I always found it funny that they'd go up to twelve instead of stopping at ten, but I was young then and the little cartoon of the rolling marbles made me overlook that for some time.
They don't. It's Microsoft's intention to stay in the 32-bit era. Bill Gates proclaimed himself that 32-bits should be enough for anyone, and that he's mildly scared of the number 64.
Not to mention I think this comment makes a good point:
You do know there's a big of angst between Slashdot and Digg, right? As the post on Slashdot implies that this will not be seen unless it's on Digg would tell me that whoever posted it on Slashdot has little respect for Slashdotters and Slashdot itself.
Why not go the other way. Allow the bundling of software, as long it's on same company hardware. So Apple could sell Apple hardware with an Apple OS. It would force Microsoft into a tricky situation. Do they open up their high quality XBox factory and produce high quality hardware that never overheats and has lights that stay green all the time or...who am I kidding? Letting Microsoft make hardware to run their OS would be suicide for them.
Put in CD, Select advance or one step install, Select Workstation/Server....
That's my vote. You could ship the computer with this fancy system CD that you simply put in and click your preferences. You could even extend it to attempt an internet connection and download licenses for "pay for" software bundles. I think someone already has this... Isn't it called a LiveCD?
I'm going to have to say it could be hardware, but the only games I've extensively used both my Sixaxis motion sensing controllers on were Blazing Angels and Flow. I picked up Lair and Warhawk at the same time and played a little bit of Lair (first mission, and training) I thought it was a little funny (as in wonky, a tad unresponsive) and I put it up instead of sticking with it too long. Since then Warhawk hasn't left my PS3, so I can't tell you how well the motion controller is on Lair beyond the first stage. I could have possibly just received two good controllers as well.
Technically, with GPUs being used for projects like Folding, couldn't you also offload some of the ray tracing to these secondary GPU processors? I mean, they have all that symmetric processing capability. Why couldn't you tap into that? Could we eventually see a comeback of computer based on a standard processing unit and add in daughter boards with additional CPUs for SMP processing?
I sometimes think that everyone that states games used to be fun fall under the same bracket. Have any of you actually gone back and played those games you used to love?
The most important thing in this system though is the manual override. It has to be a concealed lever about four times the size of the human hand and you have to enter a special 4 digit code into a control panel with no labels. You get extra points for requiring that two people need to pull it and by placing it in a crawlspace no bigger than a human and a half. Only then will it be space worthy.
Maybe the idea that somehow the Windows Server kernel is somehow different than the desktop kernel(which as far as I can tell, it's not.) I think the only difference is in the drivers and tuning (just like you do with the Linux kernel, but MS does it with internal flags.)
If survive() was truly written with OO in mind, it wouldn't matter if it came fightNuclearWar(). Given your not passing any variables to it, I'm assuming that it's a pretty generic function that utilizes only local variables. If that's the case, coming out of this fightNuclearWar() function the only variables that existed would still exist if the function was called or not. I'd also think it was the responsibility of the fightNuclearWar() routine to clean up after itself instead of relying on the survive() function to contain conditions for nuclear fallout. Now, you could create a generic object with traits for survival that could morph in the survival routine, but most likely said trait class would be created before fightNuclearWar().
Let's say you do change it to pass "world" as the variable to both routines. You'd still want the survive(object world) function to interpret the state of world before blindly going about such tasks as gatherFood() and swimInLake().
My biggest problem with his post is that it pins a button on all Americans (in some people's view) that says we back Microsoft because they are an American based company. In fact, I despise Microsoft for all the reasons listed in this case and hopefully they can get something to actually occur out of all this.
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I hear it's Union policy that anyone that counts over 1 should be reprimanded for making everyone else look bad.
eleven twelve!
(you forgot the most important parts!)
I always found it funny that they'd go up to twelve instead of stopping at ten, but I was young then and the little cartoon of the rolling marbles made me overlook that for some time.
They don't. It's Microsoft's intention to stay in the 32-bit era. Bill Gates proclaimed himself that 32-bits should be enough for anyone, and that he's mildly scared of the number 64.
Maybe the mod points are being run through Excel before being applied to posts.
Why not go the other way. Allow the bundling of software, as long it's on same company hardware. So Apple could sell Apple hardware with an Apple OS. It would force Microsoft into a tricky situation. Do they open up their high quality XBox factory and produce high quality hardware that never overheats and has lights that stay green all the time or...who am I kidding? Letting Microsoft make hardware to run their OS would be suicide for them.
Put in CD, Select advance or one step install, Select Workstation/Server ....
That's my vote. You could ship the computer with this fancy system CD that you simply put in and click your preferences. You could even extend it to attempt an internet connection and download licenses for "pay for" software bundles. I think someone already has this... Isn't it called a LiveCD?
I thought that's what open standards were for....
I'm going to have to say it could be hardware, but the only games I've extensively used both my Sixaxis motion sensing controllers on were Blazing Angels and Flow. I picked up Lair and Warhawk at the same time and played a little bit of Lair (first mission, and training) I thought it was a little funny (as in wonky, a tad unresponsive) and I put it up instead of sticking with it too long. Since then Warhawk hasn't left my PS3, so I can't tell you how well the motion controller is on Lair beyond the first stage. I could have possibly just received two good controllers as well.
Nah... nobody really understands these licenses anyway, so your in the clear.
Sort of Off-Topic, but I'd love to see that ray-tracer you linked but the download link seems to be broken.
Technically, with GPUs being used for projects like Folding, couldn't you also offload some of the ray tracing to these secondary GPU processors? I mean, they have all that symmetric processing capability. Why couldn't you tap into that? Could we eventually see a comeback of computer based on a standard processing unit and add in daughter boards with additional CPUs for SMP processing?
I sometimes think that everyone that states games used to be fun fall under the same bracket. Have any of you actually gone back and played those games you used to love?
The most important thing in this system though is the manual override. It has to be a concealed lever about four times the size of the human hand and you have to enter a special 4 digit code into a control panel with no labels. You get extra points for requiring that two people need to pull it and by placing it in a crawlspace no bigger than a human and a half. Only then will it be space worthy.
Could have been Multicast as well. Ghost is the only thing I can think of that has it ATM.
* mourns the loss of a mod point *
It led a short, but happy mistaken life.
Wow, your looking to be an equal opportunity offender today! First you attack a poster, now the mods?
I'd like to coin the term "uxgrade!"
You made me cry in agonizing pain... and reasserted my hatred in MS all in one shot.
Maybe the idea that somehow the Windows Server kernel is somehow different than the desktop kernel(which as far as I can tell, it's not.) I think the only difference is in the drivers and tuning (just like you do with the Linux kernel, but MS does it with internal flags.)
Maybe that's Microsoft's plan. ;)
If they can get a rogue group of "linux desktop" kernel hackers to take a fork and utterly screw it up, Vista starts to look like a good alternative.
If survive() was truly written with OO in mind, it wouldn't matter if it came fightNuclearWar(). Given your not passing any variables to it, I'm assuming that it's a pretty generic function that utilizes only local variables. If that's the case, coming out of this fightNuclearWar() function the only variables that existed would still exist if the function was called or not. I'd also think it was the responsibility of the fightNuclearWar() routine to clean up after itself instead of relying on the survive() function to contain conditions for nuclear fallout. Now, you could create a generic object with traits for survival that could morph in the survival routine, but most likely said trait class would be created before fightNuclearWar().
Let's say you do change it to pass "world" as the variable to both routines. You'd still want the survive(object world) function to interpret the state of world before blindly going about such tasks as gatherFood() and swimInLake().
Yeah, what are they?
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My biggest problem with his post is that it pins a button on all Americans (in some people's view) that says we back Microsoft because they are an American based company. In fact, I despise Microsoft for all the reasons listed in this case and hopefully they can get something to actually occur out of all this.