The vast majority of PC games use DirectX. DirectX has more than driven the market for the past decade, it's defined it. All major GPUs' feature set were defined by DirectX, with OpenGL largely trailing behind. OGL is catching up these days, but most games are still focused exclusively for DirectX.
maybe the market is changing... steam wants to embrace the linux community with its steam-for-linux move.
maybe they are betting on the OGL-trail for future games, and the more rapid development through the demand from linux users and hopefully OGL
developers to make this the standard and forget about further developing directx for games and grafic cards altogether...
maybe steam knows things about the directx development we're only becoming aware of.
Your Egyptian friends are correct: the army has ties to almost every family in Egypt thanks to conscription. It would be unthinkable that a tank gunner would shoot in the crowd of protesters, no matter what order would be given from the generals. The lower tiers of the army are tightly knit into the society and are therefore more keen on joining the protesters. But the problem might lie at the top of the army, appointed by Mubarak. Could be the army faces a dilemma now. The people of Egypt know very well that the top of the army loyally followed Mubarak's policy until now. Only in the last weeks they chose to stand aside and not intervene, keeping order in the streets. It may well be that the people of Egypt will agree to the army acting as a transformation government towards democratic elections, but they may demand that the army's top posts be replaced and purified of Mubarak's 'pawns'. Honestly I think this 'revolution' will also have consequences for the relationships with the US and Israel as well, though I don't expect things will radically turn out for the worse. The drive of the protests was against corruption, against the institutional barriers for the Egyptians to have a career, and towards a democracy. Only thing is, this democracy has yet to take form. Political parties have to take form. So it's a good thing the army is there to avoid chaos in the country until democratic elections can be organized.
Not only Google causes it.
Before the electronic calculator, students and people in general had to do (and could do) simple maths in their heads.
Before the cellphone (remember the days?) I was able to memorise over 60 phone numbers by heart (i'm a journalist). Since the cell took that job from my brain, I don't have to remember anymore, so my brain doesn't memorise the numbers anymore. Google works the same way, and the computer in general works the same way. As computers and electronic memories tend to become more portable, they take over more and more tasks from our brain. Therefore the memory problem will increase for a lot of people.
So my advise is, throw away your electronic notebook and use a pen and a paper notebook to help you memorise things (Post-Its don't count:-). Try to do the math in your head. Do crosswords, sudoku and the like to solve problems in your head. Memorise at least 6 things on your to-do list by heart. Memorise your appointment schedule for the next week. Try to remember the names of the people you meet. Write down as much as possible by hand. It will increase the quality of your handwriting and the memory capacity of your brain.
On the other hand, be very discriminant in the things you want to remember. In times of information overflow this is the first and foremost thing to do. Memorise what you will need on a daily basis, not what you need to know when you play Trivial Pursuit:-).
It's good practice NOT to have your monitor too close to a wall. mine is about 15ft from the closest wall, and it allows to refocus the eyes to a longer distance away from the screen.
if americans switch to metric, the conversion should take approximately 5 years.
look at the introduction of the euro in europe. in the beginning it was hell to switch from dozens of monetary units to only one. we europeans were used to converting every time we got abroad, because every country had its own monetary unit.
converting italian lires to euro, spanish pesetas to euro, deutschmarks to euro, french and belgian francs to euro. a lot of people used conversion calculators in the years the euro was introduced, now they are quite obsolete, and now we don't have to convert anymore. it takes some time to get accustomed to something new.
but that's all it takes: time, not a lifetime.
after that, it might even be easier to think in factors x10 or/10. like in dollars and cents (not nickles and dimes).
the whole planet has become reachable for more and more people and lots of people travel and work abroad. so adopting to only one measurement system seems logical to me. even if it feels awkward at the beginning, the human mind is flexible enough to get accustomed to changes.
btw, only the british refused to switch to euro, yet they officially dumped the imperial system.
today, crt. tomorrow, lcd
on
Plasma or LCD?
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i'm talking tv now, not game monitor.
as long as the cable and satellite companies broadcast
analog video signals, the images are crap on lcd and plasma.
once you get a decent digital (and/or) HD-video, go for lcd.
for most of the above reasons (next to price).
fork the further development of Ooo
into a Novell (Microsoft) and a Debian fork.
see how far the Microsoft influence goes,
and see how far the FSF influence goes.
THEN choose your pick.
try jajah, not jahjah.
and it is a very useable tool,
original poster should read
this interview
with one of the co-founders of jajah to get a more accurate view
on the topic.
as distro's change you have to buy new books to keep up.
ubuntu is very user-friendly (i use it now after starting with debian in 98, getting on with mandrake in 2000, going forth wit mandriva until 2 months ago. i just wonder if buying a book will inspire people to visit help sites, forums, newsgroups etc. to learn more once they have to upgrade Ubuntu, or install new (unknown) software, and learn that not everything is point-and-click like windows makes them believe. use of the terminal is a must, IN
ANY LINUX DISTRO. we are talking to a non-DOS generation here.
Hoax or not, it made a lot of ff-users discover the https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ noscript-extention : Total Downloads: 10088615 -- Downloads this Week: 223225. So noscript possibly made the 10 million download cape because of this hoax. I am sure not everyone installed noscript because of this so-called js-vulnerability, but a lot of people did, and discovered that a lot of useful websites (like/.) work perfectly without javascript. Other sites, however, will look like sh** without it.
Web developers, think twice before you implement javascript, please, and provide a non-js alternative.
Let's face it: mp3 will remain the format for a lot of years to come. But I think portability, and the need of choice for a lot of people to play whatever they want to hear whenever they want to hear it, pushes them to paying for playlists and getting the music to them wireless. Now I'm filling my hdd with things I heard on the radio, and I wanted to hear them back. If I listen to the radio, I want to hear that song they played within the next five minutes if possible.So music on demand will precede video on demand, not on a stationary computer, but on portable players. Sony and Apple are getting that way. But that's just my humble opinium as a customer.
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The vast majority of PC games use DirectX. DirectX has more than driven the market for the past decade, it's defined it. All major GPUs' feature set were defined by DirectX, with OpenGL largely trailing behind. OGL is catching up these days, but most games are still focused exclusively for DirectX.
maybe the market is changing... steam wants to embrace the linux community with its steam-for-linux move. maybe they are betting on the OGL-trail for future games, and the more rapid development through the demand from linux users and hopefully OGL developers to make this the standard and forget about further developing directx for games and grafic cards altogether... maybe steam knows things about the directx development we're only becoming aware of.
Your Egyptian friends are correct: the army has ties to almost every family in Egypt thanks to conscription. It would be unthinkable that a tank gunner would shoot in the crowd of protesters, no matter what order would be given from the generals. The lower tiers of the army are tightly knit into the society and are therefore more keen on joining the protesters. But the problem might lie at the top of the army, appointed by Mubarak. Could be the army faces a dilemma now. The people of Egypt know very well that the top of the army loyally followed Mubarak's policy until now. Only in the last weeks they chose to stand aside and not intervene, keeping order in the streets. It may well be that the people of Egypt will agree to the army acting as a transformation government towards democratic elections, but they may demand that the army's top posts be replaced and purified of Mubarak's 'pawns'. Honestly I think this 'revolution' will also have consequences for the relationships with the US and Israel as well, though I don't expect things will radically turn out for the worse. The drive of the protests was against corruption, against the institutional barriers for the Egyptians to have a career, and towards a democracy. Only thing is, this democracy has yet to take form. Political parties have to take form. So it's a good thing the army is there to avoid chaos in the country until democratic elections can be organized.
be it in stone or the internet. good luck in finding out the liar and the truthsayer.
Not only Google causes it. Before the electronic calculator, students and people in general had to do (and could do) simple maths in their heads. Before the cellphone (remember the days?) I was able to memorise over 60 phone numbers by heart (i'm a journalist). Since the cell took that job from my brain, I don't have to remember anymore, so my brain doesn't memorise the numbers anymore. Google works the same way, and the computer in general works the same way. As computers and electronic memories tend to become more portable, they take over more and more tasks from our brain. Therefore the memory problem will increase for a lot of people. So my advise is, throw away your electronic notebook and use a pen and a paper notebook to help you memorise things (Post-Its don't count:-). Try to do the math in your head. Do crosswords, sudoku and the like to solve problems in your head. Memorise at least 6 things on your to-do list by heart. Memorise your appointment schedule for the next week. Try to remember the names of the people you meet. Write down as much as possible by hand. It will increase the quality of your handwriting and the memory capacity of your brain. On the other hand, be very discriminant in the things you want to remember. In times of information overflow this is the first and foremost thing to do. Memorise what you will need on a daily basis, not what you need to know when you play Trivial Pursuit:-).
It's good practice NOT to have your monitor too close to a wall. mine is about 15ft from the closest wall, and it allows to refocus the eyes to a longer distance away from the screen.
I just watched the video with flash 9 beta for linux. no problem. you find it here.
if americans switch to metric, the conversion should take approximately 5 years.
/10.
look at the introduction of the euro in europe.
in the beginning it was hell to switch from dozens of monetary units to only one.
we europeans were used to converting every time we got abroad,
because every country had its own monetary unit.
converting italian lires to euro, spanish pesetas to euro, deutschmarks to euro, french and belgian francs to euro.
a lot of people used conversion calculators in the years the euro was introduced,
now they are quite obsolete, and now we don't have to convert anymore.
it takes some time to get accustomed to something new.
but that's all it takes: time, not a lifetime.
after that, it might even be easier to think in factors x10 or
like in dollars and cents (not nickles and dimes).
the whole planet has become reachable for more and more people
and lots of people travel and work abroad.
so adopting to only one measurement system seems logical to me.
even if it feels awkward at the beginning, the human mind is
flexible enough to get accustomed to changes.
btw, only the british refused to switch to euro,
yet they officially dumped the imperial system.
i'm talking tv now, not game monitor. as long as the cable and satellite companies broadcast analog video signals, the images are crap on lcd and plasma. once you get a decent digital (and/or) HD-video, go for lcd. for most of the above reasons (next to price).
fork the further development of Ooo into a Novell (Microsoft) and a Debian fork. see how far the Microsoft influence goes, and see how far the FSF influence goes. THEN choose your pick.
Windows IS a computer drug.
because there is more than one way to do it.
try jajah, not jahjah. and it is a very useable tool, original poster should read this interview with one of the co-founders of jajah to get a more accurate view on the topic.
my sincere greeting to the guys and gals to make it possible. sharing knowledge is where it all starts. hope it goes on. carpe diem,
as distro's change you have to buy new books to keep up. ubuntu is very user-friendly (i use it now after starting with debian in 98, getting on with mandrake in 2000, going forth wit mandriva until 2 months ago. i just wonder if buying a book will inspire people to visit help sites, forums, newsgroups etc. to learn more once they have to upgrade Ubuntu, or install new (unknown) software, and learn that not everything is point-and-click like windows makes them believe. use of the terminal is a must, IN ANY LINUX DISTRO. we are talking to a non-DOS generation here.
Hoax or not, it made a lot of ff-users discover the https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ noscript-extention : Total Downloads: 10088615 -- Downloads this Week: 223225. So noscript possibly made the 10 million download cape because of this hoax. I am sure not everyone installed noscript because of this so-called js-vulnerability, but a lot of people did, and discovered that a lot of useful websites (like /.) work perfectly without javascript. Other sites, however, will look like sh** without it.
Web developers, think twice before you implement javascript, please, and provide a non-js alternative.
Let's face it: mp3 will remain the format for a lot of years to come. But I think portability, and the need of choice for a lot of people to play whatever they want to hear whenever they want to hear it, pushes them to paying for playlists and getting the music to them wireless. Now I'm filling my hdd with things I heard on the radio, and I wanted to hear them back. If I listen to the radio, I want to hear that song they played within the next five minutes if possible.So music on demand will precede video on demand, not on a stationary computer, but on portable players. Sony and Apple are getting that way. But that's just my humble opinium as a customer.