Actually, you make a good point. This could be a way to build a very cheap motion capture set. All you'd need are a bunch of IR leds, a few wiimotes and some reflective tape... and the appropriate software.
That's probably the most confusing (and confused) post I've ever read on slashdot. Basically, what you're saying is that Linux would crash more often than windows if it was designed in a way that was as prone as windows to crash?
Incidentally, either you don't work much with windows, or you're lying when you say you've seen more Linux system than Windows systems crash in the past 7 years... or those were your own systems and you always logged in as root, and did everything possible to actually crash the Linux systems, while desperately trying not to crash the windows one.
sigh... if you're not in the printing industry, when was the last time you used CMYK?
Still waiting for my copy of CS3 at work, so I have to work with GIMP, and you know what? it's good. I can do all the stuff I need to, except opening CS3 files. As a web developper, I wouldn't do anything more with photoshop than I do now. Most people just don't need CMYK, and will probably NEVER have to use it.
sigh.. yep.. i wonder when linux will eventually catch up with Apple and use something like "spaces".. i mean... wow! Those apple guys really know their shit. Think about it!.. virtual desktops?? wowwww man!!! wooooowww!!! That's innovative!!!
or just run it in wine. Runs very fine there.
It also qualify as the hardest game to google for.
"have you tried N?" "who do you spell that?" "just N... the letter you know... 14th letter of the alphabet" [googles for "N"] "13 Million hits. First one is "pr0nForfun.com"... should I click on it?"
If the user knows that he is running a debian based distro, he'll get the appropriate package and then (provided he has some idea what "installing" means) double click it, whereupon he will be asked about his password and the package will be automatically installed.
If any of this is too difficult, then the same user would have problems installing anything either on windows ("aeh.. Vista, XP or 98?... It's trying to download something.. save? or start?") or OSX ("what version of osX am I running?... where do I drag and drop it?")
each OS requires that the user has some basic knowledge of the system to install anything, but from then on, it's not difficult, on none of the OS.
Drag and Drop is nice... though I prefer Synaptic's search and install functionality. The fact that Synaptic automatically checks for updates for all the software packages I installed is a very nice and appreciated touch too.
The 12 month thing was not really about the package management though. I first tried Ubuntu 6.04 (after a short SUSE Intermezzo or 7 years ago), and it was interesting but painful. I liked it still, but it was more the geek in me than anything else. Never got my sound to work right, setting up a dual head system was a nightmare, various peripherals just didn't work and Gnome or KDE (tried both) seemed particularly unstable and cumbersome to use. I had it as dual boot, but rarely used it
I tried 6.10 after that, which was better, but still more a geek thing than anything else. It didn't last long on my drive.
Then came 7.04, and that was again quite an improvement. It worked nearly out of the box (still some problems setting up the dual display, but nowhere near the troubles I had had on the prvious versions), Gnome actually felt like a real GUI and was stable, and performance-wise there was nothing I could complain about. I even got Flash and Dreamweaver, both of which I need for work, to run in wine. I still had XP installed, but gave the majority of my drive space to Linux, and, I now only boot windows when I want to play some new games (you know.. like the one with the cake:P
7.10 wasn't THAT much of an improvement over 7.04, mostly eye-candy with the inclusion of compiz-fusion, and they screwed up badly with the removal of the audio-preview (just install esound and it works again. You just shouldn't need to do that though)
As it is now, Ubuntu is a valid alternative to the ~big~ OS for pretty much everybody, as long as you're not forced to use some proprietary software that will only run in a specific environment. When 6.04 came out, this just wasn't the case.
I'll admit.. That's 18 months, and not 12... but still...
indeed. And installing of.deb packages is just one click away, generally with less hassle than installing software in windows.
I love those "I switched away from Linux to [insert commercial OS here] a long time ago"-posts. Ubuntu has made more progress toward useability in the last 12 month than any other OS I know of. If you tried some linux distro over a year ago, and never bothered again after that, then you don't have any clue about the state of Linux today.
Hell... I even think Ubuntu is so user-friendly that I installed it on an old laptop for my 65 year old mom, and guess what : she is coping very well despite having only used windows and occasionally macs so far.
This is an english-speaking site. Trying to answer in the site's language should be aknowledged as an attempt to be civil (even though this IS slashdot, where civilities can be a rare thing). At least people from non-english-speaking countries try to adapt. How much french do YOU speak/write/understand?
Entschuldigung, aber irgendwann musste ich auch mal eins dieser scheiss Sprach-Nazi's antworten:P... ichi go-wa desu ka? (I admit.. my japanese is VERY rusty:)
bien le bonjour de France.
I'd be carefull if it didn't have any spelling errors in the mail body. Legit offers of that types are recognized by at least 3 typos or grammatical errors/paragraph.
If it's just about "supporting Apple", then he could do that. If he intends to use the OS on non-apple hardware, it's risky. Not because of the EULA per-se, but, in light of the iBrick patch, he might end up just supporting Apple, without having any benefit from it (except perhaps for a warm glow in the stomach when thinking about how he rounded up Steve Job's meagre monthly salary)
you mean, downloading and installing at 50KB/s? I live in the carribeans (can never get the spell of THAT right), and 512kb/128kb DSL is the only affordable option here (50 euros/month... a 2Mb/128Kb line costs 99 euros a month)
Getting a CD by postal mail actually takes longer than downloading the ISO (the last CD I received by mail took 1 and half month), and then you still have to get all the packages you might want that are NOT on the CD (or the DVD set). So... it's either downloading and learning to be patient, or sticking to Windows or Macs.
Never bothered with it when I was still on dialup of course. at 3 or 4KB/s, it would have been really hopeless.
may I silently weep... 1MB/sec... oh.. what a dream... Try downloading and installing a Linux distribution with 50KB/s and you'll know what pain is. (Death, in this case, is if you're still on dial-up)
Anyway, I agree with you on the principle. Too bad there aren't more progammers able to do THAT.
Same here. I did a few anonymous edits on Wikipedia, mostly because I knew that the original text was erroneous and correcting it didn't take more than a few minutes. So far, the entry were not removed or even altered.
well... EVE is slightly more attractive than C3-PO, though I guess you'd have to have some some of puritanistic japanese middle class teacher kink to fully enjoy sex with her:P
Misquoting the latest episode of Sarah Silverman's Show :
Sexual intercourse with a robot is to be legal in this state from now on... but ONLY with a robot of the opposite gender!:P
Check out Scorched3D. *VERY* fun game, and the latest version looks just great. Armagetron Advanced is also a great free game, even though the grafics may not be your cup of vodka.
Additionally, you might find some very fun and good looking games by checking open source game- or 3D- engines. The showcase forum at ogre3D is a good start.
The point is: there are some great looking, fun Open Source games out there they don't get reviewed or advertised in such a way that you'll hear about them often.
if you mean the first one you meet, on the first level you are on : just run to the camera and hit it with the wrench, if you have nothing else you can use against it. works fine;)
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aehm . seriously ... he's been dead for 3 years. Maybe it's time to move on ...
Duh .. wrong game ...
Can i mod myself down? Please? That's what you get for writing something on /. while having a splitting headache.
The Zero Punctuation Review seems to bring up the same critic of the game : not much content.
Actually, you make a good point. This could be a way to build a very cheap motion capture set. All you'd need are a bunch of IR leds, a few wiimotes and some reflective tape ... and the appropriate software.
That's probably the most confusing (and confused) post I've ever read on slashdot. Basically, what you're saying is that Linux would crash more often than windows if it was designed in a way that was as prone as windows to crash? Incidentally, either you don't work much with windows, or you're lying when you say you've seen more Linux system than Windows systems crash in the past 7 years ... or those were your own systems and you always logged in as root, and did everything possible to actually crash the Linux systems, while desperately trying not to crash the windows one.
sigh ... if you're not in the printing industry, when was the last time you used CMYK?
Still waiting for my copy of CS3 at work, so I have to work with GIMP, and you know what? it's good. I can do all the stuff I need to, except opening CS3 files. As a web developper, I wouldn't do anything more with photoshop than I do now. Most people just don't need CMYK, and will probably NEVER have to use it.
hmm .. used them for the first time in X-Windows on HP Unix Machines at the University ... around 1993.
Sure am ;) I just find that kind of "In the beginning there was Apple .. then everybody started copying it" Appleboy talk fun.
sigh .. yep .. i wonder when linux will eventually catch up with Apple and use something like "spaces" .. i mean ... wow! Those apple guys really know their shit. Think about it! .. virtual desktops?? wowwww man!!! wooooowww!!! That's innovative!!!
We *REALLY* need that for Linux!or just run it in wine. Runs very fine there. It also qualify as the hardest game to google for. "have you tried N?" "who do you spell that?" "just N ... the letter you know... 14th letter of the alphabet" [googles for "N"] "13 Million hits. First one is "pr0nForfun.com" ... should I click on it?"
Mouse Wheel at Makai Media. They have a few other nice games there too, but Mouse Wheel is one of the funniest.
If the user knows that he is running a debian based distro, he'll get the appropriate package and then (provided he has some idea what "installing" means) double click it, whereupon he will be asked about his password and the package will be automatically installed. If any of this is too difficult, then the same user would have problems installing anything either on windows ("aeh .. Vista, XP or 98? ... It's trying to download something .. save? or start?") or OSX ("what version of osX am I running?... where do I drag and drop it?")
each OS requires that the user has some basic knowledge of the system to install anything, but from then on, it's not difficult, on none of the OS.
The 12 month thing was not really about the package management though. I first tried Ubuntu 6.04 (after a short SUSE Intermezzo or 7 years ago), and it was interesting but painful. I liked it still, but it was more the geek in me than anything else. Never got my sound to work right, setting up a dual head system was a nightmare, various peripherals just didn't work and Gnome or KDE (tried both) seemed particularly unstable and cumbersome to use. I had it as dual boot, but rarely used it I tried 6.10 after that, which was better, but still more a geek thing than anything else. It didn't last long on my drive.
Then came 7.04, and that was again quite an improvement. It worked nearly out of the box (still some problems setting up the dual display, but nowhere near the troubles I had had on the prvious versions), Gnome actually felt like a real GUI and was stable, and performance-wise there was nothing I could complain about. I even got Flash and Dreamweaver, both of which I need for work, to run in wine. I still had XP installed, but gave the majority of my drive space to Linux, and, I now only boot windows when I want to play some new games (you know
7.10 wasn't THAT much of an improvement over 7.04, mostly eye-candy with the inclusion of compiz-fusion, and they screwed up badly with the removal of the audio-preview (just install esound and it works again. You just shouldn't need to do that though)
As it is now, Ubuntu is a valid alternative to the ~big~ OS for pretty much everybody, as long as you're not forced to use some proprietary software that will only run in a specific environment. When 6.04 came out, this just wasn't the case.
I'll admit .. That's 18 months, and not 12 ... but still ...
I love those "I switched away from Linux to [insert commercial OS here] a long time ago"-posts. Ubuntu has made more progress toward useability in the last 12 month than any other OS I know of. If you tried some linux distro over a year ago, and never bothered again after that, then you don't have any clue about the state of Linux today.
HellThis is an english-speaking site. Trying to answer in the site's language should be aknowledged as an attempt to be civil (even though this IS slashdot, where civilities can be a rare thing). At least people from non-english-speaking countries try to adapt. How much french do YOU speak/write/understand? Entschuldigung, aber irgendwann musste ich auch mal eins dieser scheiss Sprach-Nazi's antworten :P ... ichi go-wa desu ka? (I admit .. my japanese is VERY rusty :)
bien le bonjour de France.
I'd be carefull if it didn't have any spelling errors in the mail body. Legit offers of that types are recognized by at least 3 typos or grammatical errors/paragraph.
oh ... but we do ... that's why we use Linux :P
If it's just about "supporting Apple", then he could do that. If he intends to use the OS on non-apple hardware, it's risky. Not because of the EULA per-se, but, in light of the iBrick patch, he might end up just supporting Apple, without having any benefit from it (except perhaps for a warm glow in the stomach when thinking about how he rounded up Steve Job's meagre monthly salary)
you mean, downloading and installing at 50KB/s? I live in the carribeans (can never get the spell of THAT right), and 512kb/128kb DSL is the only affordable option here (50 euros/month ... a 2Mb/128Kb line costs 99 euros a month)
Getting a CD by postal mail actually takes longer than downloading the ISO (the last CD I received by mail took 1 and half month), and then you still have to get all the packages you might want that are NOT on the CD (or the DVD set). So ... it's either downloading and learning to be patient, or sticking to Windows or Macs.
Never bothered with it when I was still on dialup of course. at 3 or 4KB/s, it would have been really hopeless.
may I silently weep ... 1MB/sec ... oh .. what a dream ... Try downloading and installing a Linux distribution with 50KB/s and you'll know what pain is. (Death, in this case, is if you're still on dial-up)
Anyway, I agree with you on the principle. Too bad there aren't more progammers able to do THAT.
Same here. I did a few anonymous edits on Wikipedia, mostly because I knew that the original text was erroneous and correcting it didn't take more than a few minutes. So far, the entry were not removed or even altered.
well ... EVE is slightly more attractive than C3-PO, though I guess you'd have to have some some of puritanistic japanese middle class teacher kink to fully enjoy sex with her:P
Misquoting the latest episode of Sarah Silverman's Show : Sexual intercourse with a robot is to be legal in this state from now on ... but ONLY with a robot of the opposite gender! :P
Check out Scorched3D. *VERY* fun game, and the latest version looks just great.
Armagetron Advanced is also a great free game, even though the grafics may not be your cup of vodka.
Additionally, you might find some very fun and good looking games by checking open source game- or 3D- engines. The showcase forum at ogre3D is a good start.
The point is: there are some great looking, fun Open Source games out there they don't get reviewed or advertised in such a way that you'll hear about them often.
if you mean the first one you meet, on the first level you are on : just run to the camera and hit it with the wrench, if you have nothing else you can use against it. works fine ;)