I agree that Assembly is not hard to code in really.. but Debugging for larger projects does become a logistical nightmare at times... But then again, I haven't had to use any recent debuggers for assembly code, so I could be outdated now... But no matter what, assembly is not hard, but certainly a bit longer to code.. Of course The faster something is to code, it seems, the slower the executable.. Assembler, then straight C, then C++, then Java... I mean what is easier to simply type: if (x == y) y = z + w; or: mov ax,[x] cmp ax,[y] jne skip mov ax,[z] add ax,[w] mov [y],ax skip: Of course who knows what kind of assembly C-Compilers turn that if statement into:)
Do you not remember running Quake1 before they had any hardware accelerationa vailable? I know I remember, GlQuake didn't come until after Quake had been out for a little while..
The black color is not a liability, but an advantage. It is common sense that it the daytime, with a much more irregular sky and excessive light, that making a plane near invisible would be most difficult, and the best bet is to paint it black and fly at night, when, on most nights, black planes are mostly undetectable at night. Also, It was either use of bay doors or exterior weapons, using bay doors makes sense.. for a small amount of time it sacrifices stealth capability, but only for a relatively short time and the weapons are ready to fire, and it is pretty much too late to do anything about it.
I defintely agree. I administered a network with Sun Workstations, and we acquired a number of Hewlett Packard workstations with CDE installed (the Sun workstations were older than CDE, which tells you something..) And after about a week of CDE headaches, we removed it from the system, and put most people back on fvwm, and some of the less UNIX-experienced users on KDE... No one had the slightest complaint about the loss of CDE, and the ones that liked CDE the least bit thought KDE was many times better:)
I've seen it in development, just not heavily hyped, my printer does not do PostScript native and it does fine though, but this is thoroughly a great idea, printing has been a kludge for a long time.
I was just ponmdering this the other day while helping someone with a web-based homework problem. When I had them, I just did it and turned it in without printing, but a lot of people insist on printing them out to look at them before they have a clue as to how it works. Based on my observations of the people who tend to do it these ways, is that the people who dislike or have ny sort of computer phobia tend to believe that any problem is ten times harder if it is on a screen on not on paper. On my 19", when people print, the paper is actually smaller, and they don't even need to write on the paper, they just need the paper to read.. It seems really odd to me... I understand sometimes it helps you to scribble stuff on scrap paper, but having to read the original information off of paper seems extreme.
Also, click on the Playstation 2 Network Strategy... Online distribution of games. now this just blows me away.. And another link talking about the Dual Shock 2 tmakes me think that sometimes people go too far with security, the 8 MB memory cards support authentication and encryption... Geez.. And supporting linux, can this console get any MORE high media hype concepts behind it?:) I'm gonna love this system, probably won't get a development system, even though it does run linux:)
How much those systems look like HP 712 workstations? I didn't catch it until I saw it on it's side (and it looks crappy horizontal, not bad vertical.) Can't wait to get my hands on one of these, all these people complaining about two controller ports and no modem should look at the stats and realize how upgradeably it is. A modem I would think would be a bad way to go right now, since I see modems getting phased out surprisingly quickly witht he advent of widely-available cable and xDSL services. Also, I was under the impression that they were designing USB controllers for PS2 as well, so those two USB ports could very well supplement it to a lot of controllers... Of course, all my Playstation does is play RPGs and the occasional one-on-one game like Tekken3, Soul Blade, Bust a Groove.... Think I'll stick with Sony and Squaresoft and wait for the PS2 since Dreamcast falls short on titles (and will probably forever considering the massive PS2 library)
I would have thought microsoft would have figured out they can't do well in this arena. They are using overly expensive hardware with far too much heat for a game console, and if microsoft writes the games for it initially, everyone knows microsoft can't do games. They can do an Office Suite, and they can do a '(crappy) OS, but aside from Flight Simulator, most Microsoft Games flop (Fury comes to mind, a cheap terminal Velocity rip-off)
I find it strange seeing many very computer literate people duking it out over desktop environments. I personally tried both, figured out that both put too much overhead on my system, offered nothing of REAL use to me, and dropped em:) embedding stuff, a pretty graphical file browser that drags and drops files onto applications and so forth... bah to it all, gimme a good ol xterm/rxvt/Eterm.:)But it is nice to see this around though for those NOT competent enough to use a command line, and support it, but you just won't see me using it any time soon.. and my other gripe, the applications that don't NEED gnome that REQUIRE it to compile, can't people remember using #ifdef statements to only use gnome/kde features if present? *sigh*
I always use PNG for any web development, except cricumstances where JPEG is better. IIRC correctly, GIF is stuck in the land of 256 colors... PNG is my lossless format of choice, and people are complaining about how PNG sucks because web browsers have issues with them, but this is clearly NOT the graphic format fault, but the fault of the implementation. One thing that GIF has that PNG lacks is animation (I think). Of course for a website there is always javascript for that, but that sucks.. I never use animated GIFs, and I especially will never now...
My computer is on the internet 24 hours a day, but I pay no attention to the internet except for my ICQ list most of the time, so I guess I'm not addicted to the internet.. compiling stuff, now THAT is antoher story.. I'm addicted to compiling and recompiling and recompiling:) Seriously though I swear I spend more time tuning and tweaking my system than actually using it..
I don't know what it was originally intended, but now the latest kernels can be compiled with magic sysrq, a lifesaver enabling sysncing, remount read-only, power-off, and some other stuff when the system is locked:)
Connection speed isn't that bad seems to me.. But I usually work over a LAN.. But at least X has network capabilities. As far as widgets, in a way Xaw is as standard in that sense as you get. It comes with every release of X.. but people don't like it because it is ugly.. I don't mind having gtk+ separate:) Just because it's not included with X, it has become a strong standard, if you code for gtk you are nearly guaranteed to compile on any linux, maybe not every unix, but most unices work fine with gtk, but may not include it. qt seems ok, but not as widewspread in linux distros..
I guess I don't understand or else the alpha-blending is already there.. I used some today.. unless it is a trick of the API I was using.. I haven't noticed too many problems that require anti-aliasing, but it is a necessary thing, granted. Sound support, well, there is esd, but more central to X is the NAS, network audio something (I forgot if s stood for system or what). glx doesn't seem to be so bad.. with XFree 4.0 and it's DRI that is fine.. the design may be a valid point, I'm not sure about that nityy-gritty.. But it seems to perform well for me:)
Seriously though, I agree with the consensus that it needs to be larger sized, penny sized for the most part is pointlessly small for everyday use.. Only becomes harder to keep track of.. CDs and DVDs are just about the right balance of portable/easy to keep track of..
When a Redhat story is posted.... Moderators can't keep up with the flames:) Seriously, I think redhat is pretty cool still, and very useful.. I'll probably switch distros again soon because things don't work quite as smooth as they do elsewhere as of late.. I think only when they switch from GNU tools or the linux kernel to some weird proprietary replacement will I become concerned about redhat causing trouble.. Linux distros that are based on GPLed libraries can always be compatible... Granted, some library choices in redhat may differ from other distros, but you can always have a directory for different versions of libraries to run different distro binaries:)
If you had taken ALL the moeny from the military, we would still have massive weapons of destruction, they would just belong to whoever took us over... A military is necessary. If you don;t think so, just start a game of Civilization up and never build any miltary units and see how far you get:) keeping NASA in the green is one thing, but completely screwing over what keeps us from being taken over is another..
I think this statement quite easily qualifies as flamebait.. This story is insane for other reasons (someone already mention peak interest as opposed to average interest). But your reasons are quite inflammatory and stereotyping of the Japanese culture. In fact, I have quite a bit of modern Japanese music and I like it. As for the Tomagotchi, you have to admit that it was quite a fad here as well.. In fact, you could say america was the home of any number of insane fads. That's the way fads go, once past they usually seem quite insane.. Please attack stories and more technical and relevant grounds in the future if you feel the need to bring them down.
Despite all the supposed good intention of buying x11amp, I suspect a bit more sinister motives... They already shut down the cvs server to the public (public access only through tarballs). And the statement about the mpeg support already being done obviously indicates that development isn't released even to the cvs available to the public. I see this as closing development off bit by bit... My extremely paranoid theory is that they saw OSS being overtaken by ALSA in the future, and will be closing it up and making it a commercial product in the future.. Well, even if they did it, if they made xmms a good product with true multimedia support that would interface with ALSA, I would be tempeted to buy it, provided that they conduct business sanely. I see a lot of comments of comments talking about how evil OSS is because they don't make all their source code available and free of charge. I think it is stupid that people REQUIRE that a person give away this/her work in order to be accepted. GPL is nice, but after someone earns a reputation, they ought to be able to sell a product without being put down.
TECHNICALLY xmms is not a port.. it is a clone.. a port requires source code of the original:) Besides, after reading the article you find out that xmms is going into the video playback arena to more closely fit its new name (hard to be a 'multi-'media system when all you do is play audio...
Well, I can see it, as long as we forget that XMMS is for X:) I personally think development towards windows would be a waste of resources, they already have these tools... I think the community would best be served by focusing on linux and trying to make a good multimedia player.. with the audio flexibility of what was x11amp, the video flexibilty of xanim+mtv, and the interface features of mtv (full-screen playback is cool), then there would be far fewer complaints about multimedia lacking in linux..
I was kindof interviewing a member of the devlopment team informally on IRC out of curiosity, he mentioned quicktime (yes, even 4.0) and mpeg video, but not indeo and stuff... for mpeg they are using the mpegtv SDK, according to this guy.. I have no idea about the others, but of course they *have* to be binary-only... I think it would be cool to work with xanim and try to make the video codec archicecture binary compatible with xanim's... then things would take off much faster and have a better support base.. Of course the feasibility of this might be low... but then again, xanim is opensource so the loader code is right there for exanimination, and since this is a completely new feature, I don't see how it could be infeasible..
I had a small network that was IP masqing, and we were putting it throught its paces. It was really quite good. ICQ had a few problems,and a few games had some problems. Quake was our primary testing game. One client behind the ip-masq machine worked fine, a second tried to sign on, and the server would kick the first. In cases like this, it seems apparant that many applications assume only one copy can be run on a machine. We decided toswtich to freeciv, which had no qualms about multiple clients on a single IP:) I think it would be nice if most applications/protocols that are designed take into account the possibility of IP-masquerading.. In most cases, avoiding a few simple assumptions and making sure to verify a client is truly offline before kicking it would help... In many protocls, I really don't understand the point in encoding things like source and destination IPs redundantly into certain packets.. If anything I said is way off base, you are welcome to correct me politely, just don't start flaming because I was an apparent idiot:)
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I agree that Assembly is not hard to code in really.. but Debugging for larger projects does become a logistical nightmare at times... But then again, I haven't had to use any recent debuggers for assembly code, so I could be outdated now... But no matter what, assembly is not hard, but certainly a bit longer to code.. Of course The faster something is to code, it seems, the slower the executable.. Assembler, then straight C, then C++, then Java... :)
I mean what is easier to simply type:
if (x == y)
y = z + w;
or:
mov ax,[x]
cmp ax,[y]
jne skip
mov ax,[z]
add ax,[w]
mov [y],ax
skip:
Of course who knows what kind of assembly C-Compilers turn that if statement into
Do you not remember running Quake1 before they had any hardware accelerationa vailable? I know I remember, GlQuake didn't come until after Quake had been out for a little while..
The black color is not a liability, but an advantage. It is common sense that it the daytime, with a much more irregular sky and excessive light, that making a plane near invisible would be most difficult, and the best bet is to paint it black and fly at night, when, on most nights, black planes are mostly undetectable at night. Also, It was either use of bay doors or exterior weapons, using bay doors makes sense.. for a small amount of time it sacrifices stealth capability, but only for a relatively short time and the weapons are ready to fire, and it is pretty much too late to do anything about it.
I defintely agree. I administered a network with Sun Workstations, and we acquired a number of Hewlett Packard workstations with CDE installed (the Sun workstations were older than CDE, which tells you something..) And after about a week of CDE headaches, we removed it from the system, and put most people back on fvwm, and some of the less UNIX-experienced users on KDE... No one had the slightest complaint about the loss of CDE, and the ones that liked CDE the least bit thought KDE was many times better :)
I've seen it in development, just not heavily hyped, my printer does not do PostScript native and it does fine though, but this is thoroughly a great idea, printing has been a kludge for a long time.
I was just ponmdering this the other day while helping someone with a web-based homework problem. When I had them, I just did it and turned it in without printing, but a lot of people insist on printing them out to look at them before they have a clue as to how it works. Based on my observations of the people who tend to do it these ways, is that the people who dislike or have ny sort of computer phobia tend to believe that any problem is ten times harder if it is on a screen on not on paper. On my 19", when people print, the paper is actually smaller, and they don't even need to write on the paper, they just need the paper to read.. It seems really odd to me... I understand sometimes it helps you to scribble stuff on scrap paper, but having to read the original information off of paper seems extreme.
Also, click on the Playstation 2 Network Strategy... Online distribution of games. now this just blows me away.. And another link talking about the Dual Shock 2 tmakes me think that sometimes people go too far with security, the 8 MB memory cards support authentication and encryption... Geez.. And supporting linux, can this console get any MORE high media hype concepts behind it? :) I'm gonna love this system, probably won't get a development system, even though it does run linux :)
How much those systems look like HP 712 workstations? I didn't catch it until I saw it on it's side (and it looks crappy horizontal, not bad vertical.) Can't wait to get my hands on one of these, all these people complaining about two controller ports and no modem should look at the stats and realize how upgradeably it is. A modem I would think would be a bad way to go right now, since I see modems getting phased out surprisingly quickly witht he advent of widely-available cable and xDSL services. Also, I was under the impression that they were designing USB controllers for PS2 as well, so those two USB ports could very well supplement it to a lot of controllers... Of course, all my Playstation does is play RPGs and the occasional one-on-one game like Tekken3, Soul Blade, Bust a Groove.... Think I'll stick with Sony and Squaresoft and wait for the PS2 since Dreamcast falls short on titles (and will probably forever considering the massive PS2 library)
I would have thought microsoft would have figured out they can't do well in this arena. They are using overly expensive hardware with far too much heat for a game console, and if microsoft writes the games for it initially, everyone knows microsoft can't do games. They can do an Office Suite, and they can do a '(crappy) OS, but aside from Flight Simulator, most Microsoft Games flop (Fury comes to mind, a cheap terminal Velocity rip-off)
I find it strange seeing many very computer literate people duking it out over desktop environments. I personally tried both, figured out that both put too much overhead on my system, offered nothing of REAL use to me, and dropped em :) embedding stuff, a pretty graphical file browser that drags and drops files onto applications and so forth... bah to it all, gimme a good ol xterm/rxvt/Eterm. :)But it is nice to see this around though for those NOT competent enough to use a command line, and support it, but you just won't see me using it any time soon.. and my other gripe, the applications that don't NEED gnome that REQUIRE it to compile, can't people remember using #ifdef statements to only use gnome/kde features if present? *sigh*
I always use PNG for any web development, except cricumstances where JPEG is better. IIRC correctly, GIF is stuck in the land of 256 colors... PNG is my lossless format of choice, and people are complaining about how PNG sucks because web browsers have issues with them, but this is clearly NOT the graphic format fault, but the fault of the implementation. One thing that GIF has that PNG lacks is animation (I think). Of course for a website there is always javascript for that, but that sucks.. I never use animated GIFs, and I especially will never now...
My computer is on the internet 24 hours a day, but I pay no attention to the internet except for my ICQ list most of the time, so I guess I'm not addicted to the internet.. compiling stuff, now THAT is antoher story.. I'm addicted to compiling and recompiling and recompiling :) Seriously though I swear I spend more time tuning and tweaking my system than actually using it..
I don't know what it was originally intended, but now the latest kernels can be compiled with magic sysrq, a lifesaver enabling sysncing, remount read-only, power-off, and some other stuff when the system is locked :)
Connection speed isn't that bad seems to me.. But I usually work over a LAN.. But at least X has network capabilities. As far as widgets, in a way Xaw is as standard in that sense as you get. It comes with every release of X.. but people don't like it because it is ugly.. I don't mind having gtk+ separate :) Just because it's not included with X, it has become a strong standard, if you code for gtk you are nearly guaranteed to compile on any linux, maybe not every unix, but most unices work fine with gtk, but may not include it. qt seems ok, but not as widewspread in linux distros..
I guess I don't understand or else the alpha-blending is already there.. I used some today.. unless it is a trick of the API I was using.. I haven't noticed too many problems that require anti-aliasing, but it is a necessary thing, granted. Sound support, well, there is esd, but more central to X is the NAS, network audio something (I forgot if s stood for system or what). glx doesn't seem to be so bad.. with XFree 4.0 and it's DRI that is fine.. the design may be a valid point, I'm not sure about that nityy-gritty.. But it seems to perform well for me :)
pick one up, all day long you'll have 180 gigs..
Seriously though, I agree with the consensus that it needs to be larger sized, penny sized for the most part is pointlessly small for everyday use.. Only becomes harder to keep track of.. CDs and DVDs are just about the right balance of portable/easy to keep track of..
Well, if you want to go to linuxtv.org and they havbe a proposed hardware decoder with drivers for linux.
When a Redhat story is posted.... Moderators can't keep up with the flames :) Seriously, I think redhat is pretty cool still, and very useful.. I'll probably switch distros again soon because things don't work quite as smooth as they do elsewhere as of late.. I think only when they switch from GNU tools or the linux kernel to some weird proprietary replacement will I become concerned about redhat causing trouble.. Linux distros that are based on GPLed libraries can always be compatible... Granted, some library choices in redhat may differ from other distros, but you can always have a directory for different versions of libraries to run different distro binaries :)
If you had taken ALL the moeny from the military, we would still have massive weapons of destruction, they would just belong to whoever took us over... A military is necessary. If you don;t think so, just start a game of Civilization up and never build any miltary units and see how far you get :) keeping NASA in the green is one thing, but completely screwing over what keeps us from being taken over is another..
I think this statement quite easily qualifies as flamebait.. This story is insane for other reasons (someone already mention peak interest as opposed to average interest). But your reasons are quite inflammatory and stereotyping of the Japanese culture. In fact, I have quite a bit of modern Japanese music and I like it. As for the Tomagotchi, you have to admit that it was quite a fad here as well.. In fact, you could say america was the home of any number of insane fads. That's the way fads go, once past they usually seem quite insane.. Please attack stories and more technical and relevant grounds in the future if you feel the need to bring them down.
Despite all the supposed good intention of buying x11amp, I suspect a bit more sinister motives... They already shut down the cvs server to the public (public access only through tarballs). And the statement about the mpeg support already being done obviously indicates that development isn't released even to the cvs available to the public. I see this as closing development off bit by bit... My extremely paranoid theory is that they saw OSS being overtaken by ALSA in the future, and will be closing it up and making it a commercial product in the future.. Well, even if they did it, if they made xmms a good product with true multimedia support that would interface with ALSA, I would be tempeted to buy it, provided that they conduct business sanely. I see a lot of comments of comments talking about how evil OSS is because they don't make all their source code available and free of charge. I think it is stupid that people REQUIRE that a person give away this/her work in order to be accepted. GPL is nice, but after someone earns a reputation, they ought to be able to sell a product without being put down.
TECHNICALLY xmms is not a port.. it is a clone.. a port requires source code of the original :) Besides, after reading the article you find out that xmms is going into the video playback arena to more closely fit its new name (hard to be a 'multi-'media system when all you do is play audio...
Well, I can see it, as long as we forget that XMMS is for X :) I personally think development towards windows would be a waste of resources, they already have these tools... I think the community would best be served by focusing on linux and trying to make a good multimedia player.. with the audio flexibility of what was x11amp, the video flexibilty of xanim+mtv, and the interface features of mtv (full-screen playback is cool), then there would be far fewer complaints about multimedia lacking in linux..
I was kindof interviewing a member of the devlopment team informally on IRC out of curiosity, he mentioned quicktime (yes, even 4.0) and mpeg video, but not indeo and stuff... for mpeg they are using the mpegtv SDK, according to this guy.. I have no idea about the others, but of course they *have* to be binary-only... I think it would be cool to work with xanim and try to make the video codec archicecture binary compatible with xanim's... then things would take off much faster and have a better support base.. Of course the feasibility of this might be low... but then again, xanim is opensource so the loader code is right there for exanimination, and since this is a completely new feature, I don't see how it could be infeasible..
I had a small network that was IP masqing, and we were putting it throught its paces. It was really quite good. ICQ had a few problems,and a few games had some problems. Quake was our primary testing game. One client behind the ip-masq machine worked fine, a second tried to sign on, and the server would kick the first. In cases like this, it seems apparant that many applications assume only one copy can be run on a machine. We decided toswtich to freeciv, which had no qualms about multiple clients on a single IP :) I think it would be nice if most applications/protocols that are designed take into account the possibility of IP-masquerading.. In most cases, avoiding a few simple assumptions and making sure to verify a client is truly offline before kicking it would help... In many protocls, I really don't understand the point in encoding things like source and destination IPs redundantly into certain packets.. If anything I said is way off base, you are welcome to correct me politely, just don't start flaming because I was an apparent idiot :)