Look at some of the benchmarks in the article. Eratic isn't the word for it. While ATI has a clear gain with image quality settings, the FX 59x0 has a clear gain in OpenGL-based games. The Doom 3 benchmarks will be interesting.
I dunno if it's mentioned on the/.ed review, but when I tried out the live-evaluation CD, it auto-detected every single piece of hardware in my machine and configured it automatically withou asking me a single question about it. Why the hell can't windows do this?!
Most good water-cooling systems are incredibly well-made, and have practically no chance of a puncture. You should be more worried about that 2 pound fan hanging off your vertically-mounted motherboard.
RISC OS was designed to run on very specific hardware - and had some hardware acceleration (the VIDC chip). Also, because it was co-operatively multi-tasked, it single-tasked while moving/resizing windows - so it isn't really fair to compare it.
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(I know the parent post was a troll, but he's just too stupid..)
TrueType fonts - Just about every Linux user also has a copy of Windows. Moving the fonts onto another partition to use them with a different OS is hardly 'stealing'.
X-Box - If you paid for a product, morally you have the right to do what you want with it. Having a real OS on the X-Box means you can do more with it - ie emulate older systems etc.
Linux on the PS2 is legal.
The SCO lawsuit is a blatent last attempt by SCO to avoid bankrupcy. If you had any idea what you were talking about you would know that many, many developers have contributed to Linux, and it only takes one to give it a bad name. Most developers are totally against ripping off other people's code.
OK, it looks nice - but after a while eye candy gets boring. This is simply to attract people into buying it (they think it looks nice - so it will perform better)(!). Obviously you can bet DRM will be hidden inside. The eye candy is the bait.
With patents being more expensive, the public (ie the people patents were meant to protect) will not be able to afford them. You also have the 'small' problem of organizing it.
After the 'great' news about Palladium and DRM, me and my friends have all considered buying Macs. When the shit hits the fan, Apple could do very well out of this fiasco.
There's quite some difference between a site which depicts children being sexually assaulted and a site that 'violates copyright'. Some sites are blatently foul, and should be blocked for the benefit of the population. Blocking sites at the whim of a company is a TOTALLY FUCKING DIFFERENT MATTER.
Nobody normal kills themselves just because of a computer game. That kid must have had some serious problems to start with, and it's just as likely that Everquest was a symptom, not the cause.
Next you'll be telling me GTA3 is responsible for a large portion of car theft. Jeez.
The reason why anyone whould go to LinuxWorld would be to see the alternatives to that M$ crap. We're all fed up with having XP shoved down our throats at ludicrous prices. Allowing them to stick their fingers in this particular pie is not going to do anyone any good. I mean FFS, would RedHat be allowed to exhibit in a Microsoft-run show?
Given that its got quite a number of vents, I can imagine it'll be running a Pentium or AMD CPU, which will get quite 'warm', so putting stuff on it will prolly make it overheat.
You're missing one vital point - with a StrongARM processor, assembly language is extremely easy, and because of this, more applications can be written in assembly, and thus faster. Compare the responsiveness of a 5-year-old StrongARM RiscPC to a Windoze, or even Linux box and you'll see what I mean.
A system like this can't possibly last. Give it months or weeks before people ask around £150 to disable the GPS system in a car, making the satellite blind to its speed. Any Government who puts this blatent 'Big Brother' idea into practice have no chance of winning the next election, so it's unlikely it'll go ahead anyway:-)
I've been programming for quite some time now. I'm a first year in Uni, and I'm currently doing a (non-uni-related) project which has reached around 2,000 lines so far. Your best bet is to try adding features to smaller GPL programs, and work up to larger ones. Don't expect to be able to just look at a program and understand it. You've got to spend some time just looking through the code to see how it's structured.
Anti-aliasing isn't just a load of eye candy. With outline fonts, complex characters like japanese and chinese are visible. Normal bitmap fonts look really ugly and almost unreadable when small. Anti-aliasing can fix that.
Well, considering it already has an anti-aliased font manager, why not make a convertor (or even X compatible with the many existing fonts? This would obviously strongly depend on whether X will use outline fonts, as I haven't got round to rying it yet.
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Look at some of the benchmarks in the article. Eratic isn't the word for it. While ATI has a clear gain with image quality settings, the FX 59x0 has a clear gain in OpenGL-based games. The Doom 3 benchmarks will be interesting.
When I said 'configure' I meant properly - ie tested to make sure it was secure and to a required spec.
If they can install and configure a Linux server from scratch, they will almost certainly be capable of continuing to administer it.
I dunno if it's mentioned on the /.ed review, but when I tried out the live-evaluation CD, it auto-detected every single piece of hardware in my machine and configured it automatically withou asking me a single question about it. Why the hell can't windows do this?!
The hole in the top of the hard drive (used to balance pressure?) would be covered. Which is not cool.
Most good water-cooling systems are incredibly well-made, and have practically no chance of a puncture. You should be more worried about that 2 pound fan hanging off your vertically-mounted motherboard.
RISC OS was designed to run on very specific hardware - and had some hardware acceleration (the VIDC chip). Also, because it was co-operatively multi-tasked, it single-tasked while moving/resizing windows - so it isn't really fair to compare it.
However, it still rocked.
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How do the hell will they make their tellytubby operating system look cool?
Yeah, they'll also need to sell an attractive, high quality product with good tech support. No chance.
Don't buy it.
(I know the parent post was a troll, but he's just too stupid..)
TrueType fonts - Just about every Linux user also has a copy of Windows. Moving the fonts onto another partition to use them with a different OS is hardly 'stealing'.
X-Box - If you paid for a product, morally you have the right to do what you want with it. Having a real OS on the X-Box means you can do more with it - ie emulate older systems etc.
Linux on the PS2 is legal.
The SCO lawsuit is a blatent last attempt by SCO to avoid bankrupcy. If you had any idea what you were talking about you would know that many, many developers have contributed to Linux, and it only takes one to give it a bad name. Most developers are totally against ripping off other people's code.
Idiot.
OK, it looks nice - but after a while eye candy gets boring. This is simply to attract people into buying it (they think it looks nice - so it will perform better)(!). Obviously you can bet DRM will be hidden inside. The eye candy is the bait.
With patents being more expensive, the public (ie the people patents were meant to protect) will not be able to afford them. You also have the 'small' problem of organizing it.
Would it be possible to make one of those with a dremel?
After the 'great' news about Palladium and DRM, me and my friends have all considered buying Macs. When the shit hits the fan, Apple could do very well out of this fiasco.
There's quite some difference between a site which depicts children being sexually assaulted and a site that 'violates copyright'. Some sites are blatently foul, and should be blocked for the benefit of the population. Blocking sites at the whim of a company is a TOTALLY FUCKING DIFFERENT MATTER.
Nobody normal kills themselves just because of a computer game. That kid must have had some serious problems to start with, and it's just as likely that Everquest was a symptom, not the cause.
Next you'll be telling me GTA3 is responsible for a large portion of car theft. Jeez.
The reason why anyone whould go to LinuxWorld would be to see the alternatives to that M$ crap. We're all fed up with having XP shoved down our throats at ludicrous prices. Allowing them to stick their fingers in this particular pie is not going to do anyone any good. I mean FFS, would RedHat be allowed to exhibit in a Microsoft-run show?
Given that its got quite a number of vents, I can imagine it'll be running a Pentium or AMD CPU, which will get quite 'warm', so putting stuff on it will prolly make it overheat.
Looks like its basically a newbie's computer.
You're missing one vital point - with a StrongARM processor, assembly language is extremely easy, and because of this, more applications can be written in assembly, and thus faster. Compare the responsiveness of a 5-year-old StrongARM RiscPC to a Windoze, or even Linux box and you'll see what I mean.
A system like this can't possibly last. Give it months or weeks before people ask around £150 to disable the GPS system in a car, making the satellite blind to its speed. Any Government who puts this blatent 'Big Brother' idea into practice have no chance of winning the next election, so it's unlikely it'll go ahead anyway :-)
I've been programming for quite some time now. I'm a first year in Uni, and I'm currently doing a (non-uni-related) project which has reached around 2,000 lines so far. Your best bet is to try adding features to smaller GPL programs, and work up to larger ones. Don't expect to be able to just look at a program and understand it. You've got to spend some time just looking through the code to see how it's structured.
Anti-aliasing isn't just a load of eye candy. With outline fonts, complex characters like japanese and chinese are visible. Normal bitmap fonts look really ugly and almost unreadable when small. Anti-aliasing can fix that.
Well, considering it already has an anti-aliased font manager, why not make a convertor (or even X compatible with the many existing fonts? This would obviously strongly depend on whether X will use outline fonts, as I haven't got round to rying it yet.