I like playing Neverwinter Nights on Linux, and, given that Atari now supports Linux on two of its blockbuster games (UT2004 and NWN), I would say it will continue without problems, given that, from what I have seen, GameSpy is just a server locater in NWN, and the actual server has been ported to linux. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but would it not be easier to port from Windows->Linux x86 than from Windows->Mac, because it's on the same platform? Well, anyway, I really don't care about Macs because, even most Mac users admit that Macs are bad for games, and they use them for multimedia. But I do care about linux, because games are the one thing standing between linux and wider acceptance IMHO, and it would be a shame to lose games and developers that we already have on our side.
Google AdWords. Unobtrusive, targeted, and easy for anyone to implement. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's better than banners by many times. And (I assume) it's not too hard for webmasters to set up. What more do people want? Humane for everyone.
Ummm... I have a linux box, which I have for daily use, a windows box for gaming. Then, I have a testing box (more educational, because I can test things out and generally screw around) and a laptop I use when I go places. I don't have them arranged in a circle, making a nice hum as I switch between them:)
Yes, idiots will play too many computer games if you let them. That being said, my house has 7 computers, four of which are in my room, one of which is a rather good gaming rig. And yet I have an average of over 90% in grade 10, including a 98% grade in Math 20 Pure (Grade 11 level). Obviously it doesn't hurt. Also, I have above average computer skills, and fast (70WPM) typing. Also, my game of choice, MS Flight Simulator 2004 (it's microsoft, but it doesn't have much competition), is helping me toward my future career being a pilot (my instructor said I aced an ILS approach, with full fog, on my first go on the training sim). So, where does that leave this article? Computers give people more ways to jack off and procrastinate? Duh. Does that make us more stupid? No, it merely shows the stupidity that is already there.
Well, at school (which is, I suppose, different from work), there is a policy wherein removable media (such as flash drives) cannot have executables. Better check if your place of work has one of those...
Believe me, I would have FF and PuTTY if this weren't a rule.
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I think it is safe to say that neither system will die in the forseeable future, unless something rather strange happens. I think it is just the "1337 h4x0rZ" that bash BSD for no reason. The main reason I use Linux instead: better desktop functionality, documentation, and support. If the BSDs had done this when they had the chance, linux would be dead.
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I won't argue that BSD is dead, but, to the BSD crowd: stop being eliteist about having no "distros" and being so complete. I think it is a great OS, no doubt. If I needed to host a dedicated server, OpenBSD would be my choice. But please, linux distros are not the same as BSD "flavours", because they are built on the same kernel, and can run the same code *with no modification*. The underlying system is the same, but the userland tools are different. Please stop just coming up with reasons why your beloved BSD is better than my beloved linux; I can accept that BSD is better for some things, however I would like you people to acknowledge that linux isn't just a piece of crap trying to destroy the BSDs.
I'll tell you why: because this person, who may or may not die, has had an extensive time (compared to a child) to live his life, and my guess is, since he is a minor celebrity, it hasn't been all that bad. I think many children wish they could live to see the ripe old age this man has attained. Also: here is a fact of life: people die!!! If you haven't figured out that man is a mortal creature, it behooves you to do so. Given that approximately 30,000 children die in Africa every day from hunger (not to mention other things), I think it is safe to say that if this man does or doesn't die won't make a huge difference on humanity. We seriously have to stop taking Linux so seriously. If you knew the guy, and has some sort of relationship with him, that's one thing. But if you feel sorry for him just because he has a disease, you would be a very depressed person if you weren't a hypocrite.
...you know, he's really just another person. If I were Death, and I had to choose between him and a child with leukemia, guess which one I'd pick? He's just the face of one of the many distros out there; it's not like the fate of linux is hanging in the balance. I thought the whole point of the F/OSS thing was that everyone had access to the code, thus making something like this less likely to affect anything. Sometimes people die before their time, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Best wishes to him and his family, I do hope he gets better.
Why don't these people just use ndiswrapper? I used it with this precise chipset. Don't worry that the Linux police will take your computer away if it has non-free software on it! If free software causes me undue hardship, I just use non-free. Why does this concept trouble so many people?
But, now, lone coding is a hobby, not a job, for the most part. I code just for fun, but the GPL has pretty much assured that you have to either offer Professional-grade product and support if you are going to charge for something, and that's something a one-man company can't do. You could try getting a custom-programming type job, but you might be better off to do something else and keep programming as a hobby (which has been made easier with the GPL, because you can look at a nice finished program and think "I was a part of that").
At first I thought, "fuck you, FCC", but you have actually convinced me that this probably wouldn't be a bad thing. It would teach people to use a computer as a complicated piece of engineering, instead of a mere appliance. It shouldn't be very hard of course, but it's not like it needs to be, given the average person's intelligence.
Oh, so non-geeks won't use skype? From experience I can tell you you're wrong. It was actually my Dad (who's, for the most part, technology literate, compared to many people his age) who tipped me off to Skype. He's now sucessfully converted some of his friends, and uses it to call his cousin in Buenos Aries every week. Yep, just for geeks I'm sure...
Wrong... you don't need a DVD burner. I find the quality of an OGG movie with XViD encoding, when appropriately sized to fit on a regular CD, more than sufficient.
What exactly makes this any better than glade? Both are free as in speech, but Glade is able to harness the programming power of C. The only downpoint is GTK dependance. I mean, having used both VB and Glade, I can say that I prefer Glade. I don't think it is any slower, and if it is, it is because C is infinitely more flexible.
Just to be clear here... for me (an avid gentoo user), I don't think I can even tell the difference in speed. I might notice it if I spent enough time on another system, but it really isn't important to me. What *is* important to me is the ability to have from-source (therefore more configurable) builds of everything, surrounded by a package management tool at least as robust as apt. Not to mention the fact that every single thing is documented for the most part; I think, even if I switched to another distro, I would still rely on Gentoo for a lot of documentation.
C and/or C++ in high schools *hasn't developed yet*. Right now I'm in high school. Because I listened when they dragged us in and told us about the various courses, I picked up that the Programming class dealt with Pascal. I was able to avoid and continue on my way with C and/or C++ (whatever fits the situation), but my friend got caught. The biggest danger is that someone (like my unsuspecting friend) will actually like PASCAL.
So true. Guess what? I have *no* security problems on my LAN, apart from an actual hack of either my router or computer (a possibility, perhaps, but I have good security practices and it is illegal). How do I do it? I use these handy things called "ethernet patch cables". This pre-wireless form of networking is fairly simple: run a CAT5 cable from your router to your network card! And having tried to set up wifi on linux, I can guarantee that wired networking is much more foolproof.
Well, for one thing, maybe HURD would be a viable system now. If Linus and his army of coders (what are now anyway) had been working on the HURD since 1991, it could be quite interesting by now.
That's true... My grandmother wears this godawful perfume, and after she moved, we had the task of making it smell not-so-bad. Febreze did it in three or four days.
I'm not sure if it's ever been something you can pay for, but the local Famous Players (big Canadian theatre chain) was advertising a Halo 2 fest with ten friends if you entered and won some sort of contest. That being said, I'd be more likely to pay 8.00 for a massive two-hour Halo deathmatch than a boring movie.
The BSD people get so pissed off at the *BSD is dying posts, that one would think they would be above childish retaliation in the form of linux trolls. I am a linux user, and I accept that someone might want to run an OS other than the one I use. Why are 90% of free-OS users so childish, and loyal to their OS? Because, God forbid, people who like one OS could read stories about it without trolling.
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I like playing Neverwinter Nights on Linux, and, given that Atari now supports Linux on two of its blockbuster games (UT2004 and NWN), I would say it will continue without problems, given that, from what I have seen, GameSpy is just a server locater in NWN, and the actual server has been ported to linux. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but would it not be easier to port from Windows->Linux x86 than from Windows->Mac, because it's on the same platform? Well, anyway, I really don't care about Macs because, even most Mac users admit that Macs are bad for games, and they use them for multimedia. But I do care about linux, because games are the one thing standing between linux and wider acceptance IMHO, and it would be a shame to lose games and developers that we already have on our side.
Google AdWords. Unobtrusive, targeted, and easy for anyone to implement. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's better than banners by many times. And (I assume) it's not too hard for webmasters to set up. What more do people want? Humane for everyone.
Ummm... I have a linux box, which I have for daily use, a windows box for gaming. Then, I have a testing box (more educational, because I can test things out and generally screw around) and a laptop I use when I go places. I don't have them arranged in a circle, making a nice hum as I switch between them :)
Yes, idiots will play too many computer games if you let them. That being said, my house has 7 computers, four of which are in my room, one of which is a rather good gaming rig. And yet I have an average of over 90% in grade 10, including a 98% grade in Math 20 Pure (Grade 11 level). Obviously it doesn't hurt. Also, I have above average computer skills, and fast (70WPM) typing. Also, my game of choice, MS Flight Simulator 2004 (it's microsoft, but it doesn't have much competition), is helping me toward my future career being a pilot (my instructor said I aced an ILS approach, with full fog, on my first go on the training sim). So, where does that leave this article? Computers give people more ways to jack off and procrastinate? Duh. Does that make us more stupid? No, it merely shows the stupidity that is already there.
Well, at school (which is, I suppose, different from work), there is a policy wherein removable media (such as flash drives) cannot have executables. Better check if your place of work has one of those...
Believe me, I would have FF and PuTTY if this weren't a rule.
I think it is safe to say that neither system will die in the forseeable future, unless something rather strange happens. I think it is just the "1337 h4x0rZ" that bash BSD for no reason. The main reason I use Linux instead: better desktop functionality, documentation, and support. If the BSDs had done this when they had the chance, linux would be dead.
I won't argue that BSD is dead, but, to the BSD crowd: stop being eliteist about having no "distros" and being so complete. I think it is a great OS, no doubt. If I needed to host a dedicated server, OpenBSD would be my choice. But please, linux distros are not the same as BSD "flavours", because they are built on the same kernel, and can run the same code *with no modification*. The underlying system is the same, but the userland tools are different. Please stop just coming up with reasons why your beloved BSD is better than my beloved linux; I can accept that BSD is better for some things, however I would like you people to acknowledge that linux isn't just a piece of crap trying to destroy the BSDs.
I'll tell you why: because this person, who may or may not die, has had an extensive time (compared to a child) to live his life, and my guess is, since he is a minor celebrity, it hasn't been all that bad. I think many children wish they could live to see the ripe old age this man has attained. Also: here is a fact of life: people die!!! If you haven't figured out that man is a mortal creature, it behooves you to do so. Given that approximately 30,000 children die in Africa every day from hunger (not to mention other things), I think it is safe to say that if this man does or doesn't die won't make a huge difference on humanity. We seriously have to stop taking Linux so seriously. If you knew the guy, and has some sort of relationship with him, that's one thing. But if you feel sorry for him just because he has a disease, you would be a very depressed person if you weren't a hypocrite.
...you know, he's really just another person. If I were Death, and I had to choose between him and a child with leukemia, guess which one I'd pick? He's just the face of one of the many distros out there; it's not like the fate of linux is hanging in the balance. I thought the whole point of the F/OSS thing was that everyone had access to the code, thus making something like this less likely to affect anything. Sometimes people die before their time, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Best wishes to him and his family, I do hope he gets better.
Why don't these people just use ndiswrapper? I used it with this precise chipset. Don't worry that the Linux police will take your computer away if it has non-free software on it! If free software causes me undue hardship, I just use non-free. Why does this concept trouble so many people?
But, now, lone coding is a hobby, not a job, for the most part. I code just for fun, but the GPL has pretty much assured that you have to either offer Professional-grade product and support if you are going to charge for something, and that's something a one-man company can't do. You could try getting a custom-programming type job, but you might be better off to do something else and keep programming as a hobby (which has been made easier with the GPL, because you can look at a nice finished program and think "I was a part of that").
At first I thought, "fuck you, FCC", but you have actually convinced me that this probably wouldn't be a bad thing. It would teach people to use a computer as a complicated piece of engineering, instead of a mere appliance. It shouldn't be very hard of course, but it's not like it needs to be, given the average person's intelligence.
Oh, so non-geeks won't use skype? From experience I can tell you you're wrong. It was actually my Dad (who's, for the most part, technology literate, compared to many people his age) who tipped me off to Skype. He's now sucessfully converted some of his friends, and uses it to call his cousin in Buenos Aries every week. Yep, just for geeks I'm sure...
Wrong... you don't need a DVD burner. I find the quality of an OGG movie with XViD encoding, when appropriately sized to fit on a regular CD, more than sufficient.
What exactly makes this any better than glade? Both are free as in speech, but Glade is able to harness the programming power of C. The only downpoint is GTK dependance. I mean, having used both VB and Glade, I can say that I prefer Glade. I don't think it is any slower, and if it is, it is because C is infinitely more flexible.
Just to be clear here... for me (an avid gentoo user), I don't think I can even tell the difference in speed. I might notice it if I spent enough time on another system, but it really isn't important to me. What *is* important to me is the ability to have from-source (therefore more configurable) builds of everything, surrounded by a package management tool at least as robust as apt. Not to mention the fact that every single thing is documented for the most part; I think, even if I switched to another distro, I would still rely on Gentoo for a lot of documentation.
C and/or C++ in high schools *hasn't developed yet*. Right now I'm in high school. Because I listened when they dragged us in and told us about the various courses, I picked up that the Programming class dealt with Pascal. I was able to avoid and continue on my way with C and/or C++ (whatever fits the situation), but my friend got caught. The biggest danger is that someone (like my unsuspecting friend) will actually like PASCAL.
So true. Guess what? I have *no* security problems on my LAN, apart from an actual hack of either my router or computer (a possibility, perhaps, but I have good security practices and it is illegal). How do I do it? I use these handy things called "ethernet patch cables". This pre-wireless form of networking is fairly simple: run a CAT5 cable from your router to your network card! And having tried to set up wifi on linux, I can guarantee that wired networking is much more foolproof.
Well, for one thing, maybe HURD would be a viable system now. If Linus and his army of coders (what are now anyway) had been working on the HURD since 1991, it could be quite interesting by now.
That's true... My grandmother wears this godawful perfume, and after she moved, we had the task of making it smell not-so-bad. Febreze did it in three or four days.
I didn't say watch... I said play. Yes, you're right, watching it would be dead boring.
I'm not sure if it's ever been something you can pay for, but the local Famous Players (big Canadian theatre chain) was advertising a Halo 2 fest with ten friends if you entered and won some sort of contest. That being said, I'd be more likely to pay 8.00 for a massive two-hour Halo deathmatch than a boring movie.
The BSD people get so pissed off at the *BSD is dying posts, that one would think they would be above childish retaliation in the form of linux trolls. I am a linux user, and I accept that someone might want to run an OS other than the one I use. Why are 90% of free-OS users so childish, and loyal to their OS? Because, God forbid, people who like one OS could read stories about it without trolling.
Further development should include: before-takeoff checks, yearly medical exams, log of all flight time, graduated license by hours flown, etc.
It's really not that convenient, given all that's involved, considering that planes are available now.
I still buy CDs too, on occasion. If it's a one hit wonder, it gets downloaded. If there is hope for something more, I buy the CD.