When my younger brother (who still lives at home) remarked on how our parents were giving him the business about GTA3, I scoffed at the thought. I mean, it's just a video game, how lame and old are my parents anyway. Then later on that day I saw GTA 3 in action and I think my parents have a point. There is no doubt small impressionable and sensitive children are exposed to that shockingly violent game, a game which normallizes mass killings and all sorts of other bloody crimes.
I'm really surprised people would even want to make a dehumanizing game like this in such a hyper-deteriorating society in the U.S.
and I like to find other bands with a similar sound, so what I do is go a Google search with keywords like "helmet inspired", "helmet meantime" etc which usually will bring up some interviews with other like-minded bands confessing they've been heavily influenced by said band.
I've found Trust company, Pressure 4-5, Snapcase, Align and other cool bands that way.
Linux is damn near there already, but I think the myriad of choices out there is confusing people.
I think the Linux movement at large should be concerned with having a filesystem hierarchy standard and be working for more common implementations (ie: the Linux kernel and other utilities provided by the GNU Project are but a few). There is such a thing as too much choice. Even the two primary package manager formats (rpm and deb) could be unified with Alien, which could be intergrated in a Linux distribution. Linux has the installation and GUI downpat IMO, but good multimedia/P2P programs are scarce, and even the ones that should work dependably don't (I just sent a bug report in to Real.com because RealPlayer 8 farted out on me). Collaboration on a few key projects might be the solution here.
Finally, when you install games - I have Quake III for Linux - I don't think I should have to spend hours finding the right drivers and libs just to run the damn thing in 640x480. I was looking for old Voodoo2 drivers (I'm broke so I need to work with what I got) and 95% percent of the sites which supposedly had it were no longer up-and-running. I guess when the tech bubble burst, alot of people gave up on the Linux movement (or so it would seem). So maybe the last point is there needs to be reliable and comprehensive resources on the net that newbies and seasoned/. geeks can rely on.
Linux deserves to be the defacto os, but it's going to take a coordinate effort to ever see this happen. And it can happen. *Ahem* I'm finished now.
of buying alot of Linux books, especially when first learning the os, but they really are superfluous when all the resources are online and free. Fire up the printer and study what you need to at the time. I used to print out code when learning to program in C and I would fold up the sheets of paper and shove them in my back pocket, then study it at work - during break of course (cough).
Oh man, you almost described my early childhood to a tee bro... there was a time (early 20's) I had the 3D0 (which i paid $560 cdn for when it first came out), the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn all at once. Now I know why: to compensate for never being able to play Asteroids on my friends brand new Atari 2600! I remember how green with envy I was:)
As a proud Canadian, hockey fan and resident of Wayne Gretzky's hometown Brantford (no, I'm not missing my front teeth and I don't have a mullet hairstyle ), I'd like to suggest Wayne Gretzky Hockey as the most shoddy and shameful excuse of a game my eyes have ever laid witness to. To think "The Great One" would knowingly endorse such a piece of crap boggles the mind.
Try it for yourself if you dare. It's utterly pathetic.
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What os is more fun for hackers to use? What has more goodies? Any thoughts?
I appreciate that nugget of information, and I feel a little better about it. However, I will personally continue to spell it in long form (if you will) and share what you have taught me with others.
What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?
I don't call St. Patricks Day St.X, so please have some respect for the Son of God and Christians around the world who worship Him and call this holiday by it's rightful name... Christmas!
There just isn't much of a market for piracy tools on Linux. Most Linux users don't need 'em. Those who do, know how to use a web browser or set up a web server.
I'm not sure I agree with that. Users regardless of platform listen to music. I can't stand overcommercialized radio and I rarely watch tv (much less the crap they show on MTV/Much Music) so I rely on mp3s to decide what cd I'm going to buy next. In fact, thanks to P2P I was able to sample some Foo Fighters tracks and bought their latest release for my daughters birthday.
Sure it hurt paying over $20 for something it probably cost BMG to produce for less that a buck, but I'm not a thief. File sharing apps are used by honest people too (and Linux users).
Why are there so few functional file sharing apps for Linux?AudioGalaxy blows chunks, Kazaa-Lite works only with Wine IF you have saintly patience and the spare dll's handy, and Limewire isn't a walk in the park either unless you have Java installed and the $PATH enviroment variable right - not to mention any needed dependencies. I'm not adverse to commandline (I prefer it for most administrative tasks) but I'm not going to run some bare bones text-based Gnutella client in a friggin terminal. I'm too spoiled for that.
I'm just surprised the Linux community hasn't made more noise about this... or is everyone dual booting?
The way I used to "lock down" Windows so no prying hands could mess it up, would be to open a DOS box and type:
ren win bill
which would of course rename the win system file to the name bill, or whatever you wanted. Worked quite well, even in a dual-boot environment, and unwanted users trying to load Windows would get a dire messege about how the win.ini file was missing;)
I don't want to ruin this Nintendo "love-in", but the PS2 has been quickly gaining ground in the kids games dept. Take for instance the new critically acclaimed Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper and the thievius raccoonus (which my daughters love), not to mention the Rayman series blah blah blah fishcakes. I'm not saying the PS2 owns or anything, I'll leave that nonsence to those pimply-faced freaks that have nothing but texture-mapped polygons on the brain. What i am saying is that although Miyamoto is unquestionably the best childrens game designer [ever], most children would not be able to differentiate between a Nintendo specific game and one of the other many game developers out there.
Miyamoto is no longer the advantage he may have been in the past, but will always be an icon to all others in his profession.
I guess time will tell if it's really spam-proof and whether it'll be bogged down by irrelevant links and dead ends. Altavista got really bad for that, as overzealous online promoters and webdesigners took advantage of the search engine like bullys with the neighbourhood retard. Eventually, Altavista couldn't trust it's own process and started using results from other search engines.
Come to think of it, even I managed to get into the top 2 or 3 rankings in Altavista with fairly commonly used keywords, yet didn't have near the traffic as some of the other lesser-ranked "dotcom" sites.
Consoles have that social advantage that PC's just don't have... 2 to 4 people or more can play against each other on the same screen - on the sofa with their feet on the coffee table no less - and talk smack about each others mothers all night long. You can't do that on the PC.
Even LAN parties seem dorkish and antisocial in comparison.
Should that slobbering 800lb behemoth (M$ for those who haven't had their coffee yet) ever start producing and distributing Linux software, that would be the best thing that could happen to Linux and the open source movement at large. Think of it: massive public exposure (and ultimately acceptance), compatibility with Microsoft.NET and M$-centric formats/programming languages, better multimedia support than ever and software developers (beit productivity or gaming) would feel more obliged to release Linux versions.
Also, I'm inclined to believe that alot of enterprising, proprietary-biased visionaries and companies out there would reconsider investing, developing and innovating for Linux and the open source movement, if only to make a buck.
I think it's unlikely though. Such a move wouldn't benefit Microsoft so much. It would detract from their own Windows os and staple products, invite hostility from elitist ubergeeks and open source purists and require massive investment and retraining.
I think open source software is not so much an alternative to proprietary software but rather an alternative to stolen proprietary software, aka warez. I personally use GPL software because I can't afford the proprietary "versions" and I'd rather not steal it. Linux tends to be the perfect platform to run software of this ilk so I use Caldera OpenLinux as my main and only os.
Open source is a lawful and creative answer to warez! Perhaps it's an angle distributers like OpenCD should look at.
Good Sci-Fi will imagine solutions to todays problems, and present everyday items in a new and streamlined form, whether it be a streetlight or a toaster oven. Good Sci-Fi could also predict what could go wrong too...
But either way, it's got to be believable.
It [sadly] won't happen
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People (North Americans in particular) have become accustomed to fast cars with kickass sound systems and home entertainment systems in the backseat for the kids (ok, maybe not yet, but it's coming). They will not readily accept low emission vehicles that only go at 40 mph top speed and can't go on the freeway...
...not until they're wearing oxygen masks and supercooling suits to protect them from the deadly ultraviolet radiation of the outdoors. When it's too late, then people will change.
I actually work in a factory - I have for over nine years - and it's in the auto sector so it's not bad paying. The work is repetitious and boring, but I use that time to turn my brain off and go into freeflowing mode for awhile. You know, ruminate over financial stuff [inspect part for porosity], think about my beautiful daughters [ensure flash is removed from core], ponder over theological/philosophical issues... pretty soon my shift is done and I feel renewed and ready to attack my Linux box or go for a workout!
To get to the meat of my point: those who bitch about their grunt factory jobs are whiners and wimps.
I can't see what the big stink is about. Sure these old games were fun, and maybe even now have a certain retro appeal to them, but this is not going to rock the gaming world. Namco's been pimping their old stuff for years now... whoopity-freakin-do.
I don't mean to be insultive, but I just don't understand what the big deals about (other than possible legal issues).
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page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its original unclicked position
Must be talking about this, as i can't imagine any other page popping up that fast.
When my younger brother (who still lives at home) remarked on how our parents were giving him the business about GTA3, I scoffed at the thought. I mean, it's just a video game, how lame and old are my parents anyway. Then later on that day I saw GTA 3 in action and I think my parents have a point. There is no doubt small impressionable and sensitive children are exposed to that shockingly violent game, a game which normallizes mass killings and all sorts of other bloody crimes.
I'm really surprised people would even want to make a dehumanizing game like this in such a hyper-deteriorating society in the U.S.
and I like to find other bands with a similar sound, so what I do is go a Google search with keywords like "helmet inspired", "helmet meantime" etc which usually will bring up some interviews with other like-minded bands confessing they've been heavily influenced by said band.
I've found Trust company, Pressure 4-5, Snapcase, Align and other cool bands that way.
Linux is damn near there already, but I think the myriad of choices out there is confusing people.
/. geeks can rely on.
I think the Linux movement at large should be concerned with having a filesystem hierarchy standard and be working for more common implementations (ie: the Linux kernel and other utilities provided by the GNU Project are but a few). There is such a thing as too much choice. Even the two primary package manager formats (rpm and deb) could be unified with Alien, which could be intergrated in a Linux distribution. Linux has the installation and GUI downpat IMO, but good multimedia/P2P programs are scarce, and even the ones that should work dependably don't (I just sent a bug report in to Real.com because RealPlayer 8 farted out on me). Collaboration on a few key projects might be the solution here.
Finally, when you install games - I have Quake III for Linux - I don't think I should have to spend hours finding the right drivers and libs just to run the damn thing in 640x480. I was looking for old Voodoo2 drivers (I'm broke so I need to work with what I got) and 95% percent of the sites which supposedly had it were no longer up-and-running. I guess when the tech bubble burst, alot of people gave up on the Linux movement (or so it would seem). So maybe the last point is there needs to be reliable and comprehensive resources on the net that newbies and seasoned
Linux deserves to be the defacto os, but it's going to take a coordinate effort to ever see this happen. And it can happen. *Ahem* I'm finished now.
of buying alot of Linux books, especially when first learning the os, but they really are superfluous when all the resources are online and free. Fire up the printer and study what you need to at the time. I used to print out code when learning to program in C and I would fold up the sheets of paper and shove them in my back pocket, then study it at work - during break of course (cough).
Oh man, you almost described my early childhood to a tee bro... there was a time (early 20's) I had the 3D0 (which i paid $560 cdn for when it first came out), the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn all at once. Now I know why: to compensate for never being able to play Asteroids on my friends brand new Atari 2600! I remember how green with envy I was :)
Great post Alan!
As a proud Canadian, hockey fan and resident of Wayne Gretzky's hometown Brantford (no, I'm not missing my front teeth and I don't have a mullet hairstyle ), I'd like to suggest Wayne Gretzky Hockey as the most shoddy and shameful excuse of a game my eyes have ever laid witness to. To think "The Great One" would knowingly endorse such a piece of crap boggles the mind.
Try it for yourself if you dare. It's utterly pathetic.
What os is more fun for hackers to use? What has more goodies? Any thoughts?
I appreciate that nugget of information, and I feel a little better about it. However, I will personally continue to spell it in long form (if you will) and share what you have taught me with others.
Thanks Timothy
What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?
I don't call St. Patricks Day St.X, so please have some respect for the Son of God and Christians around the world who worship Him and call this holiday by it's rightful name... Christmas!
Please and thank you.
There just isn't much of a market for piracy tools on Linux. Most Linux users don't need 'em. Those who do, know how to use a web browser or set up a web server.
I'm not sure I agree with that. Users regardless of platform listen to music. I can't stand overcommercialized radio and I rarely watch tv (much less the crap they show on MTV/Much Music) so I rely on mp3s to decide what cd I'm going to buy next. In fact, thanks to P2P I was able to sample some Foo Fighters tracks and bought their latest release for my daughters birthday.
Sure it hurt paying over $20 for something it probably cost BMG to produce for less that a buck, but I'm not a thief. File sharing apps are used by honest people too (and Linux users).
Why are there so few functional file sharing apps for Linux? AudioGalaxy blows chunks, Kazaa-Lite works only with Wine IF you have saintly patience and the spare dll's handy, and Limewire isn't a walk in the park either unless you have Java installed and the $PATH enviroment variable right - not to mention any needed dependencies. I'm not adverse to commandline (I prefer it for most administrative tasks) but I'm not going to run some bare bones text-based Gnutella client in a friggin terminal. I'm too spoiled for that.
I'm just surprised the Linux community hasn't made more noise about this... or is everyone dual booting?
This is a Windows only beta? Did I miss my cue to jump for joy?
What about a self-cleaning keyboard? Why hasn't that been invented yet?!
Heck, if someone cleans the built-up funk on my keyboard that I continuously forget to do myself (re: lazy), I'll consider that a thoughtful gift.
The way I used to "lock down" Windows so no prying hands could mess it up, would be to open a DOS box and type:
;)
ren win bill
which would of course rename the win system file to the name bill, or whatever you wanted. Worked quite well, even in a dual-boot environment, and unwanted users trying to load Windows would get a dire messege about how the win.ini file was missing
I don't want to ruin this Nintendo "love-in", but the PS2 has been quickly gaining ground in the kids games dept. Take for instance the new critically acclaimed Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper and the thievius raccoonus (which my daughters love), not to mention the Rayman series blah blah blah fishcakes. I'm not saying the PS2 owns or anything, I'll leave that nonsence to those pimply-faced freaks that have nothing but texture-mapped polygons on the brain. What i am saying is that although Miyamoto is unquestionably the best childrens game designer [ever], most children would not be able to differentiate between a Nintendo specific game and one of the other many game developers out there.
Miyamoto is no longer the advantage he may have been in the past, but will always be an icon to all others in his profession.
I guess time will tell if it's really spam-proof and whether it'll be bogged down by irrelevant links and dead ends. Altavista got really bad for that, as overzealous online promoters and webdesigners took advantage of the search engine like bullys with the neighbourhood retard. Eventually, Altavista couldn't trust it's own process and started using results from other search engines.
Come to think of it, even I managed to get into the top 2 or 3 rankings in Altavista with fairly commonly used keywords, yet didn't have near the traffic as some of the other lesser-ranked "dotcom" sites.
Consoles have that social advantage that PC's just don't have... 2 to 4 people or more can play against each other on the same screen - on the sofa with their feet on the coffee table no less - and talk smack about each others mothers all night long. You can't do that on the PC.
Even LAN parties seem dorkish and antisocial in comparison.
Should that slobbering 800lb behemoth (M$ for those who haven't had their coffee yet) ever start producing and distributing Linux software, that would be the best thing that could happen to Linux and the open source movement at large. Think of it: massive public exposure (and ultimately acceptance), compatibility with Microsoft .NET and M$-centric formats/programming languages, better multimedia support than ever and software developers (beit productivity or gaming) would feel more obliged to release Linux versions.
Also, I'm inclined to believe that alot of enterprising, proprietary-biased visionaries and companies out there would reconsider investing, developing and innovating for Linux and the open source movement, if only to make a buck.
I think it's unlikely though. Such a move wouldn't benefit Microsoft so much. It would detract from their own Windows os and staple products, invite hostility from elitist ubergeeks and open source purists and require massive investment and retraining.
Plunk,
There's a whole nickle.
I think open source software is not so much an alternative to proprietary software but rather an alternative to stolen proprietary software, aka warez. I personally use GPL software because I can't afford the proprietary "versions" and I'd rather not steal it. Linux tends to be the perfect platform to run software of this ilk so I use Caldera OpenLinux as my main and only os.
Open source is a lawful and creative answer to warez! Perhaps it's an angle distributers like OpenCD should look at.
Good Sci-Fi will imagine solutions to todays problems, and present everyday items in a new and streamlined form, whether it be a streetlight or a toaster oven. Good Sci-Fi could also predict what could go wrong too...
But either way, it's got to be believable.
I actually work in a factory - I have for over nine years - and it's in the auto sector so it's not bad paying. The work is repetitious and boring, but I use that time to turn my brain off and go into freeflowing mode for awhile. You know, ruminate over financial stuff [inspect part for porosity], think about my beautiful daughters [ensure flash is removed from core], ponder over theological/philosophical issues... pretty soon my shift is done and I feel renewed and ready to attack my Linux box or go for a workout!
To get to the meat of my point: those who bitch about their grunt factory jobs are whiners and wimps.
I'm just saying some people like the tidyness of rpm or deb packages...
I hope this clarified my first post.
I don't mean to be insultive, but I just don't understand what the big deals about (other than possible legal issues).