I agree with you there. The US/UK got all this amazing content (SatAM, the comics, even the _advertising_ was something special). Stuff like that was why they more or less owned the UK market until they panicked themselves to death over the PS1. Did the Japanese version even _have_ a backstory?
It's mostly because you're sharing the hardware between two GL apps. Also depending on the hardware you either get the game rendering directly to a rectangle on screen (r200 does this), or it renders to a texture in the window manager (nvidia does this, I think), which lets you do things like in those Novell compiz demo videos but is way slower since it has to render through both apps.
"Alias"? Don't you mean simply "link"? What's wrong with typing this: ln/tmp/already.exists/path/to/hardlink mv/tmp/already.exists/tmp/this.is.a.new.name
I think what they're proposing is clock frequency control for Ethernet chips, like CPUs have now. I read somewhere that the power consumption increases n^3 with the clock speed, dunno where that figure comes from though.
And if an uninspired MP3 player/console combo is failing in the games market even with the main focus on games and millions in advertising, this has no chance.
I love dragging this story out every time this comes up:
I got a new (three years old now) mid-range prebuilt computer. It came with a Windows XP SP1 OEM CD. The CD lacked drivers for the sound card, the video card, the NIC and the winmodem (the store had mercifully supplied a modem driver CD, but nothing else). The sound card driver was a 30MB download of bloatware, the video card driver was nVidia and then it wanted me to install SP2. This was all back before ADSL was available in my area. Now at the same time I'd downloaded a Slackware 9 ISO on a faster connection. When I first installed this in a separate partition everything worked except the video card and winmodem, and even then I could get above 640x480 with the default drivers.
Last year I got a free PC about the same age. Knoppix had full hardware support out of the box, including 3D for the onboard graphics and the modem.
In the UK there's no such thing as free TV. Cable/satellite has always been overpriced and full of more ads than content. The BBC channels have no third-party ads whatsoever, but you have to pay for them whether or not you watch them (or even have a TV).
...that they'll just diff the images against the old ones and manually sort through big changes, leaving the spammers' areas of the map outdated and blurry? Serves them right if they do.
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I agree with you there. The US/UK got all this amazing content (SatAM, the comics, even the _advertising_ was something special). Stuff like that was why they more or less owned the UK market until they panicked themselves to death over the PS1. Did the Japanese version even _have_ a backstory?
It's mostly because you're sharing the hardware between two GL apps. Also depending on the hardware you either get the game rendering directly to a rectangle on screen (r200 does this), or it renders to a texture in the window manager (nvidia does this, I think), which lets you do things like in those Novell compiz demo videos but is way slower since it has to render through both apps.
"Alias"? Don't you mean simply "link"? What's wrong with typing this: /tmp/already.exists /path/to/hardlink /tmp/already.exists /tmp/this.is.a.new.name
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A more accurate analogy would've been "Steve Ballmer rejects suggestion to not invalidate XP licences when upgrading to Vista".
I've always wondered... is there actually a visible difference between 480p and plain S-Video/RGB input?
They're going to force all the dumbass PHBs that think obscurity=security to upgrade to whatever they replace it with.
I think you meant to say "America will [...]".
To be honest, I'd find it hilarious if America got devastated by bird flu because of its own greed.
Wow, I'm glad I read this article on the internet about how the PS3 is so much better before I rushed out to buy a PC!
I think what they're proposing is clock frequency control for Ethernet chips, like CPUs have now. I read somewhere that the power consumption increases n^3 with the clock speed, dunno where that figure comes from though.
Half his gripe with Linux is interoperability issues. He's obviously never used Windows, I see...
The DRM is there because everyone who can recieve the over-the-air clear MPEG signal is supposedly paying a licence fee.
Seems pretty pointless. It'd be more interesting if they threw a few NT kernels in there though...
While they're at it, can someone explain why I can get more and faster effects from Beryl on a 32MB MX400?
And if an uninspired MP3 player/console combo is failing in the games market even with the main focus on games and millions in advertising, this has no chance.
YHBT, HAND.
I love dragging this story out every time this comes up:
I got a new (three years old now) mid-range prebuilt computer.
It came with a Windows XP SP1 OEM CD. The CD lacked drivers for the sound card, the video card, the NIC and the winmodem (the store had mercifully supplied a modem driver CD, but nothing else). The sound card driver was a 30MB download of bloatware, the video card driver was nVidia and then it wanted me to install SP2. This was all back before ADSL was available in my area.
Now at the same time I'd downloaded a Slackware 9 ISO on a faster connection. When I first installed this in a separate partition everything worked except the video card and winmodem, and even then I could get above 640x480 with the default drivers.
Last year I got a free PC about the same age. Knoppix had full hardware support out of the box, including 3D for the onboard graphics and the modem.
From the company that censors people pointing out how shoddy their in-house software is?
"Search engine Spammer". There's no such thing as SEO.
The article makes it sound as if gentoo installs the ~unstable profile by default. The stable one's no more bleeding-edge than Ubuntu.
XP upgrade will still let you install to a blank hard disk with just a Win95 CD as confirmation.
In the UK there's no such thing as free TV. Cable/satellite has always been overpriced and full of more ads than content. The BBC channels have no third-party ads whatsoever, but you have to pay for them whether or not you watch them (or even have a TV).
...that they'll just diff the images against the old ones and manually sort through big changes, leaving the spammers' areas of the map outdated and blurry? Serves them right if they do.
Flying directly through what's essentially a planet-sized cathode ray tube? Isn't that, you know...
Ah forget it, let Darwin sort things out.
If they can build a high-end chip that produces less waste heat than the 386, _that_ would be a breakthrough.