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Laser Discs are still the medium of choice for the high-end videophile. The purity of the uncompressed high resolution images of most laser discs is prefered to DVD when you're dealing with large projector tube screens.
Whenever you see anything entitled [pick an OS] Game Programming move along. Topics like AI, good engine design, 3d rotation mathmatics, sprites, drone scripting, etc are GENERAL GAME TOPICS and don't need a spesific OS. OS topics should be "3D graphic libraries in Linux" or "3D Hardware acceleration in linux" or "2D graphics in Linux" or "Linux Graphics Programming", etc.
WTF? I am shocked that Steve didn't introduce COM that Microsoft has had for years! And why didn't the PowerMac G4 come in a decahydron shape instead of these fucking, gay toys for Macfags. Clearly Apple is never going to provide the leading Infiniband technology because they are so far out of touch with computerphile. Instead they spend all their time cracking down on macworld.com and writing crap like Quicktime that I'll never use.
Aw, fuck it, I'll switch to WinXP. That will show those suits in Cupertino. Just as soon as it supports Aqua and has a better user interface than Mac OS X. Watch out, Steve, you're going to lose a 11 year Apple loyalist!
Revamping the ATA spec is like dusting off the plans for the pyramids for revision. ATA, and even SCSI are showing their age in more ways than one. We should be investing in Infiniband, RapidIO, etc.
Let me get this straight:
You have E10ks but you cant afford the compiler?
When working with E10k's I highly recommend using the sun compiler. Depsite gcc 3.0's sparc performance improvements from earlier gcc versions, it still is no sun compiler. No the sun compiler is a huge pain in the ass, and the bugs are never ending, and compiling 3rd party code on it is a pain in the ass. But, you are using million dollar hardware, and you want to make the best of that investment.
I don't have an opinion on which is the better solution. Ultimately, if there were no development costs, I would suggest that a complete utf-16 solution would outpeform utf-8 for most general use. Those familiar with windows coding know that the NT uses UTF-16 everywhere. I wonder what the average program memory footprint increase is for moving to UTF-16. I wonder if that memory increase ultimatly impacts performance enough to comparte to the processing penalty of UTF-8. Complicated issue. If anybody knows the answers, I'd appriciate feedback.
Solaris is ten times the OS as Linux as much as I love linux. While I personally hope (because I am cheap) that the linux 2.5 and 2.6 kernels get us closer to a Solaris like OS, that day hasn't arrived.
Sun Doesn't need PR, good or bad. The reality is that engineers know that Solaris is dependable for large scale 24/7 operations. Otherwise they wouldn't fork out the rediculous prices for Sparcs. So whatever these RMS pricks say is irrelevant. I don't know why Sun even bothers courting them in the first place.
I find your comments interesting. I've never used VMS (before my time), but my understanding is that VMS was a victem of over-complication. I've always thought (been told) that Solaris is basically the best Unix implementation. Also, Sun hardware (albeit way overpriced) is incredible. Intel's Itanium is just barely catching up with the Sparc II, let alone the Sparc III. I agree that Sun is in danger (especially of 2.5+ kernel, not so much of win2k) of losing to Intel systems. However, if you need to run a huge database today, your not going to run it on Linux or win2k, you're going to put in onto Solaris box.
What about the chick that quit or was fired in the middle of the crisis. I want to see photos of Rob crying when the boys at VA told him to get the site back up or he'd lose his job. This isn't a blow by blow. This is a cover up. The Powers That Be are pulling the wool over our eyes.
Kurt:JESUS CHRIST!!! Don't go in there man!
Dave:What the hell is it!
Kurt:I don't know but its big and its pissed off! AARRRrrhhhggh....
Kurt:That was the Exodus admin. I told him not to go in there!
Yazz:Shit! Its the fucking Lameness Filter man! The Lameness Filter!!!
Kurt:It must have mutated or something, my god its turned on us! I don't understand... wait... what is that sound...
ARAAARAAAAHHHHHHHhhhhhh
The original Wolfenstien on the Apple ][ was so sweet. I think for me it was the first PC game that had actual speach sounds in it. The first games that I ever played on the Apple ][ was "Dragons Eye" and the "Olympics". Wolfenstien was ten times as cool as those games. Only "Wizardry" was cooler.
Christmas Island used to be where the British and Australlians allowed the Americans do detonate Hydrogeon Bombs. If the crabs survived 10 megaton explosions, I think they'll survive the space port.
In the orignal AD&D Monster Manual (hey, this is/. so what did u expect?) Demons could gate (summon) in other Demons. Those gated demons would recursively summon in more demons. In other words one demon (which was hard enough to kill) would quickly multiply into a vast horde of demons until hell (or the abyss) was on earth if you will.
Well, I think this is what has happened to GUI libraries. Obviously, we expect each of the GUI/OS platforms to have their own GUI toolkit. On windows you have the win32 GUI library over which sits everything from the dreaded MFC, ATL's sparse GUI wrappers, and the easy but evil VB. Mac pre-OS X has the Mac Toolkit. *nix has X-windows, Gnome, KDE. Each of those in turns has various wrappers. Then there are the cross platform GUI's such as GTK+, Java Swing and AWT, WxWindows, TkInter, QT, OpenStep/GNUStep, and XPComp.
Now, IANAFGuiProgrammer, so take this with a grain of salt, but how many of these things do you really need?
The greedy freelance writers are just trying to exploit people who want access to free information. It has long been the scientific principle that information be open and freely available to everyone. These sick money-hording freelance writers should move the "free" part out of their name, cause it aint "free". I would prefer if they used the world "open".
This is disgusting that/. is behind these pigs who want to exploit you and charge filthy lucar for information that they've already made a killing on somewhere else. The publishers are just trying to make the information available to the free man, the common sod, the regular Joe.
Lots of telco and cable companies have huge fiber infrastructure in the ground but no way to deliver it their customers. Fiber delivers enormous bandwidth but is not economical as a last mile solution for all but the largest of customers. So, fiber has been mostly religated to the backbone and the regional loops.
I'm trying to get some figures but I believe that is considerably more instructions in a single second than the aggregate computations of every microchip's lifespan that was ever built and operated.
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Laser Discs are still the medium of choice for the high-end videophile. The purity of the uncompressed high resolution images of most laser discs is prefered to DVD when you're dealing with large projector tube screens.
Whenever you see anything entitled [pick an OS] Game Programming move along. Topics like AI, good engine design, 3d rotation mathmatics, sprites, drone scripting, etc are GENERAL GAME TOPICS and don't need a spesific OS. OS topics should be "3D graphic libraries in Linux" or "3D Hardware acceleration in linux" or "2D graphics in Linux" or "Linux Graphics Programming", etc.
WTF? I am shocked that Steve didn't introduce COM that Microsoft has had for years! And why didn't the PowerMac G4 come in a decahydron shape instead of these fucking, gay toys for Macfags. Clearly Apple is never going to provide the leading Infiniband technology because they are so far out of touch with computerphile. Instead they spend all their time cracking down on macworld.com and writing crap like Quicktime that I'll never use. Aw, fuck it, I'll switch to WinXP. That will show those suits in Cupertino. Just as soon as it supports Aqua and has a better user interface than Mac OS X. Watch out, Steve, you're going to lose a 11 year Apple loyalist!
While the Sandia Monitor has 20 million pixels, IBM has a monitor that has 9 million pixles but is only 17".
Well if your doing any COM work server side you are doing Unicode.
Revamping the ATA spec is like dusting off the plans for the pyramids for revision. ATA, and even SCSI are showing their age in more ways than one. We should be investing in Infiniband, RapidIO, etc.
You have E10ks but you cant afford the compiler?
When working with E10k's I highly recommend using the sun compiler. Depsite gcc 3.0's sparc performance improvements from earlier gcc versions, it still is no sun compiler. No the sun compiler is a huge pain in the ass, and the bugs are never ending, and compiling 3rd party code on it is a pain in the ass. But, you are using million dollar hardware, and you want to make the best of that investment.
I don't have an opinion on which is the better solution. Ultimately, if there were no development costs, I would suggest that a complete utf-16 solution would outpeform utf-8 for most general use. Those familiar with windows coding know that the NT uses UTF-16 everywhere. I wonder what the average program memory footprint increase is for moving to UTF-16. I wonder if that memory increase ultimatly impacts performance enough to comparte to the processing penalty of UTF-8. Complicated issue. If anybody knows the answers, I'd appriciate feedback.
Solaris is ten times the OS as Linux as much as I love linux. While I personally hope (because I am cheap) that the linux 2.5 and 2.6 kernels get us closer to a Solaris like OS, that day hasn't arrived.
Sun Doesn't need PR, good or bad. The reality is that engineers know that Solaris is dependable for large scale 24/7 operations. Otherwise they wouldn't fork out the rediculous prices for Sparcs. So whatever these RMS pricks say is irrelevant. I don't know why Sun even bothers courting them in the first place.
I find your comments interesting. I've never used VMS (before my time), but my understanding is that VMS was a victem of over-complication. I've always thought (been told) that Solaris is basically the best Unix implementation. Also, Sun hardware (albeit way overpriced) is incredible. Intel's Itanium is just barely catching up with the Sparc II, let alone the Sparc III. I agree that Sun is in danger (especially of 2.5+ kernel, not so much of win2k) of losing to Intel systems. However, if you need to run a huge database today, your not going to run it on Linux or win2k, you're going to put in onto Solaris box.
What about the chick that quit or was fired in the middle of the crisis. I want to see photos of Rob crying when the boys at VA told him to get the site back up or he'd lose his job. This isn't a blow by blow. This is a cover up. The Powers That Be are pulling the wool over our eyes.
Kurt:JESUS CHRIST!!! Don't go in there man!
Dave:What the hell is it!
Kurt:I don't know but its big and its pissed off!
AARRRrrhhhggh....
Kurt:That was the Exodus admin. I told him not to go in there!
Yazz:Shit! Its the fucking Lameness Filter man! The Lameness Filter!!!
Kurt:It must have mutated or something, my god its turned on us! I don't understand... wait... what is that sound...
ARAAARAAAAHHHHHHHhhhhhh
The original Wolfenstien on the Apple ][ was so sweet. I think for me it was the first PC game that had actual speach sounds in it. The first games that I ever played on the Apple ][ was "Dragons Eye" and the "Olympics". Wolfenstien was ten times as cool as those games. Only "Wizardry" was cooler.
Christmas Island used to be where the British and Australlians allowed the Americans do detonate Hydrogeon Bombs. If the crabs survived 10 megaton explosions, I think they'll survive the space port.
no shit. RedHat Network has the same thing.
Well, I think this is what has happened to GUI libraries. Obviously, we expect each of the GUI/OS platforms to have their own GUI toolkit. On windows you have the win32 GUI library over which sits everything from the dreaded MFC, ATL's sparse GUI wrappers, and the easy but evil VB. Mac pre-OS X has the Mac Toolkit. *nix has X-windows, Gnome, KDE. Each of those in turns has various wrappers. Then there are the cross platform GUI's such as GTK+, Java Swing and AWT, WxWindows, TkInter, QT, OpenStep/GNUStep, and XPComp.
Now, IANAFGuiProgrammer, so take this with a grain of salt, but how many of these things do you really need?
Despite the fact that StarOffice is OpenSource and free versions are available, the Defense Department will pay 12.9 billion dollars for the software.
I used to work with Dr. Ken Knowlton. He was a pioneer in computer generated art in the 60's and 70's.
This is disgusting that /. is behind these pigs who want to exploit you and charge filthy lucar for information that they've already made a killing on somewhere else. The publishers are just trying to make the information available to the free man, the common sod, the regular Joe.
You must keep busy on this site.
Lots of telco and cable companies have huge fiber infrastructure in the ground but no way to deliver it their customers. Fiber delivers enormous bandwidth but is not economical as a last mile solution for all but the largest of customers. So, fiber has been mostly religated to the backbone and the regional loops.
The lameness filter turned on itself.
cnet quoted you, chief.
I'm trying to get some figures but I believe that is considerably more instructions in a single second than the aggregate computations of every microchip's lifespan that was ever built and operated.
hmmm
That is the equivilant of 542,580,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000 1Ghz CPU's.
I think we're covered for awhile.