At what point did the operating system fail? It sounds like the application crashed. A single application that divides by zero is quite common and cheerfully caught by NT and terminated.
Would you rather that NT catch the exception itself, and do some bizzare, ad-hoc guesswork and fudge a number? Leading to potentially stranger behavior as the OS is now interfereing with the application.
Actually if you ignore a (different) bit in ASCII, A-Z is still the same as a-z. (ignore the bit 0x20, which amusingly enough is a space in ASCII, which extra amusingly is 40 in octal while 40 in hex is a space in EBCDIC, which is only amusing if you're amused by ASCII and EBCDIC)
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I assume you're aware that RIA is a server......or something... But the use of pictures of women completely unrelated to the product is really not all that uncommon in banner ads. X10.com in particular I've noticed ALWAYS has a random woman's face and they don't even say what thier product is (other than the mention of X10) most of the time on the ad.
Just because it's realtime doesn't nessicarily mean that all constraints are removed. If you think about the original, you really were hopping between discrete points. You could allow the user to click and move between discrete points, and none of the puzzles would change, but with the on-the-fly rendering, you could have a smooth transition of walking from point to point. Still same game, but it might be easier to find your way around if they got rid of the jumpiness. Also, if it's rendered on the fly, you can probably add more background animation of various sorts.
All in all, just cosmetic changes. (I don't know what cyan is going to do though......it's an interesting thought to be able to go anywhere in Myst...)
In what way is Beowulf's interconnect fabric better than NUMA? Is it that the software interface is more pleasant to work with? I imagine it's fairly difficult to beat the performance of being able to access either other's memory space. Also, with that ability, it should be quite trivial to implement virtually any form of interprocess communication in a fast and efficient manner. I don't know what sort of media they communicate over, however, for that price, I would expect they're coupled with some pricey crossover switching hardware of some sort.
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Now, I've looked at the screenshots, heard the complaints about reinventing to wheel, and I've used BeOS (which this is claiming some similar design) and I have to ask, is there more to it than just an improved GUI?
Truth be known, I look forward for the day that I'll have a real OS (probably something unix derived) that has a polished and attractive look and a more attractive graphics API. (Which could be why Mac OS X is looking so appealing to me right now...) It might just be because I'm a media fan and appreciate a little visual stimulation, but these days, these processors/video cards have the processor power to deliver visual quality beyond what we're currently seeing.
Antialiased truetype fonts, alpha channel compositing, fast, clean, and virtually always double buffered: BeOS is a pretty good looking UI and (even better) it's graphics API is clean and simple! (I was able to write a decent application in about two hours thanks to the BeBook) It's the BeOS-like ui that catches my eye more than particular lower level os trait. Is there any reason why one could not just create/port the application server/gui to Linux? Are there in fact features that linux lacks that prevent such an X-killer to be written?
I'd be sad to loose all of my X apps, but with GTK+ and QT, it should be possible to someday replace our toolkit of choice and move on from X.
Coincidentally, I'm keeping my eye on the berlin project in the hopes that they'll bring everythign that I desire in an advanced display layer to linux.
Actually, I've found that rebuilding KDE(2) takes MUCH longer than the kernel... I used to think the kernel took a while, but it doesn't compare to a comparable sized C++ build.
Actually, I would like to really see some games solely for the eye-candy wow factor. Does anyone know of any games that really show off this new shiny box that are either out now or will be soon?
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At what point did the operating system fail? It sounds like the application crashed. A single application that divides by zero is quite common and cheerfully caught by NT and terminated.
Would you rather that NT catch the exception itself, and do some bizzare, ad-hoc guesswork and fudge a number? Leading to potentially stranger behavior as the OS is now interfereing with the application.
Linux would have done the same thing.
Actually if you ignore a (different) bit in ASCII, A-Z is still the same as a-z. (ignore the bit 0x20, which amusingly enough is a space in ASCII, which extra amusingly is 40 in octal while 40 in hex is a space in EBCDIC, which is only amusing if you're amused by ASCII and EBCDIC)
I assume you're aware that RIA is a server... ...or something... But the use of pictures of women completely unrelated to the product is really not all that uncommon in banner ads. X10.com in particular I've noticed ALWAYS has a random woman's face and they don't even say what thier product is (other than the mention of X10) most of the time on the ad.
Flowers for Algernon...
:)
Secret of NIHM...
or
Planet of the Apes
take your pick.
(The "smart pets" reminded me of one of the planet of the apes movies...)
Just because it's realtime doesn't nessicarily mean that all constraints are removed. If you think about the original, you really were hopping between discrete points. You could allow the user to click and move between discrete points, and none of the puzzles would change, but with the on-the-fly rendering, you could have a smooth transition of walking from point to point. Still same game, but it might be easier to find your way around if they got rid of the jumpiness. Also, if it's rendered on the fly, you can probably add more background animation of various sorts.
...it's an interesting thought to be able to go anywhere in Myst...)
All in all, just cosmetic changes. (I don't know what cyan is going to do though...
In what way is Beowulf's interconnect fabric better than NUMA? Is it that the software interface is more pleasant to work with? I imagine it's fairly difficult to beat the performance of being able to access either other's memory space. Also, with that ability, it should be quite trivial to implement virtually any form of interprocess communication in a fast and efficient manner. I don't know what sort of media they communicate over, however, for that price, I would expect they're coupled with some pricey crossover switching hardware of some sort.
Now, I've looked at the screenshots, heard the complaints about reinventing to wheel, and I've used BeOS (which this is claiming some similar design) and I have to ask, is there more to it than just an improved GUI?
Truth be known, I look forward for the day that I'll have a real OS (probably something unix derived) that has a polished and attractive look and a more attractive graphics API. (Which could be why Mac OS X is looking so appealing to me right now...) It might just be because I'm a media fan and appreciate a little visual stimulation, but these days, these processors/video cards have the processor power to deliver visual quality beyond what we're currently seeing.
Antialiased truetype fonts, alpha channel compositing, fast, clean, and virtually always double buffered: BeOS is a pretty good looking UI and (even better) it's graphics API is clean and simple! (I was able to write a decent application in about two hours thanks to the BeBook) It's the BeOS-like ui that catches my eye more than particular lower level os trait. Is there any reason why one could not just create/port the application server/gui to Linux? Are there in fact features that linux lacks that prevent such an X-killer to be written?
I'd be sad to loose all of my X apps, but with GTK+ and QT, it should be possible to someday replace our toolkit of choice and move on from X.
Coincidentally, I'm keeping my eye on the berlin project in the hopes that they'll bring everythign that I desire in an advanced display layer to linux.
Actually, I've found that rebuilding KDE(2) takes MUCH longer than the kernel... I used to think the kernel took a while, but it doesn't compare to a comparable sized C++ build.
Actually, I would like to really see some games solely for the eye-candy wow factor. Does anyone know of any games that really show off this new shiny box that are either out now or will be soon?