While I think the head is great, I think the hands are too big, and too ugly for such a cute little face. And the body is too small, I agree with making the belly a little bigger.
Mainly the hands bug me, though... they are scary Orcish hands or something, not a cute little baby dwagon'd hands!
Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, merely a critic.
I think it'd be best to have one set of benchmarks for default configuration, one set of amateur tuning, and one set of tuning by experts for each of the platforms tested. Get a linux expert... someone from the Samba team, someone from the Apache team... get an NT expert, someone who works at Microsoft, I guess (though not just anyone, obviously). And let them go to town.
Sometimes people set their systems up by just leaving them in the default because of laziness/time constraints, whatever. And sometimes a minimal amount of configuration is done, but not a whole lot. And then there are performance freaks. Got to show the spread...
Although I definately dislike the idea of dressing in a suit and tie every day, sometimes it's nice to dress up in a suit... I feel all purty and stuff.
Releasing early and often is good, but the problem is that it was advertised as release 1, which it was not. It was release.9something...
On the other hand, it does encourage people to try it out and gets a lot more eyes on it.
On the third hand (I grew it just for you, baby), if people are anticipating the release, and it's not up to snuff, your project can lose face, and keep people away from it, long-term.
I'm still waiting to be able to run Gimp and Gnome with the same version of GTK... stupid interface changes. Now don't change the INTERFACE of a library after version 1, unless it's backwards compatible, or you have a good ORB setup going...
Or is all this fixed, now? I'm not as up to date on all this as I should be.
Info really sucks... That's GNU's big alternative to man or something. I hate Info. Man pages all the way, baby! Or, better yet, -h or --help. What have they got against man, anyway? The user interface for Info is so unfriendly it makes me want to get in my car and run over people.
And I'll tell you why. Because he's relatively detached. We occasionally see him post something when it directly involves him, and he's rarely defensive... He has the best global view of making everyone happy.
This is somewhat marginally analogous to time I spent as a wizard on a MUD. The absolute worst wizards were the ones that still played the mud with a different character. They were too involved with the game to see that making areas loaded with easy experience and powerful weapons ultimately made for a less enjoyable game.
Of course, there were the wizards that never played the game, and had no real concept of what was going on from the player's perspective. Those wizards were not so good, either, but they were better than the overinvolved ones.
I've found that I am very open on the net, but after using the internet for, hmm, 5-6 years, I've become a lot more open in real life, as well. It might just be me growing up, but the way I was headed, I couldn't talk to anyone about anything. So, I guess, as far as I'm concerned, there isn't so much a split between internet personalities and real-life personalities...
Hey, maybe he can't write, maybe he can, I don't know, I haven't read his work. But Carl Sagan was an amazingly important person for science. He almost single-handedly popularized astronomy, making it at least somewhat available to the common person, and not just science geeks. If you ask me, that's just as important, if not MORE important, than those people doing the research.
I've only seen it twice, but Contact is easily my favorite movie of all time. I don't know if I'm all that smart or not, but the movie made me FEEL smart... it wasn't catering to the lowest common denominator, like most movies seem to do these days..
Okay, I was working the GDC (Game Developers Conference) last week, and figured it would be a good time to get a status report on Linux support from various hardware vendors that had booths on the expo floor.
At the NVidia booth, I talked to one guy who said that they do not want to support Linux, but that they would release the specs under NDA and that supposedly "some people were working on it." He said that the person over there in the Hawaiian shirt could give me more key information. So I trundle over to that guy, and ask him what's up, and he says that a) they have NO intention to do any support for Linux internally, and b) they have NO intention of releasing their specs, even under NDA, because they need to protect their hardware API which is valuable "intellectual property," and other bullshit like that. He also completely refuted the other guy's claim that there were "people" currently working on Linux 3D drivers. He seemed annoyed and really wanted to brush me off, even though I was just politely inquiring.
Talking with some other random people at the conference, not related to NVidia, THEY said that NVidia couldn't release any specs or anything because of the lawsuits against them. 3DFx is one of the folks with a lawsuit against NVidia, I think. So, if that's the case, why not just say that and I could leave without feeling sort of betrayed?
I also talked to ATI, with their Advanced Nipple Rendering Engine, and they said that they were seriously considering Linux support, whatever that means. I talked with him a bit, explaining how they didn't have to release the source for their 3D drivers (they were under the impression they had to) and also how if they were to be willing to release the specs under NDA, they could basically get people to do their work writing the drivers for them for free. I left ATI feeling very positive about their possible future linux support, but it might have been just smooth-talking.
Anyway, that was the extent of the information I gathered, straight from their mouths to you. Of course it's all very non-official, but it's probably more informed than your average press release.
In the original Wing Commander, if you had enough expanded memory, it had different explosions, and more animations, and more wreckage, and whatnot...
I had a 286, so I couldn't get expanded memory until I got a 386, at least, not without constricting my conventional memory so much the game wouldn't run. I spent so much time looking for extended->expanded converters that took less memory, and this and that, trying to get my extended memory to work with WC, but it never happened.
I noticed at E3 that the companies that had games that weren't that good compensated by hiring models to demonstrate them. One of them (this was several years ago, back in LA) had these blonde girls in lycra shorts and baseball caps, one by every machine, and they would teach you about the game. THAT, somehow, makes me feel dirty.
My dad worked for Pong for a bit. I remember when I was a little bitty kid, he brought home this big white box and we hooked it up to our 13" Black and white television.
Pong didn't have much of a future, though, they were pretty much a one-trick pony.
No matter how brilliant you THINK you are at 3 am hyped on coffee, trust me, you aren't.
I don't agree. I'm most productive when hyped up on coffee, and I have to go to the bathroom, but don't want to stop what I'm doing. (Coffee's a dioretic.) So I'm squatting in my chair, hunched over the keyboard with tears coming down my face, because I just don't want to stop my flow of conciousness. At some point I just HAVE to go, or make a mess in my pants, and when I come back I'm all relaxed and comfortable, but I'm not as focused on working.
Man, I played all the Sierra games as a young kid. But from the point they took away the typing interface (Kings Quest 5), the quality of their games just went WAY downhill. I don't really have any respect for them, anymore.
It just goes to show that you can't publish crap and get away with it.
Define "work"... it would run on a K6, but it wouldn't necessarily be as fast as a compiler that optimized for the K6-2. There are differences in pipelining and instruction speeds that would make an optimizing compiler favor different kinds of instructions on the two machines, but I don't know any details.
I almost forgot the one with Lemon Kainen and the Sampo... the day the earth froze over or something. The day the sun went away, I forget the name of the movie. but I liked that one.
My personal favorite is probably The Magic Sword... or most of the Hercules series I thoroughly enjoyed.
Castle of Fumanchu was the most painful episode I've ever seen.
My first episode was Teenagers from Outer Space... we had just got cable, and this came on the screen. We were getting ready for a party, and it was so bizarre that I couldn't pull myself away, I just sat there and watched. I was immediately hooked.
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Without Joel, Dr. F., what do you have? I think you could have gotten rid of everyone but Joel and Trace and it could still be a good show, but without those two... I dunno, I stopped watching after Joel left. I don't think it's so bad that it's gone, as long as you have the best episodes on videotape.
It's also a good talent to practice for actual movie watching. Impress your friends!
Reminds me of a friend who had a 486DX2-66, and his crystal failed, somehow, and so he got a new oscillator, but they didn't have the 33MHz crystals, he had to get a 32.5MHz crystal, so he was underclocking his CPU by 1MHz. 486DX2-65
One thing we learned in my architecture class was that cache size is not directly proportional to speed increase, in either direction. For a given amount of memory, and assuming some things about cache-implementation, there's a certain amount of cache that provides optimal performance. Less or more than that will hurt performance. Too big CAN slow down your computer (albeit, probably not MUCH). It's too bad that nobody publishes tests for these things, so that we can know how much cache to get. Since money is an issue for me, and celerons have 128k of cache, period, I don't have much of a choice, but it'd be nice to know.
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While I think the head is great, I think the hands are too big, and too ugly for such a cute little face. And the body is too small, I agree with making the belly a little bigger.
Mainly the hands bug me, though... they are scary Orcish hands or something, not a cute little baby dwagon'd hands!
Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, merely a critic.
I think it'd be best to have one set of benchmarks for default configuration, one set of amateur tuning, and one set of tuning by experts for each of the platforms tested. Get a linux expert... someone from the Samba team, someone from the Apache team... get an NT expert, someone who works at Microsoft, I guess (though not just anyone, obviously). And let them go to town.
Sometimes people set their systems up by just leaving them in the default because of laziness/time constraints, whatever. And sometimes a minimal amount of configuration is done, but not a whole lot. And then there are performance freaks. Got to show the spread...
Although I definately dislike the idea of dressing in a suit and tie every day, sometimes it's nice to dress up in a suit... I feel all purty and stuff.
Releasing early and often is good, but the problem is that it was advertised as release 1, which it was not. It was release .9something...
On the other hand, it does encourage people to try it out and gets a lot more eyes on it.
On the third hand (I grew it just for you, baby), if people are anticipating the release, and it's not up to snuff, your project can lose face, and keep people away from it, long-term.
I'm still waiting to be able to run Gimp and Gnome with the same version of GTK... stupid interface changes. Now don't change the INTERFACE of a library after version 1, unless it's backwards compatible, or you have a good ORB setup going...
Or is all this fixed, now? I'm not as up to date on all this as I should be.
I always thought that was Mark Twain...
Info really sucks... That's GNU's big alternative to man or something. I hate Info. Man pages all the way, baby! Or, better yet, -h or --help. What have they got against man, anyway? The user interface for Info is so unfriendly it makes me want to get in my car and run over people.
And I'll tell you why. Because he's relatively detached. We occasionally see him post something when it directly involves him, and he's rarely defensive... He has the best global view of making everyone happy.
This is somewhat marginally analogous to time I spent as a wizard on a MUD. The absolute worst wizards were the ones that still played the mud with a different character. They were too involved with the game to see that making areas loaded with easy experience and powerful weapons ultimately made for a less enjoyable game.
Of course, there were the wizards that never played the game, and had no real concept of what was going on from the player's perspective. Those wizards were not so good, either, but they were better than the overinvolved ones.
Anyway, yeah.
I've found that I am very open on the net, but after using the internet for, hmm, 5-6 years, I've become a lot more open in real life, as well. It might just be me growing up, but the way I was headed, I couldn't talk to anyone about anything. So, I guess, as far as I'm concerned, there isn't so much a split between internet personalities and real-life personalities...
Hey, maybe he can't write, maybe he can, I don't know, I haven't read his work. But Carl Sagan was an amazingly important person for science. He almost single-handedly popularized astronomy, making it at least somewhat available to the common person, and not just science geeks. If you ask me, that's just as important, if not MORE important, than those people doing the research.
I think he was a great man!
I've only seen it twice, but Contact is easily my favorite movie of all time. I don't know if I'm all that smart or not, but the movie made me FEEL smart... it wasn't catering to the lowest common denominator, like most movies seem to do these days..
Okay, I was working the GDC (Game Developers Conference) last week, and figured it would be a good time to get a status report on Linux support from various hardware vendors that had booths on the expo floor.
At the NVidia booth, I talked to one guy who said that they do not want to support Linux, but that they would release the specs under NDA and that supposedly "some people were working on it." He said that the person over there in the Hawaiian shirt could give me more key information. So I trundle over to that guy, and ask him what's up, and he says that a) they have NO intention to do any support for Linux internally, and b) they have NO intention of releasing their specs, even under NDA , because they need to protect their hardware API which is valuable "intellectual property," and other bullshit like that. He also completely refuted the other guy's claim that there were "people" currently working on Linux 3D drivers. He seemed annoyed and really wanted to brush me off, even though I was just politely inquiring.
Talking with some other random people at the conference, not related to NVidia, THEY said that NVidia couldn't release any specs or anything because of the lawsuits against them. 3DFx is one of the folks with a lawsuit against NVidia, I think. So, if that's the case, why not just say that and I could leave without feeling sort of betrayed?
I also talked to ATI, with their Advanced Nipple Rendering Engine, and they said that they were seriously considering Linux support, whatever that means. I talked with him a bit, explaining how they didn't have to release the source for their 3D drivers (they were under the impression they had to) and also how if they were to be willing to release the specs under NDA, they could basically get people to do their work writing the drivers for them for free. I left ATI feeling very positive about their possible future linux support, but it might have been just smooth-talking.
Anyway, that was the extent of the information I gathered, straight from their mouths to you. Of course it's all very non-official, but it's probably more informed than your average press release.
In the original Wing Commander, if you had enough expanded memory, it had different explosions, and more animations, and more wreckage, and whatnot...
I had a 286, so I couldn't get expanded memory until I got a 386, at least, not without constricting my conventional memory so much the game wouldn't run. I spent so much time looking for extended->expanded converters that took less memory, and this and that, trying to get my extended memory to work with WC, but it never happened.
I noticed at E3 that the companies that had games that weren't that good compensated by hiring models to demonstrate them. One of them (this was several years ago, back in LA) had these blonde girls in lycra shorts and baseball caps, one by every machine, and they would teach you about the game. THAT, somehow, makes me feel dirty.
They were very hot, though.
Since the s's are not double-s's, they are pronounced kind of harsh, like a z, but not quite that harsh.
I like to say SuSe, it's fun.
Suuuuuuuuuuzeh!
My dad worked for Pong for a bit. I remember when I was a little bitty kid, he brought home this big white box and we hooked it up to our 13" Black and white television.
Pong didn't have much of a future, though, they were pretty much a one-trick pony.
Interplay has been doing some good work, recently.
I have to say that Westwood kicked some serious ass, until Lands of Lore 2. I hope they clean up their act.
No matter how brilliant you THINK you are at 3 am hyped on coffee, trust me, you aren't.
I don't agree. I'm most productive when hyped up on coffee, and I have to go to the bathroom, but don't want to stop what I'm doing. (Coffee's a dioretic.) So I'm squatting in my chair, hunched over the keyboard with tears coming down my face, because I just don't want to stop my flow of conciousness. At some point I just HAVE to go, or make a mess in my pants, and when I come back I'm all relaxed and comfortable, but I'm not as focused on working.
Man, I played all the Sierra games as a young kid. But from the point they took away the typing interface (Kings Quest 5), the quality of their games just went WAY downhill. I don't really have any respect for them, anymore.
It just goes to show that you can't publish crap and get away with it.
Define "work"... it would run on a K6, but it wouldn't necessarily be as fast as a compiler that optimized for the K6-2. There are differences in pipelining and instruction speeds that would make an optimizing compiler favor different kinds of instructions on the two machines, but I don't know any details.
I almost forgot the one with Lemon Kainen and the Sampo... the day the earth froze over or something. The day the sun went away, I forget the name of the movie. but I liked that one.
My personal favorite is probably The Magic Sword... or most of the Hercules series I thoroughly enjoyed.
Castle of Fumanchu was the most painful episode I've ever seen.
My first episode was Teenagers from Outer Space... we had just got cable, and this came on the screen. We were getting ready for a party, and it was so bizarre that I couldn't pull myself away, I just sat there and watched. I was immediately hooked.
Without Joel, Dr. F., what do you have? I think you could have gotten rid of everyone but Joel and Trace and it could still be a good show, but without those two... I dunno, I stopped watching after Joel left. I don't think it's so bad that it's gone, as long as you have the best episodes on videotape.
It's also a good talent to practice for actual movie watching. Impress your friends!
Reminds me of a friend who had a 486DX2-66, and his crystal failed, somehow, and so he got a new oscillator, but they didn't have the 33MHz crystals, he had to get a 32.5MHz crystal, so he was underclocking his CPU by 1MHz. 486DX2-65
Yay.
One thing we learned in my architecture class was that cache size is not directly proportional to speed increase, in either direction. For a given amount of memory, and assuming some things about cache-implementation, there's a certain amount of cache that provides optimal performance. Less or more than that will hurt performance. Too big CAN slow down your computer (albeit, probably not MUCH). It's too bad that nobody publishes tests for these things, so that we can know how much cache to get. Since money is an issue for me, and celerons have 128k of cache, period, I don't have much of a choice, but it'd be nice to know.
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Games.