It was mentioned before by the Oddworld Inhabitants team that if the re-released Abe games sold well there would be an Oddbox, with additionally Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath ported to Windows.
This would be awesome. Long ago I lost my copy of Munch's Oddysee for Xbox (and stopped playing the console) and would love to have Windows versions of those games.
The NetApp data:
Windows: 92.52%
Mac OS X: 5.12%
Linux (all flavors): 1.00%
Other (including iPhone, Symbian, Java ME): 1.36%
That's 7.48% "non-MS share" on these numbers (and really only non-Windows--it's not apparent whether they count Windows Mobile as "Windows" or as "Other"). Linux, therefore has 13.37% of the "non-MS market". For comparison of the other ones broken out entirely, Apple has 73.26% of that market (Mac+iPhone). Java ME has 6.1%. Symbian has 2.5%
I'd say grades are a better measure of education than intelligence.
I'd say grades are much more indicative of effort. Ultimately, you get out of grades what you put into them. You could be the smartest person in your school/university/college, but if you don't do the assigned work, you'll fail the classes. That doesn't change the fact that you could pass the classwork with flying colors if you had the initiative.
"Also, you cannot remove Office-2003 and re-install Office-2000, unless you know how to hack the registry."
Wow! I'd love to be able to downgrade Office, but hacking the registry sounds like a total nightmare! I bet very few people in the world can truly say they're able to do something as extreme as that! It'd be amazing if someone came up with a program to allow someone to edit the registry in a relatively straightforward manner! Only in our dreams...
Apologies if I misunderstood. I watched the WWDC '07 presentation and Jobs' talk about the SDK/Web apps. He launched a few of these from the browser itself (through the bookmarks list) and said they could access the built-in keyboard if necessary. He never demonstrated or implied that such apps could be launched through the homescreen or anywhere else than Safari, and he never said or implied that they could "stick" to the UI (as in, overwrite the default keypad or something).
The impression I got was that these apps must be launched through the browser itself, and must stay contained within the browser. That's all he showed and he never said otherwise.
> - Apple says it plans to add fea
Ah, great. I'm sold. My current phone has 'fea', but I had heard the iPhone didn't have it. So, I'm pleased it does, and now I'm definitely going to get one.
Don't forget to click the "Read the rest of this comment" button...
How did Ubuntu "rescue" your T40? You had a corrupt partition and you chose to install Ubuntu. You could also have chosen to reinstall Windows. It's not like Ubuntu brought your laptop back from the dead.
"No one in their right mind would design a kiosk that needs employee attention every 5-10 minutes."
Don't these kiosks usually have a big "RESET" button linked up to the console so players can reset it if it freezes (which definitely isn't uncommon in those hot, enclosed areas)? I haven't seen a PS3 kiosk, but pretty much all the others are user-resettable.
Lighten up! The goal of the project isn't "have a disc with a bunch of names on it flown to Mars so aliens can find it and read every name on it". It's just for fun - for being able to say that your name has been on Mars. Not for any reason in particular. It's just kinda cool and not something that happens very often.
Honestly, run it through your mind - does it make ANY sense that installing a new motherboard even several times will put Windows out of order? Immediately I think about someone installing Vista on their current PC, upgrading their motherboard only to find it break the next day, replace it with a different model and have *that* one break a week later, and then pick out yet ANOTHER motherboard and install it. So at this point Vista's saying, "You can't re-activate me now, you've installed too many new parts", according to you. So this user who's just had a pretty bad two weeks is suddenly forced to buy a new copy of Vista? That's what you're implying, based on MS' Vista license?
No. Quite simply, no. You expect MS to lock them out for a faulty component that had to be replaced several times? No. Nor will they give you crap about upgrading several times in the next few years. It simply doesn't make sense. Microsoft would lose an insane number of paying customers - I for one would refuse to buy any more operating systems from them. That and it'd be plain abusive to their customers; no company with a bit of brains behind it would consider something so silly. (Yes, yes, let's hear the "haha, MS doesn't have any brains!" jokes...)
While I agree with anyone who says the "article" is pretty redundant and more or less a comparison between XP's and Vista's feature listings, I feel the need to respond to someone's comment on the article (shown below the article). I quote:
The only feature that is of any appeal to me in Vista is DX10. I wish it was ported to XP. I do not look forward to "upgrading" to Vista at all. It is the most disappointed Windows release since WinME.
While DX10 is a large (and necessary) step forward, I simply cannot understand anybody calling Vista a worthless upgrade or "disappointing" in the likes of WinMe. Alright, WinFS didn't make it - big deal. Anybody comparing Vista's upgrade over XP to Me's upgrade to 98 is simply an idiot.
Vista features upgrades - although minor in some aspects, upgrades nevertheless - to pretty much every aspect of Windows. From security to GUI to functionality to included applications, so much has been improved, reworked and even overhauled that anybody dismissing it as "disappointing" - hell, anything short of major - is more than likely someone who, in the "real" world, really can't wait for Vista, will buy it within a few days of its release and simply wants to act like he's "better than" anyone who looks forward to tons of improvements over XP.
Give it a rest. You can say it sucks, but you can't say it isn't at the least quite an improvement over what we've got.
Reflection/refraction of such a quality is not at all uncommon. The problem? Actually getting that into a game. As you mentioned, it's hours per frame, not frames per second.
Me?
I didn't say there was no way to get soft shadows. Considering that this would literally multiply the computation time by the number of samples it's not exactly feasible when we can't even get raytraced sharp shadows in a game anytime soon.
It certainly would look nice - I mean, if it existed we'd see a lot more developers taking advantage of it and showing it off by realtime reflections on marble floors and stuff. But the difference in visual quality is disproportionate to the huge amount of processing power you need for it.
For rendering, raytracing is extremely popular and very "basic" in the sense that people use it daily and don't think twice about it. It's very common for nice renders to go on for hours and hours, even days. We're talking about frames per second, not days per frame. Raytracing isn't new - it's used casually every day for basic reflections, etc in 3D renders - nor is it suited to games. Not yet.
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It was mentioned before by the Oddworld Inhabitants team that if the re-released Abe games sold well there would be an Oddbox, with additionally Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath ported to Windows.
This would be awesome. Long ago I lost my copy of Munch's Oddysee for Xbox (and stopped playing the console) and would love to have Windows versions of those games.
How?
The NetApp data: Windows: 92.52% Mac OS X: 5.12% Linux (all flavors): 1.00% Other (including iPhone, Symbian, Java ME): 1.36%
That's 7.48% "non-MS share" on these numbers (and really only non-Windows--it's not apparent whether they count Windows Mobile as "Windows" or as "Other"). Linux, therefore has 13.37% of the "non-MS market". For comparison of the other ones broken out entirely, Apple has 73.26% of that market (Mac+iPhone). Java ME has 6.1%. Symbian has 2.5%
How did everyone miss this terrible misspelling? It's Tobey Maguire, not Toby. Come on, people.
It was spelled correctly in the summary, though...
I'd say grades are much more indicative of effort. Ultimately, you get out of grades what you put into them. You could be the smartest person in your school/university/college, but if you don't do the assigned work, you'll fail the classes. That doesn't change the fact that you could pass the classwork with flying colors if you had the initiative.
"Also, you cannot remove Office-2003 and re-install Office-2000, unless you know how to hack the registry."
Wow! I'd love to be able to downgrade Office, but hacking the registry sounds like a total nightmare! I bet very few people in the world can truly say they're able to do something as extreme as that! It'd be amazing if someone came up with a program to allow someone to edit the registry in a relatively straightforward manner! Only in our dreams...
Oh, wait.
Apologies if I misunderstood. I watched the WWDC '07 presentation and Jobs' talk about the SDK/Web apps. He launched a few of these from the browser itself (through the bookmarks list) and said they could access the built-in keyboard if necessary. He never demonstrated or implied that such apps could be launched through the homescreen or anywhere else than Safari, and he never said or implied that they could "stick" to the UI (as in, overwrite the default keypad or something).
The impression I got was that these apps must be launched through the browser itself, and must stay contained within the browser. That's all he showed and he never said otherwise.
"how would I code it and deliver it to iPhones so it overrides the builtin one (at the user's option, of course)?"
You wouldn't.
There's no SDK, and Apple's said they won't deliver one. All you can do as far as custom code is run Web 2.0 apps through Safari.
Whoops. Confusing subjectlines, sorry. :)
It appears for me.
;)
You can't see it? What're you using, Safari?
> - Apple says it plans to add fea
Ah, great. I'm sold. My current phone has 'fea', but I had heard the iPhone didn't have it. So, I'm pleased it does, and now I'm definitely going to get one.
Don't forget to click the "Read the rest of this comment" button...
Safari for Windows uninstalled over 999,000 times!
How did Ubuntu "rescue" your T40? You had a corrupt partition and you chose to install Ubuntu. You could also have chosen to reinstall Windows. It's not like Ubuntu brought your laptop back from the dead.
Well, it's just that: a cartoon. They aren't going for production-quality photorealism, they actually intend it to look quite different.
Who won the contest?
"No one in their right mind would design a kiosk that needs employee attention every 5-10 minutes."
Don't these kiosks usually have a big "RESET" button linked up to the console so players can reset it if it freezes (which definitely isn't uncommon in those hot, enclosed areas)? I haven't seen a PS3 kiosk, but pretty much all the others are user-resettable.
Lighten up! The goal of the project isn't "have a disc with a bunch of names on it flown to Mars so aliens can find it and read every name on it". It's just for fun - for being able to say that your name has been on Mars. Not for any reason in particular. It's just kinda cool and not something that happens very often.
Honestly, run it through your mind - does it make ANY sense that installing a new motherboard even several times will put Windows out of order? Immediately I think about someone installing Vista on their current PC, upgrading their motherboard only to find it break the next day, replace it with a different model and have *that* one break a week later, and then pick out yet ANOTHER motherboard and install it. So at this point Vista's saying, "You can't re-activate me now, you've installed too many new parts", according to you. So this user who's just had a pretty bad two weeks is suddenly forced to buy a new copy of Vista? That's what you're implying, based on MS' Vista license?
No. Quite simply, no. You expect MS to lock them out for a faulty component that had to be replaced several times? No. Nor will they give you crap about upgrading several times in the next few years. It simply doesn't make sense. Microsoft would lose an insane number of paying customers - I for one would refuse to buy any more operating systems from them. That and it'd be plain abusive to their customers; no company with a bit of brains behind it would consider something so silly. (Yes, yes, let's hear the "haha, MS doesn't have any brains!" jokes...)
Just be logical. They wouldn't do that.
While I agree with anyone who says the "article" is pretty redundant and more or less a comparison between XP's and Vista's feature listings, I feel the need to respond to someone's comment on the article (shown below the article). I quote:
The only feature that is of any appeal to me in Vista is DX10. I wish it was ported to XP. I do not look forward to "upgrading" to Vista at all. It is the most disappointed Windows release since WinME.
While DX10 is a large (and necessary) step forward, I simply cannot understand anybody calling Vista a worthless upgrade or "disappointing" in the likes of WinMe. Alright, WinFS didn't make it - big deal. Anybody comparing Vista's upgrade over XP to Me's upgrade to 98 is simply an idiot.
Vista features upgrades - although minor in some aspects, upgrades nevertheless - to pretty much every aspect of Windows. From security to GUI to functionality to included applications, so much has been improved, reworked and even overhauled that anybody dismissing it as "disappointing" - hell, anything short of major - is more than likely someone who, in the "real" world, really can't wait for Vista, will buy it within a few days of its release and simply wants to act like he's "better than" anyone who looks forward to tons of improvements over XP.
Give it a rest. You can say it sucks, but you can't say it isn't at the least quite an improvement over what we've got.
"The Vortex Home Entertainment System isn't just set to revolutionize 3D forever, they have revolutionized it."
Right. That makes total sense. The power of article submission moderation has prevailed!
"There are prizes for best technical answer and most creative (while technically correct) answer."
Quite clearly they're looking for "42".
I have indeed discovered the true meaning behind the release date.
Using 5, 3, and 5, you can do (5 ^ 3) * 5 = 625 and then just add 41 (41 as in one-less-than-the-oh-so-great 42). And behold!!! 666.
MS is so evil.
"Let's kill the bouncing."
Or disable it in the configuration options. In fact, the several times I've used KDE in the not-too-distant past, it was off by default.
From the article summary:
plastic Abe Lincoln busts
Well, naturally, that's something everybody should have: a plastic mold of Abe Lincoln's busts on their desk.
Reflection/refraction of such a quality is not at all uncommon. The problem? Actually getting that into a game. As you mentioned, it's hours per frame, not frames per second.
Me? I didn't say there was no way to get soft shadows. Considering that this would literally multiply the computation time by the number of samples it's not exactly feasible when we can't even get raytraced sharp shadows in a game anytime soon.
It certainly would look nice - I mean, if it existed we'd see a lot more developers taking advantage of it and showing it off by realtime reflections on marble floors and stuff. But the difference in visual quality is disproportionate to the huge amount of processing power you need for it.
For rendering, raytracing is extremely popular and very "basic" in the sense that people use it daily and don't think twice about it. It's very common for nice renders to go on for hours and hours, even days. We're talking about frames per second, not days per frame. Raytracing isn't new - it's used casually every day for basic reflections, etc in 3D renders - nor is it suited to games. Not yet.