I don't know where you're looking but All Sharp and Toshiba laptops I've see at Fry's (www.outpost.com) have nvidia geforce2go or whatever it's called chipsets in them.
Furthermore I've got an HP ze5300, and it's not REALLY a Radeon Mobility 9000, it's the IGP 340 set to 64 megs of video ram by default. And it's a *DOG* under XP. 60 fps max in Q3A and 10 at 10x7 in UT2K3.
Oh, and the IGP agpgart isn't finished, and there appear to be some other issues before having DRI support working regardless.
Nah, 810 has a shared memory model, actually more than decent enough to run Quake 3 Arena on (not at 60 fps or nothin, but more than enough to have some fun with friends) and I'm not positive of the max, but it supports at least 8 megs as the video framebuffer (at least 1024x768@32bpp))
Hope that helps:)
You must've missed the article on here a few months/year back about the guy (@ MIT?) that was disassembling RAM and able to find the 'most used position' of transistors to recover data out of memory, similiar to how they can do it from mechanical hard drives if not completely wiped.
While I somehow doubt I'd be able to get the alpha running on my lovable old Celeron 333 with a Radeon PCI, I just thought of how well this leaked alpha COULD help Doom3/Id if it's got the Editor built in, since that means the development community can have a six+ month head start on the games release to get used to the tools (no dbout likely to change, but hey people still use MS products despite near constant changes to the ui with every revision)
Heh, if they actually bothered to do DB trimming, they might find they've got significantly less users than that on ICQ at least, most people I know/knew have had at least 3-5 accounts, and ofttimes pick up a new one every time they go and reinstall windows (auto-login is *NOT* your friend, esp if you lose your PW).
Two Words:
Hardware Compatibility
Now given a few years, it very well might be, but the APSL is still a bit of an 'iffy' open source license, nowhere near as bad as the original license drafts (The primary reason I won't touch it).
Personally, I'll just wait for AtheOS/Syllabus/OpenBeOS/BlueOS/OtherTrulyOpenSour ceDesktopOS
To come out, but as usual, this is my opinion, and to many others this may be the 'bag O potato chips' as it were:)
Oh yeah, and furthermore, if you truly are a member of MENSA, I'd have to say I'm quite glad I'm not. Being smart is one thing, being arrogant enough to make such statements without verifying your facts just proves you lack the the maturity and humility necessary to be someone who can be respected.
Go read the GPL, or hell, just read the GCC FAQ, I believe that covers it.
Code COMPILED with GCC is *NOT* required to be under the terms of the GPL, it is only required to abide by the terms of the libraries in question that it is linked again, libstdc++ and libc are both LGPL'd, which basically states your program may be licensed in whatever way you deem fit, however any changes you make to the LGPL'd libraries in question must be made availible for those who recieve a copy of the program/libraries. This is in no way intended to limit one's ability to use proprietary code as a frontend or backend to the library in question, it's simply meant to ensure that proprietary extensions don't get made to 'standardized libraries' and thus break compatibility with existing/future apps (of course sure breakages might occur anyway, but it prevents the microsoftian 'embrace and extend' philosophy).
Quick way to get a kurama is to park your car of choice half-way into the pay'n'spray in front of Luigi's in the Redlight district, pull out an M-16 and just start shooting everything in sight until you get a wanted level high enough for an FBI car to show up, wait for all four freds to get out, hop in your car and get it painted. When you come out, you've got a nice empty (mostly undamaged) FBI car sitting there for the taking, grab it and use as needed:)
Micro does not Microscopic make (see M$ exe's for demo)
As I've been noticing a lot of recently, many of the new 'Open' products are just that, products with a name made to fool the 'casual' open sourcer into thinking they're getting something that's not proprietary, like M$'s stuff.
Actually dude, last time I fscked up my libc install it turned out it, cp, mv, and most of the other utilities were NOT. In fact, just compiling a Hello World! program with dynamic linking takes up 5K, and something around I believe 275k statically linked, so indeed Linux's binaries do appear quite bloated, at least on the lower end (2.95.3 vs 3.2 sees a difference in larger executables, I've seem ~10% change either smaller or larger depending on the program being compiled)
Uhmm dude, I wouldn't complain about learning C++ using VC++, I'm at junior college and the fuckin instructor is requiring all work to be done using Borland C++ 6.0, and let me tell you, it's nowhere near as standards compliant as Windoze;p
We could always force the issue, find ourselves a good candidate, then use the INTERNET to help promote them. We'd have potentially a more far reaching audience than using television advertising, and be able to (hopefully!) do it on a 'shoestring budget' allowing one to avoid the need for campaign contributions.
Of course the problem is finding someone competent enough to handle an office, well known enough to pull the backing to get on the voting ticket, and uncorrupt enough to actually make a change and not just whore themselves to whoever has enough money, unlike many/all of our current 'duly elected officials'.
I can attest to this statement on the educational side, I had a teacher for the Intro Linux Admin class who 'taught' the class how to install and administer linux using nothing but the redhat GUI and tools. In addition, he complained about having to configure a server stating 'Windows isn't this hard' at which point I tried to explain to him why, including the fact that a sysadmin who doesn't know his hardware won't be able to effectively deal with his software in order to take full advantage of the capabilities presented by it.
Thankfully a few other students in that class at least listened to me about learning the CLI in and out, but I just have to wonder how many could actually do anything useful were their cute little resource-hogging X-Window session to stop working for example because their Video card failed or they had to configure their X-Window setup by hand..
Food for thought, and I hope anyone doing hiring for Linux Sysadmins bothers to test them either on a non-standard distro, or without X, because I'd hate to have linux sysadmin stereotyped as a buncha incompetent gui-freaks in the future;p
Why bother with an RPG system?
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Seeing as I'm sure I'll piss off one person or another with my views, everything typed below is IMHO, so take it with a grain of salt, or bottle of vodka:)
Just from my own prior experience, the most fun I had roleplaying was from 4th-8th grades, where do to admin policy, even if we had had the money to buy a set of RPG books, we could've gotten suspended (or so I heard) for bringing them on-campus.
Furthermore, the worst cheating I've ever run into roleplaying was OL, because regardless of the rules, the GM can do whatever the hell they want anyhow and trying to argue rules with them will just get you kicked off.
So in conclusion, unless you're doing it for bragging rights or something, RPG systems are like windows.. they're pretty, and helpful for newbies/those without imaginations of their own, but they really just waste time and resources better spent on what you're doing:)
I drank two liters of the stuff over the span of a night, and stayed up for the next three days straight (actually had little to do with the caffeine, I just kept myself amused programming and surfing for pr0n, so as to not be bored enough to want to sleep).
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Have you listened to music on the radio recently? And what about all the people on anti-depression pills and whatnot.. sorry to say it, but america did fall on the whole 'pacman craze':)
I just wanted to say I'm glad someone has finally said this in this thread.
This is the same problem america in general has.. everybody says their way is the only way, and everyone else's way sucks (yes, I am generalizing, but it's oftentimes true.)
Maybe if more people took the time to research their arguements, we'd end up not only with less rude arguements, but also with more productive discussions on the strengths and weaknesses of the technology in questions, perhaps helping lead to both a better understanding of it, as well as better products from everyone.
I just wanted to point out, while not totally certain, it's very likely the codecs in question, which are not open source, are compiled into x86 asm, or PPC asm, or whatever other formats Real natively supports, so don't get your hopes up on game system ports.. with the exception of the xbox, and *POSSIBLY* the Gamecube, it's very unlikely the codecs will run on either Dreamcast or PS2 due to their 'non-PC' processor architecture.
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I don't know where you're looking but All Sharp and Toshiba laptops I've see at Fry's (www.outpost.com) have nvidia geforce2go or whatever it's called chipsets in them.
;p
Furthermore I've got an HP ze5300, and it's not REALLY a Radeon Mobility 9000, it's the IGP 340 set to 64 megs of video ram by default. And it's a *DOG* under XP. 60 fps max in Q3A and 10 at 10x7 in UT2K3.
Oh, and the IGP agpgart isn't finished, and there appear to be some other issues before having DRI support working regardless.
Joy is definitely not ATI
P.S. says this from said laptop.
-- vranash
Nah, 810 has a shared memory model, actually more than decent enough to run Quake 3 Arena on (not at 60 fps or nothin, but more than enough to have some fun with friends) and I'm not positive of the max, but it supports at least 8 megs as the video framebuffer (at least 1024x768@32bpp)) Hope that helps :)
You must've missed the article on here a few months/year back about the guy (@ MIT?) that was disassembling RAM and able to find the 'most used position' of transistors to recover data out of memory, similiar to how they can do it from mechanical hard drives if not completely wiped.
While I somehow doubt I'd be able to get the alpha running on my lovable old Celeron 333 with a Radeon PCI, I just thought of how well this leaked alpha COULD help Doom3/Id if it's got the Editor built in, since that means the development community can have a six+ month head start on the games release to get used to the tools (no dbout likely to change, but hey people still use MS products despite near constant changes to the ui with every revision)
All I can say is GO ID!
Heh, if they actually bothered to do DB trimming, they might find they've got significantly less users than that on ICQ at least, most people I know/knew have had at least 3-5 accounts, and ofttimes pick up a new one every time they go and reinstall windows (auto-login is *NOT* your friend, esp if you lose your PW).
Two Words: Hardware Compatibility Now given a few years, it very well might be, but the APSL is still a bit of an 'iffy' open source license, nowhere near as bad as the original license drafts (The primary reason I won't touch it). Personally, I'll just wait for AtheOS/Syllabus/OpenBeOS/BlueOS/OtherTrulyOpenSour ceDesktopOS
To come out, but as usual, this is my opinion, and to many others this may be the 'bag O potato chips' as it were :)
Oh yeah, and furthermore, if you truly are a member of MENSA, I'd have to say I'm quite glad I'm not. Being smart is one thing, being arrogant enough to make such statements without verifying your facts just proves you lack the the maturity and humility necessary to be someone who can be respected.
Dude, that is so flamebait.
Go read the GPL, or hell, just read the GCC FAQ, I believe that covers it.
Code COMPILED with GCC is *NOT* required to be under the terms of the GPL, it is only required to abide by the terms of the libraries in question that it is linked again, libstdc++ and libc are both LGPL'd, which basically states your program may be licensed in whatever way you deem fit, however any changes you make to the LGPL'd libraries in question must be made availible for those who recieve a copy of the program/libraries. This is in no way intended to limit one's ability to use proprietary code as a frontend or backend to the library in question, it's simply meant to ensure that proprietary extensions don't get made to 'standardized libraries' and thus break compatibility with existing/future apps (of course sure breakages might occur anyway, but it prevents the microsoftian 'embrace and extend' philosophy).
Yeah, just in case people didn't recognize him (the new guy), it's the dude who used to play Parker Lewis way back when (can't remember his name).
Quick way to get a kurama is to park your car of choice half-way into the pay'n'spray in front of Luigi's in the Redlight district, pull out an M-16 and just start shooting everything in sight until you get a wanted level high enough for an FBI car to show up, wait for all four freds to get out, hop in your car and get it painted. When you come out, you've got a nice empty (mostly undamaged) FBI car sitting there for the taking, grab it and use as needed :)
If it was actually Open Source, maybe it would.
Open does not Open Source make.
Micro does not Microscopic make (see M$ exe's for demo)
As I've been noticing a lot of recently, many of the new 'Open' products are just that, products with a name made to fool the 'casual' open sourcer into thinking they're getting something that's not proprietary, like M$'s stuff.
Actually dude, last time I fscked up my libc install it turned out it, cp, mv, and most of the other utilities were NOT. In fact, just compiling a Hello World! program with dynamic linking takes up 5K, and something around I believe 275k statically linked, so indeed Linux's binaries do appear quite bloated, at least on the lower end (2.95.3 vs 3.2 sees a difference in larger executables, I've seem ~10% change either smaller or larger depending on the program being compiled)
Uhmm dude, I wouldn't complain about learning C++ using VC++, I'm at junior college and the fuckin instructor is requiring all work to be done using Borland C++ 6.0, and let me tell you, it's nowhere near as standards compliant as Windoze ;p
We could always force the issue, find ourselves a good candidate, then use the INTERNET to help promote them. We'd have potentially a more far reaching audience than using television advertising, and be able to (hopefully!) do it on a 'shoestring budget' allowing one to avoid the need for campaign contributions. Of course the problem is finding someone competent enough to handle an office, well known enough to pull the backing to get on the voting ticket, and uncorrupt enough to actually make a change and not just whore themselves to whoever has enough money, unlike many/all of our current 'duly elected officials'.
I can attest to this statement on the educational side, I had a teacher for the Intro Linux Admin class who 'taught' the class how to install and administer linux using nothing but the redhat GUI and tools. In addition, he complained about having to configure a server stating 'Windows isn't this hard' at which point I tried to explain to him why, including the fact that a sysadmin who doesn't know his hardware won't be able to effectively deal with his software in order to take full advantage of the capabilities presented by it.
;p
Thankfully a few other students in that class at least listened to me about learning the CLI in and out, but I just have to wonder how many could actually do anything useful were their cute little resource-hogging X-Window session to stop working for example because their Video card failed or they had to configure their X-Window setup by hand..
Food for thought, and I hope anyone doing hiring for Linux Sysadmins bothers to test them either on a non-standard distro, or without X, because I'd hate to have linux sysadmin stereotyped as a buncha incompetent gui-freaks in the future
Seeing as I'm sure I'll piss off one person or another with my views, everything typed below is IMHO, so take it with a grain of salt, or bottle of vodka :)
:)
Just from my own prior experience, the most fun I had roleplaying was from 4th-8th grades, where do to admin policy, even if we had had the money to buy a set of RPG books, we could've gotten suspended (or so I heard) for bringing them on-campus.
Furthermore, the worst cheating I've ever run into roleplaying was OL, because regardless of the rules, the GM can do whatever the hell they want anyhow and trying to argue rules with them will just get you kicked off.
So in conclusion, unless you're doing it for bragging rights or something, RPG systems are like windows.. they're pretty, and helpful for newbies/those without imaginations of their own, but they really just waste time and resources better spent on what you're doing
Last I heard, wasn't Season 5 or whatever of SG-1 supposed to be the series finale?
Thus according to this logic, Sci-Fi has already done that to SG-1, just in advance.
A *WEEK* for 3 cubes?
I drank two liters of the stuff over the span of a night, and stayed up for the next three days straight (actually had little to do with the caffeine, I just kept myself amused programming and surfing for pr0n, so as to not be bored enough to want to sleep).
Have you listened to music on the radio recently? And what about all the people on anti-depression pills and whatnot.. sorry to say it, but america did fall on the whole 'pacman craze' :)
Wahahaha, I take TopSpace!!!
I just wanted to say I'm glad someone has finally said this in this thread. This is the same problem america in general has.. everybody says their way is the only way, and everyone else's way sucks (yes, I am generalizing, but it's oftentimes true.) Maybe if more people took the time to research their arguements, we'd end up not only with less rude arguements, but also with more productive discussions on the strengths and weaknesses of the technology in questions, perhaps helping lead to both a better understanding of it, as well as better products from everyone.
I just wanted to point out, while not totally certain, it's very likely the codecs in question, which are not open source, are compiled into x86 asm, or PPC asm, or whatever other formats Real natively supports, so don't get your hopes up on game system ports.. with the exception of the xbox, and *POSSIBLY* the Gamecube, it's very unlikely the codecs will run on either Dreamcast or PS2 due to their 'non-PC' processor architecture.
The only thing worse than an expensive one is a STUPID one ;p