> If you think Lunix is "usable", you need to stop using it for a few weeks and try Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
I did that, and it sucked.....
The command line was crap...I had to install cygwin to make that useable, and even then, the console app is brain dead - no ability to dynamically resize the windows.
The lack of focus follows mouse bugged me and there's no virtual desktops. The ACL system completely screws me over when switching between the account I use for work stuff and the account I use for home stuff but using the same files....and fixing it requires clicking all over the place with a mouse (or braving cacl, the existance of which explains why Windows users think that a command line interface is difficult to use). Having my MP3s skip bugged me too....
Note that there is a world of difference between Easy to Learn, and Easy to _Use_
Probably because the average listener can't even tell MP3 from the original CD at 128kbs, let alone the next gen formats.
Yes I know there are people that can tell the difference, but there are a lot of people that cant.
If you push the boundries then you can start to see them differentiate themselves a lot more clearly. It's really quite amazing how far you can push Vorbis and still have it sound acceptable, and even when it degrades, it does so in a much more pleasant way than MP3 - no horrible metallic ringing
You see, that's why choice and diversity are a good thing.
You like having a dedicated device for everything, some people (me included) like having something small and convenient that'll do a fair job of a lot of things....
However, don't make the mistake of thinking that just because your preference means there is no need for something (in this case low bitrate digital audio) therefore means that no one has any need for it.
There we have 4 64 bit CPUs (ok, not architectures, but still 5) in two groups, 1 64bit extension to IA32, and one complete new ISA - IA64.
The 5th one could be this supposed 64bit Pentium - which would be using either x86-64 (unlikely), or IA64. Or maybe they just mean Duron64 (or whatever the eventual budget Athlon64 gets called)
so both can be true, and no secret special MS only CPU.
Personally I find the prospect of a secret 64bit Pentium rather unlikely, but I guess we'll have to see. I'm not going to avoid Athlon64 because of a rumour, if it's cheaper than a pentium and performs at least as well as one, I'll buy it, 64bit capability isn't going to gain me anything.
> I never do the Start>Shutdown on 2K and XP boxes.
ARGH!...
Just because you have journaling, doesn't mean that you can just turn the power off.....it can still cause corruption..... It's _never_ a good idea to just turn your computer off....journaling just makes the consequences rarer and possibly a little less severe
Unless of course, you're talking about the way the power management in 2K and XP that let you hit the power button on an ATX case and get a proper shutdown....or suspend if you've set it up that way...
If you're the sort of person that requires proof before you'll believe in the existance of a security flaw...then I hope I never rely on the secure operation of a network you're in charge of.
Excelent, and start another generation of elitist arsehole programmers.
Anyone can learn, and an ability to understand rules and follow common practices is far more important than the ability to grasp abstract ideas and algorithms at a young age.... It would be far better to try and encourage as many people to try, than to immediately alienate 90% of the population.
Actually, the Australian government had a plan for a PKI system where the government would act as a CA (or maybe they'd designate one or more CAs, can't quite remember), and for you to obtain a certificate from them, you would have to provide the standard 100pts of identity that you need here to get things like drivers licenses and passports. The idea was that it could be used as a true digital signature when using government (and other) services. It doesn't look like it ever caught on though.
Anyone could create their own certificates, but without a mutual trusted third party signing it, how do I know it's real?
CAs are a fairly practical substitute for the Web of Trust concept used in things like PGP...
That said...it still feels wrong to have to pay someone for essentially nothing.... and you still have the problem that the certificate doesn't really prove who you are, only that a CA accepted money to vouch for your identity.
No, the maintainers of bugzilla blocked links from slashdot. It has nothing to do with AOL.
They did it because bugzilla is an entirely dynamic site, and an important tool being used by the developers. The last thing they want, is 50,000 slashdot users hitting it at once and preventing them from working.
Yes, I can handle that...and it's not so much the lack of ability to create or customize your own character that bothers me most (or though I do prefer a game where you can do that). It's the pre-scripted story.
To extend your example more - how about if after you've been given your character, they then give you a script, and say "now read this".
To me, that wouldn't be roleplaying, that would be acting. Technically, I guess it's still playing a role, but it's someone elses role, and your ability to make it your role is limited to the way you deliver your lines. Transfer that to a video game, where you don't have even the ability to express your pre-determined actions in a different way, and it's even less like roleplaying.
To me, the FF series are like point and click adventure games, but with combat. That doesn't mean they're not fun, but I do think that calling them RPGs does the Roleplaying genre a disservice since these days too many people associate games like FF with roleplaying, rather than games like Morrowind.
Actually, Quake 3 was out on PS2, and it's pretty good as far as console FPS go...it still manages to have the same frantic feeling as the PC version.
Though I'm certain that if it were possible to put console players against PC players in a multiplayer game, that the PC ones would win, since keyboard and mouse is definitely more accurate than a console controller. But that doesn't mean that the console version can't be fun too. There's a lot less black and white, one or the other things in the world than people like to think. Not everything that is a positive for one thing is a negative for another.
The whole PC vs Console thing is stupid anyway..... Playing at a desk in front of a computer is an entirely differnt experience to sitting in your lounge room in front of your TV. One isn't inherently better than the other....they're just different.
FWIW, the game I've spent the most time in front of in recent history is Morrowind, on XBox, and all things being equal, (which they more or less are between the PC and XBox versions of Morrowind), I'd much rather play a game I'm going to spend a long time on, sitting in comfort.
You can run 2000 on an XP license (not box license - "software assurance" subscription license thingy), so I would assume you could run NT4 as well......
The point of running an old version is to not have to upgrade your hardware, so your driver issue is a little irrelevant.
We have a release PS2, and it had a tendancy to get the audio and video out of sync half way through a movie (pause would fix it), and special features that required pressing the >> button would not work with the controller.
After using the upgraded drivers from the DVD remote, both those issues are fixed, and we never use the remote, cause the controller is actually a much easier to use for basic functions (since you never lose it, and you don't have to hunt for the buttons in the dark).
More recent PS2 models ship with the upgraded drivers pre loaded.
BTW, we have an XBox too, and I'd rather buy a real DVD player than spend the Au$50 on the DVD remote, given that the PS2 works fine.
It's seven counts... 1 for a declaritory judgement that there is no Coprighted SCO code in RedHat Linux, or if there is, that it's not enforceable. 2 for a declaratory judgement that there is no SCO owned Trade Secrets in RedHat Linux
3. False advertising 4. Deceptive trade practices 5. Unfair competition 6. Tortious interference with prospective business oportunities 7. Trade Libel and Disparagement.
Source: http://lwn.net/images/ns/rh-complaint.pdf
At first it just looked like they were covering themselves, but the last 5 show that they're on the offensive.
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> If you think Lunix is "usable", you need to stop using it for a few weeks and try Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
I did that, and it sucked.....
The command line was crap...I had to install cygwin to make that useable, and even then, the console app is brain dead - no ability to dynamically resize the windows.
The lack of focus follows mouse bugged me and there's no virtual desktops.
The ACL system completely screws me over when switching between the account I use for work stuff and the account I use for home stuff but using the same files....and fixing it requires clicking all over the place with a mouse (or braving cacl, the existance of which explains why Windows users think that a command line interface is difficult to use).
Having my MP3s skip bugged me too....
Note that there is a world of difference between Easy to Learn, and Easy to _Use_
Probably because the average listener can't even tell MP3 from the original CD at 128kbs, let alone the next gen formats.
Yes I know there are people that can tell the difference, but there are a lot of people that cant.
If you push the boundries then you can start to see them differentiate themselves a lot more clearly. It's really quite amazing how far you can push Vorbis and still have it sound acceptable, and even when it degrades, it does so in a much more pleasant way than MP3 - no horrible metallic ringing
You see, that's why choice and diversity are a good thing.
You like having a dedicated device for everything, some people (me included) like having something small and convenient that'll do a fair job of a lot of things....
However, don't make the mistake of thinking that just because your preference means there is no need for something (in this case low bitrate digital audio) therefore means that no one has any need for it.
Aparently his whole argument is that Binding variables in JDBC is hard....
what the FUCK is hard about it?...
try using something like OCI, and then talk to me about hard.
So it's not quite as easy as other database APIs, it's still pretty bloody easy....
Athon64
Opteron
Itanium
Itanium II
There we have 4 64 bit CPUs (ok, not architectures, but still 5) in two groups, 1 64bit extension to IA32, and one complete new ISA - IA64.
The 5th one could be this supposed 64bit Pentium - which would be using either x86-64 (unlikely), or IA64. Or maybe they just mean Duron64 (or whatever the eventual budget Athlon64 gets called)
so both can be true, and no secret special MS only CPU.
Personally I find the prospect of a secret 64bit Pentium rather unlikely, but I guess we'll have to see. I'm not going to avoid Athlon64 because of a rumour, if it's cheaper than a pentium and performs at least as well as one, I'll buy it, 64bit capability isn't going to gain me anything.
It's a code name....the chip itself will be called Pentium, just like Katamai, Coppermine, Williamette, etc...
Probably even still a Pentium IV.
Intel's not throwing away years of brand recogition over a new core.
> I never do the Start>Shutdown on 2K and XP boxes.
ARGH!...
Just because you have journaling, doesn't mean that you can just turn the power off.....it can still cause corruption.....
It's _never_ a good idea to just turn your computer off....journaling just makes the consequences rarer and possibly a little less severe
Unless of course, you're talking about the way the power management in 2K and XP that let you hit the power button on an ATX case and get a proper shutdown....or suspend if you've set it up that way...
You missed one
If you're the sort of person that requires proof before you'll believe in the existance of a security flaw...then I hope I never rely on the secure operation of a network you're in charge of.
That would be true..if it were bytecode or interpreted languages being benchmarked.
Java and C# are JIT compiled - to native machine code. And I believe CLR stuff can be compiled at installation time, making it even better than JIT.
Excelent, and start another generation of elitist arsehole programmers.
Anyone can learn, and an ability to understand rules and follow common practices is far more important than the ability to grasp abstract ideas and algorithms at a young age....
It would be far better to try and encourage as many people to try, than to immediately alienate 90% of the population.
I would hardly call anything that Neil Stevens says as "controversey"...
He's spent so long with a tinfoil hat on, it's fused to his head.
Actually, the Australian government had a plan for a PKI system where the government would act as a CA (or maybe they'd designate one or more CAs, can't quite remember), and for you to obtain a certificate from them, you would have to provide the standard 100pts of identity that you need here to get things like drivers licenses and passports.
The idea was that it could be used as a true digital signature when using government (and other) services.
It doesn't look like it ever caught on though.
I think the scheme was called "Gatekeeper"
The thing you're paying for, is trust.....
Anyone could create their own certificates, but without a mutual trusted third party signing it, how do I know it's real?
CAs are a fairly practical substitute for the Web of Trust concept used in things like PGP...
That said...it still feels wrong to have to pay someone for essentially nothing....
and you still have the problem that the certificate doesn't really prove who you are, only that a CA accepted money to vouch for your identity.
> the manual...
that would be nice.....
when was the last time you bought software that came with a printed manual?
No, the maintainers of bugzilla blocked links from slashdot.
It has nothing to do with AOL.
They did it because bugzilla is an entirely dynamic site, and an important tool being used by the developers.
The last thing they want, is 50,000 slashdot users hitting it at once and preventing them from working.
>Would that still be roleplaying?
>My answer would be yes.
Yes, I can handle that...and it's not so much the lack of ability to create or customize your own character that bothers me most (or though I do prefer a game where you can do that).
It's the pre-scripted story.
To extend your example more - how about if after you've been given your character, they then give you a script, and say "now read this".
To me, that wouldn't be roleplaying, that would be acting. Technically, I guess it's still playing a role, but it's someone elses role, and your ability to make it your role is limited to the way you deliver your lines.
Transfer that to a video game, where you don't have even the ability to express your pre-determined actions in a different way, and it's even less like roleplaying.
To me, the FF series are like point and click adventure games, but with combat.
That doesn't mean they're not fun, but I do think that calling them RPGs does the Roleplaying genre a disservice since these days too many people associate games like FF with roleplaying, rather than games like Morrowind.
The problem with the Final Fantasy series, is that the conplication went up, and they stopped being RPGs.
RPGs can sustain complication, Interactive Movies can't.....
I always cringe when someone releases a FF style game and calls it an 'RPG'.
It's an RPG if the player gets to play a role, not push someone else's character through a script, no matter how many experience points you can get.
Actually, Quake 3 was out on PS2, and it's pretty good as far as console FPS go...it still manages to have the same frantic feeling as the PC version.
Though I'm certain that if it were possible to put console players against PC players in a multiplayer game, that the PC ones would win, since keyboard and mouse is definitely more accurate than a console controller. But that doesn't mean that the console version can't be fun too. There's a lot less black and white, one or the other things in the world than people like to think. Not everything that is a positive for one thing is a negative for another.
The whole PC vs Console thing is stupid anyway.....
Playing at a desk in front of a computer is an entirely differnt experience to sitting in your lounge room in front of your TV.
One isn't inherently better than the other....they're just different.
FWIW, the game I've spent the most time in front of in recent history is Morrowind, on XBox, and all things being equal, (which they more or less are between the PC and XBox versions of Morrowind), I'd much rather play a game I'm going to spend a long time on, sitting in comfort.
You can run 2000 on an XP license (not box license - "software assurance" subscription license thingy), so I would assume you could run NT4 as well......
The point of running an old version is to not have to upgrade your hardware, so your driver issue is a little irrelevant.
They've always had a thing for the turn of a friendly card.....
I've never understood why the media has always gone on about polar ice melting causing the oceans to rise....
If anything's going to cause the oceans to rise, it would be the heat expansion of the water that's already there.....
What the hell are you talking about???
QT X11 is licensed under the GPL (or the QPL, if you prefer to accept that one instead)
It's actually been that way for a couple of years now...
and where the hell did you come up with the crap about patents?
That depends on when you bought your PS2.
We have a release PS2, and it had a tendancy to get the audio and video out of sync half way through a movie (pause would fix it), and special features that required pressing the >> button would not work with the controller.
After using the upgraded drivers from the DVD remote, both those issues are fixed, and we never use the remote, cause the controller is actually a much easier to use for basic functions (since you never lose it, and you don't have to hunt for the buttons in the dark).
More recent PS2 models ship with the upgraded drivers pre loaded.
BTW, we have an XBox too, and I'd rather buy a real DVD player than spend the Au$50 on the DVD remote, given that the PS2 works fine.
It's seven counts...
1 for a declaritory judgement that there is no Coprighted SCO code in RedHat Linux, or if there is, that it's not enforceable.
2 for a declaratory judgement that there is no SCO owned Trade Secrets in RedHat Linux
3. False advertising
4. Deceptive trade practices
5. Unfair competition
6. Tortious interference with prospective business oportunities
7. Trade Libel and Disparagement.
Source: http://lwn.net/images/ns/rh-complaint.pdf
At first it just looked like they were covering themselves, but the last 5 show that they're on the offensive.