Remember the problem in RedHat 7 where rhnsd would chew up all the file descriptors in a process of three weeks? I'm hoping that a fiasco like that never happens again. It's sad to see such a good distro company make such a stupid mistake like that and only have a pathetic excuse for it. I think that the problem with filesystem limits is in how they are always surpassed too quickly. Remember FAT16? Its first limit was 33 MB. With DOS 5.0, it became 2.1 GB. Then came FAT32, which has no absolute limit; however, Windows 2000 refuses to format a partition above 32 GB in FAT32 because of the greater efficiency of NTFS.
One bone I have to pick with ext2 is how the swap partition cannot be adjusted on the fly. My Win2000 machine can adjust the swap file pretty well (with 7 windows of Quake 3, I forced the swap file size from 400 MB to almost 1 GB [!]). Will Tux2 have a dynamic swap partition? After all, it's in the damndest situations where you realize that you made the swap partition too small.
Engrave it in an inch-thick brass tablet with OCR-A font. Engrave it in granite in front of a public library. That way, the MPAA would have to get many gallons of acid (or take some other ludicrous measure) to erase all traces of DeCSS.
I would tattoo DeCSS on my back, but there are two things stopping me:
It would be a fourteen-day plus job (holy yeow!)
I'm already planning to have the Quake3 logo tattooed on my back in all its anti-aliased glory.
The trouble with advertising that it runs on Linux is that soon, the Linux fanatics will demand that the source be released. Unfortunately, that would infringe on their pending patents. And we all know how important patents are when used correctly (OpenGL, BSD, JPEG, MPEG) and how annoying they are when they're not used correctly (Digital:Convergence, MPAA, 3dfx, Microsoft).
Just a survey: How many soccer moms know what kind of files to expect in/usr/local/lib?
Yeah, that's what I thought; their response would be "/usr/local/what?" The focus of this is all wrong. How many houses have a T1 routed to their house? Right, very few. How many houses have a T3 routed to their house? Right, even fewer. Notice that I didn't mention cable or DSL, since these connections are still too unreliable for a server. Furthermore, every time the connection drops (either from overflow or a very, VERY stupid ISP), the server will have to be reset, the connection will have to be re-established, and then it's time to pick up the pieces. Server admins who deal with large servers on fast connections hate dealing with that process every month, so what makes people think that this will be tolerable on a daily basis?
The Pioneer 10 still has that gold-plated plaque with the drawing of a male and female human, the hydrogen atom (or is it the molecule? Don't have my spacecraft encyclopedia with me right now), the map to Sol, and the path of Pioneer 10. Now let's just hope that it doesn't get found and blasted to bits by Klingons (á la Star Trek V).
"The Boston Globe has published this article that says that Massachusetts will become one of the first states to require the purchase and use of laptop computers."
That's not entirely true. The Boston Globe published an article that said the state colleges of Massachusetts (including UMass) will be requiring laptops for all students. This is not a piece of legislature that affects private colleges. I feel that this is timed wrong because Framingham State students will be required to buy laptops. The buildings there are a dump, and more parking lots desperately need to be built closer to the buildings (currently, it can be up to a mile walk to your assigned parking lot). Good thing my sister is graduating this year; otherwise I'd have to help her with her laptop! Her 486 is enough toil for both of us.
That's right, video games affect the military.
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Video games are becoming one of the world's most popular entertainment forms, affecting TV, education, Hollywood, even the Pentagon...
That's right. The military started using DOOM for urban assault training back in 1995. A marine even designed his own mod (MarineDOOM), with realistic weapons and scenarios.
Won't it be a great day when terrorist conflicts are settled over Counter-Strike? Much less blood, and no one gets hurt.
Ever seen Star Trek: First Contact? That could be our very own earth! "Sensor scans reveal high concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. Population: 80 billion - all Borg."
You seem to have this tendency to use your experience with three year old technology and drivers as the basis for your assertations.
I use three year old technology as a comparison because designing the Linux drivers should've been a cakewalk. Designing a Linux driver set for the V2 could very well be a lab for a graphics driver class; it shouldn't be so hard. By the way, exactly what application gave you over 80 fps? Did it have a polycount of over 25,000 triangles? If not, then you obviously have the same mental problems and insecurities that ballot stuffers do.
As for the NVidia drivers, aren't you in the least bit intrigued that I found out how they optimized the performance without looking through the DRI to ruin the surprise?
...more like pathetic. The drivers for my Voodoo 2 were awful. GLQuake worked fine, but in Quake2, there were rainbow-colored light bursts every time the shotgun was fired. Furthermore, the rendering speed was MUCH slower than with the Windows drivers.
One big reason for NVidia's great performance is how they're constantly optimizing the drivers. For example, the performance gain in the Detonator 3 was primarily due to the faster rendering of sprites. Even in ultra-high sprite count scenes (gibbing 3 bodies in Quake3 with the railgun, for instance), the framerate drop is insignificant (compared to the more than 50% framerate drop in this situation with other cards). 3dfx is more concerned with squeezing all they can out of their scarce profits than they are with improving their products. FSAA is nice when you're rasterizing 3D scenes for videos, but it is otherwise useless when compared with the faster framerate and image quality of NVidia's cards.
If elected, would you let the DeCSS team continue on their quest for DVD playback in Linux?
And would you consider bringing up an independent investigation of the MPAA? Right now, the average consumer is so mis-represented, that some of us fear that entertainment as we know it will cease to exist.
Aureal filed lawsuits against Creative. Aureal went bankrupt. Creative bought Aureal.
Like you say, problem solved, in a money-grubbing, capitalist way; the consumers have ultimately lost. Creative has done jack squat with the A3D technology so far, and has not improved upon the drivers for the Vortex line by Aureal.
3dfx is getting favorable rulings on the multitexturing patent. Strange, since NVidia was on ARB 2 years before 3dfx was inducted. Who will win on this one? The Patent Offices and the courts? Or ARB?
Yeah, but those were the video systems in my two computers. Sure, it's comparing today's best to the best of two years ago, but then it gives you a basic idea of what to expect. Furthermore, I have access to only those two, so those are the only readings which I trust. If anyone has a high-sprite report on a V5, I'd like to hear it.
That's exactly what fuels competition; however, I think that the video card companies are starting to incorrectly assume that patent infringement lawsuits can be used as a competitive tactic: if you can't beat them, sue them!
...though I can't quite see how NVidia fits into it all. I consider myself a hybrid Geek, since I live in a family of technophobes. True, geeks don't put enough documentation into their programs; blindly assuming that a help system can be avoided by using 4 simple letters in a certain sequence (you know, R-T-F-M). I would've used EMACS more if I even knew how to navigate the menu system; to quit, I could only ctrl-alt-del out of it!
The original 5-patent infringement lawsuit made it to Slashdot. It seems only fair to follow up on this.
If you're complaining about the story being so 1-sided, just kick back and relish the thought that Slashdot was designed to make 1-sided stories 2-sided. That's the entire purpose behind the Comment system.
I was assuming that the closest competitor to the Prism had the same OS. I'm talking about the Palm IIIc as a competitor. Not to downplay Casio's efforts; that's a damn good PDA.
However relatively unimportant this correction is, the world still needs more proofreaders. Take a look at the text on the sides of Sony products; you're bound to find at least one spelling mistake or technical specification error.
The URL for that article should be "http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/business/Ha ndspring_unveils_color_Visor_Prism+.shtm l". NO SPACES IN THE URL!!!! Slashdot's perl script seems to be messing around with that plus sign, so I can't do an A HREF.
It is $450 and have 65k colors, compared to the 3c's 256 colors.
First off, Never send a German to do an American's proofreading job.
Secondly, doesn't the IIIc have more than 256 colors? I cite this quote from this AP article from the Business section of the Boston Globe:
"Handspring executives said the 16-bit, $449 Visor Prism will be the best on the market, capable of producing more than 65,000 colors. That's more than sixteen times better than its closest competitor..."
First off, 16-bit color means 65,536 colors. Secondly, the Prism will be 16 times more colors than its competitor (the IIIc). This means that the closest competitor outputs 4096 colors, or 12-bit; not 256 colors, or 8-bit. Furthermore, the cover of the IIIc box and demonstrations of the unit indicate a higher-than-256-colors output.
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One bone I have to pick with ext2 is how the swap partition cannot be adjusted on the fly. My Win2000 machine can adjust the swap file pretty well (with 7 windows of Quake 3, I forced the swap file size from 400 MB to almost 1 GB [!]). Will Tux2 have a dynamic swap partition? After all, it's in the damndest situations where you realize that you made the swap partition too small.
I would tattoo DeCSS on my back, but there are two things stopping me:
It would be a fourteen-day plus job (holy yeow!)
I'm already planning to have the Quake3 logo tattooed on my back in all its anti-aliased glory.
The trouble with advertising that it runs on Linux is that soon, the Linux fanatics will demand that the source be released. Unfortunately, that would infringe on their pending patents. And we all know how important patents are when used correctly (OpenGL, BSD, JPEG, MPEG) and how annoying they are when they're not used correctly (Digital:Convergence, MPAA, 3dfx, Microsoft).
Yeah, that's what I thought; their response would be "/usr/local/what?" The focus of this is all wrong. How many houses have a T1 routed to their house? Right, very few. How many houses have a T3 routed to their house? Right, even fewer. Notice that I didn't mention cable or DSL, since these connections are still too unreliable for a server. Furthermore, every time the connection drops (either from overflow or a very, VERY stupid ISP), the server will have to be reset, the connection will have to be re-established, and then it's time to pick up the pieces. Server admins who deal with large servers on fast connections hate dealing with that process every month, so what makes people think that this will be tolerable on a daily basis?
The Pioneer 10 still has that gold-plated plaque with the drawing of a male and female human, the hydrogen atom (or is it the molecule? Don't have my spacecraft encyclopedia with me right now), the map to Sol, and the path of Pioneer 10. Now let's just hope that it doesn't get found and blasted to bits by Klingons (á la Star Trek V).
That's not entirely true. The Boston Globe published an article that said the state colleges of Massachusetts (including UMass) will be requiring laptops for all students. This is not a piece of legislature that affects private colleges. I feel that this is timed wrong because Framingham State students will be required to buy laptops. The buildings there are a dump, and more parking lots desperately need to be built closer to the buildings (currently, it can be up to a mile walk to your assigned parking lot). Good thing my sister is graduating this year; otherwise I'd have to help her with her laptop! Her 486 is enough toil for both of us.
That's right. The military started using DOOM for urban assault training back in 1995. A marine even designed his own mod (MarineDOOM), with realistic weapons and scenarios.
Won't it be a great day when terrorist conflicts are settled over Counter-Strike? Much less blood, and no one gets hurt.
It would probably help the consumer more. Just think of it: GeForce framerates with V5 FSAA. Now THAT's a dream card!
Ever seen Star Trek: First Contact? That could be our very own earth! "Sensor scans reveal high concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. Population: 80 billion - all Borg."
As for the NVidia drivers, aren't you in the least bit intrigued that I found out how they optimized the performance without looking through the DRI to ruin the surprise?
"I'm getting a little fahklempt!....Tawk amongst yourselves!.....3DFX just gained a favorable ruling in their lawsuit! Discuss!....
One big reason for NVidia's great performance is how they're constantly optimizing the drivers. For example, the performance gain in the Detonator 3 was primarily due to the faster rendering of sprites. Even in ultra-high sprite count scenes (gibbing 3 bodies in Quake3 with the railgun, for instance), the framerate drop is insignificant (compared to the more than 50% framerate drop in this situation with other cards). 3dfx is more concerned with squeezing all they can out of their scarce profits than they are with improving their products. FSAA is nice when you're rasterizing 3D scenes for videos, but it is otherwise useless when compared with the faster framerate and image quality of NVidia's cards.
And would you consider bringing up an independent investigation of the MPAA? Right now, the average consumer is so mis-represented, that some of us fear that entertainment as we know it will cease to exist.
Like you say, problem solved, in a money-grubbing, capitalist way; the consumers have ultimately lost. Creative has done jack squat with the A3D technology so far, and has not improved upon the drivers for the Vortex line by Aureal.
End result: Creative wins, consumers lose.
We'll find out today! On BATTLENERDS!
It seems to be sticking spaces in the A HREF tags. Bender, of course, is the next Slashdot source code.
Yeah, but those were the video systems in my two computers. Sure, it's comparing today's best to the best of two years ago, but then it gives you a basic idea of what to expect. Furthermore, I have access to only those two, so those are the only readings which I trust. If anyone has a high-sprite report on a V5, I'd like to hear it.
That's exactly what fuels competition; however, I think that the video card companies are starting to incorrectly assume that patent infringement lawsuits can be used as a competitive tactic: if you can't beat them, sue them!
...though I can't quite see how NVidia fits into it all. I consider myself a hybrid Geek, since I live in a family of technophobes. True, geeks don't put enough documentation into their programs; blindly assuming that a help system can be avoided by using 4 simple letters in a certain sequence (you know, R-T-F-M). I would've used EMACS more if I even knew how to navigate the menu system; to quit, I could only ctrl-alt-del out of it!
If you're complaining about the story being so 1-sided, just kick back and relish the thought that Slashdot was designed to make 1-sided stories 2-sided. That's the entire purpose behind the Comment system.
I was assuming that the closest competitor to the Prism had the same OS. I'm talking about the Palm IIIc as a competitor. Not to downplay Casio's efforts; that's a damn good PDA.
However relatively unimportant this correction is, the world still needs more proofreaders. Take a look at the text on the sides of Sony products; you're bound to find at least one spelling mistake or technical specification error.
The URL for that article should be "http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/business/Ha ndspring_unveils_color_Visor_Prism+.shtm l". NO SPACES IN THE URL!!!! Slashdot's perl script seems to be messing around with that plus sign, so I can't do an A HREF.
First off, Never send a German to do an American's proofreading job.
Secondly, doesn't the IIIc have more than 256 colors? I cite this quote from this AP article from the Business section of the Boston Globe:
First off, 16-bit color means 65,536 colors. Secondly, the Prism will be 16 times more colors than its competitor (the IIIc). This means that the closest competitor outputs 4096 colors, or 12-bit; not 256 colors, or 8-bit. Furthermore, the cover of the IIIc box and demonstrations of the unit indicate a higher-than-256-colors output.
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