Over a year it would most likely have been cheaper to buy a copy of Windows than pay that game tax each month. Linux is not going to be a good gaming platform any time soon, it's all compromises, slower framerates, less stability, and less tools. Just dual boot, it won't kill you to run Windows occasionally - it's not a virus like Linux is;-)
You must be new here if that's the lamest thing you've ever heard. I tend to agree with the other poster in any case (having just seen that edutainment mockomentary Roger and Me). If there are no jobs where you are, move elsewhere *whilst* you still have a job and some cash stashed away. It doesn't have to be to a new country, just a town with better oportunities. If you can't get a job in your field then you are most likely crap at your job and should cross-train to a different career.
Just because the GNU guys don't own a dictionary with a pronouciation guide doesn't mean everyone else has to sound like a poorly educated hick when talking about GNU. For the record, dictionary.com has the following to say:
gnu Audio pronunciation of "gnu" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (noo, nyoo)
Yeh, I've read the man page for uptime, but mine states something different to yours. Maybe a distro thing?
DESCRIPTION
uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long
the system has been running, how many users are currently logged on, and the system load
averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
And when I cross check my uptime figures against either gkrellm or top -d1 I get a correlation i.e. the figures uptime gives me for 1, 5 , 10 mins seems to match the amount of CPU activity on my box. Are you using Linux or some other nix/bsd?
Your machine is working at 2.43% of capacity, even when bouncing mail. Have you considered the possibility that you have CPU cycles to spare in the pursuit of a spam free box? You may as well use it...
Yeh, maybe, but if you put in the hard yards you can definitely maintain that inbox for years. Case in point, mine, which I flagrently post wherever, I just don't care because it's been out there for five years or so and is already in every spammers hands. I use SpamAssassin, and some RBL action on my mail server, and a reverse DNS lookup. It's reduced my spam from over 200 day to maybe 3 in a day - well within my tolerence level. I store the spams and then retrain SpamAssassin from time to time. You can have your email and not eat spam too.
I know a lot of people seem to quote 30fps as being the maximum the human eye can see, but I have a feeling this is simply the minimum required to make a projected film look smooth. I know that all games look choppy to me until they get above 60fps, and around 85fps they look smooth. I think this link goes a long ways to explaining it.
Yeh, that install procedure is definitely "teh suck". Ok, it keeps the newbs from the forums but t is also agravating for people who have lots of Linux experience. I was completely unprepared for how similar to LFS the Gentoo install was (and yes, I have done a LFS build before). It took quite a few hours to do the first install on my machine, but I was happy I could enjoy it from then on thanks to Portage. Not so. I dual boot Windows (for games, and stuff not yet working under AMD64) and Windows crashed one day taking down not only the boot sector and itself, but also the partition table of the second hard drive with Gentoo on it! Barely a month after install and I had to do it all over again. I for one welcome our new graphical installer overlord.
Nah, I was fine with it since I was ready for a change in any case. I was really only growing my hair to see how long I could grow it (around 3 feet BTW). It took about 7 years to do, and I had already worked out that was about as long as it could grow. Now, if he could grow his to over 3 feet, then I might be envious;->
A baboon? They're the smelliest hairiest apes of all! (Homer) Ad hominem attacks in a debate are a sure sign you are on weak ground, especially when the topic centres on opinion based subjects where there is clearly no right or wrong...just opinion.
In any case, none of what you say up there refutes my points on Aliens, if anything you are simply re-inforcing what I said about the film. Your first point about a franchise is also stupid, because as soon as you make a second film you have a franchise - easy enough for you to understand?
Still, what Cameron did to the alien myth was nothing in comparison to how low it has sunk with AvsP.
I'm a programmer, just like Stallman. I had long hair for quite a number of those years, but I get more business credence now I have cut it, and wear "the suit", and since it's important for my clients to listen to me I see it as a reasonable trade of personal freedom.
I'd say he's referring to the fact that Stallman looks like he needs a bath, a good shampoo, and a haircut. Sometimes that guy is a two edged sword. One the one hand, you cannot doubt the major good that has come from his crusade, on the other, he makes us all look like smelly hippies.
I would have thought that if he really truly cared about free software and how it is represented to the business world he might at least try and play the game dressed in a nice suit. I cut my hair and put on a suit to go feed my family, if he cares about free software he might consider doing the same, or risk leaving it marginalised forever in the smelly hippie freak power pre-conception that is so easy to derive from his appearance. Yes Richard, presentation counts for something too...it counted on your exams at MIT and will count in the real world. It's not for no reason the top tier of many development projects is called "The Presentation Layer".
Gosh, this almost brings a tear to the eye. And look, there's Acey Duecy, and Chomp in the listings...but who did that classic Camel? Hacking on the source to Camel, Hunt the Wumpus and Flight Simulator (is that what it was called? A text based flight sim prog "Houston is socked out...") was my introduction to programming as I attempted to pervert the whole camel thing.
Damn, wish I'd kept my old tapes now. I wrote a bunch of games for the C1P because, being 12 I was too poor to actually buy any (I spent every penny I had saved for 2 years to buy the C1P (I saved my lunch money and worked at a used car lot washing cars on weekends)). I did a few chase em games, a half finished space invaders in assembly, a car driving game in assembly, and a 3D maze game using the in-built graphics and a 2D view of the maze which (ahem, due to my small and young brain required you to draw the maze in 2D first) - maze traversal algorithms were a little ahead of me at the time. Only now do I realise I was a huge dolt throwing that machine out after it died (around 1990) and scraping the tapes. Doh!
I'd pit the awesome power of my OSI C1P against the Kim-1 anyday:-> Ah, retro nostalgia eh? I still have the book I bought to learn assembly for my C1P, and it was written for the Kim-1, but since they both used 6502 chips it was close enough to learn from. It's called "Programming a Micro Computer 6502" by Caxton C. Foster, and it's probably the only computer book I can't bear to part with because it represents the first steps to being a real programmer i.e. moving away from BASIC and into assembly. Will programming ever be that exciting again?
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Minus the hundreds of thousands it cost to actually make the game for two OSes - that leaves a total profit of -$999,800...not bad, better than Enron.
Over a year it would most likely have been cheaper to buy a copy of Windows than pay that game tax each month. Linux is not going to be a good gaming platform any time soon, it's all compromises, slower framerates, less stability, and less tools. Just dual boot, it won't kill you to run Windows occasionally - it's not a virus like Linux is ;-)
You must be new here if that's the lamest thing you've ever heard. I tend to agree with the other poster in any case (having just seen that edutainment mockomentary Roger and Me). If there are no jobs where you are, move elsewhere *whilst* you still have a job and some cash stashed away. It doesn't have to be to a new country, just a town with better oportunities. If you can't get a job in your field then you are most likely crap at your job and should cross-train to a different career.
The first word is gnu, (GNU's not Unix) so it is right.
gnu Audio pronunciation of "gnu" ( P )
Pronunciation Key (noo, nyoo)
The "g" is silent, just like in gnome.
Schrodinger's Santa....scary.
DESCRIPTION
uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
And when I cross check my uptime figures against either gkrellm or top -d1 I get a correlation i.e. the figures uptime gives me for 1, 5 , 10 mins seems to match the amount of CPU activity on my box. Are you using Linux or some other nix/bsd?
Your machine is working at 2.43% of capacity, even when bouncing mail. Have you considered the possibility that you have CPU cycles to spare in the pursuit of a spam free box? You may as well use it...
Yeh, maybe, but if you put in the hard yards you can definitely maintain that inbox for years. Case in point, mine, which I flagrently post wherever, I just don't care because it's been out there for five years or so and is already in every spammers hands. I use SpamAssassin, and some RBL action on my mail server, and a reverse DNS lookup. It's reduced my spam from over 200 day to maybe 3 in a day - well within my tolerence level. I store the spams and then retrain SpamAssassin from time to time. You can have your email and not eat spam too.
Don't be surprised. They're white hats *because* they don't do stuff like this.
Does that mean Scouse and Cockney are 4 valid English, because they are from England? The way those east enders talk is a crime against the language.
I know a lot of people seem to quote 30fps as being the maximum the human eye can see, but I have a feeling this is simply the minimum required to make a projected film look smooth. I know that all games look choppy to me until they get above 60fps, and around 85fps they look smooth. I think this link goes a long ways to explaining it.
Damn! I will be mailing that to myself. Thanks!
Yeh, that install procedure is definitely "teh suck". Ok, it keeps the newbs from the forums but t is also agravating for people who have lots of Linux experience. I was completely unprepared for how similar to LFS the Gentoo install was (and yes, I have done a LFS build before). It took quite a few hours to do the first install on my machine, but I was happy I could enjoy it from then on thanks to Portage. Not so. I dual boot Windows (for games, and stuff not yet working under AMD64) and Windows crashed one day taking down not only the boot sector and itself, but also the partition table of the second hard drive with Gentoo on it! Barely a month after install and I had to do it all over again. I for one welcome our new graphical installer overlord.
In Soviet Russia, computer turns you on...
Nah, I was fine with it since I was ready for a change in any case. I was really only growing my hair to see how long I could grow it (around 3 feet BTW). It took about 7 years to do, and I had already worked out that was about as long as it could grow. Now, if he could grow his to over 3 feet, then I might be envious ;->
Envious of what? I like my hair short or long, either is fine with me. Envious of Stallman? No. Why would I be?
In any case, none of what you say up there refutes my points on Aliens, if anything you are simply re-inforcing what I said about the film. Your first point about a franchise is also stupid, because as soon as you make a second film you have a franchise - easy enough for you to understand?
Still, what Cameron did to the alien myth was nothing in comparison to how low it has sunk with AvsP.
But we're discussing Richard Stallman here, who looks decidedly less business like.
I'm a programmer, just like Stallman. I had long hair for quite a number of those years, but I get more business credence now I have cut it, and wear "the suit", and since it's important for my clients to listen to me I see it as a reasonable trade of personal freedom.
I would have thought that if he really truly cared about free software and how it is represented to the business world he might at least try and play the game dressed in a nice suit. I cut my hair and put on a suit to go feed my family, if he cares about free software he might consider doing the same, or risk leaving it marginalised forever in the smelly hippie freak power pre-conception that is so easy to derive from his appearance. Yes Richard, presentation counts for something too...it counted on your exams at MIT and will count in the real world. It's not for no reason the top tier of many development projects is called "The Presentation Layer".
Damn, wish I'd kept my old tapes now. I wrote a bunch of games for the C1P because, being 12 I was too poor to actually buy any (I spent every penny I had saved for 2 years to buy the C1P (I saved my lunch money and worked at a used car lot washing cars on weekends)). I did a few chase em games, a half finished space invaders in assembly, a car driving game in assembly, and a 3D maze game using the in-built graphics and a 2D view of the maze which (ahem, due to my small and young brain required you to draw the maze in 2D first) - maze traversal algorithms were a little ahead of me at the time. Only now do I realise I was a huge dolt throwing that machine out after it died (around 1990) and scraping the tapes. Doh!
No Irridium or Elite either.
I'd pit the awesome power of my OSI C1P against the Kim-1 anyday :-> Ah, retro nostalgia eh? I still have the book I bought to learn assembly for my C1P, and it was written for the Kim-1, but since they both used 6502 chips it was close enough to learn from. It's called "Programming a Micro Computer 6502" by Caxton C. Foster, and it's probably the only computer book I can't bear to part with because it represents the first steps to being a real programmer i.e. moving away from BASIC and into assembly. Will programming ever be that exciting again?
Where are they getting the SID chips from? I heard the last bunch were bought up for the Sidstation...currently selling at over 1000 euros each.