From my understanding (reading other posts in the thread) it's KDE 3.5 on Debian. Why they didn't go with Ubuntu+Gnome, I don't know.
Because KDE is a (mostly)German project, whereas GNOME is distinctly American.
According to Wikipedia:
German non-profit organization (KDE e.V.) owns the trademark on "KDE", and KDE conferences often take place in Germany.
FA explains that the cheater is supposed to push a button every time the 0 (or some other point on the wheel) makes a full turn.
You do realize that once the ball and the wheel are spinning you only have a few seconds to place your chips before the croupier stops taking bets. And I'm pretty sure that if he notices that you aren't putting any chips until both the wheel and the ball are spinning, or that you are consistently betting very late, he'll get you kicked off the table pretty quickly.
I still stick by my initial analysis that this is merely a commercial plug-in for some guy's new gizmo that might (or might not) help in playing roulette.
The fact remains, no matter what you do, in the long run the house will always prevail, because that's how the game has been designed.
What I don't like is the fact that the article is assuming that the roulette wheel is biased. I personally don't know how much effort is put into making these wheels, but I'm pretty sure that casinos would never want it to be biased since it can only be in the gamblers' advantage.
Yes I know that there is friction, impurities in the building material that should be taken into consideration, but to claim that these would affect the outcome of where the ball will land in such a significant way isn't convincing. After all, the ball is being released by a HUMAN while the wheel is turning the other way, and the wheel's starting point varies every time a new gambling round is launched (the wheel isn't placed in a predetermined way before being spun).
I smell a scam.
I go to school to learn not to cheat, those cheating just screw themselves over in the long run. They may get a job and realize they can't cheat at that and don't know anything.
In case you didn't know, what you learn in school/university will hardly ever be useful in a work environment. Furthermore, you'll be surprised juste how far a good liar and cheater can go in life, not because he'll lie and cheat his way through, but also because he'll be good at catching other people's lies.
Not that I condone such behaviour; but you must be aware of it or end up getting turned down at job interviews because you kept on boasting your amazing grades you got through hard work, when they don't really give a sh*t.
But who exactly are these people at TrustedReviews.com?
Personally, I usually tend NOT to trust companies or people who ask me to just trust them.
Me: Hum... Are you sure this wifi card comes with linux drivers?Retarded Store clerk: Of course! Trust me, it's my JOB, I know what I'm talking about...Me: Mind if I make you sign this declaration swearing that this card comes with linux drivers?Retarded Store clerk:... let me check with my manager [disappears through this small previously unnoticed door and never comes back]
Arf... What I meant was "spending 8 hours learning how to USE the goddamn thing":).
I mean, if you are prepared to spend hours on end trying to get rid of a virus (which probably will still end with a format c: ), you might as well install the latest "Linux for n00bs" distro (its latest incarnation being Ubuntu - which I use), and spend that time LEARNING something.
Even though your post is an obvious troll, I'll bite.
You want people using Linux. make it GOOD for Christ sake!
What you fail to acknowledge is the fact that people have different definitions for what IS a good OS.
For most people, it's "I want everything to work the second I plug it, and I want to be able to connect to the tubes to get intarweb". They don't care about issues such as privacy, monopoly abuses and the like. Maybe it's because they don't understand the implications of this, what they are sacrificing for the sake of "convenience".
For those who adhere to the F/OSS philosophy, Linux is already a good OS. You can do virtually anything on it, and all it costs is a LOT of your free time:)
Hell, I prefer to spend 8 hours trying to get a decent OS running, than to spend it cleaning up spyware/malware/trojans that my sister/father installed without knowing.
Well judging from Microsoft's past experiences in court, they'll probably be found guilty, and not do jack sh*t about it. Even the EU couldn't get them to budge.
They're not bringing anything new to the table, I don't see why the folks in Iowa decided to sue Microsoft at this particular time, when they could've brought the same claims to the table around 5 years ago.
Microsoft will probably bring the "but there are alternatives to Windows" claim in its defense. Well for 93% of the population, Linux is as much an alternative to Windows as a Segway is to a car.
Last presidential election time a bunch of democrats slashed the tires on vans that a republican group were going to use to transport people who wanted to vote that didn't have transportation. I wouldn't be surprised if they rigged the machines to not work in certain republicany areas.
Did one of those Republicans happen to be a troll who posts on Slashdot ?
In the same sentence, the author managed to confuse "richest" with "smartest" as well. I'm not very impressed with this article.
Well, it WOULD make sense that the world's richest company should be able to afford hiring the smartest people in the field. I mean, it has worked in every other industry, why wouldn't it work in this one?
Maybe it's because the world's number 1 software company didn't get to where it is today by outperforming its rivals:) (yes I'm flaming get over it)
When I first started covering the game industry back in 1994, the general consensus was PC games would dominate the market and console systems were doomed.' What changed?"
Back in 1994, a top of the line PC (a first-gen Pentium chip, since Pentiums started around 1993) would run the latest games, i.e Doom2: Hell On Earth, Sim City 2000, with the "details" (yes I know) at their maximum settings.
However, the next 10 years were characterized by games that wouldn't run on even the best PCs money could buy at that time. Quake III was a hog that would be used to benchmark 3D cards for YEARS to come, Sim City 3000 never had enough RAM, and don't even get me started on the latest C&C's.
I used to be a PC-games freak. But my hobby turned out to be too expensive to maintain. If I was to play the latest games the way they were supposed to be played, I would've bought at least 8 PC's during the last 12 years, and that is unacceptable.
Compared to the 7-year lifecycle of a console, it suddenly all makes sense.
I think you meant "Hearsay"... regardless, if you're loaded to that extent your debt payments are probably done automatically without you knowing, drawing from one account to cover the other.
1- The words "OSS" and "Linux" are not interchangeable, they do not mean the same thing.
2- OSS Vs. Microsoft is not limited to Linux Vs. Windows (think Open Office Vs. MS Word / FF Vs. IE)
3- there is no Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, Linux is a generic word describing various distro's, and fails to account for other OSes such as *BSD's, and Macs. Furthermore, Claiming that there is a duopoly is wrong since Windows owns 90-something percent of the marketshare. And the rest is equally split up between the other distros.
4- The OSS community doesn't really care about remaining second best, all we need now is for hardware manufacturers to take our case seriously and to provide "open" drivers for the stuff they make.
Point well-made, however there is a big difference. Formula 1 is a sport where the drivers lose 4kg of water every race; It is a physically painful experience. Do you think supporting lateral G's the way they do is given to anyone? They have to go through months of training just to not have their necks snapped on the first turn they take at 250 km/h.
But in broader sense, I still think that there is no "stable" skillset that every videogamer must have in order to achieve 1337 skills. And that's why it's hard to consider it a sport.
In Formula 1, you (usually) start by karting, and work your way up to F1. I don't think nowadays people play Wolfenstein 3D to get to play the latest FPS in a championship:)
Despite the fact that I'm a hardcore videogame player I don't like the idea of associating it to a sport. Sports have set rules, and you hone your skills for years in order to become the best.
Videogames, on the other hand, will see your best stats nerfed, rules changed, new versions coming out, maps modified. It's like a basketball player who focused on his speed to outplay others, and who suddenly is given a pair of shackles because the creators thought that he was "running too fast for the good of the game", and forced to play on newly-waxed hardwood floor.
Snooker isn't played by athletes, neither are darts. Videogames are no different than those skill-based games.
For those who don't remember, the initial topic was What is the Ultimate Linux Development Environment?, not is Scientology a relgion or a cult?
That being said, it's a cult, like every other religion:)
Renting isn't half-bad. Most games are cleared in less than 4 days anyway, and I'm being nice... 90% would actually be completed in less than 30 hours, breaks and sleep included.
Will it spell the death of 250-hour games (BG 2 we'll never forget you:'( ? Or will it make the people who SELL games make sure that people get their money's worth out of the game since there now is a cheaper alternative?
I'll vote for "Whatever screws the consumer best".
What are your thoughts -- do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?
What a way to get people to respond to a no-news article. Open-source project has bugs and vulnerabilities. Oooooh, what a shock. And I thought the source code of FF was handed to us by Moses himself:(
We know what the Romans would do with lead pipes if they were still around right now - they'd beat the living sh*t out a certain submitter with a history of drawing erroneous conclusions based on distorted facts.
Inspiration for the project came from a computer science course that wrote its own textbook on XML when no suitable commercial offerings were available
Well intentioned as this might be, it's probably worse than doing nothing at all.
It's not well intentioned, all they want is to avoid frivolous lawsuits that are brought up because they weren't warned that sticking a knife in your eye could cause harm.
Remember the Caution! Contents may be hot! on your coffee ? Note the use of the word "may"; If the coffee isn't hot you can still sue them for lying:)
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Just spell it Micro$oft, M$ Windoze, or /\/\1Cr0$oF7 5\/XXo|Rz.
No rant is complete without a gross deformation of Miyoursoft's name.
What I don't like is the fact that the article is assuming that the roulette wheel is biased. I personally don't know how much effort is put into making these wheels, but I'm pretty sure that casinos would never want it to be biased since it can only be in the gamblers' advantage. Yes I know that there is friction, impurities in the building material that should be taken into consideration, but to claim that these would affect the outcome of where the ball will land in such a significant way isn't convincing. After all, the ball is being released by a HUMAN while the wheel is turning the other way, and the wheel's starting point varies every time a new gambling round is launched (the wheel isn't placed in a predetermined way before being spun). I smell a scam.
Well judging from Microsoft's past experiences in court, they'll probably be found guilty, and not do jack sh*t about it. Even the EU couldn't get them to budge. They're not bringing anything new to the table, I don't see why the folks in Iowa decided to sue Microsoft at this particular time, when they could've brought the same claims to the table around 5 years ago. Microsoft will probably bring the "but there are alternatives to Windows" claim in its defense. Well for 93% of the population, Linux is as much an alternative to Windows as a Segway is to a car.
I think you meant "Hearsay"... regardless, if you're loaded to that extent your debt payments are probably done automatically without you knowing, drawing from one account to cover the other.
1- The words "OSS" and "Linux" are not interchangeable, they do not mean the same thing. 2- OSS Vs. Microsoft is not limited to Linux Vs. Windows (think Open Office Vs. MS Word / FF Vs. IE) 3- there is no Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, Linux is a generic word describing various distro's, and fails to account for other OSes such as *BSD's, and Macs. Furthermore, Claiming that there is a duopoly is wrong since Windows owns 90-something percent of the marketshare. And the rest is equally split up between the other distros. 4- The OSS community doesn't really care about remaining second best, all we need now is for hardware manufacturers to take our case seriously and to provide "open" drivers for the stuff they make.
Not because they become better players, but becomes the old game becomes obsolete. Not the same.
Point well-made, however there is a big difference. Formula 1 is a sport where the drivers lose 4kg of water every race; It is a physically painful experience. Do you think supporting lateral G's the way they do is given to anyone? They have to go through months of training just to not have their necks snapped on the first turn they take at 250 km/h. But in broader sense, I still think that there is no "stable" skillset that every videogamer must have in order to achieve 1337 skills. And that's why it's hard to consider it a sport. In Formula 1, you (usually) start by karting, and work your way up to F1. I don't think nowadays people play Wolfenstein 3D to get to play the latest FPS in a championship :)
For those who don't remember, the initial topic was What is the Ultimate Linux Development Environment?, not is Scientology a relgion or a cult? That being said, it's a cult, like every other religion :)
Renting isn't half-bad. Most games are cleared in less than 4 days anyway, and I'm being nice... 90% would actually be completed in less than 30 hours, breaks and sleep included. Will it spell the death of 250-hour games (BG 2 we'll never forget you :'( ? Or will it make the people who SELL games make sure that people get their money's worth out of the game since there now is a cheaper alternative?
I'll vote for "Whatever screws the consumer best".