According to the changelog, all the messages are internationalized now, so if you spoke a language other than English, you can get error messages and such in your native language.
And there's no reason you can't make a 2D game that renders with a 3D graphics card. Warcraft III is an excellent example of this. It is essentially a 2D game (in practice) that takes advantage of the availability of 3D renderers on modern hardware. I think we'll be seeing more games like this in the future too.
/me switches from gimp-for-windows to respond. Yes, gtk+ runs on Windows. That's one of the great things about having a portability library (glib) underneath.
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That would make this the second Slashvertisement. And in other news, Mozilla, IE, and Opera continue to improve their products...
I browse Slashdot at level 5 so I can avoid posts like this person's mindless testimonial. Why is this on the same level as a post from the lead developer of Evolution? *sigh*
Yes, there are speed improvements since the preview releases. If Nautilus is running slowly on your system, there are several things you can try:
Put yourself in intermediate or advanced mode, and go to your preferences. In there, you can disable some items in the "speed tradeoffs" category.
Also in the preferences, under "Appearance", you can unclick the "Use smoother (but slower) graphics". That will speed up most graphical operations.
You can try going to the Edit menu, and choose icon captions. Try telling it that you don't want any info
There may be more ways to improve speed, but these are the ones that I know of. I'm pretty sure that the final Nautilus uses Mozilla.8, since the nightlies have been using it since it came out.
This move is clearly all about digital rights management. With record companies scrambling to pick up the pieces of what the mp3 format has left them with, digital rights management systems (DMR) are the only available means for them to preserve their business. These systems, by using a system of encrypted keys, allow the media distributers total control over who can use media, how often, when, under what conditions, etc. This is not unlike Divx, and it's definitely more convenient for the user.
This is what I feel the AOL/Warner merger was all about as well. Microsoft is positioning themselves to compete against this new media giant by attempting to control the standards by which music and other media are distributed.
What can the open source community do to stop this freedom from being swept away right under their noses? Unfortunately, not much. Soon, new distributable media like CDs and DVDs and other new standards emerging will be using similar encrypted systems and will block the spread of data through the hardware end. There is a very powerful movement in the industry trying to push this through. Don't underestimate it.
It seems to me that the only way to stop this from really taking over (of course the average unix user knows that anything sent to a/dev can also be captured, but most people are ignorant enough not to even bother with this) is to reverse engineer the system. That is why the DeCSS case is so incredibly important.
If these companies have their way, soon, much information will no longer be free, but distributed through encrypted systems. And the freedom that the internet has offered so many people will be swept away by business that profit by controlling it.
"The bad news is that if "The War In Heaven" sells, expect a slew of Christian (and soon, no doubt, Jewish and Muslim) save-the-soul games marketed by greedy Web entrepeneurs who want to appear wholesome while raking in big money."
This seems to be an issue where some software company said, "look, there's a lot of Christian parents out there that want to censor what their children play. We'd make bucks if we released something that both the parents approved of and the kids want to play." Marketing a game in this way gives the developers an advantage that is not offered by better technology, design or imagination. In the 13+ game category, the parents are the people that usually buy the games. By marketing a game in a way that appeals to Christian parents (which is a very large group, btw), they've essential created and dominated their own video game market. This isn't an issue of something being morally "right" or "wrong". Its just economics.
Also, Jon, I admire the spiritual nature of many of your articles. Thanks for your review of Virtual Faith. That was one of my personal favorite books. I hope that as you learn more about Jesus, that you discover that he didnt spread rules and regulations and hate, but instead, freedom and love. I believe that, like that movie Stigmata, the true church is not a building of wood or stone but its in the hearts of those people that believe in Jesus and follow him.
a quick look at the win32 installation directory revealed that the jre 1.1.7b (the java runtime environment) is included with the windows distribution. interesting.
I am a Christian, however I believe that what happened in Kansas is sad.
I have legitimate questions with evolution. For example, how does a pool of proteins become a highly organized living cell, capable of absorbing nutrients, processing nutrients into useful energy, excreting wastes, reproducing, defending itself against hazardous materials, etc.? Or how does all this matter and energy come from nothing? That seems to be a direct contradiction of the first law of thermodynamics - that energy is not created or destroyed. (no, I didn't learn this a Bible study - reasoned it out from biology, physics, and chemistry at UC San Diego)
However, I believe that what happened in Kansas is sad.
Jesus did not come with a political agenda for the world. When Jesus came to the world, there were those who thought that He was going to overthrow the government and establish a kingdom on earth. Those people were sorely mistaken. They often asked Him questions having to do with the political situation in that time, and Jesus would always answer them by saying to yield to the government that exists.
These people in Kansas, like many other people today that call themselves Christians, have made it their mission to change the government that they live in and try to establish what they believe would be God's political agenda. However, Jesus' mission on earth was to save people from sin and not to establish any sort of political change. People that call themselves Christians (or followers of Jesus Christ) should also follow His teachings, and work for the salvation of others instead of their own political agendas.
Please pardon my ignorance, but what would be the effect on projects such as gtk, qt, enlightenment, etc. if the linux community decided to scrap X and go with another system?
Would this mean a complete/partial rewrite of kde or gnome? how much developer work would be needed to switch to another system?
A good analogy would be sneaking into a movie theater.
People that sneak into movie theaters may argue that they weren't going to buy a ticket for the movie anyways, therefore the theater isn't losing any money, so why should anyone care? The fact of the matter is that theaters _do_ care. It is illegal to sneak into a theater, and you can be arrested for trespassing if you are caught. Theaters lose money off people that sneak into movie theaters, because nine times out of ten, they don't want to see the movie twice and their 'preview' satisfied their curosity.
It's true that not all of these people would have seen the movie anyways. But some of them would have. It's impossible to tell what the exact percentage is, but these people that would have seen the movie are definitely lost revenue for the theater.
Instead of being detrimental to the software industry (and your future career, by the way) try looking into other alternatives. I go to UCSD, and there are plenty of computers running solaris, NT, win9x, you name it. Also, I get special student discounts on just about every software title in the bookstore.
Is it really necessary for me to pirate software to learn about it? no. Are all the games, mp3 software, and other non-industrial programs really necessary for you to become technically knowledgeable? no. Perhaps you should spend more of your time at the computer lab and less time downloading warez. Student software is cheaper than books nowadays.
Hmm. what will prevent Joe Average from ripping songs off his CDs? nothing. But... if the next standard that comes out (I know this is being tossed around for DVD-audio) uses an excrypted format, then when Joe Average tries to buy the DVD and encode it, he'll just hear a bunch of garbage, because the music cannot be listened to without the key. I'm pretty sure that several companies are working on a standard for this. I know that InterTrust is working on it, because my neighbor across the street works for them. Check out their site. It might answer a few questions for you.
The driver will work with redhat-6.0 (I'm using it right now). However, the installation script will not. The installation script assumes that the version number of the kernel is 2.2.5 and redhat 6.0's version number is 2.2.5-15.
I attempted to modify the script to use 2.2.5-15 with no luck (I'm not that good at scripts anyways). You're better off following the instructions for non-redhat kernels, and read the LDP kernel pages if you get stuck.
I wonder whether a lot of the people posting about this book have actually read it (or the review). I got this book as a christmas present from my pastor, and as a bass-player/geek/christian, i think i fit right into this guy's description. admittedly, some of this book was just plain over my head, but the author makes a great point about the institutionalism of modern christianity in society, and it's definitely worth reading. I prefer the bible, tho. =)
Thanks for posting that. I'm a Christian too, and it upsets me when people promote their conservative agenda under the guise of Christianity. Christ only had one agenda -- salvation. People should not promote their own agendas in His name.
Great post.
I know these messages are kinda off-topic, but so is the teletubbies article, so touche. =)
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You know, it's usually difficult to remember things accurately after sustaining a head injury.
According to the changelog, all the messages are internationalized now, so if you spoke a language other than English, you can get error messages and such in your native language.
And there's no reason you can't make a 2D game that renders with a 3D graphics card. Warcraft III is an excellent example of this. It is essentially a 2D game (in practice) that takes advantage of the availability of 3D renderers on modern hardware. I think we'll be seeing more games like this in the future too.
I think I've seen this before...
/me switches from gimp-for-windows to respond. Yes, gtk+ runs on Windows. That's one of the great things about having a portability library (glib) underneath.
Peace.
That would make this the second Slashvertisement. And in other news, Mozilla, IE, and Opera continue to improve their products...
I browse Slashdot at level 5 so I can avoid posts like this person's mindless testimonial. Why is this on the same level as a post from the lead developer of Evolution? *sigh*
There is good coverage of this at http://www.stratfor.com/ with analysis of the impact on an economic and political scale.
- Put yourself in intermediate or advanced mode, and go to your preferences. In there, you can disable some items in the "speed tradeoffs" category.
- Also in the preferences, under "Appearance", you can unclick the "Use smoother (but slower) graphics". That will speed up most graphical operations.
- You can try going to the Edit menu, and choose icon captions. Try telling it that you don't want any info
There may be more ways to improve speed, but these are the ones that I know of. I'm pretty sure that the final Nautilus uses MozillaGood luck.
Worms fits meets this challenge nicely. Check it out here.
Is there a number I can call to complain that the like is not working?
Have you seen the new MSN Explorer lately? It has tie-ins and advertisements that Netscape can only dream about...
Kinda ironic that the Bugzilla link doesn't work. Chalk up another one.
code like:
public class Test {
private static Frame frame;
public static void main(String[] args) {
frame = new Frame("Test");
frame.show();
}
}
compiles fine, but segfaults every time I run it. Something isn't right here...
This is what I feel the AOL/Warner merger was all about as well. Microsoft is positioning themselves to compete against this new media giant by attempting to control the standards by which music and other media are distributed.
What can the open source community do to stop this freedom from being swept away right under their noses? Unfortunately, not much. Soon, new distributable media like CDs and DVDs and other new standards emerging will be using similar encrypted systems and will block the spread of data through the hardware end. There is a very powerful movement in the industry trying to push this through. Don't underestimate it.
It seems to me that the only way to stop this from really taking over (of course the average unix user knows that anything sent to a /dev can also be captured, but most people are ignorant enough not to even bother with this) is to reverse engineer the system. That is why the DeCSS case is so incredibly important.
If these companies have their way, soon, much information will no longer be free, but distributed through encrypted systems. And the freedom that the internet has offered so many people will be swept away by business that profit by controlling it.
I think you got it right earlier when you said This seems to be an issue where some software company said, "look, there's a lot of Christian parents out there that want to censor what their children play. We'd make bucks if we released something that both the parents approved of and the kids want to play." Marketing a game in this way gives the developers an advantage that is not offered by better technology, design or imagination. In the 13+ game category, the parents are the people that usually buy the games. By marketing a game in a way that appeals to Christian parents (which is a very large group, btw), they've essential created and dominated their own video game market. This isn't an issue of something being morally "right" or "wrong". Its just economics.
Also, Jon, I admire the spiritual nature of many of your articles. Thanks for your review of Virtual Faith. That was one of my personal favorite books. I hope that as you learn more about Jesus, that you discover that he didnt spread rules and regulations and hate, but instead, freedom and love. I believe that, like that movie Stigmata, the true church is not a building of wood or stone but its in the hearts of those people that believe in Jesus and follow him.
a quick look at the win32 installation directory revealed that the jre 1.1.7b (the java runtime environment) is included with the windows distribution. interesting.
I am a Christian, however I believe that what happened in Kansas is sad.
I have legitimate questions with evolution. For example, how does a pool of proteins become a highly organized living cell, capable of absorbing nutrients, processing nutrients into useful energy, excreting wastes, reproducing, defending itself against hazardous materials, etc.? Or how does all this matter and energy come from nothing? That seems to be a direct contradiction of the first law of thermodynamics - that energy is not created or destroyed. (no, I didn't learn this a Bible study - reasoned it out from biology, physics, and chemistry at UC San Diego)
However, I believe that what happened in Kansas is sad.
Jesus did not come with a political agenda for the world. When Jesus came to the world, there were those who thought that He was going to overthrow the government and establish a kingdom on earth. Those people were sorely mistaken. They often asked Him questions having to do with the political situation in that time, and Jesus would always answer them by saying to yield to the government that exists.
These people in Kansas, like many other people today that call themselves Christians, have made it their mission to change the government that they live in and try to establish what they believe would be God's political agenda. However, Jesus' mission on earth was to save people from sin and not to establish any sort of political change. People that call themselves Christians (or followers of Jesus Christ) should also follow His teachings, and work for the salvation of others instead of their own political agendas.
Please pardon my ignorance, but what would be the effect on projects such as gtk, qt, enlightenment, etc. if the linux community decided to scrap X and go with another system?
Would this mean a complete/partial rewrite of kde or gnome? how much developer work would be needed to switch to another system?
A good analogy would be sneaking into a movie theater.
People that sneak into movie theaters may argue that they weren't going to buy a ticket for the movie anyways, therefore the theater isn't losing any money, so why should anyone care? The fact of the matter is that theaters _do_ care. It is illegal to sneak into a theater, and you can be arrested for trespassing if you are caught. Theaters lose money off people that sneak into movie theaters, because nine times out of ten, they don't want to see the movie twice and their 'preview' satisfied their curosity.
It's true that not all of these people would have seen the movie anyways. But some of them would have. It's impossible to tell what the exact percentage is, but these people that would have seen the movie are definitely lost revenue for the theater.
Instead of being detrimental to the software industry (and your future career, by the way) try looking into other alternatives. I go to UCSD, and there are plenty of computers running solaris, NT, win9x, you name it. Also, I get special student discounts on just about every software title in the bookstore.
Is it really necessary for me to pirate software to learn about it? no. Are all the games, mp3 software, and other non-industrial programs really necessary for you to become technically knowledgeable? no. Perhaps you should spend more of your time at the computer lab and less time downloading warez. Student software is cheaper than books nowadays.
Hmm. what will prevent Joe Average from ripping songs off his CDs? nothing. But... if the next standard that comes out (I know this is being tossed around for DVD-audio) uses an excrypted format, then when Joe Average tries to buy the DVD and encode it, he'll just hear a bunch of garbage, because the music cannot be listened to without the key. I'm pretty sure that several companies are working on a standard for this. I know that InterTrust is working on it, because my neighbor across the street works for them. Check out their site. It might answer a few questions for you.
The driver will work with redhat-6.0 (I'm using it right now). However, the installation script will not. The installation script assumes that the version number of the kernel is 2.2.5 and redhat 6.0's version number is 2.2.5-15.
I attempted to modify the script to use 2.2.5-15 with no luck (I'm not that good at scripts anyways). You're better off following the instructions for non-redhat kernels, and read the LDP kernel pages if you get stuck.
I wonder whether a lot of the people posting about this book have actually read it (or the review). I got this book as a christmas present from my pastor, and as a bass-player/geek/christian, i think i fit right into this guy's description. admittedly, some of this book was just plain over my head, but the author makes a great point about the institutionalism of modern christianity in society, and it's definitely worth reading. I prefer the bible, tho. =)
help! i cant stop laughing.
Thanks for posting that. I'm a Christian too, and it upsets me when people promote their conservative agenda under the guise of Christianity. Christ only had one agenda -- salvation. People should not promote their own agendas in His name.
Great post.
I know these messages are kinda off-topic, but so is the teletubbies article, so touche. =)