They tested the software in somewhere else, loaded it onto the system overnight when air traffic was lower and then rebooted it to load the upgraded software... and it didn't work.
SO you think that college students should never be able to play games and should instead be either sleeping, watching lecutres or doing research and writing papers 24/7. That's stupid - if they want to play some video games when they are at college, why the bloody hell not?!
PS: Textures are stored in video memory on the graphics card and not in regular RAM.
Ah, actually I didn't think of it that way. That certainly would be intresting.
The only problem I can see is that a) wireless would not be of high enough speed to carry the bandwidth (as you said), and b) the fact that you will not be able to establish a good solid wireless connection over a long distance without reverting to multi-hop madness.
What would be good, however, is if the cities/federal govt. involved paid for high speed fiber to link the cities up, giving a fully public internet.
Also, another great result of this would be that any traffic that needed to be contained within an area would not hop around the internet like it does now. All the New York users would connect to each others without leaving the region - this could theoretically be expanded to city regions and neighborhoods. Also, assuming that internal city transfers were much faster than national transfers, with the use of a good p2p network we'd soon find that most traffic would go inside the city, at far higher speeds, benefiting both the network (less traffic on far flung hops) and the users too (faster download speeds).
In the oceans and in the rockies you simply use fiber - that can handle many, many gigabit/sec. Currently the thing that holds it back is the routers at each end, but they are helped every day by the fact that CPU speeds are getting so darn fast nowadays.
I assume you mean in cities, because canada's population density across the country must be the lowest in the developed world (maybe excluding russia).
In that case, there is no reason why US broadband providers should nto be able to compete at such prices, as US cities are very, very similar to Canadian cities when it comes to pop. density.
Yes, I mean there is no such thing as digital camcorders nowadays. Infact, I think that I might just have a winning idea here:!!!!
1. Build 'digital' camcorder
2. Add large hard drive and good amount of memory to buffer video to, for battery life issues.
3. Sell to pirates
4. ???
5. Profit!?!!!!?!?!oneoneone11111eleven112121one
Screeners are rampant - all it takes is one guy to borrow the movie off a DVD reviewing friend of his, rip it to XViD and bam, it's all over the internet.
Usually however, major groups such as centropy and others release this shit. They are real 'inside jobs' and they know what they are doing.
Also, Russia, Thailand and Malaysia ain't what I would call 'hollywood friendly countries'
The sound is took from the disabled loop thing - very good quality usually. Picture quality however is usually terrible... so most of the time people download 'screeners', that is copies ripped off VHS or DVDs for the media to review.
No, actually thats not what he says. He says 16% (IIRC from the last time slashdot posted this) is needed to be 'edge nodes', ie: internet connected with DSL/cable.
Also, these mesh protocols are not great (and I doubt they will ever be as good as the current routed internet) and I personally wouldn't like to enjoy 10,000 hop internet from Texas to Michican. Just my 2 cents...
So you are saying it's ok, because only 10% result in people not getting shot? Compared with 0% if neither people have a gun, I'd rather have that thanks.
Ironically, they got it from Mitsubishi, who is the Mitsubishi in NEC-Mitsubishi, which do all of Mitsubishi's display products - so most likely they are actually getting this from a NEC division...
I am very happy that hLife suite will be released. I am hoping that I will be able to lure many young boys back to my house for a quick go on my computer then straight into bed!
I would like to ask some questions about the contents of hLife: Will it have hTunes, with the hTMS with a brand new Pink Aqua interface and only stocking gay songs? Will hPhoto be able to store and search my gay pornography easily and simply? You must understand that being gay I am extremely happy to hear this announcement and can't wait what it produces! What about hBand, the homosexual version of GarageBand? Hopefully Steve Jobs, the love of my life will be able to present it at WHDC (World Homosexual Developers Conference)? With the new pink G5s you are planning to introduce, it looks like my credit card will be getting reduced in balance further (I'm already up to my neck in gay pornography subscriptions!)
Thankyou very much,
A Gay Apple user.
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I disagree. If hardware is dead, usually its a dead PSU/Mobo or CPU. The best way to check it is just by replacing components - if a big part fails, eg mobo, salvage the rest and build a new system or get replacement parts. I don't think 'dead' problems are very common now - even BIOSes are much more helpful than they used to be at diagnosing problems.
No, because with a train you cannot hold it up for 5 minutes while you wait for a different delivery to come in (knock on effects down the line). With a truck, you can pretty much do as you please on timings.
This isn't going to change either, with the prevalence of Just In Time business, commerce and also mass-customization.
For those of you who might not be familiar with what Wine actually is, let me clarify. Even though some of us enjoy a sip of wine every now and then, this is not what we are talking about today. We are referring to a package that allows Windows applications to run on Linux... outside of an emulator. Wine uses an open source Windows API (application programming interface) to allow modified Win32 binaries to run in a UNIX/Linux environment, completely free of Windows. Think of it not as an emulator, but more of a compatibility layer, or translator if you will. The status of the Wine project can be found here.
CodeWeavers is at the head of the pack in Wine development and deservedly so. They produce the most well packaged, capable distributions of Wine available. As Jeremy has stated, development is in the hands of their customer base and supporters. Whatever the customer wants the customer gets, and so it should rightfully be. Mr. White knows his business. You can see which applications are getting all of the attention at the CodeWeavers Top List page, and it's actually pretty interesting to see what apps are getting pushed to the top. Take a look.
Well, enough of the small talk, let's carry on with the interview. Enjoy!
Mad Penguin: First of all, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to sit down with us today to answer a few questions. I guess the first thing I'd like to know is more personal than anything... why Linux? What was the motivational factor(s) behind developing software to run Windows applications on Linux?
Jeremy White: Well, it's a fairly long story. I've always been a geek. I've loved programming on computers since I was 11 and had to sneak into the Radio Shack to do it, and I've also always loved computer games. Early in my career, I grew quite proficient at communications and networking programming. I was working on a project for a customer that had a Solaris system. But, they were across town, and I had to drive over there to work on it, and I couldn't afford a Sun of my own. So, instead, I installed and starting developing against Linux (circa 94 I'd say), and then just migrating the code once it was done.
So that's when I fell in love with Linux, and when we started having at least one Linux box around all the time.
Now fast forward to about 1997. One day, at lunch, I'm talking to a few new hires (young kids) that had never played the original Combat cartridge in an Atari 2600. This struck me as horrible cultural illiteracy on their part, and so I set off to find an Atari 2600 emulator to correct this horrible flaw in their education. Along the way, I stumbled across the Wine project, and thought that it was the most audacious project I'd seen in a long time. I thought then (as I think now) that if Linux could become a truly Windows compatible operating system, it would allow for an explosion in new computing choices, and I'd get to feel like that kid at Radio Shack again.
Further, in 1996, I had founded CodeWeavers so I could do work I considered meaningful, challenging, and fun, and although we did some fun projects, I was really looking for a mission. Of course, I had a day job (and a young kid), so I couldn't really do much with Wine then. But I kept dreaming, and then one day, it being the 90s and all, I decided to pursue a business built around Wine and helping people port Windows software to Linux. I successfully landed some venture capital, asked a bunch of the Wine developers to come on board, and that's really how we got started on this mission.
MP: I'm interested in learning how quickly CodeWeavers evolved into the full-blown business it is today. How long did it take you to realize that it had become an actual business and would require your undivided attention? What was the one even that made you sit back, take a deep breath, and think “whoa I am in over my head”?
JW: I think I've actually answered that one a bit in the previous question; the truth is that CodeWeavers s
I agree. Linux is going through a bad spot at the moment, just at the time it should be going on all cylinders to try and get in before LongHorn.
Fedora IMO is the best distro that is free out there currently. It works. On the other hand, it's useless for most people with no MP3 support and other problems out of the box.
Mandrake could be good but it crashes like a whore. My mouse freezes up all the goddamn time (this seems to be a big problem in Linux).
What I'm most concerned about is that Linux can never become desktop ready. Most of the system is now, apart from packaging (still - apt is great, but not good for doing software installs off a CD) and hardware detection/patented codecs/plugins.
I personally think Linspire could be quite good if it didn't look so bad, and wasn't so commercial. There are many other smaller distros, too that are worth looking at but I don't think many people have the time to download, burn and install loads of distros. It's a shame really because there are some gems in Linux - GNOME, GIMP 2 and Evolution. It's shaping up to be a good corporate desktop still and with OpenGroupware we could see corporate choosing it. I hope we will one day see linux on the desktop though.. it would be a waste without it.
The point the parent is making is that you could put a load of emulators on _AND_ run the latest PC games with no problems, while still being roughly the same size as a gamecube.
A few games can run with 2CPUs, and you could always assign the game to one CPU and everything else (AV, Firewall, servers etc) to the other, allowing you to have nice smooth play.
The problem is that an alternative browser will have to get at least.. 25% (and that is being optimistic) of the market before it starts to make a good impact. I don't think Mozilla can do this on it's own, it doesn't have an advertising budget or anything.
What we need is a company like Gateway or even Dell (unlikley, I know) to start shipping Mozilla as default on their machines. This would really get the word out and thanks to some of the court rulings, MS would get their ass kicked so hard if they tried to stop them, IMO.
Hopefully they will, but remember google toolbar does not work with mozilla, yet.
Also FireFox needs to be extension API stable (ie: not changing every release) before companies like Google can start writing customizations and extensions for it.
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That's actually what they did.
They tested the software in somewhere else, loaded it onto the system overnight when air traffic was lower and then rebooted it to load the upgraded software... and it didn't work.
SO you think that college students should never be able to play games and should instead be either sleeping, watching lecutres or doing research and writing papers 24/7. That's stupid - if they want to play some video games when they are at college, why the bloody hell not?!
PS: Textures are stored in video memory on the graphics card and not in regular RAM.
Ah, actually I didn't think of it that way. That certainly would be intresting. The only problem I can see is that a) wireless would not be of high enough speed to carry the bandwidth (as you said), and b) the fact that you will not be able to establish a good solid wireless connection over a long distance without reverting to multi-hop madness. What would be good, however, is if the cities/federal govt. involved paid for high speed fiber to link the cities up, giving a fully public internet. Also, another great result of this would be that any traffic that needed to be contained within an area would not hop around the internet like it does now. All the New York users would connect to each others without leaving the region - this could theoretically be expanded to city regions and neighborhoods. Also, assuming that internal city transfers were much faster than national transfers, with the use of a good p2p network we'd soon find that most traffic would go inside the city, at far higher speeds, benefiting both the network (less traffic on far flung hops) and the users too (faster download speeds).
In the oceans and in the rockies you simply use fiber - that can handle many, many gigabit/sec. Currently the thing that holds it back is the routers at each end, but they are helped every day by the fact that CPU speeds are getting so darn fast nowadays.
I assume you mean in cities, because canada's population density across the country must be the lowest in the developed world (maybe excluding russia).
In that case, there is no reason why US broadband providers should nto be able to compete at such prices, as US cities are very, very similar to Canadian cities when it comes to pop. density.
In the UK, most (60-70%) of the population is now covered by a 3G network. You see, high population densities DO have their good things!
But seriously, see www.three.co.uk for coverage maps...
Yes, I mean there is no such thing as digital camcorders nowadays. Infact, I think that I might just have a winning idea here:!!!! 1. Build 'digital' camcorder 2. Add large hard drive and good amount of memory to buffer video to, for battery life issues. 3. Sell to pirates 4. ??? 5. Profit!?!!!!?!?!oneoneone11111eleven112121one
Ugh, get a fucking clue idiot.
Screeners are rampant - all it takes is one guy to borrow the movie off a DVD reviewing friend of his, rip it to XViD and bam, it's all over the internet.
Usually however, major groups such as centropy and others release this shit. They are real 'inside jobs' and they know what they are doing.
Also, Russia, Thailand and Malaysia ain't what I would call 'hollywood friendly countries'
The sound is took from the disabled loop thing - very good quality usually. Picture quality however is usually terrible... so most of the time people download 'screeners', that is copies ripped off VHS or DVDs for the media to review.
Maybe not for OSX. I mean, OSX has the best sync software around - iSync...
No, actually thats not what he says. He says 16% (IIRC from the last time slashdot posted this) is needed to be 'edge nodes', ie: internet connected with DSL/cable.
Also, these mesh protocols are not great (and I doubt they will ever be as good as the current routed internet) and I personally wouldn't like to enjoy 10,000 hop internet from Texas to Michican. Just my 2 cents...
Or even multiplex the two lines - I'm suprised they haven't added that to the Linksys firmware yet..
So you are saying it's ok, because only 10% result in people not getting shot? Compared with 0% if neither people have a gun, I'd rather have that thanks.
Well, it's only been 54 years since we had a king. Good to see you checking up on facts.
Ironically, they got it from Mitsubishi, who is the Mitsubishi in NEC-Mitsubishi, which do all of Mitsubishi's display products - so most likely they are actually getting this from a NEC division...
Why the hell is this troll? Beagle was a freaking disaster and a terribly ran project. Nothing wrong with that at all...
Dear Harry,
I am very happy that hLife suite will be released. I am hoping that I will be able to lure many young boys back to my house for a quick go on my computer then straight into bed!
I would like to ask some questions about the contents of hLife: Will it have hTunes, with the hTMS with a brand new Pink Aqua interface and only stocking gay songs? Will hPhoto be able to store and search my gay pornography easily and simply? You must understand that being gay I am extremely happy to hear this announcement and can't wait what it produces! What about hBand, the homosexual version of GarageBand? Hopefully Steve Jobs, the love of my life will be able to present it at WHDC (World Homosexual Developers Conference)? With the new pink G5s you are planning to introduce, it looks like my credit card will be getting reduced in balance further (I'm already up to my neck in gay pornography subscriptions!)
Thankyou very much,
A Gay Apple user.
I disagree. If hardware is dead, usually its a dead PSU/Mobo or CPU. The best way to check it is just by replacing components - if a big part fails, eg mobo, salvage the rest and build a new system or get replacement parts. I don't think 'dead' problems are very common now - even BIOSes are much more helpful than they used to be at diagnosing problems.
No, because with a train you cannot hold it up for 5 minutes while you wait for a different delivery to come in (knock on effects down the line). With a truck, you can pretty much do as you please on timings. This isn't going to change either, with the prevalence of Just In Time business, commerce and also mass-customization.
The BBC doesn't, but the commercial networks (ITV, Channel4, Five etc) all have commercials.
Server is dying:
For those of you who might not be familiar with what Wine actually is, let me clarify. Even though some of us enjoy a sip of wine every now and then, this is not what we are talking about today. We are referring to a package that allows Windows applications to run on Linux... outside of an emulator. Wine uses an open source Windows API (application programming interface) to allow modified Win32 binaries to run in a UNIX/Linux environment, completely free of Windows. Think of it not as an emulator, but more of a compatibility layer, or translator if you will. The status of the Wine project can be found here.
CodeWeavers is at the head of the pack in Wine development and deservedly so. They produce the most well packaged, capable distributions of Wine available. As Jeremy has stated, development is in the hands of their customer base and supporters. Whatever the customer wants the customer gets, and so it should rightfully be. Mr. White knows his business. You can see which applications are getting all of the attention at the CodeWeavers Top List page, and it's actually pretty interesting to see what apps are getting pushed to the top. Take a look.
Well, enough of the small talk, let's carry on with the interview. Enjoy!
Mad Penguin: First of all, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to sit down with us today to answer a few questions. I guess the first thing I'd like to know is more personal than anything... why Linux? What was the motivational factor(s) behind developing software to run Windows applications on Linux?
Jeremy White: Well, it's a fairly long story. I've always been a geek. I've loved programming on computers since I was 11 and had to sneak into the Radio Shack to do it, and I've also always loved computer games. Early in my career, I grew quite proficient at communications and networking programming. I was working on a project for a customer that had a Solaris system. But, they were across town, and I had to drive over there to work on it, and I couldn't afford a Sun of my own. So, instead, I installed and starting developing against Linux (circa 94 I'd say), and then just migrating the code once it was done.
So that's when I fell in love with Linux, and when we started having at least one Linux box around all the time.
Now fast forward to about 1997. One day, at lunch, I'm talking to a few new hires (young kids) that had never played the original Combat cartridge in an Atari 2600. This struck me as horrible
cultural illiteracy on their part, and so I set off to find an Atari 2600 emulator to correct this horrible flaw in their education. Along the way, I stumbled across the Wine project, and thought that it was the most audacious project I'd seen in a long time. I thought then (as I think now) that if Linux could become a truly Windows compatible operating system, it would allow for an explosion in new computing choices, and I'd get to feel like that kid at Radio Shack again.
Further, in 1996, I had founded CodeWeavers so I could do work I considered meaningful, challenging, and fun, and although we did some fun projects, I was really looking for a mission. Of course, I had a day job (and a young kid), so I couldn't really do much with Wine then. But I kept dreaming, and then one day, it being the 90s and all, I decided to pursue a business built around Wine and helping people port Windows software to Linux. I successfully landed some venture capital, asked a bunch of the Wine developers to come on board, and that's really how we got started on this mission.
MP: I'm interested in learning how quickly CodeWeavers evolved into the full-blown business it is today. How long did it take you to realize that it had become an actual business and would require your undivided attention? What was the one even that made you sit back, take a deep breath, and think “whoa I am in over my head”?
JW: I think I've actually answered that one a bit in the previous question; the truth is that CodeWeavers s
I agree. Linux is going through a bad spot at the moment, just at the time it should be going on all cylinders to try and get in before LongHorn.
Fedora IMO is the best distro that is free out there currently. It works. On the other hand, it's useless for most people with no MP3 support and other problems out of the box.
Mandrake could be good but it crashes like a whore. My mouse freezes up all the goddamn time (this seems to be a big problem in Linux).
What I'm most concerned about is that Linux can never become desktop ready. Most of the system is now, apart from packaging (still - apt is great, but not good for doing software installs off a CD) and hardware detection/patented codecs/plugins.
I personally think Linspire could be quite good if it didn't look so bad, and wasn't so commercial. There are many other smaller distros, too that are worth looking at but I don't think many people have the time to download, burn and install loads of distros. It's a shame really because there are some gems in Linux - GNOME, GIMP 2 and Evolution. It's shaping up to be a good corporate desktop still and with OpenGroupware we could see corporate choosing it. I hope we will one day see linux on the desktop though.. it would be a waste without it.
The point the parent is making is that you could put a load of emulators on _AND_ run the latest PC games with no problems, while still being roughly the same size as a gamecube. A few games can run with 2CPUs, and you could always assign the game to one CPU and everything else (AV, Firewall, servers etc) to the other, allowing you to have nice smooth play.
The problem is that an alternative browser will have to get at least.. 25% (and that is being optimistic) of the market before it starts to make a good impact. I don't think Mozilla can do this on it's own, it doesn't have an advertising budget or anything.
What we need is a company like Gateway or even Dell (unlikley, I know) to start shipping Mozilla as default on their machines. This would really get the word out and thanks to some of the court rulings, MS would get their ass kicked so hard if they tried to stop them, IMO.
Hopefully they will, but remember google toolbar does not work with mozilla, yet. Also FireFox needs to be extension API stable (ie: not changing every release) before companies like Google can start writing customizations and extensions for it.