The nerve! How dare these guys force you to sit and read Slashdot stories when you obviously have better things to do! I mean please, your life of childish name-calling and corrections of minor character misuse is a demanding one, you can't be forced to sit and read sites like this one with your on-the-go lifestyle. I for one say that you should write your congressman and make them do something about this injustice!
That would be perfect. You'd have to give him that antenae thing he has though, and the laser weapon. The PBS station here in Albuquerque is showing the episodes with the 1st Romana right now and I'm having all kinds of good dreams about her and the privacy of the Tardis.:)
I know this will get moderated down but my karma can take it and I needed my geek fix for the day.
Damn, I loved Tradewars back in the day. I'm with Cliff on wanting an online version. The only problem would be my college grades going down in relation to how powerful I became in the game, just like my high school grades did.:)
What possessed you to end a mature, if fact free post with a regression to 8th grade? if you're going to say something like that without backing it up, that's fine. Just don't add a useless insult, that only reflects badly on you and I'm sure does nothing to actually hurt the feelings of the person you're trying to insult. Posting this anonymously was probably a good idea, you never know if people you know are going to read this.
Does this release support non Voodoo cards? I downloaded the whole demo (50 megs on a 38400 connection!) only to find out that it wouldn't support my TNT2. I was thinking of getting UT to support the release of Linux games but if Epic isn't going to support other cards I can't justify the expense just to have a Windows only game. If I'm missing something, somebody please let me know. I know that q3 said it only supported Voodoo but I got my TNT2 to work, if something like that is in order I'll pick my UT up as soon as possible.
I have always thought that if we were going to get good virtual realities like the ones we see in Snow Crash and Neuromancer the engine would come from games, not from weird VR experiments. VR experiments have given us VRML which isn't totally terrible but the way it's built isn't workable for large scale net environments. An internet ready engine like Q3 would be perfect. The net code in q3 is awesome and if anybody can hook it up to a nice interface for wandering around a world instead of just shooting at people it's Carmack.
We got a lot trying to play on a LAN but it went away when we chose UDP for the LAN protocol of the game. If it doesn't work with one proto, try the other. That's a weird bug though.
I've read enough bad books to know that when I'm finished I don't want to spend another minute with it. If you want to read bad reviews, I'd suggest reading the little blurbs on Amazon.com. I know personally that I don't have time to write the length of reviews that Slashdot wants for a book I didn't like. If you want to, I suggest you go for it.
The fact is that most Windows APIs are poorly documented when they are documented so AFAIK, it's conjecture but I'd say it's educated conjecture. The fact that Office changes Windows system files shows me that there are some internal Windows things that are added and/or changed by Office, an external product that doesn't need to have it's internals documented for programmers. Anyway, if the APIs are hidden, how would we know? Most of us don't work at MS.
This is completely true and has been seen over and over again throughout the history of anti-trust. John D. Rockefeller didn't get really rich until Standard Oil was broken up. I think I remember reading (in the great biography Titan) that his worth went from $300 million before to $900 million after the breakup, and that's in ~1900 dollars. The AT&T breakup went the same way, some of the richest companies in the world came out of that breakup, increasing the overall wealth of the whole by huge amounts.
When I look at this, I don't see Redhat taking over GCC, I see Redhat taking over Cygus' expertise in the embedded OS space. Most of Cygnus' revenues come from their work on embedded systems and I don't see Redhat ignoring that. There's already a lot of work on Linux in embedded systems and if Redhat's smart, they'll push that work forward. Embedded is where it's at for the future IMHO. Just a thought...
I remember anon.petet.fi pretty fondly. That was the first example I remember on the net of somebody doing something that had integrity on the net, he wouldn't give up his lists of users for anything for a long time until the CoS bullied him into it. I love seeing all these celebrities talking about how great Scientology has been for them and how they can't imagine why people don't like it, then there's something like this. The CoS is like the NRA for me, the leadership is full of such asses and extremist jerks that it gives the few members I know a bad name. I'm sure not all CoS members are as against free speech as the leadership but I never see them standing up against it. If your religion is so great, why does it need lawyers to defend itself against speech? Speech should be defend against by more speech, not by using dirty tricks to shut up the other person.
Having a nice, embeddable browser is very exciting. Things like the GNOME help browser would be greatly helped by having a real Mozilla inside it. Help files could link to webpages and it would work inside the app, without having to call Mozilla seperately. An email program could use the embedded browser to read your HTML email (I hate html mail but I do get it), or an HTML editor could actually do WYSIWYG for once instead of having to call a seperate program or write a new browser inside the editor. Of all the things you listed, I think browser embedding is probably the most useful if you have the imagination for it.
Usually I would agree with you that something is going on but I seem to recall MSNBC getting the big anti-MS stories first and not putting on the kid gloves at all. I'm sure they wouldn't report about really bad stuff first, but then again none of the network news entities would report about bad news for the parent corps so they're not alone.
On a slightly related note, did anybody watch the "Smoke in the Eye" Frontline episode a couple of weeks ago? It was a pretty damming account of the Big Tobacco vs. CBS debacle. It showed pretty plainly that the 60 Minutes/CBS lawyers didn't want to report a bad story about the tobacco industry so CBS wouldn't have a huge lawsuit in it's books when the higher ups were trying to sell it to Westinghouse. An excellent example of what can/does happen when giant corps own the conduits of the news.
One of the main uses I can see for this is for kids. Give your kid a throwaway phone to keep in their backpack and they can use it to call for help/a ride/etc. In Israel they have cell phones that have programmable buttons fordialing home and the police that can only be used for outgoing calls. That's an excellent idea that would be perfect for this.
I was surprised not to see K&R C on the list (they mentioned when Ken Thompson's mom met his dad though) although I thought it was pretty complete. The fact that mentioned the change from ^ to | as pipe impressed the hell out of me.
It also makes you think about Richard Stallman's contribution to computing to see that like 5 things on the list are his direct doing.
First off, thanks a lot to Creative. They seem to know what's what in the Linux world. But...
It seems weird to alienate people like me who went ahead and bought the more expensive dxr3 setup rather than the dxr2 based kits. I know the cards are pretty different but I hope the drivers come out for the dxr3 pretty soon as I imagine that's what most people are getting in their Creative kits now. I want to help code on a player but I need one I can actually use.:)
It seems that the main problem that online voting is trying to solve is the low turnout rates. For the cost and time involved in making a secure system that won't be hacked and/or rigged with multiple votes, it seems that other solutions could be found. Some ideas for increasing turnout rates based on my couple of years worth of voting experience and nothing else:
More voting hours (like 48)
More voting locations (like grocery stores)
online registration (does exist, but most people don't know about it)
That's all I can come up at this moment but I'd be interested in other ideas. Post your ideas as a reply to this post, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to hear them.
I'm just repeating what Creative told me so I don't know exactly either way. I would agree with you though, maybe they were talking about the hardware spec, I don't remember.
It's good to see them making this bold of a move and I'd like to add my voice to the thanks that other posters have given.
With that said, I just hope that I can get the software for my Creative Dxr3 DVD board and player sometime. I know it can't be OS due to patent/copyright/whatever problems but I'd accept any from-Creative ware that lets me reboot to Windows even less than I do now (actually, with a DVD player for Linux, that would only be for Halflife playing. Valve?).
I laughed out loud when I read that they had already created glowing mice. I want pics of that. I don't know why, it just strikes me as very funny to see mice running around glowing in the dark.
We bought Secure Server a couple of months ago (before 6.1 came out) directly from Redhat. I've also seen it in Borders bookstore. The only problem with buying the Secure Server is that you are limited to upgrading Apache when Redhat releases new versions (which has been, since version 2 came out, never) since they don't release the RPMs or source of the SSL part of the package.
I have to argue with you when you say that IPv4 doesn't leave a paper trail. IPs are registered to ISPs and even if you're on a dialup with dynamic IP, all (smart) ISPs keep logs of authentication which almost always included the IP you logged in with and the times you were on. If one ISP needs to find what user was doing what with X.X.X.X IP, all they have to do is ask the user's ISP and they can find out.
MAC addresses are only registered in blocks to manufacturers and as such, are much more difficult to trace back to you. That's not to say that ad agencies can't track a MAC address from site to site but they can't say 'This MAC address belongs to Joe Schmoe' unless you tell them you're Joe Schmoe.
Not to crap on the guy who submitted that 'more evil than satan' Google search but that was part of an article I just read about Google finally coming online. I don't know whether the guy credited the original source in his post and CmdrTaco just left that out but the poster wasn't the smart-ass who thought of that.
Just a little something in the name of poster integrity. Like the man said, 'credit your sources.'
If color icons is all I get out of a color Palm I'll pass. Unless somehow they can make it not eat batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and until I see a real application that actually uses the color for something useful, I'll stick with my black & white (or black & green I guess).
I still haven't heard of a handheld app (and nobody needs to run Photoshop or Paint on a handheld as one person suggested in another forum) that would actually benefit from color. The closest idea I've heard is a datebook that color codes appointments and that's not even close to useful enough to make up for the size/power consumption increases.
If you have an idea for a useful handheld app that uses color effectively, please post it here as a reply. I'm really interested if there is one.
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The nerve! How dare these guys force you to sit and read Slashdot stories when you obviously have better things to do! I mean please, your life of childish name-calling and corrections of minor character misuse is a demanding one, you can't be forced to sit and read sites like this one with your on-the-go lifestyle. I for one say that you should write your congressman and make them do something about this injustice!
That would be perfect. You'd have to give him that antenae thing he has though, and the laser weapon. The PBS station here in Albuquerque is showing the episodes with the 1st Romana right now and I'm having all kinds of good dreams about her and the privacy of the Tardis. :)
I know this will get moderated down but my karma can take it and I needed my geek fix for the day.
Damn, I loved Tradewars back in the day. I'm with Cliff on wanting an online version. The only problem would be my college grades going down in relation to how powerful I became in the game, just like my high school grades did. :)
What possessed you to end a mature, if fact free post with a regression to 8th grade? if you're going to say something like that without backing it up, that's fine. Just don't add a useless insult, that only reflects badly on you and I'm sure does nothing to actually hurt the feelings of the person you're trying to insult. Posting this anonymously was probably a good idea, you never know if people you know are going to read this.
Does this release support non Voodoo cards? I downloaded the whole demo (50 megs on a 38400 connection!) only to find out that it wouldn't support my TNT2. I was thinking of getting UT to support the release of Linux games but if Epic isn't going to support other cards I can't justify the expense just to have a Windows only game. If I'm missing something, somebody please let me know. I know that q3 said it only supported Voodoo but I got my TNT2 to work, if something like that is in order I'll pick my UT up as soon as possible.
I have always thought that if we were going to get good virtual realities like the ones we see in Snow Crash and Neuromancer the engine would come from games, not from weird VR experiments. VR experiments have given us VRML which isn't totally terrible but the way it's built isn't workable for large scale net environments. An internet ready engine like Q3 would be perfect. The net code in q3 is awesome and if anybody can hook it up to a nice interface for wandering around a world instead of just shooting at people it's Carmack.
We got a lot trying to play on a LAN but it went away when we chose UDP for the LAN protocol of the game. If it doesn't work with one proto, try the other. That's a weird bug though.
I've read enough bad books to know that when I'm finished I don't want to spend another minute with it. If you want to read bad reviews, I'd suggest reading the little blurbs on Amazon.com. I know personally that I don't have time to write the length of reviews that Slashdot wants for a book I didn't like. If you want to, I suggest you go for it.
The fact is that most Windows APIs are poorly documented when they are documented so AFAIK, it's conjecture but I'd say it's educated conjecture. The fact that Office changes Windows system files shows me that there are some internal Windows things that are added and/or changed by Office, an external product that doesn't need to have it's internals documented for programmers. Anyway, if the APIs are hidden, how would we know? Most of us don't work at MS.
This is completely true and has been seen over and over again throughout the history of anti-trust. John D. Rockefeller didn't get really rich until Standard Oil was broken up. I think I remember reading (in the great biography Titan) that his worth went from $300 million before to $900 million after the breakup, and that's in ~1900 dollars. The AT&T breakup went the same way, some of the richest companies in the world came out of that breakup, increasing the overall wealth of the whole by huge amounts.
When I look at this, I don't see Redhat taking over GCC, I see Redhat taking over Cygus' expertise in the embedded OS space. Most of Cygnus' revenues come from their work on embedded systems and I don't see Redhat ignoring that. There's already a lot of work on Linux in embedded systems and if Redhat's smart, they'll push that work forward. Embedded is where it's at for the future IMHO. Just a thought...
I remember anon.petet.fi pretty fondly. That was the first example I remember on the net of somebody doing something that had integrity on the net, he wouldn't give up his lists of users for anything for a long time until the CoS bullied him into it.
I love seeing all these celebrities talking about how great Scientology has been for them and how they can't imagine why people don't like it, then there's something like this. The CoS is like the NRA for me, the leadership is full of such asses and extremist jerks that it gives the few members I know a bad name. I'm sure not all CoS members are as against free speech as the leadership but I never see them standing up against it. If your religion is so great, why does it need lawyers to defend itself against speech? Speech should be defend against by more speech, not by using dirty tricks to shut up the other person.
Having a nice, embeddable browser is very exciting. Things like the GNOME help browser would be greatly helped by having a real Mozilla inside it. Help files could link to webpages and it would work inside the app, without having to call Mozilla seperately. An email program could use the embedded browser to read your HTML email (I hate html mail but I do get it), or an HTML editor could actually do WYSIWYG for once instead of having to call a seperate program or write a new browser inside the editor. Of all the things you listed, I think browser embedding is probably the most useful if you have the imagination for it.
Usually I would agree with you that something is going on but I seem to recall MSNBC getting the big anti-MS stories first and not putting on the kid gloves at all. I'm sure they wouldn't report about really bad stuff first, but then again none of the network news entities would report about bad news for the parent corps so they're not alone.
On a slightly related note, did anybody watch the "Smoke in the Eye" Frontline episode a couple of weeks ago? It was a pretty damming account of the Big Tobacco vs. CBS debacle. It showed pretty plainly that the 60 Minutes/CBS lawyers didn't want to report a bad story about the tobacco industry so CBS wouldn't have a huge lawsuit in it's books when the higher ups were trying to sell it to Westinghouse. An excellent example of what can/does happen when giant corps own the conduits of the news.
One of the main uses I can see for this is for kids. Give your kid a throwaway phone to keep in their backpack and they can use it to call for help/a ride/etc.
In Israel they have cell phones that have programmable buttons fordialing home and the police that can only be used for outgoing calls. That's an excellent idea that would be perfect for this.
I was surprised not to see K&R C on the list (they mentioned when Ken Thompson's mom met his dad though) although I thought it was pretty complete. The fact that mentioned the change from ^ to | as pipe impressed the hell out of me.
It also makes you think about Richard Stallman's contribution to computing to see that like 5 things on the list are his direct doing.
First off, thanks a lot to Creative. They seem to know what's what in the Linux world. But...
:)
It seems weird to alienate people like me who went ahead and bought the more expensive dxr3 setup rather than the dxr2 based kits. I know the cards are pretty different but I hope the drivers come out for the dxr3 pretty soon as I imagine that's what most people are getting in their Creative kits now. I want to help code on a player but I need one I can actually use.
That's all I can come up at this moment but I'd be interested in other ideas. Post your ideas as a reply to this post, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to hear them.
I'm just repeating what Creative told me so I don't know exactly either way. I would agree with you though, maybe they were talking about the hardware spec, I don't remember.
It's good to see them making this bold of a move and I'd like to add my voice to the thanks that other posters have given.
With that said, I just hope that I can get the software for my Creative Dxr3 DVD board and player sometime. I know it can't be OS due to patent/copyright/whatever problems but I'd accept any from-Creative ware that lets me reboot to Windows even less than I do now (actually, with a DVD player for Linux, that would only be for Halflife playing. Valve?).
I laughed out loud when I read that they had already created glowing mice. I want pics of that. I don't know why, it just strikes me as very funny to see mice running around glowing in the dark.
We bought Secure Server a couple of months ago (before 6.1 came out) directly from Redhat. I've also seen it in Borders bookstore. The only problem with buying the Secure Server is that you are limited to upgrading Apache when Redhat releases new versions (which has been, since version 2 came out, never) since they don't release the RPMs or source of the SSL part of the package.
I have to argue with you when you say that IPv4 doesn't leave a paper trail. IPs are registered to ISPs and even if you're on a dialup with dynamic IP, all (smart) ISPs keep logs of authentication which almost always included the IP you logged in with and the times you were on. If one ISP needs to find what user was doing what with X.X.X.X IP, all they have to do is ask the user's ISP and they can find out.
MAC addresses are only registered in blocks to manufacturers and as such, are much more difficult to trace back to you. That's not to say that ad agencies can't track a MAC address from site to site but they can't say 'This MAC address belongs to Joe Schmoe' unless you tell them you're Joe Schmoe.
Not to crap on the guy who submitted that 'more evil than satan' Google search but that was part of an article I just read about Google finally coming online. I don't know whether the guy credited the original source in his post and CmdrTaco just left that out but the poster wasn't the smart-ass who thought of that.
Just a little something in the name of poster integrity. Like the man said, 'credit your sources.'
If color icons is all I get out of a color Palm I'll pass. Unless somehow they can make it not eat batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and until I see a real application that actually uses the color for something useful, I'll stick with my black & white (or black & green I guess).
I still haven't heard of a handheld app (and nobody needs to run Photoshop or Paint on a handheld as one person suggested in another forum) that would actually benefit from color. The closest idea I've heard is a datebook that color codes appointments and that's not even close to useful enough to make up for the size/power consumption increases.
If you have an idea for a useful handheld app that uses color effectively, please post it here as a reply. I'm really interested if there is one.