IMHO, letting kids use the computer at a young age is good, but only if you set and enforge time constraints. When I was younger, I was only allowed to play our Commodore 64 or Nintendo for 30 minutes - enough to encourage my intrest in computers, but not enough to prevent me from doing other things.
Also, my dad would occasionally bring home some ancient hardware for me to take apart. That's an excellent way to get them interested in computers. I didn't really understand much of how it worked (I did know a lot more than others my age, though) but I knew it was cool.
What really boggles my mind is how Halo 2 won the "Best Multiplayer Game" catagory over Unreal Tournament 2004. Yes, Halo 2 does have good multiplayer, but I have yet to see a game that can touch UT2K4 - especially when you factor mods in. UT2K4 simply has better weapons, better vehicles, and better gameplay modes (Onslaught owns all!).
Since it runs linspire (which I personally wouldn't touch with a 3.048 meter pole) it should be able to run other, better distros. Which is a good thing (TM) for us geeks who want a cheap laptop that actually works fully with Linux.
Which is why all WM's should have launch notification like KDE. When you launch an application, KDE does a little animation on it's icon, and then puts an item in the task bar with the app's name and a loading icon.
I'll bet a few years ago people would have said the same thing about Sierra or Interplay... And look where they are now. Dead and gone, with all their assets sold.
I am glad those games didn't have stupid copyright protections like Steam. If they had, many excellent games would have been lost to us.
Actually, what people call steam is liquid H2O. We can't usually see water vapor, but usually when we cause water to become water vapor it hits cold air which causes tiny droplets to form. Those droplets are what we see.
(Disclaimer: If we can have grammar nazies, why not science nazis?)
Linux and other *NIXes also have shred, which can do that and a bunch of other things.
For instance, 'shred -u -z file' will overwrite that file 25 times with random bits, overwrite it with all zeros to hide the shreading, then remove the file.
'info shred' (or 'man shred' for less detail) for more info on how to use shred.
Actually, the slowness on the part of Doom3 is lack of optimization for Linux (remember, Doom3 uses a lot of hacks and tricks to make itself run faster), and the slowness in UT2K4 is the lack of OpenGL optimization by Epic (it runs faster with DirectX).
However, Quake 3 - which is basically the same on Windows and Linux - actually runs _faster_ on Linux than Windows. This goes to show that Nvidia's Linux drivers are actually quite good, even if they can be a PITA at times.
Finally, ATI does have OpenGL drivers for Linux. They suck, though.
PS: I'm not upset with either Id or Epic. I'm very grateful that they released games for Linux in the first place!
No, but you can "kwrite perldoc://someuri/perldoc1" (or any other program that supports kioslaves).
I don't see why this has to be at the kernel level - why not just make programs that use kioslave functions instead of open() (or whatever)? Not only that, but some protocols are very slow or don't work with directories well, and wouldn't be sutable to be treated like local folders. Putting this in the kernel is asking for a lot more root (and not just user) exploits. And finally, everything that uses traditional system calls would have to be modified considerably or there will no doubt be many expolits found for them.
A firewall and virus scanner are important to a Windows box running well (or at all). A media player, CD-burning app, and web browser are not. See the difference?
Not only that, but you can use Alt+SysRq+K (if it was enabled in your kernel config, IIRC most distros for personal use enable it). That instantly SIGKILLs everything on the current VT. Even if an application traps Ctrl and Alt, it cannot trap Alt+SysRq - it's trapped at the kernel lever, before anything else can.
And while I respect your right to decide what your child reads, you do NOT have the right to decide what MY child reads or what OTHER PEOPLE's children read.
He isn't deciding what your child can read. If you want to go and buy any of those books for your kid, so be it. He just doesn't want his tax money going into paying for books like those. Just because you want something doesn't mean everyone else has to do/pay for it.
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Right. Because, as we all know, Opera had a great extension system like XUL before Mozilla/Firefox.
Oh, wait...
Nice try. It'll be debian~1.ava
IMHO, letting kids use the computer at a young age is good, but only if you set and enforge time constraints. When I was younger, I was only allowed to play our Commodore 64 or Nintendo for 30 minutes - enough to encourage my intrest in computers, but not enough to prevent me from doing other things.
Also, my dad would occasionally bring home some ancient hardware for me to take apart. That's an excellent way to get them interested in computers. I didn't really understand much of how it worked (I did know a lot more than others my age, though) but I knew it was cool.
What really boggles my mind is how Halo 2 won the "Best Multiplayer Game" catagory over Unreal Tournament 2004. Yes, Halo 2 does have good multiplayer, but I have yet to see a game that can touch UT2K4 - especially when you factor mods in. UT2K4 simply has better weapons, better vehicles, and better gameplay modes (Onslaught owns all!).
Since it runs linspire (which I personally wouldn't touch with a 3.048 meter pole) it should be able to run other, better distros. Which is a good thing (TM) for us geeks who want a cheap laptop that actually works fully with Linux.
Which is why all WM's should have launch notification like KDE. When you launch an application, KDE does a little animation on it's icon, and then puts an item in the task bar with the app's name and a loading icon.
That's l, as in Lamda. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lvalue.
I'll bet a few years ago people would have said the same thing about Sierra or Interplay... And look where they are now. Dead and gone, with all their assets sold.
I am glad those games didn't have stupid copyright protections like Steam. If they had, many excellent games would have been lost to us.
Actually, what people call steam is liquid H2O. We can't usually see water vapor, but usually when we cause water to become water vapor it hits cold air which causes tiny droplets to form. Those droplets are what we see.
(Disclaimer: If we can have grammar nazies, why not science nazis?)
Our primeary focus must be to avoid them...
There's also a lot of music legally available via BitTorrent. For instance, there's nearly 5GB of it over at http://bt.ocremix.org/
Linux and other *NIXes also have shred, which can do that and a bunch of other things.
For instance, 'shred -u -z file' will overwrite that file 25 times with random bits, overwrite it with all zeros to hide the shreading, then remove the file.
'info shred' (or 'man shred' for less detail) for more info on how to use shred.
Actually, the slowness on the part of Doom3 is lack of optimization for Linux (remember, Doom3 uses a lot of hacks and tricks to make itself run faster), and the slowness in UT2K4 is the lack of OpenGL optimization by Epic (it runs faster with DirectX).
However, Quake 3 - which is basically the same on Windows and Linux - actually runs _faster_ on Linux than Windows. This goes to show that Nvidia's Linux drivers are actually quite good, even if they can be a PITA at times.
Finally, ATI does have OpenGL drivers for Linux. They suck, though.
PS: I'm not upset with either Id or Epic. I'm very grateful that they released games for Linux in the first place!
No, but you can "kwrite perldoc://someuri/perldoc1" (or any other program that supports kioslaves).
I don't see why this has to be at the kernel level - why not just make programs that use kioslave functions instead of open() (or whatever)? Not only that, but some protocols are very slow or don't work with directories well, and wouldn't be sutable to be treated like local folders. Putting this in the kernel is asking for a lot more root (and not just user) exploits. And finally, everything that uses traditional system calls would have to be modified considerably or there will no doubt be many expolits found for them.
A firewall and virus scanner are important to a Windows box running well (or at all). A media player, CD-burning app, and web browser are not. See the difference?
Not only that, but you can use Alt+SysRq+K (if it was enabled in your kernel config, IIRC most distros for personal use enable it). That instantly SIGKILLs everything on the current VT. Even if an application traps Ctrl and Alt, it cannot trap Alt+SysRq - it's trapped at the kernel lever, before anything else can.
For Linux users, I highly recommend Linux Security to keep up on current advisories.
Being able to get books for free is not a right.
Not only that, but Linux has had this for some time now, just not at the hardware level. OpenBSD (not sure about Net/FreeBSD) has this.
So what? It is still remote code execution. That is still extremely bad. Just because the code is not executed immediately means nothing.
And because you don't need it, no one else will, eh?
KDE looks like whatever you want it to. Windows, OSX, $OTHER_OS, or something different - it's up to you.
KDE application are labeled as Music Player (JuK) or Instant Messanger (Kopete) in the menus, so newbies won't have any problems.
Also, while there are some very cryptic names, JuK and KWin are not. Ever heard of a jukbox? And KWin is fairly obviously the K Window manager?
It's no more stupid than the endless stream of "OMG Bush is DUMB LOL" jokes we get on Slashdot (and are modded +5)...