X11R6 is old enough now so how about X12 that has OpenGL (and lots of other improvements) build in? So Xlib would have it incorporated and it would be much faster than as is done now of building it on top of Xlib and extensions.
"...through the air from your local TV stations' antenna towers. So you have to go buy a UHF antenna and a separate decoder for its signals, to the tune of another couple of hundred dollars."
Umm , just how many people WOULDN'T have a UHF antenna already?
Its not HDTV they broadcast , its Pal Plus which is a widescreen 625 line format which virtually no one has a TV for. All this does it piss off everyone with a normal TV when they get a semi letterbox picture for no reason other than the 2 people and a dog who bought a PAL Plus TV when they were on sale for a few weeks back in the mid 90s.
Seems a lame excuse to me. After all, the show never has exactly been shakespear so who cares
what changes in storyline it takes? More likely
he wanted a payrise, they refused and he left in
a petulant huff probably thinking (and rightly it seems) that the show wouldn't be the same without
him.
You might as well that stargate without a transvestite in the lead bad guy part isn't
stargate either. Whatever merits the character had in the film as fars as I'm concerned he was
really just making up the numbers in the series. After all , hes the only character where we know
very little about his personal life, he rarely does anything except get himself into trouble
he has to be rescued from because of his "scientific curiosity" and frankly his character so rarely shows any emotion beyond
the 1 dimensional curious-scientist-oblivious-to-danger that he could be quite easily played by
a plank of wood.
At least he was still very much alive at the end of the episode that aired here last sunday so
I'm not sure where salon.com are getting their info from but their source is a bit suspect.
At least I reckon thats the category that this idea will eventually end up in. Why do some people
always assume that everyone wants to be online the whole time? WHy do they assume that everywhere
is like america and no one has to pay for local calls to ISPs? And how will effectively turning
my computer into a vast distributed system benefit me? Great idea if you want to run a
distributed equivalent of an SIMD parallel machine but pretty useless if you simply want to
do word processing. Who's going to want to wait
5 minutes while their WP downloads their document
from 101 different locations byte by byte over
a their 56K modem instead of loading it in a few
seconds off the disk?
I really feel some academics need to get out of their research labs and take a stroll in the real
world sometimes.
This may come as a shock but not everyone on here is american and so knows about obscure american
savings plans. Why not tell us all about a TESSA then? What , you've not heard of it? Well maybe
thats because its British.
Isn't this the wrong way around? In nature you have far more pray animals than predators hence
you get the pyramid of life. What will doing it their way prove other than the fact that its still
impossible to emulate nature in the real world (as opposed to enviroment emulation is software).
The OS got out the way when you wanted it to. Hmm wasn't there another OS that did that... umm ,
it was a monitor program now what was it called... oh yeah... DOS.
As for message passing by reference , so what? If you use shared memory you don't even have to pass
anything , its just there. BFD.
Well since the article is talking about the OS not any special hardware I'll be nice and assume you
simply didn't bother to read it rather than the fact that perhaps you're just an ass.
And FYI I use Linux and BSD and have probably forgotten more about operating systems than
you ever knew sonny. I suggest you can it before you make a complete pillock of yourself.
Putting words into my mouth just to shoot them down doesn't do your argument any favours.
The past teaches us a lot but it doesn't mean we have to live in it. Why would I want to use an
Amiga for gaming now? Because its got 256 colours and a bit blitter. Oh man, hold me down! Watch
out NVidia!
The amiga was good for its day , just like Dolby B and C60 cassettes were but these days I prefer
to use recordable CD. If you want to keep using your amigas fine, thats your choice but don't expect
the rest of the world to go back 15 years in time just for the sake of some nostalgia trip.
Awesome power in 1986. These days its power is nothing. And that power came from the hardware
not the OS so frankly apart from the fact that no one really cares anyway anymore why bother porting
an OS that was good but nothing special?
Retro reminiscing is all well and good but people should remember that the past is the past, dragging
it kicking and screaming into the present does no one any favours. What next, a new version of the
TRS80 OS?
Is this the most pointless waste of time yet?
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People love to knock MIcrosoft for its bloatware yet here the Linux crowd are cooing over a boot
loader than can play games. Hello??! Double standards I think people! A boot loader is there
to boot the OS in the fastest and most efficient way possible, its NOT there to provide eye candy
for people with the attention span of a knat. If MS had done this with OSLoader you'd all be
jumping up and down laughing about it but because its LILO its ok isn't it?
And no I'm not one of the MS sheep, I've been using linux since version 1.1 back in 1995
probably before half of you even knew what unix was.
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Who cares if its complaint with this weeks version of HTML that W3C have vomited up.
As long as it works.
Aww , poor little boy. Did mommy shout at you when you messed your pants again this morning?
You really should get potty trained you know.
X11R6 is old enough now so how about X12 that has OpenGL (and lots of other improvements) build in?
So Xlib would have it incorporated and it would be much faster than as is done now of building it
on top of Xlib and extensions.
So what did people watch before cable came along then? Or did TV not arrive where you live until
the 70s?
In other words you're 14 and the hormones are playing up. Don't worry , you'll get over it.
Does that translate as "I have no life and I'm pissed off about it but attack is the best form
of defence" ?
"...through the air from your local TV stations' antenna towers. So you have to go buy a UHF antenna and a separate decoder for its signals, to the tune of another couple of hundred dollars."
Umm , just how many people WOULDN'T have a UHF antenna already?
Its not HDTV they broadcast , its Pal Plus which is a widescreen 625 line format which virtually
no one has a TV for.
All this does it piss off everyone with a normal TV when they get a semi letterbox picture for no
reason other than the 2 people and a dog who bought a PAL Plus TV when they were on sale for a
few weeks back in the mid 90s.
Seems a lame excuse to me. After all, the show never has exactly been shakespear so who cares
what changes in storyline it takes? More likely
he wanted a payrise, they refused and he left in
a petulant huff probably thinking (and rightly it seems) that the show wouldn't be the same without
him.
Watching Sarah Geller trying to act is painful enough, not sure I could handle listening to her
attempting to sing too!
You might as well that stargate without a transvestite in the lead bad guy part isn't
stargate either. Whatever merits the character had in the film as fars as I'm concerned he was
really just making up the numbers in the series. After all , hes the only character where we know
very little about his personal life, he rarely does anything except get himself into trouble
he has to be rescued from because of his "scientific curiosity" and frankly his character so rarely shows any emotion beyond
the 1 dimensional curious-scientist-oblivious-to-danger that he could be quite easily played by
a plank of wood.
Course I mean C4. Sky is still only watched by two men and a dog. Besides which strictly speaking
its a european station , not a UK one.
At least he was still very much alive at the end of the episode that aired here last sunday so
I'm not sure where salon.com are getting their info from but their source is a bit suspect.
Cos its sure as hell is slow here!
At least I reckon thats the category that this idea will eventually end up in. Why do some people
always assume that everyone wants to be online the whole time? WHy do they assume that everywhere
is like america and no one has to pay for local calls to ISPs? And how will effectively turning
my computer into a vast distributed system benefit me? Great idea if you want to run a
distributed equivalent of an SIMD parallel machine but pretty useless if you simply want to
do word processing. Who's going to want to wait
5 minutes while their WP downloads their document
from 101 different locations byte by byte over
a their 56K modem instead of loading it in a few
seconds off the disk?
I really feel some academics need to get out of their research labs and take a stroll in the real
world sometimes.
This may come as a shock but not everyone on here is american and so knows about obscure american
savings plans. Why not tell us all about a TESSA then? What , you've not heard of it? Well maybe
thats because its British.
Isn't this the wrong way around? In nature you have far more pray animals than predators hence
you get the pyramid of life. What will doing it their way prove other than the fact that its still
impossible to emulate nature in the real world (as opposed to enviroment emulation is software).
Just video it while you're watching it.
I thought it was 100 billion neurons
Nice cut & paste. Next time you want to come up with BS try not overdoing it , it doesn't look
very convincing.
The OS got out the way when you wanted it to. Hmm wasn't there another OS that did that ... umm ,
it was a monitor program now what was it called... oh yeah... DOS.
As for message passing by reference , so what? If you use shared memory you don't even have to pass
anything , its just there. BFD.
Well since the article is talking about the OS not any special hardware I'll be nice and assume you
simply didn't bother to read it rather than the fact that perhaps you're just an ass.
And FYI I use Linux and BSD and have probably forgotten more about operating systems than
you ever knew sonny. I suggest you can it before you make a complete pillock of yourself.
Putting words into my mouth just to shoot them down doesn't do your argument any favours.
The past teaches us a lot but it doesn't mean we have to live in it. Why would I want to use an
Amiga for gaming now? Because its got 256 colours and a bit blitter. Oh man, hold me down! Watch
out NVidia!
The amiga was good for its day , just like Dolby B and C60 cassettes were but these days I prefer
to use recordable CD. If you want to keep using your amigas fine, thats your choice but don't expect
the rest of the world to go back 15 years in time just for the sake of some nostalgia trip.
And yes I did own one. Sold it years ago.
Awesome power in 1986. These days its power is nothing. And that power came from the hardware
not the OS so frankly apart from the fact that no one really cares anyway anymore why bother porting
an OS that was good but nothing special?
Retro reminiscing is all well and good but people should remember that the past is the past, dragging
it kicking and screaming into the present does no one any favours. What next, a new version of the
TRS80 OS?
People love to knock MIcrosoft for its bloatware yet here the Linux crowd are cooing over a boot
loader than can play games. Hello??! Double standards I think people! A boot loader is there
to boot the OS in the fastest and most efficient way possible, its NOT there to provide eye candy
for people with the attention span of a knat. If MS had done this with OSLoader you'd all be
jumping up and down laughing about it but because its LILO its ok isn't it?
And no I'm not one of the MS sheep, I've been using linux since version 1.1 back in 1995
probably before half of you even knew what unix was.