Just give me bigger attachments. Sheesh, when will people understand that EMAIL was *not* concieved for large binary attachements... and that UUENCODE is just a hack allowing that... if you want to send a big file just upload it to an FTP and mail the ftp:// link... or use teh usenet!
In a more on-topic comment, when will people at google fix their broken javascript so that gmail can work properly with Konqueror web browsers?, sure they are all for open source and summer of coding, but can't they just pay one of their monkeys to fix their javascript hacks to make them standard compliant?
I say, screw the interface [improvements], at least make it work well!
It definitely sounds like it is "the Ubuntu" that is at fault in this case. Where is the room for doubt?
Yup, as someone has already said in the launchpad list, it would be *better* to tell the users to install another operating system (oh no, I wont write the W word...) instead of just letting their hard drive die. If other Operating systems handle such drives without this problem then it is the Operating System fault.
I liked this comment:
Maybe the culprit is kernel or some program running in the background constantly probing all devices. IF the harddisk stayed unloaded until some read/write activity is needed, all this would be good behaviour. So there are two problems: 1. Ubuntu is touching the disk all the time. The culprit must be found (e.g. some logging daemons) For me this sounds like something as the infamous Beagle. In one of my previous/. comments I stated how I personally did not find those programs useful, but if they keep reading the disk all the time then they might be responsible for this problem.
What I wonder is *why* is this bug classified as "wishlist" while it is clearly a really nasty problem which can cause the death of a hard disk which contains the most important thing for the users (their data!).
So many Web 2.0 apps are sold (or given away for free) by software-as-a-service companies like Google that people can bypass IT altogether, and IT might not even know until it's too late."
The only thing that will happen is that all IT will be provided by such companies in a more controlled way. Similar to law firms (sorry, no car analogy here), instead of having a lone lawyer, you will contract a law firm which will provide you the service. Therefore, all the IT professionals will get to work at those companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.)
This is very similar to the Rocky Ipod issue from Target store.
The issue with this would be to see who changed the real product with the rocks or tiles, was it a customer who returned the fake products or a member of staff?
Got to love those stores... that's why video-mobile phones are good for, take video while opening the product IN the store in front of someone working there.
Yes they would go after people criminally if they could.... they would stop at nothing... in some countries, such as France, they bring criminal not civil cases.
In the US if they tried to bring such cases they'd probably go to jail themselves for filing false criminal complaints.
I think you missunderstood my comment. The fact that they file criminal charges in Mexico is because it is stipulated in Mexican law that copyright infringement cases are indeed criminal cases. It is curious that you mention France, because an interesting fact is that Mexican law is *very* similar (I believe it was heavily based on it) to French law. I guess copyright suits are one of those issues.
In the light of that, I think it would be better if "copyright infringement" had to be criminally prosecuted in the USA, because AFAIK the RIAA and others would need to show that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, which I think would make it a not very profitable business. I guess each on of them has their advantages and disadvantages, as if found guilty of the charges in the criminal case it would be possible to end in jail.
Oh well, this is going very offtopic so I will leave it at that.
c) I used to have pocket protectors until I misplaced them after graduating from high school?
That would make you a nerd... which is different from a geek. But hey, slashdot is supposed to be "news for nerds" so I guess you would be more "on site" than lots of geeks here:).
BTW, the other day I talked with my lawyer friend about Copyright infringement in Mexico. It seems (from what he told me) that in Mexico it is a criminal offence (copyright infringement). So if you get sued of C.I. over there you get to go to a criminal court (instead of the civil court... it is more or less similar). The advantage? is that they *must* absolutely prove (without any doubt)that you are the one that infringed the copyright.
So far, I believe no one has been targeted there for copyright file swapping and all that... of course I guess the RIAA knows that they can't extort too much money from us poor beaners =oP.
Oh, and after further researching, the guy has already about 72 patents on such technology (the last one in 2006) . The abstract of the relevant research is:
Nonvolatile memory cells based on solid electrolytes have many desirable attributes, including low-voltage and low-current operation and a simple process that allows them to be integrated with conventional CMOS processes with minimal additional masking layers. In this paper, we present a 2-kb memory block/testbed (1024 elements) using solid electrolyte cells. The compact memory design addresses many of the unusual operational issues associated with the solid electrolyte elements and allows for two digital bits to be stored and read from each cell with minimal circuitry. The design was fabricated in 0.18-mum CMOS technology and the simulation and physical data are presented. Multilevel-cell (MLC) operation was demonstrated for a 10-muA reference current with a 437-ns cycle time and sub-40-ns access times.
If you think about it, nowadays you buy 16 GB memory in a 43x36x5mm card whereas 10 years ago you could only get at most 1 GB in a bigfoot hard disk...
. What has made the console so approachable to non-gamers is not the controller but rather Nintendo's marketing and their game design. The controller may allow for some flexibility with game design, but not to the profound extent some believe.
Well... for my fifty-something year old mom and my sixty-something year old aunt it was the fact that they only needed to press ONE button (or hold, one button, in case of bowling) and/or swing the darn thing to play tennis, bowling, ping-pong, shooting, golf, etc. What attracted them to play and be quite good (my aunt got very good at bowling in the 10 days we played) at some of them.
On the other hand, in this day and age I expect graphics to look crisp, especially coming from a PC gaming background. I can't tolerate a pixelated, hazy mess. Yup, but that is only you. Most people (read, if U is the universe of/all people/ composed of G the set defining gamers and N the rest, |N| > |G| ) just want a simple game to spend some time, and (maybe the majority?) want a game to spend some time (read, when everyone can/play/ and not only watch you spread zombies brains in uber-cool resolutions)/with/ their friends/family.
One thing that strikes me about PS3 graphics is how impressive they are in person. It's at a point where they look like the touched up promotional graphics developers release during production. Although, I concede that doesn't change the fact that there aren't many compelling games available for the console. Those capabilities, however, do ensure that the PS3 will have better longevity than the Wii, provided good games are released soon.
They are impressive to you. Personally, I agree that when I have seen the graphics of both PS3 and Xbox360 in Virgin stores they do seem nice. However, I do not like such kind of graphic complexity for a game. Ever since games like Resident Evil or Silent hill which tried to do "realistic" graphics I have had the problem that things that you can interact with are lost among all the other objects. Again, that is a personal preference, but I bet that if you put your grandmother in front of a Xbox360 and tell her to play Gears of War, she will get lost a) In the 20 buttons needed to control the game, and b) In the visual complexity of the game.
I think everyone will agree, it's the games that make the system. Of course it is the games that make the system. It only depends on what kind of gaming are you looking for! I made the mistake of buying the Wii because after having it all this time (since launch date), I have realised that my type of gaming is online gaming (and that the single player modes of the Wii games plainly suck). Because of that, I believe that the console for me would be Xbox360 which I believe has great online playing capabilities... However, the times I played Wii with my family and/or friends, we did have a great time, and the machine is a really nice piece of genius.
Yea. I think I messed up my point. In a sense, I was talking about basic technology that everyone is already using. If it's something no one else has done, then of course. But in this case, theres alot of companies already out there. Some patents are frivolous and basic.
Well DUH! if everybody is using such new technology it is because it is good. There are some companies which licensed the invention to the patent holder, the ones that did not do that and just copied the technology are the ones that are being sued...
I do not see what is wrong with SanDisk suing all those, if they want to use their inventions, they should License the patent, otherwise they can wait until the patent expires...
If companies are not allowed to have some edge for their research, then there will be no innovation.
I don't read many of them either, but I like to masturbate over the potential knowledge contained within.
Playboy or Dungeons and Dragons magazines does not count as books...
Oh, and by the way, if knew what Citeseer and Scopus is, you would know that it is possible to download legal documents in PDF format. Oh and that CHM is the format for help files in Microsoft Windows (although, you might use Linux so you might not know that).
But you are ignorant, so I do not expect you to know that... I'll just let you masturbate with your nerd pirated magazines, nerd.
I hate that crap, as someone said in a review of some Linux distro, I do not know why people *need* a file indexing service like Beagle, personally I have all my documents pretty well ordered, and preffer to use the filesystem structure facilities to order my data (directories, subdirectories, etc) and for me Beagle and the like are just resource and TIME (they interact with the slowest component in the PC in very heavily) wasters. WHY IS IT TURNED ON BY DEFAULT??? WHY ISNT IT POSSIBLE TO TURN IT ON EASLY??? WHY CANT I TURN IT OFF IF I DO NOT HAVE ROOT ACCESS??
The only time I kind of liked such programs (and the only program I liked) was when I used Coopernic Pro agent, which indexed PDFs and CHM books (I have a *huge* 30GB PDF/CHM library), but you could indicate (graphically, not via some obscure config file editing) which folders you wanted to check. Of course, Beagle does not index CHM.
Agree, although I am not a graphic designer (IANAGD?) I've got several friends who are (including my sister in law). Several of them have commented me that the lack of CMYK support is a *very* strong issue that prevents them from taking The GIMP seriously for their work. I do not know what exactly is although I believe it is related with the equivalence of the colors in the screen with the colors actually printed and without CMYK the equivalence is not accurate.
What I wonder is that I know there are other open source applications that support CMYK like Scribus, and I know there is a hack-yourself-through rudimentary plugin for GIMP CMYK... why haven't it been integrated and made usable in The GIMP?
I'll give you a tip, it depends on what kind of porn. I know that in stores like Ann Summers they sell "adult movies" which are "suitable" for girls, or at least, they like them. You could always also start with "Pirates" which has a pretty funny story.
Btw, the first porn movie I saw with my girlfriend (we had a really good time as the movie is hilarious these days) was Deep Throat (the original). My GF got interested after the documentary was released, so I got it and we watched it...
Ah! but GP forgot a slight detail in his logic. See, the *last* piece of luggage checked in is in fact *the first* that is put into the airplane cargo (because the luggage is put in the transportation cars). Therefore, it is the *last one* grabbed after landing, which makes it the *top one* in the transportation cars which makes... oh crap... forget it
Crap, I think the movie companies should be *glad* that Tv-links existed! it can help them to easly see where the materials are being distributed (stage6, tudou, etc, etc...) its like if some guy in a magazine shop has a front door list with addresses where people sell mariguana or coca, if there is someone with the balls to do that... they should be given a prize, not arrested...
Yup, I upgraded already to 7.10 from 7.04 via the recommended update-manager and after finishing the update and restarting my computer my ATI 3D acceleration stopped working:(. There is no way to blame the closed source drivers since my chipset is (supposed to be) supported by the open source ATI drivers and are not supported by the closed source drivers...
Everything was working "almost" (as has always been the case with Linux for me) in my laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 (I had to press twice the wireless network button after turning on the computer, no suspend, USB keyboard does not work after hibernate resume, etc etc etc...),
After the upgrade, the wireless works very well (no need to press the button to deactivate and reactivate wireless) but now the 3D DRI rendering is not working...
Oh well... at least in my experience that is the way Linux has behaved in all my computers.
I've found it helps after being reverted to make the edit again and challenge the reverter to justify it on the talk page. They back off after that.
The problem is that not all of us have the time to be monitoring the changes we do to the Wikipedia. I have made some changes as anonymous some time. But a lot of times the article is locked so I can not edit it myself and what I do is just write the comment, correction or idea in the discussion page. If the article is as "important" to have be locked then it has a discussion page.
The idea that editors just undo anonymous contributions is very disappointing because the main idea of the foundations of Wikipedia then gets ignored... they should not expect *everyone* to make an account...
In fact it is something I really hate about today's internet, the fact that whatever place you visit you must create an account, unless you use things like bugmenot.
I just spent the last two hours playing Lemmings. Enjoyable, engaging, straightforward and fun
Aaaah, lemmings, probably on of the beset puzzle games ever created. I loved the SNES port for the multiplayer gameplay. Games like lemmings show you how a 500KB game can be more entertaining and have more replay time than a full blown 2 DVD game...
Personally, I prefer 2D games, nowadays I play a lot of Worms (or the open source equivalent Wormux) with my girlfriend and it is one of the only games where we have real fun and can "share" videogame time playing together.
In contrast, I have a lot of problems getting used to some 3D games, specially those where you have to calculate the depth for some kind of jump or other action, for example, in Super Mario 64 I just cant get used handle Mario accurately because of the depth... similarly with Wii's Zelda and others. I have had the same problems while playing Unreal Tournament or other FPS games.
I don't know what the "kidz" today would make of a basic 2D game like Lemmings - it would be interesting to see if games of that time really have something special, or if I am just being nostalgic.
Some kids today do enjoy those kind of games, and, if you've got a kid and spend quality time playing such games (for example, each time your kid completes a Lemmings scenario, give him a prize) they will like it more. And the educational value is huge. It is similar to the situation I have encountered several times when you put a kid in front of the computer so he can spend some time (with internet, games and whatnot) and after you return he has the MS Paint (or KolourPaint) opened and has spent some time drawing whatever his imagination told him. It is really cool to see that the simplest things can make kids happy.
BTW, I would *really* recommend the Lemmings Revolution game if you like lemmings. Unlike most of the other Lemmings sequels, this one is pseudo-3d, this is, the controls and all are the same as in the original game but you have some extra things (like two races of lemmings). The game has completely new levels (something difficult to find if you have played all the levels from the original game) and the 3D factor is done by placing the scenario as a cylinder that is rotated when you "scroll" the scenario.
Unfortunately I have not been able to play it under WINE...
Yup, you hit the nail on the head my friend. I want to contribute to this corruption fest with my personal example, from nothing less than Mexico (which is pretty corrupt too).
A friend of mine has a restaurant in Mexico City, in order to have a restaurant you *should* comply with certain safety measure (like fire exits, extinguishers, etc). My friend has some of them, but he has not bothered to comply with the full ridiculous list provided by the government. Instead, each 4 years (the term of the Mexico's City borough delegate, the one with the government "power") he gets a visit from the boroughs office and pays whatever bribe he must pay.
One day I asked him why didn't he just complied with the safety measures to avoid having to pay the bribe and his answer was that if he complies with the safety rules, the next borough's delegado will go to his restaurant and look for anything to get the bribe from him, and believe me, they *will* find something, and that something might end being bigger than the simple safety measures for which you will have to pay a bigger bribe...
It is really sad, but it is the law of the jungle down there... That was why I was very amazed after living for some time in the UK where you actually *see* the taxes being used for things. I understand completely what the Brazilian commentors say, I am not against paying a *very high* tax (after all, some Nordic countries have really high taxes)... but, I would not care paying even the half of my income if it was USED to improve all the governmental services. The problem comes when the government wants to pay taxes only to improve the income of the corrupt people in power (just take a look at Vicente Fox current investigation and her wife "Vamos Mexico" program)
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Just give me bigger attachments.
Sheesh, when will people understand that EMAIL was *not* concieved for large binary attachements... and that UUENCODE is just a hack allowing that... if you want to send a big file just upload it to an FTP and mail the ftp:// link... or use teh usenet!
In a more on-topic comment, when will people at google fix their broken javascript so that gmail can work properly with Konqueror web browsers?, sure they are all for open source and summer of coding, but can't they just pay one of their monkeys to fix their javascript hacks to make them standard compliant?
I say, screw the interface [improvements], at least make it work well!
Yup, as someone has already said in the launchpad list, it would be *better* to tell the users to install another operating system (oh no, I wont write the W word...) instead of just letting their hard drive die. If other Operating systems handle such drives without this problem then it is the Operating System fault.
I liked this comment: Maybe the culprit is kernel or some program running in the background constantly probing all devices. IF the harddisk stayed unloaded until some read/write activity is needed, all this would be good behaviour.
So there are two problems:
1. Ubuntu is touching the disk all the time. The culprit must be found (e.g. some logging daemons) For me this sounds like something as the infamous Beagle. In one of my previous
What I wonder is *why* is this bug classified as "wishlist" while it is clearly a really nasty problem which can cause the death of a hard disk which contains the most important thing for the users (their data!).
So many Web 2.0 apps are sold (or given away for free) by software-as-a-service companies like Google that people can bypass IT altogether, and IT might not even know until it's too late."
The only thing that will happen is that all IT will be provided by such companies in a more controlled way. Similar to law firms (sorry, no car analogy here), instead of having a lone lawyer, you will contract a law firm which will provide you the service. Therefore, all the IT professionals will get to work at those companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.)
This is very similar to the Rocky Ipod issue from Target store.
The issue with this would be to see who changed the real product with the rocks or tiles, was it a customer who returned the fake products or a member of staff?
Got to love those stores... that's why video-mobile phones are good for, take video while opening the product IN the store in front of someone working there.
Yes they would go after people criminally if they could.... they would stop at nothing... in some countries, such as France, they bring criminal not civil cases.
In the US if they tried to bring such cases they'd probably go to jail themselves for filing false criminal complaints.
I think you missunderstood my comment. The fact that they file criminal charges in Mexico is because it is stipulated in Mexican law that copyright infringement cases are indeed criminal cases. It is curious that you mention France, because an interesting fact is that Mexican law is *very* similar (I believe it was heavily based on it) to French law. I guess copyright suits are one of those issues.
In the light of that, I think it would be better if "copyright infringement" had to be criminally prosecuted in the USA, because AFAIK the RIAA and others would need to show that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, which I think would make it a not very profitable business. I guess each on of them has their advantages and disadvantages, as if found guilty of the charges in the criminal case it would be possible to end in jail.
Oh well, this is going very offtopic so I will leave it at that.
c) I used to have pocket protectors until I misplaced them after graduating from high school?
:).
That would make you a nerd... which is different from a geek. But hey, slashdot is supposed to be "news for nerds" so I guess you would be more "on site" than lots of geeks here
BTW, the other day I talked with my lawyer friend about Copyright infringement in Mexico. It seems (from what he told me) that in Mexico it is a criminal offence (copyright infringement). So if you get sued of C.I. over there you get to go to a criminal court (instead of the civil court... it is more or less similar). The advantage? is that they *must* absolutely prove (without any doubt)that you are the one that infringed the copyright.
So far, I believe no one has been targeted there for copyright file swapping and all that... of course I guess the RIAA knows that they can't extort too much money from us poor beaners =oP.
Or as it was put from a digg story some time ago:
1 GB 20 years ago, vs 1 GB now
If you think about it, nowadays you buy 16 GB memory in a 43x36x5mm card whereas 10 years ago you could only get at most 1 GB in a bigfoot hard disk...
This technology does look promising!
. What has made the console so approachable to non-gamers is not the controller but rather Nintendo's marketing and their game design. The controller may allow for some flexibility with game design, but not to the profound extent some believe.
/all people/ composed of G the set defining gamers and N the rest, |N| > |G| ) just want a simple game to spend some time, and (maybe the majority?) want a game to spend some time (read, when everyone can /play/ and not only watch you spread zombies brains in uber-cool resolutions) /with/ their friends/family.
Well... for my fifty-something year old mom and my sixty-something year old aunt it was the fact that they only needed to press ONE button (or hold, one button, in case of bowling) and/or swing the darn thing to play tennis, bowling, ping-pong, shooting, golf, etc. What attracted them to play and be quite good (my aunt got very good at bowling in the 10 days we played) at some of them.
On the other hand, in this day and age I expect graphics to look crisp, especially coming from a PC gaming background. I can't tolerate a pixelated, hazy mess.
Yup, but that is only you. Most people (read, if U is the universe of
One thing that strikes me about PS3 graphics is how impressive they are in person. It's at a point where they look like the touched up promotional graphics developers release during production. Although, I concede that doesn't change the fact that there aren't many compelling games available for the console. Those capabilities, however, do ensure that the PS3 will have better longevity than the Wii, provided good games are released soon.
They are impressive to you. Personally, I agree that when I have seen the graphics of both PS3 and Xbox360 in Virgin stores they do seem nice. However, I do not like such kind of graphic complexity for a game. Ever since games like Resident Evil or Silent hill which tried to do "realistic" graphics I have had the problem that things that you can interact with are lost among all the other objects. Again, that is a personal preference, but I bet that if you put your grandmother in front of a Xbox360 and tell her to play Gears of War, she will get lost a) In the 20 buttons needed to control the game, and b) In the visual complexity of the game.
I think everyone will agree, it's the games that make the system.
Of course it is the games that make the system. It only depends on what kind of gaming are you looking for! I made the mistake of buying the Wii because after having it all this time (since launch date), I have realised that my type of gaming is online gaming (and that the single player modes of the Wii games plainly suck). Because of that, I believe that the console for me would be Xbox360 which I believe has great online playing capabilities... However, the times I played Wii with my family and/or friends, we did have a great time, and the machine is a really nice piece of genius.
Yea. I think I messed up my point. In a sense, I was talking about basic technology that everyone is already using. If it's something no one else has done, then of course. But in this case, theres alot of companies already out there. Some patents are frivolous and basic.
Well DUH! if everybody is using such new technology it is because it is good. There are some companies which licensed the invention to the patent holder, the ones that did not do that and just copied the technology are the ones that are being sued...
I do not see what is wrong with SanDisk suing all those, if they want to use their inventions, they should License the patent, otherwise they can wait until the patent expires...
If companies are not allowed to have some edge for their research, then there will be no innovation.
I don't read many of them either, but I like to masturbate over the potential knowledge contained within.
Playboy or Dungeons and Dragons magazines does not count as books...
Oh, and by the way, if knew what Citeseer and Scopus is, you would know that it is possible to download legal documents in PDF format. Oh and that CHM is the format for help files in Microsoft Windows (although, you might use Linux so you might not know that).
But you are ignorant, so I do not expect you to know that... I'll just let you masturbate with your nerd pirated magazines, nerd.
I hate that crap, as someone said in a review of some Linux distro, I do not know why people *need* a file indexing service like Beagle, personally I have all my documents pretty well ordered, and preffer to use the filesystem structure facilities to order my data (directories, subdirectories, etc) and for me Beagle and the like are just resource and TIME (they interact with the slowest component in the PC in very heavily) wasters. WHY IS IT TURNED ON BY DEFAULT??? WHY ISNT IT POSSIBLE TO TURN IT ON EASLY??? WHY CANT I TURN IT OFF IF I DO NOT HAVE ROOT ACCESS??
The only time I kind of liked such programs (and the only program I liked) was when I used Coopernic Pro agent, which indexed PDFs and CHM books (I have a *huge* 30GB PDF/CHM library), but you could indicate (graphically, not via some obscure config file editing) which folders you wanted to check. Of course, Beagle does not index CHM.
Agree, although I am not a graphic designer (IANAGD?) I've got several friends who are (including my sister in law). Several of them have commented me that the lack of CMYK support is a *very* strong issue that prevents them from taking The GIMP seriously for their work. I do not know what exactly is although I believe it is related with the equivalence of the colors in the screen with the colors actually printed and without CMYK the equivalence is not accurate.
What I wonder is that I know there are other open source applications that support CMYK like Scribus, and I know there is a hack-yourself-through rudimentary plugin for GIMP CMYK... why haven't it been integrated and made usable in The GIMP?
Hey and do not forget healthcare!
Your lucky... I wish my GF liked pr0n :(
I'll give you a tip, it depends on what kind of porn. I know that in stores like Ann Summers they sell "adult movies" which are "suitable" for girls, or at least, they like them. You could always also start with "Pirates" which has a pretty funny story.
Btw, the first porn movie I saw with my girlfriend (we had a really good time as the movie is hilarious these days) was Deep Throat (the original). My GF got interested after the documentary was released, so I got it and we watched it...
it's just absurd. There are a lot of stupid laws passed every day. I always say, criminals must have lobbyists in Washington.
Hehe... yeah, I keep saying the same thing.
Ah! but GP forgot a slight detail in his logic. See, the *last* piece of luggage checked in is in fact *the first* that is put into the airplane cargo (because the luggage is put in the transportation cars). Therefore, it is the *last one* grabbed after landing, which makes it the *top one* in the transportation cars which makes... oh crap... forget it
Crap, I think the movie companies should be *glad* that Tv-links existed! it can help them to easly see where the materials are being distributed (stage6, tudou, etc, etc...) its like if some guy in a magazine shop has a front door list with addresses where people sell mariguana or coca, if there is someone with the balls to do that... they should be given a prize, not arrested...
Well... in Mexico we usually vote for Cantinflas or Brozo when none of the "legal" candidates are good (which is very often^W^Walways).
Elijah, is that you? what happened to Gladia?
So will that be, THE JOKE IS OVER YOU!!!! instead of on you?
oh and the guy's legs are running away from him .
Yup, I upgraded already to 7.10 from 7.04 via the recommended update-manager and after finishing the update and restarting my computer my ATI 3D acceleration stopped working :(. There is no way to blame the closed source drivers since my chipset is (supposed to be) supported by the open source ATI drivers and are not supported by the closed source drivers...
Everything was working "almost" (as has always been the case with Linux for me) in my laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 (I had to press twice the wireless network button after turning on the computer, no suspend, USB keyboard does not work after hibernate resume, etc etc etc...),
After the upgrade, the wireless works very well (no need to press the button to deactivate and reactivate wireless) but now the 3D DRI rendering is not working...
Oh well... at least in my experience that is the way Linux has behaved in all my computers.
I've found it helps after being reverted to make the edit again and challenge the reverter to justify it on the talk page. They back off after that.
The problem is that not all of us have the time to be monitoring the changes we do to the Wikipedia. I have made some changes as anonymous some time. But a lot of times the article is locked so I can not edit it myself and what I do is just write the comment, correction or idea in the discussion page. If the article is as "important" to have be locked then it has a discussion page.
The idea that editors just undo anonymous contributions is very disappointing because the main idea of the foundations of Wikipedia then gets ignored... they should not expect *everyone* to make an account...
In fact it is something I really hate about today's internet, the fact that whatever place you visit you must create an account, unless you use things like bugmenot.
I just spent the last two hours playing Lemmings. Enjoyable, engaging, straightforward and fun
Aaaah, lemmings, probably on of the beset puzzle games ever created. I loved the SNES port for the multiplayer gameplay. Games like lemmings show you how a 500KB game can be more entertaining and have more replay time than a full blown 2 DVD game...
Personally, I prefer 2D games, nowadays I play a lot of Worms (or the open source equivalent Wormux) with my girlfriend and it is one of the only games where we have real fun and can "share" videogame time playing together.
In contrast, I have a lot of problems getting used to some 3D games, specially those where you have to calculate the depth for some kind of jump or other action, for example, in Super Mario 64 I just cant get used handle Mario accurately because of the depth... similarly with Wii's Zelda and others. I have had the same problems while playing Unreal Tournament or other FPS games.
I don't know what the "kidz" today would make of a basic 2D game like Lemmings - it would be interesting to see if games of that time really have something special, or if I am just being nostalgic.
Some kids today do enjoy those kind of games, and, if you've got a kid and spend quality time playing such games (for example, each time your kid completes a Lemmings scenario, give him a prize) they will like it more. And the educational value is huge. It is similar to the situation I have encountered several times when you put a kid in front of the computer so he can spend some time (with internet, games and whatnot) and after you return he has the MS Paint (or KolourPaint) opened and has spent some time drawing whatever his imagination told him. It is really cool to see that the simplest things can make kids happy.
BTW, I would *really* recommend the Lemmings Revolution game if you like lemmings. Unlike most of the other Lemmings sequels, this one is pseudo-3d, this is, the controls and all are the same as in the original game but you have some extra things (like two races of lemmings). The game has completely new levels (something difficult to find if you have played all the levels from the original game) and the 3D factor is done by placing the scenario as a cylinder that is rotated when you "scroll" the scenario.
Unfortunately I have not been able to play it under WINE...
Yup, you hit the nail on the head my friend. I want to contribute to this corruption fest with my personal example, from nothing less than Mexico (which is pretty corrupt too).
A friend of mine has a restaurant in Mexico City, in order to have a restaurant you *should* comply with certain safety measure (like fire exits, extinguishers, etc). My friend has some of them, but he has not bothered to comply with the full ridiculous list provided by the government. Instead, each 4 years (the term of the Mexico's City borough delegate, the one with the government "power") he gets a visit from the boroughs office and pays whatever bribe he must pay.
One day I asked him why didn't he just complied with the safety measures to avoid having to pay the bribe and his answer was that if he complies with the safety rules, the next borough's delegado will go to his restaurant and look for anything to get the bribe from him, and believe me, they *will* find something, and that something might end being bigger than the simple safety measures for which you will have to pay a bigger bribe...
It is really sad, but it is the law of the jungle down there... That was why I was very amazed after living for some time in the UK where you actually *see* the taxes being used for things. I understand completely what the Brazilian commentors say, I am not against paying a *very high* tax (after all, some Nordic countries have really high taxes)... but, I would not care paying even the half of my income if it was USED to improve all the governmental services. The problem comes when the government wants to pay taxes only to improve the income of the corrupt people in power (just take a look at Vicente Fox current investigation and her wife "Vamos Mexico" program)