"I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT THE CLUB SANDWICH!!!!
I WANT THE 10,000$ A NIGHT HOOKER!!
I WANT MY CLOTHES LAUNDERED AND IRONED LIKE THEY DO AT THE TOKYO....IMPERIAL...HOTEL"
They usually open up for registrations at the start of each month. I actually stumbled upon some blog which was posting invites out in the open, and I've been doing the same eversince. I thought the reason no one talked about it was everyone had them already. YMMV:)
If it's too much to ask, what privacy concerns trouble you so much? Having an account? What you d/l isn't stored anywhere (except the amount of traffic), peers/seeders are hidden on site and besides a username, you're pretty much good old anon.
Getting an account there is super-fucking-easy. Invites are everywhere and effortless to acquire (hint hint). Don't know about the downtime, I haven't stolen anything lately.
Yes, it's not so sunny up in torrent land, but this is only temporary. There's loads of other ways (albeit old-school) to get stuff: usenet (which I personally don't use), IRC bots, FTP servers (not that hard either, you just have to look in the right direction, pro-tip: paid sites who spam you isn't the place). Eventually there will be something new on the block, but until then, I don't see a shortage of warez/media channels.
Lease the plants, specifically the plant's basements. In an year or two the required payment will more than pay off the costs, proving be quite a substantial investment for everyone. While some will be quick to argue that such an act would leave the subterranean structures flooded with geeks oozing from radiation, the Army will soon discover that it has enough material to bottle up and send straight to Communist Russia.
At the risk of being down-modded, what exactly is so special about Deus Ex? Yes I've played it (and it was 2007-ish) and I liked it but I never caught on on the hype and praise surrounding it. I admit I rushed through the game in the latter parts, but it never seemed to me more than a cool sci-fi action/rpg hybrid with a dystopian story-line.
In this document we only discuss Linux deficiencies while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes.
A primary target of this comparison is Windows OS. Linux major shortcomings and problems:
0. Premise: proprietary software will stay indefinitely. Full stop. You may argue eternally, but complicated software like games, 3D applications, databases, CADs(Computer-aided Design), etc. which cost millions of dollars and years of man-hours to develop will never be open sourced. Software patents are about to stay forever.
1. No reliable sound system, no reliable unified software audio mixing, many (old or/and proprietary) applications still open audio output exclusively causing major user problems and headache.
1.1 Insanely difficult to set up volume levels, audio recording... and in some situations even audio output.
1.2 Highly confusing, not self-explanatory mixer settings.
1.3 By default many distros do not set volume levels properly (no audio output/no sound recording).
2. X system:
2.1 No good stable standardized API for developing GUI applications (like Win32 API). Both GTK and Qt are very unstable and often break backwards compatibility.
2.2 Very slow GUI (except when being run with composite window managers on top of OpenGL).
2.3 Many GUI operations are not accelerated. No analogue of GDI or GDI+. Text antialiasing and other GUI operations are software rendered by GUI libraries (GTK->Cairo/QT->Xft).
2.4 Font rendering is implemented via high level GUI libraries, thus:
2.4.1 fontconfig fonts antialiasing settings cannot be applied on-the-fly.
2.4.2 Fonts antialiasing only works for certain GUI toolkits (see 2.1).
2.4.3 Default fonts (often) look ugly.
2.4.3.1 (Being resolved) By default most distros disable advanced fonts antialiasing.
2.4.3.2 By default most distros come without good or even compatible with Windows fonts.
2.5 No double buffering.
3. Problems stemming from the vast number of Linux distributives:
3.1 No unified configuration system for computer settings, devices and system services. E.g. distro A sets up networking using these utilities, outputting certain settings residing in certain file system locations, distro B sets up everything differently. This drives most users mad.
3.2 No unified installer across all distros. Consider RPM, deb, portage, tar.gz, sources, etc. It adds a cost for software development.
3.3 Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software. User should never be bothered with using./configure && make && make installer. It should be possible to install any software by downloading a package and double clicking it (yes, like in Windows, but probably prompting for user/administrator password).
3.4 Applications development is a major PITA. Different distros can use a) different libraries versions b) different compiler flags c) different compilers. This leads to a number of problems raised to the third power.
4. It should be possible to configure everything via GUI which is still not a case for too many situations and operations.
5. Problems stemming from low linux popularity and open source nature:
5.1 Few software titles, inability to run familiar Windows software. (Some applications (which don't work in Wine) have zero Linux equivalents).
5.1.1 No equivalent of some hardcore Windows software like AutoCAD/3D Studio/Adobe Premier/Corel Painter/etc. Home and work users just won't bother installing Linux until they can work for real.
5.2 No games. Full stop. Cedega and Wine offer very incomplete support.
5.3 Incomplete or unstable drivers for some hardware. Problems setting up some hardware (like sound cards or TV tuners/Web Cameras).
I know, I know... you are joking. But it's actually true. Taking a break once in a while does increase your productivity. By ALOT.
But I can see why it's an inconvenience, especially if you work on delicate tasks that require more than a few hours to complete. Of course the chances of a power user accepting to work with such, uhm, "feature", are slim to none. Truly by the time it expires, he will have already purchased/pirated the gold version and his productivity levels would be slumping back to what they used to be. *sigh*
Go to ANY website and view it's source. Figure out why some things in the code work differently than others. Play around with the CSS and see how each change either breaks/shifts elements and gives you insight into the whole process.
There's more "live" material to study on the web than there will ever be in a book.
Slashdot Mirror
"I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT THE CLUB SANDWICH!!!!
I WANT THE 10,000$ A NIGHT HOOKER!!
I WANT MY CLOTHES LAUNDERED AND IRONED LIKE THEY DO AT THE TOKYO....IMPERIAL...HOTEL"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrNxrY8WJI
They usually open up for registrations at the start of each month. I actually stumbled upon some blog which was posting invites out in the open, and I've been doing the same eversince. I thought the reason no one talked about it was everyone had them already. YMMV :)
If it's too much to ask, what privacy concerns trouble you so much? Having an account? What you d/l isn't stored anywhere (except the amount of traffic), peers/seeders are hidden on site and besides a username, you're pretty much good old anon.
Getting an account there is super-fucking-easy. Invites are everywhere and effortless to acquire (hint hint). Don't know about the downtime, I haven't stolen anything lately.
Yes, it's not so sunny up in torrent land, but this is only temporary. There's loads of other ways (albeit old-school) to get stuff: usenet (which I personally don't use), IRC bots, FTP servers (not that hard either, you just have to look in the right direction, pro-tip: paid sites who spam you isn't the place). Eventually there will be something new on the block, but until then, I don't see a shortage of warez/media channels.
Not dead yet!
Demonoid is pretty good and does not have dickhead mods like TPB has.
skript ciddey
"Skript Cidder"? Do you put that on bread?
Lease the plants, specifically the plant's basements. In an year or two the required payment will more than pay off the costs, proving be quite a substantial investment for everyone. While some will be quick to argue that such an act would leave the subterranean structures flooded with geeks oozing from radiation, the Army will soon discover that it has enough material to bottle up and send straight to Communist Russia.
At the risk of being down-modded, what exactly is so special about Deus Ex? Yes I've played it (and it was 2007-ish) and I liked it but I never caught on on the hype and praise surrounding it. I admit I rushed through the game in the latter parts, but it never seemed to me more than a cool sci-fi action/rpg hybrid with a dystopian story-line.
I'm here to use browsers and wrap tin-foil ass and I'm all out of tin-foil.
Now if I had "accidentally" omitted that part, it wouldn't have been a true reproduction, would it?
Someone, somewhere... a hellhound has been set loose on my t(r)ail.
Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop
Preface:
In this document we only discuss Linux deficiencies while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes.
A primary target of this comparison is Windows OS.
Linux major shortcomings and problems:
0. Premise: proprietary software will stay indefinitely. Full stop. You may argue eternally, but complicated software like games, 3D applications, databases, CADs(Computer-aided Design), etc. which cost millions of dollars and years of man-hours to develop will never be open sourced. Software patents are about to stay forever.
1. No reliable sound system, no reliable unified software audio mixing, many (old or/and proprietary) applications still open audio output exclusively causing major user problems and headache.
1.1 Insanely difficult to set up volume levels, audio recording ... and in some situations even audio output.
1.2 Highly confusing, not self-explanatory mixer settings.
1.3 By default many distros do not set volume levels properly (no audio output/no sound recording).
2. X system:
2.1 No good stable standardized API for developing GUI applications (like Win32 API). Both GTK and Qt are very unstable and often break backwards compatibility.
2.2 Very slow GUI (except when being run with composite window managers on top of OpenGL).
2.3 Many GUI operations are not accelerated. No analogue of GDI or GDI+. Text antialiasing and other GUI operations are software rendered by GUI libraries (GTK->Cairo/QT->Xft).
2.4 Font rendering is implemented via high level GUI libraries, thus:
2.4.1 fontconfig fonts antialiasing settings cannot be applied on-the-fly.
2.4.2 Fonts antialiasing only works for certain GUI toolkits (see 2.1).
2.4.3 Default fonts (often) look ugly.
2.4.3.1 (Being resolved) By default most distros disable advanced fonts antialiasing.
2.4.3.2 By default most distros come without good or even compatible with Windows fonts.
2.5 No double buffering.
3. Problems stemming from the vast number of Linux distributives:
3.1 No unified configuration system for computer settings, devices and system services. E.g. distro A sets up networking using these utilities, outputting certain settings residing in certain file system locations, distro B sets up everything differently. This drives most users mad.
3.2 No unified installer across all distros. Consider RPM, deb, portage, tar.gz, sources, etc. It adds a cost for software development.
3.3 Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software. User should never be bothered with using ./configure && make && make installer. It should be possible to install any software by downloading a package and double clicking it (yes, like in Windows, but probably prompting for user/administrator password).
3.4 Applications development is a major PITA. Different distros can use a) different libraries versions b) different compiler flags c) different compilers. This leads to a number of problems raised to the third power.
4. It should be possible to configure everything via GUI which is still not a case for too many situations and operations.
5. Problems stemming from low linux popularity and open source nature:
5.1 Few software titles, inability to run familiar Windows software. (Some applications (which don't work in Wine) have zero Linux equivalents).
5.1.1 No equivalent of some hardcore Windows software like AutoCAD/3D Studio/Adobe Premier/Corel Painter/etc. Home and work users just won't bother installing Linux until they can work for real.
5.2 No games. Full stop. Cedega and Wine offer very incomplete support.
5.3 Incomplete or unstable drivers for some hardware. Problems setting up some hardware (like sound cards or TV tuners/Web Cameras).
5.3.1 A lot of WinPrinters do n
I know, I know... you are joking. But it's actually true. Taking a break once in a while does increase your productivity. By ALOT.
But I can see why it's an inconvenience, especially if you work on delicate tasks that require more than a few hours to complete. Of course the chances of a power user accepting to work with such, uhm, "feature", are slim to none. Truly by the time it expires, he will have already purchased/pirated the gold version and his productivity levels would be slumping back to what they used to be. *sigh*
perhaps I didn't expand on that enough:
Go to ANY website and view it's source. Figure out why some things in the code work differently than others. Play around with the CSS and see how each change either breaks/shifts elements and gives you insight into the whole process. There's more "live" material to study on the web than there will ever be in a book.
View -> Source
Solves it.