Who gives a fuck what he gets modded down to? People should post whatever they want... not to get modded one way or the other. Fuck slashdot and fuck moderation.
GNU tools typically do have more features than their class Unix counterparts but they are almost never "sloppy." 95% of the time they work better than their traditional counterparts.
> The Fraunhofer pro codec is clearly superior to all the other freeware substitutes.
Actually this aint really true any more. LAME has pretty much surpassed all the competition. Check http://www.r3mix.net for interesting comparisons of a bunch of different encoders.
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What makes you say Be or OS X makes a great workstation? Which of Be's approximately 0 applications would you say help characterize it as a "great" or even usable workstation? Have you every actually used it? Not to mention it isn't exactly the most stable OS around.
OS X isn't even released. It's also in the same boat with very few native gui apps. Admittedly Mac apps do work and Unix stuff builds ok. But if you're looking for Mac apps get a Mac and if you want Unix apps - use Unix!
As far as Win2k, that's a little more realistic but I'll still take Linux or BSD anyday. Also, I love the way you make broad blanket claims with no evidence whatsoever to back them up (i.e "FreeBSD is superior to Linux, Java or no"). And I'm typing this in Linux Netscape running on FreeBSD 4 FYI so I'm in no way biased against FreeBSD.
There's a really cool perl module for doing this sort of stuff called HTML::Mason. It uses a component model which makes it easy to make a modular web site. I imagine it's roughly the same as using PHP or any of these others but it's the only one I've ever used.
Better yet, use w3m. As fast as Lynx but it looks a hell of a lot better.
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All of you pathetic whiners are making me sick. It is a completely harmless statistic. Do you really think ID plans to sell this info? Is Q3 merely a facade for their true aim of gathering video card statistics? Even if it wasn't in the documentation - who cares?? The only reason Carmack did this was to help the game and help pressure the manufacturers into developing better drivers.
I'm sure a number of you are going to volunteer "I CARE." All I've got to say is you guys are losers. Find something that's actually worth groaning about.
This is nice and everything if you wanna break your ability to list internet servers in game. Alternatively you could use the documented method of disabling the feature.
> Frankly, this does not look like quality code. I haven't downloaded the source yet to have a look, however.
Are you saying that with a straight face? What a pompous ass you are. The program is not done. It is a very complex project. You have no right to diss these people when they have clearly stated that this is not even a beta release! Do you really think you could come up to speed with the code that fast to make a judgement as to it's quality?
At my workplace we've had nothing but trouble with Qwest. They are a bunch of clowns. The best bet if you're getting your own line is to hook into a local ISP that has many backbone connections. More reliable than going with just UUnet or Qwest or whoever, and will take advantage of any local peering efforts or faster routes.
These are all definitely something to consider, but none of them will give you anywhere near the reliability of colocation at an ISP with solid and redundant connections. DSL is a particularly bad choice for reliability considering it's guarantees typically are not at the same level as those of ISDN/T1 circuits, although it is cheap. It's really designed as a consumer service. The most important thing with colocation is finding a good ISP with reliable, redundant connections:)
Getting your own lines is probably not a good idea. It's too expensive, you'll end up paying for bandwdith which at the beginning you won't need and it may not scale well if your site starts generating a lot of traffic. Which, few sites actually do. Generic webhosting isn't a good idea either, not flexible enough. Your best bet is colocation - use your own boxes connected to some ISP's bandwidth. Jump.Net is good in the central Texas area.
Depending on your string-handling needs, perl, especially with mod_perl, may be faster than an equivalent C/C++ program. This is because with C/C++ you're going to have to either write your own routines or use the library regular expression calls, which can vary across platforms in speed. A simple perl script is faster than the system version of grep on some unices. I don't know how something like libpcrel, the perl compatible regex lib, stands up against perl but that might be a factor.
CPU cycles are cheap these days anyway:) Perl is portable and developemnt is much more rapid than with C/C++. It's stupid to use low-level languages for anything but the most time-critical stuff that's expected to have all sorts of load.
In the win32 world NDA's are signed and software is developed with full specs, with the help of the hardware manufacturers themselves. Often not so in the world of free software. Linux may be "behind" in certain areas but how you could possibly expect it to be ahead? It is free software and often developed completely without the help of hardware manufacturers.
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Keep in mind that this dont mean anything. Intel chips outperform SPARCS mhz for mhz in all the important benchmarks.
Who gives a fuck what he gets modded down to? People should post whatever they want... not to get modded one way or the other. Fuck slashdot and fuck moderation.
Frank Miller is the man. The Dark Knight Returns comes to mind, as well as Year One.... the two best interpretations of Batman ever, AFAIC.
Let's hope the movie is better than Robocop 3 though (also penned by Miller)...
GNU tools typically do have more features than their class Unix counterparts but they are almost never "sloppy." 95% of the time they work better than their traditional counterparts.
> The Fraunhofer pro codec is clearly superior to all the other freeware substitutes.
Actually this aint really true any more. LAME has pretty much surpassed all the competition. Check http://www.r3mix.net for interesting comparisons of a bunch of different encoders.
Some of us have very nice, very expensive cases. 100-200 bucks may be a drop in the bucket for you but it isn't for all of us....
It makes Scientologists look ridiculous.
What makes you say Be or OS X makes a great workstation? Which of Be's approximately 0 applications would you say help characterize it as a "great" or even usable workstation? Have you every actually used it? Not to mention it isn't exactly the most stable OS around.
OS X isn't even released. It's also in the same boat with very few native gui apps. Admittedly Mac apps do work and Unix stuff builds ok. But if you're looking for Mac apps get a Mac and if you want Unix apps - use Unix!
As far as Win2k, that's a little more realistic but I'll still take Linux or BSD anyday. Also, I love the way you make broad blanket claims with no evidence whatsoever to back them up (i.e "FreeBSD is superior to Linux, Java or no"). And I'm typing this in Linux Netscape running on FreeBSD 4 FYI so I'm in no way biased against FreeBSD.
Just biased against idiots.
There's a really cool perl module for doing this sort of stuff called HTML::Mason. It uses a component model which makes it easy to make a modular web site. I imagine it's roughly the same as using PHP or any of these others but it's the only one I've ever used.
>Yeah, they're cheap, but they still don't
have the floating point. Why bother going to the effort?
That's a bunch of crap. They have the same FPU
as the PII/III (and Celeron II's have SSE!)
How about GCC? It's the default compiler in BeOS these days. I think the compiler is a fairly significant "innovation" Be has capitalized on.
Thanks dude. I watched it in Linux using smpeg and it played fine, except for the sound being out of sync. 640x480 woulda been nice though..
Thanks for this reply that makes sense. Katz has no point, only a ridiclous rant.
Better yet, use w3m. As fast as Lynx but it looks a hell of a lot better.
All of you pathetic whiners are making me sick. It is a completely harmless statistic. Do you really think ID plans to sell this info? Is Q3 merely a facade for their true aim of gathering video card statistics? Even if it wasn't in the documentation - who cares?? The only reason Carmack did this was to help the game and help pressure the manufacturers into developing better drivers.
I'm sure a number of you are going to volunteer "I CARE." All I've got to say is you guys are losers. Find something that's actually worth groaning about.
This is nice and everything if you wanna break your ability to list internet servers in game. Alternatively you could use the documented method of disabling the feature.
TNT works ok. I wouldn't call it well :) I disagree with the previous poster though. And I think things are picking up steam very fast.
In that case, run viewer rather than apprunner.
> Frankly, this does not look like quality code. I haven't downloaded the source yet to have a look, however.
Are you saying that with a straight face? What a pompous ass you are. The program is not done. It is a very complex project. You have no right to diss these people when they have clearly stated that this is not even a beta release! Do you really think you could come up to speed with the code that fast to make a judgement as to it's quality?
At my workplace we've had nothing but trouble with Qwest. They are a bunch of clowns. The best bet if you're getting your own line is to hook into a local ISP that has many backbone connections. More reliable than going with just UUnet or Qwest or whoever, and will take advantage of any local peering efforts or faster routes.
These are all definitely something to consider, but none of them will give you anywhere near the reliability of colocation at an ISP with solid and redundant connections. DSL is a particularly bad choice for reliability considering it's guarantees typically are not at the same level as those of ISDN/T1 circuits, although it is cheap. It's really designed as a consumer service. The most important thing with colocation is finding a good ISP with reliable, redundant connections :)
Getting your own lines is probably not a good idea. It's too expensive, you'll end up paying for bandwdith which at the beginning you won't need and it may not scale well if your site starts generating a lot of traffic. Which, few sites actually do. Generic webhosting isn't a good idea either, not flexible enough. Your best bet is colocation - use your own boxes connected to some ISP's bandwidth. Jump.Net is good in the central Texas area.
Depending on your string-handling needs, perl, especially with mod_perl, may be faster than an equivalent C/C++ program. This is because with C/C++ you're going to have to either write your own routines or use the library regular expression calls, which can vary across platforms in speed. A simple perl script is faster than the system version of grep on some unices. I don't know how something like libpcrel, the perl compatible regex lib, stands up against perl but that might be a factor.
:) Perl is portable and developemnt is much more rapid than with C/C++. It's stupid to use low-level languages for anything but the most time-critical stuff that's expected to have all sorts of load.
CPU cycles are cheap these days anyway
In the win32 world NDA's are signed and software is developed with full specs, with the help of the hardware manufacturers themselves. Often not so in the world of free software. Linux may be "behind" in certain areas but how you could possibly expect it to be ahead? It is free software and often developed completely without the help of hardware manufacturers.
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Movies are pirated all the time and have been for a good while.