Well, it does in the sense that I should be able to run Doom 3 at 640x480 with lower detail just fine.:)
And that's if I had crappier hardware. With a GF4600 and 1GB of ram, I'd guess I can easily run it in 800x600 with reasonable detail, or 1024x768 with low detail.
Do you not understand basic logic? XBOX is evidence that it runs well on low end hardware, therefore it's obvious it should be able to run fine on more powerfull hardware: GF4600, 1GB RAM, decent processor.
The XBOX has something close to a P3 running at 700mhz with a tweaked GF3 graphics card. I think it only has something like 256 MB of RAM.
The xbox will run Doom 3. Given that, Doom 3 BETTER run fine on a PC with specs similar to yours (and mine).
I won't be upgrading my PC just for one game. My PC runs all current games fine. At this point in my life, I have better things to waste my money on than one game, regardless of how good it is. I'd sooner have beer with friends any day.
Once people know what it allows them to do or not do, they are free to not use it, but at least the decision will be made on more than bullshit they once read or heard somewhere.
Then why don't you GPL supporters stop going around calling the GPL "Free"? You DO know that no matter how you redifine the word free to suite your needs, the rest of the world sees "free" as the dictionary does? They think, "Oh, I can do whatever I want with it, because it's free."
You should instead say it's licensed under, say copyleft, or simply GPL. This right away implies to people that there is a license associated with the software that may have restrictions. When they check, LO! it DOES have restrictions.
Except that dashboard never reached a first release, and doesn't search the web I don't think.
Why is it people always try to suggest that something copied open source software? I bet 99% of the people on this planet don't know what the gnome dashboard prototype is. I also bet the Blinx people have no clue, given that blinx is an IE based product.
Well, I'm certianly no expert on this, but it sounds like you have stress related insomnia. From what I've read and heard, high stress can cause insomnia and sleeping problems similar to what you describe. Given your story, it does sound like you are under a huge amount of stress. So the doctor gave you the correct diagnosis.
How to void or reduce stress, I really don't know. I just live with the fact that when I get stressed I will wake up multiple times a night and it will takee me around 1 (or very rarely, up to 6) hours to fall asleep.
Something that I didn't mention in my previous post which I do to help the situation, is to try going to sleep so that I have at least 9 hours of potential sleep time ahead of me. when I am really having problems I leave up to 10 or 11 hours of potential sleep time. That way, even though I don't sleep all of those 9-10 hours, I usually can get 7 1/2 - 8 hours of sleep.
In my experience dropping my morning coffee doesn't help me sleep any better at night, and often significantly ruins my morning.
There are, of course, medications that you can get from a doctor to help you sleep, but personally I try to avoid those lest I become dependent on them. Other than trying the tricks that I use (relaxing before I go to sleep, leaving time for 9 or more hours of *potential sleep*, keeping a sleep routine), I'd not want to suggest anything because I'm not a doctor.
If you look for stress related insomnia on google there are a lot of pages with different suggestions and ideas.
I've thought about trying this actually, but I haven't had the guts really. I do also have occasional meetings/appointments that end up being in the range of 10:30 to 2:00 pm (around 1 a week).
So far I've been able to move my clock backwards slowly, and if I really needed to I'm sure I could bring my schedule into sync with a 9-5 work week. Since it's not pressing or required, I've settled on getting up around 9:30-10:00 and going to sleep around 1:00 am. That way I avoid rush hour.;) Also going to sleep at 1:00 is nice since it's usually very quiet by then. I live in an appartment and am sensitive to noise.
Well, it's sort of hit and miss. Sometimes playing video games is ok, but only certain types. Something like Far Cry won't work, nor will online games, nor racing games. I find that rpgs are usually slow paced enough (and sometimes even tedious) that while I am interested in the game, I don't get overly stimulated.
TV shows can also work well, but again, if you end up watching something on general relativity or some other thought provoking show it won't work. Fortunatly most of TV these days is fairly mindless. Reading the web is usually fine as well.
I'm sure this varies from person to person though. Just try to avoid things that get your pulse up or mind racing.
I have had the exact same problem for most of my life. Drinking is not a good solution in the long run. I tried it, and while it does work, it also causes other problems as I'm sure you've found.
If it helps any, here is what I've done to combat it. First, I don't drink coffee or caffine in general past 12 noon. Second, I try to keep a regular schedule. Sadly that schedule is often sleeping 1 am to 10 am, or 2 am to 11 am, but it's better than the completely random schedule I had before. Most important though, is that I can't do ANYTHING that requires significant thought after dinner (or at least 2 hours before sleeping).
Most times I can now get to sleep within an hour, sometimes I can even sleep the whole night without waking up. Of course, occasionally I am still hit with a bout of insomnia where I lie awake for 6 hours. But all in all, I'm doing better than I used to. I guess I'm lucky to have the flexability to choose my own timetable though.
Anyways, try to get off the chemical sleep aids, and see if you can somehow restore your circadian rythem (sleeping pattern) via repatition. Just go to sleep at a fixed time each night regardless of if you're tired, and get up 8-9 hours later, regardless of if you're tired.
I play games to escape reality. I don't want to play a game with lawyers and cops, nor about WW1 or WW2 or Vietnam. (Actually real life war themed games disgust me. It's a topic that should not be made light of.)
Personally, I like games with elves and magic and fake things.
But a good HIG doesn't require a user to read it to understand it. Developers need to read it, but using it should be intuitive. I understand the problem of third party developers, but I still feel the AHIG could be improved.
I'm not saying it's *bad*, just that it could be better. Why do I think this? Because the gnome HIG is intuitive. I've never read it, yet I immediatly picked up on the consistencies among applications. Granted, there are many gnome programs that do not follow the gnome HIG well, but as you said, no one can do anything about that.
I read your post on Safari, but I still feel that Apple just used brushed metal because they felt like it. I don't at all think of a web browser as a source list. A bookmark browser yes, but that is only a component of a web browser. At any rate, there is obviously much disagrement over the use of HIG, which suggest that the AHIG is not clear enough and could be improved.
Be satisified, but still strive to be better. Now with tiger introducing yet another look, I fear the AHIG might get confusing, given it's already not as clear is it could be.
But what about safari? Don't get me wrong, the Apple guidlines are way above the windows or the KDE guidlines, but I still feel that they perhaps fall a bit short. The brushed metal is not that bad of an ambiguity, although there is still some ambiguity there.
Also, with regards to configuration panels, some panels are instant apply, some need an apply button to be pressed (mostly these are 3rd party apps though), and some, like mail, take effect only when the pref panel is closed. This is confusing. I'd be much happier if as much as possible was instant apply as in gnome's HIG. In cases where an option is not instant apply, it would be nice to have some obvious notification of this.
I hope this is the case, but I'm somewhat afriad that Apple will keep the new look. The whole brushed metal vs normal applications thing doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence. All in all, I think the Apple HIG could be improved and followed more closely.
Equal how? How do you suppose those 'creative-without-pay' types get food and shelter? Are you proposing we have xx% of people just be creative and poor while the remaining percent of people just take take take? Or are you proposing that *everyone* be a creative type?
I like to add that due to the JPEG compression, JPEG should never be used for originals or working copies of graphics. Artists should always work in lossless formats, then save a JPEG version for distribution.
Except that many of the problems with fedora (eg mp3 support) have nothing to do with the hardware.
There is 'suppport hardware out of the box' which is hard. But then there is 'work out of the box given supported hardware'. Linux in general, along with fedora, is terrible at this. There are projects attempting to solve these issues, but none are usable yet.
Hmm. If 90% of the people of a particular country hated you, and continually made fun of you, would YOU like people from that country?
I sure wouldn't. If you go to a foreign country, at least make an effort to speak their language and respect their culture. You'll find you're treated much better.
P.S. The US does not treat foreigners well, even when in foreign countries. And if you are from the middle-east or even near middle east, you may as well tattoo the word terrorist on your forehead.
Hmm. I guess it depends also on your height. I'm currently 145 lbs. If I were 205 lbs with the extra wieght made of muscle I'd be extrodinarily abnormal by any standard. Of course 205 is not that much for people with larger builds.
I still find it hard to believe that it's hard to find pants that fit though. The ratios in your links are indeed normal, and I think even I have that ratio. But I have no problems at all finding pants that fit width wise. Maybe it's because I'm fairly short?? Of course it's impossible for me to find pants that are short enough. All pants seem way way too long for me.
NASA always out sourced a bit. This company made bot h the shuttle arm, and the ISS arm, it's not surprising they were asked to do the robotic repairs for the hubble.
If you are a bodybuilder/weightlifter in good shape then your waist will typically be smaller, and your thighs bigger.
Sure, but if the ratio is that much of a problem, then you are already into the "huge" catagory and that means you must have really TRIED to get that big. I always hear people saying 'I don't want to get too big' as an excuse for not working out. They do not realize that getting that huge doesn't happen by accident. You have to try really hard to get that big.
The orignal poster had a tone that sounded a bit like an excuse. Maybe it wasn't, and he really did go all out and get huge at one point, but I find it questionable when he says things like 'when I workout'. To get to be abnormally large, you have to workout consistently, not every now and then.
These companies make no money on FOSS software, their income comes from elsewhere. These also cater to the corporate market, limited. Many of the companies in your list sell proprietary software for Linux. They are banking on their proprietary components causing sales. Also, this is an incredibly small list considering the size of the software industry. So yes, these are isolated cases.
You FOSS types like to go on about 'changing their old business model'. But you never give *any* evidence, other than a few isolated cases, that this is possible in practise.
My hypothesis is that FOSS style business models cannot replace the current proprietary models. If everything were to go FOSS, then I think a LOT of programmers would be out of jobs. I dont' have any proof of this either, but I will point out that it's human nature not to pay for things they get for free. Selling services might work for corporations, but you'd lose 90% of the home market. That's a LOT of money and people who become unemployed.
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Weird. I did google for oGalaxyo. I didn't realize he was such a KDE fan. If he loves KDE so much, why doesn't he just use it?
Is this new project simply some Jihad against Gnome or something? Did he change his mind about KDE being the best?
Spatial browsing is one thing, but the rest of his ideas show an extreme lack of technical knowledge and rational thought.
Not to mention his posts on osnews as ogalaxyo gave me the impression that he was a 12 year old kid who simply hasn't figured out how things work yet.
Well, it does in the sense that I should be able to run Doom 3 at 640x480 with lower detail just fine. :)
And that's if I had crappier hardware. With a GF4600 and 1GB of ram, I'd guess I can easily run it in 800x600 with reasonable detail, or 1024x768 with low detail.
Excuse me? Care to explain your insult?
Do you not understand basic logic? XBOX is evidence that it runs well on low end hardware, therefore it's obvious it should be able to run fine on more powerfull hardware: GF4600, 1GB RAM, decent processor.
The XBOX has something close to a P3 running at 700mhz with a tweaked GF3 graphics card. I think it only has something like 256 MB of RAM.
The xbox will run Doom 3. Given that, Doom 3 BETTER run fine on a PC with specs similar to yours (and mine).
I won't be upgrading my PC just for one game. My PC runs all current games fine. At this point in my life, I have better things to waste my money on than one game, regardless of how good it is. I'd sooner have beer with friends any day.
Once people know what it allows them to do or not do, they are free to not use it, but at least the decision will be made on more than bullshit they once read or heard somewhere.
Then why don't you GPL supporters stop going around calling the GPL "Free"? You DO know that no matter how you redifine the word free to suite your needs, the rest of the world sees "free" as the dictionary does? They think, "Oh, I can do whatever I want with it, because it's free."
You should instead say it's licensed under, say copyleft, or simply GPL. This right away implies to people that there is a license associated with the software that may have restrictions. When they check, LO! it DOES have restrictions.
Please stop spreading bullshit yourself.
Except that dashboard never reached a first release, and doesn't search the web I don't think.
Why is it people always try to suggest that something copied open source software? I bet 99% of the people on this planet don't know what the gnome dashboard prototype is. I also bet the Blinx people have no clue, given that blinx is an IE based product.
Well, I'm certianly no expert on this, but it sounds like you have stress related insomnia. From what I've read and heard, high stress can cause insomnia and sleeping problems similar to what you describe. Given your story, it does sound like you are under a huge amount of stress. So the doctor gave you the correct diagnosis.
How to void or reduce stress, I really don't know. I just live with the fact that when I get stressed I will wake up multiple times a night and it will takee me around 1 (or very rarely, up to 6) hours to fall asleep.
Something that I didn't mention in my previous post which I do to help the situation, is to try going to sleep so that I have at least 9 hours of potential sleep time ahead of me. when I am really having problems I leave up to 10 or 11 hours of potential sleep time. That way, even though I don't sleep all of those 9-10 hours, I usually can get 7 1/2 - 8 hours of sleep.
In my experience dropping my morning coffee doesn't help me sleep any better at night, and often significantly ruins my morning.
There are, of course, medications that you can get from a doctor to help you sleep, but personally I try to avoid those lest I become dependent on them. Other than trying the tricks that I use (relaxing before I go to sleep, leaving time for 9 or more hours of *potential sleep*, keeping a sleep routine), I'd not want to suggest anything because I'm not a doctor.
If you look for stress related insomnia on google there are a lot of pages with different suggestions and ideas.
Best of luck, wish there was an easy solution.
I've thought about trying this actually, but I haven't had the guts really. I do also have occasional meetings/appointments that end up being in the range of 10:30 to 2:00 pm (around 1 a week).
;) Also going to sleep at 1:00 is nice since it's usually very quiet by then. I live in an appartment and am sensitive to noise.
So far I've been able to move my clock backwards slowly, and if I really needed to I'm sure I could bring my schedule into sync with a 9-5 work week. Since it's not pressing or required, I've settled on getting up around 9:30-10:00 and going to sleep around 1:00 am. That way I avoid rush hour.
Well, it's sort of hit and miss. Sometimes playing video games is ok, but only certain types. Something like Far Cry won't work, nor will online games, nor racing games. I find that rpgs are usually slow paced enough (and sometimes even tedious) that while I am interested in the game, I don't get overly stimulated.
TV shows can also work well, but again, if you end up watching something on general relativity or some other thought provoking show it won't work. Fortunatly most of TV these days is fairly mindless. Reading the web is usually fine as well.
I'm sure this varies from person to person though. Just try to avoid things that get your pulse up or mind racing.
I have had the exact same problem for most of my life. Drinking is not a good solution in the long run. I tried it, and while it does work, it also causes other problems as I'm sure you've found.
If it helps any, here is what I've done to combat it. First, I don't drink coffee or caffine in general past 12 noon. Second, I try to keep a regular schedule. Sadly that schedule is often sleeping 1 am to 10 am, or 2 am to 11 am, but it's better than the completely random schedule I had before. Most important though, is that I can't do ANYTHING that requires significant thought after dinner (or at least 2 hours before sleeping).
Most times I can now get to sleep within an hour, sometimes I can even sleep the whole night without waking up. Of course, occasionally I am still hit with a bout of insomnia where I lie awake for 6 hours. But all in all, I'm doing better than I used to. I guess I'm lucky to have the flexability to choose my own timetable though.
Anyways, try to get off the chemical sleep aids, and see if you can somehow restore your circadian rythem (sleeping pattern) via repatition. Just go to sleep at a fixed time each night regardless of if you're tired, and get up 8-9 hours later, regardless of if you're tired.
Good luck. You are not alone.
I play games to escape reality. I don't want to play a game with lawyers and cops, nor about WW1 or WW2 or Vietnam. (Actually real life war themed games disgust me. It's a topic that should not be made light of.)
Personally, I like games with elves and magic and fake things.
But a good HIG doesn't require a user to read it to understand it. Developers need to read it, but using it should be intuitive. I understand the problem of third party developers, but I still feel the AHIG could be improved.
I'm not saying it's *bad*, just that it could be better. Why do I think this? Because the gnome HIG is intuitive. I've never read it, yet I immediatly picked up on the consistencies among applications. Granted, there are many gnome programs that do not follow the gnome HIG well, but as you said, no one can do anything about that.
I read your post on Safari, but I still feel that Apple just used brushed metal because they felt like it. I don't at all think of a web browser as a source list. A bookmark browser yes, but that is only a component of a web browser. At any rate, there is obviously much disagrement over the use of HIG, which suggest that the AHIG is not clear enough and could be improved.
Be satisified, but still strive to be better. Now with tiger introducing yet another look, I fear the AHIG might get confusing, given it's already not as clear is it could be.
But what about safari? Don't get me wrong, the Apple guidlines are way above the windows or the KDE guidlines, but I still feel that they perhaps fall a bit short. The brushed metal is not that bad of an ambiguity, although there is still some ambiguity there.
Also, with regards to configuration panels, some panels are instant apply, some need an apply button to be pressed (mostly these are 3rd party apps though), and some, like mail, take effect only when the pref panel is closed. This is confusing. I'd be much happier if as much as possible was instant apply as in gnome's HIG. In cases where an option is not instant apply, it would be nice to have some obvious notification of this.
Overall, if you actually read the AHIG
No need to be nasty here.
I hope this is the case, but I'm somewhat afriad that Apple will keep the new look. The whole brushed metal vs normal applications thing doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence. All in all, I think the Apple HIG could be improved and followed more closely.
He seems to be doing just fine for himself...not sure what more some schooling would have done.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.." ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Equal how? How do you suppose those 'creative-without-pay' types get food and shelter? Are you proposing we have xx% of people just be creative and poor while the remaining percent of people just take take take? Or are you proposing that *everyone* be a creative type?
I can see problems with both options.
I like to add that due to the JPEG compression, JPEG should never be used for originals or working copies of graphics. Artists should always work in lossless formats, then save a JPEG version for distribution.
Except that many of the problems with fedora (eg mp3 support) have nothing to do with the hardware.
There is 'suppport hardware out of the box' which is hard. But then there is 'work out of the box given supported hardware'. Linux in general, along with fedora, is terrible at this. There are projects attempting to solve these issues, but none are usable yet.
Hmm. If 90% of the people of a particular country hated you, and continually made fun of you, would YOU like people from that country?
I sure wouldn't. If you go to a foreign country, at least make an effort to speak their language and respect their culture. You'll find you're treated much better.
P.S. The US does not treat foreigners well, even when in foreign countries. And if you are from the middle-east or even near middle east, you may as well tattoo the word terrorist on your forehead.
Hmm. I guess it depends also on your height. I'm currently 145 lbs. If I were 205 lbs with the extra wieght made of muscle I'd be extrodinarily abnormal by any standard. Of course 205 is not that much for people with larger builds.
I still find it hard to believe that it's hard to find pants that fit though. The ratios in your links are indeed normal, and I think even I have that ratio. But I have no problems at all finding pants that fit width wise. Maybe it's because I'm fairly short?? Of course it's impossible for me to find pants that are short enough. All pants seem way way too long for me.
NASA always out sourced a bit. This company made bot h the shuttle arm, and the ISS arm, it's not surprising they were asked to do the robotic repairs for the hubble.
If you are a bodybuilder/weightlifter in good shape then your waist will typically be smaller, and your thighs bigger.
Sure, but if the ratio is that much of a problem, then you are already into the "huge" catagory and that means you must have really TRIED to get that big. I always hear people saying 'I don't want to get too big' as an excuse for not working out. They do not realize that getting that huge doesn't happen by accident. You have to try really hard to get that big.
The orignal poster had a tone that sounded a bit like an excuse. Maybe it wasn't, and he really did go all out and get huge at one point, but I find it questionable when he says things like 'when I workout'. To get to be abnormally large, you have to workout consistently, not every now and then.
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These companies make no money on FOSS software, their income comes from elsewhere. These also cater to the corporate market, limited. Many of the companies in your list sell proprietary software for Linux. They are banking on their proprietary components causing sales.
Also, this is an incredibly small list considering the size of the software industry. So yes, these are isolated cases.
You FOSS types like to go on about 'changing their old business model'. But you never give *any* evidence, other than a few isolated cases, that this is possible in practise.
My hypothesis is that FOSS style business models cannot replace the current proprietary models. If everything were to go FOSS, then I think a LOT of programmers would be out of jobs. I dont' have any proof of this either, but I will point out that it's human nature not to pay for things they get for free. Selling services might work for corporations, but you'd lose 90% of the home market. That's a LOT of money and people who become unemployed.