I don't ever hear Windows users say "damn, let me boot into Linux so I can do this"
I think some of that just comes from the fact that since most of the applications for Linux are open source, almost inevitably they wind up ported to Windows. But I also think a lot comes from people just not knowing what Linux's strengths are in the first place. I'll admit it's not an everyday event, but every now and then friends who've played around on my computer will bring over a broken media file to fix with mencoder, or before the windows port of lopster to get something from an openap network that they couldn't get with winmx.
I think it's one of those things that comes down to prefrence. Personally, while I think XP's installer is OK, I vastly prefer those of both Knoppix and Mandrake. Mandrake's is friendlier and still manages to give more options at the same time, and Knoppix's is pretty transparent. One can surf the web, work on a paper, or whatever on the machine that the install is in progress on.
If people don't consider Linux a viable alternative, the problem lies with Linux, not with said people.
I disagree. What a lot of people are looking for is Windows without Microsoft. They want an operating system that looks, feels, acts, and runs everything the same way windows does, but without the monopolistic brand or the need to relearn how to do things. What they're looking for is an alternitive to Microsoft, not an alternitive to Windows. But OSX is OSX, Linux is Linux, and Windows is Windows. They're often used to accomplish the same tasks, but that they accomplish them in different ways is logical given that they're different products with different focuses. If someone says they're fed up with Windows, then gets annoyed with Linux or OS X because they don't behave like Windows, yes - I would say it's the problem of the person and not the operating system.
What's wrong with it? After some initial playing around with it a couple months back, I was just about to buy some more ram to run the thing on a constant basis. Figures that a problem would appear given my decision. My ps2 arrived one day before the price drop was announced.
Same here. I have money. I want to exchange them for goods and services. If someone would sell me a polished English Star Ocean 1 rom I'd be throwing money there way. Untill then I'll be playing the unpolished translation applied to an illegally downloaded rom.
I love the whole exploration feel of American rpgs, and I also love the story and character development of Japanese games. I quickly tire of most games that don't have at least some mix of either. The big problem is that American publisher's don't like the time investment that comes from a Baldur's Gate, and for some reason the American branchs of Japanese companies seldom release somewhat non-linier rpgs. There's a lot in Japan, but they seldom make it over here. But most people seem to like the non linarity anyway. Something I found somewhat disapointing recently was the remake of phantasy star 1. Exploration was one of the best parts of the original, as you explored the inhabited planets of the system. Now they've locked the player into a set path by needing keys or events to unlock some portions.
It's not like those people are just receiving delivery on their PS2s today.
I actually received my delivery yesterday. The sega ages games were the first that interested me enough to buy the system, especially with the price of modding.
Depends a lot on prefrences. I'm stuck doing huge number of websearches every day, and IE's lack of pop-up blocking and tabs made it extreamly painful for me to use. Oddly enough, I had a similar setup (Pentium 200mhz; win2000) and had the opposite experience. Firebird seemed to be much faster than IE.
I disagree about the Linux players, soley because they seem relitivly easy to use apart from their native gui. I use kplayer as a gui for mplayer, and used to really like kaffine before moving to debain and finding I can't get it to compile there. Both have, in my opinion, very nicly laid controlls that fit right into KDE.
I can't say if this might have changed, but it did work at one time at least with a plain wine install. I remember making, as a joke during a desktop thread, a screenshot with windows paint and solitaire running via wine.
Is beer also outlawed? There shouldn't be any exceptions on what recreational drugs are outlawed on campus either by this reasoning. Since most recreational drugs are illegal, legal ones such as beer should be outlawed there as well since most recreational drugs are illegal.
Eh, as long as Mozilla keeps up with their current font handeling I'm stuck compiling it every release anyway. Tracking down the exact code in there the first time would be a pain, but it's be fairly trivial past that point to get the old functionality back even if they did change it.
That falls under my comment of "or write yourself". Writing for WindowsCE isn't nearly as much of a pain as it used to be, especially now that SDL is available for it. But that defeats the whole purpose of buying an Operating System or Distro for me. Modifying existing programs in an enviroment that almost suits my needs is fun. Having to build the majority of the enviroment from the ground up to get the same effect is a waste of time and the money spent on trying to get this in the first place.
I don't think it's really bias. It's a geek site, and a large percentage of the readers like to mess around with the code of anything and everything they can. Windows on a device means by default you're not going to be able to do that with any of the software on it that you don't go out and search for, or write yourself.
Why would someone taking a distance learning class not have a favorite professor? To my surprise I found that one of the classes I'm taking at a brick and morter school is actually a distance learning class, and the professor has quickly become one of my favorites. Despite having only seen him face to face a handfull of times, I think I've had more interaction with him than in many of my more power point oriented classes.
...book? What is book? You mean it's possible to learn from something other than a power point presentation? I wish someone would inform a couple of my professors about this.
Man, if you want to talk about, as you say, 'bullcrap'. I know very little about how UoP is run, but I both recognise that fact and it has no relivance to any other persons life. It's pretty sad that someone who is in the position of radically improving peoples lives would be willing to base these decisions on what amounts to guesswork. I wonder, do you view yourself as any different than someone who would place an applicant from their own school at the top of the list simply because he went to the same school? Because it sounds as if this is the basic reasoning you're using. If you cited any particular aspect of these schools you disliked, or which conventional schools excelled in comparison to, I could understand where you're coming from. But your entire argument seems to come down to saying that your school sucked, you're not sure if an online school would suck as much, and you don't want to put any effort into finding out.
Man, I wish it was that high. Personally I only know 'two' other people that work and go to school full time. And only one of those go to the same school as me. What's really annoying is that the teachers simply assume that people who work are the rare exception, and as a result the scheduled activities will often run all over the clock.
Why take the classes if I don't care about the subject? Personally, much of it for me comes down to prereqs. While many of them I've learned to acquire an interest in, there's still some which I will never feel any desire to think about after I've finished them. But I don't have much of a choice in the matter, either I take the class or don't graduate. In a similar vein, I also am going to wind up taking some extra credit hours near the end so my scholership, grants, and loans will all be able to continue going through. I'm really hoping I can find classes that are interesting and available at hours I can fit in, but I might just as easily find myself at Folf 101.
I too think this has been changing, and I do applaud it. But I'm less optamistic about the speed this is progressing at. Having the knowledge out there is great, but I don't think many employers are going to care what the applicant knows. Rather they'll take that as secondary to what degree he or she has, and what school it came from. But at least this does allow for practical application of things learned through these open courses - such as starting ones own company if he could somehow gather up enough money. But in any case, I'd say that even having a chance to learn is almost as valuable as being able to elivate ones social class. I'd say I'm lower middle class, struggling to pay my way through school, and I easily consider what I've learned to be of just as much importance as any monitary gain I might get from it in the long run.
Firstly, comparing the quality of codecs by samples downloaded from the internet is a very bad idea. Well, unless it's by someone providing samples of a comparison study who knew what they were doing. And unfourtunatly most people encoding files into real media, or quicktime (with the exception of studios) don't have a very strong grasp of what they're doing. Not to mention a lot has to do with what media is being compressed. I've seen people on doom9 get better results with real encodes than they did with xvid or divx at comparible bitrates, mostly with anime or cartoons. But certainly at the same bitrates, people have been able to get quite comparable results with real on live action these days. As for the cpu load with the matrix trailer, I don't know what to say about that. I'm only on a 850mhz with 128MB ram and it played fine for me in Linux with mplayer.
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I don't ever hear Windows users say "damn, let me boot into Linux so I can do this"
I think some of that just comes from the fact that since most of the applications for Linux are open source, almost inevitably they wind up ported to Windows. But I also think a lot comes from people just not knowing what Linux's strengths are in the first place. I'll admit it's not an everyday event, but every now and then friends who've played around on my computer will bring over a broken media file to fix with mencoder, or before the windows port of lopster to get something from an openap network that they couldn't get with winmx.
I think it's one of those things that comes down to prefrence. Personally, while I think XP's installer is OK, I vastly prefer those of both Knoppix and Mandrake. Mandrake's is friendlier and still manages to give more options at the same time, and Knoppix's is pretty transparent. One can surf the web, work on a paper, or whatever on the machine that the install is in progress on.
If people don't consider Linux a viable alternative, the problem lies with Linux, not with said people.
I disagree. What a lot of people are looking for is Windows without Microsoft. They want an operating system that looks, feels, acts, and runs everything the same way windows does, but without the monopolistic brand or the need to relearn how to do things. What they're looking for is an alternitive to Microsoft, not an alternitive to Windows. But OSX is OSX, Linux is Linux, and Windows is Windows. They're often used to accomplish the same tasks, but that they accomplish them in different ways is logical given that they're different products with different focuses. If someone says they're fed up with Windows, then gets annoyed with Linux or OS X because they don't behave like Windows, yes - I would say it's the problem of the person and not the operating system.
What's wrong with it? After some initial playing around with it a couple months back, I was just about to buy some more ram to run the thing on a constant basis. Figures that a problem would appear given my decision. My ps2 arrived one day before the price drop was announced.
I know one offline. You can tell she speaks russian, because In SOVIET RUSSIA, girl makes slashdot related jokes to YOU!
Same here. I have money. I want to exchange them for goods and services. If someone would sell me a polished English Star Ocean 1 rom I'd be throwing money there way. Untill then I'll be playing the unpolished translation applied to an illegally downloaded rom.
I should preface this by admitting I don't own one, but from everything I've heard, Linux running on the ps2 is extreamly slow.
I love the whole exploration feel of American rpgs, and I also love the story and character development of Japanese games. I quickly tire of most games that don't have at least some mix of either. The big problem is that American publisher's don't like the time investment that comes from a Baldur's Gate, and for some reason the American branchs of Japanese companies seldom release somewhat non-linier rpgs. There's a lot in Japan, but they seldom make it over here. But most people seem to like the non linarity anyway. Something I found somewhat disapointing recently was the remake of phantasy star 1. Exploration was one of the best parts of the original, as you explored the inhabited planets of the system. Now they've locked the player into a set path by needing keys or events to unlock some portions.
It's not like those people are just receiving delivery on their PS2s today.
I actually received my delivery yesterday. The sega ages games were the first that interested me enough to buy the system, especially with the price of modding.
Depends a lot on prefrences. I'm stuck doing huge number of websearches every day, and IE's lack of pop-up blocking and tabs made it extreamly painful for me to use. Oddly enough, I had a similar setup (Pentium 200mhz; win2000) and had the opposite experience. Firebird seemed to be much faster than IE.
I disagree about the Linux players, soley because they seem relitivly easy to use apart from their native gui. I use kplayer as a gui for mplayer, and used to really like kaffine before moving to debain and finding I can't get it to compile there. Both have, in my opinion, very nicly laid controlls that fit right into KDE.
I can't say if this might have changed, but it did work at one time at least with a plain wine install. I remember making, as a joke during a desktop thread, a screenshot with windows paint and solitaire running via wine.
Is beer also outlawed? There shouldn't be any exceptions on what recreational drugs are outlawed on campus either by this reasoning. Since most recreational drugs are illegal, legal ones such as beer should be outlawed there as well since most recreational drugs are illegal.
Eh, as long as Mozilla keeps up with their current font handeling I'm stuck compiling it every release anyway. Tracking down the exact code in there the first time would be a pain, but it's be fairly trivial past that point to get the old functionality back even if they did change it.
I thought the timescale of their gamelist was somewhat ironic as well, given that they bemoaned how shortsighted gamers are in regards to graphics.
So, why can't you write win CE apps ?
That falls under my comment of "or write yourself". Writing for WindowsCE isn't nearly as much of a pain as it used to be, especially now that SDL is available for it. But that defeats the whole purpose of buying an Operating System or Distro for me. Modifying existing programs in an enviroment that almost suits my needs is fun. Having to build the majority of the enviroment from the ground up to get the same effect is a waste of time and the money spent on trying to get this in the first place.
I don't think it's really bias. It's a geek site, and a large percentage of the readers like to mess around with the code of anything and everything they can. Windows on a device means by default you're not going to be able to do that with any of the software on it that you don't go out and search for, or write yourself.
Why would someone taking a distance learning class not have a favorite professor? To my surprise I found that one of the classes I'm taking at a brick and morter school is actually a distance learning class, and the professor has quickly become one of my favorites. Despite having only seen him face to face a handfull of times, I think I've had more interaction with him than in many of my more power point oriented classes.
...book? What is book? You mean it's possible to learn from something other than a power point presentation? I wish someone would inform a couple of my professors about this.
Man, if you want to talk about, as you say, 'bullcrap'. I know very little about how UoP is run, but I both recognise that fact and it has no relivance to any other persons life. It's pretty sad that someone who is in the position of radically improving peoples lives would be willing to base these decisions on what amounts to guesswork. I wonder, do you view yourself as any different than someone who would place an applicant from their own school at the top of the list simply because he went to the same school? Because it sounds as if this is the basic reasoning you're using. If you cited any particular aspect of these schools you disliked, or which conventional schools excelled in comparison to, I could understand where you're coming from. But your entire argument seems to come down to saying that your school sucked, you're not sure if an online school would suck as much, and you don't want to put any effort into finding out.
Man, I wish it was that high. Personally I only know 'two' other people that work and go to school full time. And only one of those go to the same school as me. What's really annoying is that the teachers simply assume that people who work are the rare exception, and as a result the scheduled activities will often run all over the clock.
I'm working at an office at my school part time, and the absolute best day was when I saw someone wandering around asking where the red stapler was.
Why take the classes if I don't care about the subject? Personally, much of it for me comes down to prereqs. While many of them I've learned to acquire an interest in, there's still some which I will never feel any desire to think about after I've finished them. But I don't have much of a choice in the matter, either I take the class or don't graduate. In a similar vein, I also am going to wind up taking some extra credit hours near the end so my scholership, grants, and loans will all be able to continue going through. I'm really hoping I can find classes that are interesting and available at hours I can fit in, but I might just as easily find myself at Folf 101.
I too think this has been changing, and I do applaud it. But I'm less optamistic about the speed this is progressing at. Having the knowledge out there is great, but I don't think many employers are going to care what the applicant knows. Rather they'll take that as secondary to what degree he or she has, and what school it came from. But at least this does allow for practical application of things learned through these open courses - such as starting ones own company if he could somehow gather up enough money. But in any case, I'd say that even having a chance to learn is almost as valuable as being able to elivate ones social class. I'd say I'm lower middle class, struggling to pay my way through school, and I easily consider what I've learned to be of just as much importance as any monitary gain I might get from it in the long run.
Firstly, comparing the quality of codecs by samples downloaded from the internet is a very bad idea. Well, unless it's by someone providing samples of a comparison study who knew what they were doing. And unfourtunatly most people encoding files into real media, or quicktime (with the exception of studios) don't have a very strong grasp of what they're doing. Not to mention a lot has to do with what media is being compressed. I've seen people on doom9 get better results with real encodes than they did with xvid or divx at comparible bitrates, mostly with anime or cartoons. But certainly at the same bitrates, people have been able to get quite comparable results with real on live action these days. As for the cpu load with the matrix trailer, I don't know what to say about that. I'm only on a 850mhz with 128MB ram and it played fine for me in Linux with mplayer.