Holy cow! You need 8GB of ram to play games on Vista?
Seriously, there a some legitimate uses for that much RAM (like virtualization) but it ain't gaming.
By the time a game comes out that needs that much RAM, your "tri-sli" setup will be outclassed by a single budget card - maybe even integrated graphics - and your beastly gaming rig will be totally inadequate.
Honestly, I'd be willing to pretend the last 4 seasons didn't really happen, so that they could be redone "correctly" (with no time war, etc).
Really? I thought the Time War was a great plot device. It cleverly tied many of the classic show's threads together while signifying the fact that the current reality was in many ways different from the old series. I loved the fact that the Time Lords now never existed, and how ultimately futile their sacrifice was. It lays the foundation for a much darker Doctor - even if this was rarely portrayed convincingly by Tennent, he was just too damn chipper
But they didn't actually create money : they had money and gave it to people with the (damn stupid) expectation that it would be returned with interest.
Maybe. I'm not an accountant (God forbid!), but if the banks recorded this potential interest as an asset, when there could be no reasonable expectation that they would ever see it, didn't they just effectively invent money from thin air? Does not seem that different to "printing" money to me - though perhaps "counterfeiting" would be a better word
The government SHOULD be the only one who can print money, but because they were not the only ones doing it we are in this situation.
I've never weighed in on the whole vi/emacs war before, so this is a bit of a special moment for me - thanks for the opportunity!:)
Anywho, it may be trivially easy to install emacs on any system you have admin privileges to, but vi comes installed by default on practically every OS known to man.
If you are a coder, then great, you can afford to customize your environment to suit your particular quirks. If you are a sysadmin you need to be able to log on to any given system and edit files without installing additional software. In other words you better know vi. Its like, you know, a standard or something.
I HOPE the reference wan't to shrek. Gee, kids these days.
The original version was written and performed by Leonard Cohen in '84, though of course I'd forgive people for thinking the reference was to Jeff Buckley's '94 version, arguably better than the original. John Cale (velvet underground) did a version in '91 too.
Rufus Wainwright, who recorded the shrek version, has gone on record saying he never would have touched the song if he had heard the Buckley version first - its that good.
There are some services in Vista you CANT turn off, think DRM. There is plenty of benchmarking around showing that for some tasks the same system running 2008 is 10%-20% faster than running vista.
If you are a developer (or student *grin*) you can get server 2008 for free through MSDN. So cost does not need to be a factor.
It really isn't a bad idea at all if you need a good Windows workstation. No need to pan someone for tying to share a good idea.
Intellectual Property is not the same thing as real property, no matter how much the content industry would like you to believe otherwise. "Intellectual Property" is a term dreamed up by industry lobbyists to make people associate copying with theft, a transparent but remarkably effective tactic.
Sure, taking with out paying isn't a nice thing to do, but it isn't stealing. He/She still owns the IP, and can still sell it as many times as they can convince people to buy it. THAT is a challenge that needs to be addressed, how do you get people to pay for something they can get for free? While there is a need for some sort of reward for your work, the current system is broken and does not deserve protection just because that is the way we've done it before.
Bleating about "stealing" is only an attempt to maintain the status quo. The people with the most to loose are not the artists, but the middle men who have got very wealthy by controlling scarcity. With all this new technology, progress in the "science and useful arts" should be accelerating, not tanking.
most Linux/open source advocates do it for the rebellion not because they have a better product to promote.
No, most OSS advocates do it because the software is THEIRS; by being part of the community that develops it they are personally involved with the software, and are justifiably proud of it. "Look what we built"
What I don't understand is why Microsoft apologists like you bother. You didn't help build Windows, MS has no loyalty to you; evidence shows they do not even LIKE you. They only want you to stay on the treadmill. And yet still you sing their praises. "Look what I paid for". Doesn't make any sense.
He wouldn't say that unless there was a strong business case for a PC release not being very profitable to them.
How much would it really cost to port from the 360 to PC - it's nearly the same platform.
When you compare no PC games sales to any sales at all - for a game you have already developed - I would think you can make a pretty strong business case to release, piracy or no.
It feels more like spite than sound business practice to me.
I'm sorry- How is an author's desire to get paid for his sweat, labor, and time "obsolete"? On the contrary, I consider that progressive.
The desire to get paid for your work is not obsolete. Distributing data on physical media is. Especially obsolete is the idea that you need some kind of agent to distribute it for you (while he collects most of your potential profit).
Thats not to say that there is yet a perfect system for compensation, but that is the price you pay for living in exciting times.
When you steal a book, and keep it permanently without compensation, that makes you no better than the Plantation Masters. IMHO.
Firstly - it is not stealing, as it has been pointed out in many/. discussions, it is copyright infringement. Secondly - Nice trolling. That has to be the dumbest thing I have read on the internet this month.
Nuts. When you're wrong you're wrong.
Sorry for the late reply, but I only just noticed your post.
Slashdot being what it is, all posts are permanent, so I just wanted to go on record to say you are right and I fucked up.
Cheers.
Yeah, It will be a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone.
I'm only a joeboy, but I've pre-ordered my Ono-Sendai Cyberspace deck. I'll be ready.
If you need a license from Nintendo to develop its just not homebrew is it?
You need an "open" system for an active homebrew scene - something closer to your slim PC idea (oblig. does it run linux?) - but then you don't get the advantage of millions of identical machines to target.
Agreed. I would love to buy a Wii for the unique games, but I can't bring myself to pay for a system that the manufacturer is ACTIVELY stopping the community from improving.
For my money the best console available is a cracked original xbox running XBMC and an upgraded harddisk. Cost you about AU$200 to put together. Has DVD, best media center software I've ever seen (open source), runs emulators for old PC, arcade, SNES and N64 games, has a catalog of thousands of native games (the newer ones still look pretty good) and as a bonus allows you quickly and easily rip your games to disk for no-more CD swapping. (you could use it for pirating rented games too I suppose, but I would never do that). Nothing on the market currently can touch that functionality.
My favorite item for this kind of scale size comparison is a drink can. Everyone (at least everyone buying netbooks) knows exactly how big one is. I've got half a dozen bourbon and coke empties sitting between my keyboard and monitor right now:)
They carefully REPORTED the kernel, X server and compiler version, but they didn't specify anything. They just used the stock version that came on each release CD. They didn't even apply updates from offical repositories as far as I could see.
The only thing SPECIFIED was the ATI drivers, but even then it was only because it was the easiest solution
It would have been interesting to at least see comparisons done where they were all running the same kernel, if not X and GCC version
I don't think Chrisje was attempting suggest that warcrimes and screen-scraping are morally the same thing, but that there is a similar mental process (or a fundamental human weakness) involved that makes people do things they normally wouldn't do if they are told to by their boss. See the Milgram experiment for more detail.
It might have been a little overstated, but strawman argument it is not.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels. Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs. Randal: Like when? Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was. Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine. Dante: Based on personal politics. Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling. Randal: No way! Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
Ibex looked fine to me, after I installed the graphics driver. On further investigation, it was not so hot - 64-bit kernel didn't detect all 4 gigs of memory. Now I can't trust it to do anything right:(
I thought the same thing, until I looked into it some more. You see ubuntu reports the amount of memory in GiB (Gigibites), not GB (Gigabites). So on a 4GB machine you will "see" 3.9GiB.
Confusing, yes. I think that they should just stick to good old gigabites, but apparently GiB is the standard being taught to new CS geeks everywhere - ironically to prevent confusion!
Upshot is that all your memory is detected and used, so don't worry about it.
Huh? I'm not saying you're a dick, but your post don't really make sense.
Onward regardless, some of us would like to support a business model that gives us what we want without treating us like criminals.
You don't have a right to have these games for free, the price is fair, and there are not any limitations on the product. Why NOT pay for them? at $5.99 per game you could easily be paying that for your warez just in bandwidth!
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It's hard to use, and ugly.
It used to be. On Ubuntu all you have to do is double click on the .exe and off it goes. Even a Windows user can manage that.
Holy cow! You need 8GB of ram to play games on Vista?
Seriously, there a some legitimate uses for that much RAM (like virtualization) but it ain't gaming.
By the time a game comes out that needs that much RAM, your "tri-sli" setup will be outclassed by a single budget card - maybe even integrated graphics - and your beastly gaming rig will be totally inadequate.
At least it runs Aero Glass real good.
Couldn't agree more. The first time I saw his manic portrayal of the Master I remember thinking "now THAT is a Timelord!"
Honestly, I'd be willing to pretend the last 4 seasons didn't really happen, so that they could be redone "correctly" (with no time war, etc).
Really? I thought the Time War was a great plot device. It cleverly tied many of the classic show's threads together while signifying the fact that the current reality was in many ways different from the old series. I loved the fact that the Time Lords now never existed, and how ultimately futile their sacrifice was. It lays the foundation for a much darker Doctor - even if this was rarely portrayed convincingly by Tennent, he was just too damn chipper
In defense of America, sex is much more of a temptation than violence is.
It better be. Otherwise the human race can kiss its collective ass goodbye.
But they didn't actually create money : they had money and gave it to people with the (damn stupid) expectation that it would be returned with interest.
Maybe. I'm not an accountant (God forbid!), but if the banks recorded this potential interest as an asset, when there could be no reasonable expectation that they would ever see it, didn't they just effectively invent money from thin air? Does not seem that different to "printing" money to me - though perhaps "counterfeiting" would be a better word
The government SHOULD be the only one who can print money, but because they were not the only ones doing it we are in this situation.
I've never weighed in on the whole vi/emacs war before, so this is a bit of a special moment for me - thanks for the opportunity! :)
Anywho, it may be trivially easy to install emacs on any system you have admin privileges to, but vi comes installed by default on practically every OS known to man.
If you are a coder, then great, you can afford to customize your environment to suit your particular quirks. If you are a sysadmin you need to be able to log on to any given system and edit files without installing additional software. In other words you better know vi. Its like, you know, a standard or something.
I HOPE the reference wan't to shrek. Gee, kids these days.
The original version was written and performed by Leonard Cohen in '84, though of course I'd forgive people for thinking the reference was to Jeff Buckley's '94 version, arguably better than the original. John Cale (velvet underground) did a version in '91 too.
Rufus Wainwright, who recorded the shrek version, has gone on record saying he never would have touched the song if he had heard the Buckley version first - its that good.
There are some services in Vista you CANT turn off, think DRM. There is plenty of benchmarking around showing that for some tasks the same system running 2008 is 10%-20% faster than running vista.
If you are a developer (or student *grin*) you can get server 2008 for free through MSDN. So cost does not need to be a factor.
It really isn't a bad idea at all if you need a good Windows workstation. No need to pan someone for tying to share a good idea.
Intellectual Property is not the same thing as real property, no matter how much the content industry would like you to believe otherwise. "Intellectual Property" is a term dreamed up by industry lobbyists to make people associate copying with theft, a transparent but remarkably effective tactic.
Sure, taking with out paying isn't a nice thing to do, but it isn't stealing. He/She still owns the IP, and can still sell it as many times as they can convince people to buy it. THAT is a challenge that needs to be addressed, how do you get people to pay for something they can get for free? While there is a need for some sort of reward for your work, the current system is broken and does not deserve protection just because that is the way we've done it before.
Bleating about "stealing" is only an attempt to maintain the status quo. The people with the most to loose are not the artists, but the middle men who have got very wealthy by controlling scarcity. With all this new technology, progress in the "science and useful arts" should be accelerating, not tanking.
most Linux/open source advocates do it for the rebellion not because they have a better product to promote.
No, most OSS advocates do it because the software is THEIRS; by being part of the community that develops it they are personally involved with the software, and are justifiably proud of it. "Look what we built"
What I don't understand is why Microsoft apologists like you bother. You didn't help build Windows, MS has no loyalty to you; evidence shows they do not even LIKE you. They only want you to stay on the treadmill. And yet still you sing their praises. "Look what I paid for". Doesn't make any sense.
He wouldn't say that unless there was a strong business case for a PC release not being very profitable to them.
How much would it really cost to port from the 360 to PC - it's nearly the same platform.
When you compare no PC games sales to any sales at all - for a game you have already developed - I would think you can make a pretty strong business case to release, piracy or no.
It feels more like spite than sound business practice to me.
I'm sorry- How is an author's desire to get paid for his sweat, labor, and time "obsolete"? On the contrary, I consider that progressive.
The desire to get paid for your work is not obsolete. Distributing data on physical media is. Especially obsolete is the idea that you need some kind of agent to distribute it for you (while he collects most of your potential profit).
Thats not to say that there is yet a perfect system for compensation, but that is the price you pay for living in exciting times.
When you steal a book, and keep it permanently without compensation, that makes you no better than the Plantation Masters. IMHO.
Firstly - it is not stealing, as it has been pointed out in many /. discussions, it is copyright infringement.
Secondly - Nice trolling. That has to be the dumbest thing I have read on the internet this month.
Nuts. When you're wrong you're wrong.
Sorry for the late reply, but I only just noticed your post.
Slashdot being what it is, all posts are permanent, so I just wanted to go on record to say you are right and I fucked up.
Cheers.
Yeah, It will be a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone.
I'm only a joeboy, but I've pre-ordered my Ono-Sendai Cyberspace deck. I'll be ready.
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If you need a license from Nintendo to develop its just not homebrew is it?
You need an "open" system for an active homebrew scene - something closer to your slim PC idea (oblig. does it run linux?) - but then you don't get the advantage of millions of identical machines to target.
Agreed. I would love to buy a Wii for the unique games, but I can't bring myself to pay for a system that the manufacturer is ACTIVELY stopping the community from improving.
For my money the best console available is a cracked original xbox running XBMC and an upgraded harddisk. Cost you about AU$200 to put together. Has DVD, best media center software I've ever seen (open source), runs emulators for old PC, arcade, SNES and N64 games, has a catalog of thousands of native games (the newer ones still look pretty good) and as a bonus allows you quickly and easily rip your games to disk for no-more CD swapping. (you could use it for pirating rented games too I suppose, but I would never do that). Nothing on the market currently can touch that functionality.
My favorite item for this kind of scale size comparison is a drink can. Everyone (at least everyone buying netbooks) knows exactly how big one is. I've got half a dozen bourbon and coke empties sitting between my keyboard and monitor right now :)
They carefully REPORTED the kernel, X server and compiler version, but they didn't specify anything. They just used the stock version that came on each release CD. They didn't even apply updates from offical repositories as far as I could see.
The only thing SPECIFIED was the ATI drivers, but even then it was only because it was the easiest solution
It would have been interesting to at least see comparisons done where they were all running the same kernel, if not X and GCC version
I don't think Chrisje was attempting suggest that warcrimes and screen-scraping are morally the same thing, but that there is a similar mental process (or a fundamental human weakness) involved that makes people do things they normally wouldn't do if they are told to by their boss. See the Milgram experiment for more detail.
It might have been a little overstated, but strawman argument it is not.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Randal: No way!
Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
Kevin Smith knows his stuff.
:s/doctors/lawyers and consequences might be surprisingly pleasant. Surely its worth a try?
Ibex looked fine to me, after I installed the graphics driver. On further investigation, it was not so hot - 64-bit kernel didn't detect all 4 gigs of memory. Now I can't trust it to do anything right :(
I thought the same thing, until I looked into it some more. You see ubuntu reports the amount of memory in GiB (Gigibites), not GB (Gigabites). So on a 4GB machine you will "see" 3.9GiB.
Confusing, yes. I think that they should just stick to good old gigabites, but apparently GiB is the standard being taught to new CS geeks everywhere - ironically to prevent confusion!
Upshot is that all your memory is detected and used, so don't worry about it.
Huh? I'm not saying you're a dick, but your post don't really make sense.
Onward regardless, some of us would like to support a business model that gives us what we want without treating us like criminals.
You don't have a right to have these games for free, the price is fair, and there are not any limitations on the product. Why NOT pay for them? at $5.99 per game you could easily be paying that for your warez just in bandwidth!
Crafting should NOT be beneath a hero. After all, a true Jedi crafts his own lightsaber.