Given that they say "PC or Mac" I take that to mean that by PC, they mean x86 or Windows machines. So I should be able to go down to the Solaris lab here at school and play it, right? I'm joking of course, but that'd be a nice excuse to tell the store manager you are returning it to.
One of my friends and I were at a microsoft user group (i'm not a member, i was just there for my free copy of windows xp:) meeting a few months ago, and he is a java fanatic, and there were showing some C# source code. My friend is a really smart guy, and he looks at it for a second, and says, "that would probably compile under java." and a few seconds later he said, "Hey, wait a second, that actually would compile under java." Needless to say, i laughed for a while about that one.
Do you guys remember when windows 95 was first released? Well, game developers shuned it despite microsoft's promise of some library called DirectX. Game developers and end-users had trouble coping with the percieved performance hit that games would take when written on top of windows (who needs another layre of abstraction when you are writing for performance). Well, DirectX and OpenGL on the windows platformhave since matured and almost all games are developed exclusively for windows. And i'm sure you all can see the parallels to todays talk of java gaming. -adma
mpeg-4 is only a container format like quicktime. actually mpeg-4 was based on quick time. i'm sure they'll still use sorenson. so their eventual switch to mpeg-4 wont change much of anything.
I know this is gona sound like an advertisement. But here goes...
I've toyed around with all sorts of Gnutella clients ever since it was created. And despite some fancy tricks, none of them could compare with a good centralized file sharing program. The most recent one i tried is called XoloX(MSWin only, sorry). And i havent used a different program since. I know it sound crazy, but you really cant tell your using a gnutella client, and you get good search results and reasonably consistent downloads. I found it really annoying at first that they hide everything about the gnutella network from you, but the creators seem to know what they're doing. Give it a shot if you dont believe me.
There may be hope for gnutella's future after all.
Just because its "doing your job" dosent make it legal. Hitmen do there job, and get put in jail for it. The question is not whether he broke the law, he did. The question is whether the law is unconstitutional and or unethical. The feds at this point cannot just be like "You know what, this law just isnt right. Let him go." Thats not their job. It will be a long process for him to ever be released.
I'll use nothing else nowadays. If the banner ad at the top dosent bother you, its the fastest browser out there, and quite standards compliant. They even have a native flash plug-in now.
http://www.opera.com/
I think your missing the point. DirectX was created because there already were too many layres of abstraction. It was very hard under vanilla win32 to directly access hardware. Now you can.
And i dont think that WineX is going to be an extra layre of abstraction, but rather another implementation of the same API.
This is why I feel that they should market Indrema as more of a multi-purpose tool. It should already have dvd built in, and I imagine that they could put some tivo-like features into it. That way people would be more likely to buy the device. They should hold of makeing a big deal out of gaming until lots of the units are in consumers hands.
I don't understand why this would be such a bad thing. And you are quite incorrect when you said that abstractions of abstractions does not solve problems.
The problem right now is that a program written for KDE will not work with a gnome only system. Your right that X11R6 and POSIX are common API's that Gnome and KDE use, but this has nothing to do with the problem stated above. The problem happens because the apps written for these two environments can't talk with the other environment. A shared API would solve this.
It sure would be a nice jesture to the oper source community if they chose to make it compatible with jabber. (I know they already have an AIM transport, but it sucks)
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Given that they say "PC or Mac" I take that to mean that by PC, they mean x86 or Windows machines. So I should be able to go down to the Solaris lab here at school and play it, right?
I'm joking of course, but that'd be a nice excuse to tell the store manager you are returning it to.
My god, you must have the most booring job on the planet.
:) just kidding
One of my friends and I were at a microsoft user group (i'm not a member, i was just there for my free copy of windows xp :) meeting a few months ago, and he is a java fanatic, and there were showing some C# source code. My friend is a really smart guy, and he looks at it for a second, and says, "that would probably compile under java." and a few seconds later he said, "Hey, wait a second, that actually would compile under java." Needless to say, i laughed for a while about that one.
Do you guys remember when windows 95 was first released? Well, game developers shuned it despite microsoft's promise of some library called DirectX. Game developers and end-users had trouble coping with the percieved performance hit that games would take when written on top of windows (who needs another layre of abstraction when you are writing for performance). Well, DirectX and OpenGL on the windows platformhave since matured and almost all games are developed exclusively for windows. And i'm sure you all can see the parallels to todays talk of java gaming.
-adma
mpeg-4 is only a container format like quicktime. actually mpeg-4 was based on quick time. i'm sure they'll still use sorenson. so their eventual switch to mpeg-4 wont change much of anything.
hmm... i figured they would use a tricycle instead?
I've been working for about 4 years now on a graphical user interface for dos
A graphical user interface for DOS? What a novel idea!
actually its both. Its bsd running on top of a microkernel! *double shock*
Microkernels were the latest hype in the 1980's for OS development. They've only ever been hype
MacOS X, QNX, both great operating systems, and both use microkernals. *shock*
I know this is gona sound like an advertisement. But here goes...
I've toyed around with all sorts of Gnutella clients ever since it was created. And despite some fancy tricks, none of them could compare with a good centralized file sharing program. The most recent one i tried is called XoloX(MSWin only, sorry). And i havent used a different program since. I know it sound crazy, but you really cant tell your using a gnutella client, and you get good search results and reasonably consistent downloads. I found it really annoying at first that they hide everything about the gnutella network from you, but the creators seem to know what they're doing. Give it a shot if you dont believe me.
There may be hope for gnutella's future after all.
i know you were being sarcastic, i was merly pointing out the irony
Which happens to include SlashCode
Just because its "doing your job" dosent make it legal. Hitmen do there job, and get put in jail for it. The question is not whether he broke the law, he did. The question is whether the law is unconstitutional and or unethical. The feds at this point cannot just be like "You know what, this law just isnt right. Let him go." Thats not their job. It will be a long process for him to ever be released.
Unfortunatly i stumble over that one aswell
I'll use nothing else nowadays. If the banner ad at the top dosent bother you, its the fastest browser out there, and quite standards compliant. They even have a native flash plug-in now.
http://www.opera.com/
That dosent even make sense. Win32 already had a built-in driver system.
I think your missing the point. DirectX was created because there already were too many layres of abstraction. It was very hard under vanilla win32 to directly access hardware. Now you can.
And i dont think that WineX is going to be an extra layre of abstraction, but rather another implementation of the same API.
Good, then they should market it that way.
This is why I feel that they should market Indrema as more of a multi-purpose tool. It should already have dvd built in, and I imagine that they could put some tivo-like features into it. That way people would be more likely to buy the device. They should hold of makeing a big deal out of gaming until lots of the units are in consumers hands.
I don't understand why this would be such a bad thing. And you are quite incorrect when you said that abstractions of abstractions does not solve problems.
The problem right now is that a program written for KDE will not work with a gnome only system. Your right that X11R6 and POSIX are common API's that Gnome and KDE use, but this has nothing to do with the problem stated above. The problem happens because the apps written for these two environments can't talk with the other environment. A shared API would solve this.
800 concurrent users at any given moment
Wow, those user licenses must cost you a fortune?
You don't have to buy a licence for each user. Its 800 people that access it at one time. One licence. Your an idiot.
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It sure would be a nice jesture to the oper source community if they chose to make it compatible with jabber. (I know they already have an AIM transport, but it sucks)
Internet broadcast is not the same as airwave broadcast, since it is essentially "copying" digital data from one computer to another
well then, airwave broadcast is not the same as Internet broadcast, since it is essentially "copying" analog data from one radio to another
We have SDL already, why do we need direct x?