I agree that those things you are mentioning do make sense, although I'm not sure that those privelages are taken away for the same reasons
You mention cars, guns, and scenes of a crime. Cars and guns can both be used as weapons to seriously injure people. They are taken away to keep a person from seriously injuring someone. Keeping someone from a place of a crime is once again a physical thing to keep someone from getting hurt.
These precautions are meant to keep people from getting seriously injured or killed. I think that same pattern of thought is not easily applied to this scenario.
Ask yourself if there is a possibility that this guy is going to get back on the internet and hurt someone. Sure he might be able to get into the same types of trouble, but these are not as serious a threat as say, manslaughter. Also this is what probation is for, so that someone can be monitored and action can be taken to keep these type of offences from happening again, if there are signs they will happened. With guns and cars, the risks of missing a sign can be too large. There is not that kind of risk here.
Keep in mind, this guy guessed a password. This is not someone who wrote a worm that infected hundreds of computers.
It's stupid is what it is.
Telling someone they can't get on the internet because their crime was related to the internet makes no sense. If a juvinille goes out on the street and steal someone's cellphone physically, then do whatever they want with the information of the phone, do they get banned from walking on the street for two years? No, that's stupid.
This is just as stupid, we are talking about someone under 18, possibly say 16 years old. Do you know how much MORE trouble I would have caused if at 16 I wasn't able to use a computer connected to the internet. First off I wouldn't know half the shit I do about computers, which would mean I'd be careerless, if I was working at all. Second off do these people realise what teenagers do when they get bored and have no outlet's to amuse themselves with? This guy can't even get on XBOX Live and shoot some of his friends on the latest iteration of Halo. I know what I did when I was younger and had nothing to do, I got myself into some kind of mischief. It's not like the internet is this thing that a lot of people don't have access to, as a teenager today, if you have no internet and no cell phone, you probably don't have a very good social life. And people with bad social live's tend to do unsocial things.
This is just taking someone who did some stupid things and setting them up for continued failure.
I play Wolfenstein ET 24/7, and I find the whole right side of my keyboard makes a much nicer layout than the left side. This of course incudes the numeric pad, and arrow keys.
If you use the left side of the keyboard and your mouse is on the right, you have the disadvantage that your hands are going to have to be farther apart, which is a little awkward when your trying do many well timed key presses and mouse movements very quickly.
I personally find the WASD layout less intuitive than the arrow keys as well. They aren't aligned in the directions they reference. W being your forward key is up and to the the left of the center of the controls. This makes up and left be closer together than up and right, and when you're trying to do some fancy manuevers that already require 6 or 7 keys, having yours keys aligned strangely does not help. As someone who does a let of trickjumps(acurrately timed aerial manuevers), I can't afford to hit the wrong button sending me careening off a cliff. I find the rightmost layout cuts down on these types of mistakes.
The last thing i dislike about this WASD layout, that I think the right hand side of the keyboard handles much better is the keyspacing. You can have more logically grouped keys in a smaller area, while having some space to help you find your position without looking at the keys if you use the right hand side of the keyboard.
Just as a quick example of my key layout: Enter, Shift, CTRL are all related to vertical orientation. Arrow keys all deal with direction. Numberic keypad deals with the guns. The INS-PGDN block handles misc.
Of course I could just be wierd. I do use a trackball to play an FPS;).
The worst has to be for setting up Microsoft Learning classes that use Virtual PC. You recieve about 2-10 virtual machine images that you have to activate by phone for every class(internet activation doesn't work).
Now imagine the fun that comes Friday after class to try to activate 3 classes worth of these by Monday morning when microsofts activation line is down half the weekend. *joy*
Don't you love Regina? That's what we call the Microsoft activation recording, she's screams numbers out like it's a punishment she's giving you. "5! 1! 2! 7! 5! *pleasant voice* would you like me to repeat that..."
A piece of paper can't fit a movie on it. If it could. I'd probably use paper rather than VHSs. So even though what you're saying is a forced proof mine is not.
Just consider normal use, just sliding DVDs into a CD trapper thingy gets them all scratched up. Putting a tape back in it's box doesn't hurt the tape at all. In normal use a DVD gets damaged much easier than a VHS, and it's harder to make personal backups of a DVD just in case this happens.
I've rented about 15 DVDs and maybe one of them played without skipping(in two seperate DVD players).
I would argue that a DVD can take far less drops than a VHS. I'd say it calls for an experiment. Scraping against pavement doesn't.
In my experience, out of the few DVDs I have and many VHSs, I have a few VHS that are kind of faded, but none with bad tracking, and none that don't play. As for the DVDs, half of them don't play, they'll stop somewhere and refuse to continue.
VHS tapes can't stop me from fast forwarding and rewinding them to make me watch commercials. That's better if you ask me.
How about if you take a DVD and a VHS and scrape both of the pavement, which one will still work. The VHS tape, making it the obvious choice for durability.
When I rent I always rent VHS, because the worst that is wrong with them is either a couple scan lines or someone forgot to rewind them. On the other hand DVDs make me replace the time it would take to rewind with commericals and menus and all that and then if there is a scratch, rather than being annoyed at a movie I end up not being able to watch it at all and wanting to physically destroy it.
and then 90% of the DVDs are widescreen as opposed to their VHS counterparts, and I HATE wide screen. It's like running at a virtual 1600x1200 on my 640x480 monitor. You lose all the detail if you don't have a wide screen TV(Most of us don't), and you have to deal with them damn black bands..I'm not blind...I can see those..and they annoy the hell out of me.
Plus at least when I purchase a VCR I know I am paying for lots of hardware that take up most of the cost. With DVD players I'm paying for the license to watch the encrypted DVD. And that's another thing, DVDs are scrambled so I can't do what I want with them, that's not superior.
On the other hand I do have multiple DVD players if I need to watch them, but I desperately try for VHS first.
Wow! the difference a B and BR can make...fixing it here:
It may be the developers are disgreeing with you, but the users are too, if those are all your bitches with GNOME, why not just try out KDE?
Personally, I like GIMP's UI and I like GNOME's spacial feel(just not how it's reimplemented in Ubuntu). I have never had to reformat my entire harddrive to reinstall an OS, because i partition smart in the first place. The distros only make you format partitions, you make you format entire drives. And in Gnome I've not seen any dialogs that are 800x600 or larger, but then again, I ussually run at 1024x768 or 1600x1200, so I may not notice.
I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard?
It shouldn't be, but it's probably not GNOME's fault. On Ubuntu(in GNOME) I plug in a camera and it asks if it should import the pictures and if i hit yes it opens gthumb I believe and imports them. I'm not sure if that's the app, I've only done it once on my laptop with someone else's camera, and it worked the first time.
The major flaw with Open Source is that it's very hard for the distributors to combine in an integrated way that works how I want and how you want, and still make that lean and fast enough that we don't bitch. The truth is you just need to find a distro that you like, there's a bunch out there and I'm sure there is one for you.
It may be the developers are disgreeing with you, but the users are too, if those are all your bitches with GNOME, why not just try out KDE?
Personally, I like GIMP's UI and I like GNOME's spacial feel(just not how it's reimplemented in Ubuntu). I have never had to reformat my entire harddrive to reinstall an OS, because i partition smart in the first place. The distros only make you format partitions, you make you format entire drives. And in Gnome I've not seen any dialogs that are 800x600 or larger, but then again, I ussually run at 1024x768 or 1600x1200, so I may not notice.
I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard?
It shouldn't be, but it's probably not GNOME's fault. On Ubuntu(in GNOME) I plug in a camera and it asks if it should import the pictures and if i hit yes it opens gthumb I believe and imports them. I'm not sure if that's the app, I've only done it once on my laptop with someone else's camera, and it worked the first time.
The major flaw with Open Source is that it's very hard for the distributors to combine in an integrated way what I want, what you want, and still make that lean and fast enough that you don't bitch.
The truth is you just need to find a distro that you like, there's a bunch out there and I'm sure there is one for you.
Not true. The explanation of the story in the game hasn't been great, but their is great story behind Halo.
I have the three Halo books that are out so far and I was seriously impressed when I read them. The books had a lot of incorrect spellings and poor grammar, but the plot was interesting..probably the fastest I have ever read a trilogy of that size. One of the first things I thought when I finished with the books was, "when are they going to make this into a movie", so I think that if they do this correctly(which it sounds like they are), this could be very cool for the Halo fans.
In some it definately helps.
In wolfenstein Enemy Territory, which is based off the Quake3 engine(and therefore most likely in Quake3), you can gain more speed if you jump, and then once your in the air do the diagonal run.
Combine this with a few "bunny hops" and what is called a circle strafe jump(all "glitches", albeit accepted in competition and ussually no one whines about it on public servers), you can make your player jump unnatural distances.
The players who can use these tricks well to complete goals are called "trick jumpers", and can be quite important to a team's effectiveness. Entire level sets have been created to aid trick jumpers and these glitches are a must to be able to perform many of the usefull jumps.
These glitches are totally accepted by punkbuster and even the game developers new about them before they released the game(as quake 3 had the same glitches and the glitches were well publicized before Enemy Territory was released)
So for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory at least, these glitches aren't just fun asides, they are a major part of the game.
When the N64 came out I purchased the console, 4 controllers, and both of the video games that were available the day it was released, when the next couple games came out, I had them all. I even recieved Christmas cards from Electronics Boutique. My friends came over and 5 of us at a time would sit down and play for hours on end after school until 3 of the 5 of us all had N64s. This is how the gaming market works. If I hadn't purchased the N64, when my other friend purchased the Playstation, we all would have had that.
If Microsoft and Sony release their consoles at $400+ for just the console, I can tell you one person who will not own it. Instead I'll go out and by a game console that may be pricey, but still affordable when it's released. That console. will most likely be the revolution. If all the consoles are in the $300 range I'll purchase the PS3, because it's probably got the best hardware, and will probably be hacked first, and then down the road I'll get myself a revolution or an xbox 360.
What I hope Sony and Microsoft realise is that gamers having their consoles is what makes the low end gamer want to purchase a gaming system. If they go too high on price, the high end gamers that by their system will be less, and it will not trickle down to the low end gamers as quickly. No one really cares if some rich dude has the console, because he's not going to have the gaming knowledge or experience to get behind the console and hype it to all his friends, nor is he going to want to play it 24/7 and get his friends addicted to it.
Interviewer: Tell me about your Linux experience
Me: Well I've got a couple node Mosix cluster in my room at my parents house. I use it as my primary OS, which a couple of small servers running personal stuff on it at my house.
Interviewer: Right...see ya later.
If you have worked with Unix/Linux for years at a real job, certications aren't going to benifit you very much. On the other hand if you've got no job experience, you're being interviewed by someone who has no technical knowledge of Linux, and you've got nothing else to back your claims that you are teh r0xor, certifactions may be.
In my own experience, I went from
1)not having a job dealing with Linux, barely any jobs where I worked on computers, and no college degree to
2) taking 6 Comptia certs and passing them each on the first attempt
3)then being noticed by the company where I was taking the certs and being hired as a generic IT guy then
4)passing the RHCT and Novell CLP, and showing a desire to pass higher level Linux exams. So
5)The company I got hired at also does a ton of training and saw demand for Linux classes, so now guess who's teaching Linux classes?
Now your mileage may vary, but with the help of certifactions in around 6 months I went from the guy that couldn't get hired to do bitch work at a company, to now teaching the head IT guys at some really large companys. Now I get job offers from them.
I don't mind the extra ability to have wifi for network, but I really hope it has a wired equivilant for internet access as well. Currently my wifi network is setup so that to do anything other than talk to the computers on the wireless ethernet you need an openvpn client and certificate...something makes me think the xbox won't have a built in openvpn client....so if it doesn't have a wired ethernet port, I for one am not going to open my ethernet up to wifi access just so an xbox can get onto xbox live.
As for the wireless controllers, everyone I've talked to seems to think it's going to be a big pain the ass. I have a wireless mouse and the most annoying thing in the world is when I'm right in the middle of a gun fight on enemy territory and the mouse runs out of batterys. So hopefully they will at least have the option of a battery pack that can plug into the wall or something, which will probably be more annoying than just having them hooked directly to the xbox, but eh. What'd be really nice would be recharble controllers with 4 built in chargers on the xbox. Wishfull thinking.
Yes, your data may be deleted when you launch a nasty virus under your account, but when your 12 year old son is scouring the Internet for pr0n, your data is safe.
The OS can't be mangled. So even if you lose your data, at least you can still perform whatever functions you need to perform under a seperate user. Or the kid from next door can come over, log on as the super user, rescue all your documents and mp3s, delete you user and home directory, add your user back, then move the data back....then you might not lose your data or your ability to use your computer.
There are more options for data recovery. assuming a very annoying virus that just does 'rm -fR/' your links to the inodes are gone, not the data. Now if you were smart, you could just make an area available to the super user where all those indodes were hardlinked and could be restored. Of course there are ways around such things, like simply 'find | xargs tee', but at least there are other options available to secure files.
Of course if companys like dell, hp, and gateway could use a medialess and browerless version of XP, they could just install Firefox/media player of choice on the system, just like they do with whatever OS they put on it. So most users wouldn't have to download firefox...it would come with their PC/restore disk. If you built your own computer I'm pretty sure you can figure out how to get a browser via ftp and work to the other software from there. If there were a medialess and browserless version of XP out, Real would probably take advantage of this too and integrate as much as they could with firefox, then sell a competiting upper stack of software. Which would also be interesting, because then it would become very easy for real just to put this stack on top of whatever OS they chose due to the portability of firefox/realplayer.
Mainly to keep the honest honest as said earlier. With OpenVPN running all my communications are encrypted and no one else is going to be hopping onto my internet connection or having access to my local LAN. On the other hand, with no WEP someone would be able to jump onto the wireless and start whatever trouble they would want there. For instance I don't have my laptop's wireless adapater firewalled and I really don't want to do that, so when the latest exploit comes out for my OS of choice on the laptop it takes more time to hop onto the wireless and root the laptop. It also keeps someone from hopping onto the wireless and attempting to DOS the wireless. Of course WEP can be broken and that can couse some problems, but just having WEP enabled keeps the majority of people from snooping around. OpenVPN is there for the real trouble makers.
I also acquired a wireless router recently. I used 128 bit WEP to keep the honest honest, but then on top of that I put an openvpn server between the wireless network and my wired network. Now even if you break the WEP encryption you won't see anything as all the traffic that goes on is actually getting done in the openvpn network.
OpenVPN is quite nice for this as now if a friend comes over I can just generate them a certificate with a small life time and they can have access, while at the same time it is quite secure.
Ok, this is a "NO BRAINER".... get a Mac Mini ($499), and a AirPort Express with AirTunes ($129) for each roomIf you dont want wires, then purchase seperate wireless audio speakers (5.1 ch wireless audio packages can be had for $199
So, $330 per room
?? Where do you get your numbers from ?? $499 + $129 + $199 != 330 !
I work at a computer training center and the new requirements for Microsoft Learning courses include graphics cards with 128MB of RAM. I was wondering if this was due to Microsoft's newest OS and I guess it is. It's going to be really nice knowing that I can play Enemy Territory on all the machines at work, but I don't relish the thought of replacing graphics cards in nearly 100 machines....or trying to diagnose network problems while we have a bunch of students LAN gaming across the network.
are bad. I'm an average tetris player, ussually get around 100 lines. One night though I was trying to complete the damn structures on Tetris for the N64 and I was playing with some friends for hours...I think my brain snapped, because the last game I played I got some 350 lines and I wasn't even focused on the screen most of the time. The really bad part was trying to go to sleep later, I couldn't stop seeing tetris pieces falling into place whenever I closed my eyes. So I got a terrible headache from watching these damn tetris pieces falling and not being able to sleep and eventually ended up puking all over the place.
I don't think there's anything worse than puking due to tetris and at the same time seeing tetris pieces fall perfectly in order into the bowl.
Molestar uses a very loose defintion of "lines". A line in perl is ussually where the ; is, which in readable code should be at the end of the actual line. I counted 5;'s in the first line of Molestar with a briefscan. A brief estimation would tell us Molestar is more like 30 actuall lines. (I don't see why Molestar doesn't just claim to be one line as all of this code, could work just fine in 1 "line" as they define.)
I've never used Python before, but I would imagine by looking at the code to TinyP2P that python's lines truely end at the end of the line. So as far as line count is concerned TinyP2P is around half the size as Molestar.
ATI's lack of support for Linux has to be hurting them. People get pissed off at a company when said company does things that fuck with their gaming experience.
In example, my friends run say 75% windows, 25% linux. At the same time most of my friends talk to me(a Linux user) before they purchsae new hardware, including graphics card. Guess what graphics card brand 90% of my friends have purchased....nVidia.
We just purchased ~40 new graphics cards for computers at my work(microsoft has decided 128MB graphics cards are neccessary for "microsoft learning" courses). Now they are all going to be running windows most of the time....Guess what cards we just purchased after my boss asked me what I would suggest? nVidia Geforce MX 4000s.
I'm sure there are plenty of other Linux users out there who do this type of thing also. Maybe they'll get it eventually...maybe they won't...either way, "fuck you ATI".
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I agree that those things you are mentioning do make sense, although I'm not sure that those privelages are taken away for the same reasons
You mention cars, guns, and scenes of a crime. Cars and guns can both be used as weapons to seriously injure people. They are taken away to keep a person from seriously injuring someone. Keeping someone from a place of a crime is once again a physical thing to keep someone from getting hurt.
These precautions are meant to keep people from getting seriously injured or killed. I think that same pattern of thought is not easily applied to this scenario.
Ask yourself if there is a possibility that this guy is going to get back on the internet and hurt someone. Sure he might be able to get into the same types of trouble, but these are not as serious a threat as say, manslaughter. Also this is what probation is for, so that someone can be monitored and action can be taken to keep these type of offences from happening again, if there are signs they will happened. With guns and cars, the risks of missing a sign can be too large. There is not that kind of risk here.
Keep in mind, this guy guessed a password. This is not someone who wrote a worm that infected hundreds of computers.
It's stupid is what it is. Telling someone they can't get on the internet because their crime was related to the internet makes no sense. If a juvinille goes out on the street and steal someone's cellphone physically, then do whatever they want with the information of the phone, do they get banned from walking on the street for two years? No, that's stupid. This is just as stupid, we are talking about someone under 18, possibly say 16 years old. Do you know how much MORE trouble I would have caused if at 16 I wasn't able to use a computer connected to the internet. First off I wouldn't know half the shit I do about computers, which would mean I'd be careerless, if I was working at all. Second off do these people realise what teenagers do when they get bored and have no outlet's to amuse themselves with? This guy can't even get on XBOX Live and shoot some of his friends on the latest iteration of Halo. I know what I did when I was younger and had nothing to do, I got myself into some kind of mischief. It's not like the internet is this thing that a lot of people don't have access to, as a teenager today, if you have no internet and no cell phone, you probably don't have a very good social life. And people with bad social live's tend to do unsocial things. This is just taking someone who did some stupid things and setting them up for continued failure.
I play Wolfenstein ET 24/7, and I find the whole right side of my keyboard makes a much nicer layout than the left side. This of course incudes the numeric pad, and arrow keys.
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If you use the left side of the keyboard and your mouse is on the right, you have the disadvantage that your hands are going to have to be farther apart, which is a little awkward when your trying do many well timed key presses and mouse movements very quickly.
I personally find the WASD layout less intuitive than the arrow keys as well. They aren't aligned in the directions they reference. W being your forward key is up and to the the left of the center of the controls. This makes up and left be closer together than up and right, and when you're trying to do some fancy manuevers that already require 6 or 7 keys, having yours keys aligned strangely does not help. As someone who does a let of trickjumps(acurrately timed aerial manuevers), I can't afford to hit the wrong button sending me careening off a cliff. I find the rightmost layout cuts down on these types of mistakes.
The last thing i dislike about this WASD layout, that I think the right hand side of the keyboard handles much better is the keyspacing. You can have more logically grouped keys in a smaller area, while having some space to help you find your position without looking at the keys if you use the right hand side of the keyboard.
Just as a quick example of my key layout:
Enter, Shift, CTRL are all related to vertical orientation.
Arrow keys all deal with direction.
Numberic keypad deals with the guns.
The INS-PGDN block handles misc.
Of course I could just be wierd. I do use a trackball to play an FPS
or just a little shorter
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The worst has to be for setting up Microsoft Learning classes that use Virtual PC. You recieve about 2-10 virtual machine images that you have to activate by phone for every class(internet activation doesn't work).
Now imagine the fun that comes Friday after class to try to activate 3 classes worth of these by Monday morning when microsofts activation line is down half the weekend. *joy*
Don't you love Regina? That's what we call the Microsoft activation recording, she's screams numbers out like it's a punishment she's giving you. "5! 1! 2! 7! 5! *pleasant voice* would you like me to repeat that..."
A piece of paper can't fit a movie on it. If it could. I'd probably use paper rather than VHSs. So even though what you're saying is a forced proof mine is not.
Just consider normal use, just sliding DVDs into a CD trapper thingy gets them all scratched up. Putting a tape back in it's box doesn't hurt the tape at all. In normal use a DVD gets damaged much easier than a VHS, and it's harder to make personal backups of a DVD just in case this happens.
I've rented about 15 DVDs and maybe one of them played without skipping(in two seperate DVD players). I would argue that a DVD can take far less drops than a VHS. I'd say it calls for an experiment. Scraping against pavement doesn't. In my experience, out of the few DVDs I have and many VHSs, I have a few VHS that are kind of faded, but none with bad tracking, and none that don't play. As for the DVDs, half of them don't play, they'll stop somewhere and refuse to continue.
pffft yes I can.
VHS tapes can't stop me from fast forwarding and rewinding them to make me watch commercials. That's better if you ask me.
How about if you take a DVD and a VHS and scrape both of the pavement, which one will still work. The VHS tape, making it the obvious choice for durability.
When I rent I always rent VHS, because the worst that is wrong with them is either a couple scan lines or someone forgot to rewind them. On the other hand DVDs make me replace the time it would take to rewind with commericals and menus and all that and then if there is a scratch, rather than being annoyed at a movie I end up not being able to watch it at all and wanting to physically destroy it.
and then 90% of the DVDs are widescreen as opposed to their VHS counterparts, and I HATE wide screen. It's like running at a virtual 1600x1200 on my 640x480 monitor. You lose all the detail if you don't have a wide screen TV(Most of us don't), and you have to deal with them damn black bands..I'm not blind...I can see those..and they annoy the hell out of me.
Plus at least when I purchase a VCR I know I am paying for lots of hardware that take up most of the cost. With DVD players I'm paying for the license to watch the encrypted DVD. And that's another thing, DVDs are scrambled so I can't do what I want with them, that's not superior.
On the other hand I do have multiple DVD players if I need to watch them, but I desperately try for VHS first.
Wow! the difference a B and BR can make...fixing it here: It may be the developers are disgreeing with you, but the users are too, if those are all your bitches with GNOME, why not just try out KDE?
Personally, I like GIMP's UI and I like GNOME's spacial feel(just not how it's reimplemented in Ubuntu). I have never had to reformat my entire harddrive to reinstall an OS, because i partition smart in the first place. The distros only make you format partitions, you make you format entire drives. And in Gnome I've not seen any dialogs that are 800x600 or larger, but then again, I ussually run at 1024x768 or 1600x1200, so I may not notice.
I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard? It shouldn't be, but it's probably not GNOME's fault. On Ubuntu(in GNOME) I plug in a camera and it asks if it should import the pictures and if i hit yes it opens gthumb I believe and imports them. I'm not sure if that's the app, I've only done it once on my laptop with someone else's camera, and it worked the first time.
The major flaw with Open Source is that it's very hard for the distributors to combine in an integrated way that works how I want and how you want, and still make that lean and fast enough that we don't bitch. The truth is you just need to find a distro that you like, there's a bunch out there and I'm sure there is one for you.
It may be the developers are disgreeing with you, but the users are too, if those are all your bitches with GNOME, why not just try out KDE? Personally, I like GIMP's UI and I like GNOME's spacial feel(just not how it's reimplemented in Ubuntu). I have never had to reformat my entire harddrive to reinstall an OS, because i partition smart in the first place. The distros only make you format partitions, you make you format entire drives. And in Gnome I've not seen any dialogs that are 800x600 or larger, but then again, I ussually run at 1024x768 or 1600x1200, so I may not notice. I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard? It shouldn't be, but it's probably not GNOME's fault. On Ubuntu(in GNOME) I plug in a camera and it asks if it should import the pictures and if i hit yes it opens gthumb I believe and imports them. I'm not sure if that's the app, I've only done it once on my laptop with someone else's camera, and it worked the first time. The major flaw with Open Source is that it's very hard for the distributors to combine in an integrated way what I want, what you want, and still make that lean and fast enough that you don't bitch. The truth is you just need to find a distro that you like, there's a bunch out there and I'm sure there is one for you.
Not true. The explanation of the story in the game hasn't been great, but their is great story behind Halo.
I have the three Halo books that are out so far and I was seriously impressed when I read them. The books had a lot of incorrect spellings and poor grammar, but the plot was interesting..probably the fastest I have ever read a trilogy of that size. One of the first things I thought when I finished with the books was, "when are they going to make this into a movie", so I think that if they do this correctly(which it sounds like they are), this could be very cool for the Halo fans.
In some it definately helps. In wolfenstein Enemy Territory, which is based off the Quake3 engine(and therefore most likely in Quake3), you can gain more speed if you jump, and then once your in the air do the diagonal run. Combine this with a few "bunny hops" and what is called a circle strafe jump(all "glitches", albeit accepted in competition and ussually no one whines about it on public servers), you can make your player jump unnatural distances. The players who can use these tricks well to complete goals are called "trick jumpers", and can be quite important to a team's effectiveness. Entire level sets have been created to aid trick jumpers and these glitches are a must to be able to perform many of the usefull jumps. These glitches are totally accepted by punkbuster and even the game developers new about them before they released the game(as quake 3 had the same glitches and the glitches were well publicized before Enemy Territory was released) So for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory at least, these glitches aren't just fun asides, they are a major part of the game.
When the N64 came out I purchased the console, 4 controllers, and both of the video games that were available the day it was released, when the next couple games came out, I had them all. I even recieved Christmas cards from Electronics Boutique. My friends came over and 5 of us at a time would sit down and play for hours on end after school until 3 of the 5 of us all had N64s. This is how the gaming market works. If I hadn't purchased the N64, when my other friend purchased the Playstation, we all would have had that. If Microsoft and Sony release their consoles at $400+ for just the console, I can tell you one person who will not own it. Instead I'll go out and by a game console that may be pricey, but still affordable when it's released. That console. will most likely be the revolution. If all the consoles are in the $300 range I'll purchase the PS3, because it's probably got the best hardware, and will probably be hacked first, and then down the road I'll get myself a revolution or an xbox 360. What I hope Sony and Microsoft realise is that gamers having their consoles is what makes the low end gamer want to purchase a gaming system. If they go too high on price, the high end gamers that by their system will be less, and it will not trickle down to the low end gamers as quickly. No one really cares if some rich dude has the console, because he's not going to have the gaming knowledge or experience to get behind the console and hype it to all his friends, nor is he going to want to play it 24/7 and get his friends addicted to it.
Interviewer: Tell me about your Linux experience Me: Well I've got a couple node Mosix cluster in my room at my parents house. I use it as my primary OS, which a couple of small servers running personal stuff on it at my house. Interviewer: Right...see ya later. If you have worked with Unix/Linux for years at a real job, certications aren't going to benifit you very much. On the other hand if you've got no job experience, you're being interviewed by someone who has no technical knowledge of Linux, and you've got nothing else to back your claims that you are teh r0xor, certifactions may be. In my own experience, I went from 1)not having a job dealing with Linux, barely any jobs where I worked on computers, and no college degree to 2) taking 6 Comptia certs and passing them each on the first attempt 3)then being noticed by the company where I was taking the certs and being hired as a generic IT guy then 4)passing the RHCT and Novell CLP, and showing a desire to pass higher level Linux exams. So 5)The company I got hired at also does a ton of training and saw demand for Linux classes, so now guess who's teaching Linux classes? Now your mileage may vary, but with the help of certifactions in around 6 months I went from the guy that couldn't get hired to do bitch work at a company, to now teaching the head IT guys at some really large companys. Now I get job offers from them.
I don't mind the extra ability to have wifi for network, but I really hope it has a wired equivilant for internet access as well. Currently my wifi network is setup so that to do anything other than talk to the computers on the wireless ethernet you need an openvpn client and certificate...something makes me think the xbox won't have a built in openvpn client....so if it doesn't have a wired ethernet port, I for one am not going to open my ethernet up to wifi access just so an xbox can get onto xbox live.
As for the wireless controllers, everyone I've talked to seems to think it's going to be a big pain the ass. I have a wireless mouse and the most annoying thing in the world is when I'm right in the middle of a gun fight on enemy territory and the mouse runs out of batterys. So hopefully they will at least have the option of a battery pack that can plug into the wall or something, which will probably be more annoying than just having them hooked directly to the xbox, but eh. What'd be really nice would be recharble controllers with 4 built in chargers on the xbox. Wishfull thinking.
Yes, your data may be deleted when you launch a nasty virus under your account, but when your 12 year old son is scouring the Internet for pr0n, your data is safe.
/' your links to the inodes are gone, not the data. Now if you were smart, you could just make an area available to the super user where all those indodes were hardlinked and could be restored. Of course there are ways around such things, like simply 'find | xargs tee', but at least there are other options available to secure files.
The OS can't be mangled. So even if you lose your data, at least you can still perform whatever functions you need to perform under a seperate user. Or the kid from next door can come over, log on as the super user, rescue all your documents and mp3s, delete you user and home directory, add your user back, then move the data back....then you might not lose your data or your ability to use your computer.
There are more options for data recovery. assuming a very annoying virus that just does 'rm -fR
Everyone speaking in French was my first complaint, but it kinda grows on you.
Of course if companys like dell, hp, and gateway could use a medialess and browerless version of XP, they could just install Firefox/media player of choice on the system, just like they do with whatever OS they put on it. So most users wouldn't have to download firefox...it would come with their PC/restore disk. If you built your own computer I'm pretty sure you can figure out how to get a browser via ftp and work to the other software from there. If there were a medialess and browserless version of XP out, Real would probably take advantage of this too and integrate as much as they could with firefox, then sell a competiting upper stack of software. Which would also be interesting, because then it would become very easy for real just to put this stack on top of whatever OS they chose due to the portability of firefox/realplayer.
Mainly to keep the honest honest as said earlier. With OpenVPN running all my communications are encrypted and no one else is going to be hopping onto my internet connection or having access to my local LAN. On the other hand, with no WEP someone would be able to jump onto the wireless and start whatever trouble they would want there. For instance I don't have my laptop's wireless adapater firewalled and I really don't want to do that, so when the latest exploit comes out for my OS of choice on the laptop it takes more time to hop onto the wireless and root the laptop. It also keeps someone from hopping onto the wireless and attempting to DOS the wireless. Of course WEP can be broken and that can couse some problems, but just having WEP enabled keeps the majority of people from snooping around. OpenVPN is there for the real trouble makers.
I also acquired a wireless router recently. I used 128 bit WEP to keep the honest honest, but then on top of that I put an openvpn server between the wireless network and my wired network. Now even if you break the WEP encryption you won't see anything as all the traffic that goes on is actually getting done in the openvpn network. OpenVPN is quite nice for this as now if a friend comes over I can just generate them a certificate with a small life time and they can have access, while at the same time it is quite secure.
Ok, this is a "NO BRAINER".... get a Mac Mini ($499), and a AirPort Express with AirTunes ($129) for each room If you dont want wires, then purchase seperate wireless audio speakers (5.1 ch wireless audio packages can be had for $199
So, $330 per room
?? Where do you get your numbers from ??
$499 + $129 + $199 != 330 !
I work at a computer training center and the new requirements for Microsoft Learning courses include graphics cards with 128MB of RAM. I was wondering if this was due to Microsoft's newest OS and I guess it is. It's going to be really nice knowing that I can play Enemy Territory on all the machines at work, but I don't relish the thought of replacing graphics cards in nearly 100 machines....or trying to diagnose network problems while we have a bunch of students LAN gaming across the network.
are bad. I'm an average tetris player, ussually get around 100 lines. One night though I was trying to complete the damn structures on Tetris for the N64 and I was playing with some friends for hours...I think my brain snapped, because the last game I played I got some 350 lines and I wasn't even focused on the screen most of the time. The really bad part was trying to go to sleep later, I couldn't stop seeing tetris pieces falling into place whenever I closed my eyes. So I got a terrible headache from watching these damn tetris pieces falling and not being able to sleep and eventually ended up puking all over the place. I don't think there's anything worse than puking due to tetris and at the same time seeing tetris pieces fall perfectly in order into the bowl.
Molestar uses a very loose defintion of "lines". A line in perl is ussually where the ; is, which in readable code should be at the end of the actual line. I counted 5 ;'s in the first line of Molestar with a briefscan. A brief estimation would tell us Molestar is more like 30 actuall lines. (I don't see why Molestar doesn't just claim to be one line as all of this code, could work just fine in 1 "line" as they define.)
I've never used Python before, but I would imagine by looking at the code to TinyP2P that python's lines truely end at the end of the line. So as far as line count is concerned TinyP2P is around half the size as Molestar.
ATI's lack of support for Linux has to be hurting them. People get pissed off at a company when said company does things that fuck with their gaming experience. In example, my friends run say 75% windows, 25% linux. At the same time most of my friends talk to me(a Linux user) before they purchsae new hardware, including graphics card. Guess what graphics card brand 90% of my friends have purchased....nVidia. We just purchased ~40 new graphics cards for computers at my work(microsoft has decided 128MB graphics cards are neccessary for "microsoft learning" courses). Now they are all going to be running windows most of the time....Guess what cards we just purchased after my boss asked me what I would suggest? nVidia Geforce MX 4000s. I'm sure there are plenty of other Linux users out there who do this type of thing also. Maybe they'll get it eventually...maybe they won't...either way, "fuck you ATI".