I don't think it's really the new enviroment, I can deal with that. The problem I have had is just getting the damn OS installed and having all my shit work.
I got RedHat to install fine on my Laptop(Dell Inspiron 5100) and it worked fine for the most part it just wouldn't recognize my sound, but I really liked the Debian packaging system. So I tried to get Debian installed. Went with the stable, testing, and unstable and on all I got it to work with everything except direct rendering. This isn't a stab at just Debian, I love it, just no direct rendering.(Radeon Mobility 7) I followed various documentations I found on the web and not a single one worked. I even fucked up my xfree somehow.
Now my point is, I have a few partitions, after getting Debian working without direct rendering, I went and installed Windows on another partition. I put the CD in and it worked installed fine. Then I put in my driver cd and now everything is a okay.
Maybe I don't really have a point, just wish Linux was a bit easier to install and get all the hardware working and working fine. It's the problem we have at work too, all the Comp operators here have laptops and we explored linux but just never got it working 100%, so we are still on Windows....
I sure as hell hope you aren't dissing Ice Ice Baby?
Offtopic but a paper I had to turn in last week I ended up fitting about 25% of that song into the actual paper. Meaningless but I enjoyed doing it. Trying to fit, "Slice like a Ninja, Cut like a razor blade." Into a paper about a ninteenth century French woman is NOT easy. Anyway...Back to pretend work..
I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, but for us laymans can you explain aerobraking a bit?
I think I know what it is but I could be wrong. Like using something like a parachute to slow you down? And it's only possible on mars because it has somewhat of an atmosphere where the moon doesn't? If that's just what it is I feel like an idiot already.
Same here, all 4 people I work with are running Sarge right now. I've also bought a set of disks from them even though I don't use it, I use the testing.
It's too bad that Debian is a little bit harder to install as I had to help everyone here at work install it, although it is easy after I figured everything out since we all have the same laptops.
Ah you beat me too it. I've read that we have absolutely no defenses against the Sunburn missile. I'm not a military info type guy so I could be wrong, just what I've read.
I've been of the feeling that all our non submarine type naval vessels are absolutely fantastic against smaller countries, but countries like China would be destroyed. I'm going to check out that Nimitz Class book though, sounds intersting.
Hah Bose, I cannot believe people actually spend money on that absolute junk. Granted I'm not high end audiophile, I use Triangle speakers and my whole system is about $5K setup. It's amazing when I walk through a store and hear their top of the line speakers that cost more then I paid and they sound like absolute shit.
Thats why with an Xbox you play everything off a hard drive. Then all the kid has to do is hit the power button and select the game from a menu.
Seems a lot safer and easier then having cd's, having to insert the cd, loosing cd's, leaving them around to get stepped on, etc doesnt it?
Here in the city of Boise my parents house was recently annexed into the city. They had to start paying huge taxes(Their property tax went up about 27%) along with having to pay for sewer maintenance.
They have no sewers on our street. They wouldn't install any sewers onto our street until a certain % said they would get it. To get it install it cost about 10 grand. So not only did enough people have to agree to get it, my parents had to shell out 10 grand to get hooked into the sewer system they had to pay for whether they had it or not. Seems lame to me!
Free games as in pirated games? console-news sometime and look at the game releases.
Not to mention your 5.1 or whatever setup on your computer speakers will pale to my actual 7.1 setup with real power, my couch, projector and windows shaking at every gunshot. I don't know of anyone with audiophile quality PC speakers so I could be wrong.
You still lug your whole PC around? That's oldschool. I stopped doing that when I got my laptop. Now I just carry that in a bag and lug around my projector. I always seem to get a crowd watching me though..
I remember playing the demo, that thing was so fun. Then when it got released I heard it sucked and never picked it up. That had some awesome potential just from playing the demo a lot.
I can't see how Unreal Tournament didn't get on the list but Quake 3 did. Was it really that popular? At the time all my friends converted quickly to UT after trying it. Hell the college I went to even in 2001 you could always find games of UT going, probably 3:1 compared to Quake 3.
Ah well, not like these lists aren't a dime a dozen.
I think that is true also, with the GAmecube being fairly easy to hack with very little hardware knowledge nowdays. Selling more GC's but not as much games to match? PR spin time baby!
Since you used a small base I will to.
I'm at work with 4 guys, I'm the only one who owns a Nintendo. All our laptops only have games where stuff goes boom and people get shot. Infact we just played some Call of Duty.
I am the youngest at 24, and the oldest is 56.
I agree with you, it isn't a huge reason. Althought, it does have a huge potential to be, if more developers took advantage of it. You ever play GTA3 on PC with your own songs on it? How cool was that? Do you not like rap? I don't, Playing Mushroomhead while driving in True Crime ROCKED.
If more developers took advantage of it, it would become huge. As it stands only a couple games on Xbox allow you to do this I believe.
I'll have to disagree with some of your #1 point. Ethnic cleansing? What the hell? How many times has Israel just gone off and killed people? How many times have they said they want to push the Arabs to the sea and wipe them out? Oh wait...
It would not be hard for Israel to completely wipe the floor with them. Building a wall to keep them out does a good job at the ethnic cleansing right? Makes them kill them easier?
So by a Palestinian blowing himself up in a bus and Israel retaliating by blowing up a few cars of militants they are trying to cleanse the world of Palestinians? Okay, got you.
Other then that part I agree with you. We should stop supporting governments, well stop paying them off in Egypts case and get our troops out.
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I don't think it's really the new enviroment, I can deal with that. The problem I have had is just getting the damn OS installed and having all my shit work.
I got RedHat to install fine on my Laptop(Dell Inspiron 5100) and it worked fine for the most part it just wouldn't recognize my sound, but I really liked the Debian packaging system. So I tried to get Debian installed. Went with the stable, testing, and unstable and on all I got it to work with everything except direct rendering. This isn't a stab at just Debian, I love it, just no direct rendering.(Radeon Mobility 7) I followed various documentations I found on the web and not a single one worked. I even fucked up my xfree somehow.
Now my point is, I have a few partitions, after getting Debian working without direct rendering, I went and installed Windows on another partition. I put the CD in and it worked installed fine. Then I put in my driver cd and now everything is a okay.
Maybe I don't really have a point, just wish Linux was a bit easier to install and get all the hardware working and working fine. It's the problem we have at work too, all the Comp operators here have laptops and we explored linux but just never got it working 100%, so we are still on Windows....
Yeah, what's with all that guys goat porn too? What a sick bastard.
Damn, they only get a 25000 SqFt house instead of that 30000 Sqft.
I just pulled those numbers out of my ass.
I sure as hell hope you aren't dissing Ice Ice Baby?
Offtopic but a paper I had to turn in last week I ended up fitting about 25% of that song into the actual paper. Meaningless but I enjoyed doing it. Trying to fit, "Slice like a Ninja, Cut like a razor blade." Into a paper about a ninteenth century French woman is NOT easy. Anyway...Back to pretend work..
I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, but for us laymans can you explain aerobraking a bit?
I think I know what it is but I could be wrong. Like using something like a parachute to slow you down? And it's only possible on mars because it has somewhat of an atmosphere where the moon doesn't? If that's just what it is I feel like an idiot already.
Thanks.
Same here, all 4 people I work with are running Sarge right now. I've also bought a set of disks from them even though I don't use it, I use the testing. It's too bad that Debian is a little bit harder to install as I had to help everyone here at work install it, although it is easy after I figured everything out since we all have the same laptops.
Ah you beat me too it. I've read that we have absolutely no defenses against the Sunburn missile. I'm not a military info type guy so I could be wrong, just what I've read. I've been of the feeling that all our non submarine type naval vessels are absolutely fantastic against smaller countries, but countries like China would be destroyed. I'm going to check out that Nimitz Class book though, sounds intersting.
Hah Bose, I cannot believe people actually spend money on that absolute junk. Granted I'm not high end audiophile, I use Triangle speakers and my whole system is about $5K setup. It's amazing when I walk through a store and hear their top of the line speakers that cost more then I paid and they sound like absolute shit.
JVC is making good quality speakers now? Damn, I must be behind in the times. Time to trade in my Triangles I guess.
Thats why with an Xbox you play everything off a hard drive. Then all the kid has to do is hit the power button and select the game from a menu. Seems a lot safer and easier then having cd's, having to insert the cd, loosing cd's, leaving them around to get stepped on, etc doesnt it?
Here in the city of Boise my parents house was recently annexed into the city. They had to start paying huge taxes(Their property tax went up about 27%) along with having to pay for sewer maintenance. They have no sewers on our street. They wouldn't install any sewers onto our street until a certain % said they would get it. To get it install it cost about 10 grand. So not only did enough people have to agree to get it, my parents had to shell out 10 grand to get hooked into the sewer system they had to pay for whether they had it or not. Seems lame to me!
Can I sleep on your couch? I'm clean and can cook ramen. I also have a special way to do laundry that saves time. I put it all in togather.
Well when your the one carrying the .45 it could be interesting. Still never been mugged though.
/Pwned. Want to come to Boise and argue with my parents in liue of me? I'm getting sick of it.
Free games as in pirated games? console-news sometime and look at the game releases. Not to mention your 5.1 or whatever setup on your computer speakers will pale to my actual 7.1 setup with real power, my couch, projector and windows shaking at every gunshot. I don't know of anyone with audiophile quality PC speakers so I could be wrong.
You still lug your whole PC around? That's oldschool. I stopped doing that when I got my laptop. Now I just carry that in a bag and lug around my projector. I always seem to get a crowd watching me though..
I'd mod you up but yeah I can't. Good reading though.
I remember playing the demo, that thing was so fun. Then when it got released I heard it sucked and never picked it up. That had some awesome potential just from playing the demo a lot.
I can't see how Unreal Tournament didn't get on the list but Quake 3 did. Was it really that popular? At the time all my friends converted quickly to UT after trying it. Hell the college I went to even in 2001 you could always find games of UT going, probably 3:1 compared to Quake 3. Ah well, not like these lists aren't a dime a dozen.
I think that is true also, with the GAmecube being fairly easy to hack with very little hardware knowledge nowdays. Selling more GC's but not as much games to match? PR spin time baby!
Since you used a small base I will to. I'm at work with 4 guys, I'm the only one who owns a Nintendo. All our laptops only have games where stuff goes boom and people get shot. Infact we just played some Call of Duty. I am the youngest at 24, and the oldest is 56.
? Here in Boise they are easy to get. Bestbuy had a whole stack of them.
I loved the game, my roomate has gone through it three times. Have it on Xbox, never played it on PC. I'll take my 51 HDTV and surround sound.
I agree with you, it isn't a huge reason. Althought, it does have a huge potential to be, if more developers took advantage of it. You ever play GTA3 on PC with your own songs on it? How cool was that? Do you not like rap? I don't, Playing Mushroomhead while driving in True Crime ROCKED. If more developers took advantage of it, it would become huge. As it stands only a couple games on Xbox allow you to do this I believe.
I'll have to disagree with some of your #1 point. Ethnic cleansing? What the hell? How many times has Israel just gone off and killed people? How many times have they said they want to push the Arabs to the sea and wipe them out? Oh wait... It would not be hard for Israel to completely wipe the floor with them. Building a wall to keep them out does a good job at the ethnic cleansing right? Makes them kill them easier? So by a Palestinian blowing himself up in a bus and Israel retaliating by blowing up a few cars of militants they are trying to cleanse the world of Palestinians? Okay, got you. Other then that part I agree with you. We should stop supporting governments, well stop paying them off in Egypts case and get our troops out.