WPA is still a nightmare (even in Ubuntu). It is not trivial to install nvidia/ati drivers (especially ati), which are essential for useful 3D acceleration.
Funny, all I had to do was fire up synaptic and search for nvidia, then tick the packages, and reboot.
Easier than having to search for a driver page on the web with Windows, download, run setup, etc.
But I have a flash-back coming. I've lost this fight before. And so, I run away again as I ran away from Windows. This time to BSD or Open Solaris or GNU/HURD. And yes, thank you, I am a fucking flaming zealot. Better to be that than a greedy, shitty, fat, theiving SWINE!
So you're ditching Linux because of the proposal that supporting binary/proprietry software is OK - yet you're going to BSD (which can use binary windows drivers in the kernel) or Open Solaris (controlled by Sun) or GNU/Hurd (which for all intents and purposes may as well not exist)?
I actually think that proprietry software is a good thing as well - or at least, the FREEDOM TO USE IT.
I maintain that there are some areas/industries that will NEVER be catered to by free software - it's just not economically viable.
In my current industry for example: mining. There's NO FSCKING WAY that anyone is going to risk $100k/hr+ of downtime per crusher train on developing free software - and there's no way that any manager is ever going to rely on in-house supported stuff that they can't blame problems on some external third party.
Sure, there are aspects of our company that rely on free software (our "modular mining" mine site monitoring program for example runs on linux), but they are individual components that are well tested and not specific to our industry (red hat enterprise linux, TCL, perl, etc). The actual apps are all commercially developed/supported.
Fact is, throwing millions of dollars at a problem will often (though not always) generate quicker and better results than a bunch of hobbyists in their spare time. And the chances are, if someone is willing to throw millions of dollars at a problem, they'll want to have exclusive rights to sell the results.
Sounds like a classic case of poor company organisation to me.
If you're that indispensable, and they can't operate without you being available for 24 hours, then the company is setting itself up for major problems down the track.
Just like building anything robust - you DON'T set yourself up with a single point of failure...
Do not take responsibility for things that are not your fault.
User does something dumb, loses their work or whatever, and has a go at you about it. Is this your problem? No - so don't take any shit for it. *Politely* inform them of the options, and schedule work when you can fit it in. If it's going to take more time for you to fix it than it will take for them to start-over, then too bad for them. No, an emergency for them is not an emergency for you - unless it truly is more important to the production of the company as a whole than what you're currently doing (in which case they need to provide justification as to why you should be working for them instead of for the company).
In my years in the industry (11 so far), i've come to the conclusion that it often attracts "shy" or easily intimidated people who simply don't like dealing with people (they get along better with hardware - that's WHY they're in the industry) and when they actually have to deal with users, they're easily intimidated. Hence, they roll over and "take it".... and then time management becomes a problem because they're spending too much time on the unimportant (in the scheme of things) tasks.
If you're truly stressed because you do not have enough staff, raise the issue with management before people start complaining about it. Just do your homework before doing so, and have available details of what sort of tasks and timeframes you have to deal with.
I'll never understand this arguement... I already have a PS2, it plays my PS2 games fine. How is this a selling point for the PS3 except for to the 3 people who never bought a PS2?
I have a PS1 and a PS2 and use the backwards compatibility.
Why? A couple of reasons:
Old hardware dies. My ps1 is from 1996-1997 and isn't quite as reliable as it used to be
Cabling. I have a DVD player, PS2 and occasionally Dreamcast plugged into my TV. Eliminating the need for space to put my PS1 is great.
Hence, if/when I buy a PS3, the same sort of thing will happen. My clunky old PS2 (2001 model) will go into the cupboard and the PS3 will replace it. Without backwards compatibility (assuming it can also play ps1 games), I'd need 3 consoles hooked up instead of 1...
Neither of those are in the same market - they're mobile gaming, the "big 3" aren't.
If we restrict the market to the living room tv-attached traditional console market (and not mobile) it's feasible.
Besides, as you say, this is speculation: ~44 + ~40 + ~16 = ~100, *give or take*. Even if the relative share numbers are only 5% out, that still leaves ~7% for the "rest of the market".
Or maybe you didn't think about that?
I'll reserve judgement until I see products on shelves. And even then, shit console or not, Sony has a hell of a mind-share amongst the non-technical-politics masses. That mind-share will take quite some time to turn around by Nintendo or Microsoft.
It was an example, there are others. 1-2wpm lost is 1-2wpm lost. What's going to replace the caps lock key and save me 1-2wpm instead?
Getting rid of caps lock will cost millions of dollars (keyboard redesign, documentation changes, associated beauracracy, re-training fingers for those who DO use caps lock). There had better be a damn good reason to change things, other than "AOLers shouting piss me off!" to justify this money spending.
Look, I barely use caps lock myself, but there ARE uses for it. Unless you have some "killer app" for the position occupied by caps lock, wanking around getting rid of it is just wasting time and money.
that's only because our brains are trained to see a difference between capitals and lowercase
Yep. What's your point?
It's a standard. It's been that way for hundreds of years. It applies to typewriters, written text, computers, etc. There's no need to change it.
Change, to fix a problem is good. Change for the sake of change is bad.
I really see no problem with the way things are. The problem is fucktards who *decide* to type in all caps, or who are too incompetent to use a keyboard properly and not hit caps. Changing the keyboard will not solve those problems.
Capitals make sentences easier to pick out in paragraphs, particularly in justified text. They also make names easier to pick out (eg, you're scanning a text for mention of names).
Yes, they're largely redundant, but redundancy is part of the written language. You can get rid of vowels and most works are still readable barely, but using them certainly makes things a lot easier to decipher.
All caps is useful in code to distinguish between constants and variables... also useful in SQL queries to distinguish between SQL operators and the parameters they're working on.
Also, caps is useful for emphasis. You mention emotions, but that's not the only thing you may want to emphasize. How about marking IMPORTANT information, such as KEY WORDS?
There's several other uses (acronyms for example). None of these uses would really be mandatory, you are right - but they're all conveniences that make dealing with text far easier.
If i'm not mistaken (no sources, but I do recall reading as such a few years ago), science refuted that theory many many years before it was generally accepted to be false, but was censored by the religious powers of the day.
Don't accuse science of being wrong, but then turn a blind eye to the fact that religion has actively tried to suppress scientific knowledge (based on evidence determined via scientific method), simply because it does not agree with their stories.
What's the situation in the US? In Australia, games are subject to ratings just like movies. (unfortunately however, there's no R rating yet - games that would be rated R are refused classification and thus not allowed to be sold yet)
If a game is rated "R" for example, then who gives a shit whether or not it's bad for kids. It's not FOR kids. People complaining that 18+ content is bad for kids need to put down the crack pipe and perhaps take an interest in their child's upbringing and sort that shit out.
Even M or MA (15+ or "mature audience") rated games should be enough to take care of the issue. Why? Because it's up to the PARENTS to supervise their kids, and it's up to the PARENTS to judge what is appropriate.
(* Windows XP - Windows 2000 with a few more drivers and better game support, plus gigabytes of ugly eye-candy. Why risk a false positive from the Windows Genuine Advantage inquisition for that? About the only thing that's ever been a problem for me with Windows 2000 is Bluetooth support.)
Here, here.
I'm in the same situation - and with a cheap shitty $50 USB bluetooth adapter, bluetooth even works with the supplied driver:D
The military itself doesn't have a HUGE use for supercomputers, as my bet is that most of the heavy number crunching work is "outsourced" to other areas of the government.
Thus, i see this license making very little difference.
Besides, with a government who is willing to send their military into wars against the wishes of the world community, who's to say a pissy little thing like the GPL is going to stop them doing what they like?
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Granted, Linux isn't perfect for ACPI, etc but then again, neither is windows.
They violated the NDA. End of story.
However, stealing a few pens and paper for home use is a whole different kettle of fish to violating an NDA.
Funny, all I had to do was fire up synaptic and search for nvidia, then tick the packages, and reboot.
Easier than having to search for a driver page on the web with Windows, download, run setup, etc.
Used to be an issue, it's not any more.
So you're ditching Linux because of the proposal that supporting binary/proprietry software is OK - yet you're going to BSD (which can use binary windows drivers in the kernel) or Open Solaris (controlled by Sun) or GNU/Hurd (which for all intents and purposes may as well not exist)?
Top work. Enjoy.
I maintain that there are some areas/industries that will NEVER be catered to by free software - it's just not economically viable.
In my current industry for example: mining. There's NO FSCKING WAY that anyone is going to risk $100k/hr+ of downtime per crusher train on developing free software - and there's no way that any manager is ever going to rely on in-house supported stuff that they can't blame problems on some external third party.
Sure, there are aspects of our company that rely on free software (our "modular mining" mine site monitoring program for example runs on linux), but they are individual components that are well tested and not specific to our industry (red hat enterprise linux, TCL, perl, etc). The actual apps are all commercially developed/supported.
Fact is, throwing millions of dollars at a problem will often (though not always) generate quicker and better results than a bunch of hobbyists in their spare time. And the chances are, if someone is willing to throw millions of dollars at a problem, they'll want to have exclusive rights to sell the results.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060809/od_afp/usatta ckspolloffbeat_060809145351;_ylt=ArnrtaXH3JkyylylP
This is a symptom of dodgy memory, according to the GCC documentation (or what WAS in there).
Sounds like a classic case of poor company organisation to me.
If you're that indispensable, and they can't operate without you being available for 24 hours, then the company is setting itself up for major problems down the track.
Just like building anything robust - you DON'T set yourself up with a single point of failure...
It was a factor in my purchase of a PS2, yes.
Hell, it's always been simple to install, it's dselect, the old package manager that was a bitch.
Do not take responsibility for things that are not your fault.
User does something dumb, loses their work or whatever, and has a go at you about it. Is this your problem? No - so don't take any shit for it. *Politely* inform them of the options, and schedule work when you can fit it in. If it's going to take more time for you to fix it than it will take for them to start-over, then too bad for them. No, an emergency for them is not an emergency for you - unless it truly is more important to the production of the company as a whole than what you're currently doing (in which case they need to provide justification as to why you should be working for them instead of for the company).
In my years in the industry (11 so far), i've come to the conclusion that it often attracts "shy" or easily intimidated people who simply don't like dealing with people (they get along better with hardware - that's WHY they're in the industry) and when they actually have to deal with users, they're easily intimidated. Hence, they roll over and "take it".... and then time management becomes a problem because they're spending too much time on the unimportant (in the scheme of things) tasks.
If you're truly stressed because you do not have enough staff, raise the issue with management before people start complaining about it. Just do your homework before doing so, and have available details of what sort of tasks and timeframes you have to deal with.
Just my 2c...
I have a PS1 and a PS2 and use the backwards compatibility.
Why? A couple of reasons:
- Old hardware dies. My ps1 is from 1996-1997 and isn't quite as reliable as it used to be
- Cabling. I have a DVD player, PS2 and occasionally Dreamcast plugged into my TV. Eliminating the need for space to put my PS1 is great.
Hence, if/when I buy a PS3, the same sort of thing will happen. My clunky old PS2 (2001 model) will go into the cupboard and the PS3 will replace it. Without backwards compatibility (assuming it can also play ps1 games), I'd need 3 consoles hooked up instead of 1...If you have any shred of nerd decency, go back to EDO.
If we restrict the market to the living room tv-attached traditional console market (and not mobile) it's feasible.
Besides, as you say, this is speculation: ~44 + ~40 + ~16 = ~100, *give or take*. Even if the relative share numbers are only 5% out, that still leaves ~7% for the "rest of the market".
Or maybe you didn't think about that?
I'll reserve judgement until I see products on shelves. And even then, shit console or not, Sony has a hell of a mind-share amongst the non-technical-politics masses. That mind-share will take quite some time to turn around by Nintendo or Microsoft.
Let me guess, you'd be an EMACS users? :D
Call of the thread. Building devices for idiots just ensures you have idiots for users...
Getting rid of caps lock will cost millions of dollars (keyboard redesign, documentation changes, associated beauracracy, re-training fingers for those who DO use caps lock). There had better be a damn good reason to change things, other than "AOLers shouting piss me off!" to justify this money spending.
Look, I barely use caps lock myself, but there ARE uses for it. Unless you have some "killer app" for the position occupied by caps lock, wanking around getting rid of it is just wasting time and money.
Yep. What's your point?
It's a standard. It's been that way for hundreds of years. It applies to typewriters, written text, computers, etc. There's no need to change it.
Change, to fix a problem is good. Change for the sake of change is bad.
I really see no problem with the way things are. The problem is fucktards who *decide* to type in all caps, or who are too incompetent to use a keyboard properly and not hit caps. Changing the keyboard will not solve those problems.
Yes, they're largely redundant, but redundancy is part of the written language. You can get rid of vowels and most works are still readable barely, but using them certainly makes things a lot easier to decipher.
All caps is useful in code to distinguish between constants and variables... also useful in SQL queries to distinguish between SQL operators and the parameters they're working on.
Also, caps is useful for emphasis. You mention emotions, but that's not the only thing you may want to emphasize. How about marking IMPORTANT information, such as KEY WORDS?
There's several other uses (acronyms for example). None of these uses would really be mandatory, you are right - but they're all conveniences that make dealing with text far easier.
I certainly use it a lot more than scroll lock or the windows menu key.
Get rid of it for what? I may use it 5 minutes a year, but if it's not there, it's going to be missed...
If i'm not mistaken (no sources, but I do recall reading as such a few years ago), science refuted that theory many many years before it was generally accepted to be false, but was censored by the religious powers of the day.
Ah... here's a source: http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/galileo_herohis tory.htm
And another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo#Church_contro versy
Don't accuse science of being wrong, but then turn a blind eye to the fact that religion has actively tried to suppress scientific knowledge (based on evidence determined via scientific method), simply because it does not agree with their stories.
If a game is rated "R" for example, then who gives a shit whether or not it's bad for kids. It's not FOR kids. People complaining that 18+ content is bad for kids need to put down the crack pipe and perhaps take an interest in their child's upbringing and sort that shit out.
Even M or MA (15+ or "mature audience") rated games should be enough to take care of the issue. Why? Because it's up to the PARENTS to supervise their kids, and it's up to the PARENTS to judge what is appropriate.
NOT jack thompson.
Here, here.
I'm in the same situation - and with a cheap shitty $50 USB bluetooth adapter, bluetooth even works with the supplied driver :D
The military itself doesn't have a HUGE use for supercomputers, as my bet is that most of the heavy number crunching work is "outsourced" to other areas of the government.
Thus, i see this license making very little difference.
Besides, with a government who is willing to send their military into wars against the wishes of the world community, who's to say a pissy little thing like the GPL is going to stop them doing what they like?