Ok, this is only a forecast according to my beliefs but I will write it anyways. Cinemas are going to become what Theatres are now, in 10 or 15 years there will only be few cinemas, and only very few people are going to visit them.
The cinemas that will stay are the IMAX ones, or with similar technologies. Movies as we know them are going to be released directly to the people (via disc or internet). Going to the cinema will be as today is going to the theatre (I think I have been only 4 times in my life...).
Meanwhile, people will get the new movies from machines similar to the candy or coke vending machines (the disks will be disposable and recyclable).
As a lot of people wrote before, nowadays there is *nothing* really *better* in the cinemas than in a nice home theatre, and given that someone spends £15 for a cinema night one day, that is £60 monthly or £720 every year; for that price it is possible to buy a 32'' plasma TV today.
So, the cinemas must then provide something that can not be obtained with home cinema (and I mean something good, no sticky floor or talking people), but they have to aim for *other* market (that means, to avoid competing with home cinema).
Why do peoplpe still go to theatre plays? because it is something different!. Why do people go to IMAX screens? because it is different, and if anyone of you have experience a planetarium well, that is another experience.
Not so long I remember reading a story on slashdot about new technology of the cinemas that George Lucas and the director of LOTR where entusiastic about, well, I hope it is developed for the sake of the cinemas.
The problem is, many applications still only support the OSS sound interface, which hogs the audio interface. While OSS applications are using the sound card, ALSA is unable to provide its richer interface to native ALSA applications. This means, one sound at a time...or speak but can't hear....hear but can't speak.
It means, it does not work. I do not care if there are hydrogen fuel motors if the car manufacturers do not use them. It is like Windows support for non administrator users if applications contintue to require running as admin!
For me, a Linux Operating System is Mandriva, Ubuntu, SUSE, etc. They are completely different and when I install any of them, the sound system does not work properly that is all I need to know. Whenever I install any of them and I try to use the mentioned applications, it just does not work. If I install Windows (even windows98) on my computer and use Windows Media Player and Sound Recorder they will both work at the same time (or if I download any open source game and play it while listenting to music).
How is that those half baked Open Source applications function properly on Windows but can not coexist on Windows (mmm that must be an O.S. problem don't you think so?)
I am not a gamer (no real time for that), but sometimes I want to play a not-to-involved game... 2) It had some fun games (Metroid, Zelda, Mario, the usual)
Uhh, I don't *exactly* know about GC, but I have played Zelda for Nintendo 64 and it seems pretty involving, as and adventure game (at least in Zelda for N64) you had to spend something like an hour after starting the game to find some meaning to it.
Anyway I like Nintendo games for that reason too, I usually play pokemon arena (for N64, is it the one similar to Puyo Pop??) and Mario Kart, as they are very easy to play and you do not need to spend a lot of time.
By the way, there is a little game called Hogs of War for the Playstation1 which is a Worms-like multiplayer game. I have been playing it with my flatmate (both of us are doing our PhD, although he is in his mid 30's and he is a NON-PLAYER by nature). I showed the game to my girlfriend and my flatmate and we have passed great time. We play it on EPSXE but the three of us can play with just one controller (it is turn based).
OTOH I sometimes play mario party with my girlfriend... I am waiting to buy another controller (I only have two) to be able to play with her and my flatmate.
Those are Nintendo games, they are for the family, they are easy to play. That is why I am waiting for the revolution, I will *surely* buy it when arrives, as I am sure everybody at my flat will enjoy it (including me of course hoho) and I am certain that it will have those kind of games which I can enjoy playing 30 mintues only.
Too bad I came late for the story conversation... anyway some comments:
The "real" life is so unimportant because your alter-ego in the game does the living for you, why would you need a "real" life out of the game when you already have such an interresting one inside of it?
I believe that online game addictions are seen bad because they seem to be a waste of time. One fix would be to let the people make money with them like in Second Life game that way he could make something worthy when playing (I have read there has been people that play Second Life to pay their bills), of course I do not know if it is possible to profit from Blizzard.
Second, addictions are shit, I was addicted to cigar when in undergrad, but I decided to quit, it was nothing fancy I just thought that as I did not do any exercise (I have been a programmer all my life) smoking would do very very bad to me. I did not entered in any kind of "quitting program" I just woke up one day and convinced I won't smoke anyomre. To make that work you should state that when the opportunity to smoke/play is rising.
The other thing about online addictions is time, how many of you were in computers *before* internet entered?, maybe it was not like that for you as BBS were available a long time ago but for me (I lived in Mexico were it was not possible to call BBS) there was a time when I did not have internet, I used to program a lot (QBASIC in the Nibbles times). When internet came, my programming time started to decrease while chatting, browsing started to increase. Of course I found a lot of new information (Fravias and TKC tutorials, graphics tutorials, assembler, etc) but I also found irc and all those things.
Anyway returning to the point, the difficulty is, after you are addicted when you say "I will not do X" you will find you have a lot of free time and there is where you should find something to do. A lot of people have recommended things, something I have found very gratifying is cooking. Just go to www.allrecipes.com and take one recipe, I started to cook some time ago as I was getting very bored with my life (I am currently doing a PhD and frustration is something very normal hehe). I started in February 14, when I cooked a very good Salmon for my girlfriend.
Other things you can do is learn to play guitar. There are very cheap guitars in the internet (I bought one in UK from £45) and download some courses from emule or bittorrent (or buy them).
We, as geeks have the power of knowing how to manage information (read Knowledge). For me, P2P music piracy does not really matter (neither movies, unless it is a rare movie) what I really like is books, sometimes instructing videos. Heck, I downloaded a 7 mintues abs video that I follow every morning.
All I have to say is that people (geeks) MUST realize all the information available on the internet, information that can be applied to the "real world", to start there is a place called www.wannalearn.com
I am sure it is even possible to learn violin online.
So, there are plenty of things to do with that new time, even when you are alone (it is nice to play guitar/sing when you are along, and you have all the material available on internet: the music, the chords(or tablatures if you are more 'advanced') and the lyrics.
I agree with you in that I would love to have non movable storage technology. Althouth if I RC Zip disks were similar to hard disks or floppies (with plates and all that). We really need solid state no volatile memory. Although currently this technology exists it is quite expensive compared to hard disks, and I really doubt it will become cheaper than optical media.
Hopefuly the memory will become cheap enough to replace current hard disks and the read/write limits will be extended.
Have you thought that, the hard disk technology we use in computers is at least 40 years old? according to Wikipedia the first hard disk was used in 1955!!. I think it is time to change this media.
If someone knows better please correct me but, I remember from my junior high courses in electronic that there is something called NAND gates circuit which state can be changed with an electronic pulse and it is persistent (no electricity required after that). IIRC CPU cache memory is made of that and thus it is really fast. One of the downsides is that memory was a bit expensive.
I believe that this kind of memory could be used to make hybrid drives, with some intelligent mechanisms (at drive level) that can make the disk faster. I believe it already exists (as hard disk buffer) but I believe memory should not be volatile.
All somewhat modern sound cards have several PCM subchannels that operating systems use in order to play several sounds simultaneously, and, yes, it is perfectly supported by Linux. Last I tried (admittedly, that was some time ago, but I can't remember just how long), using Windows with a single-channel sound card meant that I could only play one sound at a time.
Please, stop using Linux as the operating system, as it makes your comment a balant lie. No, it is not well supported by Linux, neither wifi and other things, it may be supported by one or two distributions.
Personally whenever I have isntalled Linux I could not use XMMS and play another game with sound at the same time, I just got an error about some kind of blocked channel. And no, I do not care about redirecting the/dev/sound input to the/dev/sndcard001x1alsa or whatever. If it does not works, it does not works. I do not have to do those kind of things on Windows.
As I know that the GP post will be moded really down because of slashdot linux zealots I have to backup his statement, I use Windows XP in my HP Pavillion ZV5000 with 1024 MB of ram and I runs really good, including the Ati 9100 igp the Wifi and the modem. Oh! and the buttons to increase or decrease the volume.
I have not been able to make all those things work with ANY Linux installation out of the box, and I have tried with quite a few including FC4, Ubuntu, Mandriva and SUSE.
Well, it is well know in the industry that game programmers are used to work 27 hours a day at minimum wages. I mean, it is even better than outsourcing!
Seriously, when I was jounger I always dreamed of being a game developer, I used to wander in gamedev.net and make cool opengl demos but seeing how underpriced are game programmers and the difficulty to get into the industry (requiring 10 published titles to get into a company?) I am opting to find a real work =o)
Truth, I never really played ET (as far as I remember, I was quite young when my father bought atari), from the ones you said, I remember MIssile Command and Defender, they rocked, but I also remember Seaquest (the submarine, did you palyed it?) and Warlords (played with the paddle controllers). I also remember one terribly shitty game of porky's which was totally frustrating (so yes, there were bad games at those times) and one of my favorites was .
Thinking a bit about it, I guess Tetris could have been created for atari dont you think? for the 2600 I mean, which was the one I had =o).
Oh, those where the days, although I shall tell that as I was born in 1981, the Atari was not *really* of my generation, I played it a lot because my father bought it (he always have liked computers although he is a Biologist, that may explain seaquest hehe) for me, it is the NES and SNES the ones that got my best memories.
One thing I remember is a joystick for the NES which was similar to an Airplane controller, I looked a bit on google but could not find anything about it. The controller was really cool because it was just the stick with the A and B buttons on the top and front (as far as I remember), the way you controlled the movement (D-pad) was by tilting the controller to the front, back or to the sides.
I have not seen anything similar in a long time, if any slashdotter has more references to that controller (or remember something else) I would be really glad to read it. Anyway I think the NES accessories were really cool, were I lived (somewhere in Mexico) there was a game rental company which had several of those accessories for rent, it was really cool because you could use them just to try them. I remember that the person that was in charge also told you which games were cool to play with each controller.
Office 2004 is the latest Mac version, MS seems to alternate between PC and Mac rather than releasing both at the same time, which results in interesting feature leapfrogging.
No shit Einstein, nice way to bitch some karma... had you read the post to what parent was replying you should have known what he was talking about...
t. Today, when I use my Windows box, I use Office 2004. It's fast
Wait a mintue, I do not believe that you really played any Atari games at all, I am smelling a bit of bullshit here. You see, you said you born in 1987, Atari 2600 was released in 1977, Nintendo NES was released in 1985, two years before you born, at that time the only atari available was the 7800 which was a piece of crap, and the only real consoles were Sega Master System (haha, not really) or Nintendo Enterntainment System.
Hehe, just the other day I remembered that game for the Gameboy. It was a really nice game (puzzle like) for its time (1993). Of course it had Yoshi and Mario (as a cooker) but it was danm funny (and addictive).
I put it in my girlfriend's GBA Supercard and she liked it a lot =o)
It is not about purchasing, it is just about making a donation to the cause. I mean, it is *not* Linux and I am 100% sure any of the BSDs distros are aimed to go against Windows. And, it is not like anyone of them can (and had) used any of this code!
As someone (who will probably be moded down) said before in the thread, the way this capitalist world is "profit or die". Companies that have used this software should donate some money to give a push to the software.
This isnt a case where Microsoft can point at a random OSS project and yell "they suck too!".
Haha, nice that you touch that point about documentation, just take a look at the KDevelop documentation that "comes" with the IDE suite, now *that* is what I call an unusable worth nothing piece of crap:
From the KDEvelop Handbook:
The Problem Reporter
(... to be written...) Code Completion
(... to be written...) Creating New Files and Classes
(... to be written...) Editing the Templates
(... to be written...) Class Hierarchy
(... to be written...) Elements of the User Interface
(... to be written...) The Workarea
(... to be written...) The KDevelop Titlebar
(... to be written...) The KDevelop Statusbar
(... to be written...) The menubar
(... to be written...) The Toolbars
(... to be written...) The Tree Tool Views
(... to be written...) The Output Tool Views
(... to be written...)
This one is GREAT: "Class Tools
The class tool dialog is activated by right clicking on a class in the class view and choosing Class tool...."
Automake Projects
(... to be written...) Custom Makefiles and Build Scripts
(... to be written...) Compiler Options
(... to be written...) Make Options
(... to be written...) Chapter 11. Advanced Build Management Multiple Build Configurations
(... to be written...)
And that is/only/ for the C++ section of Kdevelop... but most of the Linux or OpenSource documentation provided is a joke.
Seriously, I may sound as a troll here but, there is *no* way you can tell me that is better than even the documentation on Borland C++ IDE!!!
Go ahead, mod me down I have tons of karma to burn but this is one of the/thousands/ of details why some open source software just can not make it. And the people that closes their eyes and negate it will never get it...
by my estimates I can get stuff up and running in half the time under Linux with it's standard socket interface. Basically, the Windows tools are designed to be good at cranking out MDI applications; once you attempt to move outside Microsoft's standard application model, getting anything to work properly becomes like pulling teeth.
It is nice that you bring those point as just yesterday I tried to "migrate" a program from Windows to Linux. It is nothing too fancy, just a SDL+OpenGL small game. I have been developing the game using the open and free DevCpp software for windows which is *really* easy to use (DevPaks are excellent).
To move into Linux I decided to use KDevelop as it seemed to be the most full featured developing IDE and from what I remember from the time I had programmed in Linux before it was the most complete one (against Anjuta for example).
Now, where do I start, first, I had to install 4 RPMs: - libmesa - libmesa-devel (header files) - libSDL - libSDL-devel (header files)
Nothing too fancy, easly done with Mandriva package manager. After that I copied the CPP, H files from the NTFS partition to my ~/ and created a new project with KDE, ok, everything seemed cool as I created a "C++ SDL project".
After getting rid of the default main file (an example on SDL initialization, quite nice detail if you ask me) started trying to add my files to the project, after wandering around for some time at the IDE, I found there was no place to "ADD FILES TO PROJECT" or something similar, instead, after something like 15 minutes I found that I needed to add files to the automake manager sub window. Nice, I started adding files but while doing this I encountered the first *fatal* bug, suddenly if I right clicked one of the files to get the context menu (to remove the file or something) the KDevelop environment just crashed, and the "send bug report" appeared (I do not have internet at home so I could not submit it... pitty).
So, after initializing the program again I encountered another bug, the project was just unusable, in some way the previous bug destoryed the project file... so I had to create the project again BUT had to use another directory (and name of the project) as the name I used previously was already there (with the files of the previous dead project).
Nice, I made a new project, I moved my source files and added all of them (being careful to not right click!!!). After that I compiled the project and started the process of refining some specific details about Windows at my source. After some time the program *almost* compiled but it said that it could find any of the mesaGL referenced functions and I knew that it was because I had not linked the -lGL libraries.
Now, this was my greatest frustration. I went to the Project menu and looked in all the options to see where something similar to "linker options" would appear.. mmm. the most similar thing was under the Project/Project_Options/Configure_Options option as Linker_Flags, I added the -lGL and tried to compile again without success...
At this time I was kind of annoyed but I thought that some !"$"£@ flag could not win against me and I was determined to do it, so I went to the console and made a grep for the -lSDL (the flag that was added by the project wizzard). It seemed that the flag was at the.kedevelop project file so I edit it and added my -lGL flag manually.
I reopened the project and tried to compile *again* without success... then something *brilliant* occurred to me, what is it that all the OS people say (including me hehe)? RTFM!! so I went straight to the HELP menu and selected the "kdevelop handbook", the first time I did it the only answer I got was "Manual was not found, perhaps you did not install the documentation"... so I went back again to the Mandriva Package manager and lookend & installed Y
Whatever, despite I really don't care where you live, my point still stands.
Yawn... go back to buy your $0.99 128kbps DRMed songs...
Your point simply does not stands because buying from ALLOFMP3 in Russia IS LEGAL, that is why they are still in buisness, you see, the fact that it is not moral/ethical/right/whatever from your POV does not make it illegal. It is the same face of the coin as with copyright or DMCA in USA, the fact that the copyright or DMCA laws are not right/moral/ethical or whatever (as they tend to screw end users) does not mean they are less valid. It is simple, Russian laws allow something, USA allows something else.
I know it is a concept that most of the people from the USA just can not understand; that other countires DO have different laws than yours (and thus keep tryingn to enforce USA laws in other countries) but hey, that is what happens and you would have to bomb all the countries until they comply with the USA constitution.
So, sure, it *may* be illegal for you to buy from allofmp3 if you live in USA (although I doubt it as you can see from my profile comments page ) but I do not give a damn, as the laws from your country are different from mine and as I told you in my country we can import most legally bought things (although weed is not one of these so I would have to smoke it all in Amsterdam =oP, but then again there are also food legislation that deny the importing of certain food) from other countries.
In most countries the legality of allofmp3 is questionable but most likely just as illegal
Hey! got you again, in most countries, you mean, how many of the 227 countries are you taling about? Again, at least from Russia it is totally legal to buy music over there. And again, they may be exploiting a loophole or whatever from the legislation but strictly talking IT is legal.
And, I am sure a lot of those countries does not ban importing of music goods bought for personal use in another country.
So, as I told you before, I hope you are enjoying your $1 128kbps music, I myself only download v6 or v7 OGG encoded files, and let me tell you that my consience is quite fine:) man I even listen to that music when going to sleep =oD
So, that one was your one issue, my one issue was that when I tried to install it to my laptop external USB FC4 did not recognized it, nothing, zero, nada. For the installation my USB HD just did not existed.
I read in some forums that I needed to boot with some flags or something but I really did not wanted to bother so I installed Mandriva 2006 which recognized my external disk and installed without major problems.
I wonder if that bug/problem was fixed in this version...
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Ok, this is only a forecast according to my beliefs but I will write it anyways. Cinemas are going to become what Theatres are now, in 10 or 15 years there will only be few cinemas, and only very few people are going to visit them.
The cinemas that will stay are the IMAX ones, or with similar technologies. Movies as we know them are going to be released directly to the people (via disc or internet). Going to the cinema will be as today is going to the theatre (I think I have been only 4 times in my life...).
Meanwhile, people will get the new movies from machines similar to the candy or coke vending machines (the disks will be disposable and recyclable).
As a lot of people wrote before, nowadays there is *nothing* really *better* in the cinemas than in a nice home theatre, and given that someone spends £15 for a cinema night one day, that is £60 monthly or £720 every year; for that price it is possible to buy a 32'' plasma TV today.
So, the cinemas must then provide something that can not be obtained with home cinema (and I mean something good, no sticky floor or talking people), but they have to aim for *other* market (that means, to avoid competing with home cinema).
Why do peoplpe still go to theatre plays? because it is something different!. Why do people go to IMAX screens? because it is different, and if anyone of you have experience a planetarium well, that is another experience.
Not so long I remember reading a story on slashdot about new technology of the cinemas that George Lucas and the director of LOTR where entusiastic about, well, I hope it is developed for the sake of the cinemas.
The problem is, many applications still only support the OSS sound interface, which hogs the audio interface. While OSS applications are using the sound card, ALSA is unable to provide its richer interface to native ALSA applications. This means, one sound at a time...or speak but can't hear....hear but can't speak.
It means, it does not work. I do not care if there are hydrogen fuel motors if the car manufacturers do not use them. It is like Windows support for non administrator users if applications contintue to require running as admin!
For me, a Linux Operating System is Mandriva, Ubuntu, SUSE, etc. They are completely different and when I install any of them, the sound system does not work properly that is all I need to know. Whenever I install any of them and I try to use the mentioned applications, it just does not work. If I install Windows (even windows98) on my computer and use Windows Media Player and Sound Recorder they will both work at the same time (or if I download any open source game and play it while listenting to music).
How is that those half baked Open Source applications function properly on Windows but can not coexist on Windows (mmm that must be an O.S. problem don't you think so?)
I am not a gamer (no real time for that), but sometimes I want to play a not-to-involved game... 2) It had some fun games (Metroid, Zelda, Mario, the usual)
Uhh, I don't *exactly* know about GC, but I have played Zelda for Nintendo 64 and it seems pretty involving, as and adventure game (at least in Zelda for N64) you had to spend something like an hour after starting the game to find some meaning to it.
Anyway I like Nintendo games for that reason too, I usually play pokemon arena (for N64, is it the one similar to Puyo Pop??) and Mario Kart, as they are very easy to play and you do not need to spend a lot of time.
By the way, there is a little game called Hogs of War for the Playstation1 which is a Worms-like multiplayer game. I have been playing it with my flatmate (both of us are doing our PhD, although he is in his mid 30's and he is a NON-PLAYER by nature). I showed the game to my girlfriend and my flatmate and we have passed great time. We play it on EPSXE but the three of us can play with just one controller (it is turn based).
OTOH I sometimes play mario party with my girlfriend... I am waiting to buy another controller (I only have two) to be able to play with her and my flatmate.
Those are Nintendo games, they are for the family, they are easy to play. That is why I am waiting for the revolution, I will *surely* buy it when arrives, as I am sure everybody at my flat will enjoy it (including me of course hoho) and I am certain that it will have those kind of games which I can enjoy playing 30 mintues only.
Too bad I came late for the story conversation... anyway some comments:
The "real" life is so unimportant because your alter-ego in the game does the living for you, why would you need a "real" life out of the game when you already have such an interresting one inside of it?
I believe that online game addictions are seen bad because they seem to be a waste of time. One fix would be to let the people make money with them like in Second Life game that way he could make something worthy when playing (I have read there has been people that play Second Life to pay their bills), of course I do not know if it is possible to profit from Blizzard.
Second, addictions are shit, I was addicted to cigar when in undergrad, but I decided to quit, it was nothing fancy I just thought that as I did not do any exercise (I have been a programmer all my life) smoking would do very very bad to me. I did not entered in any kind of "quitting program" I just woke up one day and convinced I won't smoke anyomre. To make that work you should state that when the opportunity to smoke/play is rising.
The other thing about online addictions is time, how many of you were in computers *before* internet entered?, maybe it was not like that for you as BBS were available a long time ago but for me (I lived in Mexico were it was not possible to call BBS) there was a time when I did not have internet, I used to program a lot (QBASIC in the Nibbles times). When internet came, my programming time started to decrease while chatting, browsing started to increase. Of course I found a lot of new information (Fravias and TKC tutorials, graphics tutorials, assembler, etc) but I also found irc and all those things.
Anyway returning to the point, the difficulty is, after you are addicted when you say "I will not do X" you will find you have a lot of free time and there is where you should find something to do. A lot of people have recommended things, something I have found very gratifying is cooking. Just go to www.allrecipes.com and take one recipe, I started to cook some time ago as I was getting very bored with my life (I am currently doing a PhD and frustration is something very normal hehe). I started in February 14, when I cooked a very good Salmon for my girlfriend.
Other things you can do is learn to play guitar. There are very cheap guitars in the internet (I bought one in UK from £45) and download some courses from emule or bittorrent (or buy them).
We, as geeks have the power of knowing how to manage information (read Knowledge). For me, P2P music piracy does not really matter (neither movies, unless it is a rare movie) what I really like is books, sometimes instructing videos. Heck, I downloaded a 7 mintues abs video that I follow every morning.
All I have to say is that people (geeks) MUST realize all the information available on the internet, information that can be applied to the "real world", to start there is a place called www.wannalearn.com
I am sure it is even possible to learn violin online.
So, there are plenty of things to do with that new time, even when you are alone (it is nice to play guitar/sing when you are along, and you have all the material available on internet: the music, the chords(or tablatures if you are more 'advanced') and the lyrics.
I agree with you in that I would love to have non movable storage technology. Althouth if I RC Zip disks were similar to hard disks or floppies (with plates and all that). We really need solid state no volatile memory. Although currently this technology exists it is quite expensive compared to hard disks, and I really doubt it will become cheaper than optical media.
Hopefuly the memory will become cheap enough to replace current hard disks and the read/write limits will be extended.
Have you thought that, the hard disk technology we use in computers is at least 40 years old? according to Wikipedia the first hard disk was used in 1955!!. I think it is time to change this media.
If someone knows better please correct me but, I remember from my junior high courses in electronic that there is something called NAND gates circuit which state can be changed with an electronic pulse and it is persistent (no electricity required after that). IIRC CPU cache memory is made of that and thus it is really fast. One of the downsides is that memory was a bit expensive.
I believe that this kind of memory could be used to make hybrid drives, with some intelligent mechanisms (at drive level) that can make the disk faster. I believe it already exists (as hard disk buffer) but I believe memory should not be volatile.
as far as I remember.
All somewhat modern sound cards have several PCM subchannels that operating systems use in order to play several sounds simultaneously, and, yes, it is perfectly supported by Linux. Last I tried (admittedly, that was some time ago, but I can't remember just how long), using Windows with a single-channel sound card meant that I could only play one sound at a time.
/dev/sound input to the /dev/sndcard001x1alsa or whatever. If it does not works, it does not works. I do not have to do those kind of things on Windows.
Please, stop using Linux as the operating system, as it makes your comment a balant lie. No, it is not well supported by Linux, neither wifi and other things, it may be supported by one or two distributions.
Personally whenever I have isntalled Linux I could not use XMMS and play another game with sound at the same time, I just got an error about some kind of blocked channel. And no, I do not care about redirecting the
. As far as hibernation goes, Linux doesn't have to be rebooted,
Yeah sure, please tell me were to buy that Tesla coil adaptor for my laptop pleeeeaase, btw, I hope there are Linux drivers available for it.
As I know that the GP post will be moded really down because of slashdot linux zealots I have to backup his statement, I use Windows XP in my HP Pavillion ZV5000 with 1024 MB of ram and I runs really good, including the Ati 9100 igp the Wifi and the modem. Oh! and the buttons to increase or decrease the volume.
I have not been able to make all those things work with ANY Linux installation out of the box, and I have tried with quite a few including FC4, Ubuntu, Mandriva and SUSE.
Who said only Microsoft could spread FUD!?
Well, it is well know in the industry that game programmers are used to work 27 hours a day at minimum wages. I mean, it is even better than outsourcing!
Seriously, when I was jounger I always dreamed of being a game developer, I used to wander in gamedev.net and make cool opengl demos but seeing how underpriced are game programmers and the difficulty to get into the industry (requiring 10 published titles to get into a company?) I am opting to find a real work =o)
Truth, I never really played ET (as far as I remember, I was quite young when my father bought atari), from the ones you said, I remember MIssile Command and Defender, they rocked, but I also remember Seaquest (the submarine, did you palyed it?) and Warlords (played with the paddle controllers). I also remember one terribly shitty game of porky's which was totally frustrating (so yes, there were bad games at those times) and one of my favorites was .
Thinking a bit about it, I guess Tetris could have been created for atari dont you think? for the 2600 I mean, which was the one I had =o).
Oh, those where the days, although I shall tell that as I was born in 1981, the Atari was not *really* of my generation, I played it a lot because my father bought it (he always have liked computers although he is a Biologist, that may explain seaquest hehe) for me, it is the NES and SNES the ones that got my best memories.
One thing I remember is a joystick for the NES which was similar to an Airplane controller, I looked a bit on google but could not find anything about it. The controller was really cool because it was just the stick with the A and B buttons on the top and front (as far as I remember), the way you controlled the movement (D-pad) was by tilting the controller to the front, back or to the sides.
I have not seen anything similar in a long time, if any slashdotter has more references to that controller (or remember something else) I would be really glad to read it. Anyway I think the NES accessories were really cool, were I lived (somewhere in Mexico) there was a game rental company which had several of those accessories for rent, it was really cool because you could use them just to try them. I remember that the person that was in charge also told you which games were cool to play with each controller.
? Is that like some pre-school version of LaTeX and Emacs?
Hehe kiddie, pitty that you need all that user friendliness, after you finish playing you can try what I use to WORK cat + Tex
Office 2004 is the latest Mac version, MS seems to alternate between PC and Mac rather than releasing both at the same time, which results in interesting feature leapfrogging.
No shit Einstein, nice way to bitch some karma... had you read the post to what parent was replying you should have known what he was talking about...
t. Today, when I use my Windows box, I use Office 2004. It's fast
Wait a mintue, I do not believe that you really played any Atari games at all, I am smelling a bit of bullshit here. You see, you said you born in 1987, Atari 2600 was released in 1977, Nintendo NES was released in 1985, two years before you born, at that time the only atari available was the 7800 which was a piece of crap, and the only real consoles were Sega Master System (haha, not really) or Nintendo Enterntainment System.
AFAIK java is only used for advanced things that most people dont use, like macros ,live content or other stuff.
Wow, bloated software with things that "most people dont use"??
OpenOffice has REALLY come a long way to catch up with Microsoft products features!
Yoshi's Cookies!
Hehe, just the other day I remembered that game for the Gameboy. It was a really nice game (puzzle like) for its time (1993). Of course it had Yoshi and Mario (as a cooker) but it was danm funny (and addictive).
I put it in my girlfriend's GBA Supercard and she liked it a lot =o)
There are other ways to get real Complete and working Windows solution"
(darn, the difficulty was to search for windows in google and get something not related to, you know what)
The funny thing is, even sone Microsoft products are more complete on OSX than in Windows
Virtual PC would cost LESS and be a lot less trouble to get running too...
$VirtualPC+$Windows license > $Windows License
Do you get it?
ReadMe.rtf f (rtf? from Microsoft?)
HaHa, I love that format, in some way I believe all the Readme files should end in RTF, it always reminds me of the RTFM acronym
It is not about purchasing, it is just about making a donation to the cause. I mean, it is *not* Linux and I am 100% sure any of the BSDs distros are aimed to go against Windows. And, it is not like anyone of them can (and had) used any of this code!
As someone (who will probably be moded down) said before in the thread, the way this capitalist world is "profit or die". Companies that have used this software should donate some money to give a push to the software.
This isnt a case where Microsoft can point at a random OSS project and yell "they suck too!".
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/only/ for the C++ section of Kdevelop... but most of the Linux or OpenSource documentation provided is a joke.
/thousands/ of details why some open source software just can not make it. And the people that closes their eyes and negate it will never get it...
Haha, nice that you touch that point about documentation, just take a look at the KDevelop documentation that "comes" with the IDE suite, now *that* is what I call an unusable worth nothing piece of crap:
From the KDEvelop Handbook:
The Problem Reporter
(... to be written
Code Completion
(... to be written
Creating New Files and Classes
(... to be written
Editing the Templates
(... to be written
Class Hierarchy
(... to be written
Elements of the User Interface
(... to be written
The Workarea
(... to be written
The KDevelop Titlebar
(... to be written
The KDevelop Statusbar
(... to be written
The menubar
(... to be written
The Toolbars
(... to be written
The Tree Tool Views
(... to be written
The Output Tool Views
(... to be written
This one is GREAT:
"Class Tools
The class tool dialog is activated by right clicking on a class in the class view and choosing Class tool...."
Automake Projects
(... to be written
Custom Makefiles and Build Scripts
(... to be written
Compiler Options
(... to be written
Make Options
(... to be written
Chapter 11. Advanced Build Management
Multiple Build Configurations
(... to be written
And that is
Seriously, I may sound as a troll here but, there is *no* way you can tell me that is better than even the documentation on Borland C++ IDE!!!
Go ahead, mod me down I have tons of karma to burn but this is one of the
by my estimates I can get stuff up and running in half the time under Linux with it's standard socket interface. Basically, the Windows tools are designed to be good at cranking out MDI applications; once you attempt to move outside Microsoft's standard application model, getting anything to work properly becomes like pulling teeth.
.kedevelop project file so I edit it and added my -lGL flag manually.
It is nice that you bring those point as just yesterday I tried to "migrate" a program from Windows to Linux. It is nothing too fancy, just a SDL+OpenGL small game. I have been developing the game using the open and free DevCpp software for windows which is *really* easy to use (DevPaks are excellent).
To move into Linux I decided to use KDevelop as it seemed to be the most full featured developing IDE and from what I remember from the time I had programmed in Linux before it was the most complete one (against Anjuta for example).
Now, where do I start, first, I had to install 4 RPMs:
- libmesa
- libmesa-devel (header files)
- libSDL
- libSDL-devel (header files)
Nothing too fancy, easly done with Mandriva package manager. After that I copied the CPP, H files from the NTFS partition to my ~/ and created a new project with KDE, ok, everything seemed cool as I created a "C++ SDL project".
After getting rid of the default main file (an example on SDL initialization, quite nice detail if you ask me) started trying to add my files to the project, after wandering around for some time at the IDE, I found there was no place to "ADD FILES TO PROJECT" or something similar, instead, after something like 15 minutes I found that I needed to add files to the automake manager sub window.
Nice, I started adding files but while doing this I encountered the first *fatal* bug, suddenly if I right clicked one of the files to get the context menu (to remove the file or something) the KDevelop environment just crashed, and the "send bug report" appeared (I do not have internet at home so I could not submit it... pitty).
So, after initializing the program again I encountered another bug, the project was just unusable, in some way the previous bug destoryed the project file... so I had to create the project again BUT had to use another directory (and name of the project) as the name I used previously was already there (with the files of the previous dead project).
Nice, I made a new project, I moved my source files and added all of them (being careful to not right click!!!). After that I compiled the project and started the process of refining some specific details about Windows at my source. After some time the program *almost* compiled but it said that it could find any of the mesaGL referenced functions and I knew that it was because I had not linked the -lGL libraries.
Now, this was my greatest frustration. I went to the Project menu and looked in all the options to see where something similar to "linker options" would appear.. mmm. the most similar thing was under the Project/Project_Options/Configure_Options option as Linker_Flags, I added the -lGL and tried to compile again without success...
At this time I was kind of annoyed but I thought that some !"$"£@ flag could not win against me and I was determined to do it, so I went to the console and made a grep for the -lSDL (the flag that was added by the project wizzard). It seemed that the flag was at the
I reopened the project and tried to compile *again* without success... then something *brilliant* occurred to me, what is it that all the OS people say (including me hehe)? RTFM!! so I went straight to the HELP menu and selected the "kdevelop handbook", the first time I did it the only answer I got was "Manual was not found, perhaps you did not install the documentation"... so I went back again to the Mandriva Package manager and lookend & installed Y
Whatever, despite I really don't care where you live, my point still stands.
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:) man I even listen to that music when going to sleep =oD
Yawn... go back to buy your $0.99 128kbps DRMed songs
Your point simply does not stands because buying from ALLOFMP3 in Russia IS LEGAL, that is why they are still in buisness, you see, the fact that it is not moral/ethical/right/whatever from your POV does not make it illegal. It is the same face of the coin as with copyright or DMCA in USA, the fact that the copyright or DMCA laws are not right/moral/ethical or whatever (as they tend to screw end users) does not mean they are less valid. It is simple, Russian laws allow something, USA allows something else.
I know it is a concept that most of the people from the USA just can not understand; that other countires DO have different laws than yours (and thus keep tryingn to enforce USA laws in other countries) but hey, that is what happens and you would have to bomb all the countries until they comply with the USA constitution.
So, sure, it *may* be illegal for you to buy from allofmp3 if you live in USA (although I doubt it as you can see from my profile comments page ) but I do not give a damn, as the laws from your country are different from mine and as I told you in my country we can import most legally bought things (although weed is not one of these so I would have to smoke it all in Amsterdam =oP, but then again there are also food legislation that deny the importing of certain food) from other countries.
In most countries the legality of allofmp3 is questionable but most likely just as illegal
Hey! got you again, in most countries, you mean, how many of the 227 countries are you taling about? Again, at least from Russia it is totally legal to buy music over there. And again, they may be exploiting a loophole or whatever from the legislation but strictly talking IT is legal.
And, I am sure a lot of those countries does not ban importing of music goods bought for personal use in another country.
So, as I told you before, I hope you are enjoying your $1 128kbps music, I myself only download v6 or v7 OGG encoded files, and let me tell you that my consience is quite fine
So, that one was your one issue, my one issue was that when I tried to install it to my laptop external USB FC4 did not recognized it, nothing, zero, nada. For the installation my USB HD just did not existed.
I read in some forums that I needed to boot with some flags or something but I really did not wanted to bother so I installed Mandriva 2006 which recognized my external disk and installed without major problems.
I wonder if that bug/problem was fixed in this version...