Games are the natural proving ground, but Sony has enough of the current market (and general buzz about the new machine) to help them though this transitional period.
When the Gamecube and Xbox make an appearance the market will get too small for niche consoles. I find it hard to believe that 4 console makers are each going to find enough share of the market to make their businesses feasible.
I have a 400Mhz system at home and a 350Mhz system at work. These a starting to approach what I would call lower-end systems, but 700Mhz? In the next 6-8 Months I shall probably start looking around for something better, by this articles estimate the new system I'll be thinking (that will last me 2+ years) is pretty much already lower-end.
Perhaps hardware reviews should take more note of the power of computing as well as just raw computer power.
As an attempt to please the developer community, I think they'd do better with some standardization of the core product (language,vm,core classes).
I know standardization is slow and can inhibit development (and the ground is well trodden), but developors' need that reasurance that what's written today doesn't need rewriting tommorrow.
I remember reading articles here and elsewhere about IBM's team of morale hackers. I suppose if hacking becomes illegal it'll become a little like murder. If you commit a murder for yourself you're a criminal, but if you murder for your country (or government) you're a hero.
So what sort of bosses like to see what their underlings are up to. Do they themselves believe they should be monitored also?
A while ago our head salesman logged on to check his shares, only to find a porno site had taken its place (temporarily). Those photos were in his cache whether he liked it or not, and our proxy logged the accesses. As it happened we were working in a small office and we all had a good laugh about it.
How would things be in a larger organisation where the monitor may be unable to see (or appreciate) the context? Would it matter if our head salesman was a junior instead?
You're definately correct in the fact that Slashdot feels very much like a discussion group as opposed to a pure news site.
News is more oriented towards hyperlinked headlines rather than in-depth content. Nothing wrong in that of course, but without the discussion area, this website would be far more shallow.
A big joke that silly customers get taken in by. A company desperately seeking more and more information could be taken in by this.
One question that does come to mind is, given the constant state of flux that the internet is in, how long can information gathered be considered correct, and much of the internet could be mapped to what degree of accuracy.
I'm glad to see the Amiga this time around has woken up to the benefits of using more disposable 3rd party product. Developing 'Retargetable Graphics' during the last days of the original machine was the best idea they ever had (apart from developing the Amiga in the first place). This techology alone has helped the machine through its wilderness years.
I still find it fascinating that interest still exists for the Amiga. Back in them old days its popularity was due its hardware capabilities. It's good to see than the OS shone through (more than I thought) as well.
My initial instinct is to leave it to parental control, but we all know children are far more at ease with technology than their parents. By letting standard filters be put in place there will at least be some minimal control.
Of couse, while we all get nervous about 'big-brother' look over our shoulder, whether we agree to it or not, he will always be there. We never know where he is 'all of the time', but at least with standardized filters, we'll know where he is 'some of the time'.
I think maybe the reason for the lack of innovation is because designers' are trapped in that pyramid drawing the article shows. The faster the cache, the more expensive is gets, thus limiting the amount you can practically have.
Plus, increasing cache sizes, decreases any benefit.
An excellent article, and somewhat deeper than some of the stories that go by. I liked the pyramid representation of the general balance between speed/cost. The version I was taught (a few years ago) placed cpu registers at the top of the pyramid.
'Are computer games any more fun now than they were 10 years ago?'
Probably not. The term 'fun' is just that, 'fun'. People have had fun all through the ages, and they didn't need video games to have it. One difference you can see in modern gaming though is the existance of an older age group. This could be put down to the ageing of previous generations though.
'So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96, you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion.'
Somewhat 'arrogant' don't you think? I respect your but I'm afraid your wrong.
To abandon open source is simply not in our customers interest and hence not in Red Hat's financial interest.
Abandoning Open Source would also probably force you into developing your own Unix(like) environment; something your business model couldn't withstand.
I think a number of the people mentioned in the article adopted open-source and took the concept a little further. Linux distributors did what Linux hackers were unable too, bring Linux to ordinary end-users.
I haven't tried NSpr3 yet, but M17 seemed to be doing just fine. I'm hoping in the next 3/4 months we might finally see a full release. Netscape have pretty much lost the hearts and minds of a lot of Windows users, but for Linux/Unix people, if Mozilla doesn't happen they'll be a real gap the market.
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Games are the natural proving ground, but Sony has enough of the current market (and general buzz about the new machine) to help them though this transitional period.
When the Gamecube and Xbox make an appearance the market will get too small for niche consoles. I find it hard to believe that 4 console makers are each going to find enough share of the market to make their businesses feasible.
I least we'll beable to play mario/sonic without buying seperate platforms.
I have a 400Mhz system at home and a 350Mhz system at work. These a starting to approach what I would call lower-end systems, but 700Mhz? In the next 6-8 Months I shall probably start looking around for something better, by this articles estimate the new system I'll be thinking (that will last me 2+ years) is pretty much already lower-end.
Perhaps hardware reviews should take more note of the power of computing as well as just raw computer power.
As an attempt to please the developer community, I think they'd do better with some standardization of the core product (language,vm,core classes).
I know standardization is slow and can inhibit development (and the ground is well trodden), but developors' need that reasurance that what's written today doesn't need rewriting tommorrow.
I remember reading articles here and elsewhere about IBM's team of morale hackers. I suppose if hacking becomes illegal it'll become a little like murder. If you commit a murder for yourself you're a criminal, but if you murder for your country (or government) you're a hero.
So what sort of bosses like to see what their underlings are up to. Do they themselves believe they should be monitored also?
A while ago our head salesman logged on to check his shares, only to find a porno site had taken its place (temporarily). Those photos were in his cache whether he liked it or not, and our proxy logged the accesses. As it happened we were working in a small office and we all had a good laugh about it.
How would things be in a larger organisation where the monitor may be unable to see (or appreciate) the context? Would it matter if our head salesman was a junior instead?
You're definately correct in the fact that Slashdot feels very much like a discussion group as opposed to a pure news site.
News is more oriented towards hyperlinked headlines rather than in-depth content. Nothing wrong in that of course, but without the discussion area, this website would be far more shallow.
A PS2 wrapper would probably be independent from the main engine. The engine could still be open-source and wouldn't have to change.
Of course, an open-source 3D engine that provided PS2 compatibility would be a boon for bedroom hackers.
A big joke that silly customers get taken in by. A company desperately seeking more and more information could be taken in by this.
One question that does come to mind is, given the constant state of flux that the internet is in, how long can information gathered be considered correct, and much of the internet could be mapped to what degree of accuracy.
I'm glad to see the Amiga this time around has woken up to the benefits of using more disposable 3rd party product. Developing 'Retargetable Graphics' during the last days of the original machine was the best idea they ever had (apart from developing the Amiga in the first place). This techology alone has helped the machine through its wilderness years.
There's always a way around these things. Naming a product 'SmartCard' only fools the population for a short period.
'cuz it could mutate... into several OS's each with the same (base) name. Seems very much like Windows.
I still find it fascinating that interest still exists for the Amiga. Back in them old days its popularity was due its hardware capabilities. It's good to see than the OS shone through (more than I thought) as well.
My initial instinct is to leave it to parental control, but we all know children are far more at ease with technology than their parents. By letting standard filters be put in place there will at least be some minimal control.
Of couse, while we all get nervous about 'big-brother' look over our shoulder, whether we agree to it or not, he will always be there. We never know where he is 'all of the time', but at least with standardized filters, we'll know where he is 'some of the time'.
I think maybe the reason for the lack of innovation is because designers' are trapped in that pyramid drawing the article shows. The faster the cache, the more expensive is gets, thus limiting the amount you can practically have.
Plus, increasing cache sizes, decreases any benefit.
An excellent article, and somewhat deeper than some of the stories that go by. I liked the pyramid representation of the general balance between speed/cost. The version I was taught (a few years ago) placed cpu registers at the top of the pyramid.
'Are computer games any more fun now than they were 10 years ago?'
Probably not. The term 'fun' is just that, 'fun'. People have had fun all through the ages, and they didn't need video games to have it. One difference you can see in modern gaming though is the existance of an older age group. This could be put down to the ageing of previous generations though.
'So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96, you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion.'
Somewhat 'arrogant' don't you think? I respect your but I'm afraid your wrong.
To abandon open source is simply not in our customers interest and hence not in Red Hat's financial interest. Abandoning Open Source would also probably force you into developing your own Unix(like) environment; something your business model couldn't withstand.
They look fine to me.
It's strange how the computer desktop is supposed to reflect the office version, when in actual fact it's most tidy thing around me.
To critise my own comment... As with all XML (and HTML) based applications, things start slow down a bit when you over-feed the browser.
Why not have a go with SVG? It's XML based and it works just fine.
I think a number of the people mentioned in the article adopted open-source and took the concept a little further. Linux distributors did what Linux hackers were unable too, bring Linux to ordinary end-users.
I haven't tried NSpr3 yet, but M17 seemed to be doing just fine. I'm hoping in the next 3/4 months we might finally see a full release. Netscape have pretty much lost the hearts and minds of a lot of Windows users, but for Linux/Unix people, if Mozilla doesn't happen they'll be a real gap the market.