The large difference for the hz of the monitor, is how much eye strain it gives... beyond that, yes things will smoother, but a lot of the difference with higher frame rates (not all of it...you definately are right for a part), is that, like someone mentionned up there, 75 fps looking at a black wall in a game, end up being 5 fps when in combat...and thats definately not smooth. a constant 75 fps, or a constant 40 fps...pretty much the same thing...
its a bit more than that though...to localise software, you have to do a bit more than just translate stuff...
think like...some languages need to be written from right to left...need to support that... Or how you can write japanese with a qwerty keyboard by pronounciation, and it will write the kenjis for it...etc. That takes more than just a text file to translate...
I dont know if thats what you meant though.
Very true... To be fair to Linux...most desktops have QT, GTK...-definately- have glibc!!
to be fair for Windows... dotNet is in Windows update, so anyone who updates blindly (I realise its not anywhere close to the majority of people) will have it...and newer versions of Windows have it built in...I do think many OEMs package it too...not sure about that, if they dont, they should...
"but but...its similar to how distro packagers put the librairies and stuff already in the linux install!!"
Very true. Never said I agreed with the parent(s) =)
normaly, that kindda system was said to have a on/off switch, so to speak, in the BIOS, for the DRM feature...dunno if this one does.
Anyhow, now you say "bah, easy!! Ill just turn it off!"
And that will work no problem: for now...
Ever tried playing a DRMed WMA on a non-DRM-enabled player of any kind? Doesn't work all that well...If more and more companies with money-hungry shareholders who don't care about customers start making their staff put DRM in them (same way kindda that most game companies have to put CD protection in the games to put the boss happy...), then you kindda have to stick it on... Won't be until year 5500+ until any software in Linux have something like that, so Linux should be safe for this lifetime, but probably not forever, especialy as commercial entities start embracing it.
Oh, right...I was lost in my world. To your question: in theory, yes, it would run Linux.
while some exceptions are around...a "good" game, that has a killer scenario, good graphics (3d modeling lately, considering people's expectation, isn't as simple as it would be for an old N64 or PS1-like game), music (like...good professional stuff...not midi crap), and all, is probably harsher on the wallet than the programming... need a hell of a team to make a modern game that is decent all around (of course, you could just aim at making money with no content, like www.darkages.com, then its another story...)
500000$...your average run in the mill 3d modeler with the skill to make something decent enough to make the fan on my Geforce FX 5900 actualy spin doesn't work for 15k a year...
just my 2 cents.
not really. If its your job, its your "profession", you're a professional... Otherwise, its a hobby. Has very very little to do with if you're good or not at it...
Actualy having your QA team try it and consider Wine bugs real bugs...
I mean...they have access to the official source code... How many things don't run in Wine because of an half buggy splash screen, a messed up installer, or because they rounded up the corners using some "features" (read: bugs) of Windows to their advantage... That would be how: by actualy trying those things... Lots of things that dont work in Wine, would with a few hours of cleaning up code... If I remember well, its even written somewhere on the Wine page, that programs can be made "for" Wine, and will then work flawlessly in both environnements...
Considering the change to the scheduler to make everything seem snappier, the increased ammount of drivers for newer hardware, all the performance enhancement...
Even my mom would be able to tell the difference between 2.4 and 2.6 on day to day usage. Its just that good.
usb audio? not a clue ^^; I was just refering to the run of the mill, audigy platinum cards, that have a input in front, like for a mike or whatsnot... Heck, thinking about it, why couldnt it work with a standard mike input...just any analog wire from speaker output to mike input, and record while playing...
Worse is the huge problem that people who pirates the music can do that, people who buy it are bound by all those limitations... I totally despises piracy, software or music, RIAA or not...but its just annoying when people who screw the system get to do things I cannot, that seem rather fair to me... (for now you mostly still can...but this DRM thingny is starting get restrictive for my taste, if amazingly easy to bypass...) I usualy end up buying the DRMed music, then getting rid of the DRM by a mean or another...I still dont do anything illegal with it beyond that...in most cases, unless they are physicaly with me, no one else will ever hear the music... Its just so it doesnt have any problem with all my other softwares and devices...
You're right...I'd be willing to pay a lot more for music I can do whatever I wish with without any legal nor moral issues...Can't hurt to dream, can it...
Good tip. And if that doesnt work, well...it wouldnt give good quality...but the way I see it...(and many already mentionned), just take an analog wire going from where you plug your speaker to, let say, the line 2 input of a front panel of an audigy platinum (or superior equivalent) and record from that source... Anything software-based would be screwed right there o.O Unless of course it doesnt work on the computer at all...
In any case, I thought why on-line music stores caught with the general population was because you could burn CDs of the songs... I dont like that, but so many do, or need to (older car cd player, etc), so well, if its streaming, people who cant get around it cant really enjoy it...
Just my two cents.
Winver report it being NT 5.1
Cuz well, it really is little more than Windows 2000 with a few integrated apps added, a change or two to the way drivers work, and a buggier GUI.
At the least, Microsoft acklowledge that in the version number.
I though they were talking of lap-tops when they said "small package". Keeping that in mind...last I checked, lap-tops tend to have built in pointing devices, commonly known as "mouses", even though they arent exactly it...
Its not that simple... My fiance is american, and I live in another country, so I tend to see differences between the countries hand on... And...(I honestly dont know if you're american, I am using this as the exemple I know), it is something americans seem to be used to, debit cards as credit cards.
Here however, it is a rather uncommon thing (though I do beleive it is possible), and thus using debit card transfer is completly different (though as common) to using credit cards. Different numbers, different company, different pricing, different machines (sometimes), different method, different advantages and drawbacks, but one of those drawbacks is I cannot use my debit card on-line ^^; So its not that simple.
Not really...there's more to hardware than the metal and the silicon...
Forget all the Nvidia in Linux crap, and the ATI/Nvidia fanboy speech, and let stay objective for a moment...
In a lot of Nvidia vs ATI reviews of late...you hear that one or the other has crap image quality, that FSAA is better in one than the other in X version of the driver but not in Y, etc etc etc...
Unless you get something that is purely hardware and the drivers dont do much... (hrm...I know lil of hardware, but I'll take a hard drive or a cd-rom as an exemple), the drivers have a lot to do with how the hardware work, and the competition is there too...
If tomorrow Nvidia figure out a new algorythm that makes FSAA 3 times faster and 5 times better quality...ATI would get hurt rather badly. If the driver however is open source, ATI could peek at it and just duplicate it the day after, then Nvidia would lose its edge, and its R&D money would have been wasted...
Its just a matter of how the world is...money drives the world, competition drives money (aside in Monopolies, of course!)
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Maybe its just because Im badly sick right now, and my brain isn't working right...but...
"And you can always bake that same cake using margarine or crisco to grease the pan."
You're nuts? its not called cri-SCO for nothing!!!
Simple enough...people here where I work use Excel for a lot of things, as they are used to it and it gets the job done (which in the end, is what matters). Some things they do in Excel, to interract with our other programs, require update of an SQL Server database, or because we are switching from a legacy system, even an update of Foxpro stuff, ODBC connections, sending files over the network, etc.
We can just reuse our VB dlls and import them in those macros and such, so it takes seconds to make them, it gets the job done, and the employes can still work with excel. In the end, its more productive.
I hate Microsoft's products as much as the next guy, but in many case, they're what does the job best.
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Bingo...and in the end, we programmers don't have 1, but -two- improved languages, as they try to improve to each other.
MS trying to lock in their customers or not, Sun trying to control java or not...doesn't matter... Now we have 2 languages that try to improve on each other as fast as possible, and we win!
speed wise, yes (last I checked), but if I remember well, 2.6 traded some speed for some responsiveness, which in real life desktop tasks, "feels" faster, even if benchmarks won't tell you that.
I think, anyway, anyone correct me if Im wrong.
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The large difference for the hz of the monitor, is how much eye strain it gives... beyond that, yes things will smoother, but a lot of the difference with higher frame rates (not all of it...you definately are right for a part), is that, like someone mentionned up there, 75 fps looking at a black wall in a game, end up being 5 fps when in combat...and thats definately not smooth. a constant 75 fps, or a constant 40 fps...pretty much the same thing...
its a bit more than that though...to localise software, you have to do a bit more than just translate stuff... think like...some languages need to be written from right to left...need to support that... Or how you can write japanese with a qwerty keyboard by pronounciation, and it will write the kenjis for it...etc. That takes more than just a text file to translate... I dont know if thats what you meant though.
Very true... To be fair to Linux...most desktops have QT, GTK...-definately- have glibc!! to be fair for Windows... dotNet is in Windows update, so anyone who updates blindly (I realise its not anywhere close to the majority of people) will have it...and newer versions of Windows have it built in...I do think many OEMs package it too...not sure about that, if they dont, they should... "but but...its similar to how distro packagers put the librairies and stuff already in the linux install!!" Very true. Never said I agreed with the parent(s) =)
normaly, that kindda system was said to have a on/off switch, so to speak, in the BIOS, for the DRM feature...dunno if this one does. Anyhow, now you say "bah, easy!! Ill just turn it off!" And that will work no problem: for now... Ever tried playing a DRMed WMA on a non-DRM-enabled player of any kind? Doesn't work all that well...If more and more companies with money-hungry shareholders who don't care about customers start making their staff put DRM in them (same way kindda that most game companies have to put CD protection in the games to put the boss happy...), then you kindda have to stick it on... Won't be until year 5500+ until any software in Linux have something like that, so Linux should be safe for this lifetime, but probably not forever, especialy as commercial entities start embracing it. Oh, right...I was lost in my world. To your question: in theory, yes, it would run Linux.
while some exceptions are around...a "good" game, that has a killer scenario, good graphics (3d modeling lately, considering people's expectation, isn't as simple as it would be for an old N64 or PS1-like game), music (like...good professional stuff...not midi crap), and all, is probably harsher on the wallet than the programming... need a hell of a team to make a modern game that is decent all around (of course, you could just aim at making money with no content, like www.darkages.com, then its another story...) 500000$...your average run in the mill 3d modeler with the skill to make something decent enough to make the fan on my Geforce FX 5900 actualy spin doesn't work for 15k a year... just my 2 cents.
not really. If its your job, its your "profession", you're a professional... Otherwise, its a hobby. Has very very little to do with if you're good or not at it...
Actualy having your QA team try it and consider Wine bugs real bugs... I mean...they have access to the official source code... How many things don't run in Wine because of an half buggy splash screen, a messed up installer, or because they rounded up the corners using some "features" (read: bugs) of Windows to their advantage... That would be how: by actualy trying those things... Lots of things that dont work in Wine, would with a few hours of cleaning up code... If I remember well, its even written somewhere on the Wine page, that programs can be made "for" Wine, and will then work flawlessly in both environnements...
Considering the change to the scheduler to make everything seem snappier, the increased ammount of drivers for newer hardware, all the performance enhancement... Even my mom would be able to tell the difference between 2.4 and 2.6 on day to day usage. Its just that good.
usb audio? not a clue ^^; I was just refering to the run of the mill, audigy platinum cards, that have a input in front, like for a mike or whatsnot... Heck, thinking about it, why couldnt it work with a standard mike input...just any analog wire from speaker output to mike input, and record while playing...
Worse is the huge problem that people who pirates the music can do that, people who buy it are bound by all those limitations... I totally despises piracy, software or music, RIAA or not...but its just annoying when people who screw the system get to do things I cannot, that seem rather fair to me... (for now you mostly still can...but this DRM thingny is starting get restrictive for my taste, if amazingly easy to bypass...) I usualy end up buying the DRMed music, then getting rid of the DRM by a mean or another...I still dont do anything illegal with it beyond that...in most cases, unless they are physicaly with me, no one else will ever hear the music... Its just so it doesnt have any problem with all my other softwares and devices... You're right...I'd be willing to pay a lot more for music I can do whatever I wish with without any legal nor moral issues...Can't hurt to dream, can it...
Good tip. And if that doesnt work, well...it wouldnt give good quality...but the way I see it...(and many already mentionned), just take an analog wire going from where you plug your speaker to, let say, the line 2 input of a front panel of an audigy platinum (or superior equivalent) and record from that source... Anything software-based would be screwed right there o.O Unless of course it doesnt work on the computer at all... In any case, I thought why on-line music stores caught with the general population was because you could burn CDs of the songs... I dont like that, but so many do, or need to (older car cd player, etc), so well, if its streaming, people who cant get around it cant really enjoy it... Just my two cents.
Winver report it being NT 5.1 Cuz well, it really is little more than Windows 2000 with a few integrated apps added, a change or two to the way drivers work, and a buggier GUI. At the least, Microsoft acklowledge that in the version number.
I though they were talking of lap-tops when they said "small package". Keeping that in mind...last I checked, lap-tops tend to have built in pointing devices, commonly known as "mouses", even though they arent exactly it...
Its not that simple... My fiance is american, and I live in another country, so I tend to see differences between the countries hand on... And...(I honestly dont know if you're american, I am using this as the exemple I know), it is something americans seem to be used to, debit cards as credit cards. Here however, it is a rather uncommon thing (though I do beleive it is possible), and thus using debit card transfer is completly different (though as common) to using credit cards. Different numbers, different company, different pricing, different machines (sometimes), different method, different advantages and drawbacks, but one of those drawbacks is I cannot use my debit card on-line ^^; So its not that simple.
Not really...there's more to hardware than the metal and the silicon... Forget all the Nvidia in Linux crap, and the ATI/Nvidia fanboy speech, and let stay objective for a moment... In a lot of Nvidia vs ATI reviews of late...you hear that one or the other has crap image quality, that FSAA is better in one than the other in X version of the driver but not in Y, etc etc etc... Unless you get something that is purely hardware and the drivers dont do much... (hrm...I know lil of hardware, but I'll take a hard drive or a cd-rom as an exemple), the drivers have a lot to do with how the hardware work, and the competition is there too... If tomorrow Nvidia figure out a new algorythm that makes FSAA 3 times faster and 5 times better quality...ATI would get hurt rather badly. If the driver however is open source, ATI could peek at it and just duplicate it the day after, then Nvidia would lose its edge, and its R&D money would have been wasted... Its just a matter of how the world is...money drives the world, competition drives money (aside in Monopolies, of course!)
Maybe its just because Im badly sick right now, and my brain isn't working right...but... "And you can always bake that same cake using margarine or crisco to grease the pan." You're nuts? its not called cri-SCO for nothing!!!
Simple enough...people here where I work use Excel for a lot of things, as they are used to it and it gets the job done (which in the end, is what matters). Some things they do in Excel, to interract with our other programs, require update of an SQL Server database, or because we are switching from a legacy system, even an update of Foxpro stuff, ODBC connections, sending files over the network, etc. We can just reuse our VB dlls and import them in those macros and such, so it takes seconds to make them, it gets the job done, and the employes can still work with excel. In the end, its more productive. I hate Microsoft's products as much as the next guy, but in many case, they're what does the job best.
Bingo...and in the end, we programmers don't have 1, but -two- improved languages, as they try to improve to each other. MS trying to lock in their customers or not, Sun trying to control java or not...doesn't matter... Now we have 2 languages that try to improve on each other as fast as possible, and we win!
Me and my girlfriend got the latest Myst game, so we could play all day away snuggled together. Geeky -and- Romantic!
speed wise, yes (last I checked), but if I remember well, 2.6 traded some speed for some responsiveness, which in real life desktop tasks, "feels" faster, even if benchmarks won't tell you that. I think, anyway, anyone correct me if Im wrong.