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What a load of BS. Only a few negligent whiners don't realise it's a game.
You are totaly blowing these things out of proportion. The sky is not falling, and the deterioration of family values isn't the medias fault, it's the families.
I watched He-Man, Superman, GI-Joe. All these shows had one thing in common all problembs were resolved through violence. Something bad is happening quick get my gun/sword/kneck-punch-fist, that's what I learned by watching these shows. Hey you know what my mom did when I broke my brother's arm playing "WWF" steal cage match in our backyard? She grounded me. Funny I got the blame, I had to take responsibility for my actions. I wonder what would of happened if she sewed the "WWF" instead?
Raise your kids teach them to take responsibility fo their actions. The truth is most parrents do a great/good job of this. Unfortunatly only the ones that are bad at it make the news.
I thought that Ebert said that "games are not art." The author here is saying that games aren't the best medium to tell a story with... I agree, but that's not the same as saying games are not art. Games are art, regardless of how well they tell a story.
"Likewise, the original plan was for DirectX 8 to provide an API for the pixel shader in the GeForce 2 GTS. But something happened to the DirectX8 spec where all of a sudden, the minimum level of support was the GeForce 3. That something was Microsoft."
So you could do DirectX 8 like shader effects in software, on a GeForce 2 GTX, or for that matter the "nForce 2"'s integrated graphics?
I'm not atheist, but I also haven't been to church in a long time... like a decade or so, and I'm just 27 years old. I'm not a big fan of it if you couldn't tell. Just last night I had to go online to look up "The Lords Prayer" to argue a point... I lost. But I totally agree with the parent's statement, I'm against prayer in public school, putting the Ten Commandments on state property(though I don't object to them being placed in a "public" space), pro choice. Despite all that I'm still going to send my child to religious classes(not school). Despite all my problems with the church, and the doubts I have about my own faith, I owe a lot to my Roman Catholic upbringing. That being said my biggest gripe with organized religions, particularly that of the Christian/Catholic variety, are the people that got to church go through the motions, and treat people in a (as my dad would put it) unchristian manner. That always pissed me off, the lessons
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
"Judge not lest ye be judged yourself"
"Render unto Cesar the things that are Caesar; and to God, the things that are God's"
"Forgive us our tresspases as we forgive those that tresspass against us"
These were the foundation of my faith and the cornerstone of almost every relationship I have personal, professional, and otherwise. I'm from NY raised by New England "Blue Staters" that vote it seems to me that where a community focuses on religiously seems to dictate their political views. In NY it was the love/help thy neighbor, I'm in Miami now, and the focus seems to be a lot more
"Thou shall not, or go to hell!"
It's weird down here, jail is the answer to our "problems"... the word "problems" seems to be interchangeable with lower class/immigrants/minorities. Greed and fear seem to prevail, what's the harm in letting Cuban refugee's in? Actually compared to Hetians they have it easy... Darker skinned people scare WASP's... it's part of the definition of being a WASP. The good news is that we have highly intelligent people running the show here. It makes total sense to me that we should lower taxes on those with the most(myself included), to cut programs that help those who need the most help. Public schools suck down here, and it's not going to change because everyone "protects their own". I was a huge fan of public schooling when I lived in New England, I'll be damned before I send my kid to one of the "baby-momma" factories they call a school down here. I also refuse to ask for a tax credit just because I'm paying for my kid to go to private school. A ways north of here is the home of TBN the "Trinity Broadcast Network"... how does that song go?
"Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his television show?"
This place needs a spiritual revival... big time. I see a lot more "Sunday Christians" down here. The type that would take money from someone who truly needs it, just to line their pockets just "cause they can", have the nerve to tell you about it, and then ask.
"What church you go to?"
It never seemed that way in NY... maybe because going to church is more of "the thing to do" down here, and up in NY most people that went to church did so out of honest belief. I had a faith once, but I didn't want to be associated with a lot of the people that call themselves faithful. I don't know man I'm just ranting this subject always gets me riled up.
Wow, their's a lot of venom in there isn't there? Which one of your puppies did Mr. Gates run over yesterday? Yeah I don't like his company's Cooperate practices, but I'd say most of your assessment would require at least having the chance to meet with the guy face to face. All you know of him is from press releases, and the lovingly formed opinions of him posted here on slashdot. Like I said I'm not a huge fan of MS, but Billy G. and the company are two separate entities. I'm a different person at the office, why do you think he isn't?
I was about to post exactly this, this thing is the greatest scam going. I'm impressed with Amazon, this is a damn good way to save money, instead of hiring a pro. This is ingenious their paying outsourced labor wages to native English speaking Americans. Replacing a position that they either had to pay 25-30k to a college grad for. Or paid some stenography service per word for. It's frigging brilliant. P. T. Barnum holds true as ever.
the longest warrenty for a hard drive I can find out there is 5 years, and I've had my fair share of them die within 3 years, arn't dvds supposed to have a shelf life of decades?
Thats not fair I've never owned an SUV, but there havw been times my honda accord couldn't cut the mustard and I wish I had one. This new P4, has no use what so ever.
You make a good point, but this isn't what they are trying to address, they are trying to address the fact that Windows comes in one flavor with one set of libraries... meaning that compared to Linux it's the MS Windows is the Dedicated-Console to Linux's PC-Box.
We all know the story already, but one more time can't hurt right?... With a Dedicated-Console the developer knows every piece of hardware on that console, With a PC-Box the developer has no clue what the end customer is going to have in their PC, and therefor has to either make compromises to get it to work on the widest array of PC's / or go for just the higher-end and alienate customers. Each option Dedicated-Console, or PC-Box has its advantages but as a developer I could tell you which one I'd prefer to write for.
A developer can program for Windows and have a guaranteed set of MS sanctioned, and maintained libraries to use on any Windows box bought off the self, or program for "Linux", and hope that the distro/user has put the libraries that you use on that box already. Or force your users to hunt them down themselves.
This may change in the In the upcoming 12 versions of Vista era, but so far MS has given developers one platform to program for when they program for "Windows". When they programing for "Linux", they have to assume that nothing is there, or they risk there program working incorrectly/not-at-all, as anyone who's installed a program that required dependencies, that are no longer easily found, or poorly documented can attest to. Windows/OSX aren't like that, they have 1 OS with tops 2-3 very similar flavors, to program for not 1 OS with 100+ different variations, and lord knows what screwball eccentricities.
In response to MS's use of Direct X some one suggested that SDL and OpenGL would be a good replacement for it(Direct X). But how would I as a developer know that a consumer purchasing my product had those libraries installed? That is the problem that these guys are trying to solve.
They are trying to make DISTRIBUTING a program for "Linux" across Linux flavors as easy as it is to distribute programs for "Windows". Linux needs this if it's going to go mainstream. I hope it takes off.
I'm probably going to catch H. E. double hockey sticks for this, but it's about frigging time!
A. lack of standardized libraries across the Linux board is a big problem, I hope they release at least 3 three standards though, Server, Desktop/Workstation/Laptop, and Embedded.
-manno
P.S. Did you know OO.o2.0's spell check has the correct spelling of "frigging"?
All right... I was trying to be polite, perhaps have an open and honest debate, I was curious as to what your opinion was, but I guess you're not interested in keeping this above the bar so... we should probably leave it at this:
We obviously both believe the other is wrong, we also appear to have irreconcilable differences regarding the definition/view of what hardware support is, and what a desktop OS should be. It's not going anywhere and is just going to be a waste of both your time, and mine. So in the interest of civility we should drop this. Unfortunatly we will both walk away without a better understanding the others point of view. Our loss.
GamePC is a great place for server chip benchmarks, the guys their know their stuff. I havn't read this article yet, but I know I'll expect it to be good, as the rest of their reviews are.
I doubt you'll read this, it's a late post I know, but if you do I'd appreciate a reply.
You're misinterpreting "Poor driver support is preventing Linux uptake."
as "Linux sucks because it has poor driver support."
I admit it's usualy not stated this clearly, but when the topic is Linux uptake and someone says "the problem with Linux is poor XXX support"
it's understood that "Linux" means "Linux adoption"
I see it a lot here, and I hope you realize that what he's saying is absolutely correct. I love the ideals behind open source, and I use a ton of Open Source software OO.o, Gostscript & PDFCreator, OpenVPN, UltraVNC, ect. And because of my admittedly stellar experiences with each and every one of those programs I've tried to switch to an Open Source OS. I've installed, and uninstalled Linux at least 20 times, and getting the system to a state I'm comfortable with is nie impossible. I understand that it's not Linux's fault that Ati, and nVidia wont open source their drivers. I realize that Broadcom is a bunch of a-holes, and won't release Linux drivers so I will forever have to use NDIS wrapper to get my wireless card to work on my m6805. Myself and a good number of people here on/. understand that yes it's not a problem with Linux, when drivers don't work/aren't available.
You have to concede that regardless of who's fault it is, the fact that I as a user, can't grab a wireless card, video card, ect. off the shelf from my local CompUSA slap it in my PC, stick plop in the install disk, and just in sit back and wait a few minutes for the install to complete, as I would on any Windows box, is a hindrance to Linux UPTAKE, though not an indication of a problem with Linux itself.
To summarize, when we're talking about Linux adoption, and a poster says. "the problem with Linux is poor XXX support"
Doesn't mean they don't realize that it's really a problem with vendors themselves, and that Linux as an OS is a success. It means that. "the problem with Linux adoption is poor XXX support"
This is slashdot, one of the nice things about this community is that for the most part it can be assumed that the person you're replying to is intelligent. Pretending they're not, and telling them something they're already aware of is a waste of time and frustrating. I like it when I get replies to posts, it's frustrating however when the reply is intelligent well thought out, and is of no interest to me because I have to nit-pick semantics. You're not at a help-desk here, assume intelligence.
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What a load of BS. Only a few negligent whiners don't realise it's a game.
You are totaly blowing these things out of proportion. The sky is not falling, and the deterioration of family values isn't the medias fault, it's the families.
I watched He-Man, Superman, GI-Joe. All these shows had one thing in common all problembs were resolved through violence. Something bad is happening quick get my gun/sword/kneck-punch-fist, that's what I learned by watching these shows. Hey you know what my mom did when I broke my brother's arm playing "WWF" steal cage match in our backyard? She grounded me. Funny I got the blame, I had to take responsibility for my actions. I wonder what would of happened if she sewed the "WWF" instead?
Raise your kids teach them to take responsibility fo their actions. The truth is most parrents do a great/good job of this. Unfortunatly only the ones that are bad at it make the news.
-matt
Man if only I had my old GeForce2 GTS to test this out with. Son of a...
I thought that Ebert said that "games are not art."
The author here is saying that games aren't the best medium to tell a story with... I agree, but that's not the same as saying games are not art. Games are art, regardless of how well they tell a story.
-manno
"Likewise, the original plan was for DirectX 8 to provide an API for the pixel shader in the GeForce 2 GTS. But something happened to the DirectX8 spec where all of a sudden, the minimum level of support was the GeForce 3. That something was Microsoft."
So you could do DirectX 8 like shader effects in software, on a GeForce 2 GTX, or for that matter the "nForce 2"'s integrated graphics?
+1 Funny
good one wish I had real mod points, for now this will have to
do.
I'm not atheist, but I also haven't been to church in a long time... like a decade or so, and I'm just 27 years old. I'm not a big fan of it if you couldn't tell. Just last night I had to go online to look up "The Lords Prayer" to argue a point... I lost. But I totally agree with the parent's statement, I'm against prayer in public school, putting the Ten Commandments on state property(though I don't object to them being placed in a "public" space), pro choice. Despite all that I'm still going to send my child to religious classes(not school). Despite all my problems with the church, and the doubts I have about my own faith, I owe a lot to my Roman Catholic upbringing. That being said my biggest gripe with organized religions, particularly that of the Christian/Catholic variety, are the people that got to church go through the motions, and treat people in a (as my dad would put it) unchristian manner. That always pissed me off, the lessons
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
"Judge not lest ye be judged yourself"
"Render unto Cesar the things that are Caesar; and to God, the things that are God's"
"Forgive us our tresspases as we forgive those that tresspass against us"
These were the foundation of my faith and the cornerstone of almost every relationship I have personal, professional, and otherwise. I'm from NY raised by New England "Blue Staters" that vote it seems to me that where a community focuses on religiously seems to dictate their political views. In NY it was the love/help thy neighbor, I'm in Miami now, and the focus seems to be a lot more
"Thou shall not, or go to hell!"
It's weird down here, jail is the answer to our "problems"... the word "problems" seems to be interchangeable with lower class/immigrants/minorities. Greed and fear seem to prevail, what's the harm in letting Cuban refugee's in? Actually compared to Hetians they have it easy... Darker skinned people scare WASP's... it's part of the definition of being a WASP. The good news is that we have highly intelligent people running the show here. It makes total sense to me that we should lower taxes on those with the most(myself included), to cut programs that help those who need the most help. Public schools suck down here, and it's not going to change because everyone "protects their own". I was a huge fan of public schooling when I lived in New England, I'll be damned before I send my kid to one of the "baby-momma" factories they call a school down here. I also refuse to ask for a tax credit just because I'm paying for my kid to go to private school. A ways north of here is the home of TBN the "Trinity Broadcast Network"... how does that song go?
"Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his television show?"
This place needs a spiritual revival... big time. I see a lot more "Sunday Christians" down here. The type that would take money from someone who truly needs it, just to line their pockets just "cause they can", have the nerve to tell you about it, and then ask.
"What church you go to?"
It never seemed that way in NY... maybe because going to church is more of "the thing to do" down here, and up in NY most people that went to church did so out of honest belief. I had a faith once, but I didn't want to be associated with a lot of the people that call themselves faithful. I don't know man I'm just ranting this subject always gets me riled up.
Long and the short of it is I agreed with you.
-manno
Future Moon residents have high incidents, of brest, and testicular cancer.
-manno
MTTI... a little help
the screen res on the GPx2 is no where near 800x600, no wifi, bluetooth, if I was going to play dieo games I'de get a GPx2 I'm not though.
I can't loose my Axim X50v soon enough!!
Wow, their's a lot of venom in there isn't there? Which one of your puppies did Mr. Gates run over yesterday? Yeah I don't like his company's Cooperate practices, but I'd say most of your assessment would require at least having the chance to meet with the guy face to face. All you know of him is from press releases, and the lovingly formed opinions of him posted here on slashdot. Like I said I'm not a huge fan of MS, but Billy G. and the company are two separate entities. I'm a different person at the office, why do you think he isn't?
-manno
Is there a killer app for IPv6. Yes it's call IP Over Power Lines
I was about to post exactly this, this thing is the greatest scam going. I'm impressed with Amazon, this is a damn good way to save money, instead of hiring a pro. This is ingenious their paying outsourced labor wages to native English speaking Americans. Replacing a position that they either had to pay 25-30k to a college grad for. Or paid some stenography service per word for. It's frigging brilliant. P. T. Barnum holds true as ever.
-manno
man I wish I read this sooner, damn funny.
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that's just plain nasty I could of gone my whole life not knowing this, and been all the happier for it. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
the longest warrenty for a hard drive I can find out there is 5 years, and I've had my fair share of them die within 3 years, arn't dvds supposed to have a shelf life of decades?
Thats not fair I've never owned an SUV, but there havw been times my honda accord couldn't cut the mustard and I wish I had one. This new P4, has no use what so ever.
You make a good point, but this isn't what they are trying to address, they are trying to address the fact that Windows comes in one flavor with one set of libraries... meaning that compared to Linux it's the
MS Windows is the Dedicated-Console to Linux's PC-Box.
We all know the story already, but one more time can't hurt right?... With a Dedicated-Console the developer knows every piece of hardware on that console, With a PC-Box the developer has no clue what the end customer is going to have in their PC, and therefor has to either make compromises to get it to work on the widest array of PC's / or go for just the higher-end and alienate customers. Each option Dedicated-Console, or PC-Box has its advantages but as a developer I could tell you which one I'd prefer to write for.
A developer can program for Windows and have a guaranteed set of MS sanctioned, and maintained libraries to use on any Windows box bought off the self, or program for "Linux", and hope that the distro/user has put the libraries that you use on that box already. Or force your users to hunt them down themselves.
This may change in the In the upcoming 12 versions of Vista era, but so far MS has given developers one platform to program for when they program for "Windows". When they programing for "Linux", they have to assume that nothing is there, or they risk there program working incorrectly/not-at-all, as anyone who's installed a program that required dependencies, that are no longer easily found, or poorly documented can attest to. Windows/OSX aren't like that, they have 1 OS with tops 2-3 very similar flavors, to program for not 1 OS with 100+ different variations, and lord knows what screwball eccentricities.
In response to MS's use of Direct X some one suggested that SDL and OpenGL would be a good replacement for it(Direct X). But how would I as a developer know that a consumer purchasing my product had those libraries installed? That is the problem that these guys are trying to solve.
They are trying to make DISTRIBUTING a program for "Linux" across Linux flavors as easy as it is to distribute programs for "Windows". Linux needs this if it's going to go mainstream. I hope it takes off.
-manno
I'm probably going to catch H. E. double hockey sticks for this, but it's about frigging time!
A. lack of standardized libraries across the Linux board is a big problem, I hope they release at least 3 three standards though, Server, Desktop/Workstation/Laptop, and Embedded.
-manno
P.S. Did you know OO.o2.0's spell check has the correct spelling of "frigging"?
All right... I was trying to be polite, perhaps have an open and honest debate, I was curious as to what your opinion was, but I guess you're not interested in keeping this above the bar so... we should probably leave it at this:
We obviously both believe the other is wrong, we also appear to have irreconcilable differences regarding the definition/view of what hardware support is, and what a desktop OS should be. It's not going anywhere and is just going to be a waste of both your time, and mine. So in the interest of civility we should drop this. Unfortunatly we will both walk away without a better understanding the others point of view. Our loss.
Have a good one,
-manno
What!? This is only half of what we negotiated!
GamePC is a great place for server chip benchmarks, the guys their know their stuff. I havn't read this article yet, but I know I'll expect it to be good, as the rest of their reviews are.
Doh! You beat me to this.
I doubt you'll read this, it's a late post I know, but if you do I'd appreciate a reply.
/. understand that yes it's not a problem with Linux, when drivers don't work/aren't available.
You're misinterpreting
"Poor driver support is preventing Linux uptake."
as
"Linux sucks because it has poor driver support."
I admit it's usualy not stated this clearly, but when the topic is Linux uptake and someone says
"the problem with Linux is poor XXX support"
it's understood that "Linux" means "Linux adoption"
I see it a lot here, and I hope you realize that what he's saying is absolutely correct. I love the ideals behind open source, and I use a ton of Open Source software OO.o, Gostscript & PDFCreator, OpenVPN, UltraVNC, ect. And because of my admittedly stellar experiences with each and every one of those programs I've tried to switch to an Open Source OS. I've installed, and uninstalled Linux at least 20 times, and getting the system to a state I'm comfortable with is nie impossible. I understand that it's not Linux's fault that Ati, and nVidia wont open source their drivers. I realize that Broadcom is a bunch of a-holes, and won't release Linux drivers so I will forever have to use NDIS wrapper to get my wireless card to work on my m6805. Myself and a good number of people here on
You have to concede that regardless of who's fault it is, the fact that I as a user, can't grab a wireless card, video card, ect. off the shelf from my local CompUSA slap it in my PC, stick plop in the install disk, and just in sit back and wait a few minutes for the install to complete, as I would on any Windows box, is a hindrance to Linux UPTAKE, though not an indication of a problem with Linux itself.
To summarize, when we're talking about Linux adoption, and a poster says.
"the problem with Linux is poor XXX support"
Doesn't mean they don't realize that it's really a problem with vendors themselves, and that Linux as an OS is a success. It means that.
"the problem with Linux adoption is poor XXX support"
This is slashdot, one of the nice things about this community is that for the most part it can be assumed that the person you're replying to is intelligent. Pretending they're not, and telling them something they're already aware of is a waste of time and frustrating. I like it when I get replies to posts, it's frustrating however when the reply is intelligent well thought out, and is of no interest to me because I have to nit-pick semantics. You're not at a help-desk here, assume intelligence.
-manno