On the flip side, the old logo (though fun) was terribly amateurish, and impeded taking the OS seriously.
Actually, beastie is still the mascot, and this new thing is the logo.
From the competition home page:
Beastie will continue to represent the FreeBSD Project as our mascot. We won't kill Beastie. The closest logo-like thing that we have now is shown below, and we are looking for other options to be used like there. The new logo design may or may not include Beastie, or even a stylized representation. Again, Beastie is still alive!
(then it has http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif beneath)
Interesting. If your laptop is an Acer Aspire 3003, then I considered getting it, but went with a different one, simply because of the bad linux support I'd read about. If there had been linux drivers for the SiS graphics and the broadcom WiFi, then I'd probably have got it. I know you can use ndiswrapper for the wifi, but kismet doesn't like that.
I personally wouldn't mind having 2 internets. We could (well, probably not, but it'd be interesting) patch up the current one and make it much simpler, then build a brand new internet for all the geeks (with IPv6, so we can have our toasters on it as well). Then we could enjoy a really decent network. Of course it's not going to happen, but it'd be pretty cool. I imagine they would run on the same layer 1 hardware, but be separated in some way. Any idea on how this would be deployed?
Care to post the page where you found those images (if they're not yours)? I found a cool bloggy thing that had images very similar to that, and also some mock-ups of a possible 'wifi page' etc., but I lost the link:/
Actually, over here in the UK, Tesco (a supermarket chain) is advertising having a website where you check the prices of items both from tesco and other supermarkets such as Sainsbury's.
You are wrong. The part of the lawsuit that google lost was the part about an ad from another company mentioning geico. It was something like 'We are much better than geico!'. The GP was right.
100% with you on this one. Linux is simply too cool to be wasted on Joe Schmoe who just wants to play solitaire. If Joe here starts using it and complaining when he gets attacked, developers will tailor linux to Joe's needs, not ours.
Linux IS ready for the desktop. I'm using it here, on my desktop, right now, and it's great. Anyone who says it isn't should try using it. Maybe it's not ready for joe, but it's certainly ready for the desktop.
Yes. I thought of this. Why not make a torrent of every other torrent you have, and maybe people really interested in your stuff will grab the whole lot, and decide what to download after they get the bunch. Perhaps throw in an html page with whatever descriptions/titles you have already done on your site, and link to the local torrents. I think it would work.
Gee, thanks for modding me down. It's really what I do. Whenever a new cable requires fitting, it just goes in the pile, and doesn't need to be touched again. It's better than spending hours cable-tieing all the wires and needing to completely undo it every time you go to a LAN party. They don't bother me as they occupy only half a foot of area from the wall, and I can keep off them. Why is a complicated solution needed when a simple one will do?
Me too! If I'm saying something about someone (and I don't know their sex) I will refer to them using 'He' or 'Him' as the pronoun. It is much easier to understand 'He walked down the road' than 'They walked down the road' at which I'll get replys like 'Wait, I thought there was only one' (slightly OT, but I'm bored)
If you introduce them to the cool side of computers like the command line early on, but discourage games, then they'll get that good education and also want to go outside when the computer gets boring.
Take a look at the differences between Doom II and III. 3 certainly has much better graphics, and that definitely helps with the suspension of disbelief, but the gameplay is much the same. People are looking for new types of gameplay.I think UT2004 did this very well; It gave us Onslaught and Bombing Run.
You can have a game with really good gameplay, but bad graphics, and that's okay, but you can also have a game with stunning graphics that has absolutely terrible gameplay, and that's horrible to play. A good game needs to be fun to play, but immersion is also very, very important. I want feedback-gloves that shake when I fire a weapon, and when I get hit.
Games sell on graphics because that's what the people with the money want, and the people who notice the gameplay are getting annoyed.
"I meant that on a 50i display you should render 50 different pictures per second (i.e. each field is different) and that this looks much better than 25 different pictures per second, each repeated twice."
Hmm, I see what you mean, but with 50i you still only get 25 whole frames per second, and those are jumbled up, because you only get half a frame at a time. Despite the fact that the viewer's TV can only display 50i, It does look better if you have a full picture on the screen for every 1/25 of a second, rather than two half-pictures.
I beg to differ. Progressive video (25p) looks a lot better than interlaced video (50i); it looks more like it was taken with real film.
If you're trying to say that the animations should be rendered at 50p, then that's pointless. The final video (all together) can only reach the user at 50i, because that's how TVs display video.
This is all, of course, referring to UK normal PAL tv.
"I'm not sure that the new graphics are running at 50 frames per second... they look more like they're at 25 fps, which is really rather poor."
25 fps? That's the normal frame rate of PAL TV.
25 interlaced frames is not 50 deinterlaced frames. Interlaced means that the picture is made up of 2 half-frames, which is easier and cheaper to record, so It's 50 half frames.
I'm slightly concerned about the person who sent in this article. Look at the sort of news site they visit. Just look at the other news on there! 'Pimp of elementary schoolgirls arrested', 'Teacher sacked for molesting schoolgirl', and 'Teachers targeted in Shizuoka sex harassment scam'. Seems a little dodgey to me...
Yeah, what's the actual article?
Going from what i can see in the post, it looks like Stevie didn't get his way with the release, and id trying to tell the public that it wasn't his fault.
Slashdot Mirror
On the flip side, the old logo (though fun) was terribly amateurish, and impeded taking the OS seriously.
Actually, beastie is still the mascot, and this new thing is the logo.
From the competition home page:
Beastie will continue to represent the FreeBSD Project as our mascot. We won't kill Beastie. The closest logo-like thing that we have now is shown below, and we are looking for other options to be used like there. The new logo design may or may not include Beastie, or even a stylized representation. Again, Beastie is still alive!
(then it has http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif beneath)
Interesting. If your laptop is an Acer Aspire 3003, then I considered getting it, but went with a different one, simply because of the bad linux support I'd read about. If there had been linux drivers for the SiS graphics and the broadcom WiFi, then I'd probably have got it. I know you can use ndiswrapper for the wifi, but kismet doesn't like that.
I personally wouldn't mind having 2 internets. We could (well, probably not, but it'd be interesting) patch up the current one and make it much simpler, then build a brand new internet for all the geeks (with IPv6, so we can have our toasters on it as well). Then we could enjoy a really decent network.
Of course it's not going to happen, but it'd be pretty cool. I imagine they would run on the same layer 1 hardware, but be separated in some way. Any idea on how this would be deployed?
Care to post the page where you found those images (if they're not yours)? :/
I found a cool bloggy thing that had images very similar to that, and also some mock-ups of a possible 'wifi page' etc., but I lost the link
I was expelled from school and had gone to jail
/*'?
What did you do? 'rm -rf
Google caches of the first 2 pages (the rest aren't cached):
: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106+&hl=en
: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106%26perpage%3D1%26pagenum%3D2+&hl=en
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rqaS83p3KOIJ
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Lr5cn6b1v2sJ
Actually, over here in the UK, Tesco (a supermarket chain) is advertising having a website where you check the prices of items both from tesco and other supermarkets such as Sainsbury's.
You are wrong. The part of the lawsuit that google lost was the part about an ad from another company mentioning geico. It was something like 'We are much better than geico!'.
The GP was right.
100% with you on this one. Linux is simply too cool to be wasted on Joe Schmoe who just wants to play solitaire. If Joe here starts using it and complaining when he gets attacked, developers will tailor linux to Joe's needs, not ours.
Linux IS ready for the desktop. I'm using it here, on my desktop, right now, and it's great. Anyone who says it isn't should try using it.
Maybe it's not ready for joe, but it's certainly ready for the desktop.
Yes. I thought of this. Why not make a torrent of every other torrent you have, and maybe people really interested in your stuff will grab the whole lot, and decide what to download after they get the bunch.
Perhaps throw in an html page with whatever descriptions/titles you have already done on your site, and link to the local torrents. I think it would work.
(That wasn't very clear was it? Bah.)
Gee, thanks for modding me down. It's really what I do.
Whenever a new cable requires fitting, it just goes in the pile, and doesn't need to be touched again. It's better than spending hours cable-tieing all the wires and needing to completely undo it every time you go to a LAN party. They don't bother me as they occupy only half a foot of area from the wall, and I can keep off them. Why is a complicated solution needed when a simple one will do?
Just leave all the wires in a pile, in a corner. That's what I do anyway.
1998: Linux will be ready for the desktop next year!
s lashdot.org/
No kidding. Fire up the wayback machine!
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111190256/http://
(Look at the second from bottom)
Me too!
If I'm saying something about someone (and I don't know their sex) I will refer to them using 'He' or 'Him' as the pronoun.
It is much easier to understand 'He walked down the road' than 'They walked down the road' at which I'll get replys like 'Wait, I thought there was only one'
(slightly OT, but I'm bored)
If you introduce them to the cool side of computers like the command line early on, but discourage games, then they'll get that good education and also want to go outside when the computer gets boring.
http://bash.org/?367896 anyone?
They are values from 1 to 10.
From The Article:
Each term in the formula is assigned a value up to a maximum of 10 to give an overall scientific score.
Take a look at the differences between Doom II and III. 3 certainly has much better graphics, and that definitely helps with the suspension of disbelief, but the gameplay is much the same. People are looking for new types of gameplay.I think UT2004 did this very well; It gave us Onslaught and Bombing Run.
You can have a game with really good gameplay, but bad graphics, and that's okay, but you can also have a game with stunning graphics that has absolutely terrible gameplay, and that's horrible to play.
A good game needs to be fun to play, but immersion is also very, very important. I want feedback-gloves that shake when I fire a weapon, and when I get hit.
Games sell on graphics because that's what the people with the money want, and the people who notice the gameplay are getting annoyed.
"I meant that on a 50i display you should render 50 different pictures per second (i.e. each field is different) and that this looks much better than 25 different pictures per second, each repeated twice."
Hmm, I see what you mean, but with 50i you still only get 25 whole frames per second, and those are jumbled up, because you only get half a frame at a time. Despite the fact that the viewer's TV can only display 50i, It does look better if you have a full picture on the screen for every 1/25 of a second, rather than two half-pictures.
I beg to differ. Progressive video (25p) looks a lot better than interlaced video (50i); it looks more like it was taken with real film.
If you're trying to say that the animations should be rendered at 50p, then that's pointless. The final video (all together) can only reach the user at 50i, because that's how TVs display video.
This is all, of course, referring to UK normal PAL tv.
"I'm not sure that the new graphics are running at 50 frames per second... they look more like they're at 25 fps, which is really rather poor."
25 fps? That's the normal frame rate of PAL TV.
25 interlaced frames is not 50 deinterlaced frames. Interlaced means that the picture is made up of 2 half-frames, which is easier and cheaper to record, so It's 50 half frames.
A massive global pr0n database?
I'm slightly concerned about the person who sent in this article. Look at the sort of news site they visit. Just look at the other news on there!
'Pimp of elementary schoolgirls arrested',
'Teacher sacked for molesting schoolgirl', and
'Teachers targeted in Shizuoka sex harassment scam'.
Seems a little dodgey to me...
Please, please. We all know that the people arguing against OCing are just the wimps with pentiums. We AMD guys are teh 31337357 :P
Links?
Yeah, what's the actual article? Going from what i can see in the post, it looks like Stevie didn't get his way with the release, and id trying to tell the public that it wasn't his fault.