Cuz people love playing games like StarCraft on some bizarre controller with 3 analog sticks and a builtin vibrator. There's just some games that work better on a PC.
And for that matter, I've yet to see any companies say that you'll be able to have network play between consoles. That's a big deal. All my friends own PC's, but not all my friends own consoles. And most of my friends don't own the same consoles.
And LAN parties. Would you rather play with each person on their own screen? or on a 4-way split TV?
And to the "PC games are too hard to set up" crowd... what the hell is your system? I haven't had any problems since I tried installing Thief 2, 8 years ago. Every game since then has simply just installed, and worked with no tweaking required.
consider updating the X driver for a video card -- you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows
I agree with you on everything else but you do have to admit that restarting X is far quicker than restarting Windows. I know X starts up in a matter of seconds on my boxes, whereas with a full reboot (of Windows or Linux) it can take closer to a full minute.
Yes, I'm sure all of the lawyers who were in the negotiations with Vivendi can now happily get back to coding on Steam and answering questions on their forums....?
I saw that comment yesterday, and was tempted to submit it myself. I certainly didn't know it was a problem until I read it yesterday.
This deserved a story of its own. There's a chance that if there's more coverage of it online, it'll take some slack off the KHTML guys for being 'lazy' and put it on the Safari guys. Maybe they'll fix their procedure to make the changes more usable.
Apple's contributions back to KHTML are not in any way useful. They contain features that use the OSX API, and patches that rely on code in the features. They don't send incremental patches, they send gigantic tarballs that have to be reviewed to make sure they won't conflict with vanilla KHTML.
I like Apple (I'm typing this from my ibook), but I hope they start working with the KHTML guys instead of over their heads.
So now I have to pretend I'm a 5 year old to enjoy movies? If I was going to do that, I'd just watch Nickelodeon all day. Sorry, if Pixar can make a movie that appeals to everyone from age 4 to age 45 (and do so with multiple movies!) I don't see any reason why Lucas can't.
Seriously though, this is pretty cool and I wish more musicians would do something like this. There are some songs I hear where I wish I could just get the music from the song...
OK. Did anyone else get a REALLY fucking annoying ad on this story? One about MS and a map of the US? I rolled over it with my mouse and a couple seconds later a truck appeared on the ad and honked its horn very loudly, twice.
I've got little problem with/.'s advertising, but this is the type of ad that would make me install adblock.
I'm sure that has some small thing to do with the fact that Cal Tech is closer to the JPL lab (which is in LA) than MIT, which is in MA. It'd be a helluva commute for MIT employee's to work at JPL.
Not that I know beans about either school, really. I just know where the JPL lab is.
And this my friends is why everyone should work in retail at least once in their lives.
The poor person behind the counter isn't at fault for the advertising, nor the policy. I work retail (though blessedly not with computers) and we mock our own advertisements, sales, and policies just as much as anyone else would.
With point's A and C all you'd be doing is making an ass of yourself, really. A big company the size of Fry's/BB/Comp/et al doesn't give a shit about losing a single customer. And the cashier would frankly prefer if they never had to see you again in their life.
Point B is just immature, and again punishing the cashier (and possibly not even the same cashier! Depending on the store, a lot of 'go backs' don't go back til the end of the night, or til a cashier has lots of free time) instead of punishing the retailer. And from then on you'll be remembered by all the associates in view as 'that asshole that can't read' and probably not at all by the other customers after a day or two.
[blockquote]KDE/QT still has a superior framework to Gnome/Gtk+, but frankly I see the Qt license being the one showstopper that will push Gnome/Gtk+ into the "standard" desktop category, once Linux on the desktop actually matters.[/blockquote]
Why is that? There's nothing tricky about Qt licensing.... you either use it to write GPL software (which keeps the open source folks happy) or you use it to write QPL software (which any business in the business of writing applications to sell will be fine with, afterall, a Qt license isn't *that* expensive for a company)
I do agree with you about your other point though, buying TT to gain Qt would have made sense... Of course with all respect to those crazy Ximian hackers, those guys do some impressive stuff.
Perhaps I'm just dense... but I'm typing this on a computer with an Ultra ATA hard drive (and one of those Promise cards) in Slackware 10.1... and I'm pretty sure I've had this drive since Slack 9. Slack uses a vanilla kernel, so I've got to ask... have you *tried* it yet?
It didn't take any extra work for me... its just listed as/dev/hde instead of hda, otherwise it uses and detects all 200 gigs of it.
Right.... none of that really makes it McDonalds' fault.
Yes it was painful, yes it was scarring. But... coffee is hot. Really, really hot. The guy at the drive through didn't fling the coffee at her. It made its way safely into her car, where she *unsafely* tried to hold it between her knees and then tried to take the lid off. She knew it would be hot when she bought it, she knew it was hot when it was handed to her. Why is any of that McDonalds' fault? If I got to my friend's house for coffee, and I spill it all over myself, whose fault is it that I got burned? Juan Valdez, my friend, or myself?
That's why the lawsuit was petty.
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Yeah, PC gaming will die real soon.
Cuz people love playing games like StarCraft on some bizarre controller with 3 analog sticks and a builtin vibrator. There's just some games that work better on a PC.
And for that matter, I've yet to see any companies say that you'll be able to have network play between consoles. That's a big deal. All my friends own PC's, but not all my friends own consoles. And most of my friends don't own the same consoles.
And LAN parties. Would you rather play with each person on their own screen? or on a 4-way split TV?
And to the "PC games are too hard to set up" crowd... what the hell is your system? I haven't had any problems since I tried installing Thief 2, 8 years ago. Every game since then has simply just installed, and worked with no tweaking required.
Bill
consider updating the X driver for a video card -- you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows
I agree with you on everything else but you do have to admit that restarting X is far quicker than restarting Windows. I know X starts up in a matter of seconds on my boxes, whereas with a full reboot (of Windows or Linux) it can take closer to a full minute.
Bill
This is a serious discussion. I can't believe you'd make such a baaaaaad pun
Yes, I'm sure all of the lawyers who were in the negotiations with Vivendi can now happily get back to coding on Steam and answering questions on their forums....?
I saw that comment yesterday, and was tempted to submit it myself. I certainly didn't know it was a problem until I read it yesterday.
This deserved a story of its own. There's a chance that if there's more coverage of it online, it'll take some slack off the KHTML guys for being 'lazy' and put it on the Safari guys. Maybe they'll fix their procedure to make the changes more usable.
Bill
Mayhaps you don't have a clear picture...
Though the GP's link is a bit old (an email from July) there is still an issue with Apple's patches.
Look here, a blog entry from today by that same KHTML hacker
Apple's contributions back to KHTML are not in any way useful. They contain features that use the OSX API, and patches that rely on code in the features. They don't send incremental patches, they send gigantic tarballs that have to be reviewed to make sure they won't conflict with vanilla KHTML.
I like Apple (I'm typing this from my ibook), but I hope they start working with the KHTML guys instead of over their heads.
Bill
Actually, Adium uses LibGaim, written by, obviously, the Gaim folks.
pfft! And get Pontiac's legal team to fall on Linus like a cartoon Piano? No way.
How bout Phoenix, instead?
Bill
So now I have to pretend I'm a 5 year old to enjoy movies? If I was going to do that, I'd just watch Nickelodeon all day. Sorry, if Pixar can make a movie that appeals to everyone from age 4 to age 45 (and do so with multiple movies!) I don't see any reason why Lucas can't.
really, this post could be shortened to:
"
*fanboygasm*
"
Seriously though, this is pretty cool and I wish more musicians would do something like this. There are some songs I hear where I wish I could just get the music from the song...
Bill
Well there you go!
Longhorn will reintroduce Clippy!
"I'm having trouble finding a wireless network...
Would you like to:
a) Just keep trying and hope for the best?
b) Just enter the damn info manually?
c) Check to make sure the router is plugged in?
OK. Did anyone else get a REALLY fucking annoying ad on this story? One about MS and a map of the US? I rolled over it with my mouse and a couple seconds later a truck appeared on the ad and honked its horn very loudly, twice.
/.'s advertising, but this is the type of ad that would make me install adblock.
I've got little problem with
Bill
I'm sure that has some small thing to do with the fact that Cal Tech is closer to the JPL lab (which is in LA) than MIT, which is in MA. It'd be a helluva commute for MIT employee's to work at JPL.
Not that I know beans about either school, really. I just know where the JPL lab is.
Bill
No... he'll just have a hip new son with a scroll wheel...
iWave, maybe?
And this my friends is why everyone should work in retail at least once in their lives.
The poor person behind the counter isn't at fault for the advertising, nor the policy. I work retail (though blessedly not with computers) and we mock our own advertisements, sales, and policies just as much as anyone else would.
With point's A and C all you'd be doing is making an ass of yourself, really. A big company the size of Fry's/BB/Comp/et al doesn't give a shit about losing a single customer. And the cashier would frankly prefer if they never had to see you again in their life.
Point B is just immature, and again punishing the cashier (and possibly not even the same cashier! Depending on the store, a lot of 'go backs' don't go back til the end of the night, or til a cashier has lots of free time) instead of punishing the retailer. And from then on you'll be remembered by all the associates in view as 'that asshole that can't read' and probably not at all by the other customers after a day or two.
Bill
[blockquote]KDE/QT still has a superior framework to Gnome/Gtk+, but frankly I see the Qt license being the one showstopper that will push Gnome/Gtk+ into the "standard" desktop category, once Linux on the desktop actually matters.[/blockquote]
Why is that? There's nothing tricky about Qt licensing.... you either use it to write GPL software (which keeps the open source folks happy) or you use it to write QPL software (which any business in the business of writing applications to sell will be fine with, afterall, a Qt license isn't *that* expensive for a company)
I do agree with you about your other point though, buying TT to gain Qt would have made sense... Of course with all respect to those crazy Ximian hackers, those guys do some impressive stuff.
Bill
Well no problem, then!
At the end you just put the zeroes in by hand where the gaps are! I'm sure a perl script could be written...
So anybody with a webpage is now allowed to obstruct justice?
/. that thinks that blogging is this great new thing, but isn't calling every one of them a journalist a bit misleading?
I know there's a faction on
Bill
Perhaps I'm just dense... but I'm typing this on a computer with an Ultra ATA hard drive (and one of those Promise cards) in Slackware 10.1... and I'm pretty sure I've had this drive since Slack 9. Slack uses a vanilla kernel, so I've got to ask... have you *tried* it yet?
/dev/hde instead of hda, otherwise it uses and detects all 200 gigs of it.
It didn't take any extra work for me... its just listed as
HTH,
Bill
But I guess I'd need another $600 video card with 5Ghz PC and 6GB of RAM upgrade thru Nvidia/ATI.
HTH
Right.... none of that really makes it McDonalds' fault.
Yes it was painful, yes it was scarring. But... coffee is hot. Really, really hot. The guy at the drive through didn't fling the coffee at her. It made its way safely into her car, where she *unsafely* tried to hold it between her knees and then tried to take the lid off. She knew it would be hot when she bought it, she knew it was hot when it was handed to her. Why is any of that McDonalds' fault? If I got to my friend's house for coffee, and I spill it all over myself, whose fault is it that I got burned? Juan Valdez, my friend, or myself?
That's why the lawsuit was petty.
The 'enter' key isn't your enemy either
I'm pretty sure cdrecord (at least) is already on windows...
A glance at the freshmeat page would agree, but it appears the homepage is down
Bill.
You forgot Slackware, you insensitive clod!
.... the terrorists will have already won?