Edgar was from Charleston? I thought he was collar county. As for Kankakee, it's a bit of a toss up as to whether it should be considered a suburb or not. Bradley and Bourbonnais are, though they are a touch further south than Braidwood and Coal City on I-55 are, but Kankakee is iffy.
Sure, I know about Jesse White, but he didn't do things to remind the voters he's african-american like Moseley-Braun did. No trips to Africa for him. Moseley-Braun's problem was that after wining her Senate seat she came across to downstaters as "too black" and too focused on the needs of "North of I-80". She actually won Livingston county in 92! And as far as Blago and Giannoulias, there are Italians and Poles downstate, and ethnicity other than race, doesn't count for as much.
Also it's been a decade since Jesse White became Secretary of State and things change. For example, in 1998 the idea of an African American getting nominated for President by either party was unthinkable. The Republicans would have NEVER nominated Powell, and the Democrats thought they HAD to have a Southerner. By 2004, Illinois was even more "Blue" than it was in 1998. As I have said, no Republican could have won that seat, and anyonw who knows Illinois knew it.
As for Keyes, he was drafted by the party leaders after others they asked (including Mike Ditka) declined.
I don't believe that all Republicans are bigoted assholes, only some of them. I do believe that the Republican party is soft on bigotry and tolerates it in the party to a certain extent, because they know that those who are bigoted tend to vote republican and they NEED those votes. They can't win elections with just the Country Club Republican vote, there simply aren't enough of them. The "Southern Strategy" exists for a reason.
Obama's of the Goo Goo (Good Government) school of Illinois politics, like the current governor, they try to keep the crap to the minimum necessary to get shit done. They're not perfect, but their hearts are in the right place. On his better days, Edgar would probably be considered a Goo Goo. Hell, Blago himself might have ended up one if he'd had more guts. Problem is, neither the Republican downstate/suburban machine or the Democrat machine likes goo goo's.
Oh please, Fitzgerald decided not to run because ANY democrat would have kicked his ass. He got lucky in facing Mosley-Braun. He won because of collar county racism and downstate racism, but that couldn't last, and he knew it. Also the Republican establishment didn't like Fitzgerald at all, he wasn't popular with them or voters, no the way Alan J Dixon was. The Fitzgerald seat had been held by a Democrat since 1970! It was going to go to a Democrat and everyone knew it.
And as for Jack Ryan, Obama was leading him in the polls BEFORE all that mess came out in the media. He had 0 chance of winning in 2008, whether against Obama or Dan Hynes. You do remember that 2004 speech Obama made at the Democratic National Convention. I watched it and said out loud to the rest of the family: He's going to be president someday", however I expected that to happen in 2012 or 2016.
Well, at least three Republicans had a hand in Illinois current financial troubles.
Thompson from Chicago itself: Overspending and starting the tradition of sending a HUGELY obscene amounts of money to loyal Republican districts and cronies, which led to
Edgar (Suburban republican), the lying stupid ass skinflint caretaker who was too much of a skinflint. Edgar was the guy who accused his Democratic opponents of being "tax and spenders" but who nevertheless never actually stated he'd never raise taxes, which he did...after the election. Everybody with any brain knew he was going to have to, but he got away with it. which led to:
Ryan (downstate republican), who spent way too much and funneled even more money downstate and to cronies, which led to:
Blago, who wanted to shuffle the money to where there were actually people, but really needed to raise taxes, but didn't want to do so because he would have been branded a "tax and spend Democrat".
You can also blame those Republican supporting CEO's who sold out our manufacturing base to the third world.
You don't think the downstaters are just as corrupt? George Ryan was from Kankakee and the Republicans downstate are just as much as a machine as the Democrats in Chicago are.
Why won't this falsehood just die already. WRONG! It was YaBasic on the EU launch PS2's that was the attempt, not Linux on the PS2 or PS3 which postdate the removal of the special EU tariff.
They decided it was easier and cheaper to just port Linux or have a hypervisor make the hardware appear more like a normal PC than do specialized hardware, at least for hobbyists.
I think it depends on where you live, when I read about Slashdotters finding all sorts of stuff in dumpsters or whatnot I think "don't you have electronics recycling/reselling places"? Because around here, no one throws away (or gives away) computing equipment, either they use it till it dies and can't be repaired anymore or they take it to a thrift (for a cut of the sale price), sell it outright to a pawn shop or one of the electronics resellers, or they try to sell their old P4 themselves for a couple hundred dollars.
Probably depends on how affluent the area is, personally, I'd try freecycle first, but considering how the local newspaper office has what appears to be a Graphite G4 tower still in operation, I doubt I would have much luck.
The Playstation had 640MB of storage, but you could load like 2MB into RAM at a time... smaller levels, less detail, load time, etc.
Which is why some PSone games loaded level data on the fly, as needed, as intended. Compare the Spyro games to Mario 64. Some PS2 games do the same thing, ever play EQOA, you'll never see a load screen past boot up unless you directly TP somewhere. You could walk/swim from Fayspires to the Kappa fortress on Odus and never see a single load screen.
Sigh...you read things MUCH too literally. use as few terms as possible, start as generally as possible. Since you know what a WRT router is, what you really need are good places to dumpster dive for useful electronics in your area, and no, you don't want to google "good places to dumpster dive in tepples location", that's way too many terms. Start with "dumpster diving", find message boards and e-mail lists..then ask THERE.
that there are apparently two update versions, one is essentially a patch version that isn't the Full version...you'd want the Full version on your storage device. Was your download 167MB?
Yep, that's me. Still have a spare PS2 HDD with a base Linux install on it...just in case. Started using YDL on my PS3 in 2008, then moved to Fedora on X86 (and then updated my PS3's firmware)
I'm not for certain myself, I know that Slims store at least part of the firmware on their hard drives, and CECHA's and CECHB's (the original 60BG deluxe and 20GB models with full hardware PS2 compatibility) don't. Don't know about CECHE's (That's the 80GB one with the card slots, 4 USB ports and PS2 backwards compatiblity using a partial hardware/software solution)..
Or the person involved didn't format the new drive properly, or follow instructions. There is always some idiot complaining that their firmware bricked their PS3 on slashdot right after a new firmware is announced. Slashdot is a sucker for anti-Sony whining without substantiated claims. Hell I've seen people claiming firmware takes away features that are still in there...just renamed or moved, or that work differently than before, a la:
"Sony took away my ability to listen to music while web browsing"
Do you have the new ability to output sound at higher khz on? you can only play music while browsing if output is set to 44.1
"oops"
"Sony took away my ability to use my new external hard drive"
Is it NTFS, if so, won't work.
"oops"
"The web browser text input doesn't work right!"
Earlier you mentioned you had to switch to SDTV because your HD set broke, you do realize that the text input has always worked like that on SD
"oops"
Yes, yes, be miffed at SCEA for taking away OtherOS by overestimating Geohot's abilities, but geezus don't automatically assuem the worst every time.
I know, In fact I assumed he was autistic spectrum before I googled him and confirmed it, and I did warn him that prospective dev house employers would find that out...he didn't get the hint though.
Didn't you notice the dates on that thread and how it was referring to FC5 being the next version? You do know that the current version of Fedora is Fedora 13? Didn't you think about checking to see if the situation might have changed? There are tetris clones included in both the KDE and gnome game packages which are right in the official Fedora repos. I checked, installed, and played one right after I read your post. It's not also not called gnometris, but quadrapassel.
The PS3's optical out is also a surround source, if your receiver supports it, tell the PS3 to output the surround sound to toslink (the PS3 will then send only stereo sound through HDMI)
I detest this term, which literally means "happy god".
Don't take everything literally. In fact, I refused to reply to a reply you did to a post of mine some weeks back because you simply are too literal minded and have problems with nuance
Have you tried the GOTY edition on the PS3? Is it as bad as the reviews make it sound (in terms of buginess) or is that just a very vocal minority?
It's buggy, but not as bad as the complainers try to say it is. The Pitt seemed the buggiest, which for me, meant lockups, freezing and crazy changes in frame rate.
The Fallout game released this year isn't going to be "Fallout 4" but "Fallout: New Vegas", and I'm looking forward to it, though I'm still playing Fallout 3.
They are hard to learn by almost everyone, therefore they are not "easy". CLIs can very often be faster and more convenient for learned users, but that's not the same thing.
I wouldn't say that basic usage is hard, sure using more advanced features might be, but basic stuff?
This is a great system if you want a tech support guy to literally hold the hand of the user through every minor configuration. Frankly, if you're going to do this just SSH in and do it FOR him. It's the same thing.
Actually, it's not the same thing, because if you tell them, rather than just SSH in, they get to see the command and you can also explain it and what it does, a la "sudo lets you run commands as root (SUperuser DO), service lets you control system services, cpuspeed is one such service, status tells you the status of the service, you can also stop and start it or other services You can learn more with sudo service --help and man service You might also want to read about chkconfig"
Right there that's useful info, I've just told them all they need to know to start, stop and check services in a terminal.
When using a CLI you essentially have to learn a completely different language. "sudo", "cpuspeed", etc. are hardly obvious commands (let alone options and syntax) you could somehow guess........This is simply not faster than clicking through menus with item descriptions, even a bunch of menus. Yes it might take more time than using a CLI command, but it will take a lot less time than LEARNING the CLI command.
You're quite right on the "discoverability" issue of the Terminal. For example, how likely is it one will discover "apropos" on their own unless they've read about it.
But....learning some basic terminal commands can come in handy for even a newbie, and it's really not that hard to learn about ls, cat, less, top, ps, and so forth, or even learn how to use vim in a minimal fashion.
My first Linux was Linux for Playstation 2. I bought the Linux kit wanting to learn about "that Linux thing" people kept talking about on Slashdot, actually didn't own a PC at the time. Before the Linux kit arrived, I bought some books about Linux, Linux for Dummies, Running Linux from O'Reilly and so forth, and read up on it. When it arrived I had it usable within a day, I did my first compile (either gaim or abiword) about a week later.
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Edgar was from Charleston? I thought he was collar county. As for Kankakee, it's a bit of a toss up as to whether it should be considered a suburb or not. Bradley and Bourbonnais are, though they are a touch further south than Braidwood and Coal City on I-55 are, but Kankakee is iffy.
Sure, I know about Jesse White, but he didn't do things to remind the voters he's african-american like Moseley-Braun did. No trips to Africa for him. Moseley-Braun's problem was that after wining her Senate seat she came across to downstaters as "too black" and too focused on the needs of "North of I-80". She actually won Livingston county in 92! And as far as Blago and Giannoulias, there are Italians and Poles downstate, and ethnicity other than race, doesn't count for as much.
Also it's been a decade since Jesse White became Secretary of State and things change. For example, in 1998 the idea of an African American getting nominated for President by either party was unthinkable. The Republicans would have NEVER nominated Powell, and the Democrats thought they HAD to have a Southerner. By 2004, Illinois was even more "Blue" than it was in 1998. As I have said, no Republican could have won that seat, and anyonw who knows Illinois knew it.
As for Keyes, he was drafted by the party leaders after others they asked (including Mike Ditka) declined.
I don't believe that all Republicans are bigoted assholes, only some of them. I do believe that the Republican party is soft on bigotry and tolerates it in the party to a certain extent, because they know that those who are bigoted tend to vote republican and they NEED those votes. They can't win elections with just the Country Club Republican vote, there simply aren't enough of them. The "Southern Strategy" exists for a reason.
Obama's of the Goo Goo (Good Government) school of Illinois politics, like the current governor, they try to keep the crap to the minimum necessary to get shit done. They're not perfect, but their hearts are in the right place. On his better days, Edgar would probably be considered a Goo Goo. Hell, Blago himself might have ended up one if he'd had more guts. Problem is, neither the Republican downstate/suburban machine or the Democrat machine likes goo goo's.
Oh please, Fitzgerald decided not to run because ANY democrat would have kicked his ass. He got lucky in facing Mosley-Braun. He won because of collar county racism and downstate racism, but that couldn't last, and he knew it. Also the Republican establishment didn't like Fitzgerald at all, he wasn't popular with them or voters, no the way Alan J Dixon was. The Fitzgerald seat had been held by a Democrat since 1970! It was going to go to a Democrat and everyone knew it.
And as for Jack Ryan, Obama was leading him in the polls BEFORE all that mess came out in the media. He had 0 chance of winning in 2008, whether against Obama or Dan Hynes. You do remember that 2004 speech Obama made at the Democratic National Convention. I watched it and said out loud to the rest of the family: He's going to be president someday", however I expected that to happen in 2012 or 2016.
Well, at least three Republicans had a hand in Illinois current financial troubles.
Thompson from Chicago itself: Overspending and starting the tradition of sending a HUGELY obscene amounts of money to loyal Republican districts and cronies, which led to
Edgar (Suburban republican), the lying stupid ass skinflint caretaker who was too much of a skinflint. Edgar was the guy who accused his Democratic opponents of being "tax and spenders" but who nevertheless never actually stated he'd never raise taxes, which he did...after the election. Everybody with any brain knew he was going to have to, but he got away with it. which led to:
Ryan (downstate republican), who spent way too much and funneled even more money downstate and to cronies, which led to:
Blago, who wanted to shuffle the money to where there were actually people, but really needed to raise taxes, but didn't want to do so because he would have been branded a "tax and spend Democrat".
You can also blame those Republican supporting CEO's who sold out our manufacturing base to the third world.
You don't think the downstaters are just as corrupt? George Ryan was from Kankakee and the Republicans downstate are just as much as a machine as the Democrats in Chicago are.
Why won't this falsehood just die already. WRONG! It was YaBasic on the EU launch PS2's that was the attempt, not Linux on the PS2 or PS3 which postdate the removal of the special EU tariff.
You mean like Sony's Net Yaroze?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze
They decided it was easier and cheaper to just port Linux or have a hypervisor make the hardware appear more like a normal PC than do specialized hardware, at least for hobbyists.
It's not an "Install" in the sense of how PC games install everything, it's more of a large cache of game data to speed things up.
I think it depends on where you live, when I read about Slashdotters finding all sorts of stuff in dumpsters or whatnot I think "don't you have electronics recycling/reselling places"? Because around here, no one throws away (or gives away) computing equipment, either they use it till it dies and can't be repaired anymore or they take it to a thrift (for a cut of the sale price), sell it outright to a pawn shop or one of the electronics resellers, or they try to sell their old P4 themselves for a couple hundred dollars.
Probably depends on how affluent the area is, personally, I'd try freecycle first, but considering how the local newspaper office has what appears to be a Graphite G4 tower still in operation, I doubt I would have much luck.
Which is why some PSone games loaded level data on the fly, as needed, as intended. Compare the Spyro games to Mario 64. Some PS2 games do the same thing, ever play EQOA, you'll never see a load screen past boot up unless you directly TP somewhere. You could walk/swim from Fayspires to the Kappa fortress on Odus and never see a single load screen.
Googling too literally is useless, don't do it. Oh look the Firefox wikipedia page has the info you want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Version_4.0
Sigh...you read things MUCH too literally. use as few terms as possible, start as generally as possible. Since you know what a WRT router is, what you really need are good places to dumpster dive for useful electronics in your area, and no, you don't want to google "good places to dumpster dive in tepples location", that's way too many terms. Start with "dumpster diving", find message boards and e-mail lists..then ask THERE.
What audio glitches?
First off, this guy says in this post:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738550&cid=33093222
that there are apparently two update versions, one is essentially a patch version that isn't the Full version...you'd want the Full version on your storage device. Was your download 167MB?
This is this the smaller patch version:
http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2010_0727_00c835be718fc3d5f793e130a2b74217/PS3PATCH.PUP
and this is the full
http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2010_0727_00c835be718fc3d5f793e130a2b74217/PS3UPDAT.PUP
It's also possible to get a bad download, especially if the servers are busy, happened once with me on the PSP.
Yep, that's me. Still have a spare PS2 HDD with a base Linux install on it...just in case. Started using YDL on my PS3 in 2008, then moved to Fedora on X86 (and then updated my PS3's firmware)
I'm not for certain myself, I know that Slims store at least part of the firmware on their hard drives, and CECHA's and CECHB's (the original 60BG deluxe and 20GB models with full hardware PS2 compatibility) don't. Don't know about CECHE's (That's the 80GB one with the card slots, 4 USB ports and PS2 backwards compatiblity using a partial hardware/software solution)..
Or the person involved didn't format the new drive properly, or follow instructions. There is always some idiot complaining that their firmware bricked their PS3 on slashdot right after a new firmware is announced. Slashdot is a sucker for anti-Sony whining without substantiated claims. Hell I've seen people claiming firmware takes away features that are still in there...just renamed or moved, or that work differently than before, a la:
"Sony took away my ability to listen to music while web browsing"
Do you have the new ability to output sound at higher khz on? you can only play music while browsing if output is set to 44.1
"oops"
"Sony took away my ability to use my new external hard drive"
Is it NTFS, if so, won't work.
"oops"
"The web browser text input doesn't work right!"
Earlier you mentioned you had to switch to SDTV because your HD set broke, you do realize that the text input has always worked like that on SD
"oops"
Yes, yes, be miffed at SCEA for taking away OtherOS by overestimating Geohot's abilities, but geezus don't automatically assuem the worst every time.
I know, In fact I assumed he was autistic spectrum before I googled him and confirmed it, and I did warn him that prospective dev house employers would find that out...he didn't get the hint though.
Didn't you notice the dates on that thread and how it was referring to FC5 being the next version? You do know that the current version of Fedora is Fedora 13? Didn't you think about checking to see if the situation might have changed? There are tetris clones included in both the KDE and gnome game packages which are right in the official Fedora repos. I checked, installed, and played one right after I read your post. It's not also not called gnometris, but quadrapassel.
The PS3's optical out is also a surround source, if your receiver supports it, tell the PS3 to output the surround sound to toslink (the PS3 will then send only stereo sound through HDMI)
Don't take everything literally. In fact, I refused to reply to a reply you did to a post of mine some weeks back because you simply are too literal minded and have problems with nuance
Yes, it does.
It's buggy, but not as bad as the complainers try to say it is. The Pitt seemed the buggiest, which for me, meant lockups, freezing and crazy changes in frame rate.
The Fallout game released this year isn't going to be "Fallout 4" but "Fallout: New Vegas", and I'm looking forward to it, though I'm still playing Fallout 3.
I wouldn't say that basic usage is hard, sure using more advanced features might be, but basic stuff?
Actually, it's not the same thing, because if you tell them, rather than just SSH in, they get to see the command and you can also explain it and what it does, a la "sudo lets you run commands as root (SUperuser DO), service lets you control system services, cpuspeed is one such service, status tells you the status of the service, you can also stop and start it or other services You can learn more with sudo service --help and man service You might also want to read about chkconfig"
Right there that's useful info, I've just told them all they need to know to start, stop and check services in a terminal.
You're quite right on the "discoverability" issue of the Terminal. For example, how likely is it one will discover "apropos" on their own unless they've read about it.
But....learning some basic terminal commands can come in handy for even a newbie, and it's really not that hard to learn about ls, cat, less, top, ps, and so forth, or even learn how to use vim in a minimal fashion.
My first Linux was Linux for Playstation 2. I bought the Linux kit wanting to learn about "that Linux thing" people kept talking about on Slashdot, actually didn't own a PC at the time. Before the Linux kit arrived, I bought some books about Linux, Linux for Dummies, Running Linux from O'Reilly and so forth, and read up on it. When it arrived I had it usable within a day, I did my first compile (either gaim or abiword) about a week later.