I was going to suggest Westnoth - it is one of the absolute jewels of Linux gaming. Another one I like is "Pioneers" which is a neat little implementation of the "Settlers of Catan" boardgame. Which has it's own free online client tha is more active online but a bit buggy & laggy. Pioneers is good for a 15-30 minute game against 3 computer players. Use the official client to play against other human beings:)
Keith played to a click track. I remember reading an interview with him when he described what it was like playing stuff like "Baba O'Reilly" & "Won't get fooled again" live when the synth parts were sequenced. Can't remember WHAT he said (it was a long time ago!!) but The Who were definitely using click tracks live in the '70s.
It's not "Pop-Psych" She's done the research & read up on other peoples'. Every chapter is loaded with references.
The contention in the book is that there is so much more diagnosis than there was a few years ago & general poor performance by kids in all developed countries that there is a bundle of reasons why it's happening.
Maybe there's a genetic predisposition to Autism caused by a number of genes. So, get the lot & you're autistic. Get some & you have a predisposition that may only manifest if your upbringing triggers it.
There is obviously a real syndrome called "Autism". It's not a joke & it's not a badge to be worn with pride. Some people on the internet here & elsewhere seem to think that it's cool to have (usually self diagnosed) Aspergers. These are the people mot likely to have had the syndrome triggered during early childhood. If it's purely genetic why are the Romanian Orphans so much more subject to autism symptoms than non-orphans?
Read "Toxic Childhood" by Sue Palmer - available from Amazon. It explains why kids are getting so badly f&*ked up these days. Summary, too much TV, too little interaction with parents, junk food, lack of sleep. Result, often low grade autism.
So when people here (and on other websites) boast about being functional autistic I just think you poor sod, your parents were too busy to play with you when you were young...
Now, I'm not about to diss the Beatles but anyone who says "Ringo and Paul were the tightest rhythm section ever" needs to listen to a whole lot more "Rush"
Don't make it party political. It was the Liberals that spunked away $85 Million on the porno fliter that lasted less than 30 minutes before it was hacked by a horny 15 year old boy. Neither government gets it. At least Rudd has the appearance of being smart enough to realise this is unworkable & political poison & will nip it in the bud before it becomes an embarassment.
Absolutely, and as the politician responsible for this fiasco is already equating people who want to opt out to Kiddie-fiddlers it's a very short step down a slippery slope.
Are they going to publish a list of the banned sites so we can see what they're "protecting" us from? Because I'm sure no government would want to shut down "The Pirate Bay" or "Amnesty International" or a blog site critical to the government. Nosiree. That'll NEVER be a problem.
It might be a silly question, but, given that everybody & their dog who migrates to Linux complains about how weird the GIMP is. Why (oh why) hasn't someone forked it & put in a clone of the photoshop front-end?
It's a no-brainer to me - which might simply mean that I have no brain:)
Other programs have different "personalities" to help people shift (MS Word emulating Wordperfect keystrokes comes to mind) why not the GIMP?
We can but hope, I still keep an eye out but I've stopped editing. With the "non-free content" I would have thought it would be trivial to tag it & exclude it from downloadable/CD/whatever versions so there is a "totally free" wikipedia available to anyone who wants it & a free plus non-free version online.
I can understand trying to get totally free images of celebrities so any crack-down on non-free images there I can understand but an album cover is always going to be non-free. There is no substitute that can be made free & getting all restrictive just strikes me as petty in the extreme. I fought, I was ignored, I walked away. Now, thanks to the power of wikipedia if you google my online name (Not LardBrattish - I forgot my slashdot password for that username & the e-mail account it was registered to was at my old job & not accessible) the number one hit is my "goodbye wikipedia U sux0r" rant;)
There's 3 catagories of wikipedia user. "Users" who edit infrequently if ever & probably aren't registered, "Creators" who create content and improve articles without getting all tied up with politics (me in case you hadn't guessed) and "Wikipedophiles" who spend all their time in the policy areas or reverting "vandalism" which may or may not actually be vandalism. I looked at the edit history of one editor I had a beef with & he'd not made an addition to wikipedia in over two weeks of looking - lots of activity, none of it constructive. Wikipedia needs more of groups 1 & 2 and a whole lot less 3s
I'm sure some "important and well known scientists" or at least some specialists in their chosen field have at least tried to edit Wikipedia, however they probably gave up after their additions were reverted or mutilated by 13 year olds.
Like me - I'm not important or well known but I simply got fed up with edit wars and so I've given up Wikipedia and a few musical artists are probably the poorer for it;). If you say anything controversial you're doomed - look at the stuff going on in the Gerry Adams entry with a whole bunch of apologists covering up the fact that he's ex-IRA & ignoring the reams of evidence to the contrary.
I program PHP on a Windows client (In Dreamweaver) & send it up to Linux servers. As a long-time Delphi programmer this is absolutely what I want installed on my Windows PC.
In some countries, like Australia, you can - as a private individual - offset the cost of a laptop (but NOT a desktop) against tax. So on that basis buying a $5000 laptop offsetting 50% against tax & then selling it one year on for, say $2500 (if you can get more it's good) & then getting another makes for a very cheap way of keeping a reasonably up-to-date computer in the family;)
I agree, best RTS ever - no exceptions. I could go on about the unit AI & emergent gameplay forever.
I have high hopes for supreme commander but it might have lost it's mojo trying to eff around with 3D & Black & White style zooming. Chris Taylor deserves my support so I'll buy it regardless.
What I'd like to see (whether or not it would sell...) is an upgrade of TA with similar graphics just better resolution.
Tech upgrades like Starcraft.
And a programmable unit AI using a java-like language so you could write your own from scratch, improve on the default AI or download a top player's AIs from the net. Obviously if you have 1000 lines of code for each tank it'll slow down your system but if you have tight intelligent code (especially on builder units) it could be a lifesaver - imagine the "if you've been idle for more than (n) seconds then (do something)" construct & imagine what you could achieve with that...
Online play would be a test of AI programming AND RTS skill.
Single player would be a way to test your AI strategies. Flash tanks with a custom AI to seek & destroy enemy bases...
I would literally kill for an RTS that gave me that.
There are BILLIONS(Maybe Trillions) of dollars worth of tools to use imperial units. Lumber is made in 2X4" pipe fittings are measured in inches, the handy use of fractional units when doing carpentry, which what's half of 5/8"? (A: 5/16") is a serious factor. The lifespan of all these tools, such as the tooling to roll steel and brass and aluminum into inch sizes etc is something no one ever talks about, how long does the largely theoretical "gain" made by switching to SI units take to pay off all the steel mills the lumber mills the switching over of all the plumbing in America to metric pipe fittings???? (Hint, civilization and technology are 90% plumbing)
Listen to yourself "what's half of 5/8"?" What's half of 70mm? Math is math. What's 1/32" + 5/8" + 7/16" - a damn sight harder than the same calculation in SI is the answer...;)
What you're forgetting is that the rest of the world uses metric so when the printer manufacturers decide to stop effing around with "foolscap" & support A4 only. Or stop making imperial spanners you're going to have to:
1) Start making all of that stuff yourselves and last time I checked America seemed to be going offshoring-mad & shipping the manufacturing abroad (where they use metric BTW)
2) Pay a premium.
And that should be enough cost benefit analysis for the companies - how much extra is it costing you to be different? How much are you being charged by your overseas suppliers to support your outmoded system?
Oh & the answer to your question about switching over the plumbing - it'll happen gradually. Do you expect us to believe that the Americans will go around every house in the country & change the plumbing overnight? What will happen is old plumbing will get replaced when it fails and depending on the size of the job it'll get replaced with metric fittings. When the old imperial machines break they'll be replaced by metric ones. In the meantime if you can't afford to replace your big old machines import whatever they were making - you have the rest of the world to choose from as suppliers.
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Which of course is why Delphi 1 was referred to internally as VBK (Visual Basic Killer)
Even if you ignore Symbolset's excellent rebuttal what you are claiming:-
...when you consider that Linux is compromised more often than any Windows based OS
Is not even supported by the article you have quoted. It is claiming that 57% of server hackings are on Linux boxes, but Linux servers were cruising around 75% of all servers & M$ around 21% (according to netcraft) back in 2004 when this article was excreted so adjusting for % active servers hacked... Linux still wins. Great way to prove your point. Also from the article:-
The mi2g study concentrated on "overt digital attacks" and didn't include more general forms of attack such as viruses and worms
Well, they would wouldn't they given the comparative vulnerabilities of the two O/Ss to worms... Thus invalidating anything they try to claim. Also they give no indication of the "market share" breakdown of the subset of servers they examined. It could be 10,000 Linux Servers vs 10 IIS servers for all we know.
Another B/S M$ funded story that's over two years out of date to boot.
So I will ask, give us even one example of something that Linux is capable of that Windows is not capable of doing.
He already did:-
I *could* buy multiple copies of Premiere for the six machines I have here at home to do video editing. Or... I could just install as many copies of Cinelerra as I want on all 18 of my systems and use it's clustering features to have a nice little free renderfarm. But, my needs are a bit more advanced than most Windows users which is why I still think that having Windows around for the normal user is just fine. And, no that's not an elitist statement. I'm just saying that there aren't many people who have 18 systems at home, like to do video work and need/want a render farm.
i.e. set up an 18 PC renderfarm for the cost of the hardware. Over to you. Windows simply cannot do that because each licence of Windows costs $$$ and AFAIK nobody's producing a Cinelerra quality tool free for Windows. If you could set up an 18 PC renderfarm on Windows the cost would be prohibitive for an enthusiastic amateur. In Linuxland you just hook up every old computer in the house that can run Cinelerra & you're there.
Don't get too clever... play it straight, and let the other guys step on their dick.
The trouble is the Republicans DID "step on their dick" during both of the last presidentials but it's been ignored & swept under the carpet by the "Left Wing Media".
I agree that if the vote was hacked this time they'd scream blue murder & blame everybody but themselves but I guarantee that the re-vote would be scrutinised very carefully - hopefully too carefully for any Republican (or Democrat in all fairness) BS to be a factor. Also if you're VERY lucky the re-vote would use paper ballots.
(One thing that could turn out to be the Right Thing to do is have a left-wing government buy out one of the voting machine companies... the people who would never worry about Republican fraud will then go apeshit about the possibility of subversion by foreign communists.)
Nice idea. Trouble is could it ever happen? Maybe the French government would be interested:)
I never understood the anti-French thing. All they did was refuse to back a (now discredited) war & all of a sudden they're "Cheese eating surrender-monkeys" when they fought very valiantly in WW1, 2 and Vietnam (Dien Bien Phu anyone?) long before the Americans could get up off their isolationist butts & join in.
That's the same fallacy as taking a bomb on an airplane because the odds are more strongly against there being *two* bombs.
No it's not. If there's a voter turnout 30,000x higher than is possible given the size of the voting population it's a message that voting machines are hackable and cannot be trusted. That seems to bear no relation whatsoever to your analogy. Please explain further if you disagree. Rememeber some precincts in Ohio 2004 had a higher number of votes than registered voters (by a few %) and they were ratified. The gesture needs to be unmissable otherwise it'll be swept under the carpet & ignored.
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The answer to your question is that he lives in Australia where you can get a tax break on laptops but not desktops.
I was going to suggest Westnoth - it is one of the absolute jewels of Linux gaming. Another one I like is "Pioneers" which is a neat little implementation of the "Settlers of Catan" boardgame. Which has it's own free online client tha is more active online but a bit buggy & laggy. Pioneers is good for a 15-30 minute game against 3 computer players. Use the official client to play against other human beings :)
Bigpond & Optus are not involved in the trial
Keith played to a click track. I remember reading an interview with him when he described what it was like playing stuff like "Baba O'Reilly" & "Won't get fooled again" live when the synth parts were sequenced. Can't remember WHAT he said (it was a long time ago!!) but The Who were definitely using click tracks live in the '70s.
The contention in the book is that there is so much more diagnosis than there was a few years ago & general poor performance by kids in all developed countries that there is a bundle of reasons why it's happening.
Maybe there's a genetic predisposition to Autism caused by a number of genes. So, get the lot & you're autistic. Get some & you have a predisposition that may only manifest if your upbringing triggers it.
There is obviously a real syndrome called "Autism". It's not a joke & it's not a badge to be worn with pride. Some people on the internet here & elsewhere seem to think that it's cool to have (usually self diagnosed) Aspergers. These are the people mot likely to have had the syndrome triggered during early childhood. If it's purely genetic why are the Romanian Orphans so much more subject to autism symptoms than non-orphans?
Anyways, point me at your "Real Science"
Read "Toxic Childhood" by Sue Palmer - available from Amazon. It explains why kids are getting so badly f&*ked up these days. Summary, too much TV, too little interaction with parents, junk food, lack of sleep. Result, often low grade autism.
So when people here (and on other websites) boast about being functional autistic I just think you poor sod, your parents were too busy to play with you when you were young...
Now, I'm not about to diss the Beatles but anyone who says "Ringo and Paul were the tightest rhythm section ever" needs to listen to a whole lot more "Rush"
Don't make it party political. It was the Liberals that spunked away $85 Million on the porno fliter that lasted less than 30 minutes before it was hacked by a horny 15 year old boy. Neither government gets it. At least Rudd has the appearance of being smart enough to realise this is unworkable & political poison & will nip it in the bud before it becomes an embarassment.
Absolutely, and as the politician responsible for this fiasco is already equating people who want to opt out to Kiddie-fiddlers it's a very short step down a slippery slope.
Are they going to publish a list of the banned sites so we can see what they're "protecting" us from? Because I'm sure no government would want to shut down "The Pirate Bay" or "Amnesty International" or a blog site critical to the government. Nosiree. That'll NEVER be a problem.
It might be a silly question, but, given that everybody & their dog who migrates to Linux complains about how weird the GIMP is. Why (oh why) hasn't someone forked it & put in a clone of the photoshop front-end? :)
It's a no-brainer to me - which might simply mean that I have no brain
Other programs have different "personalities" to help people shift (MS Word emulating Wordperfect keystrokes comes to mind) why not the GIMP?
We can but hope, I still keep an eye out but I've stopped editing. With the "non-free content" I would have thought it would be trivial to tag it & exclude it from downloadable/CD/whatever versions so there is a "totally free" wikipedia available to anyone who wants it & a free plus non-free version online. ;)
I can understand trying to get totally free images of celebrities so any crack-down on non-free images there I can understand but an album cover is always going to be non-free. There is no substitute that can be made free & getting all restrictive just strikes me as petty in the extreme. I fought, I was ignored, I walked away. Now, thanks to the power of wikipedia if you google my online name (Not LardBrattish - I forgot my slashdot password for that username & the e-mail account it was registered to was at my old job & not accessible) the number one hit is my "goodbye wikipedia U sux0r" rant
There's 3 catagories of wikipedia user. "Users" who edit infrequently if ever & probably aren't registered, "Creators" who create content and improve articles without getting all tied up with politics (me in case you hadn't guessed) and "Wikipedophiles" who spend all their time in the policy areas or reverting "vandalism" which may or may not actually be vandalism. I looked at the edit history of one editor I had a beef with & he'd not made an addition to wikipedia in over two weeks of looking - lots of activity, none of it constructive. Wikipedia needs more of groups 1 & 2 and a whole lot less 3s
I'm sure some "important and well known scientists" or at least some specialists in their chosen field have at least tried to edit Wikipedia, however they probably gave up after their additions were reverted or mutilated by 13 year olds. ;). If you say anything controversial you're doomed - look at the stuff going on in the Gerry Adams entry with a whole bunch of apologists covering up the fact that he's ex-IRA & ignoring the reams of evidence to the contrary.
Like me - I'm not important or well known but I simply got fed up with edit wars and so I've given up Wikipedia and a few musical artists are probably the poorer for it
He died of colon cancer at 44.
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I program PHP on a Windows client (In Dreamweaver) & send it up to Linux servers. As a long-time Delphi programmer this is absolutely what I want installed on my Windows PC.
In some countries, like Australia, you can - as a private individual - offset the cost of a laptop (but NOT a desktop) against tax. So on that basis buying a $5000 laptop offsetting 50% against tax & then selling it one year on for, say $2500 (if you can get more it's good) & then getting another makes for a very cheap way of keeping a reasonably up-to-date computer in the family ;)
The Wizard's staff has a knob on the end...
I agree, best RTS ever - no exceptions. I could go on about the unit AI & emergent gameplay forever.
I have high hopes for supreme commander but it might have lost it's mojo trying to eff around with 3D & Black & White style zooming. Chris Taylor deserves my support so I'll buy it regardless.
What I'd like to see (whether or not it would sell...) is an upgrade of TA with similar graphics just better resolution.
Tech upgrades like Starcraft.
And a programmable unit AI using a java-like language so you could write your own from scratch, improve on the default AI or download a top player's AIs from the net. Obviously if you have 1000 lines of code for each tank it'll slow down your system but if you have tight intelligent code (especially on builder units) it could be a lifesaver - imagine the "if you've been idle for more than (n) seconds then (do something)" construct & imagine what you could achieve with that...
Online play would be a test of AI programming AND RTS skill.
Single player would be a way to test your AI strategies. Flash tanks with a custom AI to seek & destroy enemy bases...
I would literally kill for an RTS that gave me that.
Listen to yourself "what's half of 5/8"?" What's half of 70mm? Math is math. What's 1/32" + 5/8" + 7/16" - a damn sight harder than the same calculation in SI is the answer... ;)
What you're forgetting is that the rest of the world uses metric so when the printer manufacturers decide to stop effing around with "foolscap" & support A4 only. Or stop making imperial spanners you're going to have to:
1) Start making all of that stuff yourselves and last time I checked America seemed to be going offshoring-mad & shipping the manufacturing abroad (where they use metric BTW)
2) Pay a premium.
And that should be enough cost benefit analysis for the companies - how much extra is it costing you to be different? How much are you being charged by your overseas suppliers to support your outmoded system?
Oh & the answer to your question about switching over the plumbing - it'll happen gradually. Do you expect us to believe that the Americans will go around every house in the country & change the plumbing overnight? What will happen is old plumbing will get replaced when it fails and depending on the size of the job it'll get replaced with metric fittings. When the old imperial machines break they'll be replaced by metric ones. In the meantime if you can't afford to replace your big old machines import whatever they were making - you have the rest of the world to choose from as suppliers.
Which of course is why Delphi 1 was referred to internally as VBK (Visual Basic Killer)
Is not even supported by the article you have quoted. It is claiming that 57% of server hackings are on Linux boxes, but Linux servers were cruising around 75% of all servers & M$ around 21% (according to netcraft) back in 2004 when this article was excreted so adjusting for % active servers hacked... Linux still wins. Great way to prove your point. Also from the article:-
Well, they would wouldn't they given the comparative vulnerabilities of the two O/Ss to worms... Thus invalidating anything they try to claim. Also they give no indication of the "market share" breakdown of the subset of servers they examined. It could be 10,000 Linux Servers vs 10 IIS servers for all we know.
Another B/S M$ funded story that's over two years out of date to boot.
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He already did:-
i.e. set up an 18 PC renderfarm for the cost of the hardware. Over to you. Windows simply cannot do that because each licence of Windows costs $$$ and AFAIK nobody's producing a Cinelerra quality tool free for Windows. If you could set up an 18 PC renderfarm on Windows the cost would be prohibitive for an enthusiastic amateur. In Linuxland you just hook up every old computer in the house that can run Cinelerra & you're there.
Licencing is the killer app for Linux.
You mean the ones they don't count until a week later and aren't included in the results by the time the election is called?
The trouble is the Republicans DID "step on their dick" during both of the last presidentials but it's been ignored & swept under the carpet by the "Left Wing Media".
I agree that if the vote was hacked this time they'd scream blue murder & blame everybody but themselves but I guarantee that the re-vote would be scrutinised very carefully - hopefully too carefully for any Republican (or Democrat in all fairness) BS to be a factor. Also if you're VERY lucky the re-vote would use paper ballots.
Nice idea. Trouble is could it ever happen? Maybe the French government would be interested :)
I never understood the anti-French thing. All they did was refuse to back a (now discredited) war & all of a sudden they're "Cheese eating surrender-monkeys" when they fought very valiantly in WW1, 2 and Vietnam (Dien Bien Phu anyone?) long before the Americans could get up off their isolationist butts & join in.
No it's not. If there's a voter turnout 30,000x higher than is possible given the size of the voting population it's a message that voting machines are hackable and cannot be trusted. That seems to bear no relation whatsoever to your analogy. Please explain further if you disagree. Rememeber some precincts in Ohio 2004 had a higher number of votes than registered voters (by a few %) and they were ratified. The gesture needs to be unmissable otherwise it'll be swept under the carpet & ignored.