m2 had real 3d (you know, you had to aim up and down, not just point in the general vincinity)
I can see that you are a real quake-expert; quake has this 'real 3d' that you speaking of in the way of shooting.
As far as I remember (I have never seen marathon in action, so no marathon expert), the marathon engine used sprite-based avatars (enemies and the like), so no real 3d to speak of.
To make that statement into a question, which GPL engine makes for better graphical quality, GLQuake or this Marathon2 one? Answers from somebody who is familiar with both (unlike us) are appreciated...
Can anyone name even a single successful one from MS?
Thanks for starting this thread man (or woman!) It has a lot of nice pointers and factoids (and even more non-facts) about who did what when (not how).
Okay. QuickTime. That's a pretty major one. AVI Quicktime a major one, oh please, it's just a video playback system.
Consistent, easy plug and play for hardware. Inconsistent, hair-tearing hard plug and play for hardware (hey, somebody had to have to guts to build and release that). Anyway, I think Cray's 'replace the processor-board while you are running the system without stopping' beats anything Apple has produced.
Installer technology that doesn't give you ulcers. ?? So when did this technology you mention get replaced with the sit/hqx crap I have to deal with today (okay, installshield also gives me the willies).
I can't save those investors from having their money go down the drain. Some people tell me that I shouldn't feel sorry for people who make poorly-researched investments, but I feel horrible about this.
Maybe I am just cynical, but I am not convinced that poorly-researched investments are going to lose money. What you see currently is that stocks rise beyond actual worth (or actual prospects in my opinion) all the time. If some investor rides the waves of the hype, and buys stock at the beginning and sells just before the hype wears off, he can still become pretty rich. Why would the company need to be any good, all that needs to happen is that the stock rises and there are all kinds of things that can make that happen.
In fact, if LinuxOne's stock climbs steeply in the beginning, it can start buying all kinds of interesting companies and the LinuxOne could actually become an interesting company just because of those acquisitions.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing of the stock exchange thingie)
I somehow think this review was not posted by Jon Katz. You see, Andy Kaufman was this geek that was not understood by his audience (the average Joe). And what this imposter supposedly called 'Katz' says here is that Kaufman should have made an effort to be more likable to his audience.
The real Jon Katz would have said that he could feel his pain, even if Kaufman would have taken an Uzi and had taken aim at his audience.
Out of the four NT workstations we have here (used for normal desktop work) at least three have easily beaten the 49 day mark. And at least one '95 machine has been running since June.
You know, he's one of those guys who never left campus. Instead of graduating and going out and getting a job, he found a conveniently "enabling" ideology (what he refers to as "free software") to champion. I in person know of people like that, who never really made the transition out of late adolescence into becoming adults.
Any of the people you know programmed Emacs or gcc?
Damn yes, I forgot about TeX (which I have never used).
his books set the standard for open source
But apparently you forgot that there are few open source sources that are well-written (or do you care to name an open-source program that is neatly written).
(I can't wait to be moderated down through the ground)
....but they certainly seem to be aware that they are part of a community and have certain responsibilities as a result.
First the legal department creates the SCSL which allowed them to do what they did (claim other people's work is their own), now the marketing department is getting in on the act by handing out apologies, keeping it on the frontpage of SlashDot.
Now if only the programming department would get into action and make Java faster instead of bloatier.
I recognize a lot in your story, wrt using/ crashing Netscape on Linux.
However, I'm afraid (and this is really too bad) the frequent crashes and DNS lookup hangs (I thought this is fixed now with the DNS helper process) are limited to Netscape on Unix. On Windows, again I am as sorry about this as the next guy, several Netscape versions are solid as a rock (Netscape 4.51 is a good example).
So there is no need to port IE to Linux, we just need to port the Netscape of Windows to Linux.
...but it needs to be restated in a way that doesn't sound like a barely disguised attack from a Linux zealot.
I do not feel like a linux zealot (even a disguised one), and also do not think it was disguised attack. I just think it is interesting that somebody is working on both Linux and the HURD, and wanted to know why. As far as your rephrasing is concerned, I do not understand 'beyond the Unix space' so do not feel it is an improvement over my question.
(Damn, finally got a +5 moderation score, hope this follow-up doesn't f*ck that up)
Since you are working on both Linux (established) and the HURD (experimental), could you please tell what the advantages of using the HURD over Linux would be, once the HURD would near completion?
What we really need is a way to moderate not only comments but also the articles themselves. This way it could be marked as 'redundant', or in the case of Katz articles, 'troll'.
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One more reply. I just checked the comments (35 and counting) and the only thing that has been moderated up so far is this plea for more old news... And I thought the moderation system wasn't working.
Re:Boy, *lots* of porductive talk in here
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So, perhaps Hemos should post that Linux is available, in case some people missed it?
If it's old, it's old. That you haven't heard of it yet does not make it new.
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There is network support in the demo for well over half a year now.
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I can see that you are a real quake-expert; quake has this 'real 3d' that you speaking of in the way of shooting.
As far as I remember (I have never seen marathon in action, so no marathon expert), the marathon engine used sprite-based avatars (enemies and the like), so no real 3d to speak of.
To make that statement into a question, which GPL engine makes for better graphical quality, GLQuake or this Marathon2 one?
Answers from somebody who is familiar with both (unlike us) are appreciated...
You do an excellent job of not naming any mac technologies, good work.
You also mention that there are less options in Mac hardware, thank you for that glowing recommendations of Macs.
And since you probably don't use word on the mac, could you tell me your favorite word processor then?
What is better about it than other video playback technologies??
Hair-tearing hard plug and play?
Oops, you misread my post :-((
I meant the Wintel kind of PnP.
Have you ever installed Windows 95 or NT? It is a breathtakingly unsettling process. Particularly NT.
Plenty of times (both more than 5 times), nothing too unsettling. I once watched somebody install MacOS 7.5, it wasn't a pretty sight....
Thanks for starting this thread man (or woman!)
It has a lot of nice pointers and factoids (and even more non-facts) about who did what when (not how).
AVI
Quicktime a major one, oh please, it's just a video playback system.
Consistent, easy plug and play for hardware.
Inconsistent, hair-tearing hard plug and play for hardware (hey, somebody had to have to guts to build and release that).
Anyway, I think Cray's 'replace the processor-board while you are running the system without stopping' beats anything Apple has produced.
Installer technology that doesn't give you ulcers.
?? So when did this technology you mention get replaced with the sit/hqx crap I have to deal with today (okay, installshield also gives me the willies).
Start-button
Now you name one from apple (not any of the Xerox stuff please)
Maybe I am just cynical, but I am not convinced that poorly-researched investments are going to lose money.
What you see currently is that stocks rise beyond actual worth (or actual prospects in my opinion) all the time. If some investor rides the waves of the hype, and buys stock at the beginning and sells just before the hype wears off, he can still become pretty rich. Why would the company need to be any good, all that needs to happen is that the stock rises and there are all kinds of things that can make that happen.
In fact, if LinuxOne's stock climbs steeply in the beginning, it can start buying all kinds of interesting companies and the LinuxOne could actually become an interesting company just because of those acquisitions.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing of the stock exchange thingie)
The real Jon Katz would have said that he could feel his pain, even if Kaufman would have taken an Uzi and had taken aim at his audience.
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There are 33 users of this OS which is doing quite nicely, wonder what it is (i.e. what is not mentioned in the list), could it be DOS??
Out of the four NT workstations we have here (used for normal desktop work) at least three have easily beaten the 49 day mark. And at least one '95 machine has been running since June.
These figures (the max ones) cannot be accurate.
Hey, I'm just ventilating RMS's ideas ;-)
I in person know of people like that, who never really made the transition out of late adolescence into becoming adults.
Any of the people you know programmed Emacs or gcc?
his books set the standard for open source
But apparently you forgot that there are few open source sources that are well-written (or do you care to name an open-source program that is neatly written).
(I can't wait to be moderated down through the ground)
Just curious, I didn't think his books were actually open source, that you could get them for free or anything like that....
Just to give my position, I think in this world the crazy people are the sane ones, so Stallman is A-Okay.
First the legal department creates the SCSL which allowed them to do what they did (claim other people's work is their own), now the marketing department is getting in on the act by handing out apologies, keeping it on the frontpage of SlashDot.
Now if only the programming department would get into action and make Java faster instead of bloatier.
It is not open source as others have mentioned.
Steve Byrne who is mentioned in the article works for Sun as far as I know (at least he did when he started working on the project)
I recognize a lot in your story, wrt using/ crashing Netscape on Linux.
However, I'm afraid (and this is really too bad) the frequent crashes and DNS lookup hangs (I thought this is fixed now with the DNS helper process) are limited to Netscape on Unix. On Windows, again I am as sorry about this as the next guy, several Netscape versions are solid as a rock (Netscape 4.51 is a good example).
So there is no need to port IE to Linux, we just need to port the Netscape of Windows to Linux.
I do not feel like a linux zealot (even a disguised one), and also do not think it was disguised attack. I just think it is interesting that somebody is working on both Linux and the HURD, and wanted to know why. As far as your rephrasing is concerned, I do not understand 'beyond the Unix space' so do not feel it is an improvement over my question.
(Damn, finally got a +5 moderation score, hope this follow-up doesn't f*ck that up)
Since you are working on both Linux (established) and the HURD (experimental), could you please tell what the advantages of using the HURD over Linux would be, once the HURD would near completion?
Can this be used by non-Creative labs TNT cards, such as the diamond ones?
Anyone any idea? I looked for a proper GLiDE- wrapper for ages, but never could find anything beyond Ultra-HLE support.
What we really need is a way to moderate not only comments but also the articles themselves. This way it could be marked as 'redundant', or in the case of Katz articles, 'troll'.
One more reply. I just checked the comments (35 and counting) and the only thing that has been moderated up so far is this plea for more old news... And I thought the moderation system wasn't working.
So, perhaps Hemos should post that Linux is
available, in case some people missed it?
If it's old, it's old. That you haven't heard of
it yet does not make it new.
There is network support in the demo for well
over half a year now.