In The Curse of Monkey Island Guybrush Threepwood is buried alive and the credits start scrolling, when suddenly Guybrush starts yelling about how you can't die in these LucasArts games.
You can fix it. There's a kernel patch that allows you to use a fixed ACPI DSDT rather than the original one, and there are fixed versions of the DSDT available, put up by people who've fixed it. You can even do it yourself using Intel ACPI tools.
I'm still a student here, in India, but I'll be working in 6 months or so. I don't think American programmers are wrong in being angry about losing their jobs. Who could take that calmly?
Unfortunately, the anger is misdirected. If someone were to offer you a job, at least in the world we live in, 99.99999% of people will take it, without particularly concerning themselves over whose jobs they're taking. And there're are always people with lesser morals who will take the job in a flash, so no purpose is served, except to gaining Moral High Ground - doesn't put food in your stomach.
The anger is better directed at the companies that have turned their backs on the people that faithfully served them. It makes more sense to blame the people who screwed you over so thoroughly.
Well, there's already a web server in the kernel. What use is the server without a client. Woohooo! The FUN! Who needs an Internet connection! I browse my own pages, served by my kernel, using my kernel.
I ran across this game, BatleMaster, a while back. It's a light-weight online RPG - you just log in once or twice a day, and play for 15 minutes, max. Fun, and quite addictive.
Takes a little getting used to, so stick it out for at least a few days, and you'll be hooked.
What sucks is that the *card* is designed for DX9. Ideally, you'd want a card independent of any API, and all optimization at the driver level. This way, you've not only applied better design practice, you're also preventing the propogation of one standard alone. When industry majors start pushing a single closed "standard", history shows you'd better watch out.
Of course, that is the ideal case. DX9 has slipped ahead of OpenGL, and I am not trusting enough to believe that Microsoft will not take full advantage of this situation. Who do you think will get screwed over in the process?
...when a gaming company pulls down a graphics hardware manufacturer because it doesn't "accelerate" a particular API well.
From the point of view of OpenGL, this sucks completely. NVidia's hardware and drivers render OpenGL stuff incredibly well, and this is the only thing that keeps the Linux/Unix drivers at an acceptable level.
If these guys decide to optimize their hardware and software for DX9 alone, we're probably heading towards a time when only one API is followed, for good or bad. And that is Bad(tm).
To paint this as some sort of republican vendetta is absolutely idiotic, and if this
guy doesn't understand that when he's actually running, then obviously he's too stupid to be governor.
Quote from an earlier post: Not only is she smart, but she's damned cute too!She's got my vote!
It's so easy to say: "Make new open source games for linux. Make them high quality". Do you think people strive to make low quality games?
As far as I can see, there are 2 primary differences between games and most other software:
1) Product cycle. Unlike other software, most games are one-time products. This is true for any game with a story of any sort - most single-player games. Developing games like other open-source software, by releasing mostly-completed (read half-completed) software and then evolving will not work for games. People play games, and then they're done with them. If it's really good, it'll last a few months. Multi-player versions prolong it's life, but not indefintely, given rapidly evolving hardware. Take Mozilla as an example. Or the linux kernel. That kind of development cycle will *not* work for most games.
2) Artwork. Ask most open source game developers, or look at the websites. Everybody needs good artwork. And that doesn't come for free. I'm not going to speculate upon reasons for this, since I don't know any game artists. Anyone care to shed some light?
So the bottom line is that the entire development process for open source games needs to be reviewed carefully. Also, it would be useful to have some sort of website or community for artists who are willing to do artwork for projects they consider interesting. Or is there already something like this?
How do you percieve the Slashdot audience, with respect to your electoral campaign?
Let me be clearer, given the size of the Slashdot audience, the number that might be California residents, and the indirect influence they hold in terms of word-of-mouth, what weight do you think impressing us carries for this election?
Hehe, if you answer this, sorry for putting you on the spot.:)
Sorry chum, you're wrong. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are *very* competent. Incidentally, and possibly unfortunately, they're not in charge of food distribution.
The issue is indeed that they (the governement) don't care. Or that the only thing they care about is themselves. But that's a different set of people. The people at ISRO are quite motivated and independent of the rot that call itself the government. Okay that's too much of a blanket statement. There are some good people in government, but the rest of the filth makes sure these guys don't do anything untoward, like actually govern.
So tell me Einstein, what precisely would they do with the money instead? Airdrop it for everybody? Well, it would be a bit painful if they use coins, but hey, I'll endure anything if it means more money.
The slated budget, Rs. 300 crores, works out to 3 billion rupees. Given a population of 1 billion people, that's 3 rupees per person. That's a lot of people who're gonna get terribly rich.
Of course, there's income tax at 33%, so that leaves 2 rupees. Gives a whole new meaning to taxation at source, huh? And then the obligatory bribe. Lets peg that at a modest 50%. That leaves us with 1 rupee per person.
Yippee! Show me the money!
BTW, the current rate of exchange is about 45 rupees to the dollar.
Firstly, what the article mentions is "an indigenously prepared cryogenic rocket". It's the launch vehicle that's a first, not the satellite.
Secondly, India plans to launch "an unmanned mission to the Moon".
RTFA
Besides, the USA will have a hard time getting manned space missions up, given predictable knee-jerk reactions to the Columbia incident. This kind of thing is definitely a bad for any country. We'll just have to see how the space programmmes proceed over the next decade.
Perhaps the issue of user-friendliness was relevant a year back, but one must admit that with the advent of GNOME and KDE, and the ability to start off in the GUI, nebies would be less intimidated. Besides, KDE, by default, is very similar to Win9x. So, perhaps, people would not find it so difficult to migrate to Linux.
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And, before you mod me as flamebait
Well, at least someone listened to you and modded you Troll. Who says moderators don't read teh comments?
In The Curse of Monkey Island Guybrush Threepwood is buried alive and the credits start scrolling, when suddenly Guybrush starts yelling about how you can't die in these LucasArts games.
Does that count?
You can fix it. There's a kernel patch that allows you to use a fixed ACPI DSDT rather than the original one, and there are fixed versions of the DSDT available, put up by people who've fixed it. You can even do it yourself using Intel ACPI tools.
I did this on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. Lookup The ACPI4Linux project.
I'm still a student here, in India, but I'll be working in 6 months or so. I don't think American programmers are wrong in being angry about losing their jobs. Who could take that calmly?
Unfortunately, the anger is misdirected. If someone were to offer you a job, at least in the world we live in, 99.99999% of people will take it, without particularly concerning themselves over whose jobs they're taking. And there're are always people with lesser morals who will take the job in a flash, so no purpose is served, except to gaining Moral High Ground - doesn't put food in your stomach.
The anger is better directed at the companies that have turned their backs on the people that faithfully served them. It makes more sense to blame the people who screwed you over so thoroughly.
Well, there's already a web server in the kernel. What use is the server without a client. Woohooo! The FUN! Who needs an Internet connection! I browse my own pages, served by my kernel, using my kernel.
I ran across this game, BatleMaster, a while back. It's a light-weight online RPG - you just log in once or twice a day, and play for 15 minutes, max. Fun, and quite addictive.
Takes a little getting used to, so stick it out for at least a few days, and you'll be hooked.
As an interesting aside, the writer of the Sobig virus even makes it in at Number 42...
SoBig virus - ranked Number 42...
Number 42 - The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Coincidence? Maybe...
And those aliens were just a figment of your imagination too.
No really...they were.
{Twitch}
You missed my point entirely.
What sucks is that the *card* is designed for DX9. Ideally, you'd want a card independent of any API, and all optimization at the driver level. This way, you've not only applied better design practice, you're also preventing the propogation of one standard alone. When industry majors start pushing a single closed "standard", history shows you'd better watch out.
Of course, that is the ideal case. DX9 has slipped ahead of OpenGL, and I am not trusting enough to believe that Microsoft will not take full advantage of this situation. Who do you think will get screwed over in the process?
...when a gaming company pulls down a graphics hardware manufacturer because it doesn't "accelerate" a particular API well.
From the point of view of OpenGL, this sucks completely. NVidia's hardware and drivers render OpenGL stuff incredibly well, and this is the only thing that keeps the Linux/Unix drivers at an acceptable level.
If these guys decide to optimize their hardware and software for DX9 alone, we're probably heading towards a time when only one API is followed, for good or bad. And that is Bad(tm).
From the program(Pom1) website -
Pom1 still works very well on lastest technology (Tested on Mandrake Linux 9.1 with the j2sdk1.4.2 from Sun).
So he's talking to this yet-to-be-born child? How does he know it's a son?
Quote from an earlier post:
Not only is she smart, but she's damned cute too! She's got my vote!
RTFA! RTFA! RTFA!
And the award for the nittiest nitpick goes to...
...it'd be so weird.
It's so easy to say: "Make new open source games for linux. Make them high quality". Do you think people strive to make low quality games?
As far as I can see, there are 2 primary differences between games and most other software:
1) Product cycle. Unlike other software, most games are one-time products. This is true for any game with a story of any sort - most single-player games. Developing games like other open-source software, by releasing mostly-completed (read half-completed) software and then evolving will not work for games. People play games, and then they're done with them. If it's really good, it'll last a few months. Multi-player versions prolong it's life, but not indefintely, given rapidly evolving hardware. Take Mozilla as an example. Or the linux kernel. That kind of development cycle will *not* work for most games.
2) Artwork. Ask most open source game developers, or look at the websites. Everybody needs good artwork. And that doesn't come for free. I'm not going to speculate upon reasons for this, since I don't know any game artists. Anyone care to shed some light?
So the bottom line is that the entire development process for open source games needs to be reviewed carefully. Also, it would be useful to have some sort of website or community for artists who are willing to do artwork for projects they consider interesting. Or is there already something like this?
> Just release it as Quake II Remix ...sell it at a middle-level price.
<Igor>
Yes. Yes! YES!
</Igor>
How do you percieve the Slashdot audience, with respect to your electoral campaign?
:)
Let me be clearer, given the size of the Slashdot audience, the number that might be California residents, and the indirect influence they hold in terms of word-of-mouth, what weight do you think impressing us carries for this election?
Hehe, if you answer this, sorry for putting you on the spot.
Sorry chum, you're wrong. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are *very* competent. Incidentally, and possibly unfortunately, they're not in charge of food distribution.
The issue is indeed that they (the governement) don't care. Or that the only thing they care about is themselves. But that's a different set of people. The people at ISRO are quite motivated and independent of the rot that call itself the government. Okay that's too much of a blanket statement. There are some good people in government, but the rest of the filth makes sure these guys don't do anything untoward, like actually govern.
So tell me Einstein, what precisely would they do with the money instead? Airdrop it for everybody? Well, it would be a bit painful if they use coins, but hey, I'll endure anything if it means more money.
The slated budget, Rs. 300 crores, works out to 3 billion rupees. Given a population of 1 billion people, that's 3 rupees per person. That's a lot of people who're gonna get terribly rich.
Of course, there's income tax at 33%, so that leaves 2 rupees. Gives a whole new meaning to taxation at source, huh? And then the obligatory bribe. Lets peg that at a modest 50%. That leaves us with 1 rupee per person.
Yippee! Show me the money!
BTW, the current rate of exchange is about 45 rupees to the dollar.
Firstly, what the article mentions is "an indigenously prepared cryogenic rocket". It's the launch vehicle that's a first, not the satellite.
Secondly, India plans to launch "an unmanned mission to the Moon".
RTFA
Besides, the USA will have a hard time getting manned space missions up, given predictable knee-jerk reactions to the Columbia incident. This kind of thing is definitely a bad for any country. We'll just have to see how the space programmmes proceed over the next decade.
Correction - 1 crore = 10,000,000. 1 Lakh = 100,000. So the actual estimate is 3,500,000,000, which is about $80 million! I'm an Indian, BTW. :-)
Perhaps the issue of user-friendliness was relevant a year back, but one must admit that with the advent of GNOME and KDE, and the ability to start off in the GUI, nebies would be less intimidated. Besides, KDE, by default, is very similar to Win9x. So, perhaps, people would not find it so difficult to migrate to Linux.