I'm a huge fan of the Logitech Trackman Marble, so I immediately rushed out and bought the wireless version (RF, not IR).
It's called "Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel". I thoroughly recommend it.
IMHO it's really not about whether or not they're *more* fun, they're just *different* fun.
If you'd been playing a couple of hours of Pacman every day for the last 10 years would it really still be fun? Possibly, but for most people it would lose it's appeal after a while.
That is why games continually evolve in new directions, the companies are trying to create something new and fresh that will inspire the young to waste hours of time and tons of money;)
People who whinge about how FPS games are so old hat, tired and boring should look at the phenomenal success of the Half-Life mod CounterStrike (http://www.counter-strike.net), which is played by more people than all of the games which supposedly lead the FPS genre (ie Quake3 and Unreal Tournament). Why is CStrike so popular? Because it's damn good fun. Sure it doesn't have the slickness of Quake3, or the raw adrenalin frenzied action, but at some fundemental level it's just plain more fun.
If it takes the John Carmacks of the world to push the envelope of their given genre so that someone else can come along and make it more fun, that's fine by me.
(Don't forget to look for me putting some bullets through your head next time you play cstrike;)
I am a freelance journalist, having written Linux related articles/workshops/reviews for Future Publishing's titles PCPlus and Linux Format and I can say, hand on heart, that I have never given a favorable review to a product that didn't deserve it. I have given some bad reviews to what I believed to be bad software and I have never been co-erced by anyone to alter the outcome of a review. Journalistic integrity is obviously of the utmost importance, but we are just people and it is more than likely that you may not agree with our opinions. In the world of free software that's ok because you can still evaluate the software we are reviewing to see if you like it and not have to worry about feature limited demos, timeout, nag requesters, etc. In my opinion, reviews of free software should be taken as a guide to what is available - it's then down to each user to determine if they agree or not. To reviewers, if you are co-erced by companies to give good reviews then it seems almost certain that they are not confident in their products and probably don't deserve good reviews. There is no point encouraging people to use/buy crap software - the world has enough crap software already.
It's basically a two paned filemanager - very similar in concept to midnight commander (not the Explorer-ised GNOME version, the console version), but with a proper GUI.
www.gpsoft.com.au have screenshots (albeit crap ones) of DOpus5 which is much better than DOpus4 anyway.
asf is about more than just music, so it does offer more than mp3 in the form of video;) No matter what it *can* do, I've yet to see it do anything particularly impressive that a simple mpeg1 player couldn't do.
but that's not the point, we need to be able to watch them in Linux!
Rubbish. I tried a WINE build last week and it actually managed to run Word and Excel 97. There were some glitches, but it was very close. Simple stuff like Wordpad worked flawlessly.
The WINE people deserve some serious kudos for ever getting this far. Nice work!
Maybe the WINE people should be making an extra special effort to target specific, needed applications (such as Media Player) and get them working asap. I tried a build of WINE from last week and while a bunch of stuff did work properly, media player didn't.
Since most (decent) distros include the libraries for both toolkits, you should be able to get it to run pretty much anywhere.
You will miss out on the funky features of the desktop that isn't running though.
This is really an issue that GNOME/KDE need to work out whereby the two can exist comfortable at the same time (not all the panels and applet, but the core stuff like session management, CORBA, etc.)
They are releasing the beta to a closed group of people to prevent it getting out and their reputation being tarnished by any bugs that haven't been fixed.
The intent of the original license, which they are presumably now clarifying, is that the sections they are preventing you from re-distributing are things they've written which are not derived from GPL and therefore are not subject to the license. They work they have done on other GPL products is not covered by the beta license because that would violate GPL. They are not trying to diddle us, or take control of things, this is a simple error of communications.
You are complaining GNOME has bugs, but then you start talking about GTK widgets.
Sounds like you should be talking to the GTK people to get those fixed.
(Oh yeah, and put your GtkText widget inside a ScrolledWindow widget. You should find it now works properly).
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You are talking utter crap.
GNOME and E integrate just fine. E supports the GNOME hints. That is all there is for a wm to do to integrate with GNOME.
"Rasterman isn't into customization at all." - now what the fuck is that supposed to mean? The entire point of Enlightenment, it's raison d'etre *IS* customisation. You can change every single element of it's appearance, you can change almost all of it's behavious (the rest is still being worked on). It is THE MOST CONFIGURABLE window manager available.
Why do you want themes without the root menus? They aren't conflicting with anything. You can still get to the gmc desktop menu if you are running it (the E root menu is mmb, the gmc root menu is rmb).
Take a trip to your local doctor and ask for a brain.
/me opens the GNOME Contrl Centre, configures E with it and runs E-conf at the same time to prove you are dumb.
Excuse me? Hellooooo? Are you braindead? NT is made by Microsoft. In case you hadn't noticed, they are TOTALLY against open standards and will hijack and corrupt any standard they can get their hands on (and don't mention anything about shitty Instant Messengers).
You show me a piece of Microsoft software that works reliably and is open, I will eat my words. I can show you dozens of pieces of non-MS software that are totally open and are more reliable and stable (and even more widely used) than anything MS has ever, or will ever produce.
As I understand it, the death penalty exists here in the Uk for "high hreason in a time of war", or "arson in the queen's dockyards". Since we haven' had much of a war for a while and the queen's dockyards are fairly well guarded by big, scary navy people, we haven't had an execution for quite a while (and a damn good thing too!)
Why don't you go and read up on the plans that Amiga Inc. have for the new systems, then you might actually be armed with a clue.
They are looking at all sorts of markets where having a small, reliable OS that is friendly to use, but efficient is pretty handy, as well as power hog systems that need a scalable OS.
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I'm a huge fan of the Logitech Trackman Marble, so I immediately rushed out and bought the wireless version (RF, not IR).
It's called "Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel". I thoroughly recommend it.
IMHO it's really not about whether or not they're *more* fun, they're just *different* fun. ;)
;)
If you'd been playing a couple of hours of Pacman every day for the last 10 years would it really still be fun? Possibly, but for most people it would lose it's appeal after a while.
That is why games continually evolve in new directions, the companies are trying to create something new and fresh that will inspire the young to waste hours of time and tons of money
People who whinge about how FPS games are so old hat, tired and boring should look at the phenomenal success of the Half-Life mod CounterStrike (http://www.counter-strike.net), which is played by more people than all of the games which supposedly lead the FPS genre (ie Quake3 and Unreal Tournament). Why is CStrike so popular? Because it's damn good fun. Sure it doesn't have the slickness of Quake3, or the raw adrenalin frenzied action, but at some fundemental level it's just plain more fun.
If it takes the John Carmacks of the world to push the envelope of their given genre so that someone else can come along and make it more fun, that's fine by me.
(Don't forget to look for me putting some bullets through your head next time you play cstrike
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I am a freelance journalist, having written Linux related articles/workshops/reviews for Future Publishing's titles PCPlus and Linux Format and I can say, hand on heart, that I have never given a favorable review to a product that didn't deserve it. I have given some bad reviews to what I believed to be bad software and I have never been co-erced by anyone to alter the outcome of a review.
Journalistic integrity is obviously of the utmost importance, but we are just people and it is more than likely that you may not agree with our opinions. In the world of free software that's ok because you can still evaluate the software we are reviewing to see if you like it and not have to worry about feature limited demos, timeout, nag requesters, etc.
In my opinion, reviews of free software should be taken as a guide to what is available - it's then down to each user to determine if they agree or not.
To reviewers, if you are co-erced by companies to give good reviews then it seems almost certain that they are not confident in their products and probably don't deserve good reviews. There is no point encouraging people to use/buy crap software - the world has enough crap software already.
It's basically a two paned filemanager - very similar in concept to midnight commander (not the Explorer-ised GNOME version, the console version), but with a proper GUI.
www.gpsoft.com.au have screenshots (albeit crap ones) of DOpus5 which is much better than DOpus4 anyway.
So complain to the people encoding the streams you're watching - a 600kb/sec asf stream actually looks pretty good.
asf is about more than just music, so it does offer more than mp3 in the form of video ;)
No matter what it *can* do, I've yet to see it do anything particularly impressive that a simple mpeg1 player couldn't do.
but that's not the point, we need to be able to watch them in Linux!
Rubbish. I tried a WINE build last week and it actually managed to run Word and Excel 97. There were some glitches, but it was very close.
Simple stuff like Wordpad worked flawlessly.
The WINE people deserve some serious kudos for ever getting this far. Nice work!
Maybe the WINE people should be making an extra special effort to target specific, needed applications (such as Media Player) and get them working asap.
I tried a build of WINE from last week and while a bunch of stuff did work properly, media player didn't.
Time to start sucking it down the pr0n pipe to see how their WINE build is!
Since most (decent) distros include the libraries for both toolkits, you should be able to get it to run pretty much anywhere.
You will miss out on the funky features of the desktop that isn't running though.
This is really an issue that GNOME/KDE need to work out whereby the two can exist comfortable at the same time (not all the panels and applet, but the core stuff like session management, CORBA, etc.)
Are you dumb?
They are releasing the beta to a closed group of people to prevent it getting out and their reputation being tarnished by any bugs that haven't been fixed.
Why are you an exception to that?
Wait until November for the full release.
I don't mean to be difficult, but they haven't forked any code bases. They have contributed to KDe, Wine and others.
They have also written some apps completely from the ground up (e.g. CFM).
Rubbish, Corel are not making any attempts to keep their distro betas out of the hands of the press.
Try being a journo working on a Linux magazine and then you will know what you are talking about.
The intent of the original license, which they are presumably now clarifying, is that the sections they are preventing you from re-distributing are things they've written which are not derived from GPL and therefore are not subject to the license. They work they have done on other GPL products is not covered by the beta license because that would violate GPL.
They are not trying to diddle us, or take control of things, this is a simple error of communications.
Maybe they should just give up.
Oh please, that is such utter piffle.
Nobody can set anything up these days on NT with the click of a mouse, you need MCSEs, service packs, hotfixes, HUGE NT manuals, etc.
I added 100 IP addresses to an NT box recently and it took more than one mouse click to do it.
When are people going to stop being stupid?
You are complaining GNOME has bugs, but then you start talking about GTK widgets.
Sounds like you should be talking to the GTK people to get those fixed.
(Oh yeah, and put your GtkText widget inside a ScrolledWindow widget. You should find it now works properly).
You are talking utter crap.
GNOME and E integrate just fine. E supports the GNOME hints. That is all there is for a wm to do to integrate with GNOME.
"Rasterman isn't into customization at all." - now what the fuck is that supposed to mean? The entire point of Enlightenment, it's raison d'etre *IS* customisation. You can change every single element of it's appearance, you can change almost all of it's behavious (the rest is still being worked on). It is THE MOST CONFIGURABLE window manager available.
Why do you want themes without the root menus? They aren't conflicting with anything. You can still get to the gmc desktop menu if you are running it (the E root menu is mmb, the gmc root menu is rmb).
Take a trip to your local doctor and ask for a brain.
/me opens the GNOME Contrl Centre, configures E with it and runs E-conf at the same time to prove you are dumb.
Excuse me? Hellooooo? Are you braindead? NT is made by Microsoft. In case you hadn't noticed, they are TOTALLY against open standards and will hijack and corrupt any standard they can get their hands on (and don't mention anything about shitty Instant Messengers).
You show me a piece of Microsoft software that works reliably and is open, I will eat my words. I can show you dozens of pieces of non-MS software that are totally open and are more reliable and stable (and even more widely used) than anything MS has ever, or will ever produce.
Can you say sendmail?
As I understand it, the death penalty exists here in the Uk for "high hreason in a time of war", or "arson in the queen's dockyards". Since we haven' had much of a war for a while and the queen's dockyards are fairly well guarded by big, scary navy people, we haven't had an execution for quite a while (and a damn good thing too!)
>Under the linux kernel|filesystems you'll see >"Win 95 bug work-around"
;)
Are you sure old chap? Maybe it's time you upgraded your kernel
I was under the impression it was a bug because Win98 does NOT exhibit the same behaviour.
I have questions:
;)
;)
1) How do you cope with having to read Rasterman's code?
2) Are the groovy features of the G400 (like DualHead, TV Out, etc) going to be supported in XFree 4?
3) Can you swing me a job at VA?
(OK, you can forget #3)
You can tell the rc5 speed of a totally unknown CPU from it's Mhz rating? Oh please.
"Who are they expecting to buy this stuff?"
Why don't you go and read up on the plans that Amiga Inc. have for the new systems, then you might actually be armed with a clue.
They are looking at all sorts of markets where having a small, reliable OS that is friendly to use, but efficient is pretty handy, as well as power hog systems that need a scalable OS.
Slashdot isn't a Linux news site, it's "News for Nerds".
Fool.