I have mod points, and I was about ready to give you a +1 Informative, but I decided that I would rather just reply to you, and say that you are 100% correct regarding Brimstone. It was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this story. I remember being part of the attempt to get Fox to change their minds about the show. And I am partly responsible for the show being something like #6 on online TV Show ratings stats more than 3 years after it was cancelled. I eventually gave up, as I realized it wasn't going to happen.
But it's EXTREMELY nice to see that I'm not the only one who's still pissed off that Fox cancelled it in the first place.
Sorry for not giving you your mod point. But I just thought that this post would say more about it than the mod point. I would strongly advise anyone reading this post to hit a bittorrent site up for the 13 Brimstone episodes. They are really good.
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I would personally argue that any decent operating system should support most (if not all) of your hardware out of the box.
I have a Toshiba M50 laptop that I bought recently. (You can look up the specs yourself... it's a nice enough laptop without a whole lot of strange hardware. AC97 sound, Intel graphics, 100GB SATA HDD, and a lot of other niceties). It came pre-installed with Windows. First thing I did with it was reformat it to dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP Pro.
Windows installed on the SATA hard drive to my great amazement... (Ordinarily it requires a floppy disk... and my laptop lacks a floppy drive). But when Windows was finally installed, there was a list of about 15 items that didn't have drivers installed. This included my built in ethernet card, my wireless card, my sound card, my video card, and a few other things. The OS did NOT handle any of this automatically. I was forced to download drivers for things on my desktop and transfer them over by way of a flash drive, as I didn't have internet access without drivers.
On Ubuntu, pretty much EVERYTHING worked out of the box. 3D Acceleration was working... sound was working... wireless was working... wired internet was working... and it even detected my laptop's widescreen monitor correctly. I later on configured sound so that it worked a little better, and took more advantage of software mixing, and I set up the laptop to display on an external monitor as well. But it all worked out of the box, with a lot less fiddling around than Windows. The only thing that didn't work was the laptop's flash card reader, as no Linux driver is available.
Same goes for my Desktop. (AMD64 3500+, 9800 Pro, Audigy 2, SATA, 2 wireless cards, and built-in ethernet, etc.). Windows installs without video (aside from basic functionality of course) or sound drivers, and required me to install a lot of drivers. Ubuntu installed flawlessly, requiring me to only install better video drivers to enable 3D acceleration. Everything else on the computer just worked.
Ubuntu also just worked on every other machine I've ever tried it on. An iMac G3, my friend's Sony laptop, my friend's Acer laptop, my girlfriend's desktop, both mine and my girlfriend's servers (old computers. P-233 and P3-500). Absolutely everything important worked out of the box.
Now I'm sure that you are going to tell me that it doesn't matter as Windows just worked with the Dell that you got from the store. But does that really matter? What if you bought a Mac and wanted to put Windows on it? What if your computer was affected with a really bad virus and you wanted to reinstall Windows? What if you wanted to reinstall for another reason? What if you built your own computer? What if you have to install Windows for whatever reason? You are going to be facing these problems, and if you haven't done it a million times before, this is going to be very difficult for you. Linux might be a lot easier to get working properly, and set up the basic subsystems, such as video and sound.
See for yourself. Blu-ray sucks.. However DRM encumbered that HD-DVD is, it comes nowhere near the sheer evilness of this. This is the next generation of DRM, and I do NOT intend to support it in any way. I mean, we as consumers have been putting up with things such as having to have our games in the CD-ROM at all times, dealing with games that don't even work with the original discs due to copy protection, DVDs that we can't play on our system of choice, and lots of other things. Consumers still support them, as they want the content. I would think that piracy is on the rise, partly because people don't want to deal with that nonsense. It's only legitimate users who deal with that.
So I say, take a stance. It's too late to stop DRM... but it's not too late to keep DRM from going even further.
I can assure you that I am NEVER buying a Blu-Ray player. I might consider an HD-DVD player, as it doesn't seem to have such an anti-consumer stance. I am not all that big on piracy. I try to buy the movies I really care about. I like to have that nice shiny disc, and the box to put it in. But if HD-DVD loses the format war... then it's piracy all the way for me.
Regardless, we DO need DVD-Jon to help us out again this time. It's because of him that I can watch movies in Linux. And if Blu-Ray reigns supreme over HD-DVD, it will only be through him that we are able to watch Blu-Ray movies. Because buying a player that content makers can brick because they don't like what you're doing... or not being able to watch any sort of movie on your computer because the content providers don't like the fact that you might want to pirate the movie? They are basically treating us all as criminals. And I don't like that any more than when I walk into a store and they request my backpack. I refuse them, why must I accept Sony treating me like a thief?
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And this, dear reader, is why hardly anyone uses MythTV. Who has time to figure out that subsystems are involved, let alone configure them?!
And this, dear reader, is why hardly anyone plays Windows games. Who has time to figure out that subsystems are involved, let alone configure them?!
See how equally ridiculous it sounds the other way around? Video, sound, etc. are all BASIC parts of the OS.
I like to make ropes out of paper clips in my cubicle. Then I like to anchor them to a nail and lower them out of the window. That could very well be described as a game using company owned equipment. (Whenever anyone comments on it, I say it's for organizational reasons).
I see. Then it's entirely possible that I missed the boat on that one. If it's in the newsletter... then it's entirely likely that I can't see it now. Oh well, time will tell I suppose. But thanks for your help man. =)
I think any Galactica fan should check [url=http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/about.htm]this out[/url]. This is what I want a Battlestar Galactica game to stand up to. Nothing less.
ISA Soccer probably (not really into sports games, but I know Konami makes one), DDR for Revolution doesn't come as a shock, I am not very likely to buy either game. But I am a huge Konami whore, and those just aren't my games. I don't really have a whole lot of belief in what you say... (no offense, but rumours fly around like you wouldn't believe).
Any chance that the other game is Castlevania, Suikoden, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill (PLEASE let it be this one), or even something along the lines of Shadow of Destiny or Lost in Blue?
God I wish I had mod points. I can't believe some idiot actually modded you as a troll for pointing out the obvious. I honestly have nothing to add to your statement. You said it better than I could, and have voiced something that did a little more than cross my mind every time this whole "superbowl terrorist" topic comes up. I'm sure that there's something more worthwhile to be doing than to spend a few million dollars to carefully observe every event that comes along. I mean, it's just leading to the stage where the average American is deathly afraid to take the dog for a walk, as there could be terrorists hiding in the bushes. I just can't believe how easy it is to perpetuate mass hysteria.
B&W, Palm, etc. have already been mentioned as having prior art. Honestly, this is why I hate corporations like that. But I think there's another party who also has prior art on such a thing. I mean, these kinds of patents are just stupidly ridiculous.
But that's exactly what I'm getting at. Why is swearing a mortal sin on such servers, when shooting someone in the face, or teabagging someone you killed perfectly acceptable? The game features very graphic violence against your fellow man. But yet saying "Oh fuck!" is unacceptable, as it's a family friendly audience is not good? I don't play DoD, but tell me your server name so that I know to steer clear. I don't play servers where such hypocrisy is so prevalent. I can see banning someone for being a racist prick, talking about killing ragheads. But banning someone for swearing? Bullshit, pure and simple.
I used to play a lot of America's Army. When BF2 came out, I pretty much stopped cold. Something that drives me absolutely mad about both games is that some servers decide to put in language filters. I've been banned from a few AA servers because the admins wanted me to stop swearing. Something so simple as "I fucked up, sorry", or "FUCK!" when I die will trigger some asshole admin to tell me to watch my language. My normal response is to tell them to "fuck off", which usually results in an insta-ban.
It's probably an American thing. I honestly hope that there's no other country that features a mob of people who believe that it's perfectly acceptable to play a game where you shoot people, so long as you don't swear in the slightest.
I remember that there was one guy who was going to ban me. But we started talking about that kind of thing, and we actually started to get along, as he agreed with me. He eventually agreed that I was right, and he wouldn't ban me, as I was just playing the game, punctuated with some swearing. It eventually got to the point where I had a whole list of servers hosted by like-minded clans. That it's ridiculous to play a game where the whole point of the game is to kill people with different ideology... but sugar-coat it by saying that you can't swear.
I have my friends over for some Burnout, Mario Kart, or F-Zero, believe you me, I am NOT going to be telling them that I'm coming up behind them for a pass. I am going to be doing my absolute best to slam them into oncoming traffic, or at least give them a good knock on my way by. I've lost races over that, sure. But that's half the fun of playing competitively. Trying to screw the other guy over, and getting into a good grudge match is half the fun.
I haven't read TFA, but I would assume that they are talking about really realistic racing games, such as a Formula-1 game. Now, my general gaming tastes are for very competitive multi-player games, and I would imagine that if it was such a case where I brush against another car at 200MPH, and we both die... I might be more inclined to cooperate with the other drivers. But that's exactly why I don't play those games. I would feel more gratified playing single player if you can't actually interact with the other drivers and actively go out of your way to screw them over.
I used to work tech support for Comcast. This very same argument was first told to me by my supervisor. It was intended to be used when a customer would call up and complain about viruses or spyware, and say that they never had the problem with AOL, so it must be Comcast's fault. Of course, there's little reasoning with a person who is right positive that Comcast is deliberately installing malware on their computer. So I have used this very same argument on a couple of completely clueless people. Just gave them a total bullshit story about how the malware couldn't attack them as fast on a dialup connection, and such things.
I must admit that it does make a certain amount of sense. The same person who downloads free smilies wholesale on cable will probably be a little more hesitant when on dialup. But honestly, it's just ludicrous to blame security problems on a fast connection. There is absolutely ZERO substitute for proper security precautions.
I have an alias set up that allows searching from the command line quite easily.
alias s='apt-cache search --names-only'
Then, to look for something like... libvorbis, I would just have to do this:
s libvorbis
And it returns this:
libvorbis-dev - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec (development files) libvorbis0a - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec libvorbisenc2 - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec libvorbisfile3 - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec libvorbis-ocaml - OCaml bindings for vorbis library libvorbis-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for the vorbis library libvorbis-perl - Perl extension for Ogg Vorbis streams libvorbisfile-ruby - Ogg Vorbis support library for Ruby libvorbisfile-ruby1.6 - Ogg Vorbis support library for Ruby1.6 libvorbisfile-ruby1.8 - Ogg Vorbis support library for Ruby
I have the same situation. At least one of my hard drives dies every year. They just get worn out. So what I've done is build a server out of an old Pentium-233 I had laying around. It's not a speed demon, and only has UDMA-33. But my network is only 100mbps anyway. But it does the job perfectly fine for things such a subversion repository/samba server. It runs Ubuntu 5.10 without an X environmeny, and has a single 300GB hard drive that I fully intend to beef up with an identical drive in RAID-1 at a later point in time (I have a RAID controller, but the motherboard is too old to support it, and I lack funds anyways).
My laptop and my desktop both use the server for things such as music and video, and I rarely have an issue with speed. Samba is stupidly easy to set up via SSH, and it honestly does everything I need it to do at this point in time.
At a later date, I might beef up the server with a new motherboard/CPU, and turn it into a media server, with a LOT more storage, and hook it up to my TV. But that's a task for another time, when I have more money.
But for what it does, my server functions absolutely beautifully. I've even built a similar box for my girlfriend, and she uses it also for sharing things with her friends via FTP.
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He's lying. It's me. But I'm not a girl either. =(
No, if I was Starforce, I would probably post a link to a torrent site. As it is, I just suggested it. :)
I have mod points, and I was about ready to give you a +1 Informative, but I decided that I would rather just reply to you, and say that you are 100% correct regarding Brimstone. It was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this story. I remember being part of the attempt to get Fox to change their minds about the show. And I am partly responsible for the show being something like #6 on online TV Show ratings stats more than 3 years after it was cancelled. I eventually gave up, as I realized it wasn't going to happen.
But it's EXTREMELY nice to see that I'm not the only one who's still pissed off that Fox cancelled it in the first place.
Sorry for not giving you your mod point. But I just thought that this post would say more about it than the mod point. I would strongly advise anyone reading this post to hit a bittorrent site up for the 13 Brimstone episodes. They are really good.
I would personally argue that any decent operating system should support most (if not all) of your hardware out of the box.
I have a Toshiba M50 laptop that I bought recently. (You can look up the specs yourself... it's a nice enough laptop without a whole lot of strange hardware. AC97 sound, Intel graphics, 100GB SATA HDD, and a lot of other niceties). It came pre-installed with Windows. First thing I did with it was reformat it to dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP Pro.
Windows installed on the SATA hard drive to my great amazement... (Ordinarily it requires a floppy disk... and my laptop lacks a floppy drive). But when Windows was finally installed, there was a list of about 15 items that didn't have drivers installed. This included my built in ethernet card, my wireless card, my sound card, my video card, and a few other things. The OS did NOT handle any of this automatically. I was forced to download drivers for things on my desktop and transfer them over by way of a flash drive, as I didn't have internet access without drivers.
On Ubuntu, pretty much EVERYTHING worked out of the box. 3D Acceleration was working... sound was working... wireless was working... wired internet was working... and it even detected my laptop's widescreen monitor correctly. I later on configured sound so that it worked a little better, and took more advantage of software mixing, and I set up the laptop to display on an external monitor as well. But it all worked out of the box, with a lot less fiddling around than Windows. The only thing that didn't work was the laptop's flash card reader, as no Linux driver is available.
Same goes for my Desktop. (AMD64 3500+, 9800 Pro, Audigy 2, SATA, 2 wireless cards, and built-in ethernet, etc.). Windows installs without video (aside from basic functionality of course) or sound drivers, and required me to install a lot of drivers. Ubuntu installed flawlessly, requiring me to only install better video drivers to enable 3D acceleration. Everything else on the computer just worked.
Ubuntu also just worked on every other machine I've ever tried it on. An iMac G3, my friend's Sony laptop, my friend's Acer laptop, my girlfriend's desktop, both mine and my girlfriend's servers (old computers. P-233 and P3-500). Absolutely everything important worked out of the box.
Now I'm sure that you are going to tell me that it doesn't matter as Windows just worked with the Dell that you got from the store. But does that really matter? What if you bought a Mac and wanted to put Windows on it? What if your computer was affected with a really bad virus and you wanted to reinstall Windows? What if you wanted to reinstall for another reason? What if you built your own computer? What if you have to install Windows for whatever reason? You are going to be facing these problems, and if you haven't done it a million times before, this is going to be very difficult for you. Linux might be a lot easier to get working properly, and set up the basic subsystems, such as video and sound.
See for yourself. Blu-ray sucks.. However DRM encumbered that HD-DVD is, it comes nowhere near the sheer evilness of this. This is the next generation of DRM, and I do NOT intend to support it in any way. I mean, we as consumers have been putting up with things such as having to have our games in the CD-ROM at all times, dealing with games that don't even work with the original discs due to copy protection, DVDs that we can't play on our system of choice, and lots of other things. Consumers still support them, as they want the content. I would think that piracy is on the rise, partly because people don't want to deal with that nonsense. It's only legitimate users who deal with that.
So I say, take a stance. It's too late to stop DRM... but it's not too late to keep DRM from going even further.
It doesn't have the ability to destroy your player (so far as we know). This is the biggest one for me.
I can assure you that I am NEVER buying a Blu-Ray player. I might consider an HD-DVD player, as it doesn't seem to have such an anti-consumer stance. I am not all that big on piracy. I try to buy the movies I really care about. I like to have that nice shiny disc, and the box to put it in. But if HD-DVD loses the format war... then it's piracy all the way for me.
Regardless, we DO need DVD-Jon to help us out again this time. It's because of him that I can watch movies in Linux. And if Blu-Ray reigns supreme over HD-DVD, it will only be through him that we are able to watch Blu-Ray movies. Because buying a player that content makers can brick because they don't like what you're doing... or not being able to watch any sort of movie on your computer because the content providers don't like the fact that you might want to pirate the movie? They are basically treating us all as criminals. And I don't like that any more than when I walk into a store and they request my backpack. I refuse them, why must I accept Sony treating me like a thief?
And this, dear reader, is why hardly anyone uses MythTV. Who has time to figure out that subsystems are involved, let alone configure them?!
And this, dear reader, is why hardly anyone plays Windows games. Who has time to figure out that subsystems are involved, let alone configure them?!
See how equally ridiculous it sounds the other way around? Video, sound, etc. are all BASIC parts of the OS.
I like to make ropes out of paper clips in my cubicle. Then I like to anchor them to a nail and lower them out of the window. That could very well be described as a game using company owned equipment. (Whenever anyone comments on it, I say it's for organizational reasons).
I see. Then it's entirely possible that I missed the boat on that one. If it's in the newsletter... then it's entirely likely that I can't see it now. Oh well, time will tell I suppose. But thanks for your help man. =)
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I think any Galactica fan should check [url=http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/about.htm]this out[/url]. This is what I want a Battlestar Galactica game to stand up to. Nothing less.
I don't think Lost in Blue did very well. But I loved it. It was a very quirky DS game about a couple of kids on a desert island.
I checked the link... but I couldn't really find anything in the maze that was the investor's page. Was it in the newsletter perhaps?
ISA Soccer probably (not really into sports games, but I know Konami makes one), DDR for Revolution doesn't come as a shock, I am not very likely to buy either game. But I am a huge Konami whore, and those just aren't my games. I don't really have a whole lot of belief in what you say... (no offense, but rumours fly around like you wouldn't believe).
Any chance that the other game is Castlevania, Suikoden, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill (PLEASE let it be this one), or even something along the lines of Shadow of Destiny or Lost in Blue?
God I wish I had mod points. I can't believe some idiot actually modded you as a troll for pointing out the obvious. I honestly have nothing to add to your statement. You said it better than I could, and have voiced something that did a little more than cross my mind every time this whole "superbowl terrorist" topic comes up. I'm sure that there's something more worthwhile to be doing than to spend a few million dollars to carefully observe every event that comes along. I mean, it's just leading to the stage where the average American is deathly afraid to take the dog for a walk, as there could be terrorists hiding in the bushes. I just can't believe how easy it is to perpetuate mass hysteria.
B&W, Palm, etc. have already been mentioned as having prior art. Honestly, this is why I hate corporations like that. But I think there's another party who also has prior art on such a thing. I mean, these kinds of patents are just stupidly ridiculous.
But that's exactly what I'm getting at. Why is swearing a mortal sin on such servers, when shooting someone in the face, or teabagging someone you killed perfectly acceptable? The game features very graphic violence against your fellow man. But yet saying "Oh fuck!" is unacceptable, as it's a family friendly audience is not good? I don't play DoD, but tell me your server name so that I know to steer clear. I don't play servers where such hypocrisy is so prevalent. I can see banning someone for being a racist prick, talking about killing ragheads. But banning someone for swearing? Bullshit, pure and simple.
I used to play a lot of America's Army. When BF2 came out, I pretty much stopped cold. Something that drives me absolutely mad about both games is that some servers decide to put in language filters. I've been banned from a few AA servers because the admins wanted me to stop swearing. Something so simple as "I fucked up, sorry", or "FUCK!" when I die will trigger some asshole admin to tell me to watch my language. My normal response is to tell them to "fuck off", which usually results in an insta-ban.
It's probably an American thing. I honestly hope that there's no other country that features a mob of people who believe that it's perfectly acceptable to play a game where you shoot people, so long as you don't swear in the slightest.
I remember that there was one guy who was going to ban me. But we started talking about that kind of thing, and we actually started to get along, as he agreed with me. He eventually agreed that I was right, and he wouldn't ban me, as I was just playing the game, punctuated with some swearing. It eventually got to the point where I had a whole list of servers hosted by like-minded clans. That it's ridiculous to play a game where the whole point of the game is to kill people with different ideology... but sugar-coat it by saying that you can't swear.
I have my friends over for some Burnout, Mario Kart, or F-Zero, believe you me, I am NOT going to be telling them that I'm coming up behind them for a pass. I am going to be doing my absolute best to slam them into oncoming traffic, or at least give them a good knock on my way by. I've lost races over that, sure. But that's half the fun of playing competitively. Trying to screw the other guy over, and getting into a good grudge match is half the fun.
I haven't read TFA, but I would assume that they are talking about really realistic racing games, such as a Formula-1 game. Now, my general gaming tastes are for very competitive multi-player games, and I would imagine that if it was such a case where I brush against another car at 200MPH, and we both die... I might be more inclined to cooperate with the other drivers. But that's exactly why I don't play those games. I would feel more gratified playing single player if you can't actually interact with the other drivers and actively go out of your way to screw them over.
I have a mod point left that I would LOOOVE to give you. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the "-1 Idiot" option in the dropdown box.
I used to work tech support for Comcast. This very same argument was first told to me by my supervisor. It was intended to be used when a customer would call up and complain about viruses or spyware, and say that they never had the problem with AOL, so it must be Comcast's fault. Of course, there's little reasoning with a person who is right positive that Comcast is deliberately installing malware on their computer. So I have used this very same argument on a couple of completely clueless people. Just gave them a total bullshit story about how the malware couldn't attack them as fast on a dialup connection, and such things.
I must admit that it does make a certain amount of sense. The same person who downloads free smilies wholesale on cable will probably be a little more hesitant when on dialup. But honestly, it's just ludicrous to blame security problems on a fast connection. There is absolutely ZERO substitute for proper security precautions.
I am going to kill myself, if you have read this you are now obligated to stop me.
You don't have the guts, you pansy. =P
Then, to look for something like... libvorbis, I would just have to do this:
And it returns this:
Easy as pie.
You know... that actually makes a great deal of sense. I might just have to take that advice to heart. =)
I have the same situation. At least one of my hard drives dies every year. They just get worn out. So what I've done is build a server out of an old Pentium-233 I had laying around. It's not a speed demon, and only has UDMA-33. But my network is only 100mbps anyway. But it does the job perfectly fine for things such a subversion repository/samba server. It runs Ubuntu 5.10 without an X environmeny, and has a single 300GB hard drive that I fully intend to beef up with an identical drive in RAID-1 at a later point in time (I have a RAID controller, but the motherboard is too old to support it, and I lack funds anyways).
My laptop and my desktop both use the server for things such as music and video, and I rarely have an issue with speed. Samba is stupidly easy to set up via SSH, and it honestly does everything I need it to do at this point in time. At a later date, I might beef up the server with a new motherboard/CPU, and turn it into a media server, with a LOT more storage, and hook it up to my TV. But that's a task for another time, when I have more money.
But for what it does, my server functions absolutely beautifully. I've even built a similar box for my girlfriend, and she uses it also for sharing things with her friends via FTP.