Mulder who? What are you talking about? Dammit Slashdot, be more specific! You expect everybody to know what you're talking about at all times? That's like when you say "Kernel 2.2.16 Released" or "Gnome 1.2 Released." Kernel who? What gnome? Who shot who in the what now? All of this talk about Red Hats and Gimps is confusing me.
I just wish that funky new mouse came in a left handed version.
They have a smaller version of the optical mouse which is dual-handed (it's normal mouse-sized, rather than the oversized Intellimouse Explorer) I like the bigger version, but then again, I'm right handed, so it's not an issue. The smaller one feels nice too though. --
Because of that goddamn syringe guy (who wouldn't be so bad, and possibly even entertaining, if he didn't post 1000 times per story (2 or 3 would be fine) and changed the post more often (how many times do I have to read about MDMA? Once is enough. Now tell us about the dangers of coke or something:-)) I'm now browsing at 1. Anonymous Cowards often have good things to say, but I just can't deal with that motherfucker anymore, so I hope that good insightful or funny AC's get moderated up so that I don't miss them. Repeated posts are not funny, nor are they true trolls. ORIGINALITY is what makes a good troll, not posting a million times to the same story.
P.S. Moderators - don't kill my karma, I marked this off-topic myself, so you don't need to do it again. I'll even turn off my +1 bonus for you:-) --
Prove to me that xig solution is not superior to alternative before flaming away !
Ok, how's this? XFree86 is the only X server for Linux which supports DGA - hence, no other X server will run the majority of fullscreen Linux games. --
If you're interested in doing OpenGL programming, you really should buy the "OpenGL Programming Guide, Third Edition." It's written by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board, so they obviously know what they're talking about. It starts with the extreme basics and goes into detail about even the most advanced techniques, as well as talking about improving performance. It has very good references for GLX (the X OpenGL extensions), AGL (Mac OpenGL stuff), PGL (OS/2 Warp OpenGL stuff), and WGL (Win32 OpenGL stuff).
First of all, the post I'm replying to is not a troll. Off-topic perhaps, but not a troll. Now I'll give the moderators another hint - moderation is primarily meant to rate a post on how relevant it is to the conversation, if it is interesting, off-topic, or whatever. See how I attached "[OT]" to the subject? That means I'm basically self-moderating my post, pointing out to people that if they don't want to read something not related directly to the coversataion, to not bother reading this, thereby getting rid of the need for moderation. So don't waste your points on me.
Second of all, "Lawrence Lessig == smart" is a perfectly valid expression (in C at least, provided you ignore the space:-) It would return TRUE (a non-zero number) if Lawrence Lessig is, in fact, smart, or FALSE (zero) if he is not. This is a valid statement in the same way that this:
1;
Is a valid statement. It doesn't actually DO anything, but the compiler couldn't give a rat's ass. They're useful in things like this:
Lawrence_Lessig == smart ? give_him_money() : 1;
... which is basically an if statement which doesn't do anything if it is not true (but you're too lazy to write out the whole if statement.:-) --
Call me a nitpick, but == is for comparing/defining numerical values...not strings (at least in Perl).
Who says he was using Perl? What about C? Actually, you can't really compare strings very well with the == operator in C either, but who says those are strings? I don't see any quotes around them. --
I've noticed that BeOS R5 is much less stable than R4.5. I still have the R4.5 CD floating around my room somewhere, maybe I'll rip apart my room and find it and then install that instead. I've had several OS crashes in R5 in less than a month of running it, and never had a single one in R4.5 after running it for 6 months. --
Sorry for the extremely off-topic post, but I have a question - a few days ago I started playing FF2 with snes9x (great game so far, BTW) I also have a ROM of FF4 which appears to be the exact same game, but badly (VERY badly) translated from Japanese. What's the deal with that? Were FF2 and FF4 the same game, one in the US, one in Japan? --
What in the hell? People today have no scruples. Don't they realize that the only thing that this could possibly do is kill the web? Imagine if you had to pay royalties to put in a hyperlink?
On that note, though, why are they targetting only ISPs? Couldn't they target every company with a web site? --
Doom was essentially a "clear the level and shoot everything in sight" game, and nothing more. The Marathon trilogy had a complicated and interesting sci-fi story behind it, complete with semi-insane AI computers and aliens who would either fight against your or for you, depending on which AI was in charge at the moment. The dialogue between the AI's and your character was so intriguing that an entire website was created just to archive it as a single, collected story.
Agreed. One of my friends is a die-hard Mac fan, and he brought his G3 and his PowerBook over to my house the other day and we played some net M2. Damn... I haven't played that game since high school. Brought back lots of memories.
... and then I stayed up all night for 2 days playing the single player game. That damn game is amazing! I've rarely gotten so immersed in the storyline and gameplay of a game before (especially one with such outdated graphics - the lack of antialiasing is just painful) --
Their early stuff was unremarkable (pre-Marathon), as is true of most companies. Then Marathon came along, which for all intents and purposes was a DOOM clone. Mac people *hate* this, because Marathon hit the Mac before DOOM was ported, though it was released after DOOM was out for the PC.
I'm not a Mac person, but every time people say the Marathon had nothing over Doom, I feel compelled to correct them.
Doom was essentially a 2-dimensional game; it didn't have the concept of height. Ever see a level with a walkway above something or a 2-level building? No - the engine couldn't handle anything more than X/Y. The apparent height of things was only rendered to the screen, it wasn't taken into account when calculating hits or intersections. For the matter, ever be standing by a wall and get clawed by one of those fireball guys who appears to be 100 feet above you? That's because the game has no concept of height, and sees that your X/Y coordinates are right next to the monster's X/Y coordinates, and so it starts clawing at you.
Marathon, on the other hand, was fully 3D. There were levels above levels, you could look up and down (not terribly impressive, but it really adds a lot in terms of engine complexity), you could go underwater (which did little more than turn the screen blue, but it was cool anyway:-) And you can't argue with the fact that the weapons kicked all ass. ID Software didn't get to the complexity level of Marathon 1 until Quake (which was, obviously, much more complex:-) --
Yes, it's only x86 Linux, because it uses the Windows DLL to do the decoding. Maybe it'll work on Alpha using the x86 emulation, though, I have no idea. --
Chemical dependance...good...you've identified your problem.
Not quite... while chemical dependance is a good way to describe my relationship with nicotine, it's not with THC. I could never get anything done before I started smoking pot either. I was always very lazy... the only time this isn't true is when I smoke some nice kind bud. --
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Unless I miss my guess, Adobe has patented the PDF format and only Adobe Acrobat (and other related products) can legally generate the PDF material.
File formats can't be patented, they can only be trade secrets (I believe.) Otherwise don't you think Microsoft would have patended.doc format? That would be an extremely easy way to kill off Wordperfect, StarOffice, AbiWord, etc., dot dot dot. --
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With a bit of recomiling, I can run the same Linux software on x86, Alpha, Sun, PPC etc. with only a few minor issues. The only incompatibilities are those inherent in C/C++.
... and these "incompatibilities inherent in C/C++" would be...?
There are none. Incompatibilities arise when the programmers assume a certain integer size (32-bit, usually... I don't know of anyone who writes code which is meant to be reasonably portable who assumes an integer is 64-bits:-) The size of an integer changes from architecture to architecture based on the size of the registers, not on incompatibilities in C/C++. --
A powerful Pentium-class CPU burns significantly more power than, say, an equivalent Alpha or PowerPC, and dissipates more heat.
What are you smoking? Alphas suck power like there's no tomorrow, and my 600mhz EV56 heats my room. I moved it into another room, and now with only my P2 my room is much cooler (and quieter for that matter, but that's not the processor's fault.) Every seen an Alpha laptop? Wanna know why?
(of course, somebody is going to respond saying "I've seen one!" but there were only like 1 or 2 models made so save it.)
Heh, what up spiralx? Go post something on Smokedot instead of reading this crap:-)
Anyway, I smoke weed like a fiend - every day, if I can help it. And I get tons of stuff done. I work full time, write open source software, do CGI art, and other stuff. I can't usually get anything done if I'm not stoned though:-)
Yes, that would violate the GPL. But you can always try contacting the author of that code and asking for him to let you use his code in a closed-source app - the author of the code still has the authority to do that, even after he releases his code as GPL. --
how about if I had a commercial app that utilized GnuPG as another program?
I.e. ProgX uses GnuPG as a program, pipes it data, and retrieves it.
That's perfectly ok. This is why Gimp handles plugins as separate programs passing data via IPC rather than as dynamically loaded libraries like most other programs do - to allow closed-source, commercial plugins. --
If however you release it as BSD first, but then realize that company X has been using your code in their product without releasing the source (as they would be perfectly entitled to do) but you then realise that you don't like that you are stuck. Yes, you can re-release it as GPL, but thats hardly going to stop company X now they have the source under the BSD license, is it?
Ahhh, ok, thanks for clarifying. Yes, you're correct. Sorry I jumped the gun, it just that lots of people always bitch about the GPL saying that it'll take away your freedom rather than keeping other people from stealing it. I stand corrected. --
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Mulder who? What are you talking about? Dammit Slashdot, be more specific! You expect everybody to know what you're talking about at all times? That's like when you say "Kernel 2.2.16 Released" or "Gnome 1.2 Released." Kernel who? What gnome? Who shot who in the what now? All of this talk about Red Hats and Gimps is confusing me.
Sorry, long day at work...
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I just wish that funky new mouse came in a left handed version.
They have a smaller version of the optical mouse which is dual-handed (it's normal mouse-sized, rather than the oversized Intellimouse Explorer) I like the bigger version, but then again, I'm right handed, so it's not an issue. The smaller one feels nice too though.
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Because of that goddamn syringe guy (who wouldn't be so bad, and possibly even entertaining, if he didn't post 1000 times per story (2 or 3 would be fine) and changed the post more often (how many times do I have to read about MDMA? Once is enough. Now tell us about the dangers of coke or something :-)) I'm now browsing at 1. Anonymous Cowards often have good things to say, but I just can't deal with that motherfucker anymore, so I hope that good insightful or funny AC's get moderated up so that I don't miss them. Repeated posts are not funny, nor are they true trolls. ORIGINALITY is what makes a good troll, not posting a million times to the same story.
:-)
P.S. Moderators - don't kill my karma, I marked this off-topic myself, so you don't need to do it again. I'll even turn off my +1 bonus for you
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Prove to me that xig solution is not superior to alternative before flaming away !
Ok, how's this? XFree86 is the only X server for Linux which supports DGA - hence, no other X server will run the majority of fullscreen Linux games.
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If you're interested in doing OpenGL programming, you really should buy the "OpenGL Programming Guide, Third Edition." It's written by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board, so they obviously know what they're talking about. It starts with the extreme basics and goes into detail about even the most advanced techniques, as well as talking about improving performance. It has very good references for GLX (the X OpenGL extensions), AGL (Mac OpenGL stuff), PGL (OS/2 Warp OpenGL stuff), and WGL (Win32 OpenGL stuff).
The ISBN number is 0-201-60458-2
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Any big Linux shows coming anytime soon in the near (~100 miles) vicinity of the D.C./Baltimore area or Massachusetts?
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First of all, the post I'm replying to is not a troll. Off-topic perhaps, but not a troll. Now I'll give the moderators another hint - moderation is primarily meant to rate a post on how relevant it is to the conversation, if it is interesting, off-topic, or whatever. See how I attached "[OT]" to the subject? That means I'm basically self-moderating my post, pointing out to people that if they don't want to read something not related directly to the coversataion, to not bother reading this, thereby getting rid of the need for moderation. So don't waste your points on me.
:-) It would return TRUE (a non-zero number) if Lawrence Lessig is, in fact, smart, or FALSE (zero) if he is not. This is a valid statement in the same way that this:
... which is basically an if statement which doesn't do anything if it is not true (but you're too lazy to write out the whole if statement. :-)
Second of all, "Lawrence Lessig == smart" is a perfectly valid expression (in C at least, provided you ignore the space
1;
Is a valid statement. It doesn't actually DO anything, but the compiler couldn't give a rat's ass. They're useful in things like this:
Lawrence_Lessig == smart ? give_him_money() : 1;
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Call me a nitpick, but == is for comparing/defining numerical values...not strings (at least in Perl).
Who says he was using Perl? What about C? Actually, you can't really compare strings very well with the == operator in C either, but who says those are strings? I don't see any quotes around them.
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Hmmm, if BeOS is so great I wonder why www.benews.com is running Linux....
Ok, I'll bite the troll... BeOS is meant to be a desktop OS, not a server OS. Apache 2.0 has been ported to BeOS though.
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I've noticed that BeOS R5 is much less stable than R4.5. I still have the R4.5 CD floating around my room somewhere, maybe I'll rip apart my room and find it and then install that instead. I've had several OS crashes in R5 in less than a month of running it, and never had a single one in R4.5 after running it for 6 months.
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...Final Fantasy 2(4) for the SNES...
Sorry for the extremely off-topic post, but I have a question - a few days ago I started playing FF2 with snes9x (great game so far, BTW) I also have a ROM of FF4 which appears to be the exact same game, but badly (VERY badly) translated from Japanese. What's the deal with that? Were FF2 and FF4 the same game, one in the US, one in Japan?
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(OT) When will I ever be able to get through to your URL? I'd like to see it, but I haven't ever been able to get through to it... :(
Fucking DSL is down again... you have Northpoint to blame for that. Hopefully it'll be up in the next few days.
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What in the hell? People today have no scruples. Don't they realize that the only thing that this could possibly do is kill the web? Imagine if you had to pay royalties to put in a hyperlink?
On that note, though, why are they targetting only ISPs? Couldn't they target every company with a web site?
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Heh... well, according to all the replies to this message, I was misinformed about Marathon being fully 3D. My bad.
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Doom was essentially a "clear the level and shoot everything in sight" game, and nothing more. The Marathon trilogy had a complicated and interesting sci-fi story behind it, complete with semi-insane AI computers and aliens who would either fight against your or for you, depending on which AI was in charge at the moment. The dialogue between the AI's and your character was so intriguing that an entire website was created just to archive it as a single, collected story.
... and then I stayed up all night for 2 days playing the single player game. That damn game is amazing! I've rarely gotten so immersed in the storyline and gameplay of a game before (especially one with such outdated graphics - the lack of antialiasing is just painful)
Agreed. One of my friends is a die-hard Mac fan, and he brought his G3 and his PowerBook over to my house the other day and we played some net M2. Damn... I haven't played that game since high school. Brought back lots of memories.
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Their early stuff was unremarkable (pre-Marathon), as is true of most companies. Then Marathon came along, which for all intents and purposes was a DOOM clone. Mac people *hate* this, because Marathon hit the Mac before DOOM was ported, though it was released after DOOM was out for the PC.
:-) And you can't argue with the fact that the weapons kicked all ass. ID Software didn't get to the complexity level of Marathon 1 until Quake (which was, obviously, much more complex :-)
I'm not a Mac person, but every time people say the Marathon had nothing over Doom, I feel compelled to correct them.
Doom was essentially a 2-dimensional game; it didn't have the concept of height. Ever see a level with a walkway above something or a 2-level building? No - the engine couldn't handle anything more than X/Y. The apparent height of things was only rendered to the screen, it wasn't taken into account when calculating hits or intersections. For the matter, ever be standing by a wall and get clawed by one of those fireball guys who appears to be 100 feet above you? That's because the game has no concept of height, and sees that your X/Y coordinates are right next to the monster's X/Y coordinates, and so it starts clawing at you.
Marathon, on the other hand, was fully 3D. There were levels above levels, you could look up and down (not terribly impressive, but it really adds a lot in terms of engine complexity), you could go underwater (which did little more than turn the screen blue, but it was cool anyway
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Yes, it's only x86 Linux, because it uses the Windows DLL to do the decoding. Maybe it'll work on Alpha using the x86 emulation, though, I have no idea.
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Chemical dependance...good...you've identified your problem.
Not quite... while chemical dependance is a good way to describe my relationship with nicotine, it's not with THC. I could never get anything done before I started smoking pot either. I was always very lazy... the only time this isn't true is when I smoke some nice kind bud.
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Unless I miss my guess, Adobe has patented the PDF format and only Adobe Acrobat (and other related products) can legally generate the PDF material.
.doc format? That would be an extremely easy way to kill off Wordperfect, StarOffice, AbiWord, etc., dot dot dot.
File formats can't be patented, they can only be trade secrets (I believe.) Otherwise don't you think Microsoft would have patended
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With a bit of recomiling, I can run the same Linux software on x86, Alpha, Sun, PPC etc. with only a few minor issues. The only incompatibilities are those inherent in C/C++.
... and these "incompatibilities inherent in C/C++" would be...?
:-) The size of an integer changes from architecture to architecture based on the size of the registers, not on incompatibilities in C/C++.
There are none. Incompatibilities arise when the programmers assume a certain integer size (32-bit, usually... I don't know of anyone who writes code which is meant to be reasonably portable who assumes an integer is 64-bits
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A powerful Pentium-class CPU burns significantly more power than, say, an equivalent Alpha or PowerPC, and dissipates more heat.
What are you smoking? Alphas suck power like there's no tomorrow, and my 600mhz EV56 heats my room. I moved it into another room, and now with only my P2 my room is much cooler (and quieter for that matter, but that's not the processor's fault.) Every seen an Alpha laptop? Wanna know why?
(of course, somebody is going to respond saying "I've seen one!" but there were only like 1 or 2 models made so save it.)
You're right about the PowerPC though.
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Heh, what up spiralx? Go post something on Smokedot instead of reading this crap :-)
:-)
Anyway, I smoke weed like a fiend - every day, if I can help it. And I get tons of stuff done. I work full time, write open source software, do CGI art, and other stuff. I can't usually get anything done if I'm not stoned though
Alright, this is drifting way off topic.
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Yes, that would violate the GPL. But you can always try contacting the author of that code and asking for him to let you use his code in a closed-source app - the author of the code still has the authority to do that, even after he releases his code as GPL.
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how about if I had a commercial app that utilized GnuPG as another program?
I.e. ProgX uses GnuPG as a program, pipes it data, and retrieves it.
That's perfectly ok. This is why Gimp handles plugins as separate programs passing data via IPC rather than as dynamically loaded libraries like most other programs do - to allow closed-source, commercial plugins.
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If however you release it as BSD first, but then realize that company X has been using your code in their product without releasing the source (as they would be perfectly entitled to do) but you then realise that you don't like that you are stuck. Yes, you can re-release it as GPL, but thats hardly going to stop company X now they have the source under the BSD license, is it?
Ahhh, ok, thanks for clarifying. Yes, you're correct. Sorry I jumped the gun, it just that lots of people always bitch about the GPL saying that it'll take away your freedom rather than keeping other people from stealing it. I stand corrected.
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