It's totally awesome how your opinion is law, and clearly, any reviewer who disagrees with you is wrong.
I mean, while I didn't think 8 was fantastic, I thought 7 was the low point of the series. It's too bad that your word is divine law and nobody is allowed to disagree with you, eh?
It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur)
Sure, if by "better" you mean "has a worse computer AI and more gimmicks." Not to say that SC2 is a bad game, but you'll find that there are many people out there that prefer the original as a technical fighter. Not to mention, of course, that reviewers are supposed to review games in the context of their competition -- the original SC blew everything in its generation and before it out of the water, but by the time SC2 came around, the rest of the genre had improved enough that it was a much closer competition.
Bear in mind that the above is only my opinion (which is really the whole point of reviews).
Did you even read my post? I paid my way through college with student loans and government grants. That's it, and the grants only amounted to a small percent of the total cost. I worked during summers and winters, but not during the semester. I got a bachelor's degree in computer science. Yes, it was expensive. I still maintain that anybody who comes out of college owing $700 a month for the next 20 years was a shortsighted fool who didn't take a serious look at their options. If somebody is thinking of going to college in an area where it's difficult to support themself, what they should do is go to a different college.
Ironically, downloading fansubbed anime is illegal. Fansub groups are modifying and redistributing copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owners; that's a pretty clear violation of international copyright law. Luckily, most Japanese anime studios don't care if their shows get distributed outside of Japan, so fansubbing groups that don't touch licensed series are typically ignored. Of course, there are some Japanese studios (such as Media Factory) that do take an active stance against their series being distributed, so you'll never see their shows listed on some place like animesuki, even if they're not licensed yet...
I seriously wonder where you people are going to college that it costs you $700 per month for 20 years. I had very little government aid (some, but not enough to really make a difference), I'm paying $400 per month on student loans, and I expect to have all of my loans paid in a total of about four years. Maybe you should have thought about what you could afford before you put yourself in the hole...
It would be if I had a mac. And $25 I don't need for something else. I'm actually pretty offended that I need to pay for an application to get this functionality - which is why I haven't bought one of these things (airport express) yet. Just another case of Apple's proprietary hardware being undesirable to those who love freedom.
Jeez, cut it with the "freedom" propaganda. All you're doing is showing your own ignorance. The only software you need is iTunes, which runs on OS X or Windows (or through Wine in Linux), and it's free. The only thing you have to buy is the AirPort Express base station with AirTunes support, and it's $129.
Please keep in mind that it doesn't say "stuff that matters to ObsessiveMathsFreak". If you don't want political news, go into your preferences and turn it off.
A minor note: you can't, in fact, call the kana sets "alphabets", as they are not based on the alpha / beta / etc. characters. They are typically referred to as syllabaries.
How about you stop with the name calling and logical fallacies and just provide a source? The grandparent poster has apparently never heard that injections of embryonic stem cells have killed every subject via cancer in 18 months, and neither have I. I'd be willing to bet there are lots of other people reading this who haven't heard it, either.
At first I was willing to listen to your argument if you'd have provided some sources, but now I'm pretty sure you're just trolling.
Unfortunately, AVG Free doesn't run in a 64-bit environment. This is a problem for me since I recently got a 64-bit processor (and to the people who would say "run a 32-bit OS": no, if I wanted to do that I would've bought a 32-bit CPU). Avast has a free version that works fairly well, but I don't like its interface quite as much as AVG's.
Absolutely. Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Phoenix Wright, Metroid Prime: Hunters, Advance Wars, Kirby: Canvas Curse, Mario Kart, and Resident Evil are all nothing to brag about.
Well, except for the fact that they're all great games, and a number of them are genuinely innovative rather than putting new graphics on the same gameplay mechanics that've been used elsewhere for years.
It's marked as shipping in February, however, which is less than a week away. If you place an order, you'll get one soon enough. Aside from arguing over semantics, I don't see what the point of your original statement was.
Actually, I'm using it on a RAZR with T-Mobile, and it works great. I did, however, have to set up my RAZR to use HTTP via GPRS. You can use http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst to send a set of valid GPRS settings to your phone, and then, if you have access to it, modify it to allow for HTTP. Doing so may require you flash your phone's firmware, however. http://motomodders.net/ can help with that. If you have a RAZR and you're willing to play around with flashing it, I can give you more exact instructions on setting it up to allow HTTP connections.
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Actually, Opera has been free (without ads) since late September. Even when it had ads, however, it did not report your browsing habits; you could set options in the preferences that would determine what sort of ads it displayed.
Linux' driver support for 3D acceleration only matters if you're a video gamer
Or if you do any sort of 3D rendering. Architecture, drafting, mechanical engineering, and any number of other fields that use CAD tools fall into that category. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't.
As far as NTFS goes, its so-called journal SUCKS.
So first you say NTFS sucks, and then you go on to rant about registry corruption. There's a difference between NTFS and the registry, you know, and I'm not going to argue that the registry is any good. I am, however, starting to doubt that you even understand what a journaling filesystem does. I'll let you sit in your own world and pretend that NTFS doesn't have a journal if you want, but just search for "NTFS journaling" on Google and you'll find hundreds of links to prove you wrong.
Your ACL point didn't make any sense at all; Linux and its predecessor Unix have had user and group priviledges for thirty years, and more recently SELinux has added a whole bunch of new settings.
Do you even know what ACLs are? Being able to set read/write/execute bits for user/group/world is nothing compared to a full-blown ACL -- in Windows you can set read / write / execute / read attribute / write attribute / append / delete / take ownership and more for any combination of specific users and groups. What are you going to do on a stock Linux box if, for example, you want the group "powerusers" to be able to execute a file, except for the users "foo" and "bar", and you want "foo2" to also be able to write to it? Nothing, that's what. So what if SELinux has recently added more powerful controls? Did you miss what I said about it being widespread? Windows' ACLs can be found on any NT-based version of Linux; the vast majority of Linux boxes out there are still using primitive permission bit masks.
1. They're usually an afterthought, and don't run as well on Windows. 2. There is a far wider variety of tools available for free on Linux than on Windows. Go check out Sourceforge if you want to see for yourself.
How about you go check out Cygwin? The vast majority of OSS can be run under Windows; that one of the nice things about having access to the source code. No, not everything, but that's not my point.
3. When you get a Linux distribution, a VAST variety of software comes with it, right in the box, for FREE. Windows doesn't come with ANYTHING. So if you want the same stuff I've got running on my SuSE box, you'll have to spend a week downloading all the packages for Windows, IF they even exist on that platform.
So what? Aside from the fact that it'll only take a week to download everything you need if you're on a 56k modem, the initial set-up time for a system is inconsequential in almost any production environment. If that's an issue, why did you mention the Java SDK in your original post? You're not going to find that packaged with many Linux distributions.
I'd say YOU are the ignorant one. I highly doubt your job involves "developing multi-million dollar systems that run on it". If you did, you'd know better than to try and dicker over these points with me.
Well, you are right. The fact that I have a job rather than living my my parents' basement means that I should know better than to argue with Linux fanboys on Slashdot, but I just really hate seeing misinformation like "Windows doesn't have a journaling FS" get spread around.
Come on.. I'm not an MS fan, but at least make sure what you're saying is correct.
3. Most of the additional tools people want can be had for free or very little money (like Java's SDK, which can be downloaded for nothing, or Oracle Express, which is also free).
And most of the things that are available for free for Linux can also run under Windows. Java's SDK is free. I don't know anything about Oracle Express, but a quick Google search for it didn't turn up any information.
4. It has better default driver support than Windows, without having to go out to a vendor site and hope they still offer downloads; In fact, most hardware is detected right off the bat nowadays.
But when Linux doesn't detect your hardware by default, it's more than likely that you won't be able to find a vendor solution at all. Even when there are open source drivers available, it's entirely possible that they won't provide the full range of features (see any 3D acceleration card).
5. YES, Linux is more secure than Windows, and offers better and more diverse tools for locking down your system.
Because ACL support is so common and widespread in Linux, right?
6. This one's esoteric, but what the hell: I can use Reiser FS on Linux; Windows didn't offer a journaling ANYTHING up until their latest greatest (does that even offer journals???).
What the hell? This is just plain ignorant. NTFS is a journaling filesystem. You know when NTFS first came out? 1993, with Windows NT 3.1. It's been supported in NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and every other non-9x-based version of Windows since then.
Overall, Linux is better than Windows in almost every conceivable way.
Except vendor support, 3d acceleration, user base, UI consistency, sheer number of applications, and so forth. Come on, I like Linux just as much as the next guy -- heck, my job involves developing multi-million dollar systems that run on it -- but please be honest with yourself about its capabilities, and be familiar with the competition.
Did you know that a cubic kilometer of seawater would provide enough heavy hydrogen to power the US for a thousand years via nuclear fusion, and the waste products from fusion become safe after a few decades? Nuclear power is much, much safer than that "three-eyed fish" propaganda would have you believe.
By definition, paranoia is a mental delusion. If you are paranoid about your security, you've already gone too far. Maybe "cautious" is the word you're looking for (and no, I don't think you can be too cautious).
I take it that by "when I went to buy my latest machine", you mean that you bought a pre-built machine from Dell or someplace similar, correct? In that case, it's not at all surprising that you couldn't find a motherboard with more than 2 slots; they're not designed to be upgradable in the first place, and even if you did upgrade the RAM, since I assume this is a 32-bit machine we're talking about, having more than two slots would be pointless. You could put two 2 GB DIMMs in each, and then you'd have 4 GB of RAM, the maximum that a 32-bit machine can address. You can expect motherboards sold separately (and thus targeted at do-it-yourselfers) and 64-bit machines to come with more slots than that, however.
I'm not sure which motherboards you're using, but the ones I buy commonly have 3 or 4 RAM slots. If you want to see a 2 GB DIMM, take a trip over to the Apple store, you can get up to 16 GB of RAM in a PowerMac (that's 8 x 2 GB DIMMs).
Are you saying that because we (probably) won't need 64-bit processors on the desktop for a few short years, we shouldn't bother preparing for them now? That's just plain short-sighted. Take a look at the history of computers and you'll see that every time somebody has made a claim like that, it's been a mistake.
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It's totally awesome how your opinion is law, and clearly, any reviewer who disagrees with you is wrong.
I mean, while I didn't think 8 was fantastic, I thought 7 was the low point of the series. It's too bad that your word is divine law and nobody is allowed to disagree with you, eh?
It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur)
Sure, if by "better" you mean "has a worse computer AI and more gimmicks." Not to say that SC2 is a bad game, but you'll find that there are many people out there that prefer the original as a technical fighter. Not to mention, of course, that reviewers are supposed to review games in the context of their competition -- the original SC blew everything in its generation and before it out of the water, but by the time SC2 came around, the rest of the genre had improved enough that it was a much closer competition.
Bear in mind that the above is only my opinion (which is really the whole point of reviews).
Did you even read my post? I paid my way through college with student loans and government grants. That's it, and the grants only amounted to a small percent of the total cost. I worked during summers and winters, but not during the semester. I got a bachelor's degree in computer science. Yes, it was expensive. I still maintain that anybody who comes out of college owing $700 a month for the next 20 years was a shortsighted fool who didn't take a serious look at their options. If somebody is thinking of going to college in an area where it's difficult to support themself, what they should do is go to a different college.
Ok, I hope Maria's in graduate school because I'm not sure I could pull that off.
I believe that would be the point of this sort of project -- to make it easy enough that Maria could do it even if she's just your average user.
Ironically, downloading fansubbed anime is illegal. Fansub groups are modifying and redistributing copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owners; that's a pretty clear violation of international copyright law. Luckily, most Japanese anime studios don't care if their shows get distributed outside of Japan, so fansubbing groups that don't touch licensed series are typically ignored. Of course, there are some Japanese studios (such as Media Factory) that do take an active stance against their series being distributed, so you'll never see their shows listed on some place like animesuki, even if they're not licensed yet...
I seriously wonder where you people are going to college that it costs you $700 per month for 20 years. I had very little government aid (some, but not enough to really make a difference), I'm paying $400 per month on student loans, and I expect to have all of my loans paid in a total of about four years. Maybe you should have thought about what you could afford before you put yourself in the hole...
and Slashdot keeps posting the same ones over and over...
It would be if I had a mac. And $25 I don't need for something else. I'm actually pretty offended that I need to pay for an application to get this functionality - which is why I haven't bought one of these things (airport express) yet. Just another case of Apple's proprietary hardware being undesirable to those who love freedom.
Jeez, cut it with the "freedom" propaganda. All you're doing is showing your own ignorance. The only software you need is iTunes, which runs on OS X or Windows (or through Wine in Linux), and it's free. The only thing you have to buy is the AirPort Express base station with AirTunes support, and it's $129.
No database corruption, no corruption of any kind. THERE is your proof that GNUCash won't fuck up your finances.
Dude. "Anecdote" is not a synonym of "proof." I highly doubt you use the program in exactly the same way as everybody else here.
Did you miss the "stuff that matters" part?
Please keep in mind that it doesn't say "stuff that matters to ObsessiveMathsFreak". If you don't want political news, go into your preferences and turn it off.
A minor note: you can't, in fact, call the kana sets "alphabets", as they are not based on the alpha / beta / etc. characters. They are typically referred to as syllabaries.
How about you stop with the name calling and logical fallacies and just provide a source? The grandparent poster has apparently never heard that injections of embryonic stem cells have killed every subject via cancer in 18 months, and neither have I. I'd be willing to bet there are lots of other people reading this who haven't heard it, either.
At first I was willing to listen to your argument if you'd have provided some sources, but now I'm pretty sure you're just trolling.
Unfortunately, AVG Free doesn't run in a 64-bit environment. This is a problem for me since I recently got a 64-bit processor (and to the people who would say "run a 32-bit OS": no, if I wanted to do that I would've bought a 32-bit CPU). Avast has a free version that works fairly well, but I don't like its interface quite as much as AVG's.
Absolutely. Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Phoenix Wright, Metroid Prime: Hunters, Advance Wars, Kirby: Canvas Curse, Mario Kart, and Resident Evil are all nothing to brag about.
Well, except for the fact that they're all great games, and a number of them are genuinely innovative rather than putting new graphics on the same gameplay mechanics that've been used elsewhere for years.
It's marked as shipping in February, however, which is less than a week away. If you place an order, you'll get one soon enough. Aside from arguing over semantics, I don't see what the point of your original statement was.
Uh. Have you tried http://store.apple.com/?
Also, assuming you even could buy Intel Core Duo-based laptops elsewhere for half of the price, how many of them would run OS X?
Actually, I'm using it on a RAZR with T-Mobile, and it works great. I did, however, have to set up my RAZR to use HTTP via GPRS. You can use http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst to send a set of valid GPRS settings to your phone, and then, if you have access to it, modify it to allow for HTTP. Doing so may require you flash your phone's firmware, however. http://motomodders.net/ can help with that. If you have a RAZR and you're willing to play around with flashing it, I can give you more exact instructions on setting it up to allow HTTP connections.
Actually, Opera has been free (without ads) since late September. Even when it had ads, however, it did not report your browsing habits; you could set options in the preferences that would determine what sort of ads it displayed.
Linux' driver support for 3D acceleration only matters if you're a video gamer
Or if you do any sort of 3D rendering. Architecture, drafting, mechanical engineering, and any number of other fields that use CAD tools fall into that category. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't.
As far as NTFS goes, its so-called journal SUCKS.
So first you say NTFS sucks, and then you go on to rant about registry corruption. There's a difference between NTFS and the registry, you know, and I'm not going to argue that the registry is any good. I am, however, starting to doubt that you even understand what a journaling filesystem does. I'll let you sit in your own world and pretend that NTFS doesn't have a journal if you want, but just search for "NTFS journaling" on Google and you'll find hundreds of links to prove you wrong.
Your ACL point didn't make any sense at all; Linux and its predecessor Unix have had user and group priviledges for thirty years, and more recently SELinux has added a whole bunch of new settings.
Do you even know what ACLs are? Being able to set read/write/execute bits for user/group/world is nothing compared to a full-blown ACL -- in Windows you can set read / write / execute / read attribute / write attribute / append / delete / take ownership and more for any combination of specific users and groups. What are you going to do on a stock Linux box if, for example, you want the group "powerusers" to be able to execute a file, except for the users "foo" and "bar", and you want "foo2" to also be able to write to it? Nothing, that's what. So what if SELinux has recently added more powerful controls? Did you miss what I said about it being widespread? Windows' ACLs can be found on any NT-based version of Linux; the vast majority of Linux boxes out there are still using primitive permission bit masks.
1. They're usually an afterthought, and don't run as well on Windows.
2. There is a far wider variety of tools available for free on Linux than on Windows. Go check out Sourceforge if you want to see for yourself.
How about you go check out Cygwin? The vast majority of OSS can be run under Windows; that one of the nice things about having access to the source code. No, not everything, but that's not my point.
3. When you get a Linux distribution, a VAST variety of software comes with it, right in the box, for FREE. Windows doesn't come with ANYTHING. So if you want the same stuff I've got running on my SuSE box, you'll have to spend a week downloading all the packages for Windows, IF they even exist on that platform.
So what? Aside from the fact that it'll only take a week to download everything you need if you're on a 56k modem, the initial set-up time for a system is inconsequential in almost any production environment. If that's an issue, why did you mention the Java SDK in your original post? You're not going to find that packaged with many Linux distributions.
I'd say YOU are the ignorant one. I highly doubt your job involves "developing multi-million dollar systems that run on it". If you did, you'd know better than to try and dicker over these points with me.
Well, you are right. The fact that I have a job rather than living my my parents' basement means that I should know better than to argue with Linux fanboys on Slashdot, but I just really hate seeing misinformation like "Windows doesn't have a journaling FS" get spread around.
Come on.. I'm not an MS fan, but at least make sure what you're saying is correct.
3. Most of the additional tools people want can be had for free or very little money (like Java's SDK, which can be downloaded for nothing, or Oracle Express, which is also free).
And most of the things that are available for free for Linux can also run under Windows. Java's SDK is free. I don't know anything about Oracle Express, but a quick Google search for it didn't turn up any information.
4. It has better default driver support than Windows, without having to go out to a vendor site and hope they still offer downloads; In fact, most hardware is detected right off the bat nowadays.
But when Linux doesn't detect your hardware by default, it's more than likely that you won't be able to find a vendor solution at all. Even when there are open source drivers available, it's entirely possible that they won't provide the full range of features (see any 3D acceleration card).
5. YES, Linux is more secure than Windows, and offers better and more diverse tools for locking down your system.
Because ACL support is so common and widespread in Linux, right?
6. This one's esoteric, but what the hell: I can use Reiser FS on Linux; Windows didn't offer a journaling ANYTHING up until their latest greatest (does that even offer journals???).
What the hell? This is just plain ignorant. NTFS is a journaling filesystem. You know when NTFS first came out? 1993, with Windows NT 3.1. It's been supported in NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and every other non-9x-based version of Windows since then.
Overall, Linux is better than Windows in almost every conceivable way.
Except vendor support, 3d acceleration, user base, UI consistency, sheer number of applications, and so forth. Come on, I like Linux just as much as the next guy -- heck, my job involves developing multi-million dollar systems that run on it -- but please be honest with yourself about its capabilities, and be familiar with the competition.
Did you know that a cubic kilometer of seawater would provide enough heavy hydrogen to power the US for a thousand years via nuclear fusion, and the waste products from fusion become safe after a few decades? Nuclear power is much, much safer than that "three-eyed fish" propaganda would have you believe.
By definition, paranoia is a mental delusion. If you are paranoid about your security, you've already gone too far. Maybe "cautious" is the word you're looking for (and no, I don't think you can be too cautious).
I take it that by "when I went to buy my latest machine", you mean that you bought a pre-built machine from Dell or someplace similar, correct? In that case, it's not at all surprising that you couldn't find a motherboard with more than 2 slots; they're not designed to be upgradable in the first place, and even if you did upgrade the RAM, since I assume this is a 32-bit machine we're talking about, having more than two slots would be pointless. You could put two 2 GB DIMMs in each, and then you'd have 4 GB of RAM, the maximum that a 32-bit machine can address. You can expect motherboards sold separately (and thus targeted at do-it-yourselfers) and 64-bit machines to come with more slots than that, however.
I'm not sure which motherboards you're using, but the ones I buy commonly have 3 or 4 RAM slots. If you want to see a 2 GB DIMM, take a trip over to the Apple store, you can get up to 16 GB of RAM in a PowerMac (that's 8 x 2 GB DIMMs).
Are you saying that because we (probably) won't need 64-bit processors on the desktop for a few short years, we shouldn't bother preparing for them now? That's just plain short-sighted. Take a look at the history of computers and you'll see that every time somebody has made a claim like that, it's been a mistake.
To be fair, though, I'll bet that you don't keep your address book inside $AOLEexecs' desk, do you?