Excepting the "more >>" link, and a couple of the unimportant ones at the bottom, the h4x0r langauge page has been updated.
Guess they are doing that work...
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." from The Book of Armaments, 4:16-20 (with a wee bit missing.)
That's not why you're not supposed to read it. You're supposed to simply accept whatever the government tells you is in there. Anything else is thoughtcrime.
"Game makers want to latest and greatest hardware for the best eye candy and performance."
Not 100% true, but true enough as a generalization. And it is because looks sell, sadly, rather than gameplay. And the more powerful the computer, the better the games look.
"Running linux on old hardware just isn't going to give good performance."
It'll give better performance than running Windows on the same computer, but it'll probably not matter to anyone pushing the hardware, not the operating system.
"While linux users may hate to admit it, very few people are buying the absolute fastest hardware out there to run linux. And until they do, the gaming market of linux will remain very small."
This belief is one of the reasons keeping the gaming market down. Another is that publishers don't see much money in making games that run on Linux, either exclusively or alongside Windows or Mac platforms. And since it is the publishers holding the purse-strings, they have us who do games by the balls.
Is the Gecko Runtime Environment. This is everything you need for a base application for Mozilla. The appsuite already installs it (I'm not sure if it actually uses it rather than having its contents stored in the application directory), and hopefully, soon will the standalones.
You will still need to compile different binaries for every platform (unless bug 206358 is fixed AND your application is purely XUL and JavaScriot). But this isn't too big of a deal since that's the norm anyway.
Server-side applications are possible, but getting them to play nice is a problem, mostly due to security issues. Also, if your application uses anything compiled, it would have to be on the user's computer anyway. The best is really having hybrid standalone applications using the GRE, with anything compiled on the computer and everything else on the net.
I wouldn't mind having that lurvely IDE that M$ packages with Visual Whatever.NUT. It's great to use. Hell, I use that IDE (never mind the rest of VS.NET) to crunch code that'll never be used on Windows. I have to admit, I do use it for Windows stuff, but only because that is what school demands of me.
But if you can provide me with an IDE that is just as useful and crash-resilient (I can't believe I just used that to describe something from M$), bring me into the light!
I agree! A lot of them ship the original message back, too, and with all the spammers pretending to be from my domain, it certainly helped fill up my allotted space on the server.
I've been recieving about 50Mb of spam and Novarg per hour since 10am -0500 today in the misc/main mail account for meldstar. I've had to set up the inbox to be rm'd every 5 minutes to keep the site from going over quota.
Here is just the group. It started off with the name Toronto Games Initiative, a bunch of unemployed game guys in the city who gathered online (and offline) to try to start a game company. If you check out the site or Google them, you'll see that in these few months they've really gotten up and at 'em.
I just had to bitch about something in the article. "It's a modest claim by international standards, amounting to around USD 20,000."
That doesn't matter at all. Does the 150,000NOK have the same purchasing power in Norway as 20,000USD has in the states? If not, the comparison is completely worthless.
If it costs 4CAD for a carton of large eggs here and 24XXX for the same in some fictional country, but the exchange rate is 1XXX for every 2CAD, then they certainly don't have the same purchasing power, do they?
As in, using as a build machine? Or better, a distributed build system? Imagine a bunch of GameCubes networked together and running gcc to build big projects (such as Mozilla or OO.o)!
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This is Google that we are talking about here. Not all the /. readers in the world could pull it down!
You didn't? That's quite old, same with xx-klingon and xx-bork.
Excepting the "more >>" link, and a couple of the unimportant ones at the bottom, the h4x0r langauge page has been updated. Guess they are doing that work...
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
from The Book of Armaments, 4:16-20 (with a wee bit missing.)
Orwell saw that back when he wrote 1984! Ever considered how that whole editing process worked? Or the telescreens? That's technology for you!
That in America there were laws _against_ monopolies! I must have been misinformed.
That's not why you're not supposed to read it. You're supposed to simply accept whatever the government tells you is in there. Anything else is thoughtcrime.
Last I checked, FCC != Congress. Then again, I'm Canadian, so I don't know how your system works (or doesn't, as the case seems to be).
"Game makers want to latest and greatest hardware for the best eye candy and performance."
Not 100% true, but true enough as a generalization. And it is because looks sell, sadly, rather than gameplay. And the more powerful the computer, the better the games look.
"Running linux on old hardware just isn't going to give good performance."
It'll give better performance than running Windows on the same computer, but it'll probably not matter to anyone pushing the hardware, not the operating system.
"While linux users may hate to admit it, very few people are buying the absolute fastest hardware out there to run linux. And until they do, the gaming market of linux will remain very small."
This belief is one of the reasons keeping the gaming market down. Another is that publishers don't see much money in making games that run on Linux, either exclusively or alongside Windows or Mac platforms. And since it is the publishers holding the purse-strings, they have us who do games by the balls.
It's not supposed to be obvious. The joke is on the people who believe it, not the site itself. Duh.
Is the Gecko Runtime Environment. This is everything you need for a base application for Mozilla. The appsuite already installs it (I'm not sure if it actually uses it rather than having its contents stored in the application directory), and hopefully, soon will the standalones.
You will still need to compile different binaries for every platform (unless bug 206358 is fixed AND your application is purely XUL and JavaScriot). But this isn't too big of a deal since that's the norm anyway.
See bug 226602.
Server-side applications are possible, but getting them to play nice is a problem, mostly due to security issues. Also, if your application uses anything compiled, it would have to be on the user's computer anyway. The best is really having hybrid standalone applications using the GRE, with anything compiled on the computer and everything else on the net.
I wouldn't mind having that lurvely IDE that M$ packages with Visual Whatever .NUT. It's great to use. Hell, I use that IDE (never mind the rest of VS.NET) to crunch code that'll never be used on Windows. I have to admit, I do use it for Windows stuff, but only because that is what school demands of me.
But if you can provide me with an IDE that is just as useful and crash-resilient (I can't believe I just used that to describe something from M$), bring me into the light!
Unless you consider how much of a nuisance RMS is and how that has brought all this idiocy around in the first place... Yes.
There must be anonymous ways of providing fixes.
"but it takes the DOJ and Bush administration to undermine the freedoms that thousands have died to protect."
You missed that they used those thousands of deaths to make what they're doing acceptable, too.
Maybe the mail server authors are in league with the spammers! Ohtehnos!
Yeah. When you're running nothing but Windows, it doesn't matter how distributed or decentralized your network is. It'll die all the same.
But on the other hand, if everyone uses Linux exclusively, you know that people will find ways to make working virii and worms for it, too.
I agree! A lot of them ship the original message back, too, and with all the spammers pretending to be from my domain, it certainly helped fill up my allotted space on the server.
I've been recieving about 50Mb of spam and Novarg per hour since 10am -0500 today in the misc/main mail account for meldstar. I've had to set up the inbox to be rm'd every 5 minutes to keep the site from going over quota.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/15/234920 1&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=155&tid=95&tid=9 9
Here is just the group. It started off with the name Toronto Games Initiative, a bunch of unemployed game guys in the city who gathered online (and offline) to try to start a game company. If you check out the site or Google them, you'll see that in these few months they've really gotten up and at 'em.
I just had to bitch about something in the article. "It's a modest claim by international standards, amounting to around USD 20,000."
That doesn't matter at all. Does the 150,000NOK have the same purchasing power in Norway as 20,000USD has in the states? If not, the comparison is completely worthless.
If it costs 4CAD for a carton of large eggs here and 24XXX for the same in some fictional country, but the exchange rate is 1XXX for every 2CAD, then they certainly don't have the same purchasing power, do they?
As in, using as a build machine? Or better, a distributed build system? Imagine a bunch of GameCubes networked together and running gcc to build big projects (such as Mozilla or OO.o)!