replace "vorbis" with "linux", and this sounds very familiar indeed...
Sure, but linux was over ten years old before people really started caring... plus many consider it improving thing by an order of magnitude - which only proves the poster's point.
Every time I sit at my computer, I think, "Where do I want to go today?" When I exercise, I'm tired and sore, but I just do it. Jared Fogle lost a fucking lot of weight by exercising and Subway! I want to try the new C2, but with Pepsi I play for a billion!
I am a happy gnome user, but one area in which I think the gnome project needs a lot of work is with the webpage. Even though they recently (a year ago?) updated gnome.org with a new look, it is already falling into unmaintenance.
Furthermore, gnome.org is far from the central site regarding things about gnome, which I think is a big mistake. In fact, even though I'm a heavy user of gnome stuff and keep up to date with gnome news, I hardly ever visit. Many important websites about gnome like footnotes or fifth toe or this site just announced aren't part of the gnome.org or at least have a DNS alias. Why? This is one area where KDE really has their act together, nearly everything side project and KDE group is part of the KDE domain.
Maintaining a website is a lot of work, so I know what I'm asking but I really think they could do better.
Why would anyone run yet another lame Linux distribution on their G5 when OS X works exponentially better, is way faster, more stable and has more drivers, applications, and developers involved? What could Linux possibly offer that OS X doesn't already do 10 times better?
You know, not that long ago people would've said the same thing about running Linux on x86...
Moore currently doesn't have a US distributor because of the Disney/Miramax situation, but Moore feels so strongly about the the content of Farenheit 911 and that American voters especially need to see the movie before the November election.
I'm personally not a fan of Michael Moore at all, but I will give Moore a lot of credit if he does what seems to be the best option right now: release the movie online, for free. If he does that, he shows that he isn't being a hypocritical war profiteer - he cares more about people hearing the message than the paycheck.
When the oscar for Best Foreign Language film was awarded to The Barbarians Invasions, Denise Robert (I think she was the producer?) said "We're so thankful that Lord of the Rings didn't qualify in this category."
It's interesting to see the different distributions slowly moving towards Debian's release policies. My question for the Fedora and now Mandrake is, why not utilize a very organized and effective "community" that exists right now of free software developers?
Certainly Debian's release schedule could be improved, but Debian is hard to beat in "stuff just working" when it is released.
If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)
However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.
Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in compliance of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.
Well, remember the plot is that a portal to hell is opened in a military installation in Mars. Thus the demons possess the station's personel, and maybe they glob together some of the weapons that were lying around? It's a story and a game, man. Take it easy!
Those worried about big brother may want to check out this article concerning On Star. Basically, once the FBI found out they could snoop on people (OnStar apparently has a "listen" feature) they were all over it.
Not to mention the possibilities of random strangers listening in...
If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)
However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.
Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in the spirit of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.
I think Apple makes great stuff, but at the end of the day, I really do believe in free software and can't wait to own a (dual?) Power4 workstation so I can run Linux on it.
When I saw this article, I followed the procedure that I've done whenever I saw something new with the Power4 (Apple calls it the G5) chip - I went to IBM's site to see if they sell their own workstations on it.
This time, however, I was incredibly happy to see that this was the case! The IBM website advertises Intellistation POWER series available for purchase. There are two large buts, though - and are probably related. Firstly, they are ridiculously expensive. As in, 8K+ for a 1 CPU at 1.0 GHz. Without a monitor. Secondly, they aren't running Linux - they're running AIX.
Does anybody know this situation? Has Linux been ported to the Power4 chip? I remember reading that it has, but I've never heard any success stories. Secondly, is IBM planning on releasing a workstation running Linux? I imagine the AIX license is a big part of the hardware and hopefully this would make the package much more affordable.
Knowing some friends who have modded games and after speaking with some game developers and reading some interviews, it's pretty clear that if you are really serious about being a game programmer, modding is the way to go.
If you work on something in your spare time, alone or with some friends, you're not going to come up with anything too amazing if you start from scratch. Just look at the best open source games written from scratch. Their either clones meant to be compatible with a commercial game, or if not they don't have the community even close to that of, say, a CounterStrike mod. It's not to say you can't learn a lot from that or market yourself from that, but if you make a decent mod, and leverage the existing fanbase of the original game you have a much stronger position if you're hunting around for a job.
google is a user's best friend google is tops for work time searches google is still spidering and caching my old server google is goood google is urged to go public google is the real winner in its own google is the world's favorite search engine google is faaasst google is dancing google is your friend google is gong bezerk google is featuring the google google is $deity google is so cool google is lief google is first time our top referer google is microsoft ? google is a powerful weapon indeed google is 'feeling lucky' google is excluding knife advertising google is a harsh mistress google is gong bezerk it seems forums are flooded with complaints about google's new search algorithms google is a target for any optimization campaign simply because it has managed to obtain the most attention from users on search google is just the juice google is probably archiving all of your images google is a part of my brain google is god don't piss her off google is a global phenomenon
google is thinking google is skynet google is just freaking me out google is watching you
Interestingly, I read a story in Debian Weekly News [1] where someone noticed that sometimes compiling a C++ program with -O3 is worse than with -O2.
The moral of the story? Just because you're running Gentoo and you've compiled everything yourself doesn't mean you have the fastest possible system. You actually have to know what you're doing, too.:o)
I really don't think this is too surprising. In my opinion, Red Hat made a mistake dropping their Desktop solution - sure, it may not have been giving them short term gains, but the reason Red Hat's so popular is because it is typically the Linux everyone starts with. Losing this mindshare I believe will ultimately lead to less Red Hat developers in the long run.
Aside from their departure, it really seems like free Red Hat has just been slowly turning into Debian anyway. Most RPM-based distros I know now offer apt solutions which of course users really like. And now all development on packaging is done by a community-powered group... sound familiar?
As time goes on, more and more events like these occur which make me really happy and proud of Debian. Obviously it isn't perfect and there's still plenty of areas to improve. But as I hear surveys saying the Debian is growing increasingly popular and as the free software community centers more and more around Debian - it's proving to be ultimately reedeeming for Debian's long persuit for purity and excellence.
In my opinion, I really don't care much about desktop environments. I personally only need multiple desktops and a way to start my programs, but I really just want stuff to be out of my way. Certainly the gnome terminal versus the KDE terminal isn't really something I care about. That said, I am a gnome user, but not because I think it's any better or worse than KDE.
The only reason that I use gnome is that I've found pretty much every cool GUI application written for X is written in GTK. Gimp, Gnumeric, Galeon, Abiword, Sodipodi, Pan, Evolution, etc. Obviously I'm aware that there's competent KDE/QT (are there any QT only apps?) replacements, but it almost always seems to be the GTK/gnome versions are much more interesting.
Sure, you can say Konquerer is about equivalent to Galeon or KWord is like Gnumeric. But even given those, I've never seen a comparable Gimp or Sodipodi or dozens of others GTK/galeon applications. Basically, while most KDE users I know run at least one or two GTK/gnome applications (which thankfully is relatively painless nowadays) I've never had any reason to run a QT/KDE app. And since I'm quite successful running only GTK apps, I don't really care to bring in a whole other desktop set of dependencies.
The only exception to this rule that I've found is KDevelop, which I've heard is a great IDE. Particularly because the gIDE/Anjuta/Scaffold situation hasn't really matured yet. Still, even then I hear Eclipse's GTK port is getting better...
Anyway, that's just my opinion on desktop usage. I'll use whichever one has the best applications.
PS - A recommendation - could you use blockquotes or something similar in your replies? Your >>> scheme is visually very unhelpful.
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How much will it be to play this game? Will there be a monthly fee?
I will give you two grain. No? Okay, two grain and a brick?
Why? We seem to have no problem believing it when we call that OS "Linux".
There was related strip where Dilbert and Ratbert were talking in front at Dilbert's desk.
(From memory):
Dilbert: Ratbert, for every bug I fix I get a bonus. Dance on the keyboard for me so I can fix your bugs.
(Ratbert dances on Dilbert's keyboard).
Ratbert: How am I doing?
Diblert: Not good. You've just created a web browser.
Sure, but linux was over ten years old before people really started caring... plus many consider it improving thing by an order of magnitude - which only proves the poster's point.
Every time I sit at my computer, I think, "Where do I want to go today?" When I exercise, I'm tired and sore, but I just do it. Jared Fogle lost a fucking lot of weight by exercising and Subway! I want to try the new C2, but with Pepsi I play for a billion!
Ack, I got to the get the door. It's Dominos.
I am a happy gnome user, but one area in which I think the gnome project needs a lot of work is with the webpage. Even though they recently (a year ago?) updated gnome.org with a new look, it is already falling into unmaintenance.
Furthermore, gnome.org is far from the central site regarding things about gnome, which I think is a big mistake. In fact, even though I'm a heavy user of gnome stuff and keep up to date with gnome news, I hardly ever visit. Many important websites about gnome like footnotes or fifth toe or this site just announced aren't part of the gnome.org or at least have a DNS alias. Why? This is one area where KDE really has their act together, nearly everything side project and KDE group is part of the KDE domain.
Maintaining a website is a lot of work, so I know what I'm asking but I really think they could do better.
You know, not that long ago people would've said the same thing about running Linux on x86...
Moore currently doesn't have a US distributor because of the Disney/Miramax situation, but Moore feels so strongly about the the content of Farenheit 911 and that American voters especially need to see the movie before the November election.
I'm personally not a fan of Michael Moore at all, but I will give Moore a lot of credit if he does what seems to be the best option right now: release the movie online, for free. If he does that, he shows that he isn't being a hypocritical war profiteer - he cares more about people hearing the message than the paycheck.
The petition to release the movie is here.
Actually, there is a strangely similar package in Debian.
Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer Into a Bomb and Blow Your Family To Smithereens!
When the oscar for Best Foreign Language film was awarded to The Barbarians Invasions, Denise Robert (I think she was the producer?) said "We're so thankful that Lord of the Rings didn't qualify in this category."
It's interesting to see the different distributions slowly moving towards Debian's release policies. My question for the Fedora and now Mandrake is, why not utilize a very organized and effective "community" that exists right now of free software developers?
Certainly Debian's release schedule could be improved, but Debian is hard to beat in "stuff just working" when it is released.
Nah man, that award goes to Swordfish. Please, take me to the world where hackers look like Hugh Jackman and score babes like Halle Berry!
If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)
However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.
Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in compliance of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.
Well, remember the plot is that a portal to hell is opened in a military installation in Mars. Thus the demons possess the station's personel, and maybe they glob together some of the weapons that were lying around? It's a story and a game, man. Take it easy!
Those worried about big brother may want to check out this article concerning On Star. Basically, once the FBI found out they could snoop on people (OnStar apparently has a "listen" feature) they were all over it.
Not to mention the possibilities of random strangers listening in...
If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)
However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.
Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in the spirit of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.
I think Apple makes great stuff, but at the end of the day, I really do believe in free software and can't wait to own a (dual?) Power4 workstation so I can run Linux on it.
When I saw this article, I followed the procedure that I've done whenever I saw something new with the Power4 (Apple calls it the G5) chip - I went to IBM's site to see if they sell their own
workstations on it.
This time, however, I was incredibly happy to see that this was the case! The IBM website advertises Intellistation POWER series available for purchase. There are two large buts, though - and are probably related. Firstly, they are ridiculously expensive. As in, 8K+ for a 1 CPU at 1.0 GHz. Without a monitor. Secondly, they aren't running Linux - they're running AIX.
Does anybody know this situation? Has Linux been ported to the Power4 chip? I remember reading that it has, but I've never heard any success stories. Secondly, is IBM planning on releasing a workstation running Linux? I imagine the AIX license is a big part of the hardware and hopefully this would make the package much more affordable.
World's largest film industry? They make porn?
Knowing some friends who have modded games and after speaking with some game developers and reading some interviews, it's pretty clear that if you are really serious about being a game programmer, modding is the way to go.
If you work on something in your spare time, alone or with some friends, you're not going to come up with anything too amazing if you start from scratch. Just look at the best open source games written from scratch. Their either clones meant to be compatible with a commercial game, or if not they don't have the community even close to that of, say, a CounterStrike mod. It's not to say you can't learn a lot from that or market yourself from that, but if you make a decent mod, and leverage the existing fanbase of the original game you have a much stronger position if you're hunting around for a job.
google is a user's best friend
google is tops for work time searches
google is still spidering and caching my old server
google is goood
google is urged to go public
google is the real winner in its own
google is the world's favorite search engine
google is faaasst
google is dancing
google is your friend
google is gong bezerk
google is featuring the google
google is $deity
google is so cool
google is lief
google is first time our top referer
google is microsoft ?
google is a powerful weapon indeed
google is 'feeling lucky'
google is excluding knife advertising
google is a harsh mistress
google is gong bezerk it seems forums are flooded with complaints about google's new search algorithms
google is a target for any optimization campaign simply because it has managed to obtain the most attention from users on search
google is just the juice
google is probably archiving all of your images
google is a part of my brain
google is god don't piss her off
google is a global phenomenon
google is thinking
google is skynet
google is just freaking me out
google is watching you
Interestingly, I read a story in Debian Weekly News [1] where someone noticed that sometimes compiling a C++ program with -O3 is worse than with -O2.
:o)
The moral of the story? Just because you're running Gentoo and you've compiled everything yourself doesn't mean you have the fastest possible system. You actually have to know what you're doing, too.
[1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/44/
Does anyone know when IBM will release their own line of Power4-powered PCs?
Has Linux been 64-bit native ported Power4 CPUs yet?
Is Apple the only vendor I can get one of these machines from?
I really don't think this is too surprising. In my opinion, Red Hat made a mistake dropping their Desktop solution - sure, it may not have been giving them short term gains, but the reason Red Hat's so popular is because it is typically the Linux everyone starts with. Losing this mindshare I believe will ultimately lead to less Red Hat developers in the long run.
Aside from their departure, it really seems like free Red Hat has just been slowly turning into Debian anyway. Most RPM-based distros I know now offer apt solutions which of course users really like. And now all development on packaging is done by a community-powered group... sound familiar?
As time goes on, more and more events like these occur which make me really happy and proud of Debian. Obviously it isn't perfect and there's still plenty of areas to improve. But as I hear surveys saying the Debian is growing increasingly popular and as the free software community centers more and more around Debian - it's proving to be ultimately reedeeming for Debian's long persuit for purity and excellence.
In my opinion, I really don't care much about desktop environments. I personally only need multiple desktops and a way to start my programs, but I really just want stuff to be out of my way. Certainly the gnome terminal versus the KDE terminal isn't really something I care about. That said, I am a gnome user, but not because I think it's any better or worse than KDE.
The only reason that I use gnome is that I've found pretty much every cool GUI application written for X is written in GTK. Gimp, Gnumeric, Galeon, Abiword, Sodipodi, Pan, Evolution, etc. Obviously I'm aware that there's competent KDE/QT (are there any QT only apps?) replacements, but it almost always seems to be the GTK/gnome versions are much more interesting.
Sure, you can say Konquerer is about equivalent to Galeon or KWord is like Gnumeric. But even given those, I've never seen a comparable Gimp or Sodipodi or dozens of others GTK/galeon applications. Basically, while most KDE users I know run at least one or two GTK/gnome applications (which thankfully is relatively painless nowadays) I've never had any reason to run a QT/KDE app. And since I'm quite successful running only GTK apps, I don't really care to bring in a whole other desktop set of dependencies.
The only exception to this rule that I've found is KDevelop, which I've heard is a great IDE. Particularly because the gIDE/Anjuta/Scaffold situation hasn't really matured yet. Still, even then I hear Eclipse's GTK port is getting better...
Anyway, that's just my opinion on desktop usage. I'll use whichever one has the best applications.
PS - A recommendation - could you use blockquotes or something similar in your replies? Your >>> scheme is visually very unhelpful.