There is a SLIGHT difference between hosing the bootloader and hosing a partition. Windows (ANY version) will happily live on its own little partitions without touching non-windows partitions.
I just built a shiny new Athlon64 box with an nVidia chipset and nVidia graphics. WinXP installs fine. Then, I just load some drivers and everything works.
Now, if I wanted to install Linux, first I have to be paranoid about hosing my XP partition (oops). Second, if I want to use the nVidia drivers (which nVidia actually provides, bravo!), then all I have to do is RECOMPILE THE KERNEL! This is not a process that I wish to undertake, as I am not sure that I am competent enough to handle it. And I have been playing with Linux for a couple of years! I use Unix every day at work, and I am very comfortable around a command line. So I have had my new machine for a month, and have had Knoppix as the only Linux on it (which does not recognize the integrated gigabit ethernet port, so no web browsing for me).
So, it is possible to get all of my hardware working under linux? Yes. But, it is possible for ME to do this comfortably? No. Therein lies the difference.
The comment about Sun is not quite a fair comparison. Porting Solaris to x86-64 should be easier for Sun, since SOLARIS IS ALREADY 64 BITS!!!. The Sparc processors have been 64 bits for quite a while (I am typing this message on a Sun workstation right now).
Windows has been 32 bits for quite a while, so the jump to 64 is a bigger step than for Sun.
Riiiight. If you are married, lots of porn can give you the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" type of feeling. Then, one day you decide to jump on the fence. This can easily ruin a marriage.
Happiness lies in being content with what you have. Very few women can compare to the air-brushed beauties in magazines. And the ones that DO look like playboy models are not likely to hang out with your average slashdot geek. So, if you let the magazines and videos dictate what your sense of beauty is, you find that your real love live is not quite up to the ones in the videos. The, you get dissatisfied. Then, you cheat. Then, you get caught. Then, you pay $2000/month in alimony + child support. Then you wind up alone at the gas station of love and use the self-service pump because the playboy models are not attracted to guys who drive Yugos because they pay too much alimony.
I do not mean to be the "genre police," but NetHack is better described as an "ASCII RPG." If you can type in English "get sword," "go north," and "put the painting in the bag," then it qualifies as a text adventure.
Sorry about the brief diversion. We now return you to our regularaly-scheduled thread.
One of the advantages of open-source is free-as-in-speech.
If you want to take the source and double the HP that you dish out and cut your damage taken by half, then feel free.
But if you do, don't go around bragging that you beat Nethack.
BTW: I created a new "engineer" character class for Angband. He kicked butt. But I suspect that the game is almost impossible to beat with a "stock" character.
I saw this move on TV back in the early 80's. I just remember that the movie was boring and pointless. Being a Star Wars fan at the time (and still am), I was just dying to see the first movie from the mighty Lucas.
Boy was I disappointed. That was one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. I think that calling it "decent" would be too kind.
I think that it would be a tie between "THX-1138" and "Desparate Living!" If you do not know what "Desparate Living" is, consider yourself lucky.
Comparisons work well. Find some nice flashy ray-tracing or other heavy-duty graphics program.
Load it on YOUR machine, and on another "typical" machine. If yours looks smooth and the comparison is jerky, you win.
On the other hand, if you can't do better than the comparison machine, then you probably won't get any sales -- and you probably shouldn't be there in the first place.
PC Magazine went from being a reasonable source of information to a huge glut of advertisements with worthless content sprinkled in here an there.
Can anybody recommend a good balanced PC magazine???
It seems like most PC magazines have their noses jammed up Bill Gates' butt. Every piece of Microsoft software wins an editor's choice award and five stars. The rest of the PC mags are focused on Linux and think that Billy G. is the son of satan. I suspect that the truth is somewhere between the two extremes.
What I want is something in the middle. I would like an impartial review of PC stuff. And if it is hardware, would it hurt soooo much to throw in a sentance or two about Linux compatibility? Can I use that shiny new scanner under SANE using Mandrake? And when discussing options for office software, I would like to think that OpenOffice should at least deserve a mention. I guess that I need to get a Linux mag and a general PC (read "Windows") mag.
The way that I try to look at it is more of one of perspective. Is the glass half empty or half full? One person sees one thing, while another sees it a completely different way. Who is right? They both are!
It is impossible to be completely impartial! I like to look at thing as the media is mostle liberal with a liberal, while conservative news is closer to the truth. But I would be a fool to say that conservative news is always right and without bias.
A liberal may think that liberal media is right, and conservative news is biased. Of course, this could be because the liberal is an idiot, but I did not say this;) Just kidding. This is not intended to be a troll.
The point is, EVRYBODY is biased. Everybody has opinions, beliefs, and life experiences, and filters all knowledge through what they have already learned.
Look at it this way.. Once the drivers are done, it probably does not cost more than a buck to add this to each card. There are not even any connectors to add to the parts list -- just a card edge conector. So if the card has this feature and you never use it, no great loss.
On the other hand, if you HAVE to get this kind of performance, at least you have an option now. Expensive, but if they sell even 1000 extra cards, it is probably worth it. So, I would expect this sort of feature to become standard from now on.
Then again... There is always the posibility that next year, instead of ubergamer buying a new nVidia 8000 Ultra Pro Deluxe SE, they will just buy another of the card that they already have (which will be cheaper by then, possibly only $200). This will eat into the sales of the high-end cards.
A previous post mentioned Nerf Arena Blast, which is pretty good (I own it), and there ARE a couple of painball games already on the market (three or four years old). If you think that they should be made, then go out and buy one of the ones that already exist.
FWIW: I do not think that Iraq has anything to do with Christianity, except that George W might be one.
Well, this is based on history. Almost all "God Games" HAVE sucked. And this is coming from a person who WANTS them to succeed, and would be very willing to buy the good ones as soon as they exist.
My opinion is that this will be a hard sell. The problem is that almost all games (except some in the adventure genre) are based on conflict. Almost all games involve either shooting (FPS) or battle/conquest (RTS). If you want to go completely safe for everybody, then the games are not likely to be too fun.
There have been some games which break the usual genre system, but those are generally experimental, and as such is a risk for the publisher.
On the other hand, if they just concentrate on making good games without going out of their way to cover me in objectionable language and needless gore, then they may count on me as a customer if their quality if good.
Their lab test equipment is now called "Agilent," an entirely separate company. They seem to be doing much better than HP is, except for the fact that they are going Windows on the new logic analyzers -- I liked HPUX better.
It sounds like you don't know much about queueing theory. If each event/customer is essentially random, then there are formulas that you can plug into. Customers can be modeled as Markovian processes.
The best that you can do is shoot for no wait for a certain percentage of the time (usually between 70-99%). Because it is possible every customer might call at exactly the same time (but it is extremely unlikely), you have to have one rep for each customer. This is an extreme example, but this is the sort of thing that you have do deal with in probabilities.
75% no-wait service is cheap. 90% no-wait service is a little more expensive 95% no-wait service is VERY expensive 99% no-wait service will bankrupt even Microsoft (even if they were capable of solving your problem)
And with the money that you save on gas, you can pay 10% of the difference between this an a SUV!!!
Seriously, I would LOVE to have an electric vehicle just to get me to work and back. But I would need only 30 mile range or so, relatively safe for its size, reliable, and under $10K. I do NOT want a ton of electronics and fancy styling that will make the thing cost $30K.
So, in short, Toyota's car looks like a nice toy for the rich, but not a good idea for peple that have to work for a living.
The site lists all games as being '100 credits'. If one credit is one US quarter, that is $25 for a single game that is about 20 years old. Waaaaay to much, IMHO. Even if a credit is one thin dime, that is still $10 per title. Still not low enough to make me bite.
But I did see a couple of good titles. Impossible Mission, Paradroid, and Uridium are all keepers. Brings back memories.
And maybe I wrote a murder mystery, and you should only read it in a dark, damp cellar with the smell of moss. And I will sue you if you DARE try reading it at the beach!
Come on here. If you don't want people listening to/using your work, then DON'T PUBLISH IT!
I do agree that it is wrong for somebody to make money off of your work. If somebody wants to re-mix your music FOR THEIR OWN USE, then it should be OK. If they want to sell their mix, then you should get a penny or two. However, you should NOT have the right of refusal. The law is there to guarantee that you get paid, not for you to be a primadonna. If something happens that you don't like, tough luck. Life happens, and people's feeling get hurt. The declaration of independence gives you the right to pursue happiness, not the right to get all pissy if things don't go your way.
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There is a SLIGHT difference between hosing the bootloader and hosing a partition. Windows (ANY version) will happily live on its own little partitions without touching non-windows partitions.
No. Not at all.
But let me mention this....
I just built a shiny new Athlon64 box with an nVidia chipset and nVidia graphics. WinXP installs fine. Then, I just load some drivers and everything works.
Now, if I wanted to install Linux, first I have to be paranoid about hosing my XP partition (oops). Second, if I want to use the nVidia drivers (which nVidia actually provides, bravo!), then all I have to do is RECOMPILE THE KERNEL! This is not a process that I wish to undertake, as I am not sure that I am competent enough to handle it. And I have been playing with Linux for a couple of years! I use Unix every day at work, and I am very comfortable around a command line. So I have had my new machine for a month, and have had Knoppix as the only Linux on it (which does not recognize the integrated gigabit ethernet port, so no web browsing for me).
So, it is possible to get all of my hardware working under linux? Yes. But, it is possible for ME to do this comfortably? No. Therein lies the difference.
I, for one, welcome our new repetitive joke overlords.
The comment about Sun is not quite a fair comparison. Porting Solaris to x86-64 should be easier for Sun, since SOLARIS IS ALREADY 64 BITS!!!. The Sparc processors have been 64 bits for quite a while (I am typing this message on a Sun workstation right now).
Windows has been 32 bits for quite a while, so the jump to 64 is a bigger step than for Sun.
Riiiight. If you are married, lots of porn can give you the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" type of feeling. Then, one day you decide to jump on the fence. This can easily ruin a marriage.
Happiness lies in being content with what you have. Very few women can compare to the air-brushed beauties in magazines. And the ones that DO look like playboy models are not likely to hang out with your average slashdot geek. So, if you let the magazines and videos dictate what your sense of beauty is, you find that your real love live is not quite up to the ones in the videos. The, you get dissatisfied. Then, you cheat. Then, you get caught. Then, you pay $2000/month in alimony + child support. Then you wind up alone at the gas station of love and use the self-service pump because the playboy models are not attracted to guys who drive Yugos because they pay too much alimony.
I do not mean to be the "genre police," but NetHack is better described as an "ASCII RPG." If you can type in English "get sword," "go north," and "put the painting in the bag," then it qualifies as a text adventure.
Sorry about the brief diversion. We now return you to our regularaly-scheduled thread.
One of the advantages of open-source is free-as-in-speech.
If you want to take the source and double the HP that you dish out and cut your damage taken by half, then feel free.
But if you do, don't go around bragging that you beat Nethack.
BTW: I created a new "engineer" character class for Angband. He kicked butt. But I suspect that the game is almost impossible to beat with a "stock" character.
Darn. My comment IS funny if you read the parent. Unfortunately, the parent got modded into oblivion.
Somebody change the combination to my luggage!
I saw this move on TV back in the early 80's. I just remember that the movie was boring and pointless. Being a Star Wars fan at the time (and still am), I was just dying to see the first movie from the mighty Lucas.
Boy was I disappointed. That was one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. I think that calling it "decent" would be too kind.
I think that it would be a tie between "THX-1138" and "Desparate Living!" If you do not know what "Desparate Living" is, consider yourself lucky.
Comparisons work well. Find some nice flashy ray-tracing or other heavy-duty graphics program.
Load it on YOUR machine, and on another "typical" machine. If yours looks smooth and the comparison is jerky, you win.
On the other hand, if you can't do better than the comparison machine, then you probably won't get any sales -- and you probably shouldn't be there in the first place.
Yes, but it gets worse. My B&W cartridge ran out of white ink. Now what am I supposed to do with this cart almost full of black ink but no white?
Can anybody recommend a good balanced PC magazine???
It seems like most PC magazines have their noses jammed up Bill Gates' butt. Every piece of Microsoft software wins an editor's choice award and five stars. The rest of the PC mags are focused on Linux and think that Billy G. is the son of satan. I suspect that the truth is somewhere between the two extremes.
What I want is something in the middle. I would like an impartial review of PC stuff. And if it is hardware, would it hurt soooo much to throw in a sentance or two about Linux compatibility? Can I use that shiny new scanner under SANE using Mandrake? And when discussing options for office software, I would like to think that OpenOffice should at least deserve a mention. I guess that I need to get a Linux mag and a general PC (read "Windows") mag.
The way that I try to look at it is more of one of perspective. Is the glass half empty or half full? One person sees one thing, while another sees it a completely different way. Who is right? They both are!
;) Just kidding. This is not intended to be a troll.
It is impossible to be completely impartial! I like to look at thing as the media is mostle liberal with a liberal, while conservative news is closer to the truth. But I would be a fool to say that conservative news is always right and without bias.
A liberal may think that liberal media is right, and conservative news is biased. Of course, this could be because the liberal is an idiot, but I did not say this
The point is, EVRYBODY is biased. Everybody has opinions, beliefs, and life experiences, and filters all knowledge through what they have already learned.
I assume that you got a small one that you could swallow. Chewing would be tough, though (and might break a tooth).
I hope they used lead-free solder.
Look at it this way .. Once the drivers are done, it probably does not cost more than a buck to add this to each card. There are not even any connectors to add to the parts list -- just a card edge conector. So if the card has this feature and you never use it, no great loss.
On the other hand, if you HAVE to get this kind of performance, at least you have an option now. Expensive, but if they sell even 1000 extra cards, it is probably worth it. So, I would expect this sort of feature to become standard from now on.
Then again... There is always the posibility that next year, instead of ubergamer buying a new nVidia 8000 Ultra Pro Deluxe SE, they will just buy another of the card that they already have (which will be cheaper by then, possibly only $200). This will eat into the sales of the high-end cards.
Who knows what will happen?
A previous post mentioned Nerf Arena Blast, which is pretty good (I own it), and there ARE a couple of painball games already on the market (three or four years old). If you think that they should be made, then go out and buy one of the ones that already exist.
FWIW: I do not think that Iraq has anything to do with Christianity, except that George W might be one.
Well, this is based on history. Almost all "God Games" HAVE sucked. And this is coming from a person who WANTS them to succeed, and would be very willing to buy the good ones as soon as they exist.
Well, I am one who fits in that category too...
My opinion is that this will be a hard sell. The problem is that almost all games (except some in the adventure genre) are based on conflict. Almost all games involve either shooting (FPS) or battle/conquest (RTS). If you want to go completely safe for everybody, then the games are not likely to be too fun.
There have been some games which break the usual genre system, but those are generally experimental, and as such is a risk for the publisher.
On the other hand, if they just concentrate on making good games without going out of their way to cover me in objectionable language and needless gore, then they may count on me as a customer if their quality if good.
Their lab test equipment is now called "Agilent," an entirely separate company. They seem to be doing much better than HP is, except for the fact that they are going Windows on the new logic analyzers -- I liked HPUX better.
It sounds like you don't know much about queueing theory. If each event/customer is essentially random, then there are formulas that you can plug into. Customers can be modeled as Markovian processes.
The best that you can do is shoot for no wait for a certain percentage of the time (usually between 70-99%). Because it is possible every customer might call at exactly the same time (but it is extremely unlikely), you have to have one rep for each customer. This is an extreme example, but this is the sort of thing that you have do deal with in probabilities.
75% no-wait service is cheap.
90% no-wait service is a little more expensive
95% no-wait service is VERY expensive
99% no-wait service will bankrupt even Microsoft (even if they were capable of solving your problem)
And with the money that you save on gas, you can pay 10% of the difference between this an a SUV!!!
Seriously, I would LOVE to have an electric vehicle just to get me to work and back. But I would need only 30 mile range or so, relatively safe for its size, reliable, and under $10K. I do NOT want a ton of electronics and fancy styling that will make the thing cost $30K.
So, in short, Toyota's car looks like a nice toy for the rich, but not a good idea for peple that have to work for a living.
It might be slightly off-topic, but I just CAN'T resist posing a like to THIS here. Heh heh.
The site lists all games as being '100 credits'. If one credit is one US quarter, that is $25 for a single game that is about 20 years old. Waaaaay to much, IMHO. Even if a credit is one thin dime, that is still $10 per title. Still not low enough to make me bite.
But I did see a couple of good titles. Impossible Mission, Paradroid, and Uridium are all keepers. Brings back memories.
And maybe I wrote a murder mystery, and you should only read it in a dark, damp cellar with the smell of moss. And I will sue you if you DARE try reading it at the beach!
Come on here. If you don't want people listening to/using your work, then DON'T PUBLISH IT!
I do agree that it is wrong for somebody to make money off of your work. If somebody wants to re-mix your music FOR THEIR OWN USE, then it should be OK. If they want to sell their mix, then you should get a penny or two. However, you should NOT have the right of refusal. The law is there to guarantee that you get paid, not for you to be a primadonna. If something happens that you don't like, tough luck. Life happens, and people's feeling get hurt. The declaration of independence gives you the right to pursue happiness, not the right to get all pissy if things don't go your way.
I apologize if this appears troll-like.