I bought that Zelda game along with Red Steel when the Wii came out (yup, i preordered in a COMET in the UK). I played it for maybe 5 hours (not straight, at different times) and got really bored. The first two hours is a really boring tutorial and the next hours are so monotonous that I just stopped playing it. It has been gathering dust since then. I was thinking of trading it but with these news I do not think so!)
From some of the forums I've read, Blueray rips can be up to 27GB. Even with high-speed broadband, that's still several hours or more to legally download a movie
Bah, kids these days. You should have been about fifteen years ago. I left my 56k (which was really about 33600) connection up more than two continuous days (re-dialing every 8 hours which was the limit before prodigy disconnected you) to download some mp3s.
And yeah, the senile posters who are going to talk about the dinosaur era in BBSs can refrain from doing so;-)
Yeah, we know about sourceforge and freshmeat!!!!!
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I am so tired of these "look at sourceforge and freshmeat" answers we get everytime someone asks for advice on slashdot. I am sure peope already know those exists. But have you *really* tried looking for a software project in SourceForge lately? I have. And even though the filters are nice, the amount o garbage projects out there is amazing. And there are so many projects that misleadingly have the "stable" or "production ready" labels which are not even on pre-alpha. Or others that say they are focused to "end user" and is a darn API.
Really, the noise-ratio of SourceForge is amazing, given that everyone and their mother can upload projects. When someone posts in slashdot is to know things that have *worked* and are working currently for other people. Sure, there are thousands of books about dating on amazon, but if you wanted one, you would go ask some people (not in slashdot of course;-)) which one would they recommend...
If you are going to recommend to look on SF or FM, then please consider just looking at the next story on slashdot... you really do not add anything useful to the conversation.
And to the parent, sorry it is nothing personal, but most of the posts I read at the time of my reply are among the same lines. I am also interested in the original question, but as I said before, I am looking for *experiences* from another people using such software rather than only a list of all the "Yet_Another_P0S I_started_for_school_homework.sf.net"
For one, I met a guy who was doing his PhD here in the UK in the same office as me. The guy was from Sudan and he used to get on his knees and pray at certain times in the office. I did not care, in fact I thought it was cool (however I consider myself quite cosmopolite, being from Mexico and living in the UK). I am also currently sharing an office with people from Syria and Iran, they are really nice people and very tolerant. Of course this is people who is trying to achieve their PhD so, their education level might not be the standard one of that country. Of course, if we think about the "standard" american, they are pretty much intolerant themselves.
That isn't the issue. The interfaces are pretty stable other wise you couldn't just recompile most drivers when the new kernel comes out. In one of the most recent Linus Trovalds interviews I read (it was featured here in slashdot), Linus specifically stated that they also DO NOT guarantee a stable API (yes, not the ABI, the API) for future versions of the kernel. He gave his reasons and I respect them but I also thing it is not fine. If you have no guarantees that your program will work at least during a 5 years life span then maybe you should choose another platform to invest your resources. The good thing about linux (which is always improving and developing) is also a bad thing, given the instability of the API. Developing a commercial application in such system will guarantee you *lots* of customer support demand (and in consequence, lots of unhappy customers).
I also find it interesting how at least 90% (and I'm being generous here) of the stuff I have read online or in the media about Scientology doesn't even resemble what Scientology really is, and I have been a member for about 17 years now.
I am sorry for you my friend. I would suggest you see the story of people who where in Scientology for more than 20 years and were even "OT7" (whatever that means). Of course, I do not know if your church allows you to see such videos. (I would not count on that.. In fact i am surprised that your CoS nanny filter allows you to get into slashdot.
Do not get me wrong, I have nothing about the Scientology religion, it is the "church" the one I think is bad. Similarly to how the Catholic church was bad some years ago (Spanish Incquisition). I know there are groups of people that follow the same beliefs as Scientologists, but they cannot call themselves Scientologists because they would get sued (WTF?).
And, lastly, just for curiosity, do you *really* believe in Xenu and all those things described in OT3 ?
Hope you the best! And I really hope you remember my post in some 10 years when you get out of Scientology and look back at all the years you wasted.
Well, in that case, slashdot also had favoritism for the CoS when it removed a post that they asked to remove. You can see the difference between slashdot answer to CoS and their answer to Microsoft (when they asked to remove the leaked microsoft code IIRC).
What kind of power can this church have in the USA that even one of the richest companies can not buy? (i.e., what power can D. Miscarriage have that not even the richest [well... second richest now] man in the world can not get?)
I've never seen a BluRay title... but I imagine the menuing system is like DVDs' on crack. When I put a movie in my player, I want to watch a movie, not wait 2 minutes through menu animation and 8 min through previews... I'd pay more for no-nonsense "movie-only" titles
That reminded me of a picture I saw somewhere on Internet that was a parody of an anti-pirating ad. It said something like "Do not buy original disks, if you do it you will have to wait until they tell you you are a pirate, wait more for the stupid trailers and then wait more for the annoying menu". That is so true, when I download a movie from a torrent, I just have to burn it in a CD or DVD and put it in my Phillips DivX compatible player, after just pressing the play button in the controller the movie just *starts*. No annoyances.
Anyone know of any pointers on how to fix this? I open the file, but Helix Player just dies straight away.
How is parent offtopic? he is asking about how to play the "very cool and after clips" presented in the summary. I could not play them in Kubuntu 7.10. What format is this.aif? I have never heard about it before.
- if I had just been dishonest and gotten a cracked version, I wouldn't have had those problems
What makes you dishonest for installing and using a copy of a software you paid for?
I know I do, I bought an HP computer and after my hard drive failed and I replaced it I could not use it because my backup disks were in another country, I called HP to ask them to send me new backup disks but they denied them to me (I was willing to pay) telling me I had to buy a new version. The heck with that! I downloaded a copy from a torrent and installed it. I have a sticker under my PC which says I have a license to use Windows XP, so I use windows XP.
If you bought the software and it does not work correctly just replace it with a copy that works correctly. After all, all software company care about is the "License", and you do have your license don't you?
Yeah, screw Real and the others. They create closed source software, how can they expect to get free security consultancy? If this company is spending their resources on finding methods to secure third party insecure software then they have all the right to sell such information. If people at Real want to know about these problems they should 1. Spend their money getting good security consultancy or 2. open source the programs and then maybe people will submit patches for free.
Just imagine if Microsoft was in the same situation, oh shit, they are with viruses and whatnot. Is as if they told Symantec, McAfee and all those useless crap vendors to give them their technology for free... "oh shit, my software is buggy as hell, please give me the corrections you made... oh but I wont give you nothing in return, not the source not anything but i really like free lunch".
Just a week ago i have an experience looking for a replacement for GuitarPro for Linux. The first thing I tried was wine, which did not work at all. Then I looked at kGuitar which (as IMHO all other KDE programs) was terribly buggy and unusable because I do not have a midi port and didnt work evcen after installing timidity.
However, I installed tuxGuitar, and was very very very impressed. I had installed it about 2 or 3 years ago and it was utter crap. The new version is really nice and has worked so far flawlessly with timidity. The lesson? Open Source *can* advance very very fast. Of course not all open source programs change that fast but some others really do. Ubuntu 7.10 broke my computer whereas the previous version was working perfectly.
I think the main reason people prefer Windows to Linux is similar to why people like McDonalds. They are both horrible, however they are *standard* horrible. Therefore, people *know* what they are going to find out when they consume them, whereas in Linux it, the quality of the different software is a complete mess. You really do not know what you will find even in programs under the same project (like KDE, Kile is a REALLY good program which i use daily, whereas lots of other programs are crap).
I believe that your reasoning is wrong in several accounts:
. I put in the wrong shipping address, I send an email to correct the mistake on my part, almost imeadeatly. Say the seller was in a bad mood that day, and that simple mistake just put him over the top... he could give me a negitive comment stating something that I don't read instructions
In that case, the seller would be shooting himself in the foot because he would be losing a customer just because eh was "in bad mood". If he discharges his bad mood on his customers then he is a bad seller.
Now if I was buying a lot of things I would like to know who left that feedback so I can respond to the apporprate answer. Say I acedently checked the wrong ship to date and the seller flipped out. You would be able to do it, just after both of you left feedback. And then, you can reply to that feedback, IIRC ebay has the option to reply against any feedback.
The idea is that, the feedback you leave to the seller is for the service you get, In your specific example you wont leave feedback *until* you receive the item. If you screw up and choose a wrong address, you will have to rectify it and all that is part of the service. If the seller is still nice then you put positive feedback, if he is nasty then you can put neutral or negative.
In the same way, the seller will have to enter feedback after you pay, given that you have finished your part of the contract.
Really, it is nothing very fancy or difficult to grasp. And it will solve their main problem.
Sometimes, an honest mistake is made, and if the seller does the right thing, I would want to leave him good feedback for his trouble in making things right.
And this is very valuable. A friend of mine bought a set of spark plugs from Canada from Mexico. They sent then to an address in the USA (they did not send merchandise to Mexico) and then someone sent them to my friend. When they arrived, some of them were the wrong model. My friend told me to write (he did not speak English) a very angry letter, however I made it a bit more soft. The answer of the shop was that they had just sent the replacement without any charge, and they did not needed the other spark plugs in return.
That IS good service, a good seller is not the one who is fine when the transaction is smooth (everyone can do that), a good seller is the one who is willing to help their customers when something is wrong in a transaction. These guys lost maybe $50 in two spark plugs, but they indeed won 2 to 5 customers, as everyone in the office were we work knew about the issue and was very surprised at the good reaction of the company.
Why doesn't ebay just implement a blind feedback system. The feedback is not published until both of them have left it. If, after some time, someone of them does not leave feedback then it automatically defaults to positive.
Personally I have received retaliatory feedback from some sellers and it really sucks. In fact the 2 negative feedbacks I have is because of retaliatory actions. As someone else have said, when I buy an item and pay immediately, I have completed my side of the contract. There is NO excuse for the seller to leave negative feedback.
That reminded me of this joke where the father is taking his son for a ride in his old VW Sedan, while they are traveling a guy with a Lamborghini passes them, and the boy says "wow, that guy shurely has money" to which his father answers "he is just an fucking asshole", then the pair continue until they pass above a huge mansion and the little boy says to his father "wow, those people surely live happy" to what his father answers "they are just a bunch of fucking assholes". Lastly, the pair arrive to the supermarket, and when they are entering, they see a guy with 4 beautiful girls grabbing his arms. The boy says "wow, that guy shurely is very lucky", to what his father answers "bah, just a simple fucking asshole".
WHen they arrive home, the son gets down of the car and enters and the first thing he does when watching his mother is tell her "mom, I know what I want to be when I grow up, I want to be a fucking asshole".
and now sit alone in a dark house playing videogames, trying to recapture the feeling of their youth, before their spirit was crushed. Actually, they are playing World of Warcraft
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Linux + mythfrontend + wiimote
Or you could you know, just use the wiimote in any linux distribution... just as a standard bluethoot device...
I *knew* someone would post something among those lines... hehe
I bought that Zelda game along with Red Steel when the Wii came out (yup, i preordered in a COMET in the UK). I played it for maybe 5 hours (not straight, at different times) and got really bored. The first two hours is a really boring tutorial and the next hours are so monotonous that I just stopped playing it. It has been gathering dust since then. I was thinking of trading it but with these news I do not think so!)
Because 0ld SQ00l never dies!!
*rimshot*
Lol, is it me or nobody else here understood the joke:
Comic Book Guy
I thought we should not let people get harmed...
From some of the forums I've read, Blueray rips can be up to 27GB. Even with high-speed broadband, that's still several hours or more to legally download a movie
;-)
Bah, kids these days. You should have been about fifteen years ago. I left my 56k (which was really about 33600) connection up more than two continuous days (re-dialing every 8 hours which was the limit before prodigy disconnected you) to download some mp3s.
And yeah, the senile posters who are going to talk about the dinosaur era in BBSs can refrain from doing so
I am so tired of these "look at sourceforge and freshmeat" answers we get everytime someone asks for advice on slashdot. I am sure peope already know those exists. But have you *really* tried looking for a software project in SourceForge lately? I have. And even though the filters are nice, the amount o garbage projects out there is amazing. And there are so many projects that misleadingly have the "stable" or "production ready" labels which are not even on pre-alpha. Or others that say they are focused to "end user" and is a darn API.
;-)) which one would they recommend...
Really, the noise-ratio of SourceForge is amazing, given that everyone and their mother can upload projects. When someone posts in slashdot is to know things that have *worked* and are working currently for other people. Sure, there are thousands of books about dating on amazon, but if you wanted one, you would go ask some people (not in slashdot of course
If you are going to recommend to look on SF or FM, then please consider just looking at the next story on slashdot... you really do not add anything useful to the conversation.
And to the parent, sorry it is nothing personal, but most of the posts I read at the time of my reply are among the same lines. I am also interested in the original question, but as I said before, I am looking for *experiences* from another people using such software rather than only a list of all the "Yet_Another_P0S I_started_for_school_homework.sf.net"
For one, I met a guy who was doing his PhD here in the UK in the same office as me. The guy was from Sudan and he used to get on his knees and pray at certain times in the office. I did not care, in fact I thought it was cool (however I consider myself quite cosmopolite, being from Mexico and living in the UK). I am also currently sharing an office with people from Syria and Iran, they are really nice people and very tolerant. Of course this is people who is trying to achieve their PhD so, their education level might not be the standard one of that country. Of course, if we think about the "standard" american, they are pretty much intolerant themselves.
When I thought I have met the most stupid american...
Is that a country?.
If those are your idols...
That isn't the issue. The interfaces are pretty stable other wise you couldn't just recompile most drivers when the new kernel comes out. In one of the most recent Linus Trovalds interviews I read (it was featured here in slashdot), Linus specifically stated that they also DO NOT guarantee a stable API (yes, not the ABI, the API) for future versions of the kernel. He gave his reasons and I respect them but I also thing it is not fine. If you have no guarantees that your program will work at least during a 5 years life span then maybe you should choose another platform to invest your resources. The good thing about linux (which is always improving and developing) is also a bad thing, given the instability of the API. Developing a commercial application in such system will guarantee you *lots* of customer support demand (and in consequence, lots of unhappy customers).
What parental control software IS there for Debian?
There is, iptables, privoxy, dansguardian, among others.
I also find it interesting how at least 90% (and I'm being generous here) of the stuff I have read online or in the media about Scientology doesn't even resemble what Scientology really is, and I have been a member for about 17 years now.
I am sorry for you my friend. I would suggest you see the story of people who where in Scientology for more than 20 years and were even "OT7" (whatever that means). Of course, I do not know if your church allows you to see such videos. (I would not count on that.. In fact i am surprised that your CoS nanny filter allows you to get into slashdot.
Do not get me wrong, I have nothing about the Scientology religion, it is the "church" the one I think is bad. Similarly to how the Catholic church was bad some years ago (Spanish Incquisition). I know there are groups of people that follow the same beliefs as Scientologists, but they cannot call themselves Scientologists because they would get sued (WTF?).
And, lastly, just for curiosity, do you *really* believe in Xenu and all those things described in OT3 ?
Hope you the best! And I really hope you remember my post in some 10 years when you get out of Scientology and look back at all the years you wasted.
Well, in that case, slashdot also had favoritism for the CoS when it removed a post that they asked to remove. You can see the difference between slashdot answer to CoS and their answer to Microsoft (when they asked to remove the leaked microsoft code IIRC).
What kind of power can this church have in the USA that even one of the richest companies can not buy? (i.e., what power can D. Miscarriage have that not even the richest [well... second richest now] man in the world can not get?)
I've never seen a BluRay title... but I imagine the menuing system is like DVDs' on crack. When I put a movie in my player, I want to watch a movie, not wait 2 minutes through menu animation and 8 min through previews... I'd pay more for no-nonsense "movie-only" titles
That reminded me of a picture I saw somewhere on Internet that was a parody of an anti-pirating ad. It said something like "Do not buy original disks, if you do it you will have to wait until they tell you you are a pirate, wait more for the stupid trailers and then wait more for the annoying menu". That is so true, when I download a movie from a torrent, I just have to burn it in a CD or DVD and put it in my Phillips DivX compatible player, after just pressing the play button in the controller the movie just *starts*. No annoyances.
Anyone know of any pointers on how to fix this? I open the file, but Helix Player just dies straight away.
.aif? I have never heard about it before.
How is parent offtopic? he is asking about how to play the "very cool and after clips" presented in the summary. I could not play them in Kubuntu 7.10. What format is this
- if I had just been dishonest and gotten a cracked version, I wouldn't have had those problems
What makes you dishonest for installing and using a copy of a software you paid for?
I know I do, I bought an HP computer and after my hard drive failed and I replaced it I could not use it because my backup disks were in another country, I called HP to ask them to send me new backup disks but they denied them to me (I was willing to pay) telling me I had to buy a new version. The heck with that! I downloaded a copy from a torrent and installed it. I have a sticker under my PC which says I have a license to use Windows XP, so I use windows XP.
If you bought the software and it does not work correctly just replace it with a copy that works correctly. After all, all software company care about is the "License", and you do have your license don't you?
Yeah, screw Real and the others. They create closed source software, how can they expect to get free security consultancy? If this company is spending their resources on finding methods to secure third party insecure software then they have all the right to sell such information. If people at Real want to know about these problems they should 1. Spend their money getting good security consultancy or 2. open source the programs and then maybe people will submit patches for free.
Just imagine if Microsoft was in the same situation, oh shit, they are with viruses and whatnot. Is as if they told Symantec, McAfee and all those useless crap vendors to give them their technology for free... "oh shit, my software is buggy as hell, please give me the corrections you made... oh but I wont give you nothing in return, not the source not anything but i really like free lunch".
Charge them, and charge them dearly.
Just a week ago i have an experience looking for a replacement for GuitarPro for Linux. The first thing I tried was wine, which did not work at all. Then I looked at kGuitar which (as IMHO all other KDE programs) was terribly buggy and unusable because I do not have a midi port and didnt work evcen after installing timidity.
However, I installed tuxGuitar, and was very very very impressed. I had installed it about 2 or 3 years ago and it was utter crap. The new version is really nice and has worked so far flawlessly with timidity. The lesson? Open Source *can* advance very very fast. Of course not all open source programs change that fast but some others really do. Ubuntu 7.10 broke my computer whereas the previous version was working perfectly.
I think the main reason people prefer Windows to Linux is similar to why people like McDonalds. They are both horrible, however they are *standard* horrible. Therefore, people *know* what they are going to find out when they consume them, whereas in Linux it, the quality of the different software is a complete mess. You really do not know what you will find even in programs under the same project (like KDE, Kile is a REALLY good program which i use daily, whereas lots of other programs are crap).
I believe that your reasoning is wrong in several accounts:
. I put in the wrong shipping address, I send an email to correct the mistake on my part, almost imeadeatly. Say the seller was in a bad mood that day, and that simple mistake just put him over the top... he could give me a negitive comment stating something that I don't read instructions
In that case, the seller would be shooting himself in the foot because he would be losing a customer just because eh was "in bad mood". If he discharges his bad mood on his customers then he is a bad seller.
Now if I was buying a lot of things I would like to know who left that feedback so I can respond to the apporprate answer. Say I acedently checked the wrong ship to date and the seller flipped out.
You would be able to do it, just after both of you left feedback. And then, you can reply to that feedback, IIRC ebay has the option to reply against any feedback.
The idea is that, the feedback you leave to the seller is for the service you get, In your specific example you wont leave feedback *until* you receive the item. If you screw up and choose a wrong address, you will have to rectify it and all that is part of the service. If the seller is still nice then you put positive feedback, if he is nasty then you can put neutral or negative.
In the same way, the seller will have to enter feedback after you pay, given that you have finished your part of the contract.
Really, it is nothing very fancy or difficult to grasp. And it will solve their main problem.
Sometimes, an honest mistake is
made, and if the seller does the right thing, I would want to leave him good feedback
for his trouble in making things right.
And this is very valuable. A friend of mine bought a set of spark plugs from Canada from Mexico. They sent then to an address in the USA (they did not send merchandise to Mexico) and then someone sent them to my friend. When they arrived, some of them were the wrong model. My friend told me to write (he did not speak English) a very angry letter, however I made it a bit more soft. The answer of the shop was that they had just sent the replacement without any charge, and they did not needed the other spark plugs in return.
That IS good service, a good seller is not the one who is fine when the transaction is smooth (everyone can do that), a good seller is the one who is willing to help their customers when something is wrong in a transaction. These guys lost maybe $50 in two spark plugs, but they indeed won 2 to 5 customers, as everyone in the office were we work knew about the issue and was very surprised at the good reaction of the company.
Why doesn't ebay just implement a blind feedback system. The feedback is not published until both of them have left it. If, after some time, someone of them does not leave feedback then it automatically defaults to positive.
Personally I have received retaliatory feedback from some sellers and it really sucks. In fact the 2 negative feedbacks I have is because of retaliatory actions. As someone else have said, when I buy an item and pay immediately, I have completed my side of the contract. There is NO excuse for the seller to leave negative feedback.
That reminded me of this joke where the father is taking his son for a ride in his old VW Sedan, while they are traveling a guy with a Lamborghini passes them, and the boy says "wow, that guy shurely has money" to which his father answers "he is just an fucking asshole", then the pair continue until they pass above a huge mansion and the little boy says to his father "wow, those people surely live happy" to what his father answers "they are just a bunch of fucking assholes". Lastly, the pair arrive to the supermarket, and when they are entering, they see a guy with 4 beautiful girls grabbing his arms. The boy says "wow, that guy shurely is very lucky", to what his father answers "bah, just a simple fucking asshole".
WHen they arrive home, the son gets down of the car and enters and the first thing he does when watching his mother is tell her "mom, I know what I want to be when I grow up, I want to be a fucking asshole".
(yeah, it is not that funny...(
and now sit alone in a dark house playing videogames, trying to recapture the feeling of their youth, before their spirit was crushed.
Actually, they are playing World of Warcraft
Computer Programmer: Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision.
I thought computer programmers PI was Math.PI or M_PI
You must mean "fjgurjng"
No, that is Finnish engineers