Unfortunately, since the G4s and below are so mindnumbingly slow, the game is too. I'm actually looking forward to a new Mac hardware release for the first time in a long time because the G5s sound so good.
the ide-scsi thing still happens with cdburning. But most modern distros include that by default and activate it when they detect cd-burning capable hardware (RedHat, SusE, Mandrake, etc.) In fact, there's no reason why not to make all your drives ide-scsi (unless you REALLY didn't want SCSI in the kernel for some reason).
I try to stay away from IDE-SCSI these days because it's just not as stable as plain old IDE or SCSI alone. The module seems to get confused easily enough -- I've gotten it into a state before where the only way to eject a disc was through rebooting (no filesystem was mounted, the ide-scsi interface simply refused a request and started spitting out klog errors). On another machine at home, when I burn a CD with any program the machine locks up hard while fixating a newly-burned CD. I suppose at some point I'll have to compile the kernel so that it can be debugged easily (and so I can get a panic), but it seems like a pain in the ass. Again, for something that should just work.
If you think the DMCA or the CDBTPA was a threat to your personal liberty, you would be outraged and disgusted by the recently passed anti-terrorism legislation, the PATRIOT Act.
Here's his pitch, he just spun the whole issue of how illegal the DMCA is. He didn't even answer the question!!
He could also be saying "As bad as the DMCA is, there's something that should be upsetting you far more.." As Slashdot readers, we sometimes overestimate how important we are and how important the tech sector is. Because the DMCA and CDBTPA are certainly worth getting upset about, but they are nothing compared to the non-tech-specific PATRIOT Act.
The conclusion of the study is that, in the long term, the Atkins diet is no better than traditional diet methods (high-carb, low-fat). People lost roughly the same amount of weight after 12 months and both studies had high attrition rates.
Well.. that's not really what the study says. It doesn't say "The Atkins Diet doesn't work," (nor does it say that it does work) it says very few people could stick with it, and when that happens you get the same results as with any other diet: Go back to step 1.
The biggest point to remember when starting any diet: You MUST be able to enjoy the food that you eat on the diet. Otherwise you'll likely be unable to stay with the diet, and you'll end up where you started.
... and finally WETA who did Lord of the Rings effects. The first film was rendered on Linux, and for the second film they were using Linux on desktops too...
[Talking about Gollum] The most incredible special effects in recent movie history were not created on high-end Silicon Graphics workstations running Unix. They were built on farms of industry-standard servers and workstations with Intel processors and running Red Hat Linux... To Weta Digital's delight, performance with Linux has been exceptional. As a former user of Silicon Graphics systems and the Irix operating system (based on Unix), the company now runs its high-end applications on Linux, including Alias|Wavefront's Maya, Apple's Shake, and Pixar's RenderMan and Alfred
Wellington-based digital effects facility Weta Digital, Ltd. will move a significant proportion of production work related to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy onto IBM Intellistations running Linux... The first of the new machines were installed at Weta Digital in early May for use by the special effects artists working on The Two Towers, the second film in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
(I couldn't provide a link to IBM as their site was broken when I tried to access the article.)
So where do the rumors come from? WETA and IBM, apparently. (Not to mention various little Linux sites that jump all over press releases like this)
Say it ain't so! I've been told now for three years that it was Linux doing all of the special effects for LOTR, and now you tell me that IRIX was part of it!
WETA transitioned from SGI to Linux between shows. So yes, some parts were done on SGIs, others under Linux.
I think it is pretty much the only way to counter popular culture's extreme spin in the other direction. His spin is a necessity in the face of overwhelmingly opposite and strong spin by popular media...
No, the way to counter spin is to speak the absolute truth, backed by facts and arguements others can check and easily verify. You don't counter spin from one side by lying on behalf of the other side. That comes around to bite you as it has to Moore. Even mainstream movie critics who initially liked his documentary are critizing him now for the accuracies.
He based his prediction on what he has learned as co-counsel in the Paducah school shootings case in which Michael Carneal, like many school shooters, trained on murder simulation shooter games to enable him to murder three girls and wound five others. The games both broke down his inhibition to kill and gave him incredible shooting skills.
Uhh... yeah. Incredible real-life shooting skills from Halo? Since when has playing Halo given anyone any skills other than being good at playing Halo? Thompson is trying so hard to link his "video games are really just real life murder training programs" to incidents of violence that he'll ignore anything grounded in reality. Does he have a brother named Thomson?
Geez, it's like the Dungeons and Dragons scare all over again.
Nvidia doesn't release their newer drivers as rpms anymore. It comes as a self-extracting binary that downloads a driver from the website or compiles a new one.
For a custom install program, it works extremely well. Unfortunately, there is no RPM integration anymore.
I'll go along with that! Is there a version of MPlayer that is actually stable? The ones I've tried (including the 0.90 release) are way too unstable...
Are there any claims against libdvdcss that you know of? It'd be pretty damn hard to make it stick. In the free world, that is.....
It would be very easy to make it stick, at least if DeCSS is settled completely. Distributing a utility that can crack the css keys is illegal according to the DMCA.
Voice talent for cartoons is respectable these days. Look at how much they plugged the voice of Bruce Willis for a dog in that Wild Thornberries one.
They did that because the movie had nothing else to offer. The third movie in the franchise, they desperately needed some hook to draw people back in. It didn't work.
There are many more of "us IT people" who purchase ATI (sometimes in bulk) directly or indirectly because they have a reputation of being solid and easy to support than IT people who purchase away from ATI out of spite.
ATI? Solid and easy to support? You must be joking. Their driver problems are legendary. Even under Windows they can be an utter pain to work with. Except for a few no-name little-known-brand cards (you get what you pay for with the cheap knock-offs), I've never seen cards that were buggier and harder to get working than the Radeons. Especially the All-In-Wonders.
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1) California is laid back
2) New York is where its at
Uh huh... New York has even more of an attitude problem than Dallas does, in that New Yorkers love themselves far more than anyone does them.
The summary of attitudes:
New Yorkers: God, aren't we just the best people in the whole world? Don't you love us all to death?
Rest of the US, about New Yorkers: What asses.
Californians: Why can't the rest of the world listen to us? Clearly we have all the problems solved, even though it -looks- like we're at least as badly off as everyone else.
Rest of the US, about Californians: What retards.
Politician should not be a career. It should be a job that concerned people who actually care should do for a term or two, before going back to their own lives.
While I'd love to see such a thing in principle, it's just totally unrealistic now, just because the political system is so complex that it -requires- a lot of experience just to understand and navigate it. Someone can't just step in from the street and get elected president, etc. Politics is a devious, complex game.
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Is this seen as an improvement?
Sawfish may not have been perfect, but Metacity is such an immense step backwards.
I try to stay away from IDE-SCSI these days because it's just not as stable as plain old IDE or SCSI alone. The module seems to get confused easily enough -- I've gotten it into a state before where the only way to eject a disc was through rebooting (no filesystem was mounted, the ide-scsi interface simply refused a request and started spitting out klog errors). On another machine at home, when I burn a CD with any program the machine locks up hard while fixating a newly-burned CD. I suppose at some point I'll have to compile the kernel so that it can be debugged easily (and so I can get a panic), but it seems like a pain in the ass. Again, for something that should just work.
Socialism: Give everything to the government, or they'll put you in jail.
Christianity: Give everything to the poor... or face eternal damnation!
When the consequences are that dire, is it really that much of a choice? ;)
He could also be saying "As bad as the DMCA is, there's something that should be upsetting you far more.." As Slashdot readers, we sometimes overestimate how important we are and how important the tech sector is. Because the DMCA and CDBTPA are certainly worth getting upset about, but they are nothing compared to the non-tech-specific PATRIOT Act.
Well.. that's not really what the study says. It doesn't say "The Atkins Diet doesn't work," (nor does it say that it does work) it says very few people could stick with it, and when that happens you get the same results as with any other diet: Go back to step 1.
The biggest point to remember when starting any diet: You MUST be able to enjoy the food that you eat on the diet. Otherwise you'll likely be unable to stay with the diet, and you'll end up where you started.
They probably come from sites like this:
And this:
And this:
(I couldn't provide a link to IBM as their site was broken when I tried to access the article.)
So where do the rumors come from? WETA and IBM, apparently. (Not to mention various little Linux sites that jump all over press releases like this)
WETA transitioned from SGI to Linux between shows. So yes, some parts were done on SGIs, others under Linux.
For heaven's sake, don't even mention "that show" by name.
1000 geek points to the first person to get it to boot Linux.
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its ludicrous that a company would sell something like this
Even more ludicrous is that a bunch of clueless people will, no doubt, actually go out and buy some.
Well how can you put Linux on it unless you buy it first?
No, the way to counter spin is to speak the absolute truth, backed by facts and arguements others can check and easily verify. You don't counter spin from one side by lying on behalf of the other side. That comes around to bite you as it has to Moore. Even mainstream movie critics who initially liked his documentary are critizing him now for the accuracies.
Uhh... yeah. Incredible real-life shooting skills from Halo? Since when has playing Halo given anyone any skills other than being good at playing Halo? Thompson is trying so hard to link his "video games are really just real life murder training programs" to incidents of violence that he'll ignore anything grounded in reality. Does he have a brother named Thomson?
Geez, it's like the Dungeons and Dragons scare all over again.
For a custom install program, it works extremely well. Unfortunately, there is no RPM integration anymore.
What if we have free tickets? :) (I managed to see The Two Towers for free 3 times...)
It would be very easy to make it stick, at least if DeCSS is settled completely. Distributing a utility that can crack the css keys is illegal according to the DMCA.
They did that because the movie had nothing else to offer. The third movie in the franchise, they desperately needed some hook to draw people back in. It didn't work.
ATI? Solid and easy to support? You must be joking. Their driver problems are legendary. Even under Windows they can be an utter pain to work with. Except for a few no-name little-known-brand cards (you get what you pay for with the cheap knock-offs), I've never seen cards that were buggier and harder to get working than the Radeons. Especially the All-In-Wonders.
Uh huh... New York has even more of an attitude problem than Dallas does, in that New Yorkers love themselves far more than anyone does them.
The summary of attitudes:
New Yorkers: God, aren't we just the best people in the whole world? Don't you love us all to death?
Rest of the US, about New Yorkers: What asses.
Californians: Why can't the rest of the world listen to us? Clearly we have all the problems solved, even though it -looks- like we're at least as badly off as everyone else.
Rest of the US, about Californians: What retards.
In general, Hollywood does. Actors and Actresses, however, don't.
How do you know? What about all the Mensa members you may have met who weren't pretentious enough to tell you they were in Mensa?
While I'd love to see such a thing in principle, it's just totally unrealistic now, just because the political system is so complex that it -requires- a lot of experience just to understand and navigate it. Someone can't just step in from the street and get elected president, etc. Politics is a devious, complex game.