Go to the Netscape homepage; I can't go, don't want anything Netscape tainting my machine. Count up how many banner ads there are on the main page and all the headline pages. Each ad is worth a cool half-million dollars for Netscape's team of coders. The little window that pops up is worth $3 million to them.
Do you KNOW how much latency Java introduces just by the nature of Java? It's been proven that Java introduces latency; go to shugashack.com and download the Q3 1.17 DLLs (if you have Windows, of course), slap those DLLs into \baseq3\ and watch the 15% increase in performance over the QVM sources!
A video player or codec coded in Java is worthless, especially for such a high-compression high-raw-datarate format such as MPEG-4. What I want is LESS Java, not more. I'm sick of all these stupid Java applets, codecs and source files tainting my screen and critically delaying running times.
One of the worst Java applets ever created is the "Punch the Monkey" banner ad. That one seems to render and run FASTER on a slower processor. That's violating at least a few guidelines!
...instead of e.g. the WAV format, which just has data without information about samples/sec, bits/sample, endian, etc.
the WAV format does have a header for bits, sampling rate, and mono/stereo. It's mp3 that's headerless; kinda cool, cause if you can find a download manager that'll save the partial file (as it gets it) into the destination (not like IE and Netscape do; putting it into temp until it's complete), then you can stream it by definition (of course, assuming your connection is greater than 16K per second for 128Kbps).
I hate the QuickTime4 player. Nice format; if I became dictator of the IT world, I would force Apple into only refining QuickTime and give up their computer industry.
Once, I downloaded a QT file that Media Player (Windows 2000) couldn't play the audio to. So I fed the QT file into Cool Edit. My suspicions were confirmed; instead of audio and video being interleaved at an incredibly tight interval, there were about 1-second snippets of sound separated by video bursts. I cropped out the video part and ba-boom, I had a funny as hell South Park sound byte!
Considering the QT4 player, I've only seen it on a mac (where it should be), and I am proud to say that the likes of it have never tainted my Win2000 machine. I do like Media Player, but I use Winamp for mp3s, since it has the oscilloscope readout. By the way, does anyone know of a codec (Winamp DLL or otherwise) that lets you directly open the.cin files for Quake2? I hate going into 320x240 software just to properly view the cinematics (anti-aliasing stinks with movies, except in the Q3.roq files)
This premise is based on the fact that the Microsoft coders are paid good money to play by the rules and code efficiently and securely, whatever the cost in time and headaches. Hence, the higher overall quality of Windows programs coded in C/C++.
Linux Bad.
Okay this premise IS due to the fact that Linux is free. Because of this, the Linux coders have little time to code, and so they do a slapdash job and label it "Beta 1." All they really want is for their creation to work, not necessarily to work well. Hell, they don't care if the program doesn't even do what it was designed for, they only go back to the drawing board if it crashes (Case in point: GNOME and the Linux kernels above 2.4.XX).
Well if that is true, what about web browsers. How much did you pay for IE or Netscape? I'm guessing not much, if you paid for it at all.
Well, that's where you cross the line between a sharp point and a warped point. IE gets funding from Microsoft's main coffer, so the same coding practices (sometimes even the same CODERS) get put into making IE. As for Netscape, they get a buttload of cash from advertising. However, they're more infatuated with Java, hence the reason for Netscape's lag of 25000 milliseconds when accessing a webpage, even on OC3.
Finally, what about other platforms?
Just because they are not Microsoft, they should be ignored?
The same rules apply here; the more funding, the better the chance of stability/function relevance.
As stated in an earlier post, "Always printf("%s", string) instead of printf(string)." And guess who violated this? The lazy Linux coders, deciding to save time by omitting "%s". Now that's just plain wrong. All of the coders in Microsoft, as well as the developers who code for Windows, almost never forget this, and almost always put in the "%s" into the string.
This lazy attitude in the Linux community is nothing new. Just look at any beta Linux tarballs, 33% of them are just makefiles with C source files. Basically, that screams out, "I was too lazy to compile this for ya. Wanna save me a step or two so I can go get another double decaf mocha latté?" Slashdot itself is another blaring example, with its bandwidth and servers still at basically the same hardware generation and class for the last year, at least. Sure, they probably updated the kernels when a more stable one came out, but that's it, just software tweaking. As the age-old IT business axiom goes (edited to reflect the times), "What [we're too lazy to] do in hardware, we'll do in software.
I'll be learning C++ pretty soon at college anyway, so thanks to all the CORRECT programmers out there giving the correct string method; already, I'm three steps ahead of the bible-thumping Linux coders. Now to build the uber-soundcard, hmmm, that's another story...
Right now, the most common things found on Gnutella are smut, Metallica, and eminem. It's not another Napster, but then, since it's so open-source, it can't be. Currently, Gnutella servers crawl along at 11k per second while spam hawkers bombard search queries. It's time for another closed-source (but FREE) peer-to-peer mp3 network.
Hell yeah, probably would need 4 peltiers on 4 peltiers to cool the 6000. Of course, overclocking the card is out of the question, due to the sheer heat.
I see that you imitated my former sig; well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I had to think of a new one because all the Linux gnomes were getting offended.
Yup, it goes into the 3.5 drive bay, forcing you to leave that empty, and effectively cutting the airflow space inside the case in two. This card would be a convectional nightmare, requiring you to leave the case open all the time.
I like NVidia's approach, one GPU, instead of "as many VSA-100s as we can fit on a PCB!" I think that Alex Leupp desperately needs to rip those blinders off of his head.
The only time 3dfx was ahead in the 3d industry was way back in the banshee and Voodoo2 years. But ever since NVidia entered the game, they've been ahead. Voodoo3 versus Riva TnT, voodoo3 versus Riva TnT2 Ultra, voodoo 3 versus GeForce, Voodoo5 versus GeForce 2. Notice a pattern here?
Okay, this silly one's taken from here, but I think that it would apply for the V5 6000 as well.
DISCLAIMER: Will not fit in most PC cases without slight case modifications. Card comes with a Honda diesel generator for power. Not FCC approved. Keep away from water, small children, air traffic control towers, munitions dumps, and pacemakers. Extended use may cause cancer. Shipped via truck freight. Estimated retail price $5,743.56 (USD)
The SharkyExtreme guy just guessed it. The FPS was probably 20FPS while the FSAA engine blended the frames together or something similarly screwy like 3dfx likes to do.
They chose to have an external power supply so there would be less draw from the power lines on the AGP card. Also, if the fans are powered by a drive power connector, there's less magnetic distortion near the card, supposedly making for better reliability, but personally, I think it's overkill (except for the 4 fans, it's good that those are powered off of an externa powerline). Still, the V5 6000 will be slower than a GeForce 2 GTS; I think that they pulled that 1600x1400 figure out of their @$$; that res isn't even 4x3 or 16x9, it's 8x7, too close to square.
Both are in the Dilbert compilation: "Casual Day Has Gone Too Far." I think it's a must have for slashdotters (well, at least the Computer Holy Wars section).
. If you had to ask me, use a vendor that makes the OS and hardware (Sun Solaris, HP HP_UX, etc...)
I agree with that. RedHat (which I'd like to nickname OldHat) has constant problems with GNOME crashing. If Solaris had so much problems, Sun would be hip-deep in complaints and lawsuits.
Why not have/usr/bin and/usr/lib mirrored as dummies, so anyone who adds files to these directories (except root, of course) is documented and the files are moved to an inactive portion of the directory tree? That's what I used to do with Windows 95; I installed it into c:\windows.000 and left a dead installation of win95 in c:\windows. That way, the dumbasses who typed in the literal, predicted path got a bum deal on hacking my system!
Even better, a polymorphic/usr/lib and/usr/bin system! That way, only the local user (and maybe root on a/dev/tty) would be able to change things, as this is the way it should be.
One offtopic thing, but I need to fix a NT4 system: Is there a way to get to the recovery console/command line? I need to replace \WINNT\System32\shlwapi.dll because of a checksum error (eek.)
Well, sure there's a way to get around the file replacement thing (a kinda funny way too): rename drivers.cab. I had to do that to install the Aureal beta drivers. Nice MIDI synth, but under full hardware acceleration, Half-Life crashes. Back to the drawing board for them, hehe.
I'd talk more on length, but I'm too unfocused to flame. Must play Quake...(busy with 100MB download, can't play on half-bandwidth)
The only way I've been able to get this to run properly is to shove it in the end of config.cfg and default.cfg. Usually, it's set to 56, but I wish there was also a way to precache all the models (that way, you don't get the delay when someone new joins the server)
I miss the Quake1 days when a bsp, players, and sounds only took 5 seconds to load
I remember a Dilbert with a Unix programmer, bearded, with suspenders, told a boring story about programming. At that point, Alice takes the pudgy programmer by the suspenders and says, "Look you bearded road apple, one more pointless anecdote like that and I'll snap you into next week!!!"
The next frame takes place "sometime next week..."
Dilbert and Wally at the copier:
Wally: (looking at the wall) "Hey, that looks like a rift in the space-time continuum."
Dilbert: "Did you just hear a snap?"
Slashdot Mirror
Go to the Netscape homepage; I can't go, don't want anything Netscape tainting my machine. Count up how many banner ads there are on the main page and all the headline pages. Each ad is worth a cool half-million dollars for Netscape's team of coders. The little window that pops up is worth $3 million to them.
A video player or codec coded in Java is worthless, especially for such a high-compression high-raw-datarate format such as MPEG-4. What I want is LESS Java, not more. I'm sick of all these stupid Java applets, codecs and source files tainting my screen and critically delaying running times.
One of the worst Java applets ever created is the "Punch the Monkey" banner ad. That one seems to render and run FASTER on a slower processor. That's violating at least a few guidelines!
Once, I downloaded a QT file that Media Player (Windows 2000) couldn't play the audio to. So I fed the QT file into Cool Edit. My suspicions were confirmed; instead of audio and video being interleaved at an incredibly tight interval, there were about 1-second snippets of sound separated by video bursts. I cropped out the video part and ba-boom, I had a funny as hell South Park sound byte!
Considering the QT4 player, I've only seen it on a mac (where it should be), and I am proud to say that the likes of it have never tainted my Win2000 machine. I do like Media Player, but I use Winamp for mp3s, since it has the oscilloscope readout. By the way, does anyone know of a codec (Winamp DLL or otherwise) that lets you directly open the .cin files for Quake2? I hate going into 320x240 software just to properly view the cinematics (anti-aliasing stinks with movies, except in the Q3 .roq files)
Windows Good.
This premise is based on the fact that the Microsoft coders are paid good money to play by the rules and code efficiently and securely, whatever the cost in time and headaches. Hence, the higher overall quality of Windows programs coded in C/C++.Linux Bad.
Okay this premise IS due to the fact that Linux is free. Because of this, the Linux coders have little time to code, and so they do a slapdash job and label it "Beta 1." All they really want is for their creation to work, not necessarily to work well. Hell, they don't care if the program doesn't even do what it was designed for, they only go back to the drawing board if it crashes (Case in point: GNOME and the Linux kernels above 2.4.XX). Well, that's where you cross the line between a sharp point and a warped point. IE gets funding from Microsoft's main coffer, so the same coding practices (sometimes even the same CODERS) get put into making IE. As for Netscape, they get a buttload of cash from advertising. However, they're more infatuated with Java, hence the reason for Netscape's lag of 25000 milliseconds when accessing a webpage, even on OC3. The same rules apply here; the more funding, the better the chance of stability/function relevance.This lazy attitude in the Linux community is nothing new. Just look at any beta Linux tarballs, 33% of them are just makefiles with C source files. Basically, that screams out, "I was too lazy to compile this for ya. Wanna save me a step or two so I can go get another double decaf mocha latté?" Slashdot itself is another blaring example, with its bandwidth and servers still at basically the same hardware generation and class for the last year, at least. Sure, they probably updated the kernels when a more stable one came out, but that's it, just software tweaking. As the age-old IT business axiom goes (edited to reflect the times), "What [we're too lazy to] do in hardware, we'll do in software.
I'll be learning C++ pretty soon at college anyway, so thanks to all the CORRECT programmers out there giving the correct string method; already, I'm three steps ahead of the bible-thumping Linux coders. Now to build the uber-soundcard, hmmm, that's another story...
Right now, the most common things found on Gnutella are smut, Metallica, and eminem. It's not another Napster, but then, since it's so open-source, it can't be. Currently, Gnutella servers crawl along at 11k per second while spam hawkers bombard search queries. It's time for another closed-source (but FREE) peer-to-peer mp3 network.
I see that you imitated my former sig; well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I had to think of a new one because all the Linux gnomes were getting offended.
I like NVidia's approach, one GPU, instead of "as many VSA-100s as we can fit on a PCB!" I think that Alex Leupp desperately needs to rip those blinders off of his head.
He was probably looking at 15fps with the FSAA engine blending the frames together. 3dfx always takes the worst shortcuts like that.
The only time 3dfx was ahead in the 3d industry was way back in the banshee and Voodoo2 years. But ever since NVidia entered the game, they've been ahead. Voodoo3 versus Riva TnT, voodoo3 versus Riva TnT2 Ultra, voodoo 3 versus GeForce, Voodoo5 versus GeForce 2. Notice a pattern here?
The SharkyExtreme guy just guessed it. The FPS was probably 20FPS while the FSAA engine blended the frames together or something similarly screwy like 3dfx likes to do.
They chose to have an external power supply so there would be less draw from the power lines on the AGP card. Also, if the fans are powered by a drive power connector, there's less magnetic distortion near the card, supposedly making for better reliability, but personally, I think it's overkill (except for the 4 fans, it's good that those are powered off of an externa powerline). Still, the V5 6000 will be slower than a GeForce 2 GTS; I think that they pulled that 1600x1400 figure out of their @$$; that res isn't even 4x3 or 16x9, it's 8x7, too close to square.
Both are in the Dilbert compilation: "Casual Day Has Gone Too Far." I think it's a must have for slashdotters (well, at least the Computer Holy Wars section).
Where did he get his MBA, Cheez Whiz U?
I agree with that. RedHat (which I'd like to nickname OldHat) has constant problems with GNOME crashing. If Solaris had so much problems, Sun would be hip-deep in complaints and lawsuits.
Even better, a polymorphic /usr/lib and /usr/bin system! That way, only the local user (and maybe root on a /dev/tty) would be able to change things, as this is the way it should be.
One offtopic thing, but I need to fix a NT4 system: Is there a way to get to the recovery console/command line? I need to replace \WINNT\System32\shlwapi.dll because of a checksum error (eek.)
I've seen some pencils made from recycled blue jeans. Hold up pretty good too, but it's like sharpening fabric!
I'd talk more on length, but I'm too unfocused to flame. Must play Quake...(busy with 100MB download, can't play on half-bandwidth)
oh yeah, use seta com_hunkmegs X. Either in config.cfg or as a commandline parameter (+ after quake3.exe)
The only way I've been able to get this to run properly is to shove it in the end of config.cfg and default.cfg. Usually, it's set to 56, but I wish there was also a way to precache all the models (that way, you don't get the delay when someone new joins the server)
I miss the Quake1 days when a bsp, players, and sounds only took 5 seconds to load
Look who's talking (and losing karma at the same time!)
The next frame takes place "sometime next week..."
Dilbert and Wally at the copier:
Wally: (looking at the wall) "Hey, that looks like a rift in the space-time continuum." Dilbert: "Did you just hear a snap?"Ouch man, go have some ice cream or something. Seriously, I think that last line of slurs just caused that vein on your forehead to bulge.