IMHO, games that should have been added: Need For Speed (whichever the newest one). Total Annihilation, some sort of Instagib FPS (for raw, unparalleled twitch action).
I disagree with NFS. If you are going to put in a racing game, at least make it a more sim-based one rather than arcade (EA took a step in the right direction with NFS: Porsche Unleashed, but then went back to pure arcadiness with Hot Pursuit 2). How about F1 Challenge (which I hear is good, though I have never played) or even Grand Prix Legends. Games that take real skill rather than just twitch fests with car graphics. Hell, even Gran Turismo 3 would be a hell of a lot of fun (although I think you would be limited to head to head play). Total Annihilation does kick Starcraft's ass though, I have to agree with that.
Is it just me, or is Linus' attitude towards Linux, Microsoft, etc. one of nonchalance? It just doesn't seem that he cares one way or another as to what happens. Is this the mark of a man of utter confidence?
The impression I got from the article was that he was so relaxed about it because, basically, he doesn't really have that much at stake in linux (at least in terms of money). As he said in the interview, he is confident that he can make a living as an engineer doing whatever - he just likes to work on linux. It relates to the reason he made linux in the first place; he wasn't out to make a great product to sell, he was out to make something he wanted to use. As he is quoted as saying in the article, he refused the positions on various boards (and working for any one linux distro) because he didn't want to take one side vs. another - one of the things he obviously thinks about linux is that it is great and works because kernel development is not based on the market needs of any one company. He didn't want to be part of Red Hat because he didn't want to be influenced to push linux in a direction that would benefit only the market Red Hat was trying to sell to.
Anyway, all I'm trying to say is that he isn't that worried about competing with MS or others because that wasn't ever really his intention - he just wanted to make a cool OS that did what he wanted. The impression I got from the article is that he tried to make sure that whatever decisions he made regarding the linux kernel development were based on what would make the kernel better, rather than what would make it easier to sell right now. He doesn't care about competition with Microsoft and others because he isn't trying to compete with them in the monetary sense. He just wants to make linux the best it can be, competing for marketshare etc. is the domain of the businesses (and others) that are trying to sell the os.
This whole comment may just be BS, but that is more or less what I got out of the article (pretty interesting stuff; about the extent of my knowledge regarding Linus before reading it was that he was Finnish and invented linux, I didn't even know he lived in the U.S. these days).
Anyone have any insight into why the Chinese would build their space base in the Gobi Desert, which I believe is in the northern part of the country? Wouldn't it make more sense to stick it on the Tibetan Plateau or somewhere nearer the equator? IIRC, this is why the U.S. space program launches from southern Florida and why I believe most of the Soviet launch sites are in Kazakhtstan (aren't they?)? Just seems like it would make more sense to launch from the southwestern part of the country, where there are still very few people but you get boosts from being nearer the equator and being higher in elevation (you know, less distance to go and weaker gravity at launch, not to mention less air resistance (Hmm, speaking of which, maybe the U.S. should start launching from Mauna Kea instead of Florida - we could make a "space sea-plane" so it would be able to land back in Hawaii)). Just seems that the Gobi Desert, which I assume was chosen more for remoteness than anything else, wouldn't have been the best spot for them to stick their space program (but I guess if they have a launch failure it will impact Mongolia, not China, so maybe thats why).
Doh, I wan't going to post this cause it was a kind of pointless, poorly thought-out response, but I apparently accidentally tabbed to the damn submit button, so when I pressed enter it submitted instead of newlining. Do I get the idiot user of the day award?
All I can say is, wow, yo umust be incompetent. With regards to using computers anyway.
On windows everything crashes, or the hard drives mysteriously get corrupted, or the current version of the driver for my video card somehow conflicts with something which causes an instant blue screen 20 minutes (exactly) into my computing session. (Don't forget the creative sound card 'helper' that freaks out and eats all of your system memory when it gets bored).
I've been running the same install of Windows 2k for over two yers now, and it rarely crashes - when it does, it is exclusively when I am playing games - never, ever when I am trying to get work done. It just doesn't happen with work-related software. What is it you did to manage to make yours crash all the time? In my experience, it is usually more the user than it is the software that causes crashes. Macs just give you less control (changing with X, but still it takes a lot more effort to really mess with the system than on windows), so it is harder to screw it up. This is your fault, not the OSes.
Everything from the standard Terminal App, that allows you to select text, hit Command+C to copy it, then Command+V to paste it in another app Even telnet allows you to copy and paste text from a aterminal window. Highlight with the mouse, press enter (for whatever reason) then control-v wherever you want to paste it. But I guess pressing enter is much more difficult than pressing command+C.
You may enjoy paying twice as much for the same computer (as you admit); I'm happy to pay half as much for a stable, reliable computer that does everything I want. (part of my reliability may be due to the fact that I don't use any virus protection software most of the time - I'm convinced it does more harm than good. I've yet to get a virus on this computer (once again the whole idiotic user thing), probably thanks to the firewall built into my router.
I was wondering whether this 3D thing is hardware-based or software-based or a bit of both. One article doesn't say anything about it and the other was/.ed already.
I seem to remember playing a game called Magic Carpet (I think from Bullfrog) years ago that had "actual" 3D images - the kind where you kind of cross your eyes to get the depth right. You know, like pictures of sailboats that you have to stare at for a while before you see anything.
So, what exactly is new about this, and why would I want it?
A survey of hardcore gamers revealed that actually decreasing the number of monitors from 1 to 0 actually increased productivity by an order of magnitude or more.
I remeber last time the 20 was redone (what, five years ago?). A month or two after the new bill design came out, soon after I had received my first one from an ATM, all the washers and dryers at the dorms on campus (where I was living at the time) were changed from coin-operated to card-operated. To put money on the card you inserted it into an "add-value" machine, then inserted the money you wanted to put on the card. Of course, a few days later, the brand-new system had signs on each unit saying "New $20 bill not accepted". I thought it was pretty funny - it took them like a year to fix it.
Actually, according to the paper the student wrote, the "CD Digital Audio" label didn't appear on the exterior of the packaging, he only saw it imprinted on the plastic CD holder, so it appears that they might not have been making the claim that it is a music CD (of course, looking around at several CD cases I have lying around, several of them don't have the logo anywhere but on the inside either, and they are normal CDs).
No no no, they were looking for "Pam" the non-stick cooking spray. The executives heard that with Pam, if the heat is on they won't get stuck in the pan. Or something like that.
Mention was also made in the road map of SmallFoot, which is a "Retail Hardened POS solution"
Cool, I heard Pizza Hut was having trouble with customers carrying EMP weapons screwing up their machines. Or does it mean that the old system was easily damaged by retail? I don't get it.
0-60 in 3 seconds is very quick, and you're right, it would not be normal acceleration in a car or train. But what about vertical acceleration in cars, or in airplanes? Do you know what kind of acceleration there is when you hit a very bumpy spot in the road, or encounter turbulence in an airliner (or just normal manuevering in an airliner)? I'd guess you see accelerations at or near 1G fairly regularly. Heavy braking might also achieve the 1G of acceleration (I'd guess that many cars are capable of stopping from 60 mph in under 3 seconds, though I'm not positive) - of course, if you are doing a panic stop, it would probably be nice for the system to activate.
The drop is much longer than 1/10th of a second, but my point was that if the mere 1G of acceleration during the drop activates the system then it seems like it could be activated many times when it is not needed. However, if 1G does not activate the system, then it will be the impact that activates it, which will probably be much quicker than 1/10th of a second.
Does that seem a little slow to anyone else? If, to use the example in the article, I were to trip on the power cord thereby rapidly accelerating the computer, it seems like the damage would be done in less than 1/10th of a second. Also, it would be nice to see what kind of acceleration is needed for this system to activate - if I just drop it, will the relatively low 1G of acceleration cause the system to activate, or will it wait to try to activate until the laptop hits the floor (at which point the laptop stops in what I would guess is considerably less than a tenth of a second). 1G acceleration seems like a rather low threshold, and 1/10 of a second too slow a response if a higher threshold were to be used.
By the way, if you think UT is hard, try Descent 3
Haven't played Descent 3, but I sure remember playing the first one on the network my brother and his friends set up in their dorm (they had a coax cable going down the hall with t-splitters going to each computer - this was back in the days of DOS, and it was hell trying to get a network going). That is a crazy game, and a hell of a lot of fun in multiplayer. I got my butt kicked - before that I don't think I had ever played a game with more than two or three players, and we were playing Descent with 8 players (not to mention I had never played the game before, and it is quite different from Doom II or Quake or whatever else it was I was playing - the sad thing is I managed to actually beat a couple people that had been playing practically every day for months). Crazy stuff.
SCO's interpretation is certainly correct. I predicted as much in the yahoo forums. It lends credence to the idea SCO has 'something.'
How do you arrive at this conclusion? It seems more likely that if HP is offering indemnity to their users they probably don't expect to have to pay anything. It just shows that they feel the FUD of SCO may be working to some extent, and want to ensure that people aren't afraid of buying HP products because of baseless claims made by SCO.
Oh yeah? I'm betting at least 50 million people have chosen Windows over Linux. By the standards of/. that constitutes a whole lot of people being wrong. 50 million people most definitely can be wrong, though in this case I would agree they are not.
If this is a question of free speech, then I say we get the numbers of the telemarketers, and start calling them at all hours, just to chat.
This is not, or at least should not, be an issue of free speech. People (and I suppose corporations, though I don't think that is explicitly stated) have the right to express their views in public or private forums. They do not, however, have the right to subject me to their viewpoints in the privacy of my home, which is exactly what they do when they call me. They can say whatever they want, but there is no legal reason that they should be allowed to do so in my home, using my phone line.
As for the republicans...either McClintock or Schwarzeneggar have to bow down to keep Bustamante out...I'd prefer it was Arnold to leave because McClintock's got a no bull attitude -- he won't tell you what you want to hear just to get your vote.
What a screwed up state. Excuse my rant.
The fact that you support McClintock makes the rest of your coumn pretty much meaningless. Oh boy, he has a "no bull attitude". Great. Who cares about his policies, as long as he has a "no bull" attitude. How is this comment not a troll? Help, Mr. McClintock, protect us from the evil hispanic immigrants!
Actually following the letter and intent of the weed decrimilization law?
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I disagree with NFS. If you are going to put in a racing game, at least make it a more sim-based one rather than arcade (EA took a step in the right direction with NFS: Porsche Unleashed, but then went back to pure arcadiness with Hot Pursuit 2). How about F1 Challenge (which I hear is good, though I have never played) or even Grand Prix Legends. Games that take real skill rather than just twitch fests with car graphics. Hell, even Gran Turismo 3 would be a hell of a lot of fun (although I think you would be limited to head to head play).
Total Annihilation does kick Starcraft's ass though, I have to agree with that.
The impression I got from the article was that he was so relaxed about it because, basically, he doesn't really have that much at stake in linux (at least in terms of money). As he said in the interview, he is confident that he can make a living as an engineer doing whatever - he just likes to work on linux. It relates to the reason he made linux in the first place; he wasn't out to make a great product to sell, he was out to make something he wanted to use. As he is quoted as saying in the article, he refused the positions on various boards (and working for any one linux distro) because he didn't want to take one side vs. another - one of the things he obviously thinks about linux is that it is great and works because kernel development is not based on the market needs of any one company. He didn't want to be part of Red Hat because he didn't want to be influenced to push linux in a direction that would benefit only the market Red Hat was trying to sell to.
Anyway, all I'm trying to say is that he isn't that worried about competing with MS or others because that wasn't ever really his intention - he just wanted to make a cool OS that did what he wanted. The impression I got from the article is that he tried to make sure that whatever decisions he made regarding the linux kernel development were based on what would make the kernel better, rather than what would make it easier to sell right now. He doesn't care about competition with Microsoft and others because he isn't trying to compete with them in the monetary sense. He just wants to make linux the best it can be, competing for marketshare etc. is the domain of the businesses (and others) that are trying to sell the os.
This whole comment may just be BS, but that is more or less what I got out of the article (pretty interesting stuff; about the extent of my knowledge regarding Linus before reading it was that he was Finnish and invented linux, I didn't even know he lived in the U.S. these days).
Obviously not done by Scott Adams, then.
Anyone have any insight into why the Chinese would build their space base in the Gobi Desert, which I believe is in the northern part of the country? Wouldn't it make more sense to stick it on the Tibetan Plateau or somewhere nearer the equator? IIRC, this is why the U.S. space program launches from southern Florida and why I believe most of the Soviet launch sites are in Kazakhtstan (aren't they?)? Just seems like it would make more sense to launch from the southwestern part of the country, where there are still very few people but you get boosts from being nearer the equator and being higher in elevation (you know, less distance to go and weaker gravity at launch, not to mention less air resistance (Hmm, speaking of which, maybe the U.S. should start launching from Mauna Kea instead of Florida - we could make a "space sea-plane" so it would be able to land back in Hawaii)). Just seems that the Gobi Desert, which I assume was chosen more for remoteness than anything else, wouldn't have been the best spot for them to stick their space program (but I guess if they have a launch failure it will impact Mongolia, not China, so maybe thats why).
Doh, I wan't going to post this cause it was a kind of pointless, poorly thought-out response, but I apparently accidentally tabbed to the damn submit button, so when I pressed enter it submitted instead of newlining. Do I get the idiot user of the day award?
All I can say is, wow, yo umust be incompetent. With regards to using computers anyway.
On windows everything crashes, or the hard drives mysteriously get corrupted, or the current version of the driver for my video card somehow conflicts with something which causes an instant blue screen 20 minutes (exactly) into my computing session. (Don't forget the creative sound card 'helper' that freaks out and eats all of your system memory when it gets bored).
I've been running the same install of Windows 2k for over two yers now, and it rarely crashes - when it does, it is exclusively when I am playing games - never, ever when I am trying to get work done. It just doesn't happen with work-related software. What is it you did to manage to make yours crash all the time? In my experience, it is usually more the user than it is the software that causes crashes. Macs just give you less control (changing with X, but still it takes a lot more effort to really mess with the system than on windows), so it is harder to screw it up. This is your fault, not the OSes.
Everything from the standard Terminal App, that allows you to select text, hit Command+C to copy it, then Command+V to paste it in another app
Even telnet allows you to copy and paste text from a aterminal window. Highlight with the mouse, press enter (for whatever reason) then control-v wherever you want to paste it. But I guess pressing enter is much more difficult than pressing command+C.
You may enjoy paying twice as much for the same computer (as you admit); I'm happy to pay half as much for a stable, reliable computer that does everything I want.
(part of my reliability may be due to the fact that I don't use any virus protection software most of the time - I'm convinced it does more harm than good. I've yet to get a virus on this computer (once again the whole idiotic user thing), probably thanks to the firewall built into my router.
I was wondering whether this 3D thing is hardware-based or software-based or a bit of both. One article doesn't say anything about it and the other was /.ed already.
I seem to remember playing a game called Magic Carpet (I think from Bullfrog) years ago that had "actual" 3D images - the kind where you kind of cross your eyes to get the depth right. You know, like pictures of sailboats that you have to stare at for a while before you see anything.
So, what exactly is new about this, and why would I want it?
A survey of hardcore gamers revealed that actually decreasing the number of monitors from 1 to 0 actually increased productivity by an order of magnitude or more.
I remeber last time the 20 was redone (what, five years ago?). A month or two after the new bill design came out, soon after I had received my first one from an ATM, all the washers and dryers at the dorms on campus (where I was living at the time) were changed from coin-operated to card-operated. To put money on the card you inserted it into an "add-value" machine, then inserted the money you wanted to put on the card. Of course, a few days later, the brand-new system had signs on each unit saying "New $20 bill not accepted". I thought it was pretty funny - it took them like a year to fix it.
Only if he loses and is ruled in violation of the DMCA.
Actually, according to the paper the student wrote, the "CD Digital Audio" label didn't appear on the exterior of the packaging, he only saw it imprinted on the plastic CD holder, so it appears that they might not have been making the claim that it is a music CD (of course, looking around at several CD cases I have lying around, several of them don't have the logo anywhere but on the inside either, and they are normal CDs).
No no no, they were looking for "Pam" the non-stick cooking spray. The executives heard that with Pam, if the heat is on they won't get stuck in the pan. Or something like that.
Cool, I heard Pizza Hut was having trouble with customers carrying EMP weapons screwing up their machines.
Or does it mean that the old system was easily damaged by retail? I don't get it.
0-60 in 3 seconds is very quick, and you're right, it would not be normal acceleration in a car or train. But what about vertical acceleration in cars, or in airplanes? Do you know what kind of acceleration there is when you hit a very bumpy spot in the road, or encounter turbulence in an airliner (or just normal manuevering in an airliner)? I'd guess you see accelerations at or near 1G fairly regularly. Heavy braking might also achieve the 1G of acceleration (I'd guess that many cars are capable of stopping from 60 mph in under 3 seconds, though I'm not positive) - of course, if you are doing a panic stop, it would probably be nice for the system to activate.
The drop is much longer than 1/10th of a second, but my point was that if the mere 1G of acceleration during the drop activates the system then it seems like it could be activated many times when it is not needed. However, if 1G does not activate the system, then it will be the impact that activates it, which will probably be much quicker than 1/10th of a second.
Does that seem a little slow to anyone else? If, to use the example in the article, I were to trip on the power cord thereby rapidly accelerating the computer, it seems like the damage would be done in less than 1/10th of a second. Also, it would be nice to see what kind of acceleration is needed for this system to activate - if I just drop it, will the relatively low 1G of acceleration cause the system to activate, or will it wait to try to activate until the laptop hits the floor (at which point the laptop stops in what I would guess is considerably less than a tenth of a second). 1G acceleration seems like a rather low threshold, and 1/10 of a second too slow a response if a higher threshold were to be used.
Haven't played Descent 3, but I sure remember playing the first one on the network my brother and his friends set up in their dorm (they had a coax cable going down the hall with t-splitters going to each computer - this was back in the days of DOS, and it was hell trying to get a network going). That is a crazy game, and a hell of a lot of fun in multiplayer. I got my butt kicked - before that I don't think I had ever played a game with more than two or three players, and we were playing Descent with 8 players (not to mention I had never played the game before, and it is quite different from Doom II or Quake or whatever else it was I was playing - the sad thing is I managed to actually beat a couple people that had been playing practically every day for months). Crazy stuff.
Dude, what are you gonna run linux on if you drop your PC?
Note that Think Secret is a rumor site, but rumor has it that it has the best reputation of any rumor site. No, really!
How do you arrive at this conclusion? It seems more likely that if HP is offering indemnity to their users they probably don't expect to have to pay anything. It just shows that they feel the FUD of SCO may be working to some extent, and want to ensure that people aren't afraid of buying HP products because of baseless claims made by SCO.
Oh yeah? I'm betting at least 50 million people have chosen Windows over Linux. By the standards of
50 million people most definitely can be wrong, though in this case I would agree they are not.
This is not, or at least should not, be an issue of free speech. People (and I suppose corporations, though I don't think that is explicitly stated) have the right to express their views in public or private forums. They do not, however, have the right to subject me to their viewpoints in the privacy of my home, which is exactly what they do when they call me. They can say whatever they want, but there is no legal reason that they should be allowed to do so in my home, using my phone line.
What a screwed up state. Excuse my rant.
The fact that you support McClintock makes the rest of your coumn pretty much meaningless. Oh boy, he has a "no bull attitude". Great. Who cares about his policies, as long as he has a "no bull" attitude. How is this comment not a troll?
Help, Mr. McClintock, protect us from the evil hispanic immigrants!
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