1. Towering or standing out above others; prominent: an eminent peak.
2. Of high rank, station, or quality; noteworthy: eminent members of the community.
3. Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished: an eminent historian.
1) All of Slashdot uses Linux. 2) EULAs are anti-piracy features, even when it comes to freely-available patches. 3) Anyone on Slashdot who uses Windows has warezed it. 4) Linux is only good because "all" of the software for it is free. 5) You don't realize that there are some situations in which you can't switch from IIS to a different server (say, you run ActiveX applets, or use Microsoft-only middleware.)
The way I see it the game is included in the 30$ bucks
'Tis, but that's all you're getting. The version of WineX bundled is modified to work specially for that game.
if you already have the game you can play it with Wine. Correct me when I'm wrong.
You're wrong. TransGaming intentionally left certain functions unimplemented in WineX, even the binary version, so that you couldn't run The Windows version of The Sims, thus endangering their profit stream on that product. I would most definitely not be surprised if they did it to Kohan, too. In fact, I have a friend who has the Windows version of Kohan, and said it wouldn't even start in WineX.
Transitive has some x86 emmulation software to be coupled with TG's WineX.
All emulation is going to be slower than a native port, except in rare occasions where the x86 compiler sucked at optimizing instruction ordering and the emulator ruled. I tried emulating StarCraft on a 700MHz G4 at a friend's house; it took half an hour to load and was basically unresponsive.
WineX was shown in Tom's Hardware Guide tests to be half as fast as native ports. Kohan is a game where even a computer with twice the baseline requirements can be bogged down by the sheer amount of stuff going on.
Odds are that, even if the much-vaunted Transitive technology, capable of porting Doom III to your Palm Pilot and violating various other laws of physics, actually works, the performance will suck.
Alpha Centauri did indeed use DirectPlay. Kohan, however, uses Winsock/BSD Sockets, and was relatively multiplayer-compatible with Windows.
All multiplayer problems with the Linux port were due to the engine, which uses an elaborate synchronization system to make sure all the clients are using the same code. Loki did the best they could with it, but you will still get the dreaded sync error every once in a while.
Store the machine's logic on DVD, the code encrypted with CSS or the awful eBook encryption scheme. Since you can't run the machine without the code, it becomes necessary to have such decryption mechanisms. Of course, the CBDTPA will strike down all your plans by forcing you to only copy DVDs not produced by the MPAA/RIAA, but you're safe for now.
It's not like we're posting headlines every day with shit like 'Vader is Lukes Father' or something.
<sarcasm> What the hell? He is?? Thanks for ruining the surprise, Taco. Now I'm going to go burn my TV because you ruined the surprise. And forget about getting my five bucks. </sarcasm>
<flame> IMHO, anyone who couldn't see a spoiler coming ten miles away (it's the X-Files and it's Slashdot; put two and two together) deserved to get the surprise ruined. </flame>
Seriously, though, Taco, keep up the good work. Having nothing to do is no fun without Slashdot to read. I'll be subscribing as soon as I get the cash (being an unemployed 16-year-old sucks).
I hate Flash ads because the Flash plugin for Linux is crap. Every time a Flash animation appears on a page, the plugin opens/dev/dsp in blocking mode (even if the animation has no audio track). I usually keep my MP3s cranked up, and to unfreeze my browser, I have to stop the track (not pause, stop) and restart it again. This gets *very* annoying, especially when I'm trying to click through pages quickly.
How about a subscriber-only Web cache for external links on front-page stories, to avoid the inevitable Slashdotting of (pulling a random Slashdot-esque story out of the air) the guy who just made a working nuclear power plant out of K'Nex?
However, some of the major "production" servers running the late 1.7's (e4/e5) have an administration patch installed that allows competent admins to boot problem players. 1.8 will fix this entirely, but keep in mind that "1.8 Released!" is a sort of running joke amongst the developers.;)
who/what/where is candyman; there have been like 6 refrences to him so far and I have never heard of him before.
Anyone elaborate for me?
Big FBI sting operation that went down yesterday (or so). Busted about 2-300 pedophiles in 20 states, all using some cheesy-ass Web group to trade their kiddie porn. Didn't produce an ear of change, but it looks impressive on the news and gives people another group of people to label "evildoers".
The other 30% are misconfigurations, incompatibilities, bugs in hardware, intentional backdoors (think Quake), misuse of interfaces designed specifically for interacting with other pieces of software (Windoze and BackOrifice or any of the semi-infinite number of Outlook e-mail worms, f'rinstance), cosmic rays, the Illuminati... pretty much everything under the sun except for bad coding on the part of the compromised program's author(s).
The Code that act's as the autopilot for aircraft is bug-free.. it has to..
One of my friends is doing work on making Linux safe for hard real-time applications. While researching, he found out that in at least one instance, an aircraft's autopilot did its equivalent of bluescreening; it blocked off all input and output for several seconds and showed "Please Wait" on the consoles.
The Code that controlls the flight path of a nuclear weapon is bug-fre... it has to.
Then obviously, you don't remember some of the early NASA programs; in one of their guidance control programs, someone put in a period instead of a comma, which caused the rocket to go off at a 90-degree angle to where it should've gone.
ANY software that runs the life support equipment in any hospital is bug free... it has to...
Then you don't remember (sorry, again I forget the name; caffeine is marvelous for waking you up, but it sucks at improving your memory; someone mentioned it further up) the radiation therapy machine that delivered 50 times the lethal dose of radiation because someone screwed up the calculations.
The point is that any programmer that even tries to say that it is impossible to write bug-free code is a blatent liar.
If [writing bug-free code] was [the goal of Open Source projects] BSD1.0 and Linux 1.0 would be bug,exploit,error free right now.... it isn't and it never will be as noone is working to make it that way.
First: BSD (referring to the Berkeley BSD from whence all open BSDs sprang) was/is at version 4.4. FreeBSD recently released version 4.5 (if I'm not mistaken; BSD gurus, can you help a Linux user out?;). Kernel 2.4.18 was released a few days ago (and made front page news on Slashdot), and 2.4.19-pre1 is already out.
Second: A metric assload of people are working to make Linux bug-free. According to the 2.4.19 changelog so far, at least 9 fixes have been made to the stable kernel tree in 2.4.19-pre1 alone; to wit:
- NBD deadlock fix - Correct sys_shmdt() return value on failure - Fix potential blk freelist corruption - Fix potential hpfs oops - get_request() starvation fix - Tridentfb compilation fix - Fix refcounting of directories on renames in tmpfs - Fix natsemi's ETHTOOL_GLINK ioctl - Fix clik! drive detection code in ide-floppy
You, sir, are a moron, and asking a programmer to write bug-free code is, and will always be, an impossible request to fulfill.
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Tiny umbrellas.
I assume you do mean "eminently," right?
eminent Pronunciation Key (m-nnt)
adj.
1. Towering or standing out above others; prominent: an eminent peak.
2. Of high rank, station, or quality; noteworthy: eminent members of the community.
3. Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished: an eminent historian.
It has 8K of L1 cache, the same amount found in the ancient 486 processor, whereas the Athlon has that amount squared and doubled (128K).
8,192 ^ 2 = 67,108,864 * 2 = 134,217,728.
Close enough.
In summary:
1) All of Slashdot uses Linux.
2) EULAs are anti-piracy features, even when it comes to freely-available patches.
3) Anyone on Slashdot who uses Windows has warezed it.
4) Linux is only good because "all" of the software for it is free.
5) You don't realize that there are some situations in which you can't switch from IIS to a different server (say, you run ActiveX applets, or use Microsoft-only middleware.)
How do you not fall down more?
The way I see it the game is included in the 30$ bucks
'Tis, but that's all you're getting. The version of WineX bundled is modified to work specially for that game.
if you already have the game you can play it with Wine. Correct me when I'm wrong.
You're wrong. TransGaming intentionally left certain functions unimplemented in WineX, even the binary version, so that you couldn't run The Windows version of The Sims, thus endangering their profit stream on that product. I would most definitely not be surprised if they did it to Kohan, too. In fact, I have a friend who has the Windows version of Kohan, and said it wouldn't even start in WineX.
Transitive has some x86 emmulation software to be coupled with TG's WineX.
All emulation is going to be slower than a native port, except in rare occasions where the x86 compiler sucked at optimizing instruction ordering and the emulator ruled. I tried emulating StarCraft on a 700MHz G4 at a friend's house; it took half an hour to load and was basically unresponsive.
WineX was shown in Tom's Hardware Guide tests to be half as fast as native ports. Kohan is a game where even a computer with twice the baseline requirements can be bogged down by the sheer amount of stuff going on.
Odds are that, even if the much-vaunted Transitive technology, capable of porting Doom III to your Palm Pilot and violating various other laws of physics, actually works, the performance will suck.
Alpha Centauri did indeed use DirectPlay. Kohan, however, uses Winsock/BSD Sockets, and was relatively multiplayer-compatible with Windows.
All multiplayer problems with the Linux port were due to the engine, which uses an elaborate synchronization system to make sure all the clients are using the same code. Loki did the best they could with it, but you will still get the dreaded sync error every once in a while.
You do realize that your sarcasm detector's broken?
Flog dead horses much?
Store the machine's logic on DVD, the code encrypted with CSS or the awful eBook encryption scheme. Since you can't run the machine without the code, it becomes necessary to have such decryption mechanisms. Of course, the CBDTPA will strike down all your plans by forcing you to only copy DVDs not produced by the MPAA/RIAA, but you're safe for now.
It's not like we're posting headlines every day with shit like 'Vader is Lukes Father' or something.
<sarcasm>
What the hell? He is?? Thanks for ruining the surprise, Taco. Now I'm going to go burn my TV because you ruined the surprise. And forget about getting my five bucks.
</sarcasm>
<flame>
IMHO, anyone who couldn't see a spoiler coming ten miles away (it's the X-Files and it's Slashdot; put two and two together) deserved to get the surprise ruined.
</flame>
Seriously, though, Taco, keep up the good work. Having nothing to do is no fun without Slashdot to read. I'll be subscribing as soon as I get the cash (being an unemployed 16-year-old sucks).
I hate Flash ads because the Flash plugin for Linux is crap. Every time a Flash animation appears on a page, the plugin opens /dev/dsp in blocking mode (even if the animation has no audio track). I usually keep my MP3s cranked up, and to unfreeze my browser, I have to stop the track (not pause, stop) and restart it again. This gets *very* annoying, especially when I'm trying to click through pages quickly.
Just my 200 micro-C-notes.
How about a subscriber-only Web cache for external links on front-page stories, to avoid the inevitable Slashdotting of (pulling a random Slashdot-esque story out of the air) the guy who just made a working nuclear power plant out of K'Nex?
I'd pay a good amount of money for that.
This can be done if the server admin puts a sufficient amount of effort into building the daemon's command line. Read the bzfs man page for details.
-- Colin Bayer <vogon_jeltz@users.sourceforge.net>, Part-time (BZFlag) Developer
However, some of the major "production" servers running the late 1.7's (e4/e5) have an administration patch installed that allows competent admins to boot problem players. 1.8 will fix this entirely, but keep in mind that "1.8 Released!" is a sort of running joke amongst the developers. ;)
-- Colin Bayer , Part-time BZFlag Developer.
Isn't "Lawyerpoint" the coolest phrase ever? I can hear the news reports now...
"7 people brutally murdered at lawyerpoint. The suspect is still on the loose, assumed armed and litigious."
[ The movie opens with a long shot of a gear set into a grainy wall. ]
Guy #1: What the f**k am I supposed to do with *that* thing?
Guy #2: No f**king clue.
Guy #1: Screw this, I'm leaving to play Quake3.
Guy #2: Me, too.
Coders in hidden bunkers with a stockpile of unhampered obsolete motherboards, and vast cd librarys of ancient kernels and applications ??
"Linus Torvalds has been moved to an undisclosed location with a case of Mountain Dew."
It's like saying that McDonalds believes you deserve a break today.
You mean Ronald lied to me? That Goddamned yellow-and-red bastard!
who/what/where is candyman; there have been like 6 refrences to him so far and I have never heard of him before.
Anyone elaborate for me?
Big FBI sting operation that went down yesterday (or so). Busted about 2-300 pedophiles in 20 states, all using some cheesy-ass Web group to trade their kiddie porn. Didn't produce an ear of change, but it looks impressive on the news and gives people another group of people to label "evildoers".
Also from acronymfinder:
VERONICA
Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives
Well what are the other 30%, then?!?!?
Hehe... I know this is a joke, but...
The other 30% are misconfigurations, incompatibilities, bugs in hardware, intentional backdoors (think Quake), misuse of interfaces designed specifically for interacting with other pieces of software (Windoze and BackOrifice or any of the semi-infinite number of Outlook e-mail worms, f'rinstance), cosmic rays, the Illuminati... pretty much everything under the sun except for bad coding on the part of the compromised program's author(s).
The Code that act's as the autopilot for aircraft is bug-free.. it has to..
;). Kernel 2.4.18 was released a few days ago (and made front page news on Slashdot), and 2.4.19-pre1 is already out.
One of my friends is doing work on making Linux safe for hard real-time applications. While researching, he found out that in at least one instance, an aircraft's autopilot did its equivalent of bluescreening; it blocked off all input and output for several seconds and showed "Please Wait" on the consoles.
The Code that controlls the flight path of a nuclear weapon is bug-fre... it has to.
Then obviously, you don't remember some of the early NASA programs; in one of their guidance control programs, someone put in a period instead of a comma, which caused the rocket to go off at a 90-degree angle to where it should've gone.
ANY software that runs the life support equipment in any hospital is bug free... it has to...
Then you don't remember (sorry, again I forget the name; caffeine is marvelous for waking you up, but it sucks at improving your memory; someone mentioned it further up) the radiation therapy machine that delivered 50 times the lethal dose of radiation because someone screwed up the calculations.
The point is that any programmer that even tries to say that it is impossible to write bug-free code is a blatent liar.
You, sir, are wrong. Programs of non-trivial size will never be bug-free; trying to coerce manufacturers into doing so is as stupid as writing a petition that, among other things, would involve solving the halting problem.
If [writing bug-free code] was [the goal of Open Source projects] BSD1.0 and Linux 1.0 would be bug,exploit,error free right now.... it isn't and it never will be as noone is working to make it that way.
First: BSD (referring to the Berkeley BSD from whence all open BSDs sprang) was/is at version 4.4. FreeBSD recently released version 4.5 (if I'm not mistaken; BSD gurus, can you help a Linux user out?
Second: A metric assload of people are working to make Linux bug-free. According to the 2.4.19 changelog so far, at least 9 fixes have been made to the stable kernel tree in 2.4.19-pre1 alone; to wit:
- NBD deadlock fix
- Correct sys_shmdt() return value on failure
- Fix potential blk freelist corruption
- Fix potential hpfs oops
- get_request() starvation fix
- Tridentfb compilation fix
- Fix refcounting of directories on renames in tmpfs
- Fix natsemi's ETHTOOL_GLINK ioctl
- Fix clik! drive detection code in ide-floppy
You, sir, are a moron, and asking a programmer to write bug-free code is, and will always be, an impossible request to fulfill.
What do you mean, "actually worth something?"
*surfs to check stock quotes for the first time in months*
Oh, dear god!
What, do you wipe your ass with $100 bills or something?
Good god, no! I much prefer the cuddly softness of Enron stock certificates.