ok, if java is a systems language, then why hasn't sun rewritten solaris in it? ding! they can't because java is not, and cannot be, a systems language.
i'm sorry that sun has pulled the OO-wool over your eyes, but it sure as hell isn't OO. to be OO, it would need to support polymorphism, which it don't, and base types would have to be objects, which they ain't.
check the msdn library. granted, they probably don't document the undocumented stuff there, but the msdn library is still an incredible site if you program anything with MS software.
>All you need is 85 FPS and you're as good as it gets.
That is all you need until you play online and run into a room with 10 or more players, all firing rocket launchers at the same time. Your 85 FPS would quickly drop to 10.
Some mods (q3f comes to mind) are much more graphics intensive than the original game. Same goes for RtCW. And thats on the Q3 engine. The DOOM3 engine will drop your 85 FPS to less than 20.
Getting the most FPS possible makes the game playable under the worst conditions, not the static conditions of the timedemo.
Next he'll be telling us that Sun(tm) Java(tm) is a fully Object-Oriented Systems Language, Sun(tm) J2EE(tm) is a Standard, and that they, Sun(tm), do not ignore the Sun(tm) Java Community Process(tm).
i have a Multia's (166 mhz alpha) sitting in my closet that used to be an awesome q2 server. at lan parties, everyone would comment on just how damn smooth it felt playing on that box. it made local clients play like *glass*. them were the days.
oh, please. what RMS is saying, and the trap you've fallen into is this: by extension, all non-gpl-compatible software is a "danger". if that's true, then why isn't RMS "attacking" FreeBSD (or any of the thousands of packages released under the BSD license)? if that's true, why isn't RMS "attacking" Microsoft, IBM, Apple, et al?
The answer is simple. RMS isn't "attacking" those licensers (?) because they're not a threat to "his" operating system, but KDE was.
But it's even more insidious than that, IMO. The view RMS is taking is that all software must be "attacked" if it's non-gpl-compatible. That's sad, because it leads to a totalitarian attitude. Oh, wait, too late.
When Qt was non-free, KDE was a danger to the community, and we had to
attack it to make people aware of the threat so we could overcome it.
We succeeded; Qt is free software now and KDE is no longer a problem.
The ill feelings that linger between GNOME developers and KDE
developers are not good for the community, and it is very useful
to help calm the antagonism.
Emphasis mine.
So, let's review. RMS didn't like KDE because it was not "free". RMS attacks KDE. KDE changes. Now RMS claims that the "ill feelings" he helped foster are not good (ungood?) for the community.
It seems to me that RMS was part of the problem that created this ill will, not part of the solution. I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with themes on linux, but I smell a rat. All he's offering is an email for crying out loud, he's not offering any thing substansive at all, unless you count his blessings as substansive.
If you ask me, this is just a way for RMS to get his fingers into KDE.
the linux kernel is released under the GPL, which purports to be Free "as in speech". the GPL can be summarized as "use it for anything, but if you redistribute, you must redistribute the source and your modifications."
the BSD license, of which linux has not, is free "as in beer". the BSD license may be summarized as "use it for anything."
that is, of course, unless i am the one who is confused.:)
SuSE bloated? have you ever installed it? last time i did, i went with a pretty minimal installation, and the damn thing didn't even have make or gcc! now that's lean!
The main factor in determining your q3 performance is not processor speed, but the bandwidth between the processor and video card (and the video card and the actual display buffer).
er... iirc, q3a is actually directing calls to the machines opengl subsystem, so it stands to reason that if you moved that opengl processing from the video subsystem back to the cpu, you might be able to reap some type of clustering benefit.
otoh, i'd be surprised if that type of setup could work; q3a is built so carefully that a major change like that would probably be detrimental.
While linksys is cheap, they won't support anything but windows users.
if they supported every platform out there, do you think their products would still be cheap? personally, i like it when companies offer good products with few frills and low prices.
are commands sent over the IDE bus synchronous? i remember reading a few years ago that one of the major differences between SCSI and IDE was that SCSI controllers could take commands out of sequence. anyone know anything about this?
1. Employers... I'm self employed but if I worked for a company, I wouldn't want my company knowing that I'm searching for another job...
in the sense that i own a business that has employees, i can say as a "company" that most companies generally don't give a rip about the average employee leaving. most savy employees realize this, too: when working for someone else, you can be replaced.
2. The government doesn't need to know how I spend all my time on the web just so they can run my browsing habits through a script that decides if I'm a bad guy. For instance, what if I'm searching for crop duster information, they log it and show up at my door the next day wanting to know why I'm trying to find out info about crop dusters when I never have before.
many reasonable people -- including me -- would argue that a script like that would be damn handy to have right now. i pray the FBI is looking very, very closely at any and all records they have about people accessing crop duster info. and commercial ventaliation systems. and large water supplies.
3. In the U.S. Anonomousity is one of the many freedoms that we have earned. No one should take that away.
i'm not being specious, but where is this in the Constitution? Bill of Rights? anywhere? i honestly don't think anonymity is a "right".
4. Too much risk of security holes. So they want to install a crypto backdoor in EVERY computer... Can you imagine the chaos as soon as it was cracked? yikes!
just like your employeers, the "govment" really doesn't care about your data. if they did, they can break any encryption you cared to apply to it, because all it takes is cycles.
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Is your sarcasmometer malfunctioning or something?
:D
no, but your sarcasmgenerator is.
Yeah... because the "coders" at Microsoft have absolutely no experience with this strange thing we call "the source."
hm. so those coders use what? paper? oh, that would explain the 14 million lines of code (or whatever) for win2k.
as much as i might dislike MS, it's a fallacy to blame their programmers for their business decisions.
and i daresay that the average MS "coder" has more lines of code running on more machines than you ever will.
ok, if java is a systems language, then why hasn't sun rewritten solaris in it? ding! they can't because java is not, and cannot be, a systems language.
i'm sorry that sun has pulled the OO-wool over your eyes, but it sure as hell isn't OO. to be OO, it would need to support polymorphism, which it don't, and base types would have to be objects, which they ain't.
But how in fsck's name can you say with a straight face that Java is not Object Oriented?
ever heard of polymorphism? i bet you haven't if java is what you consider to be OO.
the other big reason java is toy-OO and not real-OO is that base types are not objects.
Java is a Systems Language.
Java Community Program is open.
Java is a Standard.
and my favorite:
Java is Object Oriented.
you're surprised the leftist OP doesn't know the difference between right and left? you know the saying: liberal logic is a contradiction in terms.
check the msdn library. granted, they probably don't document the undocumented stuff there, but the msdn library is still an incredible site if you program anything with MS software.
>All you need is 85 FPS and you're as good as it gets.
That is all you need until you play online and run into a room with 10 or more players, all firing rocket launchers at the same time. Your 85 FPS would quickly drop to 10.
Some mods (q3f comes to mind) are much more graphics intensive than the original game. Same goes for RtCW. And thats on the Q3 engine. The DOOM3 engine will drop your 85 FPS to less than 20.
Getting the most FPS possible makes the game playable under the worst conditions, not the static conditions of the timedemo.
Next he'll be telling us that Sun(tm) Java(tm) is a fully Object-Oriented Systems Language, Sun(tm) J2EE(tm) is a Standard, and that they, Sun(tm), do not ignore the Sun(tm) Java Community Process(tm).
i have a Multia's (166 mhz alpha) sitting in my closet that used to be an awesome q2 server. at lan parties, everyone would comment on just how damn smooth it felt playing on that box. it made local clients play like *glass*. them were the days.
oh, please. what RMS is saying, and the trap you've fallen into is this: by extension, all non-gpl-compatible software is a "danger". if that's true, then why isn't RMS "attacking" FreeBSD (or any of the thousands of packages released under the BSD license)? if that's true, why isn't RMS "attacking" Microsoft, IBM, Apple, et al?
The answer is simple. RMS isn't "attacking" those licensers (?) because they're not a threat to "his" operating system, but KDE was.
But it's even more insidious than that, IMO. The view RMS is taking is that all software must be "attacked" if it's non-gpl-compatible. That's sad, because it leads to a totalitarian attitude. Oh, wait, too late.
Emphasis mine.
So, let's review. RMS didn't like KDE because it was not "free". RMS attacks KDE. KDE changes. Now RMS claims that the "ill feelings" he helped foster are not good (ungood?) for the community.
It seems to me that RMS was part of the problem that created this ill will, not part of the solution. I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with themes on linux, but I smell a rat. All he's offering is an email for crying out loud, he's not offering any thing substansive at all, unless you count his blessings as substansive.
If you ask me, this is just a way for RMS to get his fingers into KDE.
oh, brainfart. you're right. i got licensing criss-crossed with freedoms. my bad. shouldn't post so late.
And Linux is free as in beer, go to www.gnu.org.
:)
your confused.
the linux kernel is released under the GPL, which purports to be Free "as in speech". the GPL can be summarized as "use it for anything, but if you redistribute, you must redistribute the source and your modifications."
the BSD license, of which linux has not, is free "as in beer". the BSD license may be summarized as "use it for anything."
that is, of course, unless i am the one who is confused.
From his post:
Right now i got approx. 3 KB RAM left, still enough to do a lot of useful
stuff.
Oh, lordie, if every programmer had that kind of attitude...
they can't do that. michigan cybercourt will rule against it.
More than a gigabyte for every man, woman & child on earth
that would almost cover my quake3arena installation.
SuSE bloated? have you ever installed it? last time i did, i went with a pretty minimal installation, and the damn thing didn't even have make or gcc! now that's lean!
might be to know how many people download KOffice, vs. how many people use KOffice on a daily basis.
I'm not trolling, but i am curious. Anyone care to guess? My wild-ass guess would be maybe 500k downloads, maybe a tenth that as daily users.
quoth sharkticon:
It's not like they're known for being a bunch of liberals after all
i hate to pick nits, but communisim is actually the logical conclusion of liberalism. so yes, the chinese leaders really are a bunch of liberals.
oh, and before you flame me for saying something that doesn't agree with your television-fed education, read a book.
quoth mindstrm:
The main factor in determining your q3 performance is not processor speed, but the bandwidth between the processor and video card (and the video card and the actual display buffer).
er... iirc, q3a is actually directing calls to the machines opengl subsystem, so it stands to reason that if you moved that opengl processing from the video subsystem back to the cpu, you might be able to reap some type of clustering benefit.
otoh, i'd be surprised if that type of setup could work; q3a is built so carefully that a major change like that would probably be detrimental.
maybe The Carmack will post the answer.
quoth yack0:
While linksys is cheap, they won't support anything but windows users.
if they supported every platform out there, do you think their products would still be cheap? personally, i like it when companies offer good products with few frills and low prices.
are commands sent over the IDE bus synchronous? i remember reading a few years ago that one of the major differences between SCSI and IDE was that SCSI controllers could take commands out of sequence. anyone know anything about this?
quoth RMS:
"I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME."
RMS would make Orwell proud or scared, I can't tell.
1. Employers... I'm self employed but if I worked for a company, I wouldn't want my company knowing that I'm searching for another job
in the sense that i own a business that has employees, i can say as a "company" that most companies generally don't give a rip about the average employee leaving. most savy employees realize this, too: when working for someone else, you can be replaced.
2. The government doesn't need to know how I spend all my time on the web just so they can run my browsing habits through a script that decides if I'm a bad guy. For instance, what if I'm searching for crop duster information, they log it and show up at my door the next day wanting to know why I'm trying to find out info about crop dusters when I never have before.
many reasonable people -- including me -- would argue that a script like that would be damn handy to have right now. i pray the FBI is looking very, very closely at any and all records they have about people accessing crop duster info. and commercial ventaliation systems. and large water supplies.
3. In the U.S. Anonomousity is one of the many freedoms that we have earned. No one should take that away.
i'm not being specious, but where is this in the Constitution? Bill of Rights? anywhere? i honestly don't think anonymity is a "right".
4. Too much risk of security holes. So they want to install a crypto backdoor in EVERY computer... Can you imagine the chaos as soon as it was cracked? yikes!
just like your employeers, the "govment" really doesn't care about your data. if they did, they can break any encryption you cared to apply to it, because all it takes is cycles.