The people that got the leaked alpha managed to get it to play at a reasonable frame rate on a GeForce 3 TI 500 at 800 by 600. A search on Froogle shows that you can get one for $100 which is $40 less than an XBOX. Of course you could buy a newer card that is faster than a GF3 for less.
Oh, did I mention that this is on alpha, un-optimized, debug code?
Also, control wise, consoles suck for FPS. Give me a mouse and keyboard anyday.
Although you didnt have to shoot the doors for them to open (though you could still shoot them if you wanted to. Maybe to try and convince your brain that you are playing a better game?)
There is also many bindings for KDE, including Ruby (I have no idea about Perl though). It's still cross platform (well any Posix compliant computer with an X server and KDE installed, Mac OS X/Darwin, Linux, BSD, Unix, Cygwin).
I don't know about Anjuta, but KDevelop uses QT which would first have to be ported to Windows since Trolltech does not currently offer a GPL'ed QT for Windows. KDevelop *does* work w/ Cygwin, but that's not really the best situation. I would really love for Trolltech to make a GPL version of their Windows version.
I have this friend who goes to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He got a bunch of free Cat-6 from one of our mutual friends, whose brother owns a audio/video installation company, so he wired his entire dorm with Gigabit. He brags about it all the time, too. He's done some other weird stuff in his day, though at least he didn't cover his entire dorm room walls with AOL CD's.
"The briQ runs the complete Yellow Dog Linux OS"
It doesn't run Mac OS, only PPC Linux. It is still pretty cool. Also, there is a company that makes pc's in that same form factor. They ued one on the Screen Savers to make the ultimate Mac/PC. They stuck one in a G4 case and used a KVM switch.
"People can make apps using XAML and a few lines of.NET code."
However you can use existing technology to do some XAML stuff in less code. Look at this example.
The MSDN article says that the slider program in Win32 API took 250 LOC, Windows.Forms took 100, and XAML took 60. From the article: "And that, my friends, is what is commonly called progress." However, the same thing designed in QT Designer (which uses XML) took 11 lines of code, some of which were includes and only contained curly braces. Maybe for them it is progress, but for most developers this would be a step backwards (if they previously used QT).
Did you watch the Novell Brainshare videos, or read about what they shwed off? Some of the things from ZenWorks, Red Carpet, and iFolder integration were phenominal all of which are available TODAY. To say that KDE and GNOME are basically the same as 2 years ago is wrong and to compare them to WinFS and Avalon and Indigo is completely wrong. Avalon is more comparable to XFree and WinFS is more comparable to say Ext3 or Reiser4, well with a SQL database running on top of it. Some of these new features are not really necessary for most corporations or users, but a lot of the stuff shown at Brainshare was actually productivity improvement features. And may I remind you once again that they are available TODAY.
I think some of the Novell stuff will really help push Linux into the corporate desktop.
"MS would lose absolutely nothing by dropping IE and Outlook, gain alot of extra time for their coding and R&D teams, and gain a ton of security, by not having these two awfully designed programs ship with an OS that they claim to be trying to improve the security of."
Microsoft would lose the ability to force people to use Windows because the site uses "embraced and extended" HTML or ActiveX that is only available to Internet Explorer. It would be like asking a gang surrounding you from all sides to throw away one of its weapons that are making you give them your money. Hmm... Actually it wouldn't do much bad for them.... But Microsoft is still paranoid to all hell, so they wouldn't anyways.
I really didnt like this review. He complained that the menus were too simple. I have used SUSE since 8.0 and am currently running 9. As far as the menu's go in 9, if you only have 1 app of a certain type, it defaults to renaming that app to whatever type it is. For example, in a default install you will only have Konquerer for a browser, so when you go to Internet->Web Browser, it will launch Konq. Now if you have Mozilla installed too, Web Brower will become a sub menu containing both Konq and Mozilla.
One way to get around the small font in the install he complained about was to change the resolution. Before you hit enter at the install bootloader, hit F3 (i think) and it will give you a list of resolutions to use. The menu is located at the bottom of the bootloader. He also complained that it didnt come with the stuff he wanted. Well cry me a river because you are a little more advanced than their target audience and are too lazy to install and configure the apps to your liking.
Also, in YAST there is an autocheck dependencies which should automatically resolve all dependencies when installing things, so he shouldn't have had to figure out what was not making his GNOME install. Maybe it is disabled for some reason in the beta, or maybe he didn't see the checkbox down there?
Maybe he should complain less and use the system more.
In related news, gullible SCO investors who read the article have predicted the demise of Linux and have invested heavily in SCO. Just look at the surging stock price of SCOX!
(Man I wish that was an april fools joke and that SCOX had really crashed, well there's always tomorrow)
Look out for La Pucelle to come out in early May. It's by the same developers of Disgaea (Nipon Ichii) and looks pretty damn cool. There hasn't been much information yet, but hereare somesites.
Micron or Falcon Northwest shipped an Opteron gaming machine targeted at home users. This was the first 64-bit personal computer and most benchmarks showed the opterons faster than the G5, so the G5 wasn't the fastest, wasnt the first 64, it really wasn't anything but the best Mac you could buy.
Actually it was called GamespotTV which is why they had to change the name in the first place since after the ZiffDavis split and ZDTV was sold to Paul Allen, all they had to change their name because Gamespot was owned by ZDnet and not TechTV.
For example, and this is horrifying, imagine that M$ purchases SCO's 'rights'
That wouldn't be horrifying, that would be great. Now MS has a monopoply on Windows and Unix OS's. The SEC steps in and shuts them down for good. (Actually the SEC would step in prior to MS getting the Unix rights, so it would never happen)
"although hopefully only a came from that cat riding the pink marshmallow thing"
First of all, have you played the FFVII?
"I've watched one trailer so far, and it's really dark, and pretty much 'black and white.' I hope that's not what the movie ends up as."
You must have had watched a flawed video or you are colorblind, because from what I have seen it is not just black and white.
Since, at the end of VII, the world that was left was pretty grim and all, somehow I doubt there will be much happiness, flying machines, forests, or chocobos or even the crazy gambling joint (otherwise known as the Gold Saucer, if you played the game).
From what I have seen in the trailers, everything looks great and has the same feel as FFVII, I think FFVII:AC will be great.
Technically since the new Prescott chips have the instructions on them, yes you could buy a 478 Prescott. You would just have to hack the chip to activate the instructions (good luck with that!).
As for a real IA-32e chip with the instructions enabled, Intel has stated that they arent coming out for while, and since Intel is moving the P4 to the new 775 chipset in a few months, I would bet that they would also be released under this new chipset. Heck, they might not even release their IA-32e chips within the lifetime of the 775 chipset.
Personally my Athlon 2600 just fine enough for me.
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The people that got the leaked alpha managed to get it to play at a reasonable frame rate on a GeForce 3 TI 500 at 800 by 600. A search on Froogle shows that you can get one for $100 which is $40 less than an XBOX. Of course you could buy a newer card that is faster than a GF3 for less.
Oh, did I mention that this is on alpha, un-optimized, debug code?
Also, control wise, consoles suck for FPS. Give me a mouse and keyboard anyday.
The same could be said for a lot of Windows applications using the Win prefix and Mac OS X apps using the i prefix.
No, I think you are describing Halo.
Although you didnt have to shoot the doors for them to open (though you could still shoot them if you wanted to. Maybe to try and convince your brain that you are playing a better game?)
Corel sold it's Linux division to Xandros not Ximian.
Well there is PyQT.
There is also many bindings for KDE, including Ruby (I have no idea about Perl though). It's still cross platform (well any Posix compliant computer with an X server and KDE installed, Mac OS X/Darwin, Linux, BSD, Unix, Cygwin).
I don't know about Anjuta, but KDevelop uses QT which would first have to be ported to Windows since Trolltech does not currently offer a GPL'ed QT for Windows. KDevelop *does* work w/ Cygwin, but that's not really the best situation. I would really love for Trolltech to make a GPL version of their Windows version.
I have this friend who goes to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He got a bunch of free Cat-6 from one of our mutual friends, whose brother owns a audio/video installation company, so he wired his entire dorm with Gigabit. He brags about it all the time, too. He's done some other weird stuff in his day, though at least he didn't cover his entire dorm room walls with AOL CD's.
Oh, wait....
"The briQ runs the complete Yellow Dog Linux OS" It doesn't run Mac OS, only PPC Linux. It is still pretty cool. Also, there is a company that makes pc's in that same form factor. They ued one on the Screen Savers to make the ultimate Mac/PC. They stuck one in a G4 case and used a KVM switch.
"has already been downloaded over 40,000 times"
Just wait till after the slashdotting.
Or, "If it ain't broke... You aren't trying hard enough!" (according to Red Green that is)
"People can make apps using XAML and a few lines of .NET code."
However you can use existing technology to do some XAML stuff in less code. Look at this example. The MSDN article says that the slider program in Win32 API took 250 LOC, Windows.Forms took 100, and XAML took 60. From the article: "And that, my friends, is what is commonly called progress." However, the same thing designed in QT Designer (which uses XML) took 11 lines of code, some of which were includes and only contained curly braces. Maybe for them it is progress, but for most developers this would be a step backwards (if they previously used QT).
Did you watch the Novell Brainshare videos, or read about what they shwed off? Some of the things from ZenWorks, Red Carpet, and iFolder integration were phenominal all of which are available TODAY. To say that KDE and GNOME are basically the same as 2 years ago is wrong and to compare them to WinFS and Avalon and Indigo is completely wrong. Avalon is more comparable to XFree and WinFS is more comparable to say Ext3 or Reiser4, well with a SQL database running on top of it. Some of these new features are not really necessary for most corporations or users, but a lot of the stuff shown at Brainshare was actually productivity improvement features. And may I remind you once again that they are available TODAY.
I think some of the Novell stuff will really help push Linux into the corporate desktop.
Brainshare Videos: here
(I like the Lord of the Net video myself)
"MS would lose absolutely nothing by dropping IE and Outlook, gain alot of extra time for their coding and R&D teams, and gain a ton of security, by not having these two awfully designed programs ship with an OS that they claim to be trying to improve the security of."
Microsoft would lose the ability to force people to use Windows because the site uses "embraced and extended" HTML or ActiveX that is only available to Internet Explorer. It would be like asking a gang surrounding you from all sides to throw away one of its weapons that are making you give them your money. Hmm... Actually it wouldn't do much bad for them.... But Microsoft is still paranoid to all hell, so they wouldn't anyways.
I really didnt like this review. He complained that the menus were too simple. I have used SUSE since 8.0 and am currently running 9. As far as the menu's go in 9, if you only have 1 app of a certain type, it defaults to renaming that app to whatever type it is. For example, in a default install you will only have Konquerer for a browser, so when you go to Internet->Web Browser, it will launch Konq. Now if you have Mozilla installed too, Web Brower will become a sub menu containing both Konq and Mozilla.
One way to get around the small font in the install he complained about was to change the resolution. Before you hit enter at the install bootloader, hit F3 (i think) and it will give you a list of resolutions to use. The menu is located at the bottom of the bootloader. He also complained that it didnt come with the stuff he wanted. Well cry me a river because you are a little more advanced than their target audience and are too lazy to install and configure the apps to your liking.
Also, in YAST there is an autocheck dependencies which should automatically resolve all dependencies when installing things, so he shouldn't have had to figure out what was not making his GNOME install. Maybe it is disabled for some reason in the beta, or maybe he didn't see the checkbox down there?
Maybe he should complain less and use the system more.
I couldn't get to the original site, but here (google cache) is a picture i found, though I don't know if it's real.
In related news, gullible SCO investors who read the article have predicted the demise of Linux and have invested heavily in SCO. Just look at the surging stock price of SCOX!
(Man I wish that was an april fools joke and that SCOX had really crashed, well there's always tomorrow)
Look out for La Pucelle to come out in early May. It's by the same developers of Disgaea (Nipon Ichii) and looks pretty damn cool. There hasn't been much information yet, but here are some sites.
Micron or Falcon Northwest shipped an Opteron gaming machine targeted at home users. This was the first 64-bit personal computer and most benchmarks showed the opterons faster than the G5, so the G5 wasn't the fastest, wasnt the first 64, it really wasn't anything but the best Mac you could buy.
Actually it was called GamespotTV which is why they had to change the name in the first place since after the ZiffDavis split and ZDTV was sold to Paul Allen, all they had to change their name because Gamespot was owned by ZDnet and not TechTV.
For example, and this is horrifying, imagine that M$ purchases SCO's 'rights'
That wouldn't be horrifying, that would be great. Now MS has a monopoply on Windows and Unix OS's. The SEC steps in and shuts them down for good. (Actually the SEC would step in prior to MS getting the Unix rights, so it would never happen)
So SCO is trying to steal Linux, and /. is up in arms.
No, SCO isn't stealing Linux, SCO is saying that Linux is stealing SCO, thats why we are up in arms.
"Get out of the house, make some RL friends and stop wasting your time in front of a silly computer. You will be far happier and much healthier."
/.?
This comming from someone trolling on
Maybe you should just take your own advice.
"although hopefully only a came from that cat riding the pink marshmallow thing"
First of all, have you played the FFVII?
"I've watched one trailer so far, and it's really dark, and pretty much 'black and white.' I hope that's not what the movie ends up as."
You must have had watched a flawed video or you are colorblind, because from what I have seen it is not just black and white.
Since, at the end of VII, the world that was left was pretty grim and all, somehow I doubt there will be much happiness, flying machines, forests, or chocobos or even the crazy gambling joint (otherwise known as the Gold Saucer, if you played the game).
From what I have seen in the trailers, everything looks great and has the same feel as FFVII, I think FFVII:AC will be great.
Technically since the new Prescott chips have the instructions on them, yes you could buy a 478 Prescott. You would just have to hack the chip to activate the instructions (good luck with that!).
As for a real IA-32e chip with the instructions enabled, Intel has stated that they arent coming out for while, and since Intel is moving the P4 to the new 775 chipset in a few months, I would bet that they would also be released under this new chipset. Heck, they might not even release their IA-32e chips within the lifetime of the 775 chipset.
Personally my Athlon 2600 just fine enough for me.
(BTW, we plant around 100+ trees a year, so don't get all Tree-Hugger on my ass! Or else I'll have my tree-hugging friend to calm you down)