Apparently, JP quit that little practice (I could follow the link from/.) for at least SlashDot. Wonder if he realized how pedantic that struck a lot of people and that it was making his situation worse, not better.
Should have asked at the registration booths...
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They were giving them away all three days of the expo. Perhaps LinuxCentral will be offering the things (with some completions- the CDs have some awfully annoying gaps in the coverage of content from the presentations!) for something like $2 + s&h.
Hm.. He was on a tear the first night of the expo
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I know, I was there- and he was doing his "GNU/Linux" spiel again whilst accepting the IDG Linus Torvalds community award.
...cool idea- one big problem. No obvious installer executable/script. No instructions, etc. Nice idea, very poorly executed. I shudder to think what people will think about it when they try to use those CDs- all those novices and suits that have never used Linux or WP8 for Linux before. What are they going to think when they try to use this fubared disk? I sincerely hope that they use a lot more planning and forethought when they ship their distribution.
This translates into AIX, Linux, and maybe MacOS/OSX. The world doesn't revolve around Intel- and shortly the rest of the world will come to the realization. Merced doesn't run any of the x86 architecture either. The subject becomes moot.
Being probably the only person in the Linux community to obtain a signed NDA with TriTech for the Pyramid technical data, I have a different view of things. In my opinion, it was the management for TriTech that is to blame for the fiasco that was the Pyramid- not the designers. That chip was ready long before anyone in the regular trade rags heard about it. They spent all their time trying to get in bed with Microsoft (hell, they sponsored a LOT of the Meltdown events and supplied the technology to Microsoft for the DirectX bump mapping system.) and not pushing to get a board vendor to make a board with it or make boards themselves. By the time they got "serious" about it, the chip had already been eclipsed in performance by other chips even though it was superior in image quality over everything else at the time. Nobody wanted quality, they only wanted quantity at that point in time.
I don't want some lame, broken OS running on their cool hardware. That leaves NT right-out, now doesn't it? IRIX makes the stuff just a wee bit out of reach realistically- so I'll just wait and see if Linux shows. If it does, I know what I'm saving my pennies for...:->
Someone tried to port Galactic Civilizations...
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But, sadly, it seems that the effort passed into that good night without so much as a demo from the "company" working on it. Seems that the person who owned the company's not doing any of that anymore and there's no sign of Galactic Civilizations or what happened on CodeByDesign's site.
They were progressing, from what the site said at least, quite nicely- but then suddenly, the site ended up being totally empty. Now, the thing has his resume (like he's looking for work maybe?) and has his current Open Source projects listed. A couple of nice widgets and database connectivity tools (Unix ODBC and admin tools).
Just because we geeks use the stuff does NOT mean that the average joe user wants to string things like coax or cat-5 UTP all throughout their house (Though I'm working on that for my house!:-). And many of the "home" networking solutions out there for $$$ are only 1-2Mb at most; the Intel system (that uses phone wiring), the Diamond wireless system, etc. are ALL 1Mb systems. This thing's definitely 10 times faster- and appears to NOT need special cards to rock and roll.
They're not going to deploy fiber to the home until, like with the local telcos and xDSL, they're squeezed nearly out of existance by real competition from something else. I'd give it quite a while before you see it- at least the same proportion as it took for us to see what we're being "promised" now. Something like 5 years or so.
3DfX: Binary only drivers. Has Mesa support, therefore OpenGL support. Lack of open source drivers means you may want to look at an NVida based card or a G200/G400- with some caveats...
NVidia: The support now is good enough to work with the current generation of games such as GlQuake, Q2, BFRIS, etc in a playable manner. It's NOT quite there for Q3 and won't be supposedly until the DRI gets released.
Matrox: Pretty much dead on. One should be aware though that the drivers are not for the faint of heart- these are still developer's releases.
"We are pleased to be able to bring you a new version of gd. Version 1.6 completely replaces GIF images with PNG images. Please note that you will need to make code modifications to use version 1.6. This should be straightforward. Both major web browsers and many less popular tools support PNG in their recent versions. PNG also produces highly compressed images. Version 1.6 produces palette-based PNG images only; however, version 2.0 will support truecolor, and also JPEG. We are also in the process of reevaluating the RLE-based compression used to make LZW-compatible GIFs in gd version 1.3."
Excuse me, but DAT and MiniDisc count as something falling under that patent- and BOTH are from before the patent application. Simply put, the Patent system in the US needs to be shot and put out of OUR misery.
And it's FREE. It remains to be seen whether Code Fusion will be as good or better than Code Crusader, but as it is, if you're looking for something like a good IDE, Code Crusader is one of the best candidates for the role.
There's several layers to the Win32 API. There's the baseline/command shell API (Memory allocation, file access, etc...), then there's the networking layer (Winsock2...), then there's the baseline GUI layer (GDI...), and so on and so forth. It sounds like he's done the baseline and at least some of the other server/embeddable layers like the Winsock layer, but doesn't have the windowing engine, etc.
The Win32 API is a patchwork quilt of conflicting, broken APIs strung together by one OS implementation- it's why Wine's not quite as far as it could be and TWIN got open sourced... It's far, far better to start writing apps using something other than the Win32 API.
Sales taxes are, normally speaking, not Federal ones- sales taxes are State/Local affairs.
Besides, all the examples you give are not analogous. The federal government doesn't pay for that traffic. The Companies using the air freight DO pay for the use of the system.
Quake III BFRIS Heretic II (Yes, rumor has it there WILL be one!) Myth II Railroad Tycoon
To name a few of the Linux specific titles already available or in development that aren't, to the best of my knowlege, going to be on Be anytime soon. No, I'm not going to knock Be (I personally like Be and would wish them well on their endeavors.). However, I seriously try to not make exaggerated claims for my preferred OS, and I'd ask that people do the same for theirs. Claiming that Be's getting ahead of Linux in the Gaming arena is a bit farfetched at best.
HD Thrashing is indicative of a lack of real memory for the application you're running. While Linux will run in as little as 4Mb with minimal to no modifications, it can't run a lot of graphical stuff in that small a space. 16Mb is the minimum RAM for GUI apps and you really need 32 to 64Mb of it to make it work well.
As for the crashing, well, Linux, strictly speaking, doesn't crash unless you're running alpha drivers or bad hardware. Linux will stretch the limits of your hardware and may show problems that don't show up regularly under Windows 3.11 or 95- just as random crashes that can't be explained...
Care to e-mail me with more details of what's going on? I won't guarantee results, but perhaps we can muddle out what's going on and fix the same.
They all took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Plainly put, those that vote "yes" on any legislation of this nature are willfully and knowingly in violation of that oath. It's an issue of whether or not we should tolerate or suffer an elected body that would violate one of the central tenets of this country's government just to try to get re-elected (and this is all this is really about.).
Terrorist attack- several soldiers manage to deploy suitcase nukes at most of the major airports.
Suitcase nukes are 1-10kt high-yeild devices that fit into a case the size of a large Zero Haliburton briefcase. These evil things, by design can slip past a LOT of the measures we currently have in place to detect bombs (they wouldn't show up on normal bomb sweeps- and nobody's looking for an atomic bomb being flown in on an airplane!).
A 1-10kt device will make a bloody mess of most major metro areas (To put this in perspective, the two bombs dropped in WWII were only in the 50-100kt range...). To date, the Russians have made hundreds of these damned things- and some are missing.
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Apparently, JP quit that little practice (I could follow the link from /.) for at least SlashDot. Wonder if he realized how pedantic that struck a lot of people and that it was making his situation worse, not better.
They were giving them away all three days
of the expo. Perhaps LinuxCentral will be offering the things (with some completions- the CDs have some awfully annoying gaps in the coverage of content from the presentations!) for something like $2 + s&h.
I know, I was there- and he was doing his "GNU/Linux" spiel again whilst accepting the IDG Linus Torvalds community award.
Shame on ya Rob. With all that Linux hardware about and you had an NT box lying about.
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Shameful...
...cool idea- one big problem. No obvious installer executable/script. No instructions, etc. Nice idea, very poorly executed. I shudder to think what people will think about it when they try to use those CDs- all those novices and suits that have never used Linux or WP8 for Linux before. What are they going to think when they try to use this fubared disk? I sincerely hope that they use a lot more planning and forethought when they ship their distribution.
This translates into AIX, Linux, and maybe MacOS/OSX. The world doesn't revolve around Intel- and shortly the rest of the world will come to the realization. Merced doesn't run any of the x86 architecture either. The subject becomes moot.
Being probably the only person in the Linux community to obtain a signed NDA with TriTech for the Pyramid technical data, I have a different view of things. In my opinion, it was the management for TriTech that is to blame for the fiasco that was the Pyramid- not the designers. That chip was ready long before anyone in the regular trade rags heard about it. They spent all their time trying to get in bed with Microsoft (hell, they sponsored a LOT of the Meltdown events and supplied the technology to Microsoft for the DirectX bump mapping system.) and not pushing to get a board vendor to make a board with it or make boards themselves. By the time they got "serious" about it, the chip had already been eclipsed in performance by other chips even though it was superior in image quality over everything else at the time. Nobody wanted quality, they only wanted quantity at that point in time.
I don't want some lame, broken OS running on their cool hardware. That leaves NT right-out, now doesn't it? IRIX makes the stuff just a wee bit out of reach realistically- so I'll just wait and see if Linux shows. If it does, I know what I'm saving my pennies for... :->
But, sadly, it seems that the effort passed into that good night without so much as a demo from the "company" working on it. Seems that the person who owned the company's not doing any of that anymore and there's no sign of Galactic Civilizations or what happened on CodeByDesign's site.
They were progressing, from what the site said at least, quite nicely- but then suddenly, the site ended up being totally empty. Now, the thing has his resume (like he's looking for work maybe?) and has his current Open Source projects listed. A couple of nice widgets and database connectivity tools (Unix ODBC and admin tools).
Shame too- GC seemed like a cool strategy game.
Just because we geeks use the stuff does NOT mean that the average joe user wants to string things like coax or cat-5 UTP all throughout their house (Though I'm working on that for my house! :-). And many of the "home" networking solutions out there for $$$ are only 1-2Mb at most; the Intel system (that uses phone wiring), the Diamond wireless system, etc. are ALL 1Mb systems. This thing's definitely 10 times faster- and appears to NOT need special cards to rock and roll.
They're not going to deploy fiber to the home until, like with the local telcos and xDSL, they're squeezed nearly out of existance by real competition from something else. I'd give it quite a while before you see it- at least the same proportion as it took for us to see what we're being "promised" now. Something like 5 years or so.
3DfX: Binary only drivers. Has Mesa support, therefore OpenGL support. Lack of open source drivers means you may want to look at an NVida based card or a G200/G400- with some caveats...
NVidia: The support now is good enough to work with the current generation of games such as GlQuake, Q2, BFRIS, etc in a playable manner. It's NOT quite there for Q3 and won't be supposedly until the DRI gets released.
Matrox: Pretty much dead on. One should be aware though that the drivers are not for the faint of heart- these are still developer's releases.
...no telling what you might catch from them....
"We are pleased to be able to bring you a new version of gd. Version 1.6 completely replaces GIF images with PNG images. Please note that you will need to make code modifications to use version 1.6. This should be straightforward. Both major web browsers and many less popular tools support PNG in their recent versions. PNG also produces highly compressed images. Version 1.6 produces palette-based PNG images only; however, version 2.0 will support truecolor, and also JPEG. We are also in the process of reevaluating the RLE-based compression used to make LZW-compatible GIFs in gd version 1.3."
'nuff said...
Excuse me, but DAT and MiniDisc count as something falling under that patent- and BOTH are from before the patent application. Simply put, the Patent system in the US needs to be shot and put out of OUR misery.
And it's FREE. It remains to be seen whether Code Fusion will be as good or better than Code Crusader, but as it is, if you're looking for something like a good IDE, Code Crusader is one of the best candidates for the role.
It's really raw compared to something like QNX's stuff, but it's a step in the right direction.
There's several layers to the Win32 API. There's the baseline/command shell API (Memory allocation, file access, etc...), then there's the networking layer (Winsock2...), then there's the baseline GUI layer (GDI...), and so on and so forth. It sounds like he's done the baseline and at least some of the other server/embeddable layers like the Winsock layer, but doesn't have the windowing engine, etc.
The Win32 API is a patchwork quilt of conflicting, broken APIs strung together by one OS implementation- it's why Wine's not quite as far as it could be and TWIN got open sourced... It's far, far better to start writing apps using something other than the Win32 API.
"If Slashdot were a mammal, most of our news sites would be the dinosaurs. Many journalists don't understand this and don't think it's journalism."
Sales taxes are, normally speaking, not Federal ones- sales taxes are State/Local affairs.
Besides, all the examples you give are not analogous. The federal government doesn't pay for that traffic. The Companies using the air freight DO pay for the use of the system.
Letsee...
Quake III
BFRIS
Heretic II (Yes, rumor has it there WILL be one!)
Myth II
Railroad Tycoon
To name a few of the Linux specific titles already available or in development that aren't, to the best of my knowlege, going to be on Be anytime soon. No, I'm not going to knock Be (I personally like Be and would wish them well on their endeavors.). However, I seriously try to not make exaggerated claims for my preferred OS, and I'd ask that people do the same for theirs. Claiming that Be's getting ahead of Linux in the Gaming arena is a bit farfetched at best.
HD Thrashing is indicative of a lack of real memory for the application you're running. While Linux will run in as little as 4Mb with minimal to no modifications, it can't run a lot of graphical stuff in that small a space. 16Mb is the minimum RAM for GUI apps and you really need 32 to 64Mb of it to make it work well.
As for the crashing, well, Linux, strictly speaking, doesn't crash unless you're running alpha drivers or bad hardware. Linux will stretch the limits of your hardware and may show problems that don't show up regularly under Windows 3.11 or 95- just as random crashes that can't be explained...
Care to e-mail me with more details of what's going on? I won't guarantee results, but perhaps we can muddle out what's going on and fix the same.
They all took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Plainly put, those that vote "yes" on any legislation of this nature are willfully and knowingly in violation of that oath. It's an issue of whether or not we should tolerate or suffer an elected body that would violate one of the central tenets of this country's government just to try to get re-elected (and this is all this is really about.).
Terrorist attack- several soldiers manage to deploy suitcase nukes at most of the major airports.
:->
Suitcase nukes are 1-10kt high-yeild devices that fit into a case the size of a large Zero Haliburton briefcase. These evil things, by design can slip past a LOT of the measures we currently have in place to detect bombs (they wouldn't show up on normal bomb sweeps- and nobody's looking for an atomic bomb being flown in on an airplane!).
A 1-10kt device will make a bloody mess of most major metro areas (To put this in perspective, the two bombs dropped in WWII were only in the 50-100kt range...). To date, the Russians have made hundreds of these damned things- and some are missing.
Sleep well after reading this...