just because the code is there for everyone doesn't mean that many of these students are going to dig around and play with the code. No, but at least the user has the chance to learn. In MS Windows, there are some things you just won't be able to learn. (Hostname, why do I need a hostname and what is it?)
The original stuff -- maybe the drugs and free love, but that's about it. No, The Greeks had that long before the 1960s. Heck, the boomin' (19)20's is a more recent pretense to the 1960's.
The crazy thing about linux is that it can be as easy or as hard to install as you want it to be. Ubuntu is easier and faster the Windows XP. Gentoo is almost the most difficult to install (but you have many choices!)
Also, don't be surprised that there are geeks out there who recognize a bargain pc/laptop at a big chain when they see one. Best Buy doesn't have a line around their stores on Black Friday for nothing.
I think I will be waiting for all the phone calls from people completely frustrated that their new PC was once underperforming and now has a black window. I will happily install Ubuntu for them.
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have happened if Clinton were around during that time. (See anyone can play this silly game.)
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have succeeded had we had today's media completely against it? Very valid question since the media of the day was very much for revolution and was the cause of great ideas that led to the revolution and the constitution.
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have succeeded had the people said... Oh, crap we didn't beat the British in the first few years? Major losses at Valley Forge where the soldiers have no supplies and no reinforcements for months?
Remember, also, that the USA did not get a stable federal government for many years after the revolution. George Washington went home after the revolution and was only convinced to come back to help found the government.
If your printer driver is 180 MB, maybe you should dump that HP printer and go with something that isn't going load your "driver" with "featured software".
That's just retarded. Consumer PCs come with some kind of recovery manager that allows you to make recovery CDs. Big Box stores charge something like 20 dollars to make the recovery CDs, which can take an hour or two sometimes. This is a service for people who don't know how to make these discs. It's easy for anyone on slashot to do but some people cannot even install software, nevermind make recovery discs. As for the price its pretty cheap. Manufacturers usually charge you 30-50 dollars for recovery discs.
I don't know, but I doubt MFGs charge $30 for the recovery discs that are included with the PC. I've called Dell and they've provided the discs for free. In most other consumer PCs (Compaq, HP, Gateway, eMachines) the very second thing that pops up is a dialog to insert the blank disc to make a recovery CD. It does NOT take an hour or two to burn what is basically the image from a backup partition to the CD-R or DVD-R. 30 minutes tops.
The thing was, it probably ran better than a Windows ME or Vista machine does today.
/woah! zing!
/my first PC = 286, 640KB memory, 20MB HDD, EGA video, 4800 Modem. I still know what the directory structure was, where all the important files were, and why I had to hide a certain game folder.
I completely agree that if one missed Bloom County, they missed a lot. But ask a teenager to read Bloom County now and they wouldn't understand it. It is very time dependent with a lot of late 80's, early 90's pop culture references. Granted, some of those references are timeless, others (like Bill the Cat for president) aren't.
Well, on the other hand, Bill the Cat could have probably done a lot better than our last two presidents.
I think the problem with your analogy is that there are some people who actively refuse to get a package because certain channels are on them. Take a family with high morals that don't allow the R rated movies (and X rated shows that come on after midnight) in their homes. But to get the movie package, which might contain Disney movies and some of the other family friendly movie channels, the consumer would be forced to add the Sundance, HBO, and Cinemax channels. That's a deal breaker because those three channels are not family friendly (particularly after 8:00 PM, and Sundance... almost never).
Allowing consumers to purchase a la carte will do several things.
Those people who refuse to purchase a package can now get the channels they want and be able to refuse the channels they don't want. (I really don't want the trash that is aired over MTV, VH1, and many of the premier movie channels.)
A lot of the channels that are crap will finally fall off the air, while cable channels will be forced to show quality programming that will keep the viewers interested. (no more Law & Order marathons on my hi-def TNT channel... perhaps).
Consumers will probably be happier with their viewing purchase. They get to watch what they really pay for.
Finally, I wouldn't mind if they kept the shopping channels to lower the overall price. There is nothing really offensive on those channels... unless they start selling sex toys or if you consider ginsu knives offensive.
It is possible to make great games and not push the envelope. Games don't have to show the gory details of murder and death, we have imagination enough to know that when consenting adults disappear behind the bedroom door, hanky panky is going to occur. I don't need and don't want to see that crap.
Let the story drive the game and leave the gore to sick people like those that made and watch SAW and porn to the porn industry.
I realize I am one side of the spectrum and these guys in Europe and Rockstar are the other side. I offer my opinion as a contrast to these guys and probably counter to many of the opinions of the people who browse these sites.
/me a FPS/RPG/RTS gamer who turns of the blood splatter and turns down the foul language.
At this point, I would call them Joe Seven-Packs. I mean, 6 figure incomes wouldn't do it in this day and age if you are trying to stay under radar. You want to go after the 7 and 8 figure income earners.
Everyone who wants to have Ghosting ability, check out Partimage Is Not Ghost. This is a very good piece of software that creates hdd backups reliably (in my usage) of ntfs, fat, and any *nix formats. It boots from a cd and runs on linux.
Another favored find I have made recently is XOSL. Yes, I know, it is old, but it is still good.
I believe I'll have to disagree with the FPS stance of your post. Quake (id Software), Unreal Tournament (Epic), and Half-Life (Valve Software) all are playable in Wine/Cedega. These games are the pinnacle of first person shooters. In fact, I think id Software has a client port for Linux and Valve Software supports Cedega. (The founders of Valve came from Microsoft.) They each have servers that run on Linux.
I will admit that it will take a long time for the EA's and Activision's of the gaming world to start porting to Linux. But they've proven they are in it strictly for the money. Do you really need an NHL or a Madden game every.single.year? I still have fun with Need For Speed: U2 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. It is unfortunate that both of these games have little to no expandability, thus replayability.
Smaller shops will be more than willing to create Linux clients if enough people start demanding it.
The absolute need for Vista to run DX 10 killed it from the beginning.
This is correct and a misunderstanding by Microsoft of the PC Gaming crowd. We like our hardware powerful. Every little thing that can be done to improve fps but keep a balance of beauty is going to be done. (Better hardware to improve fps while trying to keep AA/AF or HDR at a maximum.)
The last thing a hardcore gamer is going to do is get an OS that eats up processor ticks in the background when we want the game to be the sole user of the processor. (I know, it's over-simplifying the entire issue.) Moving to DirectX 10, which means moving to a resource hungry OS, when very few games support it is really silly. Oblivion still has a hard time crunching the data is some areas on my PC. (E6600 Intel, 2GB OCX RAM, nVidia 7900GS OC'd, 19" widescreen at 1440x900, HDR and distant rendering on)
/What is it with red that makes a game slow to a crawl?
While I agree that Open Sourcing either the drivers would be good, I think I'd rather have the full microcode for the chipsets. That would give several different groups a chance at making drivers. I'm not sure why AMD/ATI and NVidia don't release the assembly code, they may find they would not have to work as hard on drivers and they just might get some free assistance in tracking down bugs in both Windows and any other OS.
Having said all that, I'd rather take these baby steps with Dell offering any pre-installed Linux, whether it has open or closed source drivers, than not having any computer with pre-installed Linux.
Besides, Dell's Ubuntu laptop offering has Intel graphics and wireless chipsets.
There, fixed that for you. Yes, I went there, had to. Adoption is much more honorable. So many couples who can't have children and want them would gladly care for your "mistake".
The problem is this is not BS. Even if you take a "roll in the hay" with that special someone of the moment... who's to say she hasn't taken a roll in the hay with someone previously of whom was her previous special someone of the moment. And since that previous special someone turned out not to be so special... who's to say that person was not so careful about placing his, umm, unit anywhere else.
It's not so hard to wait. I did until I was 29 and married, my wife also waited and she is older than I. Neither of us have to worry about the other.
The statistics formulas in Excel are excellent and I could not find an equivalent in OO.o. Having said that, I've had no need of it since my Engineering Statistics class and I nearly exclusively use OO.o when the choice is given me.
Translate this to physical security. Would you be satisfied with a bank that kept your money in jar that was hidden in a large building with no floorplan, no locks, and missing doorknobs?
No, but would you be satisfied with a bank that has published its floorplans and locking measures for peer review and security checking or the bank that secretly hides its potentially insecure locking measures and inane floor planning that allows any schmoe to walk in off the street right into the lockbox?
That would be an insightful statement. But the one thing I tell anyone who has to send in their computer for warranty repairs, "Let me back up your files for $50 and then you can send your PC away to be reformatted and re-installed, because that is exactly what they're going to do."
If it's not under warranty, I fix it for them, but that's beside the point.
Having just recently graduated with a BS in CECS, I had the option to go one more year and get the Masters. But I was just really tired of doing a lot of work and studying a lot of math and not getting paid to do it. I've been in school and the work force a long time, and I like learning at work more than learning at school. I'm basically doing the same thing at both places, but at one, I get paid more, and, thus, able to purchase more "toys" do research at home.
Of course, I'm also a little lazy, I like leaving work at work. In school, you bring the homework home.
Yes, I would agree with all of that. A dozen cops standing around a plan... looking at the plan, and they don't hear a metallic robot klinking right behind them? Insipid.
Anyway, I guess I remembered the action more than the comedic inappropriateness during some of the battles. Very Jar-Jar like.
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The crazy thing about linux is that it can be as easy or as hard to install as you want it to be. Ubuntu is easier and faster the Windows XP. Gentoo is almost the most difficult to install (but you have many choices!)
Also, don't be surprised that there are geeks out there who recognize a bargain pc/laptop at a big chain when they see one. Best Buy doesn't have a line around their stores on Black Friday for nothing.
Counter-sue for wrongful accusation and get your fees paid for by DirecTV.
I think I will be waiting for all the phone calls from people completely frustrated that their new PC was once underperforming and now has a black window. I will happily install Ubuntu for them.
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have happened if Clinton were around during that time. (See anyone can play this silly game.)
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have succeeded had we had today's media completely against it? Very valid question since the media of the day was very much for revolution and was the cause of great ideas that led to the revolution and the constitution.
Anyone care to wager if the revolution would ever have succeeded had the people said... Oh, crap we didn't beat the British in the first few years? Major losses at Valley Forge where the soldiers have no supplies and no reinforcements for months?
Remember, also, that the USA did not get a stable federal government for many years after the revolution. George Washington went home after the revolution and was only convinced to come back to help found the government.
If your printer driver is 180 MB, maybe you should dump that HP printer and go with something that isn't going load your "driver" with "featured software".
That's just retarded. Consumer PCs come with some kind of recovery manager that allows you to make recovery CDs. Big Box stores charge something like 20 dollars to make the recovery CDs, which can take an hour or two sometimes. This is a service for people who don't know how to make these discs. It's easy for anyone on slashot to do but some people cannot even install software, nevermind make recovery discs. As for the price its pretty cheap. Manufacturers usually charge you 30-50 dollars for recovery discs.
I don't know, but I doubt MFGs charge $30 for the recovery discs that are included with the PC. I've called Dell and they've provided the discs for free. In most other consumer PCs (Compaq, HP, Gateway, eMachines) the very second thing that pops up is a dialog to insert the blank disc to make a recovery CD. It does NOT take an hour or two to burn what is basically the image from a backup partition to the CD-R or DVD-R. 30 minutes tops.Boy, this could turn out badly.
I completely agree that if one missed Bloom County, they missed a lot. But ask a teenager to read Bloom County now and they wouldn't understand it. It is very time dependent with a lot of late 80's, early 90's pop culture references. Granted, some of those references are timeless, others (like Bill the Cat for president) aren't.
Well, on the other hand, Bill the Cat could have probably done a lot better than our last two presidents.
Allowing consumers to purchase a la carte will do several things.
Finally, I wouldn't mind if they kept the shopping channels to lower the overall price. There is nothing really offensive on those channels... unless they start selling sex toys or if you consider ginsu knives offensive.
It is possible to make great games and not push the envelope. Games don't have to show the gory details of murder and death, we have imagination enough to know that when consenting adults disappear behind the bedroom door, hanky panky is going to occur. I don't need and don't want to see that crap.
/me a FPS/RPG/RTS gamer who turns of the blood splatter and turns down the foul language.
Let the story drive the game and leave the gore to sick people like those that made and watch SAW and porn to the porn industry.
I realize I am one side of the spectrum and these guys in Europe and Rockstar are the other side. I offer my opinion as a contrast to these guys and probably counter to many of the opinions of the people who browse these sites.
At this point, I would call them Joe Seven-Packs. I mean, 6 figure incomes wouldn't do it in this day and age if you are trying to stay under radar. You want to go after the 7 and 8 figure income earners.
Everyone who wants to have Ghosting ability, check out Partimage Is Not Ghost . This is a very good piece of software that creates hdd backups reliably (in my usage) of ntfs, fat, and any *nix formats. It boots from a cd and runs on linux.
Another favored find I have made recently is XOSL . Yes, I know, it is old, but it is still good.
I believe I'll have to disagree with the FPS stance of your post. Quake (id Software), Unreal Tournament (Epic), and Half-Life (Valve Software) all are playable in Wine/Cedega. These games are the pinnacle of first person shooters. In fact, I think id Software has a client port for Linux and Valve Software supports Cedega. (The founders of Valve came from Microsoft.) They each have servers that run on Linux.
I will admit that it will take a long time for the EA's and Activision's of the gaming world to start porting to Linux. But they've proven they are in it strictly for the money. Do you really need an NHL or a Madden game every.single.year? I still have fun with Need For Speed: U2 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. It is unfortunate that both of these games have little to no expandability, thus replayability.
Smaller shops will be more than willing to create Linux clients if enough people start demanding it.
The last thing a hardcore gamer is going to do is get an OS that eats up processor ticks in the background when we want the game to be the sole user of the processor. (I know, it's over-simplifying the entire issue.) Moving to DirectX 10, which means moving to a resource hungry OS, when very few games support it is really silly. Oblivion still has a hard time crunching the data is some areas on my PC. (E6600 Intel, 2GB OCX RAM, nVidia 7900GS OC'd, 19" widescreen at 1440x900, HDR and distant rendering on)
While I agree that Open Sourcing either the drivers would be good, I think I'd rather have the full microcode for the chipsets. That would give several different groups a chance at making drivers. I'm not sure why AMD/ATI and NVidia don't release the assembly code, they may find they would not have to work as hard on drivers and they just might get some free assistance in tracking down bugs in both Windows and any other OS. Having said all that, I'd rather take these baby steps with Dell offering any pre-installed Linux, whether it has open or closed source drivers, than not having any computer with pre-installed Linux. Besides, Dell's Ubuntu laptop offering has Intel graphics and wireless chipsets.
And abortions are 100% effectively murder.
There, fixed that for you. Yes, I went there, had to. Adoption is much more honorable. So many couples who can't have children and want them would gladly care for your "mistake".
the whole "I'm saving myself" BS.
The problem is this is not BS. Even if you take a "roll in the hay" with that special someone of the moment... who's to say she hasn't taken a roll in the hay with someone previously of whom was her previous special someone of the moment. And since that previous special someone turned out not to be so special... who's to say that person was not so careful about placing his, umm, unit anywhere else.
It's not so hard to wait. I did until I was 29 and married, my wife also waited and she is older than I. Neither of us have to worry about the other.
The statistics formulas in Excel are excellent and I could not find an equivalent in OO.o. Having said that, I've had no need of it since my Engineering Statistics class and I nearly exclusively use OO.o when the choice is given me.
That would be an insightful statement. But the one thing I tell anyone who has to send in their computer for warranty repairs, "Let me back up your files for $50 and then you can send your PC away to be reformatted and re-installed, because that is exactly what they're going to do."
If it's not under warranty, I fix it for them, but that's beside the point.
Having just recently graduated with a BS in CECS, I had the option to go one more year and get the Masters. But I was just really tired of doing a lot of work and studying a lot of math and not getting paid to do it. I've been in school and the work force a long time, and I like learning at work more than learning at school. I'm basically doing the same thing at both places, but at one, I get paid more, and, thus, able to purchase more "toys" do research at home.
Of course, I'm also a little lazy, I like leaving work at work. In school, you bring the homework home.
Yes, I would agree with all of that. A dozen cops standing around a plan... looking at the plan, and they don't hear a metallic robot klinking right behind them? Insipid.
Anyway, I guess I remembered the action more than the comedic inappropriateness during some of the battles. Very Jar-Jar like.