My favorite were the 3-4 classes I took where the professor had written their own text, and obviously choose to use it for the class. They also edited it every year (the worst was one that contained several folklore tales from around the world, and he'd change out 1 or 2 stories every year) so you couldn't sell the $75 thing, and obviously couldn't buy used ones.
Indeed. It seems like they are doing a little to come up wit hthe firmware fixes, but only after the disc has been released. Plus, with the firmware fixes I would imagine that sooner or later a new version will break older movies.
Anyone hear of DVD players needing to be flashed? What's so different this time around?
I remember once I was refused help from Dell because I had updated my version of DirectX. Thankfully, all that was required there was to hang up, call back, and get someone different.
I keep hearing about all these hoops sex offenders go through, but what about other criminals? Yeah, sex offenders are bad people, but do murderers have to register? Are they put on a neighborhood watch list and have to go around announcing themselves to their neighbors? Why are sex offenders treated so harshly after prison? I'm not trying to troll or anything, I am really wondering why they are the targets so much. Are they the most likely group to repeat their crimes? What about drug dealers or carjackers? Bank robbers?
I know I will be. I have already posted on site for the LAN party I run, as we've played many of the BF games over the years. Looks like we'll be skipping this one.
One of the reasons I don't switch to Linux is the lack of drivers for some of my hardware. Sure, I could limit my choices of future hardware to only what's supported by Linux, but I don't want to be limited. Plus I like to hink of Linux as allowing me to do more and be less restrictive.
While open source drivers would be sweet, having closed drivers would be ok in my book if it opened up more hardware for the OS.
I fail to see why getting Windows to dual boot on x86 is such a HUGE deal. Yeah yeah yeah, you can run on OSX, Linux, and Windows on the same machine. But still, people are soiling themselves over a BOOTLOADER. Come on, how about getting OSX to run on more generic x86 hardware so I don't have to spend tons of cash on Apple hardware?
While I like Slashdot for some of its more unique stories and features (and the comments), this story is already days old. The linked article was published 2 days ago. This seems to be becoming a fairly common thing around here, where I read about something on another blog, then 2-3 days later its here. We probably need to step up the pace a bit least the front page is just filled with old news.
I remember trying to get WiFi working on my laptop under Linux, and what a huge, huge pain in the ass it was. I had a sort of off-brand card, and I managed to get it to turn on, and detect a couple hotspots, but I was never able to connect and use the 'net. I tried for days to get it to work, and did use ndiswrapper, but I just couldn't find good info on how to have it scan and connect, even using some of the more automatic tools. Yes, I understand that Linux is still more for power users, but when you have to spend 2-3 days to get wi-fi up and running, vs 3 min with Windows, its hard to convince people to give it a try.
Perhaps, but if your spending the cash to get a PB of storage, I would think spending the additional $5 to get RAID5 or some other form of protection would be something the company could swing for.
Amen to that. I still have yet to get sound working on my box, though part of that is my fault for using ATi's onboard sound. Still, VLC plays sound, but Flash doesn't, so I can't listen to Strong Bad.:(
Hardware drivers and setup is still a pain in the ass too. I have FC3 on my desktop and have yet to get the sound working. Mostly that is "my fault" for using my ATI chipset's onboard sound, which ALSA seems to hate, but even getting to the point where I could try some potential solutions was a days long ordeal. There doesn't appear to be anything like "run this little file, which will install the driver, and everything will be shiny" in the linux world, for good or bad. I would classify having to reboot back into windows to watch a video clip to be bad, however.
I dunno. Most of the movies I go to see are rated R, and thus don't have children in the audience. But, they all have had annoying clumps of adults that talk for the entire film. Its gotten so bad that I only ever go to the "big" movies anymore. Ones that loose something when they move to DVD. Episode 3, LotR, and I'll see Serenity. But overall its an unplesant experience to go to the theater. The cell phone thing is annoying, of course. I remember when I went to see Fellowship of the Ring that someone's phone went off FIVE TIMES before they figured out that it was theirs. Obviously, after the 2nd time the audience was out for blood. If someone else's phone goes off, check to make sure yours is on viberate. It's really not that hard.
If they are opening the gates for new theories, how about one where "The Leader" made everything? Or all this is really just a dream and we're all hooked up as batteries? They should be open to ALL ideas, not just the most popular two.
I am still confused about ID though. Is their entire arguement just that "life is too complex to have evolved on its own." Is that all there really is to it?
Well, with the open SDK, it would seem possible that you could have it react to your own events, such as a window gaining focus or an app starting. The app keys might both start the app and switch the keyboard layout.
It would also be cool to hack it to do nifty effects. How about changing the keys' background color to service as a UV meter thought a WinAmp plugin? Or have the num pad act as a little info center when not in use, with little graphs for cpu temp, usage, etc. Have the F key row flash when an email arrives, or have it switch Scroll Lock to "read new mail."
But it is true that once you work with an app long enough you learn the shortcuts without visual aids. But would make learning and adding new shortcuts or complex commands (entire scripts) pretty trivial.
Very interesting, and I am hearing quotes of $200-300 as the target price. Expensive, but might be worth it if you can make it do enough.
Ah, no, it means they'll have to come up with a different solution and adapt. Embedded links, textual ads, etc. I highly, highly doubt that free content will vanish. We may see a rise in pay-to-view sites, and in sites that offer premium content for a fee.
I recently put FC3 on my Viao 505FX, a Pentium 266 laptop. I am currently in the process of tweaking the boot process, as when I first started it it would take about 5 min to get to the login screen. Far too long if I get to class late or whatnot. By removing things from the boot process (I don't need it to look for SCSI drives, as its a laptop, nor do I need it to look for new hardware) I got it down to about 3 and a half minutes. Still, I hope to make it even faster.
I do want to keep X, but I have gone with XFCE over Gnome, as it seems to be faster, I need wi-fi, but the only sever I need is samba. Does anyone have some suggestions or links to sites about how I can speed things up even more? I still think there are probably a lot of things I can pull out of the sequence, but as I an pretty new to Linux I need a little help on finding where all that stuff is. I don't really worry about trashing the install, there is nothing important on it that isn't backed up somewhere else, so any sort of "you may want to give this a try" type of suggestions are welcome.
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My favorite were the 3-4 classes I took where the professor had written their own text, and obviously choose to use it for the class. They also edited it every year (the worst was one that contained several folklore tales from around the world, and he'd change out 1 or 2 stories every year) so you couldn't sell the $75 thing, and obviously couldn't buy used ones.
Indeed. It seems like they are doing a little to come up wit hthe firmware fixes, but only after the disc has been released. Plus, with the firmware fixes I would imagine that sooner or later a new version will break older movies.
Anyone hear of DVD players needing to be flashed? What's so different this time around?
I remember once I was refused help from Dell because I had updated my version of DirectX. Thankfully, all that was required there was to hang up, call back, and get someone different.
Curse you, you 227 spineless bastards. Don't let these clowns get re-elected.
I keep hearing about all these hoops sex offenders go through, but what about other criminals? Yeah, sex offenders are bad people, but do murderers have to register? Are they put on a neighborhood watch list and have to go around announcing themselves to their neighbors? Why are sex offenders treated so harshly after prison? I'm not trying to troll or anything, I am really wondering why they are the targets so much. Are they the most likely group to repeat their crimes? What about drug dealers or carjackers? Bank robbers?
With a name like Big Crook, it is hard to use the "I didn't think it was wrong" defense. Its like having Mob Boss tattooed on your forehead. Idiot.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Wow, thats the best laugh I've had in a long time. Hehe, oh MS, you're so silly.
I know I will be. I have already posted on site for the LAN party I run, as we've played many of the BF games over the years. Looks like we'll be skipping this one.
One of the reasons I don't switch to Linux is the lack of drivers for some of my hardware. Sure, I could limit my choices of future hardware to only what's supported by Linux, but I don't want to be limited. Plus I like to hink of Linux as allowing me to do more and be less restrictive.
While open source drivers would be sweet, having closed drivers would be ok in my book if it opened up more hardware for the OS.
I fail to see why getting Windows to dual boot on x86 is such a HUGE deal. Yeah yeah yeah, you can run on OSX, Linux, and Windows on the same machine. But still, people are soiling themselves over a BOOTLOADER. Come on, how about getting OSX to run on more generic x86 hardware so I don't have to spend tons of cash on Apple hardware?
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?
While I like Slashdot for some of its more unique stories and features (and the comments), this story is already days old. The linked article was published 2 days ago. This seems to be becoming a fairly common thing around here, where I read about something on another blog, then 2-3 days later its here. We probably need to step up the pace a bit least the front page is just filled with old news.
I would be one of those people. Linux is a cool OS, OSS is a great idea, but I coulnd't get my optical audio to work, so I ditched it.
I remember trying to get WiFi working on my laptop under Linux, and what a huge, huge pain in the ass it was. I had a sort of off-brand card, and I managed to get it to turn on, and detect a couple hotspots, but I was never able to connect and use the 'net. I tried for days to get it to work, and did use ndiswrapper, but I just couldn't find good info on how to have it scan and connect, even using some of the more automatic tools. Yes, I understand that Linux is still more for power users, but when you have to spend 2-3 days to get wi-fi up and running, vs 3 min with Windows, its hard to convince people to give it a try.
Perhaps, but if your spending the cash to get a PB of storage, I would think spending the additional $5 to get RAID5 or some other form of protection would be something the company could swing for.
A PETABYTE without redundancy? I can't imagine having that much data I didn't care about.
Amen to that. I still have yet to get sound working on my box, though part of that is my fault for using ATi's onboard sound. Still, VLC plays sound, but Flash doesn't, so I can't listen to Strong Bad. :(
Hardware drivers and setup is still a pain in the ass too. I have FC3 on my desktop and have yet to get the sound working. Mostly that is "my fault" for using my ATI chipset's onboard sound, which ALSA seems to hate, but even getting to the point where I could try some potential solutions was a days long ordeal. There doesn't appear to be anything like "run this little file, which will install the driver, and everything will be shiny" in the linux world, for good or bad. I would classify having to reboot back into windows to watch a video clip to be bad, however.
I dunno. Most of the movies I go to see are rated R, and thus don't have children in the audience. But, they all have had annoying clumps of adults that talk for the entire film. Its gotten so bad that I only ever go to the "big" movies anymore. Ones that loose something when they move to DVD. Episode 3, LotR, and I'll see Serenity. But overall its an unplesant experience to go to the theater.
The cell phone thing is annoying, of course. I remember when I went to see Fellowship of the Ring that someone's phone went off FIVE TIMES before they figured out that it was theirs. Obviously, after the 2nd time the audience was out for blood. If someone else's phone goes off, check to make sure yours is on viberate. It's really not that hard.
If they are opening the gates for new theories, how about one where "The Leader" made everything? Or all this is really just a dream and we're all hooked up as batteries? They should be open to ALL ideas, not just the most popular two.
I am still confused about ID though. Is their entire arguement just that "life is too complex to have evolved on its own." Is that all there really is to it?
I miss the good old days of Socket A. That thing lasted forever. Now both AMD and Intel seem to come out with a new socket every other year.
Well, with the open SDK, it would seem possible that you could have it react to your own events, such as a window gaining focus or an app starting. The app keys might both start the app and switch the keyboard layout.
It would also be cool to hack it to do nifty effects. How about changing the keys' background color to service as a UV meter thought a WinAmp plugin? Or have the num pad act as a little info center when not in use, with little graphs for cpu temp, usage, etc. Have the F key row flash when an email arrives, or have it switch Scroll Lock to "read new mail."
But it is true that once you work with an app long enough you learn the shortcuts without visual aids. But would make learning and adding new shortcuts or complex commands (entire scripts) pretty trivial.
Very interesting, and I am hearing quotes of $200-300 as the target price. Expensive, but might be worth it if you can make it do enough.
Ah, no, it means they'll have to come up with a different solution and adapt. Embedded links, textual ads, etc. I highly, highly doubt that free content will vanish. We may see a rise in pay-to-view sites, and in sites that offer premium content for a fee.
That's it, I'm moving to France. First they choose not to support a, in my uninformed opinion, bogus war, but now this. Viva la France!
I recently put FC3 on my Viao 505FX, a Pentium 266 laptop. I am currently in the process of tweaking the boot process, as when I first started it it would take about 5 min to get to the login screen. Far too long if I get to class late or whatnot. By removing things from the boot process (I don't need it to look for SCSI drives, as its a laptop, nor do I need it to look for new hardware) I got it down to about 3 and a half minutes. Still, I hope to make it even faster.
I do want to keep X, but I have gone with XFCE over Gnome, as it seems to be faster, I need wi-fi, but the only sever I need is samba. Does anyone have some suggestions or links to sites about how I can speed things up even more? I still think there are probably a lot of things I can pull out of the sequence, but as I an pretty new to Linux I need a little help on finding where all that stuff is. I don't really worry about trashing the install, there is nothing important on it that isn't backed up somewhere else, so any sort of "you may want to give this a try" type of suggestions are welcome.