I think that LOTRO is very well suited for the young, especially if you start out in the Shire as a hobbit, which is a very charming place. Although it does have some "scary" areas, such as the Barrow downs (wights and such). You develop virtues such as Compassion, Charity, Honesty, Innocence, etc that adds to your abilities. You don't get killed, you get defeated. And yes, it is multiplayer. And the artwork of some of the areas are just beautiful. I especially like the elven areas. Falathlorn and Rivendel are very nice, and Lothlorien (a high level area) is just breathtaking in my opinion.
It's good for old timers too. I love the game, and I'm almost 49 years old.
I dont think there's much of a case to support SCO being held to the requirments of the GPL in their "released software". They were inadvertently duped into it, and thus cant be held accountable.
I would like to know if this is really true. If you own the code, and you release it under the GPL, then I would think that you are bound by the GPL. It's not like the code was hidden. It seems to me that if you are going to release a product, you better know what you are releasing. If you released it by mistake, that just means you are lazy and incompetent.
I don't mind editorial comments, but inflammatory words like this are uncalled for and unprofessional. That's all this discussion needs is more flaming. Thanks CmdrTaco.
Interesting that they have disabled links to bugzilla from slashdot...
It looks like they are working on it. Apparently there is both a bug dependency and a bug block, so it may be somewhat complex. At any rate, there are 102 votes for it, so I'm sure it will get fixed.
Having said all that, I'm not sure why this bug would cause you to get so annoyed as to "start a port of Konqueror to Winblows". Seems to me that that would take a little more of your time than retyping something in the location/URL bar.:)
"What we did is we came up with a form that is better than JPEG. It's about 50% better."
Hrm...I don't guess there is any use hoping they used an open format?
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I guarantee you that this guy is an academician. The problem with these guys is that they have been engrossed in pretty theories and algorithms for so long that they have forgotten what it's like to get work done in the real world. My college courses did very little to prepare for work in the real world. Most of the usefull things that I learned, I had to learn on my own. I'll take a utilitarian, practical language any day over a scientifically correct one. Regarding the latter, I find it interesting that different academicians can waste inordinate amounts of time disputing each others view on what is 'correct'. And that's fine as long as something good comes out of it, but keep your pomposity to yourself, AND TEACH YOUR STUDENTS SOMETHING THAT IS VALUABLE IN THE REAL WORLD.
In my experience, 75% of the value of a development platform in the real world is determined by how it answers the following question: How fast can I get the work done?
I've been looking at DirecWay. Supposedly people have gotten it to work with Linux, but I haven't seen any hard evidence yet. Meanwhile, Hughes is apparently shipping their DW4020 router device (around $300) that "officially" lets other systems (like Linux, Mac, etc) connect to the DirecWay modem.
When you consider that the basic setup and install is over $500, this is a fairly expensive way to go, but I guess if your desperate for bandwith in rural areas . . .
It seems like a year ago when I asked a gnucash developer about scheduled transactions/recurring events. They responded (thank you) and told me that it was in the works. This has been reiterated several times in various forums over the last few months. My question is not about when this highly desired feature will be added, but have you ever thought about creating a process where users can vote on or prioritize their most highly desired features?
A lot of good suggestions above (excercise, posture, etc). One more thing I would like to add as it was explained to me by a doctor. The discs in your back are filled with fluid. When your body is not getting enough fluid, over time it leeches from other places (such as the discs in your back). As the discs shrink, the spine settles, pinching nerves and just generally causing back problems. Moral of the story: drink lots of water on a regular basis! Not only does it help back problems, but it will also flush your body of toxins and help to keep you healthy.
The thing that I don't like about kivio is that the stencil set format is proprietary. At least that is what I gather from their website and in other reviews. I know they have to make money, but I need to be able to make my own stencils. I can't hardly stand the idea of being locked into product that depends on something proprietary in order to have functionality. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-FREE product. It's not so much the money ($5.00 per stencil set), it's the freedom that I hate to give up.
I just think Bush is most likely to fight for our freedoms,... complete, and unabridged.
WHAT?!! You've got to be kidding! This is the person who said that he would be making decisions based on principle, not polls. I like leaders with principle, but I don't trust any leader who says that he will not listen to his constituents. How does he know that his "principles" are 1) right or 2) reflective of mine?
Add to that his LOUSY track record here in Texas, and I have to say that I feel the opposite of you, and I'm going to do anything I can to keep Bush out of office. I consider myself to have conservative, Republican values, but I normally vote Democratic because they seem to listen more to the average person and focus a little less on the needs of the upper 1%.
...Netscape 6 is using 34 MB of memory! That's a bit excessive, 2-3x what IE5 uses.
Actually, the 2-3x figure is deceptive (Nothing new for MS). You don't know how much IE5 is using because so much of it is built into the OS and executed on bootup.
I understand the emphasis on Redhat, and I don't pretend to understand what it would take to address the problem of making sure that Nautilus works with different Linux distributions, but I think it's extremely important that the Eazel team does not forget Debian. I think doing the preview using the Debian package (along with feedback from the community) may help to insure this.
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I'd guess that the linux systems cost more because of the R&D costs involved...
I think that's a load of crap. If that were true then he would have used that argument each time the issue was brought up, but he knows that argument doesn't hold any water. Just look at the way he danced around the questions and how he ended up by spouting some bs about how you need to choose an OS with applications for the most value. What does that sound like to you?
He may be flirting with Linux, but he's definitely still in bed with MS.
I just dumped all of my Corel stock today. Coincidence? I think not!
I think you may end up regretting this move as many investors place most of the blame for current stock prices on Cowpland. I have no idea of the blame is warranted or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if stock prices were to rise dramatically because of this. As an investor who is holding on to his stocks, I eagerly anticipating it.
The fact that you consider potato to be "late" reflects a general misunderstanding of the distribution. On this campus we use debian for probably 90% of all our mission critical production linux boxes (www, mail, samba, routers, firewalls, you-name-it) some of which have been running potato since october of last year, and running it well. Just because the debian guys refuse to put their "official" stamp on a release until it has passed rigorous testing doesn't mean you can't use it before its "official".
Your reasons for not using debian are quite flimsy. You can have just as much cutting edge stuff with debian that you can in any other distro. (I do realize that there are some applications where the authors do not support debian so it takes a week or two for a package manager to make.deb available) It runs beautifully on my Compaq laptop with the latest eye candy available, and we even have some debian woody boxes that are running the latest 2.4-test kernel. Furthermore, I would rather have quality control than cutting edge on my mission critical servers any day. And the package management system is excellent. Maintenance and upgrades on these boxes is a breeze!
And with strong desktop distro's like corel and storm (which is better by far) your arguments become impotent. Personally, I would rather fight than switch.
I used to be a high school computer teacher (now an IT director). My wife is still a elementary grade level teacher, and we have talked about this at length. I have to say that we agree with the parent article, especially with regards to the early grade levels.
Without getting too deeply mired in discussing educational psychology and methods, it can really all be boiled down to this: Computer software will never be able to match the interaction that a human teacher has with his/her student. While human teachers are not perfect, they are unmatched when it comes to on the fly assessment and creative integration of a variety of teaching methods as demanded by the circumstances and/or student preferred learning methods.
I have a variety of educational software in my home, some of which is considered the best on the market, and while I am frequently surprised by good and creative methods, the assessment abilities of the software are laughable, leave MUCH to be desired, and are, at times, dead wrong. And as any good teacher knows, correct assessment is absolutely critical to the education process.
From my perspective it is a no-brainer. Give me a good human teacher and good materials on traditional media over a software baby sitter any day! They are worth their weight in gold.
Having said all that, I need to make it clear that I will make sure that my children receive a superior computer education. This is non-negotiable in much the same way as learning to read is non-negotiable. But while I enjoyed Asimovs robot novels as much as the next person, I believe the correct view is that computers are TOOLS not TEACHERS.
I had no idea that this was in development. This is excellent news for Linux! I can remember feeling like I was going to fall over when I watched an IBM tech resize a partition on the fly during an RS/6000 install about a year ago.
Does this seem familiar to anyone (kernel 2.2)? That's the reason I moved away from Debian. Don't get me wrong, Debian is a very cool distro with many innovative and intelligent features (especially the package management system). However, they just can't seem to get on the ball with their releases; as soon as you install one, a lot of your software is instantly old. For my purposes, I can't run the latest unstable or frozen system, so I have no choice but to not use Debian.
These kind of ignorant comments really annoy me. "A lot of your software is instantly old"? Like what? Give me one good example! The kernel? Please! Enlighten me about a distribution that is currently shipping with 2.4. And who says you can't run the latest kernel anyway? We haven't tried the 2.4.test1 kernel, but we have a debian machine running the latest 2.3.99-pre kernel. As far as other software goes, I think the package maintainers do an admirable job of staying "on the ball with their releases".
Please be a little more informed before spreading FUD about Debian.
I have to agree with acb on this. I AM a Christian, and the Christian Coalition makes me very uncomfortable. I consider them to be a very dangerous political group. I don't want anyone forcing their fundamentalist beliefs on me, even if I happen to agree with them. History is completely bloodstained with horrific injustices done in the name of religion. The weight of evidence show that religion and political power do not mix well.
"The only thing we know for sure would be bad for consumers is anything that blocks us from being able to innovate Windows or anything that made it so that when people buy Windows they don't know what's in it."
Wait, I'm confused. Someone explain to me why leaving Windows closed is going to help people know what's in it. And someone please explain to Bill that open source enables innovation.
It cracks me up that he has adopted the position that Microsoft is interested in what is best for the consumer. What is best for the consumer is to have the best software without having to sacrifice money or freedom! Let's see how long this "selfless interest" would last if they weren't bringing in truckloads of money.
He should just come out and say, "The only thing we know for sure would be bad for Microsoft is anything that blocks us from being able to make money off of the consumer, including letting people know what's in Windows."
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I think that LOTRO is very well suited for the young, especially if you start out in the Shire as a hobbit, which is a very charming place. Although it does have some "scary" areas, such as the Barrow downs (wights and such). You develop virtues such as Compassion, Charity, Honesty, Innocence, etc that adds to your abilities. You don't get killed, you get defeated. And yes, it is multiplayer. And the artwork of some of the areas are just beautiful. I especially like the elven areas. Falathlorn and Rivendel are very nice, and Lothlorien (a high level area) is just breathtaking in my opinion.
It's good for old timers too. I love the game, and I'm almost 49 years old.
Is it just me or does one of the cloud formations look remarkably like a face?
I would like to know if this is really true. If you own the code, and you release it under the GPL, then I would think that you are bound by the GPL. It's not like the code was hidden. It seems to me that if you are going to release a product, you better know what you are releasing. If you released it by mistake, that just means you are lazy and incompetent.
I don't mind editorial comments, but inflammatory words like this are uncalled for and unprofessional. That's all this discussion needs is more flaming. Thanks CmdrTaco.
It looks like they are working on it. Apparently there is both a bug dependency and a bug block, so it may be somewhat complex. At any rate, there are 102 votes for it, so I'm sure it will get fixed.
Having said all that, I'm not sure why this bug would cause you to get so annoyed as to "start a port of Konqueror to Winblows". Seems to me that that would take a little more of your time than retyping something in the location/URL bar. :)
What is the recommended method of installing a new version without losing settings? Or is it best to just start over from scratch?
"What we did is we came up with a form that is better than JPEG. It's about 50% better."
Hrm...I don't guess there is any use hoping they used an open format?
In my experience, 75% of the value of a development platform in the real world is determined by how it answers the following question: How fast can I get the work done?
When you consider that the basic setup and install is over $500, this is a fairly expensive way to go, but I guess if your desperate for bandwith in rural areas . . .
I can understand KDE 3 not going into woody, but what about sid? GCC 3.1 is already in sid, so I'm not sure what the holdup is.
It seems like a year ago when I asked a gnucash developer about scheduled transactions/recurring events. They responded (thank you) and told me that it was in the works. This has been reiterated several times in various forums over the last few months. My question is not about when this highly desired feature will be added, but have you ever thought about creating a process where users can vote on or prioritize their most highly desired features?
A lot of good suggestions above (excercise, posture, etc). One more thing I would like to add as it was explained to me by a doctor. The discs in your back are filled with fluid. When your body is not getting enough fluid, over time it leeches from other places (such as the discs in your back). As the discs shrink, the spine settles, pinching nerves and just generally causing back problems. Moral of the story: drink lots of water on a regular basis! Not only does it help back problems, but it will also flush your body of toxins and help to keep you healthy.
The thing that I don't like about kivio is that the stencil set format is proprietary. At least that is what I gather from their website and in other reviews. I know they have to make money, but I need to be able to make my own stencils. I can't hardly stand the idea of being locked into product that depends on something proprietary in order to have functionality. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-FREE product. It's not so much the money ($5.00 per stencil set), it's the freedom that I hate to give up.
So why isn't it in debian yet? We need it for the kiosks that we are designing for our campus that will be running on low end machines.
WHAT?!! You've got to be kidding! This is the person who said that he would be making decisions based on principle, not polls. I like leaders with principle, but I don't trust any leader who says that he will not listen to his constituents. How does he know that his "principles" are 1) right or 2) reflective of mine?
Add to that his LOUSY track record here in Texas, and I have to say that I feel the opposite of you, and I'm going to do anything I can to keep Bush out of office. I consider myself to have conservative, Republican values, but I normally vote Democratic because they seem to listen more to the average person and focus a little less on the needs of the upper 1%.
Actually, the 2-3x figure is deceptive (Nothing new for MS). You don't know how much IE5 is using because so much of it is built into the OS and executed on bootup.
I understand the emphasis on Redhat, and I don't pretend to understand what it would take to address the problem of making sure that Nautilus works with different Linux distributions, but I think it's extremely important that the Eazel team does not forget Debian. I think doing the preview using the Debian package (along with feedback from the community) may help to insure this.
I think that's a load of crap. If that were true then he would have used that argument each time the issue was brought up, but he knows that argument doesn't hold any water. Just look at the way he danced around the questions and how he ended up by spouting some bs about how you need to choose an OS with applications for the most value. What does that sound like to you?
He may be flirting with Linux, but he's definitely still in bed with MS.
I just dumped all of my Corel stock today. Coincidence? I think not!
I think you may end up regretting this move as many investors place most of the blame for current stock prices on Cowpland. I have no idea of the blame is warranted or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if stock prices were to rise dramatically because of this. As an investor who is holding on to his stocks, I eagerly anticipating it.
Your reasons for not using debian are quite flimsy. You can have just as much cutting edge stuff with debian that you can in any other distro. (I do realize that there are some applications where the authors do not support debian so it takes a week or two for a package manager to make .deb available) It runs beautifully on my Compaq laptop with the latest eye candy available, and we even have some debian woody boxes that are running the latest 2.4-test kernel. Furthermore, I would rather have quality control than cutting edge on my mission critical servers any day. And the package management system is excellent. Maintenance and upgrades on these boxes is a breeze!
And with strong desktop distro's like corel and storm (which is better by far) your arguments become impotent. Personally, I would rather fight than switch.
Without getting too deeply mired in discussing educational psychology and methods, it can really all be boiled down to this: Computer software will never be able to match the interaction that a human teacher has with his/her student. While human teachers are not perfect, they are unmatched when it comes to on the fly assessment and creative integration of a variety of teaching methods as demanded by the circumstances and/or student preferred learning methods.
I have a variety of educational software in my home, some of which is considered the best on the market, and while I am frequently surprised by good and creative methods, the assessment abilities of the software are laughable, leave MUCH to be desired, and are, at times, dead wrong. And as any good teacher knows, correct assessment is absolutely critical to the education process.
From my perspective it is a no-brainer. Give me a good human teacher and good materials on traditional media over a software baby sitter any day! They are worth their weight in gold.
Having said all that, I need to make it clear that I will make sure that my children receive a superior computer education. This is non-negotiable in much the same way as learning to read is non-negotiable. But while I enjoyed Asimovs robot novels as much as the next person, I believe the correct view is that computers are TOOLS not TEACHERS.
I had no idea that this was in development. This is excellent news for Linux! I can remember feeling like I was going to fall over when I watched an IBM tech resize a partition on the fly during an RS/6000 install about a year ago.
These kind of ignorant comments really annoy me. "A lot of your software is instantly old"? Like what? Give me one good example! The kernel? Please! Enlighten me about a distribution that is currently shipping with 2.4. And who says you can't run the latest kernel anyway? We haven't tried the 2.4.test1 kernel, but we have a debian machine running the latest 2.3.99-pre kernel. As far as other software goes, I think the package maintainers do an admirable job of staying "on the ball with their releases".
Please be a little more informed before spreading FUD about Debian.
I have to agree with acb on this. I AM a Christian, and the Christian Coalition makes me very uncomfortable. I consider them to be a very dangerous political group. I don't want anyone forcing their fundamentalist beliefs on me, even if I happen to agree with them. History is completely bloodstained with horrific injustices done in the name of religion. The weight of evidence show that religion and political power do not mix well.
"The only thing we know for sure would be bad for consumers is anything that blocks us from being able to innovate Windows or anything that made it so that when people buy Windows they don't know what's in it."
Wait, I'm confused. Someone explain to me why leaving Windows closed is going to help people know what's in it. And someone please explain to Bill that open source enables innovation.
It cracks me up that he has adopted the position that Microsoft is interested in what is best for the consumer. What is best for the consumer is to have the best software without having to sacrifice money or freedom! Let's see how long this "selfless interest" would last if they weren't bringing in truckloads of money.
He should just come out and say, "The only thing we know for sure would be bad for Microsoft is anything that blocks us from being able to make money off of the consumer, including letting people know what's in Windows."