But when thinking about the Radeon 7500 included (yeah sure, mobile version means quake3 at 40 FPS, but hey, it's still quake), I'm lent to believe that they're merely continuing their push to make laptops entertainment centers. To do this they must, of course, blur the line between laptop and desktop but let us remember that it's entertainment, not power, which the Vaio laptop series professes is their strong point.
I can't be the only one that remembers the man going to the airport and dropping his television, stereo, etc onto the x-ray conveyor belt and picking up a Vaio on the other side. Of course, these days we wouldn't have any of that. The man would be detained and held for questioning until the point at which the FBI arrived to verify that the electronic devices weren't full of C-4, or perhaps a butter-knives.
Hey they were managing these other IDSs at the same time.
And from the way they make this sound, their goal was to discover a commercial solution, and the open source snort IDS was merely around for reference. Sure they didn't state this anywhere in the article, but reading through it, they seem to make the common act of using the open source software as the "cheap, but working" reference, which many people do. Hell Microsoft fakes this tactic when boasting IIS...
For the first time since slashdot's inception, total moderation points reached zero today in a mass effort to promote praise of the early Star Wars game: Tie Fighter.
Actually BeOS does fairly good with CDRWs. Sadly, USB support just isn't there.
The OBOS team is working on this, be patient.
We just might have an Open Soure Operating System (OSOS?) for the masses within a year (speculation, for actual release date refer to John Romero [ correction, do not refer to John Romero for actual release date, we do intend to finish our project when we say "when it's done"] ).
Riddle me this, AC. If OSS is competing against Microsoft then why make a version of Apache for Windows platforms... sure it makes IIS less attractive but it makes Microsoft servers easier to stomach. All of a sudden the grand scheme of OSS competing against Microsoft is revealed for what it is: fiction.
If this weren't the case, the Linux kernel would be made to run faster than IIS and Apache would be made not to run on microsoft products at all.
Furthermore OpenOffice is hardly a standard approach at a supposed goal of toppling the microsoft empire. OpenOffice attempts to comply with microsoft's proprietary source as best as possible. Under your theory shouldn't OO work only with open formats?
Please read the linked content. If you do you'll find Mike makes reference to companies and organizations expressing a commercial interest in OpenBeOS. What we have here is truly unique: An operating system built from the ground up that isn't directly tied to "old" technology. I don't mean to say that old technology isn't important. Indeed it is, because it's proven. But one must recognize that a platform which is no older than five years, that's public, which works on many hardware configurations, and still has the best media management (yes, BeOS under proper configuration and on decent hardware [my SCSI setup being one of them] is better for multimedia than apple systems). It has a place and my question in the article was rhetorical really. A lot of today's self-described linux advocates are advocates of just that; linux!
People don't seem to want to be bothered with supporting truly open source software. This is just an indicator of such a person's own cynicism regarding the potential success of open source. I acted under no direction of the OBOS team. They're right, it's not their job to market, but whoever wants to get the word out is welcome and that's exactly what I did.
Now come on, read about what we're doing. Try to understand where we're coming from and where we're going before you judge us from an article, the length of which just barely constitutes a paragraph. I'm sure that if you looked into OpenBeOS, while it might not be the OS for you, you'll agree it has its place.
Sorry to bother your slashdotting with this plea for sincere consideration, I'll go back to work now...
You're right. I'm also building it sooner rather than later because my current computer is a PII 450 Mhz and a Diamon Viper 770 (TNT2) video card... I'm feeling the upgrade burn more than most gamers these days.
The only thing that's allowed me to last this long on this remarkably slow system is fast hard drive communication with a SCSI controller native to the motherboard. Every other PII 450 I've seen has shit its guts out on the software I run today (photoshop 6, Aliens vs Predator 2, etc.).
I always build in favor of a long lifespan, if I wait for the next generation of video cards (as Carmack suggested) I'll be in a situation where I can't buy the top of the line for that generation of hardware because the top of the line won't exist yet.
Just another case of unique solutions to unique needs you'll find with almost everyone building their own computer...
If you were paying attention to John Carmack you'd know what cards are already bringing it to life. Specifically the Geforce4 TI 4600, currently appears to be the Quake God's best reccomendation, though Radeon's 8500 series is rumored to be what was running the Doom III preview at the recent E3.
Reading over Carmack's finger, one can see that he is currently having the most success with NVidia drivers and the card will therefore not only be fast, but should support every feature he builds in.
I'm currently building my own system that is focused on Doom III. My best reccomendation for a graphics card is by Gainward; the GeForce 4 PowerPack! Ultra/750 XP Golden Sample. It retails for right around $350.00. However (as far as I know), it still holds the best benchmarks of the GeForce4 series.
There is something to be said about Carmack's opinion on ATI hardware (which is good overall), but for the sake of assuring your computer will be running Doom III perfectly I must stand by the opinion that the GeForce4 TI 4600 is what you need...
I've been expecting this article for a month now. What most people fail to realize is that when the webdesigners are forced into making an "artsy" website (most customers expect such things these days) we're forced to comply to the most compliant browser. My personal webpages as well as others I do for free are simple in nature. Everythings organized with paragraph and headline tags, and seperated by horizontal rules and divs. From there it's a simple matter of adding CSS to render the page in a half attractive matter. Using this method a browsers ability to display the page comes down to its CSS capability, a W3C standard.
I was saddened to see that Mozilla (yes 1.0 and higher) is less compliant than Internet Explorer with CSS2. This, of course, is important due to CSS2's positioning capabilities. Due to a certain Mozilla bug on the box model accurately positioned elements with borders are impossible to display in both IE and Mozilla. The problem is that mozilla measures alignment instructions from the edge of the browser (or parent element) to the edge of the padding, which is incorrect. It should measure from the edge of the parent element to the border. Meaning that if I say an element is 32 pixels by 32 pixels with a sixteen pixel border, the content of this element is not seen, and is instead filled by the border. I'm sad (you have no idea how much of a dissapointment this is) that IE 5.5 (the most widly used web browser) does this correctly while mozilla instead chooses to render the content and draw the border around that, making alignment between various elements difficult, if not impossible.
This was, of course, a pain in the ass and necessitated my using an unacceptable number of graphics in my last "artsy" page to make it look even somewhat acceptable in Mozilla.
It was from that day forward that I decided "to hell with working for browser standards." I will work within W3C's HTML 4.01 specifications (yes I actually read their reccomendations while working on a webpage, not some half-assed book reference). If browsers want to render my pages correctly they'll comply to set standards.
When it comes right down to it, mozilla and IE are nothing more than comparable when it comes to standards compliance. They both contain approximately the same amount of errors when rendering markup. Thus the only thing setting them apart is how many people use them. Given these facts it's not hard to understand why other web designers opt for IE over mozilla more often than not.
In short, STFU, stop blaming web devolopers and tell the organizations that create this software to invest more time in standards compliance. Then, and only then, will it be the web designers fault that you can't read penny-arcade. Because only then, will we not be forced to choose who we're writing this cursedly obfuscated markup for...
What I got from reading the story was that this guy works in a government facility, is contracted to a government branch, or is employed by the government...
I won't argue on the validity of the ideas that various religions ascert. However it is simple under psychological and sociological study to determine that most followers of almost any religion use it as a "crutch" in life. It's something to help them through the day. It's like a cigarette, but with a much better feeling. You see the bulk of our nation is under the belief that they may confess/repent and "try really hard not to do it again," and thus they shall go to heaven. They escape punishment and escape moral responsibility, this is a belief that many atheists share--that of christians and other xianistic faiths shedding responsibility through their faith.
Myself, I'm not anything at the moment. I'm researching religions trying to decide what/if I believe. This does not mean that I act without morals. I act on many morals. They're easy to establish in any society, but especially a society with as much communication as ours. In the end, I believe it's more difficult to create your own set of self-governing rules and standards and live by them than it is to live by someone elses and follow them based upon something one could not possibly prove...
I was under the impression that as a democracy the government owes us. Then of course, we're not a democracy, we're a republic, which is a different matter entirely...
One must wonder if this would make effective grounds for a citizen of the U.K. to sue any copyright holder's carrying out a DoS attack on them under the respective acts. Or would that stop short merely giving a P2P server based in the U.K. grounds to sue?
Man, we really need more lawyers on slashdot. People can complain about the slime they'd bring with them but we've already got so many trolls one would hardly notice the difference...
...now we get to hear all the ignorant (but believe they aren't) programmers claim that due to some alleged "method" their programming is perfectly bug free and runs more effecient than anyone. Seriously it's as though half the programmers here that supposedly have fantastic high-paying jobs are just making sure that unidentified people are still interested in hiring them even though it would be "stupid" for their parent company to let them go.
I believe it's considered "news" because it's new. News exists to keep people informed you see...
...the microbes were news back then because they were a new discovery. Noone knew about them. Now asteroids are the big thing.
Now you can go live under a rock if you prefer or you can just read and discount as simple paranoia as the rest of the good little/.ers do. There's no point in debating how "newsworthy" it is. It just is. Even if this particular article couldn't be considered "stuff that matters," it could still be considered "news for nerds."
Look, if it is the RIAA distributing these tracks the solution is simple. All we have to do is download the track, copyright it, then sue the RIAA under their own legal documents for illegal distribution of our own intellectual property...
In all seriousness, this could be more than a minor annoyance on the RIAA supported P2P software. Imagine spending $1.00 for a download and it was merely a repeating promotional clip. "I'm sorry, you can only have 299 songs this month as of this download! But of course we do have some reccomendation as to which songs you may wish to acquire..."
Ralph Nader eh? Everyone's telling me that I'm an idiot for supporting the fellow but everything he does impresses me......that's what true freedom is. That's how we're supposed to vote. Not one set of rules as opposed to another. The Independant party should be the only party.
What's all this "Bezos and Gates, the Cyber-gods..." blather I'm hearing? There's only one cyber god I need, and that's John Carmack. He spoke here yesterday you know. Any of you that missed it should be ashamed...
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But when thinking about the Radeon 7500 included (yeah sure, mobile version means quake3 at 40 FPS, but hey, it's still quake), I'm lent to believe that they're merely continuing their push to make laptops entertainment centers. To do this they must, of course, blur the line between laptop and desktop but let us remember that it's entertainment, not power, which the Vaio laptop series professes is their strong point. I can't be the only one that remembers the man going to the airport and dropping his television, stereo, etc onto the x-ray conveyor belt and picking up a Vaio on the other side. Of course, these days we wouldn't have any of that. The man would be detained and held for questioning until the point at which the FBI arrived to verify that the electronic devices weren't full of C-4, or perhaps a butter-knives.
Hey they were managing these other IDSs at the same time. And from the way they make this sound, their goal was to discover a commercial solution, and the open source snort IDS was merely around for reference. Sure they didn't state this anywhere in the article, but reading through it, they seem to make the common act of using the open source software as the "cheap, but working" reference, which many people do. Hell Microsoft fakes this tactic when boasting IIS...
For the first time since slashdot's inception, total moderation points reached zero today in a mass effort to promote praise of the early Star Wars game: Tie Fighter.
Actually BeOS does fairly good with CDRWs. Sadly, USB support just isn't there.
The OBOS team is working on this, be patient.
We just might have an Open Soure Operating System (OSOS?) for the masses within a year (speculation, for actual release date refer to John Romero [ correction, do not refer to John Romero for actual release date, we do intend to finish our project when we say "when it's done"] ).
Riddle me this, AC. If OSS is competing against Microsoft then why make a version of Apache for Windows platforms... sure it makes IIS less attractive but it makes Microsoft servers easier to stomach. All of a sudden the grand scheme of OSS competing against Microsoft is revealed for what it is: fiction.
If this weren't the case, the Linux kernel would be made to run faster than IIS and Apache would be made not to run on microsoft products at all. Furthermore OpenOffice is hardly a standard approach at a supposed goal of toppling the microsoft empire. OpenOffice attempts to comply with microsoft's proprietary source as best as possible. Under your theory shouldn't OO work only with open formats?
Please read the linked content. If you do you'll find Mike makes reference to companies and organizations expressing a commercial interest in OpenBeOS. What we have here is truly unique: An operating system built from the ground up that isn't directly tied to "old" technology. I don't mean to say that old technology isn't important. Indeed it is, because it's proven. But one must recognize that a platform which is no older than five years, that's public, which works on many hardware configurations, and still has the best media management (yes, BeOS under proper configuration and on decent hardware [my SCSI setup being one of them] is better for multimedia than apple systems). It has a place and my question in the article was rhetorical really. A lot of today's self-described linux advocates are advocates of just that; linux!
People don't seem to want to be bothered with supporting truly open source software. This is just an indicator of such a person's own cynicism regarding the potential success of open source. I acted under no direction of the OBOS team. They're right, it's not their job to market, but whoever wants to get the word out is welcome and that's exactly what I did. Now come on, read about what we're doing. Try to understand where we're coming from and where we're going before you judge us from an article, the length of which just barely constitutes a paragraph. I'm sure that if you looked into OpenBeOS, while it might not be the OS for you, you'll agree it has its place. Sorry to bother your slashdotting with this plea for sincere consideration, I'll go back to work now...
You're right. I'm also building it sooner rather than later because my current computer is a PII 450 Mhz and a Diamon Viper 770 (TNT2) video card... I'm feeling the upgrade burn more than most gamers these days.
The only thing that's allowed me to last this long on this remarkably slow system is fast hard drive communication with a SCSI controller native to the motherboard. Every other PII 450 I've seen has shit its guts out on the software I run today (photoshop 6, Aliens vs Predator 2, etc.).
I always build in favor of a long lifespan, if I wait for the next generation of video cards (as Carmack suggested) I'll be in a situation where I can't buy the top of the line for that generation of hardware because the top of the line won't exist yet.
Just another case of unique solutions to unique needs you'll find with almost everyone building their own computer...
If you were paying attention to John Carmack you'd know what cards are already bringing it to life. Specifically the Geforce4 TI 4600, currently appears to be the Quake God's best reccomendation, though Radeon's 8500 series is rumored to be what was running the Doom III preview at the recent E3.
Reading over Carmack's finger, one can see that he is currently having the most success with NVidia drivers and the card will therefore not only be fast, but should support every feature he builds in.
I'm currently building my own system that is focused on Doom III. My best reccomendation for a graphics card is by Gainward; the GeForce 4 PowerPack! Ultra/750 XP Golden Sample. It retails for right around $350.00. However (as far as I know), it still holds the best benchmarks of the GeForce4 series.
There is something to be said about Carmack's opinion on ATI hardware (which is good overall), but for the sake of assuring your computer will be running Doom III perfectly I must stand by the opinion that the GeForce4 TI 4600 is what you need...
I've been expecting this article for a month now. What most people fail to realize is that when the webdesigners are forced into making an "artsy" website (most customers expect such things these days) we're forced to comply to the most compliant browser. My personal webpages as well as others I do for free are simple in nature. Everythings organized with paragraph and headline tags, and seperated by horizontal rules and divs. From there it's a simple matter of adding CSS to render the page in a half attractive matter. Using this method a browsers ability to display the page comes down to its CSS capability, a W3C standard.
I was saddened to see that Mozilla (yes 1.0 and higher) is less compliant than Internet Explorer with CSS2. This, of course, is important due to CSS2's positioning capabilities. Due to a certain Mozilla bug on the box model accurately positioned elements with borders are impossible to display in both IE and Mozilla. The problem is that mozilla measures alignment instructions from the edge of the browser (or parent element) to the edge of the padding, which is incorrect. It should measure from the edge of the parent element to the border. Meaning that if I say an element is 32 pixels by 32 pixels with a sixteen pixel border, the content of this element is not seen, and is instead filled by the border. I'm sad (you have no idea how much of a dissapointment this is) that IE 5.5 (the most widly used web browser) does this correctly while mozilla instead chooses to render the content and draw the border around that, making alignment between various elements difficult, if not impossible.
This was, of course, a pain in the ass and necessitated my using an unacceptable number of graphics in my last "artsy" page to make it look even somewhat acceptable in Mozilla.
It was from that day forward that I decided "to hell with working for browser standards." I will work within W3C's HTML 4.01 specifications (yes I actually read their reccomendations while working on a webpage, not some half-assed book reference). If browsers want to render my pages correctly they'll comply to set standards.
When it comes right down to it, mozilla and IE are nothing more than comparable when it comes to standards compliance. They both contain approximately the same amount of errors when rendering markup. Thus the only thing setting them apart is how many people use them. Given these facts it's not hard to understand why other web designers opt for IE over mozilla more often than not.
In short, STFU, stop blaming web devolopers and tell the organizations that create this software to invest more time in standards compliance. Then, and only then, will it be the web designers fault that you can't read penny-arcade. Because only then, will we not be forced to choose who we're writing this cursedly obfuscated markup for...
What I got from reading the story was that this guy works in a government facility, is contracted to a government branch, or is employed by the government...
...maybe that was just me though.
I won't argue on the validity of the ideas that various religions ascert. However it is simple under psychological and sociological study to determine that most followers of almost any religion use it as a "crutch" in life. It's something to help them through the day. It's like a cigarette, but with a much better feeling. You see the bulk of our nation is under the belief that they may confess/repent and "try really hard not to do it again," and thus they shall go to heaven. They escape punishment and escape moral responsibility, this is a belief that many atheists share--that of christians and other xianistic faiths shedding responsibility through their faith.
Myself, I'm not anything at the moment. I'm researching religions trying to decide what/if I believe. This does not mean that I act without morals. I act on many morals. They're easy to establish in any society, but especially a society with as much communication as ours. In the end, I believe it's more difficult to create your own set of self-governing rules and standards and live by them than it is to live by someone elses and follow them based upon something one could not possibly prove...
I was under the impression that as a democracy the government owes us. Then of course, we're not a democracy, we're a republic, which is a different matter entirely...
Just as well.
Thanks for informing me of this.
One must wonder if this would make effective grounds for a citizen of the U.K. to sue any copyright holder's carrying out a DoS attack on them under the respective acts. Or would that stop short merely giving a P2P server based in the U.K. grounds to sue?
Man, we really need more lawyers on slashdot. People can complain about the slime they'd bring with them but we've already got so many trolls one would hardly notice the difference...
Slashdot them...
Slashdot them!!!
...now we get to hear all the ignorant (but believe they aren't) programmers claim that due to some alleged "method" their programming is perfectly bug free and runs more effecient than anyone. Seriously it's as though half the programmers here that supposedly have fantastic high-paying jobs are just making sure that unidentified people are still interested in hiring them even though it would be "stupid" for their parent company to let them go.
I believe it's considered "news" because it's new. News exists to keep people informed you see...
/.ers do. There's no point in debating how "newsworthy" it is. It just is. Even if this particular article couldn't be considered "stuff that matters," it could still be considered "news for nerds."
...the microbes were news back then because they were a new discovery. Noone knew about them. Now asteroids are the big thing.
Now you can go live under a rock if you prefer or you can just read and discount as simple paranoia as the rest of the good little
Not only did he provide an excellent rebuttle, he also made the original paper something comprehendable!
Look, if it is the RIAA distributing these tracks the solution is simple. All we have to do is download the track, copyright it, then sue the RIAA under their own legal documents for illegal distribution of our own intellectual property... In all seriousness, this could be more than a minor annoyance on the RIAA supported P2P software. Imagine spending $1.00 for a download and it was merely a repeating promotional clip. "I'm sorry, you can only have 299 songs this month as of this download! But of course we do have some reccomendation as to which songs you may wish to acquire..."
So I'm not supposed to stare into the depths of the dozens of holographic "authenticity" stickers that Microsoft puts in their manuals? ...
D***.
Ralph Nader eh? Everyone's telling me that I'm an idiot for supporting the fellow but everything he does impresses me... ...that's what true freedom is. That's how we're supposed to vote. Not one set of rules as opposed to another. The Independant party should be the only party.
What's all this "Bezos and Gates, the Cyber-gods..." blather I'm hearing? There's only one cyber god I need, and that's John Carmack. He spoke here yesterday you know. Any of you that missed it should be ashamed...