"We all take our risks, here in the dungeon." --Bargle
Reference is to the solo "teach the game" adventure in the 1983 version of the D&D basic set. Damn that charm person spell Bargle hits you with if you miss the saving throw. He makes you leave Aleena's body behind....bastard.
Okay, here's the great unanswered question of this topic for me: if damn near every student has a computer, why are there lineups in student computer labs between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. for the two weeks before the end of term, or the week before Reading Weeks (mid-term breaks? *Something* is going on.
Some students are probably lying about owning one. Let me tell you, having lower economic status at a university is not something you want everyone to know.
Some students may have them, but old crappy ones, like their family's hand me down old WinME or early XP machine. So when it's crunch time, they might want to use the university's machines, which are probably better.
Pretty soon they're also dictating that the uni's custom suite of security programs are loaded, and other things.
They already do that.
For this reason, ResNet at Illinois State requires each student using the service to download and install McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise and Network Associates' ePolicy Orchestrator before being allowed full access to the network and Internet.
I ought to check IWU too (they're the two closest uni's to me) Ahhh IWU doesn't have a computer requirment like ISU does, neither does it require specific software installed, though they suggest installing and/or updating ones security software (and have free McAfee for students). Heck, printing is even free in the labs, though they say they're probably going to have to institute some kind of limit or quota for free printing in the future.
For this reason, ResNet at Illinois State requires each student using the service to download and install McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise and Network Associates' ePolicy Orchestrator before being allowed full access to the network and Internet.
Suppose I was to go back to ISU, and do the whole resident hall thing. I'd want to take just one machine along, because those resident hall rooms aren't that big. I'd want to take "mideel", which runs YDL 6.1, and yes it's a PS3. It's got OpenOffice after all, and it's probably pretty secure from a virus/worm/trojan/exploit standpoint, so I wouldn't have to worry about "catching" something from the other students machines on the network. In all likelihood it's probably much more secure than the Windows boxes usually connected to university resnets. But there's no way on god's green earth that it could run McAfee or ePolicy Orchestrator (whatever that is). So if they strictly interpreted the requirment, they would refuse to let mideel connect.
They might not even let a less unusual x86 Linux box connect, though at least those folks could dual boot into Windows.
If they want to take away labs, maybe they should, being essentially an ISP for students, make certain their policies are OS/hardware agnostic.
This makes printing really easy, particularly for Mac users, who don't have to set up third-party software in order to create PDFs.
Neither to Linux users, and for pretty much the same reason...CUPS. God I love CUPS. My first exposure to Linux was via the PS2 Linux kit which didn't have it, being an RH6 based system after all. Though RH printtool worked pretty well. YDL on the PS3 has CUPS which works very very well, and is relatively easy to set up, and works with a bajillion printers.
Windows on the other hand...those virtual PDF printer utilities don't seem to work too well on Vista, though they worked fine on XP. I'd probably be better off printing to cups-pdf on the PS3, which I can do.
I teach physics at a community college in California, and I immediately choked when I got to When every student has a laptop. Huh? About 5% of my students bring laptops to class, and many don't have computers at home, either. I guess this is just one of those obvious socio-economic issues. One of the reasons people end up at a community college is because they're poor.
Yeah, it's socio-economic issues, which are often glossed over here on/. because simply put, a goodly number of slashdotters grew up pretty affluent.
They also don't realize that scholarships and grants haven't kept up with inflation so there's fewer lower income students in post-secondary education than there was even 20 years ago. There's more student owned computers because more students can afford them because there are fewer "lower class" students who can't around
They only respect Popes that are anti-gay and against abortion. the last two have been very conservative so they are willing to ally with Catholics on those issues, but most hardcore evangelicals are actually anti-catholic at heart. My dad could tell you lots of stories about that, especially what members of his church said during the election of 1960.
there are creatures with very very short lifespans,bacteria, fruit flies, moths, easy enough to watch evolution in action with them. We also have something called DNA, which can prove relationships. For example we now know that Pandas are true bears and not raccoons, though we also know that bears and raccoons are closely related.
And having used that, I can tell you it's not feasible in the way they suggest. Sure you can remote play FFVII in the bathroom, but it's not full 100% speed and quality.
It may be the most expensive, but it's really a great value since you can use it as a BluRay player!", and what happens when people buy it and mostly use it as a BluRay player? (or emulators under Linux) Low attach rate!The moral? "versatile" = low attach rate,
Agreed. I use my PS3... a lot, but Linux use probably outnumbers GameOS use in the number of hours it's been used for that purpose. It's just so versatile in what it can do, and if you bought a relatively early model, like I did (80GB MGS4 bundle), you also have PS1 and PS2 game compatibility. I rarely use it to watch DVD's or BD discs.
I bought my PS3 in June of last year and have 6 games for it: MGS4, Oblivion, Fallout 3, The Orange Box, Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore, Guitar Hero III:Legends of Rock. I have around 60 PS2 games, and about 40 - 50 PS1 games.
I saw them, about a month or so before the 360 launch. They had an interesting looking demo disc in them....at least until the one in the local big box store died. And they keep dying, they can't keep the 360 demo station up. Reminds me of the later PS2 days when PS2 in-store demo stations began showing DRE's and since the PS3 was either out or soon to come out, they didn't replace the "fat" PS2's in them
You play games on your PS3? It's other functions are so useful that I actually play games less than I use the GameOS functions or run Linux on it, but I do use it... a lot.
Component in 2000? Only on high end, very expensive, large sets. I tried looking for a smaller TV set (15 - 17") with component, sync on green VGA, S-Video, composite and RF to hook my PS2 (and other game systems) up to in 2002. You simply couldn't buy one because they didn't make them. Manufacturers could make reasonably inexpensive small high res computer monitors (even LCD ones) but they didn't use that same technology to make cheap little high res TV' until recently. It's only in the past couple of years you could get one. I now have a 19" LCD TV with HDMI, VGA, RF, component, composite and S-Video. It's the screen I wanted in 2002. It only cost about $220.
Not everyone needs wireless. My living room was already networked.
You and I have our living rooms networked either hard wired or by having our routers in the living room, probably right next to the cable modem. The majority of the sports gamer/wrasslin gamer/atv racing gamer masses probably don't. They have their internet connection where their computer is, which is not in the living room.
It doesn't support.mkv because that's the preferred format of pirates. So don't use.mkv, convert directly to a PS3 supported format. It's kind of like how there's all those sites that serve flash video when they should just be using h264 directly, as god intended. These might help your mkv problem:
As for large 4GB+ video files, does burning them to disc work?
Even if you don't have RSX access in Linux you can play 720p or less quite well, and some have reported that 1080i/1080p plays okay, depending on file format, media player and what desktop enviroment they run.
Look, the number of LANners is amazingly small, why spend time developing, debugging and testing a feature that the vast majority of players aren't going to use.
LAN play takes time to organize and set up, unless you go to some "lan center" (which aren't exactly common in the US). Think about it, set up a time that works with everyone's schedules, gather the equipment (and not everyone is like/. geeks with multiple computers), set it up at the location, play, take it down afterwards. Playing over the internet is easier, and you can still play with friends in private games.
Ever play tabletop D&D? 8 character parties are unwieldy. 6 is best from having tactical options but 4 is better from a "keeping the game running quickly" perspective. With an 8 character party it's very easy to spend a lot of the session just debating on what to do and who does it rather than actually doing things. With 8 players there's more bathroom breaks and whatnot and in an online game people will be going in and out of the menu's all the time. "Hold up, I need to go back to Grizwold, and pick up that +Resist bow now that we're facing Lightning tossers"
They've also gone 3D and they might not want to have 8 highly detailed player characters on screen since that would limit the number of monsters or how detailed the environments are.
I don't know the exact details, good question, but I'm a PS3 owner so games come on BD-ROM's, which is a good thing. The PC version of The Orange Box came on 2 DVD's but on the PS3 it was one Blu-Ray disc. And with GOTY edition of Oblivion, the Xbox 360 version uses 2 DVD's while the PS3 version is one Blu-Ray disc. 2 disc special edtion of the film "A Christmas Story" becomes 1 disc on Blu-Ray.
You're forgetting that one of the Big 4 gaming platforms uses BD-ROM's, and that they are the standard for HD pre-recorded video. I remember PC gamers saying that DVD drives were worthless for anything but playing DVD movies, because all games came on CD's and they'd never need 4.7GB (or more) of space for a game. Then PC gamers finally figured out that having to switch out multiple CD's for a game installation was annoying, that DVD-RW's made good backup media and that being able to play movies on their desktops and laptops on their nice high resolution screens (better than the SDTV they probably owned) was a good thing. The same will happen for BD discs. It won't be long before Blu-Ray drives are standard equipement, just like DVD drives are right now.
But soon digital distribution will make renting console games irrelevant anyway.
Oh? How big is your hard drive? BD-ROM's can hold 50GB, and even if they aren't full you aren't going to want to download and install too many of those suckers on your hard drive. You could also forget about having a large game library. In fact, if your ISP has a low bandwidth cap you simply wouldn't be able to download them. That's not to say that digital distribution doesn't have a place for "little games"
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of CD's/DVD's/BD-ROM's
The ffmpeg developers also do a very bad bad thing. They change the options all the time, so if you're say, trying to convert video for PSP use a command line that works for one CVS version will probably not work with another.
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Reference is to the solo "teach the game" adventure in the 1983 version of the D&D basic set.
Damn that charm person spell Bargle hits you with if you miss the saving throw. He makes you leave Aleena's body behind....bastard.
Some students are probably lying about owning one. Let me tell you, having lower economic status at a university is not something you want everyone to know.
Some students may have them, but old crappy ones, like their family's hand me down old WinME or early XP machine. So when it's crunch time, they might want to use the university's machines, which are probably better.
They already do that.
For this reason, ResNet at Illinois State requires each student using the service to download and install McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise and Network Associates' ePolicy Orchestrator before being allowed full access to the network and Internet.
I ought to check IWU too (they're the two closest uni's to me) Ahhh IWU doesn't have a computer requirment like ISU does, neither does it require specific software installed, though they suggest installing and/or updating ones security software (and have free McAfee for students). Heck, printing is even free in the labs, though they say they're probably going to have to institute some kind of limit or quota for free printing in the future.
Suppose I was to go back to ISU, and do the whole resident hall thing. I'd want to take just one machine along, because those resident hall rooms aren't that big. I'd want to take "mideel", which runs YDL 6.1, and yes it's a PS3. It's got OpenOffice after all, and it's probably pretty secure from a virus/worm/trojan/exploit standpoint, so I wouldn't have to worry about "catching" something from the other students machines on the network. In all likelihood it's probably much more secure than the Windows boxes usually connected to university resnets. But there's no way on god's green earth that it could run McAfee or ePolicy Orchestrator (whatever that is). So if they strictly interpreted the requirment, they would refuse to let mideel connect.
They might not even let a less unusual x86 Linux box connect, though at least those folks could dual boot into Windows.
If they want to take away labs, maybe they should, being essentially an ISP for students, make certain their policies are OS/hardware agnostic.
Perhaps, but some people may not have that $700 all at once.
Neither to Linux users, and for pretty much the same reason...CUPS. God I love CUPS. My first exposure to Linux was via the PS2 Linux kit which didn't have it, being an RH6 based system after all. Though RH printtool worked pretty well. YDL on the PS3 has CUPS which works very very well, and is relatively easy to set up, and works with a bajillion printers.
Windows on the other hand...those virtual PDF printer utilities don't seem to work too well on Vista, though they worked fine on XP. I'd probably be better off printing to cups-pdf on the PS3, which I can do.
Yeah, it's socio-economic issues, which are often glossed over here on /. because simply put, a goodly number of slashdotters grew up pretty affluent.
They also don't realize that scholarships and grants haven't kept up with inflation so there's fewer lower income students in post-secondary education than there was even 20 years ago. There's more student owned computers because more students can afford them because there are fewer "lower class" students who can't around
Yellow Dog Linux 6 is based on CentOS.
The GTK version is 2.10.4, OpenOffice is 2.3.0
They only respect Popes that are anti-gay and against abortion. the last two have been very conservative so they are willing to ally with Catholics on those issues, but most hardcore evangelicals are actually anti-catholic at heart. My dad could tell you lots of stories about that, especially what members of his church said during the election of 1960.
there are creatures with very very short lifespans,bacteria, fruit flies, moths, easy enough to watch evolution in action with them. We also have something called DNA, which can prove relationships. For example we now know that Pandas are true bears and not raccoons, though we also know that bears and raccoons are closely related.
And having used that, I can tell you it's not feasible in the way they suggest. Sure you can remote play FFVII in the bathroom, but it's not full 100% speed and quality.
Agreed. I use my PS3... a lot, but Linux use probably outnumbers GameOS use in the number of hours it's been used for that purpose. It's just so versatile in what it can do, and if you bought a relatively early model, like I did (80GB MGS4 bundle), you also have PS1 and PS2 game compatibility. I rarely use it to watch DVD's or BD discs.
I bought my PS3 in June of last year and have 6 games for it: MGS4, Oblivion, Fallout 3, The Orange Box, Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore, Guitar Hero III:Legends of Rock. I have around 60 PS2 games, and about 40 - 50 PS1 games.
I saw them, about a month or so before the 360 launch. They had an interesting looking demo disc in them....at least until the one in the local big box store died. And they keep dying, they can't keep the 360 demo station up. Reminds me of the later PS2 days when PS2 in-store demo stations began showing DRE's and since the PS3 was either out or soon to come out, they didn't replace the "fat" PS2's in them
You play games on your PS3? It's other functions are so useful that I actually play games less than I use the GameOS functions or run Linux on it, but I do use it... a lot.
Component in 2000? Only on high end, very expensive, large sets. I tried looking for a smaller TV set (15 - 17") with component, sync on green VGA, S-Video, composite and RF to hook my PS2 (and other game systems) up to in 2002. You simply couldn't buy one because they didn't make them. Manufacturers could make reasonably inexpensive small high res computer monitors (even LCD ones) but they didn't use that same technology to make cheap little high res TV' until recently. It's only in the past couple of years you could get one. I now have a 19" LCD TV with HDMI, VGA, RF, component, composite and S-Video. It's the screen I wanted in 2002. It only cost about $220.
It doesn't support .mkv because that's the preferred format of pirates. So don't use .mkv, convert directly to a PS3 supported format. It's kind of like how there's all those sites that serve flash video when they should just be using h264 directly, as god intended. These might help your mkv problem:
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Play-MKV-Files-On-Playstation-3
http://www.bitburners.com/articles/convert-mkv-files-for-playstation-3-using-mkv2vob/4022/
As for large 4GB+ video files, does burning them to disc work?
Even if you don't have RSX access in Linux you can play 720p or less quite well, and some have reported that 1080i/1080p plays okay, depending on file format, media player and what desktop enviroment they run.
I thought the lack of LAN play was confirmed.
Look, the number of LANners is amazingly small, why spend time developing, debugging and testing a feature that the vast majority of players aren't going to use.
LAN play takes time to organize and set up, unless you go to some "lan center" (which aren't exactly common in the US). Think about it, set up a time that works with everyone's schedules, gather the equipment (and not everyone is like /. geeks with multiple computers), set it up at the location, play, take it down afterwards. Playing over the internet is easier, and you can still play with friends in private games.
Ever play tabletop D&D? 8 character parties are unwieldy. 6 is best from having tactical options but 4 is better from a "keeping the game running quickly" perspective. With an 8 character party it's very easy to spend a lot of the session just debating on what to do and who does it rather than actually doing things. With 8 players there's more bathroom breaks and whatnot and in an online game people will be going in and out of the menu's all the time. "Hold up, I need to go back to Grizwold, and pick up that +Resist bow now that we're facing Lightning tossers"
They've also gone 3D and they might not want to have 8 highly detailed player characters on screen since that would limit the number of monsters or how detailed the environments are.
Better than you, or is it more likely she was taught and learned parenting skills throughout her life, and you weren't and didn't.
I don't know the exact details, good question, but I'm a PS3 owner so games come on BD-ROM's, which is a good thing. The PC version of The Orange Box came on 2 DVD's but on the PS3 it was one Blu-Ray disc. And with GOTY edition of Oblivion, the Xbox 360 version uses 2 DVD's while the PS3 version is one Blu-Ray disc. 2 disc special edtion of the film "A Christmas Story" becomes 1 disc on Blu-Ray.
You're forgetting that one of the Big 4 gaming platforms uses BD-ROM's, and that they are the standard for HD pre-recorded video. I remember PC gamers saying that DVD drives were worthless for anything but playing DVD movies, because all games came on CD's and they'd never need 4.7GB (or more) of space for a game. Then PC gamers finally figured out that having to switch out multiple CD's for a game installation was annoying, that DVD-RW's made good backup media and that being able to play movies on their desktops and laptops on their nice high resolution screens (better than the SDTV they probably owned) was a good thing. The same will happen for BD discs. It won't be long before Blu-Ray drives are standard equipement, just like DVD drives are right now.
Oh? How big is your hard drive? BD-ROM's can hold 50GB, and even if they aren't full you aren't going to want to download and install too many of those suckers on your hard drive. You could also forget about having a large game library. In fact, if your ISP has a low bandwidth cap you simply wouldn't be able to download them. That's not to say that digital distribution doesn't have a place for "little games"
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of CD's/DVD's/BD-ROM's
Rinoa? hmmph, the real hottie of FFVIII is Quistis Trepe: Bookworm, Lady of War (she wields Save the Queen), and all-round classy woman.
Yep, I'm a Trepie.
The ffmpeg developers also do a very bad bad thing. They change the options all the time, so if you're say, trying to convert video for PSP use a command line that works for one CVS version will probably not work with another.