This XBox was meant to be smaller than the last (no making it concave does technically make it techincally smaller, but its not really) but it looks pretty much the same size.
That pad looks well cheap and nasty.
In any case these could be a) not to scale b) preview controllers, to test how they feel or something, and will be more polished in the final version.
I do like the XBox a lot, hopefully #2 will be just as good. Although I'm waiting to see what the big N is doing first to be honest!
It makes you in violation, not your document OSS, like if a company adds GPL sources to a closed source product. it does not automatically make the product OSS, It makes them in violation of the contract (license).
It would have to goto court and damages be awarded.
All this sortof stuff was happening on Quake1, and has happened on every other id game, as well as many other games by diff companies. The fact that it happens with HL2 is not surprising, but totally obvious!
why has my little red arrow not appeared? its not been updated. Im prob gonna hear about stuff like this from somewhere but your mum and dad won't. that red arrow has to work.
besides the red arrow is hard to see really and non-obvious. I think when a patch is released it needs to swap your homepage to tell you that a new version is out. and tell you about the red arrow (if thats what they're sticking with)
for the Hauppage Nova-T says > 1Ghz or something like that, But I can use 2x cards on a 500Mhz AMD both recording and have less than 35% CPU usage. Quality is great as well.
I'm guessing Satellite Versions will take the same amount of CPU too.
Yeh i tried Gentoo, good OS, but im only capable of getting it working, seems to turn into a sludgy mess after a few months with me at the wheel.
Gentoo is upto date because they don't wait for wierd arch's (thats my impression anyway), also thier update releases tend to be not as large as debians.
Debian Developers, they spend years trying to get thier software to work on arch's that no one ever uses any more and talking about politics.
I'm all for noble causes, and I do take all the arguments about making software to be multi platform improves the package. But most software is targetted at i386 alone, if your lucky PPC will get a shot and _very_ occasionally some wierd Sun hardware. Now Debian Developers, I'm sure are very good but they can't keep rewriting every package to support multiple archs, Its not a managable job with the current amount of developers.
The evil empire (MS) would have done this ages ago (yes they'd still be bugs that would let things thru, but it'd be better) if it wasn't for programs assuming they can write anywhere etc. MS trapped themselves. With phones being so young, and also being a new product every version (the OS dependencies are small), it'd be hard for them to excuse there being security problems.
But auto update would also be needed, no software is perfect.
When your suffocating from the lack of oxygen (if you don't blow up ala movies), getting lung cancer would not really be on the top of my list of priorities
Yeh, I take your point HL2 is revolutionary in its own way. It's got a load of new, beautiful stuff added to it, some of which is very good looking (and probably not done before), But It's of it is all an expansion of old ways, rather than revelutionary.
Doom3 on the other hand, while you say that these things aren't new, they are new in games, but (to my knowledge) it's the first total real time lighting model in a game, which absolutely has to be the way of the future, the fact that they are stencil shadows and light sources are infinetly small are not important. It's a leap into a new direction, every bit as revolutionary as Wolf3d, Doom1 or Quake1 were.
Yeh HL2 is superb, but there is nothing new about it really, the Lighting is not even dynamic except shadows of objects. All the standard lighting is there because it uses the same sortof radiant technology that was in Quake1-Q3 (although at higher detail levels). Yeh sure it looks great, probably mostly because of High Polygon count and High Res textures, and some nifty effects (reflection et al).
If you want to see the "Benchmark" Technology, look at Doom3, Sure its got low polygon count, and low (in comparison) texture quality, But the whole world is lighted at run-time.
In summary, HL2 looks great, and probably as good as Doom3, but its doing nothing new or revolutionary. The future has to be engines like Doom3 even though the computers of today are maybe not quite upto the point of realising that potential.
When someones kills them what happens, or are then invinsible, that'd either make them really popular (stand behind them) or hated (that bastard killed us all, but he's invinsible, cheating bastard)
Of people are saying that Ubuntu is Debian done right. I agree for the most part too, But its only desktop. I'd love to see a server based distro taking the same way. It largely doesn't matter if _everything_ isn't in debian, I reckon 70-80% of desktop [GNOME] users would be happy with ubuntu even in its current reasonably immature state. I'd expect this to be > 90% when it becomes more mature.
A server version that achieved the same thing would be amazing. I've been trying to run Debian Stable on my Development + File/General/Workgroup server but I've just upgraded my File/General/Workgroup server to testing because somethings were just impossible. My Development is staying stable coz its going to stay the same config as my Live internet server that is not moving off Debian Stable. I so want to start developing using Mono tho, its painful staying stable.
If this were done Debian stable could disapear, and we could get a good up-to-date server. the last 10% of people who don't have all the functionality they need can compile. Heck compiling packages is easier if you have an upto date distro, significatly easier than trying to get a modern program currently is on deb stable.
on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ it looks like debian stable isn't going to be done till at least 10/05 at best or 01/06 at worst. Jesus how long has it been. I really love debian, But the longer you leave the stable distribution, well stable, the longer it gets behind testing/unstable and makes the upgrade to the new stable unimaginably worse.
I always try to keep to stable, but I recently had to swith one server to testing coz I needed some updated programs which could not run under stable. To say it was a mess is a major understatement. It trashed my ldap and my mail configurations, the ldap had to be restored from ldif's! Heck the only thing that stayed working was NFS which was generating warnings.
I really think testing should be kept at a "just about ready to go stable" stage, whereas stable should be "run this for a year (or whatever is deamed to be reasonable), it won't change".
Are going to stop this posiblity straight away. We are already of sufficient numbers that if our UDP packets start going all funky we'd be off.
Also while probably being of a small(ish) number. We are probably the people who are paying for bigger pipes, and also generally technical enough to not think twice about switching.
I believe your right, but its not debian's job to develop software, its debians job to package software. If you believe the debian policy increases the quality of the software by any significant margin then your living in cloud cuckoo land
I actually find it quite bizarre the anti, don't buy from another country. In the UK the gov buys from whoever is cheapest because there is a belief that it cuts taxes (or rather they don't want to be seen as spending more than they have to).
Of course the economics people know this if way fucked up and it makes far more sense to buy from your own country but it has to be measured against sanity too.
BAE (British Aerospace) seems to be perpetually at the point of cutting loads of jobs because they are forced to compete with the US (and other) companies 100%.
and quite like it, but I don't believe that you should take a pay cut (or less of a raise which is the same thing) for lowering thier office costs. heck they should be giving you more money, That's what happens if you use your own mobile phone for business, why not have it with your house.
Is far more litigious than MS usually. The really are behaving _very_ badly of late. If MS tried half the tactics that apple currently do then it'd be straight in court from the DOJ/Whoever.
Having said that I'm sure MS were a lot worse when they were smaller, but thier size of everyone watching them has tempered them a lot.
is how much of the money you give actually gets to the intended cause, my guess for a standard high profile charity (oxfam et al) would be somewhere between 40% - 60% (although this may be well off). As for those people who just walk upto you in the street for some random charity i've never heard of, i'd never give to those.
Really I think charities should be made to publish this information, it surely could be a charity and pay its President most of the contributions, providing the "charity" didn't make money
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This XBox was meant to be smaller than the last (no making it concave does technically make it techincally smaller, but its not really) but it looks pretty much the same size.
That pad looks well cheap and nasty.
In any case these could be
a) not to scale
b) preview controllers, to test how they feel or something, and will be more polished in the final version.
I do like the XBox a lot, hopefully #2 will be just as good. Although I'm waiting to see what the big N is doing first to be honest!
Email!
OK well you can sign a peice of paper then fax it, which becomes a contract, I don't think you can do this with email but thats' the only downside.
It makes you in violation, not your document OSS, like if a company adds GPL sources to a closed source product. it does not automatically make the product OSS, It makes them in violation of the contract (license).
It would have to goto court and damages be awarded.
All this sortof stuff was happening on Quake1, and has happened on every other id game, as well as many other games by diff companies. The fact that it happens with HL2 is not surprising, but totally obvious!
Still the stuff is cool, and I do like Garry'sMod
why has my little red arrow not appeared? its not been updated. Im prob gonna hear about stuff like this from somewhere but your mum and dad won't. that red arrow has to work.
besides the red arrow is hard to see really and non-obvious. I think when a patch is released it needs to swap your homepage to tell you that a new version is out. and tell you about the red arrow (if thats what they're sticking with)
The iPod Obfuscates in its own way too (you can't just put files on, they have to run thru iTunes (or other app) to be renamed/database updated.
My sister bought a 40gb mp3 player by Archos that doesn't do this type of stuff however.
for the Hauppage Nova-T says > 1Ghz or something like that, But I can use 2x cards on a 500Mhz AMD both recording and have less than 35% CPU usage. Quality is great as well.
I'm guessing Satellite Versions will take the same amount of CPU too.
Yeh i tried Gentoo, good OS, but im only capable of getting it working, seems to turn into a sludgy mess after a few months with me at the wheel.
Gentoo is upto date because they don't wait for wierd arch's (thats my impression anyway), also thier update releases tend to be not as large as debians.
Debian Developers, they spend years trying to get thier software to work on arch's that no one ever uses any more and talking about politics.
I'm all for noble causes, and I do take all the arguments about making software to be multi platform improves the package. But most software is targetted at i386 alone, if your lucky PPC will get a shot and _very_ occasionally some wierd Sun hardware. Now Debian Developers, I'm sure are very good but they can't keep rewriting every package to support multiple archs, Its not a managable job with the current amount of developers.
The evil empire (MS) would have done this ages ago (yes they'd still be bugs that would let things thru, but it'd be better) if it wasn't for programs assuming they can write anywhere etc. MS trapped themselves. With phones being so young, and also being a new product every version (the OS dependencies are small), it'd be hard for them to excuse there being security problems.
But auto update would also be needed, no software is perfect.
When your suffocating from the lack of oxygen (if you don't blow up ala movies), getting lung cancer would not really be on the top of my list of priorities
I know microsoft are paying license fees for it.
If it were any other company i'd be preaching how wrong patents are, but as its sony. hahahahahaha
Yeh, I take your point HL2 is revolutionary in its own way. It's got a load of new, beautiful stuff added to it, some of which is very good looking (and probably not done before), But It's of it is all an expansion of old ways, rather than revelutionary.
Doom3 on the other hand, while you say that these things aren't new, they are new in games, but (to my knowledge) it's the first total real time lighting model in a game, which absolutely has to be the way of the future, the fact that they are stencil shadows and light sources are infinetly small are not important. It's a leap into a new direction, every bit as revolutionary as Wolf3d, Doom1 or Quake1 were.
Yeh HL2 is superb, but there is nothing new about it really, the Lighting is not even dynamic except shadows of objects. All the standard lighting is there because it uses the same sortof radiant technology that was in Quake1-Q3 (although at higher detail levels). Yeh sure it looks great, probably mostly because of High Polygon count and High Res textures, and some nifty effects (reflection et al).
If you want to see the "Benchmark" Technology, look at Doom3, Sure its got low polygon count, and low (in comparison) texture quality, But the whole world is lighted at run-time.
In summary, HL2 looks great, and probably as good as Doom3, but its doing nothing new or revolutionary. The future has to be engines like Doom3 even though the computers of today are maybe not quite upto the point of realising that potential.
When someones kills them what happens, or are then invinsible, that'd either make them really popular (stand behind them) or hated (that bastard killed us all, but he's invinsible, cheating bastard)
I guess you can say that MS (along with others) did invent IPV6. I hope thier employees get thrown out of the IETF for this.
Of people are saying that Ubuntu is Debian done right. I agree for the most part too, But its only desktop. I'd love to see a server based distro taking the same way. It largely doesn't matter if _everything_ isn't in debian, I reckon 70-80% of desktop [GNOME] users would be happy with ubuntu even in its current reasonably immature state. I'd expect this to be > 90% when it becomes more mature.
A server version that achieved the same thing would be amazing. I've been trying to run Debian Stable on my Development + File/General/Workgroup server but I've just upgraded my File/General/Workgroup server to testing because somethings were just impossible. My Development is staying stable coz its going to stay the same config as my Live internet server that is not moving off Debian Stable. I so want to start developing using Mono tho, its painful staying stable.
If this were done Debian stable could disapear, and we could get a good up-to-date server. the last 10% of people who don't have all the functionality they need can compile. Heck compiling packages is easier if you have an upto date distro, significatly easier than trying to get a modern program currently is on deb stable.
on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ it looks like debian stable isn't going to be done till at least 10/05 at best or 01/06 at worst. Jesus how long has it been. I really love debian, But the longer you leave the stable distribution, well stable, the longer it gets behind testing/unstable and makes the upgrade to the new stable unimaginably worse.
I always try to keep to stable, but I recently had to swith one server to testing coz I needed some updated programs which could not run under stable. To say it was a mess is a major understatement. It trashed my ldap and my mail configurations, the ldap had to be restored from ldif's! Heck the only thing that stayed working was NFS which was generating warnings.
I really think testing should be kept at a "just about ready to go stable" stage, whereas stable should be "run this for a year (or whatever is deamed to be reasonable), it won't change".
Are going to stop this posiblity straight away. We are already of sufficient numbers that if our UDP packets start going all funky we'd be off.
Also while probably being of a small(ish) number. We are probably the people who are paying for bigger pipes, and also generally technical enough to not think twice about switching.
I believe your right, but its not debian's job to develop software, its debians job to package software. If you believe the debian policy increases the quality of the software by any significant margin then your living in cloud cuckoo land
I actually find it quite bizarre the anti, don't buy from another country. In the UK the gov buys from whoever is cheapest because there is a belief that it cuts taxes (or rather they don't want to be seen as spending more than they have to).
Of course the economics people know this if way fucked up and it makes far more sense to buy from your own country but it has to be measured against sanity too.
BAE (British Aerospace) seems to be perpetually at the point of cutting loads of jobs because they are forced to compete with the US (and other) companies 100%.
and quite like it, but I don't believe that you should take a pay cut (or less of a raise which is the same thing) for lowering thier office costs. heck they should be giving you more money, That's what happens if you use your own mobile phone for business, why not have it with your house.
surely the iPod and Airport only decode.
Is far more litigious than MS usually. The really are behaving _very_ badly of late. If MS tried half the tactics that apple currently do then it'd be straight in court from the DOJ/Whoever.
Having said that I'm sure MS were a lot worse when they were smaller, but thier size of everyone watching them has tempered them a lot.
is how much of the money you give actually gets to the intended cause, my guess for a standard high profile charity (oxfam et al) would be somewhere between 40% - 60% (although this may be well off). As for those people who just walk upto you in the street for some random charity i've never heard of, i'd never give to those.
Really I think charities should be made to publish this information, it surely could be a charity and pay its President most of the contributions, providing the "charity" didn't make money