To jump on the 'Har har you didn't select the right logo from the list' bandwagon:
Well, congratulations to AMD! I knew all their hard work on OSX would pay off!
I live for the day that we can have a computer installed in our bodies have have a HUD in our eyes. How cool would it be to browse the net or play games while doing other, more boring things in the outside world?
We could be talking about a revolution in isolationism here! I can't wait!
What I don't understand is how these shows are targetted at adults, yet still have many of the restrictions that children's shows have. I mean, look at a prime time show on FOX. Probably a lot more violent and with more sexually suggestive dialogue/scenes than an anime, yet anime aired in North America still gets heavily edited - even for trivial things like someone drinking water instead of beer.
I used to watch anime all the bloody time, read fan translated mangas, etc. etc., but I just eventually lost intrest. Perhaps seeing all these great anime shows on local television will rekindle my intrest. Hopefully the voices won't be horrible - that's one of the things that turned me off back in the day.
If this leaves the XFree86 project as a more flexable, open, and more modular project, then so be it. I'm all for anything that can improve performance for *NIX GUIs.
From everything I see, it's too late in the game to make a new graphical interface - unless it has a compatability layer to work with X apps. But even then, we'd need to develop it FAST to make sure *NIX doesn't fall behind in the OS game.
After spending a couple years in CS training I was sort of beginning to get worried about the availability of jobs, what with all the horrible news about the IT industry. I still might have to take a callcenter job for awhile first, but hey, it's just a rite of passage.
I would imagine that simply buying a HDTV would, in the end, be cheaper. HDTVs are just really big monitors IIRC. That's not to say this isn't cool, I just imagine it would be more economical to buy an HDTV and use it as your monitor:D
There are some good game engines out there that are cheap.
For instance, Torque, the engine Tribes 2 is based on, is available for $100 dollars. And in addition to that, you can test it out a bit beforehand. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux. Not every game engine costs several hundred thousand dollars.
And last time I checked, Tribes 2 didn't look too amateurish or cheaply made.
Perhaps all these fancy titles with words like "Enterprise" in them will make large corporations see Linux as a solution for their projects. That's the main thing stopping linux... recognition.
The problem is, of course, retraining. Windows-esque KDE environments can go a long way, but there are all those little niggling things that can throw a user off. THat's not to say I'm not behind them switching to Linux, I thinkn it's an excellent idea if it does what they want it to do, I'm just saying they have to consider all those small things you might think of at first.
QA/Game Testing must be the worst job... any game can be ruined for you by having to playtest it. Sure it's fun the first couple times through, but how fun is it on your 43rd?
I mean, there's so much stupid things to do. You have to test and see if you can play through the game using a knife while running backwards and jumping nonstop because SOME nut out there will try it. And you never know, that nut might work for a review website/magazine.
This would be great and wonderful if people didn't already know about KaZaA/WinMX/Gnutella/etc. As much as you say "Hey, we've changed! Songs are cheap now and you can get them from home!" there will always be those people who say "That's great... but I can still get the same songs for free.". Frustrating to say the least.
I'm glad that it plays on linux right out of the box.
I'm noticing a small (Yet growing) trend in the amount of games that run linux out of the box, or are adding native linux support (ala Neverwinter Nights), and I personally think that's a Good Thing.
My solution was to simply abandon email in favour of GAIM (The excellent IM client for linux!) and IRC. Those are the only CIVIL ways to communicate now anyway.
Actually, by signing up for that forum he accepted an agreement that he could be banned for hateful speech, etc. When he did so, he then (This is what I'm getting from the story) ban evaded and did it some more.
You can scream 'FARK THE USA' on the street all you want... just don't go into corner store and start doing it.
This guy has a page hit counter at the bottom of his page, it's quite funny to refresh it and watch it go up extremely fast.
45845... 45900... and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got your random number RIGHT HERE...
5,246,549!
I'm glad to see free software projects being managed so well, with organized heirachies and the like.
I personally prefer Gentoo over Debian, but Debian is still a damn solid distro and I hope they continue to do well.
To jump on the 'Har har you didn't select the right logo from the list' bandwagon: Well, congratulations to AMD! I knew all their hard work on OSX would pay off!
I live for the day that we can have a computer installed in our bodies have have a HUD in our eyes. How cool would it be to browse the net or play games while doing other, more boring things in the outside world?
We could be talking about a revolution in isolationism here! I can't wait!
What I don't understand is how these shows are targetted at adults, yet still have many of the restrictions that children's shows have. I mean, look at a prime time show on FOX. Probably a lot more violent and with more sexually suggestive dialogue/scenes than an anime, yet anime aired in North America still gets heavily edited - even for trivial things like someone drinking water instead of beer.
I used to watch anime all the bloody time, read fan translated mangas, etc. etc., but I just eventually lost intrest. Perhaps seeing all these great anime shows on local television will rekindle my intrest. Hopefully the voices won't be horrible - that's one of the things that turned me off back in the day.
If this leaves the XFree86 project as a more flexable, open, and more modular project, then so be it. I'm all for anything that can improve performance for *NIX GUIs.
From everything I see, it's too late in the game to make a new graphical interface - unless it has a compatability layer to work with X apps. But even then, we'd need to develop it FAST to make sure *NIX doesn't fall behind in the OS game.
After spending a couple years in CS training I was sort of beginning to get worried about the availability of jobs, what with all the horrible news about the IT industry. I still might have to take a callcenter job for awhile first, but hey, it's just a rite of passage.
I would imagine that simply buying a HDTV would, in the end, be cheaper. HDTVs are just really big monitors IIRC. That's not to say this isn't cool, I just imagine it would be more economical to buy an HDTV and use it as your monitor :D
There are some good game engines out there that are cheap.
For instance, Torque, the engine Tribes 2 is based on, is available for $100 dollars. And in addition to that, you can test it out a bit beforehand. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux. Not every game engine costs several hundred thousand dollars.
And last time I checked, Tribes 2 didn't look too amateurish or cheaply made.
LGP's current game, Ballistics, is looking pretty sweet. It's a 3D racing game with fighting and other neato things.
Perhaps all these fancy titles with words like "Enterprise" in them will make large corporations see Linux as a solution for their projects. That's the main thing stopping linux... recognition.
The problem is, of course, retraining. Windows-esque KDE environments can go a long way, but there are all those little niggling things that can throw a user off. THat's not to say I'm not behind them switching to Linux, I thinkn it's an excellent idea if it does what they want it to do, I'm just saying they have to consider all those small things you might think of at first.
No need to worry, the Super Ultra Deluxe Megaton Special Edition DX Matrix will be coming out soon.
QA/Game Testing must be the worst job... any game can be ruined for you by having to playtest it. Sure it's fun the first couple times through, but how fun is it on your 43rd?
I mean, there's so much stupid things to do. You have to test and see if you can play through the game using a knife while running backwards and jumping nonstop because SOME nut out there will try it. And you never know, that nut might work for a review website/magazine.
So... does it come with GNU/Bird, that little app that cleans up useless files and empties logs?
This would be great and wonderful if people didn't already know about KaZaA/WinMX/Gnutella/etc. As much as you say "Hey, we've changed! Songs are cheap now and you can get them from home!" there will always be those people who say "That's great... but I can still get the same songs for free.". Frustrating to say the least.
I certainly hope someone ports a VNC client to this phone. I can use bluetooth to get work done on my computer over my phone... from 10 feet away!
Exactly how do PowerPC processors compare to regular x86 processors?
You know, with the way things are going, the old illustration of 'the car with the hood welded shut' may come true.
Go to a car dealership, ask to see the engine, get yelled at and/or arrested!
I'm glad that it plays on linux right out of the box.
I'm noticing a small (Yet growing) trend in the amount of games that run linux out of the box, or are adding native linux support (ala Neverwinter Nights), and I personally think that's a Good Thing.
My solution was to simply abandon email in favour of GAIM (The excellent IM client for linux!) and IRC. Those are the only CIVIL ways to communicate now anyway.
Actually, by signing up for that forum he accepted an agreement that he could be banned for hateful speech, etc. When he did so, he then (This is what I'm getting from the story) ban evaded and did it some more.
You can scream 'FARK THE USA' on the street all you want... just don't go into corner store and start doing it.
This guy has a page hit counter at the bottom of his page, it's quite funny to refresh it and watch it go up extremely fast. 45845... 45900... and so on.
It hurts me when you say that. It hurts me on the INSIDE.