In a situation like this, to see the comments which either (1) bash the submitter's poor math (.4 SPF !=.4 FPS), e.g. read the article, or (2) just post something about "how slow.4 fps is", indicating that they didn't read the article at all.
A most intriguing study of slashdot responders.
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Right! Every time I upgrade, it's rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-whatever.src.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-whatever.i386.rpm for me. Now running just fine on the latest Roswell beta from RedHat without a hitch.
Every time I see another manufacturer's video card that's better than my aging TNT2, I say "ooh", but I haven't gotten one so far out of fear of going back to the sheer driver hell that is other manufacturer's Linux drivers. I'll be getting a GF2MX when I feel like I have money.
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None.
Seriously. My nVidia drivers are rock solid in 2D mode. In 3D, well, they used to lock a little bit (under SMP. This was acknowledged), but they're now also rock solid as well. I can play both tuxracer and mindrover at the same time without locking, just to show off Linux (and make a helluva sound come out of my speakers;-)
True, Descent's architecture was sort of a "one room with tunnels" approach, which meant you couldn't go outside. The way they did it was with cube-ish structures which could have walls on none, some, or all sides (but the outside needs to have walls). So, if you wanted to place a floating cube in the middle of a room, all you'd have to do is border it with 8 blank cubes.
Interestingly enough, the engine never checked for overlaps, so third party developers did some interesting things in the name of the fourth dimension;-)
Yeah, it was innovative. It showed how a 3D FPS (I mean real 3D, not this pansy stuck-to-the floor stuff) can have good level design, good netplay, and a kickass story. Better than find the key and blow up the reactor.
I'm sorry, but the term 'pilot' in connection to things you can touch is owned by Pilot Pen corporation, a French company. Change your dept. line now or face our wrath!
(Let's see if anybody else here understands what I'm talking about, or calls their palm a 'pilot' out of old-timerness.)
Everybody with the ability to do something like that and the lack of ethics to consider it realistically actually wants the rooted boxes for themselves?
Seriously, folks, everybody who *could* write something like that either (a) recognizes that infecting someone's box is infecting someone's box, closing holes or not or (b) sees no problems in having the rooted boxen out there anyway. I doubt that anybody else actually has the skills to do it.
Download KDE2.2 - the new printing system lets you print directly to a PDF from any KDE application. They also have a Print to Postscript and Mail PDF option. Otherwise, ps2pdf works wonders.
Personally, I would use "rights" instead of "right", but I wouldn't have a problem with legal biters such as these having only one right.
I do have a problem with this sentence, however:
Otherwise, excepting the period at the end of the sentence (that I assume was there from the start), there are not grammatical mistakes.
This sentence is syntactically correct; however, so are the winning entries in the IOCCC contest. I would rewrite as:
Otherwise, this sentence appears to contain no grammatical mistakes, excepting the lack of period at the end of the end of the sentence (which I assume was present in the original).
This more clearly conveys your intent as well as avoiding the generally awkward passive voice.
I didn't realize exactly what this was (the site linked is mega-slashdotted), but a quick google search turned up the following:
It's part of the Linux Video project, which describes it as "completely useless to 99.99 percent of users
out there. It is mostly of use to those interested in audio
coding research and evaluating codecs."
Dolby just said that they have license plans congruent to their "business plan".
I wonder what dodo there in Legal didn't realize that NetBSD's business plan is to "build the best and most portable (ported?) free UNIX-like OS and give it away free with complete source code with no restrictions for commercial use or extension".
I wonder what licensing terms they have that are amenable to those goals?
Where, O where, is the source to kontrol-panel? I was building my own KDE from source the other day (yeah, before rawhide updated to 2.2-cvs) and I couldn't find the kontrol-panel source code anywhere for the life of me!
How the hell do you downloaded it if your router just stopped speaking TCP/IP? You can't replace TCP/IP anymore with something else *instantly*, because there's no other way than TCP/IP to get the replacement to people effectively.
I have a question for the GNU project regarding a complete GNU OS. Let me start off by saying that I'm sure Hurd is a great research kernel for playing with new features (like having FTP work through the filesystem, etc.); however, it doesn't seem to be progressing towards being a complete user OS yet. In the meantime, GNU/Linux distributions have indeed filled that niche.
Is the Linux kernel the official GNU kernel now? If not, I will humbly suggest that AtheOS be considered as the GNU OS. It's a modern, multi-user OS that has its own aims but doesn't abandon UNIX compatibility. Much GNU software already compiles and runs on AtheOS. Would the GNU Project consider this?
I seriously hope this was sarcasm. I'd like to find the child who designed the Luna interface at some point, and teach him or her how to actually design interfaces, minus the crayola.
Either they fixed it, or your browser has a problem - it renders just fine here on Mozilla (Slowaris 2.6) and view source shows normal quotes in the source.
The best demo I've (never) seen has to be Be's initial demo of the BeOS, as read about in the BeOS bible. This was their initial public demonstration, and prior to this nobody outside of Be had seen their operating system. As the time approached, they all prayed to the demo gods that their software would work.
Sure enough, it crashed on-stage. A few times. But they were so adept at moving the crash boxes out of the way and dismissing them that nobody really noticed. That, and the software was so impressive that it netted them a standing ovation at Agenda '95 - supposedly the first in years.
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A most intriguing study of slashdot responders.
Every time I see another manufacturer's video card that's better than my aging TNT2, I say "ooh", but I haven't gotten one so far out of fear of going back to the sheer driver hell that is other manufacturer's Linux drivers. I'll be getting a GF2MX when I feel like I have money.
Seriously. My nVidia drivers are rock solid in 2D mode. In 3D, well, they used to lock a little bit (under SMP. This was acknowledged), but they're now also rock solid as well. I can play both tuxracer and mindrover at the same time without locking, just to show off Linux (and make a helluva sound come out of my speakers ;-)
Oops. The number I quoted is for a column in the middle of a room. 26 is right.
Interestingly enough, the engine never checked for overlaps, so third party developers did some interesting things in the name of the fourth dimension ;-)
D3 still rocks. Where, O Where, is D4?
Transparent aluminum!
Actually, it worked just fine for me, so I think the parent is pulling your leg. (Moz 0.9.3+ Slowaris 2.6)
(Let's see if anybody else here understands what I'm talking about, or calls their palm a 'pilot' out of old-timerness.)
Seriously, folks, everybody who *could* write something like that either (a) recognizes that infecting someone's box is infecting someone's box, closing holes or not or (b) sees no problems in having the rooted boxen out there anyway. I doubt that anybody else actually has the skills to do it.
Download KDE2.2 - the new printing system lets you print directly to a PDF from any KDE application. They also have a Print to Postscript and Mail PDF option. Otherwise, ps2pdf works wonders.
What are you waiting for?
I do have a problem with this sentence, however:
Otherwise, excepting the period at the end of the sentence (that I assume was there from the start), there are not grammatical mistakes.
This sentence is syntactically correct; however, so are the winning entries in the IOCCC contest. I would rewrite as:
Otherwise, this sentence appears to contain no grammatical mistakes, excepting the lack of period at the end of the end of the sentence (which I assume was present in the original).
This more clearly conveys your intent as well as avoiding the generally awkward passive voice.
</pedant>
Before someone accuses me of being a karma whore - I'm already over the cap and sinking towards 50 fast!
I wonder what dodo there in Legal didn't realize that NetBSD's business plan is to "build the best and most portable (ported?) free UNIX-like OS and give it away free with complete source code with no restrictions for commercial use or extension".
I wonder what licensing terms they have that are amenable to those goals?
Where, O where, is the source to kontrol-panel? I was building my own KDE from source the other day (yeah, before rawhide updated to 2.2-cvs) and I couldn't find the kontrol-panel source code anywhere for the life of me!
You don't get superpowers until you have >50 karma.
How the hell do you downloaded it if your router just stopped speaking TCP/IP? You can't replace TCP/IP anymore with something else *instantly*, because there's no other way than TCP/IP to get the replacement to people effectively.
Huh, didn't think of that one, right?
Is the Linux kernel the official GNU kernel now? If not, I will humbly suggest that AtheOS be considered as the GNU OS. It's a modern, multi-user OS that has its own aims but doesn't abandon UNIX compatibility. Much GNU software already compiles and runs on AtheOS. Would the GNU Project consider this?
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I seriously hope this was sarcasm. I'd like to find the child who designed the Luna interface at some point, and teach him or her how to actually design interfaces, minus the crayola.
Do you mean something cooler or something hornier?
Either they fixed it, or your browser has a problem - it renders just fine here on Mozilla (Slowaris 2.6) and view source shows normal quotes in the source.
Sure enough, it crashed on-stage. A few times. But they were so adept at moving the crash boxes out of the way and dismissing them that nobody really noticed. That, and the software was so impressive that it netted them a standing ovation at Agenda '95 - supposedly the first in years.