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And the result for hiding these directories "even from the shell" is that in ye olden days the shell was everything there was and people didn't want to have their `ls ~` cluttered up by a hundred config dirs. Now I don't know why nobody could come up with something like ~/etc/<app name> but the...

I'll try to clear up the whole package manager vs. installer vs. PND issue by explaining the various application management strategies in modern desktop computing. In general there are three approaches to application management among the major OSes: Windows trusts the installer to manage...

One big problem I see with the way Gobo does things is that you'd need to dynamically rebuild everything in /System/Links every time any vomume is mounted or unmounted. I'm not sure whether that's good for performance. Also, some other locations would have to be constructed via unionfs with the...

I also find the PND format to be a bit overengineered. NeXT/Apple built a whole system around nothing more than plain old directories (calles "bundles" in this context) and it works very well. Configuration is XML but very generic and easy to understand. Things can be that easy. Of course now...

THE PANDORA IN SEVEN SECONDS Craig sits at a table, talking very fast. Craig: "So I want to play Quake but I don't have a PC handy. With my Pandora I just download the engine, pop in the WADs annnd... there it is!" Screen: The Pandora Craig: "I'm Craig Rothwell and the Pandora was really my...

Yeah, I'm already looking forward to when HTML5 is final and I have to relearn everything as suddenly "<div> for everything" is no longer a best practice.

Nitpick: iframes (and framesets) are deprecated; the proper way would be position: fixed.

Many complaints are not yet optimized for the Pandora board and are in fact just ported over from the GP2X board as-is. Once we have properly optimized complaints we can acheive the same result with much less trolling, thus also reducing the need to overflame.

Well, no. Actually, rubber is a very squeaky material due to being flexible while having a rough, slightly sticky texture. Just ask anyone who owns clothes made of the stuff; the squeakiness is considered part of the appeal. Or think of a balloon. Same material. You might be thinking of...

You can't overtroll up to OPV5? Man, that's so lame! My friend's a member of an X-Box forum that allows for way more trolling and just because it's a completely different platform that shouldn't mean it won't behave identically! I'm canceling my preorder! And I want to know where in the queue I...

Jut hire 990 workers and never pay them. Slavery is a time-honored way to dramatically lower production costs.

They could still scale more slowly or in a different direction. Chip design isn't always about following the most obvious path. I guess we'll see what they make out of Cell when the next designs come out.

IBM has aborted the development of a 32-SPE Cell. Current Cell designs are still being produced and they're still working on new ones. Not neccessarily. Assuming that they do indeed use a Cell (which, as has been correctly noted, is not neccessarily true) they'd use a scaled-down version that...

Not four Cell processors, one Cell processor with four cores. And no, that doesn't work anything like a quad-core x86 processor. We're looking at one PPE and three SPEs, that's one PowerPC core and three dedicated SIMD cores – in layman's terms you have one "real" processor core and three cores...

Confirmed: Sony will acquire the MD Game Station. (Rumors that this will be the successor to the PlayStation Portable couldn't be verified at press time.)

I don't see it as much of a problem... Most of the software won't be immediately available anyway. I expect it to take a few weeks to get the devs equipped and up to speed so the only thing that changes with a later release date is that we get more launch "titles". Of course if you just need a...

In case anyone wonders, ZigBee is a low-cost alternative to Bluetooth. Yes, there are no "ZigBee games" in existence. I like the display, though. I wonder if they can make a 13" version that I can solder into my MacBook Pro so I can run it at 4160*2350.4. And yes, I insist on those 0.4 pixels...

Hmm. If you can somehow distinguish mouse clicks from button presses, that would be the obvious way to do it. Otherwise you could put the delay in the shooting code instead of the interface (that is, the game would immediately trigger a shooting event but the event would simply do nothing if too...

I'm sorry, but I think the game still needs a lot of polishing. First off, the mouse. It's impossible to tell in advance when the game will register a click and when it won't. This makes the game artificially difficult since you can click a zombie five times without firing a single shot - and...

Depending on how it's implemented, the touch functionality might have to go. If it's just a frame in front of the LCD and the two components are completely independent you can keep it. Otherwise you'll either need to find a compatible OLED with touch functionality or forfeit the touchscreen.