"Hatch rather reminds me of my ex-wife who believed that anything that made her angry must be against the law and so was inclined to call the police to resolve it."
There is probably a really funny story that you are leaving out of that aside.
It strikes me that people who try to hype up the PS3's emulation under linux have never tried it.
I have, ignoring the large amount of tweaking to get a distro working properly with the PS3 hardware/HDTV (I've tried yellow dog and ubuntu), the emulation just isn't very good.
At least with an NES emulator you'll be able to run a game at full speed. However, good luck getting it fit to the screen properly or get it working with PS3 gamepad (again more tweaking). Other systems, SNES, GENESIS, don't have an emulator that is going to run at full speed on the PS3.
Other software suffers from the same problems, lack of selection and slow performance. Maybe this will change in the future, but right now linux on the cell isn't that great for desktop style apps. Yet I see it hyped up all the time, but people who either haven't bothered to try it, or are fine with a lot of tweaking for a extremely sluggish emulation/desktop experience. Just because you can do it, doesn't always mean that it is worth doing.
As a person who has used both of the methods you have mentioned I've had little to no success with either. I've tested games and applications that run well under Linux wine and I've had no luck.
In light of this, I for one, would like to know about the future of Wine on OSX.
I'm wondering how the new releases of distros like Ubuntu and Fedora are going to handle not having a stable version of Firefox 3.0 until June.
Currently Ubuntu is using beta 4 for the hardy beta, will the plan be to revert back to FF2 when hardy becomes stable or release with a beta version of FF3?
You totally hit the nail on the head. A lot of people are currently being taken out of other branches to serve as Army on the ground in Iraq, my girlfriend's brother included. Essentially when you join the military they own your ass and right now they need people in Iraq.
How is the TPB going to produce anything? To use the FireFly example you used, how much money do you think Fox put into that to have those episodes made? Josh Weydon can not make FireFly without Fox because they own the rights because they put up the money. Production funded solely by the people sounds like a great idea, but only a few amount of people are going to be interested in putting their hard earned dollars into producing a show that could flop, as FireFly did, initially. Among those interested only few will have the sheer amount of cash needed to make something like a movie or tv show happen, for instance, Cloverfield was made for 20 MILLION dollars, an amount that very few of us are ever even going to come close to in our lifetime, and that is considered a low budget movie. Those will the money to finance something like this, with either blow it all on failures or have a return in their investment, perhaps they will form a company with others to finance more movies or television shows, perhaps they will call their company, I dunno maybe, Fox? See where I'm going with this?
You throw around a lot of terms, mostly with "ist" at the end, but I am not sure if you understand how things work. People put up money to make things that make money. Sure some may finance a movie because they believe in the art, but in the case of a flop, this becomes impractical even for the richest benefactor. You download a movie for free off a torrent, you like it, great awesome you go out and buy it, but the problem is when you don't like it, and don't buy it. See it doesn't work that way, you've watched the movie, in the real world you have to pay to watch a movie, either directly or indirectly (through advertising etc). You don't get decide what you want to pay for and what you don't. It would be akin to a restaurant asking their patrons to decide if they wanted to pay for a meal after they eaten it. Most people would probably pay out of common decency, but sooner or later people are going to start coming buy who just want a free meal. The media industry is a business, in order to keep a business going you need someone to pay for a product. I had a friend who would constantly bemoan the death of PC gaming, but would often torrent the latest games to "try out" before he bought them. After spending the prerequisite 10 or so hours to beat a game, he would decide that say, Doom 3, was not worth his money and so on. While I agree demos nowadays suck, you don't get to play an entire game and then decide it's not worth the cash, you buy the game so you can play the entirety of it.
I admit, I have downloaded many albums I haven't bought, some of which I enjoy, some of which I did not. In the round about way, I end up buying more albums because of my downloading, but thats just rationalizing what I know is really going on, I'm stealing in a convenient way. I don't take a moral high ground, but I also don't lie to myself, and I'm not naive enough to think that an entire industry can exist if no one actually ponied up the cash.
There are other factors involved here. I'm betting that some people couldn't get through to the radiohead site, some people also don't feel comfortable giving out their credit card online (or just on a site that looks like inrainbows.com), and I'm sure some people just heard about radiohead from this little stunt and wanted to check them out but not pony up the cash.
Me, personally, I'm waiting for the cd release. I know it's old fashioned, but I like owning cds of things that I pay for. Maybe if the download was in flac I would have given them the cash, but I just don't think mp3s are worth anything. It's not an audiophile response, because I'm sure I'll have a hard time spotting the difference between the download and the cd, its more that I prefer loseless because then I don't have to worry about quality loss when I transcode. So yes, I did torrent the album, but the when it comes out in January, I'll gladly pay my $12.00 for the cd.
Use hdparm -S to set spindown times for hard drives under linux.
I don't blame you for not knowing though, I always thought it was silly Gnome and KDE don't have this setting under their power savings options.
You know, I've never read about any backdoors in SElinux. I was under the impression that the NSA provided to the source to everything and it was reviewed by the Linux kernel team since it operates at a kernel level. Please correct me if wrong, but I'd like to see some documented evidence of this.
flac is a lossless compression for audio, i think generally you can see a 50meg wav compressing to 15meg of playable flac... generally.
That is optimistic to say the least. The highest compression I have ever gotten with FLAC is ~55%, 65%-70% is much more common.
I know exactly what you are talking about, alot of indie/smaller labels do produce copious amounts of vinyl. In my dream world I would have a good vinyl setup so I could do a comparison on some cds, but alas I am a poor college student.
But I do know one thing from listening to various people's setups, vinyl does not work well for certain types of music. Grindcore, for instance, sounds horrible on vinyl.
My problem with FreeBSD has always been its archaic installer. Sure it's fine if you don't mine dedicating a box to it, but when you are trying to set up a multi boot system, minimalistic installers make me paranoid about destroying data on other partitions. If the FreeBSD installer was alittle more accommodating I would have been able to give it a go, but until that day I'm not letting it near my data.
Sears recently ran an ad campaign that was a complete rip off of the "switch" apple ads. It's interesting how that was ignored but the iGasm ads call down the thunder. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/sears/ has an article, unfortunately the video was taken down.
Why paraphrase when you can just copy and post the quote? "We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present."
Now let me paraphrase, the first part is saying "We have a secret.", the second part is saying "and we really like Starcraft.", and the last part, "but we can't tell you anything yet."
I think you are missing something or I am. This is ambiguous PR talk, but nowhere does it state that they are defiantly not going to do Starcraft, in fact they seem to be suggesting that it is in fact a Starcraft game, or they are a bunch of serious teases.
Also, "fanboi"? Is your disdain of the English language so great that you need to strike out at all of us like that?
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"Hatch rather reminds me of my ex-wife who believed that anything that made her angry must be against the law and so was inclined to call the police to resolve it."
There is probably a really funny story that you are leaving out of that aside.
It strikes me that people who try to hype up the PS3's emulation under linux have never tried it.
I have, ignoring the large amount of tweaking to get a distro working properly with the PS3 hardware/HDTV (I've tried yellow dog and ubuntu), the emulation just isn't very good.
At least with an NES emulator you'll be able to run a game at full speed. However, good luck getting it fit to the screen properly or get it working with PS3 gamepad (again more tweaking). Other systems, SNES, GENESIS, don't have an emulator that is going to run at full speed on the PS3.
Other software suffers from the same problems, lack of selection and slow performance. Maybe this will change in the future, but right now linux on the cell isn't that great for desktop style apps. Yet I see it hyped up all the time, but people who either haven't bothered to try it, or are fine with a lot of tweaking for a extremely sluggish emulation/desktop experience. Just because you can do it, doesn't always mean that it is worth doing.
My favorite feature from the bullet list, -Excellent ping. What's the meme? You're doing it wrong?
As a person who has used both of the methods you have mentioned I've had little to no success with either. I've tested games and applications that run well under Linux wine and I've had no luck. In light of this, I for one, would like to know about the future of Wine on OSX.
I'm wondering how the new releases of distros like Ubuntu and Fedora are going to handle not having a stable version of Firefox 3.0 until June. Currently Ubuntu is using beta 4 for the hardy beta, will the plan be to revert back to FF2 when hardy becomes stable or release with a beta version of FF3?
You totally hit the nail on the head. A lot of people are currently being taken out of other branches to serve as Army on the ground in Iraq, my girlfriend's brother included. Essentially when you join the military they own your ass and right now they need people in Iraq.
How is the TPB going to produce anything? To use the FireFly example you used, how much money do you think Fox put into that to have those episodes made? Josh Weydon can not make FireFly without Fox because they own the rights because they put up the money. Production funded solely by the people sounds like a great idea, but only a few amount of people are going to be interested in putting their hard earned dollars into producing a show that could flop, as FireFly did, initially. Among those interested only few will have the sheer amount of cash needed to make something like a movie or tv show happen, for instance, Cloverfield was made for 20 MILLION dollars, an amount that very few of us are ever even going to come close to in our lifetime, and that is considered a low budget movie. Those will the money to finance something like this, with either blow it all on failures or have a return in their investment, perhaps they will form a company with others to finance more movies or television shows, perhaps they will call their company, I dunno maybe, Fox? See where I'm going with this?
You throw around a lot of terms, mostly with "ist" at the end, but I am not sure if you understand how things work. People put up money to make things that make money. Sure some may finance a movie because they believe in the art, but in the case of a flop, this becomes impractical even for the richest benefactor. You download a movie for free off a torrent, you like it, great awesome you go out and buy it, but the problem is when you don't like it, and don't buy it. See it doesn't work that way, you've watched the movie, in the real world you have to pay to watch a movie, either directly or indirectly (through advertising etc). You don't get decide what you want to pay for and what you don't. It would be akin to a restaurant asking their patrons to decide if they wanted to pay for a meal after they eaten it. Most people would probably pay out of common decency, but sooner or later people are going to start coming buy who just want a free meal. The media industry is a business, in order to keep a business going you need someone to pay for a product. I had a friend who would constantly bemoan the death of PC gaming, but would often torrent the latest games to "try out" before he bought them. After spending the prerequisite 10 or so hours to beat a game, he would decide that say, Doom 3, was not worth his money and so on. While I agree demos nowadays suck, you don't get to play an entire game and then decide it's not worth the cash, you buy the game so you can play the entirety of it.
I admit, I have downloaded many albums I haven't bought, some of which I enjoy, some of which I did not. In the round about way, I end up buying more albums because of my downloading, but thats just rationalizing what I know is really going on, I'm stealing in a convenient way. I don't take a moral high ground, but I also don't lie to myself, and I'm not naive enough to think that an entire industry can exist if no one actually ponied up the cash.
There are other factors involved here. I'm betting that some people couldn't get through to the radiohead site, some people also don't feel comfortable giving out their credit card online (or just on a site that looks like inrainbows.com), and I'm sure some people just heard about radiohead from this little stunt and wanted to check them out but not pony up the cash.
Me, personally, I'm waiting for the cd release. I know it's old fashioned, but I like owning cds of things that I pay for. Maybe if the download was in flac I would have given them the cash, but I just don't think mp3s are worth anything. It's not an audiophile response, because I'm sure I'll have a hard time spotting the difference between the download and the cd, its more that I prefer loseless because then I don't have to worry about quality loss when I transcode. So yes, I did torrent the album, but the when it comes out in January, I'll gladly pay my $12.00 for the cd.
Your welcome.
Use hdparm -S to set spindown times for hard drives under linux. I don't blame you for not knowing though, I always thought it was silly Gnome and KDE don't have this setting under their power savings options.
You know, I've never read about any backdoors in SElinux. I was under the impression that the NSA provided to the source to everything and it was reviewed by the Linux kernel team since it operates at a kernel level. Please correct me if wrong, but I'd like to see some documented evidence of this.
I know exactly what you are talking about, alot of indie/smaller labels do produce copious amounts of vinyl. In my dream world I would have a good vinyl setup so I could do a comparison on some cds, but alas I am a poor college student. But I do know one thing from listening to various people's setups, vinyl does not work well for certain types of music. Grindcore, for instance, sounds horrible on vinyl.
My problem with FreeBSD has always been its archaic installer. Sure it's fine if you don't mine dedicating a box to it, but when you are trying to set up a multi boot system, minimalistic installers make me paranoid about destroying data on other partitions. If the FreeBSD installer was alittle more accommodating I would have been able to give it a go, but until that day I'm not letting it near my data.
Sears recently ran an ad campaign that was a complete rip off of the "switch" apple ads. It's interesting how that was ignored but the iGasm ads call down the thunder. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/sears/ has an article, unfortunately the video was taken down.
Lucas also called Spiderman 3 "silly" which is interesting because Sam Raimi is ten time the director Lucas could ever be.
Don't get me wrong, original star wars is good stuff, but Lucas has never been that great of a director.
Would they really announce a game that they haven't even hired a lead engine developer for?
They usually have something to show when they announce a new game, especially after not announcing anything for 4 years.
Why paraphrase when you can just copy and post the quote?
"We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present."
Now let me paraphrase, the first part is saying "We have a secret.", the second part is saying "and we really like Starcraft.", and the last part, "but we can't tell you anything yet."
I think you are missing something or I am. This is ambiguous PR talk, but nowhere does it state that they are defiantly not going to do Starcraft, in fact they seem to be suggesting that it is in fact a Starcraft game, or they are a bunch of serious teases.
Also, "fanboi"? Is your disdain of the English language so great that you need to strike out at all of us like that?