Seriously, visit a science department at a major university. I work at a major research university (albeit in the CS department). All of the professors I know of use Linux on their main computers, save for one who uses OS X. Also, all of the graduate labs we have are either Linux or OS X.
I can offer an experience counter to this. In the CS department at my university, not a SINGLE professor used Linux (or OSX) on their main computers. This puts your credibility highly into doubt!
(I'm just giving you a hard time, they all ran Solaris on Sun machines, supporting your point about MS Office).
I recall California having some general law about pulling over if you're driving under the speed limit with 5 or more cars behind you. I can't remember the specifics, though, or if it's still true (or ever was).
Biden's just covering up the project to build a super computer in Raven Rock that will serve as the next president. If he starts talking about Vaults then we'll know he's started to blow it.
Stop contributing to the Apple monopoly. You aren't helping matters when you support it. We consumers end up with less choice and more problems. The iPhone, the iPod, all crap lock-in and not even real "platforms" despite people acting like it is something you can develop for.
Regardless of one's feelings toward Apple and the iPhone, I think this is an interesting question to address. At least, I have no desire to own or develop for an iPhone, but I do have great interest in not using Flash.
If there's any one thing I like about the iPhone, it has people asking questions like "How can I provide a good user experience for streaming video on a platform that doesn't support Adobe's Flash plugin?". The iPhone is obviously a proprietary, closed platform, but I appreciate that at least to a small degree it's making people think about solutions that had become almost universally tied to other proprietary technology.
I hope to see fewer browser plugins like Flash on all smart phones, so that solutions such as the YouTube app can be taken advantage of to produce desktop solutions where Flash is also unavailable (or unwanted).
It seems like GTA online could be done now, as long as the implementation was such that people with high lag didn't affect the performance of other players in the same world without lag. After all, it seems like there's plenty of people who don't care enough about gameplay to let a laggy connection stop them, and I've never heard anyone with a great connection complain about being able to easily kill them.
I haven't seen or read anything about the new interface before this, so the screenshots weren't especially helpful in seeing what people are complaining about. So I found a video, while not the best walk through by a long shot, shows some of the new interface in action.
Generally, I like new ideas being tried out, even when part of the benefit of a product is everyone being familiar with the previous way it did things. In this specific case, I don't particularly have much of a stake in how it turns out. I just write content from time to time (technical specs for small development projects) and someone else provides the template, so it hasn't been that important what word processor is used (it's been Pages mostly, with a little Word).
Even so, watching this video made me think "click, click, click, click", or something along those lines. Without the standard menu, are keyboard shortcuts (of the alt-f or alt-e variety, quick-browing menus to find an option) still be as prevalent?
I imagine tabbing toolbars and that panel down the left is a move to "unbury" options from menus and make them more accessible, but if I end up having to go to the mouse more often it'll be less productive for me, even if it's generally more intuitive overall.
I think the biggest thing you need sooner or later is REM sleep, not just a lie down. Lack of REM sleep (which, as we'll see is possible while technically still getting some sleep) can result in actual brain damage, or in the very long run even death. (Ironically, it's also produced _by_ certain kinds of brain damage.) Also, while we still lack the complete picture, it's proven that at least one type of memory isn't updated without REM.
The next question is, what does REM sleep bring? It's commonly believed to be the required / most beneficial part of a person's sleep, but what specifically occurs during that period to, for example, update the type of memory you mention?
There's a good amount of research on the subject, but I think it's something that's just naturally more complicated and harder to examine.
but don't think my words endorse any particular poorly thought out scheme that strays far form the effort of filtering child porn
I got an impression along those lines from this:
and yet you see people all the time, especially on slashdot, actually saying "country A censors child porn so how can it criticize another country for censoring political opinion?"
I think at least some of those arguments come from the poor technical implementations that can be found in country A's censorship, which results in things being censored that shouldn't. I just meant to address that side of the issue, where one finds an agenda hidden behind the banner of censoring child-porn.
but if someone soemday DOES devise a scheme that hits JUST child porn, how could you argue with that?
I don't know if I would argue with it. Obviously attacking the cause is much more important that hiding the symptoms, but a utopian scheme to block all child-porn and nothing else will help protect the public.
IF the tape is real it COULD mean SERIOUS DOO-DOO.
In terms of the President, it could mean "serious doo-doo" even if it's not real. Some scandals are too much, even when facing the absence of evidence.
censoring child pornography is nothing remotely like censoring political speech
and if country A censors child pornography, while country B censors political speech, they are not anywhere near comparable
How many times do we have to go through the reality that Internet censorship filters are improperly and often irresponsibly implemented, even to the point of showing a political slant. From their use in US schools, to the nation-wide Aussie plan that was recently discussed so much, we have seen again and again that tools like blacklists make the issues of A and B closer than we'd like.
Interesting! Still, I wonder about server configuration, load, and such. It's obviously a good model of dividing work between client and server, but there must still be some times that are quite taxing.
"You're an idiot. Blood alcohol is blood alcohol. The big guy can drink a little more than the little woman. Just not as much as you'd like."
Sure, BAC is BAC....but, different people can handle and function to MUCH different levels at given BAC. At.04, someone might be really out of it...but, others at.08 are just barely starting to show any signs of intoxication at all. Some people just have more tolerance than others.
Police officers, at least in this state, still use their judgement when interviewing and observing someone suspected of driving drunk. For example, you don't actually have to have.08 to be arrested. If you're below.08 but still relatively high, you can be arrested for reckless driving. Obviously you can be arrested for reckless driving without a breathalyser if you are driving recklessly, but it's my understanding they can use their judgement applying that charge to drivers who are intoxicated but within the legal BAC.
Of course, that doesn't mean they'll judge you to be fit to drive if you're over.08, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. Since it is so low for some people when comparing BAC to motor skill impairment, the best advice is always to not drink at all if you know you'll be driving, or not drive at all if you find you've had more than one drink. All the same, I wouldn't be surprised if I found out the average DUI arrest recorded a BAC of well over.1.
If you buy the PC versus, you get the Linux/OSX versions at no charge.
This is a big deal for me. If a game is available for all three operating systems (from the same company, not ported), I want to have access to all three at purchase. In my experience this is where online purchases have been successful, as my account allows download for a game on whatever platform it's available once I've bought it.
It's not a matter of having 2 or 3 copies of the same game to me, it's a matter of continuous game play. If I really get into a game, I'd like to keep playing it if I'm going to be away from the house for a few days and will just have my laptop. Since I don't dual boot on my Macbook, that means having an OSX version. Of course, for this to work out properly, there needs to be a good way to transfer my saved games over, which is often harder than it should be.
If Ubuntu were a $0 way of running windows applications it would take over the world.
Ubuntu shouldn't be *just* windows, it should be windows and more.
Isn't this really the question at hand? *Should* Ubuntu be Windows and more? Or should it stand more on it's own, wooing developers by it's own appeal? Sure, OSX has Parallels, VMWare, etc, but almost all the Mac users get by without running Windows applications (obviously there are some exceptions, but they're rare among those I know). Either there's an OSX version of the software, a better or adequate alternative, or it's not needed.
I have a Macbook for my laptop, and when I'm using my desktop, I've found the only applications that I want to be able to use under Linux and can't are actually OSX exclusive ones. Mac's following over the years has resulted in some really polished and useful programs.
Why isn't that the case with Linux? User share is an obvious thing to blame, but I don't think it should stop there. I think there's also the question of what the user base is willing to pay for, i.e. cost / benefit of developing an application. There's a market among OSX users for buying more polished programs. Transmit does quite well, even though there are zero-cost alternatives that do everything the user actually needs.
I've run into a lot of these examples over the past few years I've been exposed to the world of Apple. Aside from Codeweaver products, I don't know if I've ever come across non-free, non-specialised applications developed for Linux that compete against zero-cost programs. Where are the paid apps such as TextMate, Pathfinder, Xslimmer, and Things to name a few.
A downside to having such a wide ranging selection of good free software is that it does decrease the appeal of developing programs for Linux that I might find frivolous, but perhaps the new wave of Ubuntu / Netbook readers might not. There is definitely a group of users out there who don't mind spending $10 or more on a polished replacement of something that would give them the same basic functionality for free.
Is Linux (or specifically Ubuntu), not-suited for that? Is that something we even want, with free(beer) being so closely tied to open source? I don't think it necessarily plays a big role in the grand scheme of Ubuntu, but I do think that small software companies that make quality products could speed up Ubuntu's progress by filling in areas where the free solution is immature or missing, a scenario dependent on whether they can make money.
It can be a real time waster, also. I'd rather stay in my work flow while someone figures out whether or not s/he has the answers to my questions, versus waiting on the line as that person thinks out loud.
Ha, that AC post wasn't me. I do feel I'm being trolled here though, when one ticket to the movies costs almost $10, and television is commonly subscribed to for over $40/mo.
Regardless, my main point wasn't how much I need Netflix, it was more how little I need to bother with searching, downloading, etc, when there's a much more convenient alternative out there (which happens to be a legitimate means, as well). Perhaps it's not that movies & tv shows mean more to me, but that $10 means less. I don't see getting $10 worth to require investing hours every week. The idea that it would take a marathon effort to fit get the $10 worth of value seems pretty silly to me.
$0.50 to get unlimited and permanent watching rights to a TV show episode, or $1 for a movie...$10/mo for Netflix
Haven't you ever heard of Bittorrent? For exactly $0.00 you can have all that, and the file is already on your computer without the D.R.M.
Watching Netflix content on my TV is SO much more convenient than going through Bittorrent that it's not only worth the $10/mo, at that price, getting the same content via Bittorrent takes on a negative value.
The way YouTube is set up now, legitimate content comes in the form of user channels, where the users are the content owners (e.g. CBS, Discovery Channel, etc have user channels). So far these are free, and in many cases only hold older content, clips or promotional trailers.
However, I think this setup is a great way to approach premium/paid content. If they could provide convenient means for watching the content (e.g. Boxee, or Netflix via Tivo), I would be happy to pay for a subscription to a channel (I'd even purchase a reasonably priced set top box). I have no interest in paying per episode, or per show. Lost was the quickest to find on the iTunes Store, and it's listed as $2.99 for an episode or $49.99 for a season pass. That's simply ridiculous for one show.
Subscribing channel by channel, however, with the ability to watch content produced by that channel at my convenience, is exactly what television doesn't have today. If I could pick and choose the handful of networks I actually watch, pay something like $5/mo to each of them, it'd be a vast improvement over how things are with television today.
It's also a good opportunity to address a big problem I have with cable/satellite. Commercials OR subscription fees, not both thank you. YouTube is suited to address this also, since the individual networks could choose how their content goes out. If NBC decides they need both fees and advertising revenue to maintain their model, I'll happily not subscribe (whereas I might have with just the fees). I'll wager, however, that others like Adult Swim would get by just fine (or likely much better) without ads in their subscription model.
Then pack the fuck up and leave. Nobody is stopping you.
The United Arab Emirates have a 0% tax rate; perhaps you should consider immigrating there.
Amen to that. The simple fact you consider taxation robbery, but put up with it every year, tends to discredit your claims.
Taking my money to benefit you and yours is fucking wrong,immoral and exactly what the founders of the USA were dead set against.
So completely wrong. "No taxation without representation" is not an alternate phrasing of "no taxation". Contrary to common thought, the famous example of the Boston Tea Party was in response to the British government reducing taxes on tea imports. The colonial smugglers who had been profiting from the higher cost of legitimate tea imports wanted to maintain the status quo; i.e. keep taxes high. I believe Benjamin Franklin was one of the people to publicly suggest the course of action opposed by the smugglers.
If there's going to be a long argument about what the founder's wanted, make sure you include the colonial / state constitutions wherever you cite the US constitution. If one thing's clear, it's that the limits on the federal government were largely to stop it from interfering with the states' powers over their citizens, which of course included taxes.
And it still does. I have little sympathy for anyone who complains how KDE3 "was" better than the current release of KDE4; it's not like KDE3 has deactivated and no longer installs or runs. If it's better for you, use it.
simple, gang up on the guy with the quad, so what it's ffa, I've killed the quad holder plenty of times.
Or take advantage of that 3D sound card and your knowledge of the map's sounds, and stay out of the quad carrier's way. Hearing the quad timer count down it's end without the player having gotten any kills is one of life's small pleasures.
You can also try a timeless classic: wait until he pulls out the rocket launcher, then leap out at him suddenly with the super shotgun. After you've removed his advantage via a bloody explosion, the following race from spawn points to where the quad and weapons are sitting is added fun.
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Seriously, visit a science department at a major university. I work at a major research university (albeit in the CS department). All of the professors I know of use Linux on their main computers, save for one who uses OS X. Also, all of the graduate labs we have are either Linux or OS X.
I can offer an experience counter to this. In the CS department at my university, not a SINGLE professor used Linux (or OSX) on their main computers. This puts your credibility highly into doubt!
(I'm just giving you a hard time, they all ran Solaris on Sun machines, supporting your point about MS Office).
I recall California having some general law about pulling over if you're driving under the speed limit with 5 or more cars behind you. I can't remember the specifics, though, or if it's still true (or ever was).
Undoing an accidental mis-mod.
Biden's just covering up the project to build a super computer in Raven Rock that will serve as the next president. If he starts talking about Vaults then we'll know he's started to blow it.
Stop contributing to the Apple monopoly. You aren't helping matters when you support it. We consumers end up with less choice and more problems. The iPhone, the iPod, all crap lock-in and not even real "platforms" despite people acting like it is something you can develop for.
Regardless of one's feelings toward Apple and the iPhone, I think this is an interesting question to address. At least, I have no desire to own or develop for an iPhone, but I do have great interest in not using Flash.
If there's any one thing I like about the iPhone, it has people asking questions like "How can I provide a good user experience for streaming video on a platform that doesn't support Adobe's Flash plugin?". The iPhone is obviously a proprietary, closed platform, but I appreciate that at least to a small degree it's making people think about solutions that had become almost universally tied to other proprietary technology.
I hope to see fewer browser plugins like Flash on all smart phones, so that solutions such as the YouTube app can be taken advantage of to produce desktop solutions where Flash is also unavailable (or unwanted).
It seems like GTA online could be done now, as long as the implementation was such that people with high lag didn't affect the performance of other players in the same world without lag. After all, it seems like there's plenty of people who don't care enough about gameplay to let a laggy connection stop them, and I've never heard anyone with a great connection complain about being able to easily kill them.
I haven't seen or read anything about the new interface before this, so the screenshots weren't especially helpful in seeing what people are complaining about. So I found a video, while not the best walk through by a long shot, shows some of the new interface in action.
Generally, I like new ideas being tried out, even when part of the benefit of a product is everyone being familiar with the previous way it did things. In this specific case, I don't particularly have much of a stake in how it turns out. I just write content from time to time (technical specs for small development projects) and someone else provides the template, so it hasn't been that important what word processor is used (it's been Pages mostly, with a little Word).
Even so, watching this video made me think "click, click, click, click", or something along those lines. Without the standard menu, are keyboard shortcuts (of the alt-f or alt-e variety, quick-browing menus to find an option) still be as prevalent?
I imagine tabbing toolbars and that panel down the left is a move to "unbury" options from menus and make them more accessible, but if I end up having to go to the mouse more often it'll be less productive for me, even if it's generally more intuitive overall.
I think the biggest thing you need sooner or later is REM sleep, not just a lie down. Lack of REM sleep (which, as we'll see is possible while technically still getting some sleep) can result in actual brain damage, or in the very long run even death. (Ironically, it's also produced _by_ certain kinds of brain damage.) Also, while we still lack the complete picture, it's proven that at least one type of memory isn't updated without REM.
The next question is, what does REM sleep bring? It's commonly believed to be the required / most beneficial part of a person's sleep, but what specifically occurs during that period to, for example, update the type of memory you mention?
There's a good amount of research on the subject, but I think it's something that's just naturally more complicated and harder to examine.
It would certainly be a lot more helpful to have specifics about what sleep provides that we require versus, say, a rest while conscious.
Water is a good example, where it's thoroughly understood just how our body uses it, i.e. what role hydration plays in our continued functioning.
What is it specifically that requires us to lose consciousness to get what we need from sleep? Can it be artificially supplemented?
It reminds me somewhat of jailbreaking an iPhone to install an app that Apple has rejected from their store.
but don't think my words endorse any particular poorly thought out scheme that strays far form the effort of filtering child porn
I got an impression along those lines from this:
and yet you see people all the time, especially on slashdot, actually saying "country A censors child porn so how can it criticize another country for censoring political opinion?"
I think at least some of those arguments come from the poor technical implementations that can be found in country A's censorship, which results in things being censored that shouldn't. I just meant to address that side of the issue, where one finds an agenda hidden behind the banner of censoring child-porn.
but if someone soemday DOES devise a scheme that hits JUST child porn, how could you argue with that?
I don't know if I would argue with it. Obviously attacking the cause is much more important that hiding the symptoms, but a utopian scheme to block all child-porn and nothing else will help protect the public.
IF the tape is real it COULD mean SERIOUS DOO-DOO.
In terms of the President, it could mean "serious doo-doo" even if it's not real. Some scandals are too much, even when facing the absence of evidence.
censoring child pornography is nothing remotely like censoring political speech
and if country A censors child pornography, while country B censors political speech, they are not anywhere near comparable
How many times do we have to go through the reality that Internet censorship filters are improperly and often irresponsibly implemented, even to the point of showing a political slant. From their use in US schools, to the nation-wide Aussie plan that was recently discussed so much, we have seen again and again that tools like blacklists make the issues of A and B closer than we'd like.
Interesting! Still, I wonder about server configuration, load, and such. It's obviously a good model of dividing work between client and server, but there must still be some times that are quite taxing.
I've always been curious about how Blizzard's WoW servers are spread out around the world.
"You're an idiot. Blood alcohol is blood alcohol. The big guy can drink a little more than the little woman. Just not as much as you'd like."
Sure, BAC is BAC....but, different people can handle and function to MUCH different levels at given BAC. At .04, someone might be really out of it...but, others at .08 are just barely starting to show any signs of intoxication at all. Some people just have more tolerance than others.
Police officers, at least in this state, still use their judgement when interviewing and observing someone suspected of driving drunk. For example, you don't actually have to have .08 to be arrested. If you're below .08 but still relatively high, you can be arrested for reckless driving. Obviously you can be arrested for reckless driving without a breathalyser if you are driving recklessly, but it's my understanding they can use their judgement applying that charge to drivers who are intoxicated but within the legal BAC.
Of course, that doesn't mean they'll judge you to be fit to drive if you're over .08, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. Since it is so low for some people when comparing BAC to motor skill impairment, the best advice is always to not drink at all if you know you'll be driving, or not drive at all if you find you've had more than one drink. All the same, I wouldn't be surprised if I found out the average DUI arrest recorded a BAC of well over .1.
If you buy the PC versus, you get the Linux/OSX versions at no charge.
This is a big deal for me. If a game is available for all three operating systems (from the same company, not ported), I want to have access to all three at purchase. In my experience this is where online purchases have been successful, as my account allows download for a game on whatever platform it's available once I've bought it.
It's not a matter of having 2 or 3 copies of the same game to me, it's a matter of continuous game play. If I really get into a game, I'd like to keep playing it if I'm going to be away from the house for a few days and will just have my laptop. Since I don't dual boot on my Macbook, that means having an OSX version. Of course, for this to work out properly, there needs to be a good way to transfer my saved games over, which is often harder than it should be.
If Ubuntu were a $0 way of running windows applications it would take over the world.
Ubuntu shouldn't be *just* windows, it should be windows and more.
Isn't this really the question at hand? *Should* Ubuntu be Windows and more? Or should it stand more on it's own, wooing developers by it's own appeal? Sure, OSX has Parallels, VMWare, etc, but almost all the Mac users get by without running Windows applications (obviously there are some exceptions, but they're rare among those I know). Either there's an OSX version of the software, a better or adequate alternative, or it's not needed.
I have a Macbook for my laptop, and when I'm using my desktop, I've found the only applications that I want to be able to use under Linux and can't are actually OSX exclusive ones. Mac's following over the years has resulted in some really polished and useful programs.
Why isn't that the case with Linux? User share is an obvious thing to blame, but I don't think it should stop there. I think there's also the question of what the user base is willing to pay for, i.e. cost / benefit of developing an application. There's a market among OSX users for buying more polished programs. Transmit does quite well, even though there are zero-cost alternatives that do everything the user actually needs.
I've run into a lot of these examples over the past few years I've been exposed to the world of Apple. Aside from Codeweaver products, I don't know if I've ever come across non-free, non-specialised applications developed for Linux that compete against zero-cost programs. Where are the paid apps such as TextMate, Pathfinder, Xslimmer, and Things to name a few.
A downside to having such a wide ranging selection of good free software is that it does decrease the appeal of developing programs for Linux that I might find frivolous, but perhaps the new wave of Ubuntu / Netbook readers might not. There is definitely a group of users out there who don't mind spending $10 or more on a polished replacement of something that would give them the same basic functionality for free.
Is Linux (or specifically Ubuntu), not-suited for that? Is that something we even want, with free(beer) being so closely tied to open source? I don't think it necessarily plays a big role in the grand scheme of Ubuntu, but I do think that small software companies that make quality products could speed up Ubuntu's progress by filling in areas where the free solution is immature or missing, a scenario dependent on whether they can make money.
It can be a real time waster, also. I'd rather stay in my work flow while someone figures out whether or not s/he has the answers to my questions, versus waiting on the line as that person thinks out loud.
Ha, that AC post wasn't me. I do feel I'm being trolled here though, when one ticket to the movies costs almost $10, and television is commonly subscribed to for over $40/mo.
Regardless, my main point wasn't how much I need Netflix, it was more how little I need to bother with searching, downloading, etc, when there's a much more convenient alternative out there (which happens to be a legitimate means, as well). Perhaps it's not that movies & tv shows mean more to me, but that $10 means less. I don't see getting $10 worth to require investing hours every week. The idea that it would take a marathon effort to fit get the $10 worth of value seems pretty silly to me.
$0.50 to get unlimited and permanent watching rights to a TV show episode, or $1 for a movie...$10/mo for Netflix
Haven't you ever heard of Bittorrent? For exactly $0.00 you can have all that, and the file is already on your computer without the D.R.M.
Watching Netflix content on my TV is SO much more convenient than going through Bittorrent that it's not only worth the $10/mo, at that price, getting the same content via Bittorrent takes on a negative value.
The way YouTube is set up now, legitimate content comes in the form of user channels, where the users are the content owners (e.g. CBS, Discovery Channel, etc have user channels). So far these are free, and in many cases only hold older content, clips or promotional trailers.
However, I think this setup is a great way to approach premium/paid content. If they could provide convenient means for watching the content (e.g. Boxee, or Netflix via Tivo), I would be happy to pay for a subscription to a channel (I'd even purchase a reasonably priced set top box). I have no interest in paying per episode, or per show. Lost was the quickest to find on the iTunes Store, and it's listed as $2.99 for an episode or $49.99 for a season pass. That's simply ridiculous for one show.
Subscribing channel by channel, however, with the ability to watch content produced by that channel at my convenience, is exactly what television doesn't have today. If I could pick and choose the handful of networks I actually watch, pay something like $5/mo to each of them, it'd be a vast improvement over how things are with television today.
It's also a good opportunity to address a big problem I have with cable/satellite. Commercials OR subscription fees, not both thank you. YouTube is suited to address this also, since the individual networks could choose how their content goes out. If NBC decides they need both fees and advertising revenue to maintain their model, I'll happily not subscribe (whereas I might have with just the fees). I'll wager, however, that others like Adult Swim would get by just fine (or likely much better) without ads in their subscription model.
Then pack the fuck up and leave. Nobody is stopping you.
The United Arab Emirates have a 0% tax rate; perhaps you should consider immigrating there.
Amen to that. The simple fact you consider taxation robbery, but put up with it every year, tends to discredit your claims.
Taking my money to benefit you and yours is fucking wrong,immoral and exactly what the founders of the USA were dead set against.
So completely wrong. "No taxation without representation" is not an alternate phrasing of "no taxation". Contrary to common thought, the famous example of the Boston Tea Party was in response to the British government reducing taxes on tea imports. The colonial smugglers who had been profiting from the higher cost of legitimate tea imports wanted to maintain the status quo; i.e. keep taxes high. I believe Benjamin Franklin was one of the people to publicly suggest the course of action opposed by the smugglers.
If there's going to be a long argument about what the founder's wanted, make sure you include the colonial / state constitutions wherever you cite the US constitution. If one thing's clear, it's that the limits on the federal government were largely to stop it from interfering with the states' powers over their citizens, which of course included taxes.
Why? kde3+compiz ran fine on less than that.
And it still does. I have little sympathy for anyone who complains how KDE3 "was" better than the current release of KDE4; it's not like KDE3 has deactivated and no longer installs or runs. If it's better for you, use it.
Why is the very old KDE logo still used by slashdot?
http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php
Nostalgia. We're all getting older, regardless of how many teenagers newly sign up.
simple, gang up on the guy with the quad, so what it's ffa, I've killed the quad holder plenty of times.
Or take advantage of that 3D sound card and your knowledge of the map's sounds, and stay out of the quad carrier's way. Hearing the quad timer count down it's end without the player having gotten any kills is one of life's small pleasures.
You can also try a timeless classic: wait until he pulls out the rocket launcher, then leap out at him suddenly with the super shotgun. After you've removed his advantage via a bloody explosion, the following race from spawn points to where the quad and weapons are sitting is added fun.
Good times!