What if a student or a group of students decide that they do not want to pay for the video and just bring there own camera and tripod to record his class? Would he refuse to let them just so he can gain a profit? Ive heard many people bring tape recorders into class rooms to help them, is this disallowed? Personally I think it should be free, the process can be automated and college costs way to much already.
They dont have any encryption or Mac filtering on these systems. Last time I tried anyone can connect and then any page you goto redirects you to a page asking you to sign in or sign up for an account(paying with a credit card). Basicly it gives you access to a proxy server that you have to go through.
I put my grandparents on Fedora after they had tons of trouble with Windows 98 and Windows XP and they couldn't be happier. It meets all of your requirments and you could get any cheap or old machine to run it. I had it running on a p3 733mhz with 256megs of RAM. After the install all I did was turn automatic updates on and turned off a few unneeded services(ssh, bluetooth etc) It took about an hour or so to do. As for modem support just make sure that the modem is supported under Linux before you buy it. In our area its actually cheaper to get DSL(only $20 a month) then dail-up, if you do that pretty much any ethernet card works.
I wouldn't suggest using dd to backup a drive. It will copy everything including the blank sectors thus what ever your hard drive size is will be the size of the image. Also some file system, such as fat32 have a file size limit so that wont work.
Even if that was in place parents buy these M rated games for their kids. If all of Jack Thomsons laws were put into place kids would still get the games because their parents buy it for them or their parents are with them when they buy them.
The real reason US phone companies dont want users to have it is because US phone companies like locked phones not open phones. People pay tons of money to get an unlock phone because when you buy your phone through Cingular, Verizon, or Sprint they disable some features and disable a way to upgrade the phone. I know with Verizon if you want to do anything with a phone you have to buy a cable and software(win only) and even thats limited(last I check my phone model the only way Verizon let you get pictures from it was to e-mail it to yourself costing lots of money). If that phone comes down in price to say about $200 USD Ill buy it other then that I really cannt afford.
All I have been hearing on the news is that they were caught because they were discussing the plot in a mosk and someone their reported them. They might have used wiretapping after that but they probly got(or could of gotten) a warrent.
BSD may be very easy but Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Mandrake are all just as easy. Ive installed all of them and its pretty much insert the CD tell it what hard drive to parition ask, answer if you want to customize the installation(what packages you want) and finally setup users. I havnt installed PC-BSD but Im pretty sure its the same.
The game crashes all the time for no reason and no my system is not low end, I have an evga 7800 GT, AMD X2 4400, and 2gigs of ram. If thats a crappy system then please tell me what a good one is.
My biggest thing with games is poor programming. Many PC games have really poor programming and crash ALOT. I cannt stand paying $30-$60 for a game that just crashes all the time. If game developers would do more time testing and stabilizing games I would buy more. The other big reason is DRM for games, such as STEAM. It really gets annoying that I have to be connected to the internet and verify and I legaly own the game when ive bought it and all I want to do is play the damn game. Because of STEAM and that HL2 based games are programed so poorly im no longer buying any games from Valve. id Software is a great example of how a company can get games right, there games are rock solid and dont interfere with my game playing. On a side note I tend to buy games that have a Linux port much more since they do tend to be programmed better and snce I only run Linux. I remember reading a long time ago that id software said they program their games for Linux, Win, and Mac because it lets them test on so many different platforms it helps alot with stability, and they usally get most of the bugs, other game place could learn from this.
I thought the Nintendo Wii was teh predicted winner? From everything ive read its cheaper, has better games, and a more creative/exciting user interface(the controller). Im thinking of getting one it comes out and ive been a PC only gamer for years.
I used Redhat for a very long time, I cannt even remember which version I started with. When Redhat changed their buisness model all that did was say they are no longer officially supporting home users. Most home users never needed support or didnt want to pay for it(this is true for any home user be it for Windows or OS X). For this reason they created Fedora. After Redhat 9 I did switch to Gentoo but that was because I like the way that you can really customize Gentoo. Ive put Fedora on my grandparents computer and its been rock solid, I have to do no administration(only if I want to update between the cores) and everything just works. I tried Ubuntu on my school computer and personally I think Fedora is leaps and bounds ahead of it.
I would not be surprised if MS poured money into game developers to keep them on DirectX and MS platforms. I do always get a kick out of how MSs biggest game was originaly done for Mac by an Apple game developer.
What do you mean by "harder"? I know many Windows users who think that Mac and Linux are "harder" because they just dont know how the system works. I think once you learn OpenGL its just as easy as DirectX.
The Quake series(including Quick IV), the Doom series(including Doom 3), Prey(uses the Doom3/Quake4 engine), and the Unreal Tornament series(including unreal 2007) all uses OpenGL. Those games are a hell of alot better then Half Life 2 or Far Cry in graphics. DirectX gives you nothing over OpenGL.
The problem is even if they do make the game with OpenGL SDL and OpenAL many companies still dont want to port it. Prey uses the Doom3 engine which has a Linux port but they will not recompile Prey for Linux.
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Not sure what kind of computer you have but many video cards now have video input. You could even get a cheap TV card and hook it up to your computer.
What if a student or a group of students decide that they do not want to pay for the video and just bring there own camera and tripod to record his class? Would he refuse to let them just so he can gain a profit? Ive heard many people bring tape recorders into class rooms to help them, is this disallowed? Personally I think it should be free, the process can be automated and college costs way to much already.
There unique but theres a chance that there sniffable. Anyway it takes time to do that and I had a flight to catch ;)
They dont have any encryption or Mac filtering on these systems. Last time I tried anyone can connect and then any page you goto redirects you to a page asking you to sign in or sign up for an account(paying with a credit card). Basicly it gives you access to a proxy server that you have to go through.
I put my grandparents on Fedora after they had tons of trouble with Windows 98 and Windows XP and they couldn't be happier. It meets all of your requirments and you could get any cheap or old machine to run it. I had it running on a p3 733mhz with 256megs of RAM. After the install all I did was turn automatic updates on and turned off a few unneeded services(ssh, bluetooth etc) It took about an hour or so to do. As for modem support just make sure that the modem is supported under Linux before you buy it. In our area its actually cheaper to get DSL(only $20 a month) then dail-up, if you do that pretty much any ethernet card works.
I wouldn't suggest using dd to backup a drive. It will copy everything including the blank sectors thus what ever your hard drive size is will be the size of the image. Also some file system, such as fat32 have a file size limit so that wont work.
Even if that was in place parents buy these M rated games for their kids. If all of Jack Thomsons laws were put into place kids would still get the games because their parents buy it for them or their parents are with them when they buy them.
The real reason US phone companies dont want users to have it is because US phone companies like locked phones not open phones. People pay tons of money to get an unlock phone because when you buy your phone through Cingular, Verizon, or Sprint they disable some features and disable a way to upgrade the phone. I know with Verizon if you want to do anything with a phone you have to buy a cable and software(win only) and even thats limited(last I check my phone model the only way Verizon let you get pictures from it was to e-mail it to yourself costing lots of money). If that phone comes down in price to say about $200 USD Ill buy it other then that I really cannt afford.
All I have been hearing on the news is that they were caught because they were discussing the plot in a mosk and someone their reported them. They might have used wiretapping after that but they probly got(or could of gotten) a warrent.
BSD may be very easy but Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Mandrake are all just as easy. Ive installed all of them and its pretty much insert the CD tell it what hard drive to parition ask, answer if you want to customize the installation(what packages you want) and finally setup users. I havnt installed PC-BSD but Im pretty sure its the same.
The game crashes all the time for no reason and no my system is not low end, I have an evga 7800 GT, AMD X2 4400, and 2gigs of ram. If thats a crappy system then please tell me what a good one is.
...because Valve cannt code for shit and their game crashes all the time.
My biggest thing with games is poor programming. Many PC games have really poor programming and crash ALOT. I cannt stand paying $30-$60 for a game that just crashes all the time. If game developers would do more time testing and stabilizing games I would buy more. The other big reason is DRM for games, such as STEAM. It really gets annoying that I have to be connected to the internet and verify and I legaly own the game when ive bought it and all I want to do is play the damn game. Because of STEAM and that HL2 based games are programed so poorly im no longer buying any games from Valve. id Software is a great example of how a company can get games right, there games are rock solid and dont interfere with my game playing. On a side note I tend to buy games that have a Linux port much more since they do tend to be programmed better and snce I only run Linux. I remember reading a long time ago that id software said they program their games for Linux, Win, and Mac because it lets them test on so many different platforms it helps alot with stability, and they usally get most of the bugs, other game place could learn from this.
I thought the Nintendo Wii was teh predicted winner? From everything ive read its cheaper, has better games, and a more creative/exciting user interface(the controller). Im thinking of getting one it comes out and ive been a PC only gamer for years.
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Well its not just college kids that do it, it their books to http://www.collegehumor.com/pictures/1686891/
I used Redhat for a very long time, I cannt even remember which version I started with. When Redhat changed their buisness model all that did was say they are no longer officially supporting home users. Most home users never needed support or didnt want to pay for it(this is true for any home user be it for Windows or OS X). For this reason they created Fedora. After Redhat 9 I did switch to Gentoo but that was because I like the way that you can really customize Gentoo. Ive put Fedora on my grandparents computer and its been rock solid, I have to do no administration(only if I want to update between the cores) and everything just works. I tried Ubuntu on my school computer and personally I think Fedora is leaps and bounds ahead of it.
Dosnt SDL equal DirectX? Im pretty sure you can do sound, input, networking, timing, and a bunch of other things?
I would not be surprised if MS poured money into game developers to keep them on DirectX and MS platforms. I do always get a kick out of how MSs biggest game was originaly done for Mac by an Apple game developer.
What do you mean by "harder"? I know many Windows users who think that Mac and Linux are "harder" because they just dont know how the system works. I think once you learn OpenGL its just as easy as DirectX.
The Quake series(including Quick IV), the Doom series(including Doom 3), Prey(uses the Doom3/Quake4 engine), and the Unreal Tornament series(including unreal 2007) all uses OpenGL. Those games are a hell of alot better then Half Life 2 or Far Cry in graphics. DirectX gives you nothing over OpenGL.
Technology evolves if you cannt keep up then get out. Pretty much every tech job I know requires the ability to learn new things quickly.
IT seems very easy to port to PS2 gamecube mac and Linux if done with OpenGL, xbox is the hard one since its only DirectX.
The problem is even if they do make the game with OpenGL SDL and OpenAL many companies still dont want to port it. Prey uses the Doom3 engine which has a Linux port but they will not recompile Prey for Linux.
Counter strike works fine in cedega and wine. The only problem is the game gets to repetitive.