you haven't used p2p for a while now. kazaa was full of garbage, but bittorrent and ed2k are not like that.
Yep, yep. I love being able to download entire albums and discographies at high bitrates. What can I say? I'm a poor college student with precious little money to spend on music.
LFS has it's place, but not as a teaching you how Linux works
I disagree completely. If you actually READ it, instead of just copy + pasting commands, you learn quite a bit about how a GNU/Linux system and its various components work. Or at least I did, after maybe five runs through LFS.
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You might want to hold that thought [slashdot.org]. Apple is planning on switching to Intel chips next year. Whether or not those chips will be x86s or not is something we'll find out tomorrow at the WWDC.
Yeah, I remembered about that just after I posted. The point remains, thanks to Pegasos, though they're not really cheap either.
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If Intel, AMD, and Via all follow suit, then you will be doing your computing on a wooden instrument moving plastic beads around.
Or a Mac, or a Sun workstation, or...there are many platforms other than x86 which run Linux very well.
To be fair, gtk-qt is still quite buggy, and I don't blame distros for not touching it yet. Besides the graphical glitches, it segfaults on FreeBSD when running a GTK app over remote X.
If you like KDE, you're probably better off with SuSE, or better yet a distro like Gentoo where the maintainers don't pick a default desktop for you.
Something's DEFINITELY wrong with computer gaming.
What's "wrong" is that there's a practically infinite number of possible hardware configurations for Windows PCs, not to mention different software and driver versions. Consoles, similar to Macs, have one fixed configuration.
Microsoft attempts to simplify all this by offering DirectX, but there's still a lot to deal with.
99% of the time it's not "Linux" or Windows or even Apache/IIS at fault for web server defacement. It's crappy, exploitable CGI and other vulnerabilities.
That's really surprising. I thought they had spoken with lawyers and determined that what they were doing was legal in Sweden. I'll miss the amusing page with their responses to legal threats.
With a project as big and important as GCC, you'd think they'd have a server for each platform set up for all their developers to play with. Gentoo has Sparc, MIPS, PPC, etc. boxes for their developers to use for porting software.
It seems to me that a smart idea would be to have some kind of system where a developer could submit a patch, which would then be sent out to a server farm, where each server would try to compile GCC with the patch, then run a test suite. Doesn't Mozilla do something like this nightly?
"I don't have access to a [foo] box" should never be a valid excuse with larger projects.
Many open-source projects have quite the opposite problem: they write for one version of GCC. There were a huge number of packages that wouldn't compile when GCC 3.4 was released, because the authors were working with 3.3, and that's all they cared about. And ICC? Forget it.
In short, people need to learn the C++ ISO standard and write for it. It's usually just a matter of avoiding compiler-specific features. If it's not in the standard, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
I have not seen any consistantly funny web comics.
True enough, but very few things in life and art are consistently good. I like Penny Arcade, but they've had weeks full of unfunny comics.
Sometimes I think I like PvP, but then they'll do another "Brent gets mauled by the panda" strip, and I'm reminded that it's mostly dull, recycled crap too.
I love the quote in the summary: "real story... is that a bunch of really talented guys are taking a chance, putting their necks out and trying to do this on their own."
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Exactly. It was something straight out of the Super Star Wars games.
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There were aspects of EQ's original design that, however nifty they seemed in theory, just didn't work out in practice (melees not binding themselves, for example).
That's sort of a nitpicky example. The real trouble with EQ was that it wasn't any fun to play; it was tedious work. I haven't played a fun MMOG since the good old days of UO.
Keep it in a lossless format (preferably as simple as possible..wav is good for this)
For most purposes, WAV is a waste of space. FLAC will cut those file sizes in half while preserving every single bit of data. The only time I use uncompressed waveforms is when I'm recording and editing. If all you're doing is playing them back, there's no reason to store your music as WAVs.
"Excellent action" does not a good movie make. For example, The Phantom Menace; I remember commenting to a friend that it felt like nothing more than a bunch of loosely-connected action sequences.
The overall story in RotS is fine. It's just that the execution was dull and unconvincing.
Are you using Adblock, by any chance? Often I go to sites when someone says "such-and-such site has a popup that works in Firefox," and the popup doesn't work on me. Thanks Adblock!
Indeed. I think I've seen exactly one ad since I installed Adblock and grabbed the filters here. Zero popups. It's been months.
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Argh. Even for Flash, that's a horrible interface.
Yep, yep. I love being able to download entire albums and discographies at high bitrates. What can I say? I'm a poor college student with precious little money to spend on music.
You're wrong. ClamAV can scan pretty much anything, including Samba shares, which is extremely useful.
I disagree completely. If you actually READ it, instead of just copy + pasting commands, you learn quite a bit about how a GNU/Linux system and its various components work. Or at least I did, after maybe five runs through LFS.
Yeah, I remembered about that just after I posted. The point remains, thanks to Pegasos, though they're not really cheap either.
Or a Mac, or a Sun workstation, or...there are many platforms other than x86 which run Linux very well.
Agreed. I love huge, free-form games (Privateer, Daggerfall/Morrowind, Darklands, some other decent RPGs...). I don't need to finish it to enjoy it.
To be fair, gtk-qt is still quite buggy, and I don't blame distros for not touching it yet. Besides the graphical glitches, it segfaults on FreeBSD when running a GTK app over remote X.
If you like KDE, you're probably better off with SuSE, or better yet a distro like Gentoo where the maintainers don't pick a default desktop for you.
What's "wrong" is that there's a practically infinite number of possible hardware configurations for Windows PCs, not to mention different software and driver versions. Consoles, similar to Macs, have one fixed configuration.
Microsoft attempts to simplify all this by offering DirectX, but there's still a lot to deal with.
99% of the time it's not "Linux" or Windows or even Apache/IIS at fault for web server defacement. It's crappy, exploitable CGI and other vulnerabilities.
Well said. You can't even trust the people who love you to not stab you in the back repeatedly...sorry, I'm just a little bitter.
There are a couple avenues open, such as using light instead of electrical current. Electrons move around very slowly compared to c.
It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
You're free to use Lynx. It's really sleek and lightweight. But wait, they added color! Now it's bloated!
I'm really sick of this attitude that more features == bloat. It's not true, and it doesn't make you cool for saying so.
That's really surprising. I thought they had spoken with lawyers and determined that what they were doing was legal in Sweden. I'll miss the amusing page with their responses to legal threats.
With a project as big and important as GCC, you'd think they'd have a server for each platform set up for all their developers to play with. Gentoo has Sparc, MIPS, PPC, etc. boxes for their developers to use for porting software.
It seems to me that a smart idea would be to have some kind of system where a developer could submit a patch, which would then be sent out to a server farm, where each server would try to compile GCC with the patch, then run a test suite. Doesn't Mozilla do something like this nightly?
"I don't have access to a [foo] box" should never be a valid excuse with larger projects.
In short, people need to learn the C++ ISO standard and write for it. It's usually just a matter of avoiding compiler-specific features. If it's not in the standard, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
True enough, but very few things in life and art are consistently good. I like Penny Arcade, but they've had weeks full of unfunny comics.
Sometimes I think I like PvP, but then they'll do another "Brent gets mauled by the panda" strip, and I'm reminded that it's mostly dull, recycled crap too.
I love the quote in the summary: ... is that a bunch of really talented guys are taking a chance, putting their necks out and trying to do this on their own."
"real story
Modest, too!
Interesting?? It's WorldNetDaily. It's a tabloid.
Exactly. It was something straight out of the Super Star Wars games.
That's sort of a nitpicky example. The real trouble with EQ was that it wasn't any fun to play; it was tedious work. I haven't played a fun MMOG since the good old days of UO.
For most purposes, WAV is a waste of space. FLAC will cut those file sizes in half while preserving every single bit of data. The only time I use uncompressed waveforms is when I'm recording and editing. If all you're doing is playing them back, there's no reason to store your music as WAVs.
The overall story in RotS is fine. It's just that the execution was dull and unconvincing.
Really, who are they kidding? I just took a look at their website, and it's a plain blog. They don't even have an archive of reviews!
Indeed. I think I've seen exactly one ad since I installed Adblock and grabbed the filters here. Zero popups. It's been months.