I just saw your Junkbuster tag, and i had to say something about it.
Everyone seems to be pro-Junkbuster on/. these days. Why? I don't know why!
So you don't like banner ads. Well, guess what. Most websites are 90% if not 100% subsidized and sponsored by banner ads - in other words, if you don't view the banners, they don't get any money.
You have the obligation to view ads, even if you don't click on them. You don't even have to look at them! But they give the websites that you love enough money to stay in business. Going without them is cheating.
First of all, I meant "yet" in the context that "we don't know why yet". I don't care if they are ever OSS or not, which is perfectly obvious from my post.
You still don't understand "old-school". Old-school, as a commonly used term, implies an older method of thinking. Open Source is actually as old a method of thinking as far as computers are concerned as closed source is... look at the gnu page and you will see that examples are listed somewhere of "hackers" sharing code, games, etc. on large timeshare systems.
I use X4.0.1 and the current drivers, while slow, don't give me any weird problems on switch to console. That might be TNT1 specific, I think older non-3d drivers did that too.
Sure, Linux gaming won't get much better if there aren't good 3d drivers available. Oh wait, look, I can flamebait you by saying Blender isn't open source (or is it? not sure:). But I don't really need to. Blender is a decent 3D app save for it's really obfuscated interface.
But what is really missing from Linux is a proper media HAL, like DirectX. There should be a/dev/opengl driver which links to Mesa or whatever you use. There should be a/dev/3dsound (or at least/dev/back-speakers:) and there should be a/dev/joystick with force feedback and all those other things. And those will be a long time coming.
And yes, I do dualboot between Debian and Windows. That is a troll on your part. Why would I say that if I didn't? By saying that, I effectifly tell you that yes, I do like Linux. Yes, I do like the GPL. But no,, I don't care too much if some things I use are GPL'd or not. It doesn't bug me to see that I can't edit the source code, becuase even if I had it, I still wouldn't be able to.
But then putting more than a couple thouand pages on it would prove useless, because it would take forever to search it. And also, what if these future people don't have magnifiing glasses?
Besides the usual information of history, I saw other posts indicating that it might be used to build a civilization from scratch. If this is so, textbooks about _everything_ would be useful.
Another thing they could include is "everything", the website! What other place offers exterme insite into the way a geek thinks, about absolutely everything? Everything2 as well:).
Besides just the disk, here's what I think should be included:
1. Some sort of reader, made from extremely durable equipment. This reader must have the capability to display the information on a screen and on printout (thermal transfer, probably) so that people can decode the information.
2. Some sort of power source. A solar cell, or somethign along these lines would work well. It should not require any fuel from outside the time capsule.
3. Some sort of simple language guide, such as the one placed on various deep-space probes which helps with the number system and various mathematical operands. Combined with a pictographical system equating words to images, this could teach the language to far-future archeaologists and allow them to figure out the rest of the system.
4. Any easy interface. We're not talking E or Sawfish here; the system will need to be web-browser like but extremely simple and offer pictographical hints for difficult words.
Any other ideas about what would be required for usage of this disc?
I ran X4 on my debian box for about three weeks, no problem. Then apt-get wanted to upgrade X3.3.x and did, when I wasn't looking. So my X broke and it was fun as hell trying to uninstall X4...
Solution: Debian packs for everything. I will never compile anything again.
And I'm 16 and I have never spent any money over the internet. In fact, most people who are ON the internet have not bought anythign over it yet. Not to say that i would not, it's just that my mom won't let me use her visa. I have a few monetary obligations, such as stretching my $16/month plus $10/week for mowing lawn in order to buy clothes for myself. So I am limited to spending under $20. You don't fit the average demographic, I don't think... which is probably good for you:)
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The reg'lar 5.32 drivers give me full screen anti aliasing, and also better GL drivers which are more stable.
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Then again, neither are the 5.32 series Detonators from Reactor Critical, but I use those
Happy fragging with fast drivers
I just saw your Junkbuster tag, and i had to say something about it.
/. these days. Why?
Everyone seems to be pro-Junkbuster on
I don't know why!
So you don't like banner ads. Well, guess what. Most websites are 90% if not 100% subsidized and sponsored by banner ads - in other words, if you don't view the banners, they don't get any money.
You have the obligation to view ads, even if you don't click on them. You don't even have to look at them! But they give the websites that you love enough money to stay in business. Going without them is cheating.
Yes, the big competitor thing is that I will finally get my Macross Plus DVD's back.
They've had them for months!
Aren't trolls intentional flamebait?
That was not intentional flamebait.
That was my opinion.
So you make my opinion feel worthless?
You make it feel trashed, and stomped apon?
Just like those bullies at Columbine. But I'm not a fucking psycho who will shoot you. I'll just remember this day.
Communist, limiting my freedom of speech by subtracting from my freedom of association.
First of all, I meant "yet" in the context that "we don't know why yet". I don't care if they are ever OSS or not, which is perfectly obvious from my post.
:). But I don't really need to. Blender is a decent 3D app save for it's really obfuscated interface.
/dev/opengl driver which links to Mesa or whatever you use. There should be a /dev/3dsound (or at least /dev/back-speakers :) and there should be a /dev/joystick with force feedback and all those other things. And those will be a long time coming.
You still don't understand "old-school". Old-school, as a commonly used term, implies an older method of thinking. Open Source is actually as old a method of thinking as far as computers are concerned as closed source is... look at the gnu page and you will see that examples are listed somewhere of "hackers" sharing code, games, etc. on large timeshare systems.
I use X4.0.1 and the current drivers, while slow, don't give me any weird problems on switch to console. That might be TNT1 specific, I think older non-3d drivers did that too.
Sure, Linux gaming won't get much better if there aren't good 3d drivers available. Oh wait, look, I can flamebait you by saying Blender isn't open source (or is it? not sure
But what is really missing from Linux is a proper media HAL, like DirectX. There should be a
And yes, I do dualboot between Debian and Windows. That is a troll on your part. Why would I say that if I didn't? By saying that, I effectifly tell you that yes, I do like Linux. Yes, I do like the GPL. But no,, I don't care too much if some things I use are GPL'd or not. It doesn't bug me to see that I can't edit the source code, becuase even if I had it, I still wouldn't be able to.
i love your sig... c64 roxor
:)
there is linux for c64 somewhere, don't remeber where, saw it running a webserver
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But then putting more than a couple thouand pages on it would prove useless, because it would take forever to search it. And also, what if these future people don't have magnifiing glasses?
Genesis was originally Jewish
sealand? like in the chrysalids?
IN order to read it, on "hacker" operating systems like "linux", download DeCSS and place the disc in you DVD-ROM drive....
...oops, wrong subject
Besides the usual information of history, I saw other posts indicating that it might be used to build a civilization from scratch. If this is so, textbooks about _everything_ would be useful.
:).
Another thing they could include is "everything", the website! What other place offers exterme insite into the way a geek thinks, about absolutely everything? Everything2 as well
Besides just the disk, here's what I think should be included:
1. Some sort of reader, made from extremely durable equipment. This reader must have the capability to display the information on a screen and on printout (thermal transfer, probably) so that people can decode the information.
2. Some sort of power source. A solar cell, or somethign along these lines would work well. It should not require any fuel from outside the time capsule.
3. Some sort of simple language guide, such as the one placed on various deep-space probes which helps with the number system and various mathematical operands. Combined with a pictographical system equating words to images, this could teach the language to far-future archeaologists and allow them to figure out the rest of the system.
4. Any easy interface. We're not talking E or Sawfish here; the system will need to be web-browser like but extremely simple and offer pictographical hints for difficult words.
Any other ideas about what would be required for usage of this disc?
Aaah, but you miss the obvious:
I am an Idiot who thinks Documentation Sucks.
Seriously. I like to go ahead and try to do things without reading docs.
Then I like to bitch about it afterwards.
Why? Becuase I love installing OS's! Even Microsoft ones! I love trying new OS's and GUIs and interfaces and YOU NAME IT becuase it is fun.
But I could not find even one thing which X4 added to my X xperience. DRI did not work on my TNT2. So it suxor. 3d is for windows.
I ran X4 on my debian box for about three weeks, no problem.
Then apt-get wanted to upgrade X3.3.x and did, when I wasn't looking.
So my X broke and it was fun as hell trying to uninstall X4...
Solution: Debian packs for everything. I will never compile anything again.
And I'm 16 and I have never spent any money over the internet. :)
In fact, most people who are ON the internet have not bought anythign over it yet. Not to say that i would not, it's just that my mom won't let me use her visa.
I have a few monetary obligations, such as stretching my $16/month plus $10/week for mowing lawn in order to buy clothes for myself.
So I am limited to spending under $20.
You don't fit the average demographic, I don't think... which is probably good for you