Strolled over to Media Play tonight while waiting for my new stereo to get installed in my truck and they didn't have a clue about it.
I shouldn't have expected much, seeing as how they had both the 6.0 and 6.5 versions of "The Complete Linux" (Mandrake) on the shelf right next to each other.
Re:GPL'ing the source code is great but...
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Quake 1 GPL'ed
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From what I remember about the evolution of Quake (pre-release), I don't think you'd want to use its design doc as a reference for much.
That's the source for the "game" code, the gamex86.dll or whatnot. The logic, if you will - entities, enemies, weapons, etc. This is the DLL (or.so) that you'd replace to play a mod such as CTF, Lithium, etc. It's NOT the rendering engine or anything else like that.
Is there any way we can get folks like John Carmack to have instant karma so that in cases like this, their posts get scored way up automatically? Granted, not everyone deserves it, but people on the level of JohnC or Linus (though I doubt he'd post much here) would be writing stuff worthy of high moderation - why waste moderation points?
Remember, this deal is subject to approval still. Hopefully, someone in gov't will notice this one company will be 98% of the market and will put the brakes on the deal.
Can anyone honestly say that they are 100% sure that nothing will happen when the clock ticks over? I sure can't say that about my code, and I've checked it thoroughly - nothing is 100% in this world.
NASA's just being cautious, nothing more. They may be confident about their own systems, but what about backups or others that they don't have complete control over? What about power systems on the ground?
NASA will probably go through the New Year without incident. They just don't wanna take the risk of making any mission the first to lose astronauts in space.
And in NY, you get screwed on your income AND what you buy with it. At least they charge the tax on SOME things based on where you live, like cars (actually, it's based on where you register it for the first year or so - which is why so many motorhomes have NH and OR tags - no sales tax!), otherwise I'd have paid an extra $400 for my car.
But, we have both state AND county sales tax - something like 4% state, then whatever the county feels like nailing you for, usually another 3%.
And in NY, you get screwed on your income AND what you buy with it. At least they charge the tax on SOME things based on where you live, like cars (actually, it's based on where you register it for the first year or so - which is why so many motorhomes have NH and OR tags - no sales tax!), otherwise I'd have paid an extra $400 for my car.
I wonder what the...um...byproducts? of sex would do to all the switches, instruments and stuff.
Maybe they could build a special chamber for it. Get some centrifuge action going on so you have some gravity to work with (otherwise you might have to use some rope...wait, that's not a bad idea!), build a shower system into it to clean things off when you're done...what else can we toss in there?
The "right of way" thing applies in the States here as well, at least where I'm from. The public school I went to has a very large campus, with several roads that proved to be very nice shortcuts to get to the other side of town (shaved a mile or 2 off your trip, depending on where you were headed). Every summer, they had to block off the road for a few days so that it would continue to be considered a private road.
Re:Burlington, Vermont...
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It's actually meant for "on the street." But if you and 9 of your friends are walking to Denny's from church for brunch on a Sunday morning, the cops can bust you up.
In Burlington, Vt., any group of 7 or more young persons constitutes a gang and can be forced to separate by local law enforcement. This law may have been repealed in the 4 years since I heard about it, but I doubt it.
I HATE using Windows, it's totally counter-intuitive to me now that I've been using Linux exclusively at home for upwards of a year now. But I must say that Visual Studio is a pretty sweet development environment, which is why Carmack chooses to continue to use it. I primarily use InterDev at work (we're all NT on the web side, which is where I do my thing), its youth definitely shows (it's only at ver. 2), and it's got some pretty ugly bugs, but overall, it's got some great features that I don't think any IDE in Linux has yet.
I was worried about the bots, after all of id's past monsters have had a collective IQ of about 12, but these guys are pretty good. I'm also very pleased that the game runs so well on my relatively old, slow hardware - P2/266, 64MB, 12MB V2.
I've been running RC5-56/64 for about 30 months now. When I found OGR a while back, I started splitting my CPU time 50/50 between that and RC5. More work on my part to get work units, but it seems like a more worthwhile goal than RC5. Not that I think encryption isn't something that we need to push to be stronger, but we've spent 2 years now to find out "hey, this is really hard" and, well, I like to see SOME real results from my efforts. Now that OGR is thrown in the mix, and it's going to be relatively hands-free, I'll be switching to that project, or splitting my time 75/25.
Mozilla's great, I'm using M10 to post this. But there's a problem with using a browser that works right. Zillions of pages on the web are just plain broken when it comes to standards. Case in point: (opens new window). Completely trashed.
I've got a pretty much stock SuSE 6.2 setup and I can't get M10 to run. At all. I'm following the directions to the letter, and after some chugging I get ".//run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 2269 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+"$@"}"
M9 worked, I tried a couple nightlies but they didn't. Chalked that up to "it's a nightly, anything's possible." I must be missing something obvious, but what is it?
Some of the more "mainstream" news sites like ZD and writers like Dvorak, Berst, etc. do check in on slashdot, and they WILL report on things like this and will draw their own, usually wrong, conclusions. PHBs read Dvorak, Berst, et. al. and form their opnions from what they read.
The "early adopters" will also be the folks who go to a mirror when the real announcement comes out.
Maybe RedHat should set up a round-robin DNS like kernel.org has, to spread the load all over.
I love the fact that Linux is constantly being improved and new releases coming out, but I worry that the early announcement of Mandreake 6.1, and now RedHat 6.1, could hurt the community. Or, rather, the world's perception of the community.
Things like this could very well foster the idea in the media and the "mainstream users" that Linux users are greedy, immature, impatient, I-want-it-all-screw-you-hippie-gimme-what's-mine-a nd-it's-mine-because-it's GPL'd-right-now people. Yes, the stuff's on a public FTP server. But it has yet to be announced as officially released.
If RedHat felt that the time was right to tell the world, they'd tell the the world. But announcing the release before the mirrors are ready, and before RedHat is ready (if they were ready, they'd make the announcement themselves) is bordering on irresponsible, IMHO. The whole thing isn't even posted yet, just the i386 binaries!
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I thought Willamette was the next chip in the P2-P3 line, Pentium IV maybe?
I shouldn't have expected much, seeing as how they had both the 6.0 and 6.5 versions of "The Complete Linux" (Mandrake) on the shelf right next to each other.
From what I remember about the evolution of Quake (pre-release), I don't think you'd want to use its design doc as a reference for much.
That's the source for the "game" code, the gamex86.dll or whatnot. The logic, if you will - entities, enemies, weapons, etc. This is the DLL (or .so) that you'd replace to play a mod such as CTF, Lithium, etc. It's NOT the rendering engine or anything else like that.
Is there any way we can get folks like John Carmack to have instant karma so that in cases like this, their posts get scored way up automatically? Granted, not everyone deserves it, but people on the level of JohnC or Linus (though I doubt he'd post much here) would be writing stuff worthy of high moderation - why waste moderation points?
Remember, this deal is subject to approval still. Hopefully, someone in gov't will notice this one company will be 98% of the market and will put the brakes on the deal.
NASA's just being cautious, nothing more. They may be confident about their own systems, but what about backups or others that they don't have complete control over? What about power systems on the ground?
NASA will probably go through the New Year without incident. They just don't wanna take the risk of making any mission the first to lose astronauts in space.
But, we have both state AND county sales tax - something like 4% state, then whatever the county feels like nailing you for, usually another 3%.
And in NY, you get screwed on your income AND what you buy with it. At least they charge the tax on SOME things based on where you live, like cars (actually, it's based on where you register it for the first year or so - which is why so many motorhomes have NH and OR tags - no sales tax!), otherwise I'd have paid an extra $400 for my car.
Maybe they could build a special chamber for it. Get some centrifuge action going on so you have some gravity to work with (otherwise you might have to use some rope...wait, that's not a bad idea!), build a shower system into it to clean things off when you're done...what else can we toss in there?
The "right of way" thing applies in the States here as well, at least where I'm from. The public school I went to has a very large campus, with several roads that proved to be very nice shortcuts to get to the other side of town (shaved a mile or 2 off your trip, depending on where you were headed). Every summer, they had to block off the road for a few days so that it would continue to be considered a private road.
FreeSB is too close to FreeBSD, IMHO.
It's actually meant for "on the street." But if you and 9 of your friends are walking to Denny's from church for brunch on a Sunday morning, the cops can bust you up.
In Burlington, Vt., any group of 7 or more young persons constitutes a gang and can be forced to separate by local law enforcement. This law may have been repealed in the 4 years since I heard about it, but I doubt it.
I HATE using Windows, it's totally counter-intuitive to me now that I've been using Linux exclusively at home for upwards of a year now. But I must say that Visual Studio is a pretty sweet development environment, which is why Carmack chooses to continue to use it. I primarily use InterDev at work (we're all NT on the web side, which is where I do my thing), its youth definitely shows (it's only at ver. 2), and it's got some pretty ugly bugs, but overall, it's got some great features that I don't think any IDE in Linux has yet.
I was worried about the bots, after all of id's past monsters have had a collective IQ of about 12, but these guys are pretty good. I'm also very pleased that the game runs so well on my relatively old, slow hardware - P2/266, 64MB, 12MB V2.
$5 says those Radio Shack batteries stop working in my Palm Pilot, and will only work in a wince device.
I've been running RC5-56/64 for about 30 months now. When I found OGR a while back, I started splitting my CPU time 50/50 between that and RC5. More work on my part to get work units, but it seems like a more worthwhile goal than RC5. Not that I think encryption isn't something that we need to push to be stronger, but we've spent 2 years now to find out "hey, this is really hard" and, well, I like to see SOME real results from my efforts. Now that OGR is thrown in the mix, and it's going to be relatively hands-free, I'll be switching to that project, or splitting my time 75/25.
The input box got FUBARed somehow (because Mozilla's not done yet?). Anyway, that link was supposed to be to ZDNet.
Mozilla's great, I'm using M10 to post this. But there's a problem with using a browser that works right. Zillions of pages on the web are just plain broken when it comes to standards. Case in point: (opens new window). Completely trashed.
That did it. Dumbass me, I tried both your suggestions at the same time, so I don't really know which did it.
Wow, BIG progress since M9. I'm more impressed with Mozilla every day.
I've got a pretty much stock SuSE 6.2 setup and I can't get M10 to run. At all. I'm following the directions to the letter, and after some chugging I get ".//run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 2269 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+"$@"}"
M9 worked, I tried a couple nightlies but they didn't. Chalked that up to "it's a nightly, anything's possible." I must be missing something obvious, but what is it?
Some of the more "mainstream" news sites like ZD and writers like Dvorak, Berst, etc. do check in on slashdot, and they WILL report on things like this and will draw their own, usually wrong, conclusions. PHBs read Dvorak, Berst, et. al. and form their opnions from what they read.
The "early adopters" will also be the folks who go to a mirror when the real announcement comes out.
Maybe RedHat should set up a round-robin DNS like kernel.org has, to spread the load all over.
I love the fact that Linux is constantly being improved and new releases coming out, but I worry that the early announcement of Mandreake 6.1, and now RedHat 6.1, could hurt the community. Or, rather, the world's perception of the community.
a nd-it's-mine-because-it's GPL'd-right-now people. Yes, the stuff's on a public FTP server. But it has yet to be announced as officially released.
Things like this could very well foster the idea in the media and the "mainstream users" that Linux users are greedy, immature, impatient, I-want-it-all-screw-you-hippie-gimme-what's-mine-
If RedHat felt that the time was right to tell the world, they'd tell the the world. But announcing the release before the mirrors are ready, and before RedHat is ready (if they were ready, they'd make the announcement themselves) is bordering on irresponsible, IMHO. The whole thing isn't even posted yet, just the i386 binaries!
Or are there just so many lamers that just keep hitting reload every minute all day that it just happens?