Simply put, a consumer will not directly use one of these- that's stupid. Consumers will benefit because the backbones will become way less congested- which means all these "high-speed" connectivity items such as Cable Modems and xDSL will be better able to utilize their maximum throughput. As it stands now, I can see the 'net getting more choked with packet traffic as people jump onto the broadband services in droves.
...but I'm not going to scotch doing LinuxWorld this year just to do the close-by conference. I can't budget the costs myself for this one and my employer's picking up the entire tab for Linux World. If I can get them to foot the bill for this one as well, I'll show...:->
Really? It's not even going yet. Wait a couple of weeks when the state jumps into the triple digits- then the fun begins. Personally, I plan on spending a LOT of time in my new pool this year!;-)
If you need sound, it doesn't help. If you need input, it doesn't help. If you need 2D or iso-3D (for things like Civ:CTP), it's inefficient and really gets in the way.
No, OpenGL's only useful in the context of true 3D software.
They already have something that thin and small right now. Developed by IBM, it's called a Gamma Tag. The antenna would have to be larger, something about the size of a metered stamp sticker- a standard postage stamp doesn't have the space to allocate an antenna long enough to provide power for backscatter operation to send back a signal from the chip.
Ability is good. Documentation is good- sadly, you're going to really need it.
Usability, or rather, ease of use and low overhead is paramount for a good game. DirectX fails in this regard, making the task of writing a game unpleasant at best, untenable at it's worst.
They are thin, wrapper libraries that allow "cross-platform" development. They both appear to be relatively easy to use and offer differing feature sets (Different percieved needs for games development...). Give them a look-see and maybe you'll find what you're looking for.
Keep in mind that these aren't your only options, there are others in varying levels of usefulness but these are the current front-runners that appear to be sticking out of the crowd (Cross-ELF/JUGL is one of the other libraries, allowing a unique ability- one main binary set for DOS, Windows, and X11 with a batch file to execute the loader engine for each platform. The main drawback to it is that it's poorly documented and fairly primitive.)
(Off topic item: HotJava sucks! I am trying it out because Netscape 4.5X got the infamous "Bus Error" back again with Java apparently (Got to wonder about that...). It's so slow that it is unable to keep up with a user when they are typing- it gets all the keypunches, but when they get to the edit field, they get jumbled all up. Example: I'm ytping ta normal pseed and s ee what BS acme out...)
They've been in their comptuers for a month now...
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...as pre-order items. Saw a stack (~4-5) of the Quake I boxed set on the store shelves at CompUSA in Lewisville, TX. The Quake II set's not shown itself yet. By the way, the Lewisville location seems to be the only store on the Dallas side of the DFW metro area carrying any of the games on the shelves at this point.
On a slightly off-topic subject. Civ:CTP has yet to show anywhere on the store shelves in the brick and mortar stores in the Dallas area. I'm a little dismayed at this turn of events considering that it's now 4 weeks since they shipped the stuff to the world.
Microsoft knows Linux is not a company. It's a bunch of employees stealing company time to work on stuff they think is "cool" that bring in no revenue whatsoever, and may be aiding the competition.
Bull! Pure and utter bull! My employer PAYS me to make Linux things happen. Linux is in place, securing our customer's financial transactions, securing our network, providing version control, and soon providing another version target for our product. And, if you think that my employer's a small player, think again- we are one of the biggest players in RFID.
Microsoft may convince management to watch out for "those Linux people" who are stealing company time to work on 'open source' projects and giving away valuable IT to competitors in the form of GPL'd code.
What I do with my spare time that doesn't conflict with my employer's product offerings is my own doing- it's not the company's time or resources that I expend on that.
This is pure unadulterated FUD and you know better- any place that would believe this sort of crap is in free-fall mode to bankruptcy as they're going to be hemorraging people left and right with no real influx to offset the damage. (Been there, watched it happen in 3 companies so far- not a pretty sight, let me tell you.)
790K bidirectional (which is one of the services that GTE offers with ADSL is half of a T1. They stand to lose lots of $$$ on the fractional T1 market with xDSL offerings.
To be sure, there's all the domains out there up for grabs and the free domain hosting services- they're not going to pass up people wanting domains... This just came across as a rich SOB trying to quell any dissent- and I was going to vote for the man; now I'm not so sure.
I've personally experienced this behavior- GTE operates the central office for DFW International Airport; there is no plans for DSL service for that area (even if I have several customers, some already there, some potential) that could use the service. They want you to use the T1 scheme of things- because it makes loads more money.
I don't know if this is the same as ADD but it seems pretty close.
From someone who was also diagnosed as "hyperactive", then answer is that you didn't have what they call ADD (why in all of heaven and earth, they seem to feel the need to label it a "disorder" is beyond me...) you had ADHD. And I really hate the "drug 'em" mentality that the medical community seems to have with this- it's more of an emergent personality trait than it is a "disorder".
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Simply put, a consumer will not directly use one of these- that's stupid. Consumers will benefit because the backbones will become way less congested- which means all these "high-speed" connectivity items such as Cable Modems and xDSL will be better able to utilize their maximum throughput. As it stands now, I can see the 'net getting more choked with packet traffic as people jump onto the broadband services in droves.
...but I'm not going to scotch doing LinuxWorld this year just to do the close-by conference. I can't budget the costs myself for this one and my employer's picking up the entire tab for Linux World. If I can get them to foot the bill for this one as well, I'll show... :->
Really? It's not even going yet. Wait a couple of weeks when the state jumps into the triple digits- then the fun begins. Personally, I plan on spending a LOT of time in my new pool this year! ;-)
What pirating? I didn't think we had that problem.
If you need sound, it doesn't help.
If you need input, it doesn't help.
If you need 2D or iso-3D (for things like Civ:CTP), it's inefficient and really gets in the way.
No, OpenGL's only useful in the context of true 3D software.
This stuff is not new. It's quite a few years old, in fact.
They already have something that thin and small right now. Developed by IBM, it's called a Gamma Tag. The antenna would have to be larger, something about the size of a metered stamp sticker- a standard postage stamp doesn't have the space to allocate an antenna long enough to provide power for backscatter operation to send back a signal from the chip.
Ability is good.
Documentation is good- sadly, you're going to really need it.
Usability, or rather, ease of use and low overhead is paramount for a good game. DirectX fails in this regard, making the task of writing a game unpleasant at best, untenable at it's worst.
They are thin, wrapper libraries that allow "cross-platform" development. They both appear to be relatively easy to use and offer differing feature sets (Different percieved needs for games development...). Give them a look-see and maybe you'll find what you're looking for.
URLs:
SDL - http://www.devolution.com/ ~slouken/projects/SDL/index.html
ClanLib - http://www.clanlib.org/
Keep in mind that these aren't your only options, there are others in varying levels of usefulness but these are the current front-runners that appear to be sticking out of the crowd (Cross-ELF/JUGL is one of the other libraries, allowing a unique ability- one main binary set for DOS, Windows, and X11 with a batch file to execute the loader engine for each platform. The main drawback to it is that it's poorly documented and fairly primitive.)
So I think they're more like Id in the cross-platform regard...
I hope so, I'd have a blast with this- I went without this game because I forsook buying Windows games.
Which means that you need to vote again...
(Off topic item: HotJava sucks ! I am trying it out because
Netscape 4.5X got the infamous "Bus Error" back again with Java apparently (Got
to wonder about that...). It's so slow that it is unable to keep up with a user
when they are typing- it gets all the keypunches, but when they get to
the edit field, they get jumbled all up. Example: I'm ytping ta normal pseed and s
ee what BS acme out...)
...as pre-order items. Saw a stack (~4-5) of the Quake I boxed set
on the store shelves at CompUSA in Lewisville, TX. The Quake II set's
not shown itself yet. By the way, the Lewisville location seems to be
the only store on the Dallas side of the DFW metro area carrying any
of the games on the shelves at this point.
On a slightly off-topic subject. Civ:CTP has yet to show anywhere
on the store shelves in the brick and mortar stores in the Dallas area. I'm
a little dismayed at this turn of events considering that it's now 4 weeks
since they shipped the stuff to the world.
Can't you follow the link? The site provides Postscript and PDF file formats for this paper (along with a few other odd ones...)
Microsoft knows Linux is not a company. It's a bunch of employees stealing company time to work on stuff they think is "cool" that bring in no revenue whatsoever, and may be aiding the competition.
Bull! Pure and utter bull! My employer PAYS me to make Linux things happen. Linux is in place, securing our customer's financial transactions, securing our network, providing version control, and soon providing another version target for our product.
And, if you think that my employer's a small player, think again- we are one of the biggest players in RFID.
Microsoft may convince management to watch out for "those Linux people" who are stealing company time to work on 'open source' projects and giving away valuable IT to competitors in the form of GPL'd code.
What I do with my spare time that doesn't conflict with my employer's product offerings is my own doing- it's not the company's time or resources that I expend on that.
This is pure unadulterated FUD and you know better- any place that would believe this sort of crap is in free-fall mode to bankruptcy as they're going to be hemorraging people left and right with no real influx to offset the damage. (Been there, watched it happen in 3 companies so far- not a pretty sight, let me tell you.)
Seems that they've released a LOT of the specs for the chip- a chip that includes 80% of the MPEG2 decoding pipe in hardware (read: DVD support...)
'nuf said!
Can't get in to pull the goods! We're definitely going to be needing mirrors for at least a little bit.
790K bidirectional (which is one of the services that GTE offers with ADSL is half of a T1. They stand to lose lots of $$$ on the fractional T1 market with xDSL offerings.
To be sure, there's all the domains out there up for grabs and the free domain hosting services- they're not going to pass up people wanting domains... This just came across as a rich SOB trying to quell any dissent- and I was going to vote for the man; now I'm not so sure.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
I've personally experienced this behavior- GTE operates the central office for DFW International Airport; there is no plans for DSL service for that area (even if I have several customers, some already there, some potential) that could use the service. They want you to use the T1 scheme of things- because it makes loads more money.
I don't know if this is the same as ADD but it seems pretty close.
From someone who was also diagnosed as "hyperactive", then answer is that you didn't have what they call ADD (why in all of heaven and earth, they seem to feel the need to label it a "disorder" is beyond me...) you had ADHD. And I really hate the "drug 'em" mentality that the medical community seems to have with this- it's more of an emergent personality trait than it is a "disorder".
If you pull that off, it'd be up there in the annals of perverse computing (not unlike the TTYQuake mods... ;-)
Interesting suggestion... Guess I'll pull it down from off the 'net and make a CD to play with...
It proved immensely helpful and functional when I was trying to find out why the smeg that my SiS wasn't working worth a flip under the SVGA X server.