Many people already see more TV than they do real world outdoor imagery during a day. What happens when we all do?
We end up at lenscrafters with nearsightedness. It happened to me after about three years of spending too much time at the computer and not taking breaks to view things at distance.
Sounds like a hardship case to me I cant help the fact that you physically cant make a lot of money, it is still not a justification for pirating software, save up and buy that app if you like it, if you knew the pressure some game programmers are under you'd probably want to donate money to them. So before you go laying down your "woe is me" story, think. Besides I assume you're in school so you probably have homework or studying to do so you can afford all that software you want in the future.
I agree, especially with games when I hear someone say something like "I need a cd key for halflife" I just have to laugh, dollar for dollar that game was probably the best entertainment value over the past four years. I mean fifty bucks for something I can still play with thousands of other people for years. Now-a-days it's probably even discounted, point is I just hate when people say they love some reasonably priced application and yet never go out and buy it, not even after using it for long periods of time.
No one innovates when everyone just compies everyone elses work, if code is "free speech" as much as art and art has value (astetic/monetary/cultural) though it is highly subjective then we must conclude code has a value, some code's value is greater than others as they become tools themselves. Knowledge should have no copyrights but there is a distinction to be made between a 'work' and the knowledge used to create that work. Those who simply immitate are doomed to mediocrity because we as people thrive on change and advancement. There's room for everyone on this boat we just havent distributed the weight properly yet.
What I loathe are these kids on irc who think it's their birth right to every movie, game, and productivity application out there. They hardly even acknowledge that they're pirating software. I know people who have absolutely no legal games on their ill gotten operating systems yet somehow it's ok because "I wasn't going to buy it anyway". The people I know that do this aren't broke either, I almost wish they'd get busted just so they'd have to acknowledge that they're doing something that can have serious consequences. It just really grinds my gears when I go out and pay for a game ( I think 49.00 is reasonably priced ) and they pirate it and talk about how great it is, great but not great enough to buy?
I'm in the same boat, I'm essentially a self taught linux user. The thing that really helped me out was the desire to learn not just to be functional but to have a good grasp of the concepts and reasoning of why things are they way they are in linux and unicies in general. The desire to learn should be exploited in people new to the linux experience but everyone learns differently and everyone has different levels of desire to learn. It also helped to have more than one system to learn on such that I could hose it over and over without worry. Beyond that I taught myself to program in php as well but sit me in a room full of php programmers with formal programming education and I'll drown after the first sentence because I'm not familiar with their lingo, I look at php through my eyes not through those of someone with a formal introduction to all things code. I think most people in a position to teach linux must have taught themselves to use it as there aren't widespread efforts to teach kids about it and seeing how it's a relatively new phenomenon that's to be expected.
eric johnson was given the opportunity to use protools 24bit, he decided to go with 16bit because he thought it sounded better. This is a man who can descern the brand of batteries in his effects pedals and cables by ear and uses only vintage gear for the most part. I tend to agree with him, his (new) setup is very simple and as analong as possible.
Ximian (on 6.2 500mhz 512MB ATI & 7.2 800mhz 512MB nVidia) is slower than molasses uphill in January.
It seems to run fine for me on a 500Mhz p3 384M it runs fine over xwin32 even, so as far as I'm concerned that's nonsense. Evolution it is an outlook clone, there's no mistaking it if you don't like outlook you probably wont like evolution. If you dont like it don't use it but don't sell it short just because you dont like it, because obviously lots of other people do.
You can always dist upgrade, I do development on an unstable box and I've yet to have any major issues. I just keep up to date with irc and debian planet to be sure there hasn't been a debain chaos event. The anal standards debian has are a blessing and a curse all at the same time.
Introduce the kids at an early age to Linux so that they'll demand it on their parents' machines! What a diabolical scheme! *calls the tabloids*
That didn't really work out for Apple did it? What makes us think it will work for Linux? Granted it's not an apples to apples comparison but there is a parallel that can be drawn. I just hope we aren't comprimising an ethics model to make a smart business decision.
It's an excuse for their normally sub-par driver quality, they can't get their generic all purpose drivers to deliver the goods so they instead do what they have done. They'll never live down the driver thing until they get their act together and just build some quality drivers that fully exploit their hardware.
NOVA rocks my socks, tons of great educational and interesting programming alan alda also rocks for covering so many interesting things. You can tell he has a genuine interest in what he's doing.
I'm betting within 18 months you'll see an internet access pack for the Xbox that includes a usb hub, usb keyboard and usb mouse.
It has onboard ethernet, no need for all that usb nonsense other than for alternate controler devices. I think a hard drive is not a bad idea at all for a game machine instead of a stack of memory cards ala playstation, also you open up the versatility of the machine greatly with storage options combined with the elimination of many of those blasted loading screens is what I'm thinking.
What about web cache's like squid, how would you propose to eliminate the possible use of a cache, granted the cache device need pay but those behind it need not.
yet KDE itself looks like the spitting image of Windows..
And windows who stole from apple... etc etc just dont bring it up next time. We can trace these things back to the origins of computing and find that in the end, none of it matters, but it sure makes for an insightful comment on slashdot.
There are some library memory leakage issues but I think it's a high priority on the bug fix list. I still like a tailored xftconfig though for konq, makes for excellent looking web sites.
I'd like to see an open submissions section, ie a singular section which users contribute and moderate stories. There's a lot of decent contributions that get dropped because an editor dosen't think its news in this section the slash users would decide, perhaps this could be made a subscription option or someting, to deter troll submissions.
Those are almost all application requests with the exception of something like setting colour depth, kde would face many problems if they had to write an abstraction layer for every single possible graphics card or every possible kernel permutation not to mention version management, there are applications which address many of your issues but "delving into the guts" is the job of the distro maintainer as they have control over what goes into what boots up after install. Plus it's that type of value added resell which drives competition between the various distributions. I too would like a more-integrated-environment but I cant look to one group and dump all my issues on them. I also have no problems with configuration with provided tools and applications. We'll get there though, it'll take time but we'll get there.
Since when do radeon's beat gf3 performance (I wont even go into driver quality). The 8500 is like a ferrari governed to 90Mph and doesn't markedly beat the gf3ti500 in any category by any value other than what should be considered negligible. Though the 8500 has far and away the best theoretical performance capability it fails to deliver like most ati graphics products. I doubt the 8500 was out when he built the machine but the better bet is still the gf3.
Invest in a terrapin mine; 10 gig's which jack directly to a digital camera. They're selling them on thinkgeek. Around $500 buys you 10 mobile gigs that fits in your palm/pocket/camera bag/etc I expect to see more and more units of this nature, look at what sony did with the mavica cd writer digi-cams, they vastly increase storage space and when mini-dv cams get better support for stills who knows the limit. We've outgrown traditional photographic media.
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We end up at lenscrafters with nearsightedness. It happened to me after about three years of spending too much time at the computer and not taking breaks to view things at distance.
I've never disputed that in fact I'm in agreement with you.
Sounds like a hardship case to me I cant help the fact that you physically cant make a lot of money, it is still not a justification for pirating software, save up and buy that app if you like it, if you knew the pressure some game programmers are under you'd probably want to donate money to them. So before you go laying down your "woe is me" story, think. Besides I assume you're in school so you probably have homework or studying to do so you can afford all that software you want in the future.
I agree, especially with games when I hear someone say something like "I need a cd key for halflife" I just have to laugh, dollar for dollar that game was probably the best entertainment value over the past four years. I mean fifty bucks for something I can still play with thousands of other people for years. Now-a-days it's probably even discounted, point is I just hate when people say they love some reasonably priced application and yet never go out and buy it, not even after using it for long periods of time.
No one innovates when everyone just compies everyone elses work, if code is "free speech" as much as art and art has value (astetic/monetary/cultural) though it is highly subjective then we must conclude code has a value, some code's value is greater than others as they become tools themselves. Knowledge should have no copyrights but there is a distinction to be made between a 'work' and the knowledge used to create that work. Those who simply immitate are doomed to mediocrity because we as people thrive on change and advancement. There's room for everyone on this boat we just havent distributed the weight properly yet.
What I loathe are these kids on irc who think it's their birth right to every movie, game, and productivity application out there. They hardly even acknowledge that they're pirating software. I know people who have absolutely no legal games on their ill gotten operating systems yet somehow it's ok because "I wasn't going to buy it anyway". The people I know that do this aren't broke either, I almost wish they'd get busted just so they'd have to acknowledge that they're doing something that can have serious consequences. It just really grinds my gears when I go out and pay for a game ( I think 49.00 is reasonably priced ) and they pirate it and talk about how great it is, great but not great enough to buy?
Why does that remind me of jar jar binks for some reason?
I'm in the same boat, I'm essentially a self taught linux user. The thing that really helped me out was the desire to learn not just to be functional but to have a good grasp of the concepts and reasoning of why things are they way they are in linux and unicies in general. The desire to learn should be exploited in people new to the linux experience but everyone learns differently and everyone has different levels of desire to learn. It also helped to have more than one system to learn on such that I could hose it over and over without worry. Beyond that I taught myself to program in php as well but sit me in a room full of php programmers with formal programming education and I'll drown after the first sentence because I'm not familiar with their lingo, I look at php through my eyes not through those of someone with a formal introduction to all things code. I think most people in a position to teach linux must have taught themselves to use it as there aren't widespread efforts to teach kids about it and seeing how it's a relatively new phenomenon that's to be expected.
eric johnson was given the opportunity to use protools 24bit, he decided to go with 16bit because he thought it sounded better. This is a man who can descern the brand of batteries in his effects pedals and cables by ear and uses only vintage gear for the most part. I tend to agree with him, his (new) setup is very simple and as analong as possible.
It seems to run fine for me on a 500Mhz p3 384M it runs fine over xwin32 even, so as far as I'm concerned that's nonsense. Evolution it is an outlook clone, there's no mistaking it if you don't like outlook you probably wont like evolution. If you dont like it don't use it but don't sell it short just because you dont like it, because obviously lots of other people do.
You can always dist upgrade, I do development on an unstable box and I've yet to have any major issues. I just keep up to date with irc and debian planet to be sure there hasn't been a debain chaos event. The anal standards debian has are a blessing and a curse all at the same time.
That didn't really work out for Apple did it? What makes us think it will work for Linux? Granted it's not an apples to apples comparison but there is a parallel that can be drawn. I just hope we aren't comprimising an ethics model to make a smart business decision.
I think this counts.
It's an excuse for their normally sub-par driver quality, they can't get their generic all purpose drivers to deliver the goods so they instead do what they have done. They'll never live down the driver thing until they get their act together and just build some quality drivers that fully exploit their hardware.
NOVA rocks my socks, tons of great educational and interesting programming alan alda also rocks for covering so many interesting things. You can tell he has a genuine interest in what he's doing.
It has onboard ethernet, no need for all that usb nonsense other than for alternate controler devices. I think a hard drive is not a bad idea at all for a game machine instead of a stack of memory cards ala playstation, also you open up the versatility of the machine greatly with storage options combined with the elimination of many of those blasted loading screens is what I'm thinking.
Apple's playing pages from the how to be a dick manual again.
What about web cache's like squid, how would you propose to eliminate the possible use of a cache, granted the cache device need pay but those behind it need not.
Quick someone go register open-sourceforge.org.
And windows who stole from apple... etc etc just dont bring it up next time. We can trace these things back to the origins of computing and find that in the end, none of it matters, but it sure makes for an insightful comment on slashdot.
There are some library memory leakage issues but I think it's a high priority on the bug fix list. I still like a tailored xftconfig though for konq, makes for excellent looking web sites.
I'd like to see an open submissions section, ie a singular section which users contribute and moderate stories. There's a lot of decent contributions that get dropped because an editor dosen't think its news in this section the slash users would decide, perhaps this could be made a subscription option or someting, to deter troll submissions.
Those are almost all application requests with the exception of something like setting colour depth, kde would face many problems if they had to write an abstraction layer for every single possible graphics card or every possible kernel permutation not to mention version management, there are applications which address many of your issues but "delving into the guts" is the job of the distro maintainer as they have control over what goes into what boots up after install. Plus it's that type of value added resell which drives competition between the various distributions. I too would like a more-integrated-environment but I cant look to one group and dump all my issues on them. I also have no problems with configuration with provided tools and applications. We'll get there though, it'll take time but we'll get there.
Since when do radeon's beat gf3 performance (I wont even go into driver quality). The 8500 is like a ferrari governed to 90Mph and doesn't markedly beat the gf3ti500 in any category by any value other than what should be considered negligible. Though the 8500 has far and away the best theoretical performance capability it fails to deliver like most ati graphics products. I doubt the 8500 was out when he built the machine but the better bet is still the gf3.
Invest in a terrapin mine; 10 gig's which jack directly to a digital camera. They're selling them on thinkgeek. Around $500 buys you 10 mobile gigs that fits in your palm/pocket/camera bag/etc I expect to see more and more units of this nature, look at what sony did with the mavica cd writer digi-cams, they vastly increase storage space and when mini-dv cams get better support for stills who knows the limit. We've outgrown traditional photographic media.