That's what everyone said about 4.0 when it launched. People said 4.2 was far superior and far more stable than 4.0. I tried 4.2 and just could not get a usable desktop out of it.
4.3/4.4 was when KDE because usable again for me and I switched back from Gnome 2. Which I found really annoying for all the usual reasons Gnome is annoying, but it was stable at the time. Was happy to get to the end of that period, a kind of desktop dark ages.
It's only terrifying if you are some kind of luddite.
Correct. For the financial world it's the new normal. And actually, the financial landscape has now become more egalitarian than it ever has been because the cost of setting up a respectable high frequency operation is so low. Basically, you're looking at a few relatively inexpensive 1 or 2U boxes colocated at the trading venue sites and you're going to need to rent the fairly expensive high speed links between them. Way way way less than the traditional cost of setting up a bricks and mortor trading shop. Anybody can do it. Oh, but you'll need to write some software because nobody is going to give it to you at a price you can afford.
He's lying anyway. I am quite certain there are exactly zero ELF changes that would keep a ten year old Loki binary from running, and indeed, I do run some binaries that old. I'm pretty sure he's talking out his ass on Libc as well.
Ultima Underworlds was earlier and more 3D than Wolfenstein
Also, way more involving and "ultimately" fathered the chain of successful 3D RPGs that allowed Bethesda to buy Id Software. (In the sense that Ultima Underworld inspired the Elder Scrolls series.)
And whose company had to sell out because yet another tech heavy, marginally entertaining Quake remake failed to stand out amongst a flood of similar games?
What I find really mystifying is, there goes John squandering his excellent repulation. Roughly 50'% squandered now.
DirectX is a lot easier to get everything set up and is generally easier for games...
Compelte rubbish. There are multiple ways to get OpenGL up with a 200-300 lines overhead. Not speculating, I've done it multiple ways. If any programer would describe this as "not easy" I would make sure they stay far away from any project of mine.
I use OpenGL at work and as much as I prefer it over DirectX, the ARB (opengl board that decides on additions/updates/changes) sometimes takes a while to introduce new features that DirectX gets much earlier and they sometimes make questionable choices on how things are supported and the OpenGL docs are sort of terrible and vague.
That was then, this is now. Kronos has been right on top of things. The stateless API (big change) is going to land soon. There's not a whole lot more in the major wish list queue at the moment.
The other issue becomes ease of development, if, for your team, directx is 5% slower, but 10% less development time required that might still be preferable.
What makes you think OpenGL requires more development effort than DirectX? I would say the opposite is true, though the difference is small. The really big difference is, DirectX is only Windows and Xbox, while OpenGL is everywhere.
Asking and answering your own question does not make for a particularly strong argument. The smartphone market passed the PC market last year. The smartphone market is exclusively OpenGL. What does that suggest to you about mainstream devs who can't figure out how to move away from DirectX?
What point are you trying to make with all this talk of fairness and previous rulings, if not a possible bias? You didn't need to say the actual word, it was obvious what you were implying.
I will say it: Lucy Koh gives the appearance of bias, if not outright corruption, in favor of Apple.
These days I only read newspapers on airplanes, and that is only if power to my (Android) tablet runs out because the cheap buggers could not be arsed to install a USB connector in the seat and I somehow forgot to charge up the day before.
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) both dailies are run by the same company. They print the same stories and have the same pro-corporation slant. One of them uses smaller words and dumbs things down a bit, but they are basically exactly the same. As a cost saving measure and as an ultimate sign of cheapness and laziness, these papers reprint, annually, the exact same stories word for word. The editors are told what their opinions are and quietly promotes whatever rubbish the owner tells them to. There are so many "special information supplements", info-marketing inserts, infomercials, and advertisements disguised as news articles that it just has to be illegal. Tell me why I should care if these papers die. As far as I'm concerned it can't happen soon enough.
You should not care if the Sun and Province die. At least, they should shut down their tree-killing, environment polluting paper editions and go digital like everybody with a clue.
Most probably they were trying to cover themselves in case Apple's stupid patent was held valid. Now they can do it in the way that is best for the customer and Apple can fuck themselves. At least when this decision is mirrored in the US court system, which seems rather likely.
Did not a court just find that slide to unlock was already in use before Apple had anything to do with it? Oh sorry, I forgot, facts are not important to a cultist.
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That's for value traders, not arb. Not to denigrate the former, but that's not what HFT is about.
That's what everyone said about 4.0 when it launched. People said 4.2 was far superior and far more stable than 4.0. I tried 4.2 and just could not get a usable desktop out of it.
4.3/4.4 was when KDE because usable again for me and I switched back from Gnome 2. Which I found really annoying for all the usual reasons Gnome is annoying, but it was stable at the time. Was happy to get to the end of that period, a kind of desktop dark ages.
It's only terrifying if you are some kind of luddite.
Correct. For the financial world it's the new normal. And actually, the financial landscape has now become more egalitarian than it ever has been because the cost of setting up a respectable high frequency operation is so low. Basically, you're looking at a few relatively inexpensive 1 or 2U boxes colocated at the trading venue sites and you're going to need to rent the fairly expensive high speed links between them. Way way way less than the traditional cost of setting up a bricks and mortor trading shop. Anybody can do it. Oh, but you'll need to write some software because nobody is going to give it to you at a price you can afford.
He's lying anyway. I am quite certain there are exactly zero ELF changes that would keep a ten year old Loki binary from running, and indeed, I do run some binaries that old. I'm pretty sure he's talking out his ass on Libc as well.
Ultima Underworlds was earlier and more 3D than Wolfenstein
Also, way more involving and "ultimately" fathered the chain of successful 3D RPGs that allowed Bethesda to buy Id Software. (In the sense that Ultima Underworld inspired the Elder Scrolls series.)
And whose company had to sell out because yet another tech heavy, marginally entertaining Quake remake failed to stand out amongst a flood of similar games?
What I find really mystifying is, there goes John squandering his excellent repulation. Roughly 50'% squandered now.
Sit down, John. Let us take it from here. And please try to make your next engine a little more relevant.
Oh, and thanks for all the code.
DirectX is a lot easier to get everything set up and is generally easier for games...
Compelte rubbish. There are multiple ways to get OpenGL up with a 200-300 lines overhead. Not speculating, I've done it multiple ways. If any programer would describe this as "not easy" I would make sure they stay far away from any project of mine.
Whoa, your CompSci school sounds distinctly substandard.
I use OpenGL at work and as much as I prefer it over DirectX, the ARB (opengl board that decides on additions/updates/changes) sometimes takes a while to introduce new features that DirectX gets much earlier and they sometimes make questionable choices on how things are supported and the OpenGL docs are sort of terrible and vague.
That was then, this is now. Kronos has been right on top of things. The stateless API (big change) is going to land soon. There's not a whole lot more in the major wish list queue at the moment.
The other issue becomes ease of development, if, for your team, directx is 5% slower, but 10% less development time required that might still be preferable.
What makes you think OpenGL requires more development effort than DirectX? I would say the opposite is true, though the difference is small. The really big difference is, DirectX is only Windows and Xbox, while OpenGL is everywhere.
Edit code... on a tablet?
I do it using a bluetooth keyboard. Adding a mouse and proper editing software would improve the experience consderably. It's definitely coming.
Asking and answering your own question does not make for a particularly strong argument. The smartphone market passed the PC market last year. The smartphone market is exclusively OpenGL. What does that suggest to you about mainstream devs who can't figure out how to move away from DirectX?
Valve is looking at the 600,000 new Linux using, OpenGL using, Android users every month
No, every day.
Tablet sales really don't mean much because people are not replacing desktops with tablets.
True. Instead, people don't bother to upgrade their desktops and spend the money saved on flashy new tablets.
What point are you trying to make with all this talk of fairness and previous rulings, if not a possible bias? You didn't need to say the actual word, it was obvious what you were implying.
I will say it: Lucy Koh gives the appearance of bias, if not outright corruption, in favor of Apple.
...there will be plenty of news to read, more than you'll have time to read, but the quality has gone down and will go down further.
I can't say I ever felt really deeply fulfilled by having a selection of sound bites read to me slowly by an actor.
Someone tell me why I should read them?
These days I only read newspapers on airplanes, and that is only if power to my (Android) tablet runs out because the cheap buggers could not be arsed to install a USB connector in the seat and I somehow forgot to charge up the day before.
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) both dailies are run by the same company. They print the same stories and have the same pro-corporation slant. One of them uses smaller words and dumbs things down a bit, but they are basically exactly the same. As a cost saving measure and as an ultimate sign of cheapness and laziness, these papers reprint, annually, the exact same stories word for word. The editors are told what their opinions are and quietly promotes whatever rubbish the owner tells them to. There are so many "special information supplements", info-marketing inserts, infomercials, and advertisements disguised as news articles that it just has to be illegal. Tell me why I should care if these papers die. As far as I'm concerned it can't happen soon enough.
You should not care if the Sun and Province die. At least, they should shut down their tree-killing, environment polluting paper editions and go digital like everybody with a clue.
Haha, well that is why we have the <sarcasm> tag.
I, for one, welcome our new HTC overlords.
I thought Apple was the Sith.
Now I know Apple is the Sith.
Most probably they were trying to cover themselves in case Apple's stupid patent was held valid. Now they can do it in the way that is best for the customer and Apple can fuck themselves. At least when this decision is mirrored in the US court system, which seems rather likely.
I am not a programmer or software designer. Can someone explain to me why something as mundane as this can be patented?
Say "Troll" then say "Apple".
Did not a court just find that slide to unlock was already in use before Apple had anything to do with it? Oh sorry, I forgot, facts are not important to a cultist.
I, for one, welcome our new HTC overlords.
I thought Apple was the Sith.