On the other hand, I only buy games that I will never sell. I only buy games that have enough replay value that by the time I'm done with it, it's only worth maybe $10 used, so I really don't have much incentive to buy it. There's a couple games that I've considered getting rid of, but for the most part, all the games I buy have given my tons of play time.
I use digikam also, and I attest that it's probably one of the better photo management packages i've seen. Extremely simple, and has most of the features that everyday users would want. I like that it just uses plain old directories to store your pictures, instead of trying to do something more complex to accomplish the same thing.
Maybe the system doesn't care that jim or bob is touching the screen, but rather that seat 1 or seat 3 is touching the screen. However, this also creates the problem that everyone must be sitting on a chair. Maybe they could just have something you stick on your finger tip, or have each user have a separate stylus. Would be a lot easier to implement than tranmitting the signal through the person, and hoping that they are sitting in the chair.
I played tons of Wolfenstein, Doom, and other such violent games when I was a kid. I don't think it had any affect on me. All my friends were playing the same games, and we didn't turn out that bad. Then again, things are a little different now. Games are now much more realistic, and instead of killing nazis, or demons from hell, we're killing cops. They try to mimic real life much more. I think that games can be bad for kids who already have inadequate parenting, and these are the same kids who will be playing age-inappropriate games. I wouldn't let my 5 year old play games like GTA, but most likely my teenager would be allowed to play. I grew up in the era that invented Parental Advisory labels on Rap albums, with songs like cop killer. It didn't screw me up, but for kids that are already screwed up, it could end up giving them the wrong message.
Also, having the developers using Vista and having grandma use Vista are 2 entirely different things. I don't have any problems running windows 2k and keeping it free from viruses/spyware/bloat. Yet this seems to be the biggest problem for home users.
I think that 1 million writes could last you quite a while, providing you got rid of some extra unnecessary writes. Get rid of swap and just have 1 Gig of RAM. That should be enough for most of today's applications. It's not a database server, it's a laptop. Since it's solid state, there's no need to defrag and move files around. Maybe make the drive smart so that if the bit doesn't have to change, then it won't "write" to it. I think that this would work for a lot of people. Most people I know aren't that tough on their hard drives. Besides, with people changing computers every couple years, I don't think that the 1 million write limit will cause that many problems.
But it's the same as computer disease. People who are lazy and don't look after their health will (most likely) encounter more diseases in their life. People who eat healthy, exercise regularly, and follow other health guidelines such as hygeine will have far fewer diseases. It's the same way with computer viruses/malware. Proper behaviour before you get the disease can stop you from getting the disease in the first place. Sure you could still get a disease following all the guidelines, but you have a reduced risk. This is the same reason insurance companies charge you less if you maintain a healthy lifestyle. There's less of a chance they'll have to pay out.
With schools cutting core subjects like Art and just to cut costs can we really expect them to offer education in computer security. Especially when most teachers have no idea about computer security themselves. Schools should just stick to the basics and not worry about teaching "Computer security". It's not even computer security we're talking about, it's basic computer usage. We don't call locking your car door, car security system management. I think the problem is, is that people refuse how to properly use computers. People who refuse to learn how to learn how to use a computer, will be bad off, just as those who refuse to learn to drive and maintain their car will always have problems getting into accidents, and having their car break down, because they didn't realize there was a problem until it was too late.
That still holds true. It may take up more memory than it used to, but it's much faster than some of the competition. I recently installed the lastest version of Netscape and was taken aback by the progress bar start-up procedure which lasts at least 30 seconds on my P4 3 GHz with 1 GB of RAM at work. My P2 266 with 192 MB of ram can start FireFox in less than 10 seconds.
Please let me know which extensions you have installed. I run firefox for 9 hours a day, with usually 10+ tabs open. (I'm a web developer) Rarely does it ever go above 75 MB of memory usage. I don't know where people get these numbers of 700 MB.
That's one of the biggest things going against Java for the casual developer market too. Most shared hosts don't support Java for this very reason. You can't have users bringing down the server every time they need to update their code. This is probably the biggest reason why PHP is still as popular as it is. It's where a lot of developers get their start. I would love to use Java for my web development uses, but I'm not about to spend the money necessary to have web hosting that supports Java. I've also heard that there's some shared hosting companies that support Java, but they restart the server every night in order to accomodate this.
This really bugs me too. It was fun in NFS 2, when you were playing network games against people of varying skill levels, but it's not fun when you're playing against the computer and have to win to move on. I hate how you can be in the same car as the computer, and yet they blaze past you, even though you're going at top speed.
You are my hero. I have never heard a better argument. The fact that ODF is an open format means that we no longer have to rely on microsoft to read our documents for us. There is a market, and in time, screen readers will support ODF files. Maybe even directly. There may be not only a screen reader, but an entire word processor written to by used by those with disabilities.
That really depends how you buy your water. You can buy individual 500 mL bottles for about $1.00 each. Or you can buy a case of 36 bottles for $10. Or, you can buy the 18 L water cooler jugs for $5. There's a $5 deposit on the jugs, but that's refunded. I'd like to know where you can get 18 L of soda for $5.
It's not necessarily the point that everyone is looking at the code, it's the fact that everyone is able to look at the code. How many times have to encountered a bug in MS software, or any closed software app, and wish that you could fix it yourself. Think of how many developers use windows on a dialy basis. I'm sure that if they had access, most of the bugs would be fixed by now, or at least, it wouldn't be as bad as it is. There's only a small percentage of developers who use open source software. Out of my graduating class of around 50(?) I think that maybe 5-10 of us knew about Linux, and maybe 5 of us used it on a regular basis. I know one guy who does open source programming. But it's not low level kernel stuff, just user apps. I think that as Linux starts being used by more large organizations, there will be many more people who are given the time to fix bugs. Just because it isn't your code, doesn't mean that it isn't your job to fix it. If a bug is plauging your job with problems, and you have the power to fix the bug, most likely you will.
At the same time, they also have many disadvantages. When driving in traffic, you are much lower, and much less visible to drivers. It's also much harder to see what's going on around you. Also, unless you have suspension, going over bumps is uncomfortable. On a regular bike, you can stand up away from the seat when travelling over bumps. Also, they tend to be more expensive than an equivalent quality upright bike, because of the lower production numbers. I'm sure there's other disadvantages to having them that I haven't thought of too.
The thing that most people don't realize about VI(M), is that it works very well when using things like telnet to edit your files. There are many characters like ctrl, alt, home, and such that don't travel well over telnet. Having a program like VI(M) is great when you're accessing from a remote system, and can only use the keyboard.
Yeah, the shoulder buttons are natural. Except with the dual shock, where there is dual shoulder buttons. The GC is the best again, because your the shoulder buttons have nice grooves to rest your fingers. I think there's a nice balance between 2 buttons and 14. The GC is nice because in most games you're pressing 1 button, at least 75% of the time, so it makes sense that this button is big, and that the other buttons are located around the outside of this button, and in easy reach.
But the other end of the stick is that people can adapt to any type of control scheme. I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash on the weekend, and just for kicks I fliped my controller around so that the stick was in my right hand, and upside down, and the buttons were under my left thumb. I only did a couple races this way, but I still didn't do that bad. I imagine with the right practice, I could probably get to the point where I could beat the game like this.
Well, first of all, there was a 6 button controller for the Genesis, specifically for games like SF and Mortal Kombat. I had Mortal Kombat for the GameGear. While it only had 2 buttons, the game was still playable. I think the way controllers have gone recently, cramming more and more buttons into the controller is the wrong way to go about things. We've even gotten to the point of having buttons under the analog sticks. Eventually, console gamepads will end up looking like this. Of the current generation (xbox, ps2, GC), I like the GC controller the most, because the buttons are easy to press, and don't all feel the same. Also, they didn't put tons of excess buttons. Most games don't have problems. The programmers just have to learn that they can do without 14 buttons.
Mandriva has had this forever. Start up the update program. Click on the packages to update (or select all), and click install. Downloaded and installed for you. It's how I keep my software up to date. No command-prompt apt-get, emerge stuff necessary. Just pure point and click easy updates.
I don't understand why MS turns off file extensions by default. In a system where the file extension is the only thing that determines whether or not a file is executable, it's kind of idiotic that they would ever disable it.
I think it's more of a security thing rather than a patent thing. This happens in Mandriva when you set your security level too high (although it warns you). Basically since there is no permission system in FAT, it's very insecure from a linux point of view to have a directory that's readable,writeable, and executable by everyone. That's why writing is disabled.
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On the other hand, I only buy games that I will never sell. I only buy games that have enough replay value that by the time I'm done with it, it's only worth maybe $10 used, so I really don't have much incentive to buy it. There's a couple games that I've considered getting rid of, but for the most part, all the games I buy have given my tons of play time.
I use digikam also, and I attest that it's probably one of the better photo management packages i've seen. Extremely simple, and has most of the features that everyday users would want. I like that it just uses plain old directories to store your pictures, instead of trying to do something more complex to accomplish the same thing.
Maybe the system doesn't care that jim or bob is touching the screen, but rather that seat 1 or seat 3 is touching the screen. However, this also creates the problem that everyone must be sitting on a chair. Maybe they could just have something you stick on your finger tip, or have each user have a separate stylus. Would be a lot easier to implement than tranmitting the signal through the person, and hoping that they are sitting in the chair.
I played tons of Wolfenstein, Doom, and other such violent games when I was a kid. I don't think it had any affect on me. All my friends were playing the same games, and we didn't turn out that bad. Then again, things are a little different now. Games are now much more realistic, and instead of killing nazis, or demons from hell, we're killing cops. They try to mimic real life much more. I think that games can be bad for kids who already have inadequate parenting, and these are the same kids who will be playing age-inappropriate games. I wouldn't let my 5 year old play games like GTA, but most likely my teenager would be allowed to play. I grew up in the era that invented Parental Advisory labels on Rap albums, with songs like cop killer. It didn't screw me up, but for kids that are already screwed up, it could end up giving them the wrong message.
Also, having the developers using Vista and having grandma use Vista are 2 entirely different things. I don't have any problems running windows 2k and keeping it free from viruses/spyware/bloat. Yet this seems to be the biggest problem for home users.
I think that 1 million writes could last you quite a while, providing you got rid of some extra unnecessary writes. Get rid of swap and just have 1 Gig of RAM. That should be enough for most of today's applications. It's not a database server, it's a laptop. Since it's solid state, there's no need to defrag and move files around. Maybe make the drive smart so that if the bit doesn't have to change, then it won't "write" to it. I think that this would work for a lot of people. Most people I know aren't that tough on their hard drives. Besides, with people changing computers every couple years, I don't think that the 1 million write limit will cause that many problems.
But it's the same as computer disease. People who are lazy and don't look after their health will (most likely) encounter more diseases in their life. People who eat healthy, exercise regularly, and follow other health guidelines such as hygeine will have far fewer diseases. It's the same way with computer viruses/malware. Proper behaviour before you get the disease can stop you from getting the disease in the first place. Sure you could still get a disease following all the guidelines, but you have a reduced risk. This is the same reason insurance companies charge you less if you maintain a healthy lifestyle. There's less of a chance they'll have to pay out.
With schools cutting core subjects like Art and just to cut costs can we really expect them to offer education in computer security. Especially when most teachers have no idea about computer security themselves. Schools should just stick to the basics and not worry about teaching "Computer security". It's not even computer security we're talking about, it's basic computer usage. We don't call locking your car door, car security system management. I think the problem is, is that people refuse how to properly use computers. People who refuse to learn how to learn how to use a computer, will be bad off, just as those who refuse to learn to drive and maintain their car will always have problems getting into accidents, and having their car break down, because they didn't realize there was a problem until it was too late.
That still holds true. It may take up more memory than it used to, but it's much faster than some of the competition. I recently installed the lastest version of Netscape and was taken aback by the progress bar start-up procedure which lasts at least 30 seconds on my P4 3 GHz with 1 GB of RAM at work. My P2 266 with 192 MB of ram can start FireFox in less than 10 seconds.
Please let me know which extensions you have installed. I run firefox for 9 hours a day, with usually 10+ tabs open. (I'm a web developer) Rarely does it ever go above 75 MB of memory usage. I don't know where people get these numbers of 700 MB.
That's one of the biggest things going against Java for the casual developer market too. Most shared hosts don't support Java for this very reason. You can't have users bringing down the server every time they need to update their code. This is probably the biggest reason why PHP is still as popular as it is. It's where a lot of developers get their start. I would love to use Java for my web development uses, but I'm not about to spend the money necessary to have web hosting that supports Java. I've also heard that there's some shared hosting companies that support Java, but they restart the server every night in order to accomodate this.
I think it's Wii Wii :)
This really bugs me too. It was fun in NFS 2, when you were playing network games against people of varying skill levels, but it's not fun when you're playing against the computer and have to win to move on. I hate how you can be in the same car as the computer, and yet they blaze past you, even though you're going at top speed.
You are my hero. I have never heard a better argument. The fact that ODF is an open format means that we no longer have to rely on microsoft to read our documents for us. There is a market, and in time, screen readers will support ODF files. Maybe even directly. There may be not only a screen reader, but an entire word processor written to by used by those with disabilities.
That really depends how you buy your water. You can buy individual 500 mL bottles for about $1.00 each. Or you can buy a case of 36 bottles for $10. Or, you can buy the 18 L water cooler jugs for $5. There's a $5 deposit on the jugs, but that's refunded. I'd like to know where you can get 18 L of soda for $5.
It's not necessarily the point that everyone is looking at the code, it's the fact that everyone is able to look at the code. How many times have to encountered a bug in MS software, or any closed software app, and wish that you could fix it yourself. Think of how many developers use windows on a dialy basis. I'm sure that if they had access, most of the bugs would be fixed by now, or at least, it wouldn't be as bad as it is. There's only a small percentage of developers who use open source software. Out of my graduating class of around 50(?) I think that maybe 5-10 of us knew about Linux, and maybe 5 of us used it on a regular basis. I know one guy who does open source programming. But it's not low level kernel stuff, just user apps. I think that as Linux starts being used by more large organizations, there will be many more people who are given the time to fix bugs. Just because it isn't your code, doesn't mean that it isn't your job to fix it. If a bug is plauging your job with problems, and you have the power to fix the bug, most likely you will.
Did you forget about the PSP?
At the same time, they also have many disadvantages. When driving in traffic, you are much lower, and much less visible to drivers. It's also much harder to see what's going on around you. Also, unless you have suspension, going over bumps is uncomfortable. On a regular bike, you can stand up away from the seat when travelling over bumps. Also, they tend to be more expensive than an equivalent quality upright bike, because of the lower production numbers. I'm sure there's other disadvantages to having them that I haven't thought of too.
The thing that most people don't realize about VI(M), is that it works very well when using things like telnet to edit your files. There are many characters like ctrl, alt, home, and such that don't travel well over telnet. Having a program like VI(M) is great when you're accessing from a remote system, and can only use the keyboard.
Yeah, the shoulder buttons are natural. Except with the dual shock, where there is dual shoulder buttons. The GC is the best again, because your the shoulder buttons have nice grooves to rest your fingers. I think there's a nice balance between 2 buttons and 14. The GC is nice because in most games you're pressing 1 button, at least 75% of the time, so it makes sense that this button is big, and that the other buttons are located around the outside of this button, and in easy reach.
But the other end of the stick is that people can adapt to any type of control scheme. I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash on the weekend, and just for kicks I fliped my controller around so that the stick was in my right hand, and upside down, and the buttons were under my left thumb. I only did a couple races this way, but I still didn't do that bad. I imagine with the right practice, I could probably get to the point where I could beat the game like this.
Well, first of all, there was a 6 button controller for the Genesis, specifically for games like SF and Mortal Kombat. I had Mortal Kombat for the GameGear. While it only had 2 buttons, the game was still playable. I think the way controllers have gone recently, cramming more and more buttons into the controller is the wrong way to go about things. We've even gotten to the point of having buttons under the analog sticks. Eventually, console gamepads will end up looking like this. Of the current generation (xbox, ps2, GC), I like the GC controller the most, because the buttons are easy to press, and don't all feel the same. Also, they didn't put tons of excess buttons. Most games don't have problems. The programmers just have to learn that they can do without 14 buttons.
Mandriva has had this forever. Start up the update program. Click on the packages to update (or select all), and click install. Downloaded and installed for you. It's how I keep my software up to date. No command-prompt apt-get, emerge stuff necessary. Just pure point and click easy updates.
I don't understand why MS turns off file extensions by default. In a system where the file extension is the only thing that determines whether or not a file is executable, it's kind of idiotic that they would ever disable it.
I think it's more of a security thing rather than a patent thing. This happens in Mandriva when you set your security level too high (although it warns you). Basically since there is no permission system in FAT, it's very insecure from a linux point of view to have a directory that's readable,writeable, and executable by everyone. That's why writing is disabled.