I don't understand what you could mean. I download the nVidia driver from nVidia's website and follow the directions, editing Xorg.conf so it uses the proper driver. If I try to use Mesa the game won't run at all in most cases. I've got a GeForceFX 5600XT and a 2.6ghz celeron and get very playable fps in every game mode. Yet in Linux performance is markedly worse even with lower detail settings. Is there another step I'm missing?
I agree. Moving back to XP this summer showed me what a hassle it is to set up and run Windows. A zillion things I took for granted in *nix (SSH, graphic FTP client, office suite, the ability to write ISO images) are totally absent from a Windows installation unless you hunt through Google or Download.com or go buy something at the store. Getting a LAMP server running under Fedora was a piece of cake.
My DVD-ROM drive came with my PC when I originally got it from Gateway. I've moved from the Gateway-installed Windows98 and therefore don't have the stock DVD player software Gateway included. To replace this functionality in Windows I'd have to buy it all over again. This problem is far easier to solve with Linux.
After nearly a year in Linux, Windows only has half the built-in functionality I've come to expect, game compatibility be damned.
how did you accomplish this? I tried to run UT2k4 native on several distributions, always making sure I have the most recent nVidia drivers, and UT's OpenGL is DOG SLOW.
Do tell me how you got it to be faster than it is on Windows.
Q: On the blogs there are those who say that Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore. Can you give us some examples of where you see innovation? (in other words: gibber at me about INNOVATION)
A: Blah blah blah, innovation, blah, technology, blah blah, innovative, blah blah innovation. Did I mention innovation?
Q: Coming up with tough questions for you is pretty hard, if you were in my position, what tough questions would you be asking the CEO of Microsoft? (translation: Wow! You can answer softball questions even when I call them hard! I'll make them even softer: YOU ask them!)
A: Why, I'd be asking myself about INNOVATION! I'd be asking why all those other technology companies aren't doing it! And I assure you it has nothing at all to do with the fact that my company has single-handedly annihilated any definition that was once connected with that word.
Q: To end it up, since a lot of Microsoft employees watch Channel 9 too, what would you say to all the Microsoft employees around the world who work at Microsoft? (One softball-in-disguise was enough! Now I'll just ask one last stupid question that uses the company name redundantly!)
A: I'd say keep INNOVATING! Yep! Oh, and by the way: INNOVATION! Haha! Isn't it great being able to say a word so much that nobody knows what it means anymore?
Q: Now time for some tough questions.
A: OK. End of the softballs.
Q: On the blogs there are those who say that Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore. Can you give us some examples of where you see innovation? (in other words: gibber at me about INNOVATION)
A: Blah blah blah, innovation, blah, technology, blah blah, innovative, blah blah innovation. Did I mention innovation?
Q: Coming up with tough questions for you is pretty hard, if you were in my position, what tough questions would you be asking the CEO of Microsoft? (translation: Wow! You can answer softball questions even when I call them hard! I'll make them even softer: YOU ask them!)
A: Why, I'd be asking myself about INNOVATION! I'd be asking why all those other technology companies aren't doing it! And I assure you it has nothing at all to do with the fact that my company has single-handedly annihilated any definition that was once connected with that word.
Q: To end it up, since a lot of Microsoft employees watch Channel 9 too, what would you say to all the Microsoft employees around the world who work at Microsoft? (One softball-in-disguise was enough! Now I'll just ask one last stupid question that uses the company name redundantly!)
A: I'd say keep INNOVATING! Yep! Oh, and did I mention INNOVATION? Haha! Isn't it great being able to say a word so much that nobody knows what it means anymore?
This could be doable, though I don't necessarily believe in its efficacy.
Corporations are not people, and OSS is and always has been free to people. Corporations have, under the law, similarities to "persons" but perhaps a distinction can be made.
But then you'll have to tackle the issues of WHO or WHAT the corporations pay, how the money is distributed, and policies regarding employees of said corporations.
When it becomes non-free in any sense, you open a huge legal can of worms. There's got to be a better way.
Frankly, I think GPL/OSS is it. People have done plenty of inventive things with open software and I don't believe it's the end of innovation. I believe it has lowered the bar of entry for those who would innovate. It treats software the way it should: as a science.
This Apple thing is irrelevant. Desktop Linux needs to adapt no more and no less than it did before the announcement (In fact, all that's changed because of the announcement is now EVERYBODY knows PPC has no future, not just Apple).
The desktop development projects will continue, and anything under the GPL is effectively immortal. Progress will continue to be made on GNOME/KDE etc.
There seems to be a notion that if OSS Unices don't get themselves a GUI comparable to OSX soon, "we" have lost some kind of battle and the world will be shrouded in darkness.
But OSS has all the time in the world, as long as there is commodity hardware. Just make a good GUI and the people who want freedom will take it. The sky, contrary to Slashdot groupthink, IS NOT FALLING.
Right. I should have been more specific. She came a little later and wasn't necessarily "in," but I figured I ought to mention her because she is sometimes included with those others in that set of authors.
As for Chuck Williams, I read his War in Heaven book and thought it was OK. He and his work obviously have far less appeal than the Big Three (Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkien).
Chesterton was linked with the Inklings writer's group at Oxford, and heavily influenced C.S. Lewis theologically. Sayers was from a slightly later period, but still included by some in that group.
I don't know where you get this stuff about anti-semitism. Among G.K.C.'s works that I've read (Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, some of Manalive and What's Wrong With The World), I can't even recall mention of the Hebrew people. Most of what I read of him is either expertly written fictional prose, or essays having to do with the nature of God and the universe and life on earth. Claiming he's racist comes completely out of left field, in my mind.
Are you sure these claims of anti-semitism aren't frivolous, or the product of deliberately misconstruing their words? Yes, he was a devout Catholic, but anti-semitic? Chesterton is probably one of the greatest theologians and almost certainly the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.
Fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia should also look for the work of the other authors that were in the same writing group at Oxford with those two. My favorite is G.K. Chesterton, but there is also Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers.
[some] Nerds like Tolkien. Tolkien and Lewis were part of the same gang of lit nerds in Oxford. Therefore Lewis is [somewhat] similar to Tolkien. Therefore Lewis has [some] nerd interest.
Anyway, it's a news item about a new fantasy flick. I think that's nerdular enough. I was glad to see the article.
From the article: At virtually every stage of development, the code is available for review by those who have an interest. It's like a global faculty peer review that follows the traditional tenets of the scientific method.
Well, it's computer science. It was only a matter of time until somebody realized that this was the best way.
As much as Slasdotters love to make fun of him, this is all thanks to the awkward charisma of Richard M. Stallman.
Here's the article. The author went to a "conservative" political action committee, and the minority of pro-peace conservatives were practically spat upon.
"Orwellian" would mean Big Brother is watching. And you're right. "Orwellian" has been used so much, it has been pegerized into conspiracy-nut meaninglessness.
While a national ID would smell like Orwell, reality at hand is more akin to Huxley. Huxley spelled out a future where everyone was turned (by drugs and something like TV) into obedient zombies. Surveillance was unnecessary. I think that is closer to the world we have now. (How many of us would rather escape into a sitcom than think about--hell, DO SOMETHING about--the horrors of runaway government?)
I heard of a contemporary poet saying that Big Brother isn't watching; he's singing and dancing. When people are more interested in American Idol (or Slashdot) than they are in things that affect their lives, I think that's accurate.
According to an article in a recent edition of the American Conservative, being a conservative these days means unconditional support of the war and worshipping the President and the Party. That is all.
The author of the article, who had recently been at a Republican convention, laments that anyone who is too intellectually alert to realize that these things are neither conservative nor desirable is instantly shunned as a "leftie."
America's definitions of words for political stance have been so perverted that meaningful political discussion is very difficult in face-to-face conversation unless you start with definitions, and literally impossible on TV.
I think the whole thing strikes me as frighteningly Huxleyan. There probably isn't much we can do about it at this point.
I can't format page/paragraph/font without using the TAB key a zillion times. There need to be ALT key combos for every field in those dialog boxes so a user can switch to any one of them instantly without mousing or tabbing.
Word does this. OO.o does not. Get with the freakin' program, OpenOffice. It's the simplest feature of all and I keep telling myself the next version will have it. But it never does. It is very frustrating.
Sorry, but that's the perception too many Americans have, so that's the way I articulated the idea. Thankfully, most Slashdotters *are* smarter than that. By "it" I partially meant "the superpower holding a bludgeon to the planet." The USA currently is the largest and most influential empire in history. I'm not particularly proud of the kind of influence nor how it got its empire status, but that's the way things are. I was merely pointing out that this situation will not be permanent.
While our country is losing its political potency (Bush parading around Europe, accomplishing nothing, was evidence enough), there has been an "it"ness about the USA in an economic sense because it has been the largest consumer base and the collection area of vast amounts of wealth. When China becomes "it," China will be the global consumer target and perhaps the global power/wealth center. That's all.
Many Americans think their country is so screaming important, when the reality is that we're just another bunch of people on another swatch of land just like everybody else.
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I don't understand what you could mean. I download the nVidia driver from nVidia's website and follow the directions, editing Xorg.conf so it uses the proper driver. If I try to use Mesa the game won't run at all in most cases. I've got a GeForceFX 5600XT and a 2.6ghz celeron and get very playable fps in every game mode. Yet in Linux performance is markedly worse even with lower detail settings. Is there another step I'm missing?
How complicated does this have to be?
I agree. Moving back to XP this summer showed me what a hassle it is to set up and run Windows. A zillion things I took for granted in *nix (SSH, graphic FTP client, office suite, the ability to write ISO images) are totally absent from a Windows installation unless you hunt through Google or Download.com or go buy something at the store. Getting a LAMP server running under Fedora was a piece of cake.
My DVD-ROM drive came with my PC when I originally got it from Gateway. I've moved from the Gateway-installed Windows98 and therefore don't have the stock DVD player software Gateway included. To replace this functionality in Windows I'd have to buy it all over again. This problem is far easier to solve with Linux.
After nearly a year in Linux, Windows only has half the built-in functionality I've come to expect, game compatibility be damned.
>Unreal Tournament 2004 (native, faster)
how did you accomplish this? I tried to run UT2k4 native on several distributions, always making sure I have the most recent nVidia drivers, and UT's OpenGL is DOG SLOW.
Do tell me how you got it to be faster than it is on Windows.
Q: Now time for some tough questions.
A: OK. End of the softballs.
Q: On the blogs there are those who say that Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore. Can you give us some examples of where you see innovation? (in other words: gibber at me about INNOVATION)
A: Blah blah blah, innovation, blah, technology, blah blah, innovative, blah blah innovation. Did I mention innovation?
Q: Coming up with tough questions for you is pretty hard, if you were in my position, what tough questions would you be asking the CEO of Microsoft? (translation: Wow! You can answer softball questions even when I call them hard! I'll make them even softer: YOU ask them!)
A: Why, I'd be asking myself about INNOVATION! I'd be asking why all those other technology companies aren't doing it! And I assure you it has nothing at all to do with the fact that my company has single-handedly annihilated any definition that was once connected with that word.
Q: To end it up, since a lot of Microsoft employees watch Channel 9 too, what would you say to all the Microsoft employees around the world who work at Microsoft? (One softball-in-disguise was enough! Now I'll just ask one last stupid question that uses the company name redundantly!)
A: I'd say keep INNOVATING! Yep! Oh, and by the way: INNOVATION! Haha! Isn't it great being able to say a word so much that nobody knows what it means anymore?
Q: Now time for some tough questions. A: OK. End of the softballs. Q: On the blogs there are those who say that Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore. Can you give us some examples of where you see innovation? (in other words: gibber at me about INNOVATION) A: Blah blah blah, innovation, blah, technology, blah blah, innovative, blah blah innovation. Did I mention innovation? Q: Coming up with tough questions for you is pretty hard, if you were in my position, what tough questions would you be asking the CEO of Microsoft? (translation: Wow! You can answer softball questions even when I call them hard! I'll make them even softer: YOU ask them!) A: Why, I'd be asking myself about INNOVATION! I'd be asking why all those other technology companies aren't doing it! And I assure you it has nothing at all to do with the fact that my company has single-handedly annihilated any definition that was once connected with that word. Q: To end it up, since a lot of Microsoft employees watch Channel 9 too, what would you say to all the Microsoft employees around the world who work at Microsoft? (One softball-in-disguise was enough! Now I'll just ask one last stupid question that uses the company name redundantly!) A: I'd say keep INNOVATING! Yep! Oh, and did I mention INNOVATION? Haha! Isn't it great being able to say a word so much that nobody knows what it means anymore?
This could be doable, though I don't necessarily believe in its efficacy.
Corporations are not people, and OSS is and always has been free to people. Corporations have, under the law, similarities to "persons" but perhaps a distinction can be made.
But then you'll have to tackle the issues of WHO or WHAT the corporations pay, how the money is distributed, and policies regarding employees of said corporations.
When it becomes non-free in any sense, you open a huge legal can of worms. There's got to be a better way.
Frankly, I think GPL/OSS is it. People have done plenty of inventive things with open software and I don't believe it's the end of innovation. I believe it has lowered the bar of entry for those who would innovate. It treats software the way it should: as a science.
My 2 cents.
Is anyone else getting really, really, really sick of hearing that word?
He's saying that from the top, Microsoft, as a corporation (we're talking about management here), doesn't care.
No bureaucracy does. Much less a marketing-driven one.
This Apple thing is irrelevant. Desktop Linux needs to adapt no more and no less than it did before the announcement (In fact, all that's changed because of the announcement is now EVERYBODY knows PPC has no future, not just Apple).
The desktop development projects will continue, and anything under the GPL is effectively immortal. Progress will continue to be made on GNOME/KDE etc.
There seems to be a notion that if OSS Unices don't get themselves a GUI comparable to OSX soon, "we" have lost some kind of battle and the world will be shrouded in darkness.
But OSS has all the time in the world, as long as there is commodity hardware. Just make a good GUI and the people who want freedom will take it. The sky, contrary to Slashdot groupthink, IS NOT FALLING.
Maybe we should feed him to the panteras.
Right. I should have been more specific. She came a little later and wasn't necessarily "in," but I figured I ought to mention her because she is sometimes included with those others in that set of authors.
As for Chuck Williams, I read his War in Heaven book and thought it was OK. He and his work obviously have far less appeal than the Big Three (Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkien).
Chesterton was linked with the Inklings writer's group at Oxford, and heavily influenced C.S. Lewis theologically. Sayers was from a slightly later period, but still included by some in that group.
I don't know where you get this stuff about anti-semitism. Among G.K.C.'s works that I've read (Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, some of Manalive and What's Wrong With The World), I can't even recall mention of the Hebrew people. Most of what I read of him is either expertly written fictional prose, or essays having to do with the nature of God and the universe and life on earth. Claiming he's racist comes completely out of left field, in my mind.
Are you sure these claims of anti-semitism aren't frivolous, or the product of deliberately misconstruing their words? Yes, he was a devout Catholic, but anti-semitic? Chesterton is probably one of the greatest theologians and almost certainly the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.
Fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia should also look for the work of the other authors that were in the same writing group at Oxford with those two. My favorite is G.K. Chesterton, but there is also Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers.
[some] Nerds like Tolkien. Tolkien and Lewis were part of the same gang of lit nerds in Oxford. Therefore Lewis is [somewhat] similar to Tolkien. Therefore Lewis has [some] nerd interest.
Anyway, it's a news item about a new fantasy flick. I think that's nerdular enough. I was glad to see the article.
From the article:
At virtually every stage of development, the code is available for review by those who have an interest. It's like a global faculty peer review that follows the traditional tenets of the scientific method.
Well, it's computer science. It was only a matter of time until somebody realized that this was the best way.
As much as Slasdotters love to make fun of him, this is all thanks to the awkward charisma of Richard M. Stallman.
Here's the article. The author went to a "conservative" political action committee, and the minority of pro-peace conservatives were practically spat upon.
"Orwellian" would mean Big Brother is watching. And you're right. "Orwellian" has been used so much, it has been pegerized into conspiracy-nut meaninglessness.
While a national ID would smell like Orwell, reality at hand is more akin to Huxley. Huxley spelled out a future where everyone was turned (by drugs and something like TV) into obedient zombies. Surveillance was unnecessary. I think that is closer to the world we have now. (How many of us would rather escape into a sitcom than think about--hell, DO SOMETHING about--the horrors of runaway government?)
I heard of a contemporary poet saying that Big Brother isn't watching; he's singing and dancing. When people are more interested in American Idol (or Slashdot) than they are in things that affect their lives, I think that's accurate.
Actually, I think I did a while ago. *sigh* Might as well do it again.
According to an article in a recent edition of the American Conservative, being a conservative these days means unconditional support of the war and worshipping the President and the Party. That is all.
The author of the article, who had recently been at a Republican convention, laments that anyone who is too intellectually alert to realize that these things are neither conservative nor desirable is instantly shunned as a "leftie."
America's definitions of words for political stance have been so perverted that meaningful political discussion is very difficult in face-to-face conversation unless you start with definitions, and literally impossible on TV.
I think the whole thing strikes me as frighteningly Huxleyan. There probably isn't much we can do about it at this point.
I can't format page/paragraph/font without using the TAB key a zillion times. There need to be ALT key combos for every field in those dialog boxes so a user can switch to any one of them instantly without mousing or tabbing.
Word does this. OO.o does not. Get with the freakin' program, OpenOffice. It's the simplest feature of all and I keep telling myself the next version will have it. But it never does. It is very frustrating.
Wow. Just... Wow.
No, I haven't, but I really hope Sun doesn't sell this technology to Steve Ballmer.
>shudder
Are you kidding? This might be the first real use for the DS--a dual-screen Linux PDA. It certainly isn't going to make it as a gaming platform.
Is it clothing?
Sorry, but that's the perception too many Americans have, so that's the way I articulated the idea. Thankfully, most Slashdotters *are* smarter than that. By "it" I partially meant "the superpower holding a bludgeon to the planet." The USA currently is the largest and most influential empire in history. I'm not particularly proud of the kind of influence nor how it got its empire status, but that's the way things are. I was merely pointing out that this situation will not be permanent.
While our country is losing its political potency (Bush parading around Europe, accomplishing nothing, was evidence enough), there has been an "it"ness about the USA in an economic sense because it has been the largest consumer base and the collection area of vast amounts of wealth. When China becomes "it," China will be the global consumer target and perhaps the global power/wealth center. That's all.
Many Americans think their country is so screaming important, when the reality is that we're just another bunch of people on another swatch of land just like everybody else.