1080P isn't enough? Gee the screen on my WinXP latop bought in 2003 is 1024x768! Maybe your problem is not the resolution but the size of your screen. Maybe a 20 inch 1080P would be better for PS3 Linux so your eyes won't have to scan across a large 46" display.
There are a lot of things a PC does that no other machine does well (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.) that even average consumers need.
That might have been the case in the past, but some of the more powerful dedicated devices can run in a less dedicated general purpose computing device mode. (PS2's and PS3's being good examples of that)
As for needing word processing and spreadsheets. I'd have to disagree on that, that's a myth created by the Microsoft/Intel hegemony ages ago to try to keep home users from staying with Commodore and Atari. "you'll need to bring home work from the office so you need to run Wordperfect/WordStar/PC Write and Lotus 123. Those toy computers can't run those, so you gotta go with a machine with an intel CPU running one of our fine Microsoft operationg systems"
Frankly, Wordpad (or something similar) is enough of a word processor for most home uses, and personally I've never had the need for a spreadsheet, though I do have a simple spreadsheet app installed.
Ahh that's the attitude that helped kill the Amiga and Atari ST. There were so many computer pundits who said things like: "The Amiga and ST are fine machines with advanced features but you shouldn't buy them because you wont' be able to do your work you bring home from the office on them."
Bah! The majority of Americans work at jobs where they don't need to bring office work home. So compatiblitly with "office software" wasn't a necessity at all. But of course in the tiny computer pundit world where they needed to do that, they assumed everyone else would too.
Nowadays it doesn't matter at all, Google docs, Open Office, heck most home users word processing needs are simple enough they could get by with a MacWrite/Wordpad/Geowrite clone. They don't need a word processor designed with business users in mind.
And I'd imagine that with the right software both the PS3 and XBox 360 would make quite acceptable work machines capable of running a spreadsheet program, for example, with ease.
There's no imagining needed, the default install of the PS3 version of Yellow Dog Linux includes Open Office.
Heck even the PS2 can run a spreadsheet, again with Linux:
Alaska and Vermont have how many people? 670000 and 623000 respectively? And how many does Illinois have? over 12 million. Alaska and Vermont don't have little crime because they let people carry guns, they don't have crime because they're boondocks with very few people. Look at the population density, Illinois has 200 times that of Alaska and over 3 times that of vermont.
A pc is defined by the fact that you can run arbitrary programs on it. This is what separates it from a game console or even a toaster.
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat/proc/cpuinfo cpu: MIPS cpu model: R5900 V3.1 system type: EE PS2 BogoMIPS: 392.39 byteorder: little endian unaligned accesses: 89169717 wait instruction: no microsecond timers: no extra interrupt vector: yes hardware watchpoint: no VCED exceptions: not available VCEI exceptions: not available
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat/etc/redhat-release PS2 Linux release 1.0
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ echo "print \"For such a low user ID, Jedidiah must not have been paying much attention the last 5 years.\"" | python For such a low user ID, Jedidiah must not have been paying much attention the last 5 years.
This is Chicago, where there was a time when everybody and their dog was armed to the teeth, organized crime up the hilt and tons of people dying. There are those alive who still remember that and don't want those times back. Better to have fewer guns, than everbody shooting each other over slight disagreements over whose hedge is too high or something. Simply put, people are stupid, and really shouldn't be trusted with lethal weapons.
There's also 5 million people in cook county, compared to the county I'm in which has less than 40000. Large numbers of people = more crime. Also downstate with all the open and empty space there's more places to hide things, and fewer police per square mile to catch stuff. In other words, there's plenty of crime downstate it's just that it's easier to see in the city.
e17 is beta mostly, it was the 16.9999foo releases that were alpha. I've got a minimal e17 build on this thing, installed it to test it out. Works pretty well, but I don't use it because fluxbox works well enough for me.
If fluxbox had a "start button" and icons on the desktop by default, I'd agree, but it doesn't. As it is, I have Ctrl+F1 setup to bring up the root menu, which is handy when I'm running a maximized application.
You can choose your own surname, if you sign up as a Premium account.
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PGP MIME attachments are the standard, IIRC PGP Inline is deprecated, though still supported by many clients. For example, in Claws-Mail, one can choose if you want PGP/Inline or PGP/Mime, per message if necessary.
And you wonder why it doesn't get more attention. The developers don't care about attention. They've made powerful software that does what they want, and that's as far as it goes for them. Unfortunately in my experience this is a fairly common mindset in the FOSS software world, which is why few non-geeks have ever heard of any free software other than Firefox.
True, some open source developers have openly stated that they don't really care whether or not anyone uses their product, let alone Windows users. Strange attitude for people who are giving their product to the world to have, IMHO.
But in regards to Claws-Mail, it's one of the more user-friendly projects out there. The end user documentation is good, user questions are answered promptly on the mailing list and bugs get quashed very very quickly. I switched to Claws from Tbird and it's made dealing with my mail much less of a chore. I started using it with sylpheed claws 2.1.1, but didn't keep up with releases till 2.7.2 It was because Claws has gpg support built in that I decided to try it out (with Claws 2.9.2) Never used it before Claws
So of the four platforms, the PC is on top. How, then, is PC gaming dying if it's the leading platform?
Because on the PC a game selling 50000 copies can be considered a hit, on the console that would be considered a failure. See in the PC world you have the big hits like HL, Sims, WoWetc, and then you have lots of lttle sellers. There isn't a strong "middle class" of sales.
The console world does have a "middle class" of sales
So a game that sells 50000 copies of it's PC version and 500000 of it's console version is probably going to get a sequel, but it will be console only, a la the Summoner series for the PS2.
Overall, they are. Better as in a larger variety of games, better as in less kludgy, better as in easier to use. And sooner or later, even the RTS, Turn based strategy and flight sims are going to end up there. It's only a matter of time.
You don't even need a Windows/OSX/Linux PC to be able to use the store. I just tested out the store with the Sony PSP web browser and it worked fine, so it should work the the PS3's browser too.
It's just the flac/lossless obsessed fanboys that did that. Can't read any digital music stories on Slashdot without them showing up with their terabyte HD's devoted to their music.
The PS2 can (and does) support HD resolution, up to 1080i. The problem is since HD sets were less common until like "right now" games were usually not programmed for it since it takes additional work. As far as I know, no square-enix game on the PS2 supports greater than bog-standard NTSC resolution, not even 480p or 720p.
A similar situation exists in regards to the PS2's ability to output sync-on-green VGA.
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1080P isn't enough? Gee the screen on my WinXP latop bought in 2003 is 1024x768! Maybe your problem is not the resolution but the size of your screen. Maybe a 20 inch 1080P would be better for PS3 Linux so your eyes won't have to scan across a large 46" display.
That might have been the case in the past, but some of the more powerful dedicated devices can run in a less dedicated general purpose computing device mode. (PS2's and PS3's being good examples of that)
As for needing word processing and spreadsheets. I'd have to disagree on that, that's a myth created by the Microsoft/Intel hegemony ages ago to try to keep home users from staying with Commodore and Atari. "you'll need to bring home work from the office so you need to run Wordperfect/WordStar/PC Write and Lotus 123. Those toy computers can't run those, so you gotta go with a machine with an intel CPU running one of our fine Microsoft operationg systems"
Frankly, Wordpad (or something similar) is enough of a word processor for most home uses, and personally I've never had the need for a spreadsheet, though I do have a simple spreadsheet app installed.
Ahh that's the attitude that helped kill the Amiga and Atari ST. There were so many computer pundits who said things like: "The Amiga and ST are fine machines with advanced features but you shouldn't buy them because you wont' be able to do your work you bring home from the office on them."
Bah! The majority of Americans work at jobs where they don't need to bring office work home. So compatiblitly with "office software" wasn't a necessity at all. But of course in the tiny computer pundit world where they needed to do that, they assumed everyone else would too.
Nowadays it doesn't matter at all, Google docs, Open Office, heck most home users word processing needs are simple enough they could get by with a MacWrite/Wordpad/Geowrite clone. They don't need a word processor designed with business users in mind.
Alaska and Vermont have how many people? 670000 and 623000 respectively? And how many does Illinois have? over 12 million. Alaska and Vermont don't have little crime because they let people carry guns, they don't have crime because they're boondocks with very few people. Look at the population density, Illinois has 200 times that of Alaska and over 3 times that of vermont.
1. Use the built in PS3 web browser or install Linux on the PS3 (or PS2 for that matter)
2. Download pr0n with PS3 browser or whatever Linux browser/tool you want.
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat
cpu: MIPS
cpu model: R5900 V3.1
system type: EE PS2
BogoMIPS: 392.39
byteorder: little endian
unaligned accesses: 89169717
wait instruction: no
microsecond timers: no
extra interrupt vector: yes
hardware watchpoint: no
VCED exceptions: not available
VCEI exceptions: not available
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat
PS2 Linux release 1.0
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ echo "print \"For such a low user ID, Jedidiah must not have been paying much attention the last 5 years.\"" | python
For such a low user ID, Jedidiah must not have been paying much attention the last 5 years.
So that's why I kept that old dot-matrix Gemini 10X printer around.
This is Chicago, where there was a time when everybody and their dog was armed to the teeth, organized crime up the hilt and tons of people dying. There are those alive who still remember that and don't want those times back. Better to have fewer guns, than everbody shooting each other over slight disagreements over whose hedge is too high or something. Simply put, people are stupid, and really shouldn't be trusted with lethal weapons.
There's also 5 million people in cook county, compared to the county I'm in which has less than 40000. Large numbers of people = more crime. Also downstate with all the open and empty space there's more places to hide things, and fewer police per square mile to catch stuff. In other words, there's plenty of crime downstate it's just that it's easier to see in the city.
I have a saying inspired by that Jack Tramiel saying:
Linux for the masses, not just those who've taken programming classes.
e17 is beta mostly, it was the 16.9999foo releases that were alpha. I've got a minimal e17 build on this thing, installed it to test it out. Works pretty well, but I don't use it because fluxbox works well enough for me.
If fluxbox had a "start button" and icons on the desktop by default, I'd agree, but it doesn't. As it is, I have Ctrl+F1 setup to bring up the root menu, which is handy when I'm running a maximized application.
Recent Enlightenment builds do have a "start button, or at least can be configured to have it.
When IMAP got turned onfor my Gmail account, I found that it was already enabled in the settings. Maybe because I already had POP enabled.
If you open up Help in mc with F1 and then cursor down to "Authors" and hit return it will give you a list.
You can choose your own surname, if you sign up as a Premium account.
PGP MIME attachments are the standard, IIRC PGP Inline is deprecated, though still supported by many clients. For example, in Claws-Mail, one can choose if you want PGP/Inline or PGP/Mime, per message if necessary.
True, some open source developers have openly stated that they don't really care whether or not anyone uses their product, let alone Windows users. Strange attitude for people who are giving their product to the world to have, IMHO.
But in regards to Claws-Mail, it's one of the more user-friendly projects out there. The end user documentation is good, user questions are answered promptly on the mailing list and bugs get quashed very very quickly. I switched to Claws from Tbird and it's made dealing with my mail much less of a chore. I started using it with sylpheed claws 2.1.1, but didn't keep up with releases till 2.7.2 It was because Claws has gpg support built in that I decided to try it out (with Claws 2.9.2) Never used it before Claws
It "can" but it depends on the genre of the game.
Because on the PC a game selling 50000 copies can be considered a hit, on the console that would be considered a failure. See in the PC world you have the big hits like HL, Sims, WoWetc, and then you have lots of lttle sellers. There isn't a strong "middle class" of sales.
The console world does have a "middle class" of sales
So a game that sells 50000 copies of it's PC version and 500000 of it's console version is probably going to get a sequel, but it will be console only, a la the Summoner series for the PS2.
Overall, they are. Better as in a larger variety of games, better as in less kludgy, better as in easier to use. And sooner or later, even the RTS, Turn based strategy and flight sims are going to end up there. It's only a matter of time.
You don't even need a Windows/OSX/Linux PC to be able to use the store. I just tested out the store with the Sony PSP web browser and it worked fine, so it should work the the PS3's browser too.
It's just the flac/lossless obsessed fanboys that did that. Can't read any digital music stories on Slashdot without them showing up with their terabyte HD's devoted to their music.
The PS2 can (and does) support HD resolution, up to 1080i. The problem is since HD sets were less common until like "right now" games were usually not programmed for it since it takes additional work. As far as I know, no square-enix game on the PS2 supports greater than bog-standard NTSC resolution, not even 480p or 720p.
A similar situation exists in regards to the PS2's ability to output sync-on-green VGA.