Okay I guess you confuse magic with reality. Development "follows the money". The money comes from the number of consoles on the market. The Wii is selling like hot cakes and the PS3 isnt't. Now for the ugly truth about the PS3. It never was meant to maximize profits for the game publishers. The PS3 is a way to get Blue-ray into peoples homes. It is also a way for Sony to get into the online media business. Playing games is just a cover for Sony Entertainment's agenda.
The Wii is cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and there are a lot more units in people's homes. That is the way the Wii will magically get developers. It is the magic of numbers and cash.
I don't think the Wii is very limited at all. It has more power than the Xbox and the PS2 both of which had some pretty complex games on them. I don't think that the Wii has the power to do a 1080p game. Frankly it doesn't seem to need it yet. I think you are correct but at the same time Nintendo is in a great position for the future. I am betting that Nintendo is already working on their next console.
There is no reasonable approach to DRM. The idea of copyrights is that the author of a work gets legal protection of the work IN EXCHANGE for that work going into the Public Domain after a reasonable time. This allows the Library of Congress and other institution to provide this material for historical preservation and other uses. Once a company uses DRM they should loose the legal protection of copyright law since they can no longer guaranty that the work can be preserved.
I don't blame DIGG's lawyers at all. Here is the way it probably went. DIGG "Could we be sued over people posting the HD-DVD protection key on our site?" Lawyer "Yes, just look at the 2600 case. You can be sued for anything. You might not loose but it will cost you millions to fight it and you are unlikely to recover court costs if you loose." Digg just went for the route that is least likely to get them sued.
"or less common PowerPC code" Most of they code they write is in C. Yes using the Cell has it's challenges but the PPC cores in the 360 are would be pretty straight forward. BTW for what you do have to code in assembly the PPC is MUCH nicer to code for than the X86.
First as to who would buy such a thing. Simple Answer DS Lite? Nintendo is still selling GBAs as well as DSs. GBAs are great for kids.
"Wii HD would need to have substantial more power then just a Wii with HD capabilities added on, it would need to be a completely new machine build from scratch, which in turn would mean that WiiHD games wouldn't run on a Wii, which in turn would mean that the Wii won't ever get a decent amount of good games since it was to short lived." Why? The Wii uses a member of the PPC family. IBM is pushing the PPC to higher and higher speed all the time. If the PC as taught people anything it's that you an expand performance with out losing compatibility. The Wii is twice as powerful as the GC but it can play all the GC games. A Wii HD could be four times as powerful as the current Wii but still play all the Wii games and GC games. I also doubt that the PS3 will be down $200 in two years. Why? No economies of scale. The parts that make up the PS3 are not COTS parts. Cells are not ending up in every widget on the planet yet and the GPU in the PS3 isn't showing up in other devices. The blue-ray drive may come down in price if it becomes the standard but even that isn't a sure thing. The way for Sony to get the price down is to sell millions and millions. It really isn't selling that many so price cuts will be harder. I was just pointing out options that Nintendo has. Sony doesn't have two years because third party developers are already seeing that the Wii and 360 are more lucrative markets. They are both easier to develop for and available in bigger numbers. The only thing that can kick up the PS3 sales is a must have game. A game that is so good and original an only available for the PS/3 that people will buy the console just for that game. The question is who will take the risk of developing such a game for the PS3.
And in this case the man is also breaking Australian laws as well as US laws. In reality you would want the US to extradite someone that was in the US that broke Australian laws. If the US refused then people would scream that the US was ignoring international treaties.
Unless Microsoft manages to get more Japanese Game Studios on board which is very possible. Yes the PS3 is doing better in Japan than the 360 but only in Japan. Compare the Japanese market with the North American Market and the European market. As the 360 and the Wii gain more market share the than Japanese studios will consider writing for the 360. As to what happens in 2 years? Well With Nintendo flush with cash from Wii and Wii games sales I would bet that they are already working on the next Wii. I know I would be. In two years the PS/3 GPU will not be state of the art. Nintendo could then role out an HD Wii maybe with a hard drive and maybe with a dual format HD-DVD. Sony and Microsoft will not be in a position to do that since they will just be breaking even on their product costs. While Nintendo has been making money the entire time. Oh and the PS2 isn't keeping up with the Wii in Europe or the US. It is behind the DS, Wii, and 360 but still out selling the PS3.
That is what I was wondering. To be honest I expected Linux to not do well with battery life since power management hasn't been a big priority for Linux. I want to see OS/X vs Vista on an Apple notebook. Sort of an Apples vs Apples comparison.
I think it was called the Manhattan project. At the end of the movie the scientist asks "What are you going to do? Make them all disappear?" Simple fact is that it is out. It is a number. You forbid them from positing it in hex then they will octal, decimal, or binary. They will just invert it or flip the first two bytes so it is no longer the same number. I have a suggestion from now one when we post any HD keys we will just add 42 to each byte. That way we are encrypting it and any attempt to subtract 42 to prove that it is a key is a violation of the DMCA. It is impossible to prevent the copying of audio or video if people can see it. It is also rubs people the wrong way to try and control what they do with something they own. Yes if I BUY a DVD I own the DVD. Unless you start making me sign a contract I consider it no different than buying a piece of wood. If I want to watch it on my Ipod I will. If I want to rip it and put it on my server so I can watch it on my notebook I will. If I sell it then yea you can sue me. Go away RIAA and MPAA. You are boring us now. You will become irrelevant. Dear music companies I am going to write my congressman and tell them I don't want them to support you suing innocent people and getting government help for what should be civil court actions. I will also point out that you have a history of supporting drug use, profanity, and violence. Helping you is hurting the children.
Game over. The music industry can be such a jucy Judas Goat.
In this case not really. If you only need it to last 18 months then the resale value of it will be greater since the next person will have a longer MTB.
No one needs a paper plate that will last a 100 years but a bridge that will last only 10 is almost always bad. The only example I can think of would a temporary bridge for use during a construction project.
What may work is a cooperative whitelist. Schools submit sites they think are legit and admins update their list weekly. Sort of the way librarians pick books. I don't know if I like the idea but you could have an age range in the database and filter your list based on your grade levels. The problem is when a school in say San Fransisco thinks a site is fine but a school in Kansas doesn't.
Except a Whitelist would limit students to just what sites the administration thinks they need to see. Suppose there is a story on DDJ about programing they want to read but DDJ isn't on the whitelist. Yea they could request it but that might take forever.
Far from an ideal solution but one that may end up happening.
Exactly that is why we should put governors on every car so they can not speed. And we should get rid of all knives so no one can stab anyone. And might as well forbid the drinking of alcohol since people will drink and drive.
Please they shouldn't have to have any filtering software on a high school computer because the students shouldn't go to any inappropriate sites. Saying the school should have better security is really silly. If a kid picked a lock would you say that it's the schools fault for not having better locks? The school had rules and the students broke those rules. The argument that they are just bight kids and should be encouraged is kind of dumb because in all likelihood they just looked up the information on google and plugged in some numbers. Besides the really smart kids probably didn't get caught. So yea they should be busted for breaking the rules and the school should put in better security but that kind of thinking could have a high price. The school may just white list the sites that they want the students to go to and forbid all other access. Is that what you want or do you want the students to have some rules and consequence to breaking those rules? Totally free internet access at school isn't going to be an option.
I do go to Church so from a religious point of view most Christian faiths feel that humans are born in original sin and only through the grace of Christ can they be redeemed. More or less they think the way you do. My denotation doesn't believe in original sin. Getting the religious based point out of the way. From an evolutionary point of view humans should be mostly good but not perfect. Humans are social by nature and a really evil person tends to cause problems for their social grouping. I would say that for the most part humans are under evolutionary pressure to "be good" if being good means getting along in a social grouping.
My outlook is based on my belief system. I really would like to know why that young man was so hopeless. I have to wonder if kindness could have helped prevent this tragedy.
Notice how Slashdot went nuts when a school board put a kid in a "special school" for making a game map of his school but then goes after EBay because somebody shot up a school after buy holsters and empty clips. Both are cases of fear of those that are not like you. I will bet big money that the person that wrote the summary really hates all guns. I am also willing to bet they don't hunt or shoot targets for fun. There for their mistrust of anyone that has anything to do with guns. They are all gun nuts waiting to shoot up a school. They are differnt from them and are not to be trusted. BTW I really am not a gun person. I don't hunt or own a gun myself. The school board members probably don't game. They know that the kids at that shoot up the school in Colorado played violent video games and that the young man that shot up VT made maps for a violent video game. They may or may not know that they where not of VT. They may also know that the September 11th terrorists used a video game "Flight Simulator" to practice their attack. People that play violent video games are differnt from them so they do not trust them. BTW the last FPS I played I think was Quake. I am not really into FPS but I do love Flight Simulator. I also really dislike games like GTA. I find them distasteful and will not play them myself.
It is easy to hate the stranger. Those that are not like you. It is dangerous to trust the stranger. These are rules that go back to the cave man days. What scares me the most is most "Open minded" people have this exact same view but they just don't see it.
I have no idea how we can get rid of this trait. It is the core of racism and all other forms of prejudice. Probably the best we can ever hope to do is to admit that we all have it and to not let it rule our lives.
The simple truths are just this. The vast majority of gun owners will never shoot up a school. The vast majority of gamers will never shoot up a school. The real questions about the VT shooting are a lot more harder. Why didn't the laws on the books stop him from buying the gun in first place? And the really sad question is just this.
What in his life made him so unhappy that this seemed like a good idea? How can a person feel so unloved and alone that going around and killing a large group of innocent people and then killing himself is a good idea? Where where his friends,his family, his roommates?
"I know people like us won't ever change the bandwagon-type people, but I feel as though I sometimes have to inject some bit of rational thought into these endless conversations. Even if it just makes one person find perspective, I guess it's worth it."
You haven't been on Slashdot long have you:) Yes each processor has it's best fit. What I love is how the AMD line has become slow and hot when just before the Core2 came out it was fast and cool. People are just nuts and we have to just live with it.
Why not make a map of your High School? One of the guys at my office made a map of our office once. We expanded it to include a dance club that some of us went too and then the local mall. Good grief while I admit that I do not like how violent and crude some video games have become this is just STUPID!!!!!!!! This really does smack of the thought police.
What would be logical is Apple buying a game studio or two. Not Nintendo since they are now making money hand over fist but I always thought Sega would be a good target. Apple really is a software company these days and if Microsoft can make games why not Apple.
"Their CPU's are fast and cheap, and still a good choice for anyone." The new Core 2s are a better choice for people that must have the fastest floating point performance. They are also the better choice if power to FLOPs are vital to you. The AMDs last time I checked still offered better power to integer operation ratios than the Core based Xeons.
But for 99% of the market a Core 2 or an AMD X2 will be more than fast enough. I am not a big gamer and I can tell you that most of the time My X2 4200 is just sitting at around 5%. Right now I think the AMD X2 3800 is a great buy for most people. Now back before the Core 2 line AMD was a pretty much the best choice except for notebooks. Unless you needed a 64-bit notebook that is. I bet AMD longs for those days again.
1. I would recomend getting OpenSuse. It detects my 21" LCD with no problem frankly I think the hardware detection is much better than Ubuntu. 2. Us the 32 bit version. 3. After you do the install go here http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Rep ositories Add Packman , Mozilla, OpenOffice, and anything else that interests you. Then you can install just about anything you want. BTW none of this requires the command line.
I just installed 10.2 and I am really impressed. I selected Gnome to compare it to Ubuntu. I think it looks a lot better than Ubuntu but everyone has their own opinion.
Ubuntu is nice because it fits on one CD and is super simple to install. If you want to install the ATI or Nvidia drivers it is a little easer in Ubuntu using the "restricted Driver manager" In OpenSuse you need to add nVidia's repository. While not hard you do need to look it up on the Opensuse website. OpenSuse seems to have better hardware detection. And I think the Gnome interface is better looking that Ubuntu's but that is a matter of taste. It does take longer to download the DVD iso for OpenSuse than the CD ISO for Ubuntu and you do have more choices then with Ubuntu.
Let's get this out right now. AMD's CPUs don't suck. Since the Intel went with the core there is really only one really bad CPU on the market and that is the Pentium D. AMD does have a new line of chips coming I am really hopeful that they will be a big step up for AMD so we can keep this war going for a while.
Why would Apple buy AMD? They have a lot of cash laying around. They like the idea of an integrated CPU/GPU in the mini/notebook space. They like the new quad core cpus in the Pro/Server space.
Why Apple shouldn't buy AMD? They have a good relationship with Intel. AMD has not produced a great notebook cpu/chip set yet. They have no real need to. Apple is making money hand over fist. A big question on if AMD would still sell enough CPUs and GPUs to compete with Intel if they where owned by Apple.
Plus you have the potential of diluting the Apple brand name. What would an Apple be? If you have an Apple CPU do you now have an Apple?
BTW Just as a thought. With the technology that AMD is using to build the new quad core CPU couldn't they also build a duel core cpu + duel GPU chip that using hyper-transport to link the GPUs to the CPUs and each other? You might have a low end solution that that could run Flight Simulator X under Vista!
Worse than that. The story said that they will supply plugins for Mozilla, IE, and Safari. My guess is that it will work on OS/X and Windows but forget BSD and Linux. Oh and it is not open source so even if they port it to X86 Linux it will not run on an Arm,Mips , or PPC so forget about it for PDA style systems.
I hope Canvas and the new Thedora tag catch on so we can drop Flash and this crap.
That is the problem. The driver works. It is supported in the kernel. It is the WiFi Manager that fails. I don't know it is my WAP or what but It sees the WAP but will not connect to it. I am not the only person with that issue.
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Okay I guess you confuse magic with reality. Development "follows the money". The money comes from the number of consoles on the market. The Wii is selling like hot cakes and the PS3 isnt't.
Now for the ugly truth about the PS3. It never was meant to maximize profits for the game publishers. The PS3 is a way to get Blue-ray into peoples homes. It is also a way for Sony to get into the online media business. Playing games is just a cover for Sony Entertainment's agenda.
The Wii is cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and there are a lot more units in people's homes. That is the way the Wii will magically get developers. It is the magic of numbers and cash.
I don't think the Wii is very limited at all. It has more power than the Xbox and the PS2 both of which had some pretty complex games on them. I don't think that the Wii has the power to do a 1080p game. Frankly it doesn't seem to need it yet. I think you are correct but at the same time Nintendo is in a great position for the future. I am betting that Nintendo is already working on their next console.
There is no reasonable approach to DRM. The idea of copyrights is that the author of a work gets legal protection of the work IN EXCHANGE for that work going into the Public Domain after a reasonable time. This allows the Library of Congress and other institution to provide this material for historical preservation and other uses. Once a company uses DRM they should loose the legal protection of copyright law since they can no longer guaranty that the work can be preserved.
I don't blame DIGG's lawyers at all. Here is the way it probably went.
DIGG "Could we be sued over people posting the HD-DVD protection key on our site?"
Lawyer "Yes, just look at the 2600 case. You can be sued for anything. You might not loose but it will cost you millions to fight it and you are unlikely to recover court costs if you loose."
Digg just went for the route that is least likely to get them sued.
"or less common PowerPC code"
Most of they code they write is in C. Yes using the Cell has it's challenges but the PPC cores in the 360 are would be pretty straight forward. BTW for what you do have to code in assembly the PPC is MUCH nicer to code for than the X86.
First as to who would buy such a thing. Simple Answer DS Lite?
Nintendo is still selling GBAs as well as DSs. GBAs are great for kids.
"Wii HD would need to have substantial more power then just a Wii with HD capabilities added on, it would need to be a completely new machine build from scratch, which in turn would mean that WiiHD games wouldn't run on a Wii, which in turn would mean that the Wii won't ever get a decent amount of good games since it was to short lived."
Why? The Wii uses a member of the PPC family. IBM is pushing the PPC to higher and higher speed all the time. If the PC as taught people anything it's that you an expand performance with out losing compatibility. The Wii is twice as powerful as the GC but it can play all the GC games. A Wii HD could be four times as powerful as the current Wii but still play all the Wii games and GC games. I also doubt that the PS3 will be down $200 in two years. Why? No economies of scale. The parts that make up the PS3 are not COTS parts. Cells are not ending up in every widget on the planet yet and the GPU in the PS3 isn't showing up in other devices. The blue-ray drive may come down in price if it becomes the standard but even that isn't a sure thing. The way for Sony to get the price down is to sell millions and millions. It really isn't selling that many so price cuts will be harder.
I was just pointing out options that Nintendo has. Sony doesn't have two years because third party developers are already seeing that the Wii and 360 are more lucrative markets. They are both easier to develop for and available in bigger numbers. The only thing that can kick up the PS3 sales is a must have game. A game that is so good and original an only available for the PS/3 that people will buy the console just for that game.
The question is who will take the risk of developing such a game for the PS3.
And in this case the man is also breaking Australian laws as well as US laws.
In reality you would want the US to extradite someone that was in the US that broke Australian laws. If the US refused then people would scream that the US was ignoring international treaties.
Unless Microsoft manages to get more Japanese Game Studios on board which is very possible. Yes the PS3 is doing better in Japan than the 360 but only in Japan. Compare the Japanese market with the North American Market and the European market. As the 360 and the Wii gain more market share the than Japanese studios will consider writing for the 360. As to what happens in 2 years? Well With Nintendo flush with cash from Wii and Wii games sales I would bet that they are already working on the next Wii. I know I would be. In two years the PS/3 GPU will not be state of the art. Nintendo could then role out an HD Wii maybe with a hard drive and maybe with a dual format HD-DVD. Sony and Microsoft will not be in a position to do that since they will just be breaking even on their product costs. While Nintendo has been making money the entire time.
Oh and the PS2 isn't keeping up with the Wii in Europe or the US. It is behind the DS, Wii, and 360 but still out selling the PS3.
You know as a happily married man all I can say is this.
I am glad that I live a simple life.
This seems all very sad and disturbing.
Most home-brew CNC machines are open loop so that tech wouldn't apply to this problem.
That is what I was wondering. To be honest I expected Linux to not do well with battery life since power management hasn't been a big priority for Linux. I want to see OS/X vs Vista on an Apple notebook. Sort of an Apples vs Apples comparison.
I think it was called the Manhattan project. At the end of the movie the scientist asks "What are you going to do? Make them all disappear?"
Simple fact is that it is out. It is a number. You forbid them from positing it in hex then they will octal, decimal, or binary. They will just invert it or flip the first two bytes so it is no longer the same number. I have a suggestion from now one when we post any HD keys we will just add 42 to each byte. That way we are encrypting it and any attempt to subtract 42 to prove that it is a key is a violation of the DMCA.
It is impossible to prevent the copying of audio or video if people can see it.
It is also rubs people the wrong way to try and control what they do with something they own. Yes if I BUY a DVD I own the DVD. Unless you start making me sign a contract I consider it no different than buying a piece of wood. If I want to watch it on my Ipod I will. If I want to rip it and put it on my server so I can watch it on my notebook I will.
If I sell it then yea you can sue me.
Go away RIAA and MPAA. You are boring us now. You will become irrelevant. Dear music companies I am going to write my congressman and tell them I don't want them to support you suing innocent people and getting government help for what should be civil court actions. I will also point out that you have a history of supporting drug use, profanity, and violence. Helping you is hurting the children.
Game over. The music industry can be such a jucy Judas Goat.
In this case not really.
If you only need it to last 18 months then the resale value of it will be greater since the next person will have a longer MTB.
No one needs a paper plate that will last a 100 years but a bridge that will last only 10 is almost always bad. The only example I can think of would a temporary bridge for use during a construction project.
What may work is a cooperative whitelist. Schools submit sites they think are legit and admins update their list weekly. Sort of the way librarians pick books. I don't know if I like the idea but you could have an age range in the database and filter your list based on your grade levels.
The problem is when a school in say San Fransisco thinks a site is fine but a school in Kansas doesn't.
Except a Whitelist would limit students to just what sites the administration thinks they need to see. Suppose there is a story on DDJ about programing they want to read but DDJ isn't on the whitelist.
Yea they could request it but that might take forever.
Far from an ideal solution but one that may end up happening.
Exactly that is why we should put governors on every car so they can not speed. And we should get rid of all knives so no one can stab anyone. And might as well forbid the drinking of alcohol since people will drink and drive.
Please they shouldn't have to have any filtering software on a high school computer because the students shouldn't go to any inappropriate sites.
Saying the school should have better security is really silly. If a kid picked a lock would you say that it's the schools fault for not having better locks?
The school had rules and the students broke those rules. The argument that they are just bight kids and should be encouraged is kind of dumb because in all likelihood they just looked up the information on google and plugged in some numbers. Besides the really smart kids probably didn't get caught.
So yea they should be busted for breaking the rules and the school should put in better security but that kind of thinking could have a high price. The school may just white list the sites that they want the students to go to and forbid all other access. Is that what you want or do you want the students to have some rules and consequence to breaking those rules? Totally free internet access at school isn't going to be an option.
I do go to Church so from a religious point of view most Christian faiths feel that humans are born in original sin and only through the grace of Christ can they be redeemed. More or less they think the way you do. My denotation doesn't believe in original sin. Getting the religious based point out of the way. From an evolutionary point of view humans should be mostly good but not perfect. Humans are social by nature and a really evil person tends to cause problems for their social grouping. I would say that for the most part humans are under evolutionary pressure to "be good" if being good means getting along in a social grouping.
My outlook is based on my belief system. I really would like to know why that young man was so hopeless. I have to wonder if kindness could have helped prevent this tragedy.
Notice how Slashdot went nuts when a school board put a kid in a "special school" for making a game map of his school but then goes after EBay because somebody shot up a school after buy holsters and empty clips.
,his family, his roommates?
Both are cases of fear of those that are not like you.
I will bet big money that the person that wrote the summary really hates all guns. I am also willing to bet they don't hunt or shoot targets for fun. There for their mistrust of anyone that has anything to do with guns. They are all gun nuts waiting to shoot up a school. They are differnt from them and are not to be trusted.
BTW I really am not a gun person. I don't hunt or own a gun myself.
The school board members probably don't game. They know that the kids at that shoot up the school in Colorado played violent video games and that the young man that shot up VT made maps for a violent video game. They may or may not know that they where not of VT. They may also know that the September 11th terrorists used a video game "Flight Simulator" to practice their attack. People that play violent video games are differnt from them so they do not trust them.
BTW the last FPS I played I think was Quake. I am not really into FPS but I do love Flight Simulator. I also really dislike games like GTA. I find them distasteful and will not play them myself.
It is easy to hate the stranger. Those that are not like you. It is dangerous to trust the stranger. These are rules that go back to the cave man days. What scares me the most is most "Open minded" people have this exact same view but they just don't see it.
I have no idea how we can get rid of this trait. It is the core of racism and all other forms of prejudice. Probably the best we can ever hope to do is to admit that we all have it and to not let it rule our lives.
The simple truths are just this. The vast majority of gun owners will never shoot up a school. The vast majority of gamers will never shoot up a school.
The real questions about the VT shooting are a lot more harder.
Why didn't the laws on the books stop him from buying the gun in first place?
And the really sad question is just this.
What in his life made him so unhappy that this seemed like a good idea? How can a person feel so unloved and alone that going around and killing a large group of innocent people and then killing himself is a good idea?
Where where his friends
Ebay has no blame or guilt in this.
"I know people like us won't ever change the bandwagon-type people, but I feel as though I sometimes have to inject some bit of rational thought into these endless conversations. Even if it just makes one person find perspective, I guess it's worth it."
:)
You haven't been on Slashdot long have you
Yes each processor has it's best fit. What I love is how the AMD line has become slow and hot when just before the Core2 came out it was fast and cool. People are just nuts and we have to just live with it.
Why not make a map of your High School? One of the guys at my office made a map of our office once. We expanded it to include a dance club that some of us went too and then the local mall.
Good grief while I admit that I do not like how violent and crude some video games have become this is just STUPID!!!!!!!!
This really does smack of the thought police.
What would be logical is Apple buying a game studio or two. Not Nintendo since they are now making money hand over fist but I always thought Sega would be a good target.
Apple really is a software company these days and if Microsoft can make games why not Apple.
"Their CPU's are fast and cheap, and still a good choice for anyone."
The new Core 2s are a better choice for people that must have the fastest floating point performance. They are also the better choice if power to FLOPs are vital to you.
The AMDs last time I checked still offered better power to integer operation ratios than the Core based Xeons.
But for 99% of the market a Core 2 or an AMD X2 will be more than fast enough. I am not a big gamer and I can tell you that most of the time My X2 4200 is just sitting at around 5%. Right now I think the AMD X2 3800 is a great buy for most people.
Now back before the Core 2 line AMD was a pretty much the best choice except for notebooks. Unless you needed a 64-bit notebook that is.
I bet AMD longs for those days again.
1. I would recomend getting OpenSuse. It detects my 21" LCD with no problem frankly I think the hardware detection is much better than Ubuntu.p ositories
2. Us the 32 bit version.
3. After you do the install go here http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Re
Add Packman , Mozilla, OpenOffice, and anything else that interests you. Then you can install just about anything you want. BTW none of this requires the command line.
I just installed 10.2 and I am really impressed. I selected Gnome to compare it to Ubuntu. I think it looks a lot better than Ubuntu but everyone has their own opinion.
Ubuntu is nice because it fits on one CD and is super simple to install.
If you want to install the ATI or Nvidia drivers it is a little easer in Ubuntu using the "restricted Driver manager" In OpenSuse you need to add nVidia's repository. While not hard you do need to look it up on the Opensuse website.
OpenSuse seems to have better hardware detection. And I think the Gnome interface is better looking that Ubuntu's but that is a matter of taste.
It does take longer to download the DVD iso for OpenSuse than the CD ISO for Ubuntu and you do have more choices then with Ubuntu.
I say try OpenSuse 10.2
Let's get this out right now. AMD's CPUs don't suck. Since the Intel went with the core there is really only one really bad CPU on the market and that is the Pentium D.
AMD does have a new line of chips coming I am really hopeful that they will be a big step up for AMD so we can keep this war going for a while.
Why would Apple buy AMD?
They have a lot of cash laying around.
They like the idea of an integrated CPU/GPU in the mini/notebook space.
They like the new quad core cpus in the Pro/Server space.
Why Apple shouldn't buy AMD?
They have a good relationship with Intel.
AMD has not produced a great notebook cpu/chip set yet.
They have no real need to. Apple is making money hand over fist.
A big question on if AMD would still sell enough CPUs and GPUs to compete with Intel if they where owned by Apple.
Plus you have the potential of diluting the Apple brand name. What would an Apple be? If you have an Apple CPU do you now have an Apple?
BTW Just as a thought. With the technology that AMD is using to build the new quad core CPU couldn't they also build a duel core cpu + duel GPU chip that using hyper-transport to link the GPUs to the CPUs and each other?
You might have a low end solution that that could run Flight Simulator X under Vista!
Worse than that. ,Mips , or PPC so forget about it for PDA style systems.
The story said that they will supply plugins for Mozilla, IE, and Safari.
My guess is that it will work on OS/X and Windows but forget BSD and Linux.
Oh and it is not open source so even if they port it to X86 Linux it will not run on an Arm
I hope Canvas and the new Thedora tag catch on so we can drop Flash and this crap.
That is the problem. The driver works. It is supported in the kernel. It is the WiFi Manager that fails. I don't know it is my WAP or what but It sees the WAP but will not connect to it.
I am not the only person with that issue.