Gentoo Portage != user friendly install system. It's easy, I'll give it that, but it's still source based, and that's why it has so much software available. There are a lot of Linux users who don't like to wait for software to compile, and I don't think mainstream would have any different opinion. (I use Gentoo, love portage, but know it's not quite for normal people).
I got to a * Institute of Technology, and it sounds about like this, other then the fact that we lack stores. Anime obsessed people, game obsessed people, social misfits, a good number of shut ins.... Yeah.... Sounds familiar.
I should hope not, 8000 square kilomiters seems to be awfully little land for over 4 billion people to live on.... That's not even taking into account the earth is mostly water....
Standard PC's could unofficially support it if it came down to it. Hell, many linux drivers have been made without much help from the companies that make the software *coughnforceethernetcough*, so I see no reason why a similar community wouldn't gather around an Apple OS if it came down to it, since a lot of geeks are Linux fans and OSX (Unix) fans.
I was planning to get an iBook or PowerBook near the end of the summer.... But with this news.... I don't know. I don't want to get a laptop and have no new software for it 2 years later.... I mean, technology progresses, but it's usually 4 or 5 years with current systems until current software won't even run on it....
I've always likened the difference in picture quality for CRT vs. LCD monitors to what I've heard about vaccum tube based radios (Never used vaccum tube based audio, but I've read about it). Transistors and LCDs are smaller and more precise, but just as vaccum tubes can soften the sound of some music, CRTs often offer a softer image. For that, I hope they don't fade away.
I don't recall where I read it (if someone could reply with a link to an article on it it would be nice), but their was development being done on CRTs that offered the advantages of current CRTs, but were only an inch or two thicker then LCDs. Not sure what ever happened to them, but I know I'd buy one if they were available. LCDs are light and sleek, but I much prefer the smooth look of a decent CRT screen for my daily viewing then the pixelated look of an LCD screen.
Not traditionally in America. For most mathematics and science courses I'm taking at my university, memorization isn't what they do, they teach. You usally get formulas and such as needed. A friend once told me it's different in some other countries. She had a friend who went to college in India, and I guess they have to memorize a lot of formulas over there. I wonder if such things are related to their growth similar to what Japan went through over the past 50 years....
Or perhaps a properly configured daughter who doesn't download everything that says "free weather reports!", "email screensaver!", or "This site has free stuff!"....
I completely agree. Prey, Symphonic Suite, Love Will Grow, just to name a few, aren't featured yet, nor have they been sold in the US anywhere I have seen. Almost every recent FF game has has another collection of remastered/different orchestrated songs too that don't see the light of day over here. I see no point to them not selling them other then just to laugh at us. I would pay for them, and I'm sure many others would too. But I'll just use PSTs and other console sound formats to play the music from the games I own.
I'd like to see them take out the human and turn this into food-powered electronics. Then me shoving cheese in the floppy drive when I was a baby wouldn't have seemed so wrong!
I was about to make the same comment. In time, WIFI could be a good alternative for everything. But since they most likely already have a faster, more secure, and more stable ethernet/cable/phone network, why bother other then bragging rights?
And how is this general idea different from a newsgroup? I of course never abuse newsgroups via the alt.binary.xxx sections... They are for commenting and discussing....
Where I go to school, they sever the connection of computers that don't update with Windows Update like they are supposed to. I'm not sure how they can tell, but between that and the supplied anti-virus software, it works well. People get pissed when they get cut off because they haven't updated (Sucks when you use Windows very rarely because you use Linux, but I can usually update in time before I'm scanned and kicked), but what happens happens. It sounds like a dozen or so calls a day to turn their computers back on when major updates are released is a small price to pay. Users are also restricted to a single site in the subnet to get updates when they arrive here to prevent viri around that time.
I've always found using the public to spread the word other then traditional means to be interesting... Although I don't thik MS is a company that can get away with it w/o being accused of "taking advantage" of the public or some other evil MS scheme.... But then again, this is slashdot, and computer geeks are pretty biased towards MS......
I was reading the comments like usual, and then they all went off-topic about oil, and may blah blah, email for file crap? Slashdot has hit a new low....
My guess is they realized "Virtual Reality" won't really have much potential (which translates to profit) until there are better ways to interact with the games then a keyboard/controller/clunky motion sensors. Not to mention decent head-mounted displays are still quite costly.... I for one can't wait till input systems improve, and you aren't limited by the controller.
Yeah, def my bad (I should have stated it was a guess). It just makes so much sense... There must be some truth to it since cartesian coordinates are more or less square (like pixels), and the boundaries of a circle are not square.... *Runs away in shame* I'm surprised it hasn't been modded down yet to prevent my false information from being seen.... As much as I don't like being modded down, isn't hiding false information one of the reasons for the mod system?
I'm no math major, but it's fairly pointless that people marvel over pi having no exact value. It's because we use a cartesian plane system to measure it. It's like in Calculus with finding the area under a curve. It can't be accurately done to an exact amount using an x/y system. Using a polar graphing system on the other hand does give an exact value of pi and other curves since it uses 'round' units....
The first "evil Enterprise" episode was good, and I was hoping the second episode would tie it into the normal series, and prove a reason for why they did it. But it didn't. In my opinion, it was a waste of the last few episodes. Hell, they could have been crammed into one episode if they tried, and had an extra episode to spare......
I use Gentoo. Do I do it for "speed"? No.
The main reason: Variety. Since Portage is source-based, it is by far the vastest package management system for any Linux Distro. If anyone can find a larger system with frequent updates and sometimes obscure software, I'd like to know (Searching the net for RPM's doesn't count).
The second reason is how tweakable it is. Although that one isn't really Gentoo-specific, as I think Debian, Slackware, and a few others are just as tweakable beyond the install.
I'm a Gentoo user, and I think Gentoo could possibly be slower then other distros even with USE flags depending on your compiliation optomization flags. The default Gentoo optomization is set for a good balance between compile time and run speed, while other distros most likely have the optomization set for long compile time, fast run time. The "-o#" complile parameter basically balances compile time with run time. The higher the number, the slower the compile, but the faster the run speed. It can go high enough so that the much-longer compile time isn't worth the small increase in speed to a Gentoo user.
Perhaps free was the wrong word to use. From the article, I see he is asking more or less "Why should I switch when there is no basis other then you say so?"
I fail to see how that article relates to what your trying to say. Your talking about going from one free default to another free alternative. In that past/. article you linked to, he was trying to save the school system some money, which actually has a purpose other then "cuz I like open source"....
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Gentoo Portage != user friendly install system. It's easy, I'll give it that, but it's still source based, and that's why it has so much software available. There are a lot of Linux users who don't like to wait for software to compile, and I don't think mainstream would have any different opinion. (I use Gentoo, love portage, but know it's not quite for normal people).
I got to a * Institute of Technology, and it sounds about like this, other then the fact that we lack stores. Anime obsessed people, game obsessed people, social misfits, a good number of shut ins.... Yeah.... Sounds familiar.
I should hope not, 8000 square kilomiters seems to be awfully little land for over 4 billion people to live on.... That's not even taking into account the earth is mostly water....
Standard PC's could unofficially support it if it came down to it. Hell, many linux drivers have been made without much help from the companies that make the software *coughnforceethernetcough*, so I see no reason why a similar community wouldn't gather around an Apple OS if it came down to it, since a lot of geeks are Linux fans and OSX (Unix) fans.
I was planning to get an iBook or PowerBook near the end of the summer.... But with this news.... I don't know. I don't want to get a laptop and have no new software for it 2 years later.... I mean, technology progresses, but it's usually 4 or 5 years with current systems until current software won't even run on it....
I've always likened the difference in picture quality for CRT vs. LCD monitors to what I've heard about vaccum tube based radios (Never used vaccum tube based audio, but I've read about it). Transistors and LCDs are smaller and more precise, but just as vaccum tubes can soften the sound of some music, CRTs often offer a softer image. For that, I hope they don't fade away.
I don't recall where I read it (if someone could reply with a link to an article on it it would be nice), but their was development being done on CRTs that offered the advantages of current CRTs, but were only an inch or two thicker then LCDs. Not sure what ever happened to them, but I know I'd buy one if they were available. LCDs are light and sleek, but I much prefer the smooth look of a decent CRT screen for my daily viewing then the pixelated look of an LCD screen.
Not traditionally in America. For most mathematics and science courses I'm taking at my university, memorization isn't what they do, they teach. You usally get formulas and such as needed. A friend once told me it's different in some other countries. She had a friend who went to college in India, and I guess they have to memorize a lot of formulas over there. I wonder if such things are related to their growth similar to what Japan went through over the past 50 years....
Or perhaps a properly configured daughter who doesn't download everything that says "free weather reports!", "email screensaver!", or "This site has free stuff!"....
I completely agree. Prey, Symphonic Suite, Love Will Grow, just to name a few, aren't featured yet, nor have they been sold in the US anywhere I have seen. Almost every recent FF game has has another collection of remastered/different orchestrated songs too that don't see the light of day over here. I see no point to them not selling them other then just to laugh at us. I would pay for them, and I'm sure many others would too. But I'll just use PSTs and other console sound formats to play the music from the games I own.
I'd like to see them take out the human and turn this into food-powered electronics. Then me shoving cheese in the floppy drive when I was a baby wouldn't have seemed so wrong!
I was about to make the same comment. In time, WIFI could be a good alternative for everything. But since they most likely already have a faster, more secure, and more stable ethernet/cable/phone network, why bother other then bragging rights?
And how is this general idea different from a newsgroup? I of course never abuse newsgroups via the alt.binary.xxx sections... They are for commenting and discussing....
Where I go to school, they sever the connection of computers that don't update with Windows Update like they are supposed to. I'm not sure how they can tell, but between that and the supplied anti-virus software, it works well. People get pissed when they get cut off because they haven't updated (Sucks when you use Windows very rarely because you use Linux, but I can usually update in time before I'm scanned and kicked), but what happens happens. It sounds like a dozen or so calls a day to turn their computers back on when major updates are released is a small price to pay. Users are also restricted to a single site in the subnet to get updates when they arrive here to prevent viri around that time.
I've always found using the public to spread the word other then traditional means to be interesting... Although I don't thik MS is a company that can get away with it w/o being accused of "taking advantage" of the public or some other evil MS scheme.... But then again, this is slashdot, and computer geeks are pretty biased towards MS......
I was reading the comments like usual, and then they all went off-topic about oil, and may blah blah, email for file crap? Slashdot has hit a new low....
My guess is they realized "Virtual Reality" won't really have much potential (which translates to profit) until there are better ways to interact with the games then a keyboard/controller/clunky motion sensors. Not to mention decent head-mounted displays are still quite costly.... I for one can't wait till input systems improve, and you aren't limited by the controller.
Yeah, def my bad (I should have stated it was a guess). It just makes so much sense... There must be some truth to it since cartesian coordinates are more or less square (like pixels), and the boundaries of a circle are not square.... *Runs away in shame* I'm surprised it hasn't been modded down yet to prevent my false information from being seen.... As much as I don't like being modded down, isn't hiding false information one of the reasons for the mod system?
I'm no math major, but it's fairly pointless that people marvel over pi having no exact value. It's because we use a cartesian plane system to measure it. It's like in Calculus with finding the area under a curve. It can't be accurately done to an exact amount using an x/y system. Using a polar graphing system on the other hand does give an exact value of pi and other curves since it uses 'round' units....
The first "evil Enterprise" episode was good, and I was hoping the second episode would tie it into the normal series, and prove a reason for why they did it. But it didn't. In my opinion, it was a waste of the last few episodes. Hell, they could have been crammed into one episode if they tried, and had an extra episode to spare......
I've got a lisp!!! It's not though..... Sry, couldn't resist........ Someone else would have done it if I didn't.....
I use Gentoo. Do I do it for "speed"? No. The main reason: Variety. Since Portage is source-based, it is by far the vastest package management system for any Linux Distro. If anyone can find a larger system with frequent updates and sometimes obscure software, I'd like to know (Searching the net for RPM's doesn't count). The second reason is how tweakable it is. Although that one isn't really Gentoo-specific, as I think Debian, Slackware, and a few others are just as tweakable beyond the install.
I'm a Gentoo user, and I think Gentoo could possibly be slower then other distros even with USE flags depending on your compiliation optomization flags. The default Gentoo optomization is set for a good balance between compile time and run speed, while other distros most likely have the optomization set for long compile time, fast run time. The "-o#" complile parameter basically balances compile time with run time. The higher the number, the slower the compile, but the faster the run speed. It can go high enough so that the much-longer compile time isn't worth the small increase in speed to a Gentoo user.
Perhaps free was the wrong word to use. From the article, I see he is asking more or less "Why should I switch when there is no basis other then you say so?"
I fail to see how that article relates to what your trying to say. Your talking about going from one free default to another free alternative. In that past /. article you linked to, he was trying to save the school system some money, which actually has a purpose other then "cuz I like open source"....