Darl has conceeded to Wired Magazine that the reason he's doing this is that when he was brought into Caldera, they were very close to having to close their doors. I think I still have the issue if you want to know the month, but it's definitely in there.
about your sig, great work. Most people seem wilfully ignorant of the fact that the guy obviously hates the armed forces. Cutting combat pay in half? Reducing vetrans benefits? 1.5 billion cut from military housing? no healthcare for reservists?
oh yeah. A vote for Bush is a vote supporting the military...taking a long walk off a short pier.;)
The lack of games by that company is enough to keep me on PCs forever anyway.
Oh yeah, and the cost issue is only relevant if you didn't plan on having a PC in the first place. Even now the new games which absolutely require pixel shading and such are few and far between, to the point where I use my toshiba satellite 1400 with a Cyberblade XP for almost all of my gaming needs. Granted, I'm not an FPS freak, but I can play most games, especially strategy games, without a complaint. If a hunk of junk like this can do it, that desktop machine you can buy for less than the cost of the average console can too, and it'll be doing it longer as well(most games don't need more than a gigahertz, most games don't need more than rudimentary 3d acceleration in resolutions and detail levels comperable to consoles).
(for the naysayers remember that XBox has nearly unlimited funds behind it, when you have that kind of capital it's not a matter of it but rather a matter of when)
You'll have to explain to me the point where you absolutely require a TV to use a couch, or where you absolutely require a console to use a game controller. I sit at the couch and play computer games all the time(well, less lately since I've been using the PC a lot less and cycling a lot more, but I still get a chance to post on slashdot or play games once in a while), using a gamepad.
Personally, I'm a fan of saitek controllers for the PC. Nicely designed; buttons are just mushy enough, plenty of heft to the controller itself, large enough for a grown set of hands, and nice control placement. Logitechs(at least the one I own, the Logitech wingman force feedback) suffer from cheap manufacture, like the analog controller knobs(which are just plastic, and only held on to the analog sticks with friction, and poor design, like the ill concieved throttle. My Microsoft Sidewinder isn't on the same level since it has no analog elements, but it's also a fine gamepad for games which suit it. Thanks to DirectInput, they'll all work perfectly in any game with configurable input.
As for the couch issue, spend a few bucks on a reasonably sized monitor(and while you're at it, an ATI all-in-wonder to add tuner support), and there should be no reason that your PC can't be a permenant fixture in your living room.
While that's true, I've not found any that can give the same visual or audio quality as an XBox. Sound cards that have S/PDIF output are still quite expensive.
Since the X-Box uses an nvidia chip, it stands to reason that an nvidia sound card should do the trick. Most of my sound hardware is 20 years old(hey, when you buy quality, it lasts.) so I couldn't use it, but my stock asus motherboard came with optical sp/dif in and out.
Sorry to butt into your conversation, but Microsoft already had a lucrative monopoly on it's DOS by the time windows came about. Upstart my ass. Maybe if we were talking basic compilers for 8 bit computers?:P
The Japanese have different standards concerning corporate raids. Microsoft, for example, is a foreign company(which makes them a bigger target than a japanese company thanks to japans almost childlike jingostism with regards to it's companies), and has been the target of raids in the past.
Though I do like Java quite a bit, from the ultimate compatiblity which means that I can run crucial apps on Windows 98/2k, BeOS, OS/2 Warp 4.0, Linux, and others(which I don't nessessarily have installed at the moment;) ), to the "oh my god, you mean that works the same way?" joy of developing under it, there can be no doubt that it IS slow to load. Want proof? Switch javac.exe to the Jikes compiler from IBM. You've just cut your compiling times down to a fraction of the speed. How? Jikes is written in C.
Ever since I discovered the combination of dual head displays and USB keyboards/mice, I've wanted to do this one a windows machine. For gaming it would be absolutely superb(especially with a multiproc machine). No network latency, no configuration hassles, just "hey, I've got a spare keyboard, mouse, and monitor, want to play UT2k3?"
'Course, being windows, I didn't find a way, but this is really cool too. Too bad I have a very proprietary Cyberblade XP ai1 in this machine.:/
ok, maybe a better way to think of it is like this:
If a car company sells you a car that is known to catch fire unexectedly, or whose safety chains are broken, or you're in an accident, and your seatbelt breaks free, your airbag fails to deploy, and the crumple zones drive the steering wheel back, do you have a right to sue?
The (pane of glass)windows are insecure by nature of their relatively fragile construction. People know that. Security flaws in software, however, are flaws in engineering and workmanship, not inherent limitations in the materials used. If that's a problem with software engineers, maybe they should take up a safer profession -- flipping burgers, perhaps?
It's a slippery slope in both directions. Case in point: You can't reasonably expect a patched XP box(not sp2, it's not really out yet) to be virus free a couple hours after it's been plugged in, because insecure machines around the globe prod at the defenses of every IP address out there with a cacophany of virus packets. 2k either. 98 might possibly be safe, in a huge irony.
At what point does the world get to say "Hey, you're costing us millions here. When are you going to do your part?"
Insightful my foot. If I pay a garage to fix my car, it had better be a professional job, or I'll sue. If I get my buddy Rick to fix my car and he flubs it, I've got no right to complain.
In spite of what people say, OSS isn't a business. My own open code? I wrote it on weekends and after work. If I had been paid to do it, if you had paid me to do it, you might have a right to complain. otherwise, it's a gift. Stop treating it as if you are entitled to ANYTHING AT ALL. When you start putting food on the developers table, perhaps then you can talk about class action suits. Otherwise, shut the fuck up, you egotistical brat.
The problem with Kyoto is that it's not nessesarily based on reality. Carbon dioxide emissions as a cause of global warming is only one of many different theories about climate change. Among others, some have noticed that solar flare patterns coincide with climate change far more readily than carbon dioxide emissions, and new work put out also shows that the warm period we're in might be just beginning, and could last as long as 13 thousand years more.
Without a definitive, agreed upon set of facts, we shouldn't go rushing off to change anything. Long before we decrease CO2 emissions(actually, we(civilization at large) already have -- in the past 50 years or so, our CO2 emissions have dropped dramatically), I'd be more interested in continuing to reduce sulphur emissions, since that DOES have a direct impact on the health of humans, and other toxins which have a direct impact on humans.
Wouldn't it be easier to pop a NES and SNES emulator onto a DVD-R along with ROMS for all your favourite games (the complete SNES romset is about 3Gb, but 90% of those games suck ass. The complete NES romset is only a couple of hundreds of megabytes), and save yourself from the horror of oneday realizing that your console just died?:)
Letting Linux and Windows sit at the same bar seems sort of silly to me -- you didn't pay 400 bucks for your linux license, did you? (if you did, I've got some land in florida to sell you)
Though to be honest, I think both are horribly deficient in critical areas, and in the past I've thrown my support behind somewhat less deficient OSes, even though they were destined to fail anyway -- hey, who says that OS/2 Warp and BeOS don't have great ideas in them?:D
Actually, there are two definitions of "blue moon", and only one of them is particularly rare. The second full moon of the month happens every 32 months, but the second defenition refers to an atmospheric phenomena where the moon actually appears to be blue, usually due to particles in the air or smoke.
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I'm sure your handguns and hunting rifles will work really well against tanks and the much lauded "Army of One(tm)(c)(patent pending)".
Oh wait...you're nuts. nevermind.
Das deusche Linux benutzer ist wondervoll! hel das suse, das ist uberwondervoll! Heil Torvalds!
Happy?
Darl has conceeded to Wired Magazine that the reason he's doing this is that when he was brought into Caldera, they were very close to having to close their doors. I think I still have the issue if you want to know the month, but it's definitely in there.
about your sig, great work. Most people seem wilfully ignorant of the fact that the guy obviously hates the armed forces. Cutting combat pay in half? Reducing vetrans benefits? 1.5 billion cut from military housing? no healthcare for reservists?
;)
oh yeah. A vote for Bush is a vote supporting the military...taking a long walk off a short pier.
Or Koei. (shudders)
The lack of games by that company is enough to keep me on PCs forever anyway.
Oh yeah, and the cost issue is only relevant if you didn't plan on having a PC in the first place. Even now the new games which absolutely require pixel shading and such are few and far between, to the point where I use my toshiba satellite 1400 with a Cyberblade XP for almost all of my gaming needs. Granted, I'm not an FPS freak, but I can play most games, especially strategy games, without a complaint. If a hunk of junk like this can do it, that desktop machine you can buy for less than the cost of the average console can too, and it'll be doing it longer as well(most games don't need more than a gigahertz, most games don't need more than rudimentary 3d acceleration in resolutions and detail levels comperable to consoles).
(for the naysayers remember that XBox has nearly unlimited funds behind it, when you have that kind of capital it's not a matter of it but rather a matter of when)
Two inital responses:
1) Yeah! Just like Ultimate TV and Microsoft Bob!
2) Sony: "What am I? Chopped liver?"
You'll have to explain to me the point where you absolutely require a TV to use a couch, or where you absolutely require a console to use a game controller. I sit at the couch and play computer games all the time(well, less lately since I've been using the PC a lot less and cycling a lot more, but I still get a chance to post on slashdot or play games once in a while), using a gamepad.
Personally, I'm a fan of saitek controllers for the PC. Nicely designed; buttons are just mushy enough, plenty of heft to the controller itself, large enough for a grown set of hands, and nice control placement. Logitechs(at least the one I own, the Logitech wingman force feedback) suffer from cheap manufacture, like the analog controller knobs(which are just plastic, and only held on to the analog sticks with friction, and poor design, like the ill concieved throttle. My Microsoft Sidewinder isn't on the same level since it has no analog elements, but it's also a fine gamepad for games which suit it. Thanks to DirectInput, they'll all work perfectly in any game with configurable input.
As for the couch issue, spend a few bucks on a reasonably sized monitor(and while you're at it, an ATI all-in-wonder to add tuner support), and there should be no reason that your PC can't be a permenant fixture in your living room.
While that's true, I've not found any that can give the same visual or audio quality as an XBox. Sound cards that have S/PDIF output are still quite expensive.
:)
Since the X-Box uses an nvidia chip, it stands to reason that an nvidia sound card should do the trick. Most of my sound hardware is 20 years old(hey, when you buy quality, it lasts.) so I couldn't use it, but my stock asus motherboard came with optical sp/dif in and out.
Just pointing that out.
Sorry to butt into your conversation, but Microsoft already had a lucrative monopoly on it's DOS by the time windows came about. Upstart my ass. Maybe if we were talking basic compilers for 8 bit computers? :P
IBM literally made Microsoft what it is today.
The Japanese have different standards concerning corporate raids. Microsoft, for example, is a foreign company(which makes them a bigger target than a japanese company thanks to japans almost childlike jingostism with regards to it's companies), and has been the target of raids in the past.
Hasn't that version of moores law been proven pretty much wrong in the past 18 months? Seems to me we've spent years around 3Ghz.
:)
'course, moores law was more applied to TRANSISTORS than speed in any sense, but oh well.
You might want to worry about solar flares as well. The best solution? Wrap your hard drive in magnets. They hate that.
Though I do like Java quite a bit, from the ultimate compatiblity which means that I can run crucial apps on Windows 98/2k, BeOS, OS/2 Warp 4.0, Linux, and others(which I don't nessessarily have installed at the moment ;) ), to the "oh my god, you mean that works the same way?" joy of developing under it, there can be no doubt that it IS slow to load. Want proof? Switch javac.exe to the Jikes compiler from IBM. You've just cut your compiling times down to a fraction of the speed. How? Jikes is written in C.
Ever since I discovered the combination of dual head displays and USB keyboards/mice, I've wanted to do this one a windows machine. For gaming it would be absolutely superb(especially with a multiproc machine). No network latency, no configuration hassles, just "hey, I've got a spare keyboard, mouse, and monitor, want to play UT2k3?"
:/
'Course, being windows, I didn't find a way, but this is really cool too. Too bad I have a very proprietary Cyberblade XP ai1 in this machine.
ok, maybe a better way to think of it is like this:
If a car company sells you a car that is known to catch fire unexectedly, or whose safety chains are broken, or you're in an accident, and your seatbelt breaks free, your airbag fails to deploy, and the crumple zones drive the steering wheel back, do you have a right to sue?
The (pane of glass)windows are insecure by nature of their relatively fragile construction. People know that. Security flaws in software, however, are flaws in engineering and workmanship, not inherent limitations in the materials used. If that's a problem with software engineers, maybe they should take up a safer profession -- flipping burgers, perhaps?
It's a slippery slope in both directions. Case in point: You can't reasonably expect a patched XP box(not sp2, it's not really out yet) to be virus free a couple hours after it's been plugged in, because insecure machines around the globe prod at the defenses of every IP address out there with a cacophany of virus packets. 2k either. 98 might possibly be safe, in a huge irony.
At what point does the world get to say "Hey, you're costing us millions here. When are you going to do your part?"
and btw, dual licensed commercial OSS/commercial linux software is absolutely open to class action lawsuits by customers.
Insightful my foot. If I pay a garage to fix my car, it had better be a professional job, or I'll sue. If I get my buddy Rick to fix my car and he flubs it, I've got no right to complain.
In spite of what people say, OSS isn't a business. My own open code? I wrote it on weekends and after work. If I had been paid to do it, if you had paid me to do it, you might have a right to complain. otherwise, it's a gift. Stop treating it as if you are entitled to ANYTHING AT ALL. When you start putting food on the developers table, perhaps then you can talk about class action suits. Otherwise, shut the fuck up, you egotistical brat.
Just off the top of my head...
:P
Mechwarrior 2:Mercenaries(win32 version)
ZPC
Fighting Force
FFVII
Soul Reaver:Legacy of Kain
There are more, and there are quite a few that aren't games, but being the old game fan I am, I stick with what I know.
The problem with Kyoto is that it's not nessesarily based on reality. Carbon dioxide emissions as a cause of global warming is only one of many different theories about climate change. Among others, some have noticed that solar flare patterns coincide with climate change far more readily than carbon dioxide emissions, and new work put out also shows that the warm period we're in might be just beginning, and could last as long as 13 thousand years more.
Without a definitive, agreed upon set of facts, we shouldn't go rushing off to change anything. Long before we decrease CO2 emissions(actually, we(civilization at large) already have -- in the past 50 years or so, our CO2 emissions have dropped dramatically), I'd be more interested in continuing to reduce sulphur emissions, since that DOES have a direct impact on the health of humans, and other toxins which have a direct impact on humans.
Wouldn't it be easier to pop a NES and SNES emulator onto a DVD-R along with ROMS for all your favourite games (the complete SNES romset is about 3Gb, but 90% of those games suck ass. The complete NES romset is only a couple of hundreds of megabytes), and save yourself from the horror of oneday realizing that your console just died? :)
If you have a CD-Burner, you can install the MS patches right into the i386 directory using a technique called slipstreaming.
:)
This will leave you with an up to date system before the network drivers are even activated. I've made several myself, and they're a godsend.
I read this and burst out laughing -- I found out only recently what poms and septics were.
It right sucks, but the hosers here don't have any anglophones either, eh? I guess I'll drown my sorrows with some brown bread and homo milk.
Letting Linux and Windows sit at the same bar seems sort of silly to me -- you didn't pay 400 bucks for your linux license, did you? (if you did, I've got some land in florida to sell you)
:D
Though to be honest, I think both are horribly deficient in critical areas, and in the past I've thrown my support behind somewhat less deficient OSes, even though they were destined to fail anyway -- hey, who says that OS/2 Warp and BeOS don't have great ideas in them?
Actually, there are two definitions of "blue moon", and only one of them is particularly rare. The second full moon of the month happens every 32 months, but the second defenition refers to an atmospheric phenomena where the moon actually appears to be blue, usually due to particles in the air or smoke.