...I really with they'd come out with decent Linux support. I mean, come on guys, 1280x1024@75Hz is the max screen size you can do with fglrx in your driver?
Would you even begin to contemplate a 20% to 30% increase in R&D expenditure to address what is effectively a non-existent market?
We have a severe chicken and egg problem here. Until games support linux directly the market will stay small. That won't happen if the drivers suck, nobody will put money into better drivers if there is not market.
There is a defacto standard that works relatively well (and keeps getting better) until that changes gaming on linux is king of screwed. But don't go blaming the video card vendors, they're just watching the bottom line.
Another world changing technology that's just around the corner.
Just for fun, if you're old enough, try to remember what things were like 35 years ago in the mid 70's:
The internet was essentially a private network that most of us didn't hear about until the late 80s...
No PCs, a portable computer was a dummy terminal PRINTER with a 300 baud modem
Cell phones the size of lunch boxes
Giant floppy disks with less that 1MB capacity.
These days the average (new) cell phone is more powerful than all the computing resources used by the Apollo program. Heck I carry my ENTIRE music collection around with me every day!
Now try to imagine the world in 35 years.... it's just around the corner.
You are correct that it wasn't really a new problem, it had been going on for months but the ToC instances just put everything over the top so that most high-pop servers were completely overloaded.
The fix was that now all instances belong to a pool of servers now - which will eventually allow instance sharing across realms (that is - a party of players on different realms) once its switched on.
That aligns with what I gathered. The biggest problem was that it took almost a month to roll the fix out to all the battlegroups. The solution was "known" for at least three weeks before my server saw any improvements.
That was what occurred to me first. But I really didn't want to engage in (yet another) anti-nationalistic rant. Sadly for the majority of the business world a migration away from Windows is still a pipe dream.
Moblin? What is it - a combination of "goblin" and a "mob"? No matter how I read it, the associations I get are just very negative. Can't sell a product with a name like that.
Interesting logic. I guess it's also hard for you to sell a product that's named after something as fragile as a pane of glass then?
It's a really odd feeling to loot for a British tech company. A British tech company. That's so... unnatural.
Indeed, my grandfather wrote an article about the demise of British technology about 50 years ago when his employer closed up shop and he had to take a job with Monsanto.
If lightning hit your house and you had no protection/conditioning circuitry ANY light or device you have plugged in is at serious risk anyway
Which is the norm in North America. Sadly it only costs about $100 to install surge protector between the mains and the fuse/breaker box but I had never even heard of them until last week.
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens...
Hmm... Battlestar Galactica, Star Gate, Zombie Jesus... If only I could stick to one set of mythology...
Get rid of nut jobs like Dawkins and focus on real hard science. When you have people trying to pick a fight with religion rather than focusing on reproducible science, people lose interest.
Excellent point. The religionists make enough trouble between each other without putting science in their targets as well.
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So, while Joel may be talking down (he has to consider a relatively wide audience, too), your perceptions might be a reflection more of yourself.
Crap... that must mean I'm a raging ego-maniac. I always feel like Joel is talking to me peer-to-peer!
Don't forget, installing satan's chrome frame means your children and all their family will suffer for all eternity, in HELL!
For some reason yet undisclosed by MS.
All the good little satanists already run google chrome on linux.
IE is just transformed into a dumb container for somebody else's browser
IE is already a dumb container for the MSHTML control.
...I really with they'd come out with decent Linux support. I mean, come on guys, 1280x1024@75Hz is the max screen size you can do with fglrx in your driver?
Would you even begin to contemplate a 20% to 30% increase in R&D expenditure to address what is effectively a non-existent market?
We have a severe chicken and egg problem here. Until games support linux directly the market will stay small. That won't happen if the drivers suck, nobody will put money into better drivers if there is not market.
There is a defacto standard that works relatively well (and keeps getting better) until that changes gaming on linux is king of screwed. But don't go blaming the video card vendors, they're just watching the bottom line.
Nuclear fusion was just around the corner. So were high efficiency solar cells. Some things got a lot better. Some things didn't.
Have you read Robert Heinlein's essays on the foolishness of trying to predict the future?
There's an app for that.
You might be aiming for +funny by tapping that meme, but it turns out you're right.
Another world changing technology that's just around the corner.
Just for fun, if you're old enough, try to remember what things were like 35 years ago in the mid 70's:
These days the average (new) cell phone is more powerful than all the computing resources used by the Apollo program. Heck I carry my ENTIRE music collection around with me every day!
Now try to imagine the world in 35 years.... it's just around the corner.
... and what you thought were the most special moments of your life were all a lie.
Thanks... and I was having such a great Monday too...
What did his jaw do when he tried to watch some fullscreen youtube videos?
I would suggest that preventing the growth of youtube to be a public service.
You are correct that it wasn't really a new problem, it had been going on for months but the ToC instances just put everything over the top so that most high-pop servers were completely overloaded.
The fix was that now all instances belong to a pool of servers now - which will eventually allow instance sharing across realms (that is - a party of players on different realms) once its switched on.
That aligns with what I gathered. The biggest problem was that it took almost a month to roll the fix out to all the battlegroups. The solution was "known" for at least three weeks before my server saw any improvements.
A better analogy would be countries.
That was what occurred to me first. But I really didn't want to engage in (yet another) anti-nationalistic rant. Sadly for the majority of the business world a migration away from Windows is still a pipe dream.
Moblin? What is it - a combination of "goblin" and a "mob"? No matter how I read it, the associations I get are just very negative. Can't sell a product with a name like that.
Interesting logic. I guess it's also hard for you to sell a product that's named after something as fragile as a pane of glass then?
As a product of British manufacture, is it safe to assume it will spend most of its lifetime at the computer repair shop?
Or on strike.
It's a really odd feeling to loot for a British tech company. A British tech company. That's so... unnatural.
Indeed, my grandfather wrote an article about the demise of British technology about 50 years ago when his employer closed up shop and he had to take a job with Monsanto.
I suppose Ubuntu Linux is just chopped liver.
C'mon people. Wake up! There are tons of operating systems out there. Some are even better than Windows! *gasp*
There are also other planets than Earth, which is equally relevant.
If lightning hit your house and you had no protection/conditioning circuitry ANY light or device you have plugged in is at serious risk anyway
Which is the norm in North America. Sadly it only costs about $100 to install surge protector between the mains and the fuse/breaker box but I had never even heard of them until last week.
A hit! A palpable hit!
We're native to earth.
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens...
Hmm... Battlestar Galactica, Star Gate, Zombie Jesus... If only I could stick to one set of mythology...
Only worth about 10$? You're crazy, I'd pay up to 20$ for such a drive!
Heck, I'd even pay $25 Canadian!
Mod parent redundant. :)
Get rid of nut jobs like Dawkins and focus on real hard science. When you have people trying to pick a fight with religion rather than focusing on reproducible science, people lose interest.
Excellent point. The religionists make enough trouble between each other without putting science in their targets as well.
"all you have to do is throw your old Windows disc in the drive and point it at that.
Very true but sadly the vast majority of mass-consumer machines did not ship with install media.
so I can readily accept that Research has not jumped on the Symphony bandwagon yet.
Its not that we haven't jumped on it.... it's that we tried it out and opened up the engine... and found that this bandwagon has no legs.
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But, then again, don't corporate programmers prostitute themselves already?
Corporate programmers are like the hooker with the heart of gold. We ENJOY it.
presumably the meaning has been extended to refer to the plastic case around the edge of the monitor screen in this context.
At least 15 years ago... that was what they were called back when I was selling 486 hardware. Welcome to the 21st century.