Havoc Pennington says that Cambridge (Red Hat X) will be released before Redhat works to get the "infrastructure" set up to handle the flood and will start incorporating outside contributions for the release after that. I've heard this other places as well, though I don't remember where (I don't keep a bibliography for my brain).
No, no, no. Not "don't link to low-bandwidth sites", but "don't link to sites with low bandwidth quotas", as in people whose accounts on some huge free hosting site- Geocities in this case- could be suspended or even terminated if they use more than their prescribed MB/week. (I don't know if Geocities does this, but some free hosting places do.)
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information." Slashdot should be more responsible than to post links to personal sites with low bandwidth quotas.
The project is on hold, largely because a lot of clueless lusers thought the shift was a perfect opportunity to flood redhat's development mailing lists and ask stupid questions. Redhat is going to wait until after their next release to try again.
I think this is one of the main problems large projects have right now. Mozilla's bugzilla, the OpenOffice.org mailing lists, and many of the other primary communication means of large projects are being flooded with people who aren't developing for the project and don't know what they're talking about. The projects don't want to move to a model where only those made members by a list/bugzilla administrator can post, because that would really discourage new developers. So the signal-to-noise ratio just gets worse and worse.
A kid can make a fusion reactor- one which outputs a very small number of neutrons and takes a lot more power to run than it could possibly put out. The same is true of the most advanced reactors, except there they are producing somewhere around 1/3 as much power as they're putting in while the USU Aggie frosh here isn't generating power, just neutrons, and could only get less than a thousandth of the power he put in back if he tried to use it as a generator. Ballpark numbers pulled off the top of my head for your convenience, somebody else may have the real numbers, apologies for gross inaccuracy.
Havoc is an absolutely fantastic programmer. He's also, in my opinion, a spectacularly bad usability "expert". Ever since he got on his usability kick, the stuff he's programmed has become less and less usable in many respects.
We really didn't need Sequoia's "editorial" cluttering up the news here. People should not be able to have their biased opinions posted as part of the story and thus circumvent the whole comment system and get prominent placement of their views without moderation.
1. Non-obtrusive ads during the installation process are nothing new. While it's installing all your thousands of packages, RedHat's installer (since the 7.x series, I think) displays ads for RedHat products and services as well as RedHat and Linux trivia. This is just the first time somebody's displayed third-party ads during installation.
2. Don't like their default screensaver? It's easy to change, it's not like you'll have to hack xscreensaver source or anything. Don't like their default homepage because it says "Welcome to Mandrake Linux, here are some products you may be interested in" instead of "Welcome to Mandrake Linux"? Change it. No big deal.
It's not like there is any software here which has been hacked so it needs to be displaying ads in order to work, which is what adware is. Furthermore, I'm sure Mandrake will be judicious in their selection of ads to display (you won't see X10 ads in Mandrake anytime soon, probably will see ads for co-lo's, linux training and certification programs, Oracle, etc).
Disclaimer: I am not generally a Mandrake user or fan (I've actually only used Redhat and Slack for any major amount of time), I'm just sick of the childish knee-jerk responses here.
chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.
jensend notes that his household is making Damage Studios products unpurchaseable.
Seriously, though, a fairly new company which hasn't released any products and won't for at least another year and a half decides it's running short of publicity and investor capital, so somebody there comes up with the halfbrained idea of making a meaningless hiring policy revision (what are the chances somebody from SCO would have applied to Damage anyway? Just about zero) in order to get mentioned at a popular tech news site. Slashdot editors need to stop catering to people like this.
Sure, the "deterministic logic-cruncher" theory of the mind fits the data well- as long as you have deterministic psychologists and physiologists selecting the data which are to be fitted and what constitutes fitting the data. The reason the deterministic-reductionistic thesis has been held to so firmly in fields such as those is because it is an article of faith for the fields, not one of their theses but one of their presuppositions. After all, if human actions really are underdetermined, why should one be fully committed to finding neurological/psychological causes for them?
That the theory has not of course been thoroughly disproven shows nothing, not only because plenty of theories which nobody holds to be true have not been thoroughly disproven but because it is difficult to imagine any evidence which would convince any real "mechanist" or determinist that their position was wrong (this is partially because proving that something does not exist is a lot harder than proving that it does).
A brief disclaimer: I, as well as anyone else, will agree that psychology and neurophysiology have made vast contributions to our understanding of the mind, and the claim that human actions are underdetermined in no way denies that the range of real alternatives has been severely limited by determining psychological/neurological factors.
The article is filled with obvious factual errors and is a badly-done apologetic for the obsessive and nonsensical quest for ludicrously high framerates.
His attempt to explain away the fact that 24-30 fps works fine for movies and television is an utter failure. Surrounding darkness is not why movies look smooth, and the feeling of continuity here has nothing to do with the afterimage effect. The refresh rate of televisions, resulting in "each frame being drawn twice", does not double the framerate of the television. If you had a 150 hz display sync'd to flicker each of the frames of a continuous 30fps video stream 5 times, you still have a 30 fps framerate, just as having a LCD, which leaves the image actually intact on the screen and thus is indiscernable, in showing a motionless picture, from a hypothetical infinite refresh rate CRT, doesn't affect your framerate either.
The most obvious factual errors are on the last page, where he deliberately tries to confuse readers into thinking the eye's capacity to discern between refresh rates has something to do with the eye's capacity to discern between framerates. The difference between having the *entire screen* flicker from white to black and then to white again and having relatively minor changes in scenery as with framerate is huge. Everybody can distinguish the headache-alleivating difference between 60hz CRT refresh and 75hz CRT refresh; not very many people can tell the difference between a 25 fps framerate and a 100 fps framerate.
You don't want a 3 ghz p4 in a package you can carry in one hand- it would burn your hand. The Pentium M is a lot more efficient- energy, heat, space, instructions per clock. A 2.2 ghz Pentium M would outperform your 3 ghz p4 anyway. I think the main reason the amazingly well designed Pentium M hasn't become Intel's mainstream desktop processor (replacing the current batch of Celery processors) is because its mhz is lower though its performance is a good bit higher, and so it is less marketable (OMG!!!! MY B0X0RZ HEV MOR MEGAHURTZ THN URZ!!! URZ SUX0RZ!!!)
You probably don't want to bother reading the books, contrary to what other commenters have said- they're only for real Cyan geeks and are just extrapolations from the good but rather minimalistic story of the games.
The trouble in telling you the exact plot is that the plot and story are given away gradually in the games, and this constitutes much of the point of the games. Find a copy and try playing them again, and if you don't enjoy puzzle-solving and get really badly stuck then grab a walkthrough off the net. [If you can, I would recommend finishing the games on your own, though, even if it means you leave the game for a month and come back; I found it quite satisfying when I finally made a breakthrough in Riven after being stuck for quite some time, and whenever I've consulted a walkthrough for an adventure game, I later felt that I had cheated myself out of some of the enjoyment of the game.]
BTW, don't buy Myst 3. It was made by another company and while the graphics are certainly very pretty it has none of the atmosphere of Riven, a terribly stupid plot, bad lines and bad acting by the non-person characters, and terribly contrived "puzzles just for the sake of puzzles" (an area where the original Myst was somewhat bad, Riven was a huge improvement, and Myst 3 was much, much worse than Myst).
REVIEW OF SHARP ZAURUS SL C750 FROM DYNAMISM REVIEWED FOR BARGAINPDA BY IAN GIBLIN WITH HELP FROM VINCE TORTI OVERVIEW THE NEW ZAURUS SL C750 FROM SHARP IS A VERSATILE LINUX BASED PDA INCORPORATING AN XSCALE PXA255 CPU AT 400 MHZ STOP. IN TERMS OF SOFTWARE IT IS SIMILAR TO THE ZAURUS SL 5600 WHICH BECAME AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. IN APRIL OF 2003 STOP. THE HARDWARE THOUGH IS SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED STOP. CONTENTS THE CONTENT SECTIONS OF THIS REVIEW ARE LISTED BELOW STOP. IT MAKES SENSE TO SEPARATE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DISCUSSION IN ANY PDA IN THIS CASE IT IS MORE IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE CUSTOMISATION WHICH DYNAMISM HAVE DONE STOP. HARDWARE: STOP. THE SHARP SL C750 AND HOW TO GET ONE STOP. PACKAGING AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS STOP. FEATURES SUMMARY AND OVERALL DESIGN STOP. THE DISPLAY STOP. PORTRAIT MODE AND THE TAP BUTTONS STOP. THE STYLUS STOP. MEMORY STOP. THE KEYBOARD STOP. INPUT OPTIONS OTHER THAN THE KEYBOARD STOP. BATTERY LIFE SOFTWARE: STOP. THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND BASIC NAVIGATION STOP. PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PIM TOOLS STOP. SYNCING AND FILE TRANSFER STOP. OFFICE TOOLS HANCOM WORD HANCOM SHEET PRESENTATION STOP. GAMES STOP. MULTIMEDIA STOP. NETWORKING STOP. THE EMAIL CLIENT STOP. THE NETFRONT3 WWW BROWSER STOP. OTHER SOFTWARE STOP. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY AND COMPATIBILITY STOP. LINUX COMMENTS STOP. CONCLUSION BACK TO CONTENTS THE SHARP SL C750 AND HOW TO GET ONE AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS DEVICE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM SHARP USA STOP. IT CAN BE BOUGHT FROM SPECIALIST SUPPLIERS DYNAMISM WHO PROVIDED OUR REVIEW UNIT AND HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE TECHNOLOGY EQUIVALENT OF AN EXCLUSIVE JEWELERY STORE STOP. AS WELL AS MODIFYING THE OPERATING SYSTEM TO SPEAK ENGLISH AND SHIPPING THE UNIT DIRECT TO YOU IN THREE DAYS FROM JAPAN DYNAMISM ADD LIFETIME FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT WARRANTY COVERAGE THEY PAY ALL SHIPPING COSTS AND A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE IN USING THESE DEVICES STOP. ALONG WITH THE C750 ANOTHER SIMILAR MODEL CALLED THE C760 IS ALSO AVAILABLE THAT DEVICE HAS A LARGER BATTERY MORE MEMORY AND OBVIOUSLY TEN MORE COOL POINTS STOP. BACK TO CONTENTS PACKAGING THE SL C750 COMES IN A SIMPLE CARDBOARD BOX WITH NO CLEAR PLASTIC WINDOW STOP. JUST A FEW COLOUR PICTURES OF THE DEVICE AND SOME JAPANESE WRITING STOP. THE PACKAGING IS SIMPLE LIGHT AND EASILY RECYCLABLE STOP. INSIDE THE BOX IS THE PDA SECURELY POSITIONED WITH CARDBOARD SPACERS ALONG WIH THE USB CONNECTOR NOT A CRADLE POWER SUPPLY CD ROM INCOMPREHENSIBLE UNLESS YOU CAN READ JAPANESE 224 PAGE MANUAL ANOTHER SHORTER BOOKLET WHICH LOOKS LIKE THE QUICK START GUIDE AND A REGISTRATION CARD WITH A VERY JAPANESE LOOKING ADDRESS ON IT STOP. SOMEHOW I DONT THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT TO JAPAN FROM QUEENS STOP. JUST ABOUT THE ONLY ENGLISH TEXT ON THIS DOCUMENTATION WAS THE ZAURUS NAME AND NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO EZAURUS.COM THE JAPANESE SUPPORT SITE WHICH DOES HAVE SOME COOL ANIMATIONS STOP. FIRST IMPRESSIONS NOT AS CLUMSY OR RANDOM AS AN IPAQ THIS IS AN ELEGANT PDA FROM AN ALTOGETHER MORE CIVILISED AGE... OK I ADMIT THAT THE OTHER PDA DESIGNS HAVE COME A LONG WAY BUT AS FOR FIRST IMPRESSIONS THIS DEVICE BLOWS THE COMPETITION OUT OF THE WATER STOP. THE DEVICE FEELS SOLID YET HIGH TECH STOP. THE WAY THE SCREEN SWIVELS TO TRANSITION FROM LANDSCAPE MODE WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE A TINY LAPTOP TO PORTRAIT MODE WHERE IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A NORMAL PDA IS NOT ENTIRELY NEW BUT IT IS SO BEAUTIFULLY IMPLEMENTED THAT IT REALLY GIVES YOU THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS STOP. EVEN THOUGH MY HANDS ARE TURNING IT I IMAGINE THE SOUND OF WELL OILED MACHINERY EACH TIME I RE ORIENT THE SCREEN STOP. AFTER CALMING DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN THE DEVICE ON THE NEXT SHOCK IS THE QUALITY OF THE 640X480 DISPLAY STOP. ITS STUNNING STOP. THE OS AND APPLICATIONS RESPOND QUICKLY AND SMOOTHLY STOP. THE DEVICE DOES NOT CRASH OR FREEZE STOP. MY CO WORKERS STAND AND STARE IN AWED SILENCE STOP. AS THE EFFECT PROPAGATES OUT FROM MIDTOWN MANHATTAN TAXI DRIVERS BECOME STRANGELY CALM AND DOGS STOP BARKING ACROSS THE CITY STOP. BACK TO CONTENTS FEATURES STOP. XSCALE PXA255 CPU AT 400MHZ STOP. 640X480 TRANSREFLECTIVE TOUCH SCREEN 3.7 DIAGONAL BACKLIT
Some games (though I don't remember any off the top of my head) had a twofold saving system which I think usually did a good job at respecting the distinction between saving to get off and saving progress: save points, few and far enough between to present a good incentive to be careful, were the normal save/restore progress function, but you could also save at any point to get out- but doing so would exit the game, and you could only restore the 'save at any point' save the next time you got on the game- no going back to it after playing further.
After installing 1.9 (which took up an extra 500 megabytes compared to 1.7! I bet 250 of that is the medic training which nobody will use more than once) my average framerate on my favorite maps dropped to an unplayable 10 (it was about 21 with 1.7 with the resolution at 1024x768 and the options at or near defaults), and turning down all the options and resolution doesn't seem to do anything for it. Furthermore, all the sound is coming across as roughly analog cell phone quality. I'm using a GF4MX and an Audigy. I dual-boot with windows XP, and my 1.9 windows install is no slower than 1.7 was and its sound quality is fine. Anybody else having this or similar problems?
If you want to extend the usage of the word sacred to include a general spiritual approach to life in all its particulars, that's fine by me (though one would need a new term to designate the specifically sanctified and hallowed). But the journalist's sentence is even more moronic under that interpretation; if all actions are sacred, it makes no sense to wonder if one specific act will (presumably thanks to human effort, given the context of the statement) become sacred at some point in the future.
Most games which are supposed to provide Christian entertainment are neither equipped with a meaningful Christian message nor entertaining. (See my comment in a previous discussion.)
The last part seems like another instance of somebody finding an arcane way to state the obvious and meaningless, prepending the phrase "existential analysis" in front of their banter, and pretending that they have therefore stated something profound and rich with meaning. Kierkegaard et al must have turned in their graves at that. Overall, the writing of the article positively reeks of "I'm on deadline for my column and thus just spouting out the following crap; I hope it gets by our editor and that our readers find it either funny or profound." I mean, is "Will firing up the game console ever be considered a sacred act?" supposed to be funny? It's positively moronic.
I can't get windows update to install fixes on my machine either. However, as long as it's downloading things correctly, you can still install things manually from the download location (a hidden folder which is, AFAIK, c:\WUTEMP by default). If it's not downloading them correctly, check out Daisy, which basically just parses lists of updates available, determines which ones you don't have installed, and wget's the installers directly.
Ext2 may work- see my sig for windows ext2 driver (somewhat mature), and ext2fsx for a OS X driver. Since the OS X ext2 driver seems somewhat unstable, I would guess that fat32 is your best bet. Since I've never had any reason to work with a partition size bigger than 20GB before, I don't know what would allow you to format the disk that way (unless a mkvfatfs or suchlike under linux does the job).
I really wish people would give more support to those who are trying to develop cross-platform filesystems. If you're interested in being able to share data and swap partitions between windows and linux, please consider helping the projects in my sig. (No, I am not affiliated with either of them, I just happen to use them.)
Celeron is probably taken from the Latin adjective celer, celeris, meaning quick (remember the Olympic motto- citius, altius, fortius- faster, higher, stronger? citius is the comparative form of celer, just as better is the comparative form of good). Hardly a good moniker for the reduced performance chip line:)
No. The Pentium M is Intel going for performance and low power full blast instead of doing the Pentium 4 "we just want to ramp up the MHZ for marketing, and we'll leave parts of the chip performing at such slower speeds that the only way to get anything out of those extra cycles is to treat it like a multiprocessor system and stuff another thread down it!" thing. The Pentium M was heralded by people doing processor reviews, but Intel's marketing people were so scared that a higher-performance Intel chip might have a much lower MHZ rating and thus confuse Joe Consumer (gee, pentium M 1.4 vs Pentium 4 M 1.5? Joe Consumer will choose Pentium 4M even though it performs much worse and takes 3 times the power, since he doesn't know anything about instructions per clock) that they don't want anybody to advertise "Pentium M x.y mhz", they want it labeled "Centrino Wireless Solution" (how's that for marketspeak?). If Intel were producing a desktop version of the Pentium M, I'd take it over a P4 any day.
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Unless specifically mentioned in the changes doc, those changes are 3.3 changes, not 3.3.1 changes. The -ftracer and -freorder-functions changes were in 3.3.
That's the trouble. Linux often seems to have two levels of operation: omniscient programmer and absolute moron. While I've always been a big Gnome fan, the latest push is to dumb down the default interface to the point of being suitable mostly for users at the "gee, where do I launch The Internet?" level and requiring hacking xml files to reconfigure things to make it work the way you want it to (because everyone knows that options are confusing, right? we can't give users who can't grok xml the ability to modify the way their programs work in non-trivial ways, they'd be completely overwhelmed!). File-roller is somewhat slow, its interface gets in the way, and it doesn't have enough of a range of abilities to be able to replace learning all the CLI archive commands for anyone but beginning users. Why can't GUIs and command-line commands be at least somewhat targeted to the users who generally know what they're doing but aren't programmers and can't remember all of the command line options for hundreds of programs?
Did any of the moderators who modded this informative or interesting actually read what they were moderating? This is an altered troll version of the text. Sony isn't challenging Redhat, it's launching a handheld device to challenge Nintendo; and it's not combining a DVD recorder with a church but rather with a PlayStation. There are other differences, and someone reading this troll is not likely to get the same idea of what's happening as someone who reads the actual article.
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Havoc Pennington says that Cambridge (Red Hat X) will be released before Redhat works to get the "infrastructure" set up to handle the flood and will start incorporating outside contributions for the release after that. I've heard this other places as well, though I don't remember where (I don't keep a bibliography for my brain).
No, no, no. Not "don't link to low-bandwidth sites", but "don't link to sites with low bandwidth quotas", as in people whose accounts on some huge free hosting site- Geocities in this case- could be suspended or even terminated if they use more than their prescribed MB/week. (I don't know if Geocities does this, but some free hosting places do.)
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information." Slashdot should be more responsible than to post links to personal sites with low bandwidth quotas.
The project is on hold, largely because a lot of clueless lusers thought the shift was a perfect opportunity to flood redhat's development mailing lists and ask stupid questions. Redhat is going to wait until after their next release to try again.
I think this is one of the main problems large projects have right now. Mozilla's bugzilla, the OpenOffice.org mailing lists, and many of the other primary communication means of large projects are being flooded with people who aren't developing for the project and don't know what they're talking about. The projects don't want to move to a model where only those made members by a list/bugzilla administrator can post, because that would really discourage new developers. So the signal-to-noise ratio just gets worse and worse.
A kid can make a fusion reactor- one which outputs a very small number of neutrons and takes a lot more power to run than it could possibly put out. The same is true of the most advanced reactors, except there they are producing somewhere around 1/3 as much power as they're putting in while the USU Aggie frosh here isn't generating power, just neutrons, and could only get less than a thousandth of the power he put in back if he tried to use it as a generator. Ballpark numbers pulled off the top of my head for your convenience, somebody else may have the real numbers, apologies for gross inaccuracy.
Havoc is an absolutely fantastic programmer. He's also, in my opinion, a spectacularly bad usability "expert". Ever since he got on his usability kick, the stuff he's programmed has become less and less usable in many respects.
We really didn't need Sequoia's "editorial" cluttering up the news here. People should not be able to have their biased opinions posted as part of the story and thus circumvent the whole comment system and get prominent placement of their views without moderation.
1. Non-obtrusive ads during the installation process are nothing new. While it's installing all your thousands of packages, RedHat's installer (since the 7.x series, I think) displays ads for RedHat products and services as well as RedHat and Linux trivia. This is just the first time somebody's displayed third-party ads during installation.
2. Don't like their default screensaver? It's easy to change, it's not like you'll have to hack xscreensaver source or anything. Don't like their default homepage because it says "Welcome to Mandrake Linux, here are some products you may be interested in" instead of "Welcome to Mandrake Linux"? Change it. No big deal.
It's not like there is any software here which has been hacked so it needs to be displaying ads in order to work, which is what adware is. Furthermore, I'm sure Mandrake will be judicious in their selection of ads to display (you won't see X10 ads in Mandrake anytime soon, probably will see ads for co-lo's, linux training and certification programs, Oracle, etc).
Disclaimer: I am not generally a Mandrake user or fan (I've actually only used Redhat and Slack for any major amount of time), I'm just sick of the childish knee-jerk responses here.
Seriously, though, a fairly new company which hasn't released any products and won't for at least another year and a half decides it's running short of publicity and investor capital, so somebody there comes up with the halfbrained idea of making a meaningless hiring policy revision (what are the chances somebody from SCO would have applied to Damage anyway? Just about zero) in order to get mentioned at a popular tech news site. Slashdot editors need to stop catering to people like this.
Sure, the "deterministic logic-cruncher" theory of the mind fits the data well- as long as you have deterministic psychologists and physiologists selecting the data which are to be fitted and what constitutes fitting the data. The reason the deterministic-reductionistic thesis has been held to so firmly in fields such as those is because it is an article of faith for the fields, not one of their theses but one of their presuppositions. After all, if human actions really are underdetermined, why should one be fully committed to finding neurological/psychological causes for them?
That the theory has not of course been thoroughly disproven shows nothing, not only because plenty of theories which nobody holds to be true have not been thoroughly disproven but because it is difficult to imagine any evidence which would convince any real "mechanist" or determinist that their position was wrong (this is partially because proving that something does not exist is a lot harder than proving that it does).
A brief disclaimer: I, as well as anyone else, will agree that psychology and neurophysiology have made vast contributions to our understanding of the mind, and the claim that human actions are underdetermined in no way denies that the range of real alternatives has been severely limited by determining psychological/neurological factors.
The article is filled with obvious factual errors and is a badly-done apologetic for the obsessive and nonsensical quest for ludicrously high framerates.
His attempt to explain away the fact that 24-30 fps works fine for movies and television is an utter failure. Surrounding darkness is not why movies look smooth, and the feeling of continuity here has nothing to do with the afterimage effect. The refresh rate of televisions, resulting in "each frame being drawn twice", does not double the framerate of the television. If you had a 150 hz display sync'd to flicker each of the frames of a continuous 30fps video stream 5 times, you still have a 30 fps framerate, just as having a LCD, which leaves the image actually intact on the screen and thus is indiscernable, in showing a motionless picture, from a hypothetical infinite refresh rate CRT, doesn't affect your framerate either.
The most obvious factual errors are on the last page, where he deliberately tries to confuse readers into thinking the eye's capacity to discern between refresh rates has something to do with the eye's capacity to discern between framerates. The difference between having the *entire screen* flicker from white to black and then to white again and having relatively minor changes in scenery as with framerate is huge. Everybody can distinguish the headache-alleivating difference between 60hz CRT refresh and 75hz CRT refresh; not very many people can tell the difference between a 25 fps framerate and a 100 fps framerate.
You don't want a 3 ghz p4 in a package you can carry in one hand- it would burn your hand. The Pentium M is a lot more efficient- energy, heat, space, instructions per clock. A 2.2 ghz Pentium M would outperform your 3 ghz p4 anyway. I think the main reason the amazingly well designed Pentium M hasn't become Intel's mainstream desktop processor (replacing the current batch of Celery processors) is because its mhz is lower though its performance is a good bit higher, and so it is less marketable (OMG!!!! MY B0X0RZ HEV MOR MEGAHURTZ THN URZ!!! URZ SUX0RZ!!!)
You probably don't want to bother reading the books, contrary to what other commenters have said- they're only for real Cyan geeks and are just extrapolations from the good but rather minimalistic story of the games.
The trouble in telling you the exact plot is that the plot and story are given away gradually in the games, and this constitutes much of the point of the games. Find a copy and try playing them again, and if you don't enjoy puzzle-solving and get really badly stuck then grab a walkthrough off the net. [If you can, I would recommend finishing the games on your own, though, even if it means you leave the game for a month and come back; I found it quite satisfying when I finally made a breakthrough in Riven after being stuck for quite some time, and whenever I've consulted a walkthrough for an adventure game, I later felt that I had cheated myself out of some of the enjoyment of the game.]
BTW, don't buy Myst 3. It was made by another company and while the graphics are certainly very pretty it has none of the atmosphere of Riven, a terribly stupid plot, bad lines and bad acting by the non-person characters, and terribly contrived "puzzles just for the sake of puzzles" (an area where the original Myst was somewhat bad, Riven was a huge improvement, and Myst 3 was much, much worse than Myst).
REVIEW OF SHARP ZAURUS SL C750 FROM DYNAMISM REVIEWED FOR BARGAINPDA BY IAN GIBLIN WITH HELP FROM VINCE TORTI OVERVIEW THE NEW ZAURUS SL C750 FROM SHARP IS A VERSATILE LINUX BASED PDA INCORPORATING AN XSCALE PXA255 CPU AT 400 MHZ STOP. IN TERMS OF SOFTWARE IT IS SIMILAR TO THE ZAURUS SL 5600 WHICH BECAME AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. IN APRIL OF 2003 STOP. THE HARDWARE THOUGH IS SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED STOP. CONTENTS THE CONTENT SECTIONS OF THIS REVIEW ARE LISTED BELOW STOP. IT MAKES SENSE TO SEPARATE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DISCUSSION IN ANY PDA IN THIS CASE IT IS MORE IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE CUSTOMISATION WHICH DYNAMISM HAVE DONE STOP. HARDWARE: STOP. THE SHARP SL C750 AND HOW TO GET ONE STOP. PACKAGING AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS STOP. FEATURES SUMMARY AND OVERALL DESIGN STOP. THE DISPLAY STOP. PORTRAIT MODE AND THE TAP BUTTONS STOP. THE STYLUS STOP. MEMORY STOP. THE KEYBOARD STOP. INPUT OPTIONS OTHER THAN THE KEYBOARD STOP. BATTERY LIFE SOFTWARE: STOP. THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND BASIC NAVIGATION STOP. PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PIM TOOLS STOP. SYNCING AND FILE TRANSFER STOP. OFFICE TOOLS HANCOM WORD HANCOM SHEET PRESENTATION STOP. GAMES STOP. MULTIMEDIA STOP. NETWORKING STOP. THE EMAIL CLIENT STOP. THE NETFRONT3 WWW BROWSER STOP. OTHER SOFTWARE STOP. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY AND COMPATIBILITY STOP. LINUX COMMENTS STOP. CONCLUSION BACK TO CONTENTS THE SHARP SL C750 AND HOW TO GET ONE AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS DEVICE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM SHARP USA STOP. IT CAN BE BOUGHT FROM SPECIALIST SUPPLIERS DYNAMISM WHO PROVIDED OUR REVIEW UNIT AND HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE TECHNOLOGY EQUIVALENT OF AN EXCLUSIVE JEWELERY STORE STOP. AS WELL AS MODIFYING THE OPERATING SYSTEM TO SPEAK ENGLISH AND SHIPPING THE UNIT DIRECT TO YOU IN THREE DAYS FROM JAPAN DYNAMISM ADD LIFETIME FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT WARRANTY COVERAGE THEY PAY ALL SHIPPING COSTS AND A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE IN USING THESE DEVICES STOP. ALONG WITH THE C750 ANOTHER SIMILAR MODEL CALLED THE C760 IS ALSO AVAILABLE THAT DEVICE HAS A LARGER BATTERY MORE MEMORY AND OBVIOUSLY TEN MORE COOL POINTS STOP. BACK TO CONTENTS PACKAGING THE SL C750 COMES IN A SIMPLE CARDBOARD BOX WITH NO CLEAR PLASTIC WINDOW STOP. JUST A FEW COLOUR PICTURES OF THE DEVICE AND SOME JAPANESE WRITING STOP. THE PACKAGING IS SIMPLE LIGHT AND EASILY RECYCLABLE STOP. INSIDE THE BOX IS THE PDA SECURELY POSITIONED WITH CARDBOARD SPACERS ALONG WIH THE USB CONNECTOR NOT A CRADLE POWER SUPPLY CD ROM INCOMPREHENSIBLE UNLESS YOU CAN READ JAPANESE 224 PAGE MANUAL ANOTHER SHORTER BOOKLET WHICH LOOKS LIKE THE QUICK START GUIDE AND A REGISTRATION CARD WITH A VERY JAPANESE LOOKING ADDRESS ON IT STOP. SOMEHOW I DONT THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT TO JAPAN FROM QUEENS STOP. JUST ABOUT THE ONLY ENGLISH TEXT ON THIS DOCUMENTATION WAS THE ZAURUS NAME AND NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO EZAURUS.COM THE JAPANESE SUPPORT SITE WHICH DOES HAVE SOME COOL ANIMATIONS STOP. FIRST IMPRESSIONS NOT AS CLUMSY OR RANDOM AS AN IPAQ THIS IS AN ELEGANT PDA FROM AN ALTOGETHER MORE CIVILISED AGE... OK I ADMIT THAT THE OTHER PDA DESIGNS HAVE COME A LONG WAY BUT AS FOR FIRST IMPRESSIONS THIS DEVICE BLOWS THE COMPETITION OUT OF THE WATER STOP. THE DEVICE FEELS SOLID YET HIGH TECH STOP. THE WAY THE SCREEN SWIVELS TO TRANSITION FROM LANDSCAPE MODE WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE A TINY LAPTOP TO PORTRAIT MODE WHERE IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A NORMAL PDA IS NOT ENTIRELY NEW BUT IT IS SO BEAUTIFULLY IMPLEMENTED THAT IT REALLY GIVES YOU THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS STOP. EVEN THOUGH MY HANDS ARE TURNING IT I IMAGINE THE SOUND OF WELL OILED MACHINERY EACH TIME I RE ORIENT THE SCREEN STOP. AFTER CALMING DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN THE DEVICE ON THE NEXT SHOCK IS THE QUALITY OF THE 640X480 DISPLAY STOP. ITS STUNNING STOP. THE OS AND APPLICATIONS RESPOND QUICKLY AND SMOOTHLY STOP. THE DEVICE DOES NOT CRASH OR FREEZE STOP. MY CO WORKERS STAND AND STARE IN AWED SILENCE STOP. AS THE EFFECT PROPAGATES OUT FROM MIDTOWN MANHATTAN TAXI DRIVERS BECOME STRANGELY CALM AND DOGS STOP BARKING ACROSS THE CITY STOP. BACK TO CONTENTS FEATURES STOP. XSCALE PXA255 CPU AT 400MHZ STOP. 640X480 TRANSREFLECTIVE TOUCH SCREEN 3.7 DIAGONAL BACKLIT
Some games (though I don't remember any off the top of my head) had a twofold saving system which I think usually did a good job at respecting the distinction between saving to get off and saving progress: save points, few and far enough between to present a good incentive to be careful, were the normal save/restore progress function, but you could also save at any point to get out- but doing so would exit the game, and you could only restore the 'save at any point' save the next time you got on the game- no going back to it after playing further.
After installing 1.9 (which took up an extra 500 megabytes compared to 1.7! I bet 250 of that is the medic training which nobody will use more than once) my average framerate on my favorite maps dropped to an unplayable 10 (it was about 21 with 1.7 with the resolution at 1024x768 and the options at or near defaults), and turning down all the options and resolution doesn't seem to do anything for it. Furthermore, all the sound is coming across as roughly analog cell phone quality. I'm using a GF4MX and an Audigy. I dual-boot with windows XP, and my 1.9 windows install is no slower than 1.7 was and its sound quality is fine. Anybody else having this or similar problems?
If you want to extend the usage of the word sacred to include a general spiritual approach to life in all its particulars, that's fine by me (though one would need a new term to designate the specifically sanctified and hallowed). But the journalist's sentence is even more moronic under that interpretation; if all actions are sacred, it makes no sense to wonder if one specific act will (presumably thanks to human effort, given the context of the statement) become sacred at some point in the future.
Most games which are supposed to provide Christian entertainment are neither equipped with a meaningful Christian message nor entertaining. (See my comment in a previous discussion.)
The last part seems like another instance of somebody finding an arcane way to state the obvious and meaningless, prepending the phrase "existential analysis" in front of their banter, and pretending that they have therefore stated something profound and rich with meaning. Kierkegaard et al must have turned in their graves at that. Overall, the writing of the article positively reeks of "I'm on deadline for my column and thus just spouting out the following crap; I hope it gets by our editor and that our readers find it either funny or profound." I mean, is "Will firing up the game console ever be considered a sacred act?" supposed to be funny? It's positively moronic.
I can't get windows update to install fixes on my machine either. However, as long as it's downloading things correctly, you can still install things manually from the download location (a hidden folder which is, AFAIK, c:\WUTEMP by default). If it's not downloading them correctly, check out Daisy, which basically just parses lists of updates available, determines which ones you don't have installed, and wget's the installers directly.
Ext2 may work- see my sig for windows ext2 driver (somewhat mature), and ext2fsx for a OS X driver. Since the OS X ext2 driver seems somewhat unstable, I would guess that fat32 is your best bet. Since I've never had any reason to work with a partition size bigger than 20GB before, I don't know what would allow you to format the disk that way (unless a mkvfatfs or suchlike under linux does the job).
I really wish people would give more support to those who are trying to develop cross-platform filesystems. If you're interested in being able to share data and swap partitions between windows and linux, please consider helping the projects in my sig. (No, I am not affiliated with either of them, I just happen to use them.)
Celeron is probably taken from the Latin adjective celer, celeris, meaning quick (remember the Olympic motto- citius, altius, fortius- faster, higher, stronger? citius is the comparative form of celer, just as better is the comparative form of good). Hardly a good moniker for the reduced performance chip line :)
No. The Pentium M is Intel going for performance and low power full blast instead of doing the Pentium 4 "we just want to ramp up the MHZ for marketing, and we'll leave parts of the chip performing at such slower speeds that the only way to get anything out of those extra cycles is to treat it like a multiprocessor system and stuff another thread down it!" thing. The Pentium M was heralded by people doing processor reviews, but Intel's marketing people were so scared that a higher-performance Intel chip might have a much lower MHZ rating and thus confuse Joe Consumer (gee, pentium M 1.4 vs Pentium 4 M 1.5? Joe Consumer will choose Pentium 4M even though it performs much worse and takes 3 times the power, since he doesn't know anything about instructions per clock) that they don't want anybody to advertise "Pentium M x.y mhz", they want it labeled "Centrino Wireless Solution" (how's that for marketspeak?). If Intel were producing a desktop version of the Pentium M, I'd take it over a P4 any day.
Unless specifically mentioned in the changes doc, those changes are 3.3 changes, not 3.3.1 changes. The -ftracer and -freorder-functions changes were in 3.3.
That's the trouble. Linux often seems to have two levels of operation: omniscient programmer and absolute moron. While I've always been a big Gnome fan, the latest push is to dumb down the default interface to the point of being suitable mostly for users at the "gee, where do I launch The Internet?" level and requiring hacking xml files to reconfigure things to make it work the way you want it to (because everyone knows that options are confusing, right? we can't give users who can't grok xml the ability to modify the way their programs work in non-trivial ways, they'd be completely overwhelmed!). File-roller is somewhat slow, its interface gets in the way, and it doesn't have enough of a range of abilities to be able to replace learning all the CLI archive commands for anyone but beginning users. Why can't GUIs and command-line commands be at least somewhat targeted to the users who generally know what they're doing but aren't programmers and can't remember all of the command line options for hundreds of programs?
Did any of the moderators who modded this informative or interesting actually read what they were moderating? This is an altered troll version of the text. Sony isn't challenging Redhat, it's launching a handheld device to challenge Nintendo; and it's not combining a DVD recorder with a church but rather with a PlayStation. There are other differences, and someone reading this troll is not likely to get the same idea of what's happening as someone who reads the actual article.