Oh really, is that so? Hmm, where did I see that, oh right, IN THE ARTICLE.
Profiting from improvements in computer speed and memory, Carmack began working on how to draw polygons with more arbitrary shapes than Wolfenstein's trapezoids. "It was looking like [the graphics engine] wouldn't be fast enough," he recalls, "so we had to come up with a new approach....I knew that to be fast, we still had to have strictly horizontal floors and vertical walls." The answer was a technique known as binary space partitioning (BSP). Henry Fuchs, Zvi Kedem, and Bruce Naylor had popularized BSP techniques in 1980 while at Bell Labs to render 3-D models of objects on screen.
(emphasis mine)
Perhaps READING THE ARTICLE would have saved you the trouble of trying to show us how smart you are.
So then start your own webserver project if you seem to know what all the problems are with Apache. I would be interested to see the outcome and if it's all you say it would be, I would probably even use it.
Hmmm... well considering that the Xabre 400 is the ONLY available video card that supports AGP 8X, I suppose that it WOULD make a good benchmark card for measuring the differences between AGP4X and AGP8X.
I disagree. The reason the record companies push Britney and the BSB so much is because they appeal to their target demographs. BSB has "good-looking guys" and Britney is a good looking chick. Furthermore, their music is catchy and appeals to a wider variety of people than, say, Pink Floyd. You can't really picture a teeny bopper chilling out to Pink Floyd.
No one puts a gun to the head of the children and adults who buys BSB and Britney Spears and make the record companies their millions. If people are buying their manufactured music and they're making tons of cash, why would they stop?
Here's a link. Go read it. United Linux isn't an uber-distro. It's basically an effort to make the the distros compatible with each other so that ISVs (software developers) and IHVs (hardware developers) have an easier time making their products work with Linux.
Too bad you were too busy jumping to conclusions to actual do some "research".
I think it's integral for you to go and READ THE ACTUAL WEBPAGE before they start commenting. You'll notice that United Linux isn't just another distribution but a set of standards to allow interoperability between the four partners to allow for easier software and hardware support.
Everyone at my university uses them because they cost ~$20 CDN and you can refill your black cartridge about 6 times with it. You can also get refill kits that refill colour.
And they actually work... I know this because I use it on my Lexmark Z42 and it works perfectly.
Put your average Windows user in front of a Linux box and ask them to do something they can do in Windows like change the background. Watch them panic when they can't do it, or don't know where the C Drive is. It's not because they're stupid, they're just not used to the differences between the two OSes.
If you ignore the issue of retraining because "Linux Windows Managers are an easy transition" you're quite simply dimwitted.
Go... to... college (they call it university in Canada, but same shit).
University is 80% experience, 20% learning, trust me. In just my first year I've grown immensely as a person and how I see the world. Many of my friends wanted to go but couldn't for monetary/academic reasons but would have gone given the chance.
You have the chance, so GO!
On the side note, there is also the female factor ( or male factor, if that's your bag ). Trust me, no matter what you want to do, even if you want to be a freaking janitor you should go to university if you can afford it.
Are you denying the fact that those dirty, satan-worshipping porn-pervs are not the hellspawned sub-humans that we all know they are?
I mean any pure God-fearing Christian knows that pr0n is the work of Satan in his endless crusade to taint the minds of men and YOU SIR are one of his damned soldiers, spreading your liberal myths about porn being "acceptable" and it's purveyors "normal".
Everyone keeps touting these things as amazing technological acheivements but what the hell is the point of a Segway? Are people really THAT lazy that they won't walk or take a bike somewhere?
I mean, I can't see someone using one of these things for long distance (they might as well use a car if the thing only goes 14 mph) and for short distances you could just use those things they called "legs". For medium distances you could use a "bike" and get some "exercise".
You exemplify why I use the BSD License and not the GPL. What is free in your definition? Free, but only if you're not a corporation or some other company I dislike? No, that's not free, that's called restrictive. I suppose that all the companies out there that use Linux on their embedded devices are turning hard work into CORPORATE WELFARE? Aren't all the Slashbot's cheering when this happens? Aren't they going out and forking out the large sums of money it costs for a Zaurus? But they're stealing open source developers hard work! That's the point, dumbass. You, my friend, are the definition of Slashbot.
For those of who are unfamilar with the term Slashbot, it's basically a Slashdot user who says words such as 'windoze', 'micro$ucks', etc. They're mindless rabid GPL proponents who rarely have an 'original thought' and pledge their allegiance to Comrade Stallman, their fearless leader.
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I don't what the problem is for someone to feel that they're special or a prodigy. As long as the person isn't all high and mighty about it, I think it does people good to think they're something special. They'll be more confident and feel better about themselves.
If we were all taught in school that we're just like everyone else and that no matter what you think, you're just plain old homo sapien, I think there would be a hell of a lot more depressed people around.
Or people wouldn't try at all.
The reason people put in all this effort is because they think they are different and can make a difference. It doesn't matter what the reality of it is. Are we better off knowing that we're plain, if that is indeed true? Where is your justification that we're not, other then a movie?
By saying that we aren't unique, you are yourself acting like some all-knowning being, who can see beyond our so-called social lie. Because of that you are making yourself sound exactly opposite to what you want to be perceived as -- you're being perceived as someone who thinks they know everything because they've seen a movie and understood one of the concepts within it that may or may not have been true.
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I like it much better when America caters to the special interests of Corporate America. At least the RIAA and MPAA have a voice. God bless America.
Oh really, is that so? Hmm, where did I see that, oh right, IN THE ARTICLE.
Profiting from improvements in computer speed and memory, Carmack began working on how to draw polygons with more arbitrary shapes than Wolfenstein's trapezoids. "It was looking like [the graphics engine] wouldn't be fast enough," he recalls, "so we had to come up with a new approach....I knew that to be fast, we still had to have strictly horizontal floors and vertical walls." The answer was a technique known as binary space partitioning (BSP). Henry Fuchs, Zvi Kedem, and Bruce Naylor had popularized BSP techniques in 1980 while at Bell Labs to render 3-D models of objects on screen.
(emphasis mine)
Perhaps READING THE ARTICLE would have saved you the trouble of trying to show us how smart you are.
Hmm... a *LinuxWorld* article saying that *Linux* is easier to install.
That's a huge surprise.
Wait, wait, let me go to Microsoft's site and see what they have to say about Linux for completely unbiased information.
So then start your own webserver project if you seem to know what all the problems are with Apache. I would be interested to see the outcome and if it's all you say it would be, I would probably even use it.
Thanks for pointing that little gem out, since that was absolutely critical to the story.
Fucking know-it-all.
Hmmm... well considering that the Xabre 400 is the ONLY available video card that supports AGP 8X, I suppose that it WOULD make a good benchmark card for measuring the differences between AGP4X and AGP8X.
The moral of the story is _research_, children.
Likeliless of Farfetched Story E ever happening: 0.
I disagree. The reason the record companies push Britney and the BSB so much is because they appeal to their target demographs. BSB has "good-looking guys" and Britney is a good looking chick. Furthermore, their music is catchy and appeals to a wider variety of people than, say, Pink Floyd. You can't really picture a teeny bopper chilling out to Pink Floyd.
No one puts a gun to the head of the children and adults who buys BSB and Britney Spears and make the record companies their millions. If people are buying their manufactured music and they're making tons of cash, why would they stop?
What was the purpose of this comment? And why the hell was it modded up?
"perhaps a .gnu is in order for open source projects, for instance."
Ummm, just to let you know, not all "open source" projects are released under the GNU GPL or are GNU software.
Wow! What an amazing and ground-breaking idea! What's that? BSD has had the same feature called 'ports' way before Gentoo came out? Naaaah.
Because it is the superior desktop :)
Here's a link. Go read it. United Linux isn't an uber-distro. It's basically an effort to make the the distros compatible with each other so that ISVs (software developers) and IHVs (hardware developers) have an easier time making their products work with Linux.
Too bad you were too busy jumping to conclusions to actual do some "research".
I think it's integral for you to go and READ THE ACTUAL WEBPAGE before they start commenting. You'll notice that United Linux isn't just another distribution but a set of standards to allow interoperability between the four partners to allow for easier software and hardware support.
Have you guys ever heard of the refill kits?
Everyone at my university uses them because they cost ~$20 CDN and you can refill your black cartridge about 6 times with it. You can also get refill kits that refill colour.
And they actually work... I know this because I use it on my Lexmark Z42 and it works perfectly.
Put your average Windows user in front of a Linux box and ask them to do something they can do in Windows like change the background. Watch them panic when they can't do it, or don't know where the C Drive is. It's not because they're stupid, they're just not used to the differences between the two OSes.
If you ignore the issue of retraining because "Linux Windows Managers are an easy transition" you're quite simply dimwitted.
Luke is American?? I never knew the US was around a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Go... to... college (they call it university in Canada, but same shit).
University is 80% experience, 20% learning, trust me. In just my first year I've grown immensely as a person and how I see the world. Many of my friends wanted to go but couldn't for monetary/academic reasons but would have gone given the chance.
You have the chance, so GO!
On the side note, there is also the female factor ( or male factor, if that's your bag ). Trust me, no matter what you want to do, even if you want to be a freaking janitor you should go to university if you can afford it.
My 31337 cents worth.
Are you denying the fact that those dirty, satan-worshipping porn-pervs are not the hellspawned sub-humans that we all know they are?
I mean any pure God-fearing Christian knows that pr0n is the work of Satan in his endless crusade to taint the minds of men and YOU SIR are one of his damned soldiers, spreading your liberal myths about porn being "acceptable" and it's purveyors "normal".
So censorship is bad only when it affects you, but if it's those dirty porn-watching pervs then you're all for it?
Well it's your loss. NOLF was a fantastic product.
Everyone keeps touting these things as amazing technological acheivements but what the hell is the point of a Segway? Are people really THAT lazy that they won't walk or take a bike somewhere?
I mean, I can't see someone using one of these things for long distance (they might as well use a car if the thing only goes 14 mph) and for short distances you could just use those things they called "legs". For medium distances you could use a "bike" and get some "exercise".
Just my two cents.
You exemplify why I use the BSD License and not the GPL. What is free in your definition? Free, but only if you're not a corporation or some other company I dislike? No, that's not free, that's called restrictive. I suppose that all the companies out there that use Linux on their embedded devices are turning hard work into CORPORATE WELFARE? Aren't all the Slashbot's cheering when this happens? Aren't they going out and forking out the large sums of money it costs for a Zaurus? But they're stealing open source developers hard work! That's the point, dumbass. You, my friend, are the definition of Slashbot.
For those of who are unfamilar with the term Slashbot, it's basically a Slashdot user who says words such as 'windoze', 'micro$ucks', etc. They're mindless rabid GPL proponents who rarely have an 'original thought' and pledge their allegiance to Comrade Stallman, their fearless leader.
I don't what the problem is for someone to feel that they're special or a prodigy. As long as the person isn't all high and mighty about it, I think it does people good to think they're something special. They'll be more confident and feel better about themselves.
If we were all taught in school that we're just like everyone else and that no matter what you think, you're just plain old homo sapien, I think there would be a hell of a lot more depressed people around.
Or people wouldn't try at all.
The reason people put in all this effort is because they think they are different and can make a difference. It doesn't matter what the reality of it is. Are we better off knowing that we're plain, if that is indeed true? Where is your justification that we're not, other then a movie?
By saying that we aren't unique, you are yourself acting like some all-knowning being, who can see beyond our so-called social lie. Because of that you are making yourself sound exactly opposite to what you want to be perceived as -- you're being perceived as someone who thinks they know everything because they've seen a movie and understood one of the concepts within it that may or may not have been true.