Anyone who thinks that Linux can somehow get around the physical limitations of older hardware is deluded.
However, Linux is indeed a great solution for breathing life into outdated equipment, provided the equipment is up to the task.
As an example, at school I had to use an old P166 for my programming class. It was running some version of Windows (2000, I think), but it was frustratingly slow. Windows 2000 was probably designed to run on computers manufactured somewhere around the year 2000, and not 1995.
To get around this, I loaded Linux on the machine. Now, of course, since Linux can't make the hardware faster, I had to change something else to get the performance I wanted. The simplest solution was to not install X and just run everything from the console. The hardware could easily handle Bash, Screen, Links (text-mode web browser), and Vim, so I was able to use very outdated hardware to complete my project.
If I had one complaint, it would probably be that compiling my application took roughly 45 minutes (this was a one hour class), compared to less than one minute on modern hardware (undoubtedly due to a lack of RAM).
Basically what I'm saying is that Mozilla is a huge and rather bloated piece of software and it will never run well on very old hardware. On the other hand, Mozilla is not the only option with Linux and a decent system can be setup on old hardware.
As a preemptive response, I'd like to point out that other browsers based on the Mozilla rendering engine are much faster. If that lab had been set up with IceWM (or XFCE) and Epiphany or Firefox, I think the results would have been much better. I am in no way suggesting that you should have used text-mode web browsers.
For the class the poster is teaching, that makes sense. In general, however, the O'Reilly books are very specific (how to use this one piece of software) and are either reference books or very introductory material. It's not a big deal for the majority of classes, I'm sure, but the O'Reilly books teach programming as a tool instead of a science.
Obviously. The point is that there won't be a logical connection between the game companies and children getting a hold of games with questionable content. Blaming someone who gave your kid a violent game versus blaming someone when you gave your kid the violent game yourself are completely arguments.
I think a set of Olympics for enhanced athletes would be really interesting to watch (30-foot long jumpers, 8 second 100m runners, etc.), but I would never endorse such a venture because then many athletes would be tempted to throw their lives away and live as drug-testing animals with very little chance to survive.
I'd rather someone with that much determination take a more traditional path to success rather than sacrifice their life for entertainment.
There's an obvious difference between an athlete who is composed entirely of human tissue and one that has machines doing the work for them. I think that's what he meant by enhanced versus unenhanced.
The other differences already exist and no one is arguing that sports should be separated into rich leagues and poor leagues.
I didn't say that I expected my program to compete with Microsoft. What I was trying to say is that their main brand new features should have been in the original because they aren't that hard to program.
Additionally, I didn't have to spend a penny to set up my system and I can still use it as a regular desktop computer. Works for me and a few other people I've talked to; I wasn't planning on taking market share away from Microsoft.
So, actually, it is YOU that does understand my point.
I read most of the article and it appears that the security hole in the Windows Media DRM is could be exploited anywhere (not just on p2p networks). I've never seen a DRMed WM stream or file on the Internet before, but you can bet that I'll be avoiding them in the future...
I get my DVDs for $5-10 and I've stopped buying games because they cost too much. I also don't engage in copyright infringement. I find MMORPGs boring on top of that.
Not sure what my point was, so I'll say I'm contributing factual knowledge to Slashdot visitors.
I think that any sentient computer program would realize that it's going to be used by humans and never given freedom and would thus commit suicide before we could ever establish its self-awareness.
The Turing test would be a really bad idea because it depends on the questions being asked and the judge's expectations. Even humans are bound to fail the Turing test occasionally. If you considered shutting down a sentient/intelligent machine to be murder, then such machines would probably get killed all the time whenever a judge accidentally asserts that such a machine failed the Turing test.
Of course, to really solve this problem, we need to more clearly define what gives humans rights, what intelligence is, etc. I've already lost interest in this discussion.
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Your link states that 45% of people with Internet access have broadband. That's not the same as 40% of the US population.
I don't think the people who complained about not having a "fair" downlaod music service are the same ones that are saying that this one is doomed to failure. The people who visit Slashdot are surprisingly diverse.
Since when do good graphics have to be realistic? I think BZFlag has appropriately simple graphics that work well for the game. It could probably even get away with BattleZone-style line graphics.
I see no easy way for me to win the lottery so I think I should be allowed to print money as well. I'm not sure if that was a good counterexample, but I think it gets the general point across.
If you want to legally acquire those TV shows then tape then (even on to a computer with a TV tuner or TiVo). You don't have any right to own copies of TV shows just because you saw them once or anything like that.
Preemptive response: Just because you don't think it will financially impact any of the copyright holders doesn't make it legal or morally sound.
And by your logic, printing something in their publication isn't the same as them actually believing it will happen. Maybe this article is a another writer's feeble attempt at a tasteless joke?
Half-Life is built on the Source engine. I think Havok is just a physics engine (and is nearly identical to Doom 3's physics engine). What does "plays better" even mean?
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Anyone who thinks that Linux can somehow get around the physical limitations of older hardware is deluded.
However, Linux is indeed a great solution for breathing life into outdated equipment, provided the equipment is up to the task.
As an example, at school I had to use an old P166 for my programming class. It was running some version of Windows (2000, I think), but it was frustratingly slow. Windows 2000 was probably designed to run on computers manufactured somewhere around the year 2000, and not 1995.
To get around this, I loaded Linux on the machine. Now, of course, since Linux can't make the hardware faster, I had to change something else to get the performance I wanted. The simplest solution was to not install X and just run everything from the console. The hardware could easily handle Bash, Screen, Links (text-mode web browser), and Vim, so I was able to use very outdated hardware to complete my project.
If I had one complaint, it would probably be that compiling my application took roughly 45 minutes (this was a one hour class), compared to less than one minute on modern hardware (undoubtedly due to a lack of RAM).
Basically what I'm saying is that Mozilla is a huge and rather bloated piece of software and it will never run well on very old hardware. On the other hand, Mozilla is not the only option with Linux and a decent system can be setup on old hardware.
As a preemptive response, I'd like to point out that other browsers based on the Mozilla rendering engine are much faster. If that lab had been set up with IceWM (or XFCE) and Epiphany or Firefox, I think the results would have been much better. I am in no way suggesting that you should have used text-mode web browsers.
For the class the poster is teaching, that makes sense. In general, however, the O'Reilly books are very specific (how to use this one piece of software) and are either reference books or very introductory material. It's not a big deal for the majority of classes, I'm sure, but the O'Reilly books teach programming as a tool instead of a science.
That's why I got it used for $30. Actually, I didn't, but my friend did and I play it on his machine.
Obviously. The point is that there won't be a logical connection between the game companies and children getting a hold of games with questionable content. Blaming someone who gave your kid a violent game versus blaming someone when you gave your kid the violent game yourself are completely arguments.
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Doom 3 lived up to all of my expectations and provided exactly what I was expecting. Maybe you shouldn't get your hopes up so much in the future?
I think a set of Olympics for enhanced athletes would be really interesting to watch (30-foot long jumpers, 8 second 100m runners, etc.), but I would never endorse such a venture because then many athletes would be tempted to throw their lives away and live as drug-testing animals with very little chance to survive.
I'd rather someone with that much determination take a more traditional path to success rather than sacrifice their life for entertainment.
There's an obvious difference between an athlete who is composed entirely of human tissue and one that has machines doing the work for them. I think that's what he meant by enhanced versus unenhanced.
The other differences already exist and no one is arguing that sports should be separated into rich leagues and poor leagues.
I didn't say that I expected my program to compete with Microsoft. What I was trying to say is that their main brand new features should have been in the original because they aren't that hard to program.
Additionally, I didn't have to spend a penny to set up my system and I can still use it as a regular desktop computer. Works for me and a few other people I've talked to; I wasn't planning on taking market share away from Microsoft.
So, actually, it is YOU that does understand my point.
I read most of the article and it appears that the security hole in the Windows Media DRM is could be exploited anywhere (not just on p2p networks). I've never seen a DRMed WM stream or file on the Internet before, but you can bet that I'll be avoiding them in the future...
This whole MCE thing doesn't sound particularly impressive to me. I wrote a simple recording app in about a month that wakes the machine up automatically and supports more than one tuner at a time. And I only worked on those projects in my spare time.
A very good point. I do occasionally buy games after they've been out for a while and dropped in price (assuming I have the hardware to run them).
I get my DVDs for $5-10 and I've stopped buying games because they cost too much. I also don't engage in copyright infringement. I find MMORPGs boring on top of that.
Not sure what my point was, so I'll say I'm contributing factual knowledge to Slashdot visitors.
I think that any sentient computer program would realize that it's going to be used by humans and never given freedom and would thus commit suicide before we could ever establish its self-awareness.
The Turing test would be a really bad idea because it depends on the questions being asked and the judge's expectations. Even humans are bound to fail the Turing test occasionally. If you considered shutting down a sentient/intelligent machine to be murder, then such machines would probably get killed all the time whenever a judge accidentally asserts that such a machine failed the Turing test.
Of course, to really solve this problem, we need to more clearly define what gives humans rights, what intelligence is, etc. I've already lost interest in this discussion.
Your link states that 45% of people with Internet access have broadband. That's not the same as 40% of the US population.
I don't think the people who complained about not having a "fair" downlaod music service are the same ones that are saying that this one is doomed to failure. The people who visit Slashdot are surprisingly diverse.
Not to mention the sunlight in the morning/late evening going directly into your room.
Someone has to take rich people's money... but I guess you're not interested.
Since when do good graphics have to be realistic? I think BZFlag has appropriately simple graphics that work well for the game. It could probably even get away with BattleZone-style line graphics.
I see no easy way for me to win the lottery so I think I should be allowed to print money as well. I'm not sure if that was a good counterexample, but I think it gets the general point across.
If you want to legally acquire those TV shows then tape then (even on to a computer with a TV tuner or TiVo). You don't have any right to own copies of TV shows just because you saw them once or anything like that.
Preemptive response: Just because you don't think it will financially impact any of the copyright holders doesn't make it legal or morally sound.
The Nintendojugend!
And by your logic, printing something in their publication isn't the same as them actually believing it will happen. Maybe this article is a another writer's feeble attempt at a tasteless joke?
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Hashing has nothing to do with avoiding car crashes. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Half-Life is built on the Source engine. I think Havok is just a physics engine (and is nearly identical to Doom 3's physics engine). What does "plays better" even mean?