"Welp, given that ID software has released their games on linux for years now (quake 3, etc) and that they have said there will be a linux version of doom III shipping in the same box as the windows version, might as well switch then:P
Also might I say, ut2004 is beautiful in linux. (native, just like ut 2003 and ut)"
Nooooooooooooooo!
Just kidding, this bodes very well for the community.
UT Runs very well on Linux boxen. I really wonder why the last minute delay on DoomIII. My personal conspiracy theory is that Carmack delayed release to accomodate 64 bit code. Any takers?
Nice article, I have installed and run Linux a few times so I have a feel for it. (Redhat and Mandrake, I loved Mandrake!) The very steps you articulate are so over my head even though you seem to be creating a rosetta stone for others to follow.
Give me DoomIII on Linux and I might switch now.
Give you guys about three years and Microsoft is going to feel the pain to the point they are going to be forced to offer concessions.
"...also funds the National Institute for Discovery Science, which investigates unexplained phenomena. It is particularly concerned with reports of cattle mutilations associated with UFO-type activity (such as strange lights in the sky). In 1996, Bigelow bought a Utah ranch from a couple who claimed that it had been dogged for years by "anomalous phenomena"; the businessman then installed scientific researchers and surveillance equipment to document activity."
OK then, I am going to trust this guy with my life in a hostile environment. Right.
I will wait until the mark X model is tested. Thank you very much.
"Yes, you are right. All javascript is evil and must be banned"
OK, I will take you on. Under what conditions do you accept Javascript as safe?
I expect 95% of the time. It's that 1 in 20 chance of endless popups or owning my computer through a security hole I could drive a Hummer through (If I could afford one.) Oh, please enlighten me about Javascript security.
There is a reason I have Javascript firmly turned off in IE, Mozilla has much better blocking and I trust it with Mozilla but my conclusion is that Javascript is code run amok, unless there are some constraints put on it. Everybody will be trying to bend this code to their will.
I know I am missing out bigtime and I curse a lot of my favorite sites daily, I do this in the name of security.
"But I can tell when someone is scared, and this guy was scared"
I hear what you are saying and I for the most part agree with you. However, I wish to point out that people put in scary situations tend to do irrational things that they normally would not do otherwise.
"Imagine if what you had in your wallet was all your food for the next week"
Come on, you can do better than this! I have been there, done that. If you are silly enough to rely on the wallet that much, you need to rethink your life's game plan.
"My fiance and I were mugged less than a block from our house just about three weeks ago. After having a gun pointed at me by someone I don't know all that well, I have to agree with some of your conclusions. I did not do what he told me to do (Getting on the ground was not an option in my mind). I walked right up to the son of a bitch and got the best look I could, then I walked away. The guy with the gun had a partner who tried to beat me up, but I've been hit harder by girls on accident. The point to this was, I didn't follow their script (and that's what it sounded like, a script from a real bad "gangsta" movie) and that's what kept me, my fiance, my iPod, and my money intact. The police told me I should have gone along and did what they told me, but two days before a woman was shot and killed during a mugging at the mall. She did exactly what they told her to, yet they killed her anyway. I see no profit in bowing down to petty tyrants with little guns, who think they can steal what's mine. Or maybe I just read too much Batman as a kid."
Dude, unless you are an extreme bad-ass, that type of attitude will earn you an early death. Even Bruce Lee at the top of his form would think twice before just turning his back on unknown possibly armed thugs. Give em want they want and remember every detail is a saner approach to just like 'Living' is what I am shooting for. No Wait! Bad metaphore. Bad metaphore. (Crack, Shot it. NoOOOO!)
The idea is that no matter now good you think you are, there is somebody out there who is better. And if you are in a life and death situation, why risk it? Take my cruddy old wallet with the one valid credit card (I keep the old ones in there as a trap.) that I will be canceling as soon as I get to a phone.
Flee, Mr. Mugger. I enjoy the fact that you did not get anything except a detailed police sketch from me. And of course I will be watching out for you in my travels, A city can be suprisingly small.
Thanks for setting him straight, I was looking at his post wondering what planet he was from.
You should have also included the fact that interlacing is an accepted (evil?) on the analog world and is still a big thorn in the digital community. That little "i" or "p" in those resolution numbers is a big trade off. Computer monitors use progressive scanning almost always, and that is the way it should be.
Television has fought so many format wars that the battle lines are still being drawn. For example this week they are holding NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas.
Every single inch of convention space is taken up by the broadcast divisions of the big companys and the 'mom and pop' vendors all competing for your attention for five solid days.
Now I am rambling but I will leave you with this: The Las Vegas hotels hate this convention with a passion. Because the entire thing is populated by people that are so smart that they know the odds inside and out.
Your post made me remember a very scary road rage moment for me, thank you so very much.
I was driving from Napa to Sonoma over a two lane winding road that meanders through the foothills. Normally a beautiful drive but not on this day.
There were a clot of cars and a semi truck spread across the dual left turn lanes with me stuck behind the truck, after about a half a mile of dual lane road before it narrows to a single lane. The light changed everybody turned and started racing to get around the truck before the narrowing of the road, I took my time and safely made my way around the truck with plenty of room to spare, I however was the last car to get around the truck and I guess it must have ticked of the driver because he decided to "teach me a lesson". Picture this: I am driving a mid size Saturn over winding hills at sixty miles an hour with a semi just two feet from my rear bumper. I thought I was going to die that day. I was too scared to brake because I didn't think he could see my lights. He continued this all the way over the route, (about ten miles but it felt like a hundred to me!) until the road split again at the base of a large hill. I was never so happy to see that hill, let me tell you! I promptly hit the gas and watched in relief in my rear view mirror as the driver swerves(!) into the right hand lane. I thought I was home free. Alas, I was being foolish. During the trip I was so scared that I wrote his license number down and even fashioned a crude sign that I was going to call the CHP if he did not back off. (That little exercise was pretty hairy in itself considering the circumstances) He did not back off. So after the summit of "Lifesaver" hill you cruise downhill for about a mile take a right turn and then it is a two mile stretch, a stop sign and you are suburbs of Sonoma. I watched in satisfaction as the truck crested the hill behind me with several cars between us. As I made the right hand turn I waved my notepad out of my window as a farewell gesture and watched in horror as he swerved again to follow me. I figured fine, there are five cars between us and I would simply drive to the police station. So I dismissed it to a low level annoyance and just stuck to driving, then we came up to the four way stop. I am sitting in line like everybody else when I look over to my right and this guy had swerved over to the dirt shoulder skids to a stop jumps out and starts beating on my car with his fists and yelling. I said the hell with traffic laws and cut over to the empty left lane and safely cut through the stop sign. I am so glad this guy did not have a gun, because I believe to this day he would have used it. (I cannot imagine what the drivers behind me thought of this little drama.)
For a disappointing epilog, two miles later I flagged down a Sheriff who was freaking out because I was acting so agitated, I told him the story and foolishly gave him the paper with the license number on it. In hindsite I should have given it to the CHP.
Today I carry around a cellphone. I really wish I had had one back then.
You could be very right, I suspect that there are some very good reasons why the USA is pursuing this line in defiance of world thought.
Let me tell you this, the USA is at least ten to fifteen years ahead of consumer technology. That number has shrunk in the face of the Internet and the sharing of ideas.
Let me ask you this, Would you want to be one that designed this?
I say throw out the bad apples and see how this hand plays out.
Throw the bad parts to the courts for the Justice system to chew up (Ala, Martha Stewart) and embrace the many good aspects that are planned.
"...A fusion power plant is incapable of 'meltdown' in any way, shape or form."
This is true, but there is a very slim possibility of very large bang if the containment breaks down.
Note I said slim, the energy involved is huge but not huge enough. Down the road might be a different story.
Also looking at the construction pictures it is hard to actually visualize how *HUGE* this thing is. Slashdot should hire the Chernoble chick to ride around this thing.
I also suggest that we as taxpayers are getting more bang for our buck in this project than a lot of other Government financed projects.
If anybody can dig up sound or video of this thing firing, I am sure you will get modded up real quick.:)
"Fusion happens commonly in research labs. What hasn't happened yet, is getting more energy out than it took to create the fusion, in a controlled, energy-generating environment."
I have to say as person that has to use Adobe products, I rank them up with Microsoft as far as crushing the competition, However, I have to give Microsoft a kudo for restrant compared to Abobe.
We as the techno-elite have it as our sad duty to march these pilgrims across the desert to the waterholes despite the personal hardship. I cannot say that I honestly owe it to these people. I just feel compassion and I want to help out as much as I am able.
Did anybody notice the cute radio and nightstick in its "Belt?" I am guessing these a non-functional for obvious reasons. Like I would want a nightstick wielding robot coming after me for RIAA transgressions.
I can also say with certainty that this thing is controlled via a human. After seeing T3 would you want it any other way?
Also the most creepy thing. Take a close look at its "Nose" where the camera is. Now take a closer look and think twenty years from now, I see a gun in that place. Almost looks like it now.
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"Welp, given that ID software has released their games on linux for years now (quake 3, etc) and that they have said there will be a linux version of doom III shipping in the same box as the windows version, might as well switch then :P
Also might I say, ut2004 is beautiful in linux. (native, just like ut 2003 and ut)"
Nooooooooooooooo!
Just kidding, this bodes very well for the community.
UT Runs very well on Linux boxen. I really wonder why the last minute delay on DoomIII. My personal conspiracy theory is that Carmack delayed release to accomodate 64 bit code. Any takers?
Nice article, I have installed and run Linux a few times so I have a feel for it. (Redhat and Mandrake, I loved Mandrake!) The very steps you articulate are so over my head even though you seem to be creating a rosetta stone for others to follow.
Give me DoomIII on Linux and I might switch now.
Give you guys about three years and Microsoft is going to feel the pain to the point they are going to be forced to offer concessions.
I think that day is coming sooner than we think.
"...also funds the National Institute for Discovery Science, which investigates unexplained phenomena. It is particularly concerned with reports of cattle mutilations associated with UFO-type activity (such as strange lights in the sky). In 1996, Bigelow bought a Utah ranch from a couple who claimed that it had been dogged for years by "anomalous phenomena"; the businessman then installed scientific researchers and surveillance equipment to document activity."
OK then, I am going to trust this guy with my life in a hostile environment. Right.
I will wait until the mark X model is tested. Thank you very much.
"Yes, you are right. All javascript is evil and must be banned"
OK, I will take you on. Under what conditions do you accept Javascript as safe?
I expect 95% of the time. It's that 1 in 20 chance of endless popups or owning my computer through a security hole I could drive a Hummer through (If I could afford one.) Oh, please enlighten me about Javascript security.
There is a reason I have Javascript firmly turned off in IE, Mozilla has much better blocking and I trust it with Mozilla but my conclusion is that Javascript is code run amok, unless there are some constraints put on it. Everybody will be trying to bend this code to their will.
I know I am missing out bigtime and I curse a lot of my favorite sites daily, I do this in the name of security.
"Yeah, and it's pretty amazing/annoying how many sites that do use Flash for navigation don't at least have a plain HTML index or site map page."
I also wish to point out how many sites use the accursed javascript which is rife with corruption.
"But I can tell when someone is scared, and this guy was scared"
I hear what you are saying and I for the most part agree with you. However, I wish to point out that people put in scary situations tend to do irrational things that they normally would not do otherwise.
"Imagine if what you had in your wallet was all your food for the next week"
Come on, you can do better than this! I have been there, done that. If you are silly enough to rely on the wallet that much, you need to rethink your life's game plan.
I personally believe in redundancy.
"My fiance and I were mugged less than a block from our house just about three weeks ago. After having a gun pointed at me by someone I don't know all that well, I have to agree with some of your conclusions.
I did not do what he told me to do (Getting on the ground was not an option in my mind). I walked right up to the son of a bitch and got the best look I could, then I walked away. The guy with the gun had a partner who tried to beat me up, but I've been hit harder by girls on accident.
The point to this was, I didn't follow their script (and that's what it sounded like, a script from a real bad "gangsta" movie) and that's what kept me, my fiance, my iPod, and my money intact. The police told me I should have gone along and did what they told me, but two days before a woman was shot and killed during a mugging at the mall. She did exactly what they told her to, yet they killed her anyway.
I see no profit in bowing down to petty tyrants with little guns, who think they can steal what's mine. Or maybe I just read too much Batman as a kid."
Dude, unless you are an extreme bad-ass, that type of attitude will earn you an early death. Even Bruce Lee at the top of his form would think twice before just turning his back on unknown possibly armed thugs. Give em want they want and remember every detail is a saner approach to just like 'Living' is what I am shooting for. No Wait! Bad metaphore. Bad metaphore. (Crack, Shot it. NoOOOO!)
The idea is that no matter now good you think you are, there is somebody out there who is better. And if you are in a life and death situation, why risk it? Take my cruddy old wallet with the one valid credit card (I keep the old ones in there as a trap.) that I will be canceling as soon as I get to a phone.
Flee, Mr. Mugger. I enjoy the fact that you did not get anything except a detailed police sketch from me. And of course I will be watching out for you in my travels, A city can be suprisingly small.
"You mean you'll put down your rock, and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized peo"
I for one, would be willing to take you o
The way these scams work is that if you send it to enough people, sooner or later somebody is going to buy into it no matter what and that is scary.
I just wonder how many people already have fallen for this one.
Thanks for setting him straight, I was looking at his post wondering what planet he was from.
You should have also included the fact that interlacing is an accepted (evil?) on the analog world and is still a big thorn in the digital community. That little "i" or "p" in those resolution numbers is a big trade off. Computer monitors use progressive scanning almost always, and that is the way it should be.
Television has fought so many format wars that the battle lines are still being drawn. For example this week they are holding NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas.
Every single inch of convention space is taken up by the broadcast divisions of the big companys and the 'mom and pop' vendors all competing for your attention for five solid days.
Now I am rambling but I will leave you with this: The Las Vegas hotels hate this convention with a passion. Because the entire thing is populated by people that are so smart that they know the odds inside and out.
Your post made me remember a very scary road rage moment for me, thank you so very much.
I was driving from Napa to Sonoma over a two lane winding road that meanders through the foothills. Normally a beautiful drive but not on this day.
There were a clot of cars and a semi truck spread across the dual left turn lanes with me stuck behind the truck, after about a half a mile of dual lane road before it narrows to a single lane. The light changed everybody turned and started racing to get around the truck before the narrowing of the road, I took my time and safely made my way around the truck with plenty of room to spare, I however was the last car to get around the truck and I guess it must have ticked of the driver because he decided to "teach me a lesson". Picture this: I am driving a mid size Saturn over winding hills at sixty miles an hour with a semi just two feet from my rear bumper. I thought I was going to die that day. I was too scared to brake because I didn't think he could see my lights. He continued this all the way over the route, (about ten miles but it felt like a hundred to me!) until the road split again at the base of a large hill. I was never so happy to see that hill, let me tell you! I promptly hit the gas and watched in relief in my rear view mirror as the driver swerves(!) into the right hand lane. I thought I was home free. Alas, I was being foolish. During the trip I was so scared that I wrote his license number down and even fashioned a crude sign that I was going to call the CHP if he did not back off. (That little exercise was pretty hairy in itself considering the circumstances) He did not back off. So after the summit of "Lifesaver" hill you cruise downhill for about a mile take a right turn and then it is a two mile stretch, a stop sign and you are suburbs of Sonoma. I watched in satisfaction as the truck crested the hill behind me with several cars between us. As I made the right hand turn I waved my notepad out of my window as a farewell gesture and watched in horror as he swerved again to follow me. I figured fine, there are five cars between us and I would simply drive to the police station. So I dismissed it to a low level annoyance and just stuck to driving, then we came up to the four way stop. I am sitting in line like everybody else when I look over to my right and this guy had swerved over to the dirt shoulder skids to a stop jumps out and starts beating on my car with his fists and yelling. I said the hell with traffic laws and cut over to the empty left lane and safely cut through the stop sign. I am so glad this guy did not have a gun, because I believe to this day he would have used it. (I cannot imagine what the drivers behind me thought of this little drama.)
For a disappointing epilog, two miles later I flagged down a Sheriff who was freaking out because I was acting so agitated, I told him the story and foolishly gave him the paper with the license number on it. In hindsite I should have given it to the CHP.
Today I carry around a cellphone. I really wish I had had one back then.
Hey, I can promise you that IBM will not take this lying down nor will Intel or Microsoft.
.02 but I think the bots are way cool.
Don't discount the power of an armload of patents and a braintrust on tap.
My
Remember the Simpson's episode where Homer had to clear out his garage to make room for his tavern?
Remember him tossing the robot after the robot looks imploringly at Homer and says "Father give me legs"?
Yes, I thought you might.
Surprisingly, This AC is quite correct. You have to have been in the Military to understand.
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Dreamworks has happened, this tech is being dribbled out to the masses.
The USA is sitting on so much tech, it is offensive in many ways to the average
That AC. knew the quagmire the secrecy signings that a top level clearance entails.
I eschewed these things, and frankly I am a MUCH happier person for doing this.
You could be very right, I suspect that there are some very good reasons why the USA is pursuing this line in defiance of world thought.
Let me tell you this, the USA is at least ten to fifteen years ahead of consumer technology. That number has shrunk in the face of the Internet and the sharing of ideas.
Let me ask you this, Would you want to be one that designed this?
I say throw out the bad apples and see how this hand plays out.
Throw the bad parts to the courts for the Justice system to chew up (Ala, Martha Stewart) and embrace the many good aspects that are planned.
"...A fusion power plant is incapable of 'meltdown' in any way, shape or form."
:)
This is true, but there is a very slim possibility of very large bang if the containment breaks down.
Note I said slim, the energy involved is huge but not huge enough. Down the road might be a different story.
Also looking at the construction pictures it is hard to actually visualize how *HUGE* this thing is. Slashdot should hire the Chernoble chick to ride around this thing.
I also suggest that we as taxpayers are getting more bang for our buck in this project than a lot of other Government financed projects.
If anybody can dig up sound or video of this thing firing, I am sure you will get modded up real quick.
"Fusion happens commonly in research labs. What hasn't happened yet, is getting more energy out than it took to create the fusion, in a controlled, energy-generating environment."
Amen on the controlled aspect.
I use Zone Alarm and AVG.
These are pretty state of the art.
Nice thing is they are free for individual users.
The thing that makes me see red is that they both update much, much more frequently than Microsoft.
I have to say as person that has to use Adobe products, I rank them up with Microsoft as far as crushing the competition, However, I have to give Microsoft a kudo for restrant compared to Abobe.
Talk about drastic DRM measures.
My opinion,
My friend was indeed totally blown away, in her words "I Loved it. I am so intrested that the Bard can recieve so much attention in this new age"
She is a right smart woman.
Mirrors are very welcome.
I would love to send this to an english major friend of mine but this site is way well hosed as soon as it hit the main page.
Thank you!
This is helping a lot!
I am loath to give up my tweaking but if that is what it takes to own the fastest browser in the world I am willing to give up a few things.
Very clever, but missing the point.
We as the techno-elite have it as our sad duty to march these pilgrims across the desert to the waterholes despite the personal hardship. I cannot say that I honestly owe it to these people. I just feel compassion and I want to help out as much as I am able.
Did anybody notice the cute radio and nightstick in its "Belt?" I am guessing these a non-functional for obvious reasons. Like I would want a nightstick wielding robot coming after me for RIAA transgressions.
I can also say with certainty that this thing is controlled via a human. After seeing T3 would you want it any other way?
Also the most creepy thing. Take a close look at its "Nose" where the camera is. Now take a closer look and think twenty years from now, I see a gun in that place. Almost looks like it now.
Shudder.
I love Firefox, I would love to use it. However it is 0.8! crashes right and left on my W2k box.
Fastest browser I have ever seen.
Had to downgrade to Mozillia.