It's the same problem I have with Gentoo. If I can't install the product, I'm never going to get to a point where I want to use it. I think that things should be as easy to install as possible so that people who actually want to just use it with the default option can use it. 15 minutes with SageTV and I was up and running, and ready to explore the features. After 2 or 3 hours with MythTV I couldn't even get it to start up correctly. I couldn't imagine how long it would take me to get everything working the way I wanted after I managed to get it running. Things shouldn't be hard to make you learn about how they work. I don't have to know the inner workings of Linux to install Ubuntu and Mandriva. I don't have to know the inner workings of OpenOffice to install that. I shouldn't have to understand the inner workings of MythTV just to get it working. As for solving problems when they arise, SageTV has great user forums, and I've been able to solve all the problems I've run into. Which have been few and very far between.
I used to do that, but found that I got a lot of extra spam from people just sending email to random addresses at my domain. It was too much trouble so, I went back to configuring my addresses individually. That way it's easier to block certain addresses when they get too much spam, and you know who is sending you the spam.
I found one at the local EBGames this weekend. No waiting list. I just made a point of checking if they had one every time i was in the mall. About once every couple of weeks. I'm not sure if I was just lucky, but I think that in the next couple of months they'll be a lot easier to find. Last I read they sold 7.2 million, compared to 10.2 million for the XBox 360 that was released a year before it. Sales like that mean it will be hard to get. But if you keep looking you will find one. I don't see why someone would go out and buy a console they didn't really want, just because the one they wanted wasn't available. Many people still have their old consoles, and if you don't have a console yet, there's no reason you should just run out and buy something that's not really to your liking.
That's great except that Ooccoo is a hidden item in many dungeons. I think i've found him in all the dungeons i've been in so far, but I find it kind of disappointing that you have to find a special item just to save properly in the middle of a dungeon. Also, it doesn't help in the wolf parts where there is no Ooccoo.
How does the XBox support record TV shows? Isn't that the whole point of MythTV? I know it supports other stuff like MAME, and watching videos you may have downloaded, but if you're just going to do that, then you hardly need a special program.
Really, so that installs and configures and sets up the databases for MySQL? Does that set up all your channels, the XML TV feed and all the other stuff that is required. After messing around with MythTV for a few hours and getting no where, I found SageTV and bought that. I've been happy ever since. I'm using the windows version right now, but they do have a Linux version, and if it works even half as good as the windows version, then it beats MythTV hands down. Especially on the ease of setup issues.
Well I'm playing on the GC, but while you can save it at any point, saving in a dungeon always starts you back at the beginning of the dungeon. If you get certain items, beat boss characters, or unlock doors then those tasks still stay completely, but you still have to walk all the way back through the dungeon.
I'm playing Zelda: Twilight Princess right now, and I'm finding it hard to play in less than 1 hour chunks and make any kind of progress. I wish that you could save at arbitrary points, it would make playing in shorter spurts a lot easier. I have the same problem you do, except it's with a 1 year old.
If they hadn't had the location of the phone, then you still would have been able to call them at let them know you had a flat. If you had no reception, I doubt that they'd be able to track your location either.
I thought it was kind of bad when they forced me to use a pen. I was , and still am, much better at using a pencil to write, and it would have been nice to be able to erase when I wrote the wrong word, or wrote something extremely illegible, instead of scratching it out. Also, they really pushed you to write the letters correctly. Now I've gotten to the point where my writing is legible, but some of the letters don't look exactly what they're supposed to.
The difference is that spying on them, at least in my mind, is more like reading all their emails, IMs, and looking at every single URL they visit. Or storing all this information so that you can look at it at any time. Doing this sort of thing shows your kids that you don't trust them, and they will most likely end up resenting your for it. Think about before computers. Did parents follow their kids everywhere they went, and listen to all their conversations? Did they always know where their kids were? Did those kids turn out all that bad? I'm pretty sure your parents didn't listen to every conversation you had, or know exactly where you were at every moment. Do you think you would have been a better person if they had?
I've never heard of that, but after looking it up on wikipedia, it may appear as though I have a mild case of it. It was quite difficult back in grad school, never being able to print or write very well, I practiced a lot, and still was unable to improve my writing to any degree. I wonder if some day this will be like dyslexia, where teachers recognize it for what it is, instead of just thinking the kid is stupid.
But how do you really stop Google from storing all this data. How many gigabytes of data is too much? How do you control what data they are allowed to store. Is yahoo somehow exempt from this because they receive less traffic? The problem here is that how do you define too much, and what's the difference between google collecting a whole bunch of data, and your government census department collecting a whole bunch of data, and making it a crime if you don't respond to the census.
If you're worried about how much data Google and doubleclick are collecting, then just block them from you firewall. If you never connect to their servers, they can't collect any information. If enough people start to do this kind of thing, they will have to start to find a new way of doing business.
I graduated high school in 1999. I went to highschool in Ontario Canada. I had quite a few papers in high school that were required to be typed. However, it's not something that you'd have to use the computer for every day. It was usually 1 or 2 per class. So, you generally didn't need to use the computer for homework everyday. Most home work was done by hand. Although, I usually when out of my way and did everything that required any kind of writing (anything but math) on the computer, because my handwriting was terrible. So, while I didn't have to use the computer, I ended up using the computer 3 nights out of 5 for doing homework.
You don't have to hover, but you could place the computer where you'd be likely to walk by once in a while and see what they are doing. You don't have to watch them like a hawk to know when they are doing something wrong.
I also think that a lot of people here saying that parallel programming is easy have never done any actual parallel programming. They take their serial algorithms, and run them in a bunch of threads. That's not real parallel programming. I took a parallel programming course in university, and although I wouldn't say that makes me a master, it gave me enough of an idea of what real parallel programming was, and how well it can actually increase the speed of a program. However I think (or hope) that the apps that would really benefit from parallel programming such as databases, are already parallelized to some degree. Your word processor doesn't really need true parallelization. However, if you reprogrammed some key libraries so that the everyday developer wouldn't have to think about doing the parallelization themselves, I think that we could make our computers a little snappier.
It happened to me while driving once. Belt snapped. Luckily I was on a 2 lane highway, so I had no problem pulling off to the side. Funny coincidence is that mechanical or electrical can cause you to lose power.
My dad has lost 2 keys for his car lately. I think I remember him saying that they cost $80 to replace, could have been more. It's amazing, you can almost buy an entire computer for that much, and they are trying to charge that much for a chipped key. After he lost the second one, he just started using the Valet key. I'm not sure what the difference is, but it seems to work well enough for him.
With all the junk I have to carry, I've just broken down and got a man purse. Works great for those times when you don't want to carry around a back pack, but don't have enough room in your pockets, or happen to be wearing pants without pockets. I don't really care if some people think it looks feminine. It gets the job done, and I don't have to walk around with my pockets crammed full of stuff.
Not only that, but if you define the market as portable music players, and not just MP3 players, you'll see a big chunk going to portable CD players (discman). At least a quarter of the people I see in public with headphones are using CD players.
But the simcity universe is supposed to be our universe. It's Simulation of real life. So what exactly makes this different from a movie about things that happend in everyday life? I don't even see how you can turn something like the sims into a movie, because there is no storyline, and it's not about anything that doesn't happen in the real world.
I'd like to know what kind of routers you've bought. Because not only have I never had a router break, but I've also never known anyone who had a router break. I'm not saying that routers don't break, but telling people that they have a high probability of breaking is a lie.
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It's the same problem I have with Gentoo. If I can't install the product, I'm never going to get to a point where I want to use it. I think that things should be as easy to install as possible so that people who actually want to just use it with the default option can use it. 15 minutes with SageTV and I was up and running, and ready to explore the features. After 2 or 3 hours with MythTV I couldn't even get it to start up correctly. I couldn't imagine how long it would take me to get everything working the way I wanted after I managed to get it running. Things shouldn't be hard to make you learn about how they work. I don't have to know the inner workings of Linux to install Ubuntu and Mandriva. I don't have to know the inner workings of OpenOffice to install that. I shouldn't have to understand the inner workings of MythTV just to get it working. As for solving problems when they arise, SageTV has great user forums, and I've been able to solve all the problems I've run into. Which have been few and very far between.
I used to do that, but found that I got a lot of extra spam from people just sending email to random addresses at my domain. It was too much trouble so, I went back to configuring my addresses individually. That way it's easier to block certain addresses when they get too much spam, and you know who is sending you the spam.
I found one at the local EBGames this weekend. No waiting list. I just made a point of checking if they had one every time i was in the mall. About once every couple of weeks. I'm not sure if I was just lucky, but I think that in the next couple of months they'll be a lot easier to find. Last I read they sold 7.2 million, compared to 10.2 million for the XBox 360 that was released a year before it. Sales like that mean it will be hard to get. But if you keep looking you will find one. I don't see why someone would go out and buy a console they didn't really want, just because the one they wanted wasn't available. Many people still have their old consoles, and if you don't have a console yet, there's no reason you should just run out and buy something that's not really to your liking.
That's great except that Ooccoo is a hidden item in many dungeons. I think i've found him in all the dungeons i've been in so far, but I find it kind of disappointing that you have to find a special item just to save properly in the middle of a dungeon. Also, it doesn't help in the wolf parts where there is no Ooccoo.
That's the funniest thing I've read on slashdot in months. Made me laugh for about 5 minutes. Somebody mod this guy up.
How does the XBox support record TV shows? Isn't that the whole point of MythTV? I know it supports other stuff like MAME, and watching videos you may have downloaded, but if you're just going to do that, then you hardly need a special program.
Really, so that installs and configures and sets up the databases for MySQL? Does that set up all your channels, the XML TV feed and all the other stuff that is required. After messing around with MythTV for a few hours and getting no where, I found SageTV and bought that. I've been happy ever since. I'm using the windows version right now, but they do have a Linux version, and if it works even half as good as the windows version, then it beats MythTV hands down. Especially on the ease of setup issues.
Well I'm playing on the GC, but while you can save it at any point, saving in a dungeon always starts you back at the beginning of the dungeon. If you get certain items, beat boss characters, or unlock doors then those tasks still stay completely, but you still have to walk all the way back through the dungeon.
I'm playing Zelda: Twilight Princess right now, and I'm finding it hard to play in less than 1 hour chunks and make any kind of progress. I wish that you could save at arbitrary points, it would make playing in shorter spurts a lot easier. I have the same problem you do, except it's with a 1 year old.
If they hadn't had the location of the phone, then you still would have been able to call them at let them know you had a flat. If you had no reception, I doubt that they'd be able to track your location either.
I thought it was kind of bad when they forced me to use a pen. I was , and still am, much better at using a pencil to write, and it would have been nice to be able to erase when I wrote the wrong word, or wrote something extremely illegible, instead of scratching it out. Also, they really pushed you to write the letters correctly. Now I've gotten to the point where my writing is legible, but some of the letters don't look exactly what they're supposed to.
The difference is that spying on them, at least in my mind, is more like reading all their emails, IMs, and looking at every single URL they visit. Or storing all this information so that you can look at it at any time. Doing this sort of thing shows your kids that you don't trust them, and they will most likely end up resenting your for it. Think about before computers. Did parents follow their kids everywhere they went, and listen to all their conversations? Did they always know where their kids were? Did those kids turn out all that bad? I'm pretty sure your parents didn't listen to every conversation you had, or know exactly where you were at every moment. Do you think you would have been a better person if they had?
I've never heard of that, but after looking it up on wikipedia, it may appear as though I have a mild case of it. It was quite difficult back in grad school, never being able to print or write very well, I practiced a lot, and still was unable to improve my writing to any degree. I wonder if some day this will be like dyslexia, where teachers recognize it for what it is, instead of just thinking the kid is stupid.
But how do you really stop Google from storing all this data. How many gigabytes of data is too much? How do you control what data they are allowed to store. Is yahoo somehow exempt from this because they receive less traffic? The problem here is that how do you define too much, and what's the difference between google collecting a whole bunch of data, and your government census department collecting a whole bunch of data, and making it a crime if you don't respond to the census.
If you're worried about how much data Google and doubleclick are collecting, then just block them from you firewall. If you never connect to their servers, they can't collect any information. If enough people start to do this kind of thing, they will have to start to find a new way of doing business.
I graduated high school in 1999. I went to highschool in Ontario Canada. I had quite a few papers in high school that were required to be typed. However, it's not something that you'd have to use the computer for every day. It was usually 1 or 2 per class. So, you generally didn't need to use the computer for homework everyday. Most home work was done by hand. Although, I usually when out of my way and did everything that required any kind of writing (anything but math) on the computer, because my handwriting was terrible. So, while I didn't have to use the computer, I ended up using the computer 3 nights out of 5 for doing homework.
You don't have to hover, but you could place the computer where you'd be likely to walk by once in a while and see what they are doing. You don't have to watch them like a hawk to know when they are doing something wrong.
For future reference, if you reply to a thread that you've modded, your mods(?) get removed.
I also think that a lot of people here saying that parallel programming is easy have never done any actual parallel programming. They take their serial algorithms, and run them in a bunch of threads. That's not real parallel programming. I took a parallel programming course in university, and although I wouldn't say that makes me a master, it gave me enough of an idea of what real parallel programming was, and how well it can actually increase the speed of a program. However I think (or hope) that the apps that would really benefit from parallel programming such as databases, are already parallelized to some degree. Your word processor doesn't really need true parallelization. However, if you reprogrammed some key libraries so that the everyday developer wouldn't have to think about doing the parallelization themselves, I think that we could make our computers a little snappier.
It happened to me while driving once. Belt snapped. Luckily I was on a 2 lane highway, so I had no problem pulling off to the side. Funny coincidence is that mechanical or electrical can cause you to lose power.
My dad has lost 2 keys for his car lately. I think I remember him saying that they cost $80 to replace, could have been more. It's amazing, you can almost buy an entire computer for that much, and they are trying to charge that much for a chipped key. After he lost the second one, he just started using the Valet key. I'm not sure what the difference is, but it seems to work well enough for him.
With all the junk I have to carry, I've just broken down and got a man purse. Works great for those times when you don't want to carry around a back pack, but don't have enough room in your pockets, or happen to be wearing pants without pockets. I don't really care if some people think it looks feminine. It gets the job done, and I don't have to walk around with my pockets crammed full of stuff.
Not only that, but if you define the market as portable music players, and not just MP3 players, you'll see a big chunk going to portable CD players (discman). At least a quarter of the people I see in public with headphones are using CD players.
But the simcity universe is supposed to be our universe. It's Simulation of real life. So what exactly makes this different from a movie about things that happend in everyday life? I don't even see how you can turn something like the sims into a movie, because there is no storyline, and it's not about anything that doesn't happen in the real world.
I'd like to know what kind of routers you've bought. Because not only have I never had a router break, but I've also never known anyone who had a router break. I'm not saying that routers don't break, but telling people that they have a high probability of breaking is a lie.