3 maps - Heat Ray, Shangrila, and Suspense - but I agree with you completely; the UT2k4 demo had Linux support the very second it came out (the Linux demo of this is delayed for days at best) and came with an Onslaught map out of the box.
I have had severe wrist pain from computer use for about a year. After a few weeks of it I went to my doctor. He did some tests, and said that is was carpal tunnel syndrome. Whether his diagnosis is accurate I do not know; all I know is that my wrist hurts very badly quite often, normally forcing me to stop and not work for a few minutes at best.
the only advantage I find on Linux in server space is the flexibility and options allowed by Unix that aren't as easy to access in Windows. Cost is an advantage, too.
How often do you hear of a Windows exploit being successfully used in the wild? Every darned day. How often do you hear of a Linux exploit being successfully used in the wild? Almost never. Don't judge Linux security as as bad as Windows security because there have been 2 serious exploits this year. Windows has had FAR more.
I don't want to question your computer ability, as installing Windows, or even upgrading it, is as easy as it gets. Pop in the DVD/CD, click "Upgrade Windows", sit back, and you're done. To install from scratch? Pop in the DVD/CD, restart the computer, press Return a few times, and it's installed. Yes, then WINDOWS is installed... NOW you get the fun of trying to find and install all the drivers, office software, IM client, etc. where if Ubuntu supports it, it's almost certainly simply already there.
Also, Windows has the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard", which allows you to seamlessly copy all your personal data/application settings across from one version of Windows to a newer one, or even back to the same one should you want to. "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" has nothing on copying/home/yourname. It can't copy custom settings from most apps, it can't this, it can't that... Why? Because Windows wasn't designed correctly with a single folder for all settings to begin with.
Avoiding "vendor lock" is not a good enough reason Sure it isn't now, but it will be in a few years when they can't open their files anymore.
Most people don't use their OS as an ideological expression, but as a tool. Agreed - which is why I use Linux. I used to use Vista. It was dog slow and many things didn't work at all. As such, I downgraded to XP. It was usable for 2 months, after which it ate my partition table (and no, I am not an idiot - the last thing I did to it was reboot it, and Linux could still read the partitions but Windows or its install disc could not...). I switched to Ubuntu and am very, very happy - especially with Compiz-Fusion and a look as good as Vista or better with all the speed of XP.
They won't sink. They have enough money to do it for free for 30 years and still pay the artists double what they do now - and they won't take that long to come up with a way to make money while allowing technological progress. Also, you make it sound as though the **AA own our culture. No, culture is made by people, not monopolies capitalizing on the sale of it. People will always make culture. Where was the RIAA in the days of Mozart? Funny, culture seemed fine without the RIAA.
That's the beauty of business. They -will- find some way to make money, because they must to survive. Besides, we could test this rather easily. Allow personal copying for 10 years and watch. First RIAA music will suffer; then they will either die (win, artists take over with diverse business plans and make more money than ever) or they will live (win, they come up with a decent business plan for once).
The argument "if you kill the RIAA -CULTURE- will DIE!!!" is simply silly.
That's true in a way. The unfortunate thing is that no-one has managed to squeeze any money out of the piracy of their art. So far, we have no business model that can survive such a lack of scarcity, so we create artificial scarcity. It's the best we have so far. It's all well and good to criticise the MPAA/RIAA for being dinosaurs, but it's another thing altogether to actually make a constructive and practical suggestion to change their business model in a way that doesn't significantly hurt our culture. As a t-shirt says, "Your failed business model is not my problem." Inventing a business model that works without artificially limiting technology is their job, -not- mine.
Uhh, no, it actually is. Just because you or I don't think it is doesn't mean that it's considered stealing. It's the people out there who genuinely consider it stealing that make that statement true. So when everyone believed that the earth was a cube, it was true?
I dunno. I thought the idea was to make and keep culture producing profitable, and to provide real incentives for artists to put more time and effort into their work. I thought it was to keep society from backsliding into economically unviable copyfest, and to uphold the benefits that copyright provides. But perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps they just like indoctrinating people for some reason. What benefits? A "copyfest" is only economically unrealistic if the companies which own the media have not crafted a business model that works with technology rather than trying to ignore it.
Long ago, horses and buggies were all people had; then the automobile was invented. Imagine if the horse and buggy manufacturers cried to the government, which responded by making the new technology illegal. "Automobiles steal from us!" they screamed. "Everyone will just buy an automobile, and nobody will buy horses and buggies anymore!" The government responded by outlawing automobiles and labelling car drivers as pirates, and transportation has never advanced since. YACE (Yet Another Car Example) aside, they are fundamentally the same thing - an artificial legal restriction on an emerging technology.
You know what? The horse and buggy companies either got with the times and started making cars, or they died out - technology progressed as a result, and the market was better for it.
Nobody wants to drive a horse and buggy. The most unique ability of computers is infinite free copying. Don't artificially hinder it with laws that restrain what comes naturally.
Which means that now, any competition to Rooster Teeth must go through Microsoft, a Rooster Teeth supporter, first... Don't you love how the current rules promote free-market competition?
Someone should make a prank copier which uses OCR and replaces some words in the document you make a "copy" of... Replace all occurrences of "dear" with "esteemed yet stupid", "boss" with "monkey boy", "accounting" with "bean-counters", "engineers" with "propeller heads", and "best regards" with "Die in a fire".
Esteemed yet stupid monkey boy,
Today I discussed our finances with the bean-counters office. They stated that the propeller heads are having a problem getting enough supplies to finish the project this week. How should I approach this problem?
Eclipse does everything NetBeans does and, IMO, does it better - except for visual editing. Which is why they are porting the Visual Editor from NetBeans into Eclipse... http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t65341.rhtml
I've spoken to Enderle personally, and I can assure you he's either a loon who acts a lot like a shill or a shill who acts like a loon. My money is on the latter...
Seriously, email him. He argued with me for awhile, pointing to "fact" after "fact" which he refused to give links to proof of when pressed, and then said "I don't have time to argue with every reader about everything I write." I wrote back, "If you are having to argue with every reader about everything you write, perhaps you need to take a look at what you're writing..."
I never got another email from him after I pointed that out.
There is no control panel for adjusting the way the touch pad works, and I found it so sensitive that I was constantly launching programs and opening windows accidentally by touching the thing. System->Preferences->Mouse->Motion.
THAT was hard to find.
When I tried to play common audio and video files, such as MP3 songs, I was told I had to first download special files called codecs that are built into Windows and Mac computers. You can thank our Government for that, along with the people who brib- err, contributed to their campaigns.
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Ah, thanks for pointing that out. Up to a few days ago, you couldn't, even on the Steam store to my knowledge.
Who knows - you can't buy it without being roped into paying for HL2 along with it. :/
I'll file this in the "interesting but completely coincidental" section.
Heat Ray is a medium-biggish DM map, Shangrila is a medium DM map, and Suspense is a small VCTF map.
3 maps - Heat Ray, Shangrila, and Suspense - but I agree with you completely; the UT2k4 demo had Linux support the very second it came out (the Linux demo of this is delayed for days at best) and came with an Onslaught map out of the box.
I have had severe wrist pain from computer use for about a year. After a few weeks of it I went to my doctor. He did some tests, and said that is was carpal tunnel syndrome. Whether his diagnosis is accurate I do not know; all I know is that my wrist hurts very badly quite often, normally forcing me to stop and not work for a few minutes at best.
How often do you hear of a Windows exploit being successfully used in the wild? Every darned day. How often do you hear of a Linux exploit being successfully used in the wild? Almost never. Don't judge Linux security as as bad as Windows security because there have been 2 serious exploits this year. Windows has had FAR more.
Control+Space to view source code of whatever you're using... Darn do I wish I had that when I was learning to use computers and program.
They won't sink. They have enough money to do it for free for 30 years and still pay the artists double what they do now - and they won't take that long to come up with a way to make money while allowing technological progress. Also, you make it sound as though the **AA own our culture. No, culture is made by people, not monopolies capitalizing on the sale of it. People will always make culture. Where was the RIAA in the days of Mozart? Funny, culture seemed fine without the RIAA.
That's the beauty of business. They -will- find some way to make money, because they must to survive. Besides, we could test this rather easily. Allow personal copying for 10 years and watch. First RIAA music will suffer; then they will either die (win, artists take over with diverse business plans and make more money than ever) or they will live (win, they come up with a decent business plan for once).
The argument "if you kill the RIAA -CULTURE- will DIE!!!" is simply silly.
Long ago, horses and buggies were all people had; then the automobile was invented. Imagine if the horse and buggy manufacturers cried to the government, which responded by making the new technology illegal. "Automobiles steal from us!" they screamed. "Everyone will just buy an automobile, and nobody will buy horses and buggies anymore!" The government responded by outlawing automobiles and labelling car drivers as pirates, and transportation has never advanced since. YACE (Yet Another Car Example) aside, they are fundamentally the same thing - an artificial legal restriction on an emerging technology.
You know what? The horse and buggy companies either got with the times and started making cars, or they died out - technology progressed as a result, and the market was better for it.
Nobody wants to drive a horse and buggy. The most unique ability of computers is infinite free copying. Don't artificially hinder it with laws that restrain what comes naturally.
Which means that now, any competition to Rooster Teeth must go through Microsoft, a Rooster Teeth supporter, first... Don't you love how the current rules promote free-market competition?
Someone should make a prank copier which uses OCR and replaces some words in the document you make a "copy" of... Replace all occurrences of "dear" with "esteemed yet stupid", "boss" with "monkey boy", "accounting" with "bean-counters", "engineers" with "propeller heads", and "best regards" with "Die in a fire".
Esteemed yet stupid monkey boy,
Today I discussed our finances with the bean-counters office. They stated that the propeller heads are having a problem getting enough supplies to finish the project this week. How should I approach this problem?
Die in a fire,
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Eclipse does everything NetBeans does and, IMO, does it better - except for visual editing. Which is why they are porting the Visual Editor from NetBeans into Eclipse... http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t65341.rhtml
I've spoken to Enderle personally, and I can assure you he's either a loon who acts a lot like a shill or a shill who acts like a loon. My money is on the latter...
Seriously, email him. He argued with me for awhile, pointing to "fact" after "fact" which he refused to give links to proof of when pressed, and then said "I don't have time to argue with every reader about everything I write." I wrote back, "If you are having to argue with every reader about everything you write, perhaps you need to take a look at what you're writing..."
I never got another email from him after I pointed that out.
Please mod parent +1 Wish-it-would-happen.
Great idea, but where the heck is SCO's heart? I can't for the life of me find it.
Bittorrent and streaming sites work perfectly fine for me.
Hmm, do we smell a stench of copyright infringement with overtones of irony?
Yeah. Cut the string off the bell.
THAT was hard to find. When I tried to play common audio and video files, such as MP3 songs, I was told I had to first download special files called codecs that are built into Windows and Mac computers. You can thank our Government for that, along with the people who brib- err, contributed to their campaigns.
First step whenever I install Ubuntu for anyone: Put a blue wallpaper, Human-Deepsky skin, and Tango icons on it.