I agree. I just recently picked up the Platinum edition for the Xbox (I don't buy games until they are under $20). I was quite impressed. I'm looking forward to "Deception" in fall of 2005.
The original versions of GIMP used the Motif took kit. Since it was not Free, and Lesstif wasn't up to running the GIMP, the developers started work on a tool kit just for the GIMP. This was also about the time that KDE development started up with QT. Seeing how flexible the tool kit being created for the GIMP was, other developers started writing other programs using the same kit. Thus GNOME was born.
Seeing all the work the core GIMP developers put into GTK, I don't image they'll put the time into porting it to another widget set. That is not saying it can't be done. Just don't get your hopes up.
Which was a Master System minus the power convert, joystick ports, and video out.
As a matter of fact you could use your Genesis controllers on a real SMS, but a few games Activision's Shanghai comes to mind, had compatibilty problems. Those same games played on the Power Base Converter showed the same issues.
The Master Gear Converter for the Game Gear would be a better example. The GG actually had seperate video modes for compatibitly with SMS games. If you pulled a GG game out of the system while it was on, it would switch to the SMS video mode (the screen would shrink).
Back when Real Media was using the adult entertainment industry to get their hold on the streaming media market, they had a special link for adult websites that made it much more obvious how to download the free player. Of course back then finding the free player link from their main page wasn't so hard either.
Divx.com is guilty of the same thing. They have a free codec package that will work fine with Windows Media Player. But it isn't in their table of their three main products. Also if you do find it, and just go with the install default config options, you'll see a Divx watermark at the start of every video. This can be turned off easy enough from the "Decoder Configuration Utility".
Same goes to the Exim, Exiscan, and Clamav authors.
I woke this morning with an e-mail saying the Clamav signature DB was updated, then had a look at my Exim reject logs to see if it was rejecting Mydoom. Sure was, at that time about 2000 of them since midnight.
I think more what you'll find is the developers will take advantage of the features of one system, then port the game to the others, just leaving out things that don't directly translate, rather than trying to find ways to impliment them differently.
I really noticed this with Grandia II. It looked great on the Dreamcast. But when the PS2 version came out. It really did appear that the developers did what I said above. Anything they couldn't quickly port, was just removed.
Of course all the GCN ports now are getting cheesy GBA tie-ins. But that isn't taking advantage of what the system offers in my opinion, it is just offering a gimic.
That is so not what I want. Again, I want something with the power of a laptop (that includes CPU, RAM, and harddisk), with an x86 CPU. Something that can be docked to use a real keyboard, mouse, and monitor when I'm at home or work.
I don't want to post to/. from the backseat of a car. I want to code, compile, debug. Not just jot down notes of what I should try when I get back in front of a real computer.
I want to be able to boot into a full Linux install, to use all my day-to-day applications. Not just fill in a bit of information that will be synced with my applications when I get back to a desktop.
And I want this magical device to fit in my pocket. (I do wear baggy jeans, with big pockets.)
You mean, whether Kiss implimented MPlayer's unique, never seen in the outside world, never used in a video file, subtitle format called MPsub, all at once, or over time?
Well I've been poking around in the kernel for years now. Mostly just trying things other people have told me to do to fix what ever problem I was having. Then I'd say, "yeah, that fixed it", and the author of said code would submit the patch.
This time, I attempted to do the same. But the author didn't tell me much of what to do at all. So I just started looking at the one function he pointed me to. I ended up surprising myself. I found I could easily follow what was going on, and quickly found my problem. I tried a fix, and it worked. I reported back to the author, that I fixed my problem and how, and he asked me to submit a patch to Linus.
I've used to think of the kernel as some beast, full of black magic. Some of the parts dealing with broken hardware, are a little arcane. But the more I look at it, the more I see that most of it is just C. Now that Linus is subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, I see more developers interacting with him. He really does have good taste in code.
Damn, my patch didn't make it in. It was the first kernel patch I ever wrote. It was just a two-liner, but I was told to submit it to Linus. I later simplified it to a one-liner. I guess it was too close to the deadline.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I too have been using POV-Ray since version 0.5. I got a taste of animation from Polyray, but I still prefered the output of POV-Ray (actually at the time, I found Vivid to produce the best looking images, but I had too much time invested in learning POV to pick up another scene language, not to mention a right-handed coordinate system). Anyway, to make a long story short, I ended up writing QBasic programs that would write out.pov files, and a.bat file that would call povray on each file writing seperate.tga images for each. Then a few days and a little tga2fli later I'd have an animation.
Another poster pointed out that multiple scene files would be bad, if you had to make a little change beause you'd have to edit each file. That isn't true, if all the files are generated from a single source. So, I'd recommend that the asker of the question, look for a language that can write out Renderman files.
The bug has also been confirmed in 2.6.0-rc1. For those that have made the jump, a patch was just posted to the linux-kernel mailing list. I'm guessing -rc2 will follow soon.
Any distro that mounts the/home partition as noexec, and since you aren't running as root you won't be able to save the file into a partition that does allow executables to run.
Indeed, the GPL prohibits additional restrictions placed on the uses of the software. That is to say you can't deny that the software you have released under the GPL to be used by what ever group of people we are supposed to dislike this week.
But what has happened with GCC, is the authors just aren't going to put any effort into maintaining the port to SCO's OSes. So they aren't saying it can't be used under SCO, they just won't put the work into making it compile and function correctly. If someone at SCO wishes to do that, they may go right ahead. But of course they have to release their changes back to the public.
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I agree. I just recently picked up the Platinum edition for the Xbox (I don't buy games until they are under $20). I was quite impressed. I'm looking forward to "Deception" in fall of 2005.
The original versions of GIMP used the Motif took kit. Since it was not Free, and Lesstif wasn't up to running the GIMP, the developers started work on a tool kit just for the GIMP. This was also about the time that KDE development started up with QT. Seeing how flexible the tool kit being created for the GIMP was, other developers started writing other programs using the same kit. Thus GNOME was born.
Seeing all the work the core GIMP developers put into GTK, I don't image they'll put the time into porting it to another widget set. That is not saying it can't be done. Just don't get your hopes up.
GIMP without the GIMP Tool Kit. I don't think you'll be seeing that any time soon.
The older Fords I remember weren't a two tug system. It was just, pull the handle, and roll out the door.
Which was a Master System minus the power convert, joystick ports, and video out.
As a matter of fact you could use your Genesis controllers on a real SMS, but a few games Activision's Shanghai comes to mind, had compatibilty problems. Those same games played on the Power Base Converter showed the same issues.
The Master Gear Converter for the Game Gear would be a better example. The GG actually had seperate video modes for compatibitly with SMS games. If you pulled a GG game out of the system while it was on, it would switch to the SMS video mode (the screen would shrink).
Microsoft has had a 64-bit version of NT since almost the start. Also sizeof (int) == 4 on AMD64, same as IA32. Just the pointers are larger.
Back when Real Media was using the adult entertainment industry to get their hold on the streaming media market, they had a special link for adult websites that made it much more obvious how to download the free player. Of course back then finding the free player link from their main page wasn't so hard either.
Divx.com is guilty of the same thing. They have a free codec package that will work fine with Windows Media Player. But it isn't in their table of their three main products. Also if you do find it, and just go with the install default config options, you'll see a Divx watermark at the start of every video. This can be turned off easy enough from the "Decoder Configuration Utility".
Hear hear!
Same goes to the Exim, Exiscan, and Clamav authors.
I woke this morning with an e-mail saying the Clamav signature DB was updated, then had a look at my Exim reject logs to see if it was rejecting Mydoom. Sure was, at that time about 2000 of them since midnight.
grep "X-Infected: W32/Mydoom.A@mm" rejectlog* | wc -l
11096
All rejected at SMTP time, not mindlessly bounced after the fact.
My server isn't even feeling it.
I wonder how long most ISPs keep their logs linking usernames to IP addresses.
I think more what you'll find is the developers will take advantage of the features of one system, then port the game to the others, just leaving out things that don't directly translate, rather than trying to find ways to impliment them differently.
I really noticed this with Grandia II. It looked great on the Dreamcast. But when the PS2 version came out. It really did appear that the developers did what I said above. Anything they couldn't quickly port, was just removed.
Of course all the GCN ports now are getting cheesy GBA tie-ins. But that isn't taking advantage of what the system offers in my opinion, it is just offering a gimic.
That is so not what I want. Again, I want something with the power of a laptop (that includes CPU, RAM, and harddisk), with an x86 CPU. Something that can be docked to use a real keyboard, mouse, and monitor when I'm at home or work.
/. from the backseat of a car. I want to code, compile, debug. Not just jot down notes of what I should try when I get back in front of a real computer.
I don't want to post to
I want to be able to boot into a full Linux install, to use all my day-to-day applications. Not just fill in a bit of information that will be synced with my applications when I get back to a desktop.
And I want this magical device to fit in my pocket. (I do wear baggy jeans, with big pockets.)
You mean, whether Kiss implimented MPlayer's unique, never seen in the outside world, never used in a video file, subtitle format called MPsub, all at once, or over time?
It is sleek looking, but still no Sandbender.
I guess I am a niche buyer. But this is exactly what I'm looking for. Laptops are too big, PDAs don't have enough power (and also can't run x86 code).
I'd take one and two docking stations (one for home and one for work), but it has to run Linux.
Well I've been poking around in the kernel for years now. Mostly just trying things other people have told me to do to fix what ever problem I was having. Then I'd say, "yeah, that fixed it", and the author of said code would submit the patch.
This time, I attempted to do the same. But the author didn't tell me much of what to do at all. So I just started looking at the one function he pointed me to. I ended up surprising myself. I found I could easily follow what was going on, and quickly found my problem. I tried a fix, and it worked. I reported back to the author, that I fixed my problem and how, and he asked me to submit a patch to Linus.
I've used to think of the kernel as some beast, full of black magic. Some of the parts dealing with broken hardware, are a little arcane. But the more I look at it, the more I see that most of it is just C. Now that Linus is subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, I see more developers interacting with him. He really does have good taste in code.
Damn, my patch didn't make it in. It was the first kernel patch I ever wrote. It was just a two-liner, but I was told to submit it to Linus. I later simplified it to a one-liner. I guess it was too close to the deadline.
Here's hoping for 2.6.2!
That's exactly what I was thinking. I too have been using POV-Ray since version 0.5. I got a taste of animation from Polyray, but I still prefered the output of POV-Ray (actually at the time, I found Vivid to produce the best looking images, but I had too much time invested in learning POV to pick up another scene language, not to mention a right-handed coordinate system). Anyway, to make a long story short, I ended up writing QBasic programs that would write out .pov files, and a .bat file that would call povray on each file writing seperate .tga images for each. Then a few days and a little tga2fli later I'd have an animation.
Another poster pointed out that multiple scene files would be bad, if you had to make a little change beause you'd have to edit each file. That isn't true, if all the files are generated from a single source. So, I'd recommend that the asker of the question, look for a language that can write out Renderman files.
Crud, that should have been 2.6.1-rc1 of course.
The bug has also been confirmed in 2.6.0-rc1. For those that have made the jump, a patch was just posted to the linux-kernel mailing list. I'm guessing -rc2 will follow soon.
I thought that was just a DOS Extender. But it would explain the horse in their logo.
I still have my KRUD CDs from coming in within the top 20 for 2.4. I missed 2.6 by a month. Both guesses were made the day the pool went up.
But it is a Japanese crapper, it plays music and has a motorised seat.
Any distro that mounts the /home partition as noexec, and since you aren't running as root you won't be able to save the file into a partition that does allow executables to run.
Indeed, the GPL prohibits additional restrictions placed on the uses of the software. That is to say you can't deny that the software you have released under the GPL to be used by what ever group of people we are supposed to dislike this week.
But what has happened with GCC, is the authors just aren't going to put any effort into maintaining the port to SCO's OSes. So they aren't saying it can't be used under SCO, they just won't put the work into making it compile and function correctly. If someone at SCO wishes to do that, they may go right ahead. But of course they have to release their changes back to the public.