Console: standard hardware, OS, drivers, and software Computer: most anything goes Even though the diversity of the computer makes it sometimes troublesome, the personalization is why many of us like it.
Console: drop in and play Computer: drop in, install, configure, and then play Only makes a difference if the middle two steps are hard for you.
Console: played at the TV, using a controller Computer: played at a monitor, using keyboard and mouse I don't know about you, but I can't stand first-person shooters on a console, using a controller. Different types of games are controlled best in different ways.
Console: used for playing games, and maybe CDs and DVDs Computer: used for playing games, and CDs and DVDs, and for productivity, development, Internet browsing, etc...
For all I care, they can roll back the clock on computer gaming. But I am not playing Doom 3, Halflife 2, Halo 2, or any other FPS on a controller and going to enjoy it.
If you can divide your problem into very many independent subproblems, clustering or distributed computing will work well. If not, your best bet is a true supercomputer.
So: SETI@Home splits up its scans into sections, each of which do not depend on any other; therefore, a distributed solution is efficient. However, the Earth Simulator deals with chaotic systems (or so I would assume), which do not independently parallelize; this is where having hundreds of processors and terabytes of RAM and using something like NUMA is greatly more efficient.
I was thinking the line "I am C3PO, human-cyborg relations..." But I didn't want to be cliche and use a Star Wars quote as my main support. OTOH, it does fit the point well.
It would seem more useful to build robots that are designed with the task they must perform in mind. Therefore, they could perform it far better than any human.
What if their task is human relations? Granted the AI to support such a task is a long way off, but the humanoid form would surely fit the function there.
The US government pays businesses a ton of money to write software. I currently work with such a company. If the US government decided to use all Open Source a lot of people would be out of work.
And therefore would be free to work on other, non-governmental things. It would allow more intelligent people to do more intelligent things.
If the only thing you're capable of is porting the bureaucratic red tape to computer, then you have no future. Why waste society's resources on creating useless jobs, when these people could actually be doing beneficial things, and yet still make a living?
I perscribe the following to clear this up: Review (or learn) basic macroeconomics; and read the works of both John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, or of those inspiring other schools of economics, as you see fit.
Oh, and by the way, get your syntax right: "fewer jobs," not "less jobs." "Fewer" takes a countable noun, and "less" takes an uncountable noun.
I've heard that Slackware does not have a good update tool like apt or yum.
Swaret. From 9.1 on, it's in the extras directory. It's not as full of packages as apt is, but then again, if that's a problem, you're likely not a Slacker.
And it's not his fault. He tries to make the future conform to whatever is best for him, which makes him a master businessman. But the technician in him seems to have died long ago.
I can't put together any evidence to support this statement (nor am I bothering to RTFA); it's more just a feeling. I personally find this statement about DVDs to be ludicrous. They might not be called DVDs, or they might not even be disks, but there will likely be removable (optical?) media for the forseeable future.
OK, we're getting better now. There are, to my knowledge, no good open source RTS games. There is a port of Command and Conquer whose client is open (obviously not the content), but they're "not dead [yet]," in the Monty Python sense of the phrase.
Besides, when you say "game," I'm assuming that you mean that it has at least semi-original content in addition to a completely open game engine. Those open source games tend to be simplistic; this, I believe, is the case because the creative part of any sufficiently multimedia-rich game takes most of the time and effort, and because many more artist-types find themselves unable to make their best work freely available.
Other than that, maybe your only problem is that you equate quality of gameplay with quality of graphics. For example, your argument completely ignores the ability to waste months of your life playing Nethack. Or had Scortched Earth been open source first (and there's xscorch for that). You disallow for the possibility of simple games to entertain---or is this just a reflection of your taste?
So true. My first Linux experience was trying to fit and older version of Slack onto a computer with 4MB RAM---but I thought it had 16.
Now seriously... other people address the question of distro, but nobody's hit his Wifi card yet. D-Link's Linux compatability chart is somewhere in their support section.
After noticing that people generally hated web user interfaces
Is there some document that shows this assertion? Could you define what you mean by "interface" here? A web interface is effective for batch I/O, but not for realtime I/O, where a Java applet works best. Is MS saying that people found web interfaces aestetically bad or functionally bad? Or are the programmers of the web interfaces just bad?
The author recommends using Linspire, which runs as root by default (or did this change?), and Sun's JDS, which as of 1.5 months ago supposedly sucked.
The other recommendations are fine for starters. Probably should have put WineX in there, and maybe Crossover Office too.
I just spent 5 hours incoherently disagreeing with you. I have just deleted all of it, because it can be stated so much more... better...
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Save electricity and bandwidth, the scarcity of information is completely artificial. Without scarcity, there is no money. If you want to support that sort of thing, go ahead.
And OK, we'll stop reverse engineering things. When people stop "pirating" commercial software at the same time. If illegal proliferation of free software at the expense of commercial software is bad for Linux, then illegal proliferation of commercial software on Windows as much keeps MS in power. I guarantee, if you get rid of all the street vendors in Asia selling cracked versions of Windows for $10, and all of the warez on peer-to-peer networks and Usenet, so many more people would be receptive to free software and open formats. You cannot deny that the desire to have software for free (or almost) is powerful and widespread. And there really is very little reason not to oblige.
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Well it works the other way too. A controller is best for platformers.
Console: standard hardware, OS, drivers, and software
Computer: most anything goes
Even though the diversity of the computer makes it sometimes troublesome, the personalization is why many of us like it.
Console: drop in and play
Computer: drop in, install, configure, and then play
Only makes a difference if the middle two steps are hard for you.
Console: played at the TV, using a controller
Computer: played at a monitor, using keyboard and mouse
I don't know about you, but I can't stand first-person shooters on a console, using a controller. Different types of games are controlled best in different ways.
Console: used for playing games, and maybe CDs and DVDs
Computer: used for playing games, and CDs and DVDs, and for productivity, development, Internet browsing, etc...
For all I care, they can roll back the clock on computer gaming. But I am not playing Doom 3, Halflife 2, Halo 2, or any other FPS on a controller and going to enjoy it.
If you can divide your problem into very many independent subproblems, clustering or distributed computing will work well. If not, your best bet is a true supercomputer.
So: SETI@Home splits up its scans into sections, each of which do not depend on any other; therefore, a distributed solution is efficient. However, the Earth Simulator deals with chaotic systems (or so I would assume), which do not independently parallelize; this is where having hundreds of processors and terabytes of RAM and using something like NUMA is greatly more efficient.
In short: use the right tool for the job.
I was thinking the line "I am C3PO, human-cyborg relations..." But I didn't want to be cliche and use a Star Wars quote as my main support. OTOH, it does fit the point well.
It would seem more useful to build robots that are designed with the task they must perform in mind. Therefore, they could perform it far better than any human.
What if their task is human relations? Granted the AI to support such a task is a long way off, but the humanoid form would surely fit the function there.
this CANNOT go unopposed.
I still have dictionary.com open to that page...
The US government pays businesses a ton of money to write software. I currently work with such a company. If the US government decided to use all Open Source a lot of people would be out of work.
And therefore would be free to work on other, non-governmental things. It would allow more intelligent people to do more intelligent things.
If the only thing you're capable of is porting the bureaucratic red tape to computer, then you have no future. Why waste society's resources on creating useless jobs, when these people could actually be doing beneficial things, and yet still make a living?
I perscribe the following to clear this up:
Review (or learn) basic macroeconomics; and read the works of both John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, or of those inspiring other schools of economics, as you see fit.
Oh, and by the way, get your syntax right: "fewer jobs," not "less jobs." "Fewer" takes a countable noun, and "less" takes an uncountable noun.
I was looking for confirmation on that pseudophrase just before I posted.
Maybe I should have snopes.com bookmarked from now on.
It's not like we haven't done it to everybody else.
oh, and it's not Goggle...
SSH tunnel to a connection less likely to be monitored.
It's what I'm gonna do.
No comment.
If this were any normal asshole, that video would be terrible.
But because it's this guy, it's frickin' hilarious.
You're missing the point.
Every chip is different, so every RAM module will perform differently from any other RAM module for all configurations.
I've heard that Slackware does not have a good update tool like apt or yum.
Swaret. From 9.1 on, it's in the extras directory. It's not as full of packages as apt is, but then again, if that's a problem, you're likely not a Slacker.
And it's not his fault. He tries to make the future conform to whatever is best for him, which makes him a master businessman. But the technician in him seems to have died long ago.
I can't put together any evidence to support this statement (nor am I bothering to RTFA); it's more just a feeling. I personally find this statement about DVDs to be ludicrous. They might not be called DVDs, or they might not even be disks, but there will likely be removable (optical?) media for the forseeable future.
OK, we're getting better now. There are, to my knowledge, no good open source RTS games. There is a port of Command and Conquer whose client is open (obviously not the content), but they're "not dead [yet]," in the Monty Python sense of the phrase.
Besides, when you say "game," I'm assuming that you mean that it has at least semi-original content in addition to a completely open game engine. Those open source games tend to be simplistic; this, I believe, is the case because the creative part of any sufficiently multimedia-rich game takes most of the time and effort, and because many more artist-types find themselves unable to make their best work freely available.
Other than that, maybe your only problem is that you equate quality of gameplay with quality of graphics. For example, your argument completely ignores the ability to waste months of your life playing Nethack. Or had Scortched Earth been open source first (and there's xscorch for that). You disallow for the possibility of simple games to entertain---or is this just a reflection of your taste?
Define "decent." You're still being completely subjective. Your statement is definitely true for only one person: yourself.
So true. My first Linux experience was trying to fit and older version of Slack onto a computer with 4MB RAM---but I thought it had 16.
Now seriously... other people address the question of distro, but nobody's hit his Wifi card yet. D-Link's Linux compatability chart is somewhere in their support section.
After noticing that people generally hated web user interfaces
Is there some document that shows this assertion? Could you define what you mean by "interface" here? A web interface is effective for batch I/O, but not for realtime I/O, where a Java applet works best. Is MS saying that people found web interfaces aestetically bad or functionally bad? Or are the programmers of the web interfaces just bad?
so will Mono and WINE.
The author recommends using Linspire, which runs as root by default (or did this change?), and Sun's JDS, which as of 1.5 months ago supposedly sucked.
The other recommendations are fine for starters. Probably should have put WineX in there, and maybe Crossover Office too.
My ears started hurting when I read "louder is better."
I just spent 5 hours incoherently disagreeing with you. I have just deleted all of it, because it can be stated so much more... better...
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Save electricity and bandwidth, the scarcity of information is completely artificial. Without scarcity, there is no money. If you want to support that sort of thing, go ahead.
And OK, we'll stop reverse engineering things. When people stop "pirating" commercial software at the same time. If illegal proliferation of free software at the expense of commercial software is bad for Linux, then illegal proliferation of commercial software on Windows as much keeps MS in power. I guarantee, if you get rid of all the street vendors in Asia selling cracked versions of Windows for $10, and all of the warez on peer-to-peer networks and Usenet, so many more people would be receptive to free software and open formats. You cannot deny that the desire to have software for free (or almost) is powerful and widespread. And there really is very little reason not to oblige.
I don't know.
Extensions exist to keep the base browser lean while allowing enhanced features under a standard framework. The GP needed a reminder of this.