Don't make me laugh. I'm sorry but this whole 'Linux doesn't crash' thing is rubbish, at least if you're using it on the Desktop. Sure the kernel doesn't crash very often, but X seems quite prone to restarting or locking up on a whim. If you're lucky you're connected to a network, and you can get one of your colleagues to remotely log in and kill your X process for you, but you've still lost everything you were working on. I have X crash on me probably once every two or three days, and I have it hang so bad that I have to use the reset button about once a month. By comparison XP crashes on me about once every one or two months.
And Mozilla crashes out on me once or twice a day. Okay, IE isn't fantastic itself, but if one IE window dies it doesn't take all the rest of them with it, unlike Mozilla, which takes down my mail as well (as we use Mozilla for our mail at work).
Now, I'm sure there are a bunch of people out there who have managed to get their Linux desktop as solid as a rock, and perhaps I've just been unlucky, but it's certainly not a guaranteed thing that moving over to Linux will result in a more stable computing experience.
(By the way - before someone accuses me of using crap cheap hardware - we are using good systems here - I'm using a dual pentium system from Max Black, who have a pretty good reputation for quality workstations, as far as I am aware. Also, NT4 which I used to use on it was solid as a rock...)
Okay, I've got a Linux box here at work with a GeforceFX in it - I'm going to have a go at running it under WINE, but I won't be holding my breath... I'm assuming Dawn is an OpenGL demo?
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I've just downloaded it - it seems nice!
It's a shame though that few editors for Linux have worked out the One True Behaviour For Ctrl-Tab yet, whereby rather than going through all the files in the same order every time, it orders them in order of how recently viewed they were. It makes it much easier to switch between 2-3 source files that way.
As far as I can tell, Anjuta suffers from the same problem as KDevelop - very inflexible automake-based project management. Otherwise I'd be up for using it, but the project management stuff is such a pain in the ass.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing as good as Visual Studio for Linux. Naturally, this was a huge disappointment to me when we migrated from NT to Linux at work.
Don't get me wrong - KDevelop is a brave attempt, and coming along, but it just doesn't match Visual Studio. The most incredibly irritating thing about it is the diabolical project management. I had to hack my copy just to make it slightly useful at all, and eventually I just gave up on it. Now I use jedit, handmade makefiles and kdbg. I still miss MSDEV, though.
Fairly soon I'll try KDevelop 3 again to see how it's come along, but if you're used to Visual Studio, you will be disappointed.
I'm still trying to find a nice GUI-driven debugger, as kdbg seems rather flaky.
The PS2's hardware was designed from the ground up to run games... where the x-box is basically.. a PC with some optimisations.
I think the whole PC side is a red herring. The XBox was also designed from the ground up to run games (obviously, it's a console) - let's compare:
CPU: PS2 294Mhz Mips Xbox 733Mhz x86 Transform/Lighting: PS2 2x Vector processors Xbox nVidia T&L Rendering: PS2 custom graphics XBox nVidia graphics
etc...
Both systems have all the same kinds of components - CPU, memory, graphics, sound etc. Sure, the Xbox uses some PC-like components, but that doesn't mean that they're not well-suited for games. Remember that games have in many ways been the driving force behind much of PC development, certainly in the fields of graphics and sound.
The main thing that differentiates the PS2 and Xbox from a PC in gaming terms is the packaging and operating system, not the basic hardware. This means things like booting up quick, no hardware incompatibilities, playing games straight off a CD . If it looks like a console, acts like a console and plays like a console, then it is a console. The internal architecture really makes no difference at all.
Having said that, you are right, it is quite difficult to exactly compare the two consoles because they do have different strengths (for instance, when doing the simplest triangles, the Xbox can out-fill-rate the PS2, but when you start using more complex pixel shaders the fill rate can drop dramatically)
The Xbox still outpowers the PS2 on most things though, IMHO...;-)
I was under the impression that GSM phones encrypted their communications, exactly to prevent this kind of thing? Of course, I don't know about those other systems you've got in the US, and if you're still running analogue phones, you're hosed, but in most of the world, you should be fairly secure.
He'd better not leave the screen poking out when it's parked - that'd just asking for some asshat to smash his window and try and nick it. Even when it's in, the unit still looks too shiny to thieves for my liking...
Mental Ray is a product of Mental Images. Softimage licenced it to bundle with soft to provide an alternative to their (lower-quality) renderer. With XSI it is now the only renderer and fully built-in to the program.
Maya now also comes with Mental Ray - and I think it's available for 3D Studio as well.
Mental Ray is a very good renderer, and getting better all the time. However, it does tend to be beaten out by Renderman in some situations because Renderman handles insanely large scene files so well, and therefore can do things like hair, fur and feathers quite a lot better than Mental Ray. Traditionally Mental Ray has also been pretty slow at motion blur compared to Renderman, although it is getting better.
Renderman does work out as a good deal more expensive, though.
I found this while I was looking around at getting a new hosting service. It has a demo that you can try out - I was quite impressed - a kind of paint-by-numbers website creator...
(I'm not assosciated with these people at all, by the way...)
'LXG', as they call it, looks *appallingly* bad - from the looks of the trailer, it has none of the style or Victorian charm of the original comic, just a buncha guys in Matrix-style leather trenchcoats driving a big ol' car. A Car fer frick's sake! Where's the steampunk in that?
Here: just today I tried to copy a section of text from an OpenOffice document and paste it into an email I was writing in the Mozilla mail client.
It can't be done. I think in this case it's not that mozilla won't accept a middle mouse click paste, but that OpenOffice doesn't provide the proper X highlight information, or something. I also get a similar problem when using jedit, except that it won't accept the middle mouse button to paste. To be fair, it's a Java application, but the cut and paste in jedit works just fine under Windows...
... and you can no longer buy Tivos in the UK. I'm not sure you can even register for a new subscription any more, which would not bode well for buying one off ebay...
In reply to your first comment, remember that the Tivo is pretty much only available in the US (and Canada?), so for many people it's just not an option.
Also, if you wanted to make all those points about it being better than the sum of its parts, why didn't you say so? You might have got moderated up. As it was your post added nothing to the debate and was quite rightly moderated down.
Well... no, it doesn't. The problem is that different programs use different systems. If you're trying to copy from a program that only supports middle mouse button pasting to one that only supports a copy/paste clipboard, you just can't copy between them. It's right annoying.
Sure, it works a lot of the time, but I do quite often find cases where it doesn't.
Remember that Cisco sells equipment to people all over the world. ust because all the law enforcement agencies in your corner of it are meant to be all coordinated, doesn't mean that they are all everywhere.
Also, consider that there may be cases in which a router falls under several jurisdictions - a router physically in the UK, owned by an American company, for instance - both governments might claim the right to intercept, although obviously they wouldn't want each other to know about it.
You could get Tivos for a while here in the UK, but then Thompson, the only people who were producing them for this market, decided to pull out.
You can get them on ebay, but good luck getting an account with Tivo - I hear you can't get through to their customer services department any more...
If you've got satellite TV, you can get Sky+, but if you've got cable or terrestrial digital, you're stuck.
Now that XBoxes are down to £130, I'm wondering whether you could make a tivo-like device for about £200 by installing Linux and adding a USB video capture device. They are a bit noisy though - and 10Gb doesn't give you a huge amount of recording space...
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Don't make me laugh. I'm sorry but this whole 'Linux doesn't crash' thing is rubbish, at least if you're using it on the Desktop. Sure the kernel doesn't crash very often, but X seems quite prone to restarting or locking up on a whim. If you're lucky you're connected to a network, and you can get one of your colleagues to remotely log in and kill your X process for you, but you've still lost everything you were working on. I have X crash on me probably once every two or three days, and I have it hang so bad that I have to use the reset button about once a month. By comparison XP crashes on me about once every one or two months.
And Mozilla crashes out on me once or twice a day. Okay, IE isn't fantastic itself, but if one IE window dies it doesn't take all the rest of them with it, unlike Mozilla, which takes down my mail as well (as we use Mozilla for our mail at work).
Now, I'm sure there are a bunch of people out there who have managed to get their Linux desktop as solid as a rock, and perhaps I've just been unlucky, but it's certainly not a guaranteed thing that moving over to Linux will result in a more stable computing experience.
(By the way - before someone accuses me of using crap cheap hardware - we are using good systems here - I'm using a dual pentium system from Max Black, who have a pretty good reputation for quality workstations, as far as I am aware. Also, NT4 which I used to use on it was solid as a rock...)
Okay, I've got a Linux box here at work with a GeforceFX in it - I'm going to have a go at running it under WINE, but I won't be holding my breath... I'm assuming Dawn is an OpenGL demo?
I've just downloaded it - it seems nice!
It's a shame though that few editors for Linux have worked out the One True Behaviour For Ctrl-Tab yet, whereby rather than going through all the files in the same order every time, it orders them in order of how recently viewed they were. It makes it much easier to switch between 2-3 source files that way.
As far as I can tell, Anjuta suffers from the same problem as KDevelop - very inflexible automake-based project management. Otherwise I'd be up for using it, but the project management stuff is such a pain in the ass.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing as good as Visual Studio for Linux. Naturally, this was a huge disappointment to me when we migrated from NT to Linux at work.
Don't get me wrong - KDevelop is a brave attempt, and coming along, but it just doesn't match Visual Studio. The most incredibly irritating thing about it is the diabolical project management. I had to hack my copy just to make it slightly useful at all, and eventually I just gave up on it. Now I use jedit, handmade makefiles and kdbg. I still miss MSDEV, though.
Fairly soon I'll try KDevelop 3 again to see how it's come along, but if you're used to Visual Studio, you will be disappointed.
I'm still trying to find a nice GUI-driven debugger, as kdbg seems rather flaky.
Surely the GPL rules that to distribute GPL code, you can't sue the users of that code? (section 7, if I understand it correctly...)
Therefore, as they continue to distribute Linux, can't Linus sue them? Am I missing something here?
It's 'losing' and 'griping'.
The PS2's hardware was designed from the ground up to run games... where the x-box is basically.. a PC with some optimisations.
;-)
I think the whole PC side is a red herring. The XBox was also designed from the ground up to run games (obviously, it's a console) - let's compare:
CPU: PS2 294Mhz Mips Xbox 733Mhz x86
Transform/Lighting: PS2 2x Vector processors Xbox nVidia T&L
Rendering: PS2 custom graphics XBox nVidia graphics
etc...
Both systems have all the same kinds of components - CPU, memory, graphics, sound etc. Sure, the Xbox uses some PC-like components, but that doesn't mean that they're not well-suited for games. Remember that games have in many ways been the driving force behind much of PC development, certainly in the fields of graphics and sound.
The main thing that differentiates the PS2 and Xbox from a PC in gaming terms is the packaging and operating system, not the basic hardware. This means things like booting up quick, no hardware incompatibilities, playing games straight off a CD . If it looks like a console, acts like a console and plays like a console, then it is a console. The internal architecture really makes no difference at all.
Having said that, you are right, it is quite difficult to exactly compare the two consoles because they do have different strengths (for instance, when doing the simplest triangles, the Xbox can out-fill-rate the PS2, but when you start using more complex pixel shaders the fill rate can drop dramatically)
The Xbox still outpowers the PS2 on most things though, IMHO...
I was under the impression that GSM phones encrypted their communications, exactly to prevent this kind of thing? Of course, I don't know about those other systems you've got in the US, and if you're still running analogue phones, you're hosed, but in most of the world, you should be fairly secure.
Certainly in the UK the insecurity of analogue systems came very much to the fore with a few high-profile scanning incidents, one of which involved a rather saucy conversation between Prince Charles and his lover, Camilla Parker-Bowles, which may be one of the reasons that digital systems overtook the analogue ones so quickly.
He'd better not leave the screen poking out when it's parked - that'd just asking for some asshat to smash his window and try and nick it. Even when it's in, the unit still looks too shiny to thieves for my liking...
Mental Ray is a product of Mental Images. Softimage licenced it to bundle with soft to provide an alternative to their (lower-quality) renderer. With XSI it is now the only renderer and fully built-in to the program.
Maya now also comes with Mental Ray - and I think it's available for 3D Studio as well.
Mental Ray is a very good renderer, and getting better all the time. However, it does tend to be beaten out by Renderman in some situations because Renderman handles insanely large scene files so well, and therefore can do things like hair, fur and feathers quite a lot better than Mental Ray. Traditionally Mental Ray has also been pretty slow at motion blur compared to Renderman, although it is getting better.
Renderman does work out as a good deal more expensive, though.
Here in the UK quite a lot of the digital channels are broadcast in widescreen, and all the free-to-air digital channels are.
Seems like almost all the TVs in the shops are widescreen now, as well.
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I found this while I was looking around at getting a new hosting service. It has a demo that you can try out - I was quite impressed - a kind of paint-by-numbers website creator...
(I'm not assosciated with these people at all, by the way...)
Well, considering all of DirectX is COM-based, a vast number of PC games rely on COM...
.. runs all my existing software...
'LXG', as they call it, looks *appallingly* bad - from the looks of the trailer, it has none of the style or Victorian charm of the original comic, just a buncha guys in Matrix-style leather trenchcoats driving a big ol' car. A Car fer frick's sake! Where's the steampunk in that?
And then to call it 'LXG'... euuugchhhh....
Here: just today I tried to copy a section of text from an OpenOffice document and paste it into an email I was writing in the Mozilla mail client.
It can't be done. I think in this case it's not that mozilla won't accept a middle mouse click paste, but that OpenOffice doesn't provide the proper X highlight information, or something. I also get a similar problem when using jedit, except that it won't accept the middle mouse button to paste. To be fair, it's a Java application, but the cut and paste in jedit works just fine under Windows...
... and you can no longer buy Tivos in the UK.
I'm not sure you can even register for a new subscription any more, which would not bode well for buying one off ebay...
In reply to your first comment, remember that the Tivo is pretty much only available in the US (and Canada?), so for many people it's just not an option.
Also, if you wanted to make all those points about it being better than the sum of its parts, why didn't you say so? You might have got moderated up. As it was your post added nothing to the debate and was quite rightly moderated down.
Yes, in fact it does.
Well... no, it doesn't. The problem is that different programs use different systems. If you're trying to copy from a program that only supports middle mouse button pasting to one that only supports a copy/paste clipboard, you just can't copy between them. It's right annoying.
Sure, it works a lot of the time, but I do quite often find cases where it doesn't.
Remember that Cisco sells equipment to people all over the world. ust because all the law enforcement agencies in your corner of it are meant to be all coordinated, doesn't mean that they are all everywhere.
Also, consider that there may be cases in which a router falls under several jurisdictions - a router physically in the UK, owned by an American company, for instance - both governments might claim the right to intercept, although obviously they wouldn't want each other to know about it.
Yes, because cutting and pasting works so well between different applications on the Linux desktop...
You could get Tivos for a while here in the UK, but then Thompson, the only people who were producing them for this market, decided to pull out.
You can get them on ebay, but good luck getting an account with Tivo - I hear you can't get through to their customer services department any more...
If you've got satellite TV, you can get Sky+, but if you've got cable or terrestrial digital, you're stuck.
Now that XBoxes are down to £130, I'm wondering whether you could make a tivo-like device for about £200 by installing Linux and adding a USB video capture device. They are a bit noisy though - and 10Gb doesn't give you a huge amount of recording space...
Said employee was terminated shortly afterwards.
You meant said employee's employment was teminated, right?
Right???
1. By not standing up and trying you are just lying down and saying "OK MS whatever you want"
I bet that's pretty much what King Canute said, as well.