Also, Apple, to my knowlege" only sells the upgrade for $100... how much does the actual OS cost?
Uh... where exactly are you going to get a Mac without some version of MacOS? That's the funny thing about their tight coupling of the OS to the hardware, you (in theory) never need to buy the "full version" because you get it with the hardware.
I think it's just software envy. OS X is mad stoopid tight (OK, so my fluency in colloquial hood is weak, sue me;), even the most ardent penguin backers will admit as much. But, the majority of the geeks here don't have a G3+ Mac to run it on--or, any Mac at all for that matter--so we're reduced to pining for something like x86 OS X. Don't take it personally.
Not just Shinobi, but Alien Syndrome, Afterburner, Rolling Thunder and, I'm sure, several more. However, these games weren't produced by Sega. Tengen, without paying licensing fees to Nintendo (the horror!), made these (second rate, IMHO) NES ports. So, Sega gets licensing fees for the games with little to no effort. Also, the (arguably) lower quality of these games with respect to the offical Sega Master System versions might have been seen as a benefit.
Of course, this is all just meaningless facts and unsupported conjecture on my part;)
If you're talking about the VS system, you have to mention the original Punch-Out. I mean, does it get more classic? "Body blow! Body blow! Uppercut!"
Punch-Out nostalgia aside, I believe that the Donkey Kong games were available as coin-ops, predating the VS system by a couple years. Fact checking, as always on/., is optional;)
The difference here is that WINE runs the Win32 executable and emulates the API hooks that DirectX uses, whereas this DirectX to OpenGL wrapper port provides a library for building native [platform X] executables against the DirectX API. This is more for source-level as opposed to binary-level portability.
I haven't really done much with Direct3D, but as I recall it has both an immediate and a retained mode. OpenGL is basically an immediate mode graphics library. Of course, I'm not writing any graphics code these days, so take this all with a grain of salt;) I welcome the any corrections from experts in the field.
I believe that immediate mode is mostly a rasterizer for your polys. You (the programmer) are responsible for maintaining all of your model information, view parameters, and so forth. Whereas retained mode maintains more persistant scene information, making for a more general library.
Anyway, the relevance is that, if retained mode functionality is required, it may take more of a performance hit because there is not a 1:1 correspondance of D3D to OpenGL calls. Keeping in mind, of course, that D3D Retained mode does this in software also, so I would imagine that a well-implemented wrapper could actually improve performance.
I guess the question is, does anyone use retained mode?
So, the US Supreme Court kept them from allowing a legally conducted election to be overthrown by questionable vote-counting methods.
I disagree. The Supreme Court decided that expediency outweighed the need for correctness. That, I feel, is where the proverbial fuck occurred. Not so much, as one might suggest, in affecting the outcome of the election.
[obligatory Simpsons misquote]
Homer: Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?
Marge: Well, like every American, fast!
I certainly don't pretend to know who truly won that election. File the results with Nixon's missing tape and the location of Jimmy Hoffa;)
Why would you pick and choose what you choose to believe in a book that defines your own religion?
That's not the case at all. The Ten Commandments are quite clearly stated as a set of rules for you to follow. There is no ambiguity there. However, it is not unreasonable to take the book of Genesis as a parable or allegory. The meaning is important, not the words. Eve did not have to actually be born of Adam's rib for the story to be significant. Does modern man own a monopoly on metaphor (or alliteration, for that matter;)? Further, unless you are fluent in Greek and Hebrew, it's difficult to be an authority on "literal" truth in the Bible.
On the topic of the Ten Commandments, what does "Thou shalt not kill" mean? It doesn't say, "don't kill people", does it? So, if you must be a literalist, you had better be a vegetarian, and don't think of killing that cockroach!
Too bad I won't be around to see the look on peoples' faces when they realize they were wrong and we (me and the other Christians) were right.
I'd say Windows 2000/XP give you signficantly more control than Windows 98 did. It's just a matter of figuring out how to do stuff.
Granted. But it still doesn't have the same level of customization as Linux or the BSDs. You can make a Linux-based firewall that runs of a floppy. Now, not being able to do that doesn't make Windows NT/2000/XP bad, I'm just illustrating a point.
Even the latest versions of KDE and Gnome are still behind Windows 3.1 in a lot of ways.
Now you've piqued my curiosity. Offhand, I'd disagree, but maybe I'm missing something.
Hell, I'll bet Microsoft could give each and every one of you a free copy of Windows, Office XP and.NET, and you'd still find a way to bitch.
Hell yes we would. It's not simply a matter of cost; part of the reason people like to use Linux is a matter of control. Windows doesn't give you that same level of control over the whole system. Personally, I like to know just what my computer is doing. Maybe I'm just weird.
Besides, you know how much people just like to bitch.
Just because you run Linux as your primary desktop OS doesn't make you superior to every other computer user.
When you have IBM/HP/etc. stepping in and saying "hey, stop coding that MP3 player, we need you to work on this database backend"...well, I just don't see that going over well with most hobbyist Linux developers.
I don't think that's the case at all. Just because big companies are using and contributing to Linux doesn't magically take Linux away from the hobbyist coders. I really doubt that IBM, HP, et al. are going to tell anyone except their employees what to do. There is no reason that people developing for Linux for a hobby, and people developing for Linux as a job, have to be mutually exclusive. I think that's kind of the point--that everyone can contribute.
I agree with previous posters, though, that there's a resistance from Linux backers to allow "big business" to become involved in Linux for fear that their exclusive club won't be so exclusive anymore. What they fail to notice is that some companies (I won't name them due to my personal bias) are making some solid contributions to the Linux community, without co-opting it. Not every company is building a giant space laser to take over the world, you know;-)
This is why I don't let my 6 yr. old play with FFX (that and the fact he cant read!).
A six year old that can't read? I was six when I started second grade! Say what you want about public schools, but I certainly knew how to read by then.
What I don't like is the fact that game companies are forced to charge me more (who only own legit games) because 5% of the people duplicate backups for free.
You can't actually believe this??? This is just what they tell people to justify high prices. The reason that games cost what they do is because people like you and me will pay $50 for a new game. Even crummy ones like The Bouncer;)
Piracy costs a lot less than they would have us believe--which is not to condone it.
The fallacy in your post, though, is that money is the only form of payment that content creators receive. It does not always have to be about "putting ducats in buckets", as it were.
In the student film/U2 example, the benefit to the student is that it enhances a presentation. That isn't a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. Meanwhile, U2 gets some free publicity to a few dozen students. Again, not exactly the Super Bowl halftime show. Still, who knows, someone might go out and buy "The Joshua Tree" because they heard "Where the Strees Have No Name" in a presentation?
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I think it's just software envy. OS X is mad stoopid tight (OK, so my fluency in colloquial hood is weak, sue me ;), even the most ardent penguin backers will admit as much. But, the majority of the geeks here don't have a G3+ Mac to run it on--or, any Mac at all for that matter--so we're reduced to pining for something like x86 OS X. Don't take it personally.
Of course, this is all just meaningless facts and unsupported conjecture on my part ;)
-J
Punch-Out nostalgia aside, I believe that the Donkey Kong games were available as coin-ops, predating the VS system by a couple years. Fact checking, as always on /., is optional ;)
-J
-J
You are correct, but you did realize that I was kidding, right?
Or, maybe the receiving mail server is on his mail server's blacklist, and they just keep bouncing rejections back and forth ;)
The difference here is that WINE runs the Win32 executable and emulates the API hooks that DirectX uses, whereas this DirectX to OpenGL wrapper port provides a library for building native [platform X] executables against the DirectX API. This is more for source-level as opposed to binary-level portability.
I believe that immediate mode is mostly a rasterizer for your polys. You (the programmer) are responsible for maintaining all of your model information, view parameters, and so forth. Whereas retained mode maintains more persistant scene information, making for a more general library.
Anyway, the relevance is that, if retained mode functionality is required, it may take more of a performance hit because there is not a 1:1 correspondance of D3D to OpenGL calls. Keeping in mind, of course, that D3D Retained mode does this in software also, so I would imagine that a well-implemented wrapper could actually improve performance.
I guess the question is, does anyone use retained mode?
Hell, what's to stop the DSL provider from reading the article? ;)
-J
[obligatory Simpsons misquote]
Homer: Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?
Marge: Well, like every American, fast!
I certainly don't pretend to know who truly won that election. File the results with Nixon's missing tape and the location of Jimmy Hoffa ;)
-J
On the topic of the Ten Commandments, what does "Thou shalt not kill" mean? It doesn't say, "don't kill people", does it? So, if you must be a literalist, you had better be a vegetarian, and don't think of killing that cockroach!
How very Christian of you.-J
Besides, you know how much people just like to bitch.
No, but our mad stoopid 1337 h4x0rz skillz doI agree with previous posters, though, that there's a resistance from Linux backers to allow "big business" to become involved in Linux for fear that their exclusive club won't be so exclusive anymore. What they fail to notice is that some companies (I won't name them due to my personal bias) are making some solid contributions to the Linux community, without co-opting it. Not every company is building a giant space laser to take over the world, you know ;-)
Piracy costs a lot less than they would have us believe--which is not to condone it.
In the student film/U2 example, the benefit to the student is that it enhances a presentation. That isn't a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. Meanwhile, U2 gets some free publicity to a few dozen students. Again, not exactly the Super Bowl halftime show. Still, who knows, someone might go out and buy "The Joshua Tree" because they heard "Where the Strees Have No Name" in a presentation?
"Fair Use" is, and should be, a broad term.