I haven't looked into Morphix, but if it's still using apt to create a customized livecd, it's still going to end up with out of date software. Even if you set it to Debian unstable. My biggest problem when I ran Debian was 1. missing packages (ROX filer anyone?) and 2. out of date packages (GNOME 2.6 took FOR EVER).
So I up and switched back to Gentoo. Source based distros don't have the problem of waiting for someone to compile binaries for every package under the sun.
The trick is to create an adaptive iso making program that has the ability to cut out things you don't need (or add as necessary [new dependencies etc]). Like I don't forsee myself needing a 3 different browsers an E-mail clients.
I understand the Knoppix people try to make good decisions for everyone, but in practice we just end up with yesterday's software today. Just like Debian. Now I know I got marked as troll for saying all this in my parent post, but I really don't care. I used Debian for a long time before I got tired of it and switched back to a source based distro (Gentoo) where you don't have to wait around for people to package and make binaries.
Binaries are great, in theory. But they only work in Windows and Mac because of the centralized distribution. Linux is just too decentralized to be used as a binary OS. Knoppix livecd being based off of Debian was a horrible choice. Mark me as troll again, but that's my belief.
Knoppix is utterly fantastic; I've used it to impress many people with Linux since 3.2.
But it annoys me that Knoppix follows the Debian "stable" ideology to the letter. Yesterday KDE 3.3 is released, today Knoppix 3.6 is released including KDE 3.2. Running the latest version of Knoppix, just like Debian, is hardly up to date.:(
Imagine a Knoppix based off Gentoo's portage tree. Every time you wanted to make a new livecd, you just used portage to compile a totally up to date livecd iso and burned it... if wishes were horses!
Milo stated that once he reached the limit, only small text messages would get through and anything large or w/an attachment would get rejected immediately.
Good test? Old news. A friend of mine, Milo, did this two weeks ago. I even submitted a Slashdot article. But it got rejected. Why? Some guy in the Netherlands isn't as important as the all mighty Kevin Rose of the Screen Savers I guess.:-\
I'm personally planning to become a teacher, specifically of a technical nature with regards to computers, and the more time I spend in the U.S. college system the more I wonder if I should just get a job teaching English or computer basics in high schools instead of seeking a professorship for the sake of preserving my ability to teach a competent curriculum. It's either that or move another country which doesn't have these problems.
Except for them the mafia tactics are so well played that their organized crime has ceased to be criminal due to their lobbying making it all legal. Amazing how easily the lawmaking/enforcing process is manipulated by people with lots of money to spend.
Yes! Mod parent up to uh +6! I DESPISE Fink, and Darwinports left my underwhelmed. Portage on OS X has been a pipe dream for me and now it's been realized! My favorite Linux package manager on my favorite *nix OS! I think I'm going to have a nerdgasm!
That's the first reaction this guy's getting from people I bet. Just remember my favorite quote from Captain Picard: "Things are only impossible until they're not!"
Perhaps you didn't understand the meaning behind my original use of that sentence? Brevity is your friend.
So all right, you want to pick some damn nits with me? Fine. Interviewing a few hundred Japanese people is a perfectly valid survey. And we'll even toss in that it's valid to make broad generalizations about their entire culture based on a tiny fraction their populace. "Valid" or not, it's still absurd to claim that Japanese are not interested in online gaming, because clearly hundreds of thousands are.
Statistics? No. Sociology and Psychology? Yes. And one of the things we learned about in those classes is that surveys are very often flawed by their very nature. This particular one is a perfect example of that. It's not comprehensive enough and it comes to nonsensical conclusions. Or perhaps you slept through those classes.
Not enough study has gone into the problems inherent in online gaming; problems which are getting worse if anything. Until that happens, online gaming will never be a mainstream activity.
This is essentially my entire point. The survey is utterly pointless because we learn nothing new from it and it's data has simply been doctored to present a certain image. It's ridiculous to say Japanese are not interested in online gaming when you interview 200 people while tens of thousands more play online games as established by other previously gathered fact finders.
It would be more accurate to say that online gaming is simply less popular in Japan because saying Japanese as a whole are not interested in it is simply inaccurate. It would be further accurate to say that online gaming is less popular worldwide. The survey attempts (perhaps arguably indirectly) to make Japanese seem less interested in online gaming than America which is simply false. If anything I'd say they're more interested in online gaming than Americans. If I'm wrong though, the numbers would be very close.
When you examine the popularity of online gaming, you best examine it worldwide. The internet is decentralized and region independent where the infrastructure exists.
MMORPG != console game. Internet games have always been less popular than console games. Comparing FFXI to FFVI, FFVII, FFX, etc is comparing apples to oranges. Many die hard FF fans do not consider FFXI to be a real FF because it's an MMORPG. They're two fundamentally different things, so comparing them is a pointless endeavor.
The survey fails to factor in the already established obvious fact that online computer gaming is vastly less popular than single player and console gaming. Just this already makes their entire effort look silly, but despite that, the conclusions are misleading because they give connotations that this characteristic is purely Japanese in nature because their data is so highly limited and selective. This makes the data flawed, or more specifically the data gathering method flawed as well as the conclusions.
The survey's conclusions telling us Japanese are less interested in online gaming than console gaming is like a survey telling us that most Americans in New York City speak English. We already knew that, and it's not just limited to New York City. All of America speaks English. So what is it trying to say in the first place?
Those estimates do include servers and it makes sense that there would be at least three times as many servers running Linux than desktops due to the fact that desktop Linux is mediocre and bears many problems while server Linux is the apex of all server operating systems.
It's important to note also that Google's statistics lump all *nix operating systems such as *BSD, commercial UNIX, and Darwin into the Other category along with various other things and separate Linux out of it as if it were somehow different. This gives a generally flawed statistics chart. Linux, BSD, Darwin, and so many others are all representing the same thing: an open UNIX standard. So if you want to count the number of people using Linux, you should forget it and instead count the number of people running an operating system that is free software and an open implementation of the UNIX standard. You will then see higher than a mere 1% of the internet using an open UNIX standard as their desktop.
Even with the data properly gathered, organized, and displayed, *nix is still a dismal speck in a world where MS controls literally over 90% of all desktops. When closed proprietary crap like Microsoft finally fails and disappears into history, our children will read their history books and ask each other, "how could it have ever gotten so bad?"
And as for FF11, last i heard it was a few hundred thousand subscribers at most, which is pretty damn small for a Final Fantasy game.
But pretty damn big for a MMORPG. FFXI has overtaken Everquest in subscriptions, becoming the most popular MMORPG currently in existence.
The franchise as a whole has sold about 50 million units, and the later titles were selling more than the early ones i'm pretty sure.
This is all comes back to the fact that my understanding of surveys != flawed. Single player console games being vastly more popular than MMORPGs is an obvious fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not the Japanese like them more or less than multiplayer, it's a worldwide trend. Similar statistics can be taken in America. There are simply less people playing MMORPGs. That doesn't mean that "Japanese [are] not that interested in online videogaming." The survey presents overly selective and limited statistics to draw a conclusion that is misleading.
Which matters why? It isn't stopping me from using it.
If writing an emulator to play console games on a PC is legal and writing a third party server daemon and hacking the encryption to play Ultima Online on non commercial servers is legal, then why should playing a DVD on a third party implementation be illegal?
I'll save you the effort, it shouldn't be both by legal precedent and common sense. If some retarded organization wants to sue me for playing DVDs with OSS then I'll see the morons in court.
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I haven't looked into Morphix, but if it's still using apt to create a customized livecd, it's still going to end up with out of date software. Even if you set it to Debian unstable. My biggest problem when I ran Debian was 1. missing packages (ROX filer anyone?) and 2. out of date packages (GNOME 2.6 took FOR EVER).
So I up and switched back to Gentoo. Source based distros don't have the problem of waiting for someone to compile binaries for every package under the sun.
The trick is to create an adaptive iso making program that has the ability to cut out things you don't need (or add as necessary [new dependencies etc]). Like I don't forsee myself needing a 3 different browsers an E-mail clients.
I understand the Knoppix people try to make good decisions for everyone, but in practice we just end up with yesterday's software today. Just like Debian. Now I know I got marked as troll for saying all this in my parent post, but I really don't care. I used Debian for a long time before I got tired of it and switched back to a source based distro (Gentoo) where you don't have to wait around for people to package and make binaries.
Binaries are great, in theory. But they only work in Windows and Mac because of the centralized distribution. Linux is just too decentralized to be used as a binary OS. Knoppix livecd being based off of Debian was a horrible choice. Mark me as troll again, but that's my belief.
Knoppix is utterly fantastic; I've used it to impress many people with Linux since 3.2.
:(
But it annoys me that Knoppix follows the Debian "stable" ideology to the letter. Yesterday KDE 3.3 is released, today Knoppix 3.6 is released including KDE 3.2. Running the latest version of Knoppix, just like Debian, is hardly up to date.
Imagine a Knoppix based off Gentoo's portage tree. Every time you wanted to make a new livecd, you just used portage to compile a totally up to date livecd iso and burned it... if wishes were horses!
I ported sendmail to Java, recompiled it, and I'm using it to make this first post! ...man that was horrible, I deserve a modbombing now!
Close, but no cigar. "Why Game Developers Should Finish What They Start: So Articles Like This Don't Get Written"
Milo stated that once he reached the limit, only small text messages would get through and anything large or w/an attachment would get rejected immediately.
Good test? Old news. A friend of mine, Milo, did this two weeks ago. I even submitted a Slashdot article. But it got rejected. Why? Some guy in the Netherlands isn't as important as the all mighty Kevin Rose of the Screen Savers I guess. :-\
I'm personally planning to become a teacher, specifically of a technical nature with regards to computers, and the more time I spend in the U.S. college system the more I wonder if I should just get a job teaching English or computer basics in high schools instead of seeking a professorship for the sake of preserving my ability to teach a competent curriculum. It's either that or move another country which doesn't have these problems.
Dude, chill. The grandparent is a joke. A sick and deeply sarcastic one, but still a joke. I hope.
You disturb me, sir.
Except for them the mafia tactics are so well played that their organized crime has ceased to be criminal due to their lobbying making it all legal. Amazing how easily the lawmaking/enforcing process is manipulated by people with lots of money to spend.
Yes! Mod parent up to uh +6! I DESPISE Fink, and Darwinports left my underwhelmed. Portage on OS X has been a pipe dream for me and now it's been realized! My favorite Linux package manager on my favorite *nix OS! I think I'm going to have a nerdgasm!
That's the first reaction this guy's getting from people I bet. Just remember my favorite quote from Captain Picard: "Things are only impossible until they're not!"
So all right, you want to pick some damn nits with me? Fine. Interviewing a few hundred Japanese people is a perfectly valid survey. And we'll even toss in that it's valid to make broad generalizations about their entire culture based on a tiny fraction their populace. "Valid" or not, it's still absurd to claim that Japanese are not interested in online gaming, because clearly hundreds of thousands are.
Statistics? No. Sociology and Psychology? Yes. And one of the things we learned about in those classes is that surveys are very often flawed by their very nature. This particular one is a perfect example of that. It's not comprehensive enough and it comes to nonsensical conclusions. Or perhaps you slept through those classes.
It would be more accurate to say that online gaming is simply less popular in Japan because saying Japanese as a whole are not interested in it is simply inaccurate. It would be further accurate to say that online gaming is less popular worldwide. The survey attempts (perhaps arguably indirectly) to make Japanese seem less interested in online gaming than America which is simply false. If anything I'd say they're more interested in online gaming than Americans. If I'm wrong though, the numbers would be very close.
When you examine the popularity of online gaming, you best examine it worldwide. The internet is decentralized and region independent where the infrastructure exists.
MMORPG != console game. Internet games have always been less popular than console games. Comparing FFXI to FFVI, FFVII, FFX, etc is comparing apples to oranges. Many die hard FF fans do not consider FFXI to be a real FF because it's an MMORPG. They're two fundamentally different things, so comparing them is a pointless endeavor.
I will make this simple.
The survey fails to factor in the already established obvious fact that online computer gaming is vastly less popular than single player and console gaming. Just this already makes their entire effort look silly, but despite that, the conclusions are misleading because they give connotations that this characteristic is purely Japanese in nature because their data is so highly limited and selective. This makes the data flawed, or more specifically the data gathering method flawed as well as the conclusions.
The survey's conclusions telling us Japanese are less interested in online gaming than console gaming is like a survey telling us that most Americans in New York City speak English. We already knew that, and it's not just limited to New York City. All of America speaks English. So what is it trying to say in the first place?
Those estimates do include servers and it makes sense that there would be at least three times as many servers running Linux than desktops due to the fact that desktop Linux is mediocre and bears many problems while server Linux is the apex of all server operating systems.
It's important to note also that Google's statistics lump all *nix operating systems such as *BSD, commercial UNIX, and Darwin into the Other category along with various other things and separate Linux out of it as if it were somehow different. This gives a generally flawed statistics chart. Linux, BSD, Darwin, and so many others are all representing the same thing: an open UNIX standard. So if you want to count the number of people using Linux, you should forget it and instead count the number of people running an operating system that is free software and an open implementation of the UNIX standard. You will then see higher than a mere 1% of the internet using an open UNIX standard as their desktop.
Even with the data properly gathered, organized, and displayed, *nix is still a dismal speck in a world where MS controls literally over 90% of all desktops. When closed proprietary crap like Microsoft finally fails and disappears into history, our children will read their history books and ask each other, "how could it have ever gotten so bad?"
Safari will have RSS reading built into it with MacOS 10.4. There's your Mac solution. =P
Which matters why? It isn't stopping me from using it.
If writing an emulator to play console games on a PC is legal and writing a third party server daemon and hacking the encryption to play Ultima Online on non commercial servers is legal, then why should playing a DVD on a third party implementation be illegal?
I'll save you the effort, it shouldn't be both by legal precedent and common sense. If some retarded organization wants to sue me for playing DVDs with OSS then I'll see the morons in court.