Vivid Video, take note: NickElm writes: "The 3Dwm project, already featured twice before on Slashdot (the last time little more than a year ago), is...
But that would mean... men only... and that would be... gay.
Aha. I see what you're getting at...;-)
IIRC, Vivid puts out the "Where The Boys Aren't". It's been a few years since I worked at the video store (dot-com boom got me hired doing computer work and that put a damper on my video store clerk career) but I don't think Vivid does gay (male) porn.
Aha. I see your point. When I buy a box, I buy the parts and put it together myself. I enjoy it. But for damn sure my company bought my workstation pre-assembled.
I, for one, would prefer in general that nothing gets installed on my computer that I don't specifically authorize.
That's one great reason to use Linux, or another Open Source OS.
I dual boot, but I haven't booted over to windows in months. I think it's time to wipe that partition....
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I bought this book a few weeks ago, and the SDL website *was* more helpful. After encountering the errors the reviewer mentions, I checked out the SDL documentation, and learned more that the book even trys to cover. Again and again I found myself putting the book down and referencing the SDL docs directly. Now the only thing I use the book for is it's table of keycodes for SDL input.
The one good thing that did come of my purchase of this book was that I found gamedev.net (link in the above post) which really does kick ass.
Gamedev.net motivated me to write a game, a 2D arcade game similar to Atari's Lunar Lander, called Moon Lander
So, the book is not completely useless, it is only mostly useless.
I see your point, but Caldera has a snowball's chance in hell of increasing thier miniscule market share by charging more money when there are more popular ("better" is too subjective) alternatives available for free.
In short, by failing to limit copyright owners' ability to prevent access to their works, the District Court's interpretation of Sect. 1201(a)(2) grants them powers far beyond those allowed by copyright law or the First Amendment, placing the statute on a collision course with the constitution. A reasonable interpretation of the statute, however, could allow it to remain a powerful tool to prevent copyright infringement, while also preserving freedom of expression as movies move into the digital age.
Sound pretty reasonable to me. But then, I am a resonable man. Judge Kaplan didn't seem very resonable to me.
I liked this part alot:
as often occurs in First Amendment cases, the District Court allowed its feelings about the individual speaker before it to color its judgment of his right to speak.
He's saying that Kaplan doesnt like hackers? And that this colored his judgement?
Duh.
I hope they get a better judge in this one. I will be watching.
Most of the packages are way out of date.... something on the order of 350 rpms that need to be updated out of the box
Sounds like you bought the retail version. They did indeed rush that out the door.
The free downloadable ISO images, however, were put together several weeks later, and include the final stable KDE and updated and working rpms for almost everything.
1) I have spent years learning Photoshop. Whatever I need to do to an image, I can do it in Photoshop really, really quickly.
When I use GIMP, I get frustrated alot "Damn it! In Photoshop I could just do x - y - z and I'd be done by now!"
This, I guess, is a problem any new software must overcome when it enters a marketplace already dominated by one program.
2) Photoshop has really nice text editing features, including being able to edit any text entered at any time.
3) Photoshop's history feature has become indispensible for me.
GIMP pros:
1) Free
2) Easy to write your own "plug ins"
3) runs on linux
Photoshop (and Diablo II) are pretty much the only reasons I ever use Windows at all. If there was a port of Photoshop for Linux, I would buy it in a heartbeat (even at $500+)
This begs the question: Can a free software program of this complexity ever hope to overtake the proprietary "Industry Standard" ?
IMHO, we can hope. GIMP is only at 1.2, and has been around a few scant years. Photoshop has been around 'forever' (any timespan over 5-8 years is forever in computer time) and is at 5.5 (going on 6?)
Given the pace of software advances in popular open spource projects, there is definitly hope that GIMP can overtake Photoshop at some point.
My office mate often touts GIMP. He (and myself) can be described as Linux zealots. But, when it really comes down to it, I use the best tool for the job. And often, that is Photoshop. (just as, often, the best tool is Linux)
I wish GIMP good luck, and I DO use it regularly, when it's a quick change and I don't want to re-boot to windows. I look forward to the day when I don't have to re-boot at all.
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It's right at the top of the article here on ./:
Vivid Video, take note: NickElm writes: "The 3Dwm project, already featured twice before on Slashdot (the last time little more than a year ago), is...
Where The Girls Aren't
;-)
But that would mean... men only... and that would be... gay.
Aha. I see what you're getting at...
IIRC, Vivid puts out the "Where The Boys Aren't". It's been a few years since I worked at the video store (dot-com boom got me hired doing computer work and that put a damper on my video store clerk career) but I don't think Vivid does gay (male) porn.
Thanks. That's probably it.
I haven't seen a Vivid movie in years. Too tame for my taste, although their girls are *hot*
I don't get the reference to Vivid Video.
What does a major porn distributor have to do with 3Dwm?
Apparently, LinuxWorld programmers stink at load handling, since, as you said, it is slashdotted.
Knowing AMD's past chips, you won't be able to touch it without asbestos gloves.
I guess no one knows yest if this will run at egg-frying temps like past AMD chips.
Aha. I see your point. When I buy a box, I buy the parts and put it together myself. I enjoy it. But for damn sure my company bought my workstation pre-assembled.
point taken.
Well, I use my boxes to make money, too. But the tools of my trade are Apache, Perl, Emacs and gcc.
I'm not saying that Macs aint worth it in some situations. I was just refuting the above post that stated the price difference was, quote, "tiny"
Oop. I forgot RAM. add $30 for 256MB
a tiny bit more expensive and a tiny bit slower.
Lets compare:
Commodity PC - prices from computer Dept (right down the street from my office here in San Diego)
$ 91 Athlon 1G
$125 Abit K7A mobo
$ 35 case w/ power supply
$125 harddrive
$150 CD-rw
$ 15 floppy
$ 49 abit Geforce 2 MX 200
$ 25 soundblaster Live OEM
$ 15 Generic Ethernet 10/100
total:
$630
Apple cheapest G4 (from store.apple.com)
733MHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 cache
128MB SDRAM memory
40GB Ultra ATA drive
CD-RW drive
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Gigabit Ethernet
56K internal modem
total:
$1,699.00
so, to you, "slightly" means 2.7 X the price.
good luck with that. I'd rather buy a house someday.
I have zero interest in or use for an OS that is not Free as in speech. And I suspect that many /. users feel the same.
It's not "attitudes toward operating systems that are not Linux", it's attitudes toward operating systems that are not Free as in speech.
If you don't like it, don't hang out at a web site that pushes Open Source.
Well, someone has to grow the drugs, right?
I don't know what the hell he's talking about either. I'm just taking a stab in the dark.
So you're willing to get spied upon just so your media use will be more convienient?
I, for one, would prefer in general that nothing gets installed on my computer that I don't specifically authorize.
That's one great reason to use Linux, or another Open Source OS.
I dual boot, but I haven't booted over to windows in months. I think it's time to wipe that partition....
I bought this book a few weeks ago, and the SDL website *was* more helpful. After encountering the errors the reviewer mentions, I checked out the SDL documentation, and learned more that the book even trys to cover. Again and again I found myself putting the book down and referencing the SDL docs directly. Now the only thing I use the book for is it's table of keycodes for SDL input.
The one good thing that did come of my purchase of this book was that I found gamedev.net (link in the above post) which really does kick ass.
Gamedev.net motivated me to write a game, a 2D arcade game similar to Atari's Lunar Lander, called Moon Lander
So, the book is not completely useless, it is only mostly useless.
-geekd
I see your point, but Caldera has a snowball's chance in hell of increasing thier miniscule market share by charging more money when there are more popular ("better" is too subjective) alternatives available for free.
I guess the real question is:
Do girls buy games on anywhere near the volume boys do?
I would atrribute the success of The Sims to a "crossover" appeal, but how many games do girls really buy?
If the game buying public is 80 or 90% teen male, then hey, go for the boobies. If not, clean up your act.
Seems fairly simple to me.
Gracenote is the frontpage story on Suck.com today.
Suck me
pretty funny stuff, Maynard.
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc263.gif
excellent cartoon on the dangers of cloning.
I got it to work at long last, but before it launches xmms, it askes me if I want to save it or open it in xmms.
Knoqueror is cool, but I'll be staying w/ Netscape 4.7 for now.
Has anyone gotten Konqueror to play MP3s from the web?
I've fiddled with the file associations and mime type, etc and I can't get it to work.
m3u i'm talking about here, audio/x-mpegurl, like from mp3.com's site.
thanks!
-geekd
Summary paragraph from the brief:
In short, by failing to limit copyright owners' ability to prevent access to their works, the District Court's interpretation of Sect. 1201(a)(2) grants them powers far beyond those allowed by copyright law or the First Amendment, placing the statute on a collision course with the constitution. A reasonable interpretation of the statute, however, could allow it to remain a powerful tool to prevent copyright infringement, while also preserving freedom of expression as movies move into the digital age.
Sound pretty reasonable to me. But then, I am a resonable man. Judge Kaplan didn't seem very resonable to me.
I liked this part alot:
as often occurs in First Amendment cases, the District Court allowed its feelings about the individual speaker before it to color its judgment of his right to speak.
He's saying that Kaplan doesnt like hackers? And that this colored his judgement?
Duh.
I hope they get a better judge in this one. I will be watching.
-geekd
Most of the packages are way out of date.... something on the order of 350 rpms that need to be updated out of the box
Sounds like you bought the retail version. They did indeed rush that out the door.
The free downloadable ISO images, however, were put together several weeks later, and include the final stable KDE and updated and working rpms for almost everything.
good point
I don't mean to bag on the GIMP. It's cool, but:
Photoshop pros:
1) I have spent years learning Photoshop. Whatever I need to do to an image, I can do it in Photoshop really, really quickly.
When I use GIMP, I get frustrated alot "Damn it! In Photoshop I could just do x - y - z and I'd be done by now!"
This, I guess, is a problem any new software must overcome when it enters a marketplace already dominated by one program.
2) Photoshop has really nice text editing features, including being able to edit any text entered at any time.
3) Photoshop's history feature has become indispensible for me.
GIMP pros:
1) Free
2) Easy to write your own "plug ins"
3) runs on linux
Photoshop (and Diablo II) are pretty much the only reasons I ever use Windows at all. If there was a port of Photoshop for Linux, I would buy it in a heartbeat (even at $500+)
This begs the question: Can a free software program of this complexity ever hope to overtake the proprietary "Industry Standard" ?
IMHO, we can hope. GIMP is only at 1.2, and has been around a few scant years. Photoshop has been around 'forever' (any timespan over 5-8 years is forever in computer time) and is at 5.5 (going on 6?)
Given the pace of software advances in popular open spource projects, there is definitly hope that GIMP can overtake Photoshop at some point.
My office mate often touts GIMP. He (and myself) can be described as Linux zealots. But, when it really comes down to it, I use the best tool for the job. And often, that is Photoshop. (just as, often, the best tool is Linux)
I wish GIMP good luck, and I DO use it regularly, when it's a quick change and I don't want to re-boot to windows. I look forward to the day when I don't have to re-boot at all.
-geekd