Frankly, I'm getting tired of all the anime and Star Wars bullshit. I don't give a damn about that crap.
Frankly, i'm tired of whiny trolls like you. If you don't want to see it, get an account, go into your settings, and check the topics you DON'T WANT TO SEE. That's why Rob created the StarWars and Anime topics, so fools like you would have no reason to bitch about him adding them. If you don't like Jon Katz, he's there too. Go check him, and you'll never see his articles again. So stop whining, get an account, and SHUT UP.
Anonymous Cowards have no right to complain about the subjects, and people with accounts have no reason to.
They have no right to make money. They have no right to FORCE others to take down logos, or say "sure, we'll do that," get the contract signed and then proceed to harass them.
Interoperability will come when both KDE and GNOME use the SAME API. No GTK or QT mess. Maybe a blend of the two, maybe something different. Diversity is good but when it threatens to split the community in half (like GTK or QT only apps), the choice is not necessary, simply redundant and dangerous. One set of libs, multiple UIs. THAT is Interoperability. THAT still gives you choice.
THEMES do not convey a sense of interoperability, simply that one can now read the other's config files. Big deal.
Apple's getting their ass handed to them in the MHz wars.
MHz is meaningless. If I created a cpu that ran at 1 GHz, and you made one that ran at 500 MHz, who would win?
What if yours completed an instruction (maybe two or three) PER CYCLE, while mine took an average of 4 or 5 cycles to complete one? Your 500 MHz, despite being lower in speed, would beat the hell out of my 1 GHz.
The exact same thing is happening now with the PowerPC and the Intel/AMD x86. The PowerPC apparently is more efficient, since it's at half the speed, but as fast, if not faster, than a 1 GHz x86 CPU.
The real killer will be if Softimage|3D (and mental ray) are ported to Linux.
It's one of the best modeling/animation tools I've ever had a chance to use, and I'd like to see it ported to a little more powerful of a platform (or if you prefer, something that looks a little more native, seeing as how the SI|3D UI on NT looks totally out of place. It truly is a *NIX app).
Mainly I'd want it on linux cause then no one else would mess with the config! You have no idea how much one person can damage an installation simply because they know how to use Explorer. (this coming from a highschool student about other highschool students...)
If microsoft *still* owned them, IRIX support would be gone, and you'd be using DirectX instead of OpenGL.
One thing the microsoft flunkies were trying to get the dev crew to do was port Softimage|3D to DirectX. Fortunately, they had enough weight with MS to hold out, and were eventually sold, I believe, to AVID.
There are microsoft copyrights all over it still, mostly due to the Mental Ray renderer, which I believe is a Microsoft product (one of the very FEW that supports non-MS OSes).
All that aside, I'd love to see Softimage|3D ported to Linux. I get to use the NT version at school (NPHS, we have 2 copies of extreme, getting a 3rd), and although it's sorta clunky at modeling, it's a breeze for animation and rendering.
Seeing as how people are downloading X-Men today (no DVDs exist, as I recall), in pretty good quality (barring compression/audio defects), I'd say that the MPAA has far more to worry about than people distributing DeCSS.
Lately I've seen DivXes made from tapes done with camcorders snuck into theaters, and from screeners (tapes sent to movie reviewers/oscar type people), so I doubt that DeCSS is responsible at all for most of the increase in pirated movies (DivX, on the other hand, probaby IS)
1. There is no definitive proof that DeCSS was used to make them. People are distributing DivXes made with footage people taped with camcorders they sneek into the theaters. Barring DeCSS won't stop that. 2. Compressing a DVD movie down to the size required to fit on 1 or 2 CDs involves a substantial hit in the quality of the video and audio, not to mention no one makes money off trading the DivXes. Sure you can now download the movie over the net. But it's like making a copy of a copy, a compression of a compression only gets worse.
Your argument is pointless. Office systems should never be overclocked (it isn't yours to screw up). For those who don't need it, it's pointless. And not everyone can afford a U2W SCSI system with multiple parallel disks, not to mention that SS disks are insanely expensive.
Why submit to an increase in price, when such a gain could be achieved through overclocking (and simple cooling)? Many CPUs of different speeds share the same type of core, and are bintested, starting (in AMDs case) at 1GHz, and down from there. They usually test under standard conditions, with a simple heatsink, maybe a fan. And they go down from there. Swap out the cheapo heatsink, use thermal paste, and that cpu can probably run at a higher speed.
For example, almost all celeron 366es were easily capable of 550, with minor amounts of extra cooling. If they didn't need the extra cooling, they'd have been sold as 433s or 466es.
So you can either spend the extra money, and be safe, or save a few bucks and tinker. No guarantees, but that's what it's about.
Sure didn't sound like it because Cleartype is a valid technology that could possibly have a purpose here, aside from the fact that text doesn't carry tone that well:)
at 200dpi with vector based fonts, you don't need cleartype, because your resolution is high enough to create smooth edges by sheer pixel count. Of course, until Windows or X gets a vector based UI, you'll be typing in 72 point fonts (which interestingly, would be about the size of a 16 point font on a 200dpi monitor!)
This is why the issue was brought up that what is needed is a vector based GUI. A vector based GUI would behave much like a 3D game would, in that regardless of the pixel count on screen, the objects remain the same size visually. So even if your monitor had 2500 x 2500 pixels, you could have a 1280x1024 (or higher/lower) equivalent resolution with photographic clarity. That sounds REALLY good to me.
Yes capitalism started this country. Now it's taken it over.
<RANT> Your rights to do ANYTHING these days are considered SECONDARY to business. Now tell me if you can remain patriotic much longer when it's possible to be silenced just so a company won't lose sales on a dangerous product.
You apparently fail to grasp the concept of a troll. They are not a rational thought. They are not meant to be taken seriously, and are to be ignored (or moderated). Enjoy!
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He was bitching about articles. Tough. He neither works there, owns it, hell, he doesn't even have as little as an account.
If you don't like it, see if they'll hire you. THEN if things don't work out you can complain.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of all the anime and Star Wars bullshit. I don't give a damn about that crap.
Frankly, i'm tired of whiny trolls like you. If you don't want to see it, get an account, go into your settings, and check the topics you DON'T WANT TO SEE. That's why Rob created the StarWars and Anime topics, so fools like you would have no reason to bitch about him adding them. If you don't like Jon Katz, he's there too. Go check him, and you'll never see his articles again. So stop whining, get an account, and SHUT UP.
Anonymous Cowards have no right to complain about the subjects, and people with accounts have no reason to.
s/capitalist/corporatist/g
They have no right to make money. They have no right to FORCE others to take down logos, or say "sure, we'll do that," get the contract signed and then proceed to harass them.
Interoperability will come when both KDE and GNOME use the SAME API. No GTK or QT mess. Maybe a blend of the two, maybe something different. Diversity is good but when it threatens to split the community in half (like GTK or QT only apps), the choice is not necessary, simply redundant and dangerous. One set of libs, multiple UIs. THAT is Interoperability. THAT still gives you choice.
THEMES do not convey a sense of interoperability, simply that one can now read the other's config files. Big deal.
Apple's getting their ass handed to them in the MHz wars.
MHz is meaningless. If I created a cpu that ran at 1 GHz, and you made one that ran at 500 MHz, who would win?
What if yours completed an instruction (maybe two or three) PER CYCLE, while mine took an average of 4 or 5 cycles to complete one? Your 500 MHz, despite being lower in speed, would beat the hell out of my 1 GHz.
The exact same thing is happening now with the PowerPC and the Intel/AMD x86. The PowerPC apparently is more efficient, since it's at half the speed, but as fast, if not faster, than a 1 GHz x86 CPU.
Quebec based, to be EXACT
and, yes, i'm just kidding...
Those fools! Blame Canada!!
The real killer will be if Softimage|3D (and mental ray) are ported to Linux.
It's one of the best modeling/animation tools I've ever had a chance to use, and I'd like to see it ported to a little more powerful of a platform (or if you prefer, something that looks a little more native, seeing as how the SI|3D UI on NT looks totally out of place. It truly is a *NIX app).
Mainly I'd want it on linux cause then no one else would mess with the config! You have no idea how much one person can damage an installation simply because they know how to use Explorer. (this coming from a highschool student about other highschool students...)
If microsoft *still* owned them, IRIX support would be gone, and you'd be using DirectX instead of OpenGL.
One thing the microsoft flunkies were trying to get the dev crew to do was port Softimage|3D to DirectX. Fortunately, they had enough weight with MS to hold out, and were eventually sold, I believe, to AVID.
There are microsoft copyrights all over it still, mostly due to the Mental Ray renderer, which I believe is a Microsoft product (one of the very FEW that supports non-MS OSes).
All that aside, I'd love to see Softimage|3D ported to Linux. I get to use the NT version at school (NPHS, we have 2 copies of extreme, getting a 3rd), and although it's sorta clunky at modeling, it's a breeze for animation and rendering.
Seeing as how people are downloading X-Men today (no DVDs exist, as I recall), in pretty good quality (barring compression/audio defects), I'd say that the MPAA has far more to worry about than people distributing DeCSS.
Lately I've seen DivXes made from tapes done with camcorders snuck into theaters, and from screeners (tapes sent to movie reviewers/oscar type people), so I doubt that DeCSS is responsible at all for most of the increase in pirated movies (DivX, on the other hand, probaby IS)
1. There is no definitive proof that DeCSS was used to make them. People are distributing DivXes made with footage people taped with camcorders they sneek into the theaters. Barring DeCSS won't stop that. 2. Compressing a DVD movie down to the size required to fit on 1 or 2 CDs involves a substantial hit in the quality of the video and audio, not to mention no one makes money off trading the DivXes. Sure you can now download the movie over the net. But it's like making a copy of a copy, a compression of a compression only gets worse.
Your argument is pointless. Office systems should never be overclocked (it isn't yours to screw up). For those who don't need it, it's pointless. And not everyone can afford a U2W SCSI system with multiple parallel disks, not to mention that SS disks are insanely expensive.
If it's any cpu...
:)
Celeron 366 overclocked to 550 at 2.0v
On an Abit BE6, using an MSI Slotket.
Cheapo heatsink and fan, with thermal grease.
Too damn easy
Why submit to an increase in price, when such a gain could be achieved through overclocking (and simple cooling)? Many CPUs of different speeds share the same type of core, and are bintested, starting (in AMDs case) at 1GHz, and down from there. They usually test under standard conditions, with a simple heatsink, maybe a fan. And they go down from there. Swap out the cheapo heatsink, use thermal paste, and that cpu can probably run at a higher speed.
For example, almost all celeron 366es were easily capable of 550, with minor amounts of extra cooling. If they didn't need the extra cooling, they'd have been sold as 433s or 466es.
So you can either spend the extra money, and be safe, or save a few bucks and tinker. No guarantees, but that's what it's about.
Sure didn't sound like it because Cleartype is a valid technology that could possibly have a purpose here, aside from the fact that text doesn't carry tone that well :)
at 200dpi with vector based fonts, you don't need cleartype, because your resolution is high enough to create smooth edges by sheer pixel count. Of course, until Windows or X gets a vector based UI, you'll be typing in 72 point fonts (which interestingly, would be about the size of a 16 point font on a 200dpi monitor!)
This is why the issue was brought up that what is needed is a vector based GUI. A vector based GUI would behave much like a 3D game would, in that regardless of the pixel count on screen, the objects remain the same size visually. So even if your monitor had 2500 x 2500 pixels, you could have a 1280x1024 (or higher/lower) equivalent resolution with photographic clarity. That sounds REALLY good to me.
Yes capitalism started this country. Now it's taken it over.
<RANT> Your rights to do ANYTHING these days are considered SECONDARY to business. Now tell me if you can remain patriotic much longer when it's possible to be silenced just so a company won't lose sales on a dangerous product.
No. Now it'll take three.
Genius, pure genius.
"Didn't you ever listen to your mother..."
You apparently fail to grasp the concept of a troll. They are not a rational thought. They are not meant to be taken seriously, and are to be ignored (or moderated). Enjoy!
The Dead Life is an oxymoron! Oh hell, lets get our gas powered shoes and just go jump around. (MOSH PIT!)
By all means!
There are many things best done with one finger that are best left unsaid.
This is not one of them.