And I have to point out that aiming a girlie soap-opera simulation at a bunch of supergeeks like me would be ignored. However had they aimed something like Eve online - I would have bought it in an instant.
If you dont have anything constructive to say towards linux gaming, what bother reading this artical? Just why? If you could actually post something constructive(even critical yet constructive) you might be able to justify your wasted bandwidth here....
Give me an example where a peice of software doesnt at least have some features that rub you up the wrong way. At least allow modular parts - API, IDE, Compiler etc that could be used in other ways. Yet again I am not a fan of MS - but MS's developer suite(although being tied to the OS) is not tied together. You can use GNU make with MS compiler, or MS Make with GCC, or CL elesewhere or create custom projects with custom compilers (IE run make) in Dev Stu. Its one of the few products (along with MSDN) of their that I do appretiate.
Unbiased- is you dont have to pay them for a good review- though true enough someone else might be paying them to give you a bad review. Unfortunately its a big bad world. But good word of mouth is the best review you can get. Actual recommendation by satisfied users goes a lot furthar toward me acquiring a peice of software than any amount of billboarding flooding and spamming.
Good on to them. Sorry- you expect me to feel slightly sympathetic to a bunch of greedy fat cats who are happy to filter anything but the rubbish that 14yr old girls buy. Just because there sales are only up $20million on last year instead nof a forecast $1bn? They can fsck themselves - they are very rich, and getting richer, getting bigger. Piracy does hurt their profits- but to be honest compared with actual income they make its a drop in the water- they are already a multi-bn dollar industry - and will continue to be. So I vote for the independant artists - and I will be buying their works. After all - since the landscape of publishing and recording has changed - really an artist doest need a big record company, they need some reasonable studio kit(affordable or hirable), a mass-cd-producer(there are companies that provide this service, and only this service - not record companies - not contracts - but just a cd press service), possibly an advertiser to start the ball rolling. But all of this will never work is the music is no good - so above all they need talent. I see a distinct lack of that in most of the dross we get fed by the intravenous HMV drip....
I thought that was sueing McDonalds for a trillion dollars because they didnt know two Big Mac's would make them fat- after all they did order/diet/ coke....
Are you sure- Imagine if you couldnt turn your eyes to look- you would always have to move your whole head. Beleive me- the last thing you would ever, ever want is RSI in your eyes... That would seriously fscked.
On the other hand, I have been messing around with dasher- and I think as you get more familiar with it, and it with your style, it gets faster. What would be nice would be an option to increase the speed as you become more proficient...Its a nice concept and could go far with a little adaptation...
Thats because they were threatened into submission by Microsoft not to supply boxes with any other OS or indeed without an MS-OS therefore encouraging the use of alternatives. Microsoft screw all of these companies (Dell, Compaq, HP etc) the same way. I still say Kudos to Walmart. And the rest of you grow some spinebone....
Thats kind of a response of apathy given that by the time they read the article, the site will already be slashdotted. So the read the posts to try and glean other useful information - which inevitably draws them to participate in another holy war/slanging match and start posting...
On that note- I still have not visited the site yet....
Ahh - there is a main processor, an FPU, two VUs, an IO processor(speeded up PS1 RS3000), the GS(GPU), the GTE(old ps1 gpu), two SPU(Sound) cores at my last count. Although there are different busses and memory areas for each one - the VUs share bus and memory with the main cpu and one VU has a direct link to the GS.
Okay0 it isnt being built for linux. Just built in a way that will amke it linux compatible. Which does not require an x86 based processor - in fact that would be a vast step backwards from MIPS architecture currently used. So why the hell do they need transmeta?
You did say *designers*. Whom know nothing of specification and whose ideas are *always* scaled back because of time constraints if nothing else. If you would have said programmers, I might have taken your comment more seriously- but you are correct it is the designers. And marketing never help anyway. It does not matter how powerful and complex the system is- if there is not enough time and development resources- the game cannot progress. Dont expect to develop a superior product in less time - a better system means you still need more code to exploit it. EVEN WITH good APIs. The PS2 is very capable - but many of the APIs are awful(I know) and not even sony themselves have used the full potential properly yet.
What about simulations and designing superchemicals or superbugs. Engineering can be done manually- but a computer would save a lot of time. And time is one thing that the US do not want Saddams weapon development agencies to have. A computer may not be the only means - but it may be the quickest, easiest or cheapest for both engineering design, systems control, simulation, collateral damage computation etc. This is a very good reason for ensuring he cannot get his hands on them. But saying that - commodity PC parts are probably no more difficult to get there than good drugs are here....
Well that all depends on the approach. If it is a very basic firmware os- with fairly uniform hardware support(USB and firewire hardware), then you will avoid many of these problems. A reasonable approach is to have a firmware bootstrap for games, and a more complete OS for office, dev, dtp etc.
What you are talking about is the "Pub-N-Play" principle - which means you can stagger home,stuff the CD in the drive- and it works. And you dont have to mess around with all the nightmares windows can bring trying to run a game.
SO convergence would be great as long as it is done properly. Especially if these units are low cost.
Ummm. I never saw a version of MS Windows run on a 68k or PPC. Lets face it- it barely ran on the alphas. They probably meant making Linux specific optimisations.
There is the distinct possibility that physics departments, although having the equipment, may not have conducted said experiment and measured said results. In fact they may not even have thought of trying and even so been fairly dismissive even though are grasp of gravity is so poor that we must keep open minds. The fact that he is being secretive and wants to make some money with it is just evidence of todays culture. Its likely that if it is viable - then said technology would be filed for patent very quickly.
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ummm... Go and look at 50000 hippies hairdos all rolled together - and you may gain some valuable insights into understanding this.
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Ummm maybe you have missed the point that *all* current OS's have this same problem. Look at DLL's under windows. If you wish to run multimedia/game apps you need directx - DLLs and com objects. But the way this is normally handled is that you buy a CD, which checks automagically for dependancies and offers to install them(most games offer to install directx - sometimes even when you have a newer version). On linux the model is a little different. You download packages, you dont buy them. If it was on CD, a package could include all its dependancy installations in a single monolithic install script. But when you download it, it will be kept minimal. And even in windows you occasionally need something completely new and not just a quick fix.
Maybe a good solution would be install scripts, that after checking dependancies, offer to go and download and start install scripts for its dependancies. I can see this becoming recursive.
I was thinking of using a standard micro atx baord with an inverter - but the power consumption would be a major problem. I have already been working on a linux build for it with USB support and the bare basics - no gui, basic network security(the bot will have the smallest WLAN acces point I can find). It will also require more than one processor board or a very high spec one.
PCI104 Plus has a much improved 32bit PCI based bus. architecture. The concept of stackable modules is more my point than the actual specification itself. The range of modules available for PC104 is fairly cool - but like you say it is backwards...
There are modules which have onboard ATA-100 hdd controllers. Though powering a HDD on an embedded system is not really something I want to do. I would like to have WLAN and a few USB ports available.
I am talking about creating a roving bot with stereoscopic cams(cheapo lo-res webcams are pretty good - lores is easier to process) to do visial cog stuff with. Hence why I may need 1Ghz+.
So he is immune- he can still DoS them. Hey man - lets post the MPAA and RIAA main sites on slashdot daily so we can slashdot them daily. If we use all their bandwidth for a slashdot style DOS then they cant for their own sinister purposes...
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And I have to point out that aiming a girlie soap-opera simulation at a bunch of supergeeks like me would be ignored. However had they aimed something like Eve online - I would have bought it in an instant.
If you dont have anything constructive to say towards linux gaming, what bother reading this artical? Just why? If you could actually post something constructive(even critical yet constructive) you might be able to justify your wasted bandwidth here....
You know- I am so glad we dont have that technology- Imagine how many people get telefragged in a flash crowd.... Argggghhhh....
Give me an example where a peice of software doesnt at least have some features that rub you up the wrong way. At least allow modular parts - API, IDE, Compiler etc that could be used in other ways. Yet again I am not a fan of MS - but MS's developer suite(although being tied to the OS) is not tied together. You can use GNU make with MS compiler, or MS Make with GCC, or CL elesewhere or create custom projects with custom compilers (IE run make) in Dev Stu. Its one of the few products (along with MSDN) of their that I do appretiate.
Unbiased- is you dont have to pay them for a good review- though true enough someone else might be paying them to give you a bad review. Unfortunately its a big bad world. But good word of mouth is the best review you can get. Actual recommendation by satisfied users goes a lot furthar toward me acquiring a peice of software than any amount of billboarding flooding and spamming.
Good on to them. Sorry- you expect me to feel slightly sympathetic to a bunch of greedy fat cats who are happy to filter anything but the rubbish that 14yr old girls buy. Just because there sales are only up $20million on last year instead nof a forecast $1bn? They can fsck themselves - they are very rich, and getting richer, getting bigger. Piracy does hurt their profits- but to be honest compared with actual income they make its a drop in the water- they are already a multi-bn dollar industry - and will continue to be. So I vote for the independant artists - and I will be buying their works. After all - since the landscape of publishing and recording has changed - really an artist doest need a big record company, they need some reasonable studio kit(affordable or hirable), a mass-cd-producer(there are companies that provide this service, and only this service - not record companies - not contracts - but just a cd press service), possibly an advertiser to start the ball rolling. But all of this will never work is the music is no good - so above all they need talent. I see a distinct lack of that in most of the dross we get fed by the intravenous HMV drip....
I thought that was sueing McDonalds for a trillion dollars because they didnt know two Big Mac's would make them fat- after all they did order /diet/ coke....
Are you sure- Imagine if you couldnt turn your eyes to look- you would always have to move your whole head. Beleive me- the last thing you would ever, ever want is RSI in your eyes... That would seriously fscked.
On the other hand, I have been messing around with dasher- and I think as you get more familiar with it, and it with your style, it gets faster. What would be nice would be an option to increase the speed as you become more proficient...Its a nice concept and could go far with a little adaptation...
Thats because they were threatened into submission by Microsoft not to supply boxes with any other OS or indeed without an MS-OS therefore encouraging the use of alternatives. Microsoft screw all of these companies (Dell, Compaq, HP etc) the same way. I still say Kudos to Walmart. And the rest of you grow some spinebone....
Thats kind of a response of apathy given that by the time they read the article, the site will already be slashdotted. So the read the posts to try and glean other useful information - which inevitably draws them to participate in another holy war/slanging match and start posting...
On that note- I still have not visited the site yet....
Surely you make a dram construct - that reads and then refreshes...
Ahh - there is a main processor, an FPU, two VUs, an IO processor(speeded up PS1 RS3000), the GS(GPU), the GTE(old ps1 gpu), two SPU(Sound) cores at my last count. Although there are different busses and memory areas for each one - the VUs share bus and memory with the main cpu and one VU has a direct link to the GS.
Okay0 it isnt being built for linux. Just built in a way that will amke it linux compatible. Which does not require an x86 based processor - in fact that would be a vast step backwards from MIPS architecture currently used. So why the hell do they need transmeta?
Toshiba and IBM have had more than their share of flops.
I thought they said Terraflops? 8-P
It sounds like somebody took too many psychotropics when watching existenz...
Shhhhhhh- Bill could be watching... Imagine Bill owning Iraq...Imagine the reign of terror...
You did say *designers*. Whom know nothing of specification and whose ideas are *always* scaled back because of time constraints if nothing else. If you would have said programmers, I might have taken your comment more seriously- but you are correct it is the designers. And marketing never help anyway. It does not matter how powerful and complex the system is- if there is not enough time and development resources- the game cannot progress. Dont expect to develop a superior product in less time - a better system means you still need more code to exploit it. EVEN WITH good APIs. The PS2 is very capable - but many of the APIs are awful(I know) and not even sony themselves have used the full potential properly yet.
What about simulations and designing superchemicals or superbugs. Engineering can be done manually- but a computer would save a lot of time. And time is one thing that the US do not want Saddams weapon development agencies to have. A computer may not be the only means - but it may be the quickest, easiest or cheapest for both engineering design, systems control, simulation, collateral damage computation etc. This is a very good reason for ensuring he cannot get his hands on them. But saying that - commodity PC parts are probably no more difficult to get there than good drugs are here....
Well that all depends on the approach. If it is a very basic firmware os- with fairly uniform hardware support(USB and firewire hardware), then you will avoid many of these problems. A reasonable approach is to have a firmware bootstrap for games, and a more complete OS for office, dev, dtp etc.
,stuff the CD in the drive- and it works. And you dont have to mess around with all the nightmares windows can bring trying to run a game.
What you are talking about is the "Pub-N-Play" principle - which means you can stagger home
SO convergence would be great as long as it is done properly. Especially if these units are low cost.
Ummm. I never saw a version of MS Windows run on a 68k or PPC. Lets face it- it barely ran on the alphas. They probably meant making Linux specific optimisations.
There is the distinct possibility that physics departments, although having the equipment, may not have conducted said experiment and measured said results. In fact they may not even have thought of trying and even so been fairly dismissive even though are grasp of gravity is so poor that we must keep open minds. The fact that he is being secretive and wants to make some money with it is just evidence of todays culture. Its likely that if it is viable - then said technology would be filed for patent very quickly.
ummm... Go and look at 50000 hippies hairdos all rolled together - and you may gain some valuable insights into understanding this.
Ummm maybe you have missed the point that *all* current OS's have this same problem. Look at DLL's under windows. If you wish to run multimedia/game apps you need directx - DLLs and com objects. But the way this is normally handled is that you buy a CD, which checks automagically for dependancies and offers to install them(most games offer to install directx - sometimes even when you have a newer version). On linux the model is a little different. You download packages, you dont buy them. If it was on CD, a package could include all its dependancy installations in a single monolithic install script. But when you download it, it will be kept minimal. And even in windows you occasionally need something completely new and not just a quick fix.
Maybe a good solution would be install scripts, that after checking dependancies, offer to go and download and start install scripts for its dependancies. I can see this becoming recursive.
I was thinking of using a standard micro atx baord with an inverter - but the power consumption would be a major problem. I have already been working on a linux build for it with USB support and the bare basics - no gui, basic network security(the bot will have the smallest WLAN acces point I can find). It will also require more than one processor board or a very high spec one.
PCI104 Plus has a much improved 32bit PCI based bus. architecture. The concept of stackable modules is more my point than the actual specification itself. The range of modules available for PC104 is fairly cool - but like you say it is backwards...
There are modules which have onboard ATA-100 hdd controllers. Though powering a HDD on an embedded system is not really something I want to do. I would like to have WLAN and a few USB ports available.
I am talking about creating a roving bot with stereoscopic cams(cheapo lo-res webcams are pretty good - lores is easier to process) to do visial cog stuff with. Hence why I may need 1Ghz+.
So he is immune- he can still DoS them. Hey man - lets post the MPAA and RIAA main sites on slashdot daily so we can slashdot them daily. If we use all their bandwidth for a slashdot style DOS then they cant for their own sinister purposes...
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www.mpaa.org