Slashdot does not publish news. It links to news on other sites.
By _definition_ this means that someone else has to have already carried it.
And due to the sheer volume of crap that people submit, it's likely to have been on a number of news sites before Slashdot figures that enough people have submitted it for it to be something people are interested in.
Well, long load times can turn someones opinion of a great game to an OK game, an OK game to a bad game, and a mediocre game to a piece of crap.
It's all part of the overall experience.
Good gameplay, good graphics, good sound, good loading times. If you get all of them right, you have an excellent game, get any of them wrong, and you have anything from a merely OK game, to a waste of time and money.
It takes a lot more time to provide binaries for multiple platforms - not to mention often needing access to those platforms, or a whole heap of cross compilers. And then there's dealing with portability issues.....
In the end you spend 10% of your time writing the code, and 90% trying to distribute it.
I agree, the author of this article seems to think that D&D rulesets were invented overnight on a whim by a bunch of people with no clue, for the sole purpose of selling rulebooks. I'm sure selling rulebooks is an important buiness issue, but creating a solid game experience comes in to that as well, and you sell more rulebooks by steadily refining and improving the rules, than by randomly changing stuff for the sake of changing it.
Also the idea that people can handle complicated rules better than a computer seems a little bizzare too.
Being easy for someone to start clicking around isn't necearily a good thing.
Sure it gets them started, but its far less likely they will go on to have as thorough an understanding of what they are doing.
I'd be worried about any admin that hadn't read a manual, and just clicked and explored his way around a control panel.
We've got some like that unfortunately running our corporate network. They switched all the core infrastructure from Solaris to Windows, and when requested to add a new machine into DNS, the genius who did it, clicked around a bit, and added it as an Authorative nameserver for our external domain. That mistake stood for months despite them being informed of it a number of times. Personally I suspect they either had no idea what I meant, or didn't know how to fix it.
It probably would have been quicker to add the A record manually to a configuration file anyway, and there's no way you could 'accidently' add an NS instead.
You don't need to wait, it's done in the background and cached.
If you're just passing through, you can keep passing through, without the interface blocking due to the thumbnailing.
If you actually want to see the thumbnails, then obviously you'll have to wait;), but they're cached so that you wont have to wait next time. I believe you can also configure the maximum size used for the cache and whether to use a central cache, or create a hidden directory in the current directory for the images.
I think you'd probably be better off looking for stuff designed for PCs.
The moment anything is associated with professional audio, it gets a 500% markup. Especially if they're designed for gigging, computer racks don't need to be anywhere near as robust.
The implication is that the archetecture is going to be very similar to AMD's, because Intel Reverse Engineered it.
Or at least that's what I got from reading the summary.
On reading the article it looks like the author is simply an idiot, and did not know about Intel and AMD's cross licensing agreement, as all his arguments are based on the published ISA.
he never mentioned ME. and yes, it's better, for some definitions of better.
There are people out there that never had a problem with ME. Probably because they never actually DID anything with their machines...but still, it would have felt better to them than 98 did.
There is a difference between following w3c standards and having your page look identical in lynx to how it does in Firefox or IE.
It is quite possible and not very difficult to write a standards based page that includes dynamic content - including drop down menus - that is also completely usable by legacy and text based browsers.
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Not in my copy of Tannenbaum it doesn't.
It does mention OS/2 and NT a bit though.
However, even if your recent release version of it does mention 2000, all you have done is disproved the letter of his statement, not the general message.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot does not publish news. It links to news on other sites.
By _definition_ this means that someone else has to have already carried it.
And due to the sheer volume of crap that people submit, it's likely to have been on a number of news sites before Slashdot figures that enough people have submitted it for it to be something people are interested in.
Well, long load times can turn someones opinion of a great game to an OK game, an OK game to a bad game, and a mediocre game to a piece of crap.
It's all part of the overall experience.
Good gameplay, good graphics, good sound, good loading times.
If you get all of them right, you have an excellent game, get any of them wrong, and you have anything from a merely OK game, to a waste of time and money.
But seti@home is more than just one guy.
.jar file.
It takes a lot more time to provide binaries for multiple platforms - not to mention often needing access to those platforms, or a whole heap of cross compilers.
And then there's dealing with portability issues.....
In the end you spend 10% of your time writing the code, and 90% trying to distribute it.
Or you could just give out a
How about you write something that does some serious number crunching, in C, and in Java, using the currently released JDK (1.4.2).
Compare how long it takes and how easy it is to write in the two languages, and then compare running times.
Then write up a report and post it somewhere and provide us with links.
Or you could just google for ancient outdated annecdotal evidence.
I agree, the author of this article seems to think that D&D rulesets were invented overnight on a whim by a bunch of people with no clue, for the sole purpose of selling rulebooks.
I'm sure selling rulebooks is an important buiness issue, but creating a solid game experience comes in to that as well, and you sell more rulebooks by steadily refining and improving the rules, than by randomly changing stuff for the sake of changing it.
Also the idea that people can handle complicated rules better than a computer seems a little bizzare too.
Well, VMware is great, but this could be a quick solution for those of us who want to test under Linux, but can't afford VMware.
Being easy for someone to start clicking around isn't necearily a good thing.
Sure it gets them started, but its far less likely they will go on to have as thorough an understanding of what they are doing.
I'd be worried about any admin that hadn't read a manual, and just clicked and explored his way around a control panel.
We've got some like that unfortunately running our corporate network. They switched all the core infrastructure from Solaris to Windows, and when requested to add a new machine into DNS, the genius who did it, clicked around a bit, and added it as an Authorative nameserver for our external domain.
That mistake stood for months despite them being informed of it a number of times. Personally I suspect they either had no idea what I meant, or didn't know how to fix it.
It probably would have been quicker to add the A record manually to a configuration file anyway, and there's no way you could 'accidently' add an NS instead.
You don't need to wait, it's done in the background and cached.
;), but they're cached so that you wont have to wait next time. I believe you can also configure the maximum size used for the cache and whether to use a central cache, or create a hidden directory in the current directory for the images.
If you're just passing through, you can keep passing through, without the interface blocking due to the thumbnailing.
If you actually want to see the thumbnails, then obviously you'll have to wait
I think you'd probably be better off looking for stuff designed for PCs.
The moment anything is associated with professional audio, it gets a 500% markup.
Especially if they're designed for gigging, computer racks don't need to be anywhere near as robust.
Actually it's to condemn, which is what makes it swearing, as it's not very nice ;)
that's the point!
The implication is that the archetecture is going to be very similar to AMD's, because Intel Reverse Engineered it.
Or at least that's what I got from reading the summary.
On reading the article it looks like the author is simply an idiot, and did not know about Intel and AMD's cross licensing agreement, as all his arguments are based on the published ISA.
DO you really save the $50 - $60 in petrol you spent doing an 8 hour round trip?
Not to mention the 8 hours of day you lost....
not in a consumer PC it's not.
Standard PCI is still 32bits 33MHz.
actually none of them effect Mac OS X. Apple effected Mac OS X (with some help).
However, some of them affect it, and as such standing by a statement as broad as "Mac users have not had a virus yet" seems a little silly.
I could stand by the statement "The Earth is flat and the universe is an orange" but that doesn't make it any more true.
how exactly do you define "informed"?, and then how do you quantify it?
Alternatively the rest of the linux using world did something like
up2date -u
or
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
and saved some mouse clicks and menu hunting.
You could have gone the source route on OS X too if you wanted to prove that OS X was harder to manage.
I think this is what made it the best april fools joke - the fact that it wasn't.
So all those that came up with all the reasons why it must have been a joke, are the ones that were fooled.
no, that was Phillips.
he never mentioned ME.
and yes, it's better, for some definitions of better.
There are people out there that never had a problem with ME. Probably because they never actually DID anything with their machines...but still, it would have felt better to them than 98 did.
You cannot "copyright" the way something works. That's what patents are for.
The only thing he said was that it was compact, undrivable, and the subway wasn't as good as a European city.
Where's the favourable comment?
And I certainly don't see any reference to public schooling or air quality...
There is a difference between following w3c standards and having your page look identical in lynx to how it does in Firefox or IE.
It is quite possible and not very difficult to write a standards based page that includes dynamic content - including drop down menus - that is also completely usable by legacy and text based browsers.
Not in my copy of Tannenbaum it doesn't.
It does mention OS/2 and NT a bit though.
However, even if your recent release version of it does mention 2000, all you have done is disproved the letter of his statement, not the general message.
The P800 (and P900) for that matter doesn't have a megapixel camera...it's got the same 640x480 camera every other mobile phone has unfortunately
How can you not have heard of trolltech before?
The makers of QT, the toolkit behind KDE, and the QTopia environment.