I never thought I'd be agreeing with Bill Gates on anything.
our Education system was designed for children at the begining of the industrial age. assembly line schools for assembly line jobs. individual creativity was not to be encouraged, as these chidren were being trained to endure the mundane life of a factory worker.
it also had a neat side effect: the students weren't very educated. the designer of the system actually touted this as one of the good points.
it's a sad commentary on our education system when I can state with no hesitation that Bill Gates is not only right, but could design a better one.
thankfully, the grandparent was modded up appropriately. you really do suck at linux. if you can't get X running on an S3 ViRGE, you should go read a friggin' book or something. I've trained 8-year-olds to configure X. what the hell is wrong with you?
I could provide help with every problem you have, but like the grandparent, your shameless attempt at trolling simply prompted another response of how bad a troll you simply are.
there's a rule on many linux forums: if you want help immediately, talk about how much linux sucks because you can't get something working. 15 gurus will flock to your post like a magnet to make sure you get it solved.
not to pimp out gentoo any more, but people need to realize that VidaLinux is essentially Redhat's Anaconda installer for Gentoo. 45 minutes or so, you're up with a GNOME 2.8 desktop, and you can simply emerge sync and update what you need.
or, go to Project Chinstrap and download binaries for most of the current portage packages. saves a lot of time during installs.
like I said, I don't wanna sound like a billboard, but it saves a metric buttload of time to install this way.
1) backwards compatibility is a red herring; GTK+ 3.0 will be incompatible with the 2.x series, just as 2.x was incompatible with the 1.2.x series. they're going to rewrite anyway, so they have an opportunity to grab what they can use from EFL.
2) the OSS GUI world is deeply rooted in Qt/GTK+, but, again, GTK+ is going to have an incompatible rewrite. all apps will have to have large chunks rewritten for the new toolkit.
3) Red Hat != GNOME/X.org. Novell, Sun, Fluendo, HP, and many others have top GNOME and X.org hackers working for them.
your entire post is based around "it's incompatible", which is completely baseless. the next generation of toolkits is throwing away compatibility anyway, so it's the perfect time to adopt new ideas like this.
as much as I dislike ICANN, as they're hopelessly corrupt, I'd take them any day over the United Nations. but it's a matter of choosing "We'll ignore anything you say unless you give us lots of money" over "we'll ignore anything you say unless you give us lots of money, and then we'll take 6 years making a decision on it".
Dave wasn't smart enough to prophesize something like this. don't give him that much credit.
I was assuming that, like the bleem! thing, he'd want to do the right thing. seems you're just as childish and short-sided. oh well. seems you were just in it for the piracy as well.
Wha? you mean Marat isn't running a totally successful business?
sorry. I couldn't even say that one with a straight face.
I'm not too worried. the image is already copyrighted by Oscar Controls, and has been in commercial use for ages, as MAMEworld.net uses it for all their banner advertising. not to mention all the people contacting the USPTO on the MAMEdev's behalf.
Am I the only one on earth that understands that Jar-Jar Binks is the reason the Empire was created? Lucas realized the character sucks, and was a complete tool. so what better use for a tool that everyone hates than to make him the patsy that gets the Emperor into power?
If anything, I think Lucas more than justified the character. At least now we have a tangible reason to hate his guts, instead of the previous reason, which was little more than an insult to our collective intelligence.
What would make me happy, is if he realizes what he has done, and takes his own life. too bad Lucas doesn't have the balls to make a character realize the depths of the tyrrany he's responsible for creating.
his lack of tact notwithstanding, he's still correct. the fact that you're defending a poorly-written paper purely because he wasn't exactly nice in his delivery speaks volumes. apparently, a valid criticism must be polite.
if you're wanting an OS to play games, I'd say try Gentoo, and maybe check out Ubuntu as well.
I'm a Gentoo guy, but I totally understand why people wouldn't want to go through the long install process. This is why VidaLinux exists. VidaLinux is essentially a precompiled Gentoo (with Gnome 2.8, etc), installed with Redhat's Anaconda Installer. works amazingly well Full working Gentoo distribution up and running in under an hour.
don't want to compile future packages? that's allright. just check out Project Chinstrap, which has precompiled packages for Gentoo. Easy as pie.
Ubuntu has its share of issues, but overall, it's a top-notch choice as well. both should work amazingly well for games.
congratulations. you just proved that not only have you ever touched Python or Perl (the misspelling speaks volumes) before, but I'd go as far as to say you've probably never programmed an app with a GUI in your entire life.
so what you're doing, is stating that python and perl are slow and useless without using them. you're also stating that java is useless without having anything to back it up.
not only are you a troll, but you're a poor one. thanks for increasing the Signal to Noise Ratio on Slashdot.
yeah. actually, Azureus is much faster. on my computers (windows and linux), it's barely a speck of CPU usage.
of course, the official clients under windows are about the same, as they're compiled into machine code, so it shouldn't be having any speed issues either.
yeah. he knew EVERYTHING about blanka's bio... except that he used Dhalsim's bio from the Street Fighter Movie. Blanka was not a scientist. he was a test subject in the movie.
the Blanka in the game was a man who was raised by wolves from the age of 4.
kid was talking out his ass. gives me a little more reason to believe he's not a fabrication.
untrue. Snes95/96 (which later became Snes9x) was able to run most games at full speed on a pentium 133. if you disabled transparency (or just didn't have a good DOS VESA driver), you could get it running full speed on a pentium 75Mhz.
not only that, but other SNES emulators like NLKSNES or ESNES were both able to run most games at full-speed on this hardware as well.
so Computer and Video Games is known to post not only rumors, but blatantly false information. they've had their asses nailed to the wall before for things like this, and I'm pretty sure this is simply another case of trying to get hits on their website.
so yeah. until you see something more official (at least more official than this rag), take this story with a HUGE grain of salt.
I could start with Kevin Cloud and Christian Antkow. did real great work in Doom3.
or I could say Shigeru Miyamoto, who would be the Speilberg of videogames. there are many famous designers; Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear/Snatcher fame, Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy, Yu Suzuki of Shenmue/Virtua Fighter.
not enough? well, then would art directors work? cos I'm a huge fun of what Yoshitaka Amano and Tetsuya Nomura have done in Final Fantasy. or even Jim Lee's work in Blackthorne.
maybe we should go with musicians? after all, these would be like the Danny Elfmans of their field. we have Yuzo Koshiro, who was amazingly good in both ActRaiser games, not to mention how great he was in the Streets of Rage trilogy. or Nobuo Uematsu, who did most of the early Final Fantasy scores (up to about FF8). or even Tommy Tallerico, who helped score Metroid Prime, Cool Spot, Earthworm Jim, or Aladdin for the Genesis. Ever heard about how Yasunori Mitsuda had a mid-life crisis in the middle of scoring Chrono Trigger, and others like Uematsu had to take over? naw. why would you?
hrm. I guess I left out some coders. I guess I could give Tim Sweeney, Gabe Newell, John Carmack, Brian Hook, American McGee... the list goes on and on.
I suppose it's who you're asking. I could list as many game programmers/writers/coders/designers as I could actors/directors/producers.
Those of us who are fans of the medium would know these things.
for those that didn't read the whole thing, this is actually a legal whitepaper on how to subvert and take over the emulation scene. this paper shows very clearly how to close the loopholes in the law that make emulation legal. they lost with the DMCA, but they can get you using intellectual property law and copyright/trademark infringement. this whitepaper lays out exactly how.
many of the facts in this article are completely wrong (Snes9x was released long after nlksnes, esnes, and Snes96. one example out of many), and a large part of the arguement is that the ability to make any sort of device to play something you own is a "gray area". the fact is you could MacGyver yourself an emulator out of safety pins, a car battery, and a potato if you wanted to. ownership of property allows you to do whatever you want with said property.
issues aside, this is a good idea of what emulation fans are going to see in the next few years.
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if the popularity of CSI and similar shows makes it harder for people to be convicted of crimes using only circumstantial evidence, then I'm all for it. more educated juries means less faulty convictions.
perhaps watching a CSI marathon should be mandatory for jury duty?:)
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I never thought I'd be agreeing with Bill Gates on anything.
our Education system was designed for children at the begining of the industrial age. assembly line schools for assembly line jobs. individual creativity was not to be encouraged, as these chidren were being trained to endure the mundane life of a factory worker.
it also had a neat side effect: the students weren't very educated. the designer of the system actually touted this as one of the good points.
it's a sad commentary on our education system when I can state with no hesitation that Bill Gates is not only right, but could design a better one.
thankfully, the grandparent was modded up appropriately. you really do suck at linux. if you can't get X running on an S3 ViRGE, you should go read a friggin' book or something. I've trained 8-year-olds to configure X. what the hell is wrong with you?
I could provide help with every problem you have, but like the grandparent, your shameless attempt at trolling simply prompted another response of how bad a troll you simply are.
there's a rule on many linux forums: if you want help immediately, talk about how much linux sucks because you can't get something working. 15 gurus will flock to your post like a magnet to make sure you get it solved.
I'm happy to not help.
eek. it seems the link to the vidalinux OS is a .com and not a .org.
not to pimp out gentoo any more, but people need to realize that VidaLinux is essentially Redhat's Anaconda installer for Gentoo. 45 minutes or so, you're up with a GNOME 2.8 desktop, and you can simply emerge sync and update what you need.
or, go to Project Chinstrap and download binaries for most of the current portage packages. saves a lot of time during installs.
like I said, I don't wanna sound like a billboard, but it saves a metric buttload of time to install this way.
1) backwards compatibility is a red herring; GTK+ 3.0 will be incompatible with the 2.x series, just as 2.x was incompatible with the 1.2.x series. they're going to rewrite anyway, so they have an opportunity to grab what they can use from EFL.
2) the OSS GUI world is deeply rooted in Qt/GTK+, but, again, GTK+ is going to have an incompatible rewrite. all apps will have to have large chunks rewritten for the new toolkit.
3) Red Hat != GNOME/X.org. Novell, Sun, Fluendo, HP, and many others have top GNOME and X.org hackers working for them.
your entire post is based around "it's incompatible", which is completely baseless. the next generation of toolkits is throwing away compatibility anyway, so it's the perfect time to adopt new ideas like this.
well, if I recall correctly, his boss was Havoc Pennington.
:)
interesting how these things unfold.
well, being that Australia's people aren't sovereign, there aren't any civil liberties being violated. they don't have any real civil liberties.
as much as I dislike ICANN, as they're hopelessly corrupt, I'd take them any day over the United Nations. but it's a matter of choosing "We'll ignore anything you say unless you give us lots of money" over "we'll ignore anything you say unless you give us lots of money, and then we'll take 6 years making a decision on it".
hrm. can we choose c) none of the above?
holy crap. this is sorta broken on the front page. have to go to yro.slashdot.org to make it work.
oh yeah, fp.
Dave wasn't smart enough to prophesize something like this. don't give him that much credit.
I was assuming that, like the bleem! thing, he'd want to do the right thing. seems you're just as childish and short-sided. oh well. seems you were just in it for the piracy as well.
Wha? you mean Marat isn't running a totally successful business?
sorry. I couldn't even say that one with a straight face.
I'm not too worried. the image is already copyrighted by Oscar Controls, and has been in commercial use for ages, as MAMEworld.net uses it for all their banner advertising. not to mention all the people contacting the USPTO on the MAMEdev's behalf.
if I were a MAMEdev, I'd be contacting the Electronic Frontier Foundation about this.
maybe a certain Site Admin or two should start a campaign to email the USPTO to make sure this never goes through.
Am I the only one on earth that understands that Jar-Jar Binks is the reason the Empire was created? Lucas realized the character sucks, and was a complete tool. so what better use for a tool that everyone hates than to make him the patsy that gets the Emperor into power?
If anything, I think Lucas more than justified the character. At least now we have a tangible reason to hate his guts, instead of the previous reason, which was little more than an insult to our collective intelligence.
What would make me happy, is if he realizes what he has done, and takes his own life. too bad Lucas doesn't have the balls to make a character realize the depths of the tyrrany he's responsible for creating.
his lack of tact notwithstanding, he's still correct. the fact that you're defending a poorly-written paper purely because he wasn't exactly nice in his delivery speaks volumes. apparently, a valid criticism must be polite.
interesting.
if you're wanting an OS to play games, I'd say try Gentoo, and maybe check out Ubuntu as well.
I'm a Gentoo guy, but I totally understand why people wouldn't want to go through the long install process. This is why VidaLinux exists. VidaLinux is essentially a precompiled Gentoo (with Gnome 2.8, etc), installed with Redhat's Anaconda Installer. works amazingly well Full working Gentoo distribution up and running in under an hour.
don't want to compile future packages? that's allright. just check out Project Chinstrap, which has precompiled packages for Gentoo. Easy as pie.
Ubuntu has its share of issues, but overall, it's a top-notch choice as well. both should work amazingly well for games.
well, if one reads the bible, it seems we have -5 years until the apocalypse.
I witnessed it, didn't you?
congratulations. you just proved that not only have you ever touched Python or Perl (the misspelling speaks volumes) before, but I'd go as far as to say you've probably never programmed an app with a GUI in your entire life.
so what you're doing, is stating that python and perl are slow and useless without using them. you're also stating that java is useless without having anything to back it up.
not only are you a troll, but you're a poor one. thanks for increasing the Signal to Noise Ratio on Slashdot.
yeah. actually, Azureus is much faster. on my computers (windows and linux), it's barely a speck of CPU usage.
of course, the official clients under windows are about the same, as they're compiled into machine code, so it shouldn't be having any speed issues either.
man. what the hell does any of this has to do with Firefox or Internet Explorer?
Mods: how about modding parent offtopic for once?
yeah. he knew EVERYTHING about blanka's bio... except that he used Dhalsim's bio from the Street Fighter Movie. Blanka was not a scientist. he was a test subject in the movie.
the Blanka in the game was a man who was raised by wolves from the age of 4.
kid was talking out his ass. gives me a little more reason to believe he's not a fabrication.
untrue. Snes95/96 (which later became Snes9x) was able to run most games at full speed on a pentium 133. if you disabled transparency (or just didn't have a good DOS VESA driver), you could get it running full speed on a pentium 75Mhz.
not only that, but other SNES emulators like NLKSNES or ESNES were both able to run most games at full-speed on this hardware as well.
so Computer and Video Games is known to post not only rumors, but blatantly false information. they've had their asses nailed to the wall before for things like this, and I'm pretty sure this is simply another case of trying to get hits on their website.
so yeah. until you see something more official (at least more official than this rag), take this story with a HUGE grain of salt.
I could start with Kevin Cloud and Christian Antkow. did real great work in Doom3.
or I could say Shigeru Miyamoto, who would be the Speilberg of videogames. there are many famous designers; Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear/Snatcher fame, Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy, Yu Suzuki of Shenmue/Virtua Fighter.
not enough? well, then would art directors work? cos I'm a huge fun of what Yoshitaka Amano and Tetsuya Nomura have done in Final Fantasy. or even Jim Lee's work in Blackthorne.
maybe we should go with musicians? after all, these would be like the Danny Elfmans of their field. we have Yuzo Koshiro, who was amazingly good in both ActRaiser games, not to mention how great he was in the Streets of Rage trilogy. or Nobuo Uematsu, who did most of the early Final Fantasy scores (up to about FF8). or even Tommy Tallerico, who helped score Metroid Prime, Cool Spot, Earthworm Jim, or Aladdin for the Genesis. Ever heard about how Yasunori Mitsuda had a mid-life crisis in the middle of scoring Chrono Trigger, and others like Uematsu had to take over? naw. why would you?
hrm. I guess I left out some coders. I guess I could give Tim Sweeney, Gabe Newell, John Carmack, Brian Hook, American McGee... the list goes on and on.
I suppose it's who you're asking. I could list as many game programmers/writers/coders/designers as I could actors/directors/producers.
Those of us who are fans of the medium would know these things.
this article is flawed in several ways:
for those that didn't read the whole thing, this is actually a legal whitepaper on how to subvert and take over the emulation scene. this paper shows very clearly how to close the loopholes in the law that make emulation legal. they lost with the DMCA, but they can get you using intellectual property law and copyright/trademark infringement. this whitepaper lays out exactly how.
many of the facts in this article are completely wrong (Snes9x was released long after nlksnes, esnes, and Snes96. one example out of many), and a large part of the arguement is that the ability to make any sort of device to play something you own is a "gray area". the fact is you could MacGyver yourself an emulator out of safety pins, a car battery, and a potato if you wanted to. ownership of property allows you to do whatever you want with said property.
issues aside, this is a good idea of what emulation fans are going to see in the next few years.
yeah. because Acclaim was making such great games, had top-notch marketing, and always kept fans wanting more.
there's no reason they wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for those dirty pirates.
if the popularity of CSI and similar shows makes it harder for people to be convicted of crimes using only circumstantial evidence, then I'm all for it. more educated juries means less faulty convictions.
:)
perhaps watching a CSI marathon should be mandatory for jury duty?