. Maybe I'm in geek denial or something...
Why don't we start our own "Geek" party? Our mascot would obviously be the penguin. I can think of a few open-source programmers who would make pretty good politicians. The ideals held by most open-source people seem to be more ethical than most politicians I've seen. Most modern day politicians just run for personal glory, making issues out of non-issues. I think the "Open Source" candidiate would get things done. Good idea? Bad idea? I just think our current two-party system stinks.
Suppose you could automate this. I.e. if memory is needed, apps that are not in use are swapped to your HD
Your linux PC already does this. It is called Virtual Memory. I don't know what algorithm linux uses, second chance clock, maybe? But, it swaps out memory pages that haven't been used for a certain period of time.
Come on! I know thousands of you slashdotters are X-Files followers! It's obviously the black oil, churning and bubbling beneath the surface of the earth, waiting to be tapped for colonization!
Well, I had been working on an app (modeler for building game worlds) for the past year and I recently updated to redhat 6.0. My closed source motif libs no longer worked. So, I began writing my own widget set, using minimal Xlib funcs. It was suprisingly easy. Making a custom "widget" is simple, so I just built whatever I needed (color picker, texture chooser, menus, etc). I even added a theming thing. All in all it took about two weeks to switch my gui from motif to my own stuff.
Platform independence is not hard to achieve if you just want to port among *nix systems, just have your widgets draw themselves using X and GL, or your own software rendering. I don't know about other OSs (I dislike greatly the win32 API).
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I built my own toolkit that'll compile on any *nix system using X, and C++ in about two weeks. I do not consider myself a genious when it comes to programming (yet, heh), so to anyone not satisfied with current toolkits, build your own!
Note: I don't suggest starting out on this if you have no prior GUI programming experience.
Yet Another Note: When it's a little more mature I'll open source it (around christmas).
Christ your sad. Brad or maybe just glad? could it be a fad? I think being first is rad. actually, that guy made me mad. wanna crash at my pad? damn that microsoft ad. this is getting bad.
the 320/540 outperform the dell boxes and would win in price/performance if SGI hadn't made a critical error, every VPC comes with video editing hardware. Most of the workstation users simply want a CAD solution so they _may_ opt for the other box, but here is where you're seriously misinformed... In the workstation market, the cost of the computer is a very small percent of the cost of seating an engineer at a workstation. Most of the cost is in paying the salary of the engineer. So _any_ small increase in the performance of the workstation will boost the performance of their larger investment in the engineer. Pay a little more for your workstations or pay a hell of a lot more for more engineers, not a tough decision.
the 320/540 outperform the dell boxes and would win in price/performance if SGI hadn't made a critical error, every VPC comes with video editing hardware. Most of the workstation users simply want a CAD solution so they _may_ opt for the other box, but here is where you're seriously misinformed...
GL is hardware acelerated on the 320/540 under linux. However, texture mapping is still a little buggy. Expect to see this available to the public in the near future, pending the release of XFree86 4.0 along with the new DRI. Interestingly enough, HP also has hardware GL acceleration under linux for there visualize workstation.
I dunno. But they do offer that sunpci thing for people that want/are forced to have NT. It's a complete PC that takes up two PCI slots in your sun box.
I dunno. But they do offer that sunpci thing for people that want/are forced to have NT. It's a complete PC that takes up to PCI slots in your sun box.
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OpenGL commands on windows are sent directly to your video hardware. Currently in Linux, the commands go through X, so there is an extra context switch. However, this all changes with XFree86 4.0 (due out later this month) so hold onto yer hat.
While I love Photoshop and Illustrator
These products run on SGI.
Sure, I may occassionaly stay up an entire night coding, perhaps several nights in a row (GL stuff is sooooo cool). But, I also lift weights everyday, play the guitar, eat a balanced diet, play soccer, watch football, or go on a date. In fact, a lot of girls these days find the geek/engineer/intellectual thing quite attractive. I have a roommate that is similar, and some more engineer friends that have geek interests but otherwise don't fit that mold. Maybe I'm in geek denial or something...
Mr. Engler has been suggested as a possible VC candidate several times.
President of the Viet Cong? How weird.
(sorry, Iv'e been drinking again)
Why don't we start our own "Geek" party? Our mascot would obviously be the penguin. I can think of a few open-source programmers who would make pretty good politicians. The ideals held by most open-source people seem to be more ethical than most politicians I've seen. Most modern day politicians just run for personal glory, making issues out of non-issues. I think the "Open Source" candidiate would get things done. Good idea? Bad idea? I just think our current two-party system stinks.
Mike
You're already off to a bad start, troll.
Linus already has children, he was proudly showing off his daughter at Linuxworld in San Jose.
Mike
Suppose you could automate this. I.e. if memory is needed, apps that are not in use are swapped to your HD
Your linux PC already does this. It is called Virtual
Memory. I don't know what algorithm linux uses, second chance
clock, maybe? But, it swaps out memory pages that haven't
been used for a certain period of time.
Come on! I know thousands of you slashdotters
are X-Files followers! It's obviously the black
oil, churning and bubbling beneath the surface
of the earth, waiting to be tapped for colonization!
Mike
So then man, being created by God, shall succeed? This seems to contradict itself.
Platform independence is not hard to achieve if you just want to port among *nix systems, just have your widgets draw themselves using X and GL, or your own software rendering. I don't know about other OSs (I dislike greatly the win32 API).
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I built my own toolkit that'll compile on any *nix system using X, and C++ in about two weeks. I do not consider myself a genious when it comes to programming (yet, heh), so to anyone not satisfied with current toolkits, build your own!
Note: I don't suggest starting out on this if you have no prior GUI programming experience.
Yet Another Note: When it's a little more mature I'll open source it (around christmas).
Christ your sad. Brad or maybe just glad? could it be a fad? I think being first is rad. actually, that guy made me mad. wanna crash at my pad? damn that microsoft ad. this is getting bad.
regarding c)
SGI is demonstrating a 320 with hardware accelerated GL on linux at LinuxExpo.
the 320/540 outperform the dell boxes and would
win in price/performance if SGI hadn't made a critical error, every VPC comes with video editing hardware. Most of the workstation users simply want a CAD solution so they _may_ opt for the other box, but here is where you're seriously misinformed...
In the workstation market, the cost of the computer is a very small percent of the cost of seating an engineer at a workstation. Most of the cost is in paying the salary of the engineer. So _any_ small increase in the performance of the workstation will boost the performance of their larger investment in the engineer. Pay a little more for your workstations or pay a hell of a lot more for more engineers, not a tough decision.
Mike
the 320/540 outperform the dell boxes and would
win in price/performance if SGI hadn't made a critical error, every VPC comes with video editing hardware. Most of the workstation users simply want a CAD solution so they _may_ opt for the other box, but here is where you're seriously misinformed...
GL is hardware acelerated on the 320/540 under
linux. However, texture mapping is still a little
buggy. Expect to see this available to the public
in the near future, pending the release of
XFree86 4.0 along with the new DRI. Interestingly
enough, HP also has hardware GL acceleration under
linux for there visualize workstation.
I dunno. But they do offer that sunpci thing for people that want/are forced to have NT. It's a complete PC that takes up two PCI slots in your sun box.
I dunno. But they do offer that sunpci thing for people that want/are forced to have NT. It's a complete PC that takes up to PCI slots in your sun box.