Thank god it isn't copper...
They can bearly keep phone and power lines up in Africa because people salvage the metal from the lines.
Talking of phone/power lines has reminded me of the thing I saw on tv where some people in India or South America (I can't remember which, maybe both) get power - they just sling some wire over the power lines to catch some free juice!
I wanted to see the effect of making a lame joke as the first comment - as the comments closest to the top no-matter how mediocre are always modded too high!
God bless the trolls. Sometimes they point out the obvious!
Perhaps they could make an MMO based on a school environment. The more money and material items you have the better your social standing and the more rewards you get as a consequence.
I'm sure coming home to immerse in a world like this would be exactly what the average (not-rich) geek wants!
We live to be pushed around by the rich and powerful!
With all this pissing and moaning about Webkit vulnerabilities and whatever, you are forgetting that there almost certainly will be an API which goes between webkit and the the WM (and possibly more APIs on top of that!) which not only makes interfacing with the WM and the rendering engine easier but it also should restrict the amount of stupid things that you can do!... or rather the amount of things that malicious code can do.
Ah... I forgot. Everybody on Slashdot codes in binary (and the noobs use assembly) and do not believe in abstraction layers.
While your point about the video card is interesting and seems correct, I cannot help wondering why you do not get a sub 30 second boot time on both Windows 7 AND especially Gentoo.
I have hardware only half as powerful and under half of the amount of RAM you have, and I easily achieve these with just about any distro (I regularly run a pretty heavy Fedora install). My old 1.4GHz 512MB RAM laptop boots Debian to X in under 40 seconds.
Daniel@mgn-ws06:~> where is my package?
bash: where: command not found
I addressed the package to my $HOME, and ls shows nothing here... I checked my pwd and I am at the same place as the $HOME and it does not turn up in any other $PATH
It might be worth mentioning to some people who are no doubt confused; there is a difference between FreeNX and NX Free. And on a futher side note, I have tried installing FreeNX two or three times and the packages seemed to be unavailable from distro repo or even from the berlios FS (Weird!). In any case if this Google NX server isn't a piece of junk I will be over the moon!
In my opinion NX is #1 remote display (also sound and printing) technology there is. You get a great quality image over a very slow DSL connection! VNC doesn't come anywhere near it - and for the $0 price tag you can't beat it!
The trouble with NX Free is that it can only allow a few simultaneous connections at a time - I'm hoping Google's server changes this.
The better the graphics the easier it is to be immersed in the game. Immersion is probably the best generator of enjoyment in a game.
I guess it depends on the person. I find good looking 3D games much more enjoyable than 2D games (with the exception of Peggle, maybe) - and I have played my fair share of 2D games as I did not have a decent computer for quite a few years.
I think people might be coming to actually *expect* good looking graphics too, so when they see a game that is not aestetically pleasing as games of a similar type this would make getting immersed in the game more difficult.
Just browse Source Forge for a bit to find a project you would like to (or have the skills to) contribute to. If you already know a project which meets these criteria then that's great. Go hang in the IRC channel and maybe just start with some bug fixes or a simple plugin.
You can also be of great help to some projects and not "just another contributor" by checking out which projects are looking for help. Go to the SourceForge Help Wanted section and pick your weapon/project.
As long as you know how to write documentation, administer a mailing list/forum or do HTML/CSS then you can get into FOSS.
They even have smartphones (n97) that handily beat the iPhone.
I have a n96. Hands down the WORST phone I have ever seen. It is the buggiest and slowest piece of crap and I blame it on a Symbian implementation which has been hacked to death. I prefer the $100 AUD LG phone I picked up two years ago.
However, I really like the idea of maemo (it seems exactly like what I want, except it doesn't have 3G built in or a phone yet) and so far I would happily give it a design award, and I think that QT will only make it better.
However, they really need to be careful or they will end up like OpenMoko - which is damn near dead. They switched tookit 3 times IIRC.
How many times do I have to tell people that gaming in VMs just doesn't work.
Yes, this feature will add support for a lot of graphically accelerated applications and probably even the older games, but the fact is that you still cannot beat direct graphics access!
Virtualbox uses the D3D to OpenGL code from Wine (which I love very much). We aren't talking about DirectX from Windows pushed through to your graphics card.
However don't get me wrong, it will eventually be possible! Gallium3D will have the architecture to support DirectX in Linux (as I understand it anyway, please correct if this is false) which means that you could do a Virtualized Windows direct connection (passthrough) to the graphics driver which should be nearly as good as native performance!
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So if I were to jump off the cliff the idiotic CEOs and Game Designers would follow me?
It's OK. I'll take one for the team, guys.
They can bearly keep phone and power lines up in Africa because people salvage the metal from the lines.
Talking of phone/power lines has reminded me of the thing I saw on tv where some people in India or South America (I can't remember which, maybe both) get power - they just sling some wire over the power lines to catch some free juice!
Why is this person modded troll?
I wanted to see the effect of making a lame joke as the first comment - as the comments closest to the top no-matter how mediocre are always modded too high!
God bless the trolls. Sometimes they point out the obvious!
I don't want a Bumble-Bee! I want a Crazy Frog!
Perhaps they could make an MMO based on a school environment. The more money and material items you have the better your social standing and the more rewards you get as a consequence.
I'm sure coming home to immerse in a world like this would be exactly what the average (not-rich) geek wants!
We live to be pushed around by the rich and powerful!
RAID 1 mirrored drives. When one drive breaks the other can keep going.
You're in one of the most unique places in the world with an awesome windows view but you have to spend your time fixing the toilet.
Everybody knows that outer space is actually under your bed and that the words "awesome" and "Windows" go next to each other.
In Soviet Russia, toilet craps on you.
With all this pissing and moaning about Webkit vulnerabilities and whatever, you are forgetting that there almost certainly will be an API which goes between webkit and the the WM (and possibly more APIs on top of that!) which not only makes interfacing with the WM and the rendering engine easier but it also should restrict the amount of stupid things that you can do!... or rather the amount of things that malicious code can do.
Ah... I forgot. Everybody on Slashdot codes in binary (and the noobs use assembly) and do not believe in abstraction layers.
While your point about the video card is interesting and seems correct, I cannot help wondering why you do not get a sub 30 second boot time on both Windows 7 AND especially Gentoo.
I have hardware only half as powerful and under half of the amount of RAM you have, and I easily achieve these with just about any distro (I regularly run a pretty heavy Fedora install). My old 1.4GHz 512MB RAM laptop boots Debian to X in under 40 seconds.
Good luck Stephen you old dog.
bash: where: command not found
I addressed the package to my $HOME, and ls shows nothing here... I checked my pwd and I am at the same place as the $HOME and it does not turn up in any other $PATH
Why the hell would you need a remote desktop connection to web based apps which run over HTTP?
Once you are modded you cannot be unmodded :/
It might be worth mentioning to some people who are no doubt confused; there is a difference between FreeNX and NX Free. And on a futher side note, I have tried installing FreeNX two or three times and the packages seemed to be unavailable from distro repo or even from the berlios FS (Weird!). In any case if this Google NX server isn't a piece of junk I will be over the moon!
In my opinion NX is #1 remote display (also sound and printing) technology there is. You get a great quality image over a very slow DSL connection! VNC doesn't come anywhere near it - and for the $0 price tag you can't beat it!
The trouble with NX Free is that it can only allow a few simultaneous connections at a time - I'm hoping Google's server changes this.
I thought this was a re-posting of the same story - but it is not. The one that I thought it was is Linux on the Dingoo A320.
I have not seen much of the Dingoo devices on the Internet at all.
The better the graphics the easier it is to be immersed in the game. Immersion is probably the best generator of enjoyment in a game.
I guess it depends on the person. I find good looking 3D games much more enjoyable than 2D games (with the exception of Peggle, maybe) - and I have played my fair share of 2D games as I did not have a decent computer for quite a few years.
I think people might be coming to actually *expect* good looking graphics too, so when they see a game that is not aestetically pleasing as games of a similar type this would make getting immersed in the game more difficult.
He has a big [pneumatic] rig.
Remember it is the size of the cylinder that counts!
...Hang on...
Get your mind out of the gutter!
Sex used to be a form of exercise... But exercise is for losers! He built a machine to do the work for him!
you, sir, must be color blind...
Are you sure?
In any case I had a crap CRT - so maybe I am easily flattered.
I have just done a 17" CRT to 20" LCD migration this week. Even though the display size is bigger, it takes much less desktop space.
Compare the following:
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4 * 8 = 32 (CRT)
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12 * 2 = 24 (LCD)
The other advantage of an LCD space wise is that it is easier to put things in and around the base unlike a CRT.
Half of the reason I switched to LCD was because of health reasons which are:
The colour and sharpness from an LCD is better too and for $100 AUD it was too good to refuse. :)
What could kegel wine tricks possibly be I wonder...
You seem more skilled than I!
Just browse Source Forge for a bit to find a project you would like to (or have the skills to) contribute to. If you already know a project which meets these criteria then that's great. Go hang in the IRC channel and maybe just start with some bug fixes or a simple plugin.
You can also be of great help to some projects and not "just another contributor" by checking out which projects are looking for help. Go to the SourceForge Help Wanted section and pick your weapon/project.
As long as you know how to write documentation, administer a mailing list/forum or do HTML/CSS then you can get into FOSS.
They even have smartphones (n97) that handily beat the iPhone.
I have a n96. Hands down the WORST phone I have ever seen. It is the buggiest and slowest piece of crap and I blame it on a Symbian implementation which has been hacked to death. I prefer the $100 AUD LG phone I picked up two years ago.
However, I really like the idea of maemo (it seems exactly like what I want, except it doesn't have 3G built in or a phone yet) and so far I would happily give it a design award, and I think that QT will only make it better.
However, they really need to be careful or they will end up like OpenMoko - which is damn near dead. They switched tookit 3 times IIRC.
How many times do I have to tell people that gaming in VMs just doesn't work. Yes, this feature will add support for a lot of graphically accelerated applications and probably even the older games, but the fact is that you still cannot beat direct graphics access!
Virtualbox uses the D3D to OpenGL code from Wine (which I love very much). We aren't talking about DirectX from Windows pushed through to your graphics card.
However don't get me wrong, it will eventually be possible! Gallium3D will have the architecture to support DirectX in Linux (as I understand it anyway, please correct if this is false) which means that you could do a Virtualized Windows direct connection (passthrough) to the graphics driver which should be nearly as good as native performance!