It's good to know that idiocy isn't just an epidemic in the US. So proud of my German heritage!
Let's allow these corporations to continue lowering the standard of living in every country, but jail people for playing Urban Terror, which is basically a grown-up version of "Cops and Robbers".
Why is every government so completely filled with utter idiots?!?
I can't wait for them to use these weapons on protesters outside the "free speech" zones at every G8 meeting. The world is going to hell in a hand basket via corporate domination, and now they have yet ANOTHER tool to coerce the masses into abysmal lives of servitude and obedience.
I for one DO NOT welcome our new follow the dollar overlords.
You mean dollars, right? Because on the prestige end there has been no more awesome feat than the war in Iraq. I'm sure that the history books of future generations will show that "Fighting Terrorism" after blowing up a couple of our own buildings was really an awesome act of human brilliance, where as Apollo was just sending a couple of word monkeys to the nearest rock. Hardly worth the bother!
rhY
Democracy > Not counting Votes. Genocide = Fighting Terrorism.
By leaving Red Hat on there, and providing a nice GUI, which honestly is what their forte is anyway. I'd love a Linux Distro that looked and felt exactly like Windows. So would about 90% of the market, and since no Linux Distro will do it on their own......
Come on MS. Get off the idea that your IP is somehow inherently more valuable. Windows is a bloated, buggy beast, everyone knows, and for these kind of applications it would be stupid to even bother.
Now if you could make a replacement for KDE and GNOME, which both kinda suck, really, well, then at least THIS geek would think you've done something pretty worth while recently.
I just wanted to add to the roar of people saying that some things not notable to one person MAY be notable to SOMEBODY. Now if they are running out of room on their servers or something.... Well then let's renegotiate, otherwise, why not just leave EVERYTHING in? I can only see many upsides and relatively no downsides. If something was mentioned in wikipedia even once, for selfish reasons or otherwise, it still might be valuable information to SOMEBODY, and if somebody else ends up passionate about it and alters it in a way more in line with their version of reality, well, don't we have a process set up for that already? Great! Let them duke it out in the discussion area for all to see publicly.
Wikipedia is a great design, and a great functional resource. It's going to be even greater over time, and I think the eventual elimination of "notability" etc., will be part of that process.
Hell, the next version of Grand Theft Auto could have a real city taken from photos and 3d extrapolation data, complete with photographic textures and more. I'm actually excited for when the driving directions in my GPS software has a real time 3d rendering of the city I'm in on the screen. It'll happen EVENTUALLY. Just not all that soon, if I had to guess.
I'd like it if the response time was a little fresher, and there was a way to control it with a joystick. It'd be sweet to drive somewhere first GTA style, with a joystick, and then print up your little map and throw it in the car. I would get lost less often, and I could also explore alternate routes without wasting gas.
The further implications of this are awesome. Meanwhile everyone is bickering about the privacy of a few individuals who HAPPENED to be in the frame at one single time in the shot.
It's pretty stupid given that the REAL privacy concerns come more from the actual cameras that are installed all over intersections and street lights here and in the UK.
That's the network we should be disbanding and decrying, not the random encyclopedic efforts to catalog roads for useful purposes, as seems to be happening here.
I think most of the scientific data available from our space program should be immediately available to the public anyway! Now, is this just read access, or is somebody able to ruin the data?
That's actually a really good question. I really STILL like Need for Speed III. That's a fun split screen two player game... But it's SERIOUSLY dated at this point...
I didn't copy it from the console to the PC. I downloaded it, but I figured since I already PURCHASED it, owning a copy I could actually use was no big deal. Go ahead, put me in prison!
No, but I'm suggesting that trying to copy files from one folder to another and being told you don't have admin rights every 20 seconds, is going to stop Linux "Market Penetration" indefinitely. That and not finding "Divx on GreenDemon" over "My Network Places" out in the Living room....
FUCK 23" monitors! I've got a projector hooked up to my PC, 1964, and we EACH have a 50" screen for Mario Kart. Plus the projector was cheap. Something like $600!!
We have AWESOME Mario Kart tournaments at MY house, and I've NEVER OWNED a console.
Before you get all high and mighty on the old pirate, let me say that I HAVE purchased Mario Kart 64 (used) for 4.99 down at gamestop. So Nintendo got their duckets outta me! LOL
There's one reason for this, and one reason only. Nobody likes configuring controllers in arcane menus. I have no problem with it, but I can write software:
10 print "hello" 20 goto 10
See, not one bug! But for the rest of the populace, they turn on the game, they start mashing buttons, nothing happens, they turn off the game. Never mind that every controller under the sun has a different placement of button 1, button 2, etc....
I'd say you're mostly correct, except that there are a couple of games on the gamecube that outclass MOST of the titles for the ps2. I mean, who really plays more than 5 or 6 games regularly?
At MY house, all we ever play are:
Mario Kart 64 on 1964 with high res textures Super Mario All Stars & World on Zsnes with HQ4X enabled Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Multiplayer (NOT multitheft auto!!!) Flatout 2 (Royal Flush Multiplayer) Mortal Kombat (All versions) and Urban Terror (GREAT FPS!!!!)
Now since most of those console games play VERY well on an emulator, I don't even see the point of a ps2/ps3/gamecube/xbox/xbox360, etc.. I mean, just a bunch of extra controllers and extra cords.
I DO wish that mario kart double dash played in emulation, but that's a small gripe.....
rhY
PS. If somebody has a better example of any of those games for any system, I'd like to know. I haven't found better gameplay than those games for the most part, though I haven't gone extensively through the catalog of recent versions of Mortal Kombat, to be fair. For raw fun as an FPS, though, Urban Terror is still the best.....
Would easily navigate between camera, ipod, cell phone, and nintendo emulator. It would have a 802.11g chip hard coded for use at all times. It would be small, like the latest samsungs at T-mobile. When you plugged it into it's USB charging dock, you could use it as a computer (complete with USB keyboard, mouse, and USB to VGA monitor hook up, gamepad, and external speakers) and it would have rudimentary email/web. It would do ipod better than ipod, because it would default to using un-drm'ed mp3 files, which you could also use for personalized ring tones, alarms, text message receipts, and even emails. When plugged into the dock, it would have the exact same menu structure as windows, so even grandma could use it. Six simple shortcuts on a clean desktop: Firefox, Thunderbird, Photos, Movies, Games (preferably good ones, like nintendo games in an emulator, or something), Gaim, and Documents. Let's skip the "My". I always hated the "My". Just seems stupid, especially if you're on somebody else's "phone".
It would cost less than $100 including hardware (not including external usb keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, and gamepad), have a few gb of storage, decent picture quality, and an easy way to back itself up (addresses, video game scores, pictures, mp3s, xvid, email, phone numbers, buddy icons, etc.) over any old wifi connection.
The perfect linux distro (and hardware) would quickly then shut down sony with it's root kits, apples with it's drm, and microsoft with it's monopoly, bloat, and lack of a GPL. Everyone wins. I'll pre-order one today.
Besides the corporate monopolies squeezing the life out of every person, plant, animal, and economy on the planet, is any of this really THAT unrealistic? Is there a distro that works like this already? I surely haven't found an even half-assed close cell phone yet, which is tragic, since the SDA is so damned close. If it charged and also hooked up to those external peripherals via that little USB port, it'd be nigh on perfect, actually. That and have a better OS. LOL
No, what I want is freedom, but freedom without relearning every god damn thing. I want it for me, and I want it for that 95% of the public, too. We should ALL want that.
If they ARE, then, well, yeah, they need to go back to the drawing board, now if this makes the game more FUN, though, well.... I'm still not joining in the REAL LIFE genocide assholes! Nice try!
Vista is going to suck. It's uptake is going to tank. No Linux distro will copy the windows interface verbatim, so MS is trying to buy a piece of Novell (the closest Linux has come to looking like the interface 95% of people are comfortable with) in order to hedge their bets. Novell just wants money, so it doesn't care.
Now MS will come up with some ungodly commercial/Linux combination (as quick as they can before the GPLv3 screws up their plans) that plays all the games, looks exactly like Windows, and they can charge people for, like they always have.
The tragedy is that no Linux distro will head them off. They all want to be DIFFERENT than windows, and that is why:
A truly FOSS OS will never penetrate the desktop market.
That's my prediction. Tell me why I'm wrong, and it better not be the usual nonsense about how every Linux interface doesn't suck, which is funny, because clearly 95% of the populace seems to think that they do (and I'm one of them!).
Now if there was a distro that was VERBATIM to windows XP in icon placement, menus, installation, and the like, well then, I'd switch to it RIGHT NOW, and so would a whole shit load of other people.
Then Free Software, with all of it's benefits and code superiority would rally rule the day, and in a good way for everyone.
But NO, Linux egos won't let it happen. Mark my words, all these Linux elitists screaming "RTFM" will point at Ubuntu and all these other ugly non-windows clones and wait for MS to continue to dominate the market, this time with some heinous Frankenstein that is actually exploiting a lot of the good hard work that FOSS coders have spent years working on up to today. Of course, all the icons will be WHERE THEY SHOULD BE, and 95% of the people who already use Windows won't give a shit, because "IT JUST WORKS!".
Human nature makes me sad. I've been quietly rooting for Linux on the sidelines for soooooo long.
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I have two serious questions:
Why are all these people trying to shred the constitution of it's power NOT BEHIND BARS?!
Why are they not at least ON TRIAL?
What the hell is the matter with this country anymore?
rhY
It's about time somebody else publicly came out strongly on the side of RMS, who is clearly and obviously in the right here.
Now if only Sun made some worthwhile software that I could actually use so I could help support them....
rhY
It's good to know that idiocy isn't just an epidemic in the US. So proud of my German heritage!
Let's allow these corporations to continue lowering the standard of living in every country, but jail people for playing Urban Terror, which is basically a grown-up version of "Cops and Robbers".
Why is every government so completely filled with utter idiots?!?
rhY
Ok, so is there a good FOSS torrent client yet? And by that I mean one that doesn't require me to install JRE, which I will always refuse to do.
All I use is FOSS, except for utorrent. The latest builds of Shareaza haven't really been working that well for me, so that one is out too....
rhY
I can't wait for them to use these weapons on protesters outside the "free speech" zones at every G8 meeting. The world is going to hell in a hand basket via corporate domination, and now they have yet ANOTHER tool to coerce the masses into abysmal lives of servitude and obedience.
I for one DO NOT welcome our new follow the dollar overlords.
rhY
You mean dollars, right? Because on the prestige end there has been no more awesome feat than the war in Iraq. I'm sure that the history books of future generations will show that "Fighting Terrorism" after blowing up a couple of our own buildings was really an awesome act of human brilliance, where as Apollo was just sending a couple of word monkeys to the nearest rock. Hardly worth the bother!
rhY
Democracy > Not counting Votes.
Genocide = Fighting Terrorism.
By leaving Red Hat on there, and providing a nice GUI, which honestly is what their forte is anyway. I'd love a Linux Distro that looked and felt exactly like Windows. So would about 90% of the market, and since no Linux Distro will do it on their own......
Come on MS. Get off the idea that your IP is somehow inherently more valuable. Windows is a bloated, buggy beast, everyone knows, and for these kind of applications it would be stupid to even bother.
Now if you could make a replacement for KDE and GNOME, which both kinda suck, really, well, then at least THIS geek would think you've done something pretty worth while recently.
rhY
I just wanted to add to the roar of people saying that some things not notable to one person MAY be notable to SOMEBODY. Now if they are running out of room on their servers or something.... Well then let's renegotiate, otherwise, why not just leave EVERYTHING in? I can only see many upsides and relatively no downsides. If something was mentioned in wikipedia even once, for selfish reasons or otherwise, it still might be valuable information to SOMEBODY, and if somebody else ends up passionate about it and alters it in a way more in line with their version of reality, well, don't we have a process set up for that already? Great! Let them duke it out in the discussion area for all to see publicly.
Wikipedia is a great design, and a great functional resource. It's going to be even greater over time, and I think the eventual elimination of "notability" etc., will be part of that process.
rhY
Hell, the next version of Grand Theft Auto could have a real city taken from photos and 3d extrapolation data, complete with photographic textures and more. I'm actually excited for when the driving directions in my GPS software has a real time 3d rendering of the city I'm in on the screen. It'll happen EVENTUALLY. Just not all that soon, if I had to guess.
I'd like it if the response time was a little fresher, and there was a way to control it with a joystick. It'd be sweet to drive somewhere first GTA style, with a joystick, and then print up your little map and throw it in the car. I would get lost less often, and I could also explore alternate routes without wasting gas.
The further implications of this are awesome. Meanwhile everyone is bickering about the privacy of a few individuals who HAPPENED to be in the frame at one single time in the shot.
It's pretty stupid given that the REAL privacy concerns come more from the actual cameras that are installed all over intersections and street lights here and in the UK.
That's the network we should be disbanding and decrying, not the random encyclopedic efforts to catalog roads for useful purposes, as seems to be happening here.
rhY
I think most of the scientific data available from our space program should be immediately available to the public anyway! Now, is this just read access, or is somebody able to ruin the data?
rhY
That's actually a really good question. I really STILL like Need for Speed III. That's a fun split screen two player game... But it's SERIOUSLY dated at this point...
rhY
I don't really like ANY of the distros to date. I'd probably hire a couple of bad cyber bad asses, and then heavily modify Debian.....
rhY
I didn't copy it from the console to the PC. I downloaded it, but I figured since I already PURCHASED it, owning a copy I could actually use was no big deal. Go ahead, put me in prison!
rhY
No, but I'm suggesting that trying to copy files from one folder to another and being told you don't have admin rights every 20 seconds, is going to stop Linux "Market Penetration" indefinitely. That and not finding "Divx on GreenDemon" over "My Network Places" out in the Living room....
rhY
FUCK 23" monitors! I've got a projector hooked up to my PC, 1964, and we EACH have a 50" screen for Mario Kart. Plus the projector was cheap. Something like $600!!
We have AWESOME Mario Kart tournaments at MY house, and I've NEVER OWNED a console.
Before you get all high and mighty on the old pirate, let me say that I HAVE purchased Mario Kart 64 (used) for 4.99 down at gamestop. So Nintendo got their duckets outta me! LOL
rhY
There's one reason for this, and one reason only. Nobody likes configuring controllers in arcane menus. I have no problem with it, but I can write software:
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
See, not one bug! But for the rest of the populace, they turn on the game, they start mashing buttons, nothing happens, they turn off the game. Never mind that every controller under the sun has a different placement of button 1, button 2, etc....
rhY
I'd say you're mostly correct, except that there are a couple of games on the gamecube that outclass MOST of the titles for the ps2. I mean, who really plays more than 5 or 6 games regularly?
At MY house, all we ever play are:
Mario Kart 64 on 1964 with high res textures
Super Mario All Stars & World on Zsnes with HQ4X enabled
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Multiplayer (NOT multitheft auto!!!)
Flatout 2 (Royal Flush Multiplayer)
Mortal Kombat (All versions)
and Urban Terror (GREAT FPS!!!!)
Now since most of those console games play VERY well on an emulator, I don't even see the point of a ps2/ps3/gamecube/xbox/xbox360, etc.. I mean, just a bunch of extra controllers and extra cords.
I DO wish that mario kart double dash played in emulation, but that's a small gripe.....
rhY
PS. If somebody has a better example of any of those games for any system, I'd like to know. I haven't found better gameplay than those games for the most part, though I haven't gone extensively through the catalog of recent versions of Mortal Kombat, to be fair. For raw fun as an FPS, though, Urban Terror is still the best.....
You mean like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the like? I imagine those terrorists WOULD help, if only we still listened......
rhY
Would easily navigate between camera, ipod, cell phone, and nintendo emulator. It would have a 802.11g chip hard coded for use at all times. It would be small, like the latest samsungs at T-mobile. When you plugged it into it's USB charging dock, you could use it as a computer (complete with USB keyboard, mouse, and USB to VGA monitor hook up, gamepad, and external speakers) and it would have rudimentary email/web. It would do ipod better than ipod, because it would default to using un-drm'ed mp3 files, which you could also use for personalized ring tones, alarms, text message receipts, and even emails. When plugged into the dock, it would have the exact same menu structure as windows, so even grandma could use it. Six simple shortcuts on a clean desktop: Firefox, Thunderbird, Photos, Movies, Games (preferably good ones, like nintendo games in an emulator, or something), Gaim, and Documents. Let's skip the "My". I always hated the "My". Just seems stupid, especially if you're on somebody else's "phone".
It would cost less than $100 including hardware (not including external usb keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, and gamepad), have a few gb of storage, decent picture quality, and an easy way to back itself up (addresses, video game scores, pictures, mp3s, xvid, email, phone numbers, buddy icons, etc.) over any old wifi connection.
The perfect linux distro (and hardware) would quickly then shut down sony with it's root kits, apples with it's drm, and microsoft with it's monopoly, bloat, and lack of a GPL. Everyone wins. I'll pre-order one today.
Besides the corporate monopolies squeezing the life out of every person, plant, animal, and economy on the planet, is any of this really THAT unrealistic? Is there a distro that works like this already? I surely haven't found an even half-assed close cell phone yet, which is tragic, since the SDA is so damned close. If it charged and also hooked up to those external peripherals via that little USB port, it'd be nigh on perfect, actually. That and have a better OS. LOL
rhY
UI FAMILIARITY. Yes thank you for saying that word, because that is what I wanted. Much more accurate. You get a gold star.
rhY
You know what? I'm going to go ahead and agree with you.
But I AM keeping an eye out for ReactOs....
rhY
I've had one of these since 1996. It's called Hotmail. I know /. submissions have gotten lax lately, but jesus, this is decades old news.
rhY
No, what I want is freedom, but freedom without relearning every god damn thing. I want it for me, and I want it for that 95% of the public, too. We should ALL want that.
If they ARE, then, well, yeah, they need to go back to the drawing board, now if this makes the game more FUN, though, well.... I'm still not joining in the REAL LIFE genocide assholes! Nice try!
rhY
I've got a prediction:
Vista is going to suck. It's uptake is going to tank. No Linux distro will copy the windows interface verbatim, so MS is trying to buy a piece of Novell (the closest Linux has come to looking like the interface 95% of people are comfortable with) in order to hedge their bets. Novell just wants money, so it doesn't care.
Now MS will come up with some ungodly commercial/Linux combination (as quick as they can before the GPLv3 screws up their plans) that plays all the games, looks exactly like Windows, and they can charge people for, like they always have.
The tragedy is that no Linux distro will head them off. They all want to be DIFFERENT than windows, and that is why:
A truly FOSS OS will never penetrate the desktop market.
That's my prediction. Tell me why I'm wrong, and it better not be the usual nonsense about how every Linux interface doesn't suck, which is funny, because clearly 95% of the populace seems to think that they do (and I'm one of them!).
Now if there was a distro that was VERBATIM to windows XP in icon placement, menus, installation, and the like, well then, I'd switch to it RIGHT NOW, and so would a whole shit load of other people.
Then Free Software, with all of it's benefits and code superiority would rally rule the day, and in a good way for everyone.
But NO, Linux egos won't let it happen. Mark my words, all these Linux elitists screaming "RTFM" will point at Ubuntu and all these other ugly non-windows clones and wait for MS to continue to dominate the market, this time with some heinous Frankenstein that is actually exploiting a lot of the good hard work that FOSS coders have spent years working on up to today. Of course, all the icons will be WHERE THEY SHOULD BE, and 95% of the people who already use Windows won't give a shit, because "IT JUST WORKS!".
Human nature makes me sad. I've been quietly rooting for Linux on the sidelines for soooooo long.
*sigh*