A pretty nicely done mod. Of course no matter how good it is there will be something to criticize.
My problem is with the CDROM. Ugh, it looks horrible in there. He should've either decased the CDROM (so all you see is the door), used a laptop style thin drive, or best would have been to use an old iMac drive.
Right now it looks out of place on an otherwise decent design. I've never seen an Apple with a big 'ol dorky CDROM drive shoved in like that.
Except that Steve wouldn't have made the change if it were not cost effective.
You're forgetting the "free advertising" part of the deal.
What you're saying is exactly what Apple would like you to believe. "Wow, Macs really are a good deal, no way they would've wasted money" or "Even powerhouse Pixar can use Macs now". So Apple sells more hardware because of it.
I willing to bet that the equivalent functionality of Bash is in Perl without any external requirements at all.
Now, if you start using some of the other library functions sure, you might have a problem but you'll face the same problems if your bash script starts using commands (and the libraries that go with them) that are not available.
BTW, I like how you threw in a little ego-building mention of your skills. I'm sure they're quite big and manly but I'm not interested.
I mearly threw that in because there's always someone who starts spouting off about how there is no difference. Just like there's no difference between 30 FPS and 300 FPS.
You only notice those things when you start playing at the higher levels.
I didn't say I was better than anyone else, I just said that I'm not a newbie.
UT doesn't have anywhere near the smoothness and speed of Quake.
I hate the way UT feels. It feels jerky and icky.
This is not a hardware problem. It's more subtle than that. Most players probably can't tell a difference but when you've played as long as me and at the level I do then you realize that UT feels pretty bad compared to Quake3.
There's also the real performance issue. I mean, Quake3 runs damn fast. Faster than any game that uses the Unreal engine.
With that said, I like other aspects of UT2004. Especially the vehicles. They actually feel pretty good. It's the normal player mode that feels horrible.
Anyway, Doom3 will probably continue the smooth and high performance playability I've grown to expect from Carmack.
I find it hard to believe there won't be a co-op mode for PC's. Did iD sell-out?? Sucks. And sucks even more because Microsoft is involved.
Next we'll hear there will be no Linux version of Doom3.
I'm in the same position. I've never even tasted coffee.
So should I start? What does it taste like?
Personally, I really hate tea. Flavored water just doesn't do anything for me. In fact, I've never had a tea that tasted good. Blech.
I mostly drink water, fruit juice, and rarely I'll have a Coke (maybe 1 per week)... also Vodka.
Is coffee anything like Coke in its effects? If I drink more than 1 or 2 Cokes in day then I feel horrible. Sure doesn't feel healthy. But I know Coke is also mostly sugar.
I'm curious as to what hardware you're using? Motherboard, CPU, graphics card, etc. And what Linux distro (version of XFree)?
I've never had a single problem with probably 5 or 6 systems I've used the nVidia Linux drivers on over the years (including stuff like laptops). I want to know what to avoid.
As a bonus if it can 'dupe' smartcards, Visa & co wont be happy
This isn't totally true. It may be able to dupe some simple cards like unprotected data on cards or simple PIN protected data (like your CC #) but it can't duplicate PKI cards. The private key is completely sealed off on the card, there's no way to get to it as all operations are performed on-card.
While it's true that often your credit "smart" card isn't really protected, eventually they can and will be. Once you start authentication via PKI or other on-card operations then the cards will not be able to be duplicated.
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You have to remember, the couple hundred posts you see on any given Slashdot thread are only a couple hundred opinions of the most active posters. It in no way respresents what the majority of people reading Slashdot think.
I mean, you're talking tens of thousands of people versus only a couple hundred posts. Think about it.
Seriously, this device sounds cool. I would rather have audio though (audio & video would be awesome).
How great would it be to have no doubt and refute those claims people are always making about "I told you this or that". My ex-wife/girlfriend/client would finally get put in their place!
That, or I finally realize that they in fact did tell me and I'm just in my Asperger's world thinking about the latest code I added to some project.
Yeah, there are many OBD-II reader devices out there. I like the laptop software.
I've always wanted to build one. The protocol seems straighforward (RS232-like) but there is this talk about routers and such that I don't fully understand.
The kicker seems to be that the plugs needed to fit the OBD-II connector are notoriously difficult to get and expensive.
Something open-source would be cool. Maybe also pool some funds to get a large order of OBD-II cables for cheap.
That is, an application and all or most of its dependencies can exist in one directory. To install the application you just copy a directory. Delete the directory to uninstall.
The ROX filer can also do this for Linux but I haven't used it much.
By the way, I use GCC 2.95, 3.0, 3.2, and 3.3 on Debian all at the same time (for compatibily tests). Debian is pretty good about concurent versioning.
Right, except in this case the sales people said that they were having trouble keeping them in the stores. Every time they got a new shipment, they'd sell out within a few days.
WTF are you talking about? Did you read the same article as me?
Nowhere did I see them say that they're having a problem keeping them on the shelves every time they get a shipment. The only thing even close to that is where they mentioned sales were up 60 percent then 101 percent. But Nintendo hasn't been making the damn thing for quite some time because they weren't selling. So now when the sales picked up a little the stores ran out of stock. Because the stores were not restocking them. Nintendo stopped making them remember???
The fact that your post is modded +4 while I'm a troll just goes to show what a immature fanboy crowd the GC has.
I would like to see a really high quality LiveCD that installs a debian system smoothly.
Nowadays I use Knoppix to install Debian. Just boot up off the CD. Configure partitions, mount the partition, then run "debootstrap" specifying the distro you want and install location. Downloads the latest stuff from Debian and installs it.
That gives you a real Debian install and is the only way I've been able to install the unstable or testing Debian without upgrading an older install.
Relatively simple (assuming you know how to create and mount partitions) and works a hell of a lot better than the ass Debian installers.
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I concur. And the first place entry didn't even have any commentary.
Who did the judging? Maybe it was a bug in the voting system. Recount!
A pretty nicely done mod. Of course no matter how good it is there will be something to criticize.
My problem is with the CDROM. Ugh, it looks horrible in there. He should've either decased the CDROM (so all you see is the door), used a laptop style thin drive, or best would have been to use an old iMac drive.
Right now it looks out of place on an otherwise decent design. I've never seen an Apple with a big 'ol dorky CDROM drive shoved in like that.
Meh, I do the same thing in Linux (Nautilus) all the time...
I think Windows has similar features.
Except that Steve wouldn't have made the change if it were not cost effective.
You're forgetting the "free advertising" part of the deal.
What you're saying is exactly what Apple would like you to believe. "Wow, Macs really are a good deal, no way they would've wasted money" or "Even powerhouse Pixar can use Macs now". So Apple sells more hardware because of it.
I willing to bet that the equivalent functionality of Bash is in Perl without any external requirements at all.
Now, if you start using some of the other library functions sure, you might have a problem but you'll face the same problems if your bash script starts using commands (and the libraries that go with them) that are not available.
Or even better: MSYS
This way you don't get all that bloaty API stuff since it's using the Win32 API more directly.
BTW, I like how you threw in a little ego-building mention of your skills. I'm sure they're quite big and manly but I'm not interested.
I mearly threw that in because there's always someone who starts spouting off about how there is no difference. Just like there's no difference between 30 FPS and 300 FPS.
You only notice those things when you start playing at the higher levels.
I didn't say I was better than anyone else, I just said that I'm not a newbie.
UT doesn't have anywhere near the smoothness and speed of Quake.
I hate the way UT feels. It feels jerky and icky.
This is not a hardware problem. It's more subtle than that. Most players probably can't tell a difference but when you've played as long as me and at the level I do then you realize that UT feels pretty bad compared to Quake3.
There's also the real performance issue. I mean, Quake3 runs damn fast. Faster than any game that uses the Unreal engine.
With that said, I like other aspects of UT2004. Especially the vehicles. They actually feel pretty good. It's the normal player mode that feels horrible.
Anyway, Doom3 will probably continue the smooth and high performance playability I've grown to expect from Carmack.
I find it hard to believe there won't be a co-op mode for PC's. Did iD sell-out?? Sucks. And sucks even more because Microsoft is involved.
Next we'll hear there will be no Linux version of Doom3.
Did they tatoo a 31 on you as well?
I'm wondering the same thing. I Googled around for a bit but couldn't find any Debian packages.
A bit strange because usually someone, somewhere will put together a Debian package. This is especially strange since GNOME is a core Debian product.
GNOME 2.5 packages for Debian? Where are you?
I'm in the same position. I've never even tasted coffee.
So should I start? What does it taste like?
Personally, I really hate tea. Flavored water just doesn't do anything for me. In fact, I've never had a tea that tasted good. Blech.
I mostly drink water, fruit juice, and rarely I'll have a Coke (maybe 1 per week)... also Vodka.
Is coffee anything like Coke in its effects? If I drink more than 1 or 2 Cokes in day then I feel horrible. Sure doesn't feel healthy. But I know Coke is also mostly sugar.
NVidia drivers are hang my system all the time.
I'm curious as to what hardware you're using? Motherboard, CPU, graphics card, etc. And what Linux distro (version of XFree)?
I've never had a single problem with probably 5 or 6 systems I've used the nVidia Linux drivers on over the years (including stuff like laptops). I want to know what to avoid.
As a bonus if it can 'dupe' smartcards, Visa & co wont be happy
This isn't totally true. It may be able to dupe some simple cards like unprotected data on cards or simple PIN protected data (like your CC #) but it can't duplicate PKI cards. The private key is completely sealed off on the card, there's no way to get to it as all operations are performed on-card.
While it's true that often your credit "smart" card isn't really protected, eventually they can and will be. Once you start authentication via PKI or other on-card operations then the cards will not be able to be duplicated.
You have to remember, the couple hundred posts you see on any given Slashdot thread are only a couple hundred opinions of the most active posters. It in no way respresents what the majority of people reading Slashdot think.
I mean, you're talking tens of thousands of people versus only a couple hundred posts. Think about it.
There are many regular lemmings lurking about.
Seriously, this device sounds cool. I would rather have audio though (audio & video would be awesome).
How great would it be to have no doubt and refute those claims people are always making about "I told you this or that". My ex-wife/girlfriend/client would finally get put in their place!
That, or I finally realize that they in fact did tell me and I'm just in my Asperger's world thinking about the latest code I added to some project.
Either way it would be fun.
You guys are looking at the wrong thing.
Look at the driver DLL name.
nVidia with close to 60% (!)
ATI at around 30% or less
Then you can see the others; i810, s3, etc.
nVidia definitely takes the cake though. Good cards, especially under Linux.
Yeah, there are many OBD-II reader devices out there. I like the laptop software.
I've always wanted to build one. The protocol seems straighforward (RS232-like) but there is this talk about routers and such that I don't fully understand.
The kicker seems to be that the plugs needed to fit the OBD-II connector are notoriously difficult to get and expensive.
Something open-source would be cool. Maybe also pool some funds to get a large order of OBD-II cables for cheap.
That sounds a lot like the MacOS bundle system.
That is, an application and all or most of its dependencies can exist in one directory. To install the application you just copy a directory. Delete the directory to uninstall.
The ROX filer can also do this for Linux but I haven't used it much.
By the way, I use GCC 2.95, 3.0, 3.2, and 3.3 on Debian all at the same time (for compatibily tests). Debian is pretty good about concurent versioning.
Right, except in this case the sales people said that they were having trouble keeping them in the stores. Every time they got a new shipment, they'd sell out within a few days.
WTF are you talking about? Did you read the same article as me?
Nowhere did I see them say that they're having a problem keeping them on the shelves every time they get a shipment. The only thing even close to that is where they mentioned sales were up 60 percent then 101 percent. But Nintendo hasn't been making the damn thing for quite some time because they weren't selling. So now when the sales picked up a little the stores ran out of stock. Because the stores were not restocking them. Nintendo stopped making them remember???
The fact that your post is modded +4 while I'm a troll just goes to show what a immature fanboy crowd the GC has.
If only there was a decent MAME controller for it withh all the buttons and lever in the rigth place....
www.arcadecontrols.com
Hell, build yourself a whole cabinet while you're at it. I did.
Or it could just be they sell so poorly that places are not restocking them.
What's so great about it?
That's meant as a question, not a troll. Really, what does the 'Cube offer?
Oh no no no, I think you got it backwards. Google is your friend.
No, I do not know what schadenfreude is, please tell me because I am dying to know...
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I would like to see a really high quality LiveCD that installs a debian system smoothly.
Nowadays I use Knoppix to install Debian. Just boot up off the CD. Configure partitions, mount the partition, then run "debootstrap" specifying the distro you want and install location. Downloads the latest stuff from Debian and installs it.
That gives you a real Debian install and is the only way I've been able to install the unstable or testing Debian without upgrading an older install.
Relatively simple (assuming you know how to create and mount partitions) and works a hell of a lot better than the ass Debian installers.
Hmmm, but Macs and PC's are so similar and any differences are mostly balanced. It ends up tipping towards the pragmatic consumer.
Mac is easy to use, pretty, and expensive. PC is cheap and fast.
Cheap and fast are fairly convincing by themselves, usability be damned.