I'd recommend not using GNOME for it if you want to do everything easily. Probably the easiest thing to do is get Ubuntu and do a Xubuntu installation (this will give you an XFCE desktop; it's good looking and still not a resource hog). Basically, just pop in an install disc and choose to do a server installation, which after rebooting will give you a terminal. Login and then do:
This will give you a desktop and a login manager. The Ubuntu support page will explain everything you need to know about installing new software with the Synaptic Package Manager. And once you've enabled the Universe and Multiverse repositories, setting up MP3 playback will be one hell of a lot easier than with any Fedora system I've used.
Colt manufactures guns. Man opens fire in public with a Colt pistol. Who's at fault? The shooter, of course.
I take issue with this analogy. Colt would be the equivalent of the companies that make the compilers for the software the students make. The adware companies would essentially be hiring out people as mercenaries. So I would say that it's the fault of both the students and the adware companies.
It seems like everyone is misquoting my 70% guesstimate. 70% of PC gamers - that is, people who can tell you the difference between a 6600GT and 7800GTX or DDR and DDR2 memory - will probably be running Vista by the time Halo 2 ships. I don't think that 70% of your average folks will have moved on. Hell, probably 70% of them aren't on XP yet, or at least runnin XP SP2. Drivers (something another person mentioned I think) aren't likely to be a problem; most hardware vendors will be rushing to get their drivers for the latest and greatest Microsoft OS out.
I think you guys are misunderstanding what I'm saying. All I'm trying to say is that everyone is making a ridiculously big deal out of this, and there's really no point. All I'm saying is that releasing the game for Vista only will not cut into Microsoft's profits on this game significantly. I'm not saying it will boost OS sales. All I'm saying is the people who would actually want to play Halo 2 on PC when it's much easier to do on Xbox are the people who will be upgrading to Vista around the time it comes out (legally or not).
I think you are the one who misunderstands the PC and console models. When Vista comes out, most people will be switching to it. There will be lots of legacy systems of course, but people with these generally aren't the people who can even meet Halo 2's system requirements.
By releasing the game only on Xbox, they were alienating much more of the community than they will be by only releasing it on Vista. By the time the game ships, among PC gamers (which I will define as people able to run the game), at least probably 70% will have Windows Vista, and that's a conservative guess I think. Compare this to the far lower penetration of the Xbox (I'll just say less than 50% since I don't have any real numbers to back it up), and you'll see that, if you're looking to maximize your profit for a single game, it's much worse to release it for a single console than for a single OS (provided that OS is Windows, since it has such great market penetration). MS only releases their games for Xbox because it promotes the console.
Look at large third-party publishers like EA or Ubisoft. They release their games for as many consoles as possible, but rarely for Mac or Linux. This is because in the console world, single-platform games are not as profitable, but in the PC world, it's fine. Hell, if you look at a lot of today's games, they can't be run on legacy OSes like Win98 and ME (heaven forbid). Because gamers don't use them!
I recently reformatted my Windows partition to start fresh as well.
Before the reformat, I had HL2 + Deathmatch, CS & CS: Source, DoD: Source, FarCry, Doom 3, and a bunch of other, random games.
After, all I installed was HL2 + Deathmatch, CS & CS: Source and DoD: Source. Why? Because I couldn't find those damn CDs or the CD keys for the others.
When I went through this "bullshit," which was last Friday at 3:00, I just downloaded a 708KB installer and entered my Steam ID and password. Then I told it to download my games again, and by 8:00, it was all done. I even got in a round of CS before I went out that night!
I'm afraid I have to completely disagree with you here. The only graphic glitches in Halo 2 were the texture loading problems on some Xboxes (i.e., when scenes changed, the textures would be solid for a fraction of a second while they were loaded), but in my opinion that was worth it to make sure there were no load times. It's not really a problem, but a necessary compromise. And about it being a "boring rehash of the last game," isn't that what is expected of a sequel (assuming the word "boring" is a matter of opinion, which it is)? I mean, would you have been more satisfied if they made it Halo 2: Extreme Skateboarding featuring Master Chief? They did what you're supposed to do with a sequel, which is take the basic gameplay mechanics that I think all but the most jaded among us would say are some of the most fun in the world, and improve upon them by making them more fluid and adding new weapons and dual weilding - which in itself made the game more than a rehash, but a completely different experience! That and the Arbiter missions where, especially on hard difficulties, you're forced to use your invisibility extremely effectively.
And hey, the story wasn't that bad. I like the idea of the Covenant coming to Earth and there being many other Halos and stuff. It broadens the scope of the original but keeps everything in perspective. Well, except maybe for the little shop of horrors thing. If he had taken some other form maybe I would have been happier, but he doesn't ruin it by any means.
I won't argue with you that the "ending" sucked, because it did. But I think this is causing you to miss the fact that the campaign mode is still damn fun! Play through it again and instead of being critical, just enjoy the game. I mean, come on, that's what it's for! I'm often in situations where I can't access Xbox Live, and in those situations I'll often go in for campaign mode, or if I've got a friend, I'll often take co-op over Slayer.
The first amendment prevents the government from interfering with established religion. It does NOT, however, prevent the church from meddling with government (AKA public schools).
Perhaps you should read the first 10 words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It doesn't specifically say that no church can meddle with the government. But if a church meddles with the government, it can pretty much only be through the passage of laws. But hey! Congress can't pass a law respecting an establishment of religion. So, although it doesn't say it explicitly, it does this nicely. And before you say something about the courts being involved in religion, remember that the courts were established by Congress through legislation.
Now, anything requiring intelligent design to be taught in schools would most certainly be a "law respecting an establishment of religion." And, although the Constitution only specifically mentions Congress, I think it should be agreed that this should apply to the states and municipalities and such as well (because I'm sure we'd be equally upset if these bodies banned free speech).
I don't think anyone would have a problem with ID being taught in a religious studies class, which most high schools today offer. But that's where it belongs. A science class should teach ideas that have been proven (or at least backed up) through scientific evidence and conceptualized using a scientific method. But hey, religion in a religion class and science in a science class? That's just begging for the wrath of God, isn't it?
In fact, the browser detection really isn't necessary. The only differences between index_f.htm and index_nf.htm are a little bit of whitespace and the use of PNGs in the FF version and GIFs in the other. Why even bother with all that? Or at least make it server-side. Come on, User-Agent strings have been around for a while!
Grouping of nicks under a single nick, so you'd only have to click on the nick and the first available (or even preferred) protocol client would be connected. This would also hold for "pounces" - Those messages saved and autosent when one of the nicks becomes available/meets criteria...
Make user icons available reliably.
Allow logging to be specified per nick/user and remember it.
Make client reliable and stable. GAIM's still somewhat flaky in the GUI, the last Trillian version I used about 2 years ago still suffered reliability issues.
You should definitely try the new version of Trillian. It has MetaContacts which do most of what you're asking for in the first point. (I'm not sure about the "pouncing" thing though. It's just my opinion, but I don't think they're a great idea in the first place, as most of the time I'm not going to send someone a message offline unless it's a "bye" just after they disconnect, and that would just get annoying.) I don't recall buddy icons ever being a problem in Trillian, and in the new Pro version their icons are right by the names that you assign (I don't think that's supported in basic). The logging system is the best I've used in any IM client, hands-down. And it's much, much faster and more reliable than the 2.x series (which sucked). Also, the free version, aside from no plugins and a few less options, kicks ass! I'd strongly recommend it to anyone.
I can understand anyone's reservations about Elton John being involved in this. He's definitely past his prime when it comes to writing music. But Andrew Lloyd Webber? This guy wrote the music for Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and many many others. The man's a freaking genius.
The school has the right to regulate what you say while you're at the school. Even in public schools, if you go around between classes talking about how much your teachers suck, you can be disciplined.
However, this is a case of the school regulating activity outside of school. Using your mall analogy, it's like the mall saying if you want to shop there, you can't criticize it if you get bad service even once you're outside of the mall. Or saying you can't tell people about problems at work.
If this school were a boarding school of some sort, things might be different as the school would have the right to regulate your internet use. But the article doesn't give any indicatio nof that being the case.
it's pretty trivial for those who can use the coral cache to type it in by hand
Then would it not be equally (if not more, since you don't have to remember the weird URL) trivial to delete the Coral Cache part? Especially since people behind such firewalls are probably in the minority? If Coral links were included in the story, it could actually get cached before the server is a smoking mess.
On the PSX, Crave (I think they're now-defunct, but they were awesome back in the day) released a game called Galerians. There was lots of insanity and insanity effects and shit. Eternal Darkness was most certainly not the first.
I believe they're already essentially here, in the form of previews - some of which are unskippable - before you can even get to the menu. (Not Flash, but obviously still something very, very wrong.)
EM64T is basically AMD64, and you can run pretty much any AMD64 stuff on EM64T. It's not really what one would call "Intel's version." IA64 (aka Itanium), on the other hand, is Intel's 64-bit architecture. It was, obviously, not such a great success.
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This will give you a desktop and a login manager. The Ubuntu support page will explain everything you need to know about installing new software with the Synaptic Package Manager. And once you've enabled the Universe and Multiverse repositories, setting up MP3 playback will be one hell of a lot easier than with any Fedora system I've used.
One of the first companies to seek the opportunity to try this new service.
I think you guys are misunderstanding what I'm saying. All I'm trying to say is that everyone is making a ridiculously big deal out of this, and there's really no point. All I'm saying is that releasing the game for Vista only will not cut into Microsoft's profits on this game significantly. I'm not saying it will boost OS sales. All I'm saying is the people who would actually want to play Halo 2 on PC when it's much easier to do on Xbox are the people who will be upgrading to Vista around the time it comes out (legally or not).
By releasing the game only on Xbox, they were alienating much more of the community than they will be by only releasing it on Vista. By the time the game ships, among PC gamers (which I will define as people able to run the game), at least probably 70% will have Windows Vista, and that's a conservative guess I think. Compare this to the far lower penetration of the Xbox (I'll just say less than 50% since I don't have any real numbers to back it up), and you'll see that, if you're looking to maximize your profit for a single game, it's much worse to release it for a single console than for a single OS (provided that OS is Windows, since it has such great market penetration). MS only releases their games for Xbox because it promotes the console.
Look at large third-party publishers like EA or Ubisoft. They release their games for as many consoles as possible, but rarely for Mac or Linux. This is because in the console world, single-platform games are not as profitable, but in the PC world, it's fine. Hell, if you look at a lot of today's games, they can't be run on legacy OSes like Win98 and ME (heaven forbid). Because gamers don't use them!
Before the reformat, I had HL2 + Deathmatch, CS & CS: Source, DoD: Source, FarCry, Doom 3, and a bunch of other, random games.
After, all I installed was HL2 + Deathmatch, CS & CS: Source and DoD: Source. Why? Because I couldn't find those damn CDs or the CD keys for the others.
When I went through this "bullshit," which was last Friday at 3:00, I just downloaded a 708KB installer and entered my Steam ID and password. Then I told it to download my games again, and by 8:00, it was all done. I even got in a round of CS before I went out that night!
Or do they make him laugh?
And hey, the story wasn't that bad. I like the idea of the Covenant coming to Earth and there being many other Halos and stuff. It broadens the scope of the original but keeps everything in perspective. Well, except maybe for the little shop of horrors thing. If he had taken some other form maybe I would have been happier, but he doesn't ruin it by any means.
I won't argue with you that the "ending" sucked, because it did. But I think this is causing you to miss the fact that the campaign mode is still damn fun! Play through it again and instead of being critical, just enjoy the game. I mean, come on, that's what it's for! I'm often in situations where I can't access Xbox Live, and in those situations I'll often go in for campaign mode, or if I've got a friend, I'll often take co-op over Slayer.
Now, anything requiring intelligent design to be taught in schools would most certainly be a "law respecting an establishment of religion." And, although the Constitution only specifically mentions Congress, I think it should be agreed that this should apply to the states and municipalities and such as well (because I'm sure we'd be equally upset if these bodies banned free speech).
I don't think anyone would have a problem with ID being taught in a religious studies class, which most high schools today offer. But that's where it belongs. A science class should teach ideas that have been proven (or at least backed up) through scientific evidence and conceptualized using a scientific method. But hey, religion in a religion class and science in a science class? That's just begging for the wrath of God, isn't it?
In fact, the browser detection really isn't necessary. The only differences between index_f.htm and index_nf.htm are a little bit of whitespace and the use of PNGs in the FF version and GIFs in the other. Why even bother with all that? Or at least make it server-side. Come on, User-Agent strings have been around for a while!
You should definitely try the new version of Trillian. It has MetaContacts which do most of what you're asking for in the first point. (I'm not sure about the "pouncing" thing though. It's just my opinion, but I don't think they're a great idea in the first place, as most of the time I'm not going to send someone a message offline unless it's a "bye" just after they disconnect, and that would just get annoying.) I don't recall buddy icons ever being a problem in Trillian, and in the new Pro version their icons are right by the names that you assign (I don't think that's supported in basic). The logging system is the best I've used in any IM client, hands-down. And it's much, much faster and more reliable than the 2.x series (which sucked). Also, the free version, aside from no plugins and a few less options, kicks ass! I'd strongly recommend it to anyone.
I can see the IM conversations now.
I can understand anyone's reservations about Elton John being involved in this. He's definitely past his prime when it comes to writing music. But Andrew Lloyd Webber? This guy wrote the music for Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and many many others. The man's a freaking genius.
However, this is a case of the school regulating activity outside of school. Using your mall analogy, it's like the mall saying if you want to shop there, you can't criticize it if you get bad service even once you're outside of the mall. Or saying you can't tell people about problems at work.
If this school were a boarding school of some sort, things might be different as the school would have the right to regulate your internet use. But the article doesn't give any indicatio nof that being the case.
Then would it not be equally (if not more, since you don't have to remember the weird URL) trivial to delete the Coral Cache part? Especially since people behind such firewalls are probably in the minority? If Coral links were included in the story, it could actually get cached before the server is a smoking mess.
It looks like they used Microsoft Access 12 for their server's database.
"Dual core" and "dual processor" are two very different things.
On the PSX, Crave (I think they're now-defunct, but they were awesome back in the day) released a game called Galerians. There was lots of insanity and insanity effects and shit. Eternal Darkness was most certainly not the first.
Porn does make you blind! Hell, look at the name of the effect: "attentional rubbernecking."
This article is just one big collective dupe? :P
You must have never seen the term "PHB." :)
I believe they're already essentially here, in the form of previews - some of which are unskippable - before you can even get to the menu. (Not Flash, but obviously still something very, very wrong.)
It will then become GGoogle. And the web search results page will say "GGGGGGGooooooogle."
What about "KWikipedia." That's kind of catchy, actually.
EM64T is basically AMD64, and you can run pretty much any AMD64 stuff on EM64T. It's not really what one would call "Intel's version." IA64 (aka Itanium), on the other hand, is Intel's 64-bit architecture. It was, obviously, not such a great success.