I think they should open source Minesweeper. And possibly Solitare, Spider and FreeCell. I know there are good GPLed implementations of it, but it would be nice to see how Microsoft's ones work.
I don't know about id, but Epic have been using C++ for the Unreal Engine for years now. The documentation for the version supplied with The Wheel of Time specifically states that it's written in C++, with UnrealScript providing some of the run-time code (and fodder for mod authors muahahaha).
C++ is a pretty cool language. I don't care about the results of a benchmark that says Java is faster. Why not? Because I really, really hate programming in Java. Some bits of it are nice, but it feels something like stripping paint with my fingernails.
Because I actually use spatial Nautilus, whereas I almost never used browser-mode Nautilus. All it needs is the option to go back to browser mode to be visible in the GUI (which it will be shortly, I believe) rather than through GConf only, and then everyone can be happy. On such a divisive issue it's clear that it's the Right Thing to put in a preference.
I find this as well. KDE in my experience has felt slower than GNOME for a fair few years. About the only time it didn't was when GNOME 2.0 came out, but GNOME seems to have sped up since then. Of course, I've also upgraded my hardware, but the latest KDE still feels sluggish compared to GNOME on my system.
And GNOME 2.6 is quite definitely snappier than 2.4. I'm not sure if that comes with the usual speed/memory tradeoffs though, i.e. you can make things faster by using more RAM.
I installed from the Gentoo Linux xorg-x11 6.7.0 ebuild (onto a Gentoo box, oddly enough). The ebuild authors did a good job, so it downloaded, compiled and installed happily.
I did have some difficulty with the ATi binary graphics card drivers for my Radeon 9800 Pro... the installed ones wouldn't work with X.Org, and the ebuild insisted on having XFree86 available. I haven't checked to see if the ebuild's been updated to handle X.Org, but I would expect it has. I'm not that bothered anyway, as I don't game under Linux very much, so the open source drivers work very nicely, as I get decent 2D performance, and Xv so I can watch DVDs.
I may revise my opinion on the value of good 3D acceleration for my Linux desktop when there's an OpenGL compositing X server available, but the drivers for that are likely to be completely different anyway.
I am slightly worried that we're running out of regenerations, as one of the future ones has to be Merlin as well (Battlefield established that quite clearly).
However, right near the end of the Slyvester McCoy era, in stories such as The Curse of Fenric, they started to hint that the Doctor might not be just a Time Lord after all. Maybe they'll expand on that a bit, but hopefully in a good, positive kind of way and not a 'change direction of the series' kind of way, because you don't need to change much whether the Doctor's a Time Lord or something else, because he doesn't behave like a normal Time Lord anyway.
Sounds rather like the Z button on the N64, doesn't it?
Which was, incidentally, fantastic. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Gamecube controllers to remember if they have one or not. Clearly I need to get a Gamecube.
I only want to be with someone on Valentine's day next year if I happen to be going out with them. Trying to sort it out specifically for a meaningless commercialised event involving heart-shaped everything, far too much pink and a worldwide boost in the sale of roses (particularly red ones) strikes me as a good way down the path to breakupville and the psychiatrist's sofa.
Christmas isn't quite discriminatory to non-Christians, as there are a fair few other religions which have holidays along similar themes at more or less the same time of year.
Valentine's day is just commercialism, IMO. But that might be because I don't have a girlfriend.
I know this is nuts, but Macrovision-protected DVDs don't play on my Windows box when my LCD is plugged into the DVI output on my graphics card.
Don't you just love Microsoft? The problem, they say, is some failure to initialise analogue copy protection. I assume a Mac will play the same disk over a digital monitor line, so all we can say here is Windows is poo. But until that kind of thing works, DVIs aren't going to work for mass-market.
Or is there just something horribly horribly wrong with my system?
Not that it's much of a problem, I just watch those DVDs with Xine:-)
How is it possible to so completely miss the point of Perl 6? The intent is not necessarily to replace Perl 5 - Perl 5 is fantastic and the Perl 6 developers above all people know this. Perl 6 is perhaps best thought of as a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE which will 'just happen' to be, in many places, very similar/identical to Perl 6.
Once you start thinking of Perl 6 in that manner, you realise what it's for. It's not to replace all of the Perl already out there. It's to provide a new tool, a new language for doing new things in, drawing on the experience gained in years of working with Perl 5 and other languages.
Ponie, of course, is part of the effort to make sure that at least some of the vast amounts of Perl 5 code is usable with Perl 6, should programmers wish it. And even that's not a total rewrite of the existing Perl codebase.
So ultimately, that article has nothing of use in it. Yes, programmers should be careful what they rewrite and when they rewrite it, but many times such things are actually worth it. GTK+ 2, anybody?
I've also got an S55, and it's generally good, but I have very large hands, and so sometimes I wish the buttons were a bit bigger to suit my fingers - but of course to get that the whole phone would need to be bigger, and it's actually pretty much the perfect size. Also works perfectly with my 12" 1GHz G4 Powerbook via Bluetooth, although I've not tried Internet access through it and am unlikely to unless I'm desperate due to the cost of data calls.
And it's better than my old phone, which had got to the point where button presses frequently didn't register at all.
My problem's intermittent though. My DVD drive occasionally doesn't get picked up by Windows XP on boot, but when I reboot, it's fine. The BIOS always sees it, as does Linux.
This is definitely the scariest thing to do during an upgrade. I find, however, that the problem is solved using the excellent ThermalRight SLK-900U (or something like it) which mounts using the mounting holes around the processor socket, so no nasty spring-loaded clips and no risk of putting a screwdriver through the motherboard.
The amount of tightening of the screws you can get away with is quite frightening, but it does give good contact with the CPU core!
Exactly. I was just wondering how the various terrorist groups in Northern Ireland are/were anti-capitalist. Terrorism can be for many reasons, including religion, national affiliation, territory... and socioeconomic structure, as we've seen most particularly in recent years. But remember the bombings in the West Bank which are still going on...
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There's a wave of indignation?
* looks around *
Can't say as I ever noticed one. The only indignation I've noticed relating to a CCTV camera was when one was in the perfect place to get a record of someone smashing in a shop window - but guess what? It wasn't switched on!
We may have lots of CCTV cameras in the UK, but that doesn't mean we're using them effectively.
Silly state UK money's in really... but at least we get variety!
As I understand it, it's usually hardest to get anything non-English accepted in England, and easier to get Bank of England stuff accepted in Scotland or Northern Ireland. The further from a border you get, the harder acceptance generally becomes as well.
'Shada' was recently made as an audio-only production by BBCi and is available online for free, starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. He's not nearly so annoying in audio form.
There's also a version with accompanying Flash animations, which are actually quite classy.
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I think they should open source Minesweeper. And possibly Solitare, Spider and FreeCell. I know there are good GPLed implementations of it, but it would be nice to see how Microsoft's ones work.
If you want to drop those variable restrictions use a C99 compiler, which appears to support such things.
I don't know about id, but Epic have been using C++ for the Unreal Engine for years now. The documentation for the version supplied with The Wheel of Time specifically states that it's written in C++, with UnrealScript providing some of the run-time code (and fodder for mod authors muahahaha).
C++ is a pretty cool language. I don't care about the results of a benchmark that says Java is faster. Why not? Because I really, really hate programming in Java. Some bits of it are nice, but it feels something like stripping paint with my fingernails.
Because I actually use spatial Nautilus, whereas I almost never used browser-mode Nautilus. All it needs is the option to go back to browser mode to be visible in the GUI (which it will be shortly, I believe) rather than through GConf only, and then everyone can be happy. On such a divisive issue it's clear that it's the Right Thing to put in a preference.
I find this as well. KDE in my experience has felt slower than GNOME for a fair few years. About the only time it didn't was when GNOME 2.0 came out, but GNOME seems to have sped up since then. Of course, I've also upgraded my hardware, but the latest KDE still feels sluggish compared to GNOME on my system.
And GNOME 2.6 is quite definitely snappier than 2.4. I'm not sure if that comes with the usual speed/memory tradeoffs though, i.e. you can make things faster by using more RAM.
I installed from the Gentoo Linux xorg-x11 6.7.0 ebuild (onto a Gentoo box, oddly enough). The ebuild authors did a good job, so it downloaded, compiled and installed happily.
I did have some difficulty with the ATi binary graphics card drivers for my Radeon 9800 Pro... the installed ones wouldn't work with X.Org, and the ebuild insisted on having XFree86 available. I haven't checked to see if the ebuild's been updated to handle X.Org, but I would expect it has. I'm not that bothered anyway, as I don't game under Linux very much, so the open source drivers work very nicely, as I get decent 2D performance, and Xv so I can watch DVDs.
I may revise my opinion on the value of good 3D acceleration for my Linux desktop when there's an OpenGL compositing X server available, but the drivers for that are likely to be completely different anyway.
I was going to say that, but I see lots of other people have so I'm just going to say 'hear hear' instead.
But then, I'm the person who hasn't seen the cinematic edition of any of them.
It does look interesting doesn't it?
I am slightly worried that we're running out of regenerations, as one of the future ones has to be Merlin as well (Battlefield established that quite clearly).
However, right near the end of the Slyvester McCoy era, in stories such as The Curse of Fenric, they started to hint that the Doctor might not be just a Time Lord after all. Maybe they'll expand on that a bit, but hopefully in a good, positive kind of way and not a 'change direction of the series' kind of way, because you don't need to change much whether the Doctor's a Time Lord or something else, because he doesn't behave like a normal Time Lord anyway.
I was just about to say that! 256K is a LOT of POV code, in my experience at least.
Although of course you need a lot of POV code to get some of those glorious images on the IRTC.
Hmm, not sure. How about a game where you poke things - the more you pull the trigger button, the further your poking stick pokes.
No, I can't think of a game idea which involves such a thing that isn't at least borderline pornographic.
It may just be an ordinary button, but that's fine if it's in the right place and moves in the right way - which that particular one does.
I would imagine the PS3 will use an analogue one of course. Analogue buttons are all the rage these days.
Sounds rather like the Z button on the N64, doesn't it?
Which was, incidentally, fantastic. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Gamecube controllers to remember if they have one or not. Clearly I need to get a Gamecube.
I only want to be with someone on Valentine's day next year if I happen to be going out with them. Trying to sort it out specifically for a meaningless commercialised event involving heart-shaped everything, far too much pink and a worldwide boost in the sale of roses (particularly red ones) strikes me as a good way down the path to breakupville and the psychiatrist's sofa.
Christmas isn't quite discriminatory to non-Christians, as there are a fair few other religions which have holidays along similar themes at more or less the same time of year.
Valentine's day is just commercialism, IMO. But that might be because I don't have a girlfriend.
Well, I guess it must be. I wonder how I go about fixing that then?
I know this is nuts, but Macrovision-protected DVDs don't play on my Windows box when my LCD is plugged into the DVI output on my graphics card.
:-)
Don't you just love Microsoft? The problem, they say, is some failure to initialise analogue copy protection. I assume a Mac will play the same disk over a digital monitor line, so all we can say here is Windows is poo. But until that kind of thing works, DVIs aren't going to work for mass-market.
Or is there just something horribly horribly wrong with my system?
Not that it's much of a problem, I just watch those DVDs with Xine
Typo. You know what I meant.
How is it possible to so completely miss the point of Perl 6? The intent is not necessarily to replace Perl 5 - Perl 5 is fantastic and the Perl 6 developers above all people know this. Perl 6 is perhaps best thought of as a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE which will 'just happen' to be, in many places, very similar/identical to Perl 6.
Once you start thinking of Perl 6 in that manner, you realise what it's for. It's not to replace all of the Perl already out there. It's to provide a new tool, a new language for doing new things in, drawing on the experience gained in years of working with Perl 5 and other languages.
Ponie, of course, is part of the effort to make sure that at least some of the vast amounts of Perl 5 code is usable with Perl 6, should programmers wish it. And even that's not a total rewrite of the existing Perl codebase.
So ultimately, that article has nothing of use in it. Yes, programmers should be careful what they rewrite and when they rewrite it, but many times such things are actually worth it. GTK+ 2, anybody?
I've also got an S55, and it's generally good, but I have very large hands, and so sometimes I wish the buttons were a bit bigger to suit my fingers - but of course to get that the whole phone would need to be bigger, and it's actually pretty much the perfect size. Also works perfectly with my 12" 1GHz G4 Powerbook via Bluetooth, although I've not tried Internet access through it and am unlikely to unless I'm desperate due to the cost of data calls.
And it's better than my old phone, which had got to the point where button presses frequently didn't register at all.
My problem's intermittent though. My DVD drive occasionally doesn't get picked up by Windows XP on boot, but when I reboot, it's fine. The BIOS always sees it, as does Linux.
I hate Windows.
This is definitely the scariest thing to do during an upgrade. I find, however, that the problem is solved using the excellent ThermalRight SLK-900U (or something like it) which mounts using the mounting holes around the processor socket, so no nasty spring-loaded clips and no risk of putting a screwdriver through the motherboard.
The amount of tightening of the screws you can get away with is quite frightening, but it does give good contact with the CPU core!
Exactly. I was just wondering how the various terrorist groups in Northern Ireland are/were anti-capitalist. Terrorism can be for many reasons, including religion, national affiliation, territory... and socioeconomic structure, as we've seen most particularly in recent years. But remember the bombings in the West Bank which are still going on...
There's a wave of indignation?
* looks around *
Can't say as I ever noticed one. The only indignation I've noticed relating to a CCTV camera was when one was in the perfect place to get a record of someone smashing in a shop window - but guess what? It wasn't switched on!
We may have lots of CCTV cameras in the UK, but that doesn't mean we're using them effectively.
Silly state UK money's in really... but at least we get variety!
As I understand it, it's usually hardest to get anything non-English accepted in England, and easier to get Bank of England stuff accepted in Scotland or Northern Ireland. The further from a border you get, the harder acceptance generally becomes as well.
Roll on the Euro!
'Shada' was recently made as an audio-only production by BBCi and is available online for free, starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. He's not nearly so annoying in audio form.
There's also a version with accompanying Flash animations, which are actually quite classy.