You mean the same way that this has happened to linux? I really hate the fact that we now have several hundreds of different incompatible kernels that all derive from linux! (Yes it's sarcasm.)
SUN have used "forking" as a rather lame excuse for quite a while now. Why would anyone want to use a different version of Java more than a different version of the linux kernel? If you make a program aimed at "IBM Java" you would lose a lot of customers, and then why use Java in the first place?
If used for the "good side" this could mean we get more integrated JVM's under our favourite OS's. Native support without hacking the kernel, etc etc.
SUN's current behaviour is slowing down Java's expansion rate. While this could be a benefit while you are still ironing out bugs, but I think Java is quite capable of standing now.
Personally what I like best about Java is to study some complicated aspect of programming, and then see the smart way they have made it easy in Java. There is a lot of really impressive engineering behind it.
and then pointed out that these games are so good at training individuals to use
real weapons that the Army now uses the same technology toward the same goal.
I believe it has been explained time and time again that the use the military has for playing Doom is to train team coordination, not aiming.
Personally I didn't have any benefit from playing games when I was doing service. It is possible that you will have a better sence of "awareness" in battle however. This would naturally be true for things like driving and such as well.
I saw an article about in in January 1980's issue of Star & Sky by Richard C. Hoagland. (Perhaps not the most accepted scientist however, IIRC from my days in alt.alien.research.)
I do have the article as.jpg files. Hoping noone will sue me for that.;-)
I put the up on Gnutellnet if anyone wants them. (Search for europa, or StarNSky.)
Personally I think Java is a lovely language. It's a bliss to program it compared to other languages due to all the included components and the strong typing. (Which I happen to like.)
Unfortunately SUN are making it harder for Java to reach it's full potential. People complain about how Java is slow. Hey, if it was included in X or Windows and loaded from the start it wouldn't be very slow. Integrate AWT/Swing into the GUI and you have fast, portable, stable.
Unfortunately SUN dosn't seem very keen on this. It's just really sad IMHO.
And what's wrong with our response to portscanning?
That you are most likely shooting down compromised systems? Contacting the admin would be more appropriate if you want the attacks to stop, instead of just throwning dirt around.
Besides, an automated retaliations doesn't sound as satisfying as doing it manually.;-)
Problably not 4 AGP slots, but AGP with 4x memory access speed.
Re:It also works in Windows Me and 98
on
Multi-Head Gaming
·
· Score: 1
Hmm, yes the article is a bit confusing on the subject. It does hint that you can make a program that would use SMP although your OS does not support this.
I don't know if anyone would ever do such a program however, since you would most ditch all the points of the OS to make it work. (That is, code directly to the metal, no virtual memory or any stuff like that neither, since it's heavily tied to the processors.)
So I'd say that according to this you can make a program that will use both processors in ME. But there are no such programs available. It would be a lot more expensive so you wouldn't aim it at the Win98 market, or even Win32. (Most CAD stations run UNIX.)
Normal programs like Photoshop and Quake3 has SMP support. But they rely on the OS to spread the threads out to the different processors.
Hope that cleared things up, and it might even have been accurate. (IM-Not-A-Hardware-Engineer, Yet;-)
Sure it's not an action game like Quake. But the adrenaline is still there. This time because you are not sure if the guard will hear you or not, instead of the usual John Woo frenzy.
System Shock (1 & 2) was more of an RPG. But the action elements were still vry important, the game is more like Quake than it is similar to say Fallout or other standard RPG's.
Naturally, all reviews end up being the reviewers opinion, even some may claim otherwise. So from that point it may have been a valid review.
However I think it would have been more interesting to read a review by someone that is knowledgeable about UML modelling and patterns. I got the feeling that there was some bitterness behind the review which made it less objective than they usually are.
I haven't read the book however, so I will not comment on it. Furthermore I found the UML Modelling book I have read (Using UML, Perdita Stevens, R. Pooley.) incredibly dull, although the concept is neat.
Wouldn't your router need to assign the correct IP to the NIC connected to your neighbours DSL Modem?
I mean, the ISP wouldn't see that it wasn't in fact your neighbour that was using the modem. Then your computers would naturally be on a LAN behind the router.
One of the first things he [Nielsen] points out in his book "Designing web usability" is that it _is_ ok to bend or even bend the rules. Sometimes it's the good.
But if you don't know what the rules are then you don't know why you are breaking them.
True, Nielsen isn't a designer, he is however a usability expert. It doesn't matter how kewl your site is if noone can use it because of an overworked user interface. (boo.com)
I do recommend you to pick the book up, or read his site mentioned above, it has the same material.
I believe his point would be to have a "microupdates" sections for stuff like this. So if you didn't want to know when X4.0.1 and similar things are released you tick it off in your preferences as "Hide These From Me Please" sections.
That way it would still be possible to get the biggies. (Which would be under "X".)
MD is really big in Europe. Any electronic manufacturer has a comple of them in their lineup. For me they are the perfect compromise between portability and availability.
Sure, an MP3 player is a bit smaller (Not much.) and can be loaded directly from your computer. However I can't "Music Sync" it with my CD Changer. So it's really an even race there.
It really is a great format. And since there still are no commercial MP3 decks available they will continue to thrive for a while.
If you want to keep track of your schedule and telephone numbers then a webpad is overkill.
If you want to browse the web, read ebooks or other types of documentation anywhere anytime then a small PDA won't cut it. In comes the webpad. Sure, you could use a laptop but the webpad is smaller, draws less juice (No HD or CD.) and has a higher kewl-ness factor.
For me a webpad is just what I want. You could even use it as a reference and browse online references while usíng the app on your computer.
It depends, if Loki are doing it on a contract basis from Outrage then I recon that it could be seen as a "patch". However if Loki are the ones distributing the new version then I recon they'll do it as a new product (as the original poster suggested). AFAIK from Civ:CTP and such it's more of the latter case.
I recon you could compare it with how companies license the Quake/Lith/Unreal engine. In this case they also get the original game data.
IMHO it would suck a bit if you already own the Win32 version, particularly if there's nothing new besides a Linux executable.
Not that Loki aren't doing a great job porting and all, but perhaps they should make an upgrade offer or something for current owners?
Since Microsoft are incorporating Battle communicator into DX8 I'd figure that RW's days are numbered.
There are several programs like this for Windows. None I've seen are crossplatform.
The ones I've seen that are crossplatform have had terrible GUI's. So terrible that I had to spend more than an hour to make it work. Not good.:-(
If a project like OpenH323 is completed then we can get down to business. IMHO protocols should never be proprietary, in the end it will make the users suffer.
It seems to me that you conclude that free/OS software can not be good.
Why is that?
Repeatedly you (And Bertrand.) give the choice of freedom OR quality.
Why is it then that OSS has a given track record of being of higher quality? What magical development techniques is it that companies will start using that are impossible for OSS programmers to use?
The "free source or good source" is almost as inane as Bertrands "free source or guns everywhere" 'argument'.
If you start bitching to MS that something doesn't work in Win98 do you think they will help you? Hardly, "Buy Windows2000" or "Wait for WinME" will most likely be the answer.
I feel the argument can be summerized in a few cases.
1) The company feel that "Ouch this was a serious mistake, we'd better fix it right away." What's keeping some "College hacker" that makes a OSS program from feeling the same?
You can't compare cooperative comapnies and uncooperative OSS projects as if they are the same thing. If the company or project cooperates then there is no issue at all. If they are uncooperative then at least if you have the source you can do something about it.
2) And then we have the nice "My company isn't big enough to make the changes in the code ourselves. If we have a commercial product then at least we can complain."
Well, if you have a small company then the odds that your precific problem will be fixed quickly are pretty bad. (If it's an important feature/bug see case one above.) So you'd be fucked either way. Again, with OSS you have an opprotunity to fix the problem at least. Naturally the bug may be fixed later, but how much later?
The real question is wether the OSS community is more helpful that the commercial community. Naturally this varies from product to product. Take that into consideration as well when you go product shopping. Don't stare yourself blind on the brandname or pricetag.
Slashdot Mirror
I would imagine that they have made it possible to run more things in parallell. That way it scales better.
It's just a theory though. And it assumes that the figure is even correct.
Well, the HURD is doing this as well AFAIK.
That is micro-kernel with daemons running in user space.
OTOH it's not all that done.
You mean the same way that this has happened to linux? I really hate the fact that we now have several hundreds of different incompatible kernels that all derive from linux! (Yes it's sarcasm.)
SUN have used "forking" as a rather lame excuse for quite a while now. Why would anyone want to use a different version of Java more than a different version of the linux kernel? If you make a program aimed at "IBM Java" you would lose a lot of customers, and then why use Java in the first place?
If used for the "good side" this could mean we get more integrated JVM's under our favourite OS's. Native support without hacking the kernel, etc etc.
SUN's current behaviour is slowing down Java's expansion rate. While this could be a benefit while you are still ironing out bugs, but I think Java is quite capable of standing now.
Personally what I like best about Java is to study some complicated aspect of programming, and then see the smart way they have made it easy in Java. There is a lot of really impressive engineering behind it.
From looking at the page above it seems this is a glorified version of a Furby.
;-)
It is *not* something I would compare to an Aibo. (No joints in it's legs, no camera, no advanced behaviour AI etc.)
But hey, $30 is cheap, buy one to freak out the ducks in the park or something.
I believe it has been explained time and time again that the use the military has for playing Doom is to train team coordination, not aiming.
Personally I didn't have any benefit from playing games when I was doing service. It is possible that you will have a better sence of "awareness" in battle however. This would naturally be true for things like driving and such as well.
Normal user != Person who installs OS's.
I saw an article about in in January 1980's issue of Star & Sky by Richard C. Hoagland. (Perhaps not the most accepted scientist however, IIRC from my days in alt.alien.research .)
.jpg files. Hoping noone will sue me for that. ;-)
I do have the article as
I put the up on Gnutellnet if anyone wants them. (Search for europa, or StarNSky.)
I agree with this.
Personally I think Java is a lovely language. It's a bliss to program it compared to other languages due to all the included components and the strong typing. (Which I happen to like.)
Unfortunately SUN are making it harder for Java to reach it's full potential. People complain about how Java is slow. Hey, if it was included in X or Windows and loaded from the start it wouldn't be very slow. Integrate AWT/Swing into the GUI and you have fast, portable, stable.
Unfortunately SUN dosn't seem very keen on this. It's just really sad IMHO.
Err, a small firewall computer was too noisy, but you have a dual P3 on?
If you have a 486 as a firewall can't you rip out the noisy bits (hd, fans etc) and make it extremely quiet?
That you are most likely shooting down compromised systems? Contacting the admin would be more appropriate if you want the attacks to stop, instead of just throwning dirt around.
Besides, an automated retaliations doesn't sound as satisfying as doing it manually. ;-)
Problably not 4 AGP slots, but AGP with 4x memory access speed.
Hmm, yes the article is a bit confusing on the subject. It does hint that you can make a program that would use SMP although your OS does not support this.
;-)
I don't know if anyone would ever do such a program however, since you would most ditch all the points of the OS to make it work. (That is, code directly to the metal, no virtual memory or any stuff like that neither, since it's heavily tied to the processors.)
So I'd say that according to this you can make a program that will use both processors in ME. But there are no such programs available. It would be a lot more expensive so you wouldn't aim it at the Win98 market, or even Win32. (Most CAD stations run UNIX.)
Normal programs like Photoshop and Quake3 has SMP support. But they rely on the OS to spread the threads out to the different processors.
Hope that cleared things up, and it might even have been accurate. (IM-Not-A-Hardware-Engineer, Yet
"I won't take this insolence sitting down!"
"So your hemorrhoids are flaring up again, huh?"
Ahh, wonderful game...
It has more action than, say, adventure.
Sure it's not an action game like Quake. But the adrenaline is still there. This time because you are not sure if the guard will hear you or not, instead of the usual John Woo frenzy.
System Shock (1 & 2) was more of an RPG. But the action elements were still vry important, the game is more like Quake than it is similar to say Fallout or other standard RPG's.
Great games all of them however!
Naturally, all reviews end up being the reviewers opinion, even some may claim otherwise. So from that point it may have been a valid review.
However I think it would have been more interesting to read a review by someone that is knowledgeable about UML modelling and patterns. I got the feeling that there was some bitterness behind the review which made it less objective than they usually are.
I haven't read the book however, so I will not comment on it. Furthermore I found the UML Modelling book I have read (Using UML, Perdita Stevens, R. Pooley.) incredibly dull, although the concept is neat.
Wouldn't your router need to assign the correct IP to the NIC connected to your neighbours DSL Modem?
I mean, the ISP wouldn't see that it wasn't in fact your neighbour that was using the modem. Then your computers would naturally be on a LAN behind the router.
Which AFAIK renders it all moot.
One of the first things he [Nielsen] points out in his book "Designing web usability" is that it _is_ ok to bend or even bend the rules. Sometimes it's the good.
But if you don't know what the rules are then you don't know why you are breaking them.
True, Nielsen isn't a designer, he is however a usability expert. It doesn't matter how kewl your site is if noone can use it because of an overworked user interface. (boo.com)
I do recommend you to pick the book up, or read his site mentioned above, it has the same material.
I believe his point would be to have a "microupdates" sections for stuff like this. So if you didn't want to know when X4.0.1 and similar things are released you tick it off in your preferences as "Hide These From Me Please" sections.
That way it would still be possible to get the biggies. (Which would be under "X".)
MD is really big in Europe. Any electronic manufacturer has a comple of them in their lineup. For me they are the perfect compromise between portability and availability.
Sure, an MP3 player is a bit smaller (Not much.) and can be loaded directly from your computer. However I can't "Music Sync" it with my CD Changer. So it's really an even race there.
It really is a great format. And since there still are no commercial MP3 decks available they will continue to thrive for a while.
It depends what you want to use it for.
If you want to keep track of your schedule and telephone numbers then a webpad is overkill.
If you want to browse the web, read ebooks or other types of documentation anywhere anytime then a small PDA won't cut it. In comes the webpad. Sure, you could use a laptop but the webpad is smaller, draws less juice (No HD or CD.) and has a higher kewl-ness factor.
For me a webpad is just what I want. You could even use it as a reference and browse online references while usíng the app on your computer.
It depends, if Loki are doing it on a contract basis from Outrage then I recon that it could be seen as a "patch". However if Loki are the ones distributing the new version then I recon they'll do it as a new product (as the original poster suggested). AFAIK from Civ:CTP and such it's more of the latter case.
I recon you could compare it with how companies license the Quake/Lith/Unreal engine. In this case
they also get the original game data.
IMHO it would suck a bit if you already own the Win32 version, particularly if there's nothing new besides a Linux executable.
Not that Loki aren't doing a great job porting and all, but perhaps they should make an upgrade offer or something for current owners?
Since Microsoft are incorporating Battle communicator into DX8 I'd figure that RW's days are numbered.
:-(
There are several programs like this for Windows. None I've seen are crossplatform.
The ones I've seen that are crossplatform have had terrible GUI's. So terrible that I had to spend more than an hour to make it work. Not good.
If a project like OpenH323 is completed then we can get down to business. IMHO protocols should never be proprietary, in the end it will make the users suffer.
I went to a seminar by *gasp* RMS once. He then told us what happened when he released EMACS.
Not too long afterwards he had so many contrubuters that he had to spend all his time including code, not writing new code.
I bet that's on his pages about OSS as well. If you just look for it.
It seems to me that you conclude that free/OS software can not be good.
Why is that?
Repeatedly you (And Bertrand.) give the choice of freedom OR quality.
Why is it then that OSS has a given track record of being of higher quality? What magical development techniques is it that companies will start using that are impossible for OSS programmers to use?
The "free source or good source" is almost as inane as Bertrands "free source or guns everywhere" 'argument'.
That would hold true for any legacy product.
If you start bitching to MS that something doesn't work in Win98 do you think they will help you? Hardly, "Buy Windows2000" or "Wait for WinME" will most likely be the answer.
I feel the argument can be summerized in a few cases.
1) The company feel that "Ouch this was a serious mistake, we'd better fix it right away." What's keeping some "College hacker" that makes a OSS program from feeling the same?
You can't compare cooperative comapnies and uncooperative OSS projects as if they are the same thing. If the company or project cooperates then there is no issue at all. If they are uncooperative then at least if you have the source you can do something about it.
2) And then we have the nice "My company isn't big enough to make the changes in the code ourselves. If we have a commercial product then at least we can complain."
Well, if you have a small company then the odds that your precific problem will be fixed quickly are pretty bad. (If it's an important feature/bug see case one above.) So you'd be fucked either way. Again, with OSS you have an opprotunity to fix the problem at least. Naturally the bug may be fixed later, but how much later?
The real question is wether the OSS community is more helpful that the commercial community. Naturally this varies from product to product. Take that into consideration as well when you go product shopping. Don't stare yourself blind on the brandname or pricetag.