The best suggestion I can give you is to realize that IM is a time-delayed medium, despite the connotation "Instant Messaging" may have. The most common problem I see with people who have trouble using IM is that they seem under the impression that you have to answer every single IM the second you get it. Instead, focus on getting to a good break point in what you were doing, then answer it.
Most people aren't going to be bothered by a couple of minutes delay between IMs, so don't force interupt yourself in the middle of a task to answer an IM. Finish the section of code, thought of a paragraph, whatever it was you were working on, then answer. One thing I've found that helps tremendously in this regard is to turn off sounds. For example, I have all sounds except for the very first IM I receive turned off. This way you have the window blink on the taskbar, which is far less jarring than the stupid ringing sounds IM clients use every three seconds:)
Good luck, and I'm glad you're at least willing to try rather than simply write IM off as some people here would do.
Perhaps it's just me, or maybe 'the breakdown of society' as a whole, but I think most younger people are beggining to view the family unit in the tradional sense as less and less important. I don't argue that familial life is important for a person's development, especially early in life, but that perhaps the idea of a central 'family above all else' mentallity is becoming somewhat less central in the minds of younger people?
We're fed this image of a 1950-60's Leave It To Beaver family, but honestly, that image of perfection has only been a reality in a minority of cases, even then. Given the fact that as the years have gone by, Americans have seemed more willing to shed the old way of doing things, I can't say I'm surprised that the old idea of what family is would be one of them.
Speaking totally from personal experience, almost none of my friends have anything approaching a 50's model family. I've noticed that among most of the people I've grown up with, the emphasis tends to be on extra-familial bonds instead of the tradiontal, genetic family, and this is in the south - the bastion of traditional values. Is this a growing trend, or just a fluke of my hometown?
(Note on hometown comment: I live in a city of approximately 200,000 people which also happens to sit right next to the largest military post in the world, so it is entirely possible that this is just weirdness in my town due to the constant movement of people in and out with the military, even though myself and my circle of friends do not come from military families. End rambling.:-P)
To be honest, if a kid's not willing to talk to his parents, that's not going to change much - better or worse because of IM. It's purely anecdotal, but speaking for myself, I know that I don't exactly have the best relationship with either of my parents and that IM wouldn't have changed that one way or another. I simply have no desire to really talk to them, IM or otherwise - it comes down to a matter of personality more so than it does medium.
On the other hand, I'd say it's had a positive impact in other areas of my life. I do 'speak' with my siblings more than I would if simply left to my own devices, and keeping in touch with friends that are gone and in college elsewhere has made IM worth it for that alone. Instead of being forced to simply part with old friendships and move on, holding on only to one or two deemed 'important enough,' I've stayed in touch with most of my friends from high school. IE: They didn't just suddenly drop out of my life. I think this is really the greatest impact IM is going to have on the younger generation, such as myself, that's coming up now. I'd suspect that 10 years from now you'll have fewer cases of best friends who haven't talked in years simply because they lost touch - communication is becoming too easy now. Personally, I see that as a good thing.
I honestly hope you're a troll. Really. Linux in no way whatsoever 'forces' you to learn about security any moreso than Windows or OSX. So he had an SSH service he evidently didn't need? This is different from a linux box running a loose SSH how? I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination - I don't nor have I ever owned an Apple machine (but I also wouldn't turn one down), but you really need a reality check. OS X isn't perfect, but it's definitely one of the nicer OS's I've had a chance to play with. As far as 'speed' goes, who cares about raw computational power if the powerbook does what he needs? 99.999% don't need a 2GHz P4 - why force it upon them?
And you clearly have no concept of what the Constitution actually is.
As the GP poster stated, the Constitution enumerates what the government is not allowed to do - ie: it is not allowed to deny free speech, it is not allowed to hold you in prison without trial, etc.
Show me the passage of the constitution banning the government from constraining the 'right' to murder, thieve, and speed and you'll have a point. Until then, you're speaking out your ass.
You must never have read Tom's Hardware before. *EVERYTHING* they do is played up to man-on-the-moon levels, regardless of how trivial. You can either get used to it, or do like me and simply avoid Tom's as much as possible.:)
That was actually a legitimate question. I haven't read throug the article yet, but this extreme level of overclocking would lead to at least some level of system instability - ie: Linux would crash just as fast. That's the point. What good is 5GHz if it's unusable?
Just to add in, D-Link routers also provide a list of DHCP clients. D614+ in my case, but I'm fairly sure this is a standard thing for D-Link as all the D-Link routers I've used have had the same interface with the features for the particular router added in. Netgear seems more popular with the geek crowd than D-Link, but I've found their software to be more flexible and their hardware to be more reliable, at least in the last year or so.
Sounds like you need to read up on the terms of the GPL. You're only required to provide source code to those whom you've distributed a binary to. If the patch is only being used in-house, they are under absolutely zero obligation to send the patch in to the main branch. It may be the *right* thing to do, but they're not required to.
Perhaps that was the point you were trying to make, but the logic you use to make it is pretty flawed. He asks for a free evaluation version of a piece of software he has no experience with - how's that unreasonable? Further, the Quake 2 engine is freely available, but the models, textures, sounds, ie: everything else needed to make it a game are only avaailable if you buy the software. As for myself, no I don't use Slackware. My distro of choice for about 3 months has been Gentoo, but before that I generally used MDK. And if I makes you feel any better, I own boxed sets of every version of MDK from 6.5 through 9.0. You're not psychic - just good at making poor generalizations.
This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard on Slashdot in ages, which is saying something. The fact that he wants to get an idea of what the game is like before he pays for it is stupid? Christ, they better recall those Call of Duty and Deus Ex 2 demos for Windows too then! Blasted freeloaders!
Granted, you COULD make a game for a console that played like a PC designed game, but that would be suicide for a designer to do
See Also: Deus Ex: Invisible War. If there were ever an example of potential greatness hampered by console development, this is it. A user interface severely constrained by console controllers, loss of the relatively massive enviroments of the first game (now replaced by constant load points), and an overall simplification of the play style of the entire game show that you CAN develop for both, but one platform or the other is going to suffer. In this case, the fans of the PC original got screwed because Ion Storm decided to develop for XBox first and then port to PC - the PC version is virtually identical to the XBox version in every way. I really wish every designer could be forced to play this as an example of exactly what SHOULDN'T be done when developing a cross platform game.
Really, I'm more interested in it as a redesign of the x86 architechture. x86-64 uses the older design as a foundation, except it removes much of the cruft and adds quite a bit to the capabillities of the chip.
The most harped upon example is the increase in the number of registers available, which in and of itself should increase processing power - something that's not being taken advantage of yet since there's not really any 64 bit native software available yet.
The fact that the chip is already efficient enough to trounce a top of the line P4 in most tasks in 32bit mode is what piques my interest - I'm interested in seeing how well it'll perform in native x86-64 mode with the extra registers, etc enabled. In short, there's much more to x86-64 that having >4GB of memory.
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Question: Linux or Windows? I can't speak for the Linux side (I don't game on Linux, and therefore see no point in spending money on anything more than a budget card), but the on the windows side, ATI's drivers have been pretty much rock solid for me in the 6 months I've had my 9600 Pro. I have heard a couple of issues with AIW cards in particular, but ATI's usually had a hotfix out within a few days to fix it - ie: the Cat3.8's or 3.9's one broke OGL support on those cards, they had a fix out within a week.
Interesting, though from a quick read through of their FAQ, it seems that GoboLinux is taking the opposite appoach - programs are stored physically as an individual programs, then symlinked to the old hierarchy as a sort of hack to keep backwards compatibility. Personally, I feel the orignal poster's suggestion of program directories as virtual directories would end up being a more flexible solution in the long run, but it is cool to see that the idea's being worked on in one way or another. Their rootless install also sounds like a rather intriguing project. I'll have to do some more reading about these guys.
While I'm not a huge fan of the concept behind WinFS right now (though admittedly, I haven't done much research) I think your reasoning here is flawed. As far as I'm concerned, needing package managers to track application files because they're scattered everywhere is a hack, plain and simple. It makes for a good solution in the meantime, but saying that it negates the need for improvement is a rather poor view to take on the subject.
It's the same attitude that is causing IPv6 to have such a slow uptake - "NAT lets me have multiple machines behind a single IP, so who cares?" Namely, this attitude assumes that since one of the primary benefits of an improved system is already somewhat addressed by a hack on top of the old system, the new one "isn't really needed," ignoring the host of other benefits that it would provide.
If Linux is to become and stay the leader in operating systems, innovation has to occur. WinFS may not necessarily be the way of the future, but I wouldn't ignore it, and personally, would hope developers would at the very least look to it and try to take what good features they can find in it while maintaining the things linux already does well.
As I understand it, what the original poster is proposing would be a layer of virtual directories on top of the hierarchial file system we have now. You'd still have things physically organized into/usr/bin,/etc,/whatever, but then also linking all the files related to a program to an/applications/$APP directory.
So really, you'd be getting the best of both worlds. You'd have everything related to Application X all stored in one place making dealing with it as an individual application far easier, but you'd still have the old filesystem where all your config files, binaries, etc are grouped together as well. Sounds like a rather good idea to me.
Unfortunately, the guy seems very good at collecting money (regardless of how he got it) and very poor at spending it.
I'd have to disagree with you there. Have you seen his house? Or what about the fact that he (along with Paul) lobbied for (ie: bought) the new laws that allowed for the Porsche 959 to be federalized? Personally, I'd say Bill is just as good at spending his money as Paul is.
Let me open by saying I've been a long time supporter of Interplay, going back to the days of the old Star Trek adventures in the early 90's, and some of my favorite games of all time have been on the Interplay label. With that said, the news that Black Isle Studios has been shut down in order to pursue a console market which myself and many fans of Black Isle's titles have no interest in, I'm afraid that that relationship will be coming to an end. Interplay has demonstrated that they have no interest in me as a dedicated PC gamer, and as such, I can only assume that Interplay is no longer interested in my business.
While I'm normally not a believer in boycotts, the dissolution of one of the most talented group of developers in the industry in a misguided pursuit of the bottom line is more than I can ignore, and since it seems money is the only thing Interplay is listening to these days, I will be voting with my wallet. Perhaps those involved in the decision to cut Black Isle will comprehend the mistake they've made when the fans that have been so loyal to them move on.
Even the Thoroughbred heatsinks are pretty good. I've got a Thoroughbred-B 2600+ that I've clocked up to 3200+ clockrates and it it only raised the temperature by about 2 degrees C over stock. That was 54C, but the room that computer's in is unusually hot anyway - it idled around 51-52C. When I'd go to LAN parties with it, it sat pretty in the low 40's.
Yes, C3 stands for Cyrix 3. I still wouldn't throw them in with the disaster that Cyrix's M2 line, among others though. Under VIA, they seem to have found been improved, found a niche, and do what they do well.
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The best suggestion I can give you is to realize that IM is a time-delayed medium, despite the connotation "Instant Messaging" may have. The most common problem I see with people who have trouble using IM is that they seem under the impression that you have to answer every single IM the second you get it. Instead, focus on getting to a good break point in what you were doing, then answer it.
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Most people aren't going to be bothered by a couple of minutes delay between IMs, so don't force interupt yourself in the middle of a task to answer an IM. Finish the section of code, thought of a paragraph, whatever it was you were working on, then answer. One thing I've found that helps tremendously in this regard is to turn off sounds. For example, I have all sounds except for the very first IM I receive turned off. This way you have the window blink on the taskbar, which is far less jarring than the stupid ringing sounds IM clients use every three seconds
Good luck, and I'm glad you're at least willing to try rather than simply write IM off as some people here would do.
Perhaps it's just me, or maybe 'the breakdown of society' as a whole, but I think most younger people are beggining to view the family unit in the tradional sense as less and less important. I don't argue that familial life is important for a person's development, especially early in life, but that perhaps the idea of a central 'family above all else' mentallity is becoming somewhat less central in the minds of younger people?
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We're fed this image of a 1950-60's Leave It To Beaver family, but honestly, that image of perfection has only been a reality in a minority of cases, even then. Given the fact that as the years have gone by, Americans have seemed more willing to shed the old way of doing things, I can't say I'm surprised that the old idea of what family is would be one of them.
Speaking totally from personal experience, almost none of my friends have anything approaching a 50's model family. I've noticed that among most of the people I've grown up with, the emphasis tends to be on extra-familial bonds instead of the tradiontal, genetic family, and this is in the south - the bastion of traditional values. Is this a growing trend, or just a fluke of my hometown?
(Note on hometown comment: I live in a city of approximately 200,000 people which also happens to sit right next to the largest military post in the world, so it is entirely possible that this is just weirdness in my town due to the constant movement of people in and out with the military, even though myself and my circle of friends do not come from military families. End rambling.
To be honest, if a kid's not willing to talk to his parents, that's not going to change much - better or worse because of IM. It's purely anecdotal, but speaking for myself, I know that I don't exactly have the best relationship with either of my parents and that IM wouldn't have changed that one way or another. I simply have no desire to really talk to them, IM or otherwise - it comes down to a matter of personality more so than it does medium.
On the other hand, I'd say it's had a positive impact in other areas of my life. I do 'speak' with my siblings more than I would if simply left to my own devices, and keeping in touch with friends that are gone and in college elsewhere has made IM worth it for that alone. Instead of being forced to simply part with old friendships and move on, holding on only to one or two deemed 'important enough,' I've stayed in touch with most of my friends from high school. IE: They didn't just suddenly drop out of my life. I think this is really the greatest impact IM is going to have on the younger generation, such as myself, that's coming up now. I'd suspect that 10 years from now you'll have fewer cases of best friends who haven't talked in years simply because they lost touch - communication is becoming too easy now. Personally, I see that as a good thing.
I honestly hope you're a troll. Really. Linux in no way whatsoever 'forces' you to learn about security any moreso than Windows or OSX. So he had an SSH service he evidently didn't need? This is different from a linux box running a loose SSH how? I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination - I don't nor have I ever owned an Apple machine (but I also wouldn't turn one down), but you really need a reality check. OS X isn't perfect, but it's definitely one of the nicer OS's I've had a chance to play with. As far as 'speed' goes, who cares about raw computational power if the powerbook does what he needs? 99.999% don't need a 2GHz P4 - why force it upon them?
And you clearly have no concept of what the Constitution actually is.
As the GP poster stated, the Constitution enumerates what the government is not allowed to do - ie: it is not allowed to deny free speech, it is not allowed to hold you in prison without trial, etc.
Show me the passage of the constitution banning the government from constraining the 'right' to murder, thieve, and speed and you'll have a point. Until then, you're speaking out your ass.
What about those of us who only saw the link in the right sidebar and didn't have the hint of the DNA icon?
You must never have read Tom's Hardware before. *EVERYTHING* they do is played up to man-on-the-moon levels, regardless of how trivial. You can either get used to it, or do like me and simply avoid Tom's as much as possible. :)
That was actually a legitimate question. I haven't read throug the article yet, but this extreme level of overclocking would lead to at least some level of system instability - ie: Linux would crash just as fast. That's the point. What good is 5GHz if it's unusable?
Just to add in, D-Link routers also provide a list of DHCP clients. D614+ in my case, but I'm fairly sure this is a standard thing for D-Link as all the D-Link routers I've used have had the same interface with the features for the particular router added in. Netgear seems more popular with the geek crowd than D-Link, but I've found their software to be more flexible and their hardware to be more reliable, at least in the last year or so.
Yeah, we're practically drowning in the stuff. =P
Sounds like you need to read up on the terms of the GPL. You're only required to provide source code to those whom you've distributed a binary to. If the patch is only being used in-house, they are under absolutely zero obligation to send the patch in to the main branch. It may be the *right* thing to do, but they're not required to.
Perhaps that was the point you were trying to make, but the logic you use to make it is pretty flawed. He asks for a free evaluation version of a piece of software he has no experience with - how's that unreasonable? Further, the Quake 2 engine is freely available, but the models, textures, sounds, ie: everything else needed to make it a game are only avaailable if you buy the software. As for myself, no I don't use Slackware. My distro of choice for about 3 months has been Gentoo, but before that I generally used MDK. And if I makes you feel any better, I own boxed sets of every version of MDK from 6.5 through 9.0. You're not psychic - just good at making poor generalizations.
This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard on Slashdot in ages, which is saying something. The fact that he wants to get an idea of what the game is like before he pays for it is stupid? Christ, they better recall those Call of Duty and Deus Ex 2 demos for Windows too then! Blasted freeloaders!
See Also: Deus Ex: Invisible War. If there were ever an example of potential greatness hampered by console development, this is it. A user interface severely constrained by console controllers, loss of the relatively massive enviroments of the first game (now replaced by constant load points), and an overall simplification of the play style of the entire game show that you CAN develop for both, but one platform or the other is going to suffer. In this case, the fans of the PC original got screwed because Ion Storm decided to develop for XBox first and then port to PC - the PC version is virtually identical to the XBox version in every way. I really wish every designer could be forced to play this as an example of exactly what SHOULDN'T be done when developing a cross platform game.
Really, I'm more interested in it as a redesign of the x86 architechture. x86-64 uses the older design as a foundation, except it removes much of the cruft and adds quite a bit to the capabillities of the chip.
The most harped upon example is the increase in the number of registers available, which in and of itself should increase processing power - something that's not being taken advantage of yet since there's not really any 64 bit native software available yet.
The fact that the chip is already efficient enough to trounce a top of the line P4 in most tasks in 32bit mode is what piques my interest - I'm interested in seeing how well it'll perform in native x86-64 mode with the extra registers, etc enabled. In short, there's much more to x86-64 that having >4GB of memory.
Question: Linux or Windows? I can't speak for the Linux side (I don't game on Linux, and therefore see no point in spending money on anything more than a budget card), but the on the windows side, ATI's drivers have been pretty much rock solid for me in the 6 months I've had my 9600 Pro. I have heard a couple of issues with AIW cards in particular, but ATI's usually had a hotfix out within a few days to fix it - ie: the Cat3.8's or 3.9's one broke OGL support on those cards, they had a fix out within a week.
That's not that unusual for laptop batteries. Lithium Ion laptop batteries generally go for anywhere from $150-300, depending on the model.
Interesting, though from a quick read through of their FAQ, it seems that GoboLinux is taking the opposite appoach - programs are stored physically as an individual programs, then symlinked to the old hierarchy as a sort of hack to keep backwards compatibility. Personally, I feel the orignal poster's suggestion of program directories as virtual directories would end up being a more flexible solution in the long run, but it is cool to see that the idea's being worked on in one way or another. Their rootless install also sounds like a rather intriguing project. I'll have to do some more reading about these guys.
While I'm not a huge fan of the concept behind WinFS right now (though admittedly, I haven't done much research) I think your reasoning here is flawed. As far as I'm concerned, needing package managers to track application files because they're scattered everywhere is a hack, plain and simple. It makes for a good solution in the meantime, but saying that it negates the need for improvement is a rather poor view to take on the subject.
It's the same attitude that is causing IPv6 to have such a slow uptake - "NAT lets me have multiple machines behind a single IP, so who cares?" Namely, this attitude assumes that since one of the primary benefits of an improved system is already somewhat addressed by a hack on top of the old system, the new one "isn't really needed," ignoring the host of other benefits that it would provide.
If Linux is to become and stay the leader in operating systems, innovation has to occur. WinFS may not necessarily be the way of the future, but I wouldn't ignore it, and personally, would hope developers would at the very least look to it and try to take what good features they can find in it while maintaining the things linux already does well.
As I understand it, what the original poster is proposing would be a layer of virtual directories on top of the hierarchial file system we have now. You'd still have things physically organized into /usr/bin, /etc, /whatever, but then also linking all the files related to a program to an /applications/$APP directory.
So really, you'd be getting the best of both worlds. You'd have everything related to Application X all stored in one place making dealing with it as an individual application far easier, but you'd still have the old filesystem where all your config files, binaries, etc are grouped together as well. Sounds like a rather good idea to me.
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Black Isle actually just released it a few months ago.
Please, let Interplay know how you feel!
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The email I just fired off:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Let me open by saying I've been a long time supporter of Interplay, going back to the days of the old Star Trek adventures in the early 90's, and some of my favorite games of all time have been on the Interplay label. With that said, the news that Black Isle Studios has been shut down in order to pursue a console market which myself and many fans of Black Isle's titles have no interest in, I'm afraid that that relationship will be coming to an end. Interplay has demonstrated that they have no interest in me as a dedicated PC gamer, and as such, I can only assume that Interplay is no longer interested in my business.
While I'm normally not a believer in boycotts, the dissolution of one of the most talented group of developers in the industry in a misguided pursuit of the bottom line is more than I can ignore, and since it seems money is the only thing Interplay is listening to these days, I will be voting with my wallet. Perhaps those involved in the decision to cut Black Isle will comprehend the mistake they've made when the fans that have been so loyal to them move on.
Regards,
[Name witheld for Slashdot]
Even the Thoroughbred heatsinks are pretty good. I've got a Thoroughbred-B 2600+ that I've clocked up to 3200+ clockrates and it it only raised the temperature by about 2 degrees C over stock. That was 54C, but the room that computer's in is unusually hot anyway - it idled around 51-52C. When I'd go to LAN parties with it, it sat pretty in the low 40's.
Yes, C3 stands for Cyrix 3. I still wouldn't throw them in with the disaster that Cyrix's M2 line, among others though. Under VIA, they seem to have found been improved, found a niche, and do what they do well.