I submitted a quickie about something I'm pretty sure was NEVER submitted before in the past.
Something about this neat snack product over in the UK that can be obtained elsewhere, called Penguin Biscuits. It's this nice chocolate covered, chocolate creme cookie that has Penguins on the packaging.
This item got rejected for whatever reason.
Seems like there's been a LOT of this going on lately. People having sumitted stuff only to find out that it's been declined and then have that selfsame subject posted by Rob & Co. as old news. What's going on here gang?
It's actually up there with the TNT2 in performance levels- and I'd rather have the slight increase in quality of rendering at the expense of a couple of fps.
Just because MS is working the project doesn't guarantee them success.
BOB. WinCE. The Actimates toys.
Each of these is either a qualified or unqualified failure in the marketplace. I'm pretty sure there's lots of others and people can point them out (by the way, please do!).
Any idea as to how brutal the console games marketplace is?
Any idea as to how razor thin the margins on the hardware is?
Do you honestly think that Sony, Sega, and Nintendo are going to sit still while MS tries to muscle into their market?
In reality, NVidia might be set for the next 2 years- but most likely, like many of MS' offerings, it's going to flop or end up like their reference chipset for Direct3D ended up being (vaporware, for those who don't know what happened there...).
Interesting how you put that- but it's true. I'm one of the people specifying what hardware goes into our groups desktops, etc. And, I can guarantee you that we're not purchasing any NVidia cards in the forseeable future. Also, I've been telling my friends when they're off buying new accelerators to look into Matrox as a definite possibility.
NVidia's been this way from the onset. Which, on retrospect, is extremely disappointing in light of their previous open stance (The details of their first chip attempt was totally open for download by anyone.)
They make a big to-do about releasing 3D drivers for Linux. When the drivers are obtained, people find out that the sources to the same are obfuscated (Meaning that it's nigh impossible to fix the damn thing if there's a bug or make changes to the ABI for the acceleration support.) and it doesn't support DMA pathways, etc. (Meaning it is dog slow compared to 3DfX' drivers or the ATI Rage PRO drivers...) along with being buggy and unstable.
This is followed up by an announcement of a release of technical information about their chips. This was supposed to be a way to better write open sourced drivers for the chips. What we got was this unsupported Glide type library that was source obfuscated, broken, and DMA-less. Not any better than the driver that preceeded it.
Now, we find out they're trying to jam down our throats another pathway that is proprietary and the drivers are completely closed.
Not as nice a company afterall- seems they don't want to support us as much as they say they do.
As for the Creative drivers, I think they're bound by NDA so I don't think they can do much in this regard.
Seems that SiS, Matrox, ATI, and 3DfX (In order of the release of register information...) are happy with the results of doing Open Source drivers. In fact, ATI seems to have found something that would "save" their market position- they're quite happy at the results of what has been done by Gareth Hughes and John Carmack with the Rage PRO chipset.
We didn't present any drain on their programming or engineering resources of those companies- we just asked for the register level interfaces from them. They gave them to us and we produced drivers for their cards that work quite well for most things. In some situations, the drivers are faster than the Windows equivalents. In most situations, we're more visually correct than the Windows equivalents- less lighting screwups, etc.
To be sure, we're nowhere near done yet with these chipsets' drivers, but I don't see where it was a PR catastrophe or a drain on anyone's budget. NVidia chose to do a watered down, obfuscated release of source to a broken, buggy driver for their chipset. This is not the same as what the others have done- and it's not good enough by a longshot.
Save the FUD for posting on ZDNet- they want it, we don't.
Qt (NOT KDE) is an option (and a good one at that) for your work. One should be aware that the should you produce something commercial in any way shape or form, you owe Troll something like ~$1500US- and I can't remember if the Free QT license ammended the rule such that the Windows version was free for GPLed works. If it hasn't been, you'll need to pony up (and anybody else that works on it) ~$1500US to do it.
Other equally good options include GTK+, GTK+/GTK--, GTK+/WxWindows (WxWindows would use the native Windows calls under Windows...), and Fltk come immediately to mind as likely cross-platform GUI apis.
They happen to have most of a MPEG2 decoder in place in the chip. This, however, doesn't allow DVD play- just MPEG2 (which translates into SuperVCDs, etc.)
The responses to the question, "The U.S. Justice Department is currently suing Microsoft. How closely are you following the trial - very closely, somewhat closely, or not closely at all?" went as follows:
5% said that they were following it closely. 51% said they were somewhat following it. 44% said that they didn't follow it at all.
Ok, if you're not following it or only partly following it, how do you know if a breakup is too extreme a punishment? If the populace is ignorant of the details, why should saying that 65% of them are against the breakup have any relavence whatsoever?
And the breakdowns on the answers- why the breakdowns by pollitical party affiliation?
Unlike Mandrake, all they did was re-label a buggy version of a Red Hat distribution and call it something new. If you're going to be filing off the name, you'd better be adding some real value- otherwise, leave the name on and do like CheapBytes does. It's not hypocrisy when you're complaining about someone literally ripping someone else off- which in this case, it would be Red Hat, the poor sots they sucker into buying their current distribution, and the investors they sucker into buying their stocks.
All they'd need is to license Executor technology.
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It runs 680X0 apps like the high-end Macs that run on those processors. A Pentium 166 runs MacOS 6 apps like a Mac IIfx under DOS. Think of what it'd be like on a PIII equivalent.
Everquest's cool, but if Wolf Pack pulls off what they're aiming for (and it's looking like they might...) you're going to want it over EQ. I'd be petitioning for EQ, but I'd also be petitioning for ShadowBane. There's a petition going on at one of the news sites. Go over there and put your vote in.
One should note the following before making comments about the Motif/GPL/LGPL situations...
Motif is a system library (as in, it comes with it and you can't not have it!) and is covered under the "native system library" clause of the GPL and LGPL. It's completely legit to have a GPLed application or library and use Motif in those environs.
LessTif works for almost every one of the apps that fall under this situation under Linux.
I'm afraid that there is no equivalent for Qt for any GPL software (it has neither system lib status or clones...) at this point in time.
I'll be impressed when they allow you to pick Linux for the OS choice on ALL system configurations. We have been buying Dell 2300's with hot-swap RAID; now it's not on their product matrix- I have to take what they lame me with. Suffice it to say, we ended up picking a Penguin Computing HA server that does the work for about $1000-2000 less than the system that Dell does sell (sans Linux...)
When Dell offers Linux on everything, I'll be truly impressed.
This is the reference implementation for OpenGL. This is what a licensee would get prior to this change in licensing when they paid SGI big bucks to license the OpenGL name and produce an OpenGL driver/library set for a given OS. With it, you could produce a clean, 100% compliant driver and library set.
It's a quantum leap towards full Open Source by SGI- it's been one of their crown jewels.
"b) the linux community is generally open source oriented. We predicted that piracy would be more prevalent -- as users are more technically oriented, and most of our deals are OEM's sold to large computer manufacturers selling to end users.
That's a load of bull and you deep-down know it. Piracy is, surprisingly enough, more rampant on the Windows platform that you're writing to. It's not due to things you think it is. Outrageous pricing of media and applications is a motivating factor, but it's because there's a lot of people out there that just don't give a damn about you making money- they just want their "stuff" and they'll do just about anything they can to get it. A substantial portion of this crowd on computers, use, you guessed it- Windows. Please don't use "piracy" as a cop-out; it's not very believeable these days.
Oh, it also sounded like you were trying to imply that it was the technically oriented crowd that's more inclined to pirate with that statement; I'd be working to be much more careful in the future about statements like that- you represent your company even when you make unofficial statements about something. You could very well alienate a LOT of people that are reccomending your product to those so-called end-users that you're selling the stuff to.
I did buy an IDE for work for the Linux version of the product I work on. CodeWarrior didn't make the cut- CodeFusion did. CodeWarrior for Red Hat wasn't on the shelves when I went to buy at CompUSA- CodeFusion was (BTW- it's sold out twice at the local store already!).
To be sure, I use Code Crusader for my home projects- it's free and gives me all I need.
I don't blame them for backing down- but I'm awfully glad that CompUSA didn't have the Red Hat version of CodeWarrior. I have problems with vendors that won't pursue the next version on my selected platform. It makes me want to buy their stuff a lot less.
"There are hundreds of web browsers, too, but most of them suck. CodeWarrior is robust, fast, and mature, and it has a large user base already."
Only in the Mac community and to a lesser extent in the Windows community. And, there is one free alternative and one no-so-free alternative that stand out as being usable and as good as (or better than- depending on how you view it...) CodeWarrior.
Code Crusader is the freebie and is a best of breed IDE and is what I've been using for some of my work projects and all of my at home projects. It's worth a look-see.
CodeFusion, from Red Hat, is the other one. It's a little clumsy to use at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's also a great alternative to CodeWarrior. (It's what we're using for our stuff at work now- we're needing cross-platform...:-)
"However, I think that having CodeWarrior available for Linux would help entice developers coming from the Windows/Mac world."
Actually, we've got a lot there with the other two- if MetroWerks/Motorola aren't interested in us, it's their loss.
It can be bypassed and it often filters things that would be needed and acceptable. Why not watch over your kids for a change? It's always going to work better than having some electronic nanny (which is all this filtering software really is anyhow.
Well, I've not played it yet- I do have it in hand, borrowed from my brother. One thing in it's favor is that it's a Sid Meyer game; Civ:CTP, while it's a great game and I'd buy it again, is something that Activision had been doing on their own.
...doesn't make the GIMP less functional. Just because they use Photoshop doesn't magically make it better than the GIMP. Design agencies use what they've been using in the past- vis-a-vis, Photoshop. They use it because they "know" it- they recognize the name. It's the same thing that went before with IBM and is going on now with MS. Do a feature to feature comparison with Photoshop- I think one will find that there's something to the original poster's comments. The GIMP is better than Photoshop in at least some ways and comparable in most of the others. Just because someone doesn't use it, doesn't make the thing they use better. I know of a lot of people that use PowerPoint to do graphic arts work because they don't know that Photoshop or Corel exist. Does that make PowerPoint better than anything from Adobe or Corel? No. So why would that apply in this case?
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Jet's done by the same people that did Genesis- Eclipse Entertainment (Now, part of Wild Tangent, Alex St. John's little start up...)
I submitted a quickie about something I'm pretty sure was NEVER submitted before in the past.
Something about this neat snack product over in the UK that can be obtained elsewhere, called Penguin Biscuits. It's this nice chocolate covered, chocolate creme cookie that has Penguins on the packaging.
This item got rejected for whatever reason.
Seems like there's been a LOT of this going on lately. People having sumitted stuff only to find out that it's been declined and then have that selfsame subject posted by Rob & Co. as old news. What's going on here gang?
Make it a modifiable system. Make it reasonably priced, say $300 for a whole box and it'd be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
It's actually up there with the TNT2 in performance levels- and I'd rather have the slight increase in quality of rendering at the expense of a couple of fps.
Just because MS is working the project doesn't guarantee them success.
BOB.
WinCE.
The Actimates toys.
Each of these is either a qualified or unqualified failure in the marketplace. I'm pretty sure there's lots of others and people can point them out (by the way, please do!).
Any idea as to how brutal the console games marketplace is?
Any idea as to how razor thin the margins on the hardware is?
Do you honestly think that Sony, Sega, and Nintendo are going to sit still while MS tries to muscle into their market?
In reality, NVidia might be set for the next 2 years- but most likely, like many of MS' offerings, it's going to flop or end up like their reference chipset for Direct3D ended up being (vaporware, for those who don't know what happened there...).
Interesting how you put that- but it's true. I'm one of the people specifying what hardware goes into our groups desktops, etc. And, I can guarantee you that we're not purchasing any NVidia cards in the forseeable future. Also, I've been telling my friends when they're off buying new accelerators to look into Matrox as a definite possibility.
NVidia's been this way from the onset. Which, on retrospect, is extremely disappointing in light of their previous open stance (The details of their first chip attempt was totally open for download by anyone .)
They make a big to-do about releasing 3D drivers for Linux. When the drivers are obtained, people find out that the sources to the same are obfuscated (Meaning that it's nigh impossible to fix the damn thing if there's a bug or make changes to the ABI for the acceleration support.) and it doesn't support DMA pathways, etc. (Meaning it is dog slow compared to 3DfX' drivers or the ATI Rage PRO drivers...) along with being buggy and unstable.
This is followed up by an announcement of a release of technical information about their chips. This was supposed to be a way to better write open sourced drivers for the chips. What we got was this unsupported Glide type library that was source obfuscated, broken, and DMA-less. Not any better than the driver that preceeded it.
Now, we find out they're trying to jam down our throats another pathway that is proprietary and the drivers are completely closed.
Not as nice a company afterall- seems they don't want to support us as much as they say they do.
As for the Creative drivers, I think they're bound by NDA so I don't think they can do much in this regard.
Seems that SiS, Matrox, ATI, and 3DfX (In order of the release of register information...) are happy with the results of doing Open Source drivers. In fact, ATI seems to have found something that would "save" their market position- they're quite happy at the results of what has been done by Gareth Hughes and John Carmack with the Rage PRO chipset.
We didn't present any drain on their programming or engineering resources of those companies- we just asked for the register level interfaces from them. They gave them to us and we produced drivers for their cards that work quite well for most things. In some situations, the drivers are faster than the Windows equivalents. In most situations, we're more visually correct than the Windows equivalents- less lighting screwups, etc.
To be sure, we're nowhere near done yet with these chipsets' drivers, but I don't see where it was a PR catastrophe or a drain on anyone's budget. NVidia chose to do a watered down, obfuscated release of source to a broken, buggy driver for their chipset. This is not the same as what the others have done- and it's not good enough by a longshot.
Save the FUD for posting on ZDNet- they want it, we don't.
Qt (NOT KDE) is an option (and a good one at that) for your work. One should be aware that the should you produce something commercial in any way shape or form, you owe Troll something like ~$1500US- and I can't remember if the Free QT license ammended the rule such that the Windows version was free for GPLed works. If it hasn't been, you'll need to pony up (and anybody else that works on it) ~$1500US to do it.
Other equally good options include GTK+, GTK+/GTK--, GTK+/WxWindows (WxWindows would use the native Windows calls under Windows...), and Fltk come immediately to mind as likely cross-platform GUI apis.
They happen to have most of a MPEG2 decoder in place in the chip. This, however, doesn't allow DVD play- just MPEG2 (which translates into SuperVCDs, etc.)
The responses to the question, "The U.S. Justice Department is currently suing Microsoft. How closely are you following the trial - very closely, somewhat closely, or not closely at all?" went as follows:
5% said that they were following it closely.
51% said they were somewhat following it.
44% said that they didn't follow it at all.
Ok, if you're not following it or only partly following it, how do you know if a breakup is too extreme a punishment? If the populace is ignorant of the details, why should saying that 65% of them are against the breakup have any relavence whatsoever?
And the breakdowns on the answers- why the breakdowns by pollitical party affiliation?
Unlike Mandrake, all they did was re-label a buggy version of a Red Hat distribution and call it something new. If you're going to be filing off the name, you'd better be adding some real value- otherwise, leave the name on and do like CheapBytes does. It's not hypocrisy when you're complaining about someone literally ripping someone else off- which in this case, it would be Red Hat, the poor sots they sucker into buying their current distribution, and the investors they sucker into buying their stocks.
It runs 680X0 apps like the high-end Macs that run on those processors. A Pentium 166 runs MacOS 6 apps like a Mac IIfx under DOS. Think of what it'd be like on a PIII equivalent.
Everquest's cool, but if Wolf Pack pulls off what they're aiming for (and it's looking like they might...) you're going to want it over EQ. I'd be petitioning for EQ, but I'd also be petitioning for ShadowBane. There's a petition going on at one of the news sites. Go over there and put your vote in.
One should note the following before making comments about the Motif/GPL/LGPL situations...
Motif is a system library (as in, it comes with it and you can't not have it!) and is covered under the "native system library" clause of the GPL and LGPL. It's completely legit to have a GPLed application or library and use Motif in those environs.
LessTif works for almost every one of the apps that fall under this situation under Linux.
I'm afraid that there is no equivalent for Qt for any GPL software (it has neither system lib status or clones...) at this point in time.
I'll be impressed when they allow you to pick Linux for the OS choice on ALL system configurations. We have been buying Dell 2300's with hot-swap RAID; now it's not on their product matrix- I have to take what they lame me with. Suffice it to say, we ended up picking a Penguin Computing HA server that does the work for about $1000-2000 less than the system that Dell does sell (sans Linux...)
When Dell offers Linux on everything, I'll be truly impressed.
This is the reference implementation for OpenGL. This is what a licensee would get prior to this change in licensing when they paid SGI big bucks to license the OpenGL name and produce an OpenGL driver/library set for a given OS. With it, you could produce a clean, 100% compliant driver and library set.
It's a quantum leap towards full Open Source by SGI- it's been one of their crown jewels.
"b) the linux community is generally open source oriented. We predicted that piracy would be more prevalent -- as users are more technically oriented, and most of our deals are OEM's sold to large computer manufacturers selling to end users.
That's a load of bull and you deep-down know it. Piracy is, surprisingly enough, more rampant on the Windows platform that you're writing to. It's not due to things you think it is. Outrageous pricing of media and applications is a motivating factor, but it's because there's a lot of people out there that just don't give a damn about you making money- they just want their "stuff" and they'll do just about anything they can to get it. A substantial portion of this crowd on computers, use, you guessed it- Windows . Please don't use "piracy" as a cop-out; it's not very believeable these days.
Oh, it also sounded like you were trying to imply that it was the technically oriented crowd that's more inclined to pirate with that statement; I'd be working to be much more careful in the future about statements like that- you represent your company even when you make unofficial statements about something. You could very well alienate a LOT of people that are reccomending your product to those so-called end-users that you're selling the stuff to.
Just did a followup to the Jagged Alliance site and the link to the Sir-Tech Canada site chokes and a Whois says that NSI owns the name in DNS.
Seems that someone at Sir-Tech might just want to check up with NSI on sir-tech.com and wizardry8.com (if they still want it...)
The compiler is open sourced (gcc), but the IDE is most definitely not . I wonder if Red Hat's going to eventually open it...
I did buy an IDE for work for the Linux version of the product I work on. CodeWarrior didn't make the cut- CodeFusion did. CodeWarrior for Red Hat wasn't on the shelves when I went to buy at CompUSA- CodeFusion was (BTW- it's sold out twice at the local store already!).
To be sure, I use Code Crusader for my home projects- it's free and gives me all I need.
I don't blame them for backing down- but I'm awfully glad that CompUSA didn't have the Red Hat version of CodeWarrior. I have problems with vendors that won't pursue the next version on my selected platform. It makes me want to buy their stuff a lot less.
"There are hundreds of web browsers, too, but most of them suck. CodeWarrior is robust, fast, and mature, and it has a large user base already."
:-)
Only in the Mac community and to a lesser extent in the Windows community. And, there is one free alternative and one no-so-free alternative that stand out as being usable and as good as (or better than- depending on how you view it...) CodeWarrior.
Code Crusader is the freebie and is a best of breed IDE and is what I've been using for some of my work projects and all of my at home projects. It's worth a look-see.
CodeFusion, from Red Hat, is the other one. It's a little clumsy to use at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's also a great alternative to CodeWarrior. (It's what we're using for our stuff at work now- we're needing cross-platform...
"However, I think that having CodeWarrior available for Linux would help entice developers coming from the Windows/Mac world."
Actually, we've got a lot there with the other two- if MetroWerks/Motorola aren't interested in us, it's their loss.
It can be bypassed and it often filters things that would be needed and acceptable. Why not watch over your kids for a change? It's always going to work better than having some electronic nanny (which is all this filtering software really is anyhow.
Well, I've not played it yet- I do have it in hand, borrowed from my brother. One thing in it's favor is that it's a Sid Meyer game; Civ:CTP, while it's a great game and I'd buy it again, is something that Activision had been doing on their own.
...doesn't make the GIMP less functional. Just because they use Photoshop doesn't magically make it better than the GIMP. Design agencies use what they've been using in the past- vis-a-vis, Photoshop. They use it because they "know" it- they recognize the name. It's the same thing that went before with IBM and is going on now with MS. Do a feature to feature comparison with Photoshop- I think one will find that there's something to the original poster's comments. The GIMP is better than Photoshop in at least some ways and comparable in most of the others. Just because someone doesn't use it, doesn't make the thing they use better. I know of a lot of people that use PowerPoint to do graphic arts work because they don't know that Photoshop or Corel exist. Does that make PowerPoint better than anything from Adobe or Corel? No. So why would that apply in this case?