Basically, the PS2 had a massive head start. The Xbox is wonderful to develop for, but the publisher doesn't give a fuck, they want a PS2 version because that's what most people have. The PS2 is an absolute fucking nightmare to develop for. Hence lots of developers going bust while publishers want more and more PS2 shit in less time... At the end of the day it's all about money. It has precisely fuck all to do with good games any more. C'est la fucking vie mate.
Seconded. Very nice website. They can certainly talk the talk... Unlike that pitiful Indrema. Unique selling point: "It runs on Linux!" Er, hello? Like, gamers don't give a fuck? And no game programmer I know is a Linux freak. The Indrema was essentially a cut-down Xbox. 600MHz vs 733. Not much else. It failed because everybody was just like, "err,no" (=ECRAY "Program exited before being run") This thing is much more of a PC. I don't know how cheaply they can sell hardware like that.
Roles can change over time, that is true. Under Un*x as far as I can see you have this "group" attribute that means that if you are a member of any group authorised to fuck with the file, you can fuck with the file. I'm sorry, this might have worked back in the day, when everyone was a beardy hacker, but nowadays it is asking for a bum-raping. ACLs, being a superset of the almost nothingness of Group Permissions, do have the disadvantage of being slightly more complicated. But then, the simpler system is obviously inadequate. That is a word that looks mis-spelled even if it isn't. Anyway, argue with that, muthafucka. Bo selecter.
But Windows NT has had ACLs for some time now. A lot of people have derided the concept. But as far as I can see, they are a complete superset of the Un*x system. It's pretty hard to argue that it's not as good. Discuss.
XML is a way of wrapping human-readable content in such a way that it can be easily processed and transformed by machines.
But it's rubbish at that! XML files are inherently hierarchical, but you can't skip stuff you don't need, you have to parse the whole thing. It's so frighteningly inefficient, I have absolutely no idea why it is championed so. But then I'm a game programmer so that sort of thing frightens me easily.
So, given that XML is not particularly human read/writeable, and that it isn't efficiently machine processable either, what the heck is it for?
Presumably you mean optical mice that work on (almost) arbitrary surfaces, rather than the ancient ones that only worked on special mouse mats (I remember Sun ones from nearly 15 years ago). They are excellent, but they don't like being moved very quickly. Maybe this has been fixed in newer models?
I tried to run Carmageddon 2 recently, my wife likes it, but unfortunately it didn't want to run under Win2K. However, it wasn't Microsoft's fault. It was a stupid hard coded OS version check (and if you bypass the check, it runs fine). Microsoft have had to deal with this sort of crap for years. They write loads of docs about how to avoid these mistakes. But people keep making them. I'm willing to bet that most if not all 9x games that do not run on XP have been crippled by their authors, not by Microsoft. Microsoft have always been very good at backwards compatibility, so it's a bit weird to see someone having a go at them in that regard. It would have to be a Mac fanboy...
Intel have had a 64 bit data bus since 1997, with the Pentium II. As other posters have already said, hardly anyone has any need for 64 bit data, unless it's just a means to copy stuff around. 64 bit addressing is the big advantage.
Oh man, I really need that. My wife loves Carmageddon 2. She played it before we met. But I brought it back from the office the other week, and found it didn't work under W2K... Gutted!
So you would prefer to have the injured party send you a cease and desist letter, and end up removing your opinions from the site? Either way it's a burden, but I don't agree that it's non-trivial. If it was so hard then no-one would write blogs. How is it a burden to provide a means of contact? What's wrong with an email address? The need to authenticate the source is the one difficult bit, but it could be done with a trusted third party. And if you're dead, you hardly have any more obligations under the law!
I'm sorry too, I just can't see what your replies have to do with what I said. Anyway, I still don't see why people are going on about freedom of speech being restricted here. Where? How? You know, if I were threatened with a beating for speaking my mind, I would consider that a restriction. But oh, shock horror, I have to deal with someone actually responding to my argument. Oh the terror of it. <smacks forehead>
I don't think your parent poster was using the adjective "absurd" to describe the equally adjective "perpetual" and "irrevocable". It seems more likely that the intent was to ridicule the idea that there is absolutely nothing in the contract that IBM could possibly be in breach of, ever.
If no-one listens to you, you're wasting your breath. You might as well just shut up. Now suppose people said to you, "OK we will listen to you, but here are the rules..." If you agree to the rules (in this case, that if you harsh someone up unfairly, they have comeback) then the people listen to you. Otherwise, it's back to "la la la can't hear you". "No one has to listen to me"... Damn straight. And if as a group we decide that we don't want to listen to people who don't play by the rules, we can effectively silence you. I mean you still have the right to say things, and you still have the right to type them on your keyboard, but your computer won't be connected to our internet. You live in a society. You do not have total freedom. You will never have total freedom. Perhaps if you went to live on the moon.
Well, yes and no. In the UK, an enquiry is a question, and an inquiry is an investigation. The linked article uses "inquiry" correctly (it is a UK site). It's acceptable for a US writer to change this to "enquiry" in the link, although I don't see why that's necessary unless US English really prefers it that way. I don't know, I don't speak US English. Well, I dabble.
The Guadalajara plant makes XBoxen for the US market. The Flextronics plant in Hungary produced for the Japanese market, then for the European launch. This has now been relocated to China.
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Basically, the PS2 had a massive head start. The Xbox is wonderful to develop for, but the publisher doesn't give a fuck, they want a PS2 version because that's what most people have. The PS2 is an absolute fucking nightmare to develop for. Hence lots of developers going bust while publishers want more and more PS2 shit in less time... At the end of the day it's all about money. It has precisely fuck all to do with good games any more. C'est la fucking vie mate.
Seconded. Very nice website.
They can certainly talk the talk...
Unlike that pitiful Indrema.
Unique selling point: "It runs on Linux!"
Er, hello? Like, gamers don't give a fuck? And no game programmer I know is a Linux freak.
The Indrema was essentially a cut-down Xbox. 600MHz vs 733. Not much else. It failed because everybody was just like, "err,no" (=ECRAY "Program exited before being run")
This thing is much more of a PC. I don't know how cheaply they can sell hardware like that.
Fact me 'til I fart.
Bitch.
I use Linux
u uufufufufuffuuu
They thought I was a fool
But now I really realise
I am a fucking tool
I love Linus
He is from Fin-a-land
I love to lick his ringpiece
It's not my favourite gland...
But I want to suck his cock
It's just like Blackpool Rock
I want to make it pleas'r'ble
I need him to explode
In my orgy of Linux
It's like the best of pinups
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I thank you!
But it is only necessary to say,
"So why can't everyone do whatever the hell they want to any file they come across?"
Over to you.
Roles can change over time, that is true.
Under Un*x as far as I can see you have this "group" attribute that means that if you are a member of any group authorised to fuck with the file, you can fuck with the file.
I'm sorry, this might have worked back in the day, when everyone was a beardy hacker, but nowadays it is asking for a bum-raping.
ACLs, being a superset of the almost nothingness of Group Permissions, do have the disadvantage of being slightly more complicated. But then, the simpler system is obviously inadequate. That is a word that looks mis-spelled even if it isn't. Anyway, argue with that, muthafucka. Bo selecter.
But Windows NT has had ACLs for some time now.
A lot of people have derided the concept.
But as far as I can see, they are a complete superset of the Un*x system.
It's pretty hard to argue that it's not as good.
Discuss.
XML is a way of wrapping human-readable content in such a way that it can be easily processed and transformed by machines.
But it's rubbish at that! XML files are inherently hierarchical, but you can't skip stuff you don't need, you have to parse the whole thing. It's so frighteningly inefficient, I have absolutely no idea why it is championed so. But then I'm a game programmer so that sort of thing frightens me easily.
So, given that XML is not particularly human read/writeable, and that it isn't efficiently machine processable either, what the heck is it for?
Presumably you mean optical mice that work on (almost) arbitrary surfaces, rather than the ancient ones that only worked on special mouse mats (I remember Sun ones from nearly 15 years ago).
They are excellent, but they don't like being moved very quickly. Maybe this has been fixed in newer models?
I tried to run Carmageddon 2 recently, my wife likes it, but unfortunately it didn't want to run under Win2K. However, it wasn't Microsoft's fault. It was a stupid hard coded OS version check (and if you bypass the check, it runs fine). Microsoft have had to deal with this sort of crap for years. They write loads of docs about how to avoid these mistakes. But people keep making them. I'm willing to bet that most if not all 9x games that do not run on XP have been crippled by their authors, not by Microsoft.
Microsoft have always been very good at backwards compatibility, so it's a bit weird to see someone having a go at them in that regard. It would have to be a Mac fanboy...
Intel have had a 64 bit data bus since 1997, with the Pentium II. As other posters have already said, hardly anyone has any need for 64 bit data, unless it's just a means to copy stuff around. 64 bit addressing is the big advantage.
Your "second advantage" sounds like hogwash to me. Why not get all the money at the same time, then stick it in the bank and earn interest on it?
No. No, it isn't. Ataru is a character from Urusei Yatsura, a Japanese manga and anime series. Hope that helps.
It's Sklyarov. Get it right. The article you linked to managed it.
Oh man, I really need that. My wife loves Carmageddon 2. She played it before we met. But I brought it back from the office the other week, and found it didn't work under W2K... Gutted!
So you would prefer to have the injured party send you a cease and desist letter, and end up removing your opinions from the site? Either way it's a burden, but I don't agree that it's non-trivial. If it was so hard then no-one would write blogs.
How is it a burden to provide a means of contact? What's wrong with an email address?
The need to authenticate the source is the one difficult bit, but it could be done with a trusted third party.
And if you're dead, you hardly have any more obligations under the law!
I'm sorry too, I just can't see what your replies have to do with what I said.
Anyway, I still don't see why people are going on about freedom of speech being restricted here. Where? How? You know, if I were threatened with a beating for speaking my mind, I would consider that a restriction. But oh, shock horror, I have to deal with someone actually responding to my argument. Oh the terror of it. <smacks forehead>
I don't think your parent poster was using the adjective "absurd" to describe the equally adjective "perpetual" and "irrevocable". It seems more likely that the intent was to ridicule the idea that there is absolutely nothing in the contract that IBM could possibly be in breach of, ever.
If no-one listens to you, you're wasting your breath. You might as well just shut up.
Now suppose people said to you, "OK we will listen to you, but here are the rules..."
If you agree to the rules (in this case, that if you harsh someone up unfairly, they have comeback) then the people listen to you. Otherwise, it's back to "la la la can't hear you".
"No one has to listen to me"... Damn straight. And if as a group we decide that we don't want to listen to people who don't play by the rules, we can effectively silence you. I mean you still have the right to say things, and you still have the right to type them on your keyboard, but your computer won't be connected to our internet.
You live in a society. You do not have total freedom. You will never have total freedom. Perhaps if you went to live on the moon.
Well, yes and no.
In the UK, an enquiry is a question, and an inquiry is an investigation.
The linked article uses "inquiry" correctly (it is a UK site).
It's acceptable for a US writer to change this to "enquiry" in the link, although I don't see why that's necessary unless US English really prefers it that way. I don't know, I don't speak US English. Well, I dabble.
The police would normally send you away with "That would be a civil matter, Sir".
Only if you dissed a public figure.
The Guadalajara plant makes XBoxen for the US market. The Flextronics plant in Hungary produced for the Japanese market, then for the European launch. This has now been relocated to China.
They've moved from Hungary to China.