you don't have to flash the tsop anymore... a year ago softmods became stable enough to boot from (in fact an xbox v1.6+ doesn't allow a tsop flash anymore)
nowadays they even support more features than an ordinary modchip (virtual c drive, virtual eeprom, mounting of dvd images, etc...)
your idea of using a mythv server and xbox clients is excellent though!
too bad i don't really have the expertise to set up a mythv server in a reasonable amount of time... maybe i'll take a look at Mediaportal.
In other words "I can't pretent to be the character because he's black and I'm not."
Ouch... though i've got some restecp for your early five digit slashdot account number, i think you crossed a dangerous line here...
You presume the grandparent poster is white. totally ungrounded! AND You presume the fact that the grandparent poster dislikes the gta character having a spoken (naieve) personality is because it's black. totally ungrounded! (think about it)
It's because the character has _a personality_; it 'speaks' while in GTA3 and GTA: VC the character didn't really say that much -> NOT because the character happens to be black...
It's statements like yours that pave the way to racism.
I still consider this the best logic riddle ever, since anyone who's determined enough should be able to answer this question without the need of complex mathematic formulas and rules. Just plain everyday logic;-)
There's no conversion needed for a diesel engine to run on biodiesel. Biodiesel is processed veggy oil to make it compatible with ordinary diesel engines.
You only need to convert it when you want to run it on raw veggy oil. And that conversion typically only means installing a second fuel tank that can heat the oil to make it a bit thinner (i.e. increase its viscosity).
But what really matters is the content. My wife teaches the courses in primary education (6 to 12y olds). She has a hard time making up questions for each course in each grade. If there was an openly licensed 'questions base' (maybe even a wiki) this would help her alot. She would be happy to contribute her existing material;-)
You might want to start such an initiative along with the actual open source application.
Ohw... and *please* mind the localisation so there's a potential for every language speaking community in the world, and not only the english speaking community.
what if i'm tired of fixing their (family 'n friends) windows boxes for free because they are too ignorant to maintain some simple safety rules (don't click on that joke.exe, don't answer yes to something you didn't ask for in the first place -gator?, etc)
i'd rather NOT fix their problems at all... if they want my help; they'll have to do it MY WAY!
Speaking as a representative for the average computer user, I will try to explain the average pc user to the F/OSS crowd. Please note that I do not have a great deal of free time to carry on a dialog after this is posted. I will however try to reply to any serious questions as time permits.
I wouldn't call me a representative for the more tech savvy computer users, though in fact I am more tech savvy. I will try to explain a few things for you as clearly as possible. Hopefully you can benefit from open source in you own way too.
First, as average pc users, we don't really care about the whole F/OSS concept. We will never write code and we couldn't care less about the philosophical purpose behind what you write and distribute for free. Of course we can relate to free beer; that gets us excited.
Yeah well, I don't really care about the philosophical purposes of the whole F/OSS concept either. Though I'm a bit lazy by nature, I have written some occasional line of (open) source code. And I too get excited by the expectancy of free beer.
But more than just free software, what we want is software that just works and doesn't make us jump through hoops to make it work. We want to be able to pop in a CD or download a file and click something to make it work. We don't care what is going on under the hood. As long as it's not sending our credit card numbers to thieves or revealing our porn to our wives, we simply don't care how or why it works. If one organization could sell or give us a master program that did anything we wanted it to do, we would be very happy, clueless campers. We would not care in the least if an evil monopolist was controlling the entire computer industry - as long as our email, chat, photos, music, games, banking, and porn just worked.
Let me make this one thing very clear: If you want your windows games... stay clear of an open source operating system. A bunch of people will disagree with me and will start a discussion about transgamings cedega and how it's the best or worst thing (pick your camp) to happen to the open source gaming community. But believe me: an average computer user like you won't be willing to cope with all the cedega quirks (neither financial nor technical).
If on the other hand you're happy playing the games that do exist for linux, or aren't interested in playing games, the other things you mention can all 'just work' given the fact that you (or a tech savvy friend) install a descent user-friendly free linux distribution. I will get back on this a bit further...
The adventurous among us, that have investigated this F/OSS concept, have simply been intimidated or confused by the overwhelming amount of indiscernible information we're faced with. We've downloaded several of the so-called easy versions of something related to Linux, but we've ultimately given up because everything takes a lot of research and fumbling to get it working right. Every time we look for answers to a question about how to do X, we're faced with cryptic messages about compilers, command lines, wrappers, shells and whatnot. We don't want to know how to compile anything. We don't care what a command line is. We can't tell the difference between a shell and a GUI. Why should we have to? Quite simply, we are not interested in being programmers - we have other interests, jobs, and time consuming responsibilities.
Now the really, really determined amongst us will seek out knowledge by frequenting newsgroups, forums, or websites devoted to this free software. Unfortunately, the predominate thing we see happening in these areas is a bunch of infighting and bitching about how one distro is better than another, or how Microsoft is Satan incorporated. There's always a lot of talk about security and clueless users but, rarely is there any real substance that actually helps moving us clueless users into a more secure environment; at least not without requiring us to take a couple CS courses.
a trs-80 had static memory... so if you where happy keeping one program (game) in memory you didn't need a tape deck... you could just switch it off and pick up exactly where you left it the next time you turned it on;-)
secondly: it contains ERRORS (the gimp is no equivalent for photoshop; it might be an alternative in most home user cases but it's not the same)
and finally: you suggest a linux distro in stead of win xp (which is good) and you suggest zone-alarm basic in stead of mcafee's firewall (wich is debatable, but that's another discussion)... how do you suggest running zone-alarm on linux? you should at least specify the target os(es) for each application
Don't get me wrong. I like the initiative... but it's not like nobody has though of such a list before. If you want to do it, make it the best list ever or forget the whole thing. (a wiki would be nice too - so people can contribute easily)
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How about:
;-)
public bool SmsAccountIsValid(Account smsAccount)
{
That way the call is:
if (SmsAccountIsValid(smsAccount))
{
and not
if (isSmsAccountValid(smsAccount))
{
What call lays closer to the English grammar?
Still... your suggestion sure beats CheckSmsAccount
yeah... but there's no linux version for the toolkit
if i understand it correctly you're going to try to hook up an usb disk to your xbox
little advice:
don't... the only way i can think it's doable is using an xbox linux distro, you won't get it working in xbmc
besides... the xbox's usb ports are 1.1 so their troughput is way to slow to stream video
you don't have to flash the tsop anymore... a year ago softmods became stable enough to boot from (in fact an xbox v1.6+ doesn't allow a tsop flash anymore)
nowadays they even support more features than an ordinary modchip (virtual c drive, virtual eeprom, mounting of dvd images, etc...)
your idea of using a mythv server and xbox clients is excellent though!
too bad i don't really have the expertise to set up a mythv server in a reasonable amount of time... maybe i'll take a look at Mediaportal.
item solutions
no thanks...
-bbb
too bad I don't have any mod points left...
;-)
ah well, you get a +5 insightful from me
In other words "I can't pretent to be the character because he's black and I'm not."
Ouch... though i've got some restecp for your early five digit slashdot account number, i think you crossed a dangerous line here...
You presume the grandparent poster is white. totally ungrounded!
AND You presume the fact that the grandparent poster dislikes the gta character having a spoken (naieve) personality is because it's black. totally ungrounded! (think about it)
It's because the character has _a personality_; it 'speaks' while in GTA3 and GTA: VC the character didn't really say that much -> NOT because the character happens to be black...
It's statements like yours that pave the way to racism.
Does this mean I won't be able to ride my ducati motorcycle anymore in 50 years?
*ducks*
Dito! but it was a sunday evening for me...
;-)
I still consider this the best logic riddle ever, since anyone who's determined enough should be able to answer this question without the need of complex mathematic formulas and rules. Just plain everyday logic
Steve Jobs wants to keep things simple!
duh...
Isn't that the exact essence of everything he does and has done before? Keeping things simple?
Anyone who'd expect otherwise is just being plain silly.
It's convenient to be able to try out different options before I license a copy.
... oh wait!
It's even more convenient to not even bother licensing it.
There's no conversion needed for a diesel engine to run on biodiesel. Biodiesel is processed veggy oil to make it compatible with ordinary diesel engines.
You only need to convert it when you want to run it on raw veggy oil. And that conversion typically only means installing a second fuel tank that can heat the oil to make it a bit thinner (i.e. increase its viscosity).
This is actually an excellent idea.
;-)
But what really matters is the content. My wife teaches the courses in primary education (6 to 12y olds). She has a hard time making up questions for each course in each grade. If there was an openly licensed 'questions base' (maybe even a wiki) this would help her alot. She would be happy to contribute her existing material
You might want to start such an initiative along with the actual open source application.
Ohw... and *please* mind the localisation so there's a potential for every language speaking community in the world, and not only the english speaking community.
what if i'm tired of fixing their (family 'n friends) windows boxes for free because they are too ignorant to maintain some simple safety rules (don't click on that joke.exe, don't answer yes to something you didn't ask for in the first place -gator?, etc)
i'd rather NOT fix their problems at all... if they want my help; they'll have to do it MY WAY!
but they don't want to pay a cedega subscription *above* their world of warcraft fees
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if joe sixpack is a (windows games) gamer he should stay clear of any other os than windows
if joe sixpack doesn't play games, or is satisfied with the ones that work natively on the alternative os he might give it a shot
you might wanna have a look at this post of me too:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159864&
too bad that one was posted a bit late in the discussion...
Funny thing is... i was on to you too ;)
but i figured i'd bite
It was an excellent opportunity to state some of the things i said. And indeed; too bad this all was posted a bit late.
Speaking as a representative for the average computer user, I will try to explain the average pc user to the F/OSS crowd. Please note that I do not have a great deal of free time to carry on a dialog after this is posted. I will however try to reply to any serious questions as time permits.
I wouldn't call me a representative for the more tech savvy computer users, though in fact I am more tech savvy. I will try to explain a few things for you as clearly as possible. Hopefully you can benefit from open source in you own way too.
First, as average pc users, we don't really care about the whole F/OSS concept. We will never write code and we couldn't care less about the philosophical purpose behind what you write and distribute for free. Of course we can relate to free beer; that gets us excited.
Yeah well, I don't really care about the philosophical purposes of the whole F/OSS concept either. Though I'm a bit lazy by nature, I have written some occasional line of (open) source code. And I too get excited by the expectancy of free beer.
But more than just free software, what we want is software that just works and doesn't make us jump through hoops to make it work. We want to be able to pop in a CD or download a file and click something to make it work. We don't care what is going on under the hood. As long as it's not sending our credit card numbers to thieves or revealing our porn to our wives, we simply don't care how or why it works. If one organization could sell or give us a master program that did anything we wanted it to do, we would be very happy, clueless campers. We would not care in the least if an evil monopolist was controlling the entire computer industry - as long as our email, chat, photos, music, games, banking, and porn just worked.
Let me make this one thing very clear: If you want your windows games... stay clear of an open source operating system. A bunch of people will disagree with me and will start a discussion about transgamings cedega and how it's the best or worst thing (pick your camp) to happen to the open source gaming community. But believe me: an average computer user like you won't be willing to cope with all the cedega quirks (neither financial nor technical).
If on the other hand you're happy playing the games that do exist for linux, or aren't interested in playing games, the other things you mention can all 'just work' given the fact that you (or a tech savvy friend) install a descent user-friendly free linux distribution. I will get back on this a bit further...
The adventurous among us, that have investigated this F/OSS concept, have simply been intimidated or confused by the overwhelming amount of indiscernible information we're faced with. We've downloaded several of the so-called easy versions of something related to Linux, but we've ultimately given up because everything takes a lot of research and fumbling to get it working right. Every time we look for answers to a question about how to do X, we're faced with cryptic messages about compilers, command lines, wrappers, shells and whatnot. We don't want to know how to compile anything. We don't care what a command line is. We can't tell the difference between a shell and a GUI. Why should we have to? Quite simply, we are not interested in being programmers - we have other interests, jobs, and time consuming responsibilities.
Now the really, really determined amongst us will seek out knowledge by frequenting newsgroups, forums, or websites devoted to this free software. Unfortunately, the predominate thing we see happening in these areas is a bunch of infighting and bitching about how one distro is better than another, or how Microsoft is Satan incorporated. There's always a lot of talk about security and clueless users but, rarely is there any real substance that actually helps moving us clueless users into a more secure environment; at least not without requiring us to take a couple CS courses.
There are easy versions of Li
a trs-80 had static memory... so if you where happy keeping one program (game) in memory you didn't need a tape deck... you could just switch it off and pick up exactly where you left it the next time you turned it on ;-)
i'm not sure but i think OSX wouldn't be that superior at all if it had to support a broad legacy of software and hardware like windows has to do
;-) and let's keep it that way
though i am fan of OSX on apple hardware... it just works
a crippled (even unsupported) version wouldn't make things just work anymore
some things just don't have to make the hughest amount profit possible... as long as they're kept profitable
--
in my country a sig is short for cigarette
i smoke
a wow addicted co-worker of mine found a note from his girlfriend on his keyboard when he got home from work booting his gamepc:
:-)
"If I don't get some tonight... I'm finding it some place else!"
they're still together
It was called Interstate '76 ;-)
:(
Awesome game... too bad I can't get it working on my latest system anymore
your list needs work!
first of all : it's too SHORT
secondly: it contains ERRORS (the gimp is no equivalent for photoshop; it might be an alternative in most home user cases but it's not the same)
and finally: you suggest a linux distro in stead of win xp (which is good) and you suggest zone-alarm basic in stead of mcafee's firewall (wich is debatable, but that's another discussion)...
how do you suggest running zone-alarm on linux? you should at least specify the target os(es) for each application
Don't get me wrong. I like the initiative... but it's not like nobody has though of such a list before. If you want to do it, make it the best list ever or forget the whole thing. (a wiki would be nice too - so people can contribute easily)
like wayne (wayne's world) could play it in the guitar shop... NOT
party on! excellent!
sounds to me you're more of a softmod person
"I've only ever used a prostitute once just to see WTF it was that happened, then I couldn't careless."
;-)
Why doesn't that surprise me... This is slashdot after all