I remember some IBM banner adds i saw a couple of years ago, they went something like this:
picture of the sun(not computer, big firey thingy in the sky..) "Its a well know fact that the sun will fail one day.." and then banner fades to a nifty IBM server, and some advertising text.
I never been the big IBM fan(nor Sun fan for that matter), but this made me dislike them with a vengence. If the best way to advitising your product is to throw poop after other products on the market, then you cant have much of a product to promote.
And this is ofcource the expected behavior of M$, they seem to feel that the best way to promote their products is to bash/hurt the other products on the market as much as possible.
Like them getting Sony kicked off Cebit, how low can you go. If i've ever wanted a XBOX, that would change my mind for sure. Think about it, if their show lineup is so weak they can afford Sony to be there. Then, once again, they cant have much of a product to promote.
I havent read the first article they refer to, but the linked-interview give you a pretty good idea about what it was about.
An I must say, it baffels me anybody want to argue with that guy. He one big contradiction,but i wont even comment on this since i saw a few comments on that subject already and this really talk for it self:
that once a piece of a program has been debugged and various workarounds added, it represents a repository of stored knowledge and should be left alone
a bit furter down the text we see(as a counter to a argument from a slashdotter): It's not true for the software that I've written, because I tend to refactor and clean things up regularly.
But why not argue his point with him?Conversation/discussion is a be good, and people tend to learn from it.
Because hes a pain-in-the-***. You ever met one of thiese programmers who made a obvious mistake. But you need to argue 28 minutes with them, begging them to fix it. And they throw alsorts of wierd examples at you, just prolonging getting the job done. Thiese guys dont want constructive input, they just want to be right.
Joel needs to chill out. And stop talking about people that doenst share his views as interlectual inferiors("But not everybody writes code well" , "younger slashdotters" etc). Learn to have a discussion without creating lame examples to "protect" your own argument. Im thinking about the Encyclopedia example.. Thats the worst B******* ive ever read.
If you buy a encyclopedia, its probertly to access to information about stuff you want to learn more about. Hence the "applications" job is to provide information, having only 100 words would be an incomplete application. The entire purpose of an encyclopedia is to provide you with information you didnt know you needed when you bougth the books. A wordprocessor application which doensnt feature the newest 20meg office assistent, text taperingtool, access integration etc. couldnt be defined as an incomplete application, just a application with is less rich on features. Bacially the applications can do the same thing, create documents. A 100 word encyclopedia wont do the same job as a full one, so, they cant be compared.
And for the WWW example, again same thing. Information gaterhing. And even the younger of us slashdotters know that what is great about the WWW is that if you are one one the.00000000000000000000001% people that have a craving to read about fishing in nothern norway(or some other wierd thing), the WWW will have a page for u(and btw. what the freak would be the purpose of having yahoo if they only could index ebay and msn? doooh!).
Simply put, so even the older-softwaremarketsolutions.com-article-authors- with-overinflated-egos can understand it:
A WWW without webpages, or a encyclopedia with 100 words is not comparable to a wordprocessor/emailclient/what-ever-app with out office assistents , 3D logo generater, HTML wizards, Office exporter. Its more comparable to a wordprocessor with out keyboard support.
The Cordless Mouseman Optical(that mr. Taco is using on his desktop..) arent great for gaming, because it(like all other cordlesses) sometimes have problems when you get REALLY "twitchy"(when u make 200 differnt moves in 5sec. Tonyhawk is a really twitchy game.. so is counterstrike(which might be a better example since were talking mice here:)) in a game.
I have a Cordless Mouseman Optical, but Since ive got my USB Optical Wheelmouse (also logitech). It have been pluged into my game maschine, since the USB still are more reliable.. BUT, i must say, Ive found the Logitec cordless Mouseman Optical is one of the most stable cordless ive have tried yet. I also own a MS Cordless and the logitec is, in my experice, WAY more stable.. But MS knows this i think, they warn you on the mouses product page: MS productpage , Wireless freedom, Microsoft reliability LMAO;O)
BUT, dear mr. Tacodude.. Ur are rich and everything, go get the new Mouseman Dual Optical, it has a tail(hence stable in games), and two optic eyes(hence 1600DPI res).. Havent tried one yet.. but they should be GREAT for gaming..:O)
In my experince ALSA provides great MIDI support, and it seems like they support MIDI on alot more cards than the OSS(example: I first learned about ALSA when i couldnt get OSS to work with the midiport on a Yamaha waveforce).
Also, I really like the fact that it places all the sound devices under/dev/snd/ , structure is good:)
I dont know why anybody would call anything "the best whatever" is beyond me, I must all pretty much come down to personal taste. And the salesfigures cant have anything to do with how good anything is, cause then titanic would be the best flick ever:)
BUT, I know why i look forward to this game. Because, if LucasArts keeps what the promisies theyve made in the offical FAQ. Its going to revoultionize the MMORPG genre, with the most complex infrastructure(youll have land, you can hire NPC , you can create towns. If youre really good at making blasters you could open a store(and hire a npc to sell em..) etc etc etc) everseen in such a game.
and they didnt want to learn it, unless they HAD to. The older guys out there all seem to pretty much love linux, since alot of them have worked with unixes for along time. And is very athome on a linux system, whilest most younger programmers come from a Windows backgroup(most danish schools use windows systems) and maybe they feel abit scared in changing OSes. And more importantly, they dont really know the strenght in *nixes. Since they where never thaught, they only know that MS insist that thier OS does everything a unixbox does, just easier. So, why boughter right?
Heck, it was a older guy who got me interested in linux by showing me what it was about(via. a perlscript that used system() to rip encode mp3s).
I instantly saw the coolness in commandline programs, and then he showed me about how easy it was to dump a midi sysex to a mididevice (aka. the wicked coolness of/dev/).
So, my point.. i think the reason that more older guys are involved in linux, is many of them are very used/comftible with *nix system.
I mean, on my last job(i was working as programmer, I had this job for about 3years. But stopped last august to get some more schooling, since ive never completed my B.Sc, seems like a good time to do so now) I was fortunate enought to work with alot of differnt programmers.
And it seemed like most of the older (hence better(joke, its not that B/W)) had unix backgrounds, and therefore (mostly) loved Linux systems. The younger(im one of those btw.) programmers, mostly seemed abit scared of the bash/shell.
I think the EQ pp will continue to decrease, because of the way the poweritems are implemented. Certain items can be located through quest, and others are NPC drops. And thiese quest/npcs are static, meaning you can do them over and over again. Example, stein of moggok quest. the class enchanters can do this quest at lvl 12, takes about 3 hours. And the stein is worth 200-300pp, then when u have it u sell it. And do the quest again. Also there is the EQ guilds, which are making pretty much impossible for varant to implement really godly weapons anymore. When a really cool new weapon is released, they will locate the poor NPC that carries it. And send a shitload of lvl50+ chars out to kill it. And kill it and kill it and kill it.. And pooof.. suddenly the weapon will get common.
The Starwars galaxies infrastructure seem to have learned from this, most quests will be player generated. And poweritems will have to come from players. The EQ player will ask "Wont the poweritems just all be the same anyway then? Like all Jewellers in EQ make the same pieces of jewelly?" no, not at all. If you are really good at (as an example) enginering - Blaster construction. You will be able to modify the blueprints (the blue prints will then go into a machine to produce a prototype, which is then manufacturable. You will even beable to hire a NPC to sell them for u) and make your very own masterblaster. It will even carry a tag to show which player that have created it. And this is just the tradeskill stuff, if they implement 2% of what they are promising over at starwarsgalaxies.com . SWG will have a insanely complex infrastructure. Than wont share the same fate as EQs.
Please PLEASE PLEASE, dont sit on you asses and watch TV on newyears. That just too sad, way way way to sad. Please people, go out. Get drunk have fun , get laid even..
Yo, chicks doesnt care if ur a geek.
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New Years Marathons
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
You just need to get in shape(and stay in shape), and dont talk to the girls about Linux and other/. related stuff.
And be confident, girls can sence a guy trying/wanting to hit on her(but dont really have the guts for it)a mile away.
if so, what type of qualifications do you think they would require before allowing someone to help teach web design?
1. You need to be able to fit into a the std size bullet/stab proff west. Very skinny/fat geeks, will eighter walk around with the west as a skirt, or they wont get it on.
2. You need to be trained in self defence. Ninjas Perfered!
3. You need to grasp the gangbanger language. So when you student is complaining that the webserver is acting "wack!" youll understand what he means.
All jokes aside, this program seems like a great idea. And I wish it all possible succes.
Check the highlight on keyboard(just below the left fruit button), the shadow coming from "top" of the PDA is just not possible(not if there is enough light on the keyboard to create the highlight). And the fuzzieness of the edges of the obj is from the antialiasing, maybe even smoothing. Looks like a LW rendering ) (not maya, we wouldnt have noticed, and not max.. it would have been very very obvious)
XBOX is not a option, for gaming anyways.
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A consoles most important feature? Ease of use. Period. Look at the history, console addons like Segas 32x and Sega CD failed miserably. NOBODY needs addons that adds a "requirements" for their games. People want to be sure that whatever game they buy, they can play it out of the box. With no need to download/install/reboot Service Pack xx for xbox. I have a really hard time beliving MS could do a product right, the first time. They have no experince in this. Its just not the way they work overthere, MS seems to follow the following bizz. model:
First make press(aka. investors) happy = say you are going to release a really cool product, which does everything. At half the cost(time when we talk office apps/devtools) of their compeditors.
Next, focus on "looks" and making the deadline(you know you got around 6 month of buffer, since people dont really expect you to deliver on time).
Have a huge release party(where the app. chrashes), ship the product anyways.
After articles begin rising on "important" newssites like PCworld, beging to test the application. If under 34 bugs is cound, claim it works. And start building a service pack.
BUUT, Im probertly going to get a xbox anyways. Because its VERY VEEEEERY hackable.
And i would LOVE to be able to run linux on something MS produced.
You're going to listen to something I said? Haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit?
...their idea ) OpenGL ARB meeting notes
Notice this: Action: John Stauffer volunteered Apple to lead the short-term unification work. 3Dlabs volunteered to lead the long-term 2.0 work.
Seriusly, do they expect ANYBODY ever flying with them after this? If a company allows so many fligts to get hijacked on a single day, something is not working as planned.
example, I wanted to post a reply to you(and the other guy, who commented my wronlyplaced comment). The first one got attacthed to his message, as it should. The other(which actually was meant as a reply, to you) ended up as a new comment/tread for the story.. Im VERY certain that i still know how to post comments @ slashdot, could there be some sort of wierd bug?
BUT ANYWAY, sorry. The comment was mean for the story about a new/updated windowshandler(the enligthenment story, yesterday). It just ended up in a completly different story, i really cant figure out why.
A little bit of everything, It has a integrated 32bit X86 compatible with MMX support(but how fast is it?? the pdf @ national.com(the sc1200 one) says it runs up to 266mhz), named GX1. GX1 has a integrated : 2D graphics controller, a 64Bit DRAM interface, PCI controller.
Besides the GX1, the SC1200 features: a integrated videoprocessor(blending/overlaying, scaling, filtering, TV encoding) , a IDE interface (ATA33 though), CCIR-656 video input port(kinda cool), USB, Power management, IO contr(IR, parallel, serial), audio features, and a clock!
"The Overlay subsystem API is used to do hardware overlay of video data on graphics data. This is mainly used to display video coming to the frame buffer through the Video Input Port (VIP) in the SC1200/SC1210 Geode Multimedia Processor. The input to the VIP can be from the TV tuner, or an MPEG decoder. Along with overlay, this subsystem can also do alpha blending of video data with graphics data.
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I remember some IBM banner adds i saw a couple of years ago, they went something like this:
picture of the sun(not computer, big firey thingy in the sky..)
"Its a well know fact that the sun will fail one day.."
and then banner fades to a nifty IBM server, and some advertising text.
I never been the big IBM fan(nor Sun fan for that matter), but this made me dislike them with a vengence. If the best way to advitising your product is to throw poop after other products on the market, then you cant have much of a product to promote.
And this is ofcource the expected behavior of M$, they seem to feel that the best way to promote their products is to bash/hurt the other products on the market as much as possible.
Like them getting Sony kicked off Cebit, how low can you go. If i've ever wanted a XBOX, that would change my mind for sure. Think about it, if their show lineup is so weak they can afford Sony to be there. Then, once again, they cant have much of a product to promote.
his wife just have a really wierd thing with penguins.. i wonder if there is such a thing as pengu-fobi :)
I havent read the first article they refer to, but the linked-interview give you a pretty good idea about what it was about.
.00000000000000000000001% people that have a craving to read about fishing in nothern norway(or some other wierd thing), the WWW will have a page for u(and btw. what the freak would be the purpose of having yahoo if they only could index ebay and msn? doooh!).
- with-overinflated-egos can understand it:
An I must say, it baffels me anybody want to argue with that guy. He one big contradiction,but i wont even comment on this since i saw a few comments on that subject
already and this really talk for it self:
that once a piece of a program has been debugged and various workarounds added, it represents a repository of stored knowledge and should be left alone
a bit furter down the text we see(as a counter to a argument from a slashdotter):
It's not true for the software that I've written, because I tend to refactor and clean things up regularly.
But why not argue his point with him?Conversation/discussion is a be good, and people tend to learn from it.
Because hes a pain-in-the-***. You ever met one of thiese programmers who made a obvious mistake. But you need to argue 28 minutes with them, begging them to fix it. And they throw alsorts of wierd examples at you, just prolonging getting the job done. Thiese guys dont want constructive input, they just want to be right.
Joel needs to chill out. And stop talking about people that doenst share his views as interlectual inferiors("But not everybody writes code well" , "younger slashdotters" etc).
Learn to have a discussion without creating lame examples to "protect" your own argument. Im thinking about the Encyclopedia example.. Thats the worst B******* ive ever read.
If you buy a encyclopedia, its probertly to access to information about stuff you want to learn more about. Hence the "applications" job is to provide information, having only 100 words would be an incomplete application. The entire purpose of an encyclopedia is to provide you with information you didnt know you needed when you bougth the books.
A wordprocessor application which doensnt feature the newest 20meg office assistent, text taperingtool, access integration etc. couldnt be defined as an incomplete application, just a application with is less rich on features. Bacially the applications can do the same thing, create documents. A 100 word encyclopedia wont do the same job as a full one, so, they cant be compared.
And for the WWW example, again same thing. Information gaterhing. And even the younger of us slashdotters know that what is great about the WWW is that if you are one one the
Simply put, so even the older-softwaremarketsolutions.com-article-authors
A WWW without webpages, or a encyclopedia with 100 words is not comparable to a wordprocessor/emailclient/what-ever-app with out office assistents , 3D logo generater, HTML wizards, Office exporter.
Its more comparable to a wordprocessor with out keyboard support.
The Cordless Mouseman Optical(that mr. Taco is using on his desktop..) arent great for gaming, because it(like all other cordlesses) sometimes have problems when you get REALLY "twitchy"(when u make 200 differnt moves in 5sec. Tonyhawk is a really twitchy game.. so is counterstrike(which might be a better example since were talking mice here :)) in a game.
;O)
:O)
I have a Cordless Mouseman Optical, but Since ive got my USB Optical Wheelmouse (also logitech). It have been pluged into my game maschine, since the USB still are more reliable.. BUT, i must say, Ive found the Logitec cordless Mouseman Optical is one of the most stable cordless ive have tried yet. I also own a MS Cordless and the logitec is, in my experice, WAY more stable.. But MS knows this i think, they warn you on the mouses product page: MS productpage , Wireless freedom, Microsoft reliability LMAO
BUT, dear mr. Tacodude.. Ur are rich and everything, go get the new Mouseman Dual Optical, it has a tail(hence stable in games), and two optic eyes(hence 1600DPI res).. Havent tried one yet.. but they should be GREAT for gaming..
What ever happend to CRAZY??
"Scientists" playing Seals Fly Like An Eagle to abandoned babybirds hoping to get them to fly?
In my experince ALSA provides great MIDI support, and it seems like they support MIDI on alot more cards than the OSS(example: I first learned about ALSA when i couldnt get OSS to work with the midiport on a Yamaha waveforce).
/dev/snd/ , structure is good :)
Also, I really like the fact that it places all the sound devices under
I dont know why anybody would call anything "the best whatever" is beyond me, I must all pretty much come down to personal taste. And the salesfigures cant have anything to do with how good anything is, cause then titanic would be the best flick ever :)
BUT, I know why i look forward to this game. Because, if LucasArts keeps what the promisies theyve made in the offical FAQ. Its going to revoultionize the MMORPG genre, with the most complex infrastructure(youll have land, you can hire NPC , you can create towns. If youre really good at making blasters you could open a store(and hire a npc to sell em..) etc etc etc) everseen in such a game.
Make a image-2-asciiart converter, so you could have a txt-only option on the google cache.
and they didnt want to learn it, unless they HAD to. The older guys out there all seem to pretty much love linux, since alot of them have worked with unixes for along time. And is very athome on a linux system, whilest most younger programmers come from a Windows backgroup(most danish schools use windows systems) and maybe they feel abit scared in changing OSes. And more importantly, they dont really know the strenght in *nixes. Since they where never thaught, they only know that MS insist that thier OS does everything a unixbox does, just easier. So, why boughter right?
/dev/).
Heck, it was a older guy who got me interested in linux by showing me what it was about(via. a perlscript that used system() to rip encode mp3s).
I instantly saw the coolness in commandline programs, and then he showed me about how easy it was to dump a midi sysex to a mididevice (aka. the wicked coolness of
So, my point.. i think the reason that more older guys are involved in linux, is many of them are very used/comftible with *nix system.
I mean, on my last job(i was working as programmer, I had this job for about 3years. But stopped last august to get some more schooling, since ive never completed my B.Sc, seems like a good time to do so now) I was fortunate enought to work with alot of differnt programmers.
And it seemed like most of the older (hence better(joke, its not that B/W)) had unix backgrounds, and therefore (mostly) loved Linux systems. The younger(im one of those btw.) programmers, mostly seemed abit scared of the bash/shell.
I think the EQ pp will continue to decrease, because of the way the poweritems are implemented. Certain items can be located through quest, and others are NPC drops. And thiese quest/npcs are static, meaning you can do them over and over again. Example, stein of moggok quest. the class enchanters can do this quest at lvl 12, takes about 3 hours. And the stein is worth 200-300pp, then when u have it u sell it. And do the quest again. Also there is the EQ guilds, which are making pretty much impossible for varant to implement really godly weapons anymore. When a really cool new weapon is released, they will locate the poor NPC that carries it. And send a shitload of lvl50+ chars out to kill it. And kill it and kill it and kill it.. And pooof.. suddenly the weapon will get common.
The Starwars galaxies infrastructure seem to have learned from this, most quests will be player generated. And poweritems will have to come from players. The EQ player will ask "Wont the poweritems just all be the same anyway then? Like all Jewellers in EQ make the same pieces of jewelly?" no, not at all. If you are really good at (as an example) enginering - Blaster construction. You will be able to modify the blueprints (the blue prints will then go into a machine to produce a prototype, which is then manufacturable. You will even beable to hire a NPC to sell them for u) and make your very own masterblaster. It will even carry a tag to show which player that have created it. And this is just the tradeskill stuff, if they implement 2% of what they are promising over at starwarsgalaxies.com . SWG will have a insanely complex infrastructure. Than wont share the same fate as EQs.
Add a soupçon of artificial intelligence and the suit could save its wearer if he is wounded. "You could send a command to take this guy home"
Think about it, running with a bullet in you leg?
Sounds kinda painfull..
Please PLEASE PLEASE, dont sit on you asses and watch TV on newyears. That just too sad, way way way to sad. Please people, go out. Get drunk have fun , get laid even..
You just need to get in shape(and stay in shape), and dont talk to the girls about Linux and other /. related stuff.
And be confident, girls can sence a guy trying/wanting to hit on her(but dont really have the guts for it)a mile away.
if so, what type of qualifications do you think they would require before allowing someone to help teach web design?
1. You need to be able to fit into a the std size bullet/stab proff west. Very skinny/fat geeks, will eighter walk around with the west as a skirt, or they wont get it on.
2. You need to be trained in self defence. Ninjas Perfered!
3. You need to grasp the gangbanger language. So when you student is complaining that the webserver is acting "wack!" youll understand what he means.
All jokes aside, this program seems like a great idea. And I wish it all possible succes.
Dude, thanks for the mental image, google would get insane sysadmins. Imagine running around 3000 nodes of talking servers!
Check the highlight on keyboard(just below the left fruit button), the shadow coming from "top" of the PDA is just not possible(not if there is enough light on the keyboard to create the highlight). And the fuzzieness of the edges of the obj is from the antialiasing, maybe even smoothing. Looks like a LW rendering ) (not maya, we wouldnt have noticed, and not max.. it would have been very very obvious)
A consoles most important feature? Ease of use. Period. Look at the history, console addons like Segas 32x and Sega CD failed miserably. NOBODY needs addons that adds a "requirements" for their games. People want to be sure that whatever game they buy, they can play it out of the box. With no need to download/install/reboot Service Pack xx for xbox. I have a really hard time beliving MS could do a product right, the first time. They have no experince in this. Its just not the way they work overthere, MS seems to follow the following bizz. model:
First make press(aka. investors) happy = say you are going to release a really cool product, which does everything. At half the cost(time when we talk office apps/devtools) of their compeditors.
Next, focus on "looks" and making the deadline(you know you got around 6 month of buffer, since people dont really expect you to deliver on time).
Have a huge release party(where the app. chrashes), ship the product anyways.
After articles begin rising on "important" newssites like PCworld, beging to test the application. If under 34 bugs is cound, claim it works. And start building a service pack.
BUUT, Im probertly going to get a xbox anyways. Because its VERY VEEEEERY hackable.
And i would LOVE to be able to run linux on something MS produced.
You're going to listen to something I said? Haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit?
...their idea )
OpenGL ARB meeting notes
Notice this:
Action: John Stauffer volunteered Apple to lead the short-term unification work. 3Dlabs volunteered to lead the long-term 2.0 work.
Seriusly, do they expect ANYBODY ever flying with them after this? If a company allows so many fligts to get hijacked on a single day, something is not working as planned.
my fault.
example, I wanted to post a reply to you(and the other guy, who commented my wronlyplaced comment). The first one got attacthed to his message, as it should. The other(which actually was meant as a reply, to you) ended up as a new comment/tread for the story.. Im VERY certain that i still know how to post comments @ slashdot, could there be some sort of wierd bug?
BUT ANYWAY, sorry. The comment was mean for the story about a new/updated windowshandler(the enligthenment story, yesterday). It just ended up in a completly different story, i really cant figure out why.
This comment was meant for the story about a new Enlightenment (or something, the search is down :o) windowhandler.
And i think the comment actually was appropiate for that news story.
Offcource my comment has nothing to do with this story.
I wonder what went wrong though, I havnt even read this news before.. How did my comment end up here??
But anyways, i really sorry Id posted such a lame comment for this story..
A little bit of everything, It has a integrated 32bit X86 compatible with MMX support(but how fast is it?? the pdf @ national.com(the sc1200 one) says it runs up to 266mhz), named GX1. GX1 has a integrated : 2D graphics controller, a 64Bit DRAM interface, PCI controller.
Besides the GX1, the SC1200 features: a integrated videoprocessor(blending/overlaying, scaling, filtering, TV encoding) , a IDE interface (ATA33 though), CCIR-656 video input port(kinda cool), USB, Power management, IO contr(IR, parallel, serial), audio features, and a clock!
Check this info out:
SC1200
GX1
From linux4.tv:
:o)
"The Overlay subsystem API is used to do hardware overlay of video data on graphics data. This is mainly used to display video coming to the frame buffer through the Video Input Port (VIP) in the SC1200/SC1210 Geode Multimedia Processor. The input to the VIP can be from the TV tuner, or an MPEG decoder. Along with overlay, this subsystem can also do alpha blending of video data with graphics data.
Quite usefull for a settop