Well slashdot was created by a US citizen inside the US. It is a US based website. Now if slashdot feels like going internation then good for them. But by no means should slashdot belt felt required or pushed to go international just because people from other countries decide to read it of their own free will. So how about next time ask them politely and recognize it is a decision they do not have to make if they don't want to instead of demanding they do so like it's required.
And how did this post even make it to +2, Insightful? You you really think the hardware manufacturer has NO control over how well their phone can maintain a good signal? You see phones have this thing called an antenna.. perhaps you've heard of it? Different phones will always work better than others when it comes to reception.
So instead we should wait... indefinately.. for a finished and polished project that is chasing a moving target. We should expect them to find funding for years of development time before ever making their works available to those of us who want it. In a way I think of myself, as a transgaming subscriber, as a venture capitalist. I am paying them to be able to continue working on their product, and I am more than happy with the speed at which it is being developed.I see no free projects keeping up with their development.
There are many of us that queue of a lot of work for our pc to do when we are not there, or maintain other such continuous jobs. This is when rebooting becomes an inconvenience. When I have over 20 applications running all doing a job I want done having to close all of them properly, reboot, then boot BACK into linux and restart EVERYTHING is a royal pain, and sometimes just not possible. As a general rule of thumb it is a bad idea to just assume because something is not so for you, does not mean it is not so for others as well.
This all simply sounds like your inability to properly install or configure it. The many people out there who have games running under winex fine are enough evidence for that. Your idea about needing point2play is rediculous too. I have never used point2play.... ever. Well actually I tried it once and found it caused more problems than it solved. WineX works BETTER w/o point2play.
Which would you rather have-- Doom3 on a Hammerfall pro audio card with a Voodoo2 or Doom3 on an Nvidia 6800 with a $20 Soundblaster Live?
Um why whould I be forced to make this decision? Thats a rediculous question, because obviously I want doom3 on both. Audio is as important if not more important for immersion and suspense of disbelief in a fictional setting such as a game. The problem isn't that you don't need much for Argghhhh and Kaboom and Zap. The problem is many games only HAVE Argghhhh, Kaboom, and Zap. Why is that? Perhaps it's because quality sound cards are rare in most PC's. Either way, I would like better sound in hardware and in the game. Hell I want better sound to listen to music with. My PC has become my stereo.
Pretty simple really. You see the government gives these companies money in the form of loans, grants, etc. for various purposes. That is how a privately held company is government subsidized.
This is a load of bull. Cable companies use to be a lot more regulated than they are now, and people said the same crap about them when they were deregulated. However, I see no competitors. I see constantly degrading service. I see month bills being raised at regular intervals. Claiming deregulation is the answer because of competition is horseshit. It would still not be in the interest of anyone to invest the money to lay down that much fiber.
My opinion: the GUI changes look too much like Windows/Internet Explorer for my tastes; I guess it's not just KDE."
You know it wouldn't kill the slashdot editors to EDIT submissions instead of just dumping them as is into the main site. Especially when one is as unprofessional as this. Flaming does NOT belong on the front page of slashdot. This is absolutely rediculous. First "four of parts", and now this bull? Why, Slashdot, do you feel like you can ask me for money when you pull crap like this?
ROFL that is some funny shit... If it happens on Seinfeld then it MUST be true! True slashdot geekdom. Using a tv show to demonstrate social phenomenon (sp?) due to what.. lack of personal experience?
While I admit, friends of friends sometimes don't mix, I got a good laugh from the "Watch enough Seinfeld..." line. Watch enough Seinfeld and you'll be a true social expert!
I'm not a heavy hardware person primarily because I can't afford it, but among the things I own that linux does not support are my philips seismic edge soundcard and my wintv-pvr (the first one not the new ones with decent support). I also use to own a little usb device that when combined with some web software told you what songs were playing on a radio station at a certain time which did not have support. Also, my dxr3 based sigma designs dvd playback card did not have decent support for the longest time, and its support is still only due to a heavy reverse engineering effort and is still hackish. You may have been lucky, but there is still a lot of nice hardware out there w/o linux support.
So how is it wrong? In an effort to cut costs they fake a plan to switch to linux hoping microsoft will feel threatened enough to lower prices. This still fits in with your provided mindset of "figuring out things using a cost-benefit ratio." It is just a little more underhanded. However, underhanded seems to be the technique of the century thus far.
Contracts don't last forever. It is as important for a provider to make you want to renew with them as it is for them to get new subscribers. I know many people that will immediately switch providers when their contract expires, and part of that reason is the other provider may have better phones for cheaper discounts.
The NTFS permissions model is very similar to the ACL patches many linux filesystems have. Check it out at http://acl.bestbits.at/. In fact, Samba uses ACL enabled filesystems to store windows permission information. I'm a huge fan of ACL's and have used them with small servers for such things as allowing the www user (apache) to access user accounts so all user web data can have 640 permissions. I did this when faced with the problem of php scripts that access mysql servers having the mysql password in plain text in a php.inc file. Hmm while I'm on the subject let me go OT real quick. Does anyone know of a more elegant solution for this?
You missed the point. He wants to be able to save in the middle of "assigning members, gear, waypoints, and having everyone work synchronously towards the same goal" so that when he has to leave he can come back and pick up where he left off. The point of the original post was about games not allowing you to save at any time.
I don't quite see how this will help with keeping larger files such as movies from filling up the disk cache when being played. This syscall is about memory, not about the disk cache. Is there a syscall to tell the kernel that the application won't be accessing a part of the disk more than once?
Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done.
This completely goes against the entire "scratching an itch" idea. I use and like linux because it is engineered how I'D want it done and not how dumbass joe sixpack wants it. Screw joe sixpack. Why should we ruin linux just to make it popular? Maybe there are people who are pushy and try to get everyone to use this wonderful OS. They do it because of many peoples need to share a good thing with their neighbor. If I have to trade what makes linux great now for popularity, then I will say no to that. I hope others agree.
When you pull the gun out of your parents closet THEN you assume it's loaded. If you unload it yourself it's probably safe to say it is REALLY unloaded. Seems you missed the point of that tidbit of advice.
This happens everytime a significant kernel change is made. Considering the kernel api's are never really frozen nvidia is forced to adapt quite frequently, and they do every time. New nvidia releases will be compatable, as they always have been.
As I understand it (and I could be wrong) the drug Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide does exactly this. One of the dangers of it in fact IS overheating! There's a known limit to how quickly a single neuron can fire, and it's theorized that DXM causes portions of the brain to exceed this limit, causing the mitochondria to heat up. If this is prolonged for too long, it will kill the cell.
How does this effect your thought process? I could write volumes on it. It is likely not a pure overclock, as the drug stimulates several parts in different ways. While parts of your brain are in overdrive, the drug is also busily seperating your brain from its senses, effectively cutting you off from the physical world. At sufficient doses you can even forget the physical world is there. Your thoughts are then focused completely inward, and become highly symbolic and abstract. The normal process by which your brain catagorizes and connects concepts to each other seems to be quicker, but when the effects wear off you are no longer able to understand why new connections or discoveries were made, so you can't really check their correctness. Other things such as OBE's or spiritual experiences are common.
What this all means is anyones guess, and my analysis is by no means complete. You comment just got me thinking however, perhaps is we truely were able to overclock our brains, would be be anything like we are now afterwards? Or would our perceptions change so much that the entire universe changes with them?
And I've used wireless mice. They become erratic way before the batteries die. I like my HIDs to be precise and reliable, thank you very much...
Perhaps that $10 wireless mouse does this, but I've used my cordless mouseman optical for over a year now, changed batteries only 3 times, and never experienced erratic behavior. A battery change is as simple as putting the old ones in the charger, and taking the current pair out of the charger and putting them into the mouse. Newer versions even include a base station for charging daily so you never run low.
Oh, and did I mention I've never had erratic behavior with the mouse? It knows when the batteries are getting too low and just shuts off, prompting the simple battery change I already explained. It's rough work changing 2 batteries every 4 months too.:P I even commonly use the mouse from distances of 10'- 15' too.
Please avoid assigning the behavior of one or two cheap peripherals to the entire class of device.
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Well slashdot was created by a US citizen inside the US. It is a US based website. Now if slashdot feels like going internation then good for them. But by no means should slashdot belt felt required or pushed to go international just because people from other countries decide to read it of their own free will. So how about next time ask them politely and recognize it is a decision they do not have to make if they don't want to instead of demanding they do so like it's required.
And how did this post even make it to +2, Insightful? You you really think the hardware manufacturer has NO control over how well their phone can maintain a good signal? You see phones have this thing called an antenna.. perhaps you've heard of it? Different phones will always work better than others when it comes to reception.
So instead we should wait... indefinately.. for a finished and polished project that is chasing a moving target. We should expect them to find funding for years of development time before ever making their works available to those of us who want it. In a way I think of myself, as a transgaming subscriber, as a venture capitalist. I am paying them to be able to continue working on their product, and I am more than happy with the speed at which it is being developed.I see no free projects keeping up with their development.
There are many of us that queue of a lot of work for our pc to do when we are not there, or maintain other such continuous jobs. This is when rebooting becomes an inconvenience. When I have over 20 applications running all doing a job I want done having to close all of them properly, reboot, then boot BACK into linux and restart EVERYTHING is a royal pain, and sometimes just not possible. As a general rule of thumb it is a bad idea to just assume because something is not so for you, does not mean it is not so for others as well.
This all simply sounds like your inability to properly install or configure it. The many people out there who have games running under winex fine are enough evidence for that. Your idea about needing point2play is rediculous too. I have never used point2play.... ever. Well actually I tried it once and found it caused more problems than it solved. WineX works BETTER w/o point2play.
Which would you rather have-- Doom3 on a Hammerfall pro audio card with a Voodoo2 or Doom3 on an Nvidia 6800 with a $20 Soundblaster Live?
Um why whould I be forced to make this decision? Thats a rediculous question, because obviously I want doom3 on both. Audio is as important if not more important for immersion and suspense of disbelief in a fictional setting such as a game. The problem isn't that you don't need much for Argghhhh and Kaboom and Zap. The problem is many games only HAVE Argghhhh, Kaboom, and Zap. Why is that? Perhaps it's because quality sound cards are rare in most PC's. Either way, I would like better sound in hardware and in the game. Hell I want better sound to listen to music with. My PC has become my stereo.
Since when is it possible to have TOO MUCH of an "Oooh, shiny!" factor? I like Oooh, Shiny!
Yippe.... another 19" monitor running at 1280x1024
Pretty simple really. You see the government gives these companies money in the form of loans, grants, etc. for various purposes. That is how a privately held company is government subsidized.
This is a load of bull. Cable companies use to be a lot more regulated than they are now, and people said the same crap about them when they were deregulated. However, I see no competitors. I see constantly degrading service. I see month bills being raised at regular intervals. Claiming deregulation is the answer because of competition is horseshit. It would still not be in the interest of anyone to invest the money to lay down that much fiber.
My opinion: the GUI changes look too much like Windows/Internet Explorer for my tastes; I guess it's not just KDE."
You know it wouldn't kill the slashdot editors to EDIT submissions instead of just dumping them as is into the main site. Especially when one is as unprofessional as this. Flaming does NOT belong on the front page of slashdot. This is absolutely rediculous. First "four of parts", and now this bull? Why, Slashdot, do you feel like you can ask me for money when you pull crap like this?
ROFL that is some funny shit... If it happens on Seinfeld then it MUST be true! True slashdot geekdom. Using a tv show to demonstrate social phenomenon (sp?) due to what.. lack of personal experience?
While I admit, friends of friends sometimes don't mix, I got a good laugh from the "Watch enough Seinfeld..." line. Watch enough Seinfeld and you'll be a true social expert!
I'm not a heavy hardware person primarily because I can't afford it, but among the things I own that linux does not support are my philips seismic edge soundcard and my wintv-pvr (the first one not the new ones with decent support). I also use to own a little usb device that when combined with some web software told you what songs were playing on a radio station at a certain time which did not have support. Also, my dxr3 based sigma designs dvd playback card did not have decent support for the longest time, and its support is still only due to a heavy reverse engineering effort and is still hackish. You may have been lucky, but there is still a lot of nice hardware out there w/o linux support.
One word: Immersion
The idea of being able to completely fool all of your senses so it seems like you really are somewhere else is very appealing to many people.
So how is it wrong? In an effort to cut costs they fake a plan to switch to linux hoping microsoft will feel threatened enough to lower prices. This still fits in with your provided mindset of "figuring out things using a cost-benefit ratio." It is just a little more underhanded. However, underhanded seems to be the technique of the century thus far.
Contracts don't last forever. It is as important for a provider to make you want to renew with them as it is for them to get new subscribers. I know many people that will immediately switch providers when their contract expires, and part of that reason is the other provider may have better phones for cheaper discounts.
The NTFS permissions model is very similar to the ACL patches many linux filesystems have. Check it out at http://acl.bestbits.at/. In fact, Samba uses ACL enabled filesystems to store windows permission information. I'm a huge fan of ACL's and have used them with small servers for such things as allowing the www user (apache) to access user accounts so all user web data can have 640 permissions. I did this when faced with the problem of php scripts that access mysql servers having the mysql password in plain text in a php .inc file. Hmm while I'm on the subject let me go OT real quick. Does anyone know of a more elegant solution for this?
You missed the point. He wants to be able to save in the middle of "assigning members, gear, waypoints, and having everyone work synchronously towards the same goal" so that when he has to leave he can come back and pick up where he left off. The point of the original post was about games not allowing you to save at any time.
EXCUSE ME
Inuyasha kicks ass
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I don't quite see how this will help with keeping larger files such as movies from filling up the disk cache when being played. This syscall is about memory, not about the disk cache. Is there a syscall to tell the kernel that the application won't be accessing a part of the disk more than once?
Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done.
This completely goes against the entire "scratching an itch" idea. I use and like linux because it is engineered how I'D want it done and not how dumbass joe sixpack wants it. Screw joe sixpack. Why should we ruin linux just to make it popular? Maybe there are people who are pushy and try to get everyone to use this wonderful OS. They do it because of many peoples need to share a good thing with their neighbor. If I have to trade what makes linux great now for popularity, then I will say no to that. I hope others agree.
When you pull the gun out of your parents closet THEN you assume it's loaded. If you unload it yourself it's probably safe to say it is REALLY unloaded. Seems you missed the point of that tidbit of advice.
This happens everytime a significant kernel change is made. Considering the kernel api's are never really frozen nvidia is forced to adapt quite frequently, and they do every time. New nvidia releases will be compatable, as they always have been.
As I understand it (and I could be wrong) the drug Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide does exactly this. One of the dangers of it in fact IS overheating! There's a known limit to how quickly a single neuron can fire, and it's theorized that DXM causes portions of the brain to exceed this limit, causing the mitochondria to heat up. If this is prolonged for too long, it will kill the cell.
How does this effect your thought process? I could write volumes on it. It is likely not a pure overclock, as the drug stimulates several parts in different ways. While parts of your brain are in overdrive, the drug is also busily seperating your brain from its senses, effectively cutting you off from the physical world. At sufficient doses you can even forget the physical world is there. Your thoughts are then focused completely inward, and become highly symbolic and abstract. The normal process by which your brain catagorizes and connects concepts to each other seems to be quicker, but when the effects wear off you are no longer able to understand why new connections or discoveries were made, so you can't really check their correctness. Other things such as OBE's or spiritual experiences are common.
What this all means is anyones guess, and my analysis is by no means complete. You comment just got me thinking however, perhaps is we truely were able to overclock our brains, would be be anything like we are now afterwards? Or would our perceptions change so much that the entire universe changes with them?
And I've used wireless mice. They become erratic way before the batteries die. I like my HIDs to be precise and reliable, thank you very much...
:P I even commonly use the mouse from distances of 10'- 15' too.
Perhaps that $10 wireless mouse does this, but I've used my cordless mouseman optical for over a year now, changed batteries only 3 times, and never experienced erratic behavior. A battery change is as simple as putting the old ones in the charger, and taking the current pair out of the charger and putting them into the mouse. Newer versions even include a base station for charging daily so you never run low.
Oh, and did I mention I've never had erratic behavior with the mouse? It knows when the batteries are getting too low and just shuts off, prompting the simple battery change I already explained. It's rough work changing 2 batteries every 4 months too.
Please avoid assigning the behavior of one or two cheap peripherals to the entire class of device.