I'm running a Dell C640 (a five-year-old laptop, 1.8Ghz CPU, 768Mb RAM) with Ubuntu 8.04. When I switch from Firefox to Amarok to Nautilus to Bluefish, I get to watch each application repaint each part of their UI piece by piece.
Do I need to spend $3K to have these "full speed" screen repaints you speak of? Or, since Ubuntu blacklisted Compiz from working most mobile ATI cards because of problems with a few models instead of fixing the problem, is 2D performance actually important?
I just sent an email attempting to rick roll my girlfriend. I told her that Obama has a cameo about thirty seconds in (the bartender) and Hillary has been citing this video in recent speeches as reason we can't take Obama seriously.
She's a Hillary supporter, so with any luck, it will get forwarded to all her friends!
Hey, thanks for the tip! I just typed 'sl' five times into my URL bar to get Slashdot into the list, and then typed 's' and selected "Slashdot" fifteen times in a row, and now it totally comes right to the top, first thing!
(I'm being serious, and sarcastic, if there is such a thing. Just typing 's' used to take me to Joystiq or Google, for some reason. Is there an 's' in Google?)
Good detective work. Seriously. Is your company hiring people with three-quarters of BFA in Graphic Design?
I mean, I would've sold the iPod if I thought it could've bought myself out the situation I am in. But it was my most valuable possession, and, anyway, it died the other week. Not a scratch on it, I might add, but the HDD lost its will to live.
Further Information: I won the iPod in a drawing at the school cafeteria. It only cost me eight bowls of soup to enter, I could live off a bowl of soup in the morning and a small snack at night for eight days for my chance to win. I love music and really wanted an iPod. I justified eating only two (small) meals a day with the hope that I would win.
In the end, I only won because I was the last person to turn in my ticket. The cafeteria workers didn't shuffle the tickets, and drawing from the top, I was the lucky(?) winner. Now that my 20Gb iPod is dead (it's been my constant companion for over four years), I'm forced to further narrow my musical selection down on my (five year old) laptop.
Do you know what a felony is? No, really, you may be familiar with the term as a sort of crime, but do you know what it does with your life?
I got a felony drug conviction when I was twenty. I was using, not selling. I was young, dumb, in college and thought I had everything figured out. One night, one mistake, and I'm fucked for the rest of my life.
I can no longer rent an apartment under my own name. Landlords do background checks. Decent jobs do background checks. Hell, I live next the building that housed the first Family Dollar, applied, was hired, showed up for work my first scheduled shift, and the manager told me I couldn't work because he'd gotten a letter from corporate saying I could not work for them because of some report their hiring computer spit out. I can't get student loans to finish the two semesters of college education I have left. I've tried various internships and work-study programs. The best thing I've found is taking the General Civil Service Exam, but that's an $890 program, which is almost three months pay. I can barely make rent, let alone feed myself. (Yes, that's where I work.)
Buddy, if your company is hiring, I'd gladly relocate (yay, Greyhound!) to work for ya. I have three-quarters of a degree in graphic design, know Cold Fusion fairly well, and code a mean website in W3C-compliant code in a text editor.
You made $60,000 a year and considered yourself lower middle-class? I feel ill.
My parents are both ex-military, currently working as civil service (well, my mother's still in the Reserves), and make a little more than that, combined. I'm twenty-five and am pulling in around $10,000. My girl asked me to marry her, and I told her that I couldn't do it because I can't financially support her. What planet do you live on?
With the Core system, you'll need a memory card. So, add $40. And the games cost $59, not $49.
I'm just throwing that out there; I'm a happy 360 owner. But I do think that not including some sort of integrated storage system in the Core system (does anyone buy those?) was a mistake. Data caching, patches and update storage, easier game saves, a more consistent base for developers: the lack of integrated storage in one of the SKUs does give the PS3 a significant advantage.
The new version is missing from the Ubuntu repositories. It's not in the repository for the upcoming 6.10 (Edgy) release, which goes into Feature Freeze next week. Hopefully, it'll still make it in. I believe packages in the Universe repository, which Xara falls under, can be upgraded right up until Edgy reaches beta.
I'm in the same boat you were in. I have an three-year-old, but perfectly respectable system. It can handle UT2004 and AoE3 just fine. So, when Oblivion was released last month, I started pricing out video cards that could run the game. An nVidia 6600 ($180) seemed to be the barest minimum. But I couldn't see shelling out that money for an AGP card, since it's being phased out. So I'd need a new motherboard ($120) and a new CPU ($200), too. But that would mean I'd have to buy DDR2 memory ($120) and so on and so forth.
I've been a PC gamer since the 80s, but only just recently realized that the whole "upgradable-ness" of PCs is a myth.
I picked up a 360 and a copy of Oblivion tonight. They're sitting on the coffee table, while I have one last moment of indecision.
Of course, the addon HD-DVD drive isn't meant to be used my consumers today. It is cleary intended to be bought years after the Xbox 360's lifecycle is over, and will sell for outrageous prices on eBay since nobody bought them orginally and few are on the market. Remember the Dreamcast Broadband Adapter? Same principal here.
(I'd recommend buying three or four of them, and keeping them MIB.)
Ubuntu 5.10, the latest stable version, already uses a hybrid of X.org 6.8.2 and the modular 7.0 release. The development version (aka Dapper) is running X.org 7.0 and is fairly stable at the moment, if you're feeling adventurous.
For those that are curious, the alpha version of Half-life for the Dreamcast managed to escape after the project was cancelled. Yes, there is a torrent. I haven't tried it, but those that did report various sound issues and that the game pauses to load every other room you enter. It's more of a curiosity than a playable game.
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I was just hired as a "food-runner" at a moderately upscale restaurant/bar. I'm paid $7 an hour, plus 4% of the waitresses' tips. It's hard work (carrying trays with eight plates of food up two flights of stairs gets old real fast), but my co-worker managed to gross $1100 in his first ten days. On the other hand, that was the result of working 12-hour days and getting 90+ hours during that time.
I hear the waitresses get $2.15 an hour. But assuming that there's five waitresses sharing 4% of their tips with my co-worker (working by himself, not spitting that 4% with another food-runner), each waitress earned ~$550 in tips in a 12-hour workday.
Understand that this is a high-volume establishment, with two floors, a patio, and almost a hundred tables, and we all bust our asses every day. But they're making far more that $5 an hour and smile cheerily the whole time.:)
My charge was a Class D Felony for possession of a controlled substance, which makes it one of the lowest felonies you can get. Unfortuanately, a felony is a felony in many people's (and most employers') eyes.
And believe me, I've looked into having it expunged. The information I've received has ranged from impossible (a page I found on Google reguarding my state's laws), possibly (a lawyer I can't afford on my salary, but offered free consultations), to "in five to seven years, maybe" (my probation officer). Five to seven years? I just turned twenty-three; this is the time in people's lives when they start their career paths, go to school, and generally build the foundations of their adult lives! I can't spend five to seven years "treading water" in the hope that maybe, someday I can have my record expunged.
Actually, I have. My girlfriend and I have talked about moving to England after my probation is up. She loves the country, and my record would be more obscured than it is here. Not to mention that they have a more liberal view towards what I was charged with. (drug possession)
The reason why I responded to the grandparent was they said Canada bars felons from entering the country. I'd researched Canada's Immigration site, and they seemed to indicate that they would accept felons, provided they had completed their sentences. Cananda was on my short list of countries to move to, and the grandparent's information kinda shook me up. I mean, what if I'm trapped here?
I thought I'd share my thoughts, since this is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I was convicted of a felony three years ago, and my life was pretty much destroyed. I lost my job, my apartment, my college loans, and got slapped with thousands of dollars in fines to boot. I'm unemployable: I've shown up to different jobs to start my first day, only to be let go after because they got the results of the background check. The real kicker was that I checked "yes" to having a felony conviction on my application, but the managers claimed that "the computer says we can't hire you".
Since I am now unable to finish school and am stuck making six bucks an hour at McDonald's, I've been giving serious consideration to joining the Army. The recruiters say a waiver is no problem and they can wipe the felony from my record. I'd say gambling my life in Iraq beats the hell out of being doomed here in the Land of the Free.
In case you haven't noticed the other posts, Zawinski ownes the DNA Lounge, which is a San Francisco club that features live webcasts, Internet terminals, and an extensive sound and light system controlled by computers. I'd wager that sound is pretty important to a nightclub...
Pennington isn't proposing anything. He's merely examining the current discussions on the future of Gnome and exploring possible options. From TFA:
Ah geez, again I foolishly fail to remember that phrasing things a certain way results in Slashdot articles which inevitably have misleading headlines and summaries. For the record, my point is not that we should do a GNOME 3 (especially right now), and it definitely isn't that I personally intend to do a GNOME 3. It's that if someone did a GNOME 3, the right way to do it is to create a fairly long-lived branch (aka fork) of the project while continuing the GNOME 2.x series on a 6-month cycle in the meantime. I'm responding to other people's blogs here, rather than proposing something.
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The link you provided seems to be down. Fortunately, Google seems to have cached everything.
I'm running a Dell C640 (a five-year-old laptop, 1.8Ghz CPU, 768Mb RAM) with Ubuntu 8.04. When I switch from Firefox to Amarok to Nautilus to Bluefish, I get to watch each application repaint each part of their UI piece by piece.
Do I need to spend $3K to have these "full speed" screen repaints you speak of? Or, since Ubuntu blacklisted Compiz from working most mobile ATI cards because of problems with a few models instead of fixing the problem, is 2D performance actually important?
I just sent an email attempting to rick roll my girlfriend. I told her that Obama has a cameo about thirty seconds in (the bartender) and Hillary has been citing this video in recent speeches as reason we can't take Obama seriously. She's a Hillary supporter, so with any luck, it will get forwarded to all her friends!
Razor1911 has also released a re-pack pirated version of Halo 2 that should run better than the original Vista DVD, which included the patch with it.
Oh yah, it also seems like you were wrong about Halo II being Vista only....
Did you hear the news? Apple has released a version of OSX for other platforms, and Microsoft is giving away free copies of Windows XP!Hey, thanks for the tip! I just typed 'sl' five times into my URL bar to get Slashdot into the list, and then typed 's' and selected "Slashdot" fifteen times in a row, and now it totally comes right to the top, first thing!
(I'm being serious, and sarcastic, if there is such a thing. Just typing 's' used to take me to Joystiq or Google, for some reason. Is there an 's' in Google?)
I'll respond to your glib comment frankly:
Good detective work. Seriously. Is your company hiring people with three-quarters of BFA in Graphic Design?
I mean, I would've sold the iPod if I thought it could've bought myself out the situation I am in. But it was my most valuable possession, and, anyway, it died the other week. Not a scratch on it, I might add, but the HDD lost its will to live.
Further Information: I won the iPod in a drawing at the school cafeteria. It only cost me eight bowls of soup to enter, I could live off a bowl of soup in the morning and a small snack at night for eight days for my chance to win. I love music and really wanted an iPod. I justified eating only two (small) meals a day with the hope that I would win.
In the end, I only won because I was the last person to turn in my ticket. The cafeteria workers didn't shuffle the tickets, and drawing from the top, I was the lucky(?) winner. Now that my 20Gb iPod is dead (it's been my constant companion for over four years), I'm forced to further narrow my musical selection down on my (five year old) laptop.
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Do you know what a felony is? No, really, you may be familiar with the term as a sort of crime, but do you know what it does with your life?
I got a felony drug conviction when I was twenty. I was using, not selling. I was young, dumb, in college and thought I had everything figured out. One night, one mistake, and I'm fucked for the rest of my life.
I can no longer rent an apartment under my own name. Landlords do background checks. Decent jobs do background checks. Hell, I live next the building that housed the first Family Dollar, applied, was hired, showed up for work my first scheduled shift, and the manager told me I couldn't work because he'd gotten a letter from corporate saying I could not work for them because of some report their hiring computer spit out. I can't get student loans to finish the two semesters of college education I have left. I've tried various internships and work-study programs. The best thing I've found is taking the General Civil Service Exam, but that's an $890 program, which is almost three months pay. I can barely make rent, let alone feed myself. (Yes, that's where I work.)
Buddy, if your company is hiring, I'd gladly relocate (yay, Greyhound!) to work for ya. I have three-quarters of a degree in graphic design, know Cold Fusion fairly well, and code a mean website in W3C-compliant code in a text editor.
You made $60,000 a year and considered yourself lower middle-class? I feel ill.
My parents are both ex-military, currently working as civil service (well, my mother's still in the Reserves), and make a little more than that, combined. I'm twenty-five and am pulling in around $10,000. My girl asked me to marry her, and I told her that I couldn't do it because I can't financially support her. What planet do you live on?
With the Core system, you'll need a memory card. So, add $40. And the games cost $59, not $49.
I'm just throwing that out there; I'm a happy 360 owner. But I do think that not including some sort of integrated storage system in the Core system (does anyone buy those?) was a mistake. Data caching, patches and update storage, easier game saves, a more consistent base for developers: the lack of integrated storage in one of the SKUs does give the PS3 a significant advantage.
That has got to be the most cynical post I've ever seen on Slashdot.
The new version is missing from the Ubuntu repositories. It's not in the repository for the upcoming 6.10 (Edgy) release, which goes into Feature Freeze next week. Hopefully, it'll still make it in. I believe packages in the Universe repository, which Xara falls under, can be upgraded right up until Edgy reaches beta.
How can I view a QuicktimeVR image on Linux? MPlayer doesn't appear to work...
I'm in the same boat you were in. I have an three-year-old, but perfectly respectable system. It can handle UT2004 and AoE3 just fine. So, when Oblivion was released last month, I started pricing out video cards that could run the game. An nVidia 6600 ($180) seemed to be the barest minimum. But I couldn't see shelling out that money for an AGP card, since it's being phased out. So I'd need a new motherboard ($120) and a new CPU ($200), too. But that would mean I'd have to buy DDR2 memory ($120) and so on and so forth.
I've been a PC gamer since the 80s, but only just recently realized that the whole "upgradable-ness" of PCs is a myth.
I picked up a 360 and a copy of Oblivion tonight. They're sitting on the coffee table, while I have one last moment of indecision.
Of course, the addon HD-DVD drive isn't meant to be used my consumers today. It is cleary intended to be bought years after the Xbox 360's lifecycle is over, and will sell for outrageous prices on eBay since nobody bought them orginally and few are on the market. Remember the Dreamcast Broadband Adapter? Same principal here. (I'd recommend buying three or four of them, and keeping them MIB.)
Ubuntu 5.10, the latest stable version, already uses a hybrid of X.org 6.8.2 and the modular 7.0 release. The development version (aka Dapper) is running X.org 7.0 and is fairly stable at the moment, if you're feeling adventurous.
I thought being "in limbo" was on it's way out?
For those that are curious, the alpha version of Half-life for the Dreamcast managed to escape after the project was cancelled. Yes, there is a torrent. I haven't tried it, but those that did report various sound issues and that the game pauses to load every other room you enter. It's more of a curiosity than a playable game.
Python vs Alligator? Bah! How about some Zombie vs Shark coverage?
I think the joke you were looking for was, "Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
I was just hired as a "food-runner" at a moderately upscale restaurant/bar. I'm paid $7 an hour, plus 4% of the waitresses' tips. It's hard work (carrying trays with eight plates of food up two flights of stairs gets old real fast), but my co-worker managed to gross $1100 in his first ten days. On the other hand, that was the result of working 12-hour days and getting 90+ hours during that time.
:)
I hear the waitresses get $2.15 an hour. But assuming that there's five waitresses sharing 4% of their tips with my co-worker (working by himself, not spitting that 4% with another food-runner), each waitress earned ~$550 in tips in a 12-hour workday.
Understand that this is a high-volume establishment, with two floors, a patio, and almost a hundred tables, and we all bust our asses every day. But they're making far more that $5 an hour and smile cheerily the whole time.
My charge was a Class D Felony for possession of a controlled substance, which makes it one of the lowest felonies you can get. Unfortuanately, a felony is a felony in many people's (and most employers') eyes.
And believe me, I've looked into having it expunged. The information I've received has ranged from impossible (a page I found on Google reguarding my state's laws), possibly (a lawyer I can't afford on my salary, but offered free consultations), to "in five to seven years, maybe" (my probation officer). Five to seven years? I just turned twenty-three; this is the time in people's lives when they start their career paths, go to school, and generally build the foundations of their adult lives! I can't spend five to seven years "treading water" in the hope that maybe, someday I can have my record expunged.
Actually, I have. My girlfriend and I have talked about moving to England after my probation is up. She loves the country, and my record would be more obscured than it is here. Not to mention that they have a more liberal view towards what I was charged with. (drug possession)
The reason why I responded to the grandparent was they said Canada bars felons from entering the country. I'd researched Canada's Immigration site, and they seemed to indicate that they would accept felons, provided they had completed their sentences. Cananda was on my short list of countries to move to, and the grandparent's information kinda shook me up. I mean, what if I'm trapped here?
I thought I'd share my thoughts, since this is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I was convicted of a felony three years ago, and my life was pretty much destroyed. I lost my job, my apartment, my college loans, and got slapped with thousands of dollars in fines to boot. I'm unemployable: I've shown up to different jobs to start my first day, only to be let go after because they got the results of the background check. The real kicker was that I checked "yes" to having a felony conviction on my application, but the managers claimed that "the computer says we can't hire you".
Since I am now unable to finish school and am stuck making six bucks an hour at McDonald's, I've been giving serious consideration to joining the Army. The recruiters say a waiver is no problem and they can wipe the felony from my record. I'd say gambling my life in Iraq beats the hell out of being doomed here in the Land of the Free.
In case you haven't noticed the other posts, Zawinski ownes the DNA Lounge, which is a San Francisco club that features live webcasts, Internet terminals, and an extensive sound and light system controlled by computers. I'd wager that sound is pretty important to a nightclub...
Pennington isn't proposing anything. He's merely examining the current discussions on the future of Gnome and exploring possible options. From TFA: