bunch of zealots worshipping a pure gold likeness of RMS....a pure gold likeness of RMS standing atop a Bill Gates/Lucifer combination (a'la Coventry Cathedral), with a Bruce Perens kneeling at his feet looking up in supplication as a garlanded Stallman dances round them whilst a solid silver Torvalds gazes down clad only in a wry smile from a marbled cloud.
You'd need a lot of paper bags nearby obviously, but it'd still be better than most statuary 'art' made nowadays:-)
The other camp wants to draw users by providing something new, novel, innovative that wins users on merit.
No, the other camp wants to make something that does things the opposite way to Windows, simply because windows does it that way, and they're bloody-mindedly stubbon in their hatred for all things microsoft.
(I'm not saying the GIMP people are like this, they simply copied the old X-windows UI features)
About time for RMS to say, "see, I told you it should be called GNU/Linux all along". Never would've thought that silly dispute could have any practical meaning.
One day, I'll have more mod points, then I'll be coming back for you.
Insightful or funny though, which would you prefer?
lol. I don't consider that a bug at all - if you were driving along and someone blew the ground up you were travelling on,....I doubt you'd still be around:)
There were good flying vehicles that could carry troops - the car carried 4 IIRC, the second research vehicle you got from investigating crashed ufos (forget the name, but it was the equivalent of a van - 32 spaces that you could equip with seats if you liked. they were heavily armoured and flew) later on you also got the aircraft that could be equipped with seats.
I found the ground vehicles to be useless as they were slow. simple as that - why drive when you can fly:)
Ground vehicle? I don't think we're talking about the same game.
I refer to Microprose's X-Com Apocalypse. I liked it (and ok, there was ground vehicles in the strategic screens but I never used them as they were useless).
na, it all comes down to money.. remember when Larry stood up and said there would be a single price book for all Oracle products, the biggest customer would pay the same per licence that the smallest would....
I can't remember how long it took before that decision was cancelled, probably about the same time it took one of the biggest customers to say "we're upgrading to a competitor unless you give us back our discount".
All companies write off hardware as tax expenses over 3 years (in the UK at least), so technically after 3 years your computers have been paid for by the taxman, and you cna buy new ones.
Just because you think buying a new PC is a cost doesn't make it so to a business.
The higher requirements should mean we get better hardware for cheaper prices anyway - look at how things have been progressing lately. No-one would be able to afford a computer if RAM wasn't so highly commoditised nowadays (I recall paying £100 per 4 MB. Now its almost £50 per Gb) If this ends up with dual-core graphics cards with 2Gb RAM for the same price as I currently pay for my 256Mb card... then its a good thing.
but what company invests in video cards to support their desktop apps?
In my experience, no company actually specs the video card as 'requiring high end video' unless they're doing something that actually requires it, however, for the vast majority of business PCs you simply get a quite reasonable card bundled in there anyway. Consider the price of them nowadays, and you'll get what was considered high-end 2 years ago anyway.
Onboard motherboard chips are a different beast, as they are there to support basic displays only, server style displays where anything beyond a 256 colour display is overkill.
There are other windows free AV products: BitDefender is a very good one, and came really highly rated in a recent comparison (posted on slashdot I think)
Avast is another one, but that proved difficult to get rid of once installed. I can't remember why I wanted to uninstall it....
Bottom was class British TV, I'm sure its available on the web. Well worth getting it for the slapstick violence.
[sitting round campfire] Richie: What was that film where they ate each other? Eddie: "Deep Throat", wasn't it?
[Eddie standing by fridge, with Richie on all fours, his head in the fridge while Eddie repeatedly slams the door shut on his head] Eddie: You know, they say television is the reason for so much violence these days, but here I am smashing my mates head in the fridge, and we don't even have a TV.
$2000 per developer is cheap. Its the runtime costs that matter - consider buy me $2000, but roll out to 500 seat userbase for anything less than $4 a user and you've made your saving. And got soem pretty damn hot development tools too.
As for big, big applications - its all in the coding. I work for a company that struggles to get 500 users out of its current oracle based product, whereas my previous company (did many things right) got 12000 users out of its SQL-Server based product. (roughly equivalent transaction costs and queries). Besides, MS is remarkably ready to drop the price, especially if the DB is going to be sold on to customers. We get it for next to nothing so it adds to our profit when we sell our systems, and MS gets market share.. everyone's a winner there, if only Oracle would do the same (and I don't mean to only the massively huge companies - remember Larry's 'single price' concept?)
Today we're looking at incredibly resilient and redundant public-safety apps, and oracle still isn't giving us what HP/Tandem DB would give us.
So, really, in today's world - Oracle doesn't give us enough good stuff to warrant the extra expense.
silly animated worms with bazookas firing grenades and the like at each other in a game that has its roots in the very very old artillery game (where you have 2 guns either side of a mountain and you take turns to lob shells at each other with realistic physics - this was in the days of text-based graphics BTW).
Worms is a silly, fun game you should play with your mates around, and beers.
Once upon a time a company called Apple made a OS with windowing GUI. Then a company called Microsoft made a OS with a windowing GUI that had remarkably cimilar concepts.. even down to the terms used in programming these GUI features.
you can't be paid much then. Surely it's better to have a nice sales, marketing, and implementation setup so you can
a) consult that they need new everything b) sell them that everything c) install and configure it d) support it (preferably someone else supports it from offshore, and you take a slice off the top)
See, once you've done that a couple of times, and you're living on your Caribbean island, you don't care that you sold them solely MS products!
Consultant indeed! Sounds like you're a real person who tries hard to help people. What is the world coming to:-)
Too bad if you don't like MS, but they still make the best development tools. These are still BETA and will do nasty things to your box, so you might want to wait until the 2005 release is released.
With XP home, they tried to make things easy, abnd informed developers they had to write things properly in order to qualify for a 'works with XP' sticker.... but they still don't.
Probably the biggest screw-up ever WRT admin privileges is the default setting for registry access - MFC class that does it defaults to 'read and write' permissions.. and write perms are admin-only.. so your app has to be an admin. All for the sake of ", KEY_READ);". Well, that's one example.
In linux-land, an analogy would be 'how do I install my system-level app and not su to root?', obviously you don't, but the fault is not of the OS, but of the app in this case that requires admin privs where it shouldn't.
Send an email to the game company, go on, flood their support desk with the 'how do play as a non admin' question. They'll get the hint eventually.
This PSU will have the 24pin+8pin motherboard connectors if its EPS12V, and you need them for dual cpu motherboards. (my Tyan manual says "do not even thing about bringing that ATX2 PSU near this motherboard or your warranty is void, oh yes, we won't even consider a replacement". I think they mean it).
Bear in mind that there are 2 things you want in a server PSU:
1. Enough output to power everything at startup, when you're drawing more power than you normally do when everything's running along. Hard drives really spike at startup, buit once spinning it takes relatively little to keep them going.
2. Efficiency. All PSUs provide different efficiencies as the load on them increases. eg, you may be 75% efficient at 50% load, but at 100% load you'll be only 50% efficient. All switched power supplies only deliver what you're using anyway, so if I have a gazillion-watt PSU, but only drew 1 watt from it, it'd be sucking 1watt out of the wall socket and not dimming the lights:)
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why get stuck in M$s' upgrade cycle?
:-)
Let me guess, you don;t like upgrade cycles.... you're a Debian user right?
bunch of zealots worshipping a pure gold likeness of RMS ....a pure gold likeness of RMS standing atop a Bill Gates/Lucifer combination (a'la Coventry Cathedral), with a Bruce Perens kneeling at his feet looking up in supplication as a garlanded Stallman dances round them whilst a solid silver Torvalds gazes down clad only in a wry smile from a marbled cloud.
:-)
You'd need a lot of paper bags nearby obviously, but it'd still be better than most statuary 'art' made nowadays
The other camp wants to draw users by providing something new, novel, innovative that wins users on merit.
No, the other camp wants to make something that does things the opposite way to Windows, simply because windows does it that way, and they're bloody-mindedly stubbon in their hatred for all things microsoft.
(I'm not saying the GIMP people are like this, they simply copied the old X-windows UI features)
About time for RMS to say, "see, I told you it should be called GNU/Linux all along". Never would've thought that silly dispute could have any practical meaning.
One day, I'll have more mod points, then I'll be coming back for you.
Insightful or funny though, which would you prefer?
lol. I don't consider that a bug at all - if you were driving along and someone blew the ground up you were travelling on,....I doubt you'd still be around :)
:)
There were good flying vehicles that could carry troops - the car carried 4 IIRC, the second research vehicle you got from investigating crashed ufos (forget the name, but it was the equivalent of a van - 32 spaces that you could equip with seats if you liked. they were heavily armoured and flew) later on you also got the aircraft that could be equipped with seats.
I found the ground vehicles to be useless as they were slow. simple as that - why drive when you can fly
I will have to try Aftermath, see what it's like.
Ground vehicle? I don't think we're talking about the same game.
I refer to Microprose's X-Com Apocalypse. I liked it (and ok, there was ground vehicles in the strategic screens but I never used them as they were useless).
Apoc is bugged to heck and back. It also lacks true turn based play and goes to that real time interuptable stuff
Have you played it? its never crashed on me, and when you enter a tactical mission you choose - standard turn based, or real time play. Not both.
na, it all comes down to money.. remember when Larry stood up and said there would be a single price book for all Oracle products, the biggest customer would pay the same per licence that the smallest would....
I can't remember how long it took before that decision was cancelled, probably about the same time it took one of the biggest customers to say "we're upgrading to a competitor unless you give us back our discount".
All companies write off hardware as tax expenses over 3 years (in the UK at least), so technically after 3 years your computers have been paid for by the taxman, and you cna buy new ones.
Just because you think buying a new PC is a cost doesn't make it so to a business.
The higher requirements should mean we get better hardware for cheaper prices anyway - look at how things have been progressing lately. No-one would be able to afford a computer if RAM wasn't so highly commoditised nowadays (I recall paying £100 per 4 MB. Now its almost £50 per Gb) If this ends up with dual-core graphics cards with 2Gb RAM for the same price as I currently pay for my 256Mb card... then its a good thing.
but what company invests in video cards to support their desktop apps?
In my experience, no company actually specs the video card as 'requiring high end video' unless they're doing something that actually requires it, however, for the vast majority of business PCs you simply get a quite reasonable card bundled in there anyway. Consider the price of them nowadays, and you'll get what was considered high-end 2 years ago anyway.
Onboard motherboard chips are a different beast, as they are there to support basic displays only, server style displays where anything beyond a 256 colour display is overkill.
There are other windows free AV products: BitDefender
is a very good one, and came really highly rated in a recent comparison (posted on slashdot I think)
Avast is another one, but that proved difficult to get rid of once installed. I can't remember why I wanted to uninstall it....
Bottom was class British TV, I'm sure its available on the web. Well worth getting it for the slapstick violence.
[sitting round campfire]
Richie: What was that film where they ate each other?
Eddie: "Deep Throat", wasn't it?
[Eddie standing by fridge, with Richie on all fours, his head in the fridge while Eddie repeatedly slams the door shut on his head]
Eddie: You know, they say television is the reason for so much violence these days, but here I am smashing my mates head in the fridge, and we don't even have a TV.
$2000 per developer is cheap. Its the runtime costs that matter - consider buy me $2000, but roll out to 500 seat userbase for anything less than $4 a user and you've made your saving. And got soem pretty damn hot development tools too.
As for big, big applications - its all in the coding. I work for a company that struggles to get 500 users out of its current oracle based product, whereas my previous company (did many things right) got 12000 users out of its SQL-Server based product. (roughly equivalent transaction costs and queries). Besides, MS is remarkably ready to drop the price, especially if the DB is going to be sold on to customers. We get it for next to nothing so it adds to our profit when we sell our systems, and MS gets market share.. everyone's a winner there, if only Oracle would do the same (and I don't mean to only the massively huge companies - remember Larry's 'single price' concept?)
Today we're looking at incredibly resilient and redundant public-safety apps, and oracle still isn't giving us what HP/Tandem DB would give us.
So, really, in today's world - Oracle doesn't give us enough good stuff to warrant the extra expense.
How about Worms Armageddon?
silly animated worms with bazookas firing grenades and the like at each other in a game that has its roots in the very very old artillery game (where you have 2 guns either side of a mountain and you take turns to lob shells at each other with realistic physics - this was in the days of text-based graphics BTW).
Worms is a silly, fun game you should play with your mates around, and beers.
Obviously, LSN isn't the only one (it is good though).
Previous games (you can buy on ebay for $1 for example) include:
Incubation
Jagged Alliance 2
X-Com: UFO
X-Com: Terror from the Deep
X-Com: Apocalypse (my favourite)
I think you need a brief history of Windows:
Once upon a time a company called Apple made a OS with windowing GUI. Then a company called Microsoft made a OS with a windowing GUI that had remarkably cimilar concepts.. even down to the terms used in programming these GUI features.
So I was trying to be funny....
Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent Unix
Surely you mean Apple.
And I thought the old koan is: what Apple does, Microsoft will copy
...use resources that would otherwise be available to your young. That kind of puts life in perspective.
:-)
You don't mean... "sorry sonny, granny is going to live forever, so no inheritance for you, you'll have to work for a living instead"
noooooooooooooooooooo
..who works as a cunsultant to real companies..
:-)
you can't be paid much then. Surely it's better to have a nice sales, marketing, and implementation setup so you can
a) consult that they need new everything
b) sell them that everything
c) install and configure it
d) support it (preferably someone else supports it from offshore, and you take a slice off the top)
See, once you've done that a couple of times, and you're living on your Caribbean island, you don't care that you sold them solely MS products!
Consultant indeed! Sounds like you're a real person who tries hard to help people. What is the world coming to
if someone could recommend a free ide/compiler
x
Too bad if you don't like MS, but they still make the best development tools. These are still BETA and will do nasty things to your box, so you might want to wait until the 2005 release is released.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/default.asp
We don't need a pill to help us work harder, we just need to adjust our expectations.
:-)
You don't mean.. no, surely not.. but.. no, not "Work smarter, not harder" do you?
so many would "cut their nose off to spite their faces" when it comes to their attitude towards Microsoft.
Surely designed for Windows is just more marketing, nothing more devious than that.
With XP home, they tried to make things easy, abnd informed developers they had to write things properly in order to qualify for a 'works with XP' sticker.... but they still don't.
Probably the biggest screw-up ever WRT admin privileges is the default setting for registry access - MFC class that does it defaults to 'read and write' permissions.. and write perms are admin-only.. so your app has to be an admin. All for the sake of ", KEY_READ);". Well, that's one example.
In linux-land, an analogy would be 'how do I install my system-level app and not su to root?', obviously you don't, but the fault is not of the OS, but of the app in this case that requires admin privs where it shouldn't.
Send an email to the game company, go on, flood their support desk with the 'how do play as a non admin' question. They'll get the hint eventually.
This PSU will have the 24pin+8pin motherboard connectors if its EPS12V, and you need them for dual cpu motherboards. (my Tyan manual says "do not even thing about bringing that ATX2 PSU near this motherboard or your warranty is void, oh yes, we won't even consider a replacement". I think they mean it).
:)
Bear in mind that there are 2 things you want in a server PSU:
1. Enough output to power everything at startup, when you're drawing more power than you normally do when everything's running along. Hard drives really spike at startup, buit once spinning it takes relatively little to keep them going.
2. Efficiency. All PSUs provide different efficiencies as the load on them increases. eg, you may be 75% efficient at 50% load, but at 100% load you'll be only 50% efficient. All switched power supplies only deliver what you're using anyway, so if I have a gazillion-watt PSU, but only drew 1 watt from it, it'd be sucking 1watt out of the wall socket and not dimming the lights
3. Reliability. Damn, I'll come in again.
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