Bingo on all counts, except for the true gamers. Since this is a rather small town, the Walmart where I work is one of only four sources for computer games and one of two sources for console games within three hours drive. Even the true gamers have to shop here if they don't want to mail-order or take a 6 hour plus trip. I think I've been talking to a fairly accurate sampling of people here.
And the hell of it is, I don't personally care at all for the Gamecube. I'm a Squaresoft fan.:)
So do I (in electronics at a chain store where we wear blue vests and do a stupid cheer every morning) and the only thing people ask me about is PS2 and Gamecube. When I mention that Microsoft is coming out with a console at about the same time as Nintendo, they all ask what games will be on it. When I answer, they ask "Isn't that on computer anyway?"
Not a single person I have ever talked to wants an XBox. It's simply a non-issue.
Just an anecdote, but I remember using IBM XTs as far as 1990 in my cash-strapped junior high school. It was quite a treat to move up to the new 286s they bought. The even had these cool "hard drive" things that let you boot the computer without a disk.
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I don't think a lot of us geeks who dislike the iMacs did so because of the form, it was because Apple had sacrificed functionality for the form. At least, those are my reasons. I can't really speak for others.
Nice idea in theory, but Mars' atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's. One would need a damn big balloon to lift a payload of any practical size. Researchers working on airplanes for use on Mars have similiar problems.
I bet you microsoft could pay each of the FSF sc members 10,000 dollars and they would throw away their morals an assign all the GNU copyrights to microsoft. What's that you say? RMS is too nice for that. Think again. That would be really really funny.
Would it be possible to fork each new version of a GPLed piece of software to use as a sort of backup in case of something like this? For example, forking each new version of the Linux kernel as the Fooix kernel, all according to the GPL?
All very true, but imagine that you had a reputation for, ahem, not being terribly polite.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I call it "Linux" because I don't really like the way that RMS tries to get his point across. He has very valid points, but the guy just carries himself off as a rabid nutjob.
Of course, I pronounce it "Lye-nux" just to piss off the grammar control freaks, and I'm a member of ESR's "I just want software that doesn't suck" faction, so take this comment with a grain of salt.;)
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I work in Electronics at a Walmart. We're actually selling quite a few of the Gran Turismo 3 PS2 bundles alongside the standard PS2 systems. Granted, it's just a single game added for about $10 cheaper total, but those red and black boxes it comes in are just cool looking.:)
As a respectable communist child-molesting telemarketer, I take GREAT offense at being called a scientologist! My law firm, Cheatem, Screwem and Lye, will be contacting you shortly.
It is my honest belief that current research in AI is not so much about how to make computers think, but rather about how to reproduce the behaviour tranditionally associated with thinking. The distinction is important.
Isn't this the same distinction that Alan Turing had decided was ultimately irrelevant? What's more important, the process or the result?
Absolutely. This is the way I use my Slackware 8.0 system.
In fact, to make it even easier, take a look at Encap. It's a very simple concept. Instead of installing programs that you compile to/usr/local or/usr or whereever you normally install to, you install to/usr/local/encap. You can then use a program called "epkg" to automatically set symlinks to the proper files in the right directories.
For example, if you wanted to compile program foo version x.y and install using Encap, you'd do something like this:
configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap
make
make install
cd/usr/local/encap
epkg foo-x.y
This way, you'd have/usr/local/encap/foo-x.y/bin/foo symlinked to/usr/local/bin/foo,/usr/local/encap/foo-x.y/share/foo/ to/usr/local/share/foo/, etcetera.
A very simple concept, encap just makes the symlinking painless. One could do the symlinking manually, but it would be annoying and time-consuming for something like the Gimp.
The whole point to all this is to make it easy to get rid of old programs without having to figure out what file belongs to what program. You can "epkg -r" the directory, delete it, then install foo-x.z the same way.
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Bingo on all counts, except for the true gamers. Since this is a rather small town, the Walmart where I work is one of only four sources for computer games and one of two sources for console games within three hours drive. Even the true gamers have to shop here if they don't want to mail-order or take a 6 hour plus trip. I think I've been talking to a fairly accurate sampling of people here.
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And the hell of it is, I don't personally care at all for the Gamecube. I'm a Squaresoft fan.
So do I (in electronics at a chain store where we wear blue vests and do a stupid cheer every morning) and the only thing people ask me about is PS2 and Gamecube. When I mention that Microsoft is coming out with a console at about the same time as Nintendo, they all ask what games will be on it. When I answer, they ask "Isn't that on computer anyway?"
Not a single person I have ever talked to wants an XBox. It's simply a non-issue.
How about the Wired?
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Err, just ignore the wireless part of the tech. It's still a cool name.
What about running KDE at a useable speed?
Just an anecdote, but I remember using IBM XTs as far as 1990 in my cash-strapped junior high school. It was quite a treat to move up to the new 286s they bought. The even had these cool "hard drive" things that let you boot the computer without a disk.
I don't think a lot of us geeks who dislike the iMacs did so because of the form, it was because Apple had sacrificed functionality for the form. At least, those are my reasons. I can't really speak for others.
Bob.
Maybe it would be more practical in the long run to just work on a way to produce what we need in space, instead of hauling everything up.
Time to go mining Cruithne, perhaps. :)
Nice idea in theory, but Mars' atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's. One would need a damn big balloon to lift a payload of any practical size. Researchers working on airplanes for use on Mars have similiar problems.
Can you imagine...
I bet you microsoft could pay each of the FSF sc members 10,000 dollars and they would throw away their morals an assign all the GNU copyrights to microsoft. What's that you say? RMS is too nice for that. Think again. That would be really really funny.
Would it be possible to fork each new version of a GPLed piece of software to use as a sort of backup in case of something like this? For example, forking each new version of the Linux kernel as the Fooix kernel, all according to the GPL?
All very true, but imagine that you had a reputation for, ahem, not being terribly polite.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I call it "Linux" because I don't really like the way that RMS tries to get his point across. He has very valid points, but the guy just carries himself off as a rabid nutjob.
Of course, I pronounce it "Lye-nux" just to piss off the grammar control freaks, and I'm a member of ESR's "I just want software that doesn't suck" faction, so take this comment with a grain of salt. ;)
Could RMS really be L. Bob Rife from Snow Crash?
Hmm.
I work in Electronics at a Walmart. We're actually selling quite a few of the Gran Turismo 3 PS2 bundles alongside the standard PS2 systems. Granted, it's just a single game added for about $10 cheaper total, but those red and black boxes it comes in are just cool looking. :)
Totally different genres. A better comparison would be the Dead Or Alive series to the Super Smash Brothers series. No contest.
*sniffle* God bless the overly-hormonal Japanese videogame industry.
Wow. I just bought a VIA motherboard for my K6 CPU because a very good friend told me it was reliable. Now I feel even better. :)
You obviously don't browse at -1, then. ;)
Or the Beverly Hillbillies. That song's been going through my head for the past few hours.
I hate to make "me too!" posts, but you've got at least one supporter right here.
I think you're confusing cause and effect.
As a respectable communist child-molesting telemarketer, I take GREAT offense at being called a scientologist! My law firm, Cheatem, Screwem and Lye, will be contacting you shortly.
I bid you good day.
It is my honest belief that current research in AI is not so much about how to make computers think, but rather about how to reproduce the behaviour tranditionally associated with thinking. The distinction is important.
Isn't this the same distinction that Alan Turing had decided was ultimately irrelevant? What's more important, the process or the result?
Absolutely. This is the way I use my Slackware 8.0 system.
In fact, to make it even easier, take a look at Encap. It's a very simple concept. Instead of installing programs that you compile to /usr/local or /usr or whereever you normally install to, you install to /usr/local/encap. You can then use a program called "epkg" to automatically set symlinks to the proper files in the right directories.
For example, if you wanted to compile program foo version x.y and install using Encap, you'd do something like this:
/usr/local/encap
configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap
make
make install
cd
epkg foo-x.y
This way, you'd have /usr/local/encap/foo-x.y/bin/foo symlinked to /usr/local/bin/foo, /usr/local/encap/foo-x.y/share/foo/ to /usr/local/share/foo/, etcetera.
A very simple concept, encap just makes the symlinking painless. One could do the symlinking manually, but it would be annoying and time-consuming for something like the Gimp.
The whole point to all this is to make it easy to get rid of old programs without having to figure out what file belongs to what program. You can "epkg -r" the directory, delete it, then install foo-x.z the same way.
Blue Face Of Death?
Evil Dead. 'Nuff said.