Man, I wish I had mod points. This deserves a bump or two.
I can't count how many times I've thought that...as someone once said, the only real intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything - whether CLI, GUI, voice-controlled, 3D space-based...is learned. And the only reason people find 'doze earlier is that it's what they learned.
Well, the basic answer is that AGP isn't a bus, it's a port. A bus can have multiple devices chained off a controller, but a port, only 1; each AGP slot on a motherboard needs its own controller chip. That's one reason you only rarely see mobos with multiple AGP slots.
There's also the basic reason that almost nothing besides gfx cards -need- the huge bandwidth and bus speed of AGP.:)
My favorite vis plugin is AcidSpunk (WinAmp and Sonique versions exist). In my experience, it's shown significantly less repitition in visual patterns, and it's -much- better than WhiteCap, Geiss, or any other vis plugins I've tried at fitting appropriate images to music - it really does explode at the climax of a song, and so on.
Just my $(2x10**-2)
To be able to go above the atmosphere without the fuel/energy cost of achieving orbit.
Look at the early Mercury/Redstone shots, or the X-15 program for more on these kind of trajectories on their purpose - short answer: a suborbital parabola is cheaper in energy than an orbital hyperbola while still allowing the nation that fired the shot to have claimed that it reached space.
I can't believe no one's mentioned Tribes/Tribes2 in terms of great new/newish games. Teamplay is a -lot- more advanced than in the (imho) highly overrated Counterstrike.
I agree with suggestions regarding Deus Ex, though. There need to be more games like DE or System Shock 2 (FPS/RPG hybrids)
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Yeah, same here...I loved that show.
"Welcome to the House of Next Tuesday!"
Cool idea, assuming you can find a way to attach hard drives directly to the DCs.
That guy's DC netboots and NFS-mounts root...suppose you could have a whole server farm doing that, but then you're just shifting the cost; you now have to buy beefy netboot servers that Don't Go Down(tm).
Add in that the DC doesn't have much RAM and isn't expandable, and it looks rather grim...but I still love the idea of a rack full of DCs.:)
Q: Who operates the only major competitor to AOL's various IM services?
A: Microsoft, via MSN
Q: What has MS's policy regarding 'open architectures' been and still seems to be?
A: 'Embrace and extend'. The only competitor to the closed system in this case is another closed system with a known propensity for perverting open architectures for its own ends. Just creating OpenIM in and of itself won't do anything, as it's not in -anyone's- interests (anyone being the service providers) to allow it to stay open.
Electronic ink already exists in prototype. There's a store in Boston that uses a multiple-message sign utilizing it.:)
I'm really looking forward to consumer applications of it, too - finally, no more having to carry around pounds of books on vacation...
...so someone'll just download it once, get the source, compile it, and put up a mirror, all within his/her/its GPL rights.
Wasn't there an earlier article about a case like this in which some company wanted to charge something like $1-2k/copy?
It's perfectly GPL-legal to charge for distribution. What the license-holder can't prevent is -re-distribution.
X doesn't handle drag-n-drop. The most common implementation of it is libDnD.
And if you think that MacOS 9 or even 8 or 7 runs on the same gui framework code as in the original System 1.0, you have another think coming. I'm not terribly fond of macos myself, but it has come quite some way since two-bit grayscale.
You're describing host naming in the early days of the Internet - ARPANET and so on.
DNS was created with a hierarchial namespace to allow more names - pity the greedy bastards had to go and ruin it by registering ourgreatbigcorporation.* "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
and the worst thing is that that acronym expansion isn't even right.:)
back when MS was trying to push NT as a cross-platform (x86, Alpha, PPC, etc), HAL stood for Hardware Abstraction Layer.
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Man, I wish I had mod points. This deserves a bump or two.
I can't count how many times I've thought that...as someone once said, the only real intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything - whether CLI, GUI, voice-controlled, 3D space-based...is learned. And the only reason people find 'doze earlier is that it's what they learned.
I've seen multi-AGP boards. They're weird, and most of 'em are multi-CPU as well.
Tribes2 isn't a bargain-bin game, it just came out about two weeks ago.
Well, the basic answer is that AGP isn't a bus, it's a port. A bus can have multiple devices chained off a controller, but a port, only 1; each AGP slot on a motherboard needs its own controller chip. That's one reason you only rarely see mobos with multiple AGP slots. :)
There's also the basic reason that almost nothing besides gfx cards -need- the huge bandwidth and bus speed of AGP.
...How exactly did that work? Wouldn't you need a balun to convert the shielded coax to utp?
No, that's Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, Start.
:)
My favorite vis plugin is AcidSpunk (WinAmp and Sonique versions exist). In my experience, it's shown significantly less repitition in visual patterns, and it's -much- better than WhiteCap, Geiss, or any other vis plugins I've tried at fitting appropriate images to music - it really does explode at the climax of a song, and so on.
Just my $(2x10**-2)
To be able to go above the atmosphere without the fuel/energy cost of achieving orbit.
Look at the early Mercury/Redstone shots, or the X-15 program for more on these kind of trajectories on their purpose - short answer: a suborbital parabola is cheaper in energy than an orbital hyperbola while still allowing the nation that fired the shot to have claimed that it reached space.
I can't believe no one's mentioned Tribes/Tribes2 in terms of great new/newish games. Teamplay is a -lot- more advanced than in the (imho) highly overrated Counterstrike.
I agree with suggestions regarding Deus Ex, though. There need to be more games like DE or System Shock 2 (FPS/RPG hybrids)
Yeah, same here...I loved that show.
"Welcome to the House of Next Tuesday!"
*Step (NeXT and Open, dunno about OSX) use a true microkernel design with multiple servers.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
It's on ebay waiting for you. :)
I have one in a niche in my desk, actually...it's a great headless server.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Hah! That's clever, wish I had mod points.
I'd tackle that myself if I didn't have three projects to work on already.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Cool idea, assuming you can find a way to attach hard drives directly to the DCs. :)
That guy's DC netboots and NFS-mounts root...suppose you could have a whole server farm doing that, but then you're just shifting the cost; you now have to buy beefy netboot servers that Don't Go Down(tm).
Add in that the DC doesn't have much RAM and isn't expandable, and it looks rather grim...but I still love the idea of a rack full of DCs.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Just out of curiosity, what's nsh? I recognize all the other tools, but not that...
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Whoa, flashback to reading Schroedinger's Cat...
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
CBS was Conservative Bavarian Seers, not Conspiracy of Bavarian Seers.
:)
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Great idea in concept, but in practice, well...
Q: Who operates the only major competitor to AOL's various IM services?
A: Microsoft, via MSN
Q: What has MS's policy regarding 'open architectures' been and still seems to be?
A: 'Embrace and extend'. The only competitor to the closed system in this case is another closed system with a known propensity for perverting open architectures for its own ends. Just creating OpenIM in and of itself won't do anything, as it's not in -anyone's- interests (anyone being the service providers) to allow it to stay open.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Electronic ink already exists in prototype. There's a store in Boston that uses a multiple-message sign utilizing it. :)
I'm really looking forward to consumer applications of it, too - finally, no more having to carry around pounds of books on vacation...
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
...so someone'll just download it once, get the source, compile it, and put up a mirror, all within his/her/its GPL rights.
Wasn't there an earlier article about a case like this in which some company wanted to charge something like $1-2k/copy?
It's perfectly GPL-legal to charge for distribution. What the license-holder can't prevent is -re-distribution.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
X doesn't handle drag-n-drop. The most common implementation of it is libDnD.
And if you think that MacOS 9 or even 8 or 7 runs on the same gui framework code as in the original System 1.0, you have another think coming. I'm not terribly fond of macos myself, but it has come quite some way since two-bit grayscale.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
You're describing host naming in the early days of the Internet - ARPANET and so on.
DNS was created with a hierarchial namespace to allow more names - pity the greedy bastards had to go and ruin it by registering ourgreatbigcorporation.*
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
and the worst thing is that that acronym expansion isn't even right. :)
back when MS was trying to push NT as a cross-platform (x86, Alpha, PPC, etc), HAL stood for Hardware Abstraction Layer.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
bash: export TERM=xterm-color (or xterm-debian if you're on a debian box)
*csh: setenv TERM xterm-color (ditto)
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
It's derived from the opening of Zero Wing, generally considered to be the worst translation of a video game ever done.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.