That sucks for Schwartz, but this is about a kid in school. It's a bit different. The school would almost certainly not have prosecuted and gotten him in court, and if they did, this kid was what, 13? Now a 13 year old won't go to jail for this. He may be put on probation, but in most cases wouldn't his record be wiped when he turns 18 anyways?
you realize that fixing other peoples code isn't always that simple, right? How many different programmers are out there? How many different styles of programming is there? And how many different ways to do one thing? Put that together and something very simple to do, could be coded in a way that just doesn't make sense to you, and you've wasted far more time trying to figure out what their code does, and not why it does it wrong.
I hate to say it but someone here has to:
People WILL NOT switch to linux to encode mp3s.
Mp3's aren't important enough to most people for them to care about the format they can and can't use. Don't even try thinking it. It's not going to happen. Most people won't even care if they can't encode high-quality mp3s. Average person with a computer has such crappy speakers they probably can't hear the difference between a 56kbps and 128kbps anyways, and they won't have to because they'll encode higher quality WMA files instead and suddenly, they have a nice sounding song.
Yes, I realize this is coming through as a troll, and rightfully so, but someone has to admit it. People aren't willing to re-learn everything (yes I realize they don't have to relearn everything, especially with KDE2 et al these days, but they don't know that) for a music format.
>simply type its name into the Location:-bar.
>I don't see why that couldn't work
It wouldn't work because how many companies all over the world have the same name? Granted it could be handled the same was as now (companyname.com is taking by 1 company and the rest are screwed) - or we go on to use the CCTLD's so that at least 1 company per country could have the name.
"Also, new releases of an OS every couple of years is nothing like nightly builds"
Ok, I'll bite...
You're right, I mean, why would I want exploits fixed nightly, hardware updates nightly, etc. when I can wait a couple of years for them.
Of course service packs do come out more than once every couple years, but they are essentially patches to a nightly build.
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NeoGeo Pocket Color is more or less dead (RIP SNK:( ) and Square would NEVER (I pray) make games for a PDA. Plus, they've stated specifically Gameboy Advance.
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*applause*
The man is crazy, the man is old, but the man is a wizard in the best way!
What other man in the industry would tell the entire industry to (figuratively) suck it? He refused to let Namco develop for N64 until the president got down on his knees and BEGGED! How can you not love this guy? Granted I don't agree with all his choices, but the guy is just the man!
Actually, in terms of profit from games last year or so, Nintendo has DOUBLED what Square/EA has made. DOUBLED.
And plus, Square WANTS to develop for Nintendo, but Yamauchi doesn't want them (damn son that guy holds a grudge). He's still pissed over Square abandoning them for PSX a few years back.
You can say what you will about Square being crucial to a console, but somehow Nintendo has remained the most profitable game publisher out there without them.
I'm sorry to tell you, but linux can not be made that easy to install and configure, because there is so much more to configure on a pc. The closest you could hope to get is an installer to install and setup the system to run in vga16 color graphics mode unaccelerated, which I'll tell you right now won't impress ANYONE. There are too many options to setup in X for instance for it to just work.
Want an example? take mice.
Is my mouse ps2? Is it serial? Is it a busmouse? What protocol does it use? MS? Logitech? Huh? Everyone of the "user friendly" linux installers I've checked out have required me to know what type of mouse I have. This is trivial but annoying.
Granted I know these things, and I have no doubts you know these things, but the average person doesn't. Of course choosing a video card is a completely different issues...as are sound cards.
Recent Macs have 2 or 3 video card types. Most people who have a mac will have one of them. Average PC user a) won't know what type of video card they have, and b) won't by default have anything anyways (meaning there is no default video card that goes into all PC's).
You can say that linux wasn't made for people like that and you're correct - however that's also my point.
I hate to do it - but BeOS does this somewhat nicely.
Since BeOS keeps attributes for the files (such as type), when you right-click on a file it'll give you a list of all the programs installed that handle that file type.
Seems to work well for me...but then what do I know.
Even windows 95/98 never gave me problems with crashes. Maybe it's easier to crash a windows system. I've actually had people show me how they could take their whole system down, and that's why linux was better. I don't know about you, but I don't TRY to take down my system. And guess what, it doesn't die. Amazing how that works right? I've had nice long uptimes on a win98 box using it daily (30+ day uptime).
All this being said I don't really have an OS of choice - each for its use I guess.
I think the fact that it varies state to state was important for you to add there. Thank you. My previous job's non-compete clause was attrocious. According to it, I couldn't work for any other company designing hosting or selling anything related to the web, and could not work for any company doing anything computer related (no programming, hardware design, or anything). Then luckily a co-orker had his lawyer check out the clause, and in the state (New Hampshire) you apparently can't be forced to follow a non-compete clause after you quit unless the company is willing to continue paying you your salary for the duration of it's specified time.
To start this reply I'd first like to say I both work in the video game industry, and am a classic gaming lover. And a warning, this will probably be a rather long bunch of rambling. That being said...
When was the last time you played one of those great games of old that are so much better than todays? Those games were SO GREAT because they pushed the technology of the time. These days, there's not enough there to keep people interested. Just yesterday I was playing Gauntlet 2, and enjoyed it, but got quickly bored. Why? Because it's been done, and MUCH BETTER, since then. A game is great compared to what there is at the time.
And, you know why it's hard to get games through on a console system? Something called quality control (or atleast an attempt at it). Sony nearly killed the video game industry with the release of Playstation, because it was so easy to become a developer for. Suddenly, the market is flooded with mediocre games amongst a few gems, and people buy them. What happens when someone who's not an avid gamer buys and game and it sucks? He stops playing games for a while. Hell, if he buys a game and doesn't enjoy it, why waste money on more games he probably won't enjoy. I don't think this way, gamers don't think this way, but the general public does. You can say I'm wrong but you can't argue with numbers.
And sorry to tell you, but a bunch of hackers throwing a console together with GPL'd software will be KILLED. Why? Lack of big-names. People buy consoles for what games will be there. How many people bought a Dreamcast specifically because it had Soul Calibur or Shenmue? How many people bought a Playstation specifically because it had the Final Fantasy series? MILLIONS.
Oh, and if you want to talk innovative, play some of Sonic Teams games. TRY to tell me Chu Chu Rocket isn't a greatly addictive, and DIFFERENT game. Sadly it sold like crap...because people want more of the same-thing.
It's news because unlike those WinTel boxes running something akin to Premiere, you can do all this without spending a penny on software. Personally I find it impressive how much work people put into these spare-time-projects of theirs to try to make them compete with the commercial software out there.
And then I can add on to that the argument that I can boot directly off of my RAID controller in FreeBSD but I have to use a boot disk (or dos partition currently) for Linux. Small things like that make FreeBSD nice.
If they just had the good NVidia drivers that Linux has I'd be completely switched over, but my toy programming box needs 3d so it's a debian box.
Is there any good software out there to enable the TV out support on my GeForce II? I can display n my TV if I startup my computer with no monitor plugged in (and it'll then default to TV out port) - but that only works in text and switching to X just doesn't happen.
You do realize this is satire yes? As in, a joke, mocking, not real, etc.
And to be honest, as a fairly-long-time linux user (back since my 486 days atleast) I have to disagree with you. I don't follow RMS' beliefs, and I DO think we need an "Industry."
The Industry you say doesn't matter, is what funds a lot of projects to allow programmers to work on them full time...and what hosts the pages for said programmers so that they have bandwidth with which to deliver their work.
Sorry to tell you, but this doesn't work.
(storing email in a database that is)
I worked as lead programmer at a mail provider and was in charge of the system's design from the start. The ingenius idea to store email in a database, while it sounds good...is rather horrific. We had issues with databases becoming corrupt (and hey, 150000 users like it when they lose all their mail), the database being overly bogged down (guess what, fopen is faster than going through a database) amongst other things.
While granted I'm sure that bugs such as these can be worked around, databases were meant for holding fields of data, not whole files - especially binary ones (and before you say that email is ascii, thing other languages where they use multibyte encoding etc.)
Just to be a prick, not all emulators are legal. Emulators made with proprietory information (i.e. if I were to make one based off of "official/classified" documents, it would be illegal to release said emulator).
Also, you're correct in that even if you own a game, downloading it's rom is still technically illegal. You're allowed a backup of YOUR copy, not of someone elses (why it matters I don't know, but then since when are laws supposed to make perfect sense right?)
Actually certain frequencies of flashes DO cause epileptic seizures, in people suffering from epilepsy. However, I don't think it will actually CAUSE epilepsy. Plus, I think this was supposed to be a joke...atleast I hope so.
and in the mean time, lets have the compilers just create the code in the first place, yes?
I mean, I don't mean to sound like a dick, but you're blaming your slow inefficient code on a tool instead of on your code. If you can write something in a different order and have it be faster, that's YOUR issue, NOT the compilers. Yes, optimizing compilers are nice and all, but you can't expect them to do everything for you.
Face it, function calls take time, OOP produces a lot of function calls (you said it yourself), so there you have it.
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I have to sadly agree that the framebuffer is slow. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to see the companies supporting linux (if they're only going to directly support linux, such as nVidia or something) come out with a good framebuffer module for the kernel, and let us run THAT accelerated, and use the framebuffer X server on top of it. Accelerate the lowest level...it makes more sense (atleast to me).
Is there any reason we don't have faster framebuffer drivers?
But then, on the flip side I suppose that companies would rather suppose XF86 or whatnot and get faster graphics all around in the free OS world vs. just in linux...but then why do some companies (nVidia) provide kernel mods for other things...is a framebuffer driver that difficult to write? Hell, I'd even be willing to give a go at an nvidia driver in my spare time.
I was right there with you...
until you said it looks like a shitty movie.
I'm actually somewhat looking forward to seeing it when it comes out...of course that couldn't be in part because it has Rachael Leigh-cook in it...could it? Nah...it's for the plot, ya, that's it
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That sucks for Schwartz, but this is about a kid in school. It's a bit different. The school would almost certainly not have prosecuted and gotten him in court, and if they did, this kid was what, 13? Now a 13 year old won't go to jail for this. He may be put on probation, but in most cases wouldn't his record be wiped when he turns 18 anyways?
you realize that fixing other peoples code isn't always that simple, right? How many different programmers are out there? How many different styles of programming is there? And how many different ways to do one thing? Put that together and something very simple to do, could be coded in a way that just doesn't make sense to you, and you've wasted far more time trying to figure out what their code does, and not why it does it wrong.
I hate to say it but someone here has to:
People WILL NOT switch to linux to encode mp3s.
Mp3's aren't important enough to most people for them to care about the format they can and can't use. Don't even try thinking it. It's not going to happen. Most people won't even care if they can't encode high-quality mp3s. Average person with a computer has such crappy speakers they probably can't hear the difference between a 56kbps and 128kbps anyways, and they won't have to because they'll encode higher quality WMA files instead and suddenly, they have a nice sounding song.
Yes, I realize this is coming through as a troll, and rightfully so, but someone has to admit it. People aren't willing to re-learn everything (yes I realize they don't have to relearn everything, especially with KDE2 et al these days, but they don't know that) for a music format.
>simply type its name into the Location:-bar.
>I don't see why that couldn't work
It wouldn't work because how many companies all over the world have the same name? Granted it could be handled the same was as now (companyname.com is taking by 1 company and the rest are screwed) - or we go on to use the CCTLD's so that at least 1 company per country could have the name.
"Also, new releases of an OS every couple of years is nothing like nightly builds"
Ok, I'll bite...
You're right, I mean, why would I want exploits fixed nightly, hardware updates nightly, etc. when I can wait a couple of years for them.
Of course service packs do come out more than once every couple years, but they are essentially patches to a nightly build.
NeoGeo Pocket Color is more or less dead (RIP SNK :( ) and Square would NEVER (I pray) make games for a PDA. Plus, they've stated specifically Gameboy Advance.
*applause*
The man is crazy, the man is old, but the man is a wizard in the best way!
What other man in the industry would tell the entire industry to (figuratively) suck it? He refused to let Namco develop for N64 until the president got down on his knees and BEGGED! How can you not love this guy? Granted I don't agree with all his choices, but the guy is just the man!
Actually, in terms of profit from games last year or so, Nintendo has DOUBLED what Square/EA has made. DOUBLED.
And plus, Square WANTS to develop for Nintendo, but Yamauchi doesn't want them (damn son that guy holds a grudge). He's still pissed over Square abandoning them for PSX a few years back.
You can say what you will about Square being crucial to a console, but somehow Nintendo has remained the most profitable game publisher out there without them.
you switched her...wasn't the point of this thread (or have I wandered off into another thread) disgussing installing and configuring?
She can use KDE, but could she install linux, configure it, and install KDE? That's the difference between linux's ease of use and MacOS X's
I'm sorry to tell you, but linux can not be made that easy to install and configure, because there is so much more to configure on a pc. The closest you could hope to get is an installer to install and setup the system to run in vga16 color graphics mode unaccelerated, which I'll tell you right now won't impress ANYONE. There are too many options to setup in X for instance for it to just work.
Want an example? take mice.
Is my mouse ps2? Is it serial? Is it a busmouse? What protocol does it use? MS? Logitech? Huh? Everyone of the "user friendly" linux installers I've checked out have required me to know what type of mouse I have. This is trivial but annoying.
Granted I know these things, and I have no doubts you know these things, but the average person doesn't. Of course choosing a video card is a completely different issues...as are sound cards.
Recent Macs have 2 or 3 video card types. Most people who have a mac will have one of them. Average PC user a) won't know what type of video card they have, and b) won't by default have anything anyways (meaning there is no default video card that goes into all PC's).
You can say that linux wasn't made for people like that and you're correct - however that's also my point.
I hate to do it - but BeOS does this somewhat nicely.
Since BeOS keeps attributes for the files (such as type), when you right-click on a file it'll give you a list of all the programs installed that handle that file type.
Seems to work well for me...but then what do I know.
I hate to do it, but I have to agree.
Even windows 95/98 never gave me problems with crashes. Maybe it's easier to crash a windows system. I've actually had people show me how they could take their whole system down, and that's why linux was better. I don't know about you, but I don't TRY to take down my system. And guess what, it doesn't die. Amazing how that works right? I've had nice long uptimes on a win98 box using it daily (30+ day uptime).
All this being said I don't really have an OS of choice - each for its use I guess.
I think the fact that it varies state to state was important for you to add there. Thank you. My previous job's non-compete clause was attrocious. According to it, I couldn't work for any other company designing hosting or selling anything related to the web, and could not work for any company doing anything computer related (no programming, hardware design, or anything). Then luckily a co-orker had his lawyer check out the clause, and in the state (New Hampshire) you apparently can't be forced to follow a non-compete clause after you quit unless the company is willing to continue paying you your salary for the duration of it's specified time.
To start this reply I'd first like to say I both work in the video game industry, and am a classic gaming lover. And a warning, this will probably be a rather long bunch of rambling. That being said...
When was the last time you played one of those great games of old that are so much better than todays? Those games were SO GREAT because they pushed the technology of the time. These days, there's not enough there to keep people interested. Just yesterday I was playing Gauntlet 2, and enjoyed it, but got quickly bored. Why? Because it's been done, and MUCH BETTER, since then. A game is great compared to what there is at the time.
And, you know why it's hard to get games through on a console system? Something called quality control (or atleast an attempt at it). Sony nearly killed the video game industry with the release of Playstation, because it was so easy to become a developer for. Suddenly, the market is flooded with mediocre games amongst a few gems, and people buy them. What happens when someone who's not an avid gamer buys and game and it sucks? He stops playing games for a while. Hell, if he buys a game and doesn't enjoy it, why waste money on more games he probably won't enjoy. I don't think this way, gamers don't think this way, but the general public does. You can say I'm wrong but you can't argue with numbers.
And sorry to tell you, but a bunch of hackers throwing a console together with GPL'd software will be KILLED. Why? Lack of big-names. People buy consoles for what games will be there. How many people bought a Dreamcast specifically because it had Soul Calibur or Shenmue? How many people bought a Playstation specifically because it had the Final Fantasy series? MILLIONS.
Oh, and if you want to talk innovative, play some of Sonic Teams games. TRY to tell me Chu Chu Rocket isn't a greatly addictive, and DIFFERENT game. Sadly it sold like crap...because people want more of the same-thing.
It's news because unlike those WinTel boxes running something akin to Premiere, you can do all this without spending a penny on software. Personally I find it impressive how much work people put into these spare-time-projects of theirs to try to make them compete with the commercial software out there.
And then I can add on to that the argument that I can boot directly off of my RAID controller in FreeBSD but I have to use a boot disk (or dos partition currently) for Linux. Small things like that make FreeBSD nice.
If they just had the good NVidia drivers that Linux has I'd be completely switched over, but my toy programming box needs 3d so it's a debian box.
This is some-what related...
Is there any good software out there to enable the TV out support on my GeForce II? I can display n my TV if I startup my computer with no monitor plugged in (and it'll then default to TV out port) - but that only works in text and switching to X just doesn't happen.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks
Actually, that's (according to the numbers in the article at TheRegister):
16cpu x 100w/cpu = 1600w for the Intel cpu's
and
100cpu x 1w/cpu = 100w for the Crusoe's
Ouch.
Of course 100 cpu's need more ram etc. and all that jazz I suppose, but then what do I know, I work with handhelds/embedded systems not huge servers.
You do realize this is satire yes? As in, a joke, mocking, not real, etc.
And to be honest, as a fairly-long-time linux user (back since my 486 days atleast) I have to disagree with you. I don't follow RMS' beliefs, and I DO think we need an "Industry."
The Industry you say doesn't matter, is what funds a lot of projects to allow programmers to work on them full time...and what hosts the pages for said programmers so that they have bandwidth with which to deliver their work.
Sorry to tell you, but this doesn't work.
(storing email in a database that is)
I worked as lead programmer at a mail provider and was in charge of the system's design from the start. The ingenius idea to store email in a database, while it sounds good...is rather horrific. We had issues with databases becoming corrupt (and hey, 150000 users like it when they lose all their mail), the database being overly bogged down (guess what, fopen is faster than going through a database) amongst other things.
While granted I'm sure that bugs such as these can be worked around, databases were meant for holding fields of data, not whole files - especially binary ones (and before you say that email is ascii, thing other languages where they use multibyte encoding etc.)
Just to be a prick, not all emulators are legal. Emulators made with proprietory information (i.e. if I were to make one based off of "official/classified" documents, it would be illegal to release said emulator).
Also, you're correct in that even if you own a game, downloading it's rom is still technically illegal. You're allowed a backup of YOUR copy, not of someone elses (why it matters I don't know, but then since when are laws supposed to make perfect sense right?)
Actually certain frequencies of flashes DO cause epileptic seizures, in people suffering from epilepsy. However, I don't think it will actually CAUSE epilepsy. Plus, I think this was supposed to be a joke...atleast I hope so.
and in the mean time, lets have the compilers just create the code in the first place, yes?
I mean, I don't mean to sound like a dick, but you're blaming your slow inefficient code on a tool instead of on your code. If you can write something in a different order and have it be faster, that's YOUR issue, NOT the compilers. Yes, optimizing compilers are nice and all, but you can't expect them to do everything for you.
Face it, function calls take time, OOP produces a lot of function calls (you said it yourself), so there you have it.
I have to sadly agree that the framebuffer is slow. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to see the companies supporting linux (if they're only going to directly support linux, such as nVidia or something) come out with a good framebuffer module for the kernel, and let us run THAT accelerated, and use the framebuffer X server on top of it. Accelerate the lowest level...it makes more sense (atleast to me).
Is there any reason we don't have faster framebuffer drivers?
But then, on the flip side I suppose that companies would rather suppose XF86 or whatnot and get faster graphics all around in the free OS world vs. just in linux...but then why do some companies (nVidia) provide kernel mods for other things...is a framebuffer driver that difficult to write? Hell, I'd even be willing to give a go at an nvidia driver in my spare time.
I was right there with you...
until you said it looks like a shitty movie.
I'm actually somewhat looking forward to seeing it when it comes out...of course that couldn't be in part because it has Rachael Leigh-cook in it...could it? Nah...it's for the plot, ya, that's it