I agree with you. However, if everyone agreed with you, then there would be no movies in the future since they cost so much to make. Music is a different story, and perhaps movies will be in the future (computers).
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I'd bet money there is not one professional animator using BeOS. It looks real slick but theres a serious lack of apps.
Amen. It's called Natural Selection... not Natural Preservation. You think any of the species that've gone extinct woulda thought twice about taking us out?
I think this would require kernel support. It would involve wine setting up a virtual interface (like ppp0 or eth0) that wraps around the wsock32.dll that aol loads. Definitely possible.
Get yourself a Plextor 40X Max CD-ROM drive. It rips at 17x, blazes through my cd's.. On a Celeron 450 I can rip much faster than I can encode (using lame with -h option).
Why cant you just say "It's not for me, it's too technically oriented and too much of a hassle." This is a description of linux that applies to 90% of computer users. And you know what... we dont want you! Use Windows9x and have a fucking blast! Why the fuck are you bitching about something that's free and that you INSTALLED YOURSELF!!
Nobody is cramming Linux down your throat. If you don't like, DONT USE IT. And, BTW, although MS products are largely crammed down our throats, I think Linux users should take the same approach with them. Accurate discussions of technical problems and limitations are one thing.. but bullshit whining (such as in this post) and moaning does nothing but waste time and bandwidth.
Linux dumped core on you and froze up, huh? More likely an APPLICATION dumped core, and your X SESSION froze up. Neither of which being a fatal error requiring a computer reboot, merely ssh in and fix remotely.
Linux doesnt die when nothings going on, doesnt even die for the most part when all sorts of shit is going on.
That's ridiculous. Who cares if it didn't come with Redhat 5.2? Mesa has been available for a long time, and I'm willing to bet it did come with Redhat anyway. Once we get 4.0 with the DRI then linux will really be in a good position as a platform for 3d apps.
Rudy Ruckers Software/Wetware/Freeware trilogy is great, not to mention the rest of his books. He's a smart guy - he's written a non-fiction book on the technical aspects of AI and his most recent book is a non-fiction look at technology, but his fiction is great.
Bruce Sterling's old stuff kicks ass, especially the Schismatrix books and the Artificial Kid.
Steaphenson's Cryptonomicon is the coolest book I've read this year.
This could be very cool if they choose to step outside of the hype and make something thats true to Gibson's novel, unlike Johnny Mnemonic, which was a shitty movie altogether. Honestly I don't see how they're gonna bring Case to the big screen and not ruin it, but I sure as hell hope they do... This was my favorite book for a VERY long time..
Linux does not run games faster. Q3 and Q2 both run much slower, under 3dfx and especially under the primitive TNT drivers, than the windows counerpart. This is more an indication of driver quality than the OS itself... but its still true.
The slowness is a known problem. Basically the browser is rendering itself too often and rendering parts that haven't been exposed or don't need to be newly rendered. I think it has something to do with the layer built on top of gtk. In Windows the browser feels much faster.
You're telling me 4 phone lines + 29.95 is economically viable compared to ISDN or ADSL? In Austin ADSL is ~40/mo from SWB plus 20-30/mo from any of several ISP's. Cable is even cheaper - 50/mo flat. Your setup aint quite so sweet as you seem to think.
Ultima online? Thousand or so simultaneous players, distributed across several (probably obscenely beefy) machines based on map boundaries. That game is definitely serve centric. Everquest I don't know about it, but it almost has to be server centric to prevent cheating.
An existing code base, written by maybe only one person, that did even the smallest thing - maybe a hack of a CrystalSpace demo or something like that - and maybe some simple conceptual art would've gone a long way towards making this seem like a worthwhile open source project. Apparently you have no coders, no artists or the ones you have have yet to do any work - so what exactly is the "project"? An idea? I have lots of ideas. I wouldn't start a website or initiate a project based on an idea alone. You've essentially wasted a lot of effort on the part of the project that should come later. What's more important - the website or the game? I don't think artificially contrived open source projects, based on slashdot posts, are gonna get anywhere. You'll have 500 people on your development list and not one of them will know how to code.
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I agree with you. However, if everyone agreed with you, then there would be no movies in the future since they cost so much to make. Music is a different story, and perhaps movies will be in the future (computers).
I'd bet money there is not one professional animator using BeOS. It looks real slick but theres a serious lack of apps.
Wow what an incredibly useless post. Much like my follow-up. Do you guys get a hard-on making lame first posts?
Amen. It's called Natural Selection... not Natural Preservation. You think any of the species that've gone extinct woulda thought twice about taking us out?
Umm... if you're going to threaten them with switching to Mozilla I don't think its going to bother them too much :)
I think this would require kernel support. It would involve wine setting up a virtual interface (like ppp0 or eth0) that wraps around the wsock32.dll that aol loads. Definitely possible.
You weren't?
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>You didn't exactly have correct spelling
Get yourself a Plextor 40X Max CD-ROM drive. It rips at 17x, blazes through my cd's.. On a Celeron 450 I can rip much faster than I can encode (using lame with -h option).
Check http://www.sulaco.org/mp3. Look at the betas, the most recent beta has worked well for me.
Why cant you just say "It's not for me, it's too technically oriented and too much of a hassle." This is a description of linux that applies to 90% of computer users. And you know what... we dont want you! Use Windows9x and have a fucking blast! Why the fuck are you bitching about something that's free and that you INSTALLED YOURSELF!!
Nobody is cramming Linux down your throat. If you don't like, DONT USE IT. And, BTW, although MS products are largely crammed down our throats, I think Linux users should take the same approach with them. Accurate discussions of technical problems and limitations are one thing.. but bullshit whining (such as in this post) and moaning does nothing but waste time and bandwidth.
Linux dumped core on you and froze up, huh? More likely an APPLICATION dumped core, and your X SESSION froze up. Neither of which being a fatal error requiring a computer reboot, merely ssh in and fix remotely.
Linux doesnt die when nothings going on, doesnt even die for the most part when all sorts of shit is going on.
That's ridiculous. Who cares if it didn't come with Redhat 5.2? Mesa has been available for a long time, and I'm willing to bet it did come with Redhat anyway. Once we get 4.0 with the DRI then linux will really be in a good position as a platform for 3d apps.
Rudy Ruckers Software/Wetware/Freeware trilogy is great, not to mention the rest of his books. He's a smart guy - he's written a non-fiction book on the technical aspects of AI and his most recent book is a non-fiction look at technology, but his fiction is great.
Bruce Sterling's old stuff kicks ass, especially the Schismatrix books and the Artificial Kid.
Steaphenson's Cryptonomicon is the coolest book I've read this year.
This could be very cool if they choose to step outside of the hype and make something thats true to Gibson's novel, unlike Johnny Mnemonic, which was a shitty movie altogether. Honestly I don't see how they're gonna bring Case to the big screen and not ruin it, but I sure as hell hope they do... This was my favorite book for a VERY long time..
The BP6 uses the promise controller
Linux does not run games faster. Q3 and Q2 both run much slower, under 3dfx and especially under the primitive TNT drivers, than the windows counerpart. This is more an indication of driver quality than the OS itself... but its still true.
for christs sake its spelled lose, with one o
and 1 & 1 = 1, not 0
The slowness is a known problem. Basically the browser is rendering itself too often and rendering parts that haven't been exposed or don't need to be newly rendered. I think it has something to do with the layer built on top of gtk. In Windows the browser feels much faster.
Be cannot be run command line only.
You're telling me 4 phone lines + 29.95 is economically viable compared to ISDN or ADSL? In Austin ADSL is ~40/mo from SWB plus 20-30/mo from any of several ISP's. Cable is even cheaper - 50/mo flat. Your setup aint quite so sweet as you seem to think.
Ultima online? Thousand or so simultaneous players, distributed across several (probably obscenely beefy) machines based on map boundaries. That game is definitely serve centric. Everquest I don't know about it, but it almost has to be server centric to prevent cheating.
An existing code base, written by maybe only one person, that did even the smallest thing - maybe a hack of a CrystalSpace demo or something like that - and maybe some simple conceptual art would've gone a long way towards making this seem like a worthwhile open source project. Apparently you have no coders, no artists or the ones you have have yet to do any work - so what exactly is the "project"? An idea? I have lots of ideas. I wouldn't start a website or initiate a project based on an idea alone. You've essentially wasted a lot of effort on the part of the project that should come later. What's more important - the website or the game? I don't think artificially contrived open source projects, based on slashdot posts, are gonna get anywhere. You'll have 500 people on your development list and not one of them will know how to code.
This probably isn't worth the trouble. For all the effort that would be extended we could have native versions of the best plugins.
I would wager that xf86config can do it correctly
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The riva 128 ZX is not really all that much closer to the tnt, certainly not in terms of 3d.
I think he was commmenting on the fact that source is not available for glide, not on anybody's coding skills.