I think it is possible to have too many people working on a distro. "Every software project should have as few people as possible working on it, but no less."
My experience with Linux is getting better and better each year, and each distro that I have tried takes a different approach. Not only do I think lowering the number of distros is unnecessary, I think it would be harmful to the creative experimentation that occurs daily (or nightly?) in the GNU/Linux/OSS world.
All I would need for a HTPC is an optical out port, since my audio receiver does all the sound processing. If you're playing a DVD or HD stream, the sound is passed bit for bit to the audio receiver. This is of course if you're using a seperate sound receiver, which I hope you do for a home theatre.
Now imagine coupling this with some sort of wireless buffer-overflow exploit (that does not exist, as of yet). The horror!
The DS only runs on its' wireless connectivity when the user requests it (you can see when it's on by looking at the blinking power LED). So I highly doubt that a wireless exploit could spread very far.
There's plenty of apps that you could write and make money from. How about a decent financial/accounting package? Or an 'enterprise class' autoCAD 'solution'?
Or maybe a commercial game? I don't think tuxracer made other games obsolete.
With Linux, you are only limited by YOUR creativity, which can be frightening.
I liked your comment and considered stealing the wolves and sheep line to put as an email sig. For some reason though, it looks wrong without the sentences after it.
Also, as a member of a neighbour nation, Canada, I ask the you would please define 'best' in the situation in which you have used it.
If they ever standardize on a DRM that prevents me from watching content on my brand new HD LCD TV, then I'll just download it. You can find lots of HD movies online now, which is cool because where else can you get them? With the ever increasing broadband bandwidth, I could download a HD movie in now time.
It's always interesting to see who they're looking to hire and what qualifications they're looking for. It gives you an idea on what they're researching and developing. i.e. They're looking for programmers with multi-threading experience, which kinda tells you where game engine programming is headed.
Macrovision is both a company and an anti-copyright infringment technique. The company licenses technologies other than 'Macrovision protection', I think.
I wonder if openoffice 2.0 can export them properly too. I just tried to open an odt document that I saved from openoffice 2.0 (the latest version from SUSE 9.3, it's beta, but it's good enough for Novell) and KOffice says that it isn't a valid OASIS opendocument, then refuses to open it.
This game is 99% PERFECT. All it's missing is online play. I'd pay $43 CAD again just to get online play. Although, the CPU opponent is quite challenging and fun.
Damn, I wish I had friends who had a DS, and the same games as me.
I've been playing this game everyday or two since I got it a week and a half ago, and I'm having as much fun now as I did when I first got it.
The reviewer failed to mention how the difficulty ramps up at a reasonably good pace and how the moves you get to unlock are crazy and hilariously cool.
I was very pleased to have bought this game, and I don't buy many.
Plus, the reviewer didn't mention the the xbox version supports 720p (HDTV res) and has awesome 5.1 surround. This is THE game to show off your home theatre!
In the states, hospitals are for profit (AFAIK), and volunteering there is considered highly respectable. People probably volunteer at IGN to get the experience and hopefully get hired later, I don't see how this news changes anything.
Was lemmings actually a good game? I remember liking it as a kid, but I recently revisited it, and thought it was slow, boring, and not challenging. I think it was a fad merely because you could make the lemmings blow up.
oh and btw, there are other ways to prevent "piracy", you don't need to deny the owner their property rights just to outlaw game copying.
Like what exactly? Are you referring to codes that come with the game printed on a hard to photocopy paper? Ya, that works well!
Why don't you just go make you own computer or game machine? If what you say is true, there should be a huge market and you'd make a lot of money.
I think that if you buy something, it should merely be able to do what it was promised to do, in this case, play officially licensed software. If you can hack the system to play your own software, then that's fine in my book.
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It's like Jack Bauer on 24: "There's no time! You have to trust me!"
What do you do when the person that chooses not to obey is the SAME person that walks into YOUR cubicle to chat your ear off?
I think it is possible to have too many people working on a distro. "Every software project should have as few people as possible working on it, but no less."
My experience with Linux is getting better and better each year, and each distro that I have tried takes a different approach. Not only do I think lowering the number of distros is unnecessary, I think it would be harmful to the creative experimentation that occurs daily (or nightly?) in the GNU/Linux/OSS world.
All I would need for a HTPC is an optical out port, since my audio receiver does all the sound processing. If you're playing a DVD or HD stream, the sound is passed bit for bit to the audio receiver. This is of course if you're using a seperate sound receiver, which I hope you do for a home theatre.
Keep voting Liberals! They're not scary!
Now imagine coupling this with some sort of wireless buffer-overflow exploit (that does not exist, as of yet). The horror!
The DS only runs on its' wireless connectivity when the user requests it (you can see when it's on by looking at the blinking power LED). So I highly doubt that a wireless exploit could spread very far.
yes, a virtual one.
There's plenty of apps that you could write and make money from. How about a decent financial/accounting package? Or an 'enterprise class' autoCAD 'solution'?
Or maybe a commercial game? I don't think tuxracer made other games obsolete.
With Linux, you are only limited by YOUR creativity, which can be frightening.
What you are referring to is the common cause fallacy. The two statistics are linked, because they are caused by the same thing.
In the case the article talks about, the common cause of music downloading and shoplifting may be that those people are young, or don't have money.
I liked your comment and considered stealing the wolves and sheep line to put as an email sig. For some reason though, it looks wrong without the sentences after it.
Also, as a member of a neighbour nation, Canada, I ask the you would please define 'best' in the situation in which you have used it.
If they ever standardize on a DRM that prevents me from watching content on my brand new HD LCD TV, then I'll just download it. You can find lots of HD movies online now, which is cool because where else can you get them? With the ever increasing broadband bandwidth, I could download a HD movie in now time.
It's always interesting to see who they're looking to hire and what qualifications they're looking for. It gives you an idea on what they're researching and developing. i.e. They're looking for programmers with multi-threading experience, which kinda tells you where game engine programming is headed.
Macrovision is both a company and an anti-copyright infringment technique. The company licenses technologies other than 'Macrovision protection', I think.
I wonder if openoffice 2.0 can export them properly too. I just tried to open an odt document that I saved from openoffice 2.0 (the latest version from SUSE 9.3, it's beta, but it's good enough for Novell) and KOffice says that it isn't a valid OASIS opendocument, then refuses to open it.
This game is 99% PERFECT. All it's missing is online play. I'd pay $43 CAD again just to get online play. Although, the CPU opponent is quite challenging and fun.
Damn, I wish I had friends who had a DS, and the same games as me.
Ya, but the powerglove sucked! This will be better! I hope!
I've been playing this game everyday or two since I got it a week and a half ago, and I'm having as much fun now as I did when I first got it.
The reviewer failed to mention how the difficulty ramps up at a reasonably good pace and how the moves you get to unlock are crazy and hilariously cool.
I was very pleased to have bought this game, and I don't buy many.
Plus, the reviewer didn't mention the the xbox version supports 720p (HDTV res) and has awesome 5.1 surround. This is THE game to show off your home theatre!
In the states, hospitals are for profit (AFAIK), and volunteering there is considered highly respectable. People probably volunteer at IGN to get the experience and hopefully get hired later, I don't see how this news changes anything.
Was lemmings actually a good game? I remember liking it as a kid, but I recently revisited it, and thought it was slow, boring, and not challenging. I think it was a fad merely because you could make the lemmings blow up.
In this case, Linux would boot before the game and auto-detect the hardware, knoppix style. It could work, but I doubt anyone would bother to do it.
Remembering useless information that we use the web for looking up will be the least of our worries in the case of the approaching apocalypse.
Sex bots use better grammar than you!
oh and btw, there are other ways to prevent "piracy", you don't need to deny the owner their property rights just to outlaw game copying.
Like what exactly? Are you referring to codes that come with the game printed on a hard to photocopy paper? Ya, that works well!
Why don't you just go make you own computer or game machine? If what you say is true, there should be a huge market and you'd make a lot of money.
I think that if you buy something, it should merely be able to do what it was promised to do, in this case, play officially licensed software. If you can hack the system to play your own software, then that's fine in my book.
I dunno, avi files combined with mp3 for audio and xvid for video work quite well! (That is if we're talking downloadable video, not simulcast)
Does it change the entries in the RSS feed? If not, then the original poster is still correct to gripe.