I don't know about Channel 5, I couldn't receive it when I lived in Brighton, and now I live in central London I cant receive it either.
Channel 4 has been going steadily downhill, they used to show much better minority programming than BBC2, nowadays it's more sensationalist tat. They are good for quality imported programs tho and show decent movies.
I don't know why I even bother having ITV tuned these days, i'll occasionally switch over to watch some sport event the BBC doesn't have and rarely watch some crap movie, but even those are interrupted by 30 minutes of news break.
and that is a scary but true indictment of modern democracy. someone that refuses to vote gains no less respect from me, precisely because the system of democracy is so heavily broken and so heavily skewed.
no it was about some new standard (yay another!) that has no real use in the real world. As long as us techies keep churning out some new standard every year that doesn't really address the problems of the area it is targetted but looks kinda elegent....
most companies have 20 or 30 years worth of elegently retarded standards to deal with, why do they want another?
isn't about time someone making some standard for a business actually asked what the business wanted and made it for them instead of some hypothetical extreme programming remote procedure call markup language shit?
And why do I care about this given my compoany has invested a lot of training time and development in a terminal based solution that works for our needs?
An quote about goodbye backward compatability, hello structure in a broken xml fragment doesnt sell it to me, and it certainly wont sell it to my bosses.
Why is it better? Why does it cost less? Why does it cost us nothing to replace existing apps? Why will we be able to use it in 10 years from now? Why will our staff be more productive?
XML/XHTML/and all these other standards just dont answer the questions that are important. Sure they are "neat", but "neat" doesnt get adopted.
"rich, portable web-based applications desired by corporate IT"
the author is full of shit, corporate IT doesn't want rich portable web-based applications, those things may satisfy a corporate IT departments needs in certain cases.
If I was a corporate IT director, i'd throw out the technology buzzwords with the bathwater and look for a solution that helps me integrate and solidify all my existing and future application needs.
I dont think this attitude of rewrite everything as web is helpful, most data entry clerks / cashiers think its just as crap as vt100 terminals.
The goal for me at least is finding some way to provide a unified interface to all these different legacy applications in a way that it is consistant and that you dont need to hire a consulting company to refactor every damn screen on your app.
Sound on Linux is a mess. On my system, getting sound to run under a 2.4 kernel using ALSA was trivial, but some other niceties in the 2.6 kernel didn't work, so I spent an awful lot of time under various revisions trying to get ALSA to work on 2.6.
One day it did, through seemingly random unrelated combinations of modules and kernel options. Today I grabbed an incremental release of the 2.6.7 and poof, there goes sound again!
I don't see these problems in X or the network subsystems, or disk access so why is it so damn problematic to have sound?
In windows it was detected immediately, and hardware accelerated - and this is on every version of Windows that came out after the chipsets manufacture.
On Freebsd, I did cd/usr/ports/sound/nameofcard && make && make install (i don't remember the exact directory) and bang there it was, with all my applications supporting it.
Flamingos don't bury there head in the sand, it's Ostriches you are thinking about.
Whats complaining about the "damn gubmint" got to do with voting? Democracy is arguably a myth propogated to make people beleive they are in control of a country. The fact that in a succesful democracy, such as the UK only 30-40% of people bother to vote for the candidates presented, that have identical policies is sort of damning isn't it?
Btw, using unlicensed software isn't a criminal offence, it's a civil offence. There is a difference.
As wierd as it may seem, the vast majority of people don't see computing as some political statement - they are tools we use in our daily lives, just the same as our cars or kettles - if someone got all emotive and political about a kettle you'd think them insane.
The reason i'm not out protesting or championing computer license issues is exactly the same reason I don't protest against animal testing - in some abstract way i care about both of these things - but it's really not important to my life, and it won't be until people stop starving or killing each other.
This gives me an overwhelming feeling of "I don't give a crap"
I think myself, like the majority of people that use software could give a flying fsck about the license some software is using.
Gnu / BSD / X11 / Sell Grandmother into slavery - I don't care.
Evolution is a perfectly acceptable replacement for Outlook, so long as it continues being like that i'll use it. If some better software comes along that runs on my PC i'll switch.
it's sort of like all the final fantasies in that respect. still MGS2 is a game rather than a techdemo, i dont remember how long it took to clock it but it was pretty long.
fwiw i also have pretty long played time in everquest, soul calibur and gran turismo 3 - i dont really think the length of a games playablity has any bearing on how good it is.
To be fair, though. . . We can all appreciate the cool-value of id. It took a long time and a lot of work to train my subconscious to allow me access to a light-saber on demand in my dreams.
Most of my dreams involve my lightsaber, Freud would probably have a field day and blame it on the id.
fucking a. in the year 2004 i dont have any bfg's, shotguns or pda's sitting in my drawer. i do have a roll of tape but thats probably obsoleted in 2185.
I don't know about you but I played through all 800 hours of MGS2 without cheats. I started using give all and god about an hour into Doom3 and got bored of it about halfway through.
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I don't know about Channel 5, I couldn't receive it when I lived in Brighton, and now I live in central London I cant receive it either.
Channel 4 has been going steadily downhill, they used to show much better minority programming than BBC2, nowadays it's more sensationalist tat. They are good for quality imported programs tho and show decent movies.
I don't know why I even bother having ITV tuned these days, i'll occasionally switch over to watch some sport event the BBC doesn't have and rarely watch some crap movie, but even those are interrupted by 30 minutes of news break.
and that is a scary but true indictment of modern democracy. someone that refuses to vote gains no less respect from me, precisely because the system of democracy is so heavily broken and so heavily skewed.
well with a tiny market share, they are hardly in a position to say no the IE way of doing things is stuffed up. Lets do things this way and break IE.
It won't happen, the 99% of people using IE wont go for it. Anyway these days Gecko is surplanting KHTNL, it's dead basically.
no it was about some new standard (yay another!) that has no real use in the real world. As long as us techies keep churning out some new standard every year that doesn't really address the problems of the area it is targetted but looks kinda elegent....
most companies have 20 or 30 years worth of elegently retarded standards to deal with, why do they want another?
isn't about time someone making some standard for a business actually asked what the business wanted and made it for them instead of some hypothetical extreme programming remote procedure call markup language shit?
lucky you. that was kindof my point - linux sound is so hit and miss...
if i could boot up and there was sound, and you booted up and there was sound and joe schmoe did the same it would be fine.
what 2% or so at best estimates?
still not relevent.
Konquerer represents somewhere between fuck all and slightly more than fuck all of the market. It's not relevent.
And why do I care about this given my compoany has invested a lot of training time and development in a terminal based solution that works for our needs?
An quote about goodbye backward compatability, hello structure in a broken xml fragment doesnt sell it to me, and it certainly wont sell it to my bosses.
Why is it better? Why does it cost less? Why does it cost us nothing to replace existing apps? Why will we be able to use it in 10 years from now? Why will our staff be more productive?
XML/XHTML/and all these other standards just dont answer the questions that are important. Sure they are "neat", but "neat" doesnt get adopted.
"rich, portable web-based applications desired by corporate IT"
the author is full of shit, corporate IT doesn't want rich portable web-based applications, those things may satisfy a corporate IT departments needs in certain cases.
If I was a corporate IT director, i'd throw out the technology buzzwords with the bathwater and look for a solution that helps me integrate and solidify all my existing and future application needs.
I dont think this attitude of rewrite everything as web is helpful, most data entry clerks / cashiers think its just as crap as vt100 terminals.
The goal for me at least is finding some way to provide a unified interface to all these different legacy applications in a way that it is consistant and that you dont need to hire a consulting company to refactor every damn screen on your app.
Sound on Linux is a mess. On my system, getting sound to run under a 2.4 kernel using ALSA was trivial, but some other niceties in the 2.6 kernel didn't work, so I spent an awful lot of time under various revisions trying to get ALSA to work on 2.6.
/usr/ports/sound/nameofcard && make && make install (i don't remember the exact directory) and bang there it was, with all my applications supporting it.
One day it did, through seemingly random unrelated combinations of modules and kernel options. Today I grabbed an incremental release of the 2.6.7 and poof, there goes sound again!
I don't see these problems in X or the network subsystems, or disk access so why is it so damn problematic to have sound?
In windows it was detected immediately, and hardware accelerated - and this is on every version of Windows that came out after the chipsets manufacture.
On Freebsd, I did cd
Flamingos don't bury there head in the sand, it's Ostriches you are thinking about.
Whats complaining about the "damn gubmint" got to do with voting? Democracy is arguably a myth propogated to make people beleive they are in control of a country. The fact that in a succesful democracy, such as the UK only 30-40% of people bother to vote for the candidates presented, that have identical policies is sort of damning isn't it?
Btw, using unlicensed software isn't a criminal offence, it's a civil offence. There is a difference.
As wierd as it may seem, the vast majority of people don't see computing as some political statement - they are tools we use in our daily lives, just the same as our cars or kettles - if someone got all emotive and political about a kettle you'd think them insane.
The reason i'm not out protesting or championing computer license issues is exactly the same reason I don't protest against animal testing - in some abstract way i care about both of these things - but it's really not important to my life, and it won't be until people stop starving or killing each other.
This gives me an overwhelming feeling of "I don't give a crap"
I think myself, like the majority of people that use software could give a flying fsck about the license some software is using.
Gnu / BSD / X11 / Sell Grandmother into slavery - I don't care.
Evolution is a perfectly acceptable replacement for Outlook, so long as it continues being like that i'll use it. If some better software comes along that runs on my PC i'll switch.
Unreal has by far the best tools, why would people suddenly switch to Doom?
'sides, unless you are making a mod for Doom that involves dark rooms and monsters teleporting in behind you the options are kind of limited.
granny should emerge -uD world like the rest of us.
but the numbers get bigger in Windows too!
3 -> 95 -> 2000 -> XP!
(XP is Roman for really huge)
it's sort of like all the final fantasies in that respect. still MGS2 is a game rather than a techdemo, i dont remember how long it took to clock it but it was pretty long.
fwiw i also have pretty long played time in everquest, soul calibur and gran turismo 3 - i dont really think the length of a games playablity has any bearing on how good it is.
i'll have a cup of tea thanks!
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i do agree with your post tho, just playing with lightsabers is the low hanging fruit of
works just fine in Wine and Cedega, bout the same performance from what i can see too.
To be fair, though. . . We can all appreciate the cool-value of id. It took a long time and a lot of work to train my subconscious to allow me access to a light-saber on demand in my dreams.
Most of my dreams involve my lightsaber, Freud would probably have a field day and blame it on the id.
fucking a. in the year 2004 i dont have any bfg's, shotguns or pda's sitting in my drawer. i do have a roll of tape but thats probably obsoleted in 2185.
if they came out with that shit in the eighties i'm not surprised the game industry is dead.
the first one was the best by far.
the sequels turned it into doom with jumping
Its very good if you like tombraider 1. It will tank tho.
actually, where is the 40 dollars i just spent on this shit is a better question.
it's a subpar system shock 2 knockoff without the rpg elements.
if you want to play doom3, i'd advise you to go and find a copy of serious sam.
I don't know about you but I played through all 800 hours of MGS2 without cheats. I started using give all and god about an hour into Doom3 and got bored of it about halfway through.