More and more people start to realize that wikipedia is not a repository of global knowledge but restricted subset of it.Original research and non-notable articles are excluded.Alot of material is deleted. Plus the policies are keeping the users at check. All it creates an impression that Wikipedia is not what the editors(not users) want,and they leave. Wikipedia will remain useful for number of years before the inevitable decline. All it requires is clone of their database and better policies,attracting enough active editors.Wikipedia content will outlive the site for quite some time.
In every computer i used it usually less then 10 seconds.Try quickBoot/fastboot options and disable floppy seek checks in BIOS. There few other options that may be turned off to save time,but i'm not sure if its worth it.
This is the same thing i read in Ubuntu help and there is no mention on how to connect beyond this one-liner.No password,no username no Server IP address,No configuration parameters, Nothing. There simply is nothing to use to connect. There could be command prompt version for it,but then i'll better stick with windows. I had my share of expirience with DOS and command lines,and i would not repeat it.
you mean there is no way to create a connection,but using the command prompt? In this user-friendly distro,this must be the most unfriendly part.I would compare this to Dos batch files to dial modems.
I just thought it will be as easy as XP or 98.Is there a wizard to guide you like "new connection wizard" or something. because this learning curve assumes that i have hours and extensive documentation for essentially a small GUI app which does not work.
It works for millions,but not for me. I don't have time and nerves to spend configuring this distro since i already spend enough doing the same years ago with windows.At least windows had decent help files.
I don't care about copyright,i'm against any copyrights whatsoever.I just seen that ubuntu looks more windows-like then mandrake(i.e. GUI-centric with GUI apps). mandrake was full of badly coded Gui apps. The only familiar sight was the "linux kernel loading" dialog which resembles old windows 95 dialogs with default theme.
Being fast is the least of my worries about it. I had to use XP machines fifty times slower(with flashing lines of taskbar icons),when opening a single window takes minutes and feels like 486 trying to swap its last harddisk megabyte. The Ubuntu is pretty fast when it loaded from CD.Its just doesn't works.
This is not trolling/copypasta/flame against linux.This is sad reality.(though offtopic) In the past few months,i have given in the hype about linux and how user friendly it has become (like any monkey can install linux) so i decided to try it.Given an prior expirience with old mandrake distro,i decided to use a LIveCD instead.A few hours lotter i burned it in "ImgBurn"(way better alternative to Nero) switched to another drive and rebooted after changing BIOS boot orders. Surprisingly fast(in matter of seconds) an Ubuntu logo pops up and gives me a handful of options: Install,Install in safe graphics,test CD and memory and just skip to boot from hardrive mode(?useless) plus function keys at the bottom. First time i decided to run the Memory test,since i heard Linux is picky on memory and would not work with less then pristine sticks of RAM.After a half hour when obviously nothing came up,i decided to stop the test and reboot(the test would probably takes 2 hours to end).And then: after choosing first option it shows roughly a dialog in the middle of the screen "Loading Linux Kernel" after a healthy chunk of time (linux kernel either is extremely bloated or its just a curety dialog) a blank screen blinks in and after another blink i'm greeted with a message from my own monitor:
Input: Out of range. Having rebooted three times(with same result) and once in safe graphics mode,it have occured to me the problem might be in the VGA option at the bottom of the screen:Setting it at 800x600 fixed it. A few minutes pass and Gnome/GUi things pop up.A sound is working judging by the welcome sound(an annoyance from the windows default install). The GUI doesn't look any faster then XP and feels twice slower then my win98 installation. However after changing the theme and background it became snappier enough to be on par with win98 menus(with 0ms delay). I decided to play Chess,just for the sake of it and started the app:Its all automated and userfriendly,but i didn't get how you change the time of computer thinking or any advanced settings.After taking back a move i was baffled as there was no option to force the program to move on its turn.Perhaps i'm too noob for running this for the first time. I launched firefox,and was greeted by the ubuntu help page.I definitely had to test internet on that thing. Not quite the task.I tried to use Network from Administration and checked the connection: There was no sign of it beyond some generic dchp line with a checkbox.Properties seemed just fine.There was just nothing to configure: the modem line wasn't useful for me since e i'm on cable and reading help on the subject,just told me to open the same network app,again. Not place to enter my password/server address or IP or any other settings windows demands.I get frustrated and launched network tools(at the point i'm not going to use linux ping,since i'm not sure about the syntax) entering google.com and pinging doesn't get anywhere.No internet. well that breaks the deal:No internet -Not for me.I removed the CD and booted back to my win98 install.Its configured very well and runs everything i ever need.and will probably serve for another 5 years. In retrospect Ubuntu is looking better on the GUi side then mandrake,more user-friendly and windows-like,but still sucks.I'll doubt i try another Ubuntu or Mandrake in the future. This LiveCD goes to garbage bin.
It wouldn't be problem for me to just try the Starcraft approach and pump swordsmen all day.However that would make it too simplistic and dull for "mideval simulation RTS" game. There is not much depth where you concentrate on fast clicking and ordering all units to attack something, I could just play starcraft instead(and i removed AOE2 long time ago) which has more variety. What i did instead in AOE2 is watching computers play it,playing quest levels and exploring whole maps and such minor things as testing how much villagers can destroy a castle attacking them(the number is about 600-650,converted villager units) or how useful unique units really are(not much). In hard mode i have devised a trick which allowed me to survive some time and watch the game:a fast port and building a transport(with 1 villager inside).The ship would be parked at top of map doing nothing. then i enter the visibility cheat and watch. The computer by this point expanded on half the map and sent a small army to finish everything i built before. The idea that computer "cheats" never occurred to me since i believed they play by the rules.That would make the game flawed at the fundamental level.Unfair advantages are not worth fighting(even if its possible to win).The defense for them is impossible: by the time i have enough walls and towers they have breached a hole in the defense somehow.
RTS is more complex then any chess game. While on the surface there fewer choices any minor thing has disproportionate influence on outcome(e.g.attacking 1 second after some tower upgrade). Chess is completely deterministic:Thats why chess books exist.Computer that play chess,just calculate move with best score.They do not have any AI,just bunch of sorting algorithms for game tree.
I've played age of kings.The AI at hard+ zerg rushes you all time.Any sensible strategy and teching (and building walls/towers) just delays the end. I just give up on it and watched computers play.
It was so expensive that the actual number pruchased has been reduced by two thirds, costnig about $100 million a piece
The cost of the B-2 program in 1994 dollars was reported at $727 million per plane, however the total cost of the program with development, spares, and facilities averaged over $2.1 billion per plane as of 1997 according to the B-2 program office.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_bomber
One of my adblock filters in the past had been *blog* simply because it removes all the cruft from blog sites,leaving only html(ads are already blocked) which i can access directly. I don't use it currently and moved to more specific filters.
Thats very insightful.Wasting money to get out into space for little return on investment(The "space" science doesn't need to expend this much to advance) is counterproductive today and in the next couple of decades.Only when we have the technological advances to handle space well,we should explore this aspect(e.g.StarTrek).
Right now its like launching blimps. The only useful things today are in Earth orbit and Earth itself.
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Slashdot is valued by its commentary and stories are usually mediocre(for a news site),i read them usually 2-3 days before on link/blog aggregators.
thats for you.Value systems are subjective and what is important to you:e.g. stability,security,unlimited configuration options would not matter to his mom. People want their games,apps and widgets to work.Windows is the best option on the market so far.Wine and emulators don't come close. Now when linux advocates point on alternatives: most alternatives are not popular enough on windows if they are cross platform. Does that tells anything? What is alternative to some game? An feature-rich application without analogues on linux? There is just too much stuff which requires windows,that changing would be removing yourself from most of the software world.
People read reddit for the stories. People read slashdot for comments. People read digg for amusing pictures and pop culture things. Editors are people too.Unlike userdriven selection of stories,it depends on one man choosing whatever on his mind at the time.
Why even stay in column,rows.You abstractize the concept of (column) and assign tags to objects,with TAGNAME{number} being its property and managing relations between tags as you wish. basically you can add tags as basic dimensions or optional categories for anything in the database.
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More and more people start to realize that wikipedia is not a repository of global knowledge but restricted subset of it.Original research and non-notable articles are excluded.Alot of material is deleted.
Plus the policies are keeping the users at check.
All it creates an impression that Wikipedia is not
what the editors(not users) want,and they leave.
Wikipedia will remain useful for number of years before the inevitable decline.
All it requires is clone of their database and
better policies,attracting enough active editors.Wikipedia content will outlive the site for quite some time.
In every computer i used it usually less then 10 seconds.Try quickBoot/fastboot options and disable floppy seek checks in BIOS.
There few other options that may be turned off to save time,but i'm not sure if its worth it.
This is the same thing i read in Ubuntu help and
there is no mention on how to connect beyond this one-liner.No password,no username no Server IP address,No configuration parameters, Nothing.
There simply is nothing to use to connect.
There could be command prompt version for it,but then i'll better stick with windows.
I had my share of expirience with DOS and command lines,and i would not repeat it.
you mean there is no way to create a connection,but using the command prompt?
In this user-friendly distro,this must be the most unfriendly part.I would compare this to
Dos batch files to dial modems.
I just thought it will be as easy as XP or 98.Is there a wizard to guide you like "new connection wizard" or something.
because this learning curve assumes that i have hours and extensive documentation for
essentially a small GUI app which does not work.
It works for millions,but not for me.
I don't have time and nerves to spend configuring this distro since i already spend enough doing the same years ago with windows.At least windows had decent help files.
I don't care about copyright,i'm against any copyrights whatsoever.I just seen that ubuntu looks more windows-like then mandrake(i.e. GUI-centric with GUI apps).
mandrake was full of badly coded Gui apps.
The only familiar sight was the "linux kernel loading" dialog which resembles old windows 95 dialogs with default theme.
Being fast is the least of my worries about it.
I had to use XP machines fifty times slower(with flashing lines of taskbar icons),when opening a
single window takes minutes and feels like 486 trying to swap its last harddisk megabyte.
The Ubuntu is pretty fast when it loaded from CD.Its just doesn't works.
This is not trolling/copypasta/flame against linux.This is sad reality.(though offtopic) ,i decided to use a LIveCD instead.A few hours lotter i burned it in "ImgBurn"(way better alternative to Nero) switched to another drive and rebooted after
In the past few months,i have given in the hype about linux and how user friendly it has become
(like any monkey can install linux) so i decided to try it.Given an prior expirience with old mandrake distro
changing BIOS boot orders.
Surprisingly fast(in matter of seconds) an Ubuntu logo pops up and gives me a handful of options: Install,Install in safe graphics,test CD and memory and just skip to boot from hardrive mode(?useless) plus function keys at the bottom.
First time i decided to run the Memory test,since i heard Linux is picky on memory and would not work with less then pristine sticks of RAM.After a half hour when obviously nothing came up,i decided to stop the test and reboot(the test would probably takes 2 hours to end).And then:
after choosing first option it shows roughly
a dialog in the middle of the screen "Loading Linux Kernel" after a healthy chunk of time
(linux kernel either is extremely bloated or its just a curety dialog) a blank screen blinks in and after another blink i'm greeted with a message from my own monitor:
Input: Out of range. Having rebooted three times(with same result) and once in safe graphics mode,it have occured to me the problem might be in the
VGA option at the bottom of the screen:Setting it at 800x600 fixed it.
A few minutes pass and Gnome/GUi things pop up.A sound is working judging by the welcome sound(an annoyance from the windows default install).
The GUI doesn't look any faster then XP and feels twice slower then my win98 installation.
However after changing the theme and background it became snappier enough to be on par with win98 menus(with 0ms delay).
I decided to play Chess,just for the sake of it and started the app:Its all automated and
userfriendly,but i didn't get how you change the time of computer thinking or any advanced settings.After taking back a move i was baffled as there was no option to force the program to move on its turn.Perhaps i'm too noob for running this for the first time.
I launched firefox,and was greeted by the ubuntu help page.I definitely had to test internet on that thing.
Not quite the task.I tried to use Network from Administration and checked the connection:
There was no sign of it beyond some generic dchp line with a checkbox.Properties seemed just fine.There was just nothing to configure:
the modem line wasn't useful for me since e i'm on cable and reading help on the subject,just told me to open the same network app,again.
Not place to enter my password/server address or IP or any other settings windows demands.I get frustrated and launched network tools(at the point i'm not going to use linux ping,since i'm not sure about the syntax) entering google.com and pinging doesn't get anywhere.No internet.
well that breaks the deal:No internet -Not for me.I removed the CD and booted back to my win98 install.Its configured
very well and runs everything i ever need.and will probably serve for another 5 years.
In retrospect Ubuntu is looking better on the GUi side then mandrake,more user-friendly and windows-like,but still sucks.I'll doubt i try another Ubuntu or Mandrake in the future.
This LiveCD goes to garbage bin.
It wouldn't be problem for me to just try the Starcraft approach and pump swordsmen all day.However that would make it too simplistic and dull for "mideval simulation RTS" game.
There is not much depth where you concentrate on fast clicking and ordering all units to attack something,
I could just play starcraft instead(and i removed AOE2 long time ago) which has more variety.
What i did instead in AOE2 is watching computers play it,playing quest levels and
exploring whole maps and such minor things as testing how much villagers can destroy a castle attacking them(the number is about 600-650,converted villager units) or how useful unique units really are(not much).
In hard mode i have devised a trick which allowed me to survive some time and watch the game:a fast port and building a transport(with 1 villager inside).The ship would be parked at top of map doing nothing.
then i enter the visibility cheat and watch.
The computer by this point expanded on half the map and sent a small army to finish everything i built before.
The idea that computer "cheats" never occurred to me since i believed they play by the rules.That would make the game flawed at the fundamental level.Unfair advantages are not worth fighting(even if its possible to win).The defense for them is impossible:
by the time i have enough walls and towers they have breached a hole in the defense somehow.
RTS is more complex then any chess game.
While on the surface there fewer choices any minor thing has disproportionate influence on outcome(e.g.attacking 1 second after some tower upgrade).
Chess is completely deterministic:Thats why chess books exist.Computer that play chess,just calculate move with best score.They do not have any AI,just bunch of sorting algorithms for game tree.
I've played age of kings.The AI at hard+ zerg rushes you all time.Any sensible strategy and teching (and building walls/towers) just delays the end.
I just give up on it and watched computers play.
Gundam is a new slashdot 'meme'
"X is not in charge of the Gundam."
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/10/07/049239.shtml
this is the source.
"tree of Science and Knowledge."
thats a new one.
It was so expensive that the actual number pruchased has been reduced by two thirds, costnig about $100 million a piece
The cost of the B-2 program in 1994 dollars was reported at $727 million per plane, however the total cost of the program with development, spares, and facilities averaged over $2.1 billion per plane as of 1997 according to the B-2 program office.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_bomber
It depends on its utility(and not value),but this is like forcing people to use text-only linux terminals because they are more "powerful".
One of my adblock filters in the past had been *blog* simply because it removes all the cruft from blog sites,leaving only html(ads are already blocked) which i can access directly.
I don't use it currently and moved to more specific filters.
Thats very insightful.Wasting money to get out into space for little return on investment(The "space" science doesn't need to expend this much to advance) is counterproductive today and in the next couple of decades.Only when we have the technological advances to handle space well,we should explore this aspect(e.g.StarTrek).
Right now its like launching blimps.
The only useful things today are in Earth orbit and Earth itself.
Slashdot is valued by its commentary and stories are usually mediocre(for a news site),i read them usually 2-3 days before on link/blog aggregators.
They defined you their enemy.Or in the least a dangerous being which should be watched for.
thats for you.Value systems are subjective and what is important to you:e.g. stability,security,unlimited configuration options would not matter to his mom.
People want their games,apps and widgets to work.Windows is the best option on the market so far.Wine and emulators don't come close.
Now when linux advocates point on alternatives: most alternatives are not popular enough on windows if they are cross platform. Does that tells anything?
What is alternative to some game?
An feature-rich application without analogues on linux? There is just too much stuff which requires windows,that changing would be
removing yourself from most of the software
world.
Start learning Sumerian next week.
People read reddit for the stories.
People read slashdot for comments.
People read digg for amusing pictures and pop culture things.
Editors are people too.Unlike userdriven selection of stories,it depends on one man choosing whatever on his mind at the time.
Why even stay in column,rows.You abstractize the concept of (column) and assign tags to objects,with TAGNAME{number} being its property and managing relations between tags as you wish.
basically you can add tags as basic dimensions or optional categories for anything in the database.
http://www.google.com/trends