I can understand why people object to them suing anyone, but as long as they're going to sue someone, why not a teenager? It's not like teenagers aren't aware that freely downloading copyrighted music is illegal.
I can point a rational 10 year old at a bare box (a COMPUTER, get yer mind outta the gutter!) and hand him a windows installation and a AOL disk, and he'll (usually) be up and running.
I installed Debian as a ten-year-old. It's not too hard if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, a Windows install won't any much easier than a Knoppix/Lindows/Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake install.
They did at one point, but discontinued it due to lack of demand (and the fact that it fucked up apt's dependency resolution). However, many of Ximian's changes (the Ximian fileselector, the "industrial" theme, etc.) are available in standard Debian GNOME.
Chessmaster can be set to play like a player of any rating. If you're too cheap for that, I've found that TI-Chess for the TI-89 (for which there are several emulators if you don't have the real thing) plays at around my level, and I'm a 1000ish player.
I'm not a benchmarking expert, but I can't imagine that LINPACK and other number-crunching benchmarks don't even include a single if statement to verify that they got the correct answers.
If you had read anything about this project, you would know that they have implemented their own low-overhead software error correction to compensate for the non-ECC memory. Presumably the benchmarks were done with this enabled.
I wasn't referring to you specifically. Anyone who sits in front of a computer 24/7 doesn't have a life. If you don't currently fit that description, then great, I'm not talking about you.
There are a lot of great things to do that don't involve sitting at a computer, and kids should be exposed to them. Of course browsing/. and looking at porn have a place in a teenage nerd's life, but there should be more to it than that. I'd argue that any time you're skipping school to play Doom, there's something wrong.
If they are looking at something that they aren't comfortable with me perhaps glancing over and seeing, well, that's a good indication they shouldn't be looking at it.
I see your point, but kids do have a certain need for privacy. There's nothing wrong with a teenager looking at porn (as long as they know how to get it for free without screwing up the computer), but I doubt they're gonna want you looking over their shoulder at that point.
That said, there are some good reasons for limiting the access priviledges of smaller (elementary-school-ish) kids. goatse.cx is a prime example.
You mean like rebooting and choosing a different language setting? That takes around 15 seconds.
If this was still present in sarge when it becomes stable, I'd understand your outrage. But this is the first beta of a piece of software that won't be released for a long time, probably close to a year. I agree that it's not the way it should work, but it annoys me when someone refuses to use an entire OS because of a non-critical keyboard layout bug in an installer that's many months away from shipping.
So one minor glitch (which probably wouldn't affect you, if like most/.ers you're American) in a pre-beta of an installer is putting you off of using an operating system? You really need to rethink your priorities.
The 9100 came out around a year ago, long after the GF4 series (it was on the low-end of ATI's lineup at the time). The FX5200, which came out a few months later at the bottom of NVidia's line, does not perform particuarly well (it falls behind the GF4 MX in several cases). While the numbers (3100 vs. 7100) seem a little extreme to me, the basic scenario is perfectly plausable.
It's not easy being a male porn star. There are certain physical requirements you have to be able to meet. Can you get it up on command? Instantly, every time? In front of a camera and a dozen other people? At a 4:30 AM shoot?
I highly doubt the XB2 could run GC games natively, if for no other reason than that the discs wouldn't fit (plus, the GC has some pretty specialized hardware). Gameboy games might be a different story. The current XBox can already run GB emulators under Linux, it's only legal issues that prevent some company from releasing a GB player for XBox. The same legal issues would presumably persist with the XBox 2, but the technology is there and has been for a long time.
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I can understand why people object to them suing anyone, but as long as they're going to sue someone, why not a teenager? It's not like teenagers aren't aware that freely downloading copyrighted music is illegal.
I installed Debian as a ten-year-old. It's not too hard if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, a Windows install won't any much easier than a Knoppix/Lindows/Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake install.
They did at one point, but discontinued it due to lack of demand (and the fact that it fucked up apt's dependency resolution). However, many of Ximian's changes (the Ximian fileselector, the "industrial" theme, etc.) are available in standard Debian GNOME.
Yes, he did.
Chessmaster can be set to play like a player of any rating. If you're too cheap for that, I've found that TI-Chess for the TI-89 (for which there are several emulators if you don't have the real thing) plays at around my level, and I'm a 1000ish player.
I'm not a benchmarking expert, but I can't imagine that LINPACK and other number-crunching benchmarks don't even include a single if statement to verify that they got the correct answers.
If you had read anything about this project, you would know that they have implemented their own low-overhead software error correction to compensate for the non-ECC memory. Presumably the benchmarks were done with this enabled.
There are a lot of great things to do that don't involve sitting at a computer, and kids should be exposed to them. Of course browsing /. and looking at porn have a place in a teenage nerd's life, but there should be more to it than that. I'd argue that any time you're skipping school to play Doom, there's something wrong.
Why?
I see your point, but kids do have a certain need for privacy. There's nothing wrong with a teenager looking at porn (as long as they know how to get it for free without screwing up the computer), but I doubt they're gonna want you looking over their shoulder at that point.
That said, there are some good reasons for limiting the access priviledges of smaller (elementary-school-ish) kids. goatse.cx is a prime example.
That and the fact that you have no life.
Starcraft Brood War, Deus Ex, Diablo II, Civ3, GTA3, etc. are all fantastic games that can be found for less than $20.
You mean like rebooting and choosing a different language setting? That takes around 15 seconds.
If this was still present in sarge when it becomes stable, I'd understand your outrage. But this is the first beta of a piece of software that won't be released for a long time, probably close to a year. I agree that it's not the way it should work, but it annoys me when someone refuses to use an entire OS because of a non-critical keyboard layout bug in an installer that's many months away from shipping.
So one minor glitch (which probably wouldn't affect you, if like most /.ers you're American) in a pre-beta of an installer is putting you off of using an operating system? You really need to rethink your priorities.
If you would have read the article, you'd have seen that that's exactly what they're doing.
Yes. mplayer -vo aa hilton.avi works great if you have AALib installed on your system.
The 9100 came out around a year ago, long after the GF4 series (it was on the low-end of ATI's lineup at the time). The FX5200, which came out a few months later at the bottom of NVidia's line, does not perform particuarly well (it falls behind the GF4 MX in several cases). While the numbers (3100 vs. 7100) seem a little extreme to me, the basic scenario is perfectly plausable.
No one's cracked RSA after 25 years. It may not be perfect, but it's pretty damn secure.
Because alkalines suck in digital cameras. Use NiMH rechargables, they last longer and they're much, much cheaper in the long run.
It's not easy being a male porn star. There are certain physical requirements you have to be able to meet. Can you get it up on command? Instantly, every time? In front of a camera and a dozen other people? At a 4:30 AM shoot?
Good luck getting your Linux box to play encrypted WMA.
That joke was kind of funny the first few times it was posted on /., roughly five years ago. Now, it's just lame.
Why?
No software goal would be complete without having at least two or three separate open source projects working towards it.
I highly doubt the XB2 could run GC games natively, if for no other reason than that the discs wouldn't fit (plus, the GC has some pretty specialized hardware). Gameboy games might be a different story. The current XBox can already run GB emulators under Linux, it's only legal issues that prevent some company from releasing a GB player for XBox. The same legal issues would presumably persist with the XBox 2, but the technology is there and has been for a long time.