It's ironic that IBM, with its roots in the computer industry, doesn't supply the processors for the main portion of the personal computer industry. Intel does.
Disregarding the fact that the statement isn't ironic, I have been wondering when IBM is going to release a new line of Intellistations using Power5 chips. Does anybody know when we might be seeing these? Or when Linux will be running on them? I think I remember hearing that some people got Linux running on them, but not 64-bit...
For all the noise that Slashdot likes to make about Apple's G5s, IBM, and Linux, I think it's rather strange that we haven't heard of any news for Linux on G5.
is it going to be the next eBay or Amazon, or will it 'simply be the next overhyped share sale to make its founders rich only to wither away miserably, either for lack of a sustainably profitable business model, or, like Netscape, because it finds itself in the path of that mighty wrecker, Microsoft?'
So, either Google will be successful in the long term... or it won't.;)
This seems awfully backwards to me. I don't mean to start a ditsro flame war, but as a Debian user I've *never* had to use a Redhat package. Debian's repository is ridiculously huge (actually, too huge, in my opinion) and is well maintained by the packagers and the high Debian standards.
If anything, Redhat should be making it easier to have debs and rpms live side by side on their machines. In fact, Redhat's whole Fedora thing just seems like an attempt to recreate Debian. Why bother?
This is getting a little bit off-topic, but take gnome for example. Gnome properly requires dozens of different libraries to accomplish what it needs - but many times I hear people bitch and moan about gnome's "dependency hell". I am throughly convinced the people who are complaining about that are just the people who's distros don't have (or aren't employing) proper library dependency checking, upgrading, versioning, etc. And what do you know, that's exactly the sort of thing Debian solves beautifully.
Among Viacom's holdings: CBS, UPN, MTV (plus MTV2, VH1, etc.), Nickelodeon (plus Nick at Night, TV Land, etc.), BET, Comedy Central, Showtime, The Movie Channel and a few more.
And these are just TV stations.
Movies? Viacom owns Paramont and Blockbuster, amongst others.
Add onto this several TV production studios, radio channels and even publishing companies, all of which are quite powerful and readily recognizable.
From what I can tell, the xbox version of XIII will be xbox live enabled, but does anybody know to what extent? Will it just be content download, or full multiplayer deathmatch/coop support?
Olin Shivers was one of my professors at Georgia Tech (and a great one at that), and he's also the author of the scheme shell. I always smile when I read the acknowledgements page.
It seems that one reason that they haven't used backups is because the machine has been compromised for six months(!), where all backups made during that time can't be trusted.
I'd agree abiout emacs, and indeed tried to convince ESR that emacs goes against the Unix philosophy for his TAOUP book, although he wasn't having any of it.
Well, he at least has a section on that discussion (here) but in line with ESR's other writings, what it lacks in content in makes up in verbosity and self promotion.
I'm a little bit perplexed about the responses for this story. Many people think that the reason why the Doom III may be delayed is related to Half Life 2, which had an incredible showing this year. This may be true, but that seems rather unlikely, and there is a much more reasonable explanation.
Firstly, it seems to me the phase of development D3 is in right now is polish. The graphics engine is more or less complete, which is demonstrated by the fact that the screenshots from last year compared to this years aren't much different. They've story-boarded the game's story like a Hollywood movie, so unless they're changing a fundamental story element (why?) they're just working on finishing the level designs and maybe enemy (and ally?) AI. I personally figured that that has been pretty much what they've been working on all this year, and why they would release this holiday season.
Now, this far into the development process, close to a final product, you don't fundamentally change everything just because you see some game clips from another company. I too was quite impressed with HL2, but I don't see why we can't just expect two great games. Carmack strikes me as an incredibly pragmatic person, and it really doesn't make sense to me to fundamentally change your development for an unreleased game.
What seems much more likely and actually has been hinted on is that they're delaying the game to so they can have a simultaneous xbox release. id has confirmed there will be an xbox port, and Carmack has been quoted saying Microsoft is offering them a pile of money if they have a simultaneous release. Although the xbox is just a PC variant, because of the fixed hardware and TV constraints (though xbox can output HDTV quality), optimizing the game for a system pretty close to D3's minimum requirements is going to be a slight challenge.
I remember reading an article (possibly from here) about the challenges facial recognition systems faced, in particular comparing the facilities in the human brain. It had very interesting examples, for instance showing only a mouth and chin, but even with just that information, most people recognized it as Julia Roberts. They also altered a picture of Clinton and Gore but switched their mouths, something again that everyone notices but that a computer would have a very hard time picking up on. Finally, they also just had a grid of pictures, shrunk to 12x12 pixels, and even with that little data, your brain can easily discern who the pictures belong to. I'd like to look at that article again, would anybody know the link?
I'm surprised that the knee-jerk reaction here has been so negative. Although "themed" or inspired RPGs are usually a disappointment (and I expect this one to be no different) the idea to base something off of the Bible is not a bad idea. There is a reason why it is easily the most popular book of all time (and sells quite well even today). The stories are time proven classics and many recognizable by nearly everyone, Christian or not. Christian / Biblical themes are very powerful and are well used today - love, sacrifice, redemption, etc. I, for one, think that if properly done and with a little bit of literary license you could make an amazing game - even with the player already knowing the conclusion.
You're correct, the Scouring of the Shire won't happen in Return of the King. In the Fellowship DVD, when Frodo looks into Galadriel's mirror, and they see the Shire, I think I remember Peter Jackson mentioning that that was the most we'd see of that. That does make sense, though - I was a bit surprised when I read that there were still several more chapters after the ring had been destroyed. (Sorry if that was a spoiler).
Pirates - You are here because The Matrix is about to be downloaded. Its every fight scene, all of its entirely pretentious dialogue.
Lawyer - Bullshit.
Pirates - Cluelessness is the most predictable of all corporate responses. But, rest assured, we have many ways to pirate and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
/* Increase the timeout each time we retransmit. Note that
* we do not increase the rtt estimate. rto is initialized
* from rtt, but increases here. Jacobson (SIGCOMM 88) suggests
* that doubling rto each time is the least we can get away with.
* In KA9Q, Karn uses this for the first few times, and then
* goes to quadratic. netBSD doubles, but only goes up to *64,
* and clamps at 1 to 64 sec afterwards. Note that 120 sec is
* defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
* we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
* University of Mars.
*
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once
* implemented ftp to mars will work nicely. We will have to fix
* the 120 second clamps though!
*/
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Disregarding the fact that the statement isn't ironic, I have been wondering when IBM is going to release a new line of Intellistations using Power5 chips. Does anybody know when we might be seeing these? Or when Linux will be running on them? I think I remember hearing that some people got Linux running on them, but not 64-bit...
For all the noise that Slashdot likes to make about Apple's G5s, IBM, and Linux, I think it's rather strange that we haven't heard of any news for Linux on G5.
I leave it to you to see if that's ironic.
So, either Google will be successful in the long term... or it won't.
This seems awfully backwards to me. I don't mean to start a ditsro flame war, but as a Debian user I've *never* had to use a Redhat package. Debian's repository is ridiculously huge (actually, too huge, in my opinion) and is well maintained by the packagers and the high Debian standards.
If anything, Redhat should be making it easier to have debs and rpms live side by side on their machines. In fact, Redhat's whole Fedora thing just seems like an attempt to recreate Debian. Why bother?
This is getting a little bit off-topic, but take gnome for example. Gnome properly requires dozens of different libraries to accomplish what it needs - but many times I hear people bitch and moan about gnome's "dependency hell". I am throughly convinced the people who are complaining about that are just the people who's distros don't have (or aren't employing) proper library dependency checking, upgrading, versioning, etc. And what do you know, that's exactly the sort of thing Debian solves beautifully.
Maybe you don't understand how huge Viacom is.
Among Viacom's holdings: CBS, UPN, MTV (plus MTV2, VH1, etc.), Nickelodeon (plus Nick at Night, TV Land, etc.), BET, Comedy Central, Showtime, The Movie Channel and a few more.
And these are just TV stations.
Movies? Viacom owns Paramont and Blockbuster, amongst others.
Add onto this several TV production studios, radio channels and even publishing companies, all of which are quite powerful and readily recognizable.
Viacom is much, much bigger than CBS.
You know, I have one simple request and that is to have aircrafts with freakin' laser beams attached to them!
"John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch."
You may want to check out "The Emperor Has No Clothes", a look at ESR's real code contributions.
Homer Simpson on going to Canada:
"Canada? Why should I leave America to go to America junior?"
From what I can tell, the xbox version of XIII will be xbox live enabled, but does anybody know to what extent? Will it just be content download, or full multiplayer deathmatch/coop support?
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
Olin Shivers was one of my professors at Georgia Tech (and a great one at that), and he's also the author of the scheme shell. I always smile when I read the acknowledgements page.
I can totally relate to this situation. I know many people with Windows and Office, but without licenses to have them.
Bah, all you've said is that functional programming is your only hammer.
Maybe because the xbox is a 4-player machine? ~shrug~
It seems that one reason that they haven't used backups is because the machine has been compromised for six months(!), where all backups made during that time can't be trusted.
Well, he at least has a section on that discussion (here) but in line with ESR's other writings, what it lacks in content in makes up in verbosity and self promotion.
I'm a little bit perplexed about the responses for this story. Many people think that the reason why the Doom III may be delayed is related to Half Life 2, which had an incredible showing this year. This may be true, but that seems rather unlikely, and there is a much more reasonable explanation.
Firstly, it seems to me the phase of development D3 is in right now is polish. The graphics engine is more or less complete, which is demonstrated by the fact that the screenshots from last year compared to this years aren't much different. They've story-boarded the game's story like a Hollywood movie, so unless they're changing a fundamental story element (why?) they're just working on finishing the level designs and maybe enemy (and ally?) AI. I personally figured that that has been pretty much what they've been working on all this year, and why they would release this holiday season.
Now, this far into the development process, close to a final product, you don't fundamentally change everything just because you see some game clips from another company. I too was quite impressed with HL2, but I don't see why we can't just expect two great games. Carmack strikes me as an incredibly pragmatic person, and it really doesn't make sense to me to fundamentally change your development for an unreleased game.
What seems much more likely and actually has been hinted on is that they're delaying the game to so they can have a simultaneous xbox release. id has confirmed there will be an xbox port, and Carmack has been quoted saying Microsoft is offering them a pile of money if they have a simultaneous release. Although the xbox is just a PC variant, because of the fixed hardware and TV constraints (though xbox can output HDTV quality), optimizing the game for a system pretty close to D3's minimum requirements is going to be a slight challenge.
I remember reading an article (possibly from here) about the challenges facial recognition systems faced, in particular comparing the facilities in the human brain. It had very interesting examples, for instance showing only a mouth and chin, but even with just that information, most people recognized it as Julia Roberts. They also altered a picture of Clinton and Gore but switched their mouths, something again that everyone notices but that a computer would have a very hard time picking up on. Finally, they also just had a grid of pictures, shrunk to 12x12 pixels, and even with that little data, your brain can easily discern who the pictures belong to. I'd like to look at that article again, would anybody know the link?
I'm surprised that the knee-jerk reaction here has been so negative. Although "themed" or inspired RPGs are usually a disappointment (and I expect this one to be no different) the idea to base something off of the Bible is not a bad idea. There is a reason why it is easily the most popular book of all time (and sells quite well even today). The stories are time proven classics and many recognizable by nearly everyone, Christian or not. Christian / Biblical themes are very powerful and are well used today - love, sacrifice, redemption, etc. I, for one, think that if properly done and with a little bit of literary license you could make an amazing game - even with the player already knowing the conclusion.
You're correct, the Scouring of the Shire won't happen in Return of the King. In the Fellowship DVD, when Frodo looks into Galadriel's mirror, and they see the Shire, I think I remember Peter Jackson mentioning that that was the most we'd see of that. That does make sense, though - I was a bit surprised when I read that there were still several more chapters after the ring had been destroyed. (Sorry if that was a spoiler).
Now I can go out and replace my gas guzzling scooter with a more environmental one!
Lawyer - This is about BitTorrent.
Pirates - You are here because The Matrix is about to be downloaded. Its every fight scene, all of its entirely pretentious dialogue.
Lawyer - Bullshit.
Pirates - Cluelessness is the most predictable of all corporate responses. But, rest assured, we have many ways to pirate and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Actually it is ironic when you write a song called "ironic" and there are no ironies in it.
s opposed to the other porn stars, who it for...
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