Following the second link in the text, I ended up at this image.
Yet another reason not to like AOL users. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go wash out my eyes with nitric acid.
All ideas supported by the/. community have just become law. Spammers have been sighted exploding in front of their computers. Every channel now runs porn 24/7.
I dunno--sometimes things have to be broken to make them easier, faster, or more flexible or to allow for future growth. Or sometimes just because there is a Better Way. Look at the breakages going on in Perl 6.
I may be off base here, but isn't that basically what happened with 802.11a--that it turned out they couldn't implement it? Then.11b was the toned-down but feasible standard?
Once you have the server the client-side game is a small step
I disagree. Linux provides a fast, stable, and easy-to-write-for platform for non-interactive, non-graphical network applications (such as game servers). However, it is the graphics and sound support that is still in a state of evolution--from drivers to APIs. And it is these aspects (the drivers in particular) that are, in many cases, lacking. So, when it comes to getting it working on Linux, the graphical, interactive client is certainly a far different beast than the server.
By the time any of the effects of this are seen, the human race will have wiped itself out anyway. I wouldn't give us more than another few thousand years, much less billions.
I picked up a second-hand DexDrive for about $30 quite a while ago (so I could put my savegames on the laptop and continue playing away from home--thank you, ePSXe), so it's neither difficult nor prohibitively expensive to obtain this sort of hardware.
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Following the second link in the text, I ended up at this image.
Yet another reason not to like AOL users. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go wash out my eyes with nitric acid.
I sentence you to five years in a federal ``pound-me-in-the-ass'' prison...
All ideas supported by the /. community have just become law. Spammers have been sighted exploding in front of their computers. Every channel now runs porn 24/7.
After all, TriINTERCAL has supported this for a long time. And, of course, the extra necessary operator is BUT.
I dunno--sometimes things have to be broken to make them easier, faster, or more flexible or to allow for future growth. Or sometimes just because there is a Better Way. Look at the breakages going on in Perl 6.
How can they legally tax something that's wholly owned and operated internally by an organization?
Quoting the article: Ocean Sponge's Glass Fibers Transmit Light Faster Than Man-Made Fiber Optics, Scientists Say
So, c>c? Damn, those are some pretty impressive sponges!
I may be off base here, but isn't that basically what happened with 802.11a--that it turned out they couldn't implement it? Then .11b was the toned-down but feasible standard?
NEWCARD (development codename)
Yeah, we all know that when it's finalized they'll call it cardXP.I disagree. Linux provides a fast, stable, and easy-to-write-for platform for non-interactive, non-graphical network applications (such as game servers). However, it is the graphics and sound support that is still in a state of evolution--from drivers to APIs. And it is these aspects (the drivers in particular) that are, in many cases, lacking. So, when it comes to getting it working on Linux, the graphical, interactive client is certainly a far different beast than the server.
I think the preprocessor would choke pretty hard on those directives.
By the time any of the effects of this are seen, the human race will have wiped itself out anyway. I wouldn't give us more than another few thousand years, much less billions.
I picked up a second-hand DexDrive for about $30 quite a while ago (so I could put my savegames on the laptop and continue playing away from home--thank you, ePSXe), so it's neither difficult nor prohibitively expensive to obtain this sort of hardware.