No you don't. I did the last update through 'Synaptic Package Manager', it's basically a GUI for apt-get. Most 'hardcore' Linux people will ignore a GUI if there is a perfectly good command line for it. So when you ask how to do something you get a quick command and not how to find the GUI. On that note I welcome the graphical editor for xorg.conf with this version of Ubuntu
I would guess on the grounds that the Amazon was aware that the patent was obvious and were just out to hurt competition and make a quick buck. Anti-Monopoly stuff. Hard stuff to prove but they might just be able to pull it off. It would be a nice president too. It would make people think twice before trying to enforce a dumb patent.
I really hope they continue this series somehow....
Just a note here the Portal universe is part of the main Half-life universe. They mention Aperture Science in passing in ep2. And with the way ep2 ended Aperture Science might be important in the next Half-life game.
Oh and just as a little added info http://www.aperturescience.com/. Type 'login'. The name is cjohnson and password tier3. You can find that login in a "ratman" room in Portal (level 17 I think).
Thank our Ubuntu pushing over lords. This kind of demand from a major vendor is just the kind of visibility that Linux needs for hardware makers to finally start working on Linux drivers on their own. With any luck soon suporting linux will be standard and not some kind of "giving to the weirdos" for hardware makers.
You make a good point. However think about all the fanatics who were wrong in history. Joseph McCarthy is the most recent. He did get a lot of people behind him but given a little time everyone figured out that what he was saying was stupid.
I might just be idealistic but I get the feeling that the loud alarmist might get herd first but once people realize he is just talking shit they ignore him even if he finally does have something meaningful to say. It happened to McCarthy and it's happening to our buddy Jack. Those people you listed are just as crazy but, sadly, they have people in the US who agree with what they are saying. So it's a little different. But with the growing dissatisfaction in the current administration I don't think they will be able to talk that way for much longer. I don't keep up with main stream news but I get the feeling that their ratings have already dropped.
Long story short, I still believe that while a loud idiot wins the battle, a sane person with facts behind them wins the war.
The bill is still bupkus and he is still an anti-gamer.
This is this kind of attitude that the gaming community needs to avoid. If we are going to get anywhere with this dispute on how adult games should be dealt with we need to listen to both sides. It sounded like the Senator was being honest and logical. Even if he was lying about his plans we would be able to call him on it if he changes his tune latter. The bill does not look like it was out to stop games dead in their tracks but to prevent the sale of adult games to minors. That's not all that bad of a thing. We do it with drugs and alcohol. I don't think that it is a necessary restriction, but that is my opinion. Instead of foaming at the mouth every time a law maker tries to pass a misguided law we need to explain what is wrong with it. I don't think we want to be as loud and stupid as Jack Thompson.
I was going to say about the same thing. But check out this FUD http://www.linspire.com/products_linspire_whatis.php. I don't know all the details but I run Ubuntu and allot of the stuff in there they say Ubuntu does not have I do have. CNR? I have apt-get. Is that all that diffrent? KDE? You can get it from apt-get or better yet use Kubuntu. I am all for paying for something worth paying for but it seems like they are grasping at straws here.
I've said it before - "WE WANT FREE ENTERTAINMENT" isn't exactly one of the great rallying cries.
I don't think most people here are demanding that. We want FAIR entertainment. $1 for a crippled low quality song is too much. On top of that most of that dollar does not even go to the artist. Since the current system is ass backwards the pirating underground got huge. I would love to know how much of this money is going to the person who's songs were 'stolen' in these cases. I'll bet that not a dime has made it back to them.
Every few days there is another RIAA story and every story seems to be going in a different direction. they lose, they win, they lose... ugh. I'm just as pissed about this stuff as the next guy and I do like to know what is going on; But when are we going to have this stuff get to the point where we can see a real change?
Yeah but people don't notice that. There is a massive difference between $101 for a season and $4.2 an episode. It feels cheaper to pay one episode at a time even if it's really not any cheaper. As over priced as this system is at least the major companies are starting to give us options. With any luck the prices and restrictions will fall as this becomes a standard way to deliver content.
That's all reasonably accurate but things are changing.
Afterall, its so easy to install programs on Windows that they practically do it themselves;)
It was but with program manager in Ubuntu it's gotten way simpler. From the Article...
An Add/Remove function actually makes finding programs easier with Linux than it is for Mac and Windows. Without having to go to Web sites, it lets you browse through categories of software. It took me only seconds to find several additional music players, a PDF reader and other programs. In addition to downloading the software, this feature installs it and finds any necessary additional files.
The ubiquitous nature of windows makes it very easy to fix your machine should something go wrong.
That's somewhat true but only until a hefty number of people use Linux. Since everything in Linux is open it'll be easier to find help for Linux then Windows. Think about it this way, if someone has the same problem you do and they get REALLY pissed at it they can sit down for a day or two, figure it out, and post it in a forum when someone else has the same issue. This sounds kind of dumb and idealistic but I remember many Windows problems I've had where I sat for days trying to figure out what was wrong. If i had the option i would have gladly went through some code. It would have been less frustrating than randomly changing things in the hope that it'll have an effect.
While windows may have a steep learning curve when it comes to administrative work, with Linux the curve is a brick wall for most users.
Oh I know all about that. It's only with Ubuntu that I was finally able to get a Linux distro running that could get me through the average day with out dedicating a month to figuring out everything. But your forgetting something important Linux might seem like a brick wall at first but Windows HAS a brick wall once you get deeply in to it. If you ever want to get a little taste of it look up the Windows Registry in the help for Windows. It's a central part of fixing nearly allspy ware and virus infections and all Microsoft will tell you about it is that "Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system." I remember the day I saw that was the day I realized I can't learn any more about Windows. They just will not let me. It's was years before I was able to make the switch but it was then and there that I decided I had to.
Since they have been spreading FUD about Open Source for years I highly doubt that they will use the term any time soon. Even if they warmed up to it them self.
If you really want to know start checking from here. http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=19971231
I was board one day and figured out just how far back I could get/. to go.
I just want to know where the other few months went. Lost in an upgrade I guess.
I would have totally agreed with you a year ago, But Ubuntu is a massive improvement from other Linux distros. Except for games I've been able to entirely replace my windows install. I've not once had to go out and muck about in the console or installing software on my own. I've used the package manager (think "add and remove programs" but it actually can find and install new programs) about 100 times now to install many cool little apps. They have not all worked they way I wanted but most of them would not have been possible with out hours of trolling freeware sites installing and uninstalling software that would wreak havoc on my PC. I can honestly say that my time using Ubuntu was FAR less painful then using XP. Just my 2 cents
So the question is how different would things be if there was no Novell and MS deal? Or better yet is this MS backed Novell growth a bad or a good thing for Linux? I get the feeling that it's a good thing in the long run. Getting people to switch to Linux is the hard part, switching to a different distro should be easy after that.
Yeah but I think that in Vista OpenGL is emulated with DirectX. Any code that uses it needs to do extra leg work of being translated from a OpenGL command to a DirectX equivalent. Carmack seems like the kind of guy who would not stand for that. He also seems to enjoy writing the engines. So the extra work would be fun for him.
In any case I think the guy meant that no one is working on it this second. That does not mean no one will work on it ever.
More importantly just about every office uses email for internal communication. It's currently the best well to tell everyone in a large group about some minor change in the office.
That's different then. But I'm honestly not surprised. I don't look at mainstream news much but when I do I hardly every see any thing about what music/game/DRM laws are being passed. On the rare occasion that I do they tend to be a total joke.
the law was found to be underinclusive - meaning that a minor might be prevented from buying a video game with 'inappropriate violence' but may still legally buy or rent the book or movie on which the game was based.
Is it just me or does their reason sound like they want to extend the law to hit books and movies too?
But was it around when the iPod came out? From what I remember the iPod was the only decent mp3 player out there for a long time. People who were getting their first mp3 player would talk to their friends who had mp3 players and most of them just suggested iPods. At this point it's moving on momentum and the fact that they did not screw it up yet. People tend to stay with what works rather then go out and try something new. If it was not for this new UI that the iPhone/iTouch has I think the iPod would have slowly started to lose the market.
It's not that the iPod is great it's just that it has nothing major wrong with it. I've seen a lot mp3 players that were ok but had one glaring flaw. Battery life, UI, file accessibility, storage size...etc. Plus at this point there is so much extra software and hardware for it that any other player would have to do a lot to break in to the market.
What I don't get more than that is the people who buy the iPod just to put Linux on it.
If you are referring to the story that was not the issue. The problem was that the default iPod software on the incoming generation of iPod would ignore a play list not made by iTunes software. So all Linux users (who can't use iTunes because it's not on Linux) would have been left in the dust. The headline was a bit misleading.
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No you don't. I did the last update through 'Synaptic Package Manager', it's basically a GUI for apt-get. Most 'hardcore' Linux people will ignore a GUI if there is a perfectly good command line for it. So when you ask how to do something you get a quick command and not how to find the GUI. On that note I welcome the graphical editor for xorg.conf with this version of Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a shoot off of Debian. Debian's logo is a red spiral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LinuxDistroTimeline.png A fun little history lesson.
I would guess on the grounds that the Amazon was aware that the patent was obvious and were just out to hurt competition and make a quick buck. Anti-Monopoly stuff. Hard stuff to prove but they might just be able to pull it off. It would be a nice president too. It would make people think twice before trying to enforce a dumb patent.
Oh and just as a little added info http://www.aperturescience.com/. Type 'login'. The name is cjohnson and password tier3. You can find that login in a "ratman" room in Portal (level 17 I think).
Thank our Ubuntu pushing over lords. This kind of demand from a major vendor is just the kind of visibility that Linux needs for hardware makers to finally start working on Linux drivers on their own. With any luck soon suporting linux will be standard and not some kind of "giving to the weirdos" for hardware makers.
You make a good point. However think about all the fanatics who were wrong in history. Joseph McCarthy is the most recent. He did get a lot of people behind him but given a little time everyone figured out that what he was saying was stupid.
I might just be idealistic but I get the feeling that the loud alarmist might get herd first but once people realize he is just talking shit they ignore him even if he finally does have something meaningful to say. It happened to McCarthy and it's happening to our buddy Jack. Those people you listed are just as crazy but, sadly, they have people in the US who agree with what they are saying. So it's a little different. But with the growing dissatisfaction in the current administration I don't think they will be able to talk that way for much longer. I don't keep up with main stream news but I get the feeling that their ratings have already dropped.
Long story short, I still believe that while a loud idiot wins the battle, a sane person with facts behind them wins the war.
I was going to say about the same thing. But check out this FUD http://www.linspire.com/products_linspire_whatis.php. I don't know all the details but I run Ubuntu and allot of the stuff in there they say Ubuntu does not have I do have. CNR? I have apt-get. Is that all that diffrent? KDE? You can get it from apt-get or better yet use Kubuntu. I am all for paying for something worth paying for but it seems like they are grasping at straws here.
I for one welcome our new temperature regulated cyborg overlords.
Every few days there is another RIAA story and every story seems to be going in a different direction. they lose, they win, they lose... ugh. I'm just as pissed about this stuff as the next guy and I do like to know what is going on; But when are we going to have this stuff get to the point where we can see a real change?
Yeah but people don't notice that. There is a massive difference between $101 for a season and $4.2 an episode. It feels cheaper to pay one episode at a time even if it's really not any cheaper. As over priced as this system is at least the major companies are starting to give us options. With any luck the prices and restrictions will fall as this becomes a standard way to deliver content.
...welcome our standardized future cyborg overlords.
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Since they have been spreading FUD about Open Source for years I highly doubt that they will use the term any time soon. Even if they warmed up to it them self.
If you really want to know start checking from here. /. to go.
I just want to know where the other few months went. Lost in an upgrade I guess.
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=19971231
I was board one day and figured out just how far back I could get
I would have totally agreed with you a year ago, But Ubuntu is a massive improvement from other Linux distros. Except for games I've been able to entirely replace my windows install. I've not once had to go out and muck about in the console or installing software on my own. I've used the package manager (think "add and remove programs" but it actually can find and install new programs) about 100 times now to install many cool little apps. They have not all worked they way I wanted but most of them would not have been possible with out hours of trolling freeware sites installing and uninstalling software that would wreak havoc on my PC. I can honestly say that my time using Ubuntu was FAR less painful then using XP. Just my 2 cents
So the question is how different would things be if there was no Novell and MS deal? Or better yet is this MS backed Novell growth a bad or a good thing for Linux? I get the feeling that it's a good thing in the long run. Getting people to switch to Linux is the hard part, switching to a different distro should be easy after that.
Yeah but I think that in Vista OpenGL is emulated with DirectX. Any code that uses it needs to do extra leg work of being translated from a OpenGL command to a DirectX equivalent. Carmack seems like the kind of guy who would not stand for that. He also seems to enjoy writing the engines. So the extra work would be fun for him. In any case I think the guy meant that no one is working on it this second. That does not mean no one will work on it ever.
More importantly just about every office uses email for internal communication. It's currently the best well to tell everyone in a large group about some minor change in the office.
That's different then. But I'm honestly not surprised. I don't look at mainstream news much but when I do I hardly every see any thing about what music/game/DRM laws are being passed. On the rare occasion that I do they tend to be a total joke.
Well it was in Oklahoma....
But was it around when the iPod came out? From what I remember the iPod was the only decent mp3 player out there for a long time. People who were getting their first mp3 player would talk to their friends who had mp3 players and most of them just suggested iPods. At this point it's moving on momentum and the fact that they did not screw it up yet. People tend to stay with what works rather then go out and try something new. If it was not for this new UI that the iPhone/iTouch has I think the iPod would have slowly started to lose the market.