Most of the techno mumbo jumbo is meaningless to my tiny mind, but the pictures I see on the article definately put the Dreamcsat on top. The user who keeps posting the 2 urls comparing Dreamcast and PS2 also shows a good difference.
I know most Slashdot readers are gung ho on the PS2, but I bought a Dreamcast a couple months ago and love it. There are soo many different kind of games being built for it, where I see the ps2 having the old game ideas thrown back together in monotonus renditions...
10MB/frame on screen for the PS2 and 25MB/frame on screen for Dreamcast... Ouch... I supposed writing to VRAM is a mounds quicker then writing to GS-memory.
that I've been wondering for a long long time is why not issue random drug tests to high school students? Is there some law preventing this from happening? I'm in college now, but I was thinking the same idea during high school...
Why not have a computer generated random testing? Say 5 kids or something similar a week, and those names that are already tested go back into the system. Whoever appears positive for the test gets a boot from school or something..? Hell, the kids I knew doing drugs in high school would watch a DARE commercial and laugh....
My ancestors BUILT this country on forced labor. Now don't YOU tell ME what I should do to be American, sucker.
Yes, there are other "African American" readers on this site that hold steady jobs. Infact, at times with affirmitive action it's easier for us to be placed in jobs becasue of our race. Don't blame "caucasions" for shit from years ago.
*sigh*
If your a troll, that's a lot of intellegence you have that could be shooting twoards better things...
What about capcom's Resident Evil seris? The games are almost movielike... It would be interesting to see them in the big screen... altho it'd probably be a disappointment.:-)
Oh welps, I tihnk it's great that a video games has become so big that big moveis are coming out of it... (And no, the mario brothers movie was a piece of....)
Hopefully Final Fantasy will be good... and not a Mario movie!:)
Yes, I'm a Penn State student also. At the end of last year President Spainer didn't want to ban napster and I even remember the decision to buy more bandwith instead of blocking the use of the program. I'm in the IST and Comp Engineering programs, and Napster is a daily topic in a lot of our lectures now. One professor explained this letter. Penn State is only monitoring over use. So people in the dormitorys MIGHT have to watch out if they're downloading gigs and gigs, but the unlucky people on the Penn State dial-ups around Pennsylvania probably aren't going to be in any risk.
I'm happy with a lot of Penn State's decisions. The "Technical" college of Penn State, Penn College (PCT) changed their nameserver to "block" Napster. But the Penn State system is completely seperated from Penn College... (on a personal note, I think Penn College is the biggest piece of shit I've seen in a long time) but on all the other Penn State campuses nothing changed. As far as bandwith problems, I could just see some universities using balancing hardware... dedicating a smaller portion to napster or something similar... but that's no longer the problem anymore:-)
Kalisto made a lot of improvments (I'm on the dcdev mailing list and dabble in some dreamcast programming via my stupid serial cable:)) but KALiSTO has done a lot of major enhancements to the Dreamcast programing scene.
I follow the iso scene a little bit (just for kicks, my cable modem caps would kill me) but the day after KALiSTO supposedly "quit" doing the Dreamcast a new group appeared called Echelon
appeared on the scene. This group could do all the things KALiSTO could do, and now they're doing some more things (like being able to swap 2 cd's without booting the dreamcast again etc)..
So it's most likely KALiSTO renaming themselves to either shut people up or they were taking heat from somewhere. I very much doubt SEGA would be giving them stock option for pirating their games, however weirder things have happened. But I just think it's very odd that another group appeared with the same capibiliteis as them. I mean hell, all the other groups releasing games on the DC scene aren't nearly as skilled as either of these groups. Just funny to see one appear out of nowhere... heh
First of all, having them call in and record is going to sound terrible - phones just don't sound that nice! However, it should still be possible for them to somehow contact each other to record an episode. Since this is, of course, Geeks in Space
Actaully it's not that bad. Try listening to the older 2600's Off the Hook Episodes. Bernie S is practically a co-host and he's usually on the phone the whole time. While it's rather fitting, cause it's a hacking/phreaking/political show, but it's still actually not that bad.
Howver, I think it'd still be great to hear Cowboy and Taco doing the show and maybe adding a call in section or what not. It'd probably be a pain in the ass with all the trolls who'd want to call in, but picture actually hearing some of the more intelligent Slashdot readers talking about the subjects... It'd definately be interesting. I'd love to hear how taco would reply to many of the topics... of course a lot of asshoels would probably ruin the idea tho.
I highly suggest hitting the conf files by hand--you'll learn a hell of a lot more in the process. Trust me, knowing how to monkey with a system with only vi is a highly useful skill.
What about the people that know how to configure a system fairly well already? There should be something similar to Linuxconf to just make the process much quicker... (Well, depends which way you look at it, some people think the shell is quicker, some think the gui type setting is quciker...) But for those of us that want something like that.:)
I know what your saying. Usually I'm the command line vi guy, but sometimes I wanna use a menu. Oh welpers... I guess to each his own.
2. Do you really want to trust a robot with some sort of weapon? Be it a stun gun, or a fire arm.
That'd be a pretty hard feat to accomplish... Considering you can trust a lot of humans with them in itself! Hopefully this will stay over in Thailand and not make it anywhere else:-)
I really want MS to ignore linux forever, the less polution in the world comming from them the better. I fear what may happen to Linux if MS does try to establish a role as a domininate commercial application vendor(hopefully not a successful one).
I used to think like that. I used to hate Microsoft in every single way, but after growing up a little more and maturing in my head more I can understand a lot of their concepts, ideas, and ways... Do you really think Microsoft is going to completely ignore Linux? They're not a stupid company (Well, that's debateable). They're going to be smart enough to see the avalibility with Linux and be able to cash in a little. They see this little competitior in the ways gaining a huge following and gathering more momentium. They see the dollar signs pouring in too. Why not port some applications people are going to want to use instead of losing the market to others? If MS does establish a role as a domininate commercial application vendor for Linux, they still aren't going to take much control because they can't control the operating system.
Some of Transmeta's biggest investors include Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) co-founder Paul Allen, whose Vulcan Ventures investment vehicle currently holds a 7 percent stake equal to 3,954,333 shares.
I guess the Microsoft port article distracted everyone... Microsoft made a huge investment in Transmeta too. I wonder if that's going to effect anything at all... Kind of funny to think in a way that Microsoft owns 7% of Linus Torvalds Paycheck:-)
Anyways, 7% isn't too much, but that's still quite a chunk. I don't understand completely how IPO's work, but it does look pretty strange:)
So, being on the East Coast up here in Pennsylvania I don't get a chance to go to very many geek parties becasue they all happen about a 24 hour drive away from me in California...
So what exactly happens at these geek parties besides the normal consompution of large amounts of yellow liquid? Many laptops being used? Ideas being thrown around? Linux games (ya' know, like pin the beak on tux)?
Just curious... I was thinking about going out to California for a few weeks (just a random idea) and hopefully being able to attend something similar to this:-)
I do not believe you guys give the 'joystick' playing mindless drones enough credit'
I give credit where credit is due. There are a hell of a lot of good players out there using joysticks, but I'm talking about the average Joe...
I sat one day trying to play Quakeworld online and was wondering how the hell people were killing me from every single angle in the world... Finally a friend taught me how to use the keybaord and mouse combination and I've been blowing people away ever since. I'm talking about the majority of players tho... I taught a few friends the keyboard and mouse combo and after 10 minutes they increased their skills very much...
OH well, I think it'll be intersting to see... I never even saw a Dreamcast keyboard in stores yet... of course I never really looked either. Wonder how much they're priced at...
There will be a keyboard and a mouse that you can attach to Dreamcast, they were shown at QuakeCon
Carmack brought up a great point tho. Adding the keyboard and mouse admist all the joystick players might be deadful... Picture all the non-pc type people attempting to play on a server and having one of the "lpb's" jumping all over the place schooling everyone with his keybaord and mouse combination. People might get discouraged and not play...
OH welps, maybe there could be a setting to play against only those people or what not... never know. I'd rather play with a keybaord and mouse ANY day then a cheeey joystick. I love my Dreamcast, but I love my Quake-style games.
There is a way to get to a DOS prompt, but just as it is difficult to find, it is difficult to use. Much of the functions that one is used to useing in a DOS Box in Win9x, are disabled. Try getting into a directory that has spaces in it. So far I know no one that has been able to.
Did you read the thread and the story submited? It soudns like your confusing Windows 2k with Windows ME. Windows ME is still built off DOS like all previous Windows versions (95's, 98's). You can get into directories with spaces quite easily. cd "Wow heh woopie" works fine. If your talking about WindowsNT or 2000, then your right on the money. cd "asdf asdf" wonder get you into that directory on NT. I've always had problems. WindowsME can't boot into DOS at the normal safe mode menu. I installed the free BeOS edition and couln't load it from a prompt. I had to use a bootdisk thanks to WindowsME disabling these features.
Looks more like a ploy to hurt other operating systems then to "phase" DOS out like they want.
Oh weelps.
I read the BrownOffice Site but it didn't say if it was all cross platformed. Does it effect every version? Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc? or just what it seems to be is the Linux implementation...
I'm guessing it effects Communicator completely in General... and does this mean it's resident in Mozilla too?
I think it's strange that all we hear about is Napster and mp3 trading and the such but nobody ever mentioned how big Dreamcast piracy has gotten. Supposedly Sega shutdown i-drive.com, ebay.com and some other sites due to illegal games. Suprised it wasn't mentioned with all the other ongoings I've seen.
Anyways, software like this will exsist. The story submitter is correct. Actaully this has always been around (hence ftp) but now it's avalible in a search (archie? hehe) style formated for simple easy individuals. The record companies could go after individuals that have the material on their hard drive, but how illogical would that be? How can they prove they didn't buy such and such a song and sue them. This would probably cost a lot more then the original $15 or so spent on the cd. It's kind of a no win situation. I'll admit, I do download some mp3s, but I don't know if there are many other people like me who will support the artits I buy. I've been playing piano and guitar in bands for quite a few years and even put out a couple demos. It's very hard to make money, espicially in the begining (ugh, touring in smokey clubs sucks) so I can see why a lot of big bands are being pissy wissy about Napster and other peer to peer software. A lot of the bands today are putting themselves on Napster and mp3.com and the such to promote themselves, but how much money can they actually pull in?
When you think about it, I payed $45 to get my Iron Maiden/Queensryche ticket this summer. I know it costs a lot of money to run the event, but seriosuly thinking, there are going to be around 15,000+ people there. I think their pocket money is going to be high... Tshirts for $30.. Oh welps.
Napster is evil to some, and a blessing from God to others. GNUtella the same.
Well in between all the big graphical images it still reminds me of a mac file manager interface. I don't have much experience with the mac, but it still looked vaugely familiar. (Well, with a few guys who worked on the mac originally, I can see why). The other images wont load now, most likely due to the/. effect but from what I did see it's starting to look much cleaner and nicer.
Oh well, hopefully the natilus shell and file manager will be stable and useful and included in GNOME. I think it'll attract many "newbie" style users. I like the idea of user levels and the structure/capibilities you can change. That's a good idea and hopefully it will be implemented carefully. I have faith in these guys. I never liked the mac but hell, I can say these guys can't hurt, they can only help.:-)
I don't know if I'd actaully want something like this. The feeling of having an old original arcade game in my house would be intresting, but having something that could just emulate one of the older games like that? What's wrong with just owning a Super Nintendo or Genesis...and if you wanna make money off it charge your friends (Watch em go fast). I think having the old arcade game would be much better. It'd be nice to look and see the artwork of an old Street Fighter II or Wrestlefest arcade game on the side. Oh welps, I guess I'm just in the older odder generation.
And C# is the first language to incorporate XML comment tags that can be used by the compiler to generate readable documentation directly from source code
Personally the idea of generated readable documentation is a good idea that would probably be implemented sourly. I don't believe AI can still make things as clear and understandable as another human being stating it to antoher. Hasn't this been done before tho? Visual C++'s documentation always irked me. I always hated some of the//'s I'd see in the programs I'd have (not by choice) to do for school. God I hated being REQUIRED to do programs in MFC. That hurt.
When you write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files
Wouldn't this lead to much less organization and bloated single source files that we didn't need? Or does it take the overhead off by not having to compile in header files? I'm not much into programing as I want to be, but I still have a general idea:-)
Oh well. It was a rather boring read I guess... I think I'll just continue using C/C++ to get the jobs done. I don't forsee wanting to learn this thing. Supposedly it's not tied into COM... Heh.
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But anyway...
Most of the techno mumbo jumbo is meaningless to my tiny mind, but the pictures I see on the article definately put the Dreamcsat on top. The user who keeps posting the 2 urls comparing Dreamcast and PS2 also shows a good difference.
I know most Slashdot readers are gung ho on the PS2, but I bought a Dreamcast a couple months ago and love it. There are soo many different kind of games being built for it, where I see the ps2 having the old game ideas thrown back together in monotonus renditions...
10MB/frame on screen for the PS2 and 25MB/frame on screen for Dreamcast... Ouch... I supposed writing to VRAM is a mounds quicker then writing to GS-memory.
Oh welps...
Why not have a computer generated random testing? Say 5 kids or something similar a week, and those names that are already tested go back into the system. Whoever appears positive for the test gets a boot from school or something..? Hell, the kids I knew doing drugs in high school would watch a DARE commercial and laugh....
oh welps...
Yes, there are other "African American" readers on this site that hold steady jobs. Infact, at times with affirmitive action it's easier for us to be placed in jobs becasue of our race. Don't blame "caucasions" for shit from years ago.
*sigh*
If your a troll, that's a lot of intellegence you have that could be shooting twoards better things...
Oh welps, I tihnk it's great that a video games has become so big that big moveis are coming out of it... (And no, the mario brothers movie was a piece of ....)
Hopefully Final Fantasy will be good... and not a Mario movie! :)
Makes a smile come to my face that a story like this makes it to the front page. :-)
I'm happy with a lot of Penn State's decisions. The "Technical" college of Penn State, Penn College (PCT) changed their nameserver to "block" Napster. But the Penn State system is completely seperated from Penn College... (on a personal note, I think Penn College is the biggest piece of shit I've seen in a long time) but on all the other Penn State campuses nothing changed. As far as bandwith problems, I could just see some universities using balancing hardware... dedicating a smaller portion to napster or something similar... but that's no longer the problem anymore :-)
Oh welps...
Your a sick mother fucker. you know that billy boy? You'd fuck tonya harding in her redneck ass. Your sick Billy. I tell ya. Sick.
I follow the iso scene a little bit (just for kicks, my cable modem caps would kill me) but the day after KALiSTO supposedly "quit" doing the Dreamcast a new group appeared called Echelon appeared on the scene. This group could do all the things KALiSTO could do, and now they're doing some more things (like being able to swap 2 cd's without booting the dreamcast again etc)..
So it's most likely KALiSTO renaming themselves to either shut people up or they were taking heat from somewhere. I very much doubt SEGA would be giving them stock option for pirating their games, however weirder things have happened. But I just think it's very odd that another group appeared with the same capibiliteis as them. I mean hell, all the other groups releasing games on the DC scene aren't nearly as skilled as either of these groups. Just funny to see one appear out of nowhere... heh
Actaully it's not that bad. Try listening to the older 2600's Off the Hook Episodes. Bernie S is practically a co-host and he's usually on the phone the whole time. While it's rather fitting, cause it's a hacking/phreaking/political show, but it's still actually not that bad.
Howver, I think it'd still be great to hear Cowboy and Taco doing the show and maybe adding a call in section or what not. It'd probably be a pain in the ass with all the trolls who'd want to call in, but picture actually hearing some of the more intelligent Slashdot readers talking about the subjects... It'd definately be interesting. I'd love to hear how taco would reply to many of the topics... of course a lot of asshoels would probably ruin the idea tho.
Oh welpers.
What about the people that know how to configure a system fairly well already? There should be something similar to Linuxconf to just make the process much quicker... (Well, depends which way you look at it, some people think the shell is quicker, some think the gui type setting is quciker...) But for those of us that want something like that. :)
I know what your saying. Usually I'm the command line vi guy, but sometimes I wanna use a menu. Oh welpers... I guess to each his own.
That'd be a pretty hard feat to accomplish... Considering you can trust a lot of humans with them in itself! Hopefully this will stay over in Thailand and not make it anywhere else :-)
eeeck
I used to think like that. I used to hate Microsoft in every single way, but after growing up a little more and maturing in my head more I can understand a lot of their concepts, ideas, and ways... Do you really think Microsoft is going to completely ignore Linux? They're not a stupid company (Well, that's debateable). They're going to be smart enough to see the avalibility with Linux and be able to cash in a little. They see this little competitior in the ways gaining a huge following and gathering more momentium. They see the dollar signs pouring in too. Why not port some applications people are going to want to use instead of losing the market to others? If MS does establish a role as a domininate commercial application vendor for Linux, they still aren't going to take much control because they can't control the operating system.
I guess the Microsoft port article distracted everyone... Microsoft made a huge investment in Transmeta too. I wonder if that's going to effect anything at all... Kind of funny to think in a way that Microsoft owns 7% of Linus Torvalds Paycheck :-)
Anyways, 7% isn't too much, but that's still quite a chunk. I don't understand completely how IPO's work, but it does look pretty strange :)
Wasn't the Phantom Menace a reference to Darth Maul?
So what exactly happens at these geek parties besides the normal consompution of large amounts of yellow liquid? Many laptops being used? Ideas being thrown around? Linux games (ya' know, like pin the beak on tux)?
Just curious... I was thinking about going out to California for a few weeks (just a random idea) and hopefully being able to attend something similar to this :-)
Oh welps, back to the old grint stone.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99 /09/20/1051226.shtml
I beleive that should answer the question. They violated the license ...
I give credit where credit is due. There are a hell of a lot of good players out there using joysticks, but I'm talking about the average Joe...
I sat one day trying to play Quakeworld online and was wondering how the hell people were killing me from every single angle in the world... Finally a friend taught me how to use the keybaord and mouse combination and I've been blowing people away ever since. I'm talking about the majority of players tho... I taught a few friends the keyboard and mouse combo and after 10 minutes they increased their skills very much...
OH well, I think it'll be intersting to see... I never even saw a Dreamcast keyboard in stores yet... of course I never really looked either. Wonder how much they're priced at...
Carmack brought up a great point tho. Adding the keyboard and mouse admist all the joystick players might be deadful... Picture all the non-pc type people attempting to play on a server and having one of the "lpb's" jumping all over the place schooling everyone with his keybaord and mouse combination. People might get discouraged and not play...
OH welps, maybe there could be a setting to play against only those people or what not... never know. I'd rather play with a keybaord and mouse ANY day then a cheeey joystick. I love my Dreamcast, but I love my Quake-style games.
Did you read the thread and the story submited? It soudns like your confusing Windows 2k with Windows ME. Windows ME is still built off DOS like all previous Windows versions (95's, 98's). You can get into directories with spaces quite easily. cd "Wow heh woopie" works fine. If your talking about WindowsNT or 2000, then your right on the money. cd "asdf asdf" wonder get you into that directory on NT. I've always had problems. WindowsME can't boot into DOS at the normal safe mode menu. I installed the free BeOS edition and couln't load it from a prompt. I had to use a bootdisk thanks to WindowsME disabling these features.
Looks more like a ploy to hurt other operating systems then to "phase" DOS out like they want. Oh weelps.
I'm guessing it effects Communicator completely in General... and does this mean it's resident in Mozilla too?
Anyways, software like this will exsist. The story submitter is correct. Actaully this has always been around (hence ftp) but now it's avalible in a search (archie? hehe) style formated for simple easy individuals. The record companies could go after individuals that have the material on their hard drive, but how illogical would that be? How can they prove they didn't buy such and such a song and sue them. This would probably cost a lot more then the original $15 or so spent on the cd. It's kind of a no win situation. I'll admit, I do download some mp3s, but I don't know if there are many other people like me who will support the artits I buy. I've been playing piano and guitar in bands for quite a few years and even put out a couple demos. It's very hard to make money, espicially in the begining (ugh, touring in smokey clubs sucks) so I can see why a lot of big bands are being pissy wissy about Napster and other peer to peer software. A lot of the bands today are putting themselves on Napster and mp3.com and the such to promote themselves, but how much money can they actually pull in?
When you think about it, I payed $45 to get my Iron Maiden/Queensryche ticket this summer. I know it costs a lot of money to run the event, but seriosuly thinking, there are going to be around 15,000+ people there. I think their pocket money is going to be high... Tshirts for $30.. Oh welps.
Napster is evil to some, and a blessing from God to others. GNUtella the same.
Oh well, hopefully the natilus shell and file manager will be stable and useful and included in GNOME. I think it'll attract many "newbie" style users. I like the idea of user levels and the structure/capibilities you can change. That's a good idea and hopefully it will be implemented carefully. I have faith in these guys. I never liked the mac but hell, I can say these guys can't hurt, they can only help. :-)
Oh welpers
I don't know if I'd actaully want something like this. The feeling of having an old original arcade game in my house would be intresting, but having something that could just emulate one of the older games like that? What's wrong with just owning a Super Nintendo or Genesis.. .and if you wanna make money off it charge your friends (Watch em go fast). I think having the old arcade game would be much better. It'd be nice to look and see the artwork of an old Street Fighter II or Wrestlefest arcade game on the side. Oh welps, I guess I'm just in the older odder generation.
Personally the idea of generated readable documentation is a good idea that would probably be implemented sourly. I don't believe AI can still make things as clear and understandable as another human being stating it to antoher. Hasn't this been done before tho? Visual C++'s documentation always irked me. I always hated some of the //'s I'd see in the programs I'd have (not by choice) to do for school. God I hated being REQUIRED to do programs in MFC. That hurt.
When you write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files
Wouldn't this lead to much less organization and bloated single source files that we didn't need? Or does it take the overhead off by not having to compile in header files? I'm not much into programing as I want to be, but I still have a general idea :-)
Oh well. It was a rather boring read I guess... I think I'll just continue using C/C++ to get the jobs done. I don't forsee wanting to learn this thing. Supposedly it's not tied into COM... Heh.