I also hated getting the friendsoffriendsspam, etc.
I am repeating again: "read instruction!". Each type of msg can be set as "message", "email" or ignored. If you want to flame Orkut use true arguments. You can say about very bad copyright and stuff, but not things which show that you haven't read docs at all.
But if you watch, or play, videogames/tv for 3 hours straight
At first moment I wanted to agree with you. However, I noticed you wrote "hours" and not "days". Dude! Playing good game for 3 hours is just a warmup...
Be free to have to specify each individual UI preference for every new app I use, you mean?
Yes. Application with best UI will have bigger userbase. Applications with small userbase could change their UI then.
Be free to have to spend hours trying to get my new word processor to talk to my printer?
If you have problems configuring your word processor - try another one. Better will win, worse will lose. Evolution and free market. It works much better than any general regulations. And why this kind of freedom is called "communism" by some people?
Very high level languages, Java, C#/Mono, frameworks, newest GNOME, newest KDE, how many buzzwords can we use at once?
Seriously, guys. Use what you know. Write in C++, write in Python. For GUI use GTK or QT or wxWindows, or just GNOME/KDE libs. If you write game use SDL or plib or ClanLib or anything else you will find. Do not check what is "trendy", just code.
I am asking same question again - why Linux world need to copy everything from Windows world? Do not integrate, do not unify, be free.
OMG, I have seen article about this game more than 10 years ago, in polish gaming magazine... And IIRC game was available for Atari ST, and I had just Atari 800XL. I remember amazing screenshots, and interesting review... Now I will play it, to finnally see what is this game:)
I guess it's tough to squeeze everything into a top ten list, but it would have been nice to have seen nods to the Thief, System Shock, and No One Lives Forever series.
I think you missed point of article. It was about shooters. It is possible to play Thief as shooter, but I don't think you could win this way (and I am sure you can't on highest difficulty).
While I disagree that shooters should be simple and stupid (never liked Serious Sam), I agree that game like Thief is not real shooter. It is something much better.
OK, Video editing is good example, but isn't used only by professionals or semi-professionals? I know huge HD is good for production (servers for example), but is there any good use for it on typical workstation?
What guys are you doing with so huge hard drivers? My first HD had 40MB, I know it was small number... it was less than 40 diskiettes. Today I have 120GB, and I am never out of space. 120GB is more than 120CDs. On one CD I can put whole movie or half of movie, few mp3 albums, or lots, lots of text/sources. I just have no idea what I could put on bigger drive, except movies I don't watch, music I don't listen and software I don't use.
Overclocking 8-bit computers like Atari 800XL is very good thing, because these computers where often used to keep your legs warm in winter (if you don't believe me, ask older collegue, who had 8-bit computer), so additional overheating can only help:-) Stability is of course different problem. Overclocked Atari may work almost as badly as Windows XP.
IMHO problem was bad set of people and terrible organisation of whole project. From selected 8 coders only Steve Baker and I were experienced in graphics - and in 3D at all. There were people experienced in mud programming, Bill Kendrick is great coder, but experienced in 2D arcades, there was also guy experienced in audio...
Steve Baker left, when it was clear that LGP wasn't able to give us good artists (porting!=creating). Then even discussions on mailing list dissapear. And I think it was exact moment of death.
PS. I was really, really mad and irritated, because result of all that stuff was few months delay of my master thesis:-( At least I will not make similiar mistakes in future. Always double check project you will be working on.
As a former Angry Pixels "developer" I think I can say: project is and (almost from beginning) was dead. Months of wasted time from my point of view:-/
CVS lets you check in binaries. But it doesn't use any diff algorithm -- its just stores each instance. So its just inefficient. Any application that uses media will commonly have binary data.
CVS stores binaries but it is not so trivial. When we put some binary data into our CVS tree we realized Windows users can't access it (need some setting in repository). CVS behaves differently in Linux and in Windows in this case.
ATI driver is closed source. It means that after installing you will have one piece of system (kernel module!) without source available. It makes your system not 100% free. It is almost same situation like with nVidia. Almost, because ATI driver it's little different - without all win32 shit inside.
I am pro-Radeon, because ATI released almost-complete (without HyperZ!) specification for older Radeons (r100 and r200), but I am not going to buy their new cards (with r300). If you have old one - I recommend using open source DRI drivers.
Why do you want to integrate everything? You integrated mail, news, irc, calendar and probably million of other shits I never used in Mozilla. What is so amazing in one integrated monster? Do we really need to follow Microsoft path? I always though Unix way is to build many small tools, not one big piece of shit.
Slashdot Mirror
No reply at all? :(
I am really disappointed. So big conference and no one recorded Carmack speech? Not even transcript?
I also hated getting the friendsoffriendsspam, etc.
I am repeating again: "read instruction!".
Each type of msg can be set as "message", "email" or ignored.
If you want to flame Orkut use true arguments. You can say about very bad copyright and stuff, but not things which show that you haven't read docs at all.
I don't like to be asked to quantify my level of friendship with people, it is only my business.
Make sure you read any help next time. Friend rating is visible only to you and it is used to sort friend list.
But if you watch, or play, videogames/tv for 3 hours straight
At first moment I wanted to agree with you. However, I noticed you wrote "hours" and not "days". Dude! Playing good game for 3 hours is just a warmup...
That's Atari only in name,
True, sorry for incomplete information.
I was Atari800 XL user, and I know that new Atari is just Infogrames.
Be free to have to specify each individual UI preference for every new app I use, you mean?
:)
Yes. Application with best UI will have bigger userbase. Applications with small userbase could change their UI then.
Be free to have to spend hours trying to get my new word processor to talk to my printer?
If you have problems configuring your word processor - try another one. Better will win, worse will lose. Evolution and free market. It works much better than any general regulations. And why this kind of freedom is called "communism" by some people?
PS. And please no examples of RFC here...
Very high level languages, Java, C#/Mono, frameworks, newest GNOME, newest KDE, how many buzzwords can we use at once?
Seriously, guys. Use what you know. Write in C++, write in Python. For GUI use GTK or QT or wxWindows, or just GNOME/KDE libs. If you write game use SDL or plib or ClanLib or anything else you will find. Do not check what is "trendy", just code.
I am asking same question again - why Linux world need to copy everything from Windows world? Do not integrate, do not unify, be free.
...and Atari killed Microprose. I am not joking. I tried to submit story about that on Slashdot, but it was refused. Anyway, please check:
atari closes microprose
on google.
OMG, I have seen article about this game more than 10 years ago, in polish gaming magazine... And IIRC game was available for Atari ST, and I had just Atari 800XL. I remember amazing screenshots, and interesting review... Now I will play it, to finnally see what is this game :)
I guess it's tough to squeeze everything into a top ten list, but it would have been nice to have seen nods to the Thief, System Shock, and No One Lives Forever series.
I think you missed point of article. It was about shooters. It is possible to play Thief as shooter, but I don't think you could win this way (and I am sure you can't on highest difficulty).
While I disagree that shooters should be simple and stupid (never liked Serious Sam), I agree that game like Thief is not real shooter. It is something much better.
These pictures are amazing!
Now I have reason to install and learn PovRay...
But how much pr0n you can watch at same time? Let's say you use 200GB for pr0n, how long it will take you to watch that whole stuff?
OK, Video editing is good example, but isn't used only by professionals or semi-professionals? I know huge HD is good for production (servers for example), but is there any good use for it on typical workstation?
What guys are you doing with so huge hard drivers? My first HD had 40MB, I know it was small number... it was less than 40 diskiettes. Today I have 120GB, and I am never out of space. 120GB is more than 120CDs. On one CD I can put whole movie or half of movie, few mp3 albums, or lots, lots of text/sources. I just have no idea what I could put on bigger drive, except movies I don't watch, music I don't listen and software I don't use.
Overclocking 8-bit computers like Atari 800XL is very good thing, because these computers where often used to keep your legs warm in winter (if you don't believe me, ask older collegue, who had 8-bit computer), so additional overheating can only help :-)
Stability is of course different problem. Overclocked Atari may work almost as badly as Windows XP.
IMHO problem was bad set of people and terrible organisation of whole project. From selected 8 coders only Steve Baker and I were experienced in graphics - and in 3D at all. There were people experienced in mud programming, Bill Kendrick is great coder, but experienced in 2D arcades, there was also guy experienced in audio...
:-( At least I will not make similiar mistakes in future. Always double check project you will be working on.
Steve Baker left, when it was clear that LGP wasn't able to give us good artists (porting!=creating). Then even discussions on mailing list dissapear. And I think it was exact moment of death.
PS. I was really, really mad and irritated, because result of all that stuff was few months delay of my master thesis
As a former Angry Pixels "developer" I think I can say: project is and (almost from beginning) was dead. Months of wasted time from my point of view :-/
The American 1970s are associated with crime, violence, poverty, unemployment, political and social upheaval, bad clothes, and worse music.
IMHO 1970s was best era for music in whole human history. What author was talking about?
CVS lets you check in binaries. But it doesn't use any diff algorithm -- its just stores each instance. So its just inefficient. Any application that uses media will commonly have binary data.
CVS stores binaries but it is not so trivial. When we put some binary data into our CVS tree we realized Windows users can't access it (need some setting in repository). CVS behaves differently in Linux and in Windows in this case.
how much raw materials is needed to produce "ecological" stuff (both mechanical and food).
With the availability of other companies who are willing to provide open source drivers, why should anyone by ATI products?
Which companies?
ATI driver is closed source. It means that after installing you will have one piece of system (kernel module!) without source available. It makes your system not 100% free. It is almost same situation like with nVidia. Almost, because ATI driver it's little different - without all win32 shit inside.
I am pro-Radeon, because ATI released almost-complete (without HyperZ!) specification for older Radeons (r100 and r200), but I am not going to buy their new cards (with r300). If you have old one - I recommend using open source DRI drivers.
Well, maybe I am wrong, but...
gnu.org is currently down, is it related or offtopic?
Why do you want to integrate everything? You integrated mail, news, irc, calendar and probably million of other shits I never used in Mozilla. What is so amazing in one integrated monster? Do we really need to follow Microsoft path? I always though Unix way is to build many small tools, not one big piece of shit.
I always thought that as long as you had more than half of the bill, you can just take it to a bank and have it replaced...
Wow!
1) Take 4 * 1$
2) Break it into: 4 * ( 3 * 1/3$ )
3) Group it into: ( 2 * 3 ) * 2/3$
4) Now you have 6 * 2/3$
5) Give it to bank
6) Get 6$ from bank
Profit = 6$ - 4$ = 2$
And now repeat.