As others have pointed out, DRI, DGA, etc all exist. Another thing to point out is the performance of Windows in VMWare. It feels responsive. Why? Simply because the VMWare video driver is smart. It knows how to turn Win32 calls, boil them down into vectors, and send them off to the X11 video driver very quickly. This is why DGA fullscreen Win98 is as fast on my machine as it is navite for video updates (but I've not run Windows natively on my workstation for over a year).
If you want more responsiveness, fix your toolkits. This is happening in GTK+ v2. Look at the changelogs and code. IF you treat a video card like a framebuffer, you lose out bigtime. If you do everything as a vector op, you save bigtime ! This is (on of the) reason(s) why OpenGL is popular -- it's a vector API for 3D graphics.
No one in their right mind would watch a DVD on a palmtop unless they were trapped in an airport waiting for a flight to come. Even then, what palmtop has the gigs of storage needed?
Similarly, why play Quake on a handheld? You are limited by input and output again -- small screen, no keyboard, no analog joystick or mouse. Desktop computers fill a very important role. Laptops can fulfill it to an extent (it's easier to fullfil it when the laptop is not crippled by low-quality components), and do so for only a bit more than a "good" Palmtop PC. For only a little more money, and a little less battery life, you get a gargantuan screen, much more effecicient data entry input devices, and bulk storeage devices.
"Palms are great for storing a few SMALL notes (who can really go quickly using Graffiti?), " -- actually, I can grafitti faster than I can print. For taking notes when I'm going to be away from any kind of computer for a while, the Palm and PPK make a great team. It's like having a portable (albeit limited) word processer with amazing battery life.
Palms are handy little devices. They are (like Palmtop PCs) limited by their resolution, input, and storage. However, they are tailored more towards constant usage on the go and still allow a great deal of versatility: my old Gameboy and Palm both can play the same kind of RPGs as found in Final Fanstasy for the GB, but my Palm can also replace my binders, wrist watch, calendar, todolist, black book, Ti85, and much more.
Try looking at the strengths of a product before going on to rationalize buying a PalmPC when we know you won't ever use you PalmPC for the mentioned purposes daily (only when you are trying to prove it can be done).
That is very interesting. A few years back, there was a native lady who tried to sue McD's for burning coffee. The local media never reported anything about the temperature.
The people I know all assumed they settled to keep the people involved in the situations quiet (so as not to scare off other potiential customers). I never considered that they'd make them seen like less trustworthy knowledge providers too (*)
*: people tend to be neutral about information they learn from other people, unless they respect them (more likely to trust information) or don't respect (less likely to trust). Trust metrics are neat things:)
"Sony, which manufactures the top-selling Playstation games, said it had never received any feedback or complaints about hand-arm vibration syndrome after 61 million sales world-wide of Playstations I and II.
It stressed that there was occasional, but no constant vibration during either game."
Thanks, Sony, I'm glad knowing that your two games, the Playstation 1 and Playstation 2, are the safest games I can own. Where is my Dreamcast copy of Playstation 2? I see the kids in the picture enjoying it!
The research in this article (one extreme case among millions leading to warnings) is astounding. Then again, they do have "WARNING: HOT" on coffee nowadays. Have to protect the public from themselves:-/
"Best propritary software was the guy from Taiwan, selling a program that grabs all relevent Windows config files and translates them to the correct Linux equivs (Sendmail, Appache, SAMBA, etc.). He said his product was big in China. "
I saw that last year. Let me tell you, if I worked in a shop that had NT4 servers laying around, I'd PAY for that. That piece of software costs less than the money I'd make back reselling all the dumb NT server licences, and I'd get a nice base to work with which is the SAME (on the outside) as the other machines. It makes testing a lot easier.
"Don't write the email that way.".. yeah, like a client has any choice about the potentially corrupt data (perhaps designed to tickle the bug).
Consider this theoretical KB for the ping of death ICMP packet written in the same patronizing tone:
"ICMP fragments which have wrong sizes can lead to a blue screen in the TCP/IP section of the operating system.
Workarounds:
* Don't receive an ICMP ping of death attack
* Try to not create malformed packets.
* Munge all ICMP packets so they are malformed UDP packets instead.
* Consider an alternate DoS to use on your own server, such as tear or land (which we/hope/ you've got the appropriate SP fixes for)
"
Afterall, it's not the client's responsibility to handle data from the universe at large(*).
ext3 won't save anything if your disk cache isn't flushed when your machine reboots.
If you really want to keep your data safe, get a damned UPS and hook it up with something so the system can shutitself down if it needs help. Or mount sync.
That 9.99$ USD copy might be more interesting than you think. First off, in Canada you can buy it at Walmart for 6.88$ CDN new (about 4.20$ USD). Second, it's encoded for region 1 DVD.
I mailed the MPAA about this. See, the prices on DVDs between Canada are within 1 to 5$ of each other numerically, but are way off when you calculate the value straight across -- Canadian DVDs always seem to be cheaper. Why are the prices artificially low?
Then you see things like this movie, released 3 quarters of a century ago in Germany. What point does region coding serve? It's not like any parts of the world are still showing it in theatres. The entire argument of region coding as a means of protecting theatre owners is proved WRONG by little things like this.
"That allocation request cannot complete, so the kernel needs to do something else. Note that it can't fail the request, because it already passed it due to overcommit."
Gee, here I though malloc was supposed to return NULL when it couldn't grab any pages.
RETURN VALUE
For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer
to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any
kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
Shucks be darned, I was right. So why should the VM kill a legit app?
This is a VM problem. You won't solve it by attacking user space. If you run programs that try and suck all your memory, perhaps you should get well behaveb, properly designed programs.
Slackware was based on SLS, the very first ever Linux distribution. Before that, you grabbed the latest blazing 0.9whatever from Finland, then started with GCC 1.4 and other goodies from gnu.org. Spend some weeks compiling, and you could maybe boot Linux on your 386.
Replace "X-Box" with "Windows," and we have a time-warp to 1991 with IBM talking about their split with MS over OS/2..
And we all know how THAT turned out!
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Here in Canada the prices (adjusted to US dollars) for those goods are 60$ for DC + controller, 20$ for keyboard, 13$ for mouse, and 140$ for BBA (since you have to find them secand hand on an action site, and most go far ournd that).
If you're paying 80$ USD for a Dreamcast, you're being ripped off.
You can also get the Connectix 4-in-1 which lets you use Playstation/Saturn controllers and PS/2 keyboards (DDR pad + Space Channel 5, Saturn Twinsticks, use an IBM keyboard for 'Typing of the Dead':))... Lots of fun can be had very cheaply with this great console.
There are lots of flavours of Buddishm. Some are about re-incarnation, some are about tantric fun, some are about minimalism. All are about Nirvana, but everything else differs.
It'd be nice if they didn't lump them all together and foster stereotypes like this. I don't say that if you're a Christian, being a Baptist Christian or a Catholic is the same.
(Aside) MS really did pack in a lot of useful features (even if the UI never tells you things like F2 = rename in explorer). The closest file manager tool I've found for Linux that's as useful on the get go as Win95 Explorer is Midnight Commander, which I spend most of my time using (even in Gnome/KDE). No GMC, Konq, or Nautilus for me:)
The difference is that one should be.foobarfoods, and the other should be.foobarcomputers.
.foobar should list all demains which involve foobar, kinda like how alteon.com lets you see both the Alteon pharmacuticals group, and Alteon web systems.
This is how two entities with trademarks to the same name, but in different fields, can co-exist peacefully.
Add these to userContent.css in your Mozilla profile's chrome dir. I'd love to see a UI pref where you could just right-click an image and get the dimensions added:)
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Read for yourself ;)
As others have pointed out, DRI, DGA, etc all exist. Another thing to point out is the performance of Windows in VMWare. It feels responsive. Why? Simply because the VMWare video driver is smart. It knows how to turn Win32 calls, boil them down into vectors, and send them off to the X11 video driver very quickly. This is why DGA fullscreen Win98 is as fast on my machine as it is navite for video updates (but I've not run Windows natively on my workstation for over a year).
If you want more responsiveness, fix your toolkits. This is happening in GTK+ v2. Look at the changelogs and code. IF you treat a video card like a framebuffer, you lose out bigtime. If you do everything as a vector op, you save bigtime ! This is (on of the) reason(s) why OpenGL is popular -- it's a vector API for 3D graphics.
I do not think you know what it means:
Penultimate Pe*nul"ti*mate, a.
Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word; second to last.
No one in their right mind would watch a DVD on a palmtop unless they were trapped in an airport waiting for a flight to come. Even then, what palmtop has the gigs of storage needed?
Similarly, why play Quake on a handheld? You are limited by input and output again -- small screen, no keyboard, no analog joystick or mouse. Desktop computers fill a very important role. Laptops can fulfill it to an extent (it's easier to fullfil it when the laptop is not crippled by low-quality components), and do so for only a bit more than a "good" Palmtop PC. For only a little more money, and a little less battery life, you get a gargantuan screen, much more effecicient data entry input devices, and bulk storeage devices.
"Palms are great for storing a few SMALL notes (who can really go quickly using Graffiti?), " -- actually, I can grafitti faster than I can print. For taking notes when I'm going to be away from any kind of computer for a while, the Palm and PPK make a great team. It's like having a portable (albeit limited) word processer with amazing battery life.
Palms are handy little devices. They are (like Palmtop PCs) limited by their resolution, input, and storage. However, they are tailored more towards constant usage on the go and still allow a great deal of versatility: my old Gameboy and Palm both can play the same kind of RPGs as found in Final Fanstasy for the GB, but my Palm can also replace my binders, wrist watch, calendar, todolist, black book, Ti85, and much more.
Try looking at the strengths of a product before going on to rationalize buying a PalmPC when we know you won't ever use you PalmPC for the mentioned purposes daily (only when you are trying to prove it can be done).
This script nicely automates having an always-fresh testing build for me, while also letting me have a system-wide "safe" copy :)
Don't know why I didn't think of it myself.
That is very interesting. A few years back, there was a native lady who tried to sue McD's for burning coffee. The local media never reported anything about the temperature.
:)
The people I know all assumed they settled to keep the people involved in the situations quiet (so as not to scare off other potiential customers). I never considered that they'd make them seen like less trustworthy knowledge providers too (*)
*: people tend to be neutral about information they learn from other people, unless they respect them (more likely to trust information) or don't respect (less likely to trust). Trust metrics are neat things
That's great, because I sure was getting tired of Monkey vs. Robot.
There can be only one factory owner, but many factory workers may work at the same factory with little or no contention.
It seems to me we're just breeding towards a large ratio of proletariate to owners.
"Sony, which manufactures the top-selling Playstation games, said it had never received any feedback or complaints about hand-arm vibration syndrome after 61 million sales world-wide of Playstations I and II.
:-/
It stressed that there was occasional, but no constant vibration during either game."
Thanks, Sony, I'm glad knowing that your two games, the Playstation 1 and Playstation 2, are the safest games I can own. Where is my Dreamcast copy of Playstation 2? I see the kids in the picture enjoying it!
The research in this article (one extreme case among millions leading to warnings) is astounding. Then again, they do have "WARNING: HOT" on coffee nowadays. Have to protect the public from themselves
"Best propritary software was the guy from Taiwan, selling a program that grabs all relevent Windows config files and translates them to the correct Linux equivs (Sendmail, Appache, SAMBA, etc.). He said his product was big in China. "
I saw that last year. Let me tell you, if I worked in a shop that had NT4 servers laying around, I'd PAY for that. That piece of software costs less than the money I'd make back reselling all the dumb NT server licences, and I'd get a nice base to work with which is the SAME (on the outside) as the other machines. It makes testing a lot easier.
"But of course I am a idiot."
A sage signature considering WINE (thus Lindows) require an x86 processor.
Bochs would work, but very slowly. Cheaper to make a real PC for the $$ of a PS2 and get more performance to boot.
I love the "workarounds":
.. yeah, like a client has any choice about the potentially corrupt data (perhaps designed to tickle the bug).
/hope/ you've got the appropriate SP fixes for)
"Don't write the email that way."
Consider this theoretical KB for the ping of death ICMP packet written in the same patronizing tone:
"ICMP fragments which have wrong sizes can lead to a blue screen in the TCP/IP section of the operating system.
Workarounds:
* Don't receive an ICMP ping of death attack
* Try to not create malformed packets.
* Munge all ICMP packets so they are malformed UDP packets instead.
* Consider an alternate DoS to use on your own server, such as tear or land (which we
"
Afterall, it's not the client's responsibility to handle data from the universe at large(*).
(*) Ha. Go read "The Ten Commandments for C Programmers," specifically number 5.
The only UPSes I have are Alpha 1500 VA beasts. They weigh more than I do. If you want to pay shipping, go right ahead :)
ext3 won't save anything if your disk cache isn't flushed when your machine reboots.
If you really want to keep your data safe, get a damned UPS and hook it up with something so the system can shutitself down if it needs help. Or mount sync.
SCSI is SCSI wether it be fibrechannel or the 50/68 pin connector.
Fibrechannel is just another connector.
That 9.99$ USD copy might be more interesting than you think. First off, in Canada you can buy it at Walmart for 6.88$ CDN new (about 4.20$ USD). Second, it's encoded for region 1 DVD.
I mailed the MPAA about this. See, the prices on DVDs between Canada are within 1 to 5$ of each other numerically, but are way off when you calculate the value straight across -- Canadian DVDs always seem to be cheaper. Why are the prices artificially low?
Then you see things like this movie, released 3 quarters of a century ago in Germany. What point does region coding serve? It's not like any parts of the world are still showing it in theatres. The entire argument of region coding as a means of protecting theatre owners is proved WRONG by little things like this.
"That allocation request cannot complete, so the kernel needs to do something else. Note that it can't fail the request, because it already passed it due to overcommit."
Gee, here I though malloc was supposed to return NULL when it couldn't grab any pages.
RETURN VALUE
For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer
to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any
kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
Shucks be darned, I was right. So why should the VM kill a legit app?
This is a VM problem. You won't solve it by attacking user space. If you run programs that try and suck all your memory, perhaps you should get well behaveb, properly designed programs.
Incorrect.
Slackware was based on SLS, the very first ever Linux distribution. Before that, you grabbed the latest blazing 0.9whatever from Finland, then started with GCC 1.4 and other goodies from gnu.org. Spend some weeks compiling, and you could maybe boot Linux on your 386.
Replace "X-Box" with "Windows," and we have a time-warp to 1991 with IBM talking about their split with MS over OS/2..
And we all know how THAT turned out!
Here in Canada the prices (adjusted to US dollars) for those goods are 60$ for DC + controller, 20$ for keyboard, 13$ for mouse, and 140$ for BBA (since you have to find them secand hand on an action site, and most go far ournd that).
:))... Lots of fun can be had very cheaply with this great console.
If you're paying 80$ USD for a Dreamcast, you're being ripped off.
You can also get the Connectix 4-in-1 which lets you use Playstation/Saturn controllers and PS/2 keyboards (DDR pad + Space Channel 5, Saturn Twinsticks, use an IBM keyboard for 'Typing of the Dead'
There are lots of flavours of Buddishm. Some are about re-incarnation, some are about tantric fun, some are about minimalism. All are about Nirvana, but everything else differs.
It'd be nice if they didn't lump them all together and foster stereotypes like this. I don't say that if you're a Christian, being a Baptist Christian or a Catholic is the same.
Customize those context menus. Or just change the assotiation on the fly. When I used Windows, I read all of the site (mainly around 1995/1996).
:)
(Aside) MS really did pack in a lot of useful features (even if the UI never tells you things like F2 = rename in explorer). The closest file manager tool I've found for Linux that's as useful on the get go as Win95 Explorer is Midnight Commander, which I spend most of my time using (even in Gnome/KDE). No GMC, Konq, or Nautilus for me
More like network access via a broadband connected PC without BBA.
This still doesn't help you if, in addition to ditching dial-up with 1996, you also haven't had a modem around since 1997....
The difference is that one should be .foobarfoods, and the other should be .foobarcomputers.
.foobar should list all demains which involve foobar, kinda like how alteon.com lets you see both the Alteon pharmacuticals group, and Alteon web systems.
This is how two entities with trademarks to the same name, but in different fields, can co-exist peacefully.
Mozilla also nicely will block images of certain sizes:
:)
IMG[height="60"][width="468"], IMG[height="60px"][width="468px"] {display: none !important;}
IMG[height="120"][width="600"], IMG[height="120px"][width="600px"] {display: none !important;}
Add these to userContent.css in your Mozilla profile's chrome dir. I'd love to see a UI pref where you could just right-click an image and get the dimensions added