I guess we all know who the next variant of the Blaster virus will be targeting.... Wouldn't that be ironic, millions of infected Windows machines giving them the Mother of all Slashdot Effects.
Applescript's fairly simple from an object oriented programming point of view and the support built into many applications is cool but it takes forever to debug anything written in it especially because it doesn't always do everything how you would expect it to (A few litte quicks in some of the commands etc). Something that would seem really simple and straightforward oftens ends up behaving much differently than you expect it to. Oh and the syntax seems to be completely bass aackwards but then again it is mac.;-)
Heck with the Shared Source CLI and/or Mono you can run some.NET apps on Unix/Linux. While currently the apps that you can run are mostly simple and pretty much restricted to the commandline it does show that with a lot of work it may eventually be a viable platform under Unix/Linux.
Hey wouldn't it be cool to be CEO of a company who sues other companies claiming that they ripped off your product so that your share price will skyrocket and you'll make millions of dollars after finally selling the company? Oh wait...that's been done...
Just grab the GLX and Kernel [4363 is latest] tar.gz's. Unpack them, export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true. go into the Kernel directory, make, go into the GLX directory, make, go into/etc/X11, edit XF86CONFIG-4 [e.g. remove dri, etc.. replace nv with nvidia], add nvidia to your/etc/modules now either reboot or isnmod nvidia and launch startx. Boom NVIDIA drivers.
Or.... you could just use the Nvidia installer.:-)
people start trying to cool their computers with this instead of water. Something tells me I'll need to do an awful lot of *hic* "research".... One for the computer and one for me....
ATI's been burned in the past by the Quake 3 thing and they seem to have learned their lesson from it. Notice how quickly they apologized for (and promised to remove) something that wasn't even really a cheat? The want to avoid even the impression of cheating. Now it's Nvidia's turn to feel the wrath of the gaming community. Every card maker "optimizes" for benchmarks but there is a fine line between optimizing drivers and doing something that alters the conditions under which the benchmark runs.
I believe that what John says about the shader precision difference is significant. How do you really compare benchmark performance on two cards that are rendering shaders at different levels of precision? Perhaps some kind of weighted score that takes into account the differences in the shader precisions?
I still don't think that 3Dmark 2003 is a good benchmark because it only makes use of a very small part of Directx 9 (only one PS 2.0 shader in the entire thing!) and has tests that essentially test the same thing over again using different scenes. If it was to be the "forward looking" benchmark that they claim it is they should have used more Directx 9 features. If it was to be a mostly Directx 8 benchmark with a few Directx 9 elements thrown in for good measure then they certainly didn't accomplish that either.
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I guess we all know who the next variant of the Blaster virus will be targeting.... Wouldn't that be ironic, millions of infected Windows machines giving them the Mother of all Slashdot Effects.
Applescript's fairly simple from an object oriented programming point of view and the support built into many applications is cool but it takes forever to debug anything written in it especially because it doesn't always do everything how you would expect it to (A few litte quicks in some of the commands etc). Something that would seem really simple and straightforward oftens ends up behaving much differently than you expect it to. Oh and the syntax seems to be completely bass aackwards but then again it is mac. ;-)
Hmm I wonder if they're using Windows or Linux?
More fun than sticking a Megadeth tape in a Teddy Ruxpin eh? :-)
In fact I'm using my phone to view Slashdot at this very moment and it's...... #### NO CARRIER ####
More Slashdotters are probably more interested in modding the Xbox to run Linux than in playing Halo.
Literally a Blue Screen of Death. I can just see the new Microsoft marketing slogan: "Where would you like to crash today?" (TM)
To stop sitting on your ass reading Slashdot and start exercising mister!! ;-)
Heck with the Shared Source CLI and/or Mono you can run some .NET apps on Unix/Linux. While currently the apps that you can run are mostly simple and pretty much restricted to the commandline it does show that with a lot of work it may eventually be a viable platform under Unix/Linux.
It looks like they should have used this upgrade on their web server.
Hey wouldn't it be cool to be CEO of a company who sues other companies claiming that they ripped off your product so that your share price will skyrocket and you'll make millions of dollars after finally selling the company? Oh wait...that's been done...
Because good is dumb.
Just grab the GLX and Kernel [4363 is latest] tar.gz's. Unpack them, export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true. go into the Kernel directory, make, go into the GLX directory, make, go into /etc/X11, edit XF86CONFIG-4 [e.g. remove dri, etc.. replace nv with nvidia], add nvidia to your /etc/modules now either reboot or isnmod nvidia and launch startx. Boom NVIDIA drivers.
:-)
Or.... you could just use the Nvidia installer.
That date for Windows Millennium can't come soon enough.... ugh..
or for more hilarity see the pink screen of death. That's when you know you're really fucked.
Let's hope that their webserver is a MandrakeCluster too what with the good ol'-fashioned Slashdotting it's getting now.
Rambus Inc today announced that they were suing SCO for infringing on their business strategy of 'suing everything that moves'.
would be a Raiden Array!
Talk about having a 'Dual Shock' controller.... "Finish him!"
Where are those aerial pics of that guy's house?
What happens when you say it three times? They sue you?
people start trying to cool their computers with this instead of water. Something tells me I'll need to do an awful lot of *hic* "research".... One for the computer and one for me....
But everybody was cheating so it didn't matter anyway.
ATI's been burned in the past by the Quake 3 thing and they seem to have learned their lesson from it. Notice how quickly they apologized for (and promised to remove) something that wasn't even really a cheat? The want to avoid even the impression of cheating. Now it's Nvidia's turn to feel the wrath of the gaming community. Every card maker "optimizes" for benchmarks but there is a fine line between optimizing drivers and doing something that alters the conditions under which the benchmark runs.
I believe that what John says about the shader precision difference is significant. How do you really compare benchmark performance on two cards that are rendering shaders at different levels of precision? Perhaps some kind of weighted score that takes into account the differences in the shader precisions?
I still don't think that 3Dmark 2003 is a good benchmark because it only makes use of a very small part of Directx 9 (only one PS 2.0 shader in the entire thing!) and has tests that essentially test the same thing over again using different scenes. If it was to be the "forward looking" benchmark that they claim it is they should have used more Directx 9 features. If it was to be a mostly Directx 8 benchmark with a few Directx 9 elements thrown in for good measure then they certainly didn't accomplish that either.
Ant ain't just a cool Java tool!