Thank yoU! I'm actually very happy with it, the only problem is that after I lost all of my current work and had to restore from backup I found that chocolate was one of the ones that lost data.;( So I haven't decided whether or not to re-record it, but if I do I'll actually be trying to keep it the same (except maybe tighten up a couple of spots in the solos, but those are personal performance issues).
Do it like Mandrake does, with a core budget that goes to take care of core services, and then let the taxpayers choose the rest on their tax return.
At least, that's how Mandrake *says* their voting works. I don't think they'd want to include KDE by popular demand and then leave out an X server because nobody remembered to vote for an X server...
Heh. I'm not trying to argue, really I'm not. But I'd say they were the earliest just like the Wright brothers were the earliest in flight. See, they weren't, but they were one of the first to do something practical that was also very noticeable. And there's a lot of points to be had for people who are early enough that they're pioneering the field, no matter how many others came before them.
Mmm, with codecs standing as they do, it's possible to have the server convert on-the-fly.
Not that I'm saying they should do this. Jesus fucking christ, imagine the load on the server if they ever get that busy! (Yeah, I know, they can cache each conversion, in this manner they wouldn't have to convert for every download, just for formats on files that haven't been requested yet).
Just pointing out that it's not the technical challenge it might at first appear.
Man, I just installed these drivers (I was wanting a good excuse to do it, I admit it) on my ancient TNT2 video card, 800mhz Duron, blahdy-blah blah, and now Metisse is running fine. Before, with the nv driver Metisse barely ran. Amazing how much a difference the driver makes.;)
Nobody can build asshole-proof online games. I patented it last year. Sorry.
How do you make an asshole-proof online game? Simple, hang an inverted cross on the website and show it in the game, frequently. All the assholes will stay away.
The original Mario game was originally called Monkey Kong, but due to an error by the manufacturer of the console it was called Donkey Kong by the world, and by the time the error was caught it was too late to change it. This was followed by Donkey Kong Jr, and *then* Mario Brothers, and then the Super Mario Brothers most people are currently familiar with.;)
It's the messages weaved into the story lines of games, movies and tv shows, the preaching under the guise of entertainment, that gets my hackles up.
Hmm, isn't that called 'theme'? Isn't it, like, let's see, a requirement? Otherwise what's the point of the entertainment? I'd be interested if you could dig up a few books/movies/whatever that completely lack a theme of some sort.
Maybe I've just been reading too many classics lately, but I'm happy to finally be reading 20k Leagues under the sea!;)
They're also not blocking all connections, they're only targetting the ones that appear to be sending spam. Two ways spammers can deal with this. One, they decrease the volume each computer sends so that it's below the Comcast's threshold. Two, they setup their own P2P network and just relay spam to hosts that *can* send.
In any case, I'm on comcast's network and I use postfix locally to send mail and haven't had any problems. Logically this means that I send less than their threshold that indicates spamming, and I'm happy about this because Comcast's smtp servers aren't as reliable as my own.;) (That is, when my computer is on, I can send email. Comcast can't match that sort of weird uptime that isn't even in the high 90's some weeks)
No kidding. I actually got a tad paranoid when I read about Comcast taking this measure. I'm happy they've only chosen to single out machines that send buttloads of emails. I use postfix to send all my email from my machine because Comcast's smtp servers aren't particularly reliable. At least with posfix I know that if my computer is running I can always send email. (Not to mention Comcast's smtp servers have some arbitrary max size you can have an email and I occasionally need to send email that's larger to accounts that can receive it)
I wonder what Comcast'll do on a day when I actually send a bunch of emails.;) Seriously, I can't imagine ever having enough email to write of my own that I'll look like a zombie PC sending spam.
Shit, if you remember Super Mario Brothers you should remember the original Mario Brothers, right? And the original Mario game, of course... (no prizes if you know it, but I'm not giving it away just yet;) , suffice it to say, Mario Brothers was the third in the series, making Super Mario Brothers the fourth)
Anybody besides me remember Balance of Power? That old spaceship game from SSI where you sit and setup your turn, then the other player sits and sets up their turn, then you both watch the two ships maneuver and fight? That game was *awesome*.
There's a reason retro gaming is coming in, and it started coming it (albeit slowly) when Carmack and Co. turned Beyond Castle Wolfenstein into a crappy 3d shoot-me-up game. Previously it was a horrifying and thrilling game full of suspense, intrigue, and everything we'd come to expect from MuSE. Now it's spot in history is taken up by some shoot-em-up game.:( (Although I'm rooting for them in the XPrize, I'm still pissed at them for Wolfenstein)
This makes sense in the context of "Commodore takes on Apple". As before, Commodore will beat Apple (a majority marketshare holder) into a corner, then let their top guys take off with a urine-colored parachute so that Microsoft can come in and take over the market. Anybody for a Microsoft Portable Music Player(TM)?
Those that don't know history are doomed to wipe their noses in it.
Hmm, I think I might have mixed MUSE sounds there. Did the taxi passengers really scream the same way the Nazis in Return to Castle Wolfenstein scream when you backstabbed them?
Silent Service was my all-time favorite game, and it came out for C64 and Amiga! (I played the Amiga version, though. By the time I saw it was even available for C64 Commodore had gone under and Gould and Co had taken off with their urine-colored parachutes)
Although Ultima III's was pretty good, too. Even more intense in some areas, but there's no song quite like the one you hear when you look at a gem in Ultima IV.
Oh, and I believe the ROMs were 8kb each, but my memory is a little fuzzy on that point.
That sounds about right, because after turning off the BASIC interpreter you had 56k available, which is more than enough for anyone.
I got a kick a few years back when I discovered that there was an aftermarket for C-64s still that provided ethernet and memory upgrades to where you could actually run a web browser and surf the internet. I can't even remember a single port on that machine being fast enough to download data off the internet in a timely fashion, but people are doing it, apparently. Talk about psycho...
Shit. Hard to believe i misspelled my own last name and that caused me to have a broken link. Thanks for pointing it out to me, it's fixed now. I presume you still managed to download it?;)
I'm not totally disagreeing with your point, but I think the issue of 3d window managers and their relative usefulness revolves entirely around implementation. Looking at Sun's screenshots, that was a pretty nice looking setup, and some of the things they've done (at least in the screenshots) look like pretty innovative things that will save on screen real estate. Some of the other things they've done are arguably not much better than what we've already got, though.
What I'm wanting is something where I can have 6 virtual desktops (available in KDE already, of course) and have them each displayed in a cube. A shortcut would zoom in on the one I want to see, but I could zoom out and see three at once. For some things I do, with the right orientation, that could conceivably make it possible for me to work on three virtual desktops at once and still organize my applications for efficiency. So I could see/work directly with the forest or zoom in on trees as needed.
I got metisse to build, and it looks like my machine is too slow to run it.;( Big time latency, and issues with the mouse input device. I've been meaning to install nvidia's driver for my video card, I just haven't yet. Anybody know if doing so will improve OpenGL performance? Right now it looks like my processor's doing all the work. Will nvidia's driver make much of a difference running Metisse?
I'm particularly interested in Metisse in part because it's young enough that just by using it and providing feedback I might be able to help a 3d desktop reach a point of being really useful rather than just more eye candy.;)
I don't know about you, but I see some serious usability innovations in 3d space for audio work. I have a bash script that starts up Hydrogen, Qsynth, and RoseGarden and that's *just* to do midi work. I need a terminal for ecasound if I'm using my guitar or doing vocals, and then I need Audacity for postproduction. I've run out of space on my screen.
There's a reason many audio guys have 2-3 monitors when they're working, but I can see a good 3d desktop making the monitor I have stretch so that I won't *have* to install two more monitors.
Come to think of it, I can see it helping me all over the place. I'm trying to build the thing right now, I hope it works well.;) I love KDE, but I'll drop KDE in a heartbeat for a good 3d WM.
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Thank yoU! I'm actually very happy with it, the only problem is that after I lost all of my current work and had to restore from backup I found that chocolate was one of the ones that lost data. ;( So I haven't decided whether or not to re-record it, but if I do I'll actually be trying to keep it the same (except maybe tighten up a couple of spots in the solos, but those are personal performance issues).
Do it like Mandrake does, with a core budget that goes to take care of core services, and then let the taxpayers choose the rest on their tax return.
At least, that's how Mandrake *says* their voting works. I don't think they'd want to include KDE by popular demand and then leave out an X server because nobody remembered to vote for an X server...
Heh. I'm not trying to argue, really I'm not. But I'd say they were the earliest just like the Wright brothers were the earliest in flight. See, they weren't, but they were one of the first to do something practical that was also very noticeable. And there's a lot of points to be had for people who are early enough that they're pioneering the field, no matter how many others came before them.
That's fine, but what I actually wrote was: (emphasis added):
It's not a vote for Kerry; it's a vote against Ashcroft
It's not a vote for Brutus; it's a vote against Caesar.
You weren't kidding were you? Bastards. If TMBG have gotten so un-tech-friendly by now....
(I recall they were among the earliest electronic musicians, using computers to make music, they fucking better...uh, well, fuck it)
Not that I'm saying they should do this. Jesus fucking christ, imagine the load on the server if they ever get that busy! (Yeah, I know, they can cache each conversion, in this manner they wouldn't have to convert for every download, just for formats on files that haven't been requested yet).
Just pointing out that it's not the technical challenge it might at first appear.
Man, I just installed these drivers (I was wanting a good excuse to do it, I admit it) on my ancient TNT2 video card, 800mhz Duron, blahdy-blah blah, and now Metisse is running fine. Before, with the nv driver Metisse barely ran. Amazing how much a difference the driver makes. ;)
If you have A (Windows), and add B (Cygwin), you dont get A, you get AB.
Um, actually, if have one thing and you add another, you get a sum. What you're trying to do is create a product.
If you have A (Windows) and add B (Anything else that could be Cygwin), you have A plus B.
:)
Nobody can build asshole-proof online games. I patented it last year. Sorry.
How do you make an asshole-proof online game? Simple, hang an inverted cross on the website and show it in the game, frequently. All the assholes will stay away.
(Shameless flamebaiting here...)
The original Mario game was originally called Monkey Kong, but due to an error by the manufacturer of the console it was called Donkey Kong by the world, and by the time the error was caught it was too late to change it. This was followed by Donkey Kong Jr, and *then* Mario Brothers, and then the Super Mario Brothers most people are currently familiar with. ;)
It's the messages weaved into the story lines of games, movies and tv shows, the preaching under the guise of entertainment, that gets my hackles up.
Hmm, isn't that called 'theme'? Isn't it, like, let's see, a requirement? Otherwise what's the point of the entertainment? I'd be interested if you could dig up a few books/movies/whatever that completely lack a theme of some sort.
Maybe I've just been reading too many classics lately, but I'm happy to finally be reading 20k Leagues under the sea! ;)
I won on the second game. First was a draw. Took five seconds, sucker.
They're also not blocking all connections, they're only targetting the ones that appear to be sending spam. Two ways spammers can deal with this. One, they decrease the volume each computer sends so that it's below the Comcast's threshold. Two, they setup their own P2P network and just relay spam to hosts that *can* send.
In any case, I'm on comcast's network and I use postfix locally to send mail and haven't had any problems. Logically this means that I send less than their threshold that indicates spamming, and I'm happy about this because Comcast's smtp servers aren't as reliable as my own. ;) (That is, when my computer is on, I can send email. Comcast can't match that sort of weird uptime that isn't even in the high 90's some weeks)
No kidding. I actually got a tad paranoid when I read about Comcast taking this measure. I'm happy they've only chosen to single out machines that send buttloads of emails. I use postfix to send all my email from my machine because Comcast's smtp servers aren't particularly reliable. At least with posfix I know that if my computer is running I can always send email. (Not to mention Comcast's smtp servers have some arbitrary max size you can have an email and I occasionally need to send email that's larger to accounts that can receive it)
I wonder what Comcast'll do on a day when I actually send a bunch of emails. ;) Seriously, I can't imagine ever having enough email to write of my own that I'll look like a zombie PC sending spam.
Shit, if you remember Super Mario Brothers you should remember the original Mario Brothers, right? And the original Mario game, of course... (no prizes if you know it, but I'm not giving it away just yet ;) , suffice it to say, Mario Brothers was the third in the series, making Super Mario Brothers the fourth)
Anybody besides me remember Balance of Power? That old spaceship game from SSI where you sit and setup your turn, then the other player sits and sets up their turn, then you both watch the two ships maneuver and fight? That game was *awesome*.
There's a reason retro gaming is coming in, and it started coming it (albeit slowly) when Carmack and Co. turned Beyond Castle Wolfenstein into a crappy 3d shoot-me-up game. Previously it was a horrifying and thrilling game full of suspense, intrigue, and everything we'd come to expect from MuSE. Now it's spot in history is taken up by some shoot-em-up game. :( (Although I'm rooting for them in the XPrize, I'm still pissed at them for Wolfenstein)
Nonononono.
This makes sense in the context of "Commodore takes on Apple". As before, Commodore will beat Apple (a majority marketshare holder) into a corner, then let their top guys take off with a urine-colored parachute so that Microsoft can come in and take over the market. Anybody for a Microsoft Portable Music Player(TM)?
Those that don't know history are doomed to wipe their noses in it.
No, the people that hacked on old Commodores are much more likely to be using KHTML.
What, you think we'd have *ever* bought a fucking Apple computer? Fag.
No shit. First thing I did when I bought a bass years ago was work out the MULE bass line.
First thing I did when I bought a drum set was work out the MULE drum line.
Never did work out the melody line on my guitar. Maybe I outta do that... Take it back, I had that down back before I bought a bass.
Maybe I should try recording it now. ;)
Hey Taxi! Pad one please. Pad one please.
Hey Taxi! *bump* *aaaaaaaaaaa!!!*
Hmm, I think I might have mixed MUSE sounds there. Did the taxi passengers really scream the same way the Nazis in Return to Castle Wolfenstein scream when you backstabbed them?
Silent Service was my all-time favorite game, and it came out for C64 and Amiga! (I played the Amiga version, though. By the time I saw it was even available for C64 Commodore had gone under and Gould and Co had taken off with their urine-colored parachutes)
Game soundtrack: Ultima IV.
'nuff said.
Although Ultima III's was pretty good, too. Even more intense in some areas, but there's no song quite like the one you hear when you look at a gem in Ultima IV.
Oh, and I believe the ROMs were 8kb each, but my memory is a little fuzzy on that point.
That sounds about right, because after turning off the BASIC interpreter you had 56k available, which is more than enough for anyone.
I got a kick a few years back when I discovered that there was an aftermarket for C-64s still that provided ethernet and memory upgrades to where you could actually run a web browser and surf the internet. I can't even remember a single port on that machine being fast enough to download data off the internet in a timely fashion, but people are doing it, apparently. Talk about psycho...
Shit. Hard to believe i misspelled my own last name and that caused me to have a broken link. Thanks for pointing it out to me, it's fixed now. I presume you still managed to download it? ;)
I'm not totally disagreeing with your point, but I think the issue of 3d window managers and their relative usefulness revolves entirely around implementation. Looking at Sun's screenshots, that was a pretty nice looking setup, and some of the things they've done (at least in the screenshots) look like pretty innovative things that will save on screen real estate. Some of the other things they've done are arguably not much better than what we've already got, though.
What I'm wanting is something where I can have 6 virtual desktops (available in KDE already, of course) and have them each displayed in a cube. A shortcut would zoom in on the one I want to see, but I could zoom out and see three at once. For some things I do, with the right orientation, that could conceivably make it possible for me to work on three virtual desktops at once and still organize my applications for efficiency. So I could see/work directly with the forest or zoom in on trees as needed.
I got metisse to build, and it looks like my machine is too slow to run it. ;( Big time latency, and issues with the mouse input device. I've been meaning to install nvidia's driver for my video card, I just haven't yet. Anybody know if doing so will improve OpenGL performance? Right now it looks like my processor's doing all the work. Will nvidia's driver make much of a difference running Metisse?
I'm particularly interested in Metisse in part because it's young enough that just by using it and providing feedback I might be able to help a 3d desktop reach a point of being really useful rather than just more eye candy. ;)
I don't know about you, but I see some serious usability innovations in 3d space for audio work. I have a bash script that starts up Hydrogen, Qsynth, and RoseGarden and that's *just* to do midi work. I need a terminal for ecasound if I'm using my guitar or doing vocals, and then I need Audacity for postproduction. I've run out of space on my screen.
There's a reason many audio guys have 2-3 monitors when they're working, but I can see a good 3d desktop making the monitor I have stretch so that I won't *have* to install two more monitors.
Come to think of it, I can see it helping me all over the place. I'm trying to build the thing right now, I hope it works well. ;) I love KDE, but I'll drop KDE in a heartbeat for a good 3d WM.