The trailer in cinemas now will be released for download on monday. Of course, there is a leaked version which is pretty low quality, but still it is STUNNING.
Huh, yeah, so that's why the iD ports run so awfully on X. Oh wait, they run flawlessly.
In fact, I'd say what sucks in Linux gaming is audio. OSS/Alsa/esd/artsd/jack... too many different solutions and, guess what, for example the ID games only support OSS, afaik.
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Yeah, sure, I'm not advocating that you leak RAM just for the sake of it:-b
But most of the time, the 4gb will suffice:) and will still be cheaper than doing it in C++ (anyway, if you are moving that amount of data, you'll need very good and expensive C++ coders).
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Compare the cost of one month of a developer versus the cost of RAM. At least in the server-side (controlled hardware), most of the time it is affordable to trade-off efficiency for development costs.
On the client-side, of course, it is not cost-effective to make your text-editor eat 1 gig of RAM (because it's going to run in a lot of machines).
But I'd like to be able to create 'conditional' breakpoints (i.e.: stop at this line when i==47).
Other than that, I'd like generalized hot-swapping of code and 'step back' (which I don't know if it's always factible); or at least be able to view a variable's history.
Shame that my IDE of choice (Eclipse) doesn't (AFAIK) support those.
The latest rage is to say that compiling your stuff is pointless, because the binaries are not that much faster than generic binaries.
Well, I really don't know, but I'm running Gentoo anyways... why?
Perhaps is that I like tinkering, and perhaps it's that I have too much spare time (although only some packages are time consuming, namely Mozilla and OpenOffice), but I find some advantages to source based distros.
After all, it's much easier for developers to provide packages for them. No need to support a zillion architectures. No need to choose./configure settings (Gentoo's USE works very well). You can also make cvs packages available (that fetch the latest cvs version and compile it).
Even though I still consider Debian's apt (and esp. the quality of packages) superior to Gentoo (just a personal oppinion), Gentoo usually provides more modern stuff (for the reasons outlined before), but I have chosen to give Gentoo some time.
Certainly, the state of Linux distros is getting pretty interesting. Debian and Gentoo have worked perfectly for me. I keep hearing good things about SuSE and Redhat's newest releases.
Perhaps some of the myths about Linux are beginning to fall?
Hey, anyway, compiling kernels is rarely needed. Your distro's kernel should come with *everything* that can be compiled as a module, and sane defaults for everything else.
I don't really recall that many things that require a kernel compile (although I do compile my own, of course:).
That's true of most DSL streams, but for example 56k modems have this 56k shared between up and down.
And my DSL's line (256/128) is affected by uploads. If I'm uploading above 12-13 Kb/s, my download rate drops. There are some recipes to avoid this (and further bandwidth magic) in the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO.
Theres an example of themes. I'm Glad Themes.org is back, now we have a place to show off our linux desktops and help kill the whole "Linux is hard to use" myth.
Linux desktops might be as pretty as you want, but that has nearly nothing to do with being hard to use.
I believe we still don't know if white has a combination of moves that always carry to a win, a draw or that black can win.
Remember Wargames? There we were shown a game which the first mover cannot win (if his opponent makes the right moves). However, people have proven that white on checkers has a combination of winning moves.
To add to this, I could design a game that the second player had a combination of moves that lead to victory every time.
We still don't know.
And, genetic programming won't help in this case; it is a 'smart' search method, it doesn't work to look for more positions. Neither do neural networks.
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Sure, if I want to write hello world, I'll write it in C. No, hell, I won't. I can sacrifice 0.2 seconds.
And the 0.2 seconds become more and more insignificant in more interesting programs...
Huh, on Windows you can install a postscript printer, print to a file and use ps2pdf :-b The same can be said about Linux.
The IBM solution used make. You sure know about make, don't you? :-b
The trailer in cinemas now will be released for download on monday. Of course, there is a leaked version which is pretty low quality, but still it is STUNNING.
Return of the King is going to ROCK!
So McNealy has succeeded?
Huh, yeah, so that's why the iD ports run so awfully on X. Oh wait, they run flawlessly.
In fact, I'd say what sucks in Linux gaming is audio. OSS/Alsa/esd/artsd/jack... too many different solutions and, guess what, for example the ID games only support OSS, afaik.
Yeah, sure, I'm not advocating that you leak RAM just for the sake of it :-b
But most of the time, the 4gb will suffice :) and will still be cheaper than doing it in C++ (anyway, if you are moving that amount of data, you'll need very good and expensive C++ coders).
Compare the cost of one month of a developer versus the cost of RAM. At least in the server-side (controlled hardware), most of the time it is affordable to trade-off efficiency for development costs. On the client-side, of course, it is not cost-effective to make your text-editor eat 1 gig of RAM (because it's going to run in a lot of machines).
Why wouldn't they use Linux? They own it, don't they?
>I thought the first rule of programming was "you don't talk about programming."
No, that's the first rule of "how to attract girls".
If you want to download it, look for the mov files in the html source of that page. And an 'm' just before the resolution. There you go.
Or you can actually download the mov file (which is very small), run it through 'strings' and find out the real name.
The naughty words might easily be explained...
Wanna guess which other kind of movies the 'translator' might have worked on? Your english might be curious if you learn it from porn movies.
Doesn't Marvel make figures of 100% human characters? Rick Banner... well, even the Punisher was 100% human, wasn't him?
Will someone need to classify them indivually?
Use Google. Type in the description of your program and you are set :)
:-b
The network is the programmer
But I'd like to be able to create 'conditional' breakpoints (i.e.: stop at this line when i==47).
Other than that, I'd like generalized hot-swapping of code and 'step back' (which I don't know if it's always factible); or at least be able to view a variable's history.
Shame that my IDE of choice (Eclipse) doesn't (AFAIK) support those.
Now we just need some hit-fodder from Tux and his Penguins!
The latest rage is to say that compiling your stuff is pointless, because the binaries are not that much faster than generic binaries.
Well, I really don't know, but I'm running Gentoo anyways... why?
Perhaps is that I like tinkering, and perhaps it's that I have too much spare time (although only some packages are time consuming, namely Mozilla and OpenOffice), but I find some advantages to source based distros.
After all, it's much easier for developers to provide packages for them. No need to support a zillion architectures. No need to choose ./configure settings (Gentoo's USE works very well). You can also make cvs packages available (that fetch the latest cvs version and compile it).
Even though I still consider Debian's apt (and esp. the quality of packages) superior to Gentoo (just a personal oppinion), Gentoo usually provides more modern stuff (for the reasons outlined before), but I have chosen to give Gentoo some time.
Certainly, the state of Linux distros is getting pretty interesting. Debian and Gentoo have worked perfectly for me. I keep hearing good things about SuSE and Redhat's newest releases.
Perhaps some of the myths about Linux are beginning to fall?
Hey, anyway, compiling kernels is rarely needed. Your distro's kernel should come with *everything* that can be compiled as a module, and sane defaults for everything else.
I don't really recall that many things that require a kernel compile (although I do compile my own, of course :).
The link didn't work a wee ago.
Start a second X webserver. I do it all the time to play Q3 et al. and be able to switch to my desktop with ctrl+alt+f(x)...
That's true of most DSL streams, but for example 56k modems have this 56k shared between up and down.
And my DSL's line (256/128) is affected by uploads. If I'm uploading above 12-13 Kb/s, my download rate drops. There are some recipes to avoid this (and further bandwidth magic) in the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO.
Is that really important if the implementation is GPL'ed or BSD? If the format and codec is sufficiently documented, I don't see why is that an issue.
Actually, I see that BSD license might have a slight edge, but not much.
I get more results searching for Britney Spears on Edonkey than searching Moby.
And I'd say ed2k users are more tech-savvy than say, Napster's were.
Theres an example of themes. I'm Glad Themes.org is back, now we have a place to show off our linux desktops and help kill the whole "Linux is hard to use" myth.
Linux desktops might be as pretty as you want, but that has nearly nothing to do with being hard to use.
No.
I believe we still don't know if white has a combination of moves that always carry to a win, a draw or that black can win.
Remember Wargames? There we were shown a game which the first mover cannot win (if his opponent makes the right moves). However, people have proven that white on checkers has a combination of winning moves.
To add to this, I could design a game that the second player had a combination of moves that lead to victory every time.
We still don't know.
And, genetic programming won't help in this case; it is a 'smart' search method, it doesn't work to look for more positions. Neither do neural networks.