Remember that this Minecraft document is not offered as a free download in TPB either. The authors themselves just put a pirated copy there before anyone else gets the chance. You can get it by a "normal" download if you buy it as intended. Can't really ask more.
I found the background jingling relaxing.:D First off it gave me the impression of a busy office with desktop phones ringing in background and stuff. The sound is so faint that it could almost be some encoder noise, but maybe not.
A window manager handles the position and decoration if mere windows. Some simple window managers may offer some extra functionality such as a taskbar or a settings panel.
A desktop environment contains pretty much all you need on top of Linux+X.org: a window manager, user interface APIs, a collection of programs (that go together in terms of appearance and behavior), and service daemons.
On the same note, I believe that many Unity-haters here have not either tried to actually get into it before judging it. They just robotically say that it sucks, because that's the trend. Or they test it with the attitude "remember, this is supposed to suck".
Unity isn't even that far from a standard Win7 / Mac interface, so I think a lot of the hate towards it is not warranted.
Exactly that shows that you're not actually familiar with it. It's a bit more than typing some characters and changing fonts and marginals. A lots of open source enthusiasts recommend OpenOffice/LibreOffice but have tried it out just with some simple text and basic formatting. However, when you really go out there with it, write a bit more complex documents, embed line art and spreadsheets across applications, and exchange files with people who use MS Office... The cold fact is that screws up the formatting of the documents quite badly. It's just not worth all the hassle.
Indeed. If I were to lose a child, I'd see no need to have another with the same exact genetic properties but maybe something different, to start a new era in my life.
I think there is an old McDonald's TV commercial where a boy drives a R/C car alone into the restaurant, with a piece of cardboard that has his order written on.
That's just due to selection... by the photographer. There's another picture further down in the article where the decoy only seems to have five legs. But of course the one that looks most like a spider, with eight legs, was selected for the top of the article.
But maybe those are partial structures? There could be a limit of 8 in most cases.
for some reason, the thing I'm marveling at the most is that it knows it has 8 legs. How?!
Why not 6 or 7?...because 7, 8, 9?
It could be that through its genetic factors the spider could "know" (in a very low, evolutionary level) how it looks like and thus what kind of thing to replicate.
Sounds like Perl. Powerful, accessible to a complete beginner, reliable, and practically unmodifiable once written.
That brought up an interesting question in my mind. Could it be possible to grab some GPL-licensed OSS project, make modifications to it, run the source code through some insane obfuscator, and then still be legally able to redistribute it?
Confirmed, I've seen in a keynote Jobs to type in some code and says "I don't know what I'm doing". In other one, he jokes about improved CPU branch prediction as "I don't know what that does -- predicts branches?"
Maybe some Apple geek can point to the particular clips in YouTube.:)
For things like games, nothing will be "good enough" for a long time. For general computing tasks, you are correct though.
Anyway. Both AMD and NVIDIA release also cut-down versions of their architectures, which should accomplish what you want. You get a chip that consumes less power than your previous one, but has roughly the same amount of performance than what you had.
There is no way the Blender Foundation can compete with that unless they become more like RedHat.
They should. This is exactly the kind of software which could actually make some money from selling support while producing the software as open source at the same time.
They could at least distinguish themselves by using a different name. Perhaps they could call them packages. Then they'd need some kind of Advanced Tool to install said Packages.
Maybe even take it further and compose the system of various little packages so that each individual library can be updated discretely. And then one simple command to upgrade the whole system if requested. That would be awesome!
I assume you are looking for a Linux solution, but Microsoft Mathematics really deserves a mention. It's a free-as-in-beer software which has nice graphing features and a smart equation solver. Something between a basic calculator and hardcore tool like MATLAB.
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Remember that this Minecraft document is not offered as a free download in TPB either. The authors themselves just put a pirated copy there before anyone else gets the chance. You can get it by a "normal" download if you buy it as intended. Can't really ask more.
And just to clarify, that's the description of the torrent in TPB. At first it looked like 2 Player Productions was writing to Slashdot. :)
Well said, sir!
I found the background jingling relaxing. :D First off it gave me the impression of a busy office with desktop phones ringing in background and stuff. The sound is so faint that it could almost be some encoder noise, but maybe not.
A window manager handles the position and decoration if mere windows. Some simple window managers may offer some extra functionality such as a taskbar or a settings panel.
A desktop environment contains pretty much all you need on top of Linux+X.org: a window manager, user interface APIs, a collection of programs (that go together in terms of appearance and behavior), and service daemons.
Indeed. The title should probably be "First Benchmark of the Radeon HD 8000M GPU".
"press Super -> type -> shit -> shit happens"
There's a new meme there... ;)
On the same note, I believe that many Unity-haters here have not either tried to actually get into it before judging it. They just robotically say that it sucks, because that's the trend. Or they test it with the attitude "remember, this is supposed to suck".
Unity isn't even that far from a standard Win7 / Mac interface, so I think a lot of the hate towards it is not warranted.
Exactly that shows that you're not actually familiar with it. It's a bit more than typing some characters and changing fonts and marginals. A lots of open source enthusiasts recommend OpenOffice/LibreOffice but have tried it out just with some simple text and basic formatting. However, when you really go out there with it, write a bit more complex documents, embed line art and spreadsheets across applications, and exchange files with people who use MS Office... The cold fact is that screws up the formatting of the documents quite badly. It's just not worth all the hassle.
Indeed. If I were to lose a child, I'd see no need to have another with the same exact genetic properties but maybe something different, to start a new era in my life.
I think there is an old McDonald's TV commercial where a boy drives a R/C car alone into the restaurant, with a piece of cardboard that has his order written on.
Hey, there's a nice multiplayer setup there already.
That's just due to selection... by the photographer. There's another picture further down in the article where the decoy only seems to have five legs. But of course the one that looks most like a spider, with eight legs, was selected for the top of the article.
But maybe those are partial structures? There could be a limit of 8 in most cases.
for some reason, the thing I'm marveling at the most is that it knows it has 8 legs. How?!
Why not 6 or 7? ...because 7, 8, 9?
It could be that through its genetic factors the spider could "know" (in a very low, evolutionary level) how it looks like and thus what kind of thing to replicate.
Sounds like Perl. Powerful, accessible to a complete beginner, reliable, and practically unmodifiable once written.
That brought up an interesting question in my mind. Could it be possible to grab some GPL-licensed OSS project, make modifications to it, run the source code through some insane obfuscator, and then still be legally able to redistribute it?
I think Saints Row 3 gets a nice balance between the two. Keeping slightly cartoon-ish characters while making the environment more realistic.
Agree with that one. Saints Row 3 is really nice package both technically and artistically.
Confirmed, I've seen in a keynote Jobs to type in some code and says "I don't know what I'm doing". In other one, he jokes about improved CPU branch prediction as "I don't know what that does -- predicts branches?"
Maybe some Apple geek can point to the particular clips in YouTube. :)
At Gamedev.net someone also just started a discussion Predictions About the Future of Gaming .
For things like games, nothing will be "good enough" for a long time. For general computing tasks, you are correct though.
Anyway. Both AMD and NVIDIA release also cut-down versions of their architectures, which should accomplish what you want. You get a chip that consumes less power than your previous one, but has roughly the same amount of performance than what you had.
There is no way the Blender Foundation can compete with that unless they become more like RedHat.
They should. This is exactly the kind of software which could actually make some money from selling support while producing the software as open source at the same time.
They could at least distinguish themselves by using a different name. Perhaps they could call them packages. Then they'd need some kind of Advanced Tool to install said Packages.
Maybe even take it further and compose the system of various little packages so that each individual library can be updated discretely. And then one simple command to upgrade the whole system if requested. That would be awesome!
I thought this was all about open source and stuff. Aren't these Apple Stores completely contrary to the spirit of OSS?
Then you are talking about freeware rather than open source.
Just for completeness, here's also a YouTube link to the Winamp whips llama jingle.
Dillo is excellent, I really like it. I wish there was more attention drawn to it, it could use some extra developers.
I assume you are looking for a Linux solution, but Microsoft Mathematics really deserves a mention. It's a free-as-in-beer software which has nice graphing features and a smart equation solver. Something between a basic calculator and hardcore tool like MATLAB.