>It's about immersion. True, basketball isn't about immersion, but some games are.
I find it sad that people are playing BASKETBALL on a gaming console? Whatever happened to going outside and shooting some hoops? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
Back when I was a kid I went to Yugoslavia. We searched for coffee in all the shops and didn't find any. So we went to the state run Tourist Bureau and asked them and they told us there was coffee IN ALL THE SHOPS.
Seriously though, I'm not seeing much progress with respect to older processors. FTFA,
Two weeks after the initial R500 3D documentation release, AMD had released an R300 3D register guide. This programming guide concerning their older graphics hardware was previously only available through Non-Disclosure Agreements to select developers.
Well, so far my experience with the open source R350 drivers is lukewarm. They do work to an extent, in that they can run Tux Racer and its forks, but FlightGear remains beyond their capabilities.
The new client itself now sits on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Framework, and will consequently run on Windows and Linux (Mac support coming shortly with 8.5). And you can still access all the same Lotus Notes corporate applications that range considerably in quality. And in fact, the Notes 8.x client can still access Domino 7.x mail files, and they will look exactly the same as they did before (although client menus have changed).
Hmm, is it bad that I read that as "the new client sits on top of $FASHIONABLE_STACK and runs on $FASHIONABLE_OS_LIST...".
Most of the original OS/2 was joint copyright with Microsoft and presumably covered by whatever license IBM and Microsoft agreed on. I remember seeing the copyright message as it booted and loaded the device driver I was working on.
Actually if Microsoft's licenses worked like the GPL it would apply to any code linked to it. So an incremental rewrite would not change the license.
Millions of people starved to death in North Korea as recently as the 1990s when South Korea was almost as rich and as free as Japan. I'm not going to say that killing those leftists was a bargain in terms of death tolls, but it seems to be preferable to have a Park Chung He type dictatorship than a Kim Il Sung one.
Of course if the US public had stuck it out Vietnam would have ended up rich and free too. Personally I'd have had no problems with them killing a few million communists to achieve that.
No, you are quite confused, and utterly wrong. There are plenty of socialist countries that are not authoritarian (like most of northern Europe). There are also numerous examples of small scale communism functioning just fine with little or no central control.
It is true that every country that has gone communist has also gone authoritarian, but it is certainly not a requirement.
Except for the whole replacing the concealed dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (any non communist state) with an open dictatorship of the proletariat (any communist state) thing. Doing that pretty much implies censorship of non communist opinions and shipping people off to reeducation camps.
I think you're confusing communism as in 'sharing is good' with a bunch of Stalinists taking over the state and killing millions of people whilst claiming to be socialist/communist.
Those countries aren't really socialist in any meaningful sense though. Democratic socialists believed in transferring more power to workers, communists believed in turning those workers into serfs who could not leave their job or have any say in the conditions they did it under. Similarly democratic socialists were in favour of ordinary people being political active, whereas communists shipped politically active people off to camps, even politically active people who were broadly pro communist.
Imagine that, politicians saying they are doing one thing which is in the public interest whilst doing another which is purely in their interests.
Turkey and cranberry flavoured cheetos for dinner. Anime viewed on an ancient laptop for the hundredth time. Realising you can move out of your parents basement to a room upstairs because they died twenty years ago as you pick the cheeto crumbs out of you neckbeard and from the folds of your wolf shirt.
A cheap fortified wine to wash down the antidepressants and, later on, an overdose.
I'd say "overrated" would be more appropriate. Is there any chance for a knob to twist to block all Hans Reiser "jokes"? The first aleph-null of them were kind of funny.
No but you could murder your wife if your computer annoys you.
Plus 640x480 at 16 colors is actually part of the original VGA specification from the late 1980s. A card would have to be badly designed indeed (or terribly old) to not support that.
Actually Windows NT based OSs don't need a VGA compatible card. The driver sets a flag in the registry. Risc machines didn't have VGA compatible cards for example. I worked on a medical imaging system based on Windows 2000 that had non VGA compatible secondary displays, they were simple 256 level grayscale bitmap displays.
And before you say "ZOMG Windows Medical Imaging. BSOD", one of the testcases was having the PC OS crash completely. The images would still be displayed and the buttons to control them still worked because that was handled by an i960 running a vxWorks application that was independent of the PC. The i960s pinged the PC driver and if it didn't respond they blanked the PC graphics overlay until it was sane again.
Mind you most cards you buy are Vga compatible and set the registry flag. There's a plan to replace Vga with an EFI graphics standard with a higher minimum supported resolution. Like Vga Windows will switch to that whilst booting, during a crash or after disabling a buggy driver.
clean the dust from the fan/heatsink, or re-appy the thermal paste on the GPU.
Yeah, try it.
I had a laptop with Intel integrated graphics that did it. I always thought it was a driver bug until I took the laptop to bits to resolder a broken power connector. The odd thing is that after that the graphics hanging stopped, i.e. it worked. Not sure if it was a loose connector or a badly seated heatsink.
The reason for 640x480 is because safe mode uses the generic VGA driver and 640x480 is widely supported. Actually since XP the generic VGA driver which allows higher resolution modes. No hardware acceleration of course since every manufacturer implements that in their own way.
Actually XP had a cool trick with graphics drivers. If a thread hung inside the manufacturer provided accelerated graphics driver the GDI would switch to the generic VGA driver and pop up a message explaining what had happened and prompting you to reboot. I.e. it could switch from 1024x768 accelerated 32 bit color to 640x480x16 color and keep running, even though a kernel mode thread had hung.
What managers love to see are things like average call time, # calls in the queue, and # dropped calls. If you can extract that out of your call tree application and put that up there, you're one step closer to pointy hair yourself.
You could simplify everything you wrote as "Works for me! Works for me!"
Still if I'd paid way over the odds for a PC with an Apple sticker on it, a slow graphics card and a bunch of software that makes games run much slower than on PC you put together yourself I'd be saying that too.
Go on expressing your individuality and ability to think different by going to the Apple store and buying a machine with whatever parts Apple think you should have in it.
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>It's about immersion. True, basketball isn't about immersion, but some games are.
I find it sad that people are playing BASKETBALL on a gaming console? Whatever happened to going outside and shooting some hoops? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
Yeah, immersion in DEADLY ULTRAVIOLET RAYS.
There's a good introduction here.
Back when I was a kid I went to Yugoslavia. We searched for coffee in all the shops and didn't find any. So we went to the state run Tourist Bureau and asked them and they told us there was coffee IN ALL THE SHOPS.
With that in mind review this comment
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1076021&cid=26266223
This is a better way to talk about the free and open source Nouveau driver.
I have an R350 chipset, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, I'm not seeing much progress with respect to older processors. FTFA,
Two weeks after the initial R500 3D documentation release, AMD had released an R300 3D register guide. This programming guide concerning their older graphics hardware was previously only available through Non-Disclosure Agreements to select developers.
Well, so far my experience with the open source R350 drivers is lukewarm. They do work to an extent, in that they can run Tux Racer and its forks, but FlightGear remains beyond their capabilities.
Why not just buy a R600 or R700 card?
Yours
AMD Marketing.
The new client itself now sits on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Framework, and will consequently run on Windows and Linux (Mac support coming shortly with 8.5). And you can still access all the same Lotus Notes corporate applications that range considerably in quality. And in fact, the Notes 8.x client can still access Domino 7.x mail files, and they will look exactly the same as they did before (although client menus have changed).
Hmm, is it bad that I read that as "the new client sits on top of $FASHIONABLE_STACK and runs on $FASHIONABLE_OS_LIST...".
We don't provide answers to questions like that on our Bronze Agreement, or the Silver or Gold ones
Talk to sales about the Plutonium Agreement.
Most of the original OS/2 was joint copyright with Microsoft and presumably covered by whatever license IBM and Microsoft agreed on. I remember seeing the copyright message as it booted and loaded the device driver I was working on.
Actually if Microsoft's licenses worked like the GPL it would apply to any code linked to it. So an incremental rewrite would not change the license.
Millions of people starved to death in North Korea as recently as the 1990s when South Korea was almost as rich and as free as Japan. I'm not going to say that killing those leftists was a bargain in terms of death tolls, but it seems to be preferable to have a Park Chung He type dictatorship than a Kim Il Sung one.
Of course if the US public had stuck it out Vietnam would have ended up rich and free too. Personally I'd have had no problems with them killing a few million communists to achieve that.
No, you are quite confused, and utterly wrong. There are plenty of socialist countries that are not authoritarian (like most of northern Europe). There are also numerous examples of small scale communism functioning just fine with little or no central control.
It is true that every country that has gone communist has also gone authoritarian, but it is certainly not a requirement.
Except for the whole replacing the concealed dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (any non communist state) with an open dictatorship of the proletariat (any communist state) thing. Doing that pretty much implies censorship of non communist opinions and shipping people off to reeducation camps.
I think you're confusing communism as in 'sharing is good' with a bunch of Stalinists taking over the state and killing millions of people whilst claiming to be socialist/communist.
Those countries aren't really socialist in any meaningful sense though. Democratic socialists believed in transferring more power to workers, communists believed in turning those workers into serfs who could not leave their job or have any say in the conditions they did it under. Similarly democratic socialists were in favour of ordinary people being political active, whereas communists shipped politically active people off to camps, even politically active people who were broadly pro communist.
Imagine that, politicians saying they are doing one thing which is in the public interest whilst doing another which is purely in their interests.
I believe that should be "English, motherfucker [, do you speak it]?"
If we could ELIMINATE the idiots we wouldn't have so many crises.
Turkey and cranberry flavoured cheetos for dinner. Anime viewed on an ancient laptop for the hundredth time. Realising you can move out of your parents basement to a room upstairs because they died twenty years ago as you pick the cheeto crumbs out of you neckbeard and from the folds of your wolf shirt.
A cheap fortified wine to wash down the antidepressants and, later on, an overdose.
Slashdot Christmas.
I hear Cheetos do a special "Turkey and Cranberry" flavour at this time of year.
They also can be disabled. Nobody's forcing you to use them.
Not true. _I_ am forcing him to use them
I'd say "overrated" would be more appropriate. Is there any chance for a knob to twist to block all Hans Reiser "jokes"? The first aleph-null of them were kind of funny.
No but you could murder your wife if your computer annoys you.
Hmm, works for me. Börk Börk Börk!
Maybe you are both pressing the wrong keys. Try again.
Plus 640x480 at 16 colors is actually part of the original VGA specification from the late 1980s. A card would have to be badly designed indeed (or terribly old) to not support that.
Actually Windows NT based OSs don't need a VGA compatible card. The driver sets a flag in the registry. Risc machines didn't have VGA compatible cards for example. I worked on a medical imaging system based on Windows 2000 that had non VGA compatible secondary displays, they were simple 256 level grayscale bitmap displays.
And before you say "ZOMG Windows Medical Imaging. BSOD", one of the testcases was having the PC OS crash completely. The images would still be displayed and the buttons to control them still worked because that was handled by an i960 running a vxWorks application that was independent of the PC. The i960s pinged the PC driver and if it didn't respond they blanked the PC graphics overlay until it was sane again.
Mind you most cards you buy are Vga compatible and set the registry flag. There's a plan to replace Vga with an EFI graphics standard with a higher minimum supported resolution. Like Vga Windows will switch to that whilst booting, during a crash or after disabling a buggy driver.
clean the dust from the fan/heatsink, or re-appy the thermal paste on the GPU.
Yeah, try it.
I had a laptop with Intel integrated graphics that did it. I always thought it was a driver bug until I took the laptop to bits to resolder a broken power connector. The odd thing is that after that the graphics hanging stopped, i.e. it worked. Not sure if it was a loose connector or a badly seated heatsink.
It is a shame since GEM and its ilk were a hell of a lot more efficient than X Windows.
Santa provided this kernel. If you install it and if kills your box you must have been naughty, if it works well you must have been nice.
The reason for 640x480 is because safe mode uses the generic VGA driver and 640x480 is widely supported. Actually since XP the generic VGA driver which allows higher resolution modes. No hardware acceleration of course since every manufacturer implements that in their own way.
Actually XP had a cool trick with graphics drivers. If a thread hung inside the manufacturer provided accelerated graphics driver the GDI would switch to the generic VGA driver and pop up a message explaining what had happened and prompting you to reboot. I.e. it could switch from 1024x768 accelerated 32 bit color to 640x480x16 color and keep running, even though a kernel mode thread had hung.
What managers love to see are things like average call time, # calls in the queue, and # dropped calls. If you can extract that out of your call tree application and put that up there, you're one step closer to pointy hair yourself.
Only if you consider Dwight Schrute as a PHB.
I've always wanted to do that. Seems like it would be fun to have something I can use to give people nasty or confusing messages with.
>:)
Jesus christ it's a .... Oh never mind.
Maybe Dr Nachos is just ahead of his time, like Einstein or L Ron Hubbard were.
You could simplify everything you wrote as "Works for me! Works for me!"
Still if I'd paid way over the odds for a PC with an Apple sticker on it, a slow graphics card and a bunch of software that makes games run much slower than on PC you put together yourself I'd be saying that too.
Go on expressing your individuality and ability to think different by going to the Apple store and buying a machine with whatever parts Apple think you should have in it.