... though I like the brightness and flatness (no pincushion or pixel adjustment necessary) of LCDs, I still prefer a great CRT with 75+hz refresh, rich color and high resolution (>=1920x1200).
I also find that LCD dot pitch tends a bit low (1280x1024 on a 19" screen? puh-leeze.. 1600x1200 is more like it) for reasonable pricing.
Then again, I'd take a 3-chip DLP or D-ILA FP display any day, as long as it was 1080p.. (that is, if it doesn't currently exist..)
I can't see much point in single-player Bolo, though I had a hell of a time when I'd leave my computer lab open after hours and me and my buds would hijack the Mac LCs..
I had even designed the north campus of the University at Buffalo as a giant Bolo map.. Ran it at UBCon one year..
Then I discovered Netrek and lost a couple of semesters there...
Look at the earthquake in Bam, Iran. Islamic state.
The tsunami. Worst afflicted? Islamic states.
West African locusts. Worst afflicted? Islamic states.
The tsunami occurred right after Christmas, so Christians in a giving spirit could swoop in and 'save the day'. Then again, I suppose it's never the wrong time of year to indulge in impotent rage.
This crackpot theory makes at least as much sense as your paranoid rant.
... then it mysteriously vanished without comment from their lineup.
Now it's all 720p, which is fine for gaming and sporting events, but for movie fans 1080 would be better.
Then again, when the first wave of 1080p breaks, the other monitors will get cheaper, and I spend more time in Halo2 than watching Merchant Ivory upconversions anyway...
I'm somewhat disappointed that this won't be the old cube (or a new, aluminized version). Also, I have a feeling that it will have crap onboard graphics that won't be upgradable and probably some kind of crap 2-generation old memory technology.
1.25GHz G4 without Quartz Extreme would be a poor introduction to OS X IMHO. At least make sure there's a standard AGP or PCIe slot.
But, given the new iMac, they'll screw this up. It'll be an LCD-less iMac with the crap video soldered in. Meh.
The fact is that part of being a paladin is being Lawful Good. That's the point, the quintessence of paladinacy. IIRC in fact if you lose your Lawful Good alignment for any length of time you lose your paladin powers and become a comparable-level fighter.
(Unless that's changed in 3.5 edition...)
This is why I prefer Chaotic Neutral dwarven barbarians.. Chaotic Neutral means you never have to apologize for not giving a shit.
While I have no real love for racists, all I can say is that you should be careful hating. It could end up making you just like them.
Oh, that's not hate. Hate involves power drills, skulls and whisks.. Can you say frappe lobotomy?
Now the movie Wild Wild West where James West was black was STUPID!!!!! Okay 1800's America and a black man has his own private train and NO ONE NOTICES it.... Ummmmm..... Talk about your distorted view of history.
True enough, but that's a somewhat different story, for the historical reason you mention as well as for the ridiculously anachronistic dialogue (and the ridiculous story, etc...)
IIRC there was nothing in the radio series or novels that mentioned anything about Ford's "race", except for that it was a race of beings from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. For all that was (or was not) exposed he could have been a V lizard under fake skin. The only relevant character trait IMHO is that you could store a side of beef in him for at least a fortnight, and quite probably a Beeblebroxian month. And yes, IMHO, Mos Def could do that. I could just about see him as Zaphod, or even Burma Jones (from Confederacy of Dunces)...
Black Man (Mos Def) the hip hop thug RUINS it for me !!!
Fucking racist.
There's so many ways this movie can be ruined, starting with the 'Warwick Davis' voice of Marvin (whereas the One True Voice belongs to Stephen Moore) and going to reinterpreting throwaway jokes as plot points. The whole Zaphod thing gives me fucking tremors, though Arthur is perfectly cast.
However, if Mos Def can pull off a Lennie James or Robbie Gee (instead of Don Cheadle who should have been replaced by one of those two in the Oceans 1[12] flix) he'll be BRILLIANT as Ford.
Fucking shite racists like you need to be murdered slowly and painfully, preferably with spoons and vinegar-soaked broken lightbulbs...
* LED, not VFD? * Where's teh Athlon64? * Must be easy to stack components on top of that lame handle. * Where's the dual PCIe? Maybe I have a 720p monitor I want to smoke Doom3 on?
.... if it doesn't come with satisfying single-player and LAN multiplayer experiences.
If you buy the game and all it does is let you log into a premium paid online service, you should get the game for at most the cost of the media.
I don't have a problem with paying to subscribe to a gaming service, especially if the game world is dynamic and the admins are coming up with quests, new objects, backstory, playing as NPCs, etc....
1. It's going to take significant resources to do this. The KDE programmers are remarkably prolific, but a Windows version of everything will be a major undertaking, and will inevitably slow development of the Linux versions. Jumping through the (small, moving, flaming) hoops that MS will require to get the functionality and performance that the KDE people will demand could well be seen as -- if not a waste of effort -- then an huge effort with little reward.
KDE is based on the Qt toolkit, which is portable among UNIX, Win32 and OSX (Carbon IIRC). In theory, getting higher-level KDE components and apps to work would require just a recompile. Of course, apps with any useful function probably rely on external non-Qt functionality (like gIFT, the IM libraries, etc) that would need porting as well.
2. Lock-in. It's not out of the question by any means that MS will attempt to creatively co-op the KDE team by building in cool, but MS-only features, that would then be hard or impossible to port back to Linux -- for patent or other reasons. It would be a disaster (to me) if the Windows version of KDE tools were better than Linux versions.
Given that Trolltech makes its living selling development licenses and support for the Qt toolkit, I would find it quite surprising that M$ would be able to influence them. As well, Qt is dual-licensed to GPL, so unless M$ bought them out and relicensed a later version of the Qt toolkit I don't see this as an issue.
Office/Productivity software is the next step, but I think that will be the biggest challege by far, considering how many people and businesses are stuck with proprietary MS Office documents. And contrary to claims otherwise, many many MS Word documents do not convert perfectly to Open Office.
Don't forget groupware functionality. Everything free on Linux is still either in some beta form, or doesn't work with Outlook clients with full functionality. I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of running Groupwise for this, but it isn't Free.
Media player software is another doozy. There's no linux software out there right now that's as versatile and fully featured as Windows Media Player, and there are no Linux DVD players that match up to windows apps like PowerDVD.
KMplayer on Gentoo is pretty close.. Gentoo makes it easy to download and install a whole load of proprietary Win32 codec DLLs, and KMPlayer is somewhat easier to use.
Apollon is a superior P2P client, which accesses any net in the gIFT scope.
Personally, I would be interested in seeing KDE apps relicensing themselves dually: GPL on open platforms and a paid binary license for Windows users.
Here's a Q.. In the last few years Flash has added stuff like networking, DB access, dynamic generation of content, etc.. How much of this is actually in SVG?
AFAICR SVG was just a vector content format. Do SVG viewers implement stuff along the lines of Flash or do they just display SVG content?
Can you program a network-capable video game in SVG according to a single standard?
The way I see it lately, Flash is eating applet Java lunch and is quickly approaching full-blown Swing app territory... And what is inherently wrong with Flash being the view layer ala HTML, Qt, MFC, etc... I mean, of course, besides its proprietary nature...
I'm getting new AIX hardware soon (at work), so I'll have to see if they boosted performance in the past 2 years, but I think the OS sucks so bad I doubt it'll matter.
Have you seen Power5 benches lately?
They kick the crap out of almost everything else out there.
I remember when POWER chips were crap price/performance (when I worked for Big Blue and built my RS/6ks out of leftover junker parts) but those days are over...
Also, I would hope stuff like the ODM has improved since 3.2.5, and as much as people whinge about smit at least it worked and left script droppings so you could learn the CLI tools over time...
I'm just curious to see how well Samba currently and is planned to work with eDirectory/NDS, and how well it would integrate with a Groupwise layout (I had originally built an IT infrastructure with OpenLDAP, Cyrus IMAP, SMB-LDAP, Postfix, etc... It worked but managing passwords was unpleasant and groupware functionality was nonexistent)..
Also, has Samba made dealing with SMB passwords less awful? Contributed standardized LDAP schema and worked to have SMB password setting integrated with *LDAP, etc? The only way I could get it to work (back in 2001 or so) was to write a password-changing web script and that is kinda clunky..
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I have to wonder, what with all the heat a human body gives off, might it not be useful to harness some of that?
I presume that these things absorb infrared energy, and are thus cool to the touch?
If so, an infrared absorbing t-shirt would be handy, even if it only involved the armpits...
... though I like the brightness and flatness (no pincushion or pixel adjustment necessary) of LCDs, I still prefer a great CRT with 75+hz refresh, rich color and high resolution (>=1920x1200).
I also find that LCD dot pitch tends a bit low (1280x1024 on a 19" screen? puh-leeze.. 1600x1200 is more like it) for reasonable pricing.
Then again, I'd take a 3-chip DLP or D-ILA FP display any day, as long as it was 1080p.. (that is, if it doesn't currently exist..)
... when there's a Linux and/or Mac OS X version available.
Windows only == unworthy of front page listing...
... nothing in the article about it, but I assume it'll be there to some extent.
Otherwise, it's worthless.
I can't see much point in single-player Bolo, though I had a hell of a time when I'd leave my computer lab open after hours and me and my buds would hijack the Mac LCs..
I had even designed the north campus of the University at Buffalo as a giant Bolo map.. Ran it at UBCon one year..
Then I discovered Netrek and lost a couple of semesters there...
AAh good times..
OGG!
Or.. Maybe it's God's wrath against Muslims?
Look at the earthquake in Bam, Iran. Islamic state.
The tsunami. Worst afflicted? Islamic states.
West African locusts. Worst afflicted? Islamic states.
The tsunami occurred right after Christmas, so Christians in a giving spirit could swoop in and 'save the day'. Then again, I suppose it's never the wrong time of year to indulge in impotent rage.
This crackpot theory makes at least as much sense as your paranoid rant.
Spend the money on private space projects, unmanned probes and the Mars mission. Who needs the ISS boondoggle anymore anyway?
... then it mysteriously vanished without comment from their lineup.
Now it's all 720p, which is fine for gaming and sporting events, but for movie fans 1080 would be better.
Then again, when the first wave of 1080p breaks, the other monitors will get cheaper, and I spend more time in Halo2 than watching Merchant Ivory upconversions anyway...
I call bullshit on that.. DVD-RWs these days are priced where CDRWs were not too long ago.. You can get an entry model DVD-RW at what, $40 these days?
I'm somewhat disappointed that this won't be the old cube (or a new, aluminized version). Also, I have a feeling that it will have crap onboard graphics that won't be upgradable and probably some kind of crap 2-generation old memory technology.
1.25GHz G4 without Quartz Extreme would be a poor introduction to OS X IMHO. At least make sure there's a standard AGP or PCIe slot.
But, given the new iMac, they'll screw this up. It'll be an LCD-less iMac with the crap video soldered in. Meh.
Qua? I see nothing but a reprint on that page..
The fact is that part of being a paladin is being Lawful Good. That's the point, the quintessence of paladinacy. IIRC in fact if you lose your Lawful Good alignment for any length of time you lose your paladin powers and become a comparable-level fighter.
(Unless that's changed in 3.5 edition...)
This is why I prefer Chaotic Neutral dwarven barbarians.. Chaotic Neutral means you never have to apologize for not giving a shit.
This has got to be a joke. There are no neutral paladins.
While I have no real love for racists, all I can say is that you should be careful hating. It could end up making you just like them.
Oh, that's not hate. Hate involves power drills, skulls and whisks.. Can you say frappe lobotomy?
Now the movie Wild Wild West where James West was black was STUPID!!!!! Okay 1800's America and a black man has his own private train and NO ONE NOTICES it.... Ummmmm..... Talk about your distorted view of history.
True enough, but that's a somewhat different story, for the historical reason you mention as well as for the ridiculously anachronistic dialogue (and the ridiculous story, etc...)
IIRC there was nothing in the radio series or novels that mentioned anything about Ford's "race", except for that it was a race of beings from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. For all that was (or was not) exposed he could have been a V lizard under fake skin. The only relevant character trait IMHO is that you could store a side of beef in him for at least a fortnight, and quite probably a Beeblebroxian month. And yes, IMHO, Mos Def could do that. I could just about see him as Zaphod, or even Burma Jones (from Confederacy of Dunces)...
Black Man (Mos Def) the hip hop thug RUINS it for me !!!
Fucking racist.
There's so many ways this movie can be ruined, starting with the 'Warwick Davis' voice of Marvin (whereas the One True Voice belongs to Stephen Moore) and going to reinterpreting throwaway jokes as plot points. The whole Zaphod thing gives me fucking tremors, though Arthur is perfectly cast.
However, if Mos Def can pull off a Lennie James or Robbie Gee (instead of Don Cheadle who should have been replaced by one of those two in the Oceans 1[12] flix) he'll be BRILLIANT as Ford.
Fucking shite racists like you need to be murdered slowly and painfully, preferably with spoons and vinegar-soaked broken lightbulbs...
... And I like Asus stuff typically, but...
* LED, not VFD?
* Where's teh Athlon64?
* Must be easy to stack components on top of that lame handle.
* Where's the dual PCIe? Maybe I have a 720p monitor I want to smoke Doom3 on?
And teh verdict? Geh-haay....
This was back in the days when Apple was run by complete wankers.
I'm thinking Spindler?
.... if it doesn't come with satisfying single-player and LAN multiplayer experiences.
If you buy the game and all it does is let you log into a premium paid online service, you should get the game for at most the cost of the media.
I don't have a problem with paying to subscribe to a gaming service, especially if the game world is dynamic and the admins are coming up with quests, new objects, backstory, playing as NPCs, etc....
Time to hop into the ol' Total Perspective Vortex and marvel at the world's insignificance...
1. It's going to take significant resources to do this. The KDE programmers are remarkably prolific, but a Windows version of everything will be a major undertaking, and will inevitably slow development of the Linux versions. Jumping through the (small, moving, flaming) hoops that MS will require to get the functionality and performance that the KDE people will demand could well be seen as -- if not a waste of effort -- then an huge effort with little reward.
KDE is based on the Qt toolkit, which is portable among UNIX, Win32 and OSX (Carbon IIRC). In theory, getting higher-level KDE components and apps to work would require just a recompile. Of course, apps with any useful function probably rely on external non-Qt functionality (like gIFT, the IM libraries, etc) that would need porting as well.
2. Lock-in. It's not out of the question by any means that MS will attempt to creatively co-op the KDE team by building in cool, but MS-only features, that would then be hard or impossible to port back to Linux -- for patent or other reasons. It would be a disaster (to me) if the Windows version of KDE tools were better than Linux versions.
Given that Trolltech makes its living selling development licenses and support for the Qt toolkit, I would find it quite surprising that M$ would be able to influence them. As well, Qt is dual-licensed to GPL, so unless M$ bought them out and relicensed a later version of the Qt toolkit I don't see this as an issue.
Office/Productivity software is the next step, but I think that will be the biggest challege by far, considering how many people and businesses are stuck with proprietary MS Office documents. And contrary to claims otherwise, many many MS Word documents do not convert perfectly to Open Office.
Don't forget groupware functionality. Everything free on Linux is still either in some beta form, or doesn't work with Outlook clients with full functionality. I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of running Groupwise for this, but it isn't Free.
Media player software is another doozy. There's no linux software out there right now that's as versatile and fully featured as Windows Media Player, and there are no Linux DVD players that match up to windows apps like PowerDVD.
KMplayer on Gentoo is pretty close.. Gentoo makes it easy to download and install a whole load of proprietary Win32 codec DLLs, and KMPlayer is somewhat easier to use.
Apollon is a superior P2P client, which accesses any net in the gIFT scope.
Personally, I would be interested in seeing KDE apps relicensing themselves dually: GPL on open platforms and a paid binary license for Windows users.
Here's a Q.. In the last few years Flash has added stuff like networking, DB access, dynamic generation of content, etc.. How much of this is actually in SVG?
AFAICR SVG was just a vector content format. Do SVG viewers implement stuff along the lines of Flash or do they just display SVG content?
Can you program a network-capable video game in SVG according to a single standard?
The way I see it lately, Flash is eating applet Java lunch and is quickly approaching full-blown Swing app territory... And what is inherently wrong with Flash being the view layer ala HTML, Qt, MFC, etc... I mean, of course, besides its proprietary nature...
I'm getting new AIX hardware soon (at work), so I'll have to see if they boosted performance in the past 2 years, but I think the OS sucks so bad I doubt it'll matter.
Have you seen Power5 benches lately?
They kick the crap out of almost everything else out there.
I remember when POWER chips were crap price/performance (when I worked for Big Blue and built my RS/6ks out of leftover junker parts) but those days are over...
Also, I would hope stuff like the ODM has improved since 3.2.5, and as much as people whinge about smit at least it worked and left script droppings so you could learn the CLI tools over time...
I'm just curious to see how well Samba currently and is planned to work with eDirectory/NDS, and how well it would integrate with a Groupwise layout (I had originally built an IT infrastructure with OpenLDAP, Cyrus IMAP, SMB-LDAP, Postfix, etc... It worked but managing passwords was unpleasant and groupware functionality was nonexistent)..
Also, has Samba made dealing with SMB passwords less awful? Contributed standardized LDAP schema and worked to have SMB password setting integrated with *LDAP, etc? The only way I could get it to work (back in 2001 or so) was to write a password-changing web script and that is kinda clunky..
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Is that with or without a dead indian?