Honestly, as a server administrator, I really miss my fully scriptable environment on Linux when I'm dealing with Windows. Yes, I can install software X for backups and software Y for data replication and software Z for something else, but writing a self-updating firewall script in an hour is out of the question on Windows systems.
I'm not saying Windows is unstable or "sucky", I just find it a lot less powerful out of the box.
Dell's server configuration screens and forms have options for each version of Windows to pre-install, or Linux to pre-install, or whether its without an OS for Linux, or just no OS.
The "No OS Pre-installed - Linux" option is important, because it makes sure the hardware is compatible with Linux in general.
Fat people have billions more cells than you -- are they more worth having around?
Find me a good reliable way to prove someone has the ability for conscious thought when unable to directly communicate with them (via brain scans, etc.) and then tell me its been tried on fetal tissue, just curious.
Practically speaking, the only difference I see between very immature fetuses and the rest of us walking folks is the ability to self-sustain, and considering how unable regular babies are to do so, its hardly a valid comparison for the deserving of life status.
The quote from the CBC radio interview was that 90% of the calls they got for testing were about gender selection to avoid female babies. He shut shut it down as a result and went into another area of research. If I could remember the researcher's name, I'd be thrilled, but I don't.
I purposely bought my PS3 just before the UK launch because I was personally certain Sony would pull this eventually and I wanted to replace my PS2 outright when purchasing my PS3.
It turns out that I had to keep the PS2 around so my wife could play DDR as the dance mat controller didn't work with the adapters until recently.
One of the smarter ways to apply pixelation is to limit it to a fixed colour map, especially in situations with multiple photos or in video, since multiple frames allow greater data recreation otherwise. With a small fixed palette, the unpixelated image becomes even more impossible to reconstruct because of the permanent loss of accurate colour data.
Speaking of re-purchase, I'm thoroughly annoyed, having just got a new phone from the same provider as my last one, that I have to repurchase the games I downloaded to my last phone. Same phone number, same contract and everything, but I'd have to repurchase the games to get them onto my new phone. That makes just/so/ much sense.
And his stance does not seem to allow flexibility with regard to parents wishing to abort after tests for mental retardation, birth defects, etc.
No offense to the radically leftist ones who can't seem to find their inner geek while talking about personal freedoms, but surely these are some of the absolutely worst reasons for abortions. You really haven't watched a lot of good geek TV and movies if you think a society full of parents who abort "imperfect" children is a good one. An episode of Star Trek with the Romulan comes to mind too for the semi-geeks.
As for the facts, I recently heard a major genetics researcher interviewed who quit his research into genetic screening years ago because when they began offering public in-utero testing at around $25k a pop or so do you know what well over 90% of clients wanted to know? Whether they were having a boy or a girl early enough to abort girls and start over for a boy without going through any more weeks of the pregnancy than necessary.
Yeah, there's a great moral defense -- abortions are important in cases where people don't want to have girls as children. That's just priceless. I know you didn't say that, but that's how the public uses these rights, so think next time you just close your ears and sing 'falalala' to yourself over abortion rights. Society may of course not need restrictions on abortion if the majority of people don't mind what its becoming.
PS I don't care if you're pro life or pro choice, try addressing the secondary issues, not the "but but, girls will hurt themselves" stuff that can be addressed without blanket abortion protections.
I love 360 proponents forgetting the cost of XBox Live in their price comparisons too. I haven't paid a cent to play online since purchasing my PS3. I've already saved the price difference between it and a 360 in Live costs alone. Over a couple more years, my PS3 will have been downright cheap in comparison.
Emulators are massively inefficient, and synthesizing accurate clock rates can be a royal pain, no matter how fast the machine is. Synthesizing a hardware sound or graphics processor is another matter altogether. Go hang out at some of the boards for popular emulators for things like the Super Nintendo even and see how difficult it is to emulate them well on even MUCH faster hardware.
To be fair, the backward compatibility thing is usually a big deal at the start of the system's existence and not so much so later down the road. It was obvious from the start that Sony threw in the hardware chip for better PS2 compatibility because they believed in what they said. However, as time goes on, its less and less valuable and costs them money, so it goes out the door. The PS2 shipped with a Firewire port too, remember (something I wish the PS3 had).
At any rate, at least Sony evolves their hardware over time -- look at the current PS2 and the original. The PS3 will keep evolving and becoming more and more cost effective with time, whereas I doubt the same will be true to much of a degree with the 360, to Microsoft's detriment.
Yes, sales matter even more, if they don't sell, per unit profits hardly matter, so that's another issue altogether.
You do realize that some developers actually see their work as art, right? A lot of us also see it as such. Artistic integrity is really much more important to such people than money. Sure, money's great, but feeling good about the work you've accomplished is even better. Try it sometime.
You mean because it was made for a $1200 gaming rig that was being subsidized by Microsoft? Fine, it wasn't worth $1200, but it was probably close when it came out. Consoles are sold at a loss and everyone gives Sony a hard time re: the PS3 but Microsoft is just downright incredible in how much money its willing to lose per console. Go look up how profitable the gaming division at MS has been in the last 5 years. Come on. Check.
Last checked, Microsoft had about $800 million in cash for handling business matters of any form. If you were to divide that up into all the divisions and needs and figure out how much is really allottable for patent defense, it might not seem as huge, but yes, Microsoft has a boat load of money. Or a few boats.
You are in fact remembering the same bombings I'm referring to -- if the feds had increased parking lot security to prevent truck bombings after the first one (like after 9/11 they increased airport security), then they may have prevented that second truck bombing -- the one I referred to as being potentially preventable.
Increasing security does not always in fact detract from events -- if its done in a non-random manner (the point of this article), a determined attacker actually has a good probability of figuring out where you've made a mistake in security and accomplishing their goals nonetheless.
All security is a trade-off, and I believe Americans should be asking themselves how many plane bombings they've prevented and at what cost. I would hazard a guess that at most one or maybe two plane bombings or hijackings may have been prevented by the new security measures, if that, and at what cost to people, to finances, to trust of authority? I'd say its not worth it, and the only way to begin prove it is worth it would be to show those people being caught or prevented from doing their bombings.
The GP claimed Microsoft had sabotaged ACPI -- I simply was pointing out that ACPI is in fact broken, and not functional as per the specification as it seemed you believed.
The presentation PDFs are available in big chunks (you'll have to search) from the proceedings page.
You need to have a conversation with those who try to make ACPI work to spec in Linux then. Its an open spec, Linux is open source, now ask them why power management doesn't work as advertised. It was discussed heavily at the OLS two years ago as I recall. There's PDFs on the site if you want to read the presentations.
I'd actually like to see the measurements on actual total bandwidth usage by gamers on a per-user basis. Are we talking about a few kilobytes per second, or hundreds?
First the straw man: of course you can fight someone who is going to blow themselves up. I don't believe 90% of the crap that the feds spew, but dontcha think that if there were no security measures in place that we'd have had just a few more planes flying into biuldings? Seriously: no security at all. More planes. So it seems we have won the war on air-terror for the past 6ish years.
Prove to me that there were plains to be flown into buildings that failed. Were there plains flown into buildings in the USA in 2000? or 1999? or 1998? Who says there would have been in 2002, or 2003? Terrorism didn't start in 2001, its been going on a long time, against americans and others in the world. They used plains in 2001, they've used truck bombs before that. Watching parking garages for the last 10 years wouldn't have stopped more than 1 terrorist bombing, watching planes probably hasn't done much better.
Here's an idea -- get the FBI, CIA and others communicating properly and let them do investigations, don't terrorize your own citizens out of fear of an attack that will/probably/ not happen again.
For the record (out of interest), I've run primarily a mix of Enlightenment with Gnome over that time period and several good KDE apps like Kopete and Amarok. There are indeed features of Windows XP I like, and I generally find its integration of its own apps to be a bit better, the performance and reliability of my desktop far outweigh those minor features Windows may have a one-up on.
Having customized my desktop menu and hot keys in Enlightenment, and having applets and Epplets installed to taste, I also find my Linux desktop(s) prettier than Windows, but some may disagree of course.
My wife and I ditched Windows for Linux 8 years ago at home. I stopped dual-booting and everything -- no more Windows, period. I still have to use it at work, but my wife didn't for years working in retail. One day, she had to use Windows at work and found it dreadful, I chuckled to myself.
Yes, some of us are very happy over the long term using Linux. Am I a system administrator? Yes. Do I program? Yes. Am I the average Joe Computer User? No. Does my wife get a free sysadmin with the ability to recode around bugs? Yes.
Imagine with me for a moment a world where the recording industry spends its extra cash helping to catch child molestors and/or feeding the hungry or something, instead of suing its customer base.
If in fact Windows users were all like that, I wouldn't have to fix so many computers. Unfortunately, computer users tend to be experimental, having no respect for how fragile their Windows PCs really are, and often break them by following directions in message boards and from friends on how to manually install some pirated software or CD imager, or play DivX movies, etc.
On Linux, I've seen the same thing, but at a much more legitimate level (I believe), in fact I had a non-techy friend recently tell me he'd installed FC7 on his laptop and was wondering what to do now that he'd unpacked and compiled a program he downloaded. He wasn't sure where the icon had gone after 'configure, make, make install' and I explained how to copy the ".desktop" file from another program and edit it, and he started making icons for all the programs he didn't have icons for (many of which require command-line arguments, but oh well).
Lots of people hack around with Windows for fun, lots of people hack around with Linux for fun. The difference is that Windows users have huge walls of limitation set up in front of them, Linux users do not.
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Not to mention being full of it. Check out the online scores to see all the people who got gold level rankings on each level. I rented and beat the game for $10 and got mostly bronzes myself, and went back and played several very fun levels over and over to get a silver or better (no Golds yet).
The game is very playable, some people just can't play a game that isn't in a plane with a map.
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Honestly, as a server administrator, I really miss my fully scriptable environment on Linux when I'm dealing with Windows. Yes, I can install software X for backups and software Y for data replication and software Z for something else, but writing a self-updating firewall script in an hour is out of the question on Windows systems.
I'm not saying Windows is unstable or "sucky", I just find it a lot less powerful out of the box.
Dell's server configuration screens and forms have options for each version of Windows to pre-install, or Linux to pre-install, or whether its without an OS for Linux, or just no OS.
The "No OS Pre-installed - Linux" option is important, because it makes sure the hardware is compatible with Linux in general.
Fat people have billions more cells than you -- are they more worth having around?
Find me a good reliable way to prove someone has the ability for conscious thought when unable to directly communicate with them (via brain scans, etc.) and then tell me its been tried on fetal tissue, just curious.
Practically speaking, the only difference I see between very immature fetuses and the rest of us walking folks is the ability to self-sustain, and considering how unable regular babies are to do so, its hardly a valid comparison for the deserving of life status.
The quote from the CBC radio interview was that 90% of the calls they got for testing were about gender selection to avoid female babies. He shut shut it down as a result and went into another area of research. If I could remember the researcher's name, I'd be thrilled, but I don't.
I purposely bought my PS3 just before the UK launch because I was personally certain Sony would pull this eventually and I wanted to replace my PS2 outright when purchasing my PS3.
It turns out that I had to keep the PS2 around so my wife could play DDR as the dance mat controller didn't work with the adapters until recently.
One of the smarter ways to apply pixelation is to limit it to a fixed colour map, especially in situations with multiple photos or in video, since multiple frames allow greater data recreation otherwise. With a small fixed palette, the unpixelated image becomes even more impossible to reconstruct because of the permanent loss of accurate colour data.
Speaking of re-purchase, I'm thoroughly annoyed, having just got a new phone from the same provider as my last one, that I have to repurchase the games I downloaded to my last phone. Same phone number, same contract and everything, but I'd have to repurchase the games to get them onto my new phone. That makes just /so/ much sense.
No offense to the radically leftist ones who can't seem to find their inner geek while talking about personal freedoms, but surely these are some of the absolutely worst reasons for abortions. You really haven't watched a lot of good geek TV and movies if you think a society full of parents who abort "imperfect" children is a good one. An episode of Star Trek with the Romulan comes to mind too for the semi-geeks.
As for the facts, I recently heard a major genetics researcher interviewed who quit his research into genetic screening years ago because when they began offering public in-utero testing at around $25k a pop or so do you know what well over 90% of clients wanted to know? Whether they were having a boy or a girl early enough to abort girls and start over for a boy without going through any more weeks of the pregnancy than necessary.
Yeah, there's a great moral defense -- abortions are important in cases where people don't want to have girls as children. That's just priceless. I know you didn't say that, but that's how the public uses these rights, so think next time you just close your ears and sing 'falalala' to yourself over abortion rights. Society may of course not need restrictions on abortion if the majority of people don't mind what its becoming.
PS I don't care if you're pro life or pro choice, try addressing the secondary issues, not the "but but, girls will hurt themselves" stuff that can be addressed without blanket abortion protections.
I love 360 proponents forgetting the cost of XBox Live in their price comparisons too. I haven't paid a cent to play online since purchasing my PS3. I've already saved the price difference between it and a 360 in Live costs alone. Over a couple more years, my PS3 will have been downright cheap in comparison.
Emulators are massively inefficient, and synthesizing accurate clock rates can be a royal pain, no matter how fast the machine is. Synthesizing a hardware sound or graphics processor is another matter altogether. Go hang out at some of the boards for popular emulators for things like the Super Nintendo even and see how difficult it is to emulate them well on even MUCH faster hardware.
To be fair, the backward compatibility thing is usually a big deal at the start of the system's existence and not so much so later down the road. It was obvious from the start that Sony threw in the hardware chip for better PS2 compatibility because they believed in what they said. However, as time goes on, its less and less valuable and costs them money, so it goes out the door. The PS2 shipped with a Firewire port too, remember (something I wish the PS3 had).
At any rate, at least Sony evolves their hardware over time -- look at the current PS2 and the original. The PS3 will keep evolving and becoming more and more cost effective with time, whereas I doubt the same will be true to much of a degree with the 360, to Microsoft's detriment.
Yes, sales matter even more, if they don't sell, per unit profits hardly matter, so that's another issue altogether.
You do realize that some developers actually see their work as art, right? A lot of us also see it as such. Artistic integrity is really much more important to such people than money. Sure, money's great, but feeling good about the work you've accomplished is even better. Try it sometime.
You mean because it was made for a $1200 gaming rig that was being subsidized by Microsoft? Fine, it wasn't worth $1200, but it was probably close when it came out. Consoles are sold at a loss and everyone gives Sony a hard time re: the PS3 but Microsoft is just downright incredible in how much money its willing to lose per console. Go look up how profitable the gaming division at MS has been in the last 5 years. Come on. Check.
Last checked, Microsoft had about $800 million in cash for handling business matters of any form. If you were to divide that up into all the divisions and needs and figure out how much is really allottable for patent defense, it might not seem as huge, but yes, Microsoft has a boat load of money. Or a few boats.
Allow the shooting, but make it completely inaccurate, just as it should be.
You are in fact remembering the same bombings I'm referring to -- if the feds had increased parking lot security to prevent truck bombings after the first one (like after 9/11 they increased airport security), then they may have prevented that second truck bombing -- the one I referred to as being potentially preventable.
Increasing security does not always in fact detract from events -- if its done in a non-random manner (the point of this article), a determined attacker actually has a good probability of figuring out where you've made a mistake in security and accomplishing their goals nonetheless.
All security is a trade-off, and I believe Americans should be asking themselves how many plane bombings they've prevented and at what cost. I would hazard a guess that at most one or maybe two plane bombings or hijackings may have been prevented by the new security measures, if that, and at what cost to people, to finances, to trust of authority? I'd say its not worth it, and the only way to begin prove it is worth it would be to show those people being caught or prevented from doing their bombings.
The GP claimed Microsoft had sabotaged ACPI -- I simply was pointing out that ACPI is in fact broken, and not functional as per the specification as it seemed you believed.
The presentation PDFs are available in big chunks (you'll have to search) from the proceedings page.
You need to have a conversation with those who try to make ACPI work to spec in Linux then. Its an open spec, Linux is open source, now ask them why power management doesn't work as advertised. It was discussed heavily at the OLS two years ago as I recall. There's PDFs on the site if you want to read the presentations.
I'd actually like to see the measurements on actual total bandwidth usage by gamers on a per-user basis. Are we talking about a few kilobytes per second, or hundreds?
Prove to me that there were plains to be flown into buildings that failed. Were there plains flown into buildings in the USA in 2000? or 1999? or 1998? Who says there would have been in 2002, or 2003? Terrorism didn't start in 2001, its been going on a long time, against americans and others in the world. They used plains in 2001, they've used truck bombs before that. Watching parking garages for the last 10 years wouldn't have stopped more than 1 terrorist bombing, watching planes probably hasn't done much better.
Here's an idea -- get the FBI, CIA and others communicating properly and let them do investigations, don't terrorize your own citizens out of fear of an attack that will
For the record (out of interest), I've run primarily a mix of Enlightenment with Gnome over that time period and several good KDE apps like Kopete and Amarok. There are indeed features of Windows XP I like, and I generally find its integration of its own apps to be a bit better, the performance and reliability of my desktop far outweigh those minor features Windows may have a one-up on.
Having customized my desktop menu and hot keys in Enlightenment, and having applets and Epplets installed to taste, I also find my Linux desktop(s) prettier than Windows, but some may disagree of course.
My wife and I ditched Windows for Linux 8 years ago at home. I stopped dual-booting and everything -- no more Windows, period. I still have to use it at work, but my wife didn't for years working in retail. One day, she had to use Windows at work and found it dreadful, I chuckled to myself.
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Yes, some of us are very happy over the long term using Linux. Am I a system administrator? Yes. Do I program? Yes. Am I the average Joe Computer User? No. Does my wife get a free sysadmin with the ability to recode around bugs? Yes.
Just my $0.02, take it or leave it
Imagine with me for a moment a world where the recording industry spends its extra cash helping to catch child molestors and/or feeding the hungry or something, instead of suing its customer base.
If in fact Windows users were all like that, I wouldn't have to fix so many computers. Unfortunately, computer users tend to be experimental, having no respect for how fragile their Windows PCs really are, and often break them by following directions in message boards and from friends on how to manually install some pirated software or CD imager, or play DivX movies, etc.
On Linux, I've seen the same thing, but at a much more legitimate level (I believe), in fact I had a non-techy friend recently tell me he'd installed FC7 on his laptop and was wondering what to do now that he'd unpacked and compiled a program he downloaded. He wasn't sure where the icon had gone after 'configure, make, make install' and I explained how to copy the ".desktop" file from another program and edit it, and he started making icons for all the programs he didn't have icons for (many of which require command-line arguments, but oh well).
Lots of people hack around with Windows for fun, lots of people hack around with Linux for fun. The difference is that Windows users have huge walls of limitation set up in front of them, Linux users do not.
Not to mention being full of it. Check out the online scores to see all the people who got gold level rankings on each level. I rented and beat the game for $10 and got mostly bronzes myself, and went back and played several very fun levels over and over to get a silver or better (no Golds yet).
The game is very playable, some people just can't play a game that isn't in a plane with a map.