> It has the cross-platform io facility of which you speak
My work experience is that c++ is not easily portable. All c++ compilers I've worked with on various unixen had some kind of brain damage that made most of the advanced c++ features (like templates) near unusable.
no need for winex
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JKII works mostly fine with latest vanilla wine (I have radeon7k something) provided that: - you install it in windows, then you can copy it whereever - some non-3d cutscenes don't appear in single player - you don't set texture quality too high, with many players/big maps I see lot's of weirdness in the textures - the brightness setting does not work, you have to use xgamma youself, the result is the same - the cdrom must be mounted before starting the game
However the wine+linux combo seems noticably faster than on w2k with same settings. I'm not drawing any conclusions though, it might be just shitty drivers on windows or some tuning stuff I missed.
BeOS' strength was its clean and new design. By conforming to the binary result of this design these hackers are missing the whole point.
Get over it, BeOS is dead, binary emulation of it is just pathetic, you will be always left in the dark by not being allowed to take a look at the source code, and reverse engineering is a pain.
Why not take its design paradigms and build something new in the same fashion. This is how Be got started, remember ?
No. Games will continue to sell as always. And it's hard to prove they are destroying fun - it is a relative thing.
I've been playing computer games since the mid 80's and I find that my definition of fun is changing. In the 80's it was fun to shoot alien spaceships on a 2d screen. Now the multiplayer games are much more fun, real opponents are more realistic (you cannot argue that), and they add to the game, not destroy it.
As usual, an ignorant post get moderated up, sigh. Here is your.NET article. It was correctly posted only to a section, since I don't think the average slashdotter will start compiling it, let alone show interest in it.
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I use it to encrypt/decrypt files I don't want others to read. And it's quite easy: gpg -c and -d.
is not that it's innovative or nice. As mentioned by others its features have been implemented in less hyped games long ago, and the graphics is just a warcraft + starcraft combined.
But, when it comes out you know that everyone and their little brother will be playing it - giving a large multiplayer base, mod/map community, etc, and this will make it the next big thing in RTS.
Why I will never buy any GXP drive
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I considered paying for Opera, but it's still too shoddy. Many times it just dumps core on an "easy" page which contains only html.
I have the 6.0 B1 version and it still cannot handle all javascript pages as nicely as mozilla.
Also it has some problems with keyboard input, I want to use keyboard in a flash game for example, and it catches the keyboard events and opens menus, changes focus to another widget, etc.
Computers are not really taken advantage of nowadays. Weak compilers, very abstract languages, etc. Java will be a viable choice when the bytecode is run directly by commodity cpu-s.
Actually a computer architecture would be interesting, that "thinks" in classes, objects and references.
I think the faster computers are to run Java, the faster it is to just recompile your C or C++ code even on-the-fly...
From the mplayerhq.hu website: (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/formats.ht ml#2.1.1.4 )
"Codecs: any codecs allowed, both CBR and VBR. Note: most new mov files use Sorenson video and QDesign Music audio. These formats are completely secret, and only Apple's quicktime player is able to play these files (on win/mac only)."
So it basically doesn't support MOV except some old stuff.
HDTV is yet another product searching for a market. It's too easy to fall into the trap of "if we make it a bit better everyone will want to change to it". Well guess what ? Regular TV is Good Enough (tm) for all that crap that's on.
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> It has the cross-platform io facility of which you speak
My work experience is that c++ is not easily portable.
All c++ compilers I've worked with on various unixen had some kind of brain damage that made most of the advanced c++ features (like templates) near unusable.
JKII works mostly fine with latest vanilla wine (I have radeon7k something) provided that:
- you install it in windows, then you can copy it whereever
- some non-3d cutscenes don't appear in single player
- you don't set texture quality too high, with many players/big maps I see lot's of weirdness in the textures
- the brightness setting does not work, you have to use xgamma youself, the result is the same
- the cdrom must be mounted before starting the game
However the wine+linux combo seems noticably faster than on w2k with same settings. I'm not drawing any conclusions though, it might be just shitty drivers on windows or some tuning stuff I missed.
BeOS' strength was its clean and new design.
By conforming to the binary result of this design these hackers are missing the whole point.
Get over it, BeOS is dead, binary emulation of it is just pathetic, you will be always left in the dark by not being allowed to take a look at the source code, and reverse engineering is a pain.
Why not take its design paradigms and build something new in the same fashion.
This is how Be got started, remember ?
Isn't the most popular multiplayer game (Counter-Strike) a mod ?
At the of the end of day everything is a mod of something, there are _very_ few original ideas in gaming.
No.
Games will continue to sell as always.
And it's hard to prove they are destroying fun - it is a relative thing.
I've been playing computer games since the mid 80's and I find that my definition of fun is changing.
In the 80's it was fun to shoot alien spaceships on a 2d screen.
Now the multiplayer games are much more fun, real opponents are more realistic (you cannot argue that), and they add to the game, not destroy it.
xzgv is the viewer of my choice, it is fast and efficient, it should be able to handle these big files
Thus begins yet another onslaught of painfully unfunny aprils fools jokes on slashdot.
Time to take a day off...
As usual, an ignorant post get moderated up, sigh. .NET article.
Here is your
It was correctly posted only to a section, since I don't think the average slashdotter will start compiling it, let alone show interest in it.
I use it to encrypt/decrypt files I don't want others to read. .
And it's quite easy: gpg -c and -d
I think Ion is worth a try.
is not that it's innovative or nice.
As mentioned by others its features have been implemented in less hyped games long ago, and the graphics is just a warcraft + starcraft combined.
But, when it comes out you know that everyone and their little brother will be playing it - giving a large multiplayer base, mod/map community, etc, and this will make it the next big thing in RTS.
Take a look at this.
Scary.
I've been playing around with this prog, it has quite a big 3d map in it.
I considered paying for Opera, but it's still too shoddy.
Many times it just dumps core on an "easy" page which contains only html.
I have the 6.0 B1 version and it still cannot handle all javascript pages as nicely as mozilla.
Also it has some problems with keyboard input, I want to use keyboard in a flash game for example, and it catches the keyboard events and opens menus, changes focus to another widget, etc.
So I'll wait and see how the final 6.0 behaves.
Computers are not really taken advantage of nowadays. Weak compilers, very abstract languages, etc.
Java will be a viable choice when the bytecode is run directly by commodity cpu-s.
Actually a computer architecture would be interesting, that "thinks" in classes, objects and references.
I think the faster computers are to run Java, the faster it is to just recompile your C or C++ code even on-the-fly...
> I'd warez the books if I could
It's called photocopying. Well, ok, not exactly like warezing, but it still can be many times cheaper than to buy the book.
But... but... you can't leave, slashdot just wouldn't be the same without Anonymous Coward !
Alpha is little-endian.
You have to make the source available upon request, not distribute it.
I've checked the links, and it isn't clear if it is available or not.
Writeups like these do not exactly make me want to reach into my wallet and pay for this site.
Try this page
I think linuxhardware.org is nice, we could use more comments over there !
From the mplayerhq.hu website:t ml#2.1.1.4 )
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/formats.h
"Codecs: any codecs allowed, both CBR and VBR. Note: most new mov files use Sorenson video and QDesign Music audio. These formats are completely secret, and only Apple's quicktime player is able to play these files (on win/mac only)."
So it basically doesn't support MOV except some old stuff.
HDTV is yet another product searching for a market.
It's too easy to fall into the trap of "if we make it a bit better everyone will want to change to it".
Well guess what ?
Regular TV is Good Enough (tm) for all that crap that's on.
what a looker
or maybe not...
Well I don't care, just gimme karma.
Eat shit, 100 billion flies _can't_ be wrong !
In related news, Windows(tm) still has 98% of the desktop computing market.