I don't know a whole lot about how Wine will be pulling off DirectX support, but I'm making the assumption that it's doing so by reporting some form of generic hardware to DirectX, which when querried claims to support the features that DirectX requests.
This is all find and dandy, but I think everybody is missing the point of DirectX, which is to allow game developers to make feature-calls from hardware without having to actually access the hardware it's self.
In Wine, DirectX support or not, games written for DirectX will simply have one more layer of software to trudge through.
I'm skeptical that performance will be acceptable in any game with anything more than very modest hardware requirements.
I'm aware this isn't emulation, but an API running in an application hosted on an OS might as well be emulation.
And that is precisely my problem with GNOME and KDE. They are bloated and annoying.
I had a lot of fun playing with AmiWM simply because it's small and simple but still usable. The problem with it is that it seems to no longer be actively in developement.
I personally welcome ANY competition for GNOME or KDE, commercial or not. I don't like either of them, really, and competition can only be good.
No number of themes or color schemes in the world can make up for some of the just plain terrible "features" of a GUI.
Athena might totally suck, it would be hard for me to say right now. But the idea of personally changing things about the GUI through a scripting language does have a certain appeal to me.
I know a large number of people who switched over to Linux and had no problems installing it, or even using it. Their major problems came when they found some neat bit of software and then realized it only ran on Windows. Or, like myself, they hated Netscape. Or they hated the lack of games. Or they hated KDE/Gnome (because even though most people will flame me for this, the Windows GUI is more refined, even if the OS under it is junk.
I for one went straight to FreeBSD. But I didn't dare do it on my only system, and I wouldn't recommend anybody else do so, either. At the bare minimum they should set up a dual-boot system.
Those wanting to switch to some form of Unix should consider doing so on a spare machine. That way their Windows boxes, Macs, or Amigas can remain in service while they grow accustomed to the changes.
There's nothing worse than sitting down to do something that would've been a breeze on your OS of choice, and then realizing you can't because you either don't know how or don't have the software to do it on the new OS. Oh, of course you could just look the answer up, but that's not the point.
People don't like being new to anything, and if they install a new OS under which they'll spend more time aimlessly pointing and clicking or typing in an incomprehensible shell than they spend actually being productive or playing, they won't notice, or even care, that the OS they are now running is (supposedly) superior.
I believe the point trying to be made was that the federal government actually doesn't very specifically have those stated powers. Granting money to private establishments for whatever government purpose is just one of those powers that the Federal (Contractual) Monopoly we call the US Government sort of took for themselves, like many others.
I'm totally for space exploration. I do however wish the Government would (die) keep their nose out of, er, well, EVERYTHING!
And as much as I wish that, it's a double edged sword.:-( I don't like to see NASA funds decreasing.
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I wonder how much money the Monopoly would easily be able to waste if EVERYBODY in favor of space exploration donated money to NASA and then claimed the donation on their taxes?
The information for information's sake is often more important than the presentation. If it just has to be pretty, one can choose a task specific format.
Now, I know many people disagree with this view. However, if it ever comes down to me or them getting a job I hope they've lost their resume to an obscure file format when the time comes to turn it in.
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Death of Command Line Interfaces? :-(
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I for one hope this is as fake as it looks. It's bad enough that good Command Line Interfaces are rarely used these days, but if the day ever comes that I require a GeForce V just to browse a directory full of text files, someone is going to die horribly as I wrap my mouse cord around their geeky little neck. Then I'm going to BASH their face in.
I always just assumed that food was synthesized by the machines. "...this, coupled with a form of fusion..." It's pretty obvious the humanoids only provided part of the AI's energy needs.
So it is that humans COULD live without the machines, so it will be that the machines COULD live without the humans.
If they really DID sell 15,000 copies of the SDK (I'm skeptical, but anything is possible...) then apparently there are quite a lot of people (not just serious developers) who are willing to pay $100 for the SDK.
Maybe charging $100 for it wasn't such a bad idea after all.
Actually, I think that's meant to be 15,000 (Fifteen Thousand) developers. And what THAT actually means is that 15,000 copies of the Amiga SDK have been sold, essentially making anybody who bought on somehow magically an "Amiga Developer".
I know people who bought one, and they don't know how to code. So that number is inflated. But, rest assured, there are more than "Fifteen" Amiga developers.
(Probably just not many more than that worth a flip, but.....)
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Doesn't a fleet of Jumbo-Jets cost less?
If you crash a plane, you make another.
If your cross-sea rail collapses, that's 10^Hells' worth of loss.
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Just like the some OTHER secret society...
N.'.S.'.A.'.
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And what, may I ask, are the bandwidth capabilities of a water meter?
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I don't know a whole lot about how Wine will be pulling off DirectX support, but I'm making the assumption that it's doing so by reporting some form of generic hardware to DirectX, which when querried claims to support the features that DirectX requests.
This is all find and dandy, but I think everybody is missing the point of DirectX, which is to allow game developers to make feature-calls from hardware without having to actually access the hardware it's self.
In Wine, DirectX support or not, games written for DirectX will simply have one more layer of software to trudge through.
I'm skeptical that performance will be acceptable in any game with anything more than very modest hardware requirements.
I'm aware this isn't emulation, but an API running in an application hosted on an OS might as well be emulation.
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And that is precisely my problem with GNOME and KDE. They are bloated and annoying.
I had a lot of fun playing with AmiWM simply because it's small and simple but still usable. The problem with it is that it seems to no longer be actively in developement.
I personally welcome ANY competition for GNOME or KDE, commercial or not. I don't like either of them, really, and competition can only be good.
No number of themes or color schemes in the world can make up for some of the just plain terrible "features" of a GUI.
Athena might totally suck, it would be hard for me to say right now. But the idea of personally changing things about the GUI through a scripting language does have a certain appeal to me.
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I know a large number of people who switched over to Linux and had no problems installing it, or even using it. Their major problems came when they found some neat bit of software and then realized it only ran on Windows. Or, like myself, they hated Netscape. Or they hated the lack of games. Or they hated KDE/Gnome (because even though most people will flame me for this, the Windows GUI is more refined, even if the OS under it is junk.
I for one went straight to FreeBSD. But I didn't dare do it on my only system, and I wouldn't recommend anybody else do so, either. At the bare minimum they should set up a dual-boot system.
Those wanting to switch to some form of Unix should consider doing so on a spare machine. That way their Windows boxes, Macs, or Amigas can remain in service while they grow accustomed to the changes.
There's nothing worse than sitting down to do something that would've been a breeze on your OS of choice, and then realizing you can't because you either don't know how or don't have the software to do it on the new OS. Oh, of course you could just look the answer up, but that's not the point.
People don't like being new to anything, and if they install a new OS under which they'll spend more time aimlessly pointing and clicking or typing in an incomprehensible shell than they spend actually being productive or playing, they won't notice, or even care, that the OS they are now running is (supposedly) superior.
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I believe the point trying to be made was that the federal government actually doesn't very specifically have those stated powers. Granting money to private establishments for whatever government purpose is just one of those powers that the Federal (Contractual) Monopoly we call the US Government sort of took for themselves, like many others.
:-( I don't like to see NASA funds decreasing.
I'm totally for space exploration. I do however wish the Government would (die) keep their nose out of, er, well, EVERYTHING!
And as much as I wish that, it's a double edged sword.
...
I wonder how much money the Monopoly would easily be able to waste if EVERYBODY in favor of space exploration donated money to NASA and then claimed the donation on their taxes?
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I wonder what Bill Hicks would think of a 24/7 stream of his material?
(Yes, I know, off-topic, sorta.)
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I for one prefer Ascii to everything.
It's not as pretty, but it's fairly fail-safe.
The information for information's sake is often more important than the presentation. If it just has to be pretty, one can choose a task specific format.
Now, I know many people disagree with this view. However, if it ever comes down to me or them getting a job I hope they've lost their resume to an obscure file format when the time comes to turn it in.
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I for one hope this is as fake as it looks. It's bad enough that good Command Line Interfaces are rarely used these days, but if the day ever comes that I require a GeForce V just to browse a directory full of text files, someone is going to die horribly as I wrap my mouse cord around their geeky little neck. Then I'm going to BASH their face in.
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As off topic as ALL of this may be...
I always just assumed that food was synthesized by the machines. "...this, coupled with a form of fusion..." It's pretty obvious the humanoids only provided part of the AI's energy needs.
So it is that humans COULD live without the machines, so it will be that the machines COULD live without the humans.
Or something like that.
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To avoid getting eaten?
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How would you know if you were ripped off if you ordered a shipment of 2 million? ;)
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I agree COMPLETELY!
The idea that a FEW high bandwidth connections might could carry SEVERAL voice conversations irritates the telecos emmensely, I'm sure!
No longer do we live in a One Line, One Conversation world...
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Man, I HATE it when the Illuminati can't decide who to appoint as President.
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It doesn't have to be either Republican or Democrat. I wish people would see this.
I wish EVERYONE would see this.
It's really easy. Everybody should just vote Harry Browne (or some other 3rd party).
If you hate Gore and Bush, don't pick the one you hate "least", simply pick someone else. What happened to good old common sense?
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If they really DID sell 15,000 copies of the SDK (I'm skeptical, but anything is possible...) then apparently there are quite a lot of people (not just serious developers) who are willing to pay $100 for the SDK.
Maybe charging $100 for it wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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Actually, I think that's meant to be 15,000 (Fifteen Thousand) developers. And what THAT actually means is that 15,000 copies of the Amiga SDK have been sold, essentially making anybody who bought on somehow magically an "Amiga Developer".
I know people who bought one, and they don't know how to code. So that number is inflated. But, rest assured, there are more than "Fifteen" Amiga developers.
(Probably just not many more than that worth a flip, but.....)
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Hahahah!
;-)
Don't give anybody any ideas, I think the old Infocome parser source is floating about out there somewhere.
I once saw a large crate outside the building where I were that said "WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES".
I thought to myself... "Waste Management... perhaps I should give these guys a call."
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