Actually, Vista SP1 and XP SP3 have been in concurrent development. A few days ago betas of both SP1 and SP3 were leaked, causing the closed beta program to be shut down.
FF32 had over that in it's first 24 hours, and that was without the same degree of hype that Safari is getting.
Cut the fanboyism and clean off that foam around the mouth.
Indeed. Most of the comments so far have been along the "It's just for iPhone dev!" line, but anyone who actually reads the Apple rhetoric instead of the reports of apple apologists attempting to make up for what a worthless browser it is would realize that.
I don't think anybody who actually has any experience with the GP2X would call it a "crappy knockoff handheld." It's a completely open Linux system with dual ARMs and emulators for many, many past consoles, plus native ports of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, etc...
Nexuiz and Warsow are both superior graphically to about anything listed on there, and both include advanced engine features such as dynamic lighting. Nexuiz is based on a (heavily modified) Quake 1 engine, with QuakeC support still intact for ease of modding, and Warsow is based on similar modifications for Quake 2.
Raytracing, by definition, is not hardware-accelerated. Of course the RSX isn't being used. Much more impressive is the cluster that, a few years ago, ran raytraced Quake 3.
Actually, WGA isn't really working. There's currently a crack floating around that simulates an OEM BIOS, and always checks out A-OK on WGA checks and associated scum.
x64 is Microsoft's term for the similar, and mostly compatible, 64-bit extensions in AMD and Intel processors. In this case, the usage is completely correct.
Hardly the best. It was decent a few years ago, but now the graphics are EXTREMELY dated compared to other games. It's essentially a standalone Q3 mod, which is, I suppose, nice, but not great.
There are some important free games that they neglected to mention.
Nexuiz, for instance. High quality open-source deathmatch game running on the Darkplaces engine, which is arguably superior to quite a bit of the stuff currently on the market. (Read: Source.) There's also Warsow and Alien Arena, both with similar premises to Nexuiz. These all have excellent graphics, and make up in fun what they lack in imagination in terms of gameplay.
Neither Mac OS or Windows have, or have ever had, "3d windows" or a 3D desktop. Ever. All they have is transparency, provided by a hardware-accelerated UI, DirectX in Windows and OpenGL in Mac OS. The only OSes that have really had a true 3D desktop are UNIX flavors running Looking Glass.
Exactly. At the very least it should be saving the email and sending it later, not just ignoring it. It is not that complicated; it's cetainly technically feasible.
Of course, this is Earthlink we're talking about. I used to have these guys as my ISP before cable became widely available, and the system for connecting was a mess (If you tried to use Outlook instead of Outlook Express, for instance, it would require uninstalling/reinstalling their client software.)
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Actually, Vista SP1 and XP SP3 have been in concurrent development. A few days ago betas of both SP1 and SP3 were leaked, causing the closed beta program to be shut down.
Bullshit. They directly compare two charts - one with IE, Safari, and FF, and then a "future chart," with only IE and Safari.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html
It's been released, and is on the Fourth Edition.
FF32 had over that in it's first 24 hours, and that was without the same degree of hype that Safari is getting. Cut the fanboyism and clean off that foam around the mouth.
Indeed. Most of the comments so far have been along the "It's just for iPhone dev!" line, but anyone who actually reads the Apple rhetoric instead of the reports of apple apologists attempting to make up for what a worthless browser it is would realize that.
I don't think anybody who actually has any experience with the GP2X would call it a "crappy knockoff handheld." It's a completely open Linux system with dual ARMs and emulators for many, many past consoles, plus native ports of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, etc...
The team you're looking for is the Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit is the Red Wings.
The main difference is that it's not ancient. We're up to .NET 3.0 now. Rotor (at least the cross-platform version) was 1.x.
You realize Steam is free, right?
To the other commenters, the Mac download exists. The Linux hasn't been released yet, but it IS under development.
It is actually cross-platform. WPF/E or Silverlight, as it is now called, supports both Linux and Mac OS systems.
Yeah. I was pointing out other things that might be of interest to the /. community. Cut the snark.
Nexuiz and Warsow are both superior graphically to about anything listed on there, and both include advanced engine features such as dynamic lighting. Nexuiz is based on a (heavily modified) Quake 1 engine, with QuakeC support still intact for ease of modding, and Warsow is based on similar modifications for Quake 2.
nexuiz.com
warsow.net
Raytracing, by definition, is not hardware-accelerated. Of course the RSX isn't being used. Much more impressive is the cluster that, a few years ago, ran raytraced Quake 3.
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http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter
Actually, WGA isn't really working. There's currently a crack floating around that simulates an OEM BIOS, and always checks out A-OK on WGA checks and associated scum.
Conveniantly, it got overturned a few days ago.
He didn't write it. He's primarily a businessman.
Then why is Windows XP for Intel and AMD 64-bit machines called "Windows XP x64 Edition"?
x64 is Microsoft's term for the similar, and mostly compatible, 64-bit extensions in AMD and Intel processors. In this case, the usage is completely correct.
No. World Wind is based on the .NET framework, so you might have some success with Mono, but no native Mac or Linux version is available at this time.
Hardly the best. It was decent a few years ago, but now the graphics are EXTREMELY dated compared to other games. It's essentially a standalone Q3 mod, which is, I suppose, nice, but not great.
There are some important free games that they neglected to mention.
Nexuiz, for instance. High quality open-source deathmatch game running on the Darkplaces engine, which is arguably superior to quite a bit of the stuff currently on the market. (Read: Source.) There's also Warsow and Alien Arena, both with similar premises to Nexuiz. These all have excellent graphics, and make up in fun what they lack in imagination in terms of gameplay.
Neither Mac OS or Windows have, or have ever had, "3d windows" or a 3D desktop. Ever. All they have is transparency, provided by a hardware-accelerated UI, DirectX in Windows and OpenGL in Mac OS. The only OSes that have really had a true 3D desktop are UNIX flavors running Looking Glass.
In all probability, Apple is holding back some fairly important key technologies to be included in a later dev release. Remember that
a. Apple is secretive by nature
b. Leopard is still very early in development
Exactly. At the very least it should be saving the email and sending it later, not just ignoring it. It is not that complicated; it's cetainly technically feasible. Of course, this is Earthlink we're talking about. I used to have these guys as my ISP before cable became widely available, and the system for connecting was a mess (If you tried to use Outlook instead of Outlook Express, for instance, it would require uninstalling/reinstalling their client software.)