You bring up an interesting point. Are they really trying to cater to Linux users that want to run Windows apps, or vice-versa.
It seems to me that they are catering more to the Windows user that wants to also exploit free software, like Cygwin sort of, but doing it the other way around.
I got more play out of Yaks Progress (the c64compilation disk), than probably any other game or collection of games since.
Games these days are like "play for 3 days and then forget about them" for the most part, at least to me.
Minter's stuff amused me for months at a time. Of course it could have just been that it was the best I had back then, but there seemed to be something more.
I never could get into that Anticipal game though. I kept flying into walls sideways, and I was too young to get most of the jokes in that game.:)
I have Starband at home. (www.starband.net) It's great. Sure, there is 600ms average ping times. It doesn't matter. Download speeds about the same as a T1, in the middle of nowhere for like $50 a month.
Telnet is a little hard to get used to, but it isn't unbearable.
I'd say the only real drawback is that you must use a Windows box as the firewall and proxy, with their special windows-only drivers installed, if you use anything else, the speed is terrible.
The other more minor drawback is that Gnutella type stuff sucks shit on there, It just doesn't work basically. The full uncensored usenet feed for free that they give you makes up for that though.
Man, these people can't send email without "stationary". I can instantly tell the level of skill of the people that email me by the amount of garbage that is attached to their message.
That is a good point. If I can't get a page to render or work right in Opera, I'm likely to just go somewhere else.
Also, Opera has an "identify as IE" option. It could be that some Opera Linux users are just telling Opera to ID as IE so pages written by braindead idiots won't say things like "Update to a modern browser, fool".
You know as well as anyone, that although/. is basically posting flamebait with the way they posted this story, the original publisher is also doing just as badly.
While you may recognize the flaws in a non-random study, PHBs and microsofties and the like will probably not. They generally just read the headline, and use that as ammo in arguments.
It's like the study about second hand tobacco smoke that gets bandied about so often by anti-smoking people. They don't even pay attention to the fact that the WHO later released a paper dewbunking the results, showing that second hand smoke was not a significant cause of cancer.
I'd disagree. I once tutored an 85 year old man who just bought his first computer (a mac).
I disabled all the BS that pops up on a new mac, with women walking on the windows and telling you how to use your new mac... I digress..
Anyway, the first thing he wanted to do after we completed his AOL registration was get on the web. He barely knew how to use the mouse, and he was on the web, learning how to use bookmarks to save the sites he was interested in.
I know this is just one case study, and not a generalized view, but I'd have to disagree with your premise, that mostly savvy users use the web. I'd assert that it is generally the first thing even the most unsavvy user tries out these days.
I think putting/home in a dir named Documents is troublesome. The user would delete all their personal config files that start with a dot, because they were just throwing away trash "Documents" they didn't remember writing.
I think it would be better to continue naming it home, but under each user dir, create a dir named Documents, Files, and Download, or so. Download would be a temporary area to retrieve downloaded files, and the others are pretty self explanitory.
I see that the parent has been modded offtopic. I'd have to disagree, since this discussion is about satellite imagry, and aerial survelliance is a big factor in the drug war.
Second off, don't waste time moderating subthreads, if people aren't interested in a subthread, they just won't be clicking on the parent, or following it down (depending on viewmode).
So go ahead, mod this one offtopic too, I've got 50 more karma to burn.
Not to be a bigger geek, but actually I think it had something to do with the replicators also. The food they ate in the holodeck was "real", the women they fucked "real", etc. It had mass and was authentic.
So that's where all the fucking Maxtor 100 and 120 GB drives went.
At work we were trying to order large quantities of 100GB or 120GB maxtor IDE drives for the last several weeks, and everyone has been out of stock. (We called like 20 places, including Maxtor themselves, and their direct wholesalers.)
Only recently have the 120GBs come back into stock.
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It's not unprecedented anyway, the FCC allows satellite broadcasts to be encrypted. It's the same airwaves, only different frequencies.
Happy new millenium!
(Previous well-wishing has a margin of error of 800 days)
I fixed it, Opera was trying to use a non-existant font for forms. Changing it to Courier urw cleared it up.
, but how about naming it something that makes sense... You know, something that at least gives a clue to what it is???
You mean like Mandrake, Slackware, or Red Hat?
You bring up an interesting point. Are they really trying to cater to Linux users that want to run Windows apps, or vice-versa.
It seems to me that they are catering more to the Windows user that wants to also exploit free software, like Cygwin sort of, but doing it the other way around.
The problem is, The users that don't know wwhat a "port" is in the first place, are the ones that need the firewall the most..
Forgive any typos, I can't see what I am typing, damn beta Opera 6.
I got more play out of Yaks Progress (the c64compilation disk), than probably any other game or collection of games since.
:)
Games these days are like "play for 3 days and then forget about them" for the most part, at least to me.
Minter's stuff amused me for months at a time. Of course it could have just been that it was the best I had back then, but there seemed to be something more.
I never could get into that Anticipal game though. I kept flying into walls sideways, and I was too young to get most of the jokes in that game.
To creating real Write-only memory.
I have Starband at home. (www.starband.net) It's great. Sure, there is 600ms average ping times. It doesn't matter. Download speeds about the same as a T1, in the middle of nowhere for like $50 a month.
Telnet is a little hard to get used to, but it isn't unbearable.
I'd say the only real drawback is that you must use a Windows box as the firewall and proxy, with their special windows-only drivers installed, if you use anything else, the speed is terrible.
The other more minor drawback is that Gnutella type stuff sucks shit on there, It just doesn't work basically. The full uncensored usenet feed for free that they give you makes up for that though.
The RIAA is like venture capital. (supposedly). They spend money pushing this trash, then take a cut of the sales.
Man, these people can't send email without "stationary". I can instantly tell the level of skill of the people that email me by the amount of garbage that is attached to their message.
That is a good point. If I can't get a page to render or work right in Opera, I'm likely to just go somewhere else.
Also, Opera has an "identify as IE" option. It could be that some Opera Linux users are just telling Opera to ID as IE so pages written by braindead idiots won't say things like "Update to a modern browser, fool".
As long as it is behind a firewall... :)
I'd feel pretty uncomfortable about putting Win98 directly on the Internet these days.
You know as well as anyone, that although /. is basically posting flamebait with the way they posted this story, the original publisher is also doing just as badly.
While you may recognize the flaws in a non-random study, PHBs and microsofties and the like will probably not. They generally just read the headline, and use that as ammo in arguments.
It's like the study about second hand tobacco smoke that gets bandied about so often by anti-smoking people. They don't even pay attention to the fact that the WHO later released a paper dewbunking the results, showing that second hand smoke was not a significant cause of cancer.
I'd disagree. I once tutored an 85 year old man who just bought his first computer (a mac).
I disabled all the BS that pops up on a new mac, with women walking on the windows and telling you how to use your new mac... I digress..
Anyway, the first thing he wanted to do after we completed his AOL registration was get on the web. He barely knew how to use the mouse, and he was on the web, learning how to use bookmarks to save the sites he was interested in.
I know this is just one case study, and not a generalized view, but I'd have to disagree with your premise, that mostly savvy users use the web. I'd assert that it is generally the first thing even the most unsavvy user tries out these days.
It's simple man, just fold it up first.
:)
What? You mean all those e-paper stories were just stupid vaporware all that time?
Why does the page say that they work in recent windows and Linux 2.4 then?
I think you must have erred somewhere. I don't see two versions offered.
/Documents users files (like /home).
/home in a dir named Documents is troublesome. The user would delete all their personal config files that start with a dot, because they were just throwing away trash "Documents" they didn't remember writing.
I think putting
I think it would be better to continue naming it home, but under each user dir, create a dir named Documents, Files, and Download, or so. Download would be a temporary area to retrieve downloaded files, and the others are pretty self explanitory.
Carma 2 had fun physics on the PC too.
The N64 version sucked, bad, as far as physics. That is what the original poster was complaining about.
I see that the parent has been modded offtopic. I'd have to disagree, since this discussion is about satellite imagry, and aerial survelliance is a big factor in the drug war.
Second off, don't waste time moderating subthreads, if people aren't interested in a subthread, they just won't be clicking on the parent, or following it down (depending on viewmode).
So go ahead, mod this one offtopic too, I've got 50 more karma to burn.
Not to be a bigger geek, but actually I think it had something to do with the replicators also. The food they ate in the holodeck was "real", the women they fucked "real", etc. It had mass and was authentic.
where Jerry Falwell and 17th century Puritans are believed to be the norm
I live 20 minutes from Lynchburg, VA. Jerry Falwell IS the norm around here. It drives me crazy.
But if you read his books, you'll find that he can take some very muddy stuff look very clear.
Christians babble this same nonsense about their favorite imaginary friend.
So that's where all the fucking Maxtor 100 and 120 GB drives went.
At work we were trying to order large quantities of 100GB or 120GB maxtor IDE drives for the last several weeks, and everyone has been out of stock. (We called like 20 places, including Maxtor themselves, and their direct wholesalers.)
Only recently have the 120GBs come back into stock.
Maybe they aren't sure whether they converted to metric or not.
:)