2. They can be formed into anything from gemstones to about 4 inch wide(so far) diamond wafers.
Nope. 10 millimeters so far. From page 4 of the article: At the moment, the company is producing 10-millimeter wafers but predicts it will reach an inch square by year's end and 4 inches in five years.
This is exactly what they are doing. I picked one these up for a buddy about a year ago.
Funny thing about ThizLinux, in the kde or gnome start menu, there's a option "uninstall thizlinux". Nothing subtle about it. The little manual comes that comes with these machines even has a section that clearly explains how to install windows on these machines. If fry's really wanted to sell linux machines, you'd thing they use a decent distro, not one that's customized to easily be uninstalled.
One more thing, these boxes have an intergrated 3D graphics chip, that only does directX (no openGL drivers) and just 2D linux drivers.
Still this stuff doesn't bother that much since they are going for 179 or 199 at the fry's in phoenix, its still a great deal.
Not sure if the article points this stuff out since its slashdotted.
Of course language is not static, but it can't be completely fluid. We do need some common ground. Otherwise, why even give spelling tests?
New terms are constantly being added the language. The term "email" wasn't even a word fifty years ago. And more and more household words will be invented for things that yet to be invented.
Still, there is a time and a place for this silly, elite speaking internet sub-culture. That time is not now, and the place is certainly not a publicly funded school.
Actually, that's a perfect example of where code is stronger! In those cases where you start to get a complex interface, a more data driven approach is often better. In those cases it often is better to avoid a generic one-size-fits all soultion and instead go with a solution that is appropriate for the data and application that is being written.
Not sure I follow you here.
A data-driven approach is what an MVC design pattern is all about. Seperate the business logic from the presentation. Visual Age was able to do this very effectively through its use of connections.
I may not be explaining this very well but here's an article that does a better job of it than I can.
It could be that for a general experienced java programmer, GUI editors just don't work as well for Java.
That really depends on the scope of the project. For example, if you are righting a simple swing application , maybe a few text fields, buttons and a table or two and no real model-view separation, then a text editor should be sufficient. However, if you are doing something that requires several forms, and hands down data entry like a large ERP or CRM system, then not using a tool to help out is just wasting time.
IMHO, Java's Gridbag layout is ideal for complex GUIs where re-sizing of forms is something that needs to be considered. Coding GridBagConstraints can quickly become monotonous without some type of RAD tool.
Aside from just drawing screens, another place where a decent GUI builder can help is in fat client model-view type of application development. For example, Visual Age for Java used a technique of visually drawing connections between the business logic entitiy(EBJ,JavaBean, interface.. whatever) and the widgets (Jtextfields, combo boxes, etc.). This allowed the business logic to automatically be kept in sync with the data entry screens. If there was some type of automatic persistence behind the beans the application could be developed that much quicker.
The use of GUI editing tools does decrease the portability accross IDEs somewhat, and some may find the generated code overly verbose or bloated(though neglible in my experience). Still, when productivity is important, I suggest using the right tool for the job regardless if it feels less academic than vi through an ssh session.
Scribus looks like it could be the missing piece to my kid's school's upcoming K-12 LTSP network. This in addition to Open office and tuxpaint covers most of what we need to replace our windows 98 network.
340 trillion trillion (340 septillion or 3.4 * 10^26) is only about the number of Hydrogen molecules in a kilo-liter at standard temperature and pressure give or take a single order of magnitude.
Though not sure where you came up with the 340 trillion trillion to begin with. If the parent post is correct you're about 12 orders of magnitude off. I think you meant 340 trillion trillion trillion, or 340 undecillion.
Sadly, no. It will take a lot more than two games to get this gamer anywhere near taking Linux seriously as a gaming platform. I go through more than two games in a week.
Two games?
Strange, here's a list of 282 native linux games. Some free, some commercial. Still, not as many as I'd like, but more than two. And if you go through 2 a week, that should keep you busy for the next two and a half years, at which time surely more games will be made or ported.
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Some trolls have been astroturfing saying that emulation is a bad idea and will prevent anything from ever going native.
I think you may be slightly confused as to what trolling or astroturfing is.
Most people I know that have a dislike for transgaming do so for various legitimate reasons.
Transgaming directly competes with the few companies left that do native ports. They provide forums for games like, Unreal tournamnet, Return to castle wolfenstien Majesty, and many many others which have native ports. This has to hurt the efforts of companies like Linux Game Publishing and guys like icculus
And You have to wonder if companies like Epic, Id, and Bioware will continue to spend money on porting games themselves if people can play their games at 80 or 90 percent speed with winex.
BTW, if you want to support native ports for linux, here's a list of 282 free or commercial games out there that don't require winex.
Bascially, they'll have to re-write the Denethor character, too.
Why? We don't know what Denethor's added parts are going to be like yet. And as long as he's a bigger prick than Boromir or Farimir were depicted as, it'll be ok.
My only real grip about the movies is that there wont be a scouring of the shire.
I mean, even accounting for the "M$ tax" as it were (which is negligible when applied in bulk OEM licenses anyway)
Negligible?
Manufacture's costs will exponentionally increase the customer's price.
For example, lets assume that the manufacturer pays an OEM license of only 50 bucks for win xp (no idea what it goes for these days, could be much more). That part of the product is likley added the Bill of Materials (BOM) and is part of the total cost of the product. Manufacturer's will never simply add $50 to the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). These guys are in business to make money and as such expect profit margins. They were not ever planning on selling the finished product at their own cost. Thier distributors are making a profit, so are the salesreps, and so is the store you finally get the product from.
Pretty simple economics.
Ever wonder why that 128 mp3 player in the store costs so much more than the 64 meg one? Sure memory is cheap these days, but if it costs a manufacturer 5 dollars to make it instead of 2, you'll see the difference big time.
Since you posted as an AC, I'll have to assume this is a troll. Just in case its not, I've got to ask about your setup because it sounds like you don't have something set up right.
What type of video card are you trying to use? Do you have the correct drivers installed?
Try running glxinfo What does the third line of output show you? Is direct rendering enabled?
I tried the new zelda out at a store the other day, and sure enough, you're controlling a cartoon character in a cartoon world.
Really a strange effect. Technically, an amazing feature, but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be.
If you want the installer to be completely native then you'll need to reverse engineer the install shield 6 cab extractor.
Mine and ravage's installers both use i6comp + some temp wine crap to deal with disc1.
Disc2 is another story, someone in the nwn forum reverse engineered bioware's own archive format(.bzf) used on that CD.
Disc3 isn't archived.
If you want to create your own installer, be aware that Bioware can't legally use it anyways.
They are bound by an installshield End user license agreement to not create an installer other using tools other than InstallShield's to do the cab extraction.
aparently someone (not bioware) is working on a patch for the installer to make the 1.0 data 1.29 data.
check out the forums, i'm sure it'll get posted when its up.
Just saw that on the nwn site.
Ravage's installer provides an update URL for use with loki_update.
Maybe a linux patch can be built for use with his installer.
I made one a few days ago in preparation for this:
http://members.cox.net/monteslu/nwn_data_installer.html
ravage also made one :
http://icculus.org/~ravage/nwn
Slashdot Mirror
2. They can be formed into anything from gemstones to about 4 inch wide(so far) diamond wafers.
Nope. 10 millimeters so far.
From page 4 of the article:
At the moment, the company is producing 10-millimeter wafers but predicts it will reach an inch square by year's end and 4 inches in five years.
This is exactly what they are doing. I picked one these up for a buddy about a year ago.
Funny thing about ThizLinux, in the kde or gnome start menu, there's a option "uninstall thizlinux". Nothing subtle about it. The little manual comes that comes with these machines even has a section that clearly explains how to install windows on these machines. If fry's really wanted to sell linux machines, you'd thing they use a decent distro, not one that's customized to easily be uninstalled.
One more thing, these boxes have an intergrated 3D graphics chip, that only does directX (no openGL drivers) and just 2D linux drivers.
Still this stuff doesn't bother that much since they are going for 179 or 199 at the fry's in phoenix, its still a great deal.
Not sure if the article points this stuff out since its slashdotted.
Of course language is not static, but it can't be completely fluid. We do need some common ground. Otherwise, why even give spelling tests?
New terms are constantly being added the language. The term "email" wasn't even a word fifty years ago. And more and more household words will be invented for things that yet to be invented.
Still, there is a time and a place for this silly, elite speaking internet sub-culture. That time is not now, and the place is certainly not a publicly funded school.
So what's the problem?
Simply give the students bad grades for their spelling errors.
No reason to tolerate this garbage in schoolwork.
Actually, that's a perfect example of where code is stronger! In those cases where you start to get a complex interface, a more data driven approach is often better. In those cases it often is better to avoid a generic one-size-fits all soultion and instead go with a solution that is appropriate for the data and application that is being written.
Not sure I follow you here.
A data-driven approach is what an MVC design pattern is all about. Seperate the business logic from the presentation. Visual Age was able to do this very effectively through its use of connections.
I may not be explaining this very well but here's an article that does a better job of it than I can.
It could be that for a general experienced java programmer, GUI editors just don't work as well for Java.
That really depends on the scope of the project.
For example, if you are righting a simple swing application , maybe a few text fields, buttons and a table or two and no real model-view separation, then a text editor should be sufficient. However, if you are doing something that requires several forms, and hands down data entry like a large ERP or CRM system, then not using a tool to help out is just wasting time.
IMHO, Java's Gridbag layout is ideal for complex GUIs where re-sizing of forms is something that needs to be considered. Coding GridBagConstraints can quickly become monotonous without some type of RAD tool.
Aside from just drawing screens, another place where a decent GUI builder can help is in fat client model-view type of application development. For example, Visual Age for Java used a technique of visually drawing connections between the business logic entitiy(EBJ,JavaBean, interface.. whatever) and the widgets (Jtextfields, combo boxes, etc.). This allowed the business logic to automatically be kept in sync with the data entry screens. If there was some type of automatic persistence behind the beans the application could be developed that much quicker.
The use of GUI editing tools does decrease the portability accross IDEs somewhat, and some may find the generated code overly verbose or bloated(though neglible in my experience). Still, when productivity is important, I suggest using the right tool for the job regardless if it feels less academic than vi through an ssh session.
I have to agree with you here.
Scribus looks like it could be the missing piece to my kid's school's upcoming K-12 LTSP network.
This in addition to Open office and tuxpaint covers most of what we need to replace our windows 98 network.
Looks like there's only about 26 US area codes that end in 2.
Anyone want to give Bryon a call in a sexy Wendy voice?
202 212 252 262
302 312 352 402
412 502 512 562
572 602 612 622
662 702 712 732
802 812 832 912
952 972
And this is different with microsoft?
I'm pretty sure if you install an Oracle database on windows 2000, you can't go calling Microsoft asking them to fix your database.
340 trillion trillion (340 septillion or 3.4 * 10^26) is only about the number of Hydrogen molecules in a kilo-liter at standard temperature and pressure give or take a single order of magnitude.
Though not sure where you came up with the 340 trillion trillion to begin with.
If the parent post is correct you're about 12 orders of magnitude off. I think you meant 340 trillion trillion trillion, or 340 undecillion.
That's because loki went out business a year and half ago.
However, with the exception of maybe one or two titles, the Loki games can still be purchased online.
I recommend tuxgames.com when they recover from the slashdotting, they have most of them.
I've also purchased some loki games from linuxcentral.com.
Sadly, no. It will take a lot more than two games to get this gamer anywhere near taking Linux seriously as a gaming platform. I go through more than two games in a week.
Two games?
Strange, here's a list of 282 native linux games. Some free, some commercial.
Still, not as many as I'd like, but more than two. And if you go through 2 a week, that should keep you busy for the next two and a half years, at which time surely more games will be made or ported.
Some trolls have been astroturfing saying that emulation is a bad idea and will prevent anything from ever going native.
I think you may be slightly confused as to what trolling or astroturfing is.
Most people I know that have a dislike for transgaming do so for various legitimate reasons.
Transgaming directly competes with the few companies left that do native ports.
They provide forums for games like, Unreal tournamnet, Return to castle wolfenstien Majesty, and many many others which have native ports.
This has to hurt the efforts of companies like Linux Game Publishing and guys like icculus
And You have to wonder if companies like Epic, Id, and Bioware will continue to spend money on porting games themselves if people can play their games at 80 or 90 percent speed with winex.
BTW, if you want to support native ports for linux, here's a list of 282 free or commercial games out there that don't require winex.
Bascially, they'll have to re-write the Denethor character, too.
Why? We don't know what Denethor's added parts are going to be like yet. And as long as he's a bigger prick than Boromir or Farimir were depicted as, it'll be ok.
My only real grip about the movies is that there wont be a scouring of the shire.
I mean, even accounting for the "M$ tax" as it were (which is negligible when applied in bulk OEM licenses anyway)
Negligible?
Manufacture's costs will exponentionally increase the customer's price.
For example, lets assume that the manufacturer pays an OEM license of only 50 bucks for win xp (no idea what it goes for these days, could be much more).
That part of the product is likley added the Bill of Materials (BOM) and is part of the total cost of the product.
Manufacturer's will never simply add $50 to the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). These guys are in business to make money and as such expect profit margins. They were not ever planning on selling the finished product at their own cost. Thier distributors are making a profit, so are the salesreps, and so is the store you finally get the product from.
Pretty simple economics.
Ever wonder why that 128 mp3 player in the store costs so much more than the 64 meg one? Sure memory is cheap these days, but if it costs a manufacturer 5 dollars to make it instead of 2, you'll see the difference big time.
Also, Sequences and Views.
Postgres and Oracle, and many others have these.
Though kind of a cheesy site, worked fine here using Mozilla on linux with the flash plug-in.
Since you posted as an AC, I'll have to assume this is a troll. Just in case its not, I've got to ask about your setup because it sounds like you don't have something set up right.
What type of video card are you trying to use? Do you have the correct drivers installed?
Try running glxinfo
What does the third line of output show you? Is direct rendering enabled?
Maybe the guy is confusing PHP with python?
Python can compile to bytecode which can run in a java vm.
I tried the new zelda out at a store the other day, and sure enough, you're controlling a cartoon character in a cartoon world.
Really a strange effect. Technically, an amazing feature, but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be.
If you want the installer to be completely native then you'll need to reverse engineer the install shield 6 cab extractor.
Mine and ravage's installers both use i6comp + some temp wine crap to deal with disc1.
Disc2 is another story, someone in the nwn forum reverse engineered bioware's own archive format(.bzf) used on that CD.
Disc3 isn't archived.
If you want to create your own installer, be aware that Bioware can't legally use it anyways.
They are bound by an installshield End user license agreement to not create an installer other using tools other than InstallShield's to do the cab extraction.
aparently someone (not bioware) is working on a patch for the installer to make the 1.0 data 1.29 data. check out the forums, i'm sure it'll get posted when its up.
Just saw that on the nwn site. Ravage's installer provides an update URL for use with loki_update. Maybe a linux patch can be built for use with his installer.
I made one a few days ago in preparation for this: http://members.cox.net/monteslu/nwn_data_installer .html
ravage also made one :
http://icculus.org/~ravage/nwn