Ok here, it seems that not all +5 comments made it, or he deleted individual comments from the top-scorers. Look here - a question, at +5 interesting, that didn't get sent. Hmmm....
Ok - you're trying to do configuration tasks. Advanced ones, at that. The speakers problem - did sndconfig play its stuff properly? Or did it bomb with an error? If it didn't, try a 'killall esd', and then select the OSS output plugin in xmms. Also play with gmix to make sure your volume is turned up.
I'm no fan of Bill Gates or Windows. And Windows isn't always a piece of cake to install. But do you really think the people who can't install Windows would be able to handle the average Linux distro? Puh-lease!
Nope - the point is that they're all too hard, but so is windos. And RedHat's installer is about 2x easier than Windos's, and others are even better than that.
I meant an absolute newbie. You can do it, sure, but you could do it for Linux too. Try to get your father/mother/grandfather/grandmother to reinstall windows. Then watch as they pitifully use their computer in 640x480x16 colors because they don't know how to change it back...
Ok, now that I've done that, I'll have to put in my two bits for enlightenment, as a geek. It's customizeable, and efm looks very promising in terms of a desktop shell. I don't use GNOME/KDE/etc simply because I can't stand the way they lock you in to one UI metaphor. They look the same, no matter what you do to them, in terms of the interface.
The Linux distro. Better yet, BeOS. But, I've seen people who had to re-install Windos. They couldn't even figure out how to switch out of VGA mode! The windos setup procedure is absolutely horrible, and the drivers are even worse. The only reason people use it is because it comes pre-installed.
JLG has stated time and time again that the desktop PC will go away in the far future. After that, BeOS will be BeIA. Read the Quotable JLG for more info.
From the Quotable Jean-Louis Gassée: "For God's sake, don't compare us to Next. We want to be a better tool for developers, not to be tasteful. We don't cost $10,000. We have a floppy drive. We do not defecate on developers."
Insert a chart frame into a word-processing document, rotate the chart frame 45 degrees, apply a background, make the frame transparent, make the chart a 3d chart, and freely rotate the 3d view with no glitches, all while watching a 3dsound file spin on my screen. Then switch over to X and load up the newest E theme.
If we examine the situation of the internet, I don't think we're seeing an edge (yet). It's simply not there:
A new technology comes along that makes distrobution of information easier than it was before. All of a sudden, people have access to greater quantities information and ideas, and to share their own ideas. Some people don't like that, and attempt to restrict the flow of information.
This, my friends, is not the edge. The edge is when we finally decide to ban the restriction of information.
Unfortunately, this will require a massive thought shift in our current economy - the US economy is based around the selling of information. If it doesn't sell, people don't want it. We like to show how much benifit we've gained from this modus opperendi (sp?), but neglect to mention the numbers of people turned away from science and technology because of this, and perhaps why the US is so low in science scores - nobody likes science for what it is!
This is where the Open Source movement will have far reaching implications on our society - it won't be just in computers, but in how we think of development. The philosophers of the enlightenment were very concerned with ideas of progress, and so is the open source movement. We can show that intellectual progress can occur without capatilism of information, and in fact that it can be better. It's a wide-reaching idea.
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What are you running? I get 4 MB on my TX+ chipset plugged into my sbus slot...
Ok - did you even bother to look at the shots on their site? I don't know if that's ~.5 fps, but they look damn impressive - absolutely cool. And how much worse can they be than a GeForce 256 under Linux?
I notice in the subject that you are described as "Rennisance man" and "Internet man". However, I think that there is a big difference between the two - "Rennisance man" is about having expertiese in everything, where "Internet man" is about having a little knowledge about everything. The internet is about having so much information that you can't possibly be an expert in it all, and so you have to just get a little information. Do you think that a "Rennisance man" is possible in the age of the internet?
Ok - the game you're looking for is D3. The AI is superb - it will play hit-and-run with you, not just blast-blast-blast. And the look-in-a-mirror trick I use all of the time, not to mention looking through the guide bot.
BTW, D3 shows that not every game that's very late sucks. Not that I've tried diakatana, though. D3 was supposed to be the D2 engine on steriods, which was the D1 engine on steriods. While the D1/D2 thing was good for its day, they took the time on D3 and it now just kicks ass, engine-wise.
Oh - also - the reason for the Descent name on the first one was that some company was holding on to the Freespace trademark and wouldn't give it up. In ~1995 (I think) Parralax software split into Volition and Outrage, with Volition working on Freespace and Outrage on Descent 3. The freespace guys used the Descent name to avoid the trademark hullalabuloo.
D1: Go blow up things, try and return to earth, get told that "Sorry, we think the contaminant is on your ship, report to our space-station-thingy for details."
D2: Get told you need to go out to some alien sector, blow up things, warp core fries when you try to return.
D3: Play it your self (They finally added a real plot).
Ok - there are quite a few translucent cases out there - where does it stop becoming "whoa - translucent cases are a good idea, let's make some" to "let's rip off apple"? Does apple know where to stop? Could they sue makers of cube-style cases because NeXT (now apple) "innovated" the shape of the NeXT cube?
My library uses the infamous Cyber Patrol client-side solution. Hmm, *brings up about box*, *ctrl-alt-delete* a few times, cyber patrol no more! Not very difficult, hmm?
I get lots of legit spam. Most I've signed myself up for. I get notices about M$ product chats (don't ask, it pays), RealNetworks server announcements, etc. I don't mind the legit stuff. In fact, most of it has a "You are subscribed to blah, click here to unsubscribe" message. It's the real spam that bothers me. I go after spammers, even to the point of cancelling their internet connections. I'm vicious. I got some recently - somebody got my email address, and I eliminated them. Hah.
Playing video games increases destructive, not violent behavior. Violent is what you call playing football - when you actually are pounding on another living, breathing human being. Destructive is playing a video game, killing simulated aliens. Got it? Good.
BTW, Oog, if you're reading this, please comment on this!
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Yup - unless, of course, you have a 64-bit file system (insert shameless BeOS plug here...)
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Ok here, it seems that not all +5 comments made it, or he deleted individual comments from the top-scorers. Look here - a question, at +5 interesting, that didn't get sent. Hmmm....
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I'm no fan of Bill Gates or Windows. And Windows isn't always a piece of cake to install. But do you really think the people who can't install Windows would be able to handle the average Linux distro? Puh-lease!
Nope - the point is that they're all too hard, but so is windos. And RedHat's installer is about 2x easier than Windos's, and others are even better than that.
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I meant an absolute newbie. You can do it, sure, but you could do it for Linux too. Try to get your father/mother/grandfather/grandmother to reinstall windows. Then watch as they pitifully use their computer in 640x480x16 colors because they don't know how to change it back...
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Ok, now that I've done that, I'll have to put in my two bits for enlightenment, as a geek. It's customizeable, and efm looks very promising in terms of a desktop shell. I don't use GNOME/KDE/etc simply because I can't stand the way they lock you in to one UI metaphor. They look the same, no matter what you do to them, in terms of the interface.
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The Linux distro. Better yet, BeOS. But, I've seen people who had to re-install Windos. They couldn't even figure out how to switch out of VGA mode! The windos setup procedure is absolutely horrible, and the drivers are even worse. The only reason people use it is because it comes pre-installed.
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JLG has stated time and time again that the desktop PC will go away in the far future. After that, BeOS will be BeIA. Read the Quotable JLG for more info.
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Red Herring, December 1996
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Insert a chart frame into a word-processing document, rotate the chart frame 45 degrees, apply a background, make the frame transparent, make the chart a 3d chart, and freely rotate the 3d view with no glitches, all while watching a 3dsound file spin on my screen. Then switch over to X and load up the newest E theme.
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Ya think they're competing with Be? That's ok - I know I won't be able to do half the things I do with BeOS on QNX.
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Anybody else notice that in the URL, the Developer folder is under Marketing? Perhaps they're taking this Microsoft partnership a bit too seriously...
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A new technology comes along that makes distrobution of information easier than it was before. All of a sudden, people have access to greater quantities information and ideas, and to share their own ideas. Some people don't like that, and attempt to restrict the flow of information.
This, my friends, is not the edge. The edge is when we finally decide to ban the restriction of information.
Unfortunately, this will require a massive thought shift in our current economy - the US economy is based around the selling of information. If it doesn't sell, people don't want it. We like to show how much benifit we've gained from this modus opperendi (sp?), but neglect to mention the numbers of people turned away from science and technology because of this, and perhaps why the US is so low in science scores - nobody likes science for what it is!
This is where the Open Source movement will have far reaching implications on our society - it won't be just in computers, but in how we think of development. The philosophers of the enlightenment were very concerned with ideas of progress, and so is the open source movement. We can show that intellectual progress can occur without capatilism of information, and in fact that it can be better. It's a wide-reaching idea.
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What are you running? I get 4 MB on my TX+ chipset plugged into my sbus slot...
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Ok - did you even bother to look at the shots on their site? I don't know if that's ~.5 fps, but they look damn impressive - absolutely cool. And how much worse can they be than a GeForce 256 under Linux?
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A default password in a Linux distrobution found during an Open Source review? Horray for Open Source!
A default in Windows 2000 found? Shame on closed source?
You guys are hypocrites.
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The solution (if the prime is congruent to 1 mod 4) is to simply divide it into complex divisors, then claim it's a solution.
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I notice in the subject that you are described as "Rennisance man" and "Internet man". However, I think that there is a big difference between the two - "Rennisance man" is about having expertiese in everything, where "Internet man" is about having a little knowledge about everything. The internet is about having so much information that you can't possibly be an expert in it all, and so you have to just get a little information. Do you think that a "Rennisance man" is possible in the age of the internet?
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BTW, D3 shows that not every game that's very late sucks. Not that I've tried diakatana, though. D3 was supposed to be the D2 engine on steriods, which was the D1 engine on steriods. While the D1/D2 thing was good for its day, they took the time on D3 and it now just kicks ass, engine-wise.
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Oh - also - the reason for the Descent name on the first one was that some company was holding on to the Freespace trademark and wouldn't give it up. In ~1995 (I think) Parralax software split into Volition and Outrage, with Volition working on Freespace and Outrage on Descent 3. The freespace guys used the Descent name to avoid the trademark hullalabuloo.
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Plotline:
D1: Go blow up things, try and return to earth, get told that "Sorry, we think the contaminant is on your ship, report to our space-station-thingy for details."
D2: Get told you need to go out to some alien sector, blow up things, warp core fries when you try to return.
D3: Play it your self (They finally added a real plot).
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Ok - there are quite a few translucent cases out there - where does it stop becoming "whoa - translucent cases are a good idea, let's make some" to "let's rip off apple"? Does apple know where to stop? Could they sue makers of cube-style cases because NeXT (now apple) "innovated" the shape of the NeXT cube?
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My library uses the infamous Cyber Patrol client-side solution. Hmm, *brings up about box*, *ctrl-alt-delete* a few times, cyber patrol no more! Not very difficult, hmm?
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I get lots of legit spam. Most I've signed myself up for. I get notices about M$ product chats (don't ask, it pays), RealNetworks server announcements, etc. I don't mind the legit stuff. In fact, most of it has a "You are subscribed to blah, click here to unsubscribe" message. It's the real spam that bothers me. I go after spammers, even to the point of cancelling their internet connections. I'm vicious. I got some recently - somebody got my email address, and I eliminated them. Hah.
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BTW, Oog, if you're reading this, please comment on this!
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I own one of your t-shirts. Here's an idea: for everybody who buys one of your shirts, make them a made-to-order desktop tile. How about that?
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