The KDE team is trying to channel in the influx of new users brought in by Ubuntu with a carrot on a stick. Just search youtube for compiz and be amazed.
I just pray they don't push Gnome into following suit.
Wait a minute? Are you telling me not everyone prints out the kernel source, compiles it in their head and jots down the instructions in binary? What do they do, rely on GCC or *gasp* pre-compiled distributions?! What is this world coming to?
As in, this kid is starved of attention. It's not the violent nature of the game, it's the feeling of power kids get from the anonymity the internet gives them which, when abruptly taken away from them, can send the less stable over the edge. Block a myspace-addicted kid from the net and he can become batshit crazy too. Shall we ban the internet?
...in the World of Warcraft forums when this happens. I predict threats of cancellation for inadequate solar-storm protection and demands for a punch-card character-backup system.
They plan to begin industrial-scale applications around 2011, and hope to interest a tequila producer in widening its market beyond the traditional beverage.
I for one look forward to my Jose Cuervo RAM sticks.
I agree that it's not grinding if there is challenge present. I lost count of the number of hardcore characters I took through Diablo 2, and they were always fun right from the Den of Evil all the way up to Bhaal.
Thing is, permadeath wouldn't be much of a challenge because world PvE in WoW is a complete joke and you could even bypass the difficult quests. And no, permadeath on a PvP server would never be implemented for reasons which I believe are quite obvious.
From TFA:
Should it matter to the user if he runs Linux or BSD on his machine? Not at all. It only matters because things just don't work so well (mostly caused by to driver problems, often a matter of ignorance on some vendor's side).
The term "Linux" serves more or less as a buzzword, but I think calling KDE "The Linux Desktop" is harmful.
So is calling GNU/Linux, Linux, yet he doesn't seem to care.
Also, no mention of Qt at all. Was this interview done before the Nokia acquisition, I wonder.
Disable SuperFetch if you want more free RAM, though I see no reason why you should want to (unless you have less than 2 gigs of RAM). SuperFetch will preload your favourite programs to make the OS feel snappier, but it will free that memory should another program need it (like say, a game).
No, it works good OOTB, but some of the features have a reverse-placebo effect on users. "Vista taking up 1GB of my memory after booting? Bloat! I'm going back to XP where I can drool over all the free memory I have just sitting there doing nothing but draw power.".
Then DRM comes along and shoots all the nice little features in the head.
All in all though, it's not nearly as terrible an OS as people make it out to be.
I recall reading somewhere (think it was Ars) that Vista preloads certain programs into RAM based on user patterns (ie. if you routinely check your mails at a certain hour, it will preload your email proggy). I wonder if this the culprit for all the bloatware talk.
I think that this Ballmeron should worry less about Smoogle and the ring and concentrate more on fortifying his tower before its overrun by the Penguin hosts of the north.
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Ugh, I should learn not to post at 3AM.
And if it happened to be an unnamed chopper named TAUT, we'd have a recursive palindromic onomatopeic acronym.
The KDE team is trying to channel in the influx of new users brought in by Ubuntu with a carrot on a stick. Just search youtube for compiz and be amazed.
I just pray they don't push Gnome into following suit.
Wait a minute? Are you telling me not everyone prints out the kernel source, compiles it in their head and jots down the instructions in binary? What do they do, rely on GCC or *gasp* pre-compiled distributions?! What is this world coming to?
I heard they're working on a device called the iBrain.
As in, this kid is starved of attention. It's not the violent nature of the game, it's the feeling of power kids get from the anonymity the internet gives them which, when abruptly taken away from them, can send the less stable over the edge. Block a myspace-addicted kid from the net and he can become batshit crazy too. Shall we ban the internet?
Fascinating. Could this technique be used with a 'good signal' to stop the body rejecting donor tissue?
...in the World of Warcraft forums when this happens. I predict threats of cancellation for inadequate solar-storm protection and demands for a punch-card character-backup system.
They plan to begin industrial-scale applications around 2011, and hope to interest a tequila producer in widening its market beyond the traditional beverage.
I for one look forward to my Jose Cuervo RAM sticks.
Rules exist for a reason.
I agree that it's not grinding if there is challenge present. I lost count of the number of hardcore characters I took through Diablo 2, and they were always fun right from the Den of Evil all the way up to Bhaal. Thing is, permadeath wouldn't be much of a challenge because world PvE in WoW is a complete joke and you could even bypass the difficult quests. And no, permadeath on a PvP server would never be implemented for reasons which I believe are quite obvious.
Well it's not so bad, if they never get around to doing it.
The term "Linux" serves more or less as a buzzword, but I think calling KDE "The Linux Desktop" is harmful.
So is calling GNU/Linux, Linux, yet he doesn't seem to care. Also, no mention of Qt at all. Was this interview done before the Nokia acquisition, I wonder.
It's not garbage; it's Intestinal Property.
%make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
From gnu.org.
The irony is killing me.
I remember a long time ago playing quake when someone burst into my room and I reflexively spun the viewpoint 180 with the mouse. That sucked.
Disable SuperFetch if you want more free RAM, though I see no reason why you should want to (unless you have less than 2 gigs of RAM). SuperFetch will preload your favourite programs to make the OS feel snappier, but it will free that memory should another program need it (like say, a game).
Kxd4!?
No, it works good OOTB, but some of the features have a reverse-placebo effect on users. "Vista taking up 1GB of my memory after booting? Bloat! I'm going back to XP where I can drool over all the free memory I have just sitting there doing nothing but draw power.".
Then DRM comes along and shoots all the nice little features in the head.
All in all though, it's not nearly as terrible an OS as people make it out to be.
I recall reading somewhere (think it was Ars) that Vista preloads certain programs into RAM based on user patterns (ie. if you routinely check your mails at a certain hour, it will preload your email proggy). I wonder if this the culprit for all the bloatware talk.
I think that this Ballmeron should worry less about Smoogle and the ring and concentrate more on fortifying his tower before its overrun by the Penguin hosts of the north.
Word is she joined google after a massage-table-throwing incident.
And invoke the wrath of the caffeine-pumped hardcore gamer community? Nah, lets go after the babies instead.
You'd need a hell of a lot of cows for that.