Would to have emulators for the 8 and 16 bit consoles on there two. Possibly it could check the headers of the files on your cd and launch the appropriate emulator. I've thought about buying one of the linux pc's, throwing in a tv out and couple game pads to do this myself in the past. I'm sure I'm not the only one here whose gaming space is a bit cluttered by older consoles that don't get as much use. Replacing those consoles and the dozens of carts for the with a box and a couple cds would make for a nice space improvement.
I've never really gotten that either. Every time one of these stories comes up it seems to make a lot of people annoyed, or even downright angry. I'd guess a lot of the flack comes just as much from Linux users as windows users though. I'm sure with how often the 'Linux sux cuz its got no games!' argument comes up it'd be easy to just build up a general resentment to anything suggesting Linux users might actually want to play games. I'd also guess people using it more as a geek status symbol than the OS best suited to them feel a bit annoyed deep down at such an indication of it's increasing appeal to the less technical user.
Any gamer worth their salt knows XP is where it's at for games, and Linux is, and will always be, a pretender to the throne when it comes to being an OS that runs games well.
Nothing lasts forever. Eight years ago people were saying that windows would always be subpar for gaming. Who knows what things are going to be like ten, twenty years from now.
Unfourtunatly it's QT2 though, where I think most KDE users using it at home would be using KDE3. Unthemed QT2 clashs very badly for me with a keramik/geramik combo. Worse, while I noticed it can make use of QT2 themes, it dosn't seem to be able to automatically detect what KDE is using.
I'm going to have to look into that GTK for Kylix you mentioned though. I liked the language, loved the IDE, but in the end just couldn't stand the look. Being able to build GTK aplications with kylix's gui builder would be a dream!
gui applications: Delphi is a very nice and rapid way to deploy GUIs, with Kylix and lazarus [freepascal.org], we can start a gui movement (especailly frontends to various Linux software), until mono [go-mono.com] is ready.
While not huge, I do find kylix to be a minor annoyence when it comes to being used as a frontend. We've already got gnome aps with one look, KDE aps with another, java/swing aps with their appearence, and now there's Kylix which gives yet another look for it's aplications.
Sure it does. It gives those of us who don't have to wear one a good laugh at the expense of people who have to kowtow to irrational cultural mores. Seeing people walking around in suits and ties is about as funny as if they were decked in charms to ward off evil spirits.
Wal-Mart sells machines based on Lindows, Mandrake Linux and others.
I havn't much kept up with the current situation, but don't they still only sell them on their website? This make it sound like you'll walk into any walmart and see them lined up right next to the windows machines. I think it's nonetheless a big step, but not as big as if they were being sold in store.
Seriously, Wil, your mistreatment looms as one of the biggest negatives I can think of relative to "the franchise." Amid all that Star Trek dreaminess, it's easy to forget show biz is a lot more like The Player than Risa. Gratuitous.
I'd like to chime in with some sympathy as well. For what it's worth, the highlight of nemesis to me was a more keen eyed friend (also a Wheaton fan) pointing Wil out to me at the wedding scene.
and mplayer (but only with various hacks applied))
I don't know if you've tried the latest mplayer release, but the ease of setting up quicktime/S3 has vastly improved. Pretty much just throw a couple more files into the win32 directory and compile.
However, what I meant was if they turned up at your door, and you said 'Yeah, I bought a chemistry set, it's over there by the textbook on "teach yourself chemistry"' - ie, were completely open about it, would they still drag you off for a beating and an interrogation?
Where you lived, the nature of the judge, and the mood of the people sent to investigate would have a lot to do with the answer. But the short, from what I've heard of people busted, you could not only get dragged off but thrown in jail for most of your adult life. In a worst case scenario they don't even need to find drugs to lock you up. If there's even suspicion you could be manufacturing it's sometimes enough to get you thrown in jail. There's a guy on trial right now for having two small sets of plant material that when combined are psychoactive. Not even cocaine style psychoactive, just midrange lsd style psychoactive. Note that neither of the two plants are even illegal in the US. If convicted he'll get twenty years. If I recall correctly that's five years more than the minimum for murder. Is it likley he intended to use it for the entheogenic effect, yes. Is it still severly messed up that you can get thrown in a pit for possession of small amounts of legal plants, heck yes!
Years ago I used to take ephedrine both to keep myself active during winter colds and to help keep down the symptoms a bit. I got the idea a few weeks back that I might buy some in case this winter gave me some of that, but the DEA horror stories I heard when checking google for prices made me decide against it. When it comes to current drug laws, often it seems you're guilty untill proven innocent. In this climate I wouldn't do anything that could be used against me. Heck, I'm not doing anything illegal and I'm a tad nervous even speaking out so strongly here. Given that the DEA runs businesses selling chemistry supplies such as glassware, and then runs down the list paying visits to everyone they sold to, I wouldn't take the chance on buying anything chemistry related. When it comes to are various internal "war on" crusades, even SOVIET RUSSIA dosn't have much on us.
I'm a little worried the great great grandchildren of this
project will fly into my car to blare commercials at me. It'd give a
new meaning to popup ads!
I think he just meant because American cellphones are traditionally lagging so far behind the rest of the world, while we continue as a whole to be rather impressed by what we have.
On the other hand I don't much keep up with the technology. I get bugged enough at home as it is without allowing myself to be bothered outside as well.:)
I was just about to post an exasperated message trying to say something similar, and then I see this very clear, concise explanation...with a reply by someone still not grasping why Java is a special case.
Unless some millions go into advertising. People not willing to buy a product might still be able to be sold on an image or style that goes along with it. "See Bob, we at blarg are 'down with' the latest cutting edge technology. Much as you might recall those catch phrase spouting youngsters on the television comercials were.".
I'm so sick of spam, giant annoying flash ads, ten minutes of comercials before a movie I payed to watch starts, and related things that I can't take it anymore. I eventually broke down and just decided one day that I'm taping tv so I can fast foreward through commercials, going to movies late or just walking out for a while if the movie hasn't started yet no matter how crazy the people I go with think I am, and keeping flash turned off. It's actually turned out rather well in the long run, as I was quickly reminded that books will not only more often have a better story to tell than most television, there's no comercials!
And that's why I'm surprised to not see much more of an outcry among mainstream advertisers about things like spam. I admitidly must have had a pretty low tolerance to start with, but everyone has a breaking point and this constant bombardment of brain numbing noise could ruin it for everyone if it gets too prevalent.
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If it's allready running Linux, does that mean we have to change our usual plans and try to get windows to run on it?
Would to have emulators for the 8 and 16 bit consoles on there two. Possibly it could check the headers of the files on your cd and launch the appropriate emulator. I've thought about buying one of the linux pc's, throwing in a tv out and couple game pads to do this myself in the past. I'm sure I'm not the only one here whose gaming space is a bit cluttered by older consoles that don't get as much use. Replacing those consoles and the dozens of carts for the with a box and a couple cds would make for a nice space improvement.
I've never really gotten that either. Every time one of these stories comes up it seems to make a lot of people annoyed, or even downright angry. I'd guess a lot of the flack comes just as much from Linux users as windows users though. I'm sure with how often the 'Linux sux cuz its got no games!' argument comes up it'd be easy to just build up a general resentment to anything suggesting Linux users might actually want to play games. I'd also guess people using it more as a geek status symbol than the OS best suited to them feel a bit annoyed deep down at such an indication of it's increasing appeal to the less technical user.
Any gamer worth their salt knows XP is where it's at for games, and Linux is, and will always be, a pretender to the throne when it comes to being an OS that runs games well.
Nothing lasts forever. Eight years ago people were saying that windows would always be subpar for gaming. Who knows what things are going to be like ten, twenty years from now.
I only want it to...kill zombies?
I guess it's a incentive for people to join the club, and a rather good one at that.
I'll agree with that! This is the first time I've actually felt motivation to join, at least for reasons other than trying to keep them afloat.
They should threaten their enemies with windmills?
Hey, if it works with lawnmowers.
Unfourtunatly it's QT2 though, where I think most KDE users using it at home would be using KDE3. Unthemed QT2 clashs very badly for me with a keramik/geramik combo. Worse, while I noticed it can make use of QT2 themes, it dosn't seem to be able to automatically detect what KDE is using.
I'm going to have to look into that GTK for Kylix you mentioned though. I liked the language, loved the IDE, but in the end just couldn't stand the look. Being able to build GTK aplications with kylix's gui builder would be a dream!
gui applications: Delphi is a very nice and rapid way to deploy GUIs, with Kylix and lazarus [freepascal.org], we can start a gui movement (especailly frontends to various Linux software), until mono [go-mono.com] is ready.
While not huge, I do find kylix to be a minor annoyence when it comes to being used as a frontend. We've already got gnome aps with one look, KDE aps with another, java/swing aps with their appearence, and now there's Kylix which gives yet another look for it's aplications.
A tie has no use.
Sure it does. It gives those of us who don't have to wear one a good laugh at the expense of people who have to kowtow to irrational cultural mores. Seeing people walking around in suits and ties is about as funny as if they were decked in charms to ward off evil spirits.
Wal-Mart sells machines based on Lindows, Mandrake Linux and others.
I havn't much kept up with the current situation, but don't they still only sell them on their website? This make it sound like you'll walk into any walmart and see them lined up right next to the windows machines. I think it's nonetheless a big step, but not as big as if they were being sold in store.
Seriously, Wil, your mistreatment looms as one of the biggest negatives I can think of relative to "the franchise." Amid all that Star Trek dreaminess, it's easy to forget show biz is a lot more like The Player than Risa. Gratuitous.
I'd like to chime in with some sympathy as well. For what it's worth, the highlight of nemesis to me was a more keen eyed friend (also a Wheaton fan) pointing Wil out to me at the wedding scene.
and mplayer (but only with various hacks applied))
I don't know if you've tried the latest mplayer release, but the ease of setting up quicktime/S3 has vastly improved. Pretty much just throw a couple more files into the win32 directory and compile.
Wow, if they did that and my water purifier worked well enough, I might actually be able to land a job again!
However, what I meant was if they turned up at your door, and you said 'Yeah, I bought a chemistry set, it's over there by the textbook on "teach yourself chemistry"' - ie, were completely open about it, would they still drag you off for a beating and an interrogation?
Where you lived, the nature of the judge, and the mood of the people sent to investigate would have a lot to do with the answer. But the short, from what I've heard of people busted, you could not only get dragged off but thrown in jail for most of your adult life. In a worst case scenario they don't even need to find drugs to lock you up. If there's even suspicion you could be manufacturing it's sometimes enough to get you thrown in jail. There's a guy on trial right now for having two small sets of plant material that when combined are psychoactive. Not even cocaine style psychoactive, just midrange lsd style psychoactive. Note that neither of the two plants are even illegal in the US. If convicted he'll get twenty years. If I recall correctly that's five years more than the minimum for murder. Is it likley he intended to use it for the entheogenic effect, yes. Is it still severly messed up that you can get thrown in a pit for possession of small amounts of legal plants, heck yes!
Years ago I used to take ephedrine both to keep myself active during winter colds and to help keep down the symptoms a bit. I got the idea a few weeks back that I might buy some in case this winter gave me some of that, but the DEA horror stories I heard when checking google for prices made me decide against it. When it comes to current drug laws, often it seems you're guilty untill proven innocent. In this climate I wouldn't do anything that could be used against me. Heck, I'm not doing anything illegal and I'm a tad nervous even speaking out so strongly here. Given that the DEA runs businesses selling chemistry supplies such as glassware, and then runs down the list paying visits to everyone they sold to, I wouldn't take the chance on buying anything chemistry related. When it comes to are various internal "war on" crusades, even SOVIET RUSSIA dosn't have much on us.
Nothing makes it easy to create correct (insert your color)-book VCD/SVCD standard mpegs.
Have you tried avidemux? I've never given it a try to find out how well it works, but I noticed there's an option to save an avi/mpeg as vcd mpeg1.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, Slashdot reads itself to YOU!
I'm a little worried the great great grandchildren of this project will fly into my car to blare commercials at me. It'd give a new meaning to popup ads!
Heck, I'm a vegetarian and even I don't care about vegitarians that much!
I think he just meant because American cellphones are traditionally lagging so far behind the rest of the world, while we continue as a whole to be rather impressed by what we have.
:)
On the other hand I don't much keep up with the technology. I get bugged enough at home as it is without allowing myself to be bothered outside as well.
Here's to hoping by chance they might decide to put some of their clout behind an ogg/theora format.
Anyone who's struggled over making sense of their unique interpretation of the English language should recognize they'd fit right in here.
I was just about to post an exasperated message trying to say something similar, and then I see this very clear, concise explanation...with a reply by someone still not grasping why Java is a special case.
Unless some millions go into advertising. People not willing to buy a product might still be able to be sold on an image or style that goes along with it. "See Bob, we at blarg are 'down with' the latest cutting edge technology. Much as you might recall those catch phrase spouting youngsters on the television comercials were.".
I'm so sick of spam, giant annoying flash ads, ten minutes of comercials before a movie I payed to watch starts, and related things that I can't take it anymore. I eventually broke down and just decided one day that I'm taping tv so I can fast foreward through commercials, going to movies late or just walking out for a while if the movie hasn't started yet no matter how crazy the people I go with think I am, and keeping flash turned off. It's actually turned out rather well in the long run, as I was quickly reminded that books will not only more often have a better story to tell than most television, there's no comercials!
And that's why I'm surprised to not see much more of an outcry among mainstream advertisers about things like spam. I admitidly must have had a pretty low tolerance to start with, but everyone has a breaking point and this constant bombardment of brain numbing noise could ruin it for everyone if it gets too prevalent.