tv resolution is around 350x250something, i'f i'm not mistaken.
why do you want insane resolution to have clearer, sharper images, when the most basic of optics isn't even being respected: FOCUS. when you are facing a column and the rest of the room is on the left and the right of the column, isn't the room supposed to be blurred?
And another, similar, thing: about hi res in games... i do not get it...: if IRL, you can't read a sing that is 50m (~150feet) away, why do you want to be able to see it when you play a game?
Instead of increasing resolution, more polygons, more whizbang, why don't computer game creators make *realistic* looking games?
(about those who are revving up to scream "we want gameplay, not realism!!!", yeah, ok, but a rocket that goes at running pace, "laser blasts" at 100mph, washed out textures and blocky polygons just suck...)
...when they say "advanced processors" or whatever. All i know is that, in most games, i make out polygons (and i hate it), i see unrealistic shadows (hate it), silly physics (you get the idea)...
I'll be impressed not when hollywood starts interfering with games...but when i see a single tree, with all its leaves and all its shadows and i can't distinguish if it is a rendering or a photograph.
What about the fact that earlier when nvidia wanted to eliminate polygons with using nurbs, and didsome research on the matter and m$ popped up saying "ME NOT LIKE THAT. ME WANT NO NEW THINGS. ME WANT MONEY. YOU WILL MAKE SAME THINGS. ME NOT LIKING NURBS."
Here's my idea... I've heard that the 2.2 kernel was very very stable. Now, one could say that:
#1 from 2.2 -> 2.6, we improve stability (since we're taking the 2.x codebase and improving on it) and refrain from adding too many new features.
#2 from 2.2 -> 3.0, we are expected to lose some stability, since this is a *new* codebase (it is a newer version, right? not an improvement like the #1 case) and see more new features.
but personaly, i don't care what you call it. Call it version 3.1337 or whatever...it's still the newer Linux ("Linux kernel" is redundant).
I do have the correct settings forthe dvd drive, X4, celeron433, geforce2mx, xv, etcetc, in short, none of what you say is the case.
I have to admit tho, sound is better under XINE than under windvd . windvd takes 48KHz and makes it like 22KHz or something...while XINE does it correct------hey wait a bit...maybe that is the reason i get 40% cpu !?!!??! oh my...
Weird HW detection...sometimes after a reboot i have to rmmod sb/sbawe/soundcore/etc by hand and restart them.
To watch divx5 movies, it is not enough to download a codec like with WMP, but you have to recompile your media player, upgrade your ALSA, upgrade your kernel... in fact, this is the reason i ditched linux and returned to 98. I prefer reboots to downloading endless MBs and recompiling for hours and not being sure it will work.
It is slower. End of story. No matter what you say, no matter what benchmarks or other stuff you come up with, qt/gtk widgets are STILL slower than win32 widgets, watching dvd with XINE takes 40% of my CPU while under windows it takes 5%(five), process spawning is slower (under windows if i run iexplore.exe repeatedly, it pops up new windows at a rate about 5 windows/second. Under linux, the best i could do is 0.5 new windows/sec. Dirty test, i agree, but...
What else?
Lack of Games. To those of you who say that linux is not a desktop os, why do i see all these projects spawning everywhere about SDLs and stuff?
And why instead of getting together and workin in teams, i see a sagan of different apps that are supposed to do one thing, but NONE of them is perfect? Sure, you might say "but windows isn't perfect either!" but don't you want your linux to be?
Lyx owns, blah blah blah, but under windows, to do word processing/type setting, it is 10 clicks away to write in my native, non-english, language. Under linux, i can't even find a faq for it. I don't even want to think what is necessary to actually print.
As i remember new ones i will add them.
IF YOU THINK I AM WRONG ABOUT ONE OF THESE, INSTEAD OF TELLING ME "YOU SUCK!! YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!!" *PLEASE* tell me what to do to correct them! i am NOT bashing linux! i WANT to use linux! i WANT it to get better!
Point is, they should not be going after those who *offer* the media. THey should be going after those who *take* it.
Have you seen many police officers going to the shopping place in your town and arrest all those who have some of their merchandise outside their shop?
(i know that on p2p you don't sell anything, i just wanted to say that it's not the one who offers who is to blame, but one who takes it illegaly. actual story: i had Death - The sounds of Perseverance on CD. Bought, fair and square. Then, one day, i stepped on it and it got ruined...i was very sad. Then i went on p2p to get it from someone else.Both me and the other party are perfectly legal.)
It is silly. I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to become a walking game console stand...
Every teen i know and their dog have at least one console, and don't expect to find someone walking on the streets, with a console on his head to find out about the latest gaming news.
Who is this "idea" targeted at? My mother returning from the grocery store?
On a lighter note, this scheme involves gamers ever getting OUT of their rooms...
Go ahead, mod me as troll, but deep inside you you know that while games are fun, there's something to be said about self respect. __
How about we put the most common letters in place of asdf and hjkl and then the next more common in the places easier to reach for the index and middle finger?
...But are we going to see this (and others, such as dvorak) keyboard layout widely used?
As a note, for those who don't know, the current (QWERTY) layout was devised so that typists (on ancient typewriters) could *not* type so fast that they clogged up their machines.
Or something like that. In any case, i am using my calc's ABCDEF layout, LOL!
Go get a book on wave theory and and quantum mechanics. Just make sure it isn't heavy on math...Apart from that, they/it should prove an interesting read, and far more informative than a/. discussion:P
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...what's the use for the license now?
tv resolution is around 350x250something, i'f i'm not mistaken.
why do you want insane resolution to have clearer, sharper images, when the most basic of optics isn't even being respected: FOCUS. when you are facing a column and the rest of the room is on the left and the right of the column, isn't the room supposed to be blurred?
And another, similar, thing:
about hi res in games... i do not get it...: if IRL, you can't read a sing that is 50m (~150feet) away, why do you want to be able to see it when you play a game?
Instead of increasing resolution, more polygons, more whizbang, why don't computer game creators make *realistic* looking games?
(about those who are revving up to scream "we want gameplay, not realism!!!", yeah, ok, but a rocket that goes at running pace, "laser blasts" at 100mph, washed out textures and blocky polygons just suck...)
...when they say "advanced processors" or whatever. All i know is that, in most games, i make out polygons (and i hate it), i see unrealistic shadows (hate it), silly physics (you get the idea)...
I'll be impressed not when hollywood starts interfering with games...but when i see a single tree, with all its leaves and all its shadows and i can't distinguish if it is a rendering or a photograph.
What about the fact that earlier when nvidia wanted to eliminate polygons with using nurbs, and didsome research on the matter and m$ popped up saying "ME NOT LIKE THAT. ME WANT NO NEW THINGS. ME WANT MONEY. YOU WILL MAKE SAME THINGS. ME NOT LIKING NURBS."
hope you get the idea.
Here's my idea...
I've heard that the 2.2 kernel was very very stable. Now, one could say that:
#1 from 2.2 -> 2.6, we improve stability (since we're taking the 2.x codebase and improving on it) and refrain from adding too many new features.
#2 from 2.2 -> 3.0, we are expected to lose some stability, since this is a *new* codebase (it is a newer version, right? not an improvement like the #1 case) and see more new features.
but personaly, i don't care what you call it. Call it version 3.1337 or whatever...it's still the newer Linux ("Linux kernel" is redundant).
just my thoughts.
Damn...
Hey, the Yamaha R1 is very fast...why not review that? I'm sure you speed freaks you're gonna love a 170kg 1000cc bike
Because that's how they are as well known as they are now!
-> http://tunes.org/Review/Languages.html
Why are there still such kind of errors!? Aren't there safer ways to work with buffers? Can't we people just enable runtime checks for these things?!
sheesh!
If you could change one law, what would you do?
Just clip the headphones' cables and input it to your soundcard...(yeah, i know the quality won't be perfect, but it will be ok)
this is really stupid... trying to "prevent"...
since they know they are losers from first hand, why do they just keep giving us these (stupid) challenges?
(what if we dissassemble the player and get the goddamn cd out of there, anyway)
i'm counting minutes until these songs appear on p2p
I thought it was "Graphic" image manipulation program...
I do have the correct settings forthe dvd drive, X4, celeron433, geforce2mx, xv, etcetc, in short, none of what you say is the case.
I have to admit tho, sound is better under XINE than under windvd . windvd takes 48KHz and makes it like 22KHz or something...while XINE does it correct------hey wait a bit...maybe that is the reason i get 40% cpu !?!!??! oh my...
i feel silly now...
What i did, how is it different from copying my cd once, and keep it as backup in case the one i use gets ruined?
In fact, after that cd incident, first thing i do when i buy a new cd, is copy it and use the copy. the original is kept in an archive.
your ati card example is completely unrelated.
Weird HW detection...sometimes after a reboot i have to rmmod sb/sbawe/soundcore/etc by hand and restart them.
To watch divx5 movies, it is not enough to download a codec like with WMP, but you have to recompile your media player, upgrade your ALSA, upgrade your kernel... in fact, this is the reason i ditched linux and returned to 98. I prefer reboots to downloading endless MBs and recompiling for hours and not being sure it will work.
It is slower. End of story. No matter what you say, no matter what benchmarks or other stuff you come up with, qt/gtk widgets are STILL slower than win32 widgets, watching dvd with XINE takes 40% of my CPU while under windows it takes 5%(five), process spawning is slower (under windows if i run iexplore.exe repeatedly, it pops up new windows at a rate about 5 windows/second. Under linux, the best i could do is 0.5 new windows/sec. Dirty test, i agree, but...
What else?
Lack of Games. To those of you who say that linux is not a desktop os, why do i see all these projects spawning everywhere about SDLs and stuff?
And why instead of getting together and workin in teams, i see a sagan of different apps that are supposed to do one thing, but NONE of them is perfect? Sure, you might say "but windows isn't perfect either!" but don't you want your linux to be?
Lyx owns, blah blah blah, but under windows, to do word processing/type setting, it is 10 clicks away to write in my native, non-english, language. Under linux, i can't even find a faq for it. I don't even want to think what is necessary to actually print.
As i remember new ones i will add them.
IF YOU THINK I AM WRONG ABOUT ONE OF THESE, INSTEAD OF TELLING ME "YOU SUCK!! YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!!" *PLEASE* tell me what to do to correct them! i am NOT bashing linux! i WANT to use linux! i WANT it to get better!
*sigh*
or not at all.
Point is, they should not be going after those who *offer* the media. THey should be going after those who *take* it.
Have you seen many police officers going to the shopping place in your town and arrest all those who have some of their merchandise outside their shop?
(i know that on p2p you don't sell anything, i just wanted to say that it's not the one who offers who is to blame, but one who takes it illegaly. actual story: i had Death - The sounds of Perseverance on CD. Bought, fair and square. Then, one day, i stepped on it and it got ruined...i was very sad. Then i went on p2p to get it from someone else.Both me and the other party are perfectly legal.)
please don't take me wrong
"aim: eromlenosam"
mason elmore?
... /. rendered the site unreachable ;)
It is "insightful"
/. story about supporting "gnome" and not "opensource" in general?
Why a
...completely and utterly stupid.
It is silly. I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to become a walking game console stand...
Every teen i know and their dog have at least one console, and don't expect to find someone walking on the streets, with a console on his head to find out about the latest gaming news.
Who is this "idea" targeted at? My mother returning from the grocery store?
On a lighter note, this scheme involves gamers ever getting OUT of their rooms...
Go ahead, mod me as troll, but deep inside you you know that while games are fun, there's something to be said about self respect.
__
The world is already visual. Vision is one of the most important senses (for men).
People with visual problems (nearsighted/nearblind/blind) are just that. People with problems.
It is/should be everyone's interest to make things easier for them.
BUT NOT WITH QUAKE DAMMIT.
(ok, i foresee that if 3D computer graphics help the visualy impaired, we could adapt it for real-life 3D rendered scenes...)
...must be related to these 25 hour days we've been listening about the last few days... oh the horror/happiness (depending who you are...;)
How about we put the most common letters in place of asdf and hjkl and then the next more common in the places easier to reach for the index and middle finger?
...But are we going to see this (and others, such as dvorak) keyboard layout widely used?
As a note, for those who don't know, the current (QWERTY) layout was devised so that typists (on ancient typewriters) could *not* type so fast that they clogged up their machines.
Or something like that. In any case, i am using my calc's ABCDEF layout, LOL!
...going on.
/. discussion :P
Go get a book on wave theory and and quantum mechanics. Just make sure it isn't heavy on math...Apart from that, they/it should prove an interesting read, and far more informative than a