What OS did you start on,when you first touched a PC? For me, it was DOS, of course..
for me it was Apple DOS 3.3. What's your point? Does that make it a good OS? Get a clue!
Although, come to think of it, who the heck uses Win2000 anyway? Win98 is more stable.. but that's like comparing the two crappiest bands in the place; which one's better?
I do. And being "based on NT technology", Windows 2000 is FAR superior to Windows 98 in terms of stability. Again, you have NO IDEA what you are talking about. (Of course, Linux is far more stable than both of them, and I use that, too.)
Although I hope it doesn't go the way of the pet rock and so many of the other many-company initiatives we hear about all of the time.
Yeah, these things usually end up being tied up in committee after committee, but mostly because one company or another that is a member doesn't really want an open standard, they want something they can embrace and extend. Like the whole DHTML fiasco, for instance.
Memo to Micros~1: it's bad enough to version your function calls with "Ex", but please don't append numbers to them!
ExExDrawFoo3482039109()
:)
Memo to the media: you all seem to believe that games make kids kill other kids. Is it possible that these kids happened to come across the Direct3D API, read it, and flipped out? Investigate! Maybe we can use some filtering software to keep the kiddies from seeing the Direct3D API on the web.
ROFL! Yeah, if they open source the Windows code, as a penalty in the DoJ case, I think that they'll probably have to have an age verification check. Go to the Microsoft site. Click download Windows code. "Please enter your AdultCheck ID." ???
:)
The question is will libraries now be forced to install filtering software to protect the children from the Windows code and Direct3D APIs?:)
In spite of #1, the only performance anyone cares about is the 3D.
Yeah, so long as you have two 1GHZ Athlons running SMP with 4 gigs a RAM, no problem on the rest of the performance.:) I'm waiting for game boxes that say: Minimum requirements: Beowulf Cluster with 128 boxes, 200 gigs of shared RAM and a CDROM drive.:)
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Ack! Did you ever see "The Matrix"? Creepy stuff. All the people in the world, hooked up to a computer and they don't even realize it... *shiver*
Well, yeah, its all fun and games till someone gets hurt, right?
Remember, this is a platform that has gone without a really good, polished commercial office suite for a long time.
WordPerfect 8 is nice, but hardly an office suite. StarOffice isn't bad if you don't mind the occasional X server crashes and poor compatibility with M$ Office documents (WP8 is worse on that count, though) and the massive BLOATWARE effect.
Then there's K-Office, which, my sources assure me, be available RSN. Even then, as a fairly immature suite of programs, I doubt KOffice will stack up to WordPerfect Office, at least initially, which has had years and years of polishing to make it what it is today. (Well, from the review, it looks like KOrganizer smokes WPO's PIM on network functionality, but there is more to an office suite than a PIM).
But hey, if you want to stick with open source and need true power, there's always vi and TeX!:)
Well, you're right. In reality, it does not widen the gap.
But, in a symbolic sort of sense it does. You won't find anyone buying.us or.it anytime soon, even though these are words, (.it has big impact, too, imagine having compuware.IT or something)
No problem. As witnessed in ST:FC, no transporters existed during the founding of the Federation, and I don't think that the Vulcans had them either. (At least there were no transporters when I was around:)
I can't really speak for the writers, of course, but I don't think that transporters were there, at least if they want to avoid any YATIs...
Well, I have to say that all of the ideas for new Trek episodes have been dodgy in some repect, espcially the academy one
Actually, the one a lot of the fans have been calling for would center around the crew of the Excelsior, with Sulu in command. There were rumors (obviously disinformation) flying around that this would succeed Voyager. (Hey, Slashdot people, Taco, Hemos, et al: I submitted this one and it was DECLINED! And now you go and post this? I'm offended:)
(Hopefully the writers shall be made to watch the Phantom Menace continually- until they get the idea of what not to do!)
Meesa chief engineeer! Meesa Lt. JarJar Binks!
:)
I only care for the doctor really
Shhhhhhhh! I do NOT want the Zefram Cochrane to turn out to be an opera star!!!!
Let's hope that they keep certain WWF stars out of this as well... *sigh*
And to CmdrTaco: Star Trek is NOT a dead horse!!! The continuing popularity of the movies and TOS and TNG reruns proves this. And Voyager is still UPNs highest rated show.
I must deal with RCN's awful service, or wait for DSL to come to the inner city at comparable prices.
Why does everyone think that DSL is expensive?
Granted, its not available everywhere by any means, but neither are cable modems. I have Time-Warner here (they have a monopoly), and they told me that they have no definitive plans at this time to offer RoadRunner service in my area.
My DSL provider is $50 a month, and I'm getting 784K, but I guess that is dependant on your distance from the CO.
Lots of others (Ameritech, Covad, etc.) are offering DSL at comparable prices.
Yeah, but this certainly widens the gap between the technological haves and havenots, a distinction that is already becoming very very important, and in the next few years will be *the* determining factor separating the rich from the poor.
Human beings need sunlight, interaction, comfort, quiet, good food, clean air, and clear water. If any of combination of those turns bad, it will take a toll on you. It may not be when youre 15, or 20, or 25, but it will ultimately kick your ass.
Shit. What's sunlight? Clean air? Does smoking menthol cigarettes count? Good food? I got my pork rinds and Mountain Dew...
Human beings were not physiologically meant to intake egregious amounts of caffiene, engadge in countless hours of intense, non-stop stimulation and stress. The body simply isn't equipped to handle that sort of thing for extended periods of time.
Really? Wow, that explains a lot, like why I have the shakes all the time and I'm so out of shape! Phew... All those years of Doom/Quake and Mountain Dew... damn, my life is over!
Well, anyone from Slashdot is prejudice in this case, really, with our without CmdrTaco's comment.
Think about it. Without deep linking, Slashdot wouldn't exist, now would it?:)
FWIW, I agree with CmdrTaco: the Web is primarily a broadcast medium. One of the advantages of the hypertext nature of the WWW is that hyperlinks, indexing, and the like make it easier for users to find information.
The WWW was never designed to be a medium where you only go in to Web sites through the "front door" so-to-speak. The fact that I can read something on a topic, click on link to jump to a related page, and then keep following links to find the information I want is the whole idea: this is POWER. And if it weren't for this kind of power, I think a good number of folks who use the Web for serious research wouldn't be using it, because it wouldn't be practical.
Take away linking and you take away power. Take away power and the users will follow. People quit using the Web, and the minor tech stock correction you saw in the Nasdaq recently will seem like nothing.
Licensing patents on stuff like this is IBM's usual MO, so yeah, they probably will start licensing it to all comers.
It wouldn't make sense for IBM not to license the technology, for we all know that in this fast-paced industry, holding on to patent rights rather than licensing them tends to not give you a competitve advantage for very long. Someone will come along and invent something similar, but not infringeing before long...
Yes, it's unfortunate that Trolltech charges for the Windows version regardless of whether your project is open or closed source. I wish they had the X pricing structure for all platforms (free for free software, closed for closed source).
One of the guys who ported the GIMP to Win32 also ported GTK... I'm normally a big Qt fan, but GTK is free...
gcc is totally portable and you make cross-compilers on any of the various platforms. (i.e., it is not difficult to compile a cross-compiler for Win32 on Linux).
The Qt libraries are portable across Windows and Linux and aren't very expensive if you need a nice widget set.
As many people undoubtedly will point out, "real programmers" don't use IDEs. But if you insist on using one, I'll bet KDevelop would work if you use only Qt stuff and not KDE stuff. (I don't have any practical experience in using KDevelop to write cross-platform Qt-applications, though).
Then there is winelib, which Corel is using to make its WordPerfect Suite and CorelDraw cross-platform. I don't know how mature it is, but if Corel is using what they open-sourced, then I'm guessing that it probably stable enough for serious development work.
WXWindows is another cross-platform library, like winelib. I have no experience with it, but I think its referenced on the LDP Web site somewhere. I'd check there, because there exists lots libraries similar to WXWindows and winelib.
If I have to explain its not funny but, Microsoft Visual Studio is cross-platform only if you consider all of the Windows platforms to be different platforms. In reality, Win32 is Win32 is Win32.:) (Ok, not really, but close enough)
Nahh. My money's on Alpha, which is designed for high FPU performance. Remember, Alpha was primarily designed as a high-performance RISC chip for CAD workstations, which do a lot math problems.
But as other posters have pointed out, "realtime" math processing requires much greater performance than any chip designed for PCs and workstations. This is where we get into the supercomputer realm.
Now for a Beowulf cluster, which still really isn't designed for "realtime" processing, but it might be good enough for a particular application, for math my money's still on Alpha... some of the fastest Beowulf clusters have been based on Alpha.
I will always go back to this, though: it depends on the application. 99.99% of the time, you don't really need or want real-time processing. Its just too expensive and requires really, really sophisticated hardware. In many cases, when you THINK you need real-time processing, what you REALLY need is real-enough-time processing. Which brings me back to Beowulf and Alpha.:)
PPC 7400 may be good for DSP-related stuff, but an all-around math chip it ain't. The Alpha is it.
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What OS did you start on,when you first touched a PC? For me, it was DOS, of course..
for me it was Apple DOS 3.3. What's your point? Does that make it a good OS? Get a clue!
Although, come to think of it, who the heck uses Win2000 anyway? Win98 is more stable.. but that's like comparing the two crappiest bands in the place; which one's better?
I do. And being "based on NT technology", Windows 2000 is FAR superior to Windows 98 in terms of stability. Again, you have NO IDEA what you are talking about. (Of course, Linux is far more stable than both of them, and I use that, too.)
Although I hope it doesn't go the way of the pet rock and so many of the other many-company initiatives we hear about all of the time.
:)
:) I'm waiting for game boxes that say: Minimum requirements: Beowulf Cluster with 128 boxes, 200 gigs of shared RAM and a CDROM drive. :)
Yeah, these things usually end up being tied up in committee after committee, but mostly because one company or another that is a member doesn't really want an open standard, they want something they can embrace and extend. Like the whole DHTML fiasco, for instance.
Memo to Micros~1: it's bad enough to version your function calls with "Ex", but please don't append numbers to them!
ExExDrawFoo3482039109()
:)
Memo to the media: you all seem to believe that games make kids kill other kids. Is it possible that these kids happened to come across the Direct3D API, read it, and flipped out? Investigate! Maybe we can use some filtering software to keep the kiddies from seeing the Direct3D API on the web.
ROFL! Yeah, if they open source the Windows code, as a penalty in the DoJ case, I think that they'll probably have to have an age verification check. Go to the Microsoft site. Click download Windows code. "Please enter your AdultCheck ID."
???
:)
The question is will libraries now be forced to install filtering software to protect the children from the Windows code and Direct3D APIs?
In spite of #1, the only performance anyone cares about is the 3D.
Yeah, so long as you have two 1GHZ Athlons running SMP with 4 gigs a RAM, no problem on the rest of the performance.
Ack! Did you ever see "The Matrix"? Creepy stuff. All the people in the world, hooked up to a computer and they don't even realize it... *shiver*
The scary part is that he might not be joking. ;)
Well, yeah, its all fun and games till someone gets hurt, right?
:)
Remember, this is a platform that has gone without a really good, polished commercial office suite for a long time.
WordPerfect 8 is nice, but hardly an office suite. StarOffice isn't bad if you don't mind the occasional X server crashes and poor compatibility with M$ Office documents (WP8 is worse on that count, though) and the massive BLOATWARE effect.
Then there's K-Office, which, my sources assure me, be available RSN. Even then, as a fairly immature suite of programs, I doubt KOffice will stack up to WordPerfect Office, at least initially, which has had years and years of polishing to make it what it is today. (Well, from the review, it looks like KOrganizer smokes WPO's PIM on network functionality, but there is more to an office suite than a PIM).
But hey, if you want to stick with open source and need true power, there's always vi and TeX!
the guy reviewing for canux is a complete idiot, howcan he get a job? If you could actually READ it. It appears to be down??? (/.ed?)
Well, you're right. In reality, it does not widen the gap.
.us or .it anytime soon, even though these are words, (.it has big impact, too, imagine having compuware.IT or something)
But, in a symbolic sort of sense it does. You won't find anyone buying
Slashdot is hardly representative of the science-fiction watching public.
Give me a break.
Star Trek is about the only show that has consistently kept science fiction programming on mainstream television.
No problem. As witnessed in ST:FC, no transporters existed during the founding of the Federation, and I don't think that the Vulcans had them either. (At least there were no transporters when I was around :)
I can't really speak for the writers, of course, but I don't think that transporters were there, at least if they want to avoid any YATIs...
We could make a Star Trek distro of Linux!
:)
Featuring LCARSWM of course... the touch screen might not be too hard, but the voice recognition stuff is gonna be tough...
Well, I have to say that all of the ideas for new Trek episodes have been dodgy in some repect, espcially the academy one
:)
Actually, the one a lot of the fans have been calling for would center around the crew of the Excelsior, with Sulu in command. There were rumors (obviously disinformation) flying around that this would succeed Voyager. (Hey, Slashdot people, Taco, Hemos, et al: I submitted this one and it was DECLINED! And now you go and post this? I'm offended
(Hopefully the writers shall be made to watch the Phantom Menace continually- until they get the idea of what not to do!)
Meesa chief engineeer! Meesa Lt. JarJar Binks!
:)
I only care for the doctor really
Shhhhhhhh! I do NOT want the Zefram Cochrane to turn out to be an opera star!!!!
Let's hope that they keep certain WWF stars out of this as well... *sigh*
And to CmdrTaco: Star Trek is NOT a dead horse!!!
The continuing popularity of the movies and TOS and TNG reruns proves this. And Voyager is still UPNs
highest rated show.
I must deal with RCN's awful service, or wait for DSL to come to the inner city at comparable prices.
Why does everyone think that DSL is expensive?
Granted, its not available everywhere by any means, but neither are cable modems. I have Time-Warner here (they have a monopoly), and they told me that they have no definitive plans at this time to offer RoadRunner service in my area.
My DSL provider is $50 a month, and I'm getting 784K, but I guess that is dependant on your distance from the CO.
Lots of others (Ameritech, Covad, etc.) are offering DSL at comparable prices.
Yeah, but this certainly widens the gap between the technological haves and havenots, a distinction that is already becoming very very important, and in the next few years will be *the* determining factor separating the rich from the poor.
Andover should buy slashdot.tv and slash.tv, because we all equate slashdot with watching TV ... :) Yeah, that it ... that's the ticket ....
:)
Sure, ms.tv, but what about micros~1.tv ?
Human beings need sunlight, interaction, comfort, quiet, good food, clean air, and clear water. If any of combination of those turns bad, it will take a toll on you. It may not be when youre 15, or 20, or 25, but it will ultimately kick your ass.
... damn, my life is over!
Shit. What's sunlight? Clean air? Does smoking menthol cigarettes count? Good food? I got my pork rinds and Mountain Dew...
Human beings were not physiologically meant to intake egregious amounts of caffiene, engadge in countless hours of intense, non-stop stimulation and stress. The body simply isn't equipped to handle that sort of thing for extended periods of time.
Really? Wow, that explains a lot, like why I have the shakes all the time and I'm so out of shape! Phew... All those years of Doom/Quake and Mountain Dew
:)
You know what?! Someone should take the Minix code and add a bunch of stuff to it, like virtual memory and increased driver support...
... ;)
Hey, I heard some crazy Finnish guy did that. I wonder if it ever amounted to anything
Well, anyone from Slashdot is prejudice in this case, really, with our without CmdrTaco's comment.
:)
Think about it. Without deep linking, Slashdot wouldn't exist, now would it?
FWIW, I agree with CmdrTaco: the Web is primarily a broadcast medium. One of the advantages of the hypertext nature of the WWW is that hyperlinks, indexing, and the like make it easier for users to find information.
The WWW was never designed to be a medium where you only go in to Web sites through the "front door" so-to-speak. The fact that I can read something on a topic, click on link to jump to a related page, and then keep following links to find the information I want is the whole idea: this is POWER. And if it weren't for this kind of power, I think a good number of folks who use the Web for serious research wouldn't be using it, because it wouldn't be practical.
Take away linking and you take away power. Take away power and the users will follow. People quit using the Web, and the minor tech stock correction you saw in the Nasdaq recently will seem like nothing.
Licensing patents on stuff like this is IBM's usual MO, so yeah, they probably will start licensing it to all comers.
It wouldn't make sense for IBM not to license the technology, for we all know that in this fast-paced industry, holding on to patent rights rather than licensing them tends to not give you a competitve advantage for very long. Someone will come along and invent something similar, but not infringeing before long...
Yes, it's unfortunate that Trolltech charges for the Windows version regardless of whether your project is open or closed source. I wish they had the X pricing structure for all platforms (free for free software, closed for closed source).
...
One of the guys who ported the GIMP to Win32 also ported GTK... I'm normally a big Qt fan, but GTK is free
Oh yeah, and one of the guys who ported the GIMP ported GTK+ to Win32...
gcc is totally portable and you make cross-compilers on any of the various platforms. (i.e., it is not difficult to compile a cross-compiler for Win32 on Linux).
The Qt libraries are portable across Windows and Linux and aren't very expensive if you need a nice widget set.
As many people undoubtedly will point out, "real programmers" don't use IDEs. But if you insist on using one, I'll bet KDevelop would work if you use only Qt stuff and not KDE stuff. (I don't have any practical experience in using KDevelop to write cross-platform Qt-applications, though).
Then there is winelib, which Corel is using to make its WordPerfect Suite and CorelDraw cross-platform. I don't know how mature it is, but if Corel is using what they open-sourced, then I'm guessing that it probably stable enough for serious development work.
WXWindows is another cross-platform library, like winelib. I have no experience with it, but I think its referenced on the LDP Web site somewhere. I'd check there, because there exists lots libraries similar to WXWindows and winelib.
I think you are obviously humour-impaired.
:) (Ok, not really, but close enough)
If I have to explain its not funny but, Microsoft Visual Studio is cross-platform only if you consider all of the Windows platforms to be different platforms. In reality, Win32 is Win32 is Win32.
Hey now! Stop clowning around! The Weekly World News happens to be a very respectable paper. It has the highest circulation in the world!
;)
If they say a virus can blow up my CPU, hey, I'm unplugging my LAN from the Internet pronto....
Nahh. My money's on Alpha, which is designed for high FPU performance. Remember, Alpha was primarily designed as a high-performance RISC chip for CAD workstations, which do a lot math problems.
:)
But as other posters have pointed out, "realtime" math processing requires much greater performance than any chip designed for PCs and workstations. This is where we get into the supercomputer realm.
Now for a Beowulf cluster, which still really isn't designed for "realtime" processing, but it might be good enough for a particular application, for math my money's still on Alpha... some of the fastest Beowulf clusters have been based on Alpha.
I will always go back to this, though: it depends on the application. 99.99% of the time, you don't really need or want real-time processing. Its just too expensive and requires really, really sophisticated hardware. In many cases, when you THINK you need real-time processing, what you REALLY need is real-enough-time processing. Which brings me back to Beowulf and Alpha.
PPC 7400 may be good for DSP-related stuff, but an all-around math chip it ain't. The Alpha is it.
Nope. It's 404ed