I bought an Intel 965 based motherboard for my new computer because Intel have open source drivers but I've been disappointed at the lack of progress with them.
Given that 3d multimedia desktops are the new sexy which all distros seem to be getting into I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be much progress on getting it fixed on what is (as far as I am aware) the only open-driver supported 3d hardware available (at least until AMD release their 3d specs).
Tha Sale of Goods Act is the answer to the story submitters problems. Even if the guarantee (which is a contract) does specify limitations that the submitter has transgressed the submitter
still has their statutory rights.
It's reasonably self evident that if a hinge has cracked within 5 months then it wasn't as durable as one would reasonably expect and is therefore defective.
At the end of the day if the store doesn't come to the party it should be a rather easy victory in a small claims court.
I haven't. Does this presuppose the use of television or some such nonsense?
Unless we've had a sudden population drop it merely presupposes that you don't constitute most Australians. Seeing as I am one too you can't possibly be more than 50%
For that sort of installation it sounds like the LTS edition would be much more preferable. Ie it is supported for longer (much longer if you only need the server installation) and will have a one hop upgrade to the next LTS (rather than a two stop upgrade from Feisty).
If you aren't telling them you want to install "Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support" then frankly you are shooting yourself in the foot.
They objected to the war because it was unjustified and therefore the deaths on all sides would be a waste.
That other Americans are now seeing that little as being achieved and lives are actually being wasted (and worse, American lives!) isn't something to blame on an "anti-war crowd", it's just a self evident fact. (Personally I think that you bought into this mad scheme and should stick it out).
It's the pro war crowd who misled the American people into believing that arms-length combat, "shock and awe", smart bombs and so forth would be enough in Iraq and the soldiers would have nothing to do but accept flowers and cheers from grateful Iraqis. It's the pro war crowd who attempted to dehumanize and oversold the consequences America's technological advantage. The anti-war crowd were pointing out the human cost which will be there no matter how smart your weapons are.
Don't want killing machines replacing soldiers? Stop with the idiotic "bring our sons home" rhetoric.
Yes, in order to stop dehumanizing war we should stop giving a shit about humans dying for little reason. Absolutely brilliant.
And yet people whose lives are lucky enough to be touched by technology have, at least on average, a better standard of living than their ancestors, live longer etc etc
It seems the we make advances in ways to use energy and get those advances to market much faster that we do for ways of producing energy.
I guess it may simply be that energy using products is where the money is and while energy production from non-renewable sources remains cheap there will be little commercial incentive to try and produce something that will compete with them.
I see a lot of new experiences for non-gamers, but for all its promise the Wiimote has yet to really add anything compelling to traditional gaming (waggle doesn't really count). I didn't see anything in that conference to convince me otherwise.
Have you played The Godfather? For me that's the best use of the Wii's controls in a "traditional" game so far and it is very compelling (and by a third party developer). It helps that it's a very "hands on" game (by which I mean the protagonist does a lot with his hands) making coherent Wii control movements reasonably obvious and "true to life". I defy anyone not to grin manically the first time they physically "throw" someone off a roof or through a window.
Other games may not have functions that are so clearly mappable to hand movements and therefore any movements they have might not be so obviously compelling. However I think that motion controls will (assuming they are usable, obviously bad controls of any sort can ruin a game) provide a more enjoyable experience over-all, if for no other reason that physical activity helps good things happen in the brain.
I was in the States last summer and I couldn't find a non-HDTV at the Circuit City there
It is pretty much the same here in Australia however people just don't buy TVs that frequently, typically it only happens when an old TV dies so what they are selling now (or last summer) is only a tiny part of the story. People traditionally might only buy a TV every 10 or 15 years unless they were unlucky (or wanted an extra one).
The rather rampant change in TV technology has changed that to an extent but, up till now at least, probably only for people with a fairly high amount of disposable income (or debt tolerance!). There seems to be a fair bit of information supporting out there for fairly low penetration. You must know people with a fair bit of spare cash (or people who think they have HD when they only have digital!).
Are you kidding me? Where do you live!!?? I'm an American living in England, and although this country has oppressive taxes and insane prices on electronics (electricals, for my Brit friends) EVERYONE I know already has at least one HD tv.
HDTV penetration is apparantly 10% in the UK. Far from ubiquitous but still quite a bit more than the rest of europe.
Digital switchover and maybe the next World Cup are probably the main things that may drive a significant increase but they are still years away.
Sony doesn't stand a chance against the Xbox or Wii(which is still regularly sold out) in Australia any time soon.
That is, perhaps unexpectedly, wrong. The PS3 has been the top selling (non DS, non PS2) console in Australia for the last quarter.
2nd Quarter
NDS: 74,435
PS2: 45,962
PS3: 27,645
WII: 26,676
360: 21,440
PSP: 20,068
To date
PS2: 2,052,193
NDS: 589,873
PSP: 288,757
360: 181,561
WII: 106,538
PS3: 54,728
The PS3 didn't outperform the Wii and 360 by all that much and arguably might still have enjoyed a post-launch boost for at least some of that period but it does seem to be doing surprisingly well.
Well I for one am waiting until I have a TV capable of displaying HD and I won't (assuming my current TV doesn't die) be buying one of those until the technology and price of such TVs stops improving so rapidly.
In the meantime I'm more than happy with my Wii. It comes at a decent price and I'm not paying for a bunch of stuff I can't use effectively due to my TV/stereo etc.
So maybe I will get a PS3 (or something else if the market really dumps on the PS3) in three or four years. If I do get one then it'll probably cost half as much as it does now and have half a terrabyte of disk space.
It seems unlikely that biodiesel would all of a sudden start being produced in immense quantities while petrol suddenly disappears. Cheap, available biodiesel might help people buying a new cars consider diesel which is a step in the right direction.
It is not as if ethanol is magically "compatible" with the majority of cars already on the road. My car won't take E10 let alone something with a significant ethanol component.
There are no magic fixes. All solutions will take time to have an impact and no solution is an ultimate solution, rather we need to look to a variety of solutions together, put them out there and see what works.
In a very real sense, the Universe has always existed but has a finite age. I think once I came to understand what this really meant, it's very a beautiful truth about the world. I am sceptical of any theory that talks about a "before" the Big Bang - I think it misses one of the most important truths there is to know!
You make that sound like a religious revelation!
As someone else mentioned we are somewhat limited by our language and brains which have evolved in an environment where the progress of time is integral to our understanding. That makes it difficult to think and talk about a time (see!) where there was no time. It doesn't mean that such a situation is beyond our understanding, it just means we need to find the right tools to improve our understanding. And while we do so we will probably still use words like "before" because they are all we have. Just like you used the word "world" even though you are talking about something much bigger.
About 10 hours ago I put down a deposit on having an Intel Core 2 Duo based computer built for me so this is a bit late!
I chose Intel (Core 2 Duo CPU and 965G motherboard) because of the open video drivers they release (and I enjoy reading about them on planet.freedesktop.org).
Hopefully these CPU bugs are just something that is theoretically scary but won't end up posing practical problems for me as a user.
I think it's important to remember that the best either camp (scientists and theologians) can offer are just theories, both with their own supporting evidences.
What evidence is there for "Intelligent Design"? All I can see is a lack of evidence being used as evidence. IE "I can't see how that could have came about, therefore God must have done it". I am sorry, but that just isn't science. When science doesn't know something it looks harder (or stalls until someone gifted with particular insight turns up and pulls back the curtain). Science does not throw up it's hands and exclaim "it must be supernatural".
Science finds an atom and looks at it harder, it finds sub-atomic particles and looks at them harder and thus our knowledge continues to expand.
You seem to be trying to conflate science with scientists. Scientists are human beings and belief/opinion/ego etc that diverts from a pure scientific method. This has downsides (retarding scientific progression by clinging on to accepted notions) but also has upsides (insightful leaps, often with scant initial evidence). The strength of the scientific method is not that it renders scientists infallible, the strength is that by sticking with it as much as we can it allows us to progress despite our human failures.
Scientists will readily concede that we don't know everything, that models are being refined, that wholly new explanations are being sought, that generally accepted theories are still being tested (at some expense).
That is sciences strength. Science seeks and then seeks some more. It does not say "I dunno, god must have done it".
And any 'beliefs' that scientists may have does not undermine the fact that science itself is not about belief.
If it was supposed to be "real debate" and you interpret it as such then that's a rather damning indication on the level of debate in American politics.
Precisely what the differences are might be harder to put your finger on but it should be fairly clear that they are different and while we don't understand what the differences are comparing the ratings between the two isn't really possible, it's probably reasonable enough that the ratings for each make some kind of sense in their own right.
For example movies longer than two hours start being hard to watch. I'm no hardcore gamer but I think it's much easier to play for much longer than that (depending on the game style). I don't know exactly what that tells us, but it certainly tells us that the way we respond to movies is different to the way we respond to games.
An AO rating for a game like Manhunt does not seam unreasonable on the face of it. Here in Australia we don't have and adult rating for games so Manhunt will almost certainly get banned:(
The price of the unit itself and the need to have an expensive TV etc to get anything approaching "good value" out of the PS3 has meant there are simply less people interested in it.
While the quest to be the "center of the lounge room" is all well and good it does nothing for a huge number (maybe even a majority) of traditional gamers who are kids and young adults who have their consoles hooked up to a second TV (probably in their bedroom) so they can play whenever they like, regardless of what the rest of the family is doing in the lounge room.
This is the first generation of consoles where the consoles themselves output video of a higher quality than most people have for their TV (let alone secondary TVs). This is a huge issue which isn't going to change particularly rapidly.
The Xbox has the problem to a lesser degree because the lower price means people won't feel like they are wasting money so much.
Nintendo have avoided the problem entirely by deciding that the environment isn't ready for large scale uptake of high def gaming yet. As far as I can see they are right and it is difficult to see that changing substantially for a good five years.
Rather perversely although the Wii is the one console that isn't demanding to be in the lounge room it is probably the one that is having the most success at appealing to everyone in a family and thus earning a place there.
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Nothing as far as I can tell.
It isn't a "fair use" right to be able to make a derivative work.
I bought an Intel 965 based motherboard for my new computer because Intel have open source drivers but I've been disappointed at the lack of progress with them.
Given that 3d multimedia desktops are the new sexy which all distros seem to be getting into I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be much progress on getting it fixed on what is (as far as I am aware) the only open-driver supported 3d hardware available (at least until AMD release their 3d specs).
Tha Sale of Goods Act is the answer to the story submitters problems. Even if the guarantee (which is a contract) does specify limitations that the submitter has transgressed the submitter still has their statutory rights.
It's reasonably self evident that if a hinge has cracked within 5 months then it wasn't as durable as one would reasonably expect and is therefore defective.
At the end of the day if the store doesn't come to the party it should be a rather easy victory in a small claims court.
We already know all politicians are dick heads, we don't worship them (or want to) as many Americans seem to do.
For that sort of installation it sounds like the LTS edition would be much more preferable. Ie it is supported for longer (much longer if you only need the server installation) and will have a one hop upgrade to the next LTS (rather than a two stop upgrade from Feisty).
If you aren't telling them you want to install "Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support" then frankly you are shooting yourself in the foot.
by simply covering the article with a thin layer of bullshit.
That other Americans are now seeing that little as being achieved and lives are actually being wasted (and worse, American lives!) isn't something to blame on an "anti-war crowd", it's just a self evident fact. (Personally I think that you bought into this mad scheme and should stick it out).
It's the pro war crowd who misled the American people into believing that arms-length combat, "shock and awe", smart bombs and so forth would be enough in Iraq and the soldiers would have nothing to do but accept flowers and cheers from grateful Iraqis. It's the pro war crowd who attempted to dehumanize and oversold the consequences America's technological advantage. The anti-war crowd were pointing out the human cost which will be there no matter how smart your weapons are.
Yes, in order to stop dehumanizing war we should stop giving a shit about humans dying for little reason. Absolutely brilliant.
And yet people whose lives are lucky enough to be touched by technology have, at least on average, a better standard of living than their ancestors, live longer etc etc
Somehow your horror story doesn't add up.
Banks can make significant amounts of money by intentionally ripping off customers and making it difficult to get their money as a matter policy. A customer may have the right to sue but it is unrealistic to think that is a viable possiblity for most people.
It seems the we make advances in ways to use energy and get those advances to market much faster that we do for ways of producing energy. I guess it may simply be that energy using products is where the money is and while energy production from non-renewable sources remains cheap there will be little commercial incentive to try and produce something that will compete with them.
Other games may not have functions that are so clearly mappable to hand movements and therefore any movements they have might not be so obviously compelling. However I think that motion controls will (assuming they are usable, obviously bad controls of any sort can ruin a game) provide a more enjoyable experience over-all, if for no other reason that physical activity helps good things happen in the brain.
The rather rampant change in TV technology has changed that to an extent but, up till now at least, probably only for people with a fairly high amount of disposable income (or debt tolerance!). There seems to be a fair bit of information supporting out there for fairly low penetration. You must know people with a fair bit of spare cash (or people who think they have HD when they only have digital!).
Digital switchover and maybe the next World Cup are probably the main things that may drive a significant increase but they are still years away.
2nd Quarter
NDS: 74,435
PS2: 45,962
PS3: 27,645
WII: 26,676
360: 21,440
PSP: 20,068
To date
PS2: 2,052,193
NDS: 589,873
PSP: 288,757
360: 181,561
WII: 106,538
PS3: 54,728
The PS3 didn't outperform the Wii and 360 by all that much and arguably might still have enjoyed a post-launch boost for at least some of that period but it does seem to be doing surprisingly well.
Well I for one am waiting until I have a TV capable of displaying HD and I won't (assuming my current TV doesn't die) be buying one of those until the technology and price of such TVs stops improving so rapidly.
In the meantime I'm more than happy with my Wii. It comes at a decent price and I'm not paying for a bunch of stuff I can't use effectively due to my TV/stereo etc.
So maybe I will get a PS3 (or something else if the market really dumps on the PS3) in three or four years. If I do get one then it'll probably cost half as much as it does now and have half a terrabyte of disk space.
Yeah but the downside is that you won't be saving as much by not buying one.
It seems unlikely that biodiesel would all of a sudden start being produced in immense quantities while petrol suddenly disappears. Cheap, available biodiesel might help people buying a new cars consider diesel which is a step in the right direction.
It is not as if ethanol is magically "compatible" with the majority of cars already on the road. My car won't take E10 let alone something with a significant ethanol component.
There are no magic fixes. All solutions will take time to have an impact and no solution is an ultimate solution, rather we need to look to a variety of solutions together, put them out there and see what works.
As someone else mentioned we are somewhat limited by our language and brains which have evolved in an environment where the progress of time is integral to our understanding. That makes it difficult to think and talk about a time (see!) where there was no time. It doesn't mean that such a situation is beyond our understanding, it just means we need to find the right tools to improve our understanding. And while we do so we will probably still use words like "before" because they are all we have. Just like you used the word "world" even though you are talking about something much bigger.
About 10 hours ago I put down a deposit on having an Intel Core 2 Duo based computer built for me so this is a bit late!
I chose Intel (Core 2 Duo CPU and 965G motherboard) because of the open video drivers they release (and I enjoy reading about them on planet.freedesktop.org). Hopefully these CPU bugs are just something that is theoretically scary but won't end up posing practical problems for me as a user.
Science finds an atom and looks at it harder, it finds sub-atomic particles and looks at them harder and thus our knowledge continues to expand.
You seem to be trying to conflate science with scientists. Scientists are human beings and belief/opinion/ego etc that diverts from a pure scientific method. This has downsides (retarding scientific progression by clinging on to accepted notions) but also has upsides (insightful leaps, often with scant initial evidence). The strength of the scientific method is not that it renders scientists infallible, the strength is that by sticking with it as much as we can it allows us to progress despite our human failures.
Scientists will readily concede that we don't know everything, that models are being refined, that wholly new explanations are being sought, that generally accepted theories are still being tested (at some expense).
That is sciences strength. Science seeks and then seeks some more. It does not say "I dunno, god must have done it". And any 'beliefs' that scientists may have does not undermine the fact that science itself is not about belief.
It looked like parody to me.
If it was supposed to be "real debate" and you interpret it as such then that's a rather damning indication on the level of debate in American politics.
Precisely what the differences are might be harder to put your finger on but it should be fairly clear that they are different and while we don't understand what the differences are comparing the ratings between the two isn't really possible, it's probably reasonable enough that the ratings for each make some kind of sense in their own right.
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For example movies longer than two hours start being hard to watch. I'm no hardcore gamer but I think it's much easier to play for much longer than that (depending on the game style). I don't know exactly what that tells us, but it certainly tells us that the way we respond to movies is different to the way we respond to games.
An AO rating for a game like Manhunt does not seam unreasonable on the face of it. Here in Australia we don't have and adult rating for games so Manhunt will almost certainly get banned
The price of the unit itself and the need to have an expensive TV etc to get anything approaching "good value" out of the PS3 has meant there are simply less people interested in it.
While the quest to be the "center of the lounge room" is all well and good it does nothing for a huge number (maybe even a majority) of traditional gamers who are kids and young adults who have their consoles hooked up to a second TV (probably in their bedroom) so they can play whenever they like, regardless of what the rest of the family is doing in the lounge room.
This is the first generation of consoles where the consoles themselves output video of a higher quality than most people have for their TV (let alone secondary TVs). This is a huge issue which isn't going to change particularly rapidly.
The Xbox has the problem to a lesser degree because the lower price means people won't feel like they are wasting money so much.
Nintendo have avoided the problem entirely by deciding that the environment isn't ready for large scale uptake of high def gaming yet. As far as I can see they are right and it is difficult to see that changing substantially for a good five years.
Rather perversely although the Wii is the one console that isn't demanding to be in the lounge room it is probably the one that is having the most success at appealing to everyone in a family and thus earning a place there.
I don't remember seeing anything like that until I got a PC (and I think the first game I remember that has it was Elite, or Elite+).