I use apt for rpm on redhat, and it doesn't cost me a penny. I stay update to date for free! Debian stable is probably the best counterexample to your claim because it is also freely updatable, and it is extremely easy to update debian systems.
Updating Debian stable is also easy to setup so that it is automatic. You have to make sure that you use a trusted update source though, and a trusted communication channel too.
That site is full of lies! How come when I voted in the question of "Should the US have asked the UN for help?". I answered "yes", and then an advertisement for Ann Coulter's book "Treason" popped up. Then I clicked back, and clicked "view results" to see how other people are voting. Doing that brought up an ad for an anti-Islam book.
Guess the site is one of them "neo-Nazi Trojan Horses". Creepy stuff.
Nah, I can notice a difference between 60hz and 85hz refresh on my CRT, but I can't see any difference above 85hz. I have a highend CRT that can handle around 160hz refresh rate, but above 85hz noone I know can tell the difference.
So maybe 85hz is a better number for the max FPS our eyes can differentiate up to.
Exactly, for hardcore gamers, there is no maximum needed framerate. I play allot of Quake (the original one)... that is, Quakeworld (the original one with improved netcode), and the higher your framerate, the lower your lag. Quake 3 has a minimum possible latency of 50ms, while Quakeworld's minimum is tied to your framerate. At 72fps, you get 14ms of latency on a good LAN. At 500fps, you get a 2ms.
This has many benefits such as being able to jump higher and farther, fall more slowly, and you do more damage with your lighting gun... which back in 1997 wasn't the most powerful weapon because gamers averaged 30fps. Today they average much higher than that, so the lightning gun is now the king of weapons in Quake. It is like a really long light saber when you have a 500fps. You kill whatever you touch with it.
For many reasons, it is a community standard to cap the client's framerate at 72fps. Using a higher framerate is considered cheating because it changes the game too much.
I have been a big supporter of Media Player Classic on Windows. Whenever I see people make a big deal out of how Mplayer can play every media format... I point out that MPC has been doing that for months now... doing it better than Mplayer.
If I was still using Windows, I would be using MPC. I don't know why a Windows user wouldn't use it.
However, I had data loss issues with Windows, so I use Linux and Mplayer now. Mplayer is almost just as good as MPC.
I second that recommendation. Before I switched all of my computers over to Linux (Redhat 9), I was using Media Player Classic. I never used it to play DVDs or VCDs... so I can't comment on that, but for every other video format, it was the best!
Media Player Classic is so good that if you use Windows, but don't use Media Player Classic... YOU ARE MISSING OUT!
Mplayer is the best thing there is for Linux, though.
Is Slashdot getting paid for these Segway articles? I mean, really, this was the most overhyped toy EVER! Not only that, but Slashdot has been guitly of posting blatent plugs for this overpriced scooter. Astroturfing if lame. Slashdot backed asrtoturf is even worse.
Fat Tire is the real best American beer. I think that most beers taste like crap, but Fat Tire actually tastes good. Gets you intoxicated really fast too!
Another method is to use Synaptic on Redhat, which is a free apt service. You can use a nice GUI to search for new or alternative kernels, click on them and select install.
Installing, removing, and upgrading software is far easier on Linux, as good Linux distros have a centralized application for maintaining their software. Windows has no equivalent. There is no way to make sure that AIM is up to date, as is your ssh client, as well as your IRC client, etc... You can do it for some core Microsoft stuff, but that doesn't cover much. So you are left on your own with regards to tracking your installed software and keeping it up to date.
Here is a recent picture of closet Linux user, W Bush, after hearing this recent statement by SCO. I wouldn't be surprised if every Linux user out there has the same look on their face.
You missed his point. John Carmack was preaching the importance of incremental development. You chisel away at the problem, bit by bit. There is never an integration of two large subsystems... instead there is a continuous mutation of the solution.
Are you sure that Quake 3 doesn't use any code from earlier Quakes? I think it does use modified Quake 1 and 2 code. We won't even know for sure when the Quake 3 source is released, because you can start from one code base and iteratively mutate it into something completely different.
I agree that in some ways Bluecurve is a start in the right direction because the user does need a consistant user interface......but if you want to give the user a consistant user interface, then why go about it by offering two different interfaces that you tried to hack into looking similar to eachother?
Why not just have some balls and choose 1 window manager, and then customize that 1 window manager for usability? Sounds like a far more tractable solution.
I think that Redhat is doing Bluecurve because they didn't want to flat out drop KDE... so this way they can please both crouds. HOWEVER, you can't please everyone, and the whole point of Bluecurve is to make Linux more consistant in interface. Bluecurve was a brave step for Redhat, but also a cowardly step.
Personally, I don't care which desktop they choose, though I do prefer KDE. I am sure no matter which one they choose, as long as they focus on making their choice as usable as possible... Redhat will succeed.
This is why we have distros. For example, people use Redhat because they pick and choose what they think the best software components are for the job. They also pick the default window manager.
I am using basically a completely default Redhat 9 install, and I never had to choose one window manager or another, in order to get usability. Sure, Nautulis kind of sucks for browsing files, but if you turn off all previewing, it is usable.
Anyway, it is the Distros job to make the tough choices. Some distros choose to make more of these tough choices than others. Redhat, Suse, and Mandrake make lots of choices for the user... while Debian, Gentoo, and Slackware make very few choices.
If a user wants an easy ride, they go with one distro out of the first set of 3. They are all effectively the same in terms of usability.
If a user wants freedom of choice, then they go with one of the other distros (actually there are hundreds of distros to choose from I just listed my favorites).
You just double-click the address bar, type in your google search, and then click the "search" button. Hence you have the functionality of both an address bar and a google bar in one.
Note that double-clicking the address bar highlights all of the text in it, so when you type what you want... it overwrites the previous entry.
Come on people, this is basic set theory. The union of two sets is not all the elements from both sets minus the intersection of both sets. The union of two sets is simply all the elements from both sets.
But you are correct in that the guy meant intersection. Your explanation of union just freaked me out.
Also, while logic and set theory share many concepts and relationships between them... logic and set theory are two different things.
Don't you remember the Quakeworld release, when Carmack removed the player limit cap? Over 64 people crammed into one of the death32 maps, which were just conglomerations of 3 original dm maps.
I can't remember the exact number of people on the server... but at the time it was done, the hardware couldn't handle it, and things ran to a crawl! Clients couldn't take all of the models on the screen at one time. The server couldn't handle the bandwidth requirements.
After that little experiment, people started questioning whether or not having a server with so many players on it actually improved the fun.
Like you implied. Its better to have a small map like dm4, dm6, or House of Chython... and maybe 32 people... if you want cluster fuck matches. Large numbers of people was just a bragging rights thing for the Quakeworld netcode.
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I use apt for rpm on redhat, and it doesn't cost me a penny. I stay update to date for free! Debian stable is probably the best counterexample to your claim because it is also freely updatable, and it is extremely easy to update debian systems.
Updating Debian stable is also easy to setup so that it is automatic. You have to make sure that you use a trusted update source though, and a trusted communication channel too.
That site is full of lies! How come when I voted in the question of "Should the US have asked the UN for help?". I answered "yes", and then an advertisement for Ann Coulter's book "Treason" popped up. Then I clicked back, and clicked "view results" to see how other people are voting. Doing that brought up an ad for an anti-Islam book.
Guess the site is one of them "neo-Nazi Trojan Horses". Creepy stuff.
Nah, I can notice a difference between 60hz and 85hz refresh on my CRT, but I can't see any difference above 85hz. I have a highend CRT that can handle around 160hz refresh rate, but above 85hz noone I know can tell the difference.
So maybe 85hz is a better number for the max FPS our eyes can differentiate up to.
Exactly, for hardcore gamers, there is no maximum needed framerate. I play allot of Quake (the original one)... that is, Quakeworld (the original one with improved netcode), and the higher your framerate, the lower your lag. Quake 3 has a minimum possible latency of 50ms, while Quakeworld's minimum is tied to your framerate. At 72fps, you get 14ms of latency on a good LAN. At 500fps, you get a 2ms.
This has many benefits such as being able to jump higher and farther, fall more slowly, and you do more damage with your lighting gun... which back in 1997 wasn't the most powerful weapon because gamers averaged 30fps. Today they average much higher than that, so the lightning gun is now the king of weapons in Quake. It is like a really long light saber when you have a 500fps. You kill whatever you touch with it.
For many reasons, it is a community standard to cap the client's framerate at 72fps. Using a higher framerate is considered cheating because it changes the game too much.
Whats next? Is the RIAA going to claim that weapons of mass destruction can also be found on P2P networks?
No Linux release?
I'm not buying it then.
I have been a big supporter of Media Player Classic on Windows. Whenever I see people make a big deal out of how Mplayer can play every media format... I point out that MPC has been doing that for months now... doing it better than Mplayer.
If I was still using Windows, I would be using MPC. I don't know why a Windows user wouldn't use it.
However, I had data loss issues with Windows, so I use Linux and Mplayer now. Mplayer is almost just as good as MPC.
I second that recommendation. Before I switched all of my computers over to Linux (Redhat 9), I was using Media Player Classic. I never used it to play DVDs or VCDs... so I can't comment on that, but for every other video format, it was the best!
Media Player Classic is so good that if you use Windows, but don't use Media Player Classic... YOU ARE MISSING OUT!
Mplayer is the best thing there is for Linux, though.
Is Slashdot getting paid for these Segway articles? I mean, really, this was the most overhyped toy EVER! Not only that, but Slashdot has been guitly of posting blatent plugs for this overpriced scooter. Astroturfing if lame. Slashdot backed asrtoturf is even worse.
Fat Tire is the real best American beer. I think that most beers taste like crap, but Fat Tire actually tastes good. Gets you intoxicated really fast too!
This small company has other good beers. Check them out.
Another method is to use Synaptic on Redhat, which is a free apt service. You can use a nice GUI to search for new or alternative kernels, click on them and select install.
Installing, removing, and upgrading software is far easier on Linux, as good Linux distros have a centralized application for maintaining their software. Windows has no equivalent. There is no way to make sure that AIM is up to date, as is your ssh client, as well as your IRC client, etc... You can do it for some core Microsoft stuff, but that doesn't cover much. So you are left on your own with regards to tracking your installed software and keeping it up to date.
Hence all the worm crap.
Here is a recent picture of closet Linux user, W Bush, after hearing this recent statement by SCO. I wouldn't be surprised if every Linux user out there has the same look on their face.
SCO, is it a "yes" or a "no"? Just choose!
You, good sir, have just doubled my efficiency!
You missed his point. John Carmack was preaching the importance of incremental development. You chisel away at the problem, bit by bit. There is never an integration of two large subsystems... instead there is a continuous mutation of the solution.
Are you sure that Quake 3 doesn't use any code from earlier Quakes? I think it does use modified Quake 1 and 2 code. We won't even know for sure when the Quake 3 source is released, because you can start from one code base and iteratively mutate it into something completely different.
I agree that in some ways Bluecurve is a start in the right direction because the user does need a consistant user interface... ...but if you want to give the user a consistant user interface, then why go about it by offering two different interfaces that you tried to hack into looking similar to eachother?
Why not just have some balls and choose 1 window manager, and then customize that 1 window manager for usability? Sounds like a far more tractable solution.
I think that Redhat is doing Bluecurve because they didn't want to flat out drop KDE... so this way they can please both crouds. HOWEVER, you can't please everyone, and the whole point of Bluecurve is to make Linux more consistant in interface. Bluecurve was a brave step for Redhat, but also a cowardly step.
Personally, I don't care which desktop they choose, though I do prefer KDE. I am sure no matter which one they choose, as long as they focus on making their choice as usable as possible... Redhat will succeed.
This is why we have distros. For example, people use Redhat because they pick and choose what they think the best software components are for the job. They also pick the default window manager.
I am using basically a completely default Redhat 9 install, and I never had to choose one window manager or another, in order to get usability. Sure, Nautulis kind of sucks for browsing files, but if you turn off all previewing, it is usable.
Anyway, it is the Distros job to make the tough choices. Some distros choose to make more of these tough choices than others. Redhat, Suse, and Mandrake make lots of choices for the user... while Debian, Gentoo, and Slackware make very few choices.
If a user wants an easy ride, they go with one distro out of the first set of 3. They are all effectively the same in terms of usability.
If a user wants freedom of choice, then they go with one of the other distros (actually there are hundreds of distros to choose from I just listed my favorites).
You just double-click the address bar, type in your google search, and then click the "search" button. Hence you have the functionality of both an address bar and a google bar in one.
Note that double-clicking the address bar highlights all of the text in it, so when you type what you want... it overwrites the previous entry.
I rip all of my CDs to FLAC, which is the PNG of audio. It is an open free lossless compression audio format. Google it, you will like it :)
Two sets are equal even if one has duplicates of an item and the other doesn't.
Come on people, this is basic set theory. The union of two sets is not all the elements from both sets minus the intersection of both sets. The union of two sets is simply all the elements from both sets.
But you are correct in that the guy meant intersection. Your explanation of union just freaked me out.
Also, while logic and set theory share many concepts and relationships between them... logic and set theory are two different things.
Yeah, that whole undecidability thing getting in the way again.
Don't you remember the Quakeworld release, when Carmack removed the player limit cap? Over 64 people crammed into one of the death32 maps, which were just conglomerations of 3 original dm maps.
I can't remember the exact number of people on the server... but at the time it was done, the hardware couldn't handle it, and things ran to a crawl! Clients couldn't take all of the models on the screen at one time. The server couldn't handle the bandwidth requirements.
After that little experiment, people started questioning whether or not having a server with so many players on it actually improved the fun.
Like you implied. Its better to have a small map like dm4, dm6, or House of Chython... and maybe 32 people... if you want cluster fuck matches. Large numbers of people was just a bragging rights thing for the Quakeworld netcode.
The GPL is very clear on what you can and cannot do with Linux. Can you justify otherwise? (Please don't answer that if you work for SCO.)
Why did they use the boring Quake, when the much faster, more furious, and more fun Quake is also opensource?