I do not understand why you both have been modded down. You both have views which may be against what the majority of people feel, but they are valid points and you should be able to express your opinion without being modded flamebait and redundant. It's not as if you posted as anonymous coward or anything, just that your opinions are against the left wing attitudes which seem to be a lot more prevalent and enforced here than they were a few years ago.
If he was in the UK, he'd still be updating his status and commenting on his friends stati even while in prison. He'd get to go home at weekends too, if he wanted to. His cell would more than likely be more comfortable than his home, and what with pool tables, gym access, playstation and satalite TV in his cell (for good behavior only of course) and three good meals a day, with no rent or bills to worry about...
When I was moving to the PC from the Amiga, I auditioned a few different OS's at the time. I'd tried MacOS and NetBSD with my Amiga and then Linux. When I got my first PC, I used Linux and WindowsNT, as Windows95 I just couldn't get on with. I had grown up with multitasking and it was just seemed to pretend to multitask when it suited it.
WindowsNT 4 needed just as much Ram as Linux plus X11, but Linux had the edge as programming and learning about Unix really appealed to me at the time. I don't think you can really compare Win9x to a Unix-like Os, and you have to look at NT. They were aimed at different markets.
Why do I suspect a rat that is tame enough to pet is probably ill. As if you'd want to pet a wild rat in the first place, let lone one which is dying already.
I assume WD40 and Vaseline are put on the flat surfaces by the management in order to stop people using it to snort cocaine from. These people aren't exaggerating about cocaine in the UK, it is rife in almost every pub. Some pubs put 45degree shelves over their flat surfaces to stop people doing it too.
Perhaps the video game will be about giving you the choice, as a player, when entering a building full of families, of leaving the ones you think aren't insurgents, and just killing the ones you think are hiding AK47's in their kitchens.
How many times will you get killed after leaving that nice family on the third floor alone and moving onto the fourth floor then getting shot in the back by the 12 year old son from the third? Don't you think after a couple of times you'll just go clear out each floor regardless of their protests?
Perhaps its this point that they are trying to get across and that this is the reason they are making a game of it as apposed to a film. They want to make you realise the decisions that had to be made, as apposed to judging them because the decision they made in order to preserve their own lives wasn't the same as what the politically correct version might have been.
I was under the impression that in the developement of Alpha, PPC and Sparc versions, Windows NT was made into a small and efficient micro kernel, with most of the higher functions working on the hardware abstraction layer you mentioned. I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the x86-64 versions of XP was fairly easy for Microsoft to produce, as much of the 64 bit support was already in the Alpha version.
Well I moved back to my parents basement. Actually I quite like it here. I did have girlfriends, nearly a wife, but not too bothered about that now I can spend my money on computers and stuff.
I think i386 became difficult to support a few years ago now, needing a few special tweaks to some things and even then, it was admitted there was becoming unlikely that anyone would still be wanting to use a modern distribution on them. There are plenty of old distributions available that can still be downloaded if anyone should so wish to play around with an i386... but yeah, i486 support shouldn't be on the agenda anymore for a modern desktop orientated distribution.
There always be some being used as routers, or small home servers though, even as X terminals. Maybe someone is even reading this on one.
Back in the days of Pentium 200mhz, I was running Slackware whose compile target was i386. Many of the applications could be speeded up by recompiling just a few of the most used libraries with optimizations for my AMD K6. Obviously the kernel was custom rolled, and at the time there was a different version of gcc available, called pgcc which generated even faster code for pentium computers.
I remember looking through the list of libraries my most used applications were linked with, and went through them re-compiling them. This was before Gentoo ever existed. I broke my system trying to install an optimized version of libc5.
Obviously, as mentioned in the article, almost no-one compiles their own systems these days, we just have to rely on the distributions to take care of that for us.
I couldn't agree more. If you question the people in charge, they would tell you its for our own good. We are so stupid, we have to be treated as ultra stupid just to stop our stupidity from being our downfall. I blame it on the US of course... we reverse-inherited it from you;)
There has never been a better time to be stupid in history. I'm considering it myself... already started infact... meept!
Windows will be less important soon due to internet distributed applications, usable from any web browser. How long before games take a similar approach? How much longer before a plugin allow games full access to hardware via a web browser?
I can't imagine microsoft pushing this sort of ability, as applications through the browser as their OS is something that will eventually reduce them to being just another player.
The cross platform opportunities that will soon exist due to this means a new CPU architecture only has to be able to run a simple kernel and then the entire GNU et al collection which has been designed to compile on nearly every existing architecture shouldn't take too much bother.
Its not like they have to design a new OS anymore.
Damn right you are on that one... its perfect to watch on returning from the pub, a little merry but not so that you're tired. The state that if you hit the computer you're just going to say something that you later regret on Facebook, Slashdot or wherever you end up. Red Dwarf, or Southpark I find perfect for these situations.
I still do dual boot my rig... what I meant was that day to day I'm using windows, then if my friends are up for a game theres no need to reboot. Not to mention the way we keep track of where people are playing is X-Fire. If a friend is playing a game somewhere, you can just click to start playing the same game on the same server.
I have a server running Linux too.
If my world revolved around coding and system administration I'd be the same. Apart from the games, the machine is full of free/OSS software, but it doesn't run at the same speed as on Linux.
What should be important is that maybe next gen games should be released on Linux as a platform equal to Windows.
I was a long term Linux user, who went to XP just for the games. My gaming rig is waiting an RMA on a PSU, so rebuilt an old system and installed Slackware.
On an older machine with slower drives and a quarter the Ram, the responsiveness of the OS is amazing. If mainstream games were released for Linux I'd have no choice.
Sadly, I mainly use computers these days for relaxation, shopping and play, and if I'd continued as I set out, would no doubt be a full time Linux user... However, as a gamer, I put up with XP64 as a day to day OS.
I had a 14inch monitor I originally used with my Amiga but with X managed 1240x968 (or something like that). It was interlaced, and whined a bit. Every few months it needed a slightly different setting as for some reason it could no longer handle the frequency. I had to adjust vertical stretch to minimum and have the horizontal control all the way over to one side, and iirc a few lines along one edge were funny colored.
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lolololol at these replies.
I do not understand why you both have been modded down. You both have views which may be against what the majority of people feel, but they are valid points and you should be able to express your opinion without being modded flamebait and redundant. It's not as if you posted as anonymous coward or anything, just that your opinions are against the left wing attitudes which seem to be a lot more prevalent and enforced here than they were a few years ago.
Aren't most people at least 10-15cm shorter than you?
If he was in the UK, he'd still be updating his status and commenting on his friends stati even while in prison. He'd get to go home at weekends too, if he wanted to. His cell would more than likely be more comfortable than his home, and what with pool tables, gym access, playstation and satalite TV in his cell (for good behavior only of course) and three good meals a day, with no rent or bills to worry about...
Our prisons aren't like your prisons.
When I was moving to the PC from the Amiga, I auditioned a few different OS's at the time. I'd tried MacOS and NetBSD with my Amiga and then Linux. When I got my first PC, I used Linux and WindowsNT, as Windows95 I just couldn't get on with. I had grown up with multitasking and it was just seemed to pretend to multitask when it suited it.
WindowsNT 4 needed just as much Ram as Linux plus X11, but Linux had the edge as programming and learning about Unix really appealed to me at the time. I don't think you can really compare Win9x to a Unix-like Os, and you have to look at NT. They were aimed at different markets.
I can't help but think the Amiga OS and hardware would have been a perfect platform for a smart phone...
Why do I suspect a rat that is tame enough to pet is probably ill. As if you'd want to pet a wild rat in the first place, let lone one which is dying already.
I assume WD40 and Vaseline are put on the flat surfaces by the management in order to stop people using it to snort cocaine from. These people aren't exaggerating about cocaine in the UK, it is rife in almost every pub. Some pubs put 45degree shelves over their flat surfaces to stop people doing it too.
This would have been funnier if you'd not clicked on 'post anonomously' Mr Neal.
Perhaps the video game will be about giving you the choice, as a player, when entering a building full of families, of leaving the ones you think aren't insurgents, and just killing the ones you think are hiding AK47's in their kitchens.
How many times will you get killed after leaving that nice family on the third floor alone and moving onto the fourth floor then getting shot in the back by the 12 year old son from the third? Don't you think after a couple of times you'll just go clear out each floor regardless of their protests?
Perhaps its this point that they are trying to get across and that this is the reason they are making a game of it as apposed to a film. They want to make you realise the decisions that had to be made, as apposed to judging them because the decision they made in order to preserve their own lives wasn't the same as what the politically correct version might have been.
I was under the impression that in the developement of Alpha, PPC and Sparc versions, Windows NT was made into a small and efficient micro kernel, with most of the higher functions working on the hardware abstraction layer you mentioned. I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the x86-64 versions of XP was fairly easy for Microsoft to produce, as much of the 64 bit support was already in the Alpha version.
Well I moved back to my parents basement. Actually I quite like it here. I did have girlfriends, nearly a wife, but not too bothered about that now I can spend my money on computers and stuff.
You Insensitive Clod.
Wow... you had to 'get it?' Hmmm, just keep chewing on the Crayola... Try the yellow flavor next, is nomilicious.
I think i386 became difficult to support a few years ago now, needing a few special tweaks to some things and even then, it was admitted there was becoming unlikely that anyone would still be wanting to use a modern distribution on them. There are plenty of old distributions available that can still be downloaded if anyone should so wish to play around with an i386... but yeah, i486 support shouldn't be on the agenda anymore for a modern desktop orientated distribution.
There always be some being used as routers, or small home servers though, even as X terminals. Maybe someone is even reading this on one.
Back in the days of Pentium 200mhz, I was running Slackware whose compile target was i386. Many of the applications could be speeded up by recompiling just a few of the most used libraries with optimizations for my AMD K6. Obviously the kernel was custom rolled, and at the time there was a different version of gcc available, called pgcc which generated even faster code for pentium computers.
I remember looking through the list of libraries my most used applications were linked with, and went through them re-compiling them. This was before Gentoo ever existed. I broke my system trying to install an optimized version of libc5.
Obviously, as mentioned in the article, almost no-one compiles their own systems these days, we just have to rely on the distributions to take care of that for us.
I couldn't agree more. If you question the people in charge, they would tell you its for our own good. We are so stupid, we have to be treated as ultra stupid just to stop our stupidity from being our downfall. I blame it on the US of course... we reverse-inherited it from you ;)
There has never been a better time to be stupid in history. I'm considering it myself... already started infact... meept!
Windows will be less important soon due to internet distributed applications, usable from any web browser. How long before games take a similar approach? How much longer before a plugin allow games full access to hardware via a web browser?
I can't imagine microsoft pushing this sort of ability, as applications through the browser as their OS is something that will eventually reduce them to being just another player.
The cross platform opportunities that will soon exist due to this means a new CPU architecture only has to be able to run a simple kernel and then the entire GNU et al collection which has been designed to compile on nearly every existing architecture shouldn't take too much bother.
Its not like they have to design a new OS anymore.
No, in the UK he would have been arrested and held under anti-terrorism laws too.
Damn right you are on that one... its perfect to watch on returning from the pub, a little merry but not so that you're tired. The state that if you hit the computer you're just going to say something that you later regret on Facebook, Slashdot or wherever you end up. Red Dwarf, or Southpark I find perfect for these situations.
I still do dual boot my rig... what I meant was that day to day I'm using windows, then if my friends are up for a game theres no need to reboot. Not to mention the way we keep track of where people are playing is X-Fire. If a friend is playing a game somewhere, you can just click to start playing the same game on the same server.
I have a server running Linux too.
If my world revolved around coding and system administration I'd be the same. Apart from the games, the machine is full of free/OSS software, but it doesn't run at the same speed as on Linux.
What should be important is that maybe next gen games should be released on Linux as a platform equal to Windows.
I was a long term Linux user, who went to XP just for the games. My gaming rig is waiting an RMA on a PSU, so rebuilt an old system and installed Slackware.
On an older machine with slower drives and a quarter the Ram, the responsiveness of the OS is amazing. If mainstream games were released for Linux I'd have no choice.
Sadly, I mainly use computers these days for relaxation, shopping and play, and if I'd continued as I set out, would no doubt be a full time Linux user... However, as a gamer, I put up with XP64 as a day to day OS.
I had a 14inch monitor I originally used with my Amiga but with X managed 1240x968 (or something like that). It was interlaced, and whined a bit. Every few months it needed a slightly different setting as for some reason it could no longer handle the frequency. I had to adjust vertical stretch to minimum and have the horizontal control all the way over to one side, and iirc a few lines along one edge were funny colored.
Been using Slackware for over 10 years ;)
Lets really get people worked up... who's with me on searching for Ebola?
Does it make anyone else smile when they spot the guy wearing the Frankie Says Relax shirt in the group photo in the booklet that came with UT3?