Is it not the case that highly inflected languages tend to have less rigid word order? There is very little inflection in English, and it has a fairly rigid word order. Yes, you can put the words in a different order, but it usually changes the meaning of the sentence.
Of course I'm kidding. The AC loser is not representative of the Linux community. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult to talk in here with all the kiddies babbling...
I'm a game developer, and I've got a problem with what you're saying.
Why should John Carmack be making Linux better? Sure, he worked on the Matrox driver, because he was "scratching an itch".
But he makes games. He needs to concentrate on what he does best. If members of the Linux community want games to be viable on their platform, then they need to sort it out.
I'm not entirely convinced that Linux is at all suited to games right now. Consider the console vs PC situation. Consoles provide a known environment that's relatively easy to program for. PCs running windows are more variable, but still pretty reasonable. A Win32 binary runs without too much trouble on any Win32 platform.
Linux is pretty scary for a game developer because there are so many configurations out there. Also you have the basic level of contempt that the general Linux user has for closed source products. Sure, one answer would be to go Open Source, but I suspect that few games companies are about to go down that route; Also we effectively work for publishers, and whereas we're happy to work for not much more than the satisfaction of a job well done, you will find that "money talks and bullshit walks" a lot of the time.
I can see a time when Windows and Linux developers will meet somewhere in the middle; I just hope we won't all be carrying weapons when we do...
??? This doesn't make sense. This "proof" means nothing unless you can show a link between Napster usage and CD sales. I'm not saying there isn't one (however indirect a link it might be). I'm just saying that going out and buying more CDs isn't going to prove anything to anybody.
Anyway, yes, please think about the artists...
I haven't read either book, but... I could understand a point of view that said "We don't know if quantum effects manifest themselves on a macroscopic level in the brain". I'm having difficulty with the idea that quantum effects might be the only way that some brain processes could possibly function. I have heard some people refer to quantum brain effects as some kind of new age "soul"... As a devout atheist that rubs me up the wrong way.
I read those articles (thanks for the linx btw). The first one starts talking about COM, which has reference count issues (but they're actually extremely simple to maintain, especially with smart handles, see ATL). It then goes on to look at distributed object lifetimes, and in conclusion it seems to prefer DCOM's approach to CORBA's non-approach. Which is nice. The second article was quite amusing. I haven't really got time to go through the good/bad/ugly points one by one, but a lot of them seem pretty uninformed, and not just on DCOM's side. I wonder how many of the Sun lot are weeping "Hey, why don't Gnome and KDE just use our Java RMI?! Oh yeah, and Micro$oft should ditch COM as well"... Why can't we all just get along?:)
What do you mean by 'fake'? I'm genuinely curious. Why does COM 'suck eggs'? Again, I'm not trying to start a flame war, I just don't share your opinion. COM is not language- or system-dependant either.
I'm mostly with you. Why not just use COM? Bonobo is ripped off from COM anyway. Well, it's because no-one around here likes Microsoft. But I don't care about that, I'm just interested in technical reasons. It would be great if there was interopability not just between apps in the same OS, but between OSen too. The current separatist nature of Open Source is fine for a radical movement, but it seems to me that users should get something that's useful to them, not be caught up in political struggle all the time.
Notice the original poster's words: "video ram". The PSX2 only has 4 Megs of video ram, which many people think is its Achilles' Heel. It does, however, have a very wide bus connecting it to the main 32 Megs, and so it can be seen as a cache (well, the bit that's left after allocating frame buffers). It remains to be seen whether or not this architecture will hamper developers significantly.
Have a look at "Close up of corner", at the closest ball. You can see the polygonal outline of the ball! The one southwest of it seems to be a lower LOD model. Plus all the balls are lit. So, I respectfully disagree.
That's as may be, but it seems unlikely to me that a government database would help in these cases. It's not as if illegal immigrants are going to helpfully inform the government every time they move...
And of course you're not allowed to see what's in your file, unless it's stored on a computer, and even then it's not always possible. So when they want your encryption keys, just say "not until you let me look at all of your files about me". (If you get a chance during the beating...)
I'll second you on that. Maybe this is just a U.S. thing. In the UK I only ever heard 'cracker' in reference to game protection removers. When I started to read/. I couldn't understand all the fuss. To me, 'hacker' is someone who {attempts to} gain unauthorised access to networked computer resources. As for someone who is just into computers & writing code, I would just call them a 'computer geek' or something. But probably not, cos that's kind of perjorative. What's wrong with white/black hat, anyway?
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And I create video games! Get your head around that one!
Is it not the case that highly inflected languages tend to have less rigid word order? There is very little inflection in English, and it has a fairly rigid word order. Yes, you can put the words in a different order, but it usually changes the meaning of the sentence.
I don't think so. Who's that?
Of course I'm kidding. The AC loser is not representative of the Linux community. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult to talk in here with all the kiddies babbling...
Hey, it's Mr. Anonymous Coward! I've heard of you before!
Thankyou for your reasoned response. I really want to spend time on a Linux version now.
I'm a game developer, and I've got a problem with what you're saying.
Why should John Carmack be making Linux better? Sure, he worked on the Matrox driver, because he was "scratching an itch".
But he makes games. He needs to concentrate on what he does best. If members of the Linux community want games to be viable on their platform, then they need to sort it out.
I'm not entirely convinced that Linux is at all suited to games right now. Consider the console vs PC situation. Consoles provide a known environment that's relatively easy to program for. PCs running windows are more variable, but still pretty reasonable. A Win32 binary runs without too much trouble on any Win32 platform.
Linux is pretty scary for a game developer because there are so many configurations out there. Also you have the basic level of contempt that the general Linux user has for closed source products. Sure, one answer would be to go Open Source, but I suspect that few games companies are about to go down that route; Also we effectively work for publishers, and whereas we're happy to work for not much more than the satisfaction of a job well done, you will find that "money talks and bullshit walks" a lot of the time.
I can see a time when Windows and Linux developers will meet somewhere in the middle; I just hope we won't all be carrying weapons when we do...
Urrrm... Turn it off if you don't like it?
??? This doesn't make sense. This "proof" means nothing unless you can show a link between Napster usage and CD sales. I'm not saying there isn't one (however indirect a link it might be). I'm just saying that going out and buying more CDs isn't going to prove anything to anybody.
Anyway, yes, please think about the artists...
Actually I believe it will use an enhanced form called "Reverse Hungarian Notation".
OK then... Hands up who's got Slashdot UID #31337... Lucky bastard!
When I was at school someone was up to it on a Commodore PET + 4022 printer.
Any advance on that?
I haven't read either book, but...
I could understand a point of view that said "We don't know if quantum effects manifest themselves on a macroscopic level in the brain".
I'm having difficulty with the idea that quantum effects might be the only way that some brain processes could possibly function.
I have heard some people refer to quantum brain effects as some kind of new age "soul"... As a devout atheist that rubs me up the wrong way.
I read those articles (thanks for the linx btw). :)
The first one starts talking about COM, which has reference count issues (but they're actually extremely simple to maintain, especially with smart handles, see ATL). It then goes on to look at distributed object lifetimes, and in conclusion it seems to prefer DCOM's approach to CORBA's non-approach. Which is nice.
The second article was quite amusing. I haven't really got time to go through the good/bad/ugly points one by one, but a lot of them seem pretty uninformed, and not just on DCOM's side.
I wonder how many of the Sun lot are weeping "Hey, why don't Gnome and KDE just use our Java RMI?! Oh yeah, and Micro$oft should ditch COM as well"...
Why can't we all just get along?
What do you mean by 'fake'? I'm genuinely curious. Why does COM 'suck eggs'? Again, I'm not trying to start a flame war, I just don't share your opinion.
COM is not language- or system-dependant either.
Let's take that in parts...
> COM is a mess
Please expand on that. That's not such a convincing argument as it stands...
> it's tightly tied with C++
No, it's explicitly not, you can use it from C, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, whatever.
> architecture
What sort of architecture?
> Windows
Solaris? XPCOM? Wine?
Do you actually know what you're talking about?
I'm mostly with you.
Why not just use COM? Bonobo is ripped off from COM anyway. Well, it's because no-one around here likes Microsoft. But I don't care about that, I'm just interested in technical reasons. It would be great if there was interopability not just between apps in the same OS, but between OSen too. The current separatist nature of Open Source is fine for a radical movement, but it seems to me that users should get something that's useful to them, not be caught up in political struggle all the time.
When your career ends prematurely, no-one will notice. That's the way it goes, loser...
There's a PSX2 devkit sitting next to me, and that's all I wanna say :)
Notice the original poster's words: "video ram".
The PSX2 only has 4 Megs of video ram, which many people think is its Achilles' Heel.
It does, however, have a very wide bus connecting it to the main 32 Megs, and so it can be seen as a cache (well, the bit that's left after allocating frame buffers). It remains to be seen whether or not this architecture will hamper developers significantly.
Do you want public relations?
Or do you want him to kiss your arse?
I think it's the latter.
Have a look at "Close up of corner", at the closest ball.
You can see the polygonal outline of the ball!
The one southwest of it seems to be a lower LOD model.
Plus all the balls are lit.
So, I respectfully disagree.
That's as may be, but it seems unlikely to me that a government database would help in these cases.
It's not as if illegal immigrants are going to helpfully inform the government every time they move...
You're saying that amongst all the relatives and friends of an individual, not one of them knows his/her current address?
And of course you're not allowed to see what's in your file, unless it's stored on a computer, and even then it's not always possible.
So when they want your encryption keys, just say "not until you let me look at all of your files about me". (If you get a chance during the beating...)
I'll second you on that. Maybe this is just a U.S. thing. In the UK I only ever heard 'cracker' in reference to game protection removers. When I started to read /. I couldn't understand all the fuss. To me, 'hacker' is someone who {attempts to} gain unauthorised access to networked computer resources. As for someone who is just into computers & writing code, I would just call them a 'computer geek' or something. But probably not, cos that's kind of perjorative.
What's wrong with white/black hat, anyway?