I don't think I've had any lockups or crashes with any of the recent nvidia drivers on my Athlon mb. I don't much game playing, but am doing development on a 3D modeller that uses OpenGL that has crashed for other reasons but never the video.
I use Linux mainly for my own workstations & server on my home network, byt my wife is a diehard Mac user. After seeing her frustrations with Mac OS 9 constantly locking up and crashing (on a G4 even), I convinced her to upgrade to OS X. It took a little getting used to, but she was impressed by the fact that I can ssh in to her box now and do stuff on it without making her get up from her seat, and overall she likes OS X more than OS 9.
I won't give out the company name, but the shop I work for has several server-side software products we deploy on Solaris that use Tomcat & Apache, for use in IP telephony. A solid combination IMHO (although my personal preference on Unix is Apache & mod_perl).
Actually, BMRT is now available for unrestricted use, even commercial uses, since Exluna is focusing their energy on their commercial product, Entropy.
I don't think this will be accomplished with current technology. While realtime rendering is very advanced, to get the detail and control over an animated sequence such as you see in Toy Story or in Star Wars is still way in the future. I don't think the GeForce is up to it. You would still need some massively parallel processing to be able to do tat kind of imagery in real time.
Actually, Tolkien says at the end of _FotR_ that it's *Orthanc* and Minas Morgul, and each book in TT is dominated by events surrounding both of those towers. I imagine they change that emphasis in the movie to keep from confusing people, since Minas Morgul only appears very briefly near the end of Book II in TT (when Frodo and Sam are sneaking past to Cirith Ungol).
I should also mention that when I am writing documentation or some other bit of doggerel, I use the exact same set up, emacs, xterms & make (building with LaTeX underneath instead of gcc).
I have gone without using a word processor on Linux for well over a year now.:-)
_Left Hand of Darkness_ is an awesome book. I haven't read it in years, but loved it when I did. I just happen to be re-reading the Earthsea books (which, BTW, for Harry Potter fans, these also deal with a young boy who discovers he has wizardly powers and is sent off to wizard's school -- but this blows Harry Potter away).
I find much Le Guin to have a very Taoist philosophy underneath it all. _The Left Hand of Darkness_ is no exception. Read it. Enjoy it.
Actually, no, Gollum does not fully appear until the second half of _THe Two Towers_. He is seen briefly in a couple of scenes in FotR, but that's about it.
As one of two engineers out of 40 in my company that sport long hair and hippie-ish attitudes, I take exception to this article. I don't think the example of Tom was a good one -- there are still lots of us anarchistic (and, yes, given my proprensity to dressing in medieval garb, anachronistic!) hippie types making a *difference* in their company. And I have to prove myself even more -- because I am a college drop out and many of the more clean cut folks I work with are degreed CompSci engineers. Do they think I am quirky and eccentric (you should have seen the looks some peopel gave me when i pinned up the "history of Unix" flowchart that wraps halfway across my cubicle)? Hell yeah. Does it interfere with my work (who do they come to when they have obscure Unix questions)? Hell no! Does anyone give me a hard time for being 'quirky'? You're damn straight they don't!
The hell with that, I've decided writing batch files is the only way to go for writing system administration tools. I spend far too much time trying to figure out what the difference is between @array and $array in Perl, when I can easily crank out batch files to do the same thing.
Because it's not relative *constant* motion. Reputedly, due to the expansion of the universe, things father away appear to be moving away from use faster than things closer to us. This also means the light itself is being expaned -- shifted towards the red.
I'll just stop working and supporting my family while I'm at. Hell, might as well quit breathing, too. All those people died. Might as well give up life now.
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I don't think I've had any lockups or crashes with any of the recent nvidia drivers on my Athlon mb. I don't much game playing, but am doing development on a 3D modeller that uses OpenGL that has crashed for other reasons but never the video.
Mozilla isn't GPL
I use Linux mainly for my own workstations & server on my home network, byt my wife is a diehard Mac user. After seeing her frustrations with Mac OS 9 constantly locking up and crashing (on a G4 even), I convinced her to upgrade to OS X. It took a little getting used to, but she was impressed by the fact that I can ssh in to her box now and do stuff on it without making her get up from her seat, and overall she likes OS X more than OS 9.
I don't think this will be accomplished with current technology. While realtime rendering is very advanced, to get the detail and control over an animated sequence such as you see in Toy Story or in Star Wars is still way in the future. I don't think the GeForce is up to it. You would still need some massively parallel processing to be able to do tat kind of imagery in real time.
Both of your friends are correct. :-)
I have gone without using a word processor on Linux for well over a year now.
What's so novel about this? emacs has been like this for years!
I don't see where being Taoist and being neo-pagan are mutually exclusive.
I find much Le Guin to have a very Taoist philosophy underneath it all. _The Left Hand of Darkness_ is no exception. Read it. Enjoy it.
Actually, no, Gollum does not fully appear until the second half of _THe Two Towers_. He is seen briefly in a couple of scenes in FotR, but that's about it.
As one of two engineers out of 40 in my company that sport long hair and hippie-ish attitudes, I take exception to this article. I don't think the example of Tom was a good one -- there are still lots of us anarchistic (and, yes, given my proprensity to dressing in medieval garb, anachronistic!) hippie types making a *difference* in their company. And I have to prove myself even more -- because I am a college drop out and many of the more clean cut folks I work with are degreed CompSci engineers. Do they think I am quirky and eccentric (you should have seen the looks some peopel gave me when i pinned up the "history of Unix" flowchart that wraps halfway across my cubicle)? Hell yeah. Does it interfere with my work (who do they come to when they have obscure Unix questions)? Hell no! Does anyone give me a hard time for being 'quirky'? You're damn straight they don't!
The hell with that, I've decided writing batch files is the only way to go for writing system administration tools. I spend far too much time trying to figure out what the difference is between @array and $array in Perl, when I can easily crank out batch files to do the same thing.
Because it's not relative *constant* motion. Reputedly, due to the expansion of the universe, things father away appear to be moving away from use faster than things closer to us. This also means the light itself is being expaned -- shifted towards the red.
Yeah, right...
Red shift?
I'll just stop working and supporting my family while I'm at. Hell, might as well quit breathing, too. All those people died. Might as well give up life now.
Oh, and 6 x 6 x 6
The Lumber of the Beast
You forgot:
vi vi vi
The Editor of the Beast
You know, Carl Sassenrath, the architect of the Amiga, worked at HP for many years and did some pioneering work there in GUI design.
Errr... dude, Russia isn't communist anymore.