Also, OpenBSD still uses our trusty old friend gcc 2.95. While it certainly remains the best choice for secure & stable programs, the performance increases in code built with 3.x are nothing to scoff at.
OK, Quake 4 is released as open-source and sold in a series of "Server Editions" starting at $500, which include numerous huge, impressive-looking manuals, a diploma reading "Certified Quake Server Admin" and a plush llama.
When Western Digital raised the bar nearly 1.5 years ago, we repeatedly pointed out that the Special Edition (JB series) Caviar was what readers really wanted when they speculated over 10,000 RPM ATA drives.
Equipped with an 8-megabyte buffer and accompanying firmware aggressively tuned for single-user scenarios, the WD1000JB easily matched and even exceeded the performance that the best 10k RPM SCSI drives of the era delivered when it came to desktop performance.
While SCSI drives feature superior mechanics, their server orientation forces them to trade away firmware optimized for highly-localized patterns in favor of strategies that maximize returns in random access scenarios. In the Raptor, WD faces much of the same quandary.
Well, I know I would prefer a chip- or a whole PC- that didn't need any fans in it to keep the thing from becoming heat-piping-hot silicon soup. They're noisy and they break too easily. Until then, I am stuck with my original iMac.
You know, it's hardly surprising Mozilla uses 70% CPU of a 2ghz computer with 750meg of ram in order to give you the smoothest stupid ascii art animation possible, when you have *no* higher priority processes competing with it.
Unmitigated CPU load is bullshit. What matters is minimal CPU load.
The funny thing is how, instead of going up in arms against propietary and closed software, the BSD world redirects its sentiment to bitchfests about the GNU toolchain and its "viral communist licensing." Then they use it anyway.
Every so often, though, someone tries to convince the distros they should be using TenDRA instead of gcc.
Yeah, that's why old Microsoft installers took personal info off your computer without your permission. They were just trying to protect their users from malicious spammers.
I did some research and bought an EVT4000e scooter (the motorcycle kind) that goes three times faster and farther, and is half the price. It can't ride on the sidewalk like a Segway, but can use the bike lanes when they exist and holds its own nicely on fast roads.
The sidewalks here are so full of crap anyway that I doubt an HT could go any faster then a person on foot.
We can send more corporate junk up into space until Earth's orbit is so clogged with satellites that they block out all sunlight and jump-start the next ice age.
That is why they don't give you a Windows CD anymore. They preinstall everything and give you one of those system restore CDs.
I suppose if you never boot up the OS you might still be exempt from the EULA, but it would be a tough argument.
If software is now a service, shouldn't they offer a guarantee of some kind?
Commercial software doesn't even guarantee that it will *work*. Neither does OSS, but it's easier to deal with when you didn't shell out upwards of $50 for the privilege of seeing its installer fail and take your hard drive with it.
That makes more sense. I was thinking "Enix can afford to buy Square? Did they lose *that* much money on FF:TSW?"
I recall Dragon Quest 7 set a sales record lasting a few months in Japan, so Enix isn't exactly earning peanuts, but they probably don't they have the spare cash on hand to buy Square outright.
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They don't make beige keyboards like they used to, though. You can't get that "rotten Apple" patina...
Also, OpenBSD still uses our trusty old friend gcc 2.95. While it certainly remains the best choice for secure & stable programs, the performance increases in code built with 3.x are nothing to scoff at.
Hmm...
Which came first, OS X or Extreme Programming?
...So the name of the Father of Medicine means "rule by horses"?
OK, Quake 4 is released as open-source and sold in a series of "Server Editions" starting at $500, which include numerous huge, impressive-looking manuals, a diploma reading "Certified Quake Server Admin" and a plush llama.
Makes sense to me.
A little OT, but do any *NIXes have Kerberos as your default auth service after a fresh install?
Actually, your 68040 is 32 bits. Better smash your PCs too and save up for an Opteron. :)
Have you taken a look at DistribFold? I mean, these things and SETI@home are cool, but folding proteins actually helps people now.
1. Come up with killer concept that is impossible to implement, then nerf it down to standard issue hack and slash
2. Get capital
3. Create apparently huge but actually really small & static world, so there's lots of room for expansion packs
4. Incorporate amazingly bad gameplay
5. ???
6. Profit anyway!!!
When Western Digital raised the bar nearly 1.5 years ago, we repeatedly pointed out that the Special Edition (JB series) Caviar was what readers really wanted when they speculated over 10,000 RPM ATA drives.
Equipped with an 8-megabyte buffer and accompanying firmware aggressively tuned for single-user scenarios, the WD1000JB easily matched and even exceeded the performance that the best 10k RPM SCSI drives of the era delivered when it came to desktop performance.
While SCSI drives feature superior mechanics, their server orientation forces them to trade away firmware optimized for highly-localized patterns in favor of strategies that maximize returns in random access scenarios. In the Raptor, WD faces much of the same quandary.
I stuck a script in my path named "lsd", a typo I constantly make. It runs the command "ls | rot13".
Well, I know I would prefer a chip- or a whole PC- that didn't need any fans in it to keep the thing from becoming heat-piping-hot silicon soup. They're noisy and they break too easily. Until then, I am stuck with my original iMac.
the basic rules are free and SJGames encourages web-based supplements. They even archive some of them.
You know, it's hardly surprising Mozilla uses 70% CPU of a 2ghz computer with 750meg of ram in order to give you the smoothest stupid ascii art animation possible, when you have *no* higher priority processes competing with it. Unmitigated CPU load is bullshit. What matters is minimal CPU load.
Already has. It was called a "PC Compatibility Card", but they are long gone and I believe the fastest official ones were 133 mHz Pentiums. :)
Not to mention SDL has zilch to do with video card support. That's a function of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, part of the kernel.
The funny thing is how, instead of going up in arms against propietary and closed software, the BSD world redirects its sentiment to bitchfests about the GNU toolchain and its "viral communist licensing." Then they use it anyway.
Every so often, though, someone tries to convince the distros they should be using TenDRA instead of gcc.
What does DirectX have that SDL does not, other then zilch portability? Or plib, or ClanLib.
Yeah, that's why old Microsoft installers took personal info off your computer without your permission. They were just trying to protect their users from malicious spammers.
I did some research and bought an EVT4000e scooter (the motorcycle kind) that goes three times faster and farther, and is half the price. It can't ride on the sidewalk like a Segway, but can use the bike lanes when they exist and holds its own nicely on fast roads.
The sidewalks here are so full of crap anyway that I doubt an HT could go any faster then a person on foot.
We can send more corporate junk up into space until Earth's orbit is so clogged with satellites that they block out all sunlight and jump-start the next ice age.
That is why they don't give you a Windows CD anymore. They preinstall everything and give you one of those system restore CDs. I suppose if you never boot up the OS you might still be exempt from the EULA, but it would be a tough argument.
Apple tried to make their hardware an open standard back in '97, remember? It nearly put them out of business.
If software is now a service, shouldn't they offer a guarantee of some kind?
Commercial software doesn't even guarantee that it will *work*. Neither does OSS, but it's easier to deal with when you didn't shell out upwards of $50 for the privilege of seeing its installer fail and take your hard drive with it.
That makes more sense. I was thinking "Enix can afford to buy Square? Did they lose *that* much money on FF:TSW?" I recall Dragon Quest 7 set a sales record lasting a few months in Japan, so Enix isn't exactly earning peanuts, but they probably don't they have the spare cash on hand to buy Square outright.