nvidia has lost this and probably the next generation of 3D to ATI. ATI's Radeon 9{5|7}00 is a very good card. Superior to the GeForce4. By the time the GeForceFX is released, ATI will have their next-generation chipset prepared. nvidia will be a generation behind. ATI cards are already close in price to their nvidia bretheren. nvidia needs a new product to get the performance crown back, or ATI will dominate.
Wasn't the original plan for WNT to be a completely POSIX-compliant OS, with complete source compatibility with Unix? Anyway, where'd you get that information? I'd really love to read some more about the NT kernel (I love kernel architecture and design stuff)
I've never used VMS, but after looking through the links people have provided, it looks really weird. I'd admit you don't know anything about VMS, and then buy a few books, and read them. Get access to an older Alpha or VAX, and learn the stuff. Once you learn the basics, everything else should come easy. If I can learn the basics of Unix in a week, you can learn VMS basics in a week.
Of course, I learn a new trick with Unix every day, so you're most likely screwed. Joking...
Actually, I never used it. It was a piece of scrap I picked up one day, hoping to get Debian on that sucker. The only Macs I've ever used are the PowerMac G4s at my school, and they run OS 9, and crash pretty much constantly. What fun. Not a big Mac fan, myself.
I've got an older PowerMac sitting around that has nothing in it. Literally, just a case with a motherboard in it. No processor, no cards, no RAM, nothing.
I'm taking German courses, and there is no way you could ever learn the ins and outs of a language that way. There are exceptions that exist in standard German (Hochdeutsch) that are confusing. I only learned them by using them conversationally.
They did it stupidly, they bungled this. I hope that they learned their lesson this time. I mean, how could they plan for a cross-platform game (FOUR at the beginning (Win, Mac, Linux, BeOS), and then use components restricted to two of those? Are they that stupid? That being said, I look forward to playing NWN in Linux.
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When I was younger (I'm 16 right now), we had a box or two of Lincoln Logs. I loved building elaborate stuff with them, then taking a makeshift "cannon" out of a bunch of crap around the house, and then finding the best point to take out the Lincoln Logs. Just be sure to use the wooden ones, since the plastic ones don't have the imperfections and don't make cool noises when they fall down.
Legos are always fun. Don't get the crappy sets that take forever to put together and then you don't want to take it apart when you're finished. Just get the small little boxes and build up a collection again. I've still got somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 Legos! The programmable robot thingy (I'm working on setting it up in Linux with C or Java) is good fun, especially when it scares the cat!
The taxes levied by the British Parliament in the pre-revolution days were mainly for raising money for regulating trade and such. The Americans had no problem with this. However, after the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years War in Europe), the British government needed money for its treasury, and they began taxing the Americans, because Parliament believed that this was payment for defense of the English colonies. The Americans fought the war in North America pretty independently of Britan. This was why we protested the taxes.
Thats getting off-topic, so I'm going to say: The sales of these computers is great. It shows there IS a market for Linux, contrary to what many have said.
I don't have the bandwidth to download movies, but I can download music. I just bought a CD, after getting a CD with most of the mp3s from a friend. I like having the case (even though it doesn't have liner notes), and I now have the high-quality audio on the CD. Well worth it. Well worth it.
I also prefer watching movies on a widescreen 50" TV with a great soundsystem. Why download a low quality movie when the difference between DVD and DivX are incredible?
I'm compiling KDE 3.1RC3 right now, but I could take a break and compile a new kernel (at 2.4.19 right now), or just continue on my merry little way...
And I just submitted this, with almost the exact same text! Scary.
Sorta conspiracy-theorish, but its plausible. I'd guess that ATI wants to control the high-end Linux 3D market by forcing people to use their Built by ATI hardware, though.
Open source is the backbone of the Internet. People hate Microsoft. Red Hat is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Its only a matter of time until people begin searching for free software because its more flexible. And legal.
X is a flexible extensible system. Thats why it is popular. The new RnR extension to XFree86 4.3 is just an example of why X is the windowing system of choice.
Oh, if you get crappy performance in X, you should use Window Maker or fvwm.
VB? Python is a great RAD solution. Simple syntax, and with wxWindows, it offers native widgets on Unix, Mac OS, and Windows. Its a powerful language. Give it a shot.
Wonderful. They take an email client, and add emacs key bindings, thinking all of us emacs users will switch over. Why switch to Evolution when we have an email client, a newsreader, a web browser, a text editor, a blender, and a kitchen sink in one 20MB tarball? If I want to use emacs-style bindings for my email, I'll use emacs, thank you very much:).
If they filed for it in 1994, this means they preempted the modern Internet. That means this patent is a legitimate patent, and it isn't a bad patent, like the PanIP patent. PanIP sat on their patent, well after the.com boom and bust. These people showed it to MS way back when they started making IE. It is their right to selective patent enforcement, whether it seems right or not.
MS is essentially doomed if this lawsuit goes through. They may recover, but they'd have to change so much technology, that, in the meantime, many people would migrate to alternative technologies, marginalizing MS.
HURD is the kernel designed by the FSF, the people who made all of the GNU tools you and I use on Linux. It is architecturally different than all other Unix kernels in existence. Older Unix kernels are all monolithic kernels (ie, they are in a single file, vmlinuz on Linux). HURD runs servers that communicate with each other to do the functions that the single Linux kernel does. Go to the HURD website and read one of the technical docs, they are very helpful.
If its Unix, apt-get is your ally. With apt-get, just set up a cron job that updates the apt-get database daily, and then the user can install software at their leisure. If you aren't using Debian, you can use apt-rpm. Red Carpet also has similar facilities.
If its Windows, its going to be a bit more difficult. Maybe Windows Update?
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nvidia has lost this and probably the next generation of 3D to ATI. ATI's Radeon 9{5|7}00 is a very good card. Superior to the GeForce4. By the time the GeForceFX is released, ATI will have their next-generation chipset prepared. nvidia will be a generation behind. ATI cards are already close in price to their nvidia bretheren. nvidia needs a new product to get the performance crown back, or ATI will dominate.
Wasn't the original plan for WNT to be a completely POSIX-compliant OS, with complete source compatibility with Unix? Anyway, where'd you get that information? I'd really love to read some more about the NT kernel (I love kernel architecture and design stuff)
I've never used VMS, but after looking through the links people have provided, it looks really weird. I'd admit you don't know anything about VMS, and then buy a few books, and read them. Get access to an older Alpha or VAX, and learn the stuff. Once you learn the basics, everything else should come easy. If I can learn the basics of Unix in a week, you can learn VMS basics in a week.
Of course, I learn a new trick with Unix every day, so you're most likely screwed. Joking...
Actually, I never used it. It was a piece of scrap I picked up one day, hoping to get Debian on that sucker. The only Macs I've ever used are the PowerMac G4s at my school, and they run OS 9, and crash pretty much constantly. What fun. Not a big Mac fan, myself.
I've got an older PowerMac sitting around that has nothing in it. Literally, just a case with a motherboard in it. No processor, no cards, no RAM, nothing.
I'm gonna put a PC in that thing one day.
This is the mother and father of vaporware. I mean, look of "vaporware" in a dictionary, and you'll find...
GNU Hurd
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I'm taking German courses, and there is no way you could ever learn the ins and outs of a language that way. There are exceptions that exist in standard German (Hochdeutsch) that are confusing. I only learned them by using them conversationally.
They did it stupidly, they bungled this. I hope that they learned their lesson this time. I mean, how could they plan for a cross-platform game (FOUR at the beginning (Win, Mac, Linux, BeOS), and then use components restricted to two of those? Are they that stupid? That being said, I look forward to playing NWN in Linux.
When I was younger (I'm 16 right now), we had a box or two of Lincoln Logs. I loved building elaborate stuff with them, then taking a makeshift "cannon" out of a bunch of crap around the house, and then finding the best point to take out the Lincoln Logs. Just be sure to use the wooden ones, since the plastic ones don't have the imperfections and don't make cool noises when they fall down.
Legos are always fun. Don't get the crappy sets that take forever to put together and then you don't want to take it apart when you're finished. Just get the small little boxes and build up a collection again. I've still got somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 Legos! The programmable robot thingy (I'm working on setting it up in Linux with C or Java) is good fun, especially when it scares the cat!
The taxes levied by the British Parliament in the pre-revolution days were mainly for raising money for regulating trade and such. The Americans had no problem with this. However, after the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years War in Europe), the British government needed money for its treasury, and they began taxing the Americans, because Parliament believed that this was payment for defense of the English colonies. The Americans fought the war in North America pretty independently of Britan. This was why we protested the taxes.
Thats getting off-topic, so I'm going to say: The sales of these computers is great. It shows there IS a market for Linux, contrary to what many have said.
These CDs use a Linux-specific extension to Rock Ridge for CD compression. These CDs can be decompressed on the fly. Very nice.
Its called zisofs, and you have to compile it as a kernel option (either module or in the kernel)
Time for some Ur-Quan to die a most horrible death! I enjoy blasting Ur-Quan with Spathi BUTT Missles...So much fun.
Err...That doesn't sound right...
I don't have the bandwidth to download movies, but I can download music. I just bought a CD, after getting a CD with most of the mp3s from a friend. I like having the case (even though it doesn't have liner notes), and I now have the high-quality audio on the CD. Well worth it. Well worth it.
I also prefer watching movies on a widescreen 50" TV with a great soundsystem. Why download a low quality movie when the difference between DVD and DivX are incredible?
The kernel won't usually break your applications, unless you depend on something odd like QMAGIC support and don't compile it in.
The compiler will. Which is why I installed fresh with gcc-3.2.
As for service packs: We don't need them, as we have things like up2date, you, emerge, and apt. These can upgrade your entire system.
I'm compiling KDE 3.1RC3 right now, but I could take a break and compile a new kernel (at 2.4.19 right now), or just continue on my merry little way...
And I just submitted this, with almost the exact same text! Scary.
Sorta conspiracy-theorish, but its plausible. I'd guess that ATI wants to control the high-end Linux 3D market by forcing people to use their Built by ATI hardware, though.
Open source is the backbone of the Internet. People hate Microsoft. Red Hat is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Its only a matter of time until people begin searching for free software because its more flexible. And legal.
X is a flexible extensible system. Thats why it is popular. The new RnR extension to XFree86 4.3 is just an example of why X is the windowing system of choice.
Oh, if you get crappy performance in X, you should use Window Maker or fvwm.
VB? Python is a great RAD solution. Simple syntax, and with wxWindows, it offers native widgets on Unix, Mac OS, and Windows. Its a powerful language. Give it a shot.
I've got a bad ISO of CRUX, and after wiping Debian, I don't feel like installing it again, only to delete it to install CRUX.
Wonderful. They take an email client, and add emacs key bindings, thinking all of us emacs users will switch over. Why switch to Evolution when we have an email client, a newsreader, a web browser, a text editor, a blender, and a kitchen sink in one 20MB tarball? If I want to use emacs-style bindings for my email, I'll use emacs, thank you very much :).
The question is *. The solution is emacs.
If they filed for it in 1994, this means they preempted the modern Internet. That means this patent is a legitimate patent, and it isn't a bad patent, like the PanIP patent. PanIP sat on their patent, well after the .com boom and bust. These people showed it to MS way back when they started making IE. It is their right to selective patent enforcement, whether it seems right or not.
MS is essentially doomed if this lawsuit goes through. They may recover, but they'd have to change so much technology, that, in the meantime, many people would migrate to alternative technologies, marginalizing MS.
Just speculation, though. Don't mind me.
HURD is the kernel designed by the FSF, the people who made all of the GNU tools you and I use on Linux. It is architecturally different than all other Unix kernels in existence. Older Unix kernels are all monolithic kernels (ie, they are in a single file, vmlinuz on Linux). HURD runs servers that communicate with each other to do the functions that the single Linux kernel does. Go to the HURD website and read one of the technical docs, they are very helpful.
I'd love to own one of these things, and when I go to a friends house to play some UT or AA, I can drive him mad...
Seriously, this is pretty freaky. This is less secure than most wireless networks.
If its Unix, apt-get is your ally. With apt-get, just set up a cron job that updates the apt-get database daily, and then the user can install software at their leisure. If you aren't using Debian, you can use apt-rpm. Red Carpet also has similar facilities.
If its Windows, its going to be a bit more difficult. Maybe Windows Update?