I went in for $40. I've got World of Goo already, but I thought it would be nice to have Linux versions of these games. I figure that if even the indy devs don't get financial support for publishing Linux versions of software, the market will stay slow and dry forever.
Marconi didn't invent the radio; he invented re-combinations of other inventors' radio components that made for a more powerful radio. His biggest advances were transmission distances. Maybe it should be said that he didn't invent the radio; he just invented the *practical* radio. Kind of like how Edison's labs produced the first really practical electric lights. They were by no means the first, but by improving on techniques that the people before them had tried...
Edison was a businessman that did invention when he had to. He had a pretty kickass PR department, but he's a Bill Gates. He may've done some of the earlier work, but he essentially became management, directing his underlings toward discoveries. Tesla was the polar opposite. Pretty crappy at business, but a LOT of ideas. Some of them worked out (AC power, the concept of remote power transmission), some more would have worked given more time and money, and some would never work (teleportation, time travel, etc). Tesla was an eccentric, and maybe a little off his rocker....but I think he deserves more respect than Edison for his crazy ideas, drive to get them to work, and the fact that he *did* get some of them off the ground.
QEMU isn't bad, but it only becomes truly useable (IMO) with KQEMU installed, and that can be a pain in the ass (if memory serves)...or do newer versions roll KQEMU into QEMU itself somehow? It's been a bit since I've really poked at it.
I found a thing a few years ago called Moka5 LivePC Engine. It's basically a portable VMware environment that goes on a thumb drive. There were many, many Linux images available, last time I gave it a look. I think that it would be an easy, pre-packaged way to handle what you're trying to do here.
The question mentioned off-campus access to the system and students having compatibility trouble running Linux natively at home. I'm pretty sure that the submitter is looking for a reliable way to run Linux on the students' home machines, rather than the lab hardware. I'd assume that if the lab hardware was having compatibility problems and was the intended target of the solution they're asking for, the guy running the course could overcome the issues, and the whole question would be moot.
"The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack."
I would like it if everyone was able to buy affordable insurance; what I don't like is that I have to help them buy unaffordable insurance. If enough healthy people are buying insurance that someone else pays for, then those who are paying end up paying more, and the effect is amplified by going through a third party (the insurance company), rather than directly person to health care provider, or even person to government to health care provider.
I don't think that a halfway stance makes sense. Either we have everyone pay their own, and too bad if they can't afford it, or we provide insurance through the government, funded by taxes, and guaranteeing a certain level of payment to the health care providers and quality of care to the patients.
As it is, we're going to end up with the worst of both systems. Insurance companies still have some opportunity to gouge their clients, they increase inefficiency by acting as middlemen, and those who can afford it still end up footing the bill for those who can't.
Avatar in 3d was done in Imax and RealD here. Polarized glasses either way, with the RealD ones being circularly polarized, or something like that. No color shift (aside from darkening).
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence and which a caring society should insure you from.
I'd disagree. You aren't being cynical enough. You don't think that there's someone who would say "They're contaminating the gene pool and shouldn't be treated at all!" ?
But spending $150 is perfectly reasonable, especially if he intends to use the machine for more than 2 or 3 years. I've had components on motherboards fail in under 2 years because of bad caps, so the question is: Does he want the recurring cost of occasionally replacing the motherboard (and probably the CPU and RAM as well), or does he pay a bit more on the mobo and end up with a machine that will last longer?
Ditto. I'm on Time Warner as well. Sometimes, it'll work for a week or two without problems....sometimes it goes out every 15 minutes for a stretch of 6 hours. Some people won't accept AC2's authentication DRM just because they don't like the path that Ubisoft is trying to go down....for me, it's an actual practical concern that I wouldn't be able to play the game reliably.
Someone noted above that it's illegal to circumvent the copy protection on a copyrighted work. When the copyright expires, so does the DMCA's protection of that work.
But those games aren't truly free, unless the copyright was relinquished by the rights-holders into the public domain. They're usually called "abandonware", or various other cutesy things. Legally, someone holds the copyright still....it's just not being protected. And copyright doesn't work like a trademark; it doesn't disappear just because the company isn't protecting it.
Games tend to be fun because they allow us opportunities to fulfill various evolutionary drives. FPS games for stalking, hunting, and chasing types of skills, puzzle games for problem-solving. Your brain rewards you when you convince it that you've just increased your own chances of survival...in the past, that often meant the death of your opponent. It really doesn't surprise me that it still generally translates to that in the games that we choose to play.
A child isn't a thinking being in quite the same way that a mature adult is. They're constantly looking for input to learn from. A forming mind is easy to manipulate. Violent content can shape their minds in possibly unhealthy ways. Later on in life, when a person's personality and behavior have stabilized, I don't think the mind is as easy to harm.
Looking at it from an evolutionary perspective, the human race grew up doing some nasty things, and individuals evolved to take in those experiences, survive, and still be excellent members of society. Yes, violent media *can* have a negative impact on behavior and the mind, but given our specie's past, I don't think it's as likely as you are guessing. And I certainly don't believe that it's reason enough to deny adults' rights to movies, video games, etc. Even gun toys for kids, frankly...
RSA is an asymmetric encryption algorithm. If you have access to the public key, you can factor it (the hard part), and calculate the signing key based on that.
In these schemes, encryption and signing use the same mathematical operation. For signing, the signer encrypts the message with their own private key, so only their public key can decrypt the message. For encryption, the message is encrypted with the public key of the intended recipient, so that only the recipient's private key can be used to retrieve the message. There is sufficient information in the public key to generate the private key (and it relies on multiplying together two large prime numbers). If the public key can be factored, then you have the two primes from the private key, and you can derive the private key. This is inherent to this encryption system, and it's why it's so important that you use large keys.
"affect", used as a noun, refers to emotional states, or how the face looks or something. As a verb, it means "having an effect upon". "effect" as a noun, refers to a consequence or result. As a verb, it means the same thing as "implement", roughly.
Something like this? I haven't tried it, and the reviews look variable....but it fits what you were talking about (mostly). Frankly, since all the current consoles have usb connections, I don't see why some game vendors don't just start supporting usb mouse and keyboard for stuff....there's nothing technical in the way, that I know of.
It's not like they could claim that it was made by the same company as the original. A game's a game; why should I care what someone decides to name their shovelware?
IMO, opening up unused IP to development independent of the original owner would bring more benefit than keeping it "protected". It's generally not that hard to tell when a piece of software is some cheap crap, and it would be just as easy to avoid it with a well-known series name tacked on.
Independent groups have a history of making some awesome stuff, when allowed (Ur-Quan Masters, the Chrono Resurrection project, various Ultima Underworld remake attempts, this King's Quest project...). I don't see why projects like them shouldn't be every chance to survive.
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I went in for $40. I've got World of Goo already, but I thought it would be nice to have Linux versions of these games. I figure that if even the indy devs don't get financial support for publishing Linux versions of software, the market will stay slow and dry forever.
Marconi didn't invent the radio; he invented re-combinations of other inventors' radio components that made for a more powerful radio. His biggest advances were transmission distances. Maybe it should be said that he didn't invent the radio; he just invented the *practical* radio. Kind of like how Edison's labs produced the first really practical electric lights. They were by no means the first, but by improving on techniques that the people before them had tried...
Edison was a businessman that did invention when he had to. He had a pretty kickass PR department, but he's a Bill Gates. He may've done some of the earlier work, but he essentially became management, directing his underlings toward discoveries. Tesla was the polar opposite. Pretty crappy at business, but a LOT of ideas. Some of them worked out (AC power, the concept of remote power transmission), some more would have worked given more time and money, and some would never work (teleportation, time travel, etc). Tesla was an eccentric, and maybe a little off his rocker....but I think he deserves more respect than Edison for his crazy ideas, drive to get them to work, and the fact that he *did* get some of them off the ground.
But it's maintenance that would have to be performed anyhow, whether or not someone stole service.
"420" has a meaning that you seem to be missing...
QEMU isn't bad, but it only becomes truly useable (IMO) with KQEMU installed, and that can be a pain in the ass (if memory serves)...or do newer versions roll KQEMU into QEMU itself somehow? It's been a bit since I've really poked at it.
Blech, never mind. It doesn't look like it's freely available any more.
I found a thing a few years ago called Moka5 LivePC Engine. It's basically a portable VMware environment that goes on a thumb drive. There were many, many Linux images available, last time I gave it a look. I think that it would be an easy, pre-packaged way to handle what you're trying to do here.
The question mentioned off-campus access to the system and students having compatibility trouble running Linux natively at home. I'm pretty sure that the submitter is looking for a reliable way to run Linux on the students' home machines, rather than the lab hardware. I'd assume that if the lab hardware was having compatibility problems and was the intended target of the solution they're asking for, the guy running the course could overcome the issues, and the whole question would be moot.
"The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack."
It is in mine... (Firefox on WinXP)
I would like it if everyone was able to buy affordable insurance; what I don't like is that I have to help them buy unaffordable insurance. If enough healthy people are buying insurance that someone else pays for, then those who are paying end up paying more, and the effect is amplified by going through a third party (the insurance company), rather than directly person to health care provider, or even person to government to health care provider.
I don't think that a halfway stance makes sense. Either we have everyone pay their own, and too bad if they can't afford it, or we provide insurance through the government, funded by taxes, and guaranteeing a certain level of payment to the health care providers and quality of care to the patients.
As it is, we're going to end up with the worst of both systems. Insurance companies still have some opportunity to gouge their clients, they increase inefficiency by acting as middlemen, and those who can afford it still end up footing the bill for those who can't.
Avatar in 3d was done in Imax and RealD here. Polarized glasses either way, with the RealD ones being circularly polarized, or something like that. No color shift (aside from darkening).
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence and which a caring society should insure you from.
I'd disagree. You aren't being cynical enough. You don't think that there's someone who would say "They're contaminating the gene pool and shouldn't be treated at all!" ?
But spending $150 is perfectly reasonable, especially if he intends to use the machine for more than 2 or 3 years. I've had components on motherboards fail in under 2 years because of bad caps, so the question is: Does he want the recurring cost of occasionally replacing the motherboard (and probably the CPU and RAM as well), or does he pay a bit more on the mobo and end up with a machine that will last longer?
Ditto. I'm on Time Warner as well. Sometimes, it'll work for a week or two without problems....sometimes it goes out every 15 minutes for a stretch of 6 hours. Some people won't accept AC2's authentication DRM just because they don't like the path that Ubisoft is trying to go down....for me, it's an actual practical concern that I wouldn't be able to play the game reliably.
Those two labels aren't mutually exclusive.
Someone noted above that it's illegal to circumvent the copy protection on a copyrighted work. When the copyright expires, so does the DMCA's protection of that work.
But those games aren't truly free, unless the copyright was relinquished by the rights-holders into the public domain. They're usually called "abandonware", or various other cutesy things. Legally, someone holds the copyright still....it's just not being protected. And copyright doesn't work like a trademark; it doesn't disappear just because the company isn't protecting it.
Games tend to be fun because they allow us opportunities to fulfill various evolutionary drives. FPS games for stalking, hunting, and chasing types of skills, puzzle games for problem-solving. Your brain rewards you when you convince it that you've just increased your own chances of survival...in the past, that often meant the death of your opponent. It really doesn't surprise me that it still generally translates to that in the games that we choose to play.
A child isn't a thinking being in quite the same way that a mature adult is. They're constantly looking for input to learn from. A forming mind is easy to manipulate. Violent content can shape their minds in possibly unhealthy ways. Later on in life, when a person's personality and behavior have stabilized, I don't think the mind is as easy to harm.
Looking at it from an evolutionary perspective, the human race grew up doing some nasty things, and individuals evolved to take in those experiences, survive, and still be excellent members of society. Yes, violent media *can* have a negative impact on behavior and the mind, but given our specie's past, I don't think it's as likely as you are guessing. And I certainly don't believe that it's reason enough to deny adults' rights to movies, video games, etc. Even gun toys for kids, frankly...
RSA is an asymmetric encryption algorithm. If you have access to the public key, you can factor it (the hard part), and calculate the signing key based on that.
In these schemes, encryption and signing use the same mathematical operation. For signing, the signer encrypts the message with their own private key, so only their public key can decrypt the message. For encryption, the message is encrypted with the public key of the intended recipient, so that only the recipient's private key can be used to retrieve the message. There is sufficient information in the public key to generate the private key (and it relies on multiplying together two large prime numbers). If the public key can be factored, then you have the two primes from the private key, and you can derive the private key. This is inherent to this encryption system, and it's why it's so important that you use large keys.
"affect", used as a noun, refers to emotional states, or how the face looks or something. As a verb, it means "having an effect upon".
"effect" as a noun, refers to a consequence or result. As a verb, it means the same thing as "implement", roughly.
Something like this? I haven't tried it, and the reviews look variable....but it fits what you were talking about (mostly). Frankly, since all the current consoles have usb connections, I don't see why some game vendors don't just start supporting usb mouse and keyboard for stuff....there's nothing technical in the way, that I know of.
It's not like they could claim that it was made by the same company as the original. A game's a game; why should I care what someone decides to name their shovelware?
IMO, opening up unused IP to development independent of the original owner would bring more benefit than keeping it "protected". It's generally not that hard to tell when a piece of software is some cheap crap, and it would be just as easy to avoid it with a well-known series name tacked on.
Independent groups have a history of making some awesome stuff, when allowed (Ur-Quan Masters, the Chrono Resurrection project, various Ultima Underworld remake attempts, this King's Quest project...). I don't see why projects like them shouldn't be every chance to survive.