PC gaming sucks. No, seriously, it's complete dogshit. Every time - literally every time - I've tried installing big-name titles on the machine I had when they came out, I've had massive headaches with drivers, misleading system requirements, or just random reboots in the middle of a level (looking at you, Halo). With my 360, Wii, DS, or even my old N64, I insert the game, power up the console, turn on the TV, and I can play. It Just Works(tm).
I used Windows exclusively from 3.1 to Vista, and I still keep a Windows 7 partition on my laptop, on the off chance there is literally no way to do some college-required thing in Linux, but the only reasons I've booted it up, ever, were to download and burn a Debian iso, and to periodically let Windows Update spend an hour patching. GNOME 3 with a good selection of graphical and console-mode applications is miles ahead of Windows 7 for me, personally. I don't need Linux to take over the world, or even attract a lot of proprietary software developers. Just give me fully functional hardware, and I'm happy.
I was using GNOME 3.2 on my netbook quite happily... and then I decided to connect a second monitor. Turns out that all that shiny compositing doesn't do well with a second monitor at 1680x1050 - it was garbling so badly I thought it was an Xorg issue. Even when I want to log in to Fluxbox, it mysteriously fails to start. I ended up just setting the default runlevel to 3, or whatever the fancy-pants sytemd equivalent is.
I lived through six months of a cult-camp run by people who fully believed in Waldorf schools, were high-ranking members of the Avatar cult (Scientology fork), and kept their son's placenta in a chest freezer in the garage - the same freezer where they stored food. I didn't think they could get any nuttier, but this just raised the bar by an order of magnitude. I smelled a rat when they talked about not teaching kids to read before 8 or so, but this is ridiculous.
Did you notice how the sides break down nicely along Vorlon/Shadow lines? "The media asks, "What do you want?" The protestors prefer to answer the question, "Who are you?"
Exactly. The basic idea of business is "I provide you with something you want, you give me reasonable compensation," not a massive accountancy circle-jerk. It's like how patents were used to protect inventors of physical devices and create a public good, but are now being used to say "There is no legal way for you to implement this algorithm neener neener neener."
Seriously? That's how a German hacker got into the US military networks in 1989. Granted, he used tymnet and mechanically switched phone systems to cover his tracks, but once he got a login prompt it was the same thing.
You speak of a computer centric culture - keep in mind that the military a) is completely hierarchical, and thus run by old guys who can't tell the difference between an Altair and an iMac, and b) most people who understand computers well at all want nothing to do with the military.
Actually, it's been theorized that menopause is an evolutionary trait designed to give us helpful, caring grandmothers. I belive orcas are another species that do this.
It's nobody's business but my own what books I read. If I want to copy a digital book and send it to my friends, I will do that. If I want to convert between formats and shift between devices, I will do that. Anyone who wants to tell me what, how, when, or where I can and can't read can die in a fire. Sometimes the "crazy" guys in the caves are right; just look at Richard Stallman.
If Oracle really cared about Java on Linux, they wouldn't have retracted the ability for the major GNU/Linux distros to stop distributing the binary Sun^H^H^HOracle JDK. OpenJDK can still do that, but the Official Binary Java can't.
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PC gaming sucks. No, seriously, it's complete dogshit. Every time - literally every time - I've tried installing big-name titles on the machine I had when they came out, I've had massive headaches with drivers, misleading system requirements, or just random reboots in the middle of a level (looking at you, Halo). With my 360, Wii, DS, or even my old N64, I insert the game, power up the console, turn on the TV, and I can play. It Just Works(tm). I used Windows exclusively from 3.1 to Vista, and I still keep a Windows 7 partition on my laptop, on the off chance there is literally no way to do some college-required thing in Linux, but the only reasons I've booted it up, ever, were to download and burn a Debian iso, and to periodically let Windows Update spend an hour patching. GNOME 3 with a good selection of graphical and console-mode applications is miles ahead of Windows 7 for me, personally. I don't need Linux to take over the world, or even attract a lot of proprietary software developers. Just give me fully functional hardware, and I'm happy.
Project Monterrey was an effort to bring a single Unix that ran on 32-bit and 64-bit. It was supposed to run on POWER, PowerPC, x86 and Itanium.
That sounds like Debian, Gentoo, or NetBSD.
I was using GNOME 3.2 on my netbook quite happily... and then I decided to connect a second monitor. Turns out that all that shiny compositing doesn't do well with a second monitor at 1680x1050 - it was garbling so badly I thought it was an Xorg issue. Even when I want to log in to Fluxbox, it mysteriously fails to start. I ended up just setting the default runlevel to 3, or whatever the fancy-pants sytemd equivalent is.
probably using the -pipe CFLAG.
I lived through six months of a cult-camp run by people who fully believed in Waldorf schools, were high-ranking members of the Avatar cult (Scientology fork), and kept their son's placenta in a chest freezer in the garage - the same freezer where they stored food. I didn't think they could get any nuttier, but this just raised the bar by an order of magnitude. I smelled a rat when they talked about not teaching kids to read before 8 or so, but this is ridiculous.
They're going to mine the shit out of the Spratlys and drill for oil - supposedly there's a huge reserve under there.
Did you notice how the sides break down nicely along Vorlon/Shadow lines? "The media asks, "What do you want?" The protestors prefer to answer the question, "Who are you?"
Exactly. The basic idea of business is "I provide you with something you want, you give me reasonable compensation," not a massive accountancy circle-jerk. It's like how patents were used to protect inventors of physical devices and create a public good, but are now being used to say "There is no legal way for you to implement this algorithm neener neener neener."
You're so cool.
Shellinabox has been doing this in JavaScript for a while now. There's source and binary packages for everything from Red Hat to Debian armel.
Seriously? That's how a German hacker got into the US military networks in 1989. Granted, he used tymnet and mechanically switched phone systems to cover his tracks, but once he got a login prompt it was the same thing.
You speak of a computer centric culture - keep in mind that the military a) is completely hierarchical, and thus run by old guys who can't tell the difference between an Altair and an iMac, and b) most people who understand computers well at all want nothing to do with the military.
Mind explaining those last two acronyms for us civilians?
Weare and Nashua are shitty places - the best parts of New Hampshire don't touch I-93.
Actually, it's been theorized that menopause is an evolutionary trait designed to give us helpful, caring grandmothers. I belive orcas are another species that do this.
That seems vaguely familiar.
Hire schmire. You can buy guns yourself.
That's cool, I'm an OpenJDK guy myself. I just think Oracle is trying to lure people to Oracle Enterprise Linux with it.
Is that why Republicans consider "flip-flopping" and "waffling" (better known as "changing one's mind) to be such a bad thing?
They're the same length.
Right, because there's no such thing as a keygen.
It's nobody's business but my own what books I read. If I want to copy a digital book and send it to my friends, I will do that. If I want to convert between formats and shift between devices, I will do that. Anyone who wants to tell me what, how, when, or where I can and can't read can die in a fire. Sometimes the "crazy" guys in the caves are right; just look at Richard Stallman.
can't be loaned out or sold
Seriously? People are willing to put up with DRMed BOOKS now?
Florida students have been hiring illegal Cuban body doubles for years now.
If Oracle really cared about Java on Linux, they wouldn't have retracted the ability for the major GNU/Linux distros to stop distributing the binary Sun^H^H^HOracle JDK. OpenJDK can still do that, but the Official Binary Java can't.