Besides, the universe had damned well better not die - at least not until I get my flying car, copy of Duke Nuken' Forever (running on HURD), and an army of Linux fembots with a penchant for evil, damnit!
You forgot the sharks with freakin laser beams attached to their heads. Unless you already have some. In which case, can I borrow a couple?
That was my reaction as well. It only works if you base it on publications prior to them winning the Nobel Prize. Of course people are going to reference the papers after the Prize. Citing a Nobel winner gives a certain boost to credibility.
However, you can get a keyboard/mouse for your PS3, so I really don't see the issue. I would assume that they would be focusing on the PS3 for these games.
One of the rumors back in the day was that one of the reasons behind the NGE for SWG was that they simplified the game so they could port it to the PS3 easier. Far fewer controls.
If I understand the agreement correctly, the only thing it affects is virtual machines. You can run SuSE on a Windows based VM and vice versa. Thats it. You would think that deals like this have never existed before. There are TONS of propriatary commercial software that runs on Linux that has a "Only supported on x". For years there was no option other than Red Hat for commercial software on Linux is you wanted support from the software company.
This states that SuSE is the only supported version of Linux running in Windows VM, and that Novell is protected if you are using something like Xen to run Windows on a SuSE box.
Microsoft gets to pick its poison when it comes to Linux running in VMs and Novell gets the antidote.
The problem with games like PQ and GW is that they don't follow the subscription method (which is what MMOGChart.com tracks). Numbers of characters does not equal number of players (or subscribers).
Oh, I wasn't saying it doesn't exist. Roleplaying is great in EVE. I was mearly stating that its different than most other MMORPG's where there is an actual Avatar running around. It just takes a little bit to get used to. Although, for MUD/MUSHers its not that big of an adjustment
Yeah, I think EVE is the best at battling the grind. There are still grinds that can be done. Grind for money. Grind for standing.
I've played many of the larger MMORPG's out there (UO, EQ1/2, SWG, WoW, and EVE). EVE is truely unique. CCP has bucked the trend in a lot of areas and almost all of them work. 1 server. Letting you know the population (which continues to go up all the time). Skills train over time, even when offline. No way to speed up the process (except learning skills that aid in the processes).
Roleplay is a little difficult because there really isn't an Avatar running around. You are essentially your ship. But other than that, the game has a lot to offer. I jumped in late(Jan 06), years after release. However, the way everything is layed out, you don't feel completely useless unless you grind to the top. Because there is no top. You just keep learning skills./commercialover
My first was also a Commodore64. I had the 2 floppies, and the tape drive. I still have it up in the attic someplace. I took it down a few years ago and powered it up. Wrote 4 lines in BASIC and just chuckled. Ahh, the memories came flooding back. Buying single sided floppies and taking a hole punch to it. My introduction to warez. Giving the friend of a friend a box of 10 floppies $5 and getting back 7 games.
Summer Games, Telenguard (my introduction to fantasy gaming), Adventure Contruction Set, and hundreds more.
I wasn't saying Google shouldn't buy it. I was just stating the obvious. That if last week everyone said that Google should buy Opera. Then it just makes sense for the MS mouthpieces, to say MS should buy it this week.
Who cares if a supercomputer OS is easy to use? The only thing people that use supercomputers care about is speed. Other things supercomputer users care about is compiler efficiency (again for speed.) I don't see Visual Studio cranking out the efficient executables. I'm also quite sure the Joe Schmoe Ph.D in CS, CEE and Physics does not care if an eight year old can navagate the user interface. But he does care whether or not it takes the computer 2 weeks, or 3 months to model galaxy formation. Especially when he knows that there are 7 other teams that just got the same new information from the same conference and are all racing to publish their newest findings.
Actually, this is incorrect. Not the math, just the application. For example, a 1 meter resolution image such as the ones on GoogleMaps can see lines painted in a parking lot. But the lines are't 1 meter wide. Not even close. However, the level of contrast between that line and the surroundings are enough for the lines to appear on the image.
Given enough contrast with its surroundings, an object could be as small at 4 meters wide and still be visible at.0072 arc-seconds resolution. However, given the fairly neutral grey background of the moon, it is highly unlikely that something left behind would shift the contrast balance enough to color the pixel.
If I had to guess, I would say that Dish is going to get sued for the black bar. I don't think they are entitled to alter the broadcast, but only to re-broadcast.
Wow! Imagine if Apple and Novell went under at the same time.
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You might want to check out http://www.starwarsgalaxies.com
They are building a community within the continuity of the Star Wars Universe. The game will be huge and well accepted. Even if everyone can't be Jedi.
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I was just about to post (before I read your post) about how bad the review was. Did the guy actually watch the movie? Revolution OS is an historical document about the free software movement, which renamed itself open software and was able to raise a lot of money from investors who believed there was a difference.
This is so wrong.
As the closing credits start to roll, we find that the stock subsequently dropped to 2 and that VA Linux (now VA Software) has quit the Linux business.
Beowolf clusters are great for cheap fast mutilnode processing. However, The Big SGI servers blow Beowolf clusters away in the bandwith catagory, even within the node itself. For example, the new Origin 3000 series can hold up to 512 R14000 MIPS processors and 1 TB of RAM. With 5.6 Meg/sec between RAM on different nodes. The total system badwith is up to 716MB/sec. Eventhough the speed between nodes in a Beowolf cluster can be up to 1 Gig a sec over the Gigabit Ethernet, the speed between RAM is dog slow. Because Beowolf is tied to, for the most part, inferior Intel technology the bandwith between RAM is very limited. The other big difference is in IO bandwith. The Big SGI boxes blow almost everything else away when it comes to IO bandwith. With SGI's port of XFS to Linux you can bet that you will get much better disk IO on an SGI box than Intel.
With all of this being said, I do believe that the effort of porting Linux to this archetecture is useless. Why would someone spend all that money on a "supercomputer" like the o3000 only to put Linux on it. You lose so much performance it just wouldn't be cost effective.
SGI has to realize that they have a great operating system in IRIX and a great hardware archetecture. They have thier niche, "supercomputing" and graphic rendering, and for the forseeable future nobody can take that away from them. Right now the people buying their products are not buying them because they are the best for the money, but because they are the best at what they do. They should stick with it and make small advances. SGI working on linux for the desktop is great. I cant wait to start using XFS. However, they will die if they start trying to change their bread and butter products to cheep and inefficiant.
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Bruce Willis could have drilled it in a matter of hours.
Bringing the "Social" back to "Social Networking".
http://www.lunchwalla.com/
Centered around getting people together to do lunch, dinner, movies, events, and more.
Besides, the universe had damned well better not die - at least not until I get my flying car, copy of Duke Nuken' Forever (running on HURD), and an army of Linux fembots with a penchant for evil, damnit!
You forgot the sharks with freakin laser beams attached to their heads. Unless you already have some. In which case, can I borrow a couple?
Pubes
That was my reaction as well. It only works if you base it on publications prior to them winning the Nobel Prize. Of course people are going to reference the papers after the Prize. Citing a Nobel winner gives a certain boost to credibility.
However, you can get a keyboard/mouse for your PS3, so I really don't see the issue. I would assume that they would be focusing on the PS3 for these games.
One of the rumors back in the day was that one of the reasons behind the NGE for SWG was that they simplified the game so they could port it to the PS3 easier. Far fewer controls.
Since he purchased the vegetable oil in NC, he paid 7.5% sales tax on it. Will they credit him that money?
If I understand the agreement correctly, the only thing it affects is virtual machines. You can run SuSE on a Windows based VM and vice versa. Thats it. You would think that deals like this have never existed before. There are TONS of propriatary commercial software that runs on Linux that has a "Only supported on x". For years there was no option other than Red Hat for commercial software on Linux is you wanted support from the software company.
This states that SuSE is the only supported version of Linux running in Windows VM, and that Novell is protected if you are using something like Xen to run Windows on a SuSE box.
Microsoft gets to pick its poison when it comes to Linux running in VMs and Novell gets the antidote.
The problem with games like PQ and GW is that they don't follow the subscription method (which is what MMOGChart.com tracks). Numbers of characters does not equal number of players (or subscribers).
Oh, I wasn't saying it doesn't exist. Roleplaying is great in EVE. I was mearly stating that its different than most other MMORPG's where there is an actual Avatar running around. It just takes a little bit to get used to. Although, for MUD/MUSHers its not that big of an adjustment
Yeah, I think EVE is the best at battling the grind. There are still grinds that can be done. Grind for money. Grind for standing.
/commercialover
I've played many of the larger MMORPG's out there (UO, EQ1/2, SWG, WoW, and EVE). EVE is truely unique. CCP has bucked the trend in a lot of areas and almost all of them work. 1 server. Letting you know the population (which continues to go up all the time). Skills train over time, even when offline. No way to speed up the process (except learning skills that aid in the processes).
Roleplay is a little difficult because there really isn't an Avatar running around. You are essentially your ship. But other than that, the game has a lot to offer. I jumped in late(Jan 06), years after release. However, the way everything is layed out, you don't feel completely useless unless you grind to the top. Because there is no top. You just keep learning skills.
My first was also a Commodore64. I had the 2 floppies, and the tape drive. I still have it up in the attic someplace. I took it down a few years ago and powered it up. Wrote 4 lines in BASIC and just chuckled. Ahh, the memories came flooding back. Buying single sided floppies and taking a hole punch to it. My introduction to warez. Giving the friend of a friend a box of 10 floppies $5 and getting back 7 games.
Summer Games, Telenguard (my introduction to fantasy gaming), Adventure Contruction Set, and hundreds more.
Good times.
I wasn't saying Google shouldn't buy it. I was just stating the obvious. That if last week everyone said that Google should buy Opera. Then it just makes sense for the MS mouthpieces, to say MS should buy it this week.
Last week everyone thought Opera was being bought by Google. So now its obvious that MS should buy it first to keep it out of the hands of Google.
Who cares if a supercomputer OS is easy to use? The only thing people that use supercomputers care about is speed. Other things supercomputer users care about is compiler efficiency (again for speed.) I don't see Visual Studio cranking out the efficient executables. I'm also quite sure the Joe Schmoe Ph.D in CS, CEE and Physics does not care if an eight year old can navagate the user interface. But he does care whether or not it takes the computer 2 weeks, or 3 months to model galaxy formation. Especially when he knows that there are 7 other teams that just got the same new information from the same conference and are all racing to publish their newest findings.
Actually, this is incorrect. Not the math, just the application. For example, a 1 meter resolution image such as the ones on GoogleMaps can see lines painted in a parking lot. But the lines are't 1 meter wide. Not even close. However, the level of contrast between that line and the surroundings are enough for the lines to appear on the image.
.0072 arc-seconds resolution. However, given the fairly neutral grey background of the moon, it is highly unlikely that something left behind would shift the contrast balance enough to color the pixel.
Given enough contrast with its surroundings, an object could be as small at 4 meters wide and still be visible at
To heck with Voltron! I want a live action, GCI ridden Starblazers!!
If I had to guess, I would say that Dish is going to get sued for the black bar. I don't think they are entitled to alter the broadcast, but only to re-broadcast.
Wow! Imagine if Apple and Novell went under at the same time.
You might want to check out http://www.starwarsgalaxies.com
They are building a community within the continuity of the Star Wars Universe. The game will be huge and well accepted. Even if everyone can't be Jedi.
I was just about to post (before I read your post) about how bad the review was. Did the guy actually watch the movie?
Revolution OS is an historical document about the free software movement, which renamed itself open software and was able to raise a lot of money from investors who believed there was a difference.
This is so wrong.
As the closing credits start to roll, we find that the stock subsequently dropped to 2 and that VA Linux (now VA Software) has quit the Linux business.
Since when?
What a joke.
Beowolf clusters are great for cheap fast mutilnode processing. However, The Big SGI servers blow Beowolf clusters away in the bandwith catagory, even within the node itself. For example, the new Origin 3000 series can hold up to 512 R14000 MIPS processors and 1 TB of RAM. With 5.6 Meg/sec between RAM on different nodes. The total system badwith is up to 716MB/sec. Eventhough the speed between nodes in a Beowolf cluster can be up to 1 Gig a sec over the Gigabit Ethernet, the speed between RAM is dog slow. Because Beowolf is tied to, for the most part, inferior Intel technology the bandwith between RAM is very limited. The other big difference is in IO bandwith. The Big SGI boxes blow almost everything else away when it comes to IO bandwith. With SGI's port of XFS to Linux you can bet that you will get much better disk IO on an SGI box than Intel. With all of this being said, I do believe that the effort of porting Linux to this archetecture is useless. Why would someone spend all that money on a "supercomputer" like the o3000 only to put Linux on it. You lose so much performance it just wouldn't be cost effective. SGI has to realize that they have a great operating system in IRIX and a great hardware archetecture. They have thier niche, "supercomputing" and graphic rendering, and for the forseeable future nobody can take that away from them. Right now the people buying their products are not buying them because they are the best for the money, but because they are the best at what they do. They should stick with it and make small advances. SGI working on linux for the desktop is great. I cant wait to start using XFS. However, they will die if they start trying to change their bread and butter products to cheep and inefficiant.