Actually something like Konqueror does is pretty cool. It can kontain (yes, pun intended), a term in a frame inside Konqueror, and it will (optionally) cd to whatever directory you browse to with the GUI. Pretty nifty.
In 2. you argue that command line is faster because it is easier to select patterns. But this wrongfully assumes that there always IS a pattern when you want to select a bunch of files.
What if you want to delete a bunch of files you downloaded yesterday. It's graphics, tarballs, packages, etc. There is no obvious pattern, and most people would just hold down ctrl and select all the files with a GUI.
This is not that simple with command line interfaces. Sure, "rm" takes multiple arguments, but what if you aren't really sure which images to delete. Wouldn't a thumbnail make your day?
You have to take this information lightly, as I haven't tried to confirm it, but:
RDram is supposedly easier to fabric for integration on the mothermoard, and that is probably the case with PS2.
This would make RDram cheaper.
In addition, the PS2 could have other requirements than a PC.
Trying to restrict the consumers rights, is not necessarily a long term gain for the big software corporations.
When they go TOO far, people may start realizing that they have no choice but to use Free Software.
This may end up backfiring big time, because of a shortsighted hunt for profit.
You really have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise I could put up a post stating:
"$10000 to the person who kills Rob Malda".
If someone kills Malda stating he wanted the reward, and the police arrests me, should I be able to plead "free speech, man.."
Should I be able to plead "free speech" for shouting "kill all white children" from the rooftops (I bet this would _really_ scare children walking the streets below).
While stating ways to kill yourself is perfectly legal (and IMHO ok), actually trying to push people to do it is not.
I've seen plenty of people complaining about "real life being dull".
Yes it sometimes is, and that is why we make games.
This does not however mean that it has to be unrealistic to be fun.
The ultimate game, would be a game totally realistic, working excactly like real life, but being a game, lets you walk away from it afterwards, or even save and reload situations.
This means that you would be able to do everything you normally does not dare to do (I can already hear George W. Bush screaming), like steal, kick the shit out of your boss, even doing stuff that makes "A clockwork Orange" seem like a childrens story, and you would be able to walk away without any damages when the authorities i.e. catches up with you.
This is the controversial part. I believe most people would do most about everything if it had no consequenses. Will this harm society, lowering peoples limits, or will it help (letting out steam)?
Realism does NOT mean dull. Some of the greates movies are very realistic, it just covers parts of the reality that you will never experience.
Most of us will never be able to fly an F-15, or drive a F1-car, and if something can deliver that experience to me, that sure as hell beats pacman.
.. that is SHOULD be stable enough to be used.
But this decision is taken throughout the next weeks. There needs to be _real_ showstoppers for it not to be released now.
You can put it this way; neither a beta or this is released, but while the beta is expected to have plenty of bugs, this one is not.
It will become stable October 23.
Dual Athlons should be better than dual PIII's
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· Score: 3
When it comes to single processors, the Athlon and the PIII are pretty much equal on a clock for clock basis (Athlons reach higher speeds).
But when it comes to SMP, the Athlons should have a BIG advantage; the EV6-protocol.
The EV6 which is the bus used by the Athlon-arcitechture, and licensed from Compaq (Alpha)
provides DEDICATED bandwith for each of the CPUs,
(to the chipset). The PIII's however must all share the bandwith, which is not really sufficient for optimal operation. Don't know what Intel has done for the P4 though..
It was out, only to be withdrawn, have Intel released it again?
I _really_ wouldn't bother with it anyway, it's
nothing but an overclocked PIII 1GHz.
Sure overclocking is actually how the *zillas often reach their speedratings, but the 1.13GHz P3, seems to be pushing it a bit too far.
If it isn't out, I find it highly suspect, that anyone would include it in a review.
.. and I don't know how Apache compares to NT, but since you're obviously wanting to use Linux, why
not monitor the situation with Tux and khttpd.
khttpd is the kernel webserver, and provides a webserver in kernel space, while Tux is a mix between kernel space and user space.
Khttpd is exceptionally fast when delivering static content, while it gives all requests for
dynamic content to Apache. And apache being quite fast at dynamic content this works out well.
Tux however handles both dynamic and static content. It is also exceptionally fast at both.
Take a look at this slashdot story.
Java is good for plenty of stuff.
Java Servlets for instance is very widely used as the backend for a lot of websites that need something persistant as opposed to just scripts. It works well, and is very powerful.
Of course, this is only one application of Java.
Actually... if you have a NVidia-card, you might as well run it under Linux now.
Look at this.
The miniscule performance difference is not really worth the reboot, if you have ok hardware that is.
I've actually enjoyed some of the older adventure-games. That is the one based on Next Generation, perhaps someone remembers the name.
And what is great about 7/10?
The review specifically states that the thing that saves this game is multiplayer, and that seems like Quake3 with Star Trek skins and weapons.
How original is that? Huh?
I just don't get it. Star Trek is way cool, I love the series, especially the Next Generation.
Why can't they make good games, every one of the episodes of the series seem to have a better story, and Star Trek: First Contact was good.
It seems like they just want to rip of all trekkie-fans, some which sadly are to blind to know it.
But! Not all Star Wars games are that good either.
I personally only like the X-wing and Tie Fighter series.
You should know as well as me, that if you install in 1.5GB you install A LOT of unnecessary stuff.
Do a smaller install, or remove the unwanted stuff.
The reason it takes up more space is for instance that the SQL-part has been expanded with MySQL, as it has been made GPL. There are A LOT of new multimedia-applications etc.
If you installed without regard to this fact, you ended up with BOTH PostgreSQL AND MySQL, and this duplication in most other areas as well.
Please try to do a more minimal install before you scream "bloat".
.. but only 3dfx boards currently support Glide, apart from the non-perfect unified drivers from Creative.
Glide on all boards, and support for all games, wouldn't be bad though. That would mean a competitor to DirectX.
OpenGL is however better positioned to take over that role.
.. however I personally couldn't care less.
While DirectX is important for game support under Windows, DirectX is highly proprietary and only
available for Windows.
How about someone writing DirectX -wrappers for
OpenGL/OpenAL?
This story seems to be very poorly though through.
If you look at this slashdot-story you can see that
Glide is now Open Source, that is, not proprietary.
Being truly OpenGL-commited is a good thing though. In the past, (and still), all their OpenGL-drivers seems to be some kind of wrapper for Glide. That is, uses Glide to respond to the OpenGL-calls.
Could anyone enlighten me as to wether this really changes that position for 3dfx?
If NVidia produces fantastic boards thats great for them.
But they could, and probably should release boards for the UltraSPARC III arcitechture.
The processors are much better for calculations and openGL than Intel -processors.
Among all the penis bird postings, perhaps one
can ask a serious question:
Where does it state that it will be free?
And is it free speech or free beer?
I can find some references to them asking for people experienced with OSS to join them, but it does not say explicitly that it is to be OS-software.
DivX;) is free beer, if the nextgen is supposed to be free speech, why not open DivX;) right now?
You perhaps forgot that the UltraSPARC III is scalable up to 200-processors, and has twice the floating point performance of an equally clocked AMD or Intel -chip.
Let us put an UltraSPARC III with 10 processors up against your Athlon system, and we'll see.
The AMD and Intel -chips are great for Joe Average, and average needs, but these processors
cater for entirely different needs. Even a single-processor UltraSPARC III -box would trash the athlon when it comes to professional openGL-performance.
Don't get me wrong, you have a great system, but it's not the beginning and end of everything.
.. you just haven't been able to use it without
royalties because of a patent.
That patent is now expiring, without the possibility of a renewal, so RSA released the patent 2 weeks before the expiry. They wouldn't have made much money from it in such a short time,
and so it was a PR stunt.
They have kept it for 20 years(?) or so, and it is one of the most widely used algorithms for public key encryption.
It is still quite good, and an algorithm being old does not necessary equal bad quality. Some of the most regularly used algorithms were developed in the 60-70's.
The RSA-patent aslo has nothing to do with opensource.
Slashdot Mirror
.. look like La Forge?
I can see a whole generation of trekkies using this to improve their already good vision, with variable success.
Actually something like Konqueror does is pretty cool. It can kontain (yes, pun intended), a term in a frame inside Konqueror, and it will (optionally) cd to whatever directory you browse to with the GUI. Pretty nifty.
In 2. you argue that command line is faster because it is easier to select patterns. But this wrongfully assumes that there always IS a pattern when you want to select a bunch of files.
What if you want to delete a bunch of files you downloaded yesterday. It's graphics, tarballs, packages, etc. There is no obvious pattern, and most people would just hold down ctrl and select all the files with a GUI.
This is not that simple with command line interfaces. Sure, "rm" takes multiple arguments, but what if you aren't really sure which images to delete. Wouldn't a thumbnail make your day?
You have to take this information lightly, as I haven't tried to confirm it, but:
RDram is supposedly easier to fabric for integration on the mothermoard, and that is probably the case with PS2.
This would make RDram cheaper.
In addition, the PS2 could have other requirements than a PC.
Trying to restrict the consumers rights, is not necessarily a long term gain for the big software corporations.
When they go TOO far, people may start realizing that they have no choice but to use Free Software.
This may end up backfiring big time, because of a shortsighted hunt for profit.
"kill all black children" would be just as bad, ;-)
I just didn't want to be seen as overly politically correct.
You really have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise I could put up a post stating:
"$10000 to the person who kills Rob Malda".
If someone kills Malda stating he wanted the reward, and the police arrests me, should I be able to plead "free speech, man.."
Should I be able to plead "free speech" for shouting "kill all white children" from the rooftops (I bet this would _really_ scare children walking the streets below).
While stating ways to kill yourself is perfectly legal (and IMHO ok), actually trying to push people to do it is not.
I've seen plenty of people complaining about "real life being dull".
Yes it sometimes is, and that is why we make games.
This does not however mean that it has to be unrealistic to be fun.
The ultimate game, would be a game totally realistic, working excactly like real life, but being a game, lets you walk away from it afterwards, or even save and reload situations.
This means that you would be able to do everything you normally does not dare to do (I can already hear George W. Bush screaming), like steal, kick the shit out of your boss, even doing stuff that makes "A clockwork Orange" seem like a childrens story, and you would be able to walk away without any damages when the authorities i.e. catches up with you.
This is the controversial part. I believe most people would do most about everything if it had no consequenses. Will this harm society, lowering peoples limits, or will it help (letting out steam)?
Realism does NOT mean dull. Some of the greates movies are very realistic, it just covers parts of the reality that you will never experience.
Most of us will never be able to fly an F-15, or drive a F1-car, and if something can deliver that experience to me, that sure as hell beats pacman.
Gaute
.. that is SHOULD be stable enough to be used.
But this decision is taken throughout the next weeks. There needs to be _real_ showstoppers for it not to be released now.
You can put it this way; neither a beta or this is released, but while the beta is expected to have plenty of bugs, this one is not.
It will become stable October 23.
When it comes to single processors, the Athlon and the PIII are pretty much equal on a clock for clock basis (Athlons reach higher speeds).
But when it comes to SMP, the Athlons should have a BIG advantage; the EV6-protocol.
The EV6 which is the bus used by the Athlon-arcitechture, and licensed from Compaq (Alpha)
provides DEDICATED bandwith for each of the CPUs,
(to the chipset). The PIII's however must all share the bandwith, which is not really sufficient for optimal operation. Don't know what Intel has done for the P4 though..
It was out, only to be withdrawn, have Intel released it again?
I _really_ wouldn't bother with it anyway, it's
nothing but an overclocked PIII 1GHz.
Sure overclocking is actually how the *zillas often reach their speedratings, but the 1.13GHz P3, seems to be pushing it a bit too far.
If it isn't out, I find it highly suspect, that anyone would include it in a review.
.. which is very exciting, but not as proven
as Apache. People not wanting to be early adaptors
may want to wait for a while.
.. and I don't know how Apache compares to NT, but since you're obviously wanting to use Linux, why not monitor the situation with Tux and khttpd. khttpd is the kernel webserver, and provides a webserver in kernel space, while Tux is a mix between kernel space and user space.
Khttpd is exceptionally fast when delivering static content, while it gives all requests for dynamic content to Apache. And apache being quite fast at dynamic content this works out well.
Tux however handles both dynamic and static content. It is also exceptionally fast at both. Take a look at this slashdot story.
Java is good for plenty of stuff.
Java Servlets for instance is very widely used as the backend for a lot of websites that need something persistant as opposed to just scripts. It works well, and is very powerful.
Of course, this is only one application of Java.
Actually... if you have a NVidia-card, you might as well run it under Linux now.
Look at this.
The miniscule performance difference is not really worth the reboot, if you have ok hardware that is.
I've actually enjoyed some of the older adventure-games. That is the one based on Next Generation, perhaps someone remembers the name.
And what is great about 7/10?
The review specifically states that the thing that saves this game is multiplayer, and that seems like Quake3 with Star Trek skins and weapons.
How original is that? Huh?
I just don't get it. Star Trek is way cool, I love the series, especially the Next Generation.
Why can't they make good games, every one of the episodes of the series seem to have a better story, and Star Trek: First Contact was good.
It seems like they just want to rip of all trekkie-fans, some which sadly are to blind to know it.
But! Not all Star Wars games are that good either.
I personally only like the X-wing and Tie Fighter series.
You should know as well as me, that if you install in 1.5GB you install A LOT of unnecessary stuff.
Do a smaller install, or remove the unwanted stuff.
The reason it takes up more space is for instance that the SQL-part has been expanded with MySQL, as it has been made GPL. There are A LOT of new multimedia-applications etc.
If you installed without regard to this fact, you ended up with BOTH PostgreSQL AND MySQL, and this duplication in most other areas as well.
Please try to do a more minimal install before you scream "bloat".
.. but only 3dfx boards currently support Glide, apart from the non-perfect unified drivers from Creative.
Glide on all boards, and support for all games, wouldn't be bad though. That would mean a competitor to DirectX.
OpenGL is however better positioned to take over that role.
.. however I personally couldn't care less.
While DirectX is important for game support under Windows, DirectX is highly proprietary and only
available for Windows.
How about someone writing DirectX -wrappers for
OpenGL/OpenAL?
This story seems to be very poorly though through. If you look at this slashdot-story you can see that Glide is now Open Source, that is, not proprietary.
Being truly OpenGL-commited is a good thing though. In the past, (and still), all their OpenGL-drivers seems to be some kind of wrapper for Glide. That is, uses Glide to respond to the OpenGL-calls.
Could anyone enlighten me as to wether this really changes that position for 3dfx?
If NVidia produces fantastic boards thats great for them.
But they could, and probably should release boards for the UltraSPARC III arcitechture.
The processors are much better for calculations and openGL than Intel -processors.
Among all the penis bird postings, perhaps one
;) is free beer, if the nextgen is supposed to be free speech, why not open DivX ;) right now?
can ask a serious question:
Where does it state that it will be free?
And is it free speech or free beer?
I can find some references to them asking for people experienced with OSS to join them, but it does not say explicitly that it is to be OS-software.
DivX
You perhaps forgot that the UltraSPARC III is scalable up to 200-processors, and has twice the floating point performance of an equally clocked AMD or Intel -chip.
Let us put an UltraSPARC III with 10 processors up against your Athlon system, and we'll see.
The AMD and Intel -chips are great for Joe Average, and average needs, but these processors
cater for entirely different needs. Even a single-processor UltraSPARC III -box would trash the athlon when it comes to professional openGL-performance.
Don't get me wrong, you have a great system, but it's not the beginning and end of everything.
Sun hardware is NOT expensive for what it does,
and Intel based systems cannot compete in the fields that the UltraSPARC is aimed at.
For example, can Intel hardware currently run 200-prosessor SMP-systems?
Sun hardware is expensive, but for the added expense, you get safety and reliability, that a lot of companies ARE willing to pay.
Of course, for the average Joe User, the UltraSPARC III will never be an issue.
.. you just haven't been able to use it without
royalties because of a patent.
That patent is now expiring, without the possibility of a renewal, so RSA released the patent 2 weeks before the expiry. They wouldn't have made much money from it in such a short time,
and so it was a PR stunt.
They have kept it for 20 years(?) or so, and it is one of the most widely used algorithms for public key encryption.
It is still quite good, and an algorithm being old does not necessary equal bad quality. Some of the most regularly used algorithms were developed in the 60-70's.
The RSA-patent aslo has nothing to do with opensource.