Not so easy with some handsets, i.e. PCS phones. There USB or bluetooth uploading is frowned upon... the only recourse is going over-the-air to fetch your file via HTTP.
Not a big deal if you've signed on for unlimited kb as part of your plan, but a big deal if you haven't.
He's 100% right. I got a Samsung a while back & purchased a copy of Baldur's Gate for it... wow. My expectation of quality was that of the original Game Boy... they didn't even go that far. Sprite collision detection was awful, load times were abysmal, game balance was horrid and bugs abounded (i.e. go to inventory screen, pause game, resume game, all your keymappings are scrambled).
It's a damn shame, too, considering the possibility the platform holds. You could do something very nice with it... but alas. And developing on one is a pain too - transferring files over (or trying to sell games to other players) is so much of a headache I don't want to develop on them.
Really, the SDK and API is there (since it's all J2ME), but transferring files to the phone in the first place is to huge of a barrier.
DooM was used as the moniker because, like was aforementioned, the title "Resident Evil" was already taken. C'mon, kids love zombies! Sexy zombies! Oh, and instead of Mars it's at the beach! Kids love the beach! And they eat Doritos! And drink Dewars! The Pepsi folks had a few changes, that's all.
My favorite quote: "Finally, to the fan that suggested I get an enema (ostensibly to clean out my head, I think): That was awesome."
I've actually noticed that RPM and ISO releases have been released faster with Novell than when SuSE was operating alone. Development and beta RPMs seem to be posted faster, and ISOs (which were never released under a standalone SuSE) are released for their personal product line.
A lot of people seem to get the Personal edition via ISOs or over-the-counter, then point YaST2 to the FTP site where they can install the remainder of the RPMs.
YaST2 treats FTP sites the same as DVD or CD installations as well, so adding/removing/updating RPMs via FTP uses the exact same interface and means as a local media installation. Very nice.
Plus you can hook YaST2 into unsupported releases and get the latest SuSE-created KDE, Gnome and other packages.
I need help with parts of this... The article says that "light sensitive cells" in the brain influence our lives and migrated to our faces. But what do the light sensitive cells in my skull do? How to they work now? Do they work now? What were they there for earlier?
Also, I know some animals have photo-sensitive skin cells instead of photo-sensitive neural cells (i.e. some can repair their retinas, others can't). How did that divergence happen? Do these animals also have light-sensitive cells in their noggin' too?
Agreed. If they aren't spawned from Hell then what the hell is the point?
"Hey, instead of having our 'Tale of Two Cities' movie taking place in France during the revolution, let's place it in a Brooklyn barber shop during a series of momma jokes. The audience will love it since they're a bunch of twits who like sparkley objects!"
I wonder if this will do the same thing for Linux gaming that Windows did for the XBox. Producers could easily port DirectX apps to XBox (and vice-versa), which encouraged support for the platform. I wonder if game producers will be more likely to release games for Linux, since they can go from arcade console to desktop distro easily. For that matter, they should be able to go from arcade console to Windows or consumer console easily as well, since it's OpenGL on fairly standard hardware.
Most of all I hope this encourages Nvidia to keep supporting Linux drivers for X... and this becomes a commercial opportunity for other vendors to provide hardcore drivers for the *nix community.
Yes indeedy. They have early RPM packages posted on their FTP server which I've used, and the extensions are present. I haven't tested XDamage, but Composite works.
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Here's what they noticed (more of a summary than a benchmarking):
Although this analysis did draw some pretty strong lines as to where each card stand, we were more interested in how each game performed compared to their Windows counterparts. We drew a lot of conclusions from one of our more recent video card analyses from July. Surprisingly, most of our NVIDIA video cards scaled very similarly. Wine games like Jedi Knight took a 10% to 15% hit in performance compared to the Windows tests that we did just a few weeks ago. Other games like Unreal Tournament 2004 actually showed mild signs of an increase in frame rate on the NVIDIA graphics cards. Wolfenstein: ET generally performed with similar average FPS to our video cards from 2003. However, keep in mind that the drivers used then were almost a year old.
Demo first, then Linux binaries. See Duffy's.plan where he says "The Linux Dedicated server is also ready to go and will also be available as soon as the update is non beta." Also see an interview with Dustin Reyes (porting was done by Zoid, then contracted to Loki, now Dustin) about the progress he's made in porting the client.
TuxGames is preselling a Doom3 DVD with Linux binaries, quoted to be coming out October 1st. So Linux server should be out, and client soon after once Dustin is finished.
People have been saying this for about... oh... three years now. The only one who knows is John - and he'll quit when he gets tired of it. That's all.
Developers at Id have all been asked this question at one point in time, and all have said "yeah, he probably has one or two more engines in him." All have pretty much indicated that he has a "holy grail" engine he has constantly been working towards since he wrote his first side-scroller. Once he gets that done, he'll probably go launch himself into space and work on the teleporter on Phobos himself.
I have an iFP-595... which is a nice piece of hardware (aside from the lil' joystick control toggle which doesn't respond well).
Linux support is arguable at best if you want OGG support as well - their is an OSS app for transferring tracks using iRiver's native protocol which is a workable solution, but it's not as easy as dragging and dropping folders over.
There is a USB mass storage firmware option with OGG support, but 2.6 kernels have problems recognizing the UMS device. Evidentally there's a problem with attaching/detaching the block device using the UMS protocols in firmware. There are also problems in Windows - the UMS driver wigs out if you get too many I/O requests going at once.
Not to mention OGG playback is limited to >96 or 360 kbs. This usually isn't a huge problem if you record within the normal quality range (i.e. 4-6), but higher encodings clip out.
There are also bugs - I've actually had to reboot a few times due to lockups. Latest firmware seems to be more stable however.
So there's definitely room for improvement on the iFP series - I would welcome independent work on firmware aside from the iHP.
Versions of Java prior to 1.2 were more sluggish than steering a dump truck. And yes, GUIs prior to the native look-and-feel implementation in 1.4 could be icky. But we're in a post Java 1.4 world, and it's looking much better.
First, an initial startup of a JVM does take up a larger memory footprint. But subsequent calls to the JVM do not... it's that initial runtime environment that needs resources. So if you're running several Java apps at a time (such as NetBeans, ConsultComm, Resin and other fun stuff memory and resource allocation is still much more conservative than apps that would exist outside of a runtime environment.
The original abstract windowing toolkit was kludgy, but the advent of the Swing API and the native look-and-feel within Java make things run and look like native apps. And with NetBeans GUI editor I can build windows and forms faster than a VB app in Visual Studio. Plus things are nicely skinnable by using GTK themes, QT themes or a combination of the two.
Plus let's not forget JDBC, something that I just can't live without anymore. Take a single file, drop it into your classpath, and you have instant access to whatever database you want. Want to change your database? No prob. Just drop in a different JAR file as your JDBC driver and tweak your SQL as needed. No connection recoding necessary. Much, much, much better than installing new ODBC drivers.
And system independence isn't to be taken for granted, either. I like being able to just create one package and have it run on my Linux box, then hand it to a WinXP user without recompilation. Keeps my apps easily cross-platform.
My brain kept thinking that they were talking about the old Motorola 6800 chipsets that Apple used nine years ago... not a GPU marketed as "6800"... I got so confused...
Wait - I sold those things nine years ago!?!? Damn I'm old.
Natural light is definitely a biggie. And comfortable chairs. I HATE MY CUBICLE because the damn chair has no lumbar support. I can't code for more than 15-30 minutes at a time because of it.
White noise is a weird thing that's actually become necessary. Some people use music (which I hate), some just have a nice baratone ventilation system. Low enough to be subconscious, amplified enough to drown out the random sounds of papers shuffling and coccyx breaking.
Re:Caught up with the speed, but still the ugliest
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Also check out SkinLF from L2FProd - it's a library that makes it very easy to use GTK themes, KDE themes or even both together to make a very nice native-looking interface. I use it with ConsultComm and have had very nice results.
Like.... ooh... firmware, gapless playback, full OGG support. But lately they haven't been releasing promised features (instead silly lyric support), OGG support is limited to bitrates >96 or 360 kbps, firmware isn't stable... and it was promised in January.
They seem like a company with a big-thinking marketing department. But not much else.
The truth to the matter is probably that IBM has come to the realization that OS/400 on their AS/400 (or eSeries or whatever) line is coming to an end in the very, very near future. DB2/400 performance absolutely sucks, WebSphere performance and management blows, and simple things like filesharing or creating services are such a pain in the butt that no one would bother.
My current employer used to make loads off of AS/400 and System/36 work, but lately everyone has come to the realization that cheaper hardware and OS'es can do things better, faster and just as reliably. Four years ago the mantra was that "you know an AS/400 will never go down!" But after the latest rounds of PTFs, services packs and OS upgrades have wrecked havoc on working installations people have taken a second glance at that opinion.
The AS/400 is a great piece of hardware, no doubt. Their RAID controllers, massive RISCs and reliable hardware are fantastic for stable servers with 24/7 uptime. But OS/400 just can't take advantage of it. If you want to have hardware abstraction to the point that Sys/36 code from 1960 can still run you just aren't going to milk all the performance points you can out of the hardware.
One of the first things IBM did was get Linux running on an AS/400 (now eSeries). And I'm sure it wasn't a hobby project. They've got the hardcore hardware, now they need to get the industry behind a new common OS so they can sweep their OS/400 legacy under the rug. And good riddance, too.
Great Distro... Still Best KDE Around
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Automounting with subfs has kinda thrown me for a loop, but I love the distro. Kernel 2.6 + OOo 1.1 + KDE 3.2 make it the best laptop OS I've ever used.
Plus I've seen a few UT2004 framerate jumps, so that's nice;)
Very install-n-go... I don't have time to powertweak anymore, and SuSE is built ready to go. Only thing I've had to modify has been the look and feel of KDE. And a small bug with the UT2004 installer where you have to remove your DVD-ROM's subfs entry in fstab.
Works fine. SaX2 has an entry to specify Inspiron 8xxx keyboards as an input device, and my GeForce 440 Go card is working great. And ACPI is actually handled correctly, despite the buggy BIOS Inspirons had that tripped it up with 8.2. Nary a problem yet.
I just got my SuSE 9.1 Pro DVD/CD set in yesterday, and installed it on both my AthlonXP workstation and my Inspiron 8200 laptop. I've been waiting for a distro that has easy-to-manage Samba 3 & OOo 1.1 & KDE 3.2 & kernel 2.6 installations.
Now that SuSE's using submounts, tho, things are kinda weird when trying to run installers that expect to be able to run the mount command (i.e. UT2004). Since it dynamically mounts the media, you can't run a mount command any more without changing fstab.
SuSE's is my favorite installer so far (I like thinking of installation processes as checklists, which is how SuSE organizes them) and YaST2's integration into KDE's control panel is nice. Also it bears noting that this has both 32 and 64 bit installations - they aren't charging extra for 64 anymore.
The only tweaks I've had to make so far are to KDE's look and feel. Such a nice time saver to have a works-out-of-the-box installation.
Computer Science, in spite of popular opinion, is not programming. It's the science of computation. This is a MAJOR misconception that causes nearly 75% of CS students to drop out in the first year.
At Indiana University (granted it's a liberal arts college), I learned more about theorems, thesis, mathematics and logic than I did any language. For example, I learned the Church-Turing thesis but not how to make a GUI. The first year of my CS degree was spent entirely in Chez Scheme (a derivation of LISP) for the explicit reason to teach us computation, not languages.
If you want to learn how to write something stupid for your enterprise (as Linus says), get a IS or IT degree. If you want to learn what a flip-flop is, how to stack circuits to do multiplication or what recursion is, get a CS degree. Those who detest Von Newman matrices need not apply.
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Not so easy with some handsets, i.e. PCS phones. There USB or bluetooth uploading is frowned upon... the only recourse is going over-the-air to fetch your file via HTTP.
Not a big deal if you've signed on for unlimited kb as part of your plan, but a big deal if you haven't.
He's 100% right. I got a Samsung a while back & purchased a copy of Baldur's Gate for it... wow. My expectation of quality was that of the original Game Boy... they didn't even go that far. Sprite collision detection was awful, load times were abysmal, game balance was horrid and bugs abounded (i.e. go to inventory screen, pause game, resume game, all your keymappings are scrambled). It's a damn shame, too, considering the possibility the platform holds. You could do something very nice with it... but alas. And developing on one is a pain too - transferring files over (or trying to sell games to other players) is so much of a headache I don't want to develop on them. Really, the SDK and API is there (since it's all J2ME), but transferring files to the phone in the first place is to huge of a barrier.
DooM was used as the moniker because, like was aforementioned, the title "Resident Evil" was already taken. C'mon, kids love zombies! Sexy zombies! Oh, and instead of Mars it's at the beach! Kids love the beach! And they eat Doritos! And drink Dewars! The Pepsi folks had a few changes, that's all.
My favorite quote:
"Finally, to the fan that suggested I get an enema (ostensibly to clean out my head, I think): That was awesome."
I've actually noticed that RPM and ISO releases have been released faster with Novell than when SuSE was operating alone. Development and beta RPMs seem to be posted faster, and ISOs (which were never released under a standalone SuSE) are released for their personal product line.
A lot of people seem to get the Personal edition via ISOs or over-the-counter, then point YaST2 to the FTP site where they can install the remainder of the RPMs.
YaST2 treats FTP sites the same as DVD or CD installations as well, so adding/removing/updating RPMs via FTP uses the exact same interface and means as a local media installation. Very nice.
Plus you can hook YaST2 into unsupported releases and get the latest SuSE-created KDE, Gnome and other packages.
I need help with parts of this...
The article says that "light sensitive cells" in the brain influence our lives and migrated to our faces. But what do the light sensitive cells in my skull do? How to they work now? Do they work now? What were they there for earlier?
Also, I know some animals have photo-sensitive skin cells instead of photo-sensitive neural cells (i.e. some can repair their retinas, others can't). How did that divergence happen? Do these animals also have light-sensitive cells in their noggin' too?
Agreed. If they aren't spawned from Hell then what the hell is the point?
"Hey, instead of having our 'Tale of Two Cities' movie taking place in France during the revolution, let's place it in a Brooklyn barber shop during a series of momma jokes. The audience will love it since they're a bunch of twits who like sparkley objects!"
Most of all I hope this encourages Nvidia to keep supporting Linux drivers for X... and this becomes a commercial opportunity for other vendors to provide hardcore drivers for the *nix community.
Yes indeedy. They have early RPM packages posted on their FTP server which I've used, and the extensions are present. I haven't tested XDamage, but Composite works.
Someone has finished Morrowind? No way!
TuxGames is preselling a Doom3 DVD with Linux binaries, quoted to be coming out October 1st. So Linux server should be out, and client soon after once Dustin is finished.
It's in progress... patience...
People have been saying this for about... oh... three years now. The only one who knows is John - and he'll quit when he gets tired of it. That's all.
Developers at Id have all been asked this question at one point in time, and all have said "yeah, he probably has one or two more engines in him." All have pretty much indicated that he has a "holy grail" engine he has constantly been working towards since he wrote his first side-scroller. Once he gets that done, he'll probably go launch himself into space and work on the teleporter on Phobos himself.
I have an iFP-595... which is a nice piece of hardware (aside from the lil' joystick control toggle which doesn't respond well).
Linux support is arguable at best if you want OGG support as well - their is an OSS app for transferring tracks using iRiver's native protocol which is a workable solution, but it's not as easy as dragging and dropping folders over.
There is a USB mass storage firmware option with OGG support, but 2.6 kernels have problems recognizing the UMS device. Evidentally there's a problem with attaching/detaching the block device using the UMS protocols in firmware. There are also problems in Windows - the UMS driver wigs out if you get too many I/O requests going at once.
Not to mention OGG playback is limited to >96 or 360 kbs. This usually isn't a huge problem if you record within the normal quality range (i.e. 4-6), but higher encodings clip out.
There are also bugs - I've actually had to reboot a few times due to lockups. Latest firmware seems to be more stable however.
So there's definitely room for improvement on the iFP series - I would welcome independent work on firmware aside from the iHP.
First, an initial startup of a JVM does take up a larger memory footprint. But subsequent calls to the JVM do not... it's that initial runtime environment that needs resources. So if you're running several Java apps at a time (such as NetBeans, ConsultComm, Resin and other fun stuff memory and resource allocation is still much more conservative than apps that would exist outside of a runtime environment.
The original abstract windowing toolkit was kludgy, but the advent of the Swing API and the native look-and-feel within Java make things run and look like native apps. And with NetBeans GUI editor I can build windows and forms faster than a VB app in Visual Studio. Plus things are nicely skinnable by using GTK themes, QT themes or a combination of the two.
Plus let's not forget JDBC, something that I just can't live without anymore. Take a single file, drop it into your classpath, and you have instant access to whatever database you want. Want to change your database? No prob. Just drop in a different JAR file as your JDBC driver and tweak your SQL as needed. No connection recoding necessary. Much, much, much better than installing new ODBC drivers.
And system independence isn't to be taken for granted, either. I like being able to just create one package and have it run on my Linux box, then hand it to a WinXP user without recompilation. Keeps my apps easily cross-platform.
My brain kept thinking that they were talking about the old Motorola 6800 chipsets that Apple used nine years ago... not a GPU marketed as "6800"... I got so confused...
Wait - I sold those things nine years ago!?!? Damn I'm old.
White noise is a weird thing that's actually become necessary. Some people use music (which I hate), some just have a nice baratone ventilation system. Low enough to be subconscious, amplified enough to drown out the random sounds of papers shuffling and coccyx breaking.
Also check out SkinLF from L2FProd - it's a library that makes it very easy to use GTK themes, KDE themes or even both together to make a very nice native-looking interface. I use it with ConsultComm and have had very nice results.
Like.... ooh... firmware, gapless playback, full OGG support. But lately they haven't been releasing promised features (instead silly lyric support), OGG support is limited to bitrates >96 or 360 kbps, firmware isn't stable... and it was promised in January. They seem like a company with a big-thinking marketing department. But not much else.
Yikes! You're right!
I know! I'll unplug my hard drive so I don't have to worry anymore! Then I'll be safe! Lessee... I think it's the cord right over he
True, if you have a legacy 400 system you should stay. But I doubt many new enterprises are going to be looking towards OS/400.
My current employer used to make loads off of AS/400 and System/36 work, but lately everyone has come to the realization that cheaper hardware and OS'es can do things better, faster and just as reliably. Four years ago the mantra was that "you know an AS/400 will never go down!" But after the latest rounds of PTFs, services packs and OS upgrades have wrecked havoc on working installations people have taken a second glance at that opinion.
The AS/400 is a great piece of hardware, no doubt. Their RAID controllers, massive RISCs and reliable hardware are fantastic for stable servers with 24/7 uptime. But OS/400 just can't take advantage of it. If you want to have hardware abstraction to the point that Sys/36 code from 1960 can still run you just aren't going to milk all the performance points you can out of the hardware.
One of the first things IBM did was get Linux running on an AS/400 (now eSeries). And I'm sure it wasn't a hobby project. They've got the hardcore hardware, now they need to get the industry behind a new common OS so they can sweep their OS/400 legacy under the rug. And good riddance, too.
Plus I've seen a few UT2004 framerate jumps, so that's nice ;)
Very install-n-go... I don't have time to powertweak anymore, and SuSE is built ready to go. Only thing I've had to modify has been the look and feel of KDE. And a small bug with the UT2004 installer where you have to remove your DVD-ROM's subfs entry in fstab.
Works fine. SaX2 has an entry to specify Inspiron 8xxx keyboards as an input device, and my GeForce 440 Go card is working great. And ACPI is actually handled correctly, despite the buggy BIOS Inspirons had that tripped it up with 8.2. Nary a problem yet.
Now that SuSE's using submounts, tho, things are kinda weird when trying to run installers that expect to be able to run the mount command (i.e. UT2004). Since it dynamically mounts the media, you can't run a mount command any more without changing fstab.
SuSE's is my favorite installer so far (I like thinking of installation processes as checklists, which is how SuSE organizes them) and YaST2's integration into KDE's control panel is nice. Also it bears noting that this has both 32 and 64 bit installations - they aren't charging extra for 64 anymore.
The only tweaks I've had to make so far are to KDE's look and feel. Such a nice time saver to have a works-out-of-the-box installation.
Computer Science, in spite of popular opinion, is not programming. It's the science of computation. This is a MAJOR misconception that causes nearly 75% of CS students to drop out in the first year.
At Indiana University (granted it's a liberal arts college), I learned more about theorems, thesis, mathematics and logic than I did any language. For example, I learned the Church-Turing thesis but not how to make a GUI. The first year of my CS degree was spent entirely in Chez Scheme (a derivation of LISP) for the explicit reason to teach us computation, not languages.
If you want to learn how to write something stupid for your enterprise (as Linus says), get a IS or IT degree. If you want to learn what a flip-flop is, how to stack circuits to do multiplication or what recursion is, get a CS degree. Those who detest Von Newman matrices need not apply.