I think I've discovered two constants in the universe.
1) Slashdot will post just about any case mod "story" that gets submitted.
2) People who submit case-mod "stories", even with the knowledge of what the Slashdot Effect is, will gladly let their web-server burst into flames just so people can see what shaky-handed work they did with a Dremel tool and a piece of aluminum.
Windows versions prior to XP limit you to one processor unless you paid extra for licenses.
Uh, no. Windows NT 4.0 (workstation) and 2K (workstation) support dual CPU out of the box. They have specific multi-CPU kernels that get installed (at OS install time) if the hardware reports dual CPUs.
You only ever pay extra on the server side if you want greater than 2-way.
I want fonts to be antialiased on paper, not on the screen.
You don't quite get the concept of anti-aliasing, do you? Aliasing is the stair-step pattern you get on non-orthogonal lines on a bitmap based display (e.g. a CRT or LCD). Anti-aliasing is the apparent removal of those artifacts by blending the line's color with the color behind it.
Printers do not anti-alias printed lines on an offset press. You gain sharpness in printing by increasing the resolution of your source material. A 1200 dpi (or greater) typesetter (or direct to press digital system) will create typography that is, for all intents and purposes, perfect.
Asking for anti-aliased letters on a printed page is like asking to buy someone's used Yugo. It's both dumb and useless.
Not in the least. Say this a few times, "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one."
There are so many issues with Microsoft that have yet to be resolved, or for that matter, brought up in any court to rectify them for the victims of their monopolistic behaviour.
Please tell me how Microsoft offering Passport on a variety of OSes has anything at all to do with the price of tea in China (or, in this case, the anti-trust lawsuit)?
Remember the boot loader issue? Again, how does that come into play with regards to Passport on various Unices?
Wow, what an over hypothesized, under-thought, convoluted conspiracy you have there.
How about a simpler solution? Try this:
Microsoft, knowing that IIS isn't anywhere near as accepted as Apache for web serving has decided that porting Passport to the OSes that run the majority of web servers would help with adoption rates for the technology.
or, possibly:
Companies that want to use Passport have told Microsoft that they are unwilling to switch from their Unix based web servers to Win2K Server w/IIS just to be able to use Passport. Microsoft has listened and has decided to port Passport to various Unices so that it will be accepted.
That's the whole point, my friend, this will be the only way to broadcast. Either you buy the equipment from iBiquity, pay for the maintenance contracts, etc., or you don't broadcast.
What about the part in the article where it mentions that the digital broadcasts will be run along-side the standard FM broadcasts?
Relax. Ibiquity will not get all American's to 'upgrade' to digital radio receivers. If American's are unwilling to purchase digital TV receivers in large quantities they will be even less likely to do the same for radios/stereos. With the majority of people still on FM there will still be need for FM broadcasts.
Well, Kip's e-mail address is newtsprism@AOL.COM. That ought to tell you something.
It does! It tells me that you are either:
a) A techno-bigot b) A 13 year old who lacks in social skills c) An overweight 42 year old who lives in his mother's basement and spells "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft" (all credit to Gabe and Tycho)
or
d) A cynical idiot who doesn't really have anything constructive to add to the discussion.
(note: D can be used in conjuction with any of the previous choices)
If you can't sell your product at a profit, you're in the wrong business (especially if it's something as magnificently non-essential as a freaking games console). Time to fold up your trestle table and go home.
Right...and the fact that Nintendo has run with this business strategy for close to 25 years now and has more $ in the bank than you could ever imagine is just a fluke?
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market.
Please show me the #s. I seriously doubt that the vast majority of console buyers have even heard of mod-chips, let alone are interested in getting one.
Consoles are commodity items purchased by people that aren't geeks, haven't read Slashdot, and probably don't have 3 Linux boxes in their home office.
The infinitesimal percentage of XBOX owners that also purchased a mod chip doesn't come close to making a mod chip a "value add" for the console(ignoring your incorrect useage of that term).
GNU is a stupid name. It doesn't evoke anything (except a slow, usually dripping wet, smelly animal)and it is hard to figure out phonetically (Ga-new? new?, gan-ew?)
It's not catchy, it's not descriptive, it's not anything but a collection of letters that some programmer thought was cool because it's actually recursive.
People don't want an OS named "GNU/". "Linux", if you intentionally mispronounce it like most people do, is good because it sounds like "Unix" and a lot of people have heard that term.
Which is exactly the point I was making against it for casual users. Lindows is positioning it's OS offering as a way for Windows users to leave Windows for something else. It looks like Windows, acts like Windows, and runs certain Windows applications just so the user will have an easy and comfortable time making that transition.
Making someone use a new UI is *not* the way to get a casual user to switch. Most people are afraid of their Windows boxes. To try something completely different in an OS and a user experience isn't anything they would want to willingly do. Lindows understands this. OEone, for all it is, is not the way to get Windows users to switch to Linux. It's too different.
If casual users willing to leave Windows wanted a UI that was "truely somthing new and different" they would've come to Linux w/KDE or Linux/GNOME long ago.
"One wonders if they should instead be supporting OEone and making it scream."
(shakes head in disbelief)
Lindows isn't for Linux users, Timothy. It's for people accustomed to Windows who might want a choice. It's for people who aren't really hard-core computer users but want a bit of choice in their computer purchasing. Putting an obscure (relative to Windows) front end on Linux will not accomplish that. For Lindows to work it has to, for the most part, behave like Windows.
OEone is interesting, just like any random Linux distribution is interesting. That doesn't mean that they're easily understood by the masses of the computer users who get their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy, etc...
It might be a funny story if I knew what the $*(#$* a MOV network was.
But, thank you. Your story reminded me of my days of college....living in a dorm surrounded by engineering students--me the computer-graphics technology student. I never understood a word those people uttered either.
"First of all, let's deal with the Microsoft issue. I was surprised to find that this book even existed given the problems MS has had in the courts recently."
Where in any of the court documentation for any of the court proceedings that MS is invloved with does it say, "You have to divest yourself of your publishing brand?"
You seem to be forgetting the fact that the majority of developers are not porting and do not have plans to port their games to Linux.
So, you can remain on your moral high-horse and only play Linux native games. Or, you can use Wine-X and have access to many more games than will ever be ported to Linux.
It's a choice between an advocacy that most people don't understand or access to the majority of computer entertainment available. Take your pick.
I'm serious. How many of us base our video card purchases on the recommendations he makes?
I don't base my decisions on any one data point, especially one from someone wanting to sell me a product. To do so would be stupid.
He knows the cards in detail, knows what features they support and how well,
As do hundreds (if not thousands) of others.
and he sure as hell knows how well they'll perform with the next id game.
As I said above, his views can potentially be seen as one trying to sell you his product. I prefer to get my reviews from more notably un-biased sources. I'm not saying Mr. Carmack's opinions are biased. But, at the same time, I wouldn't necessarily base my Goodyear tire purchase on Ford's recomendations.
people aren't switching. The question that must be asked is: why?
The answer is simple -- The masses view their computers the same way they view their televisions, stereos, and vcrs. They're appliances. They'll use whatever OS comes on the computer they bought up until the day they buy a new computer. Then they'll use the OS that comes on that one, etc...
Average users aren't geeks. Average users don't care about the pros/cons of a given OS. They just want an OS that will run the shelves of software they see in Best Buy.
Actually, nothing imports from 3D Studio Max or exports to *.max format. Conversely, almost everything imports and exports 3D Studio (*.3ds) (the old DOS version).
*.3DS is a static format. It can be read an parsed by just about anybody because the file stores the geometry as it was when the file was saved.
On the other hand, *.max (3DS Max format) is dynamic. 3DSMax works based on the concept of a modifier stack. You start with base geometry (plane, cylinder, sphere, polygon, etc...) and add modifiers to a stack. Each modifier affects the modifier below it and on down to the base geometry. It's flexible because you can jump to any point in the stack at any time and affect a change. It's also powerful in the fact that 3rd parties can write modifiers that can extend the usefullness of 3DSMax in any number of ways (http://www.digimation.com)
The.max format is a file that basically says, "here is the base geometry and the execution list for all of the modifiers that need to be run on it." So, without the modifiers there is no way to read the file in and make sense of it. Since the modifiers only run within 3DSMax you can only read the file into 3DSMax.
There are exactly zero 3rd party stand alone tools that can read a *.max file in and do anything with it. Okino Polytrans can convert *.max files to other formats but it does so by running from within 3DSmax as an export filter.
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I would like to move them off Windows XP and introduce them to something less expensive (free)
You make your children pay for the OS?
Huh?
.64 for at least five years now.
The Canadian Dollar hasn't changed valuation in quite some time, at least in comparison to the US dollar.
The exchange rate between Canada and the US has been
I think I've discovered two constants in the universe.
1) Slashdot will post just about any case mod "story" that gets submitted.
2) People who submit case-mod "stories", even with the knowledge of what the Slashdot Effect is, will gladly let their web-server burst into flames just so people can see what shaky-handed work they did with a Dremel tool and a piece of aluminum.
Uh, no. Windows NT 4.0 (workstation) and 2K (workstation) support dual CPU out of the box. They have specific multi-CPU kernels that get installed (at OS install time) if the hardware reports dual CPUs.
You only ever pay extra on the server side if you want greater than 2-way.
None of what you said had anything to do with my discussing the fact that he wants anti-aliased fonts on items printed on paper.
It has nothing to do with screens or monitor resolution. I was talking about offset presses.
You don't quite get the concept of anti-aliasing, do you? Aliasing is the stair-step pattern you get on non-orthogonal lines on a bitmap based display (e.g. a CRT or LCD). Anti-aliasing is the apparent removal of those artifacts by blending the line's color with the color behind it.
Printers do not anti-alias printed lines on an offset press. You gain sharpness in printing by increasing the resolution of your source material. A 1200 dpi (or greater) typesetter (or direct to press digital system) will create typography that is, for all intents and purposes, perfect.
Asking for anti-aliased letters on a printed page is like asking to buy someone's used Yugo. It's both dumb and useless.
But my point is clear, is it not?
Not in the least. Say this a few times, "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one."
There are so many issues with Microsoft that have yet to be resolved, or for that matter, brought up in any court to rectify them for the victims of their monopolistic behaviour.
Please tell me how Microsoft offering Passport on a variety of OSes has anything at all to do with the price of tea in China (or, in this case, the anti-trust lawsuit)?
Remember the boot loader issue?
Again, how does that come into play with regards to Passport on various Unices?
Wow, what an over hypothesized, under-thought, convoluted conspiracy you have there.
How about a simpler solution? Try this:
Microsoft, knowing that IIS isn't anywhere near as accepted as Apache for web serving has decided that porting Passport to the OSes that run the majority of web servers would help with adoption rates for the technology.
or, possibly:
Companies that want to use Passport have told Microsoft that they are unwilling to switch from their Unix based web servers to Win2K Server w/IIS just to be able to use Passport. Microsoft has listened and has decided to port Passport to various Unices so that it will be accepted.
What about the part in the article where it mentions that the digital broadcasts will be run along-side the standard FM broadcasts?
Relax. Ibiquity will not get all American's to 'upgrade' to digital radio receivers. If American's are unwilling to purchase digital TV receivers in large quantities they will be even less likely to do the same for radios/stereos. With the majority of people still on FM there will still be need for FM broadcasts.
It does! It tells me that you are either:
a) A techno-bigot
b) A 13 year old who lacks in social skills
c) An overweight 42 year old who lives in his mother's basement and spells "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft" (all credit to Gabe and Tycho)
or
d) A cynical idiot who doesn't really have anything constructive to add to the discussion.
(note: D can be used in conjuction with any of the previous choices)
If you can't sell your product at a profit, you're in the wrong business (especially if it's something as magnificently non-essential as a freaking games console).
Time to fold up your trestle table and go home.
Right...and the fact that Nintendo has run with this business strategy for close to 25 years now and has more $ in the bank than you could ever imagine is just a fluke?
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market.
Please show me the #s. I seriously doubt that the vast majority of console buyers have even heard of mod-chips, let alone are interested in getting one.
Consoles are commodity items purchased by people that aren't geeks, haven't read Slashdot, and probably don't have 3 Linux boxes in their home office.
The infinitesimal percentage of XBOX owners that also purchased a mod chip doesn't come close to making a mod chip a "value add" for the console(ignoring your incorrect useage of that term).
GNU is a stupid name. It doesn't evoke anything (except a slow, usually dripping wet, smelly animal)and it is hard to figure out phonetically (Ga-new? new?, gan-ew?)
It's not catchy, it's not descriptive, it's not anything but a collection of letters that some programmer thought was cool because it's actually recursive.
People don't want an OS named "GNU/". "Linux", if you intentionally mispronounce it like most people do, is good because it sounds like "Unix" and a lot of people have heard that term.
Don't even get me started on "HURD"...(shudder)
Which is exactly the point I was making against it for casual users. Lindows is positioning it's OS offering as a way for Windows users to leave Windows for something else. It looks like Windows, acts like Windows, and runs certain Windows applications just so the user will have an easy and comfortable time making that transition.
Making someone use a new UI is *not* the way to get a casual user to switch. Most people are afraid of their Windows boxes. To try something completely different in an OS and a user experience isn't anything they would want to willingly do. Lindows understands this. OEone, for all it is, is not the way to get Windows users to switch to Linux. It's too different.
If casual users willing to leave Windows wanted a UI that was "truely somthing new and different" they would've come to Linux w/KDE or Linux/GNOME long ago.
(shakes head in disbelief)
Lindows isn't for Linux users, Timothy. It's for people accustomed to Windows who might want a choice. It's for people who aren't really hard-core computer users but want a bit of choice in their computer purchasing. Putting an obscure (relative to Windows) front end on Linux will not accomplish that. For Lindows to work it has to, for the most part, behave like Windows.
OEone is interesting, just like any random Linux distribution is interesting. That doesn't mean that they're easily understood by the masses of the computer users who get their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy, etc...
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It might be a funny story if I knew what the $*(#$* a MOV network was.
But, thank you. Your story reminded me of my days of college....living in a dorm surrounded by engineering students--me the computer-graphics technology student. I never understood a word those people uttered either.
It's called a T*I*V*O. They've been out for a few years now.
What is the news story here?
Where in any of the court documentation for any of the court proceedings that MS is invloved with does it say, "You have to divest yourself of your publishing brand?"
You seem to be forgetting the fact that the majority of developers are not porting and do not have plans to port their games to Linux.
So, you can remain on your moral high-horse and only play Linux native games. Or, you can use Wine-X and have access to many more games than will ever be ported to Linux.
It's a choice between an advocacy that most people don't understand or access to the majority of computer entertainment available. Take your pick.
That's a nice sentence fragment you've written. Try full sentences next time. You might like them.
I don't base my decisions on any one data point, especially one from someone wanting to sell me a product. To do so would be stupid.
As do hundreds (if not thousands) of others.
As I said above, his views can potentially be seen as one trying to sell you his product. I prefer to get my reviews from more notably un-biased sources. I'm not saying Mr. Carmack's opinions are biased. But, at the same time, I wouldn't necessarily base my Goodyear tire purchase on Ford's recomendations.
The answer is simple -- The masses view their computers the same way they view their televisions, stereos, and vcrs. They're appliances. They'll use whatever OS comes on the computer they bought up until the day they buy a new computer. Then they'll use the OS that comes on that one, etc...
Average users aren't geeks. Average users don't care about the pros/cons of a given OS. They just want an OS that will run the shelves of software they see in Best Buy.
Actually, nothing imports from 3D Studio Max or exports to *.max format. Conversely, almost everything imports and exports 3D Studio (*.3ds) (the old DOS version).
.max format is a file that basically says, "here is the base geometry and the execution list for all of the modifiers that need to be run on it." So, without the modifiers there is no way to read the file in and make sense of it. Since the modifiers only run within 3DSMax you can only read the file into 3DSMax.
*.3DS is a static format. It can be read an parsed by just about anybody because the file stores the geometry as it was when the file was saved.
On the other hand, *.max (3DS Max format) is dynamic. 3DSMax works based on the concept of a modifier stack. You start with base geometry (plane, cylinder, sphere, polygon, etc...) and add modifiers to a stack. Each modifier affects the modifier below it and on down to the base geometry. It's flexible because you can jump to any point in the stack at any time and affect a change. It's also powerful in the fact that 3rd parties can write modifiers that can extend the usefullness of 3DSMax in any number of ways (http://www.digimation.com)
The
There are exactly zero 3rd party stand alone tools that can read a *.max file in and do anything with it. Okino Polytrans can convert *.max files to other formats but it does so by running from within 3DSmax as an export filter.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org