Yes, and another thing about moderating. I've been refusing to moderate for a few months simply because I've noted that you can loose _your own_ karma for moderating.
This seems totally pointless to me. Do you want objective moderating or do you want moderators bending their choices to what the believe everyone else is doing/going to do?
O.k., let me get this straight. I'm supposed to spend $350 bucks on a specialist possibly overly-complicated (and therefore prone to failure) water-cooled case so that I can clock my CPU at a higher frequency than what it was built for.
OR I could use that money to buy the following (from pricewatch):
$67 for 256 Megs DDR 2700 Ram.
$135 for an Athlon XP 1700+
which leaves ~$150 for a super mainboard and just use my normal case.
Sorry, this sort of thing never made much sense to me.
I was sifting through some of the enteries on textfiles and smiling now and then with the memories. But nothing got me to smile as much as this about Davy Jones's Locker in Millbury MA.
I remember a few friends and I got on it a few times (the toll call was rather large and the parents very watchful of it...:). It was so easy to get an account and he basically had _everything_ you would want. And things you might want but would even take *days* downloading on a 9600 (the fastest then, though I had 2400).
Gosh, all these things I'd forgotten about! What memories.
Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?
I hardly think it's because they know too much. It's more that they want to show themselves as sauve and intelligent infront of those they're instructing. I think you'll find all the people who deserve the right to brag are generally much more humble because they honestly have nothing to prove.
However the current COST of a Qt license is hurting Linux. By that I mean, they are hurting the small software developer
Blah Blah Blah. We've heard this one before. I'f you're going to be producing commercial software for windows with Qt you have to pay, what, about $1200 to Trolltech? It's at least a long-term license too.
Tell me something, if you plan on making less than that amount of money on your product, perhaps you should consider GPLing it anyways...?
I used to work for a large Boston hospital and we had to ship out 2 SGI Origin 2000 servers to a colleague in Utah. They were fairly maxed out machines and we spent a lot of time loading our brain modelling software onto them. Anyhow, we had kept the original SGI anal-retentive packaging and reboxed them and shipped them out.
I decided I might as well insure them to the max, as it was only about 400$ a computer. That gave them $250,000 a piece, if I remember correctly.
Anyhow, they arrived and were badly damaged. When my boss found passed me later that night on the street (just by chance) he told me of what happened and when I mentioned what I had insured them for, he literally lept with glee. Anyhow, Fedex Never paid the hospital the money and the hospital ruled that it would be too much of a bother to bring them to court over it. (Go figure).
You know, this guy's right. I didn't think I would come around so easily, but he is. Europe has seen so many of these things before. What would happen today if a large scale collective of a hate group (think of all those videos of the speeches where Hitler was speaking to the crowds) started up somewhere again. Would everyone here just pad it off with "Now now, you need to allow these things. They're just growing up" or something like that? Would you intervene when they started marching? Would you intervene only after they started to march as they had been publicly planning? Would you intervene before they attacked you?
KDE is not the perfect desktop. I can't create a KDE application and sell it without buying a QT license for over $2000.
I'm sorry. I just find this whole cyclical argument continuously hypocritical. You want to use GNOME because it is "completely" free or something like that, but then you try and knock down KDE because it makes you go through an extra loop when you want NOT to write software as edquivalently free as itself???
I'm sorry, I just find that really hypocritical and I hope it at least makes sense to some people
You know, my first thought when I read this was "Hey, it's a freeakin email-groupware-ogranizer program". It can't be small.
And then I thought. Oh. Yes. That was pretty funny of me. Those are a little bit different.... Not having used evolution for all that much but looking at it every now and then (I _do_ user kmail as my primary email program though), I can't comment. But I don't think anyone tries to hide the fact that they're trying to duplicate Outlook. And I wonder if anyone stepped back long enough to think "Is this a good idea?"
Heck, as far as a I know (And I could be really wrong here) it's not even like it loads modules or something like that. It's just one massive 700,000 line program.
You mention Ultima Online. I never tried it, but I remember seeing that they had released a non-supported linux client. Presumably therefore it was functional _in some sense_...
Otherwise you make a lot of sense. These methods are just two different ways of doing things. Last night I downloaded the loki demo to Kohan and, besides for having a good bit of fun, it ran very smoothly. Loki does its job well. But if I had the choice of not having a game on linux, and having it run on linux in non-native form (and working), I'd choose the latter.
I don't know about this place. Seems like those old dodgy linux startups we used to hear about when there was more ready money in the linux world.
I surfed over to the site as one of the comments mentioned that it was somewhat funny and tried to go to the store to see what their products would be. Konqueror halted me telling me that their certificate is self-signed and thus may not be trustworthy
Sure enough, the Certificate and the Issuer have the same address, email contact, everything!!
It would be extremely difficult to get a game company to spend the effort and time to develope a game that is a learning experience. That requires the user to put in some serious thought inorder to win. That requires, in short, some effort on the part of the user. That is simply not what the vast majority of people out there want, beer and blood, and damn that thinking crap!
I think you _do_ underestimate people a lot. Look at the Myst series. There would be a lot of hard work going into solving those. And they were best sellers. I think that it's just that no company puts in the effort. So no one has something like that to play and so there isn't something good to compare your company's game to. Sort of a vicious circle.
This is not tuning for a program, this is cutting corners. If the simple change of "quake" strings to "quack" causes a 15% drop in speed (if the hack really doesn't change anything else - would need to try other cards as well or something like that), then what they're doing is jumping routines.
I remember that Hercules once did this a good few years ago. Their drivers watched for repetitive procedures and then skipped some of the repititions, giving falsely high results. They got a pounding in the news because of it.
The new models which support MDLP can put up to 160 minutes (LP2) or 320 (LP4). You won't notice the difference in the former one. It's quite something.
I have a Sony MZ-R700 and I love it. Wouldn't go with the 500 because it lacks some critical things you'd end up paying for anyways (power brick) and it can't recharge in the unit. The 900 or 909 are great if you have the money, but the 700 does really everything you'd need it to.
I've seen one of the MD-N1's - those MD recorders which transfer at 8x I think. That's the way to go. I wasn't into MD much until you could do LP2 and get 160 minutes per disk (or 320 at LP4). That makes the difference and I can now put a whole host of things on one disk and shove it in my pocket, with the controller on my belt strap and the ear phones under my shirt coming up my back. Sounds funny but works like a charm...
"Third Party": Hello Sun? We'd like your operating system and would like to modify our applications to fully integrate with it."
"Sun": Good!
"Third Party": What are the chances that your current environment CDE/Motif, though a standard doesn't suck?"
"Sun": Well, ma'am, it does suck. I'm sorry.
"Third Party": Oh. Well about this new environment for Solaris you've been touting: what are the chances that, after paying top dollar for your computers and proprietary architecture and closed-source operating system, as well as three-times as much more for your support contracts (because I simply want to get the job done with the best possible tools available) I give a fart about some also-not-fully-free windowing toolkit?"
It's fucked up antics like this that piss me off about the RIAA. Either I'm buying the music or I'm buying the media - which is it? From now on, if I buy a CD and find out its copyprotected, I am going to assume that what I've purchased is the media, not the license to listen to the music, and should I figure out how to rip MP3s from it then I'll freely trade them with whomever I can.
Right now I do this with MP3s. I have 7gigs of MY personal cds ripped to my home computer. I *never* have to dig through 100+ CDs to switch albums, and I can mix songs and albums in Winamp as quick as I can think of the the song I added to the playlist. Currently I also have my entire cd collection burned to cds in mp3 format. Down from 120-some cds to 11 cds. ALL of my 120+ albums of music, a mp3-cd player, AC adapter, car-adapters, and extra batteriess, all fit in one easily-portable cd carrier.
I think we have very different ideas of what is "portable". I don't want to bring "120 CDs" with me when I pop out somewhere. I want to bring 6 or 7. And I want to put everything in my front pocket. I have yet to see a CD player (or front pants pocket)
that can do this. And I think that MDs actually are cool.
Granted, bringing around 120 CDs on 11 is cool too - just not what I want. I don't want a whole case thing with me. Just something to slide into my pocket, and MD does that well.
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Yes, and another thing about moderating. I've been refusing to moderate for a few months simply because I've noted that you can loose _your own_ karma for moderating.
This seems totally pointless to me. Do you want objective moderating or do you want moderators bending their choices to what the believe everyone else is doing/going to do?
You know, this could be the perfect place for those embedded NVidia nForce chipsets. That way you could have reasonable 3D as well.
Have you had your hearing checked lately?
:) I knew someone would ask this. No, my hearing is something I'm quite proud of. I'm a pianist....
All the best,
K
No, I'm afraid I still disagree. I'm typing this on a home-built Athlon 1600+ XP and the fans are all but unnoticable. They include:
One big mother of a CPU fan/sink (not special in any other way, like low dB, etc...)
One chipset fan.
Two case fans
1 Power Supply Fan
1 Fan on the LeadTek Geforce3
Sorry, it's just really not a problem.
OR I could use that money to buy the following (from pricewatch):
which leaves ~$150 for a super mainboard and just use my normal case.
Sorry, this sort of thing never made much sense to me.
I was sifting through some of the enteries on textfiles and smiling now and then with the memories. But nothing got me to smile as much as this about Davy Jones's Locker in Millbury MA.
:). It was so easy to get an account and he basically had _everything_ you would want. And things you might want but would even take *days* downloading on a 9600 (the fastest then, though I had 2400).
I remember a few friends and I got on it a few times (the toll call was rather large and the parents very watchful of it...
Gosh, all these things I'd forgotten about! What memories.
Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?
I hardly think it's because they know too much. It's more that they want to show themselves as sauve and intelligent infront of those they're instructing. I think you'll find all the people who deserve the right to brag are generally much more humble because they honestly have nothing to prove.
The tiny generator is more efficient than any battery and is expected to find military and commercial uses including robotics.
Does that mean we'll see an upgrade with this for Mindrover?!? Woohoo!
However the current COST of a Qt license is hurting Linux. By that I mean, they are hurting the small software developer
Blah Blah Blah. We've heard this one before. I'f you're going to be producing commercial software for windows with Qt you have to pay, what, about $1200 to Trolltech? It's at least a long-term license too.
Tell me something, if you plan on making less than that amount of money on your product, perhaps you should consider GPLing it anyways...?
Fedex is far from perfect either...
I used to work for a large Boston hospital and we had to ship out 2 SGI Origin 2000 servers to a colleague in Utah. They were fairly maxed out machines and we spent a lot of time loading our brain modelling software onto them. Anyhow, we had kept the original SGI anal-retentive packaging and reboxed them and shipped them out.
I decided I might as well insure them to the max, as it was only about 400$ a computer. That gave them $250,000 a piece, if I remember correctly.
Anyhow, they arrived and were badly damaged. When my boss found passed me later that night on the street (just by chance) he told me of what happened and when I mentioned what I had insured them for, he literally lept with glee. Anyhow, Fedex Never paid the hospital the money and the hospital ruled that it would be too much of a bother to bring them to court over it. (Go figure).
Linux is appealing because of its price and performance, which can be less than with a comparable Unix-based system, Quandt said.
Less performance!! Woohoo!!
Reminds me of the Simpsons when Homer starts his own (internet?) company: "I'll make myself president!! No.... VICE president!!!"
You know, this guy's right. I didn't think I would come around so easily, but he is. Europe has seen so many of these things before. What would happen today if a large scale collective of a hate group (think of all those videos of the speeches where Hitler was speaking to the crowds) started up somewhere again. Would everyone here just pad it off with "Now now, you need to allow these things. They're just growing up" or something like that? Would you intervene when they started marching? Would you intervene only after they started to march as they had been publicly planning? Would you intervene before they attacked you?
KDE is not the perfect desktop. I can't create a KDE application and sell it without buying a QT license for over $2000.
I'm sorry. I just find this whole cyclical argument continuously hypocritical. You want to use GNOME because it is "completely" free or something like that, but then you try and knock down KDE because it makes you go through an extra loop when you want NOT to write software as edquivalently free as itself???
I'm sorry, I just find that really hypocritical and I hope it at least makes sense to some people
You know, my first thought when I read this was "Hey, it's a freeakin email-groupware-ogranizer program". It can't be small.
And then I thought. Oh. Yes. That was pretty funny of me. Those are a little bit different.... Not having used evolution for all that much but looking at it every now and then (I _do_ user kmail as my primary email program though), I can't comment. But I don't think anyone tries to hide the fact that they're trying to duplicate Outlook. And I wonder if anyone stepped back long enough to think "Is this a good idea?"
Heck, as far as a I know (And I could be really wrong here) it's not even like it loads modules or something like that. It's just one massive 700,000 line program.
You mention Ultima Online. I never tried it, but I remember seeing that they had released a non-supported linux client. Presumably therefore it was functional _in some sense_...
Otherwise you make a lot of sense. These methods are just two different ways of doing things. Last night I downloaded the loki demo to Kohan and, besides for having a good bit of fun, it ran very smoothly. Loki does its job well. But if I had the choice of not having a game on linux, and having it run on linux in non-native form (and working), I'd choose the latter.
I don't know about this place. Seems like those old dodgy linux startups we used to hear about when there was more ready money in the linux world.
I surfed over to the site as one of the comments mentioned that it was somewhat funny and tried to go to the store to see what their products would be. Konqueror halted me telling me that their certificate is self-signed and thus may not be trustworthy
Sure enough, the Certificate and the Issuer have the same address, email contact, everything!!
Does this *really* have something to do with Mandrake that I'm not catching? Why does is it under the Mandrake topic??
It would be extremely difficult to get a game company to spend the effort and time to develope a game that is a learning experience. That requires the user to put in some serious thought inorder to win. That requires, in short, some effort on the part of the user. That is simply not what the vast majority of people out there want, beer and blood, and damn that thinking crap!
I think you _do_ underestimate people a lot. Look at the Myst series. There would be a lot of hard work going into solving those. And they were best sellers. I think that it's just that no company puts in the effort. So no one has something like that to play and so there isn't something good to compare your company's game to. Sort of a vicious circle.
This is not tuning for a program, this is cutting corners. If the simple change of "quake" strings to "quack" causes a 15% drop in speed (if the hack really doesn't change anything else - would need to try other cards as well or something like that), then what they're doing is jumping routines.
I remember that Hercules once did this a good few years ago. Their drivers watched for repetitive procedures and then skipped some of the repititions, giving falsely high results. They got a pounding in the news because of it.
The new models which support MDLP can put up to 160 minutes (LP2) or 320 (LP4). You won't notice the difference in the former one. It's quite something.
I have a Sony MZ-R700 and I love it. Wouldn't go with the 500 because it lacks some critical things you'd end up paying for anyways (power brick) and it can't recharge in the unit. The 900 or 909 are great if you have the money, but the 700 does really everything you'd need it to.
I've seen one of the MD-N1's - those MD recorders which transfer at 8x I think. That's the way to go. I wasn't into MD much until you could do LP2 and get 160 minutes per disk (or 320 at LP4). That makes the difference and I can now put a whole host of things on one disk and shove it in my pocket, with the controller on my belt strap and the ear phones under my shirt coming up my back. Sounds funny but works like a charm...
"Third Party": Hello Sun? We'd like your operating system and would like to modify our applications to fully integrate with it."
"Sun": Good!
"Third Party": What are the chances that your current environment CDE/Motif, though a standard doesn't suck?"
"Sun": Well, ma'am, it does suck. I'm sorry.
"Third Party": Oh. Well about this new environment for Solaris you've been touting: what are the chances that, after paying top dollar for your computers and proprietary architecture and closed-source operating system, as well as three-times as much more for your support contracts (because I simply want to get the job done with the best possible tools available) I give a fart about some also-not-fully-free windowing toolkit?"
"Sun": Probably little, sir.
I thought Austin Meyer made hot dogs???
My simulator has a first name,
It's L - I - N - U - X,
My simulator has a second name,
It's M - E - Y - E - R...
(Sorry, that's all I can remember...)
It's fucked up antics like this that piss me off about the RIAA. Either I'm buying the music or I'm buying the media - which is it? From now on, if I buy a CD and find out its copyprotected, I am going to assume that what I've purchased is the media, not the license to listen to the music, and should I figure out how to rip MP3s from it then I'll freely trade them with whomever I can.
This is such a sweet point...
Right now I do this with MP3s. I have 7gigs of MY personal cds ripped to my home computer. I *never* have to dig through 100+ CDs to switch albums, and I can mix songs and albums in Winamp as quick as I can think of the the song I added to the playlist. Currently I also have my entire cd collection burned to cds in mp3 format. Down from 120-some cds to 11 cds. ALL of my 120+ albums of music, a mp3-cd player, AC adapter, car-adapters, and extra batteriess, all fit in one easily-portable cd carrier.
I think we have very different ideas of what is "portable". I don't want to bring "120 CDs" with me when I pop out somewhere. I want to bring 6 or 7. And I want to put everything in my front pocket. I have yet to see a CD player (or front pants pocket)
that can do this. And I think that MDs actually are cool.
Granted, bringing around 120 CDs on 11 is cool too - just not what I want. I don't want a whole case thing with me. Just something to slide into my pocket, and MD does that well.