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Re:Why is legacy a bad thing?
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I'll quote my uncle on this one: "If it was crap, we would have tossed it out the window years ago. The only reason we've kept it for so long is because it's quality."
Legacy doesn't mean "crap", but at some point it can become a handicap. We're not bureaucrats, and legacy leads to alot of extra paperwork.
'breaking and entering' into somewhere he wasn't allowed to; to be more spesific, the encryptioncodes.
Sounds to me more like he had bought a house, lost the keys, and picked the lock himself. Then told everyone how you can pick a lock. He could have called a locksmith. (paying the licence fees to get the keys for the dvds.)
Progress Quest is a next generation computer role-playing game. Gamers who have played modern online role-playing games, or almost any computer role-playing game, or who have at any time installed or upgraded their operating system, will find themselves incredibly comfortable with Progress Quest's very familiar gameplay. Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.
Progress Quest belongs to a new breed of "fire and forget" RPG's. There is no need to interact with Progress Quest at all; it will make progress with you or without you.
Yeah right, cause they couldn't play the.ogg's on their Linux system aready. That's about the only form of entertainment Linux has to offer. (BIG overstatement, I know.)
People keep their x86 and Win32 warez for the games. Games, games, games. That's what the x86 has to offer. (Well, that and cheaper hardware...) Some great x86 games come to the Mac. Most don't.
What you're more likely to see is people moving to the consoles. Cause they're tired of dicking around in the registry, "finetuning" their system.
Like I give a rats ass if some software finally got.ogg support. xmms AND winamp has had it the past year now.
I'll buy the iPod hardware when it gets.ogg support. But hell no if I'd switch. I keep a dualboot for the games!
That's not even close toTG02 try multiplying it by 4 and you're getting somewhere. TG02 had over 4,500 participants. And this is in a tiny little country with a total population of 4.7 million.
I'm surprised these types of LANs aren't held more often in the US. Or in Australia for that matter. I read a post previously wishing something about Australia and Sydney hosting a big LAN like Campzone2. You're telling me that a small country like Norway can have 4,500 participants at a LAN, and you don't think you can locate more than 1,200 gamers in a town like Sydney?
There's gotta be atleast 5 million in that city alone.
So what if it takes an hour of driving? I drive 4.5hrs just go get to TG02, it might take a while but damnit I'm going there!
Discovering our undocumented history...
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I thought the whole point with archeology was to discover our undocumented past history. Back in the time where nothing was written down on paper.
Nowadays anything important seems to get documented. I don't think people 300 years from now will have much problems looking up information on what happened in Y2k.
Ebbex - I wish slashdot would get a spellchecker of some sort.
Heck, even ATi is starting to pull away from the OEM chip-market. Supplying Hercules with their chips. Won't be long until more 3rd parties get their hands on ATi chips I reckon.
that 3dfx stopped supplying 3rd parties with their chips, and started producing their own voodoo cards just before they went bankrupt?
And when they stopped providing chips to the 3rd parties, well... I figure 3rd parties would get kinda upset.
So, just as 3dfx started shipping their own cards. nVidia appeared out of nowhere, with these amazing chips. Supplying it to the 3rd parties.
Notice that nVidia have yet to start producing their own cards, and stop supplying 3rd parties.
Why so? I don't know. I'm just provoking thoughts here. Speculating if you will. But I have a feeling the buissness can be rotten, and "backstabbing" big 3rd parties doesn't always come cheap.
The fact that the harddrives can't compensate for the speedincrease is one thing. But what about the transfer rate of the PCI bus istelf, when you own a Promise133 PCI card?
Let's look at some more calculations...
Currently the 32-Bit PCI bus runs at 33MHz.
(32/8 * 33MHz)/(1024*1024) = roughly 125MB/sec.
(byte * clocks)/(megabyte)
Now I could be wrong about this statement, but I believe that transferrate is shared by all your PCI devices...
(Onboard controllers might be a different case.)
So you won't get full usage of your new ultra-mega-superfast controller anyway.
(Yeah, I've heard of the 64-Bit PCI bus, and it should fix the problem)
My conclusion:
IDE = = cheap storage with good performance,
SCSI is for performace, and all that other hardware I can't cram on my IDE bus.
Sidenote:
Average transferspeeds on my Ultra160 HD are around 70MB/sec.
Average transferspeeds on my ATA/66 disk 20MB/sec.
I know Linux prides itself on beeing rich on choices, but could it be that the problem here are all the choices/alternatives? The choices soon become overwhelming, and people start to eliminate some of the choices, to relax the mind.
The distro companies might aswell make their choices of what they think's practical and what's not. You can still patch your kernel to support whatever FS you think you deserve, it's just not as convenient for you. As it is also not so convenient for the distros to include all the FS'es the community has to offer. Nor all the applications that are developed.
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Who's the smartass that switched "Caps Lock" and "Ctrl" keys?
Fuck yahoo, (and any other webbased mailservice for that matter.) Why not give mailreader a whirl, just type in your username, password, and incoming-mailserver and it'll fetch it for you.
Ever heard of this ball on a chain Microsoft is dragging behind them, called backwards compatibility?
And when all else fails, does the word emulator ring a bell?
All the dead computer-systems you got sick of 20 years ago, brought back to life!
Oh, it might not be a movie, but I thought the episode was hillarious.
:)
Brings back atleast some retro memories, like space invaders, donkey kong and pac man. all pixelated
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameG rabs/3ACV18/dispatch.cgi?target=index4
I'll quote my uncle on this one:
"If it was crap, we would have tossed it out the window years ago. The only reason we've kept it for so long is because it's quality."
Legacy doesn't mean "crap", but at some point it can become a handicap. We're not bureaucrats, and legacy leads to alot of extra paperwork.
Progress Quest is a next generation computer role-playing game. Gamers who have played modern online role-playing games, or almost any computer role-playing game, or who have at any time installed or upgraded their operating system, will find themselves incredibly comfortable with Progress Quest's very familiar gameplay. Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.
Progress Quest belongs to a new breed of "fire and forget" RPG's. There is no need to interact with Progress Quest at all; it will make progress with you or without you.
http://www.progressquest.com/
Yeah right, cause they couldn't play the .ogg's on their Linux system aready. That's about the only form of entertainment Linux has to offer. (BIG overstatement, I know.)
.ogg support. xmms AND winamp has had it the past year now.
.ogg support. But hell no if I'd switch. I keep a dualboot for the games!
People keep their x86 and Win32 warez for the games. Games, games, games. That's what the x86 has to offer. (Well, that and cheaper hardware...) Some great x86 games come to the Mac. Most don't.
What you're more likely to see is people moving to the consoles. Cause they're tired of dicking around in the registry, "finetuning" their system.
Like I give a rats ass if some software finally got
I'll buy the iPod hardware when it gets
We haven't returned to the moon because we never went there in the first place.
That's not even close toTG02 try multiplying it by 4 and you're getting somewhere. TG02 had over 4,500 participants. And this is in a tiny little country with a total population of 4.7 million.
I'm surprised these types of LANs aren't held more often in the US. Or in Australia for that matter. I read a post previously wishing something about Australia and Sydney hosting a big LAN like Campzone2. You're telling me that a small country like Norway can have 4,500 participants at a LAN, and you don't think you can locate more than 1,200 gamers in a town like Sydney?
There's gotta be atleast 5 million in that city alone.
So what if it takes an hour of driving? I drive 4.5hrs just go get to TG02, it might take a while but damnit I'm going there!
I thought the whole point with archeology was to discover our undocumented past history. Back in the time where nothing was written down on paper.
Nowadays anything important seems to get documented. I don't think people 300 years from now will have much problems looking up information on what happened in Y2k.
Ebbex
- I wish slashdot would get a spellchecker of some sort.
Heck, even ATi is starting to pull away from the OEM chip-market. Supplying Hercules with their chips. Won't be long until more 3rd parties get their hands on ATi chips I reckon.
-- "No more 3Dfx chips for you."
I couldn't have put it better myself.
that 3dfx stopped supplying 3rd parties with their chips, and started producing their own voodoo cards just before they went bankrupt?
And when they stopped providing chips to the 3rd parties, well... I figure 3rd parties would get kinda upset.
So, just as 3dfx started shipping their own cards. nVidia appeared out of nowhere, with these amazing chips. Supplying it to the 3rd parties.
Notice that nVidia have yet to start producing their own cards, and stop supplying 3rd parties.
Why so? I don't know. I'm just provoking thoughts here. Speculating if you will. But I have a feeling the buissness can be rotten, and "backstabbing" big 3rd parties doesn't always come cheap.
The fact that the harddrives can't compensate for the speedincrease is one thing. But what about the transfer rate of the PCI bus istelf, when you own a Promise133 PCI card?
Let's look at some more calculations...
Currently the 32-Bit PCI bus runs at 33MHz.
(32/8 * 33MHz)/(1024*1024) = roughly 125MB/sec.
(byte * clocks)/(megabyte)
Now I could be wrong about this statement, but I believe that transferrate is shared by all your PCI devices...
(Onboard controllers might be a different case.)
So you won't get full usage of your new ultra-mega-superfast controller anyway.
(Yeah, I've heard of the 64-Bit PCI bus, and it should fix the problem)
My conclusion:
IDE = = cheap storage with good performance,
SCSI is for performace, and all that other hardware I can't cram on my IDE bus.
Sidenote:
Average transferspeeds on my Ultra160 HD are around 70MB/sec.
Average transferspeeds on my ATA/66 disk 20MB/sec.
I know Linux prides itself on beeing rich on choices, but could it be that the problem here are all the choices/alternatives? The choices soon become overwhelming, and people start to eliminate some of the choices, to relax the mind.
The distro companies might aswell make their choices of what they think's practical and what's not. You can still patch your kernel to support whatever FS you think you deserve, it's just not as convenient for you. As it is also not so convenient for the distros to include all the FS'es the community has to offer. Nor all the applications that are developed.
Strange as it might seem, it's quite normal.