Everyone sign up for a dozen hotmail accounts and effectively posion they're market data. If companies find out 50% of the email addresses on hotmail.com are false then they'll pay MS less money to host _more_ addresses.
I hate to be the one to call for this, however it's just as legal as what they're doing. It's no the moral thing to do but it is legal. It's time to do something all you little/. trolls.
I was doing some testing of Bochs recently to see how well I can expect win95 to perform on my PS2. All I can say is that it's not worth it until the SVGA emulation improves a great deal. I got win95 running ( slowly ) under Bochs and tried playing simtower. Needless to say the SVGA support wasn't there to do that.
I used a x86 P6-2 ( PII ) @ 266Mhz since it has a simalar clock speed for my tests. However remember that PS2 arch is very unfriendly to code written for general purpose arch -- especially when emulated. The short of it: You'll be able to run DOS on PS2, but prob not able to play tie fighter.
I'll post somewhere how the actual PS2 test goes when my US linux kit gets here. I'm very interested in running MSDOS games on PS2. =)
I think the roadmap looks fine, since a lot of the HP desktop/mobile lines were crap compared to compaq. Look at the numbers -- people perfer the compaq lines -- and that's why a lot of the HP divisions are going to be trimmed.
I only buy compaq notebooks lately, since they're easy to fix/upgrade/maintain if you get the right line. HP laptops? I never considered... I've tried half a dozen other OEMs for PC laptops, but never HP. It seems looking at the sells figures I wasn't alone.
As for backend systems and consumer desktops it's not even close, Compaq is #1 b/c of their branding and deals with PoVs like rat shack. HP should've made better products at better price points. BTW I only use IBM for my workstations, sorry guys. I wouldn't mind a nice Proliant however if we weren't locked into Dell at work.
I'm sorry Packard, but even Carly is right sometimes.
DrBiscuit is a new form of troll interesting I caught it after it's 3rd post. Posing as a female los alamos empolyee the troll seems to have an agenda of seeing if the false id can garner support. An interesting addition to the/. ecosystem.
Join me next week as I Mongoose the troll hunter search for the elusive first poster
I'd like to see the source GPLed - if they no longer are going to use it. I would like to pick through the source for stuff and maybe contribute plugins to a new OSS project based around it.
I used to do a Open GL GUI tk for my modeler too, but I always thought blender's layout was too static to use personally. Agian I'm a developer more than an artist. I was just looking into writing some blender plug-ins over break for a guy I met on OPN. Oh well, more time for my project. =)
Back several years ago we tried to rollout an NC thin client test at a single lab to see how well it worked...
it was a nightmare. The machines ran WinCenter over an NT server with a beefy spec. for that time. However, over time only 4-5 clients could stay up a full day b/c of huge swap disk and stability issues with NT. It's not worth it unless you can make your server 99.99% as others have said... also we had to retrian staff to wait on server to be fixed and to call once a day to get other staff out to reboot/purge tmp disk buffers in our case. Heh, putting servers in local closets in test rollouts help ensure bad systems stay out. No one likes walking out to a fucking NT box to kick it on the hour.;)
You can reduce system theif by using single entry rooms and student asstiant manned labs. If you ask what about 24/7 labs, then you should look no further than a simple alarm system coupled with those little light sensor cables. A person sould have to try very hard to open a proper case enclosed with those cables, much less steal it before the alarms go off...
also place 24/7 labs at floors higher than ground level. Oh, the little basterds won't have a chance when coupled with hidden cameras.;)
Listen kids this is an early alpha of a D3D wrapper for WinGL, with minor ports of MacGL and others. This isn't DirectX, which handles the input, sound, and even ( directplay is horrible ) networking.
Things to note:
1. D3D is a huge moving target itself
2. This project doesn't support full D3D ( ATI/NV )
3. D3D isn't a 'standard', it's rewritten every release
Keeping these things in mind you won't get your windows games on linux, you won't get a wrapper for D3D for all GL cards, and you won't even get a finished release of this. I don't mean to sound negative, but by the time they have all the NV/ATI extentions supported DX 9.0 and maybe even OpenGL 2.0 will be out with an all new shader systems.
Too bad vertex and pixel shaders won't be used much until another few generations. You have to wait for the target (mainstream) consumers to get at least something like a GF3 or similar first generation consumer card shader support. However, I will say that doesn't mean you won't have some games and applications just requiring you to get a card with support or offer it as a runtime enabled option.
Fixed head hard drives have no seek time, since tracks have a many to many relationship to heads. That's also why you can't get them at compusa. ( expensive )
I can't wait to get my PS2 linux kit. I'll be porting my TombRaider 1-5 ( PC ) engines reimplmentation to PS2 linux. I don't want to buy another monitor right now, so I prob use VNC.
Heh, well silly! You been using it for 3 years and haven't tried any of the nice features?
It's simple http://www.xemacs.org should be able to point you in the right direction. XEmacs/emacs has a ton to '3rd party' things like class browsers and code generators. You can also get more links to sites from google, and even install packages right from XEmacs menu. =)
Hhhhmmm... let's see I can use XEmacs with code generation, source templates, tags, class browser or I can use Borland's and not be able to use elisp.
I'm sure MSVC++ kiddies new to unix development in general can enjoy it however. I just hope I don't see 'project files' all over the damn place a year from now in lieu of Makefiles and autoconf.
Actually japan... America is about to hit a big down cycle itself anyway, so why not get out of the country for a while. It looks like all the 'tech' industry is bleeding out of here anyway. Might as well visit and work somewhere else for at least a few years and see how other peoples live. We reward the wrong people here -- look at poorly performing CEOs and officals.
We shouldn't reward failures and punish the workers and people for their leader's mistakes. Looks like programming might be a dead end here, caused by the Microsoft consumer software market chokehold combined with contract work from overseas. If they produce better software for cheaper, then corporations will do it in Russia, India, and elsewhere where the laws aren't as constrictive to boot.
I'm not posting this as an AC b/c this is _my_ opinon, so don't read further if you feel you may be offended by grammar, content, and spelling...
I think America isn't any better than China as far as my profession of programming is concerned. Sure we have a few more civil liberities, but the way lawy enforcement works here still stamps out any dissant agianst the 'masters in the house'.
The government is just a lacky for corporations these days, as the Adobe, intel, and other cirus shows. DMCA, anti-terror, and other acts are just smoke screen for control of the populis.
How much longer can America keep going? America only has a military and an economy going for it -- and one of those is faultering. I can't believe the government recommending "go out and buy" to "save the economy". Capitialism isn't a one sided equation -- companies should suffer for poor investments and managment. ( The Enron's, S & L's, etc )
I'm planning on moving to a nation that's 'worse' in many eyes already. I know their aren't any utopias, but hell if I'm not going to look for options. They want to take away my guns, computers, and now my 'inalienable rights'.
It makes me sick to think about it all. I have black hair so I should get hassled. I have knowelge so I should be arrested. I have a dissanting opinon maybe I'll be hung.
Very simple - you'll have to hire in house support. Much of the power of linux is that you can have in house developers and techs add features and support to products w/o any problems like being a licenscee.
If you think I'm kidding - then ask around how most 'full time' OSS developers get paid. =)
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No, don't confuse hw mammals with networking mammals. sha-ish
That's when you post user/pass of all your dozens of accounts on the web. Oh dear... =)
Everyone sign up for a dozen hotmail accounts and effectively posion they're market data. If companies find out 50% of the email addresses on hotmail.com are false then they'll pay MS less money to host _more_ addresses.
/. trolls.
I hate to be the one to call for this, however it's just as legal as what they're doing. It's no the moral thing to do but it is legal. It's time to do something all you little
Hey kid, FPS for trihead isn't the same as FPS for single head output.
You can download programs to slow down your games for faster machines. I still play Arena: The Elder Scrolls myself. =)
You should be able to d/l the programs from:
http://www.elderscrolls.net/
I've found that bochs could actually help playing old MSDOS games because of this... if it's SVGA BIOS emualtion was working for these games.
I was doing some testing of Bochs recently to see how well I can expect win95 to perform on my PS2. All I can say is that it's not worth it until the SVGA emulation improves a great deal. I got win95 running ( slowly ) under Bochs and tried playing simtower. Needless to say the SVGA support wasn't there to do that.
I used a x86 P6-2 ( PII ) @ 266Mhz since it has a simalar clock speed for my tests. However remember that PS2 arch is very unfriendly to code written for general purpose arch -- especially when emulated. The short of it: You'll be able to run DOS on PS2, but prob not able to play tie fighter.
I'll post somewhere how the actual PS2 test goes when my US linux kit gets here. I'm very interested in running MSDOS games on PS2. =)
I think the roadmap looks fine, since a lot of the HP desktop/mobile lines were crap compared to compaq. Look at the numbers -- people perfer the compaq lines -- and that's why a lot of the HP divisions are going to be trimmed.
I only buy compaq notebooks lately, since they're easy to fix/upgrade/maintain if you get the right line. HP laptops? I never considered... I've tried half a dozen other OEMs for PC laptops, but never HP. It seems looking at the sells figures I wasn't alone.
As for backend systems and consumer desktops it's not even close, Compaq is #1 b/c of their branding and deals with PoVs like rat shack. HP should've made better products at better price points. BTW I only use IBM for my workstations, sorry guys. I wouldn't mind a nice Proliant however if we weren't locked into Dell at work.
I'm sorry Packard, but even Carly is right sometimes.
Welcome mates,
/. ecosystem.
DrBiscuit is a new form of troll interesting I caught it after it's 3rd post. Posing as a female los alamos empolyee the troll seems to have an agenda of seeing if the false id can garner support. An interesting addition to the
Join me next week as I Mongoose the troll hunter search for the elusive first poster
Crikey!
I see one now!
1. Lack of Japanese style games on xbox
2. Several faulty xbox consoles ruined MS' rep
3. MS refused to admit (2) was true
4. Till this day MS won't replace discs destoried by (2), just the console itself
5. Two of Japan's largest retailers quit selling the console because of (2) and (4)
...so to answer no content for the market, and poor customer service.
Anyone know if the release of the Maya Personal Edition in feburary had anything to do with this?
I'd like to see the source GPLed - if they no longer are going to use it. I would like to pick through the source for stuff and maybe contribute plugins to a new OSS project based around it.
I used to do a Open GL GUI tk for my modeler too, but I always thought blender's layout was too static to use personally. Agian I'm a developer more than an artist. I was just looking into writing some blender plug-ins over break for a guy I met on OPN. Oh well, more time for my project. =)
Back several years ago we tried to rollout an NC thin client test at a single lab to see how well it worked...
;)
it was a nightmare. The machines ran WinCenter over an NT server with a beefy spec. for that time. However, over time only 4-5 clients could stay up a full day b/c of huge swap disk and stability issues with NT. It's not worth it unless you can make your server 99.99% as others have said... also we had to retrian staff to wait on server to be fixed and to call once a day to get other staff out to reboot/purge tmp disk buffers in our case. Heh, putting servers in local closets in test rollouts help ensure bad systems stay out. No one likes walking out to a fucking NT box to kick it on the hour.
You can reduce system theif by using single entry rooms and student asstiant manned labs. If you ask what about 24/7 labs, then you should look no further than a simple alarm system coupled with those little light sensor cables. A person sould have to try very hard to open a proper case enclosed with those cables, much less steal it before the alarms go off...
;)
also place 24/7 labs at floors higher than ground level. Oh, the little basterds won't have a chance when coupled with hidden cameras.
Listen kids this is an early alpha of a D3D wrapper for WinGL, with minor ports of MacGL and others. This isn't DirectX, which handles the input, sound, and even ( directplay is horrible ) networking.
Things to note:
1. D3D is a huge moving target itself
2. This project doesn't support full D3D ( ATI/NV )
3. D3D isn't a 'standard', it's rewritten every release
Keeping these things in mind you won't get your windows games on linux, you won't get a wrapper for D3D for all GL cards, and you won't even get a finished release of this. I don't mean to sound negative, but by the time they have all the NV/ATI extentions supported DX 9.0 and maybe even OpenGL 2.0 will be out with an all new shader systems.
Too bad vertex and pixel shaders won't be used much until another few generations. You have to wait for the target (mainstream) consumers to get at least something like a GF3 or similar first generation consumer card shader support. However, I will say that doesn't mean you won't have some games and applications just requiring you to get a card with support or offer it as a runtime enabled option.
I'm porting my TombRaider 1-5 OpenGL based engine implementation over to PS2 linux as soon as I get my kit.
I'm going for crazy new particle systems and multiplayer, so I can avoid bothering with reproducing the hardcoded gameplay issues alsmost entirely.
Fixed head hard drives have no seek time, since tracks have a many to many relationship to heads. That's also why you can't get them at compusa. ( expensive )
I can't wait to get my PS2 linux kit. I'll be porting my TombRaider 1-5 ( PC ) engines reimplmentation to PS2 linux. I don't want to buy another monitor right now, so I prob use VNC.
Yay!
Heh, well silly! You been using it for 3 years and haven't tried any of the nice features?
It's simple http://www.xemacs.org should be able to point you in the right direction. XEmacs/emacs has a ton to '3rd party' things like class browsers and code generators. You can also get more links to sites from google, and even install packages right from XEmacs menu. =)
Hhhhmmm... let's see I can use XEmacs with code generation, source templates, tags, class browser or I can use Borland's and not be able to use elisp.
I'm sure MSVC++ kiddies new to unix development in general can enjoy it however. I just hope I don't see 'project files' all over the damn place a year from now in lieu of Makefiles and autoconf.
You're a pawn of THE PATRIOTS! SOLID SNAKE will get you!
We all know THE PATRIOTS ready run the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT!
--
thank you if you got the joke
They'll start making xbox games?
Seriously, this is a hoax as others have said -- but look out for future promises from console makers. Remember your history lessons of years past.
I wonder if xbox will ever get up to 100 games before 2004.
Actually japan... America is about to hit a big down cycle itself anyway, so why not get out of the country for a while. It looks like all the 'tech' industry is bleeding out of here anyway. Might as well visit and work somewhere else for at least a few years and see how other peoples live. We reward the wrong people here -- look at poorly performing CEOs and officals.
We shouldn't reward failures and punish the workers and people for their leader's mistakes. Looks like programming might be a dead end here, caused by the Microsoft consumer software market chokehold combined with contract work from overseas. If they produce better software for cheaper, then corporations will do it in Russia, India, and elsewhere where the laws aren't as constrictive to boot.
I'm not posting this as an AC b/c this is _my_ opinon, so don't read further if you feel you may be offended by grammar, content, and spelling...
I think America isn't any better than China as far as my profession of programming is concerned. Sure we have a few more civil liberities, but the way lawy enforcement works here still stamps out any dissant agianst the 'masters in the house'.
The government is just a lacky for corporations these days, as the Adobe, intel, and other cirus shows. DMCA, anti-terror, and other acts are just smoke screen for control of the populis.
How much longer can America keep going? America only has a military and an economy going for it -- and one of those is faultering. I can't believe the government recommending "go out and buy" to "save the economy". Capitialism isn't a one sided equation -- companies should suffer for poor investments and managment. ( The Enron's, S & L's, etc )
I'm planning on moving to a nation that's 'worse' in many eyes already. I know their aren't any utopias, but hell if I'm not going to look for options. They want to take away my guns, computers, and now my 'inalienable rights'.
It makes me sick to think about it all. I have black hair so I should get hassled. I have knowelge so I should be arrested. I have a dissanting opinon maybe I'll be hung.
This is how MS was going to get the states on board -- log into their XP boxes and rewrite the legal docs. =)
Very simple - you'll have to hire in house support. Much of the power of linux is that you can have in house developers and techs add features and support to products w/o any problems like being a licenscee.
If you think I'm kidding - then ask around how most 'full time' OSS developers get paid. =)