Gnome was faster. Then they released GTK+ v2, which is a lot slower. Have you ever run Konsole from KDE 3.1 side-by-side with GnomeTerminal from Gnome 2.4? I have. One is fast, the other is Gnometerminal. I have an Athlon 1700+ with 768mb of DDR RAM and a Radeon 8500, why can I type faster than Gnome 2.4 can draw on my screen? KDE can't.
No, I'm not a retard who can't find his own ass with both his hands. I'm using the Slackware distribution (versions 9 and 9.1 have Gnome 2.x, the slow Gnome, in them).
I don't think anyone makes x86 laptops, except for Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, and a handful of other OEMs. They all have licence agreements with Microsoft to include the price of the Windows install in the MSRP. It is between the OEM and the consumer this charge for Windows which is not requested nor desired. It is not a problem of the VAR or shop.
They can delete it for you, but you are still charged for it. It's a tax, pure and simple, on buying portable x86 computers without paying Microsoft money because, "Everyone runs Windows!"
You can make white box PCs, but there is no such thing as a whitebox laptop. I can't buy myself laptop HD, laptop motherboard, laptop case + LCD, etc, and itegrate it myself. No such thing exists.
If you do anything more complex than a table layout in IE, it just won't work. How does this look in the latest IE? Not like the reference image, I'm sure.
We did get DDR, not late but chopped up song wise. None of the NA DDR releases have had anywhere the number of songs in the Japan version, due to licencing. It's well known that licencing of songs is a big, sweaty, nasty bitch. That's my DDR Max 2 was delayed in Canada -- licencing!
As for FF3 for the FAMICOM, it has never been released in North America. Origins gives you 1 and 2, Chronicles adds 4, Anthology gives 5 and 6, and FF 7, 8, and 9 were already on the PS1 -- 3 is not listed because it was never ported (sadly).
I think this is only a perceived problem, not an actual problem. Why? Because there were plenty of original games out this year, games like Magic Pengel: The Quest for Colour. However, because they weren't sequels to popular games, they weren't hyped up as sequels. That's why most people didn't know about them.
Last year, was there a big, "GET READY for JAX and DAXTER" hype? No, because it was an original game, and most people just didn't know. This year, Jak 2 was Jak 2 and hyped as such. The new, original releases this year (I-Ninja, Metal Arms) aren't hyped up at all the same way, so it's pretty easy to think they're not being hyped when you're just being inundated with advertising that's relying on sequel strength alone.
Gandhi never advocated violence. Many people/reporters/etc would try and give him theoretical situations where he would be "forced" to choose a violent course. The quote was, "Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence."
And if you bother to read the history of where this statement originates, the next thing he said was, "But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.... But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. We do want to drive out the best in the man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. And in the process of finding his own status, the beast in him is bound now and again to put up his ugly appearance. The world is not entirely governed by logic. Life itself involves some kind of violence and we have to choose the path of least violence."
If you are busy trying to argue wether people cane or can't be more or less right, then you've missed why I pointed out that quote which was taken out of context.
"Microsoft Rep: How about some Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad."
Content download only there, no online multiplayer!
There should be stricter enforcing of packaging policy via what can say online enabled in what size if they only have content download vs. true online multiplayer.
The time for this lawsuit was over a year ago. You know, before the game went Greatest Hits on PS2 and Platinum Hits on Xbox. Before the sequel came out!
It reminds me of Sega being sued by a lady who claims that Sega used her likeness (instead of Apollo Smile, who did the voice work on the NA releases) in Space Channel 5. There's no reason for this frivolous lawsuit.
You talk about FFX-2 in the future tense, "is going to be like." You talk about Silent Hill 3 in the future tense, "looks like it's going to be a great game."
These games are both released. In fact, Silent Hill 3 was released 4 months ago in North America, and even earlier in the UK!
SH3 is the best graphics you'll ever see on a PS2, which is to say not as good as GCN or Xbox graphics. It's still a great game. X-2 is also good, and much better at hiding its load times than SH3.
In that link, replace Clinton with Bush, Kosovo with Afganhistan, Serbian with Taliban, and suddenly it's totally current. Everything else fits the same mold. History repeating itself?
Was the viral attachement a shellscript that could somehow execute and crack root and then go on to messing with my system?
No, I don't think so. The mildy suspicious of us won't run Windows. The most suspicious of us are busy running QNX on iPaqs because nothing will ever, ever infect it or mess with it! Nothing that can infect most people, anyways;)
Is that the US has done a lot of that, except to Cuba.
They've sent spies to kill Castro. They've let out animal viruses that made it so that herds of cattle had to be destroyed. They overfly the nation regularly with planes. They've indirectly and directly invaded (Bay of Pigs, etc).
Castro was hailed as a hero in the US for working to overthrow Batista, who was corrupt. Once they got him out of power, Castra chose communism. He removed the US control that was there, trying to make Cuba independant and strong.
" It standardized the serial interface via FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serial-Interface-Layer), which many early BBS software used (such as the Maximus package I used), "
As in, Binkley Term, Opus, Maximus, Seadog, Fido BBS, and many other pieces of software used it. FOSSIL was an integral part of Fidonet, although Fidonet was created after the start of FOSSIL (IIRC).
It was sad watching the number of daily callers get smaller and smaller. By the time it was one or two a day, I stopped. No point, really.
You pluralize 1960 to 1960s, not 1960es, so you aren't omitting an e. She or he is, however, omitting the 19, so the correct form of the joke would be:
I was 1:140/137 (I think 137.. it's been 4 or 5 years now).
I'm surprised I can still find webpages for Fidonet and Binkley term, but they're there.
I makes me wish Maximus run under Linux. Then I could have it setup so that you could telnet in and register an account, and it'd be like a really cool version of the webforums -- more interactive, pretty, and less garbage. I've never really liked web forums, except for a few (Slashdot, Kuro5hin) which have decent layouts and threading of comments:)
Sounds remarkably like a tiny version of Fidonet. Fidonot had many zones, regions, nodes, and points. It standardized the serial interface via FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serias-Interface-Layer), which many early BBS software used (such as the Maximus package I used), and the mail programs.
Through it, you could have message echoes, file echoes, you could offer files for remote login (I had BBSes from Texas dailing in to my Saskatoon BBS and requesting libraries I'd written, it was cool), and request files from remote BBSes. You could also send them via file echoes, so they'd be scheduled and sent between the nodes when the optimal time to call was (I used BinkleyTerm as my front end, it handled all that).
Towards the end, the technology was really advanced. Maximus version 3 ran on NT, OS/2, and DOS. It had a complete VM and language you compiled to byte code, as well as the MECCA display language. Using it, you'd make MECCA files that were like templates. It could insert anything, and would be tranlated on the fly to ASCII, ANSI, AVATAR, or (thanks to v3) RIP (remote image protocol) -- which was a very fast remote EGA-like display. Mecca itself was internally similar to Avatar.
The VM language (similar to Pascal and Basic) allowed you to automate it further. Naturally, none of the local teenaged sysops who barely understood computers used Maximus; they were all busy using Renegade with some ansi pack to be leet. I "tricked out" my BBS by having it send long and pretty ansis at the users as much as possible, since this noticably increased my callbacks. People always seemed surprised at what I could do with Maximus;)
Anyways, that's my trip down memory lane for the day.
"... inevitably, a Carrot-Top or similar ad, designed deliberately to be annoying.."
Do you really think that a company goes to an ad agency, plonks down a million dollars, and says to them, "make us something that will piss people off -- we want them annoyed!"
No, of course not, that would be stupid. They're just commercials designed with a different taste in comedy than you have. Don't ascribe to malice what can be explained through different points of view.
"Water comes out of the sky for free. When it's bottled it's a $5 billion industry."
Yes, all because of perceived value. If I say, "here is a 5$ orange" you will laugh at me and walk away. However, if this is an orange you think will make it so you can eat all you want without worrying about your weight, you might think that 5$ is too low of a price.
Same thing with the water. You can get water from a tap, but it's not filtered or purified by reverse osmosis or from the Alps in France, is it? That's what you pay for -- what you value the item at.
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Gnome was faster. Then they released GTK+ v2, which is a lot slower. Have you ever run Konsole from KDE 3.1 side-by-side with GnomeTerminal from Gnome 2.4? I have. One is fast, the other is Gnometerminal. I have an Athlon 1700+ with 768mb of DDR RAM and a Radeon 8500, why can I type faster than Gnome 2.4 can draw on my screen? KDE can't.
No, I'm not a retard who can't find his own ass with both his hands. I'm using the Slackware distribution (versions 9 and 9.1 have Gnome 2.x, the slow Gnome, in them).
"What's the big deal? ...not worth using unless you really need a compiler that generates fast code."
Is this some sort of cruel joke? Do you like running slow code?
I don't think anyone makes x86 laptops, except for Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, and a handful of other OEMs. They all have licence agreements with Microsoft to include the price of the Windows install in the MSRP. It is between the OEM and the consumer this charge for Windows which is not requested nor desired. It is not a problem of the VAR or shop.
They can delete it for you, but you are still charged for it. It's a tax, pure and simple, on buying portable x86 computers without paying Microsoft money because, "Everyone runs Windows!"
You can make white box PCs, but there is no such thing as a whitebox laptop. I can't buy myself laptop HD, laptop motherboard, laptop case + LCD, etc, and itegrate it myself. No such thing exists.
When was the last time you saw a white-box laptop?
Getting laptops w/o Windows (or any OS, since Sun machines include Solaris, and TiBooks include MacOS), is still fairly tricky.
But my routers won't route packets with random destinations. They'd all have to be destined to the system, even if the sequence numbers are off.
"... but we'd also finally have everybody using a browser that actually supported web standards! (Yeah, IE is pretty close nowadays"
No, no it's not. Not even in the same class! It's not Netscape 4, but it sure drags its ass like that horrible melange of shit code.
Do you see rounded corners here? How about the fact that CSS support hasn't been updated it years, specifically it still mainly matches these charts which have in supporting only 80% of CSS1, 10% of CSS2, and none of the proposed CSS 3 standards? In the past 2 years, Mozilla's CSS support has not remained static.
If you do anything more complex than a table layout in IE, it just won't work. How does this look in the latest IE? Not like the reference image, I'm sure.
We did get DDR, not late but chopped up song wise. None of the NA DDR releases have had anywhere the number of songs in the Japan version, due to licencing. It's well known that licencing of songs is a big, sweaty, nasty bitch. That's my DDR Max 2 was delayed in Canada -- licencing!
As for FF3 for the FAMICOM, it has never been released in North America. Origins gives you 1 and 2, Chronicles adds 4, Anthology gives 5 and 6, and FF 7, 8, and 9 were already on the PS1 -- 3 is not listed because it was never ported (sadly).
And that'-s #11, "The Originality Vacuum"
I think this is only a perceived problem, not an actual problem. Why? Because there were plenty of original games out this year, games like Magic Pengel: The Quest for Colour. However, because they weren't sequels to popular games, they weren't hyped up as sequels. That's why most people didn't know about them.
Last year, was there a big, "GET READY for JAX and DAXTER" hype? No, because it was an original game, and most people just didn't know. This year, Jak 2 was Jak 2 and hyped as such. The new, original releases this year (I-Ninja, Metal Arms) aren't hyped up at all the same way, so it's pretty easy to think they're not being hyped when you're just being inundated with advertising that's relying on sequel strength alone.
Gandhi never advocated violence. Many people/reporters/etc would try and give him theoretical situations where he would be "forced" to choose a violent course. The quote was, "Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence."
And if you bother to read the history of where this statement originates, the next thing he said was, "But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....
But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
We do want to drive out the best in the man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. And in the process of finding his own status, the beast in him is bound now and again to put up his ugly appearance.
The world is not entirely governed by logic. Life itself involves some kind of violence and we have to choose the path of least violence."
Go read for yourself his philosophy.
If you are busy trying to argue wether people cane or can't be more or less right, then you've missed why I pointed out that quote which was taken out of context.
Kuro5hin's technical section has much to do with the details of programming and the like. Feel free to browse it, or even add to it.
""Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence." -Mohatma Gandhi"
Violence is cowardice. Cowardice is beating up people who are merely disagreeing. Cowardice is pulling a gun on someone because you disagree.
"Microsoft Rep: How about some Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad."
Content download only there, no online multiplayer!
There should be stricter enforcing of packaging policy via what can say online enabled in what size if they only have content download vs. true online multiplayer.
The time for this lawsuit was over a year ago. You know, before the game went Greatest Hits on PS2 and Platinum Hits on Xbox. Before the sequel came out!
It reminds me of Sega being sued by a lady who claims that Sega used her likeness (instead of Apollo Smile, who did the voice work on the NA releases) in Space Channel 5. There's no reason for this frivolous lawsuit.
You talk about FFX-2 in the future tense, "is going to be like." You talk about Silent Hill 3 in the future tense, "looks like it's going to be a great game."
These games are both released. In fact, Silent Hill 3 was released 4 months ago in North America, and even earlier in the UK!
SH3 is the best graphics you'll ever see on a PS2, which is to say not as good as GCN or Xbox graphics. It's still a great game. X-2 is also good, and much better at hiding its load times than SH3.
In that link, replace Clinton with Bush, Kosovo with Afganhistan, Serbian with Taliban, and suddenly it's totally current. Everything else fits the same mold. History repeating itself?
Was the viral attachement a shellscript that could somehow execute and crack root and then go on to messing with my system?
;)
No, I don't think so. The mildy suspicious of us won't run Windows. The most suspicious of us are busy running QNX on iPaqs because nothing will ever, ever infect it or mess with it! Nothing that can infect most people, anyways
Maximus for UNIX.
Hella cool, I say. I found this last night!
Is that the US has done a lot of that, except to Cuba.
They've sent spies to kill Castro. They've let out animal viruses that made it so that herds of cattle had to be destroyed. They overfly the nation regularly with planes. They've indirectly and directly invaded (Bay of Pigs, etc).
Castro was hailed as a hero in the US for working to overthrow Batista, who was corrupt. Once they got him out of power, Castra chose communism. He removed the US control that was there, trying to make Cuba independant and strong.
This, naturally, did not sit well with the US.
Today they still harras Cuba constantly. It's silly.
" It standardized the serial interface via FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serial-Interface-Layer), which many early BBS software used (such as the Maximus package I used), "
As in, Binkley Term, Opus, Maximus, Seadog, Fido BBS, and many other pieces of software used it. FOSSIL was an integral part of Fidonet, although Fidonet was created after the start of FOSSIL (IIRC).
It was sad watching the number of daily callers get smaller and smaller. By the time it was one or two a day, I stopped. No point, really.
You pluralize 1960 to 1960s, not 1960es, so you aren't omitting an e. She or he is, however, omitting the 19, so the correct form of the joke would be:
"The '50s called; they want their lingo back."
Note the keen use of the semi-colon!
I was 1:140/137 (I think 137 .. it's been 4 or 5 years now).
:)
I'm surprised I can still find webpages for Fidonet and Binkley term, but they're there.
I makes me wish Maximus run under Linux. Then I could have it setup so that you could telnet in and register an account, and it'd be like a really cool version of the webforums -- more interactive, pretty, and less garbage. I've never really liked web forums, except for a few (Slashdot, Kuro5hin) which have decent layouts and threading of comments
Oh, what's this? Looks like someone did release it... it's Maximus, and Squish message format, and more.
Maybe we should organize a real, online BBS setup? Not the old Fidonet, but something new?
Sounds remarkably like a tiny version of Fidonet. Fidonot had many zones, regions, nodes, and points. It standardized the serial interface via FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serias-Interface-Layer), which many early BBS software used (such as the Maximus package I used), and the mail programs.
;)
Through it, you could have message echoes, file echoes, you could offer files for remote login (I had BBSes from Texas dailing in to my Saskatoon BBS and requesting libraries I'd written, it was cool), and request files from remote BBSes. You could also send them via file echoes, so they'd be scheduled and sent between the nodes when the optimal time to call was (I used BinkleyTerm as my front end, it handled all that).
Towards the end, the technology was really advanced. Maximus version 3 ran on NT, OS/2, and DOS. It had a complete VM and language you compiled to byte code, as well as the MECCA display language. Using it, you'd make MECCA files that were like templates. It could insert anything, and would be tranlated on the fly to ASCII, ANSI, AVATAR, or (thanks to v3) RIP (remote image protocol) -- which was a very fast remote EGA-like display. Mecca itself was internally similar to Avatar.
The VM language (similar to Pascal and Basic) allowed you to automate it further. Naturally, none of the local teenaged sysops who barely understood computers used Maximus; they were all busy using Renegade with some ansi pack to be leet. I "tricked out" my BBS by having it send long and pretty ansis at the users as much as possible, since this noticably increased my callbacks. People always seemed surprised at what I could do with Maximus
Anyways, that's my trip down memory lane for the day.
"... inevitably, a Carrot-Top or similar ad, designed deliberately to be annoying .."
Do you really think that a company goes to an ad agency, plonks down a million dollars, and says to them, "make us something that will piss people off -- we want them annoyed!"
No, of course not, that would be stupid. They're just commercials designed with a different taste in comedy than you have. Don't ascribe to malice what can be explained through different points of view.
"Water comes out of the sky for free. When it's bottled it's a $5 billion industry."
Yes, all because of perceived value. If I say, "here is a 5$ orange" you will laugh at me and walk away. However, if this is an orange you think will make it so you can eat all you want without worrying about your weight, you might think that 5$ is too low of a price.
Same thing with the water. You can get water from a tap, but it's not filtered or purified by reverse osmosis or from the Alps in France, is it? That's what you pay for -- what you value the item at.
I'm surprised more people don't understand this.
Buddy, if you have a composite connection that does 480p, you are the only person in the world to have it.
I think you mean component connection (scroll down a bit).