Almost the same for me. I loved to write code in a cafe with a diet coke and tourist passing by.
Otherwise at home during sunset with opened windows to smell fresh air and some english pop.
Indeed, there is no operating system on the nintendo wii.
Basically when a game boots, it takes the all control on the platform. The only things that stays is some kind of IRQ that is used for networking. The "wiimote input library" is statically linked into each game. So it will not be changed easily.
More information on http://hackmii.com/2009/02/why-the-wii-will-never-get-any-better/
seriously, such flow would have been quickly spotted by computer geeks if the software source were available. And it would have been corrected by the community if it had been open source.
Most people does not need their dual core processor to work. why not just use power efficient machine such as eee box (around 20W), fit pc(around 10W)...
I understand we are not going to to this in day and we will have to wait to renew the machine set. Those machine can run windows XP and can probably do whatever a classical user need.
An other solution would be to use multi-headed setup to share a computer between two people since most graphic card have two outputs. It works perfectly well at home under linux. However, I don't know if windows can do that.
I believe that the repeated Prisoner's Dilema is most of the time badly explained. It is explained a infinitely repeated game game were at each step you have to make a decision.
An other model is to consider the meta strategy that is the strategy rule of each step to maximize the average outcome. Since the game is infinite, you do not care about the initialization of the process. Recall that the goal is not to have more "points" than the other player. It is just to have the most point possible
Providing the game will not stay in (not defect, defect) for a long time, the only two long term strategies are (defect, defect) and (not defect, not defect). The latter is clearly a better one.
In France, Engineer is a diploma delivered by Engineering School. And you should not call yourself Engineer if you do not have this diploma. In practice the term is also used for experienced technicians.
Some people just play a game to let the time flow. So they are playing yet another RPGs while other people watch soap opera. These players enjoy the repetitive monster bashing in a JRPG.
Some other player (like me) do not play often but are no casual gamers. They will take one game and really play it. They are not conscious that some characters could have had a previous life. Or that this game mechanism has been used 20 times.
There are player that search for the graal of video games (like the author) that are extremely critic over the innovation and fine tuning.
You make me think of a new feature to add (is already present ?) in packet managers to extract the list of package that have been installed by the user. You can even add a mapping function from a version of the distro to another one to do hardware migration easily.
There is two different things. Being able to release software by yourself. And having well integrated softwares and insurances that an update will not break anything.
The first point is ALWAYS provided by a linux distribution. So do not compare them to Apple that try to remove software freedom.
If you develop a big/useful softwareor to use your term"serious corporate software", It will be packaged by the distro guys, whatever the developers want. The distro guys are going to do it anyway. What you can do as a corporate business that wrote software is to pay a developer/techician/it/idnotknowwho to check the integration/do the integration in major distribution. Do not tell me it increases the cost. Most software have different installers or update their installer when a new version of windows come out.
I am not sure the market share is relevant since Linux (which is in fact not a single well defined entity) is not playing in the market.
You can state that Asus failed using Linux on their EEE PC. But not that Linux failed.
I believe that now Linux is known by the public. When I met someone that do not know Linux, I can tell him "You know this not-a-windows thing that was on a set of Dell or EEE PC".
Few hardware devices and peripherals come with Linux software and drivers.
If hardware vendors released the spec, the problem would not exists.
All Linux consumer applications should come with easy to use installers which will work with all of the major Linux distros.
Wrong, all Linux distros should package Linux consumer application. Developers develop and distros distribute. If developers distribute, you'll have problem with derivatives and compatibility. It is the distro responsability to provide integrated software and good user look and feel. If the developers distribute you will lose that.
People should never have to install drivers and software from a command line unless they want to.
Most of the time, it is not required. However, some corner case still apply but they are not that easy to reach.
I do not see how those things are complicated in ubuntu ? Installing a software is Administration->install software. Reading a video is as simple a double click on it.
if you have to tinker with linux to make it better than windows, its not better.
I do not see any contradiction. You seem to quantify efficiency as I do nothing and it works. I quantify efficiency as once I got the thing well set. I am going to be the most efficient.
When I got a linux machine, I spent almost one day to have it the way I need it : drop kde/gnome to install a tilling window manager, configure shortcuts, install my emacs/dnotify/latex/xpdf compilation environment, my IM/IRC/mail setup in screen, automatic backups using local NFS and external ssh account, de-activating this fucking PC speaker I do not want to hear... It took me some time to reach this configuration, but once its done, I am much more efficient than I will ever be using a crappy (read proprietary/close) software stack.
how does it help if there are more ex-windows newbs on ubuntu?
Those guys are going to get angry if a main service does not work on linux. It creates pression groups that tends to get more open interfaces. Internet Explorer specific website tends to die due to other web browsers. Perhaps one day we will no longer need MS office compatibility.
netbooks were a playing field where both windows and linux had to compete from start, without any external forces. inspite of an early start, linux has now failed.
I am not sure it has failed. On one hand, I met a girl that did not even know her eeepc was not running windows. She understood something was different and when she needed something, she just asked google "how to do foo bar on eeepc 700". And it worked.
On the other hand, I know some guy that wanted to install insert-windows-software-here on his eeepc. When I told him that this-alternative-opensource-software will be as good, he looked at it 20 second before rejecting it because the button the icons in the menus were not the one he was used to see. You just can not do anything against that. Most linux rejection I saw were due to cosmetic changes or to MS office incompatibilities.
There are some apps from 2 decades ago that are binary-compatible and can run on a modern Windows box.
Who needs binary compatibility if you have the source code ? I am still using software written 2 decades ago such as xfig, emacs, latex without any problem. Most of the time, binary compatibility implies crappy hardware compatibility that you do not really want. Moreover, a twenty years old application can easily run in an emulation system.
BTW, twenty years old applications run perfectly in dosbox...
well, tc is used on research grid on networking, tcp slow start, peer to peer simulation...
It is clearly not new and I do not understand why this is posted on/. today...
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Almost the same for me. I loved to write code in a cafe with a diet coke and tourist passing by. Otherwise at home during sunset with opened windows to smell fresh air and some english pop.
Indeed, there is no operating system on the nintendo wii. Basically when a game boots, it takes the all control on the platform. The only things that stays is some kind of IRQ that is used for networking. The "wiimote input library" is statically linked into each game. So it will not be changed easily. More information on http://hackmii.com/2009/02/why-the-wii-will-never-get-any-better/
Have you tried the homebrew port of quake ? Well, it is a 15 years old game, but it is nice to play it on the wii.
seriously, such flow would have been quickly spotted by computer geeks if the software source were available. And it would have been corrected by the community if it had been open source.
Most people does not need their dual core processor to work. why not just use power efficient machine such as eee box (around 20W), fit pc(around 10W)... I understand we are not going to to this in day and we will have to wait to renew the machine set. Those machine can run windows XP and can probably do whatever a classical user need.
An other solution would be to use multi-headed setup to share a computer between two people since most graphic card have two outputs. It works perfectly well at home under linux. However, I don't know if windows can do that.
wake on LAN ?
I believe that the repeated Prisoner's Dilema is most of the time badly explained. It is explained a infinitely repeated game game were at each step you have to make a decision.
An other model is to consider the meta strategy that is the strategy rule of each step to maximize the average outcome. Since the game is infinite, you do not care about the initialization of the process. Recall that the goal is not to have more "points" than the other player. It is just to have the most point possible
Providing the game will not stay in (not defect, defect) for a long time, the only two long term strategies are (defect, defect) and (not defect, not defect). The latter is clearly a better one.
In France, Engineer is a diploma delivered by Engineering School. And you should not call yourself Engineer if you do not have this diploma. In practice the term is also used for experienced technicians.
Some people just play a game to let the time flow. So they are playing yet another RPGs while other people watch soap opera. These players enjoy the repetitive monster bashing in a JRPG.
Some other player (like me) do not play often but are no casual gamers. They will take one game and really play it. They are not conscious that some characters could have had a previous life. Or that this game mechanism has been used 20 times.
There are player that search for the graal of video games (like the author) that are extremely critic over the innovation and fine tuning.
GGP stated, he used openoffice. Moreover, It was intended to be a joke. :)
PS: nice screenshot :)
You make me think of a new feature to add (is already present ?) in packet managers to extract the list of package that have been installed by the user. You can even add a mapping function from a version of the distro to another one to do hardware migration easily.
There is two different things. Being able to release software by yourself. And having well integrated softwares and insurances that an update will not break anything.
The first point is ALWAYS provided by a linux distribution. So do not compare them to Apple that try to remove software freedom.
If you develop a big/useful softwareor to use your term"serious corporate software", It will be packaged by the distro guys, whatever the developers want. The distro guys are going to do it anyway. What you can do as a corporate business that wrote software is to pay a developer/techician/it/idnotknowwho to check the integration/do the integration in major distribution. Do not tell me it increases the cost. Most software have different installers or update their installer when a new version of windows come out.
I am not sure the market share is relevant since Linux (which is in fact not a single well defined entity) is not playing in the market.
You can state that Asus failed using Linux on their EEE PC. But not that Linux failed.
I believe that now Linux is known by the public. When I met someone that do not know Linux, I can tell him "You know this not-a-windows thing that was on a set of Dell or EEE PC".
xandros is indeed a bad distribution. On ubuntu, it is easy as Administration->install software->flash-player
Few hardware devices and peripherals come with Linux software and drivers.
If hardware vendors released the spec, the problem would not exists.
All Linux consumer applications should come with easy to use installers which will work with all of the major Linux distros.
Wrong, all Linux distros should package Linux consumer application. Developers develop and distros distribute. If developers distribute, you'll have problem with derivatives and compatibility. It is the distro responsability to provide integrated software and good user look and feel. If the developers distribute you will lose that.
People should never have to install drivers and software from a command line unless they want to.
Most of the time, it is not required. However, some corner case still apply but they are not that easy to reach.
To me, Linux is born in 2002. It was almost impossible to use before. And works almost fine from this point.
I do not see how those things are complicated in ubuntu ? Installing a software is Administration->install software. Reading a video is as simple a double click on it.
that also has openoffice when I need to work on a project.
Impossible, you need Microsoft Office TM to do actual work !
if you have to tinker with linux to make it better than windows, its not better.
I do not see any contradiction. You seem to quantify efficiency as I do nothing and it works. I quantify efficiency as once I got the thing well set. I am going to be the most efficient.
When I got a linux machine, I spent almost one day to have it the way I need it : drop kde/gnome to install a tilling window manager, configure shortcuts, install my emacs/dnotify/latex/xpdf compilation environment, my IM/IRC/mail setup in screen, automatic backups using local NFS and external ssh account, de-activating this fucking PC speaker I do not want to hear... It took me some time to reach this configuration, but once its done, I am much more efficient than I will ever be using a crappy (read proprietary/close) software stack.
how does it help if there are more ex-windows newbs on ubuntu?
Those guys are going to get angry if a main service does not work on linux. It creates pression groups that tends to get more open interfaces. Internet Explorer specific website tends to die due to other web browsers. Perhaps one day we will no longer need MS office compatibility.
netbooks were a playing field where both windows and linux had to compete from start, without any external forces. inspite of an early start, linux has now failed.
I am not sure it has failed. On one hand, I met a girl that did not even know her eeepc was not running windows. She understood something was different and when she needed something, she just asked google "how to do foo bar on eeepc 700". And it worked.
On the other hand, I know some guy that wanted to install insert-windows-software-here on his eeepc. When I told him that this-alternative-opensource-software will be as good, he looked at it 20 second before rejecting it because the button the icons in the menus were not the one he was used to see. You just can not do anything against that. Most linux rejection I saw were due to cosmetic changes or to MS office incompatibilities.
There are some apps from 2 decades ago that are binary-compatible and can run on a modern Windows box.
Who needs binary compatibility if you have the source code ? I am still using software written 2 decades ago such as xfig, emacs, latex without any problem. Most of the time, binary compatibility implies crappy hardware compatibility that you do not really want. Moreover, a twenty years old application can easily run in an emulation system.
BTW, twenty years old applications run perfectly in dosbox...
... and ten useful one.
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=toto.iso
everything in one file. no video or audio glitches.
well, tc is used on research grid on networking, tcp slow start, peer to peer simulation... It is clearly not new and I do not understand why this is posted on /. today...