The site says it uses a "state-of-the-art non-Euclidean portal-based engine". I don't know much about 3D engines, but I'd swear I've never heard one described as "non-Euclidean" before. Anybody know what this means?
Personally, I'd like to know what SF is doing in that list. Does Echelon *really* have a keyword scanner that would pick up *every* message in rec.arts.sf.written? I mean, I have a hard enough time keeping up with it, and I have a massive killfile. Who gets the job of spending 24 hours a day reading SF newsgroups looking for subversive content? And can I apply?
Not so I've noticed (Opera Build 3.60.0.286, Win32 version / Wine CVS from last week sometime). Loads up nicely, renders great, crashes five seconds later (whether I try to do anything with it or not).
If you've gotten it to work, details would be appreciated.
Yesterday I would have said, "Not really" - the progress bar on Project Magic (http://www.opera.no/alt_os.html) has been stuck at 5/20 for months. But I checked it again today, and found out it was finally updated just this week - apparently they're in "lateral development", broadening the code to support more than just Red Hat/Mandrake. "Even though this is a lateral move, a more progressivly upward move should begin to occur again within the next week or two."
/Darwinism/ is a dated theory. Many of the mechanisms for evolution that Darwin suggested have been abandoned for a long time. (Which isn't to say that the current theories explain everything.)
The difference is that Creationists try to argue, not that the theories don't accurately describe evolution, but that evolution doesn't happen, which is just loony.
I started to feel strain on my wrists when I first got a job programming, because after a full 8 hour day of typing I would then go home and keep doing it. Getting a Dvorak at home was enough to make the pain go away, even though I was still using an awful keyboard at work. (It wasn't full-blown carpal tunnel or anything, though.)
>``I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell you,'' Linus said on the sidelines of a seminar. > >``The company has considered saying something at Comdex, or at least saying when we will announce something.''
So a better first sentence would have been, "I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell you when I will be able to tell you."
>I dare you to post a large sign on the front of your house stating "This house is gun free". Will do you it? Do you feel safe?
No problem. Of course, I live in Canada.
I'd do it in America too, as an advertisement of my principles, but I wouldn't feel safe. That's immaterial: I wouldn't feel safe living in America anyway. It's probably not a rational feeling (especially after reading this article about media irresponsibility) but I've seen and read far too much about the violence in American society.
Yes, I'm tarring the whole country with the same brush. It would depend on where in America we're talking about. But any place where I wouldn't feel comfortable advertising the fact that I'm unarmed is not a place I want to live.
Indeed, all the pages are under the "betatest" directory. The Linux page is actually "News" - it only takes the focus because it's the most recent product being tested. Most of the info there is generic.
The design is a bit unfortunate. In fact, it's a bit of a stumble. But there aren't any hidden messages about Windows dependencies or anything.
Hmm. Now, I'm going by memory here, since I don't have the magazine handy. But last month's Scientific American (or the month before's) had a big whack of articles on the Oxygen computing environment being developed at MIT. One of the keys was a self-modifying chip that would reconfigure itself when you downloaded software onto it to get a massive speed advantage - you're limited in that you can only have your PDA act as one thing at a time (web browser, MP3 player, whatever) but because it remakes the hardware when you load the code you get incredible optimization.
The little dribbles we're hearing about Transmeta's product sounds like it could be the same type of technology but on a larger scale. If it's so great at emulating the i386, perhaps that's because it'll have an "i386" template and rewire itself to use that when it runs 386 code? Pure speculation, of course.
Hey, wait a minute - sure I have the magazine handy! It's right here: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899agarwal.ht ml
>But I have yet to use a single java application or applet that wasn't desperately sluggish - even on the fastest CPUs, even just a "hello world" type of application.
On my dual-Celeron, running the latest Blackdown JDK, HotJava and Netscape seem to be about even. Mind you, Netscape is pretty sluggish itself. (Stability's about the same too, which is pretty sad.)
Re:"the Linux de facto standard desktop"?
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It's the de facto standard for commercial distributions, Red Hat excepted. The extra lead time KDE has on Gnome means it's more stable, so companies that are trying to put together a guaranteed working distro are much better off with KDE. I run Gnome at home for the aesthetic advantage, but it IS pretty flaky compared to KDE, which I run at work and have never had a problem.
I definitely see KDE as the standard shipped desktop, especially for corporate use, because it feels more standardized than Gnome. Gnome has a more organic feel, and I'd expect it to be preferred by people that like to tinker.
Okay, I'm done stating the obvious for today.
(I'm judging by 1.1.1, BTW - haven't gotten a chance to check out 1.1.2. It may be very fun to tinker with, for all I know.)
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It's gotta be GIGabyte, cause "jiggabyte" sounds too much like "jiggy wit it".
Forget Java bytecode: I see the return of the LISP machine!
The site says it uses a "state-of-the-art non-Euclidean portal-based engine". I don't know much about 3D engines, but I'd swear I've never heard one described as "non-Euclidean" before. Anybody know what this means?
Why doesn't /. have a Page 5 Girl?
Joe
So...
How many people here think Jane's is going to write an article based on the comments here?
Joe
Personally, I'd like to know what SF is doing in that list. Does Echelon *really* have a keyword scanner that would pick up *every* message in rec.arts.sf.written? I mean, I have a hard enough time keeping up with it, and I have a massive killfile. Who gets the job of spending 24 hours a day reading SF newsgroups looking for subversive content? And can I apply?
(The NSA must have fun with BackTo1913, though.)
Joe
Not so I've noticed (Opera Build 3.60.0.286, Win32 version / Wine CVS from last week sometime). Loads up nicely, renders great, crashes five seconds later (whether I try to do anything with it or not).
If you've gotten it to work, details would be appreciated.
Joe
Yesterday I would have said, "Not really" - the progress bar on Project Magic (http://www.opera.no/alt_os.html) has been stuck at 5/20 for months. But I checked it again today, and found out it was finally updated just this week - apparently they're in "lateral development", broadening the code to support more than just Red Hat/Mandrake. "Even though this is a lateral move, a more progressivly upward move should begin to occur again within the next week or two."
Qt has C and perl bindings for sure, and I think a few others. Gtk+ has more, though.
>I'm not a god, I just play one in the lab.
/asks/ you if you're a god, you say "yes", right?
But if somebody
You've been reading _Footfall_, haven't you?
Correction: to be technical, that should have said "speciation doesn't happen", which is a little less loony until you look at the alternatives.
/Darwinism/ is a dated theory. Many of the mechanisms for evolution that Darwin suggested have been abandoned for a long time. (Which isn't to say that the current theories explain everything.)
The difference is that Creationists try to argue, not that the theories don't accurately describe evolution, but that evolution doesn't happen, which is just loony.
I started to feel strain on my wrists when I first got a job programming, because after a full 8 hour day of typing I would then go home and keep doing it. Getting a Dvorak at home was enough to make the pain go away, even though I was still using an awful keyboard at work. (It wasn't full-blown carpal tunnel or anything, though.)
Joe
Personally, I'd be a lot more inclined to buy the player if IT was called Dynamic Naked Audio.
Joe
Wow... a little bitter? (Get the impression this guy lost money on Corel stock?)
To be fair, though, he never used the word ASS.
Joe
>``I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell you,'' Linus said on the sidelines of a seminar.
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>``The company has considered saying something at Comdex, or at least saying when we will announce something.''
So a better first sentence would have been, "I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell you when I will be able to tell you."
Joe
Well, stop missing Infocom, and head over to
http://www.xyzzynews.com
There's probably a more comprehensive starting point, but this is the first URL that popped into my head. Check out the "community" link especially.
(Just two weeks till the '99 I-F competition! http://www.textfire.com)
>I dare you to post a large sign on the front of your house stating "This house is gun free". Will do you it? Do you feel safe?
No problem. Of course, I live in Canada.
I'd do it in America too, as an advertisement of my principles, but I wouldn't feel safe. That's immaterial: I wouldn't feel safe living in America anyway. It's probably not a rational feeling (especially after reading this article about media irresponsibility) but I've seen and read far too much about the violence in American society.
Yes, I'm tarring the whole country with the same brush. It would depend on where in America we're talking about. But any place where I wouldn't feel comfortable advertising the fact that I'm unarmed is not a place I want to live.
>On another note, don't chimps have sex with themselves
You know, if I could do that, I'd never... ah, forget it. You've heard it.
Joe
Indeed, all the pages are under the "betatest" directory. The Linux page is actually "News" - it only takes the focus because it's the most recent product being tested. Most of the info there is generic.
The design is a bit unfortunate. In fact, it's a bit of a stumble. But there aren't any hidden messages about Windows dependencies or anything.
>Or (my personal favorite) "Beyond the Beyond"?
Bzzt - paging Vernor Vinge!
Joe
Hmm. Now, I'm going by memory here, since I don't have the magazine handy. But last month's Scientific American (or the month before's) had a big whack of articles on the Oxygen computing environment being developed at MIT. One of the keys was a self-modifying chip that would reconfigure itself when you downloaded software onto it to get a massive speed advantage - you're limited in that you can only have your PDA act as one thing at a time (web browser, MP3 player, whatever) but because it remakes the hardware when you load the code you get incredible optimization.
t ml
The little dribbles we're hearing about Transmeta's product sounds like it could be the same type of technology but on a larger scale. If it's so great at emulating the i386, perhaps that's because it'll have an "i386" template and rewire itself to use that when it runs 386 code? Pure speculation, of course.
Hey, wait a minute - sure I have the magazine handy! It's right here: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899agarwal.h
Joe
>But I have yet to use a single java application or applet that wasn't desperately sluggish - even on the fastest CPUs, even just a "hello world" type of application.
On my dual-Celeron, running the latest Blackdown JDK, HotJava and Netscape seem to be about even. Mind you, Netscape is pretty sluggish itself. (Stability's about the same too, which is pretty sad.)
It's the de facto standard for commercial distributions, Red Hat excepted. The extra lead time KDE has on Gnome means it's more stable, so companies that are trying to put together a guaranteed working distro are much better off with KDE. I run Gnome at home for the aesthetic advantage, but it IS pretty flaky compared to KDE, which I run at work and have never had a problem.
I definitely see KDE as the standard shipped desktop, especially for corporate use, because it feels more standardized than Gnome. Gnome has a more organic feel, and I'd expect it to be preferred by people that like to tinker.
Okay, I'm done stating the obvious for today.
(I'm judging by 1.1.1, BTW - haven't gotten a chance to check out 1.1.2. It may be very fun to tinker with, for all I know.)