Since when did we start believing in hypnosis? Is there any evidence (published in peer-reviewed journals and the like) that hypnotic suggestion even works?
The creation, subsequent amplification, and promotion of Linux is therefore rather more complex in licensing terms than certain GPL advocates like to pretend, especially nowadays, when Linus Torvalds is telling us that most of the significant contributions to the Linux kernel come from paid programmers working in companies such as IBM, RedHat, and Novell/Suse, most of whom would work under any license that had a pay-check on the end of it.
Which is almost definitely true that they would work under whatever license they were paid to. The difference is that most of the code they wrote to get those paychecks would have stayed locked up as has happened with OSX.
As for there being any chance that Linux would have been as successful under another license, that's kind of a no brainer. There's almost no way it could have been. Just look at what has happened to the BSDs. Sure they're around and people work on them and use them, but they're not nearly as big a deal as Linux and most of their corporate "partners" just take the code and run like apple has.
Maybe someone should release a GPL'd BSD and see how well it does, though it's kind of late in the game to start that up now.
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Something acquired without due effort or cost. For example, In politics there is no free lunch; every favor calls for repayment. This expression alludes to the custom of taverns offering food free of charge to induce customers to buy drinks. It was soon extended to other kinds of gift but is often used in a negative way, as in the example. [First half of 1800s]
Provides a useless service. Even if you were downloading at only 3Mbps you could fill up the entire 512MB flash drive in Wii in under 25 minutes. So why could it possibly need to be on 24/7? If you want to be able to interact with other people's save data while they're not playing, have that uploaded to a server that will be running anyway.
If this is true we all have a serious problem. ATi makes crap. Even if their hardware were good, it's impossible to tell because their drivers are so broken. It'd probably would be enough to get me buying Intel again. Especially if their prices and performance aren't lagging AMD's.
You're seriously going to argue that video players on windows have any ability to compete on easy of use with Linux video players? If you are, you're a fucking moron are ignorant enough as to make no matter.
Anyone know of a real reason, other than locking out Linux users, that so many sites are switching their video players to flash player 8 or 9? Because it doesn't seem to have any advantages for that use over 7.5 to me.
Gamers are an educated demographic, for the most part, and have fantastically high standards.
Hilarious! You should be a comedian.
That said, that Sullivan guy is just whining because his game isn't that good. But people don't play WoW because they're "educated" or have "high standards", fantastical or otherwise.
World of Warcraft is just another MMO with a nice, customizable interface (about the only thing that really stands out about it) that is still boring to play. If anything, the fact that so many people play WoW shows a fantastically low standard. That and they have a lot of free time on their hands to waste playing a mindless game because they can't think of anything better to do.
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It's so great running Linux. I couldn't view that crap even if I wanted to. Now if only all the other garbage on the web would take this precaution to protect me from seeing their sites...
The story is about your dream of getting the big paycheck and your struggling to earn it. Or that you're unable to give up the dream even though it is clearly out of reach and your belief that if you just persevere long enough you'll finally make it. You know, a traditional "feel good" underdog story.
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It's not a matter of giving it a try, gimp is going in the wrong direction and fast. They continuously go out of their way to make the interface unuseable, including but not limited to, GTK2 file dialogs, dialogs that can't be confirmed by hitting enter, and retarded tab order in dialogs. I don't even need to get into the fact that tablet support constantly breaks, which they pass the buck on constantly. The GIMP guys claim it's GTK or something, GTK claims it's the wacom driver guys (this is Linux folks, you know, where you'd think the focus would be for The GIMP), and it never gets fixed.
A few years ago I thought GIMP had a real shot at taking on Photoshop. All it would have taken is a little bit of effort in the right places. Now I don't think there's any way it will ever catch up and all I can hope is that someone comes along with an open source paint package to knock if off before too long. Because GIMP is never going to get fixed where it needs it and they're going to continue to fuck it over where it doesn't need any changes.
I could put up with the dialog and acting (the emokid's voice is REALLY annoying) if they just had competent animation. Seriously, did they plan the whole project out and THEN think about how it would move?
Replacing all the dialog with swear words would be pretty cool. Considering that the source frames are available and they have a karaoke/dubbing track out for the audio I might just have to do it myself.
There actually is a pretty good method to Blender's "madness", definitely a lot more so than with some of the more recent insanity introduced in The Gimp (I'm thinking particularly of having to hold shift to get a new layer without the layer size dialog). Not that I've used Blender much, but I ran through some interface tutorial on it once and it actually seemed kind of nice in a weird way.
I'm not exactly sure what "expected conventions" is supposed to mean. If you mean like 3DS Max that'd be horrible (two years on that at school was two years too long) and hardly what I would expect. If you meant like Maya, that'd be sweet. But there'd be other people who woulnd't expect that, and probably a couple of fools who hate it.
They should provide a way to customize the camera though.
Also, people seem to have lost any outrage they used to have at paying to read ads. You'd think in a country that claims to pride itself so much on "freedom" that people would be less accepting of being sold like cattle to advertisers, but I guess not.
I haven't owned a handheld since the ancient days of the Game Boy, I was more referring to PC/Mac gaming. Small, downloadable games that can afford to be slightly more complex than a d-pad and two buttons. Business sims, strategy games, etc - all the things that the GBA's format doesn't allow.
I imagine I'd be a much happier gamer if a good game cost $10. I'd imagine developers would be much happier if they could sell games at 1/5th the price of a AAA title, but with budgets far lower than 1/5th of a AAA action game.
Who says you can't do business sims on GameBoy? You have forgotten all about Wall Street Kid! And that was on NES.
Yeah, I screwed up the math! Preview button turns out to be less useful than/. lets on, they forgot to mention one should actually read over what is being previewed!
The volume I am paying for is Days*60*60*SpeedPerSecond. Just because there isn't an arbitrary cap on that volume doesn't mean I'm not paying for it in volume.
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Since when did we start believing in hypnosis? Is there any evidence (published in peer-reviewed journals and the like) that hypnotic suggestion even works?
Which is almost definitely true that they would work under whatever license they were paid to. The difference is that most of the code they wrote to get those paychecks would have stayed locked up as has happened with OSX.
As for there being any chance that Linux would have been as successful under another license, that's kind of a no brainer. There's almost no way it could have been. Just look at what has happened to the BSDs. Sure they're around and people work on them and use them, but they're not nearly as big a deal as Linux and most of their corporate "partners" just take the code and run like apple has.
Maybe someone should release a GPL'd BSD and see how well it does, though it's kind of late in the game to start that up now.
The worst one is when people refer to themselves as a "consumer" in a context where it isn't appropriate, which is most of them.
You're wrong. Now please stfu. You've trolled enough on the topic.
AMD buys NVidia. Let the war be over!
Which is about the same percentage of "journalists" who still do that.
Provides a useless service. Even if you were downloading at only 3Mbps you could fill up the entire 512MB flash drive in Wii in under 25 minutes. So why could it possibly need to be on 24/7? If you want to be able to interact with other people's save data while they're not playing, have that uploaded to a server that will be running anyway.
If this is true we all have a serious problem. ATi makes crap. Even if their hardware were good, it's impossible to tell because their drivers are so broken. It'd probably would be enough to get me buying Intel again. Especially if their prices and performance aren't lagging AMD's.
You're seriously going to argue that video players on windows have any ability to compete on easy of use with Linux video players? If you are, you're a fucking moron are ignorant enough as to make no matter.
Anyone know of a real reason, other than locking out Linux users, that so many sites are switching their video players to flash player 8 or 9? Because it doesn't seem to have any advantages for that use over 7.5 to me.
Gamers are an educated demographic, for the most part, and have fantastically high standards.
Hilarious! You should be a comedian.
That said, that Sullivan guy is just whining because his game isn't that good. But people don't play WoW because they're "educated" or have "high standards", fantastical or otherwise.
World of Warcraft is just another MMO with a nice, customizable interface (about the only thing that really stands out about it) that is still boring to play. If anything, the fact that so many people play WoW shows a fantastically low standard. That and they have a lot of free time on their hands to waste playing a mindless game because they can't think of anything better to do.
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then return to our site to experience our site at its best.
It's so great running Linux. I couldn't view that crap even if I wanted to. Now if only all the other garbage on the web would take this precaution to protect me from seeing their sites...
The story is about your dream of getting the big paycheck and your struggling to earn it. Or that you're unable to give up the dream even though it is clearly out of reach and your belief that if you just persevere long enough you'll finally make it. You know, a traditional "feel good" underdog story.
It's not a matter of giving it a try, gimp is going in the wrong direction and fast. They continuously go out of their way to make the interface unuseable, including but not limited to, GTK2 file dialogs, dialogs that can't be confirmed by hitting enter, and retarded tab order in dialogs. I don't even need to get into the fact that tablet support constantly breaks, which they pass the buck on constantly. The GIMP guys claim it's GTK or something, GTK claims it's the wacom driver guys (this is Linux folks, you know, where you'd think the focus would be for The GIMP), and it never gets fixed.
A few years ago I thought GIMP had a real shot at taking on Photoshop. All it would have taken is a little bit of effort in the right places. Now I don't think there's any way it will ever catch up and all I can hope is that someone comes along with an open source paint package to knock if off before too long. Because GIMP is never going to get fixed where it needs it and they're going to continue to fuck it over where it doesn't need any changes.
I could put up with the dialog and acting (the emokid's voice is REALLY annoying) if they just had competent animation. Seriously, did they plan the whole project out and THEN think about how it would move?
Replacing all the dialog with swear words would be pretty cool. Considering that the source frames are available and they have a karaoke/dubbing track out for the audio I might just have to do it myself.
There actually is a pretty good method to Blender's "madness", definitely a lot more so than with some of the more recent insanity introduced in The Gimp (I'm thinking particularly of having to hold shift to get a new layer without the layer size dialog). Not that I've used Blender much, but I ran through some interface tutorial on it once and it actually seemed kind of nice in a weird way.
I'm not exactly sure what "expected conventions" is supposed to mean. If you mean like 3DS Max that'd be horrible (two years on that at school was two years too long) and hardly what I would expect. If you meant like Maya, that'd be sweet. But there'd be other people who woulnd't expect that, and probably a couple of fools who hate it.
They should provide a way to customize the camera though.
"Microsoft needs to start listening to what their customers actually want instead of telling them what they should want."
But it works so well just to tell them in America!
Also, people seem to have lost any outrage they used to have at paying to read ads. You'd think in a country that claims to pride itself so much on "freedom" that people would be less accepting of being sold like cattle to advertisers, but I guess not.
Apparently windows users.
I haven't owned a handheld since the ancient days of the Game Boy, I was more referring to PC/Mac gaming. Small, downloadable games that can afford to be slightly more complex than a d-pad and two buttons. Business sims, strategy games, etc - all the things that the GBA's format doesn't allow.
I imagine I'd be a much happier gamer if a good game cost $10. I'd imagine developers would be much happier if they could sell games at 1/5th the price of a AAA title, but with budgets far lower than 1/5th of a AAA action game.
Who says you can't do business sims on GameBoy? You have forgotten all about Wall Street Kid! And that was on NES.
Forget black, have you seen the "Enamel Navy" one they have in Japan? It's quite possibly the sexiest piece of gaming hardware ever released.
Yeah, I screwed up the math! Preview button turns out to be less useful than /. lets on, they forgot to mention one should actually read over what is being previewed!
Why would I want to settle for the OSX UI that is clunky and gets in my way more often than not? If I wanted that I could just run gnome.
Don't forget realtime weapon change!
The volume I am paying for is Days*60*60*SpeedPerSecond. Just because there isn't an arbitrary cap on that volume doesn't mean I'm not paying for it in volume.