They aren't trying to make "everything work like it did before with the same functionality". They could have
We could have switched to linux clients in just a few months, giving the order to all 21 IT units to set up a linux client until end of 2008. No further specifications, no standardization and no consolidation. I’m pretty sure they would have done this excellent and then I would have published great news in 2007 or 2008 “LiMux done, Munich completely on free software”.
but the aim is/was to move from a very heterogeneous network (in terms of used OS and software solutions) to some overall standard, which is why it takes so long.
Can I still keep my geek card if I actually read TFA?
Yeah, I should have said that the GFX card was the really important bit. As for your mediacentre, not sure about the CPU (I don't know it, so I couldn't really say how fast it is, but I know that some mods do tax the CPU a lot by adding more NPCs and AI Behaviours), but an old HDD and slow mem wouldn't probably cut it(specifically with Oblivion). You *might* experience a lot of lag when moving fast (on a horse for example). Only way to be sure would be tro try it out of course:)
you might want to try one of the modern tiling window manager (or "really good at tiling- but it's not all it does and if you say tiling I'm going to be really upset - the Dev"-WM, like Awesome). I moved to Awesome a few month ago, and while it is quite a switch at first, I find it very difficult to go back to Gnome or KDE (or windows if I boot that), as suddenly the usual "desktop with windows" paradigm seems clunky.
I've got Karma to burn and I actually care about what I'm going to write for obvious reasons, so there we go : I wonder why my story didn't make it, but this does. Slashdot subsidized much my Google?
Actually, if you want to run Oblivion with the "must-have" mods (Better Cities, OOO or whichever leveling mod you prefer, some better texture pack), you'll still need a relatively well configured system. The game might be 4 years old, but it can still be very demanding (and IMO still looks and plays great, once mod'ed correctly)
The nice (frustrating) thing about both Alice stories is that they can stand for pretty much everything. From the obvious ( one pill makes you larger... dumdidum) to the less obvious ( Alice is supposed to be Queen Victoria?). Unless you can ask Dodgson directly, my guess is that it's just a tale he concocted on the fly, using whatever was on his mind at the time (so, yeah, probably mathematics, queen Victoria and possibly perspective-stretching mushrooms).
yeah, but did it have Ubuntu on it by default? (As a sidenote, I'm running Mint on my AA1 and very happy with it. The "original" distro was Linpus, which is one of the most aptly named distros I know of. The whole association with sickness and disease is very fitting.)
First it will run with a completely user-unfriendly Linux distribution (Linpus, I'm looking at you!), then people will complain about it, Asus will increase the specs and the price massively and will only sell the Win7 edition. The few who bought the original edition will tell everybody that they tried Linux and that it's complete crap without trying some *real* distro, and websites around the world will laud the new win7 edition as much better, and a proof that Linux is not fit for the desktop. Apple will then show off their new product (the iBalls) which will have less feature than anything else, will be so locked it won't be of any use whatsoever, but will have shiny glossy metal, and everyone will announce the death of the Wave Light Devices.
You never changed the theme in Gnome, have you? Unless you absolutely want to completely personalize it, it's just the matter of right clicking the desktop, choose "Change Background", select the THeme tab and click on another theme. If you don't like the ones offered, download one from art.gnome or gnome-look, and drag and drop the downloaded file on your appearance panel. Not exactly Rocket Surgery.
ah. sorry. I misunderstood what I was seeing. I thought D was the scanned image, E was D being processed, and F the result. Then yes, you are indeed right, it is impressive!
'basically took out' most of the commercial satellites that transmit telephone conversations, TV shows, and huge amounts of data we depend on in our daily lives.
No phone sex, no Big Brother and no pr0n feeds? OMG! We're doomed!
yeah, except for handbrake you're completely right. It should have been Gimp and Virtualbox. What did GP think, tsss! He even forgot to add " "codeblocks" and "blender"(albeit only in the statically linked version) to his list (both of which work perfectly on my Acer Aspire One and have been used to do some real work while traveling btw.)
considering how Google Checkout employees apparently weren't told that they were in charge of Google Android Aps developers, and basically stall as much as possible if you have any trouble getting the money you made from Android apps, Paypal shouldn't really have any trouble providing a better service. (yes, I can actually back that assessment up. I'm still trying to get ANY of the money I allegedly made by selling Android Apps from Google)
Thanks for making me feel younger. When I play a game, I don't want to be ~entertained~ by hours of non-interactive stuff which might look pretty but is NOT a game just to get to the next "press two buttons to get the next cutscene" ~game-part~. If I did, I'd buy a DVD with a few serious scratches on it,and ~play~ the ~find the correct time and chapter~ game.
There are ways to make a game tell a compelling story without falling back on FMVs, be it just good mission design, interesting and varied dialogue options (I know many will disagree, but I thought a lot of fallout3's subquest were intellectually stimulating, especially in the way they forced me to make a moral decision), the old time-honoured "audiologs" dating back to at least System Shock 1, or even good monologues and attention to detail, as in Portal. Games based mostly on FMVs (Heavy Rain comes to mind.. how surprising that we get an article about "games becoming mature" on the day HR comes out) are just a not-so-subtle hint that the designers did not understand the distinction between a non-interactive movie and a game, or were too lazy to find ways to tell the story in the actual game.
I wrote it in another post, but I always ask first whether they are heavy gamers or absolutely NEED some very specific software (although it often turns out they don't need it as much as they don't know of any other choices) More often than not, after asking people what kind of software they would need, I find out that there is FOSS that actually covers that, even though the person in question never found any windows software covering their special interest (of course, there is nearly always a windows alternative, but ti's often prohibitively expensive and very hard to get due to the speical interest factor.)
The geek stereotype has been quite accurate so far.
You motives are suspect.
Not at all. I'm upfront with my motives : I'm sick and tired of having to maintain windows installation that are slow/unstable because people installed the latest cracked version of Norton Antivirus which they got from their really trustfull neighbour who got it from some 15 year old their niece knows. I'm just lazy like that and I explain it, I also tell them of the drawbacks of using Linux ("no... you won't be able to get software from your pupils at school. Same as if you were owning a Mac for that matter, just way less expensive and you DO get my support"). If they don't want it, no problem. I just stop helping them out when their desktop's background starts flashing in red and yellow to tell them that their computer is infected and that they need some shady av from a tinyurl site. Nothing suspect here : I'm lazy.
It is hard to be objective. It is even more difficult for the family member to speak up, to fight back - to resist being taken in a direction he does not want to go.
... which is never as apparent as when they are being told by salesmen and TV ads that they need 3.3GB RAM, the latest nVidia gfx card and windows7 to run the newest version of MS-Office in exactly the same way they did it with the last 2 versions on their old computer (as they very often lack the interest or time to learn about any new shiny blingy thing in the version).
so far the people I installed Linux (Mint) for were happy with a simple explanation WHY it won't work ("like, if you had a Mac, it wouldn't work neither you know"), and the installation of FOSS alternatives from the repos. Of course, I first ask if they are heavy gamers or absolutely NEED some specific software, and if they say yes then I refrain from moving them to Linux.
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They aren't trying to make "everything work like it did before with the same functionality". They could have
We could have switched to linux clients in just a few months, giving the order to all 21 IT units to set up a linux client until end of 2008. No further specifications, no standardization and no consolidation. I’m pretty sure they would have done this excellent and then I would have published great news in 2007 or 2008 “LiMux done, Munich completely on free software”.
but the aim is/was to move from a very heterogeneous network (in terms of used OS and software solutions) to some overall standard, which is why it takes so long.
Can I still keep my geek card if I actually read TFA?
Would you have enjoyed it less if it had been 2D (albeit with stronger colours/brighter) ?
in short, people are a problem
Yeah, I should have said that the GFX card was the really important bit. As for your mediacentre, not sure about the CPU (I don't know it, so I couldn't really say how fast it is, but I know that some mods do tax the CPU a lot by adding more NPCs and AI Behaviours), but an old HDD and slow mem wouldn't probably cut it(specifically with Oblivion). You *might* experience a lot of lag when moving fast (on a horse for example). Only way to be sure would be tro try it out of course :)
you might want to try one of the modern tiling window manager (or "really good at tiling- but it's not all it does and if you say tiling I'm going to be really upset - the Dev"-WM, like Awesome). I moved to Awesome a few month ago, and while it is quite a switch at first, I find it very difficult to go back to Gnome or KDE (or windows if I boot that), as suddenly the usual "desktop with windows" paradigm seems clunky.
I've got Karma to burn and I actually care about what I'm going to write for obvious reasons, so there we go : I wonder why my story didn't make it, but this does. Slashdot subsidized much my Google?
Actually, if you want to run Oblivion with the "must-have" mods (Better Cities, OOO or whichever leveling mod you prefer, some better texture pack), you'll still need a relatively well configured system. The game might be 4 years old, but it can still be very demanding (and IMO still looks and plays great, once mod'ed correctly)
It's my own invention, to keep useless ideas and strange theories at bay.
The nice (frustrating) thing about both Alice stories is that they can stand for pretty much everything. From the obvious ( one pill makes you larger ... dumdidum) to the less obvious ( Alice is supposed to be Queen Victoria?). Unless you can ask Dodgson directly, my guess is that it's just a tale he concocted on the fly, using whatever was on his mind at the time (so, yeah, probably mathematics, queen Victoria and possibly perspective-stretching mushrooms).
yeah, but did it have Ubuntu on it by default? (As a sidenote, I'm running Mint on my AA1 and very happy with it. The "original" distro was Linpus, which is one of the most aptly named distros I know of. The whole association with sickness and disease is very fitting.)
First it will run with a completely user-unfriendly Linux distribution (Linpus, I'm looking at you!), then people will complain about it, Asus will increase the specs and the price massively and will only sell the Win7 edition. The few who bought the original edition will tell everybody that they tried Linux and that it's complete crap without trying some *real* distro, and websites around the world will laud the new win7 edition as much better, and a proof that Linux is not fit for the desktop. Apple will then show off their new product (the iBalls) which will have less feature than anything else, will be so locked it won't be of any use whatsoever, but will have shiny glossy metal, and everyone will announce the death of the Wave Light Devices.
been there, done that
You never changed the theme in Gnome, have you? Unless you absolutely want to completely personalize it, it's just the matter of right clicking the desktop, choose "Change Background", select the THeme tab and click on another theme. If you don't like the ones offered, download one from art.gnome or gnome-look, and drag and drop the downloaded file on your appearance panel. Not exactly Rocket Surgery.
ah. sorry. I misunderstood what I was seeing. I thought D was the scanned image, E was D being processed, and F the result. Then yes, you are indeed right, it is impressive!
hmm .. call me blind, maybe it's the low resolution, but I don't see much difference between D and F.
indeed. check the caption :
"Photos: Obama: Corbis; Image Simulation: Jarvis Haupt/Robert Nowak" (emphasis added by me)
tell that to the guy who included "TV-Shows" in the list of things we'll be missing
'basically took out' most of the commercial satellites that transmit telephone conversations, TV shows, and huge amounts of data we depend on in our daily lives.
No phone sex, no Big Brother and no pr0n feeds? OMG! We're doomed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJJL5dxgVaM
slèche-dôte ... easy :P
yeah, except for handbrake you're completely right. It should have been Gimp and Virtualbox. What did GP think, tsss! He even forgot to add " "codeblocks" and "blender"(albeit only in the statically linked version) to his list (both of which work perfectly on my Acer Aspire One and have been used to do some real work while traveling btw.)
they just did a test-run on the iPhone first?
considering how Google Checkout employees apparently weren't told that they were in charge of Google Android Aps developers, and basically stall as much as possible if you have any trouble getting the money you made from Android apps, Paypal shouldn't really have any trouble providing a better service. (yes, I can actually back that assessment up. I'm still trying to get ANY of the money I allegedly made by selling Android Apps from Google)
Thanks for making me feel younger. When I play a game, I don't want to be ~entertained~ by hours of non-interactive stuff which might look pretty but is NOT a game just to get to the next "press two buttons to get the next cutscene" ~game-part~. If I did, I'd buy a DVD with a few serious scratches on it,and ~play~ the ~find the correct time and chapter~ game.
There are ways to make a game tell a compelling story without falling back on FMVs, be it just good mission design, interesting and varied dialogue options (I know many will disagree, but I thought a lot of fallout3's subquest were intellectually stimulating, especially in the way they forced me to make a moral decision), the old time-honoured "audiologs" dating back to at least System Shock 1, or even good monologues and attention to detail, as in Portal. Games based mostly on FMVs (Heavy Rain comes to mind .. how surprising that we get an article about "games becoming mature" on the day HR comes out) are just a not-so-subtle hint that the designers did not understand the distinction between a non-interactive movie and a game, or were too lazy to find ways to tell the story in the actual game.
If there is a FOSS equivalent.
I wrote it in another post, but I always ask first whether they are heavy gamers or absolutely NEED some very specific software (although it often turns out they don't need it as much as they don't know of any other choices)
More often than not, after asking people what kind of software they would need, I find out that there is FOSS that actually covers that, even though the person in question never found any windows software covering their special interest (of course, there is nearly always a windows alternative, but ti's often prohibitively expensive and very hard to get due to the speical interest factor.)
The geek stereotype has been quite accurate so far.
You motives are suspect.
Not at all. I'm upfront with my motives : I'm sick and tired of having to maintain windows installation that are slow/unstable because people installed the latest cracked version of Norton Antivirus which they got from their really trustfull neighbour who got it from some 15 year old their niece knows. I'm just lazy like that and I explain it, I also tell them of the drawbacks of using Linux ("no ... you won't be able to get software from your pupils at school. Same as if you were owning a Mac for that matter, just way less expensive and you DO get my support"). If they don't want it, no problem. I just stop helping them out when their desktop's background starts flashing in red and yellow to tell them that their computer is infected and that they need some shady av from a tinyurl site. Nothing suspect here : I'm lazy.
It is hard to be objective. It is even more difficult for the family member to speak up, to fight back - to resist being taken in a direction he does not want to go.
so far the people I installed Linux (Mint) for were happy with a simple explanation WHY it won't work ("like, if you had a Mac, it wouldn't work neither you know"), and the installation of FOSS alternatives from the repos. Of course, I first ask if they are heavy gamers or absolutely NEED some specific software, and if they say yes then I refrain from moving them to Linux.