Benchmarking the game in windows, natively on linux and on linux through translation is the ultimate in comparisons, really. Being able to compare all three lets you know a lot more about the overhead of cedega than simply having the windows and cedega performances compared. Reversely, without the windows version, you wouldn't know if the hypothetical performance difference between cedega and pure linux is a matter of overhead or port quality.
He used two different machines, both showed problems, and the machines had both survived stress tests in both XP and Ubuntu recently. I'd suggest you actually read the article if it weren't choking on flash.
I'm yet to experience a spinning beach ball of death. Or, at least, bad enough that I couldn't open a terminal, open top, and kill whatever the offending process was.
completely off topic, but a feature I *love* in debian's installer (and, by transitivity, Ubunutu's old one) is the keyboard layout selection thing. I think it's extraordinarily interesting to just ask the user to"press one of these keys" a few times, and figure out what keyboard layout it is from the answers. A friend of mine who's a PhD student in my university just commented something to the effect of "I suppose sysadmins love that thing when they have to install this stuff for a foreign student with a foreign keyboard".
Damned lack of editing capabilities. I just remembered I *did* have some issues with my iBook rebooting itself. But that was over some rather flaky Andrews File System drivers I was fiddling with, and instead of a blue screen of death I got a nice and polite note informing me that OS X had detected a major error and that I was required to reboot the computer. And this was all presented in a rather pleasantly designed transparent gray window overlaid on top of the working environment.
Ok, so I'd actually rather have a midly informative error covered with near indeciphrable hex, but, indeed, few people would ever successfully use that message. The only time I ever figured the bloody thing out was a friend's computer that was crashing hard. And it wasn't so much out of the error message meaning something to me that did it as it was the fact that the crash mentioned a "wzsomething.dll", and it occurred every time he right clicked something. A flash of light later and I realized it was the WinZip module that handles context menus that was seriously borked and fatally crashing explorer (on a win98 box). But this doesn't happen everyday.
I haven't had a BSOD or a funky reboot on my XP install in the last year. It's getting to that sluggish as hell bit-rot kind of state, but otherwise pretty stable. I also *never* had my various Linux installs randomly reboot on me, or issue a kernel panic mid-session (though my first attempts at installing slackware on my old pc always failed with a kernel panic on boot from the CD -- due to a faulty memory module), and my iBook never randomly rebooted either. But that's hardly a commendation. It's what I feel I'm entitled to expect from my computers.
My complaints with Vista are that my experience with RC2 was bad, and most of the issues I had are reflected in one way or another in [H]'s article. I didn't get the BSOD derivatives, but instead had several sound problems, and Vista simply wouldn't make my dual-display setup work: I'd simply get white noise covering the windows (but not the background, and the noise would follow the windows). I also found it complicated to use.
I'll clarify on what I mean by complicated. There's this funny thing in python (just run the line
import this
on an interactive shell to see the full text) that says "Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated". I fully agree. I rate OSX as simple, and most linux distros I've had concact with as complex (I find both ubuntu and XP to be somewhere in between). When I want to do some things in slack or debian, I might have to dig around a bit more to get them done, but it's usually a matter of installing a package or two, changing 2 or 3 settings in some.conf files or perhaps just changing permissions on some file and it's done. Most of this stuff is well documented and moderately easy to find. Ubuntu makes most of these things a lot easier to cope with or completely transparent, and XP also manages to make administration moderately easy, even when it involves some obscure sub menu inside one of the opaquely named item in the administrative tools section of the control panel. OS X is kind of like a butler, and I'm yet to have to actually configure things beyond a matter of personal preference (rather than function), almost like having your personal butler -- exception being getting CGI to work on Apache (I'm funny that way), which required some good old.conf editing.
Vista, however, felt complicated, intrusive, and stupid. If I run a program installer or change some setting, I don't want to be asked whether I *really* meant to run or change it. Either you make sure I really am who I say I am (ie, the computer owner/administrator), or you keep out of my way. Imagine a bouncer at the entrance to a disco or pub that, instead of asking for some ID to check whether you're really over 18, just asks "are you sure you want to go in?" -- that's what it felt like.
Python also plays the "hash table is my primary data structure" game, and some neat tricks can be pulled off from there (minor stuff in selfmodifying code, at least).
Those two points are the canonical points for trans-atlantic travel for google maps. look at the carefully written notes on how to get to the right warf. It is of course an easter egg.
Also, since they are standardised on Windows desktops, you presumably have Windows support people. Get them to maintain your desktop and don't worry about it.
You can't possibly be serious. All I've seen or heard is tales of woe when you put your personal machine in the hands of the "support people", who, in my experience, basically tell you to make backups of the important stuff and wipe your disk and copy over the standard disk image if you complain about problems.
It may sound like a fanboy's whine, but I really think that Ultima Underworld *really* deserves a place in this sort of top ten. Sure, it wasn't really the most culturally influential game ever, not having had the impact of either Wolfenstein or Doom. But in 1991, the year of Wolf 3D's release, Ultima Underworld achieved technically things that even Doom was far from accomplishing in 1993. Sloping floors? Check. True 3D, with scenery on top of other pieces of scenery? Check. Jumping around? Check. Dynamic Light? Check, to a measure. Stuck on top of this is an interesting plot that's a fair bit more interesting than the "save the damsel in distress" hook you're given, and a pretty high level of interactivity.
Considering the game doesn't start until max level, how is this even relevant?
This is one of the dumbest concepts that's hammered by WoW players is this. I'm pretty sick of that perspective, really. There are dozens of things to do until lvl60 (or, rather, 70), and I for one don't want to level my brand spanking new Blood Elf Paladin to 70 only to find out I have zero experience tanking/healing and will therefore suck worse than a $5 hooker. There's tons of content to explore before the elder game, and grinding past it as if it were absent is really a waste.
Might be, but unless the original crimes were perpetrated online, I don't think it's at all fair. Criminals they may be, and of a particularly nefarious sort, but they still have rights, and restricting those rights as a safety measure is reasonable, but should be applied in moderation
If this sounds like too much protection of a sex offender's rights, think banning a murderer from buying knives because they are a popular murder weapon. Computers today are WAY too much of a general-purpose tool to go banning people from using them without good reason.
Actually, this document is a scanned image, the next one you find might be the text log of a court hearing. Using PDF means that you use one reader for both, and it "just works".
TeX isn't a document format per se. It's a programming language entirely geared for publishing. In its standard version it outputs DVI (DeVice Independent) files, which are pretty decent, and there are also PostScript and PDF versions of it, which, incidentally, are the ones that see the most use.
If you ask your friends in the publishing area, they'll probably tell you they use the.ps version, because most high end printers actually understand the stuff natively
For someone who's complaining about editors not reading the article, you did a good job of missing something yourself: the "10 minute reboots" are said in the article to be planned to be applied off-peak.
that's the GP's whole point: With this in place, if they have to reboot at a "random" time to recover from problems with the hot maintenance, you can't plan your runs around it
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Benchmarking the game in windows, natively on linux and on linux through translation is the ultimate in comparisons, really. Being able to compare all three lets you know a lot more about the overhead of cedega than simply having the windows and cedega performances compared. Reversely, without the windows version, you wouldn't know if the hypothetical performance difference between cedega and pure linux is a matter of overhead or port quality.
Don't you mean speciesist?
He used two different machines, both showed problems, and the machines had both survived stress tests in both XP and Ubuntu recently. I'd suggest you actually read the article if it weren't choking on flash.
I'm yet to experience a spinning beach ball of death. Or, at least, bad enough that I couldn't open a terminal, open top, and kill whatever the offending process was.
completely off topic, but a feature I *love* in debian's installer (and, by transitivity, Ubunutu's old one) is the keyboard layout selection thing. I think it's extraordinarily interesting to just ask the user to"press one of these keys" a few times, and figure out what keyboard layout it is from the answers. A friend of mine who's a PhD student in my university just commented something to the effect of "I suppose sysadmins love that thing when they have to install this stuff for a foreign student with a foreign keyboard".
Damned lack of editing capabilities. I just remembered I *did* have some issues with my iBook rebooting itself. But that was over some rather flaky Andrews File System drivers I was fiddling with, and instead of a blue screen of death I got a nice and polite note informing me that OS X had detected a major error and that I was required to reboot the computer. And this was all presented in a rather pleasantly designed transparent gray window overlaid on top of the working environment.
Ok, so I'd actually rather have a midly informative error covered with near indeciphrable hex, but, indeed, few people would ever successfully use that message. The only time I ever figured the bloody thing out was a friend's computer that was crashing hard. And it wasn't so much out of the error message meaning something to me that did it as it was the fact that the crash mentioned a "wzsomething.dll", and it occurred every time he right clicked something. A flash of light later and I realized it was the WinZip module that handles context menus that was seriously borked and fatally crashing explorer (on a win98 box). But this doesn't happen everyday.
I haven't had a BSOD or a funky reboot on my XP install in the last year. It's getting to that sluggish as hell bit-rot kind of state, but otherwise pretty stable. I also *never* had my various Linux installs randomly reboot on me, or issue a kernel panic mid-session (though my first attempts at installing slackware on my old pc always failed with a kernel panic on boot from the CD -- due to a faulty memory module), and my iBook never randomly rebooted either. But that's hardly a commendation. It's what I feel I'm entitled to expect from my computers.
My complaints with Vista are that my experience with RC2 was bad, and most of the issues I had are reflected in one way or another in [H]'s article. I didn't get the BSOD derivatives, but instead had several sound problems, and Vista simply wouldn't make my dual-display setup work: I'd simply get white noise covering the windows (but not the background, and the noise would follow the windows). I also found it complicated to use.
I'll clarify on what I mean by complicated. There's this funny thing in python (just run the line
on an interactive shell to see the full text) that says "Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated". I fully agree. I rate OSX as simple, and most linux distros I've had concact with as complex (I find both ubuntu and XP to be somewhere in between). When I want to do some things in slack or debian, I might have to dig around a bit more to get them done, but it's usually a matter of installing a package or two, changing 2 or 3 settings in someVista, however, felt complicated, intrusive, and stupid. If I run a program installer or change some setting, I don't want to be asked whether I *really* meant to run or change it. Either you make sure I really am who I say I am (ie, the computer owner/administrator), or you keep out of my way. Imagine a bouncer at the entrance to a disco or pub that, instead of asking for some ID to check whether you're really over 18, just asks "are you sure you want to go in?" -- that's what it felt like.
Python also plays the "hash table is my primary data structure" game, and some neat tricks can be pulled off from there (minor stuff in selfmodifying code, at least).
Those two points are the canonical points for trans-atlantic travel for google maps. look at the carefully written notes on how to get to the right warf. It is of course an easter egg.
It may sound like a fanboy's whine, but I really think that Ultima Underworld *really* deserves a place in this sort of top ten. Sure, it wasn't really the most culturally influential game ever, not having had the impact of either Wolfenstein or Doom. But in 1991, the year of Wolf 3D's release, Ultima Underworld achieved technically things that even Doom was far from accomplishing in 1993. Sloping floors? Check. True 3D, with scenery on top of other pieces of scenery? Check. Jumping around? Check. Dynamic Light? Check, to a measure. Stuck on top of this is an interesting plot that's a fair bit more interesting than the "save the damsel in distress" hook you're given, and a pretty high level of interactivity.
Considering the game doesn't start until max level, how is this even relevant? This is one of the dumbest concepts that's hammered by WoW players is this. I'm pretty sick of that perspective, really. There are dozens of things to do until lvl60 (or, rather, 70), and I for one don't want to level my brand spanking new Blood Elf Paladin to 70 only to find out I have zero experience tanking/healing and will therefore suck worse than a $5 hooker. There's tons of content to explore before the elder game, and grinding past it as if it were absent is really a waste.
Possibly because the former is a matter of policy, and the second is a matter of law?
relax, it's just a joke.
Might be, but unless the original crimes were perpetrated online, I don't think it's at all fair. Criminals they may be, and of a particularly nefarious sort, but they still have rights, and restricting those rights as a safety measure is reasonable, but should be applied in moderation
If this sounds like too much protection of a sex offender's rights, think banning a murderer from buying knives because they are a popular murder weapon. Computers today are WAY too much of a general-purpose tool to go banning people from using them without good reason.
Actually, this document is a scanned image, the next one you find might be the text log of a court hearing. Using PDF means that you use one reader for both, and it "just works".
TeX isn't a document format per se. It's a programming language entirely geared for publishing. In its standard version it outputs DVI (DeVice Independent) files, which are pretty decent, and there are also PostScript and PDF versions of it, which, incidentally, are the ones that see the most use.
If you ask your friends in the publishing area, they'll probably tell you they use the .ps version, because most high end printers actually understand the stuff natively
Coffee is good, caffeine is just a side effect. But then again I pay 0.30-0.60 for a nice espresso.
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Do I get a cookie?
Just call the bloody gadget - (hyphen).
Good thing you explained what "tairing" was, otherwise I'd have had a hard time recognising it as "tearing"... :)
For someone who's complaining about editors not reading the article, you did a good job of missing something yourself: the "10 minute reboots" are said in the article to be planned to be applied off-peak.
Bah. Learn to place the computer well positioned near a window, n00b.
that's the GP's whole point: With this in place, if they have to reboot at a "random" time to recover from problems with the hot maintenance, you can't plan your runs around it