I've done that already. I first discovered it when I left a music CD in the drive when I had the downloaded shareware version. The Fragile and VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater fit perfectly. Helmet: Meantime is great in Q2; however, too bad the weapon firing code in Q2 sucked.
Tests have proven that the Transmeta Crusoe processor only gives about a 33% boost to battery life. In contrast, the 600MHz processor performs like a 333MHz Pentium II at low power mode. Definetly not worth it.
The next generation of Linux devices is going to be interesting: the ones you can hack (Tivo and Indrema) and the ones you can't (may they see the light).
...and the ones you wouldn't want to hack. Maybe manufacturers would grow a brain and put on the kernel which crashes the least (or, preferably, not at all) onto non-flashable ROM. Then, the rest of the device would be a mass of proprietary hardware. I know that it's possible; it's just that companies are too stupid and cheap to do it.
So what? There's already a 1.2GHz Athlon and a 1.5GHz Pentium 4, and they're both dumb as doornails without programming. By judging them solely on clock speed (which you are doing, tsk, tsk), both of these would run circles around the Clarke Omniputer, and they aren't.
I wonder what happens if I shut it down...
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Okay, I know this could be considered a troll, but it's relevant. That being said, here goes:
I have Quake. I bought the one with the mission packs ("The Offering"), and I have the case to it; however, I lost the Quake disc a while ago. Luckily, I made a backup of the directory structure in the disk (what luck!). Unfortunately, I didn't back up the ten audio tracks; the ambient music to Quake (composed by Trent Reznor; a must-have in any NIN-fan's collection!).
Now, I'm stuck with a choice. Should I give in, search for Quake (the Quake disc with WINQUAKE and GLQUAKE; that's what came with "The Offering")? Should I find someone who has the shareware demo disc (which has all 10 music tracks) and rip it to re-burn Quake? Or should I just search for the MP3's of the tracks (via FTP, Gnutella, etc. for a >140kbps collection) and re-burn Quake that way?
From what I've gathered, all of those methods fall under the "backup copy" clause of the license aggreement; however, it might fall under scrutiny because of the DMCA.
One thing really makes this thing ironic: the last time I had the disc, I was playing squake on RedHat 6.2! DAMN YOU LINUX, YOU MADE ME LOSE THE QUAKE DISC!!! (sorry, had to let out some steam.)
I expected as much from such a motley gathering of megalomaniacal CEOs. That's basically what ICANN is; a gathering of the top IT/telecom/Internet business owners with the fattest wallets on the planet. Sure, without one solidly defined organizational system, the Internet would just be a barrel with fish in it, but just look at the morons in ICANN!
First off, it isn't really 266MHz, it's merely two 133MHz pipelines. However, I think that the P4 is four 100MHz pipelines, so it's become a convention. Damn.
How can they claim that both the 200 and 266MHz FSB CPUs are the same speed? That simply violates the FSB x multiplier rule (1100 / 266 = 4.135338345865; 1200 / 266 = 4.511278195489). I seriously don't expect a chipset to be able to set its multiplier to a non-integer setting.
Maybe because Americans would rather drive a Lexus than a Toyota, despite the fact that both are made by the same company.
Personally, I am a U.S. citizen, and all I really want is either a sedan or a sporty hatchback, but they must have a stickshift. I like pickups and vans too, but there are some places where you wouldn't dare take them.
Does AMD have what it takes to continue their incredible winning streak, or will AMD return to the state they were in before their recent success?
It all depends on how soon Intel will release a DDR chipset, and whether it resembles the stability of the 440BX or the follies of the 820. If Intel can make a nice clean DDR chipset compliant with the DDR standards (as they have promised to do), then Intel could have the fastest desktop x86 setup out there. Of course, they already do, but cost is prohibitive and the demon Rambus has not yet been dispatched to the pits of hell. A price drop and a DDR chipset for the P4 could very well be the tolling bell for the Athlon.
The best one is the patent on controlling one computer from another (which would technically include controlling your computer with a keyboard that had a microchip in it, to say nothing of telnet!
Now, if CmdrTaco was a real Linux zealot, then he'd say "ssh" instead of Telnet. Also notice how he forgot the closing parenthesis! Rob, you hypocrite! You always tell us to "Use the Preview Button!", and you forget to use it yourself!
Only drivers are digitally signed right now. I can go ahead and download stuff from Freshmeat that's in the alpha stage and run it nag-free. The whole reason for digitally signed drivers is to prevent from having shoddy drivers run on a mission-critical system. The biggest problem with this is either Microsoft's refusal to digitally sign drivers, or the companies' sheer laziness.
If the digital signing process is carried over to applications, though, then it would mean the end of Win32 application development as we know it, which is why Microsoft will most likely never implement such a draconian system.
There, I said it; the article is all FUD spread around by the Linux zealots.
Ugh, I cringe at the sound of that stupid name ripped off from Apple's moronic nomenclature strategy. You need to hire the FBI just to track down an available one, and the battery life on it stinks (3 hours, as compared to the 8-hour Cassiopeia). And it ships with Windows CE, so you have to do a serious retooling just to get Linux on it. Considering its availability, buying an iPaq is about as sensible as buying Rambus.
I made a few corrections to it; if you bothered to cross-check more rigorously, then you would've seen it too. Damn, if you missed that, then I'd hate to see your programming work; bugs everywhere.
I had RedHat 6.2, and I tried the CTRL-ALT-+ and - shortcut with my XF86Config file set to 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. In Windows, the ATI Rage IIC could hit all three of those with no problem, but the shortcut wouldn't work. I had to hack into the XF86Config file and delete the 640x480line. And that still didn't fix the colordepth problem: it was stuck at 8bpp. I knew that the card could handle 24, but X absolutely refused to comply. Don't accuse me of not trying, because I have. And my opinion is that Linux Stinks.
Recently, the Slashdot story, Bill Gates on Freedom vanisned from the face of the Slashdot page. Could this have happened because Bill Gates supported the free publication of information. This runs contrary to the popular Slashdot rumor that Bill Gates is a capitalist moron who only wallows in his earnings for pleasure. The Slashbots seem to say, "How dare he take a stance similar to that of Slashdot! He is our enemy, not our ally!"
Please. Get a life, pull your head out of the sand, and never judge a book by its cover. Did I mention that when your head is in the sand, your butt sticks in the air like a moron?
I was pointing out that when Linux goes to the consumer side, then the party is over. Next time, read without the subjective judgment which you cherish more than your own life
Seriously, look at what's happened to Yahoo. Once upon a time, it was a decent search engine. Now, Yahoo is anything but; there still is a Search field, but now they send your query to Google. The rest of yahoo.com is just auctions, the Yahoo!Messenger, and e-mail. Yahoo turned into another GO.com (or is it the other way around? Hmmm.).
Unreal Tournament is still technically in the beta stages. Right now it is at version 436, while Q3 is at 1.25. That proves that Id is better at quality control than Epic is. Also, Tim Sweeney never bothered to ditch the original input code from Unreal; he just improved upon it (and not by enough, I might add). In UT, the mouse lags even in local botmatches; in comparison, there is never any input lag in Q3. Also, UT still has the aging Galaxy sound system (which can't handle instrument-based Impulse Tracker modules [the files for the music in UT]; which would've made the music sound a whole lot better). Galaxy is worse than FMOD, a sound engine which has similar (but even better and more) capabilities to Galaxy. Given the tools, I'd hack Unreal to accept FMOD.
Furthermore, in the original Unreal, Epic ditched a weapon at the last minute which would've been excellent: a four-barreled shotgun which fires gatling-gun style. To see the weapon, go into the Mesh Editor in Unrealed and take a look at "QuadShotHeld" and "QuadShotPickup". In Unreal1, you can even summon it (console command: summon quadshot), but it won't work since they didn't put in the code.
Seriously, that could be retooled into one standardized control panel. In other OSes, it is not necessary to enter in the horizontal refresh rate if you already know the vertical refresh rate; the horizontal refresh rate can be calculated if you know the vertical.
Also, it would be nice to be able to adjust the resolution of X while actually in X. When you tweak with the XF86Config in vim and then try to start X, only to have it terminate because it doen't like one line, it just becomes so exasperating.
In short, Windows has a GUI display control panel, MacOS has a GUI display control panel, so why doesn't Linux have one yet? They've only had about five years to make one, so there's no excuse.
If Linux advocates want it to be accepted past its current geeky bounds, it is going to have to start incorporating features used by people from other walks of life.
Okay, but once a fully-functional AOL client for Linux is made, then the entire Linux effort will have to be killed like a wounded horse.
As long as there's agreement between software developers, it could be changed. I'm sure that there's many people who have considered improving on Gnutella.
okay, enough with the Quake humor. One disturbing thing about Gnutella is how the Gnutellanet servers seem so sleazy (gnet2.ath.cx has the exact same TLD as another website whose URL contains the word "goat"; I think you know what I'm talking about). Also, Gnutella has never escaped the 0.x stages (0.4 right now); either that's because they're still working on it, or they're too lazy to make one more improvement and call it 1.0.
Personally, I think that there should be nag lines whenever you download something ('tis better to give than to receive, leeches can't suck blood forever, et cetera). The condonation of the leech society must stop. You pay taxes to support your home country, so why don't you set up a Gnutellanet server to support Gnutella?
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I've done that already. I first discovered it when I left a music CD in the drive when I had the downloaded shareware version. The Fragile and VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater fit perfectly. Helmet: Meantime is great in Q2; however, too bad the weapon firing code in Q2 sucked.
Tests have proven that the Transmeta Crusoe processor only gives about a 33% boost to battery life. In contrast, the 600MHz processor performs like a 333MHz Pentium II at low power mode. Definetly not worth it.
So what? There's already a 1.2GHz Athlon and a 1.5GHz Pentium 4, and they're both dumb as doornails without programming. By judging them solely on clock speed (which you are doing, tsk, tsk), both of these would run circles around the Clarke Omniputer, and they aren't.
"Daaaiiiisiieeeesss, daiiisssieeeeoooowwwwwww..."
I have Quake. I bought the one with the mission packs ("The Offering"), and I have the case to it; however, I lost the Quake disc a while ago. Luckily, I made a backup of the directory structure in the disk (what luck!). Unfortunately, I didn't back up the ten audio tracks; the ambient music to Quake (composed by Trent Reznor; a must-have in any NIN-fan's collection!).
Now, I'm stuck with a choice. Should I give in, search for Quake (the Quake disc with WINQUAKE and GLQUAKE; that's what came with "The Offering")? Should I find someone who has the shareware demo disc (which has all 10 music tracks) and rip it to re-burn Quake? Or should I just search for the MP3's of the tracks (via FTP, Gnutella, etc. for a >140kbps collection) and re-burn Quake that way?
From what I've gathered, all of those methods fall under the "backup copy" clause of the license aggreement; however, it might fall under scrutiny because of the DMCA.
One thing really makes this thing ironic: the last time I had the disc, I was playing squake on RedHat 6.2! DAMN YOU LINUX, YOU MADE ME LOSE THE QUAKE DISC!!! (sorry, had to let out some steam.)
I expected as much from such a motley gathering of megalomaniacal CEOs. That's basically what ICANN is; a gathering of the top IT/telecom/Internet business owners with the fattest wallets on the planet. Sure, without one solidly defined organizational system, the Internet would just be a barrel with fish in it, but just look at the morons in ICANN!
Long live the ping!
How can they claim that both the 200 and 266MHz FSB CPUs are the same speed? That simply violates the FSB x multiplier rule (1100 / 266 = 4.135338345865; 1200 / 266 = 4.511278195489). I seriously don't expect a chipset to be able to set its multiplier to a non-integer setting.
Personally, I am a U.S. citizen, and all I really want is either a sedan or a sporty hatchback, but they must have a stickshift. I like pickups and vans too, but there are some places where you wouldn't dare take them.
It all depends on how soon Intel will release a DDR chipset, and whether it resembles the stability of the 440BX or the follies of the 820. If Intel can make a nice clean DDR chipset compliant with the DDR standards (as they have promised to do), then Intel could have the fastest desktop x86 setup out there. Of course, they already do, but cost is prohibitive and the demon Rambus has not yet been dispatched to the pits of hell. A price drop and a DDR chipset for the P4 could very well be the tolling bell for the Athlon.
Weight is directly affected by the host planet's gravity, therefore, her weight on Jupiter would be much greater.
I was thinking more on the lines of 1995, when it was released en masse; also when it became stable enough to let out of the quarantine disk.
Now, if CmdrTaco was a real Linux zealot, then he'd say "ssh" instead of Telnet. Also notice how he forgot the closing parenthesis! Rob, you hypocrite! You always tell us to "Use the Preview Button!", and you forget to use it yourself!
If the digital signing process is carried over to applications, though, then it would mean the end of Win32 application development as we know it, which is why Microsoft will most likely never implement such a draconian system.
There, I said it; the article is all FUD spread around by the Linux zealots.
Ugh, I cringe at the sound of that stupid name ripped off from Apple's moronic nomenclature strategy. You need to hire the FBI just to track down an available one, and the battery life on it stinks (3 hours, as compared to the 8-hour Cassiopeia). And it ships with Windows CE, so you have to do a serious retooling just to get Linux on it. Considering its availability, buying an iPaq is about as sensible as buying Rambus.
I had RedHat 6.2, and I tried the CTRL-ALT-+ and - shortcut with my XF86Config file set to 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. In Windows, the ATI Rage IIC could hit all three of those with no problem, but the shortcut wouldn't work. I had to hack into the XF86Config file and delete the 640x480line. And that still didn't fix the colordepth problem: it was stuck at 8bpp. I knew that the card could handle 24, but X absolutely refused to comply. Don't accuse me of not trying, because I have. And my opinion is that Linux Stinks.
Please. Get a life, pull your head out of the sand, and never judge a book by its cover. Did I mention that when your head is in the sand, your butt sticks in the air like a moron?
I was pointing out that when Linux goes to the consumer side, then the party is over. Next time, read without the subjective judgment which you cherish more than your own life
Seriously, look at what's happened to Yahoo. Once upon a time, it was a decent search engine. Now, Yahoo is anything but; there still is a Search field, but now they send your query to Google. The rest of yahoo.com is just auctions, the Yahoo!Messenger, and e-mail. Yahoo turned into another GO.com (or is it the other way around? Hmmm.).
Furthermore, in the original Unreal, Epic ditched a weapon at the last minute which would've been excellent: a four-barreled shotgun which fires gatling-gun style. To see the weapon, go into the Mesh Editor in Unrealed and take a look at "QuadShotHeld" and "QuadShotPickup". In Unreal1, you can even summon it (console command: summon quadshot), but it won't work since they didn't put in the code.
Also, it would be nice to be able to adjust the resolution of X while actually in X. When you tweak with the XF86Config in vim and then try to start X, only to have it terminate because it doen't like one line, it just becomes so exasperating.
In short, Windows has a GUI display control panel, MacOS has a GUI display control panel, so why doesn't Linux have one yet? They've only had about five years to make one, so there's no excuse.
Okay, but once a fully-functional AOL client for Linux is made, then the entire Linux effort will have to be killed like a wounded horse.
As long as there's agreement between software developers, it could be changed. I'm sure that there's many people who have considered improving on Gnutella.
Personally, I think that there should be nag lines whenever you download something ('tis better to give than to receive, leeches can't suck blood forever, et cetera). The condonation of the leech society must stop. You pay taxes to support your home country, so why don't you set up a Gnutellanet server to support Gnutella?