I've unplugged standard hdd's while their still spinning and you can observe quite readily the gyroscopic effects. You can also observe a grinding sound.
Everybody! We do *gooood*! Good! Nothing but good!
Now, the rest of this video diary will continue with only the close members of the board in the room.
Right, now that we're alone, lets dicuss the Secret Censoring...
It is quite amazing when you think about what the Wine team has done. They basically reverse engineered all the Windows APIs and trick apps to thinking they are actually running on Windows. While some apps spectacularly crash (this is usually to abuse/misuse of quirks/gotchas/tricks in the Windows API, which shouldn't even be there, but are used anyway), most run perfectly fine.
I also like to see Windows programmers list Wine as a supported platform for their apps (uTorrent is a prime example of this). This simply means that the programmers were kind enough not to make use of weird tricks in the Win API, to write clean code, which Wine runs spectacularly well.
Its actually quite ironic when one considers whats happening here...a group of Linux programmers are re-implementing the Windows API the way it should have been in the first place...it doesn't like it when programmers take shortcuts and abuse it. If Microsoft had taken a bit more time on their continually-backwards-compatible-so-no-updates-allowed-that-might-break-it API, I think there would not be only more quality code running on Windows, there would be better programmers writing code for it as well (instead of defecting to a real development platform (Unix)).
I speak from experience...learning to program and develop quality software is *so* much easier under any Unix platform. The docs are better. The tools are better. Its faster (make > 300M of Visual Studio in my RAM). I found this out very quickly when I first tried Linux (I was 12 or so at the time)...it beat the hell out of Visual Basic, thats for sure.
Speaking from personal experience, I always achieved higher framerates under wine when running WoW.
The only problems I did have were related to my xinerama/dual-head setup. Mix Wine and strange X setups and the shit is bound to hit the fan. But the point is even with an outrageous setup like that the game still ran...under linux.
Now, can you run linux native games under Windows? No. So we win:)
This is exactly why I games that I do buy without "trying" tend to be on Steam. I can pay a usually reasonable amount and the game will download and install.
I couldn't find any local copies of COD4, so I had to download the game, and buy a (new) serial online. Completely legal, and also more convenient. I also got a better deal on the game since the serial (from a new box), didn't need to be shipped to me...the seller unwraps the game and emails me the key.
If you pirate a game, any online multiplayer (often the best part of the game) is locked out (you need a valid serial or account). I can completely understand trying a game with some friends over LAN, or even the single player, before buying it to access the online portion. Games cost so much now ($60+!), there is no way someone is going to drop that much without knowing if they like the game, or if it even runs well on their PC.
Game manufacturers: Either stfu (quit crying), or provide demos that are easier to access (and I mean 300mb-ish).
I seem to have gotten it to "work" 100% accurately, using their freely available SDK on my linux box. Maybe you mean the hardware support, which is not critical to using PhysX at all, it defaults back to a software implementation on the CPU.
Like I said...I didn't mention Ubuntu in my post at all...I was refering to the users in *all* forums that expect people are at their every call to help them. I'm refering to those that ask people to help them in ways that are unfair. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding, any offense to those with reasonable heads was not meant in any way.
Sorry, I didn't mean to accuse any Ubuntu users of being kiddies...I was more refering to people who would post "omg do it for me you are my slaves at my EVERY CALL REMEMEBER THE CAPS".
When the person giving it to you knows what they are doing. If that person actually uses the software then they probably know alot about it. This is why community-driven support works, if you manage to keep the "kiddies" out so that they don't clog up the forums with lots of repeated/redundant questions then everything goes quite smoothly. Arch Linux does a very good job of this; it's a simple distro to use for the experienced user, so you get alot of good questions being asked with lots of good answers. Community support > paid support any day.
Because changing your name shouldn't rid you of all the shit you threw at various fans. Changing your name after you know you fucked up is kinda a dick move, so they deserve this sort of treatment.
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If you don't mind the bandwidth use can't you just sync up your TrueCrypt encrypted file?
See http://www.truecrypt.org/ for cross platform encryption...you can throw your files in there.
Idiotics.
I've unplugged standard hdd's while their still spinning and you can observe quite readily the gyroscopic effects. You can also observe a grinding sound.
Do it. Do us all some good.
Nobody said locking to T-Mobile. They are simply the first. RTFS maybe :)
Everybody! We do *gooood*! Good! Nothing but good!
Now, the rest of this video diary will continue with only the close members of the board in the room.
Right, now that we're alone, lets dicuss the Secret Censoring...
"Hey Jim did you test that new hardware?"
"Meh, it'll work...plus I'm busy downloading apps to my iPhone"
For parallel compilation on unix check out distcc: http://distcc.samba.org/
But the point is thats thats not the standard on the platform.
It is quite amazing when you think about what the Wine team has done. They basically reverse engineered all the Windows APIs and trick apps to thinking they are actually running on Windows. While some apps spectacularly crash (this is usually to abuse/misuse of quirks/gotchas/tricks in the Windows API, which shouldn't even be there, but are used anyway), most run perfectly fine.
I also like to see Windows programmers list Wine as a supported platform for their apps (uTorrent is a prime example of this). This simply means that the programmers were kind enough not to make use of weird tricks in the Win API, to write clean code, which Wine runs spectacularly well.
Its actually quite ironic when one considers whats happening here...a group of Linux programmers are re-implementing the Windows API the way it should have been in the first place...it doesn't like it when programmers take shortcuts and abuse it. If Microsoft had taken a bit more time on their continually-backwards-compatible-so-no-updates-allowed-that-might-break-it API, I think there would not be only more quality code running on Windows, there would be better programmers writing code for it as well (instead of defecting to a real development platform (Unix)).
I speak from experience...learning to program and develop quality software is *so* much easier under any Unix platform. The docs are better. The tools are better. Its faster (make > 300M of Visual Studio in my RAM). I found this out very quickly when I first tried Linux (I was 12 or so at the time)...it beat the hell out of Visual Basic, thats for sure.
Speaking from personal experience, I always achieved higher framerates under wine when running WoW.
:)
The only problems I did have were related to my xinerama/dual-head setup. Mix Wine and strange X setups and the shit is bound to hit the fan. But the point is even with an outrageous setup like that the game still ran...under linux.
Now, can you run linux native games under Windows? No. So we win
...its just a glitch, we'll have this fixed in no time.
*bang*!
This is exactly why I games that I do buy without "trying" tend to be on Steam. I can pay a usually reasonable amount and the game will download and install.
I couldn't find any local copies of COD4, so I had to download the game, and buy a (new) serial online. Completely legal, and also more convenient.
I also got a better deal on the game since the serial (from a new box), didn't need to be shipped to me...the seller unwraps the game and emails me the key.
If you pirate a game, any online multiplayer (often the best part of the game) is locked out (you need a valid serial or account). I can completely understand trying a game with some friends over LAN, or even the single player, before buying it to access the online portion. Games cost so much now ($60+!), there is no way someone is going to drop that much without knowing if they like the game, or if it even runs well on their PC.
Game manufacturers: Either stfu (quit crying), or provide demos that are easier to access (and I mean 300mb-ish).
A kids toy, eh. Shrink Dinks, eh. Gets 'stiff', eh. God, don't let this hit Usenet.
Damn. Why did he have to dies so soon. That guy was pwn.
Movie at 11.
PhysX works fine and fast in games without hardware support.
I seem to have gotten it to "work" 100% accurately, using their freely available SDK on my linux box. Maybe you mean the hardware support, which is not critical to using PhysX at all, it defaults back to a software implementation on the CPU.
You sir, need to: A) Learn how to Read (so you can read about what your ranting about) and B) Stop being an Asshat.
Like I said...I didn't mention Ubuntu in my post at all...I was refering to the users in *all* forums that expect people are at their every call to help them. I'm refering to those that ask people to help them in ways that are unfair. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding, any offense to those with reasonable heads was not meant in any way.
Sorry, I didn't mean to accuse any Ubuntu users of being kiddies...I was more refering to people who would post "omg do it for me you are my slaves at my EVERY CALL REMEMEBER THE CAPS".
When the person giving it to you knows what they are doing. If that person actually uses the software then they probably know alot about it. This is why community-driven support works, if you manage to keep the "kiddies" out so that they don't clog up the forums with lots of repeated/redundant questions then everything goes quite smoothly. Arch Linux does a very good job of this; it's a simple distro to use for the experienced user, so you get alot of good questions being asked with lots of good answers. Community support > paid support any day.
Because changing your name shouldn't rid you of all the shit you threw at various fans. Changing your name after you know you fucked up is kinda a dick move, so they deserve this sort of treatment.