Ancient examples of conquest helping society don't apply today. We have mass communcations and mass travel. Its not like we need Mongols to open up a silk road. We have overnight air shipping and the internet. The world is too small these days to have people motivated by worl conquest. Its time we moved the conquest thing to other planets.
Why lump Debian/Gentoo? Because they are noncommercial and have good package management systems, while the other 3 you listed are commercial and have less good package management systems?
Debian and Gentoo are still significantly different, as far as I understand. Though as time goes on, Debian might adopt some of Gentoo's strengths. Of course, I have only used Debian and not Gentoo... so I am just talking of things of know of, not things I know.
Does SuSe still pollute their distro with closed source stuff? Debian is nice because it keeps the non-free stuff separated from the free stuff, so its your choice with regards to pollution.
Debian is a little too hardcore for my tastes though. I recommend Knoppix in place of straight Debian, as Knoppix is a Debian based distro that is easy to get up and running.
Don't those computers use a 6502 CPU or a CPU in that family? That little sucker was a king in his day, powering the Atari game systems, the NES, SNES, and Apple II. Of course, it wasn't exactly a 6502 in each of those, but some varient. The 6502 is a poor-man's RISC CPU. There are even opensource VHDL implementations of it.
I didn't think I did (criticize Israel)... at least not directly. The USA is at fault in my opinion. Without the aid of my government this crap wouldn't still be happening in Palestine. I mean, have you ever stop framed news footage from the fighting in the Middle East? You ever notice how much USA military hardware is being used by any and all sides in these conflicts?
Sure lots of USA killing machines are used by Israel, but you will also see Palestinians using USA machine guns, though they mainly use AKs. Oh and don't even get me started on the WMDs that Sadaam had in the late 80s and early 90s... the ones he used to kill thousands of Kurds, Shias, and Iranians.
Its just strange that people think that giving out weapons to two people that want to fight eachother is somehow supposed to pacify the situation. Hell, if you were at a bar in the states and a fight was about to break out, but before it did you gave both people a gun... I think you would end up in jail with everyone that ended up fighting.
After yet another Windows crash resulting in filesystem corruption, I switched 100% to Linux. I try to stay away from Wine as it typically requires using MS dlls. I am done with that company. Sorry.
From what I understand, MPC could probably be made to work on Wine if you fucked with enough settings and leached the right DLLs from Windows. Thats the thing with Wine, if you are willing to screw around with settings, recompile the latest Wine or a previous one... just about anything can be made to work. MPC ain't that much better than Mplayer to warrent the effort.
Supposedly the next version of Mplayer called M2 or whatever, is going to have greatly improved seeking... as well as improvements just about across the board. Mplayer is the future, in my opinion.
Thanks for reminding me about the AAC codec. I installed it up here at work, but I think that I neglected to install it at home. Better make a mental note because I think you might be right about the Quicktime not having audio thing.
I won't go as far as a recompile though. I like to only install software through apt-get. Keeps things clean on Redhat that way. Just installing the codec might be enough.
The popular trend has been total and utter disenfranchisement of the Palestinian people. Deprive them of unity as a state (no Palestinian State) and deprive them of the unity as a race (Semites only means Jews). It is subtle, but a strange movement to erase the Palestinians.
Sure lots of Palestinians are bad people, but lots are good people and lots of somewhere inbetween. Why write off an entire ethnicity? Sounds like defacto ethnic cleansing.
I bet nobody is responsible for protecting fucking copyright in Palestine. I think they're all a little busy with exploding buses, suicide bombers at Sbarro, and destroying Isreali towns. Something tells me this guy at ES5 is not afraid of a subpoena. He probably wishes he could afford a vacation to US federal prison.
Uh dude, there aren't any Nazis here, so chill out. You need to redo your google search because this isn't a neo-nazi site. Read the title, it says "News for nerds", NOT "News for Nazis".
Knowing our government, they will probably just choose to help increase the defacto ethnic cleansing being carried out in Palestine, as opposed to creating an official Palestinian state.
Why take the long process of taking some guy to court, when you can just kill him and everyone that works for him?
I got a little better performance than that. Basically I had enough time to pick my nose, and then BT had the file downloaded for me.
BitTorrent is also pretty good at error checking, making sure your download is correct. Now just imagine if the official Matrix site used their fat server to serve the file via BitTorrent! THAT would have been some serious speed!
It would have basically been like everyone being the only person downloading from their server.
Same here, no windows codecs and freshrpms mplayer works perfectly. There are some obscure warez MOVs and RMs that do not play correctly in it... but then they also had problems with just about every other player.
I am using a default desktop Redhat 9 install, with apt for rpm, and I used synaptic to install gmplayer from freshrpms (great free service btw).
Anyway, all I had to do was double-click on the file, and I was watching the trailer fullscreen, with post-processing, ultra clean image.
Mplayer works. You just have to install it correctly. If you have trouble installing software, and you are using Redhat, then stop waisting your time and get this! Once you install apt, run and update. Then apt-get install synaptic. After that you can use a GUI to search for mplayer. Install the 3 items that come up in the search results. After that, everything works.
I have used both. Mplayer has trouble with some of the Real Media formats and some of the quicktime formats. It can play some, but others it fails to play the audio tracks in addition to the video.
Also, Media Player Classic (aka MPC) has smoother more functional seeking, and compared to all of the skins and GUIs I have used for Mplayer, MPC still has a better more usable and more simple GUI. I hate fancy GUIs. I just want a basic functional GUI. Not this iMac-like candy crap.
Mplayer comes close to MPC, but mainly it is stuff like seeking not being as smooth and precise as MPC.
Yeah, but how do you get the software installer on your desktop in the first place? With apt, you have trusted repositories of almost every piece of software known to run on Linux.
So I have one unified app that I can search or browse for any software that I want, codecs included, I select to have what I want downloaded even multiple apps at a time... and then tell my unified app to fetch the selected software from the net and do whatever it takes to install it. The same app is also used for automatically updating all of my installed software.
On windows you either have to hunt and peck around the net, try not to download adware, spyware, a trojan, virus, or worm, and also hope you are downloading the correct installer and not an old version or a version for a different version of windows. Then you try to install something, and it fails to run after install because you lack a Visual Basic runtime, DirectX runtime, Python runtime, or some other needed software component. So you go back to your web browser and hunt and peck for the needed software component. Repeat until something works....and you can forget about maintaining all of that software. Do you keep a list of the locations where you can download updates? How do you go about updating all of your software? Hunt and peck, one-by-one download update installers and double-click each of them? What happens if you missed something during that update? Are you sure you updated everything? Maybe your IRC client or email client lacks a security update, maybe it is AOL IM, who knows, not the user...
THAT can be made far more simple and effective, as is done with apt on Linux, and yes apt has a nice GUI frontend.
A bias note: I use %100 Linux now, but I used to use mostly Windows.
If you run Windows, and you are still using MS Media Player, then you are living under a rock! The absolute hands down best media player that I have ever used... yes it is even better than a tweaked mplayer setup, is "Media Player Classic".
Media Player Classic is a movie player for Linux that resembles the old MS Windows Media Player 6.x players. Yeah the great ones you remember that autodownloaded codecs and had a nice simple yet fuctional GUI. Media Player Classic can play _every_ video format. You have to have the codecs installed of course, but you can play Quicktime and Real Media videos without firing up their respective crappy players. Media Player Classic. Tell your friends, download it, use it yourself. WHy are you waiting. Seriously! You will NOT regret switching.
Mplayer is the second best movie player, and it should look to Media Player Classic for ideas. Anyway I use Linux, so I use Mplayer, but if I used windows, it would be Media Player Classic all the way!
Finally, note that the official Media Player Classic site is down or moved or something. I liked to a trustable source to download the application... but I think that the link is a version or two behind the latest release. Shouldn't make much of a difference.
To install just download and unzip into a new Program Files subdirectory, run the program and then go into the options or whatever its called. There is a setting that associates it with every video format. Then you can just double-click AVI, MOV, MPG, RM, etc files to play them. Its an option in there, just hunt for it.
Media Player Classic is really fast. Damn I miss it.
Seems to work fine for me. It was easy to install to. I just selected in Synaptic, to have gmplayer and xvidcore. I know people think that installing software on Linux is difficult, but having installed media players and codecs on both Windows 2000 and Redhat 9... I must say that a 5-year old idiot could get xvid movies playing on Linux.
Windows might be more difficult, but that is because it has no good means of software package management. Installing almost anything on Windows requires more work than doing so on Linux.
If you have problems with xvids with AC3 codecs, it is most likely because you don't have a CPU capable of playing a movie with such a high-quality audio track. Typically DIVX movies come paired with mp3 audio tracks, and you are right, when it comes to high-quality audio... people choose to pair it with XVID video.
Anyway, AC3 tends to have huge bitrates, surround sound, and other highend audio stuff. My crusty ears can't tell the difference between it all, so whatever.
Green box problems are usually caused under windows when you have conflicting codecs, bad codecs, or you lack a codec. It has nothing to do with xvid being buggy, and almost always something to do with someone installing a couple of those huge codec packs on an operating system that can't detect shared library dependencies and conflicts.
Since when were libertarians considered to be socialists? The Republicans are HUGE on government spending. The libertarians wouldn't spend a penny while the republicans will spend billions and the dems will spend ten times what the republicans would spend. That makes the pubs more socialist than the libertarians. Do your homework nex time.
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Wrong again! Wolf 3D wasn't the first or second first-person-shooter game. The first game in the genre was Battlezone which was released in the arcades in 1980. It had everything that a first person shooter needs. The game is 3D and the player's view is first-person. Your objective is to navigate through the 3D world and shoot things, blow them up, and kill stuff.
Battlezone was huge when it was released, and the USA military was even working with Atari to make a version that could be used to train their recruits.
Here is the KLOV listing for Battlezone. Definitely a classic that younger gamers should familiarize themselves with. However, I still to this day play Quakeworld (Quake 1 with efficient network protocol), and I believe it is the zenith of FPS games. After 1996, FPS games have been completely derivative.
The only BitTorrent anime link you need is animesuki.com as it is a portal that tracks current and past releases and links to the respective download sites, tpyically scareywater or animetorrents... but others too like gotwoot.
Animesuki is like Cartoon Network on demand, without all of the filler crap.
I guess this could be generalized into a more significant annoyance that graphics accelerators have crappier drivers on Linux than they do on Windows. For my ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 with 16MB of ram, I get roughly half the framerate under Linux as I did under Windows!
I blame ATI. Next time around I am going to buy an NVIDIA or Matrox card. Note that both actively support the development of Linux drivers, HOWEVER, Matrox's drivers are opensource. This gives them an edge on NVIDIA. With Matrox, I don't have to worry about the company eventually going under or stop supporting the product I bought because the drivers are open source. NVIDIA vs Matrox is about a trade off between higher fps (NVIDIA) and open source drivers (Matrox). How many frames per second does it take to buy out your freedom?
If NVIDIA went under, I would love to see what all of the NVIDIA Linux users would do.
You really buy that crap that all of politics boils down to liberal/conservative? Yup, everything is black or white. Sheesh. Must be simple in that head of yours.
How many people did the USA kill in 1 month of the recent Iraq "liberation"? I am sure you have some way to right off these killings, but not the 911 killings.
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Ancient examples of conquest helping society don't apply today. We have mass communcations and mass travel. Its not like we need Mongols to open up a silk road. We have overnight air shipping and the internet. The world is too small these days to have people motivated by worl conquest. Its time we moved the conquest thing to other planets.
Why lump Debian/Gentoo? Because they are noncommercial and have good package management systems, while the other 3 you listed are commercial and have less good package management systems?
Debian and Gentoo are still significantly different, as far as I understand. Though as time goes on, Debian might adopt some of Gentoo's strengths. Of course, I have only used Debian and not Gentoo... so I am just talking of things of know of, not things I know.
Does SuSe still pollute their distro with closed source stuff? Debian is nice because it keeps the non-free stuff separated from the free stuff, so its your choice with regards to pollution.
Debian is a little too hardcore for my tastes though. I recommend Knoppix in place of straight Debian, as Knoppix is a Debian based distro that is easy to get up and running.
Don't those computers use a 6502 CPU or a CPU in that family? That little sucker was a king in his day, powering the Atari game systems, the NES, SNES, and Apple II. Of course, it wasn't exactly a 6502 in each of those, but some varient. The 6502 is a poor-man's RISC CPU. There are even opensource VHDL implementations of it.
I didn't think I did (criticize Israel)... at least not directly. The USA is at fault in my opinion. Without the aid of my government this crap wouldn't still be happening in Palestine. I mean, have you ever stop framed news footage from the fighting in the Middle East? You ever notice how much USA military hardware is being used by any and all sides in these conflicts?
Sure lots of USA killing machines are used by Israel, but you will also see Palestinians using USA machine guns, though they mainly use AKs. Oh and don't even get me started on the WMDs that Sadaam had in the late 80s and early 90s... the ones he used to kill thousands of Kurds, Shias, and Iranians.
Its just strange that people think that giving out weapons to two people that want to fight eachother is somehow supposed to pacify the situation. Hell, if you were at a bar in the states and a fight was about to break out, but before it did you gave both people a gun... I think you would end up in jail with everyone that ended up fighting.
After yet another Windows crash resulting in filesystem corruption, I switched 100% to Linux. I try to stay away from Wine as it typically requires using MS dlls. I am done with that company. Sorry.
From what I understand, MPC could probably be made to work on Wine if you fucked with enough settings and leached the right DLLs from Windows. Thats the thing with Wine, if you are willing to screw around with settings, recompile the latest Wine or a previous one... just about anything can be made to work. MPC ain't that much better than Mplayer to warrent the effort.
Supposedly the next version of Mplayer called M2 or whatever, is going to have greatly improved seeking... as well as improvements just about across the board. Mplayer is the future, in my opinion.
Thanks for reminding me about the AAC codec. I installed it up here at work, but I think that I neglected to install it at home. Better make a mental note because I think you might be right about the Quicktime not having audio thing.
I won't go as far as a recompile though. I like to only install software through apt-get. Keeps things clean on Redhat that way. Just installing the codec might be enough.
The popular trend has been total and utter disenfranchisement of the Palestinian people. Deprive them of unity as a state (no Palestinian State) and deprive them of the unity as a race (Semites only means Jews). It is subtle, but a strange movement to erase the Palestinians.
Sure lots of Palestinians are bad people, but lots are good people and lots of somewhere inbetween. Why write off an entire ethnicity? Sounds like defacto ethnic cleansing.
Uh dude, there aren't any Nazis here, so chill out. You need to redo your google search because this isn't a neo-nazi site. Read the title, it says "News for nerds", NOT "News for Nazis".
Foxnews has trained you well.
Knowing our government, they will probably just choose to help increase the defacto ethnic cleansing being carried out in Palestine, as opposed to creating an official Palestinian state.
Why take the long process of taking some guy to court, when you can just kill him and everyone that works for him?
I got a little better performance than that. Basically I had enough time to pick my nose, and then BT had the file downloaded for me.
BitTorrent is also pretty good at error checking, making sure your download is correct. Now just imagine if the official Matrix site used their fat server to serve the file via BitTorrent! THAT would have been some serious speed!
It would have basically been like everyone being the only person downloading from their server.
Same here, no windows codecs and freshrpms mplayer works perfectly. There are some obscure warez MOVs and RMs that do not play correctly in it... but then they also had problems with just about every other player.
I am using a default desktop Redhat 9 install, with apt for rpm, and I used synaptic to install gmplayer from freshrpms (great free service btw).
Anyway, all I had to do was double-click on the file, and I was watching the trailer fullscreen, with post-processing, ultra clean image.
Mplayer works. You just have to install it correctly. If you have trouble installing software, and you are using Redhat, then stop waisting your time and get this! Once you install apt, run and update. Then apt-get install synaptic. After that you can use a GUI to search for mplayer. Install the 3 items that come up in the search results. After that, everything works.
I have used both. Mplayer has trouble with some of the Real Media formats and some of the quicktime formats. It can play some, but others it fails to play the audio tracks in addition to the video.
Also, Media Player Classic (aka MPC) has smoother more functional seeking, and compared to all of the skins and GUIs I have used for Mplayer, MPC still has a better more usable and more simple GUI. I hate fancy GUIs. I just want a basic functional GUI. Not this iMac-like candy crap.
Mplayer comes close to MPC, but mainly it is stuff like seeking not being as smooth and precise as MPC.
Yeah, but how do you get the software installer on your desktop in the first place? With apt, you have trusted repositories of almost every piece of software known to run on Linux.
...and you can forget about maintaining all of that software. Do you keep a list of the locations where you can download updates? How do you go about updating all of your software? Hunt and peck, one-by-one download update installers and double-click each of them? What happens if you missed something during that update? Are you sure you updated everything? Maybe your IRC client or email client lacks a security update, maybe it is AOL IM, who knows, not the user...
So I have one unified app that I can search or browse for any software that I want, codecs included, I select to have what I want downloaded even multiple apps at a time... and then tell my unified app to fetch the selected software from the net and do whatever it takes to install it.
The same app is also used for automatically updating all of my installed software.
On windows you either have to hunt and peck around the net, try not to download adware, spyware, a trojan, virus, or worm, and also hope you are downloading the correct installer and not an old version or a version for a different version of windows. Then you try to install something, and it fails to run after install because you lack a Visual Basic runtime, DirectX runtime, Python runtime, or some other needed software component. So you go back to your web browser and hunt and peck for the needed software component. Repeat until something works.
THAT can be made far more simple and effective, as is done with apt on Linux, and yes apt has a nice GUI frontend.
A bias note: I use %100 Linux now, but I used to use mostly Windows.
If you run Windows, and you are still using MS Media Player, then you are living under a rock! The absolute hands down best media player that I have ever used... yes it is even better than a tweaked mplayer setup, is "Media Player Classic".
Media Player Classic is a movie player for Linux that resembles the old MS Windows Media Player 6.x players. Yeah the great ones you remember that autodownloaded codecs and had a nice simple yet fuctional GUI.
Media Player Classic can play _every_ video format. You have to have the codecs installed of course, but you can play Quicktime and Real Media videos without firing up their respective crappy players.
Media Player Classic. Tell your friends, download it, use it yourself. WHy are you waiting. Seriously! You will NOT regret switching.
Mplayer is the second best movie player, and it should look to Media Player Classic for ideas. Anyway I use Linux, so I use Mplayer, but if I used windows, it would be Media Player Classic all the way!
Finally, note that the official Media Player Classic site is down or moved or something. I liked to a trustable source to download the application... but I think that the link is a version or two behind the latest release. Shouldn't make much of a difference.
To install just download and unzip into a new Program Files subdirectory, run the program and then go into the options or whatever its called. There is a setting that associates it with every video format. Then you can just double-click AVI, MOV, MPG, RM, etc files to play them. Its an option in there, just hunt for it.
Media Player Classic is really fast. Damn I miss it.
Seems to work fine for me. It was easy to install to. I just selected in Synaptic, to have gmplayer and xvidcore. I know people think that installing software on Linux is difficult, but having installed media players and codecs on both Windows 2000 and Redhat 9... I must say that a 5-year old idiot could get xvid movies playing on Linux.
Windows might be more difficult, but that is because it has no good means of software package management. Installing almost anything on Windows requires more work than doing so on Linux.
If you have problems with xvids with AC3 codecs, it is most likely because you don't have a CPU capable of playing a movie with such a high-quality audio track. Typically DIVX movies come paired with mp3 audio tracks, and you are right, when it comes to high-quality audio... people choose to pair it with XVID video.
Anyway, AC3 tends to have huge bitrates, surround sound, and other highend audio stuff. My crusty ears can't tell the difference between it all, so whatever.
Green box problems are usually caused under windows when you have conflicting codecs, bad codecs, or you lack a codec. It has nothing to do with xvid being buggy, and almost always something to do with someone installing a couple of those huge codec packs on an operating system that can't detect shared library dependencies and conflicts.
That is the operating system's fault.
Since when were libertarians considered to be socialists? The Republicans are HUGE on government spending. The libertarians wouldn't spend a penny while the republicans will spend billions and the dems will spend ten times what the republicans would spend. That makes the pubs more socialist than the libertarians. Do your homework nex time.
Wrong again! Wolf 3D wasn't the first or second first-person-shooter game. The first game in the genre was Battlezone which was released in the arcades in 1980. It had everything that a first person shooter needs. The game is 3D and the player's view is first-person. Your objective is to navigate through the 3D world and shoot things, blow them up, and kill stuff.
Battlezone was huge when it was released, and the USA military was even working with Atari to make a version that could be used to train their recruits.
Here is the KLOV listing for Battlezone. Definitely a classic that younger gamers should familiarize themselves with. However, I still to this day play Quakeworld (Quake 1 with efficient network protocol), and I believe it is the zenith of FPS games. After 1996, FPS games have been completely derivative.
Enconomy is in the shitter.
Microsoft gets off the hook.
Bill of Rights is shredded.
Innocent Iraqis are bombed.
FCC drops AOL IM restrictions.
Who are you going to vote for come next election?
The only BitTorrent anime link you need is animesuki.com as it is a portal that tracks current and past releases and links to the respective download sites, tpyically scareywater or animetorrents... but others too like gotwoot.
Animesuki is like Cartoon Network on demand, without all of the filler crap.
I guess this could be generalized into a more significant annoyance that graphics accelerators have crappier drivers on Linux than they do on Windows. For my ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 with 16MB of ram, I get roughly half the framerate under Linux as I did under Windows!
I blame ATI. Next time around I am going to buy an NVIDIA or Matrox card. Note that both actively support the development of Linux drivers, HOWEVER, Matrox's drivers are opensource. This gives them an edge on NVIDIA. With Matrox, I don't have to worry about the company eventually going under or stop supporting the product I bought because the drivers are open source. NVIDIA vs Matrox is about a trade off between higher fps (NVIDIA) and open source drivers (Matrox). How many frames per second does it take to buy out your freedom?
If NVIDIA went under, I would love to see what all of the NVIDIA Linux users would do.
If someone invaded the USA, wouldn't you try to stop them?
You really buy that crap that all of politics boils down to liberal/conservative? Yup, everything is black or white. Sheesh. Must be simple in that head of yours.
How many people did the USA kill in 1 month of the recent Iraq "liberation"? I am sure you have some way to right off these killings, but not the 911 killings.