And following up on that, try using just "PS/2" as the Protocol. I have another system that has the protocol set to "PS/2", and the wheel still works. Since IMPS/2 doesn't seem to be right for your mouse...
I think it's probably just your X setup that's screwed up. I've had similar problems w/X and mice... I have one system @ work that is hooked thru a KVM, and the mouse wheel works fine. Then @ home, I have a system that doesn't have a KVM, and the mouse wheel didn't work. Not sure why X detects it properly sometimes and not other times.
On my home computer, I had to modify my XF86Config file to make the mouse wheel work right. I changed the line that specified what device was being used for the moose. By default, it had it set to/dev/input/mice. I changed it to/dev/psaux, and the moose wheel now works.
Check your/etc/X11/XF86Config for a line that looks like this: (in the InputDevice section for the mouse)
Exactly what I thought! I want to see the video of the guy that they give this to to try out. He undoubtedly asks "what're these two little metal things on this controller?", to which the reply of course it "oh, don't worry about it. It's just a slight modification we've made. You'll know soon enough". And then the fun begins:)
think the real question is, do video games deserve to have similar limits? I dunnow, but I think it's a legitimate question. What if it stopped hundreds of murders a year? (I doubt it, but for argument) Regardless of the mental state of these murderers, it would be worth it.
I would have to disagree with that statement. First off, how do you prove that those 100 murders would have been committed if these things weren't banned? Going on the presumption that the murders weren't committed, you can't really prove that they would have been otherwise... It's all just guessing and "statistics".
Second, how many of those 100 murders that weren't "caused" by video games would then be "caused" by something else? (triggered might be a more appropriate word...) I mean, if someone is going to be driven to murder based on a video game, what's to say that they won't similarly be driven to murder based on something else? Maybe a tv show, a movie, or even an argument with another patron at the local bar? So then, we'll have to ban bars, movies, and tv's. The problem with banning anything like that based on what it "caused" someone to do is that once it's started -- where does it end? It's a very slipperly slope to start going down.
I would have to say I agree with a previous poster's comments: (one in particular)
People are responsible for their own actions
The problem is personal responsibility. No one is responsible for anyting anymore, it's always someone or something else that "drove them" to do whatever they do.
I think he was alluding to the fact that it's not always easy to finger out who exactly the copyright holder is on some of these images. Like the trashcan image that he mentions.... how does one go about finding out who actually created and owns the rights to that image?
I think I may have had the problem they are talking about... a few months back, my PS2 stopped reading any DVD movies. Just kept saying "disc read error". After running a cleaner thru it many times, and dissasembling and blowing out any dust, it still didn't work. So, I turned to the mecca of all answers: google. W/in a few minutes, I had found a solution. I don't think this is the exact same link that I found back then, but it has the same information. The portion that mattered to me was the laser voltage adjustment. A minor turn of the screw, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. (Although I was stumped for a little while until I realized I was turning the wrong screw and adjusting the CD voltage instead of DVD voltage -- doh!) Of course, doing so voids my warranty, but my PS2 was old enough by then to be out of the warranty anyway, so...
Much easier than lawsuits...
However, I do see the point of the lawsuit, considering that apparently Sony's position on this is that you should send or take your unit in for service, costing you around $100-$120...
Sony should just fess up and fix them for free when people have these problems, since it seems to be a widespread enough problem and not just "isolated incidents"...
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Am I the only one to notice that...? Somehow I doubt that's in the original. Clever and amusing, however:)
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firing up a windowing system
tends to reduce productivity. A simple text
based console app allows you to focus w/o
disractions.
Not neccessarily... I like to use the console as well, but I find it is very useful to be able to have multiple console windows open at once, and be able to view them at once. The real estate on the (text-based) console just isn't enough sometimes. I find myself installing X on servers just so that I can do a command in one console window, and watch logs in another. X gives advantages when multitasking.... easier for me than using the alt-arrow / function key... but that's all just IMHO:)
Ah, sorry... I wasn't trying to imply that it was the opinion of news.com. Just that I found it interesting that piracy keeps getting blamed for falling music sales, when they should be looking at other issues as well.
Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States
It must be piracy... couldn't be that people are pissed off @ the record labels or that they just don't like the music that's being put out... naaaah.:)
Hemp. Biodiesel from hemp. One acre of hemp can produce 100 gallons of biodiesel, and you can get 3 crops per year from that acre. So 300 gallons per year from one acre of hemp.
Keep in mind that Tivo's so-called lifetime fee only covers the lifetime of the unit; when the unit needs replacing, so does your lifetime membership. How long will your tivo last?
Exactly. So far my Hughes DirecTivo units seem to last about 2-3 months before crapping out. I'm on my third unit so far... no telling how long this one will last:) With hardware quality like that, I'll happily pay the monthly fee... especially since it's been reduced to 4.99/mo for directivo users.
(moral of the story: don't buy Hughes equipment, it blows. And when it does fail, you'll wait up to 6+ months for a replacment... that's right, I've had my DirecTiVo for almost a year now, and I've had it up and working for maybe 4 months of that time. But when it does work.... oh, it's so nice. So, tivo = good, hughes = bad:)
The biggest problem is this though...you cannot take rights away from Americans. Prohibition taught us that
Apparently you're not aware of the prohibition that's still in existence on marijuana? And the reasons for it's prohibition? For anybody that wants a quick summary that'll also keep you interested, check out a movie called "Grass".
Another wonderful example of just what you get when the government tries to ban something that there's a demand for...
What does this have to do with guns you may ask? Well, the solution to both is identical: education & respect.
good stuff.
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Personally, my favorite Einstein quote is:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
People are not as productive if forced to work straight thru an eight hour day. If you allow a certain amount of non-work activity to exist, you will find that the employees are happier, and also probably more productive because of it.
There just needs to be a good balance...
no evolving monkeys for the future then...
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If they're retiring all the space-monkeys, how are we ever going to accidentally create a planet ruled by highly evolved apes?
Or is this a pre-emptive move from somebody who took planet of the apes too seriously....?
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Did you pay your licensing fees to use the frowny emoticon????
Travel from place to place, experiencing it all... and eventually, I'd probably find a place that I would be happy with, and settle there. Live a simpler life. Spend time on my hobbies. Spend time with my wife and friends...
Who gives a shit about single player? Really, they had it right with quake 3, nobody plays single player anymore, at least not repeatedly
I'm quite excited about the focus on single player, for one. I found myself playing a lot more half-life than I ever did quake 3, despite quake 3 being the technologically superior game. Why? Because running around killing bots is boring, and you can only play online if you have a fast connection (I live in the boonies...), and have hours to waste. I mean, I consider myself fairly good at these type of game, but I can in no way compete with a teenager that has all the time on his hands to play constantly. And running around killing over and over can get boring too... there needs to be some point, or some goal, IMO. If you're working towards something, and moving forward in the game, it gives me more reason to go back and play again... to see "what happens next".
When Doom came out, I remember it was the shit. I used to play all three ways... single player, deathmatch, coop. And it was enjoyable each way. Since it was pretty much the first of its type that had that sort of "deathmatch" available, I think deathmatch caught on really quick, and so they started focussing on that more in the later games. But it seems like the other parts of the game weren't stresed. I'm glad to see that iD is going back to the development model they used on Doom, because Doom proved that a game could be good at many different types of play, and do it all well.
I really hope they bring back cooperative mode too, that's one thing I've sorely missed since the doom series. The problem with deathmatch is that if you've only got 2 or 3 friends handy, there usually ends up being one person that gets better than the other(s). So after a while, it gets predictable.
With one dressed up to look like a computer and another as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the demonstrators danced and put on a short sketch to illustrate their objections to the system.
Maybe we just need to have more effective demonstrations like this one:)
Um... isn't that why freedb was created in the first place? As an alternative to cddb? I thought that once cddb got bought out, and started charging people to access their servers, freedb was spawned as a free alternative. (I could be wrong on that though..) Now we're supposed to go back to cddb? um...
might they be referring to the mandrake linux that's available on walmart pc's? i don't have a link, but it was on slashdot last week. about a day after the lindows announcement... that walmart was also offering mandrake.
however, with the rest of the mis-information in the article, i wouldn't be suprised if the author was in fact referring to lindows:)
I think you make some pretty broad sweeping assumptions:)
Js are *much* better at programming, and thinking designs completely through. (Especially NTJs) Their code works, and works well. Ps are horrendous programmers, the code is usally buggy, and worst-of-all, they just don't care.
Au contraire, my friend. As an ISTP that codes, I have to make a comment here. True, some of my code is definately messy (see managerial time constaints below), but it generally works as designed, and I take great pride in my work. Therefore, if my code were buggy, it would be one of my top priorities to fix the errors, since the code reflects on the author. If the quality of my workmanship is bad, it makes me look bad, and that does matter to me.
In the real world, Ps dominate as coders. They believe anything can be done quickly, and are willing to do a bad job just to get it done (SP, expecially).
Once again, a broad assumption that has no application to at least my situation. Quite the contrary in fact. One of the things that most bugs me about my current position is the attitude of "we need this done now, so do it quick.". I would much rather take the time to do something right than do it quickly. I believe this is a fundamental flaw in many businesses today. Nobody is willing to put the time that it takes into creating things that will work right. Most of the time, there are managerial pushes to get it done quickly, and so things get thrown together half-assed.
In that sort of situation, when the management doesn't want to listen to the people doing the work to estimate how long it will take and how it should be done, and would rather do it quickly and sacrifice quality, it's true, I don't care. It's been taken out of my hands, the decision made above my head. I do what they ask, even if I don't agree with it...
That's a result of the management pushing to "get it done now", and doesn't neccessarily reflect the programmers' uncaring attitude toward the product. Rather, the programmer does care enough to try to do it right, but since the ultimate decision is not up to them, they are more often than not forced to create quick (and crappy) products.
In the article(s), it is said that they are stressing single player play for Doom III. I think this is great, because (as some1 else said), I don't have time to sit around all day honing my skills @ deathmatch so that I can get my ass kicked online.
However, am I the only one that feels that there has been a huge loss since most of the games since the original doom series haven't had multi-player cooperative mode? I remember sitting on a couple computers for hours playing cooperative doom w/my brother back in the day, and it was great fun.
I'm really dissappointed that cooperative mode seems to have disappeared... If it's fun for a single player, it's also fun for multiple people to work together.
Am I the only one that feels this way? It seem that game designers aren't creating as many games that allow people to work together. Sure, it's fun to blow up your buddies every now and then in a deathmatch, but I find that cooperative can be much more enjoyable, as you work thru the game's problems together. It turns the single player experience into a group thing, instead of one person being holed up in a room w/the computer all day...
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And following up on that, try using just "PS/2" as the Protocol. I have another system that has the protocol set to "PS/2", and the wheel still works. Since IMPS/2 doesn't seem to be right for your mouse...
I think it's probably just your X setup that's screwed up. I've had similar problems w/X and mice... I have one system @ work that is hooked thru a KVM, and the mouse wheel works fine. Then @ home, I have a system that doesn't have a KVM, and the mouse wheel didn't work. Not sure why X detects it properly sometimes and not other times.
/dev/input/mice. I changed it to /dev/psaux, and the moose wheel now works.
/etc/X11/XF86Config for a line that looks like this: (in the InputDevice section for the mouse)
On my home computer, I had to modify my XF86Config file to make the mouse wheel work right. I changed the line that specified what device was being used for the moose. By default, it had it set to
Check your
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Try changing it to this:
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
and see if that fixes it.
Exactly what I thought! I want to see the video of the guy that they give this to to try out. He undoubtedly asks "what're these two little metal things on this controller?", to which the reply of course it "oh, don't worry about it. It's just a slight modification we've made. You'll know soon enough". And then the fun begins :)
reminds me of that old qbasic game where gorillas calculated tragectories and tried to blow each other up with bananas
:)... ah yah!
Gorilla! That game ruled... I used to play that w/my dad back in the day..
After a little googling, I managed to find this page that has it avail for download
think the real question is, do video games deserve to have similar limits? I dunnow, but I think it's a legitimate question. What if it stopped hundreds of murders a year? (I doubt it, but for argument) Regardless of the mental state of these murderers, it would be worth it.
:)
I would have to disagree with that statement. First off, how do you prove that those 100 murders would have been committed if these things weren't banned? Going on the presumption that the murders weren't committed, you can't really prove that they would have been otherwise... It's all just guessing and "statistics".
Second, how many of those 100 murders that weren't "caused" by video games would then be "caused" by something else? (triggered might be a more appropriate word...) I mean, if someone is going to be driven to murder based on a video game, what's to say that they won't similarly be driven to murder based on something else? Maybe a tv show, a movie, or even an argument with another patron at the local bar? So then, we'll have to ban bars, movies, and tv's. The problem with banning anything like that based on what it "caused" someone to do is that once it's started -- where does it end? It's a very slipperly slope to start going down.
I would have to say I agree with a previous poster's comments: (one in particular)
People are responsible for their own actions
The problem is personal responsibility. No one is responsible for anyting anymore, it's always someone or something else that "drove them" to do whatever they do.
</rant>
I think he was alluding to the fact that it's not always easy to finger out who exactly the copyright holder is on some of these images. Like the trashcan image that he mentions.... how does one go about finding out who actually created and owns the rights to that image?
I think I may have had the problem they are talking about... a few months back, my PS2 stopped reading any DVD movies. Just kept saying "disc read error". After running a cleaner thru it many times, and dissasembling and blowing out any dust, it still didn't work. So, I turned to the mecca of all answers: google. W/in a few minutes, I had found a solution. I don't think this is the exact same link that I found back then, but it has the same information. The portion that mattered to me was the laser voltage adjustment. A minor turn of the screw, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. (Although I was stumped for a little while until I realized I was turning the wrong screw and adjusting the CD voltage instead of DVD voltage -- doh!) Of course, doing so voids my warranty, but my PS2 was old enough by then to be out of the warranty anyway, so...
Much easier than lawsuits...
However, I do see the point of the lawsuit, considering that apparently Sony's position on this is that you should send or take your unit in for service, costing you around $100-$120...
Sony should just fess up and fix them for free when people have these problems, since it seems to be a widespread enough problem and not just "isolated incidents"...
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Am I the only one to notice that...? Somehow I doubt that's in the original. Clever and amusing, however
firing up a windowing system tends to reduce productivity. A simple text based console app allows you to focus w/o disractions.
:)
:)
Not neccessarily... I like to use the console as well, but I find it is very useful to be able to have multiple console windows open at once, and be able to view them at once. The real estate on the (text-based) console just isn't enough sometimes. I find myself installing X on servers just so that I can do a command in one console window, and watch logs in another. X gives advantages when multitasking.... easier for me than using the alt-arrow / function key... but that's all just IMHO
And some sites just don't look good in lynx...
Ah, sorry... I wasn't trying to imply that it was the opinion of news.com. Just that I found it interesting that piracy keeps getting blamed for falling music sales, when they should be looking at other issues as well.
Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States
:)
It must be piracy... couldn't be that people are pissed off @ the record labels or that they just don't like the music that's being put out... naaaah.
Hemp. Biodiesel from hemp.
One acre of hemp can produce 100 gallons of biodiesel, and you can get 3 crops per year from that acre. So 300 gallons per year from one acre of hemp.
Here's some more info: http://www.mohemp.org/hempcar.html
and more info on biodiesel can be found at: www.biodiesel.org
Keep in mind that Tivo's so-called lifetime fee only covers the lifetime of the unit; when the unit needs replacing, so does your lifetime membership. How long will your tivo last?
:) With hardware quality like that, I'll happily pay the monthly fee... especially since it's been reduced to 4.99/mo for directivo users.
:)
Exactly. So far my Hughes DirecTivo units seem to last about 2-3 months before crapping out. I'm on my third unit so far... no telling how long this one will last
(moral of the story: don't buy Hughes equipment, it blows. And when it does fail, you'll wait up to 6+ months for a replacment... that's right, I've had my DirecTiVo for almost a year now, and I've had it up and working for maybe 4 months of that time. But when it does work.... oh, it's so nice. So, tivo = good, hughes = bad
The biggest problem is this though...you cannot take rights away from Americans. Prohibition taught us that
Apparently you're not aware of the prohibition that's still in existence on marijuana? And the reasons for it's prohibition? For anybody that wants a quick summary that'll also keep you interested, check out a movie called "Grass".
Another wonderful example of just what you get when the government tries to ban something that there's a demand for...
What does this have to do with guns you may ask? Well, the solution to both is identical: education & respect.
good stuff.
Personally, my favorite Einstein quote is:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
ah... so true.
People are not as productive if forced to work straight thru an eight hour day. If you allow a certain amount of non-work activity to exist, you will find that the employees are happier, and also probably more productive because of it.
There just needs to be a good balance...
If they're retiring all the space-monkeys, how are we ever going to accidentally create a planet ruled by highly evolved apes?
Or is this a pre-emptive move from somebody who took planet of the apes too seriously....?
Did you pay your licensing fees to use the frowny emoticon????
:)
You may or may not know it, but the frowny emoticon is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc!
Be sure to license before use, to avoid any nasty lawsuits
I would see the world.
Travel from place to place, experiencing it all... and eventually, I'd probably find a place that I would be happy with, and settle there. Live a simpler life. Spend time on my hobbies. Spend time with my wife and friends...
Who gives a shit about single player? Really, they had it right with quake 3, nobody plays single player anymore, at least not repeatedly
I'm quite excited about the focus on single player, for one. I found myself playing a lot more half-life than I ever did quake 3, despite quake 3 being the technologically superior game. Why? Because running around killing bots is boring, and you can only play online if you have a fast connection (I live in the boonies...), and have hours to waste. I mean, I consider myself fairly good at these type of game, but I can in no way compete with a teenager that has all the time on his hands to play constantly. And running around killing over and over can get boring too... there needs to be some point, or some goal, IMO. If you're working towards something, and moving forward in the game, it gives me more reason to go back and play again... to see "what happens next".
When Doom came out, I remember it was the shit. I used to play all three ways... single player, deathmatch, coop. And it was enjoyable each way. Since it was pretty much the first of its type that had that sort of "deathmatch" available, I think deathmatch caught on really quick, and so they started focussing on that more in the later games. But it seems like the other parts of the game weren't stresed. I'm glad to see that iD is going back to the development model they used on Doom, because Doom proved that a game could be good at many different types of play, and do it all well.
I really hope they bring back cooperative mode too, that's one thing I've sorely missed since the doom series. The problem with deathmatch is that if you've only got 2 or 3 friends handy, there usually ends up being one person that gets better than the other(s). So after a while, it gets predictable.
So anyway....
With one dressed up to look like a computer and another as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the demonstrators danced and put on a short sketch to illustrate their objections to the system.
:)
Maybe we just need to have more effective demonstrations like this one
Um... isn't that why freedb was created in the first place? As an alternative to cddb? I thought that once cddb got bought out, and started charging people to access their servers, freedb was spawned as a free alternative. (I could be wrong on that though..)
Now we're supposed to go back to cddb? um...
might they be referring to the mandrake linux that's available on walmart pc's? i don't have a link, but it was on slashdot last week. about a day after the lindows announcement... that walmart was also offering mandrake.
:)
however, with the rest of the mis-information in the article, i wouldn't be suprised if the author was in fact referring to lindows
I think you make some pretty broad sweeping assumptions :)
Js are *much* better at programming, and thinking designs completely through. (Especially NTJs) Their code works, and works well. Ps are horrendous programmers, the code is usally buggy, and worst-of-all, they just don't care.
Au contraire, my friend. As an ISTP that codes, I have to make a comment here. True, some of my code is definately messy (see managerial time constaints below), but it generally works as designed, and I take great pride in my work. Therefore, if my code were buggy, it would be one of my top priorities to fix the errors, since the code reflects on the author. If the quality of my workmanship is bad, it makes me look bad, and that does matter to me.
In the real world, Ps dominate as coders. They believe anything can be done quickly, and are willing to do a bad job just to get it done (SP, expecially).
Once again, a broad assumption that has no application to at least my situation. Quite the contrary in fact. One of the things that most bugs me about my current position is the attitude of "we need this done now, so do it quick.". I would much rather take the time to do something right than do it quickly. I believe this is a fundamental flaw in many businesses today. Nobody is willing to put the time that it takes into creating things that will work right. Most of the time, there are managerial pushes to get it done quickly, and so things get thrown together half-assed.
In that sort of situation, when the management doesn't want to listen to the people doing the work to estimate how long it will take and how it should be done, and would rather do it quickly and sacrifice quality, it's true, I don't care. It's been taken out of my hands, the decision made above my head. I do what they ask, even if I don't agree with it... That's a result of the management pushing to "get it done now", and doesn't neccessarily reflect the programmers' uncaring attitude toward the product. Rather, the programmer does care enough to try to do it right, but since the ultimate decision is not up to them, they are more often than not forced to create quick (and crappy) products.
In the article(s), it is said that they are stressing single player play for Doom III. I think this is great, because (as some1 else said), I don't have time to sit around all day honing my skills @ deathmatch so that I can get my ass kicked online.
However, am I the only one that feels that there has been a huge loss since most of the games since the original doom series haven't had multi-player cooperative mode? I remember sitting on a couple computers for hours playing cooperative doom w/my brother back in the day, and it was great fun.
I'm really dissappointed that cooperative mode seems to have disappeared... If it's fun for a single player, it's also fun for multiple people to work together.
Am I the only one that feels this way? It seem that game designers aren't creating as many games that allow people to work together. Sure, it's fun to blow up your buddies every now and then in a deathmatch, but I find that cooperative can be much more enjoyable, as you work thru the game's problems together. It turns the single player experience into a group thing, instead of one person being holed up in a room w/the computer all day...