I have an Abit KG-7. the KG7/KT7 boards ARE TOTAL SHIT. If you find a driver combination that doesn't cause a random crash or lockup, let me know. Because after I've never found it. After dealing with this board, I vowed to never buy a VIA chipset again.
He wasn't even trolling. The fact that he's currently +5 troll just demonstrates the Slashdolt mentaility, mod down anything you don't want to hear. Re. 1, he already aswered it. the vast, vast, VAST majority see Windows as the lesser of two evils compared to learning a new system. Re. 3, for MOST systems, you don't need a driver disk of any kind to get a working system. We just have bad hardware. I've gone through the same thing in Linux for boards that are too new.
This is very dependent on the platform. I've been developing Oracle Forms now for a few years, and there are user actions that the runtime environment simply has no way of preventing.
It's not necessarily right to blame the programmer, either. Sometimes both the user and developer are just stuck on a crappy platform.
This is informative, but its not strictly 100% true. I had to futz around with the module init tools to get them to work properly with 2.6. And, if they are required, why aren't they a dependency? I don't understand that.
Add to this the fact that PCMCIA-CS driver wouldn't compile at all under the new module tools, and under the previous tools, it wouldn't compile until you hack some structs.
It ended up taking me about 5 tries to find the right combination under gentoo to get everything to work right, which ended up being unmerging the new module tools, hack pcmcia-cs and compile/install, emerge the new module tools again.
I prefer Firebird if I can get it, but I have a hard time convincing people that the Mozilla core just plain sucks for older machines. I have a Macintosh G3-400/OSX 10.3 system where firebird runs significantly slower than Safari. I have a 200Mhz Indigo2, Firebird is almost unusable on it.
To tell the truth, I've been slowly migrating back to vanilla mozilla simply because too many plugins just don't work correctly in Firebird.
If I brought them my Macintosh LC-III, would somebody even know how to install Linux on that? The docs just confused the crap out of me. There's probably a lot of architectures like that I suppose. How many are just going to be vanilla x86 installs?
Stick to pure procedural programming at first, and use it to teach them the basic control structures of procedural programming, like if statements and loops, etc. you could do quite a bit of learning before you ever needed to actually start using OOP or file reading writing. When s/he is ready for it, it won't be so hard to move to another language that offers all those features.
How did they get it to install? I have a pentium 133, and Windows ME would not even install on it. It refused and told me I needed at least a Pentium 166. Does XP not have this restriction?
SCO still doesn't have the right to subsume all copyrights to the work that everyone has done on Linux to date, If this is correct, I don't know what the ramifications would be, but linux would survive. Isn't this how BSD ended up? All proprietary code was systematically replaced over time, and the result is still free.
Interestingly any research that dissociates a link between video games and violence is probably going to be applicable to firearms as well. One of the major premises of the gun control movement is that just the presence of guns make an individual more prone to general violent actions.
In terms of sheer firepower though, you are probably right;-) we do own a lot of guns. But that's good--it gives us a general appreciation of all our rights. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to convince gun owners that anti-video game arguments are baseless. "Video games don't kill people, people kill people."
I wouldn't mind having a photo directory of all the exits on the major interstates. I am more visual than map oriented, and this would be fantastically helpful. I miss exits all the time. If I knew what I was looking for, I don't think I would miss them.
If they are looking for a commercial application, thats something they could consider.
To this day I am not precisely sure what Dr. J. looks like in real life. My only recollection of his face was about 5 pixels high. He was the brown one, and Larry was the pink and green one.
Will always be remembered by me, not for whatever crap he did on the basketball court, of which I have no idea. I will always remember him for starring in one of the world's shittiest games, SHAQ-FU (and to a lesser extent, the movie KAZAM.)
How is a game producer supposed to know that a game could cause an epileptic seizure? Get a bunch of epileptic kids to play the game and see if they start swallowing their tongues?
It kind of reminds me of that website cokemachineaccidents.com, where some drunk college student died from a coke machine he was trying to steal soda from fell over on him. The parents believed that the police were negligent in their duties because they didn't consult any "experts" to investigate the death of their son. Who's an expert at investigating coke machine fatalities?
This is exactly why warning labels are often more dangerous than they are worth, because people don't understand how they work. They are, by and large, not written by experts. for most things, there ARE NO experts. They are written based on past litigation, past threats of litigation, or surmising how someone might seriously hurt themself with the product if that have absolutely no common sense. In all cases, they are covering things that have already happened, or things that would never happen to you if you were not palm beach voter.
Now that some kid had a seizure, I bet a warning label shows up on that game in the future. If you understand that that's how warning labels work, that this type of thing has already happened to someone somewhere and that doesn't imply that OTHER terrible things won't happen to you that aren't even mentioned, then the warning label system will have done its job.
In this specific instance, we have no idea if there was anything in the game that might have indicated to anyone that it could cause a seizure. We don't even know everything that causes seizures in all epileptics. So, do we put an epilepsy warning on ALL games that they might cause a seizure? Is that more or less useful than labelling specific games that have flashing alternating colors?
And to the contrary, acknowledging that other people aren't responsible for your own safety isn't childish, its a defining characteristic of being an adult.
There will be the people who own companies, and the service industry to maintain their lifestyle. Don't expect to get paid good for that either, since illegal and legal immigrants will do crap jobs for less money.
You could learn a trade, but don't expect to work your way up to running your own business. Trades will be corporatized, so if you want to be a plumber you'll have to work for National Plumbers, inc.
So, basically there will be a two class system, since they've effectively figured out how to eliminate the merchant class and the professional class.
It's interesting you mention this, because the Dolphin Gamecube emulator manages to emulate the Gamecube's 486 Mhz powerpc CPU at speeds fast enough to play 2D games at full speed on an Athlon 1900+. My assumption is that this means the 3D hardware is the bottleneck, not the CPU emulation itself.
It's pretty nice, considering I'm running a 400Mhz blue and white G3 at home right now, which can run OS X just fine. Before this emu came out, I didn't even think such a thing was possible. I hope they make their PPC emulation code available.
It's not open source, but the Dolphin Gamecube Emulator can actually emulate a gamecube on the PC, which of course includes its 486Mhz PPC processor. So it's possible, even on 32 bit. I was quite surprised by this. I really hope they will Open source at least their processor emulation.
It depends on where you live. Blockbuster sets their prices purely based on capitalistic principles.
If Blockbuster manages to obliterate all other local competition, their prices can get quite high. A new release costs $5.50 where I'm from, and thats not as high as they have gotten. There are stores in other districts with extremely high competition, and prices have dropped to 99 cents for new releases for five days.
You can assume one given, and thats that nearly every community in the united states has a nearby wal mart. You figure that every wal mart carries these rental movies, they can kick blockbuster's ass by volume. Even if blockbuster is cheaper, wal mart can carry thousands of the discs, which they will sell when blockbuster runs out.
But, this still didn't happen. I suspect that customers just really don't want these things. They like renting something and returning it, or buying it and keeping it.
That sounds like an application error. Windows doesn't care if you have an analog interface or not. I play DVDs on CRT monitor,and that doesn't have any "analog copy protection", so I'm not sure what they mean.
I feel guilty about using OS X. The reason why is the continuous feeling of abuse that Apple puts on people, and I feel guilty about supporting that.
OS X is very easy to use, much of it "just works" and its great as a unix desktop. That said, the first G* macintosh I bought was an iMac. The video card was not 3D accelerated because Apple felt it wasn't worth their time to write a full driver for it, despite having promised to fully support their own hardware.
Flash forward, I upgrade to a blue and white G3. I traded in the iMac because, after I upgraded the RAM in it, the screen went all crazy. I'm not retarded, and I have probably swapped more RAM sticks in my day than Bill Gates has megalomaniacal fantasies. iMacs are brittle babies. Anyway, so I get this G3 with hardware DVD support which couldn't play movies properly because again, Apple chose not to implement drivers for their own hardware. After a class action lawsuit, I can play DVDs on my Macintosh.
I love the easthetics and usability of OS X, and I love the fact that I can run all my Linux software on it. I don't OWN any commercial software, I got this thing because it's unix. I hate the fact that upgrades are fairly pricey for incremental changes, and I hate the fact that the hardware costs so much and really isn't that great, and prone to repeated failures. I hate the fact that Apple will roll you over the barrel if they think for a second they can get away with it. I hate the crooked things they have done with their software to mess with competitors. I hate the fact that it takes lawsuits to get them to hold to their word, and I hate that they have a crystal reputation despite all these things. I am guilty that I support all this just for the sake of having a usable unix desktop. I have now bought two macs in addition to a new copy of Panther, and with my money I am saying that I am okay with everything they do.
I think its specious to say that OS X is more open a platform than other operating systems. If apple desupports OS X tomorrow, the fact that it's built on BSD and Mach and OpenStep is irrelevant because they are your single point of support. That doesn't make me feel guilty, but it does bother me.
I won't criticize anyone for loving the macintosh. OS X is a great thing. I am a macintosh user. but I think there is plenty to be guilty about. If people can refuse to use Microsoft products because of how they treat customers and competitors, I think there is logic behind feeling guilty about using an Apple product as well.
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I have an Abit KG-7. the KG7/KT7 boards ARE TOTAL SHIT. If you find a driver combination that doesn't cause a random crash or lockup, let me know. Because after I've never found it. After dealing with this board, I vowed to never buy a VIA chipset again.
He wasn't even trolling. The fact that he's currently +5 troll just demonstrates the Slashdolt mentaility, mod down anything you don't want to hear. Re. 1, he already aswered it. the vast, vast, VAST majority see Windows as the lesser of two evils compared to learning a new system. Re. 3, for MOST systems, you don't need a driver disk of any kind to get a working system. We just have bad hardware. I've gone through the same thing in Linux for boards that are too new.
I for one, welcome our Super Manjeet Brothers overlords.
This is very dependent on the platform. I've been developing Oracle Forms now for a few years, and there are user actions that the runtime environment simply has no way of preventing.
It's not necessarily right to blame the programmer, either. Sometimes both the user and developer are just stuck on a crappy platform.
This is informative, but its not strictly 100% true. I had to futz around with the module init tools to get them to work properly with 2.6. And, if they are required, why aren't they a dependency? I don't understand that.
Add to this the fact that PCMCIA-CS driver wouldn't compile at all under the new module tools, and under the previous tools, it wouldn't compile until you hack some structs.
It ended up taking me about 5 tries to find the right combination under gentoo to get everything to work right, which ended up being unmerging the new module tools, hack pcmcia-cs and compile/install, emerge the new module tools again.
Gentoo is on the right track though.
I prefer Firebird if I can get it, but I have a hard time convincing people that the Mozilla core just plain sucks for older machines. I have a Macintosh G3-400/OSX 10.3 system where firebird runs significantly slower than Safari. I have a 200Mhz Indigo2, Firebird is almost unusable on it.
To tell the truth, I've been slowly migrating back to vanilla mozilla simply because too many plugins just don't work correctly in Firebird.
Large "Type R" sticker on laptop.
If I brought them my Macintosh LC-III, would somebody even know how to install Linux on that? The docs just confused the crap out of me. There's probably a lot of architectures like that I suppose. How many are just going to be vanilla x86 installs?
Stick to pure procedural programming at first, and use it to teach them the basic control structures of procedural programming, like if statements and loops, etc. you could do quite a bit of learning before you ever needed to actually start using OOP or file reading writing. When s/he is ready for it, it won't be so hard to move to another language that offers all those features.
We helped fund OpenBSD development for quite some time. It's apparently over now, but we've all reaped the benefits of this in innumerable ways.
How did they get it to install? I have a pentium 133, and Windows ME would not even install on it. It refused and told me I needed at least a Pentium 166. Does XP not have this restriction?
SCO still doesn't have the right to subsume all copyrights to the work that everyone has done on Linux to date, If this is correct, I don't know what the ramifications would be, but linux would survive. Isn't this how BSD ended up? All proprietary code was systematically replaced over time, and the result is still free.
I'm not sending anyone a check for $699.
Interestingly any research that dissociates a link between video games and violence is probably going to be applicable to firearms as well. One of the major premises of the gun control movement is that just the presence of guns make an individual more prone to general violent actions.
;-) we do own a lot of guns. But that's good--it gives us a general appreciation of all our rights. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to convince gun owners that anti-video game arguments are baseless. "Video games don't kill people, people kill people."
In terms of sheer firepower though, you are probably right
I wouldn't mind having a photo directory of all the exits on the major interstates. I am more visual than map oriented, and this would be fantastically helpful. I miss exits all the time. If I knew what I was looking for, I don't think I would miss them.
If they are looking for a commercial application, thats something they could consider.
To this day I am not precisely sure what Dr. J. looks like in real life. My only recollection of his face was about 5 pixels high. He was the brown one, and Larry was the pink and green one.
Will always be remembered by me, not for whatever crap he did on the basketball court, of which I have no idea. I will always remember him for starring in one of the world's shittiest games, SHAQ-FU (and to a lesser extent, the movie KAZAM.)
How is a game producer supposed to know that a game could cause an epileptic seizure? Get a bunch of epileptic kids to play the game and see if they start swallowing their tongues?
It kind of reminds me of that website cokemachineaccidents.com, where some drunk college student died from a coke machine he was trying to steal soda from fell over on him. The parents believed that the police were negligent in their duties because they didn't consult any "experts" to investigate the death of their son. Who's an expert at investigating coke machine fatalities?
This is exactly why warning labels are often more dangerous than they are worth, because people don't understand how they work. They are, by and large, not written by experts. for most things, there ARE NO experts. They are written based on past litigation, past threats of litigation, or surmising how someone might seriously hurt themself with the product if that have absolutely no common sense. In all cases, they are covering things that have already happened, or things that would never happen to you if you were not palm beach voter.
Now that some kid had a seizure, I bet a warning label shows up on that game in the future. If you understand that that's how warning labels work, that this type of thing has already happened to someone somewhere and that doesn't imply that OTHER terrible things won't happen to you that aren't even mentioned, then the warning label system will have done its job.
In this specific instance, we have no idea if there was anything in the game that might have indicated to anyone that it could cause a seizure. We don't even know everything that causes seizures in all epileptics. So, do we put an epilepsy warning on ALL games that they might cause a seizure? Is that more or less useful than labelling specific games that have flashing alternating colors?
And to the contrary, acknowledging that other people aren't responsible for your own safety isn't childish, its a defining characteristic of being an adult.
Who said anything about Marxism or the Soviet Union?
There will be the people who own companies, and the service industry to maintain their lifestyle. Don't expect to get paid good for that either, since illegal and legal immigrants will do crap jobs for less money.
You could learn a trade, but don't expect to work your way up to running your own business. Trades will be corporatized, so if you want to be a plumber you'll have to work for National Plumbers, inc.
So, basically there will be a two class system, since they've effectively figured out how to eliminate the merchant class and the professional class.
Revisions earlier than a certain date are not listed. We changed wiki software at least once over time.
It's interesting you mention this, because the Dolphin Gamecube emulator manages to emulate the Gamecube's 486 Mhz powerpc CPU at speeds fast enough to play 2D games at full speed on an Athlon 1900+. My assumption is that this means the 3D hardware is the bottleneck, not the CPU emulation itself.
It's pretty nice, considering I'm running a 400Mhz blue and white G3 at home right now, which can run OS X just fine. Before this emu came out, I didn't even think such a thing was possible. I hope they make their PPC emulation code available.
http://www.dolphin-emu.com
It's not open source, but the Dolphin Gamecube Emulator can actually emulate a gamecube on the PC, which of course includes its 486Mhz PPC processor. So it's possible, even on 32 bit. I was quite surprised by this. I really hope they will Open source at least their processor emulation.
http://www.dolphin-emu.com/
You just said it's intuitive after you get over the learning curve. I just wanted to point that out.
It depends on where you live. Blockbuster sets their prices purely based on capitalistic principles.
If Blockbuster manages to obliterate all other local competition, their prices can get quite high. A new release costs $5.50 where I'm from, and thats not as high as they have gotten. There are stores in other districts with extremely high competition, and prices have dropped to 99 cents for new releases for five days.
You can assume one given, and thats that nearly every community in the united states has a nearby wal mart. You figure that every wal mart carries these rental movies, they can kick blockbuster's ass by volume. Even if blockbuster is cheaper, wal mart can carry thousands of the discs, which they will sell when blockbuster runs out.
But, this still didn't happen. I suspect that customers just really don't want these things. They like renting something and returning it, or buying it and keeping it.
That sounds like an application error. Windows doesn't care if you have an analog interface or not. I play DVDs on CRT monitor,and that doesn't have any "analog copy protection", so I'm not sure what they mean.
I feel guilty about using OS X. The reason why is the continuous feeling of abuse that Apple puts on people, and I feel guilty about supporting that.
OS X is very easy to use, much of it "just works" and its great as a unix desktop. That said, the first G* macintosh I bought was an iMac. The video card was not 3D accelerated because Apple felt it wasn't worth their time to write a full driver for it, despite having promised to fully support their own hardware.
Flash forward, I upgrade to a blue and white G3. I traded in the iMac because, after I upgraded the RAM in it, the screen went all crazy. I'm not retarded, and I have probably swapped more RAM sticks in my day than Bill Gates has megalomaniacal fantasies. iMacs are brittle babies. Anyway, so I get this G3 with hardware DVD support which couldn't play movies properly because again, Apple chose not to implement drivers for their own hardware. After a class action lawsuit, I can play DVDs on my Macintosh.
I love the easthetics and usability of OS X, and I love the fact that I can run all my Linux software on it. I don't OWN any commercial software, I got this thing because it's unix. I hate the fact that upgrades are fairly pricey for incremental changes, and I hate the fact that the hardware costs so much and really isn't that great, and prone to repeated failures. I hate the fact that Apple will roll you over the barrel if they think for a second they can get away with it. I hate the crooked things they have done with their software to mess with competitors. I hate the fact that it takes lawsuits to get them to hold to their word, and I hate that they have a crystal reputation despite all these things. I am guilty that I support all this just for the sake of having a usable unix desktop. I have now bought two macs in addition to a new copy of Panther, and with my money I am saying that I am okay with everything they do.
I think its specious to say that OS X is more open a platform than other operating systems. If apple desupports OS X tomorrow, the fact that it's built on BSD and Mach and OpenStep is irrelevant because they are your single point of support. That doesn't make me feel guilty, but it does bother me.
I won't criticize anyone for loving the macintosh. OS X is a great thing. I am a macintosh user. but I think there is plenty to be guilty about. If people can refuse to use Microsoft products because of how they treat customers and competitors, I think there is logic behind feeling guilty about using an Apple product as well.