Basically the article is preaching that the MacOS dev tools are better, because it is easier to code GUI apps using the Mac libraries.
Just a load of bull****. Similar tools can be constructed in dt using Qt.
Especially the part where he says about dragging and dropping textures in VRAM. Drag-n-drop is as easy as saying 'ditto', using the Qt's built-in support for drag-n-drop.
Not only that, but a Qt-based tool can be compiled in every platform that Qt exists for.
Ok, this is going to be moderated as a troll / flaimbait, but I don't need such graphical quality in a game. What I expect from a game is good gameplay, an immersive storyline, emotional inducement, etc. Unfortunately, there is no progress at all in these fields.
I will not pretend that I know much about it, but the Japanese studios don't have the money to produce the same kind of action movies that Holywood produces.
So their outlet is anime. But in some ways, anime is better, because they can let their imagination go wild and give us wonders, whereas Holywood keeps regenerating cliches one after the other. How many times do we need to see the all american hero saving the country from the bad guys ?
By the way, my favorite one is Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers). It might be old hat, but if you like your anime full or heroism, romance and battles(and keeping the "science" part as close to reality as possible, without any magic, just bare metal), then it is just the right stuff!
Since Linux is about choice, both VMs should be included, and the admin should choose the one that is most beneficial for the type of installation (desktop, server, etc).
I strongly believe that Linux should stop trying to be Windows in place of Windows. Lindows may do more harm than good in the long term, because no one will write those much needed office apps for the native platform.
Come on people. All that is missing is a printing/font layer, a standard UI, a word processor, a spreadsheet app, a presentation application, a web browser and an e-mail client.
Start coding!!!
Even if Intel creates a processor with 1 trillion transistors tomorrow, it does not matter. The bottleneck on the PC is at the bus and at the storage devices, which are way too slow for todays CPUs.
Instead of bringing a better architecture to the PC, with more parallelism, etc all we hear about is about the CPU. Even the Playstation 2 has 48 GB/sec data throughput in its buses(I do not know if this is sustained or peak, though, I am just quoting what I remember).
The PC needs a faster bus, definitely.
Why do you need an IDE that can be a...word processor, paint program, mail client, web server etc etc ? it's crazy man. There are a lot of small applications that do one thing and do it effectively. That was the original Unix philosophy, anyway.
We are making our life more complex than it really should be.
if there was a good office suit for BeOS (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, calendar, mail client with appointments etc), BeOS would have lived and thrived.
Maybe there is a way to make a voxel-rendering chip out of this 3D chip technology. Imagine a cube of voxels being instantaneously rendered by such a chip. Or better yet, the 3D chip becomes a sort of 3D display, just like the 2D chip contains the pixels of a 2D display.
Like every other post I have made, this will be moderated to 0...but even if one person reads it, I will be a happy man.
Here is a garbage collector for C++ which does not use threads. You just have to use a special template pointer class, and your garbage collected objects should be derived from a special object class, that contains a reference counter.
When a pointer is assigned the object, the reference counter of the object increases.
When a pointer is assigned to another object, the previous object's reference counter is decreased. When it reaches 0, the object is deleted, because no pointer in the program refers to this object any more.
Here is the link to the code...as you can see it is almost 100 lines of code, heavily commented...no need for garbage collector threads or other stuff...:
Although such a move is very good for Linux for short term, on long term this will be a trap for Linux, because no one would care to make anything special for it anymore.
Remember, to lure users to migrate to Linux, we need something different, something better than they already have.
If Linux was the same as Windows, why they would prefer it over Windows ?
Because :
1) a good language will separate the algorithms from the implementations; such a language is C++ (only), due to template support
2) truly component-ware programming comes from multiple-inheritance and combining classes together.
3) operator overloading is a major plus for programs; I am in a development house that develops a military application which uses a lot of 3d calculations; we have made special classes which use operator overloading, so adding two CVector classes is vector1 + vector2 and not some other function. And what is operator overloading really? it is another way to express a function by putting the function name in a different position: for example, instead of writing +(a, b) we write a + b...
4) garbage collection is not good for any application where timings are critical
It has some good points though, namely the extraction of an interface from the sources...
The open source community should look ahead of Microsoft and plan for an 64-bit distributed operating system covering LAN/WAN networks under the same APIs.
This O/S will provide networking not in the sense we know it today(login onto network) but in the sense that every computer in the network will be part of a virtual computer spreading across Earth!
Then "web services" will be merely reduced to a few API calls, since networking will be built-in.
I mean that the architecture of the O/S will be the network.
Ok, but it is not a Pentium CPU. I can not run Linux or Windows on it. So it is useless. And it will also be useless in the future, because it is highly unlikely Intel or AMD will licence this technology.
Not only that, but Intel is far ahead of 2.2 MHz. They just do not show the technology to the public right now, because they must sell the current generation of processors.
Even if a little late I have to say it :
Let's refit the Yamato, rename it the Argo and fly into space for the 148000 light years round-trip!
(If only Gamilons exist!)
the world needs a fast and cheap (and kind of portable, too) home computer, that is easy to operate and play games and write letters and all that minor stuff.
Maybe Playstation 2 is the Amiga of 2000+...
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Why is this moderated as funny ? this is the best comment on this subject so far.
Basically the article is preaching that the MacOS dev tools are better, because it is easier to code GUI apps using the Mac libraries. Just a load of bull****. Similar tools can be constructed in dt using Qt. Especially the part where he says about dragging and dropping textures in VRAM. Drag-n-drop is as easy as saying 'ditto', using the Qt's built-in support for drag-n-drop. Not only that, but a Qt-based tool can be compiled in every platform that Qt exists for.
Ok, this is going to be moderated as a troll / flaimbait, but I don't need such graphical quality in a game. What I expect from a game is good gameplay, an immersive storyline, emotional inducement, etc. Unfortunately, there is no progress at all in these fields.
I will not pretend that I know much about it, but the Japanese studios don't have the money to produce the same kind of action movies that Holywood produces.
So their outlet is anime. But in some ways, anime is better, because they can let their imagination go wild and give us wonders, whereas Holywood keeps regenerating cliches one after the other. How many times do we need to see the all american hero saving the country from the bad guys ?
By the way, my favorite one is Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers). It might be old hat, but if you like your anime full or heroism, romance and battles(and keeping the "science" part as close to reality as possible, without any magic, just bare metal), then it is just the right stuff!
Since Linux is about choice, both VMs should be included, and the admin should choose the one that is most beneficial for the type of installation (desktop, server, etc).
I strongly believe that Linux should stop trying to be Windows in place of Windows. Lindows may do more harm than good in the long term, because no one will write those much needed office apps for the native platform.
Come on people. All that is missing is a printing/font layer, a standard UI, a word processor, a spreadsheet app, a presentation application, a web browser and an e-mail client.
Start coding!!!
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Even if Intel creates a processor with 1 trillion transistors tomorrow, it does not matter. The bottleneck on the PC is at the bus and at the storage devices, which are way too slow for todays CPUs.
Instead of bringing a better architecture to the PC, with more parallelism, etc all we hear about is about the CPU. Even the Playstation 2 has 48 GB/sec data throughput in its buses(I do not know if this is sustained or peak, though, I am just quoting what I remember).
The PC needs a faster bus, definitely.
Why do you need an IDE that can be a ...word processor, paint program, mail client, web server etc etc ? it's crazy man. There are a lot of small applications that do one thing and do it effectively. That was the original Unix philosophy, anyway.
We are making our life more complex than it really should be.
It needs an extension which would make apps 'see' the network as a unified computer, as one machine.
Then, writing net-enabled apps would be very easy.
if there was a good office suit for BeOS (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, calendar, mail client with appointments etc), BeOS would have lived and thrived.
Maybe there is a way to make a voxel-rendering chip out of this 3D chip technology. Imagine a cube of voxels being instantaneously rendered by such a chip. Or better yet, the 3D chip becomes a sort of 3D display, just like the 2D chip contains the pixels of a 2D display.
the solution is simple : use subdirectories, and provide sym-links to a main directory which is standard...
Where is the great american spirit ? If I have a good idea, why should I make it using the open source model ? why not become rich ?...
Like every other post I have made, this will be moderated to 0...but even if one person reads it, I will be a happy man.
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Here is a garbage collector for C++ which does not use threads. You just have to use a special template pointer class, and your garbage collected objects should be derived from a special object class, that contains a reference counter.
When a pointer is assigned the object, the reference counter of the object increases. When a pointer is assigned to another object, the previous object's reference counter is decreased. When it reaches 0, the object is deleted, because no pointer in the program refers to this object any more.
Here is the link to the code...as you can see it is almost 100 lines of code, heavily commented...no need for garbage collector threads or other stuff...
C++ garbage collector
My point is that if C++ was properly used, Java/C#/VB would not be needed.
And for a very good C++ GUI toolkit, use Qt
Although such a move is very good for Linux for short term, on long term this will be a trap for Linux, because no one would care to make anything special for it anymore.
Remember, to lure users to migrate to Linux, we need something different, something better than they already have.
If Linux was the same as Windows, why they would prefer it over Windows ?
It is another thing to go against Islam (which is not a bad religion, after all) and a completely different one to go against fanatics as the Taliban.
US, Europe is with you.
My only fear is what Taliban & Osama Bin Laden will do for retaliation...
check out Allegro... Allegro is a multimedia library for Windows, Linux, Dos, BeOS, MacOS etc.
Because : 1) a good language will separate the algorithms from the implementations; such a language is C++ (only), due to template support 2) truly component-ware programming comes from multiple-inheritance and combining classes together. 3) operator overloading is a major plus for programs; I am in a development house that develops a military application which uses a lot of 3d calculations; we have made special classes which use operator overloading, so adding two CVector classes is vector1 + vector2 and not some other function. And what is operator overloading really? it is another way to express a function by putting the function name in a different position: for example, instead of writing +(a, b) we write a + b... 4) garbage collection is not good for any application where timings are critical It has some good points though, namely the extraction of an interface from the sources...
and forget the web too!
The open source community should look ahead of Microsoft and plan for an 64-bit distributed operating system covering LAN/WAN networks under the same APIs.
This O/S will provide networking not in the sense we know it today(login onto network) but in the sense that every computer in the network will be part of a virtual computer spreading across Earth!
Then "web services" will be merely reduced to a few API calls, since networking will be built-in.
I mean that the architecture of the O/S will be the network.
Ok, but it is not a Pentium CPU. I can not run Linux or Windows on it. So it is useless. And it will also be useless in the future, because it is highly unlikely Intel or AMD will licence this technology. Not only that, but Intel is far ahead of 2.2 MHz. They just do not show the technology to the public right now, because they must sell the current generation of processors.
Even if a little late I have to say it : Let's refit the Yamato, rename it the Argo and fly into space for the 148000 light years round-trip! (If only Gamilons exist!)
just put the 'shared' libraries which cause conflict in another directory.
the world needs a fast and cheap (and kind of portable, too) home computer, that is easy to operate and play games and write letters and all that minor stuff. Maybe Playstation 2 is the Amiga of 2000+...
Since cancer affects all the parts of the body (eventually), does this mean that MS will be affected by open source, too? :-)