I don't understand why its a pain ? Is it because you have to think or is there something genuinly wrong with the API ?
Since most undergrad CS courses teach the fundamentals of 3D graphics, including modelling, transformation, z-buffers, bsp-trees, lighting etc etc etc, I have to question how difficult this stuff really is. I mean, if a kid fresh from the USA's lame education system can understand it, it cannot be all that difficult, can it ?
As a marketing scientist, I wonder whether Intel is attempting to appeal to the "hacker" mentality by releasing these 'easy-to-overclock' chips. Surely it would make more sense from a market dominance position for them to exploit their lead in 0.18 micron technology to either 1) lower prices or 2) become the performance leader.
The whole Celeron range of CPUs seems to be deliberately crippled, unless you think Intel actually wants you to overclock them.
You know, I am getting a bit sick of all the abuses of freedom of speech that Slashdot tolerates. Freedom of speech does not mean "freedom to libel", or freedom to promote illegal warez trading
You freedom loving zealots don't seem to have read your own constitution. Perhaps slashdot could set up some "basic educational links" from the home page so that under-educated 14-year old linux zealots could learn a bit more about the real world beyond their screens.
It's almost as if the slashdot readership has no sense of social responsibility. They are too busy playing Quake, and downloading warez and pr0n to see the big picture.
Sexism like this is not just unpleasant, it is in fact illegal. Just because it is posted on a web forum does not make it any more legal. Not only under US law, but also under the higher international law as laid down by the UN, which the US agreed to be bound by.
I look forward to the day when slashdot is held responsible for its crimes. Especially the warez trading which is killing legitimate software development.
While the proliferation of customizable apps is cool, and anything which promotes Linux on the desktop has to be a good thing, I cannot help wonder if anyone out there in "corporate land" really cares ?
I was recently involved in marketing a configuration management tool to some CEOs of a fortune 100 corporation. When I showed them the cool GUI customization features, they seemed uninterested, and in fact kept trying to change the subject onto the boring nuts-and-bolts issues. They did not seem to understand they could make the app look really cool, and customize it however they wanted.
Anyway, we are now questioning whether the development investment required for "configurable GUIs" is actually money well spent.
We may even try marketing our next tool by stressing the elite hacker nature of its command line interface.
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I don't have time for this idiots.
Since most undergrad CS courses teach the fundamentals of 3D graphics, including modelling, transformation, z-buffers, bsp-trees, lighting etc etc etc, I have to question how difficult this stuff really is. I mean, if a kid fresh from the USA's lame education system can understand it, it cannot be all that difficult, can it ?
The whole Celeron range of CPUs seems to be deliberately crippled, unless you think Intel actually wants you to overclock them.
Intels website is at www.intel.com and more information on hardware can be found at tomshardware.com
thank you
dmg
You freedom loving zealots don't seem to have read your own constitution. Perhaps slashdot could set up some "basic educational links" from the home page so that under-educated 14-year old linux zealots could learn a bit more about the real world beyond their screens.
It's almost as if the slashdot readership has no sense of social responsibility. They are too busy playing Quake, and downloading warez and pr0n to see the big picture.
Sexism like this is not just unpleasant, it is in fact illegal. Just because it is posted on a web forum does not make it any more legal. Not only under US law, but also under the higher international law as laid down by the UN, which the US agreed to be bound by.
I look forward to the day when slashdot is held responsible for its crimes. Especially the warez trading which is killing legitimate software development.
thank you
dmg
I was recently involved in marketing a configuration management tool to some CEOs of a fortune 100 corporation. When I showed them the cool GUI customization features, they seemed uninterested, and in fact kept trying to change the subject onto the boring nuts-and-bolts issues. They did not seem to understand they could make the app look really cool, and customize it however they wanted.
Anyway, we are now questioning whether the development investment required for "configurable GUIs" is actually money well spent.
We may even try marketing our next tool by stressing the elite hacker nature of its command line interface.
thank you
dmg