Who says it's cheating? If your friend gives you items or gold that's cheating too by your point of view. The only difference is that there is real money involved.
Saved me today. I visited a web page that some how turned off windows firewall before Firefox kicked in and blocked the page. First time something like that has ever happened to me, normally because I am using no-script on Linux.
The first educational module will be incorporated into the PLTW Principles of Engineering course. Students will use the America's Army gaming technology to explore kinematics in a ballistics project. They will be able to test the accuracy of their calculations in the virtual environment to observe how different variables such as displacement, time, velocity and elevation angles affect the principles of engineering.
ROFL! Please tell me this is some kind of joke. The guy is saying that kids will get better at shooting in the AA FPS..
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Yes you're the only one. The rest of us don't mistake open source to mean some anti-capitalist campaign but rather a way to make and distribute good software.
The GP has a point and you completely washed over it in your enthusiasm to post...
While that's a little extreme, it's meant to illustrate the point of highly interactive systems that are "extremely sensitive to initial conditions".
He's completely correct. Weather is such a complex system that it is highly unpredictable. There is no way to know what the weather is going to be like on this day next year for example.
You can simulate all you want but if you don't have enough input, or your input is wrong or perhaps your program used for simulation has a bug (because that never happens, right, right?) you're going to get faulty output.
The problem with long term weather prediction is that there is too much belief and not enough actual science being done. When we get to the point where scientists are no longer manipulating their data to get the results which matches how the feel about climate change then progress will be made. Right now it's too difficult as there are too many wackos predicting the death of the Earth or using it to scare people into doing what they want.
Then run it with wine in a chroot environment if you're worried about the control of your machine.
Spore will work in wine if you look on wine-patches mailing list for the setScissorRect patch and getStencilDepth. It hasn't been included in the main git tree yet because the code doesn't mimic windows behaviour exactly, but it'll make Spore work.
There, now you can play Spore without any worry of the DRM effecting your machine. You can also now play Steam games too so go knock yourself out and have some safe fun.
Please stop this ridiculous patent FUD. It is true.
However much you wish for doom and gloom it's not going to happen.
If you want to prove me wrong then go ahead. Write an open source implementation of any US software patented technology and I'll happily distribute it for you on UK servers in the UK without problem keeping your name secret.
I use my phone a lot. It's a Motorola A1200 Linux (locked with DRM) smart phone and it is generations ahead of the OpenMoko.
I take pictures and videos a lot, listen to music on the radio, web browse with the opera client, make calls over a bluetooth headset, use the voice recognition software to phone people in my address book using only the bluetooth headset, check my gmail account and I have even telnet'd into the nethack server and watched people play (because I can).
I use almost all the features of my phone but I am disatisfied with some things which I was hoping that the OpenMoko would be an answer for me.
My videos are stored in a propitiatory format and the quality sucks, I don't like the fact that my phone makes a noise when I am taking a photo or video. I want to have more access to my phone and customise the software to my needs. My phone has a weird bug which sometimes says I have a new voice mail which I have no way to fix.
That's all I can think of right now and after many years of lurking on the OpenMoko project and reading about this phone here on Slashdot all I can say is that the hardware is poorly designed and the software is not quite there yet at all.
Lets start with the hardware.
There's nothing wrong with the current specs, I am excited by the inclusion of the accelerometer and gps devices, what I have a problem with is that there is no camera.
Now before someone replies with "but some places won't let you take a phone into work with a camera" I think you should realise you're in the minority and I believe that not including a camera in this phone turned into a really bad decision which has effected it's sales and popularity.
Also: I don't care if you don't use the camera or your carry around a 50" telescopic lens wherever you go. I and a lot of other people do care about this, very much. I could justify buying this phone at the ripping me off price, the fact that it doesn't really work yet and all the other problems but not including a camera just put me off completely.
The other big mistake was not including a holder for the stylus in the phone. It makes me feel like no thought was put into the design of this phone at all, although that's probably not true how could you miss such an obvious error?
That's my beef with the hardware, now on to software.
Why does it take so long to cold boot? Like I said at the beginning I have a Linux smart phone. A cold start takes around 14 seconds at which point you can phone someone. The moko takes over 2 minutes and that's still accurate to this day. Don't believe me? Download an image and try for yourself. What is Motorola doing so right that can't be copied?
I can excuse that for the moment as booting the phone doesn't matter that much, but the whole UI including the vanilla QT release just damn sucks. Download a version of the latest image and you'll see what I mean. There's a picture of a boot when the thing starts, yes it's a funny joke but it's mostly highlights how little time has been spent on making the software look good.
I wanted to help out with the art and researched the wiki for ages, there's no information I could find on how to contribute artwork, I couldn't even figure out how to change the background image on the OS which is a horribly pixilated plant. (If someone knows how I can contribute to the artwork please write it in the wiki and reply here).
I'm saying this not to troll. I'm saying this because I care so damn much about this project succeeding and right now it's full of fail, from the hardware and software to the fact that my phone released in 2005 is magnitudes better then this device.
If you want the OpenMoko to succeed, if you want more open source phones to exist then you need to have a baseline of quality. You need to be able to use the device in the first place and it needs to be
Faster, lighter, equally compatible, large library of pre-built software, easy to maintain.
Yet judging from the screenshots it's running the exact same apps that Ubuntu uses (ghex, gcalc, etc).
This seems like a case of you just wanting to be different from the "norm" and I very much doubt Zenwalk is any better then any other Linux OS that uses the exact same software.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.
I think Microsoft is absolutely right here. I mean if you see this story about what they did to BlueJ I think you'd get a better picture of what I mean.
Without even reading the original article you started speculating. You're currently spewing bullshit just like your rival that you love to spam at.
it's very possible that they fixed the Windows tables and ignored the rest.
The actual code shows they didn't ignore but actually added Linux specific code to the BIOS. The same BIOS kit used by the asus eeepc, etc.
If (MCTH (_OS, "Linux")) { Store (0x3, OSVR) }
I'm not purposing they intentionally did it but my god you don't even fucking read, you just side with Microsoft the same way Twitter sides with GNU and the FSF.
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Who says it's cheating? If your friend gives you items or gold that's cheating too by your point of view. The only difference is that there is real money involved.
Saved me today. I visited a web page that some how turned off windows firewall before Firefox kicked in and blocked the page. First time something like that has ever happened to me, normally because I am using no-script on Linux.
ROFL! Please tell me this is some kind of joke. The guy is saying that kids will get better at shooting in the AA FPS..
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Yes you're the only one. The rest of us don't mistake open source to mean some anti-capitalist campaign but rather a way to make and distribute good software.
Would you like to back up that statement with anything because the parent has a point.
This is EA's TF2 killer and it does look like a cheap knock off with the same game play mechanics.
parent is a rick roll
The Sims: Halo Edition
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I hate that website. They steal content from other websites.
To be honest I hope there is no other life anywhere because it means the universe is ALL OURS!
The GP has a point and you completely washed over it in your enthusiasm to post...
He's completely correct. Weather is such a complex system that it is highly unpredictable. There is no way to know what the weather is going to be like on this day next year for example.
You can simulate all you want but if you don't have enough input, or your input is wrong or perhaps your program used for simulation has a bug (because that never happens, right, right?) you're going to get faulty output.
The problem with long term weather prediction is that there is too much belief and not enough actual science being done. When we get to the point where scientists are no longer manipulating their data to get the results which matches how the feel about climate change then progress will be made. Right now it's too difficult as there are too many wackos predicting the death of the Earth or using it to scare people into doing what they want.
Then run it with wine in a chroot environment if you're worried about the control of your machine.
Spore will work in wine if you look on wine-patches mailing list for the setScissorRect patch and getStencilDepth. It hasn't been included in the main git tree yet because the code doesn't mimic windows behaviour exactly, but it'll make Spore work.
There, now you can play Spore without any worry of the DRM effecting your machine. You can also now play Steam games too so go knock yourself out and have some safe fun.
More information about Dr Farnsworth...
Please stop this ridiculous patent FUD. It is true.
However much you wish for doom and gloom it's not going to happen.
If you want to prove me wrong then go ahead. Write an open source implementation of any US software patented technology and I'll happily distribute it for you on UK servers in the UK without problem keeping your name secret.
I use my phone a lot. It's a Motorola A1200 Linux (locked with DRM) smart phone and it is generations ahead of the OpenMoko.
I take pictures and videos a lot, listen to music on the radio, web browse with the opera client, make calls over a bluetooth headset, use the voice recognition software to phone people in my address book using only the bluetooth headset, check my gmail account and I have even telnet'd into the nethack server and watched people play (because I can).
I use almost all the features of my phone but I am disatisfied with some things which I was hoping that the OpenMoko would be an answer for me.
My videos are stored in a propitiatory format and the quality sucks, I don't like the fact that my phone makes a noise when I am taking a photo or video. I want to have more access to my phone and customise the software to my needs. My phone has a weird bug which sometimes says I have a new voice mail which I have no way to fix.
That's all I can think of right now and after many years of lurking on the OpenMoko project and reading about this phone here on Slashdot all I can say is that the hardware is poorly designed and the software is not quite there yet at all.
Lets start with the hardware.
There's nothing wrong with the current specs, I am excited by the inclusion of the accelerometer and gps devices, what I have a problem with is that there is no camera.
Now before someone replies with "but some places won't let you take a phone into work with a camera" I think you should realise you're in the minority and I believe that not including a camera in this phone turned into a really bad decision which has effected it's sales and popularity.
Also: I don't care if you don't use the camera or your carry around a 50" telescopic lens wherever you go. I and a lot of other people do care about this, very much. I could justify buying this phone at the ripping me off price, the fact that it doesn't really work yet and all the other problems but not including a camera just put me off completely.
The other big mistake was not including a holder for the stylus in the phone. It makes me feel like no thought was put into the design of this phone at all, although that's probably not true how could you miss such an obvious error?
That's my beef with the hardware, now on to software.
Why does it take so long to cold boot? Like I said at the beginning I have a Linux smart phone. A cold start takes around 14 seconds at which point you can phone someone. The moko takes over 2 minutes and that's still accurate to this day. Don't believe me? Download an image and try for yourself. What is Motorola doing so right that can't be copied?
I can excuse that for the moment as booting the phone doesn't matter that much, but the whole UI including the vanilla QT release just damn sucks. Download a version of the latest image and you'll see what I mean. There's a picture of a boot when the thing starts, yes it's a funny joke but it's mostly highlights how little time has been spent on making the software look good.
I wanted to help out with the art and researched the wiki for ages, there's no information I could find on how to contribute artwork, I couldn't even figure out how to change the background image on the OS which is a horribly pixilated plant. (If someone knows how I can contribute to the artwork please write it in the wiki and reply here).
I'm saying this not to troll. I'm saying this because I care so damn much about this project succeeding and right now it's full of fail, from the hardware and software to the fact that my phone released in 2005 is magnitudes better then this device.
If you want the OpenMoko to succeed, if you want more open source phones to exist then you need to have a baseline of quality. You need to be able to use the device in the first place and it needs to be
Apparently they're not which is the GPs point.
There are no software patents in the UK which is where the BBC operates and cares about.
You're quite welcome to produce a free software implementation of h.264 and run it in England without any problems.
You heard wrong.
Yet judging from the screenshots it's running the exact same apps that Ubuntu uses (ghex, gcalc, etc).
This seems like a case of you just wanting to be different from the "norm" and I very much doubt Zenwalk is any better then any other Linux OS that uses the exact same software.
Wake me up when Braid is available for my Linux laptop then I'll give it a try.
Not everyone owns or wants an xbox 360.
.... when it's on windows.
Don't hold your breath on them ever producing something that could run on Linux or BSD.
Interesting that this is being done in the Philippines. Not to trash Filipinos but IT isn't exactly what comes to mind from that region.
Wow, what a fucking retard.
Yes, lets all move to the city, that's a solution.
You also get extra points for ignoring all the harmful gasses that are released when making these solar panels.
I think Microsoft is absolutely right here. I mean if you see this story about what they did to BlueJ I think you'd get a better picture of what I mean.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Congratulations Willy you've turned into Twitter.
Without even reading the original article you started speculating. You're currently spewing bullshit just like your rival that you love to spam at.
The actual code shows they didn't ignore but actually added Linux specific code to the BIOS. The same BIOS kit used by the asus eeepc, etc.
I'm not purposing they intentionally did it but my god you don't even fucking read, you just side with Microsoft the same way Twitter sides with GNU and the FSF.
Stop being a douchebag .
no no, I mean do you have a resource to the tape? It sounds entertaining.