There were actually TWO versions of "The Freshman". When their CD first came out (before they got big) "The Freshman" was a VERY slow melodic tale that just barely had music behind it.
After their first single went big (can't remember the name of it now) they re-released the CD... the new one had the new "improved" pop-version of "The Freshman".
If the band was complaining about that song it's my guess that they were probably complaining of the pop version they were forced to do. The original had a lot of emotion and you could tell that whoever wrote it did so out of personal experience - it always hurts more to change things you've put a lot of emotion into it.
I really mean it when I say thanks for a well reasoned argument.
In this case I completely agree... obviously we can't stand around and not treat people in the emergency room while their credit card clears...
The problem with your argument is that this is by far the RARE case. I don't mind paying for some emergency room visits if it means that all of us get good service. What I DO mind is that we have created a culture in this country that convinces people that their actions don't have consequences...
Sure, you don't need a job, all the rest of us will help you pay your bills! You're welcome!
Sure, you don't need to pay for healthcare like the rest of us that made good decisions and worked hard, you can just get on the government healthcare plan. Where does the money come from? Oh yeah, us, so now everyone that works has to pay not only our exorbitant healthcare costs, but also pay for everyone else in the country who's too lazy to get their own money and pay for their own care.
This country was founded on hard work and sacrifice. Allowing all of these people to get away with doing nothing (except soaking up money) is eroding our nation. It's no surprise to me that the dollar is falling in relation to other countries right now. Quite simply a dollar doesn't earn you as much work right now and shouldn't be worth as much.
This excusist attitude needs to stop. I don't think anyone OWES me anything. I work hard and earn everything that I get. If you aren't going to put in the same amount of effort that I am, then you quite simply don't deserve the things that I have - if that means you can't pay your rent... so be it... go live on the street until you make your mind up to put in the effort to keep a roof over your head.
It seems that some people can't look past their own check books and see the bigger picture... all they care about is whether or not they are personally writing a bigger check this year than last... regardless of how much their cost of living fluctuated this year.
The economy is a HUGE beast. That's why we have thousands upon thousands of people studying it and watching it daily... any one person can't make claims to know jack about what is actually happening (unless your name is Alan Greenspan).
It always seems to me that liberals have an especially hard time understanding this concept. They want the government to give everyone money and support the world, but at the same time they don't understand that for every dollar the government gives away something like 3 dollars had to be taken from people who actually worked for it (because of all the overhead involved).
But I guess I'm starting to get soap-boxish so I'll go back to actually getting some work done and making some money.... just so the liberals can give it to the lady down the street with 8 kids who can't seem to keep her legs closed.....
I would have to agree with the Gmail spam filter.... it really does kick some major ass.
I have had a couple of "personal spam" (messages that are from legitimate people - but are SPAM to me - on college campuses this happens all the time) get through - but after Reporting those as spam it hasn't messed up since. On average it has been eating about 30 spam emails a day.
I used Mozilla Mail's spam filter for the last year or so - and just completely switched to Gmail last week - and have found it to be superior in all regards (Filters and Labels are AWESOME!).
I'm graduating this semester from a little known CS program at the University of Missouri in Rolla - so I have some experience with little known programs.
In my experience it's all about effort. I put 100% effort into each and every aspect of my college career and I'm coming out on top. I have a 4.0 and have interned / co-oped EVERY summer with a different company. These two things have combined for getting me around 6 job offers at some of the top institutions in the US (including National Labs).
For me - if you work hard enough at it - you will achieve it. It doesn't matter what school you go to - as long as you aren't ok with mediocrity. If you want more than just a mediocre job you need to put more than just a mediocre effort into it.
I am laughing because I've been hitting signup.worldofwarcraft.com all day today as well (and you are spot on about FilePlanet today as well).
I actually got my Beta key early last week - but had to be out of town. I played in the WoW first stress test for a week and it was an absolute blast! I've never played an MMORPG before - but I'm definitely picking up WoW in a couple of weeks...
Where did you see it in Springfield? I saw it at the 16 in Theater #9 and it had the SWE3 trailer on the front of it.... maybe you should roll the dice and try it again (wouldn't be too terrible to see the incredibles twice anyway...)
Friedmud
Side Note: I was an idiot and showed up 2 hours before the movie started (bad time management by me - but then once I was there I thought it would be dumb to leave), no one else even showed up to be second in line until 45 minutes before the movie started.... I always forget that things are a little slower in Springfield....
Took you long enough! I was waiting for that reply!
How many thousands acres of land were destroyed / flooded when they created that damn?? If you're worried about ht environment that can't be a good thing;-)
J/k of course. But I do like to throw a monkey wrench into the wheel of environmental protection;-)
I have it - and I'll say that it will run fine at 800x600 at medium.
Don't go with Low setting though - the textures look washed out... if you can't run at 800x600 I would go for 640x480 at medium - it looks better than any res with low textures.
It runs pretty well on my laptop (17 fps average in using "timedemo demo1") at 1024x768 at High quality....
My laptop's specs: Pentium M 355 (with 2 Megs of cache) 1GB DDR Nvidia Quadro Go 1000 (this is my mobile workstation)
In general the Quadro is kind of a mixed bag... Some D3D games it does well with (Joint Operations is one that comes to mind) - while others it's not too happy about (UT2k4). I haven't really figured out how to tell if a game is going to perform well or not yet.
But it does run other OpenGL games like CRAZY - like Quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein - but I do realize those are older games (and I run them in Linux so that might help)....
Dunno - we'll see what happens.
I'm buying this game either way - the Linux support is just too juicy!
About your "4 seconds to load home" thing. The problem is you aren't seeing the fact that Konquerer is ATLEAST 400% better than windows explorer.
You can't do ANYTHING with windows explorer - you have to load up a hundred different programs to get the same functionality. With konquerer you can quickly preview just about ANY file format. You can open most formats directly in the window. You have tabbed browsing, in your file manager! (which internet explorer doesn't even have).
You can connect to many different protocols (such as: smb://, http://, ftp://, nfs://, imap://, fish:// and a whole bunch more) and manipulate the files just as if they are on your local machine.
And a WHOLE BUNCH MORE!
Everyone keeps yelling at the KDE people because of startup times for opening the home folder. They keep comparing that time to opening My Computer. The problem is - that's like comparing the startup time between Windows 3.1 and Windows XP. Sure I could start 3.1 in.01 seconds - BUT WHAT THE HELL GOOD WOULD IT DO ME.
Quit ranting about shit you don't stop to think about first.
The fact that a corporation would take a body of work that thousands of people have put their sweat and tears into - and then release it as their own work without acknowledging the rights of the people that made it. IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!
It is hard for me to fathom sitting in a meeting and chiming in with: "Hey! I've got an idea! Let's just walk ALL over those free software developers! We'll just steal their code and call it our own! It will be great!".
Whatever human inside Sco decided to do this is absolutely despicable! I hope they never meet me! They would definitely get the ass kicking of their life!
Not for me. This is exactly where I sit right now. I'm in college and don't have so much cash to spend and I need to do both development and gaming - and I need to do it on one machine.
This review is exactly what I have been doing lately. I am thinking about getting a dual opteron (probably just opteron 242's though - like I said not much cash) because I can play games on it - AND do development (I do a lot of compiling and dual CPUs would help out a lot).
Not too mention that I do all of my development in Linux so I would run an AMD64 build - and get even greater speed improvements.
I'd like to say thanks to firingsquad. This article is both relevant and well done (well, 3/4 of it is - I got hit by the slashdot effect;-)
I have an dual "Itanic II" sitting under my desk at work - it is an HP Workstation.
I use it to do Abaqus (Finite Element Analysis) solves and modeling. It is pretty damn quick (3 times faster than our dual Xeon Dells) - and yes, I do use it as my desktop (although all it has on it is KDE2 - which is pretty icky but it works)
I really wanted an Opteron - but no good workstation boards are out yet - I guess I will have to wait until the end of the year;-(
First of all I don't think there has been stagnation at all. Take Rainbow Six Raven Shield for example - incredible single player experience and even better multiplayer. This game has it all and looks good doing it.
I personally loathe CS - It was fun for a month or so - but all of the people hanging on to their celeron 300s with 64MB of RAM and a built in ATI Rage 128 need to give it up - get a better machine and play a newer game.
There are plenty of great FPSs out there (look at No One Lives Forever 2 for instance). Just because you can't look past your grainy, boring counter strike glasses doesn't mean there's nothing else out there.
"someday you just might get the hottest Go-Kill-Em-All game on Linux."
Well, as far as go-kill-em-all games go we have gotten most of those immediately as of late.
First with Quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein - and then with UT 2003 having the linux binaries IN THE BOX.
We are not hurting in the go-kill-em-all department - but it is things like RTS (which is where this game fits) and racing (which is where games like Midnight Racing are going to fit) that we need the most help.
It is definitely getting better though. Personally the game I am looking forward to the most is: Savage which is going to be released with linux binaries in the box as well.
NWN runs BETTER in linux than it does in windows. Maybe you are using some POS videocard - but there is no reason at all for 20fps.
I have a fairly standard rig and it runs fine:
1.2 Ghz Athlon 512MB RAM Geforce4 Ti4200
NWN is great! Since the linux client has come out it has totally taken all of my time (yes the built in modules aren't that great - but the user created content that is out there is INCREDIBLE).
Ok, everyone needs to figure out that the "uproar" was NOT about having a unified look.
MOST of the developers were mad because they changed KDE _fundamentally_ - they made incompatibilities in the libraries. This had/has the effect of some programs not even being able to be compiled on red-hat - and most developers I know that use red-hat have recompiled their kde and kde_libs so they work "correctly".
The rest of the gripes weren't really grounded - most of the kde developers I know didn't care about how they made it look.
Actually.... I LOVE it when companies collect data on me.
I guess I am just really weird - but I fill out every opinion poll - and answer every question when people call me asking for my opinion.
Why?
Well, mostly because if they are going to get somone's opinion on something IT MIGHT AS WELL BE MINE! And, if I am going to be bombarded with advertising (including spam, and junk mail) IT MIGHT AS WELL BE ABOUT STUFF I LIKE!
To all you paranoid slashdotters out there this might sound weird. But, really, truly, I have NOTHING to hide - so why worry?
Slashdot Mirror
There were actually TWO versions of "The Freshman". When their CD first came out (before they got big) "The Freshman" was a VERY slow melodic tale that just barely had music behind it.
After their first single went big (can't remember the name of it now) they re-released the CD... the new one had the new "improved" pop-version of "The Freshman".
If the band was complaining about that song it's my guess that they were probably complaining of the pop version they were forced to do. The original had a lot of emotion and you could tell that whoever wrote it did so out of personal experience - it always hurts more to change things you've put a lot of emotion into it.
Friedmud
I agree with Jonathan...
I really mean it when I say thanks for a well reasoned argument.
In this case I completely agree... obviously we can't stand around and not treat people in the emergency room while their credit card clears...
The problem with your argument is that this is by far the RARE case. I don't mind paying for some emergency room visits if it means that all of us get good service. What I DO mind is that we have created a culture in this country that convinces people that their actions don't have consequences...
Sure, you don't need a job, all the rest of us will help you pay your bills! You're welcome!
Sure, you don't need to pay for healthcare like the rest of us that made good decisions and worked hard, you can just get on the government healthcare plan. Where does the money come from? Oh yeah, us, so now everyone that works has to pay not only our exorbitant healthcare costs, but also pay for everyone else in the country who's too lazy to get their own money and pay for their own care.
This country was founded on hard work and sacrifice. Allowing all of these people to get away with doing nothing (except soaking up money) is eroding our nation. It's no surprise to me that the dollar is falling in relation to other countries right now. Quite simply a dollar doesn't earn you as much work right now and shouldn't be worth as much.
This excusist attitude needs to stop. I don't think anyone OWES me anything. I work hard and earn everything that I get. If you aren't going to put in the same amount of effort that I am, then you quite simply don't deserve the things that I have - if that means you can't pay your rent... so be it... go live on the street until you make your mind up to put in the effort to keep a roof over your head.
Friedmud
Totally agree!!
It seems that some people can't look past their own check books and see the bigger picture... all they care about is whether or not they are personally writing a bigger check this year than last... regardless of how much their cost of living fluctuated this year.
The economy is a HUGE beast. That's why we have thousands upon thousands of people studying it and watching it daily... any one person can't make claims to know jack about what is actually happening (unless your name is Alan Greenspan).
It always seems to me that liberals have an especially hard time understanding this concept. They want the government to give everyone money and support the world, but at the same time they don't understand that for every dollar the government gives away something like 3 dollars had to be taken from people who actually worked for it (because of all the overhead involved).
But I guess I'm starting to get soap-boxish so I'll go back to actually getting some work done and making some money.... just so the liberals can give it to the lady down the street with 8 kids who can't seem to keep her legs closed.....
Friedmud
I would have to agree with the Gmail spam filter.... it really does kick some major ass.
I have had a couple of "personal spam" (messages that are from legitimate people - but are SPAM to me - on college campuses this happens all the time) get through - but after Reporting those as spam it hasn't messed up since. On average it has been eating about 30 spam emails a day.
I used Mozilla Mail's spam filter for the last year or so - and just completely switched to Gmail last week - and have found it to be superior in all regards (Filters and Labels are AWESOME!).
Ok - enough Gmail love...
Friedmud
I'm graduating this semester from a little known CS program at the University of Missouri in Rolla - so I have some experience with little known programs.
In my experience it's all about effort. I put 100% effort into each and every aspect of my college career and I'm coming out on top. I have a 4.0 and have interned / co-oped EVERY summer with a different company. These two things have combined for getting me around 6 job offers at some of the top institutions in the US (including National Labs).
For me - if you work hard enough at it - you will achieve it. It doesn't matter what school you go to - as long as you aren't ok with mediocrity. If you want more than just a mediocre job you need to put more than just a mediocre effort into it.
Just my $0.02
Friedmud
LOL
I am laughing because I've been hitting signup.worldofwarcraft.com all day today as well (and you are spot on about FilePlanet today as well).
I actually got my Beta key early last week - but had to be out of town. I played in the WoW first stress test for a week and it was an absolute blast! I've never played an MMORPG before - but I'm definitely picking up WoW in a couple of weeks...
Everquest what?
Friedmud
Where did you see it in Springfield? I saw it at the 16 in Theater #9 and it had the SWE3 trailer on the front of it.... maybe you should roll the dice and try it again (wouldn't be too terrible to see the incredibles twice anyway...)
Friedmud
Side Note: I was an idiot and showed up 2 hours before the movie started (bad time management by me - but then once I was there I thought it would be dumb to leave), no one else even showed up to be second in line until 45 minutes before the movie started.... I always forget that things are a little slower in Springfield....
Geez!
;-)
;-)
Took you long enough! I was waiting for that reply!
How many thousands acres of land were destroyed / flooded when they created that damn?? If you're worried about ht environment that can't be a good thing
J/k of course. But I do like to throw a monkey wrench into the wheel of environmental protection
Friedmud
But that burns fossile fuels!!!!
Unlike the coal power plan that makes the electricity that charges your E-Bike...............
Friedmud
I have it - and I'll say that it will run fine at 800x600 at medium.
Don't go with Low setting though - the textures look washed out... if you can't run at 800x600 I would go for 640x480 at medium - it looks better than any res with low textures.
It runs pretty well on my laptop (17 fps average in using "timedemo demo1") at 1024x768 at High quality....
My laptop's specs:
Pentium M 355 (with 2 Megs of cache)
1GB DDR
Nvidia Quadro Go 1000 (this is my mobile workstation)
Friedmud
Mplayer for Gentoo automatically grabs every damn codec on the planet - just do:
mplayer videos_name.whatever
at a command prompt and I guarantee it will play.
Derek
In general the Quadro is kind of a mixed bag... Some D3D games it does well with (Joint Operations is one that comes to mind) - while others it's not too happy about (UT2k4). I haven't really figured out how to tell if a game is going to perform well or not yet.
But it does run other OpenGL games like CRAZY - like Quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein - but I do realize those are older games (and I run them in Linux so that might help)....
Dunno - we'll see what happens.
I'm buying this game either way - the Linux support is just too juicy!
Derek
The question I have is... how well do the quadro cards perform???
I have a brand new Quadro FX 1000 in my laptop and a year or so old Quadro 4 in my Desktop (Both with 128MB) - I wonder how well they'll run Doom3?
They're fairly optimized for opengl - so I remain hopeful!
Friedmud
In mozilla you can just load up the tab group you want and then go into preferences and say "Use Current Group" for your homepage...
;-)
Don't know about Firefox (note that I ACTUALLY use the rest of the components of the mozilla suite
Friedmud
Dude, I'm sorry but I have to reply...
.01 seconds - BUT WHAT THE HELL GOOD WOULD IT DO ME.
About your "4 seconds to load home" thing. The problem is you aren't seeing the fact that Konquerer is ATLEAST 400% better than windows explorer.
You can't do ANYTHING with windows explorer - you have to load up a hundred different programs to get the same functionality. With konquerer you can quickly preview just about ANY file format. You can open most formats directly in the window. You have tabbed browsing, in your file manager! (which internet explorer doesn't even have).
You can connect to many different protocols (such as: smb://, http://, ftp://, nfs://, imap://, fish:// and a whole bunch more) and manipulate the files just as if they are on your local machine.
And a WHOLE BUNCH MORE!
Everyone keeps yelling at the KDE people because of startup times for opening the home folder. They keep comparing that time to opening My Computer. The problem is - that's like comparing the startup time between Windows 3.1 and Windows XP. Sure I could start 3.1 in
Quit ranting about shit you don't stop to think about first.
Derek
This pretty much sums up how I feel.
The fact that a corporation would take a body of work that thousands of people have put their sweat and tears into - and then release it as their own work without acknowledging the rights of the people that made it. IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!
It is hard for me to fathom sitting in a meeting and chiming in with: "Hey! I've got an idea! Let's just walk ALL over those free software developers! We'll just steal their code and call it our own! It will be great!".
Whatever human inside Sco decided to do this is absolutely despicable! I hope they never meet me! They would definitely get the ass kicking of their life!
Derek
Not for me. This is exactly where I sit right now. I'm in college and don't have so much cash to spend and I need to do both development and gaming - and I need to do it on one machine.
;-)
This review is exactly what I have been doing lately. I am thinking about getting a dual opteron (probably just opteron 242's though - like I said not much cash) because I can play games on it - AND do development (I do a lot of compiling and dual CPUs would help out a lot).
Not too mention that I do all of my development in Linux so I would run an AMD64 build - and get even greater speed improvements.
I'd like to say thanks to firingsquad. This article is both relevant and well done (well, 3/4 of it is - I got hit by the slashdot effect
Derek
I have an dual "Itanic II" sitting under my desk at work - it is an HP Workstation.
;-(
I use it to do Abaqus (Finite Element Analysis) solves and modeling. It is pretty damn quick (3 times faster than our dual Xeon Dells) - and yes, I do use it as my desktop (although all it has on it is KDE2 - which is pretty icky but it works)
I really wanted an Opteron - but no good workstation boards are out yet - I guess I will have to wait until the end of the year
Derek
First of all I don't think there has been stagnation at all. Take Rainbow Six Raven Shield for example - incredible single player experience and even better multiplayer. This game has it all and looks good doing it.
I personally loathe CS - It was fun for a month or so - but all of the people hanging on to their celeron 300s with 64MB of RAM and a built in ATI Rage 128 need to give it up - get a better machine and play a newer game.
There are plenty of great FPSs out there (look at No One Lives Forever 2 for instance). Just because you can't look past your grainy, boring counter strike glasses doesn't mean there's nothing else out there.
Derek
"someday you just might get the hottest Go-Kill-Em-All game on Linux."
Well, as far as go-kill-em-all games go we have gotten most of those immediately as of late.
First with Quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein - and then with UT 2003 having the linux binaries IN THE BOX.
We are not hurting in the go-kill-em-all department - but it is things like RTS (which is where this game fits) and racing (which is where games like Midnight Racing are going to fit) that we need the most help.
It is definitely getting better though. Personally the game I am looking forward to the most is: Savage which is going to be released with linux binaries in the box as well.
Derek
WTF are talking about?
NWN runs BETTER in linux than it does in windows. Maybe you are using some POS videocard - but there is no reason at all for 20fps.
I have a fairly standard rig and it runs fine:
1.2 Ghz Athlon
512MB RAM
Geforce4 Ti4200
NWN is great! Since the linux client has come out it has totally taken all of my time (yes the built in modules aren't that great - but the user created content that is out there is INCREDIBLE).
Derek
Ok, everyone needs to figure out that the "uproar" was NOT about having a unified look.
MOST of the developers were mad because they changed KDE _fundamentally_ - they made incompatibilities in the libraries. This had/has the effect of some programs not even being able to be compiled on red-hat - and most developers I know that use red-hat have recompiled their kde and kde_libs so they work "correctly".
The rest of the gripes weren't really grounded - most of the kde developers I know didn't care about how they made it look.
Derek
Trying to make a Suffix Tree
Sorry, I gotta stop coding and go get some fresh air.
Derek
Ok, but what I say to that is: if you know you have something you need/want to hide - then take steps to hide it.
Just as many people have mentioned - just don't acceept the cookies - or don't go to google at all.
But for the rest of us it is a non issue.
Derek
Actually.... I LOVE it when companies collect data on me.
I guess I am just really weird - but I fill out every opinion poll - and answer every question when people call me asking for my opinion.
Why?
Well, mostly because if they are going to get somone's opinion on something IT MIGHT AS WELL BE MINE! And, if I am going to be bombarded with advertising (including spam, and junk mail) IT MIGHT AS WELL BE ABOUT STUFF I LIKE!
To all you paranoid slashdotters out there this might sound weird. But, really, truly, I have NOTHING to hide - so why worry?
Derek