While that would be fine, it actually costs more, and it weighs a TON (or at least a thousandth of one, which is nearly as bad.) If this noise cancellation can quiet a system just as much, for the same price, without the potential of ripping a hole in your motherboard, I'd call it a win.
there were plenty of digital computers around when star trek was made. Late 60s, the world was teeming with them, arpanet was getting started, high-level programming languages were being invented left and right. Even Unix was released while star trek was on.
I get identical performance, including framerates, in linux and windows with both ut2003 and the ut2004 demo.
I also play Alpha Centauri, Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory, Kohan, and Civilization: Call to Power very satisfactorily in linux, thanks largely to tuxgames.com.
The only reason I still have a dual-boot is Rise of Nations. There are more games available for linux than people realize. Everything id publishes, and epic game's stuff, and an eclectic assortment of others.
Not having clipboard history! Living in fear of losing important data that I cut by absentmindedly copying something else...why should anyone do that?
Stuff not copying when I highlight and middle-click. Of course, that's just a function of what I'm used to, but it's very frustrating nonethless.
Not being able to maximize windows vertically or horizontally.
not being able to make any window stay on top.
Not being able to zoom my desktop resolution on the fly.
Not being able to switch to a capable cli on the fly. (good god, once there were two folders in my c:\docume~1, called kundor.CHADE and kundor~1, who knows why, and it was IMPOSSIBLE to cd into kundor.CHADE. No matter WHAT you did, including putting the whole thing in quotes, it always went into the wrong folder. WORST. CLI. EVER.)
The difficulty of installing things; instead of just using one command on a command line, I have to google around to find shareware that probably is actually malware, download and install it, then reboot, then find that it's crippled anyway and wants $25.
being treated like a criminal by my software.
None of these make it a bad OS, necessarily, just different from what I used to. But nonetheless, they "frustrate me to the point that I can't use it," as you asked.
In fact the Guild of Merchants' famous publication Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises now has an entire section entitled Soe you're a Barbaeriean Invader? which has notes on night life, folklorique bargains in the bazaar and, under the heading "Steppe-ing Out," a list of restaurants that do a dependable mares' milk and yak pudding. And many a pointed-helmeted vandal has trotted back to his freezing yurt wondering why he seems to be a great deal poorer and the apparent owner of a badly-woven rug, a litre of undrinkable wine and a stuffed purple donkey in a straw hat.
(Pratchett, who else.)
Nobody should ever have to do a job that can be done by a machine. If it doesn't require human intellect or insight, then it's boring and ultimately dehumanizing.
Having held many such jobs, I say let the machines have 'em, and good riddance.
Surely you mean r3, not rc3. rc3 would be a kernel version nearly a month old, while I believe r3 would be the 3rd revision of the ebuild as Gentoo tries to figure out what the heck they're doing.;-)
It's about to hit version 3 though...a whole version ahead of Linux!
Clearly the folks at the FSF are developing much faster than the Linux kernel team, which pretty much throws the whole Cathedral and Bazaar argument out the window. With this sort of progess I'm sure we can look for a finished Hurd any day now...
But since games that can't run well on a console platform simply aren't published for that platform, isn't this somewhat useless?
Granted, it's nice for the coolness factor, but unlike PCs, newer and flashier games only come out for beefier platforms and can't be run on the old ones anyway, no matter how fast they're going.
I concur -- I live in what's probably the geekiest place in Ohio (Case Western Reserve University) and I didn't hear about it til now. I would have gone.
Perhaps you've heard the phrase, free as in speech, not as in beer?
If you believe in free software, you'll be willing to help support it with money, or your time. The associate membership program is simply the FSF's way to thank donaters with some perks (like this meeting) and news.
I don't see why you'd be bothered, since you can use their products for free (as in beer AND speech.) Now you complain that they won't give you dinner for free too?
Out of curiousity, are you using something like Gnome and kde? If so, they slow down ut2k4 a LOT.
What I do is create a custom xinitrc. (The following applies to Mandrake linux.) If you move/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to xinitrcold, and replace it with an xinitrc than only contains
exec/usr/bin/ut2004demo
(or wherever you keep the program), and then restart X, you should get about 12 more fps. I do, anyway, with my nice nvidia drivers: I average 74 frames per second on ONS-Torlan, with max demo settings, on Mandrake cooker. I haven't noticed a degredation in visual or sound quality but it could very well be the case, I tend not to notice these things.
Despite winex improving and ut2k4 being available, I still have to keep a windows partition for games. But I've had to spend less and less time in it...hopefully, in a few more years, it can be gone for good.
I disagree. If you want to do linux gaming, nvidia is the way to go. Nvidia drivers are much easier to find, install, come with source, and offer better compatibility and performance than ATI's. One of the biggest programs in linux gaming, winex, only works with nvidia cards.
and if the rumors are true, nv40 is going to kick serious ass....
At my university, anyway, the id encoded on the card references a current amount of money stored in a central location.
So that wouldn't work at all. For that matter, neither do the cards half the time: the card network likes to go down, especially the links to outlying locations like Chipotle.
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Really, do you think the general public will hear or care about this or even connect it with the evil music swappers? I very much doubt it.
While that would be fine, it actually costs more, and it weighs a TON (or at least a thousandth of one, which is nearly as bad.) If this noise cancellation can quiet a system just as much, for the same price, without the potential of ripping a hole in your motherboard, I'd call it a win.
there were plenty of digital computers around when star trek was made. Late 60s, the world was teeming with them, arpanet was getting started, high-level programming languages were being invented left and right. Even Unix was released while star trek was on.
I get identical performance, including framerates, in linux and windows with both ut2003 and the ut2004 demo.
I also play Alpha Centauri, Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory, Kohan, and Civilization: Call to Power very satisfactorily in linux, thanks largely to tuxgames.com.
The only reason I still have a dual-boot is Rise of Nations. There are more games available for linux than people realize. Everything id publishes, and epic game's stuff, and an eclectic assortment of others.
This is your face on windows...
That website alone shows that you are very, very wrong.
Not having clipboard history! Living in fear of losing important data that I cut by absentmindedly copying something else...why should anyone do that?
Stuff not copying when I highlight and middle-click. Of course, that's just a function of what I'm used to, but it's very frustrating nonethless.
Not being able to maximize windows vertically or horizontally.
not being able to make any window stay on top.
Not being able to zoom my desktop resolution on the fly.
Not being able to switch to a capable cli on the fly. (good god, once there were two folders in my c:\docume~1, called kundor.CHADE and kundor~1, who knows why, and it was IMPOSSIBLE to cd into kundor.CHADE. No matter WHAT you did, including putting the whole thing in quotes, it always went into the wrong folder. WORST. CLI. EVER.)
The difficulty of installing things; instead of just using one command on a command line, I have to google around to find shareware that probably is actually malware, download and install it, then reboot, then find that it's crippled anyway and wants $25.
being treated like a criminal by my software.
None of these make it a bad OS, necessarily, just different from what I used to. But nonetheless, they "frustrate me to the point that I can't use it," as you asked.
In fact the Guild of Merchants' famous publication Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises now has an entire section entitled Soe you're a Barbaeriean Invader? which has notes on night life, folklorique bargains in the bazaar and, under the heading "Steppe-ing Out," a list of restaurants that do a dependable mares' milk and yak pudding. And many a pointed-helmeted vandal has trotted back to his freezing yurt wondering why he seems to be a great deal poorer and the apparent owner of a badly-woven rug, a litre of undrinkable wine and a stuffed purple donkey in a straw hat. (Pratchett, who else.)
Having held many such jobs, I say let the machines have 'em, and good riddance.
Surely you mean r3, not rc3. rc3 would be a kernel version nearly a month old, while I believe r3 would be the 3rd revision of the ebuild as Gentoo tries to figure out what the heck they're doing. ;-)
Try turning off ide-scsi on your drive and see if it works. If not, whine to the lkml ;-) They're fairly receptive.
Clearly the folks at the FSF are developing much faster than the Linux kernel team, which pretty much throws the whole Cathedral and Bazaar argument out the window. With this sort of progess I'm sure we can look for a finished Hurd any day now...
Granted, it's nice for the coolness factor, but unlike PCs, newer and flashier games only come out for beefier platforms and can't be run on the old ones anyway, no matter how fast they're going.
Ah well, I'll just remember to go to this one.
It's free, you moron.
And while I may not be a very good coder, I am involved with several projects.
besides, the KDE developers don't make gdb. ;-)
If you believe in free software, you'll be willing to help support it with money, or your time. The associate membership program is simply the FSF's way to thank donaters with some perks (like this meeting) and news.
I don't see why you'd be bothered, since you can use their products for free (as in beer AND speech.) Now you complain that they won't give you dinner for free too?
Yes, they're supposed to be annual...this is only the second one though, so they're still rare, I guess.
With my nvidia drivers, I get 3d acceleration, multimonitor display (simulataneously even), great performance, but proprietary drivers.
However, it IS possible to read and edit the majority of the nvidia code, if you want. So it's halfway-open-source.
What I do is create a custom xinitrc. (The following applies to Mandrake linux.) If you move /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to xinitrcold, and replace it with an xinitrc than only contains
/usr/bin/ut2004demo
exec
(or wherever you keep the program), and then restart X, you should get about 12 more fps. I do, anyway, with my nice nvidia drivers: I average 74 frames per second on ONS-Torlan, with max demo settings, on Mandrake cooker. I haven't noticed a degredation in visual or sound quality but it could very well be the case, I tend not to notice these things.
Despite winex improving and ut2k4 being available, I still have to keep a windows partition for games. But I've had to spend less and less time in it...hopefully, in a few more years, it can be gone for good.
and if the rumors are true, nv40 is going to kick serious ass....
Beyond that, it's indicative of an attitude and motivations that simply don't mesh well with what the community expects.
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing freedesktop.org replace the xfree86 project.
So that wouldn't work at all. For that matter, neither do the cards half the time: the card network likes to go down, especially the links to outlying locations like Chipotle.
YMMV.
the comm tower is the giant tower in the center of the map, with the redeemer. I very much doubt that you can jump there with the manta.