Your comment is nicely worded but I don't agree. It seems that the norm on Slashdot is to bash the shit out of modern Star Trek and Star Wars prequels for some reason. Take it from a fan since the TNG days: DS9 was great, Voyager was great, and Enterprise is great. And all that was made before I started watching was great. I'm not the only fan who feels this way. Perhaps I am on Slashdot though.
I've seen every episode of Star Trek and every Trek movie ever made and they all more or less capture the spirit that the show was founded on. I really wish people on Slashdot would give this Trek and Star Wars bashing a rest. I don't agree with all the decisions TPTB have made, but Trek is still good quality intelegent television in a word where mindless reality shows dominate the ratings.
Good question. Read the blog anyway! I have been meaning to change that sig, unfortunately Slashdot does not provide enough space for me to include a mini-faq.
Yeah, sig space is totally Nazi! It took me nearly 15 tries before I could compress my current sig into the space allotted.
How is this modded as funny? It's true. I quit playing Ultima Online because Age of Shadows completely fucked up PVP. Essentially, if you wanted to be able to compete at all, you had to have lots of gold. Something that simply wasn't true before AoS. With AoS it ceased to be player vs player and became item vs item.
I took about a year off from UO then started playing on free servers. I HIGHLY recommend any and all disgruntled UO players looking for a free and better alternative check out UOGateway which will allow you to simply and easily connect to player run servers; many of which are highly professional, highly popular, and fuckloads of fun. I'll never go back to EA's twisted version of it.
p.s. Do not under any circumstances trade-off encode quality to fit a file on a CD! If your hdd is too small, buy a freaking DVD burner for christ sake. they're only $100 CDN.
You were doing fine until you got here. If a 700mb xvid rip isn't good enough quality for you, then you're a fucking videophile and you should just buy the DVD and perpetuate the quality pissing contest. 700mb xvid is by no means terrible. Every time I show a 700mb xvid movie to people by piping my computer display through svideo onto a large TV, I'm always given the following reaction: "Wow, that's really high quality!"
Not good enough for you? Fuck you. I won't be encoding anything else.
This may be because TV is becoming less popular as a whole. Much of the younger generation spends its time on the internet now, and many just download their favorite TV shows. Losing a sizable percentage of viewers would easily facilitate a drop in available channels.
Exactly. When I saw this story I shook my head. Drink to the BSD trolls tonight. They've been so influential that they now have their own Slashdot story. The editors have been trolled.
Re:Carry a gun (Score:3, Insightful) by kahei (466208) [snip] Yes, it was flamebait, mod me down... yet there is wisdom in my words I tell you...
Behind a two way mirror, a Zookeeper brings today's visitors to see the Slashdot exhibit.
Zookeeper: "You see children, the alpha male Slashdot specimen ensures that he will be moderated up by using reverse psychology and asking to be moderated down." Child: "Why would he want to do that?" Zookeeper: "Highly moderated comments are often regarded as the correct opinion or in some cases irrefutable fact." Child: "Why doesn't he just ask to be moderated up?" Zookeeper: "Before a moderator will use their influence to bestow such an honor on a comment, he/she must be convinced. Moderators are usually skeptical of everything. After watching the poster/moderator behavior for many years, we've observed that this reverse psychology is often very persuasive." Child: "Their behavior is confusing!" Zookeeper: "It's not unlike guild psychology and social acceptance rituals employed by the specimens in the Everquest exhibit. This way please..."
I said exactly that not only in my original post, but in the blurb of it you quoted! I'm not saying it would be as easy as Mac had it. I said it is just as possible.
Bluecurve seems to be one of those phenomena you either love or hate. I know very few people who are neutral on it. Personally, I see it as the best OS theme in existence. I like it even better than Mac's Aqua.
I have no experience with SuSE, Mandrake, Slack, and etc (hah) but I have installed Debian and Gentoo and I can tell you you're wrong. They don't respect other operating systems existing on your hard drive(s) and help you dual boot them any more than Fedora does under this bug.
Fedora is geared toward desktop use, not business use. Maybe you meant desktop business use in which case you're right. Nobody cares about this bug except desktop users who are too cheap to buy a second computer (one for each OS), or are too lazy to deal with the fact that dual booting is almost always difficult and will never cease to be in all situations.
Since probably a majority of Linux boxes are dual boot (at least desktop machines), this is significant.
I would be willing to contest your claim that the majority of Linux boxes (yes even the majority of desktops) dual boot. Most people I know that "switched" just did it cold turkey, or maintain a separate computer just for Windows, or run their Windows apps in VMWare. Dual booting is just too much a pain in the ass for any two operating systems I've found. Who wants to reboot all the time when you could run both at the same time? It's worth it to run more than one computer.
Maybe Linux distro's for desktop use needs quality control? It's half way through 2004, and the current batch of distros (bsd included) are configuration messes. WTF happened?
Someone needs to start an open source database project in which people submit their hardware and submit successful configurations of it. Then every Linux distro could include this database and use it during their hardware autoconfig system.
Ideally this hardware database would include things like the binary nvidia and ati drivers, but since there are licensing issues it seems unlikely. I'll never understand why they don't want people redistributing their binary drivers. What do they have to lose from it? It would just cause more people to actually use their drivers. Do they not want people using their drivers or something?
Obviously Redhat and Knoppix among others already have such a hardware autodetecter, but they were all coded from scratch and they're all distro specific. If someone created a distro neutral decentralized hardware autodetecter and this autodetecter was used by every distro, manual Linux hardware configuration would be a thing of the past.
Even if you installed new hardware after the installation, it would be as simple as running a command like
root@box > autohardware scanfornew scanning... found new gpu... idenified as nvidia geforce4 ti4200... installing nvidia binary drivers... done... please restart X root@box >
And knowing distros like redhat, there'd be a graphical tool to do that. There's nothing stopping a system like this from existing in Linux. It just seems no one with the skill wants to code it up. Linux coders focus on unimportant things like bloating KDE with features and overzealously making GNOME's defaults easy to use. Who cares? People can't even run your Desktop Env if they're goddamn hardware doesn't work.
Learn a lesson from Mac OS X. I installed OSX on a formatted hard drive a few days ago and not a single piece of hardware had to be manually configured. It was ALL done for me. I know it's a bad comparison because Mac only works on very select hardware, but there's nothing stopping *nix from creating this hardware database and becoming the Mac OS X of the x86 world.
Redhat distros win the desktop distro war for me simply because of Bluecurve. I'd rather have a difficult time setting it up but have a beautiful interface in the end than have an easy time setting it up and have it look ugly.
I'll second this. All of my experiences with Fedora Core 2 have made me torn between it and Debian. Fedora is great looking. The best looking Linux distro of them all without a doubt. And it's ridiculously user-friendly. My computer illiterate parents have had no trouble using it. Still, and I'm talking from a defaults standpoint, I think Debian has better package management. And I also think Debian makes a better server.
So my motto for now is Debian for a server and FC2 for a desktop.
It sure is nice having obsessive compulsive "neat" women in your life so you can feel free to be carelessly messy, isn't it?
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Trivial? In Windows, sure. In Linux installing support for mp3/divx and especially the drivers for your gpu card are not tasks for the computer illiterate. In Windows it's as simple as go to website, download file, double click it, hit next a few times.
So one of two things have to happen. Either distros ship with shit stuff prepackaged or Linux all of a sudden unites under a single distro so linux software authors can release something other than broken binaries and source.
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That, and the fact that FC is actually _more_ free than Debian following the prompt removal of all MP3 and similar tained code leaves me asking: What more could you want from a distro? The latest FC2 installer was particularly stunning, making LVM2 setup trivial for the first time. This is really what Debian should have been.
That statement is self-contradictory. Lack of support for MP3 is a failing of Fedora, not an advantage. So when you ask "what more could you want from a distro?" I say how about some built-in MP3 support? How about automatically installing the drivers for my nvidia card? How about coming pre packaged with mplayer? If Linux is EVER going to stop being a niche OS, it's going to have to find a way to legally ship with corporate video drivers, mp3/divx, etc.
Now don't get me wrong here, Fedora's "let's create an operating system exclusively from free software" is a wonderfully noble goal! But there are no accelerated open source drivers for most people's gpus because nvidia/ati don't release specs. And mp3/divx is too popular already to just disregard when you build an operating system.
Fedora is beautiful, but it will never be perfect until it sacrifices it's free software purity for overall better quality.
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Yet FFXI has how many subscribers just in Japan alone? Far more people than this survey covered. Data == flawed.
Your comment is nicely worded but I don't agree. It seems that the norm on Slashdot is to bash the shit out of modern Star Trek and Star Wars prequels for some reason. Take it from a fan since the TNG days: DS9 was great, Voyager was great, and Enterprise is great. And all that was made before I started watching was great. I'm not the only fan who feels this way. Perhaps I am on Slashdot though.
I've seen every episode of Star Trek and every Trek movie ever made and they all more or less capture the spirit that the show was founded on. I really wish people on Slashdot would give this Trek and Star Wars bashing a rest. I don't agree with all the decisions TPTB have made, but Trek is still good quality intelegent television in a word where mindless reality shows dominate the ratings.
How is this modded as funny? It's true.
I quit playing Ultima Online because Age of Shadows completely fucked up PVP. Essentially, if you wanted to be able to compete at all, you had to have lots of gold. Something that simply wasn't true before AoS. With AoS it ceased to be player vs player and became item vs item.
I took about a year off from UO then started playing on free servers. I HIGHLY recommend any and all disgruntled UO players looking for a free and better alternative check out UOGateway which will allow you to simply and easily connect to player run servers; many of which are highly professional, highly popular, and fuckloads of fun. I'll never go back to EA's twisted version of it.
Not good enough for you? Fuck you. I won't be encoding anything else.
This may be because TV is becoming less popular as a whole. Much of the younger generation spends its time on the internet now, and many just download their favorite TV shows. Losing a sizable percentage of viewers would easily facilitate a drop in available channels.
It's not a punishment, it's a settlement. MS has made an offer and they have accepted it. Case closed.
What's that BBS address? I'd like dial up and telnet in from my DOS TUI. Wait until I finish my match of Worms(1) though.
Exactly. When I saw this story I shook my head. Drink to the BSD trolls tonight. They've been so influential that they now have their own Slashdot story. The editors have been trolled.
Mod parent up funny.
Zookeeper: "You see children, the alpha male Slashdot specimen ensures that he will be moderated up by using reverse psychology and asking to be moderated down."
Child: "Why would he want to do that?"
Zookeeper: "Highly moderated comments are often regarded as the correct opinion or in some cases irrefutable fact."
Child: "Why doesn't he just ask to be moderated up?"
Zookeeper: "Before a moderator will use their influence to bestow such an honor on a comment, he/she must be convinced. Moderators are usually skeptical of everything. After watching the poster/moderator behavior for many years, we've observed that this reverse psychology is often very persuasive."
Child: "Their behavior is confusing!"
Zookeeper: "It's not unlike guild psychology and social acceptance rituals employed by the specimens in the Everquest exhibit. This way please..."
I said exactly that not only in my original post, but in the blurb of it you quoted! I'm not saying it would be as easy as Mac had it. I said it is just as possible.
Bluecurve seems to be one of those phenomena you either love or hate. I know very few people who are neutral on it. Personally, I see it as the best OS theme in existence. I like it even better than Mac's Aqua.
I have no experience with SuSE, Mandrake, Slack, and etc (hah) but I have installed Debian and Gentoo and I can tell you you're wrong. They don't respect other operating systems existing on your hard drive(s) and help you dual boot them any more than Fedora does under this bug.
Fedora is geared toward desktop use, not business use. Maybe you meant desktop business use in which case you're right. Nobody cares about this bug except desktop users who are too cheap to buy a second computer (one for each OS), or are too lazy to deal with the fact that dual booting is almost always difficult and will never cease to be in all situations.
Ideally this hardware database would include things like the binary nvidia and ati drivers, but since there are licensing issues it seems unlikely. I'll never understand why they don't want people redistributing their binary drivers. What do they have to lose from it? It would just cause more people to actually use their drivers. Do they not want people using their drivers or something?
Obviously Redhat and Knoppix among others already have such a hardware autodetecter, but they were all coded from scratch and they're all distro specific. If someone created a distro neutral decentralized hardware autodetecter and this autodetecter was used by every distro, manual Linux hardware configuration would be a thing of the past.
Even if you installed new hardware after the installation, it would be as simple as running a command like And knowing distros like redhat, there'd be a graphical tool to do that. There's nothing stopping a system like this from existing in Linux. It just seems no one with the skill wants to code it up. Linux coders focus on unimportant things like bloating KDE with features and overzealously making GNOME's defaults easy to use. Who cares? People can't even run your Desktop Env if they're goddamn hardware doesn't work.
Learn a lesson from Mac OS X. I installed OSX on a formatted hard drive a few days ago and not a single piece of hardware had to be manually configured. It was ALL done for me. I know it's a bad comparison because Mac only works on very select hardware, but there's nothing stopping *nix from creating this hardware database and becoming the Mac OS X of the x86 world.
Redhat distros win the desktop distro war for me simply because of Bluecurve. I'd rather have a difficult time setting it up but have a beautiful interface in the end than have an easy time setting it up and have it look ugly.
I'll second this. All of my experiences with Fedora Core 2 have made me torn between it and Debian. Fedora is great looking. The best looking Linux distro of them all without a doubt. And it's ridiculously user-friendly. My computer illiterate parents have had no trouble using it. Still, and I'm talking from a defaults standpoint, I think Debian has better package management. And I also think Debian makes a better server.
So my motto for now is Debian for a server and FC2 for a desktop.
My mother =P
It sure is nice having obsessive compulsive "neat" women in your life so you can feel free to be carelessly messy, isn't it?
Trivial? In Windows, sure. In Linux installing support for mp3/divx and especially the drivers for your gpu card are not tasks for the computer illiterate. In Windows it's as simple as go to website, download file, double click it, hit next a few times.
So one of two things have to happen. Either distros ship with shit stuff prepackaged or Linux all of a sudden unites under a single distro so linux software authors can release something other than broken binaries and source.
You decide which is more likely to happen first.
umm...
u ")'
u ")'
(Debian unstable x86)
kethinov@klinux:~> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2004-02-03) [i386-linux]
kethinov@klinux:~> ruby -e 'require "base64";puts decode64("RnJlc2ggYmxvb2QgdGhyb3VnaCB0aXJlZCBza2l
Fresh blood through tired skin
kethinov@klinux:~>
(Mac OS 10.3 ppc)
kethinov@kethimac:~> ruby -v
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [powerpc-darwin7.0]
kethinov@kethimac:~> ruby -e 'require "base64";puts decode64("RnJlc2ggYmxvb2QgdGhyb3VnaCB0aXJlZCBza2l
Fresh blood through tired skin
kethinov@kethimac:~>
So =p
Now don't get me wrong here, Fedora's "let's create an operating system exclusively from free software" is a wonderfully noble goal! But there are no accelerated open source drivers for most people's gpus because nvidia/ati don't release specs. And mp3/divx is too popular already to just disregard when you build an operating system.
Fedora is beautiful, but it will never be perfect until it sacrifices it's free software purity for overall better quality.