This is good enough for some people. There are a number of people I know who cannot afford the extra money on top of standard ISPs for a cable modem or DSL.
Cable modem might seem cheap - 50 dollars no sweat - but you also have to have the standard cable package (at least around here -- comcast).
Rock on trolling4dollars... this was my first reaction when I read this article too, this sounds like a good idea. Whether we like it or not, there's going to be various forms of copy protection schemes in just about everything. Some media will have it, some won't. There will be ways to copy somethings, and somethings will not be so easy to copy (for personal use).
My girlfriend and I actually play a little DAOC sometimes. Have ya ever wanted to play that game, write some code, or something for hours on end but are torn because you don't want to ignore the wife/girlfriend?
One quality I was looking for when finding my soulmate was tolerance of computer time and enjoyment of computer time. Ok, I admit she can't spend 12 hours in computing bliss, but a few hours is better than 0 hours;)
What if there were more practical applications in the virtual environment? The one idea that springs to mind is how hard virtual meetings are to have sometimes. Sure you can have those video conferencing units that Polycomm makes but you don't really see the other person, hard to see a white board and stuff like that.
If many more developers and other business people are working from home and telecommuting, one would think that providing a virtual office environment might be a wonderful idea. I mean, right now you can get a VPN, you can get phone coverage, even voice mail management. But, you still can't appear in the conference room or draw on the white board from home.
Hmmm, now there's a nice idea. A company that specialized in custom virtual work environments for large companies. I'm sure IBM, HP and others would be all over this like shit on velcro!
Hmmmm hot movie popcorn with artificial butter. *drool sounds*
Unfortunately all that popcorn makes me want to drink soda, the soda makes me want to goto the bathroom. Thus, I usually loose at least 5 minutes per movie for a health break.
a freshly polished desktop for a while. Right now I've got blue curve action on my Redhat8 desktop but it doesn't seem as cool as my linux desktops of long ago. Sure things work nicely but eye-candy is yummy.
I'm suprised that with a RedHat 9 release less than a month away we haven't seen one of those reviewed.
The other option is SuSE, and from what I hear, has a nicely tuned desktop as well.
One aspect of power is that who controlls the definition of terms. In this case popular concensus (fueled by poor journalism and representation in the media) have yielded "hacker" as an evil criminal who breaks into computer systems. What's a cracker? Something you put cheese on, or possibly put in your soup.
It's just the nature of the beast. RedHat needs money to support their development, which I believe is the smallest department in their company. Most of the RedHat revenue goes back into to the training efforts, advertising, and making RedHat a viable enterprise solution.
People want widespread adoption of Linux, this is the price that must be paid. Abandonning RedHat now because they want a few bucks to increase Linux only hurts linux overall. If they become a Linux-Microsoft, we'll only have to keep the faith that they will be open source and friendly to the development community that helped spawned them.
Additionally, Redhat wants to make some money and the subscription model isn't a bad one. If you want to be the last on the block to have it, you don't have to pay anything. But if ya want managed updates, early access, and whatever other perks they throw in then ya pay the fee.
I disagree. The main complaint we've heard for years is the non-unified desktop... nothing feels integrated. While KDE is integrated in itself, and Gnome is integrated in itself people are always going to run applications from both and they don't want it to look so blatantly different.
From the article:
Our first look at a Serial ATA drive, quite frankly, was a little less than inspiring. That is to say that, even though the SATA 150 standard offers a higher bandwidth interface and those tidy, thin little cables, the performance of the first drive to hit our bench, a Seagate Barracuda V, was about on par with the average ATA100 or ATA133 drive on the market.
But isn't a 'graphic adventure' just really a RPG that everyone plays the same role? Maybe you get to play multiple characters like Baulder's Gate. That game still had a set of scenarios you had to play through to win. And then maybe you get to create your own roles (the MMORPGs), the scenarios here are more loose and the definition of "winning" is vague.
You're right, this list is bad. Take number 5, it says virtual reality game are dead. How about, virtual reality games were never really alive! The Virtual Boy was a horrible device designed to give me headaches. I rented it once from blockbuster years ago... sometimes I still wake up seeing red lines!
Seriously, the only good virtual experience I have ever found is the battletech pods. You sit inside a pod which looks like a real cockpit of a battlemech from the inside and you go on a rampage. I guess all virtual stuff will suck until we can walk into a star trek-like holodeck and play some REAL games.
Grahpic adventure isn't dying... it's just evolving. DAOC, EverQuest, heck even Ultima Online are all excellent "grahpic adventures" that have either been 3D or are just 2D (ultima).
Maybe single player VGA games are dying, but heck sometimes I still have a craving to play a little Space Quest!
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There's nothing like coming home from ye ole office for a nice few rounds of deathmatch/capture the flag. Ahhhhh.
Don't you like your freedom fries?
I wonder if we'll see less german beer commercials on US tv...
This is good enough for some people. There are a number of people I know who cannot afford the extra money on top of standard ISPs for a cable modem or DSL.
Cable modem might seem cheap - 50 dollars no sweat - but you also have to have the standard cable package (at least around here -- comcast).
Rock on trolling4dollars... this was my first reaction when I read this article too, this sounds like a good idea. Whether we like it or not, there's going to be various forms of copy protection schemes in just about everything. Some media will have it, some won't. There will be ways to copy somethings, and somethings will not be so easy to copy (for personal use).
It'll be nice knowing what's what.
My girlfriend and I actually play a little DAOC sometimes. Have ya ever wanted to play that game, write some code, or something for hours on end but are torn because you don't want to ignore the wife/girlfriend?
;)
One quality I was looking for when finding my soulmate was tolerance of computer time and enjoyment of computer time. Ok, I admit she can't spend 12 hours in computing bliss, but a few hours is better than 0 hours
What if there were more practical applications in the virtual environment? The one idea that springs to mind is how hard virtual meetings are to have sometimes. Sure you can have those video conferencing units that Polycomm makes but you don't really see the other person, hard to see a white board and stuff like that.
If many more developers and other business people are working from home and telecommuting, one would think that providing a virtual office environment might be a wonderful idea. I mean, right now you can get a VPN, you can get phone coverage, even voice mail management. But, you still can't appear in the conference room or draw on the white board from home.
Hmmm, now there's a nice idea. A company that specialized in custom virtual work environments for large companies. I'm sure IBM, HP and others would be all over this like shit on velcro!
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not get both? Since one is a camera and one is for playing games...
College campuses are the birth place of many great pieces of software as well as development houses for other software.
It's good to see open sourced college software.
Hmmmm hot movie popcorn with artificial butter. *drool sounds*
Unfortunately all that popcorn makes me want to drink soda, the soda makes me want to goto the bathroom. Thus, I usually loose at least 5 minutes per movie for a health break.
a freshly polished desktop for a while. Right now I've got blue curve action on my Redhat8 desktop but it doesn't seem as cool as my linux desktops of long ago. Sure things work nicely but eye-candy is yummy.
I'm suprised that with a RedHat 9 release less than a month away we haven't seen one of those reviewed.
The other option is SuSE, and from what I hear, has a nicely tuned desktop as well.
The most invasive company was Capita, a data management business that develops the software used in many of the government's data-mining schemes.
Try again next year MS!
I think you'd want insurance on it. From the article, it costs about as much as a luxury car. Oof!
One aspect of power is that who controlls the definition of terms. In this case popular concensus (fueled by poor journalism and representation in the media) have yielded "hacker" as an evil criminal who breaks into computer systems. What's a cracker? Something you put cheese on, or possibly put in your soup.
If leaks are posted on /., does that make them more leakable? har har har.
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It will only work if the phone is switched on and is being carried by the child.
So, the kid turns the phone off, leaves it at a friend's house, whatever.
It's just the nature of the beast. RedHat needs money to support their development, which I believe is the smallest department in their company. Most of the RedHat revenue goes back into to the training efforts, advertising, and making RedHat a viable enterprise solution.
People want widespread adoption of Linux, this is the price that must be paid. Abandonning RedHat now because they want a few bucks to increase Linux only hurts linux overall. If they become a Linux-Microsoft, we'll only have to keep the faith that they will be open source and friendly to the development community that helped spawned them.
Additionally, Redhat wants to make some money and the subscription model isn't a bad one. If you want to be the last on the block to have it, you don't have to pay anything. But if ya want managed updates, early access, and whatever other perks they throw in then ya pay the fee.
I disagree. The main complaint we've heard for years is the non-unified desktop... nothing feels integrated. While KDE is integrated in itself, and Gnome is integrated in itself people are always going to run applications from both and they don't want it to look so blatantly different.
Hmmm, 7am, no sleep, read like they were summarizing this review :P
I'll keep the 3.11 review handy!
From the article: Our first look at a Serial ATA drive, quite frankly, was a little less than inspiring. That is to say that, even though the SATA 150 standard offers a higher bandwidth interface and those tidy, thin little cables, the performance of the first drive to hit our bench, a Seagate Barracuda V, was about on par with the average ATA100 or ATA133 drive on the market.
But isn't a 'graphic adventure' just really a RPG that everyone plays the same role? Maybe you get to play multiple characters like Baulder's Gate. That game still had a set of scenarios you had to play through to win. And then maybe you get to create your own roles (the MMORPGs), the scenarios here are more loose and the definition of "winning" is vague.
You're right, this list is bad. Take number 5, it says virtual reality game are dead. How about, virtual reality games were never really alive! The Virtual Boy was a horrible device designed to give me headaches. I rented it once from blockbuster years ago... sometimes I still wake up seeing red lines!
Seriously, the only good virtual experience I have ever found is the battletech pods. You sit inside a pod which looks like a real cockpit of a battlemech from the inside and you go on a rampage. I guess all virtual stuff will suck until we can walk into a star trek-like holodeck and play some REAL games.
Grahpic adventure isn't dying... it's just evolving. DAOC, EverQuest, heck even Ultima Online are all excellent "grahpic adventures" that have either been 3D or are just 2D (ultima).
Maybe single player VGA games are dying, but heck sometimes I still have a craving to play a little Space Quest!
Why is this a great movie? I took a look at the short plot outline but what are the juicy details that makes it attractive?