I have never ever been into gaming of any sort, but now I have gotten addicted to Yahoo! Pool (games.yahoo.com). I have played like 1500 games... and I have seen some people on there with over 3000 games under their belt. I talked to a couple of people I played against, who admitted they have been playing for 6 hours or more straight.
Luckily Yahoo! is starting to charge $10 a month of special privileges, like set tourneys. I have forced myself to stay away from those, and the "ladders".
There is nothing really that great about this game, except that its free, and loads up easy into the web browser. Just goes to show that a game doesn't have to be great to be addicting.
She got laid off by AOL. Apparently she still "runs" the Mozilla project though as the "Chief Lizard Wrangler".
I personally don't like her (having met her in person), and think that she deserved to get laid off because she didn't seem to have a good attitude and was not very outgoing. She was even pushing for a "source-only" release of Mozilla 1.0 so they "don't have to support it".
I personally hope that Mozilla 1.0 will bring in fresh new developers to the project. That would definitely be a boost, otherwise I am afraid that developers are getting burnt out.
I think Gentoo is great. It's FreeBSD, clean and fast. It would definitely take some work to get it up to a point where all of your desktop toys work, but I don't care about that stuff much.
My only problem with the installation was that it didn't like the partitions I made with Partition Magic. It installed fine, but afterword when I tried to setup Grub, the/boot partition somehow disappeared! fsck chucked out some serious errors, and I had to start over again... and that was not fun.
It was rather annoying, the babysitting. You just have to sit there an type in a lame command or two now and then. Why can't the installer do that for me?
In summary, use Gentoo because it's not-bloated, fast, easier than Debian (in my opinion), and Portage is great.
You are right, to an extent. As you say, C is far more portable. However, to make that happen, developers need to work their ass off to do it. I can't even fathom making a game, written in C, and supporting on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BeOS, X-Box, Playstation, Nintendo, etc... etc...
The point to all this is "easily portable". Let's make Sun & Co. do all the hard work of platform support. All people want to do is write a stupid game.
P.S. OpenBSD is cool, but I don't use it because it doesn't have Java;-)
I remember a long, long time ago there was an article in MacWorld about the guys who got Mac OS running on an IBM machine. It wasn't an RS 6000 though, it was a PowerPC platform preceding CHiRP, and they had a picture of it.
Basically it was a picture of a couple really guys from somewhere in Europe next to an ugly/generic looking IBM desktop computer with Mac OS on the monitor.
They somehow either bootstrapped a Mac ROM into memory, or somehow tricked/modified Mac OS to boot without a ROM. I think it was the latter. At that point in time, I think that the only real use of the Mac ROM was to prevent the OS from running on non-Apple machines.
Anyway, I remember it saying that didn't support all the hardware (sound, I/O ports, etc), and that it was just a demo. It also said that Apple had hired those two guys... apparently because they were so smart or something.
At any rate, that article was the starting point for me to want a CHiRP machine REALLY badly. I remember seeing a picture somewhere of Windows NT 4.0 for Power PC.. and it was so enticing to think about both Mac OS and Windows running on the same computer without emulation. Of course, no other Windows apps would run on it, but there was hope that PowerPC versions would be available.
Alas, the CHiRP machines were never released, nor the Power PC Platform machines which were basically the same, just with more PC-ish hardware. It was a real disappointment for me that this all never happened, but if it did, it would have meant the death of Apple, I am sure. Hindsight is 20/20 and the right decisions were made to kill these projects. However, I bet a LOT of money was dumped into them.
Unfortunately, there are still 133 bugs targeted for 0.9.9 still open. One of these is mine, and I am not happy that it's still open, but that's the way things go. People demand a new release.
Alas, there are 891 bugs targeted for 1.0, plus the 133 0.9.9, plus bugs that are yet to be reported that need to be fixed for 1.0. Now, I am starting to sound like that MozillaQuest retard, but I really doubt that even 1/4 of these will get fixed before 1.0.
Is Anakin going to become Vader in this episode? That would be the best, as the whole next movie we could see him in action. Yet, maybe Anakin is too young...
BTW, How come Anakin grows up so fast, and the Queen still looks like a teen? Then they fall in love... in the first movie there was a big age difference... it's a little strange. Oh well, just a movie.
Palm inherited some good Be engineers, and the consensus is that they are using BeOS/BeIA as the base for building a new operating system to replace Palm OS, and to keep up with Windows Pocket PCs.
I agree with you. For Linux to truly take off on the desktop, I think that a lot of existing and archaic stuff in current Linux distros needs to be removed or rewritten. A lot of effort has been put into the Linux kernel's development, but lately there has not been a whole lot to show for it on the deskop.
For my work, I mostly use Windows. I have to admit that Windows is bloated, but on my machines KDE and GNOME run very slow. I also don't like their overall design (their aura, of sorts), but I loved BeOS. It's so hard to explain... maybe it's just like how people love their Macs.
Also, writing apps for BeOS is very easy. For C++, it doesn't get any easier. Clean APIs, no library conflicts, etc, etc.
So anyway, I bet BlueOS does succeed in their goals over the next few years.
Excite@Home Reduces workforce as operations wind down.
Now this is a company with some intelligence! Maybe they should instead put up a black band (of mourning) like on be.com...
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Umm, first of all it's hard enough to engineer a 64-bit CPU with related components. Then there is the manufactoring details, etc, etc. From that standpoint, it's not economical try to to do a 128 bit CPU now.
Second, there is no point in 128 bit for software right now. We are going to have a hard time even writing software that even requires a 64 bit processor. If we were stuck on 32 bit processors for another 5 years (yet with increasing speed), I really doubt that we would be much futher behind.
I am no expert, but I can't even begin to see the need for 128 bit processors right now. It's better to focus on making the current designs faster.
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One solution could be to just setup jabberd (on any machine) to run on *only* your local network. Very easy to do.
After every questionable comment you might make in a message just put ;-). Problem solved.
;-)
For real though, I really don't care if people see my IMs. 99% of it is just jibber-jabber anyway, so who cares.
If your are dumb enough to write messages like "My boss is an asshole" over IM, then that is your own fault if your get busted.
I think the problem here is mental addiction.
1. Play Game.
2. Reluctantly stop playing game to do "real life stuff".
3. Do "real life stuff" all while thinking about Game.
4. Play Game again. Feel better until #2 comes again.
I have never ever been into gaming of any sort, but now I have gotten addicted to Yahoo! Pool (games.yahoo.com). I have played like 1500 games... and I have seen some people on there with over 3000 games under their belt. I talked to a couple of people I played against, who admitted they have been playing for 6 hours or more straight.
Luckily Yahoo! is starting to charge $10 a month of special privileges, like set tourneys. I have forced myself to stay away from those, and the "ladders".
There is nothing really that great about this game, except that its free, and loads up easy into the web browser. Just goes to show that a game doesn't have to be great to be addicting.
Stay away from Yahoo! Pool!
Actually, she is/was a lawyer.
She got laid off by AOL. Apparently she still "runs" the Mozilla project though as the "Chief Lizard Wrangler".
I personally don't like her (having met her in person), and think that she deserved to get laid off because she didn't seem to have a good attitude and was not very outgoing. She was even pushing for a "source-only" release of Mozilla 1.0 so they "don't have to support it".
I personally hope that Mozilla 1.0 will bring in fresh new developers to the project. That would definitely be a boost, otherwise I am afraid that developers are getting burnt out.
It was my understanding that this was a Linux distribution...
Seems I made a typo... whoopee...
I think Gentoo is great. It's FreeBSD, clean and fast. It would definitely take some work to get it up to a point where all of your desktop toys work, but I don't care about that stuff much.
/boot partition somehow disappeared! fsck chucked out some serious errors, and I had to start over again... and that was not fun.
My only problem with the installation was that it didn't like the partitions I made with Partition Magic. It installed fine, but afterword when I tried to setup Grub, the
It was rather annoying, the babysitting. You just have to sit there an type in a lame command or two now and then. Why can't the installer do that for me?
In summary, use Gentoo because it's not-bloated, fast, easier than Debian (in my opinion), and Portage is great.
You could have ran the data through an HTML parser into a DOM tree. Much more easy to work with the data there!
What is your password? The trolls will make good use of your +1 status.
This could finally be some competition to Viagra.
Whatever. FreeBSD can do the same, yet they have put together a native JDK. Thats a lot of work... so there must be good reason for it.
You are right, to an extent. As you say, C is far more portable. However, to make that happen, developers need to work their ass off to do it. I can't even fathom making a game, written in C, and supporting on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BeOS, X-Box, Playstation, Nintendo, etc... etc...
;-)
The point to all this is "easily portable". Let's make Sun & Co. do all the hard work of platform support. All people want to do is write a stupid game.
P.S. OpenBSD is cool, but I don't use it because it doesn't have Java
I want GPS on my TV remote control, so I can find it.
I remember the name of the IBM platform now... PReP. In case anyone cares...
I remember a long, long time ago there was an article in MacWorld about the guys who got Mac OS running on an IBM machine. It wasn't an RS 6000 though, it was a PowerPC platform preceding CHiRP, and they had a picture of it.
Basically it was a picture of a couple really guys from somewhere in Europe next to an ugly/generic looking IBM desktop computer with Mac OS on the monitor.
They somehow either bootstrapped a Mac ROM into memory, or somehow tricked/modified Mac OS to boot without a ROM. I think it was the latter. At that point in time, I think that the only real use of the Mac ROM was to prevent the OS from running on non-Apple machines.
Anyway, I remember it saying that didn't support all the hardware (sound, I/O ports, etc), and that it was just a demo. It also said that Apple had hired those two guys... apparently because they were so smart or something.
At any rate, that article was the starting point for me to want a CHiRP machine REALLY badly. I remember seeing a picture somewhere of Windows NT 4.0 for Power PC.. and it was so enticing to think about both Mac OS and Windows running on the same computer without emulation. Of course, no other Windows apps would run on it, but there was hope that PowerPC versions would be available.
Alas, the CHiRP machines were never released, nor the Power PC Platform machines which were basically the same, just with more PC-ish hardware. It was a real disappointment for me that this all never happened, but if it did, it would have meant the death of Apple, I am sure. Hindsight is 20/20 and the right decisions were made to kill these projects. However, I bet a LOT of money was dumped into them.
"Waste of Money". This will never succeed in full, MIT just wants the money to dink around with.
This is especially a waste considering how little soldiers are actually used anymore.
Wow, that is impressive. Yet, many of the "hard" bugs have been getting pushed back it seems. Those are going to kill a lot of time.
Keep up the good work!
They are indeed working towards 1.0 RCs. No more point releases. See the roadmap.
Unfortunately, there are still 133 bugs targeted for 0.9.9 still open. One of these is mine, and I am not happy that it's still open, but that's the way things go. People demand a new release.
Alas, there are 891 bugs targeted for 1.0, plus the 133 0.9.9, plus bugs that are yet to be reported that need to be fixed for 1.0. Now, I am starting to sound like that MozillaQuest retard, but I really doubt that even 1/4 of these will get fixed before 1.0.
Is Anakin going to become Vader in this episode? That would be the best, as the whole next movie we could see him in action. Yet, maybe Anakin is too young...
BTW, How come Anakin grows up so fast, and the Queen still looks like a teen? Then they fall in love... in the first movie there was a big age difference... it's a little strange. Oh well, just a movie.
Palm inherited some good Be engineers, and the consensus is that they are using BeOS/BeIA as the base for building a new operating system to replace Palm OS, and to keep up with Windows Pocket PCs.
I agree with you. For Linux to truly take off on the desktop, I think that a lot of existing and archaic stuff in current Linux distros needs to be removed or rewritten. A lot of effort has been put into the Linux kernel's development, but lately there has not been a whole lot to show for it on the deskop.
For my work, I mostly use Windows. I have to admit that Windows is bloated, but on my machines KDE and GNOME run very slow. I also don't like their overall design (their aura, of sorts), but I loved BeOS. It's so hard to explain... maybe it's just like how people love their Macs.
Also, writing apps for BeOS is very easy. For C++, it doesn't get any easier. Clean APIs, no library conflicts, etc, etc.
So anyway, I bet BlueOS does succeed in their goals over the next few years.
It says on home.com :
Excite@Home
The Leader in Broadband
Then right below that it says:
Excite@Home Reduces workforce as operations wind down.
Now this is a company with some intelligence! Maybe they should instead put up a black band (of mourning) like on be.com...
Umm, first of all it's hard enough to engineer a 64-bit CPU with related components. Then there is the manufactoring details, etc, etc. From that standpoint, it's not economical try to to do a 128 bit CPU now.
Second, there is no point in 128 bit for software right now. We are going to have a hard time even writing software that even requires a 64 bit processor. If we were stuck on 32 bit processors for another 5 years (yet with increasing speed), I really doubt that we would be much futher behind.
I am no expert, but I can't even begin to see the need for 128 bit processors right now. It's better to focus on making the current designs faster.