I always though this was another one of those banking scams they got away with. You transfer money, and for a day it is neither on your or on the receivers account. Where is it then? In the bank's pocket, making them money somehow.
I don't really agree with this approach, it is like forcing somebody to watch all great sci-fi movies before he can go watch Interstellar. I do think they should watch all those great movies in good time and because they are great, they will still be fun/good to watch today.
The same with games, i've seen it with my own kids. The real gems from the 8bit NES / C64 era still stand their own. I never forced them on these, but the questions come anyway, if you know kids, they are always full of questions. After playing mario galaxy, the question came if there are other mario games, at that point it is easy to introduce them to the past. I showed/played them through the whole history of Mario, starting with donkey kong (and showing donkey kong jr on my original savoured game&watch), going to mario bros (no, not 'super mario bros'), etc. Did they like all of them, no and i don't blame them, because some of them are not that great anymore. But the real good ones were still enjoyed and played (by them, by choice afterwards).
Games are part of our culture now, like art, books, music and movies. It would be cruel not to let them know the classics, but it is just as cruel to force-feed them.
"The Bluetooth spec never quite became the worldbeater it was billed as"
What are you talking about, BT is the de-facto standard for connecting wirelessly with almost any device today, ranging from audio devices to input devices to applliances, how has it not beaten any comparable specification, in fact is there even another _usable_ alternative?
This only makes sense if you have contributor(s) in house. And i mean the plural, because just having a kernel contributor in house is not enough. If this is not the case, don't even think about it.
Intel is NOT a fraud, except that the 3D hardware is not as powerful. Otherwise they are the best of the 3 (Nvidia, AMD, Intel), because they at least have a full open source stack.
I recently build a new PC, based on an Asus motherboard which has UEFI, but there is no problem what so ever with running linux on it. The build-in wifi works, USB3 works, BIOS is updatable with a USB key,... You just need to use a recent distro that has support for UEFI (Ubuntu & SteamOS both worked for me).
Indeed, ID was one of the big producers that made native linux executables available for their games. Hence, i did not say 'version', but 'executables'. Because afaik you had to buy the windows version, then download the linux installer and run it on your purchased windows media. Ofcourse their linux version never made any money, they were freely available on their ftp site, retail only had windows and how could they ever calculate how much of that sale was coming from linux users? There only ever was Quake 3, from Loki, and i bought it. However it was a limited run, so how many windows versions were still sold for use on linux? nobody knows, even carmack doesn't.
I've seen and been in the concorde at the Duxford museum a few years ago too. The plane is wonderful to look at, a beauty. Until i went inside, the disappointment was so much greater. It looked ancient, old, outdated, uncomfortable...
you did that too?! haha, i wonder if there was anybody who didn't pull off this joke back in the day (i blame wargames as an inspiration to make that hoax).
That is the way all 'enterprise' licenses work. You pay a penalty when you run their software on bigger iron. Usualy the price goes up depending on one or a combination of: #cpu, #ram, #users, #data, etc.
There is no difference in the software what so ever, nothing! There is nothing stopping you from buying a license for a tier 1 while in fact you need tier 3 or something (the difference in price might easily be $100.000's!! depending on the software). Ofcourse, if they ever decide to audit you, or you open a support call (oh, yeah, the suppot costs goes up with the licensing cost as well) and you run some kind of diagnostic tool they will figure out you underpaid them and then the trouble starts.
The whole situation is scandalous, i can't believe people still buy this crap, keep paying for it, there are alternatives these days. It's easy to understand how MS made an impact back in the day, compared to most of those other companies they are almost nice guys.
This is not my expirience, at work the whole team has an identical laptop (dell latitude 800), the only difference being ofcourse that i'm using linux (ubuntu) while they are all on windows. Now, they are always the first to reach for their powercables while i'm still good.
Try these things:
* configure the power manager
* install powertop and check out some of the suggestions it makes
* check out/etc/laptop-mode/conf.d - it contains a bunch of config files, you can get a lot of benefit out of those.
Sure, by default you probably could get worse battery life compared to windows, and why isn't this done correctly to begin with yadda yadda... it is there, you can fiddle around with it, which for me is good enough at the moment. i'm sure one distro or another will finally get around it and make decent default settings. A year ago, suspend wans't working on my dell either, it does now, and does it very well. You can't tackle everything at once.
It needs to include Second Reality because it started a revolution in the PC demo scene. After SR there have been a lot of really good designed demos on PC.
Before SR PC demos were a collection of cool effects and code marvels, some things we could show to Amiga guys and say - see this effect, your puny 8Mhz 68k can't pull that off. And as a reply they just shoved in the demo disk of ooh, for example - State of the art - to shut us all up. They had very good design, everything was synced with eachother and effect transitions were excellent.
So after SR, the pc demo scene got into that state and you could see the Amiga die even more. As if no more new games wasn't enough, now the demo crowd was leaving as well.
I don't believe that system administration is well-served by having files everywhere
it doesn't matter where those files are. the program runs, that is all you need to know. ofcourse, there is nothing stopping you from installing each program in its own directory. like many commercial unix tools do (they put themself in/opt), really, you should see some of the/opt dirs i've seen to know that the way it is done now, is the right way.
install only.deb files of things (things, which are not in the reps). never install tar files for system wide usage. install tar files in your home directory, always. if the program will not work like that it is probably bad anyway. using these rules you will never screw up your ubuntu install, and you will always be able to upgrade without problems too.
the BSA and Apple agree on this one. In a recent report from the BSA they consider the US to be the top in the world on the 'protection' subject (page 16).
Why go to the trouble of maintaining a windows installation, just to play freaking games?! just buy a console and play all the recent games you want hassle free.
And most linux people are probably happy with the current state of affairs, for every genre there is at least one decent game available, other then that we also have mame and a boatload of other emulators at our disposal.
we're using HP data protector backup/restore software, which uses solid as its database for storing all data information. HPDP itself is as stable as an italian taxi driver stuck behind two priests in a skoda, but thank GOD, the database is rock solid and doesn't corrupt when HPDP goes belly up again.
And there are so many gfx-pro's using linux that it turns out at nr.1 of the most wanted apps list? What does it mean, Linux desktop is used most by gfx artists?
You're kidding right, a bunch of people just filled in some app because they want PS (and only PS) and not Gimp (or any other linux alternative). I wonder why, 90% of the people don't even need all the power that the gimp gives them.
People now *expect* their software to be free. Do they think software writes itself?
just because it is OSS, doesn't mean you can't charge money for it. at the same time, all these OSS devs at several companies _are_ getting paid.
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I always though this was another one of those banking scams they got away with. You transfer money, and for a day it is neither on your or on the receivers account. Where is it then? In the bank's pocket, making them money somehow.
I don't really agree with this approach, it is like forcing somebody to watch all great sci-fi movies before he can go watch Interstellar. I do think they should watch all those great movies in good time and because they are great, they will still be fun/good to watch today.
The same with games, i've seen it with my own kids. The real gems from the 8bit NES / C64 era still stand their own. I never forced them on these, but the questions come anyway, if you know kids, they are always full of questions.
After playing mario galaxy, the question came if there are other mario games, at that point it is easy to introduce them to the past. I showed/played them through the whole history of Mario, starting with donkey kong (and showing donkey kong jr on my original savoured game&watch), going to mario bros (no, not 'super mario bros'), etc. Did they like all of them, no and i don't blame them, because some of them are not that great anymore. But the real good ones were still enjoyed and played (by them, by choice afterwards).
Games are part of our culture now, like art, books, music and movies. It would be cruel not to let them know the classics, but it is just as cruel to force-feed them.
"The Bluetooth spec never quite became the worldbeater it was billed as"
What are you talking about, BT is the de-facto standard for connecting wirelessly with almost any device today, ranging from audio devices to input devices to applliances, how has it not beaten any comparable specification, in fact is there even another _usable_ alternative?
This only makes sense if you have contributor(s) in house. And i mean the plural, because just having a kernel contributor in house is not enough.
If this is not the case, don't even think about it.
Put your windows on a raspi and see how... what do you mean, you can't?
Intel is NOT a fraud, except that the 3D hardware is not as powerful. Otherwise they are the best of the 3 (Nvidia, AMD, Intel), because they at least have a full open source stack.
I recently build a new PC, based on an Asus motherboard which has UEFI, but there is no problem what so ever with running linux on it. ...
The build-in wifi works, USB3 works, BIOS is updatable with a USB key,
You just need to use a recent distro that has support for UEFI (Ubuntu & SteamOS both worked for me).
you can get python 2.7 from redhat for RHEL6 now.
Indeed, ID was one of the big producers that made native linux executables available for their games. Hence, i did not say 'version', but 'executables'. Because afaik you had to buy the windows version, then download the linux installer and run it on your purchased windows media.
Ofcourse their linux version never made any money, they were freely available on their ftp site, retail only had windows and how could they ever calculate how much of that sale was coming from linux users?
There only ever was Quake 3, from Loki, and i bought it. However it was a limited run, so how many windows versions were still sold for use on linux? nobody knows, even carmack doesn't.
I've seen and been in the concorde at the Duxford museum a few years ago too. The plane is wonderful to look at, a beauty. Until i went inside, the disappointment was so much greater. It looked ancient, old, outdated, uncomfortable...
python doctest ftw! - http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/doctest.html
you did that too?! haha, i wonder if there was anybody who didn't pull off this joke back in the day (i blame wargames as an inspiration to make that hoax).
That is the way all 'enterprise' licenses work. You pay a penalty when you run their software on bigger iron. Usualy the price goes up depending on one or a combination of: #cpu, #ram, #users, #data, etc.
There is no difference in the software what so ever, nothing! There is nothing stopping you from buying a license for a tier 1 while in fact you need tier 3 or something (the difference in price might easily be $100.000's!! depending on the software). Ofcourse, if they ever decide to audit you, or you open a support call (oh, yeah, the suppot costs goes up with the licensing cost as well) and you run some kind of diagnostic tool they will figure out you underpaid them and then the trouble starts.
The whole situation is scandalous, i can't believe people still buy this crap, keep paying for it, there are alternatives these days. It's easy to understand how MS made an impact back in the day, compared to most of those other companies they are almost nice guys.
This is not my expirience, at work the whole team has an identical laptop (dell latitude 800), the only difference being ofcourse that i'm using linux (ubuntu) while they are all on windows. Now, they are always the first to reach for their powercables while i'm still good.
Try these things: /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d - it contains a bunch of config files, you can get a lot of benefit out of those.
* configure the power manager
* install powertop and check out some of the suggestions it makes
* check out
Sure, by default you probably could get worse battery life compared to windows, and why isn't this done correctly to begin with yadda yadda... it is there, you can fiddle around with it, which for me is good enough at the moment. i'm sure one distro or another will finally get around it and make decent default settings. A year ago, suspend wans't working on my dell either, it does now, and does it very well. You can't tackle everything at once.
Also, don't forget that 'Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware'
It needs to include Second Reality because it started a revolution in the PC demo scene. After SR there have been a lot of really good designed demos on PC.
Before SR PC demos were a collection of cool effects and code marvels, some things we could show to Amiga guys and say - see this effect, your puny 8Mhz 68k can't pull that off. And as a reply they just shoved in the demo disk of ooh, for example - State of the art - to shut us all up. They had very good design, everything was synced with eachother and effect transitions were excellent.
So after SR, the pc demo scene got into that state and you could see the Amiga die even more. As if no more new games wasn't enough, now the demo crowd was leaving as well.
it doesn't matter where those files are. the program runs, that is all you need to know. ofcourse, there is nothing stopping you from installing each program in its own directory. like many commercial unix tools do (they put themself in
funny, because at work we all have the same laptops, i'm the only one running linux (ubuntu) on it and these are my findings:
- my laptop lasts the longest of all when running on battery
- my laptop's batteries are still OK, while my colleagues need theirs replaced.
install only .deb files of things (things, which are not in the reps). never install tar files for system wide usage.
install tar files in your home directory, always. if the program will not work like that it is probably bad anyway.
using these rules you will never screw up your ubuntu install, and you will always be able to upgrade without problems too.
the BSA and Apple agree on this one. In a recent report from the BSA they consider the US to be the top in the world on the 'protection' subject (page 16).
Why go to the trouble of maintaining a windows installation, just to play freaking games?!
just buy a console and play all the recent games you want hassle free.
And most linux people are probably happy with the current state of affairs, for every genre there is at least one decent game available, other then that we also have mame and a boatload of other emulators at our disposal.
...of at least one american where this doesn't appear to be a problem.
...they found the bug which is crashing windows ever since version 1!
we're using HP data protector backup/restore software, which uses solid as its database for storing all data information.
HPDP itself is as stable as an italian taxi driver stuck behind two priests in a skoda, but thank GOD, the database is rock solid and doesn't corrupt when HPDP goes belly up again.
so all in all, a good pick of mysql!
And there are so many gfx-pro's using linux that it turns out at nr.1 of the most wanted apps list? What does it mean, Linux desktop is used most by gfx artists?
You're kidding right, a bunch of people just filled in some app because they want PS (and only PS) and not Gimp (or any other linux alternative). I wonder why, 90% of the people don't even need all the power that the gimp gives them.
People now *expect* their software to be free. Do they think software writes itself?
just because it is OSS, doesn't mean you can't charge money for it. at the same time, all these OSS devs at several companies _are_ getting paid.