Okay, so this brings up the question, why set up a farm at all? It seems to me that you would be better off just getting another Mac, networking the machines, and just let the other machine do the rendering. Setting up any reasonable farm would probably take up way more room, electrisity, and would most likely run you about the same cost in the end.
Compare that to the roughly 500K lines in the Linux Kernel
As you say MS uses the Monolithic model, so you'd probably have to include at least the lines of code involved in X, in addition to a desktop enviornment (gnome or kde).
But then again as I was trying to squeeze the latest redhat distro on a 700 meg partition (with decent functionality), and you start to see that the 15 million lines of code for win95 is pretty compact... (how well it works is another story).
When's it coming? Windows Messenger is here already, and its competitors are sure to respond soon
Gee, thank God Microsoft Invented instant messaging. Since they came up with Hotmail, I guess that means they invented e-mail too huh? (and yes, that's sarcasm - I know MS bought Hotmail out). Well that's what you get from a technical article from cnn
I'd have to agree. I saw LOtR last night, and I must admit it was one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. Better 'quality' than any other movie? I'm not sure I buy that. Especially considering the movie doesn't have a conclusion! Now as a trilogy, LOtR might be the best of them, but just this installment of the series? I don't think so. The movie hasn't even been out 2 weeks yet. We don't know how well it will withstand the test of time before it becomes a classic.
being able to disable "change status bar text" is worth this update by itself if you ask me. It was cute when it first came out, but now days I really HATE sites with annoying moving status lines that don't let me see where in the hell a link goes.
no, IE only supports icons (.ico) for favicon. Besides which, if IE really supported PNG just fine, it would be able to show PNG with alpha transperency.
I agree. But consider replacing all of your arguments with music and mp3's. Now it looks a lot like the arguments that are happening right now over digital music. I admit that having copyrighted images is fair use (provided I don't make T-shirts out of them or something), but you have to wonder about the consequences if digital music becomes illegal despite "fair use". A foot in the door can have widespread repercussions down the road... while I can't imagine the FBI busting down doors of peoples houses, I begin to wonder if eventually there won't be some sort of crackdown on internet websites themselves. Or perhaps it would be one of those obscure things which the government uses to add to jail time. I recall hearing about drug busts in which the cops never really got any drug/criminal charges to stick, but DID find copied movies ($250k offence per tape if memory serves). That in itself is enough to make you paranoid.
In all honesty I just skimmed the article because I didn't find it all that interesting. I don't really see so much of a bad point of IBM and company winning this fight, compared to the nightmare described if the Content faction wins - basically making it all but illegal to have a general purpose computer.
civil offense for anyone who developed (for example) a new computer that did not include a federally approved security standard preventing the unlicensed copying of copyrighted works
Now THIS really scares me. That is just a skip away from "having any copyrighted material on your computer will result in prison time". Movies first, then Music (or perhaps at the same time). Then we move on to images. Have a wallpaper of some copyrighted picture? Yeah, that's illegal. At some point we have to draw the line. I don't agree with copying movies, but that could be because I hate watching movies on a computer anyway. I'd much rather sit on my cushy couch and watch a movie myself. Go rent a high quality DVD, or search the internet, find a link that works, and wait for hours downloading it - hmm... I'll just spend a few bucks. And if I liked it I'd probably buy it anyway. I really wonder if movie downloading is as wide spread as the movie industry claims.
I do wish Sony had provided some form of Anti-Aliasing. PS2 can certainly push the polygons
The PS2 can push the polygons, but not with aliasing. The PS2 DOES indeed have anti-aliasing, but game developers never use it. It seems that any usage of the feature tends to drag the entire system to a crawl - to the point where it's never really practical to use it. Which is why Sony recommends that game developers try to avoid high contrasting colors (light and dark) next to each other so that the aliasing isn't as noticable.
I'd say play them in order. Not because of any of the reasons you want to know about, but because older = cheaper. Obviously if you aren't concerned about playing classic games, then the older graphics won't bother you. The FF collection was released not so long ago that has just about all of the earlier FF releases if I remember correctly. I bought FF7 4 days ago for $20. By the time you finish these in order, 8-10 will probably be on sale too. That way if you are disappointed in a game, you won't be as dissapointed in how much you paid. But then again I'm cheap.
It seems to me like there are a lot of people chasing their tails around about whether it's a squid or a jellyfish. Well if it doesn't really fit into either category, doesn't mean that it is something ELSE? God forbid we have to change the books.
Even here there is inherintly more security with vi. I used true vi for about a day before I couldn't stand it and switched to vim. The problem with vi is that it has about a million derrivatives. Writing a vunerability to exploit all versions of vi (clones), now THAT would be an accomplishment.
Diversity... works for evolution, works for software, works for operating systems...
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They just said it had a firewall, they never said what side of the wall you were standing on (apperently the WRONG side)...
When you think about it, this actually makes a lot of sense. I mean a lot of businesses are forced to upgrade because everyone else did and the older MS office programs won't open the new formats. Schools probably wouldn't be under such pressure. Generally students just use a program for writing papers anyway. I suppose we could hope that this is the beginning of Star Office catching on. Start in the schools, then kids install it at home - no pirating required.
I agree with you, but I'd still like to see something nicer. Now the people who work on kde probably code because they like to code, and therefore I will assume that they probably aren't all that interested in messing with the aesthetics of the interface, but would rather get it working 'better'. I just wish that a couple people would get together and make a really KILLER default theme. Nothing really has to change, I mean KDE is totally theme-able, and it's not like you can't change it back if you don't like it. when I installed KDE2 and poking around the preferences, I switched to the marble theme(?). Suddenly the widgets looked slick as hell, and I think to myself "why wasn't this the default?".
Studying the statistcs for my own site, I see that Non IE browsers still account for between 24% and 30% (fluxuates between months). It's been staying there for at least a year now, so I don't think it's going anywhere. I really wish that web developers would get a clue. I really HATE going to a website an see that nothing shows up, only to go into the page source and see that there is some javascript that checks for Netscape 4, or IE, or does nothing at all. God forbid we have more than two web browsers. I mean what's next? More than two different types of cars?
I find those statistics to be similar to the ones for my site as well. The really interesting thing I found in my statistics is that Windows ME was by FAR at the bottom of the heap. Yes even Linux out did it... so did Win3.1 for that matter, and that REALLY scares me. I guess now Microsoft is their own worst enemy. Seems like a lot of people don't care about upgrading (and why should they?). I have the feeling Win98 will be at the top for quite a while.
I think your dead on about Square itself. I know a LOT of people that could care less about the "other stuff" on a console, but will follow Squaresoft anywhere. I'm not exactly sure the gamecube is targeted at a younger audience though. Now admitadly the cube isn't much about "dark games", and has more lighter titles (which kids would probably gravitate more towards). I think the GC titles have a lot more focus on the FUN aspect of gaming. Personally I find the console market is doing overkill in the high action and cool graphics area - but this leaves you to wonder, where did the fun go? Is that just for kids? Maybe. But I think I would like play more fun games myself.
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Okay, so this brings up the question, why set up a farm at all? It seems to me that you would be better off just getting another Mac, networking the machines, and just let the other machine do the rendering. Setting up any reasonable farm would probably take up way more room, electrisity, and would most likely run you about the same cost in the end.
Compare that to the roughly 500K lines in the Linux Kernel
As you say MS uses the Monolithic model, so you'd probably have to include at least the lines of code involved in X, in addition to a desktop enviornment (gnome or kde).
But then again as I was trying to squeeze the latest redhat distro on a 700 meg partition (with decent functionality), and you start to see that the 15 million lines of code for win95 is pretty compact... (how well it works is another story).
Maybe they've been "biting the hand that feeds it" too long. =P
When's it coming? Windows Messenger is here already, and its competitors are sure to respond soon
Gee, thank God Microsoft Invented instant messaging. Since they came up with Hotmail, I guess that means they invented e-mail too huh? (and yes, that's sarcasm - I know MS bought Hotmail out). Well that's what you get from a technical article from cnn
I'd have to agree. I saw LOtR last night, and I must admit it was one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. Better 'quality' than any other movie? I'm not sure I buy that. Especially considering the movie doesn't have a conclusion! Now as a trilogy, LOtR might be the best of them, but just this installment of the series? I don't think so. The movie hasn't even been out 2 weeks yet. We don't know how well it will withstand the test of time before it becomes a classic.
being able to disable "change status bar text" is worth this update by itself if you ask me. It was cute when it first came out, but now days I really HATE sites with annoying moving status lines that don't let me see where in the hell a link goes.
no, IE only supports icons (.ico) for favicon. Besides which, if IE really supported PNG just fine, it would be able to show PNG with alpha transperency.
well avoiding it is simple:
$ touch favicon.ico
Tadah..
If you're sticking with Perl make sure that all the code runs flawlessly with warnings.
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
and
use strict;
Isn't that the one, where in the last stage you eventually get sick of it and toss it out the window?
I agree. But consider replacing all of your arguments with music and mp3's. Now it looks a lot like the arguments that are happening right now over digital music. I admit that having copyrighted images is fair use (provided I don't make T-shirts out of them or something), but you have to wonder about the consequences if digital music becomes illegal despite "fair use". A foot in the door can have widespread repercussions down the road... while I can't imagine the FBI busting down doors of peoples houses, I begin to wonder if eventually there won't be some sort of crackdown on internet websites themselves. Or perhaps it would be one of those obscure things which the government uses to add to jail time. I recall hearing about drug busts in which the cops never really got any drug/criminal charges to stick, but DID find copied movies ($250k offence per tape if memory serves). That in itself is enough to make you paranoid.
In all honesty I just skimmed the article because I didn't find it all that interesting. I don't really see so much of a bad point of IBM and company winning this fight, compared to the nightmare described if the Content faction wins - basically making it all but illegal to have a general purpose computer.
civil offense for anyone who developed (for example) a new computer that did not include a federally approved security standard preventing the unlicensed copying of copyrighted works
Now THIS really scares me. That is just a skip away from "having any copyrighted material on your computer will result in prison time". Movies first, then Music (or perhaps at the same time). Then we move on to images. Have a wallpaper of some copyrighted picture? Yeah, that's illegal. At some point we have to draw the line. I don't agree with copying movies, but that could be because I hate watching movies on a computer anyway. I'd much rather sit on my cushy couch and watch a movie myself. Go rent a high quality DVD, or search the internet, find a link that works, and wait for hours downloading it - hmm... I'll just spend a few bucks. And if I liked it I'd probably buy it anyway. I really wonder if movie downloading is as wide spread as the movie industry claims.
I do wish Sony had provided some form of Anti-Aliasing. PS2 can certainly push the polygons
The PS2 can push the polygons, but not with aliasing. The PS2 DOES indeed have anti-aliasing, but game developers never use it. It seems that any usage of the feature tends to drag the entire system to a crawl - to the point where it's never really practical to use it. Which is why Sony recommends that game developers try to avoid high contrasting colors (light and dark) next to each other so that the aliasing isn't as noticable.
I'd say play them in order. Not because of any of the reasons you want to know about, but because older = cheaper. Obviously if you aren't concerned about playing classic games, then the older graphics won't bother you. The FF collection was released not so long ago that has just about all of the earlier FF releases if I remember correctly. I bought FF7 4 days ago for $20. By the time you finish these in order, 8-10 will probably be on sale too. That way if you are disappointed in a game, you won't be as dissapointed in how much you paid. But then again I'm cheap.
It seems to me like there are a lot of people chasing their tails around about whether it's a squid or a jellyfish. Well if it doesn't really fit into either category, doesn't mean that it is something ELSE? God forbid we have to change the books.
Therefore I propose:
half squid + half jellyfish = Jellysquish
Even here there is inherintly more security with vi. I used true vi for about a day before I couldn't stand it and switched to vim. The problem with vi is that it has about a million derrivatives. Writing a vunerability to exploit all versions of vi (clones), now THAT would be an accomplishment.
Diversity... works for evolution, works for software, works for operating systems...
They just said it had a firewall, they never said what side of the wall you were standing on (apperently the WRONG side)...
Where do you want to go today?
Wherever this 3l33t h@x0r kid wants me to apperently...
When you think about it, this actually makes a lot of sense. I mean a lot of businesses are forced to upgrade because everyone else did and the older MS office programs won't open the new formats. Schools probably wouldn't be under such pressure. Generally students just use a program for writing papers anyway. I suppose we could hope that this is the beginning of Star Office catching on. Start in the schools, then kids install it at home - no pirating required.
If it's handheld it's probably not being used right...
I agree with you, but I'd still like to see something nicer. Now the people who work on kde probably code because they like to code, and therefore I will assume that they probably aren't all that interested in messing with the aesthetics of the interface, but would rather get it working 'better'. I just wish that a couple people would get together and make a really KILLER default theme. Nothing really has to change, I mean KDE is totally theme-able, and it's not like you can't change it back if you don't like it. when I installed KDE2 and poking around the preferences, I switched to the marble theme(?). Suddenly the widgets looked slick as hell, and I think to myself "why wasn't this the default?".
and insert "Linux is Sooo ready" here post.
Studying the statistcs for my own site, I see that Non IE browsers still account for between 24% and 30% (fluxuates between months). It's been staying there for at least a year now, so I don't think it's going anywhere. I really wish that web developers would get a clue. I really HATE going to a website an see that nothing shows up, only to go into the page source and see that there is some javascript that checks for Netscape 4, or IE, or does nothing at all. God forbid we have more than two web browsers. I mean what's next? More than two different types of cars?
I find those statistics to be similar to the ones for my site as well. The really interesting thing I found in my statistics is that Windows ME was by FAR at the bottom of the heap. Yes even Linux out did it... so did Win3.1 for that matter, and that REALLY scares me. I guess now Microsoft is their own worst enemy. Seems like a lot of people don't care about upgrading (and why should they?). I have the feeling Win98 will be at the top for quite a while.
I think your dead on about Square itself. I know a LOT of people that could care less about the "other stuff" on a console, but will follow Squaresoft anywhere. I'm not exactly sure the gamecube is targeted at a younger audience though. Now admitadly the cube isn't much about "dark games", and has more lighter titles (which kids would probably gravitate more towards). I think the GC titles have a lot more focus on the FUN aspect of gaming. Personally I find the console market is doing overkill in the high action and cool graphics area - but this leaves you to wonder, where did the fun go? Is that just for kids? Maybe. But I think I would like play more fun games myself.