I could not agree more - the person you are replying to has no idea what they're talking about. Almost *every* company over a certain size I've ever worked for or dealt with as customer or client has the same problem.
Not only does the left hand rarely know what the right hand is doing, the pinky and thumb are usually working at cross-purposes as well, or at the very least in intense rivalry for the promotion to forefinger.
In response to your comment, it's worth pointing out that in general, FPS games really haven't progressed much since Quake II. There are the ones that are more massively multiplayer, those that let you perform more roles than just running around shooting, those that have prettier graphics, and those that are more tactically demanding, but none of these things look like they apply to Cube.
I have to agree with the person you're replying to - the most likely reason people aren't playing your FPS is a total oversupply of FPS games on every platform, including Linux.
I still occasionally play them on Linux - mostly Americas Army and Nexius, but there's really no incentive to install yet another only marginally different game, particularly if you don't have convenient packages available.
Please understand that though this is offtopic, I don't mean it as a slam - your game looks great - but if you post such a question in your.sig, then you shouldn't be surprised when people attempt to answer it!
Good luck with Cube - I'm be looking forward to trying it out just as soon as I can apt-get it!
That's a fair point, though in balance I'd have to suggest that Sony are very likely happy to sustain a $50 million loss to subsidise $100 million in extra profit from their tv, hi-fi, and other associated departments, all of whom benefit in the long run from the 'console wars', especially since they have their own runner in the race...
You're delusional. You really thing the average German worker in the automotive industry gets lower salaries and fewer benefits than his equivalent in the US?
Robots have been used all over the place in industry for 20 or more years.
Your statement that "Real progress will be made only after people stop trying to build a human from machine parts and focus more on usefull applications." is just silly. It's not like huge resources are being poured into making humanoid robots. (Nobody is trying to make a 'human from machine parts' - that's a very odd idea, and I suspect gives an insight into your objection to this sort of work.)
I would also suggest to you that there are very few skateboards, bicycles and rollerblades that aren't designed for bipedal use! Just how do you propel yourself when you're cycling, skating or rollerblading?
Sorry to be replying without a solution, but maybe it will help in narrowing down possible causes.
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I've had *exactly* the same problem you describe - it seems to happen when web browsing, particularly with Firefox (several versions) but also occasionally Galeon and Mozilla. Just as you saw yourself, the display freezes (usually when flipping between tabs) but the mouse pointer is still working. Sometimes if I'm *very* quick I can restart X, but generally it's cold-reboot time.
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Erm, you *are* kidding aren't you?
'Space blankets' are AFAIK absolutely standard hiking/camping gear - you'd be an idiot to go away without one.
They're compact, light, and they could save you from hypothermia.
I mean yeah, you could concievably rig your grow-room up with mylar over the walls, but is it really going to help that much more than the white plastic sheeting used by most of the grow-rooms I've seen?
Are you seriously suggesting that every hiker or camper who buys a space blanket in the US is going to get reported to the DEA? I don't live in the US, but if so, that is so ridiculous, so utterly pointless, so far out of control, that I'm just kind of staggered.
In what way was the embaressing tale of Gannon related to open source journalism? From everything I've heard about it he was a completely deliberate right-wing plant.
About the only question he didn't ask was
Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
If you even have to ask these questions, you're hopelessly naive,...
I can hardly believe I'm responding to the flood of xenophobic ignorance in this thread, but I have a number of close friends who have spent considerable amounts of time living and travelling through various parts of China, and the ones being naive are you and everyone else here with the exception of the OP and the guy a few comments up who pointed out the the Chinese government are largely not interested in what you, a Westerner, are doing on the internet. The Great Firewall is there to monitor and control Chinese citizens.
All this hysterical bleating about being dragged off for re-education is just absolute nonsense. The Chinese government most definately is not interested in unnecessarily pissing off Western governments right at the moment (they're even holding the next Olympics there for god's sake).
Now, if you're a Chinese citizen then this is all a very different kettle of fish altogether, but if you're a Westerner, just take along a floppy disk with PuTTY on it, ssh into a friend's box in the US, and tunnel HTTP over the connection. Simple and unmonitorable.
Weren't Java applets designed to do all the things you mentioned?
If applets failed, what reason is there to believe this technology will fare an better?
Because client-side embedded Java applets are a drastically impractical, inconvenient, bloated and slow way to do trivial tasks like this. (NOTE: not a Java troll - it's an awesome language for server-side and standalone client-side apps).
OTOH, ECMAScript/Javascript is built into every browser produced in (at least) the last 5 years, is fast, has zero startup overhead, and is widely understood by every web developer on the planet.
I rarely see Java applets anymore, for the above reasons. I do, however, see many more Flash apps, which have their own set of problems, including that they require yet another set of 3rd-party software to be installed and configured on the client's computer, rendering it undesirable from the point of view of most shopping and ecommerce sites.
This is an elegant solution to something developers have been forced to use ugly workarounds to achieve for years.
AC:"Yes, anyone who does not like France must have poor reading comprehension."
Let me explain this to you nice and slowly:
theblacksun:"I've considered moving to France before... ...in my occasional Europe scan. But yea this just killed that idea."
Here, theblacksun is explaining that this news convinced him/her not to live in France.
DaFallus:"It took this to convince you not to move to France?"
And here, DaFallus is seemingly unclear on theblacksun's motivations, vis-a-vis potential emigration to France, and is requesting further clarification.
At no stage did either poster mention whether or not they 'liked' France. Whereas DaFallus certainly displays poor English comprehension skills, you are merely a fuckwit.
Wow - that does look amazingly handy. Do you happen to know if there's something similar for Linux and other OS's (i.e., something I can run from my Linux workstation to execute remote processes on the Windows servers that I admin)?
Many TV tuner cards such as my Winfast TV 2000 come with perfectly usable IR remotes. Naturally, under Linux (with lirc) you just assign the buttons to whatever functions you want.
"...a nation whose principal exports are fast food, Hollywood movies, Internet cafes, arrogance, swagger, and democracy" ...and nuclear weapons, cultural imperialism, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, anti-intellectualism, gun culture, hyper-agressive business practices, corporate owned 'democracy', business by lawsuit, capitalism as religion, religion as capitalism, all-out economic war against it's supposed allies (cloaked in fluffy terms like 'globalisation' and 'free trade'), 18th-century labour and health policies... I could go on and on and on, but your last sentence just can't go unnoted:
"...but when the little guys are murderous right-wing religious lunatics, aintcha glad that pop culture's got nothing on plain ol' common sense?"
And when the people in charge of the Big Lone Superpower are murderous right-wing religious lunatics with a massive military, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons (and a history of actually using them), and effectively unchecked political power over the rest of the world, then please tell me, who are we supposed to root for?
Hm, I don't really see how you running Solaris would help with that, unless Solaris has binary compatibility with RedHat these days.
And if you're suggesting that both your software providers and your own company switch to Solaris, why don't one of you do the same with RedHat or SuSE?
not to pitpick, bit you really shouldn't call anyone a 'moran' until you learn how to spell it. Sorry for that...please continue,
Not to meta-nitpick, but the poster was almost certainly referencing this rather famous dimwit. Oh, and you might wish to refrain from 'pitpicking' until you learn how to spell it...
Yeah, but on the other hand, as good as PA is, who really gives a shit what two sweaty, overweight, 30-something dweebs obsessed with video games think about anything?
These guys think I'm a dork because I have once or twice said "M$" when referring to Microsoft? Ah ha, ha ha, hahahahahahahahaha!!
Oh do shut up. Your post was rebutted the first time you posted it. It doesn't bear repeating and linking back to again. If you can't answer the guy who posted the thoghtful response the first time, no-one's interested in hearing it all the second and third times...
I doubt anyone but your archetypal American redneck would argue much with the Wikipedia entry for 'Jihad'. Read it, and you may even learn something yourself.
Damn it! Why is it that slashdot, whenever I have mod points, is unable to produce a single comment worthy of reading (let alone mod points), yet as soon as I blow my points squashing crap like "OMFG M$/BSD/Lunix sux0rz!!1!" you have to come along and demonstrate what the comments section on slashdot ought to be all about?
It's just not fair that have to I miss out once again on the rare opportunity to mod something up for anything other than "Funny".
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I could not agree more - the person you are replying to has no idea what they're talking about. Almost *every* company over a certain size I've ever worked for or dealt with as customer or client has the same problem.
Not only does the left hand rarely know what the right hand is doing, the pinky and thumb are usually working at cross-purposes as well, or at the very least in intense rivalry for the promotion to forefinger.
In response to your comment, it's worth pointing out that in general, FPS games really haven't progressed much since Quake II. There are the ones that are more massively multiplayer, those that let you perform more roles than just running around shooting, those that have prettier graphics, and those that are more tactically demanding, but none of these things look like they apply to Cube.
.sig, then you shouldn't be surprised when people attempt to answer it!
I have to agree with the person you're replying to - the most likely reason people aren't playing your FPS is a total oversupply of FPS games on every platform, including Linux.
I still occasionally play them on Linux - mostly Americas Army and Nexius, but there's really no incentive to install yet another only marginally different game, particularly if you don't have convenient packages available.
Please understand that though this is offtopic, I don't mean it as a slam - your game looks great - but if you post such a question in your
Good luck with Cube - I'm be looking forward to trying it out just as soon as I can apt-get it!
That's a fair point, though in balance I'd have to suggest that Sony are very likely happy to sustain a $50 million loss to subsidise $100 million in extra profit from their tv, hi-fi, and other associated departments, all of whom benefit in the long run from the 'console wars', especially since they have their own runner in the race...
You're delusional. You really thing the average German worker in the automotive industry gets lower salaries and fewer benefits than his equivalent in the US?
Try again.
Robots have been used all over the place in industry for 20 or more years.
Your statement that "Real progress will be made only after people stop trying to build a human from machine parts and focus more on usefull applications." is just silly. It's not like huge resources are being poured into making humanoid robots. (Nobody is trying to make a 'human from machine parts' - that's a very odd idea, and I suspect gives an insight into your objection to this sort of work.)
I would also suggest to you that there are very few skateboards, bicycles and rollerblades that aren't designed for bipedal use! Just how do you propel yourself when you're cycling, skating or rollerblading?
Sorry to be replying without a solution, but maybe it will help in narrowing down possible causes.
Mainboard: Shuttle SB77G5
Video cards tried: NVidia GeForce 4400 MX and GeForce FX5200
XFree86
Debian Unstable
Kernels tried: 2.4.27, 2.6.10 and 2.6.11
NVidia drivers 7174 and 7667
I've had *exactly* the same problem you describe - it seems to happen when web browsing, particularly with Firefox (several versions) but also occasionally Galeon and Mozilla. Just as you saw yourself, the display freezes (usually when flipping between tabs) but the mouse pointer is still working. Sometimes if I'm *very* quick I can restart X, but generally it's cold-reboot time.
Erm, you *are* kidding aren't you?
'Space blankets' are AFAIK absolutely standard hiking/camping gear - you'd be an idiot to go away without one.
They're compact, light, and they could save you from hypothermia.
I mean yeah, you could concievably rig your grow-room up with mylar over the walls, but is it really going to help that much more than the white plastic sheeting used by most of the grow-rooms I've seen?
Are you seriously suggesting that every hiker or camper who buys a space blanket in the US is going to get reported to the DEA? I don't live in the US, but if so, that is so ridiculous, so utterly pointless, so far out of control, that I'm just kind of staggered.
Google Maps is not in flash at all, it's 100% done in HTML and Javascript. Even more impressive.
In what way was the embaressing tale of Gannon related to open source journalism? From everything I've heard about it he was a completely deliberate right-wing plant.
About the only question he didn't ask was
Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the
momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
If you even have to ask these questions, you're hopelessly naive,...
I can hardly believe I'm responding to the flood of xenophobic ignorance in this thread, but I have a number of close friends who have spent considerable amounts of time living and travelling through various parts of China, and the ones being naive are you and everyone else here with the exception of the OP and the guy a few comments up who pointed out the the Chinese government are largely not interested in what you, a Westerner, are doing on the internet. The Great Firewall is there to monitor and control Chinese citizens.
All this hysterical bleating about being dragged off for re-education is just absolute nonsense. The Chinese government most definately is not interested in unnecessarily pissing off Western governments right at the moment (they're even holding the next Olympics there for god's sake).
Now, if you're a Chinese citizen then this is all a very different kettle of fish altogether, but if you're a Westerner, just take along a floppy disk with PuTTY on it, ssh into a friend's box in the US, and tunnel HTTP over the connection. Simple and unmonitorable.
Weren't Java applets designed to do all the things you mentioned?
If applets failed, what reason is there to believe this technology will fare an better?
Because client-side embedded Java applets are a drastically impractical, inconvenient, bloated and slow way to do trivial tasks like this. (NOTE: not a Java troll - it's an awesome language for server-side and standalone client-side apps).
OTOH, ECMAScript/Javascript is built into every browser produced in (at least) the last 5 years, is fast, has zero startup overhead, and is widely understood by every web developer on the planet.
I rarely see Java applets anymore, for the above reasons. I do, however, see many more Flash apps, which have their own set of problems, including that they require yet another set of 3rd-party software to be installed and configured on the client's computer, rendering it undesirable from the point of view of most shopping and ecommerce sites.
This is an elegant solution to something developers have been forced to use ugly workarounds to achieve for years.
AC: "Yes, anyone who does not like France must have poor reading comprehension."
...in my occasional Europe scan. But yea this just killed that idea."
Let me explain this to you nice and slowly:
theblacksun: "I've considered moving to France before...
Here, theblacksun is explaining that this news convinced him/her not to live in France.
DaFallus: "It took this to convince you not to move to France?"
And here, DaFallus is seemingly unclear on theblacksun's motivations, vis-a-vis potential emigration to France, and is requesting further clarification.
At no stage did either poster mention whether or not they 'liked' France. Whereas DaFallus certainly displays poor English comprehension skills, you are merely a fuckwit.
> > I've considered moving to France before...
> >...in my occasional Europe scan. But yea this just killed that idea.
> It took this to convince you not to move to France?
Wow, reading comprehension really isn't your strong point, is it?
Wow - that does look amazingly handy. Do you happen to know if there's something similar for Linux and other OS's (i.e., something I can run from my Linux workstation to execute remote processes on the Windows servers that I admin)?
Many TV tuner cards such as my Winfast TV 2000 come with perfectly usable IR remotes. Naturally, under Linux (with lirc) you just assign the buttons to whatever functions you want.
So the general public likes things that you don't. What exactly do you expect Powell to do about that?
The general public likes whatever they're told to like by Clear Channel and the recording industry.
That's what the debate is about. It's hard to like music that you never hear.
"...a nation whose principal exports are fast food, Hollywood movies, Internet cafes, arrogance, swagger, and democracy"
...and nuclear weapons, cultural imperialism, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, anti-intellectualism, gun culture, hyper-agressive business practices, corporate owned 'democracy', business by lawsuit, capitalism as religion, religion as capitalism, all-out economic war against it's supposed allies (cloaked in fluffy terms like 'globalisation' and 'free trade'), 18th-century labour and health policies... I could go on and on and on, but your last sentence just can't go unnoted:
"...but when the little guys are murderous right-wing religious lunatics, aintcha glad that pop culture's got nothing on plain ol' common sense?"
And when the people in charge of the Big Lone Superpower are murderous right-wing religious lunatics with a massive military, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons (and a history of actually using them), and effectively unchecked political power over the rest of the world, then please tell me, who are we supposed to root for?
Hm, I don't really see how you running Solaris would help with that, unless Solaris has binary compatibility with RedHat these days.
And if you're suggesting that both your software providers and your own company switch to Solaris, why don't one of you do the same with RedHat or SuSE?
Hilarious! Top effort, johnnyb. That's either the funniest peice of subtle satire ever posted on this site, or else...
Nah, I just can't believe you're serious. If you are, that would have to be the most amazing bit of labarynthine self-delusion I've ever come across.
not to pitpick, bit you really shouldn't call anyone a 'moran' until you learn how to spell it. Sorry for that...please continue,
Not to meta-nitpick, but the poster was almost certainly referencing this rather famous dimwit. Oh, and you might wish to refrain from 'pitpicking' until you learn how to spell it...
Yeah, but on the other hand, as good as PA is, who really gives a shit what two sweaty, overweight, 30-something dweebs obsessed with video games think about anything?
These guys think I'm a dork because I have once or twice said "M$" when referring to Microsoft? Ah ha, ha ha, hahahahahahahahaha!!
As I'm sure you know, OSX is Linux based...
Well you know that, and now I know that, but doncha think someone had better go tell Apple?
Oh do shut up. Your post was rebutted the first time you posted it. It doesn't bear repeating and linking back to again. If you can't answer the guy who posted the thoghtful response the first time, no-one's interested in hearing it all the second and third times...
I doubt anyone but your archetypal American redneck would argue much with the Wikipedia entry for 'Jihad'. Read it, and you may even learn something yourself.
Damn it! Why is it that slashdot, whenever I have mod points, is unable to produce a single comment worthy of reading (let alone mod points), yet as soon as I blow my points squashing crap like "OMFG M$/BSD/Lunix sux0rz!!1!" you have to come along and demonstrate what the comments section on slashdot ought to be all about?
It's just not fair that have to I miss out once again on the rare opportunity to mod something up for anything other than "Funny".
All the same - mad kudos to you, sir.