I think the point was that it hasn't been released for Linux. The support for the HL2 engine in Linux doesn't come from anywhere near Valve, and in a sense it's not that it's running on Linux, it's running on a compatibility layer . . . okay, quibbles, but if to run a program the Linux computer has to pretend to be running Windows then that's not really a win, eh? Does say something that such hostile software can be made to run so well on Linux though:)
I think instead of the HL and UT engines you mean UT-kinda and Carmack's engine; ET:QW is the game I play most these days, and it's so brilliant not to have to reboot into Windows to play a game! All the iD-related (ie. made by them or by close studios) also run on Linux, which is actually the reason why I ran/played Quake 4 (or, as I call it, the Single Player Game That Halo Should Have Been). The UT engine can entirely run on Linux, up to and including the latest version, but UT3 is being held back by licensing issues with an unnamed third-party piece of middleware so it isn't publically available; another example of where it's not even remotely technical issues holding up commercial applications from running on Linux, it's corporate and copyright issues.
I remember using OS X when it first came out and it was a NIGHTMARE, but that's another story. Point is though that 75% of the Mac users (and Apple fanboys in general; adopters from the last 4 years or so it's more like 95%) I have met are sheep. I work in a retail store as my part time job, and so many people buy iPods having no clue that there are any alternatives . . . I showed some guy a Zen Stone Plus the other day and he was blown away (and I'm no Creative fan, not by a long shot). I'd estimate of the rest, 5% are longtime Mac users that made the decision (or had it made for them, through work or whatnot) a long time ago, 4% would like to run something else but hate Microsoft and/or Windows and Linux hasn't worked out for them for whatever reason. The other 1% is you:)
Sounds to me like it basically just eats the MBR? Isn't there some OS X boot disk / utility to rebuild the MBR?
Actually, instead of an MBR, Macs use Intel's EFI boot loader. Which is much, much harder to fix if things go wrong, and I'd suspect the bug in question here has something at least tangentally to do with that. Isn't progress grand?
Last I heard the OS itself was, at very least, not 100% 64 bit. I honestly could never get a straight answer how it fell, because they don't tend to talk about it much and so even my Mac-loving friends can't seem to quite explain it to me. Besides, the Core Duos were 32-bit; it was the Core 2 Duos that went back to 64-bit again, so none of the earlier Intel Macs have the EMT64 extentions. At least, that's as far as I can figure, and a quick check of wikipedia seems to confirm that. Although hey, mixing 32-bit and 64-bit probably makes the underlying system confusing and unpredictable enough from an invader's point of view that it might lead to more security;) (trying to reply to you while staying on topic, heh).
This is a strange argument that comes up a lot. Strange mostly for the fact that the overwhelming majority of technology in today's Macs are open standards or third party standards, from the hardware (Intel chips; Intel, Nvidia, ATI graphics; SATA hard drives; DIMMs/SO-DIMMS; USB; WiFi; etc) to the OS (BSD user space, Objective-C, XML, etc) to the software (AAC, MP3, H.264, etc). The only thing really closed about Apple is their locking of the OS to Apple hardware. In the realm of standards and interoperability, MS is far more guilty of NIH, constantly inventing their own standards for things which already exist. (the worst offender of all here, in the land of consumer products, is Sony, but they're outside the scope of this discussion.)
Oh, cool, so you can use non-iPod DAPs with iTunes now? And other devices and software can talk with iTunes shares? And Macs can play FLAC and vorbis and.mkv and other files out of the box, and they've stopped using that atrocious.mp4 container format? And X11 is included in an install by default again so non-techy Mac users can use easily-ported *nix apps without hassle? And iPhones run non-Apple apps?
Not that I actually disagree with you that Microsoft is worse, or that Sony is the worst. But I could find a hell of a lot more examples if I actually tried, those are just the ones that bug me the most---along with, why has it taken them 'till 10.5 to get virtual desktops, and they're claiming that they're revolutionary when CDE and pretty much every other *nix environment has had them for ages? So they're finally relenting, yes, but they're being really obnoxious about it. I would not at all say that their NIH-era has ended, just simmered down significantly (I'll certainly grant you that), and yeah, of course they look innocent compared to Microsoft and Sony but that ain't sayin' much!
I had my doubts, but now that I've looked at Apple's entirely unbiased official site I'm convinced!:P
Seriously, do your research first. Safari kindof cheats (and by kindof, I mean majorly) with onload, see this article for example. Quote, "Well, its results are almost certainly wrong, and it will appear a lot faster than it really is, if JavaScript is used to time it. The results are completely unreliable." The author suspects it wasn't intentional cheating, though. Regardless it's not as straightforward of an issue as Apple's PR department would like you to think.
(by the way, Konqueror launches far faster than Safari 3 claims to on that publicity site; is that Konqueror being quick, Windows being slow, 64-bit computing actually being an improvement, or the fact that they tested that on an iMac? I bet they used XP SP2 Home:P )
What about the music you "rent" from iTunes. Every which way you look there is a trap. We all simply just need to choose which evil suits us.
Hmm, seeing as I choose neither the Microsoft-based evil or the Apple-based evil, if we're all choosing whichever evil suits us I guess mine is piracy? (Honestly what I tend to do is download music, then if I like it I go out and buy it in vinyl; some crazy-cool record companies are even offering free mp3 downloads with vinyl purchases, if one wants to do things entirely the "legit" way). But honestly I don't think you have to choose an evil that suits you . . . there are other choices out there besides evil! Don't act like people have to use the iTMS and the only small alternative is the Zune store or something.
(Personally my own caveat is that I like-to-the-point-of-need things in lossless, and hell, we have the storage nowadays so there's no excuse . . . much of my music is in FLAC, and it actually pains my ears to hear things from iTMS).
a more relevant analogy would be "you sound like a person who attaches the CPU fan with twist ties."
Which I did once.
Still solid as a rock to this day. Computer was crap so we didn't care, it was a few friends making a frankenstein setup from spare parts, but the fan's on tighter than one would expect and runs just fine.
Then again, I would prefer to have one hundred thousand over reactions as depicted in the article than one more university or high school massacre.
The thing is, if you let all these overreactions run rampant people start being afraid for fear of falling under one of these reactions. Hell, even now people are saying "well hey, in these days," (ie. The Post 9-11 World (tm)), "we have to react differently, and we have to teach our kids not to be suspicious." One of the posts in TFA responds to this mentality with a quite excellent point.
29 Asian and Upset - May 2, 07:27 am
Parent-You say you used this as a teaching moment with my own kids and reminded them again about how careful they need to be in this day and age about what they say and do.
Good work. Soon well have a generation of homogenized, vanilla thought-repressed individuals who do nothing challenging for fear of being labeled a dissident or a troublemaker.
It almost seems like the only way to win here is for the map to be public. Of course that's not going to help the kid's case. but honestly. If it was private they'd claim "see, training in secret!" If it's public then "encouraging kids to shoot around in schools!" I've just always thought, as nearly every second post today has mentioned, that the school kind of layout would make for perfect deathmatching, and hell, it would be a far less limited environment than most small-or-linear maps that modern games seem to be unable to move beyond.
So, please some one, get us this map. I'll host it myself at my university web space, if need be (feel free to e-mail me at philurichmarkiii at yahoo dot commerce if you have it and I'll post a journal then with a link to it on my web space).
Seriously, it's very cathartic to shake my fists in the air and curse the darkness, don't knock it. It's an old tale, having such a powerful implacable enemy stiffens the spirit of the protagonists. Makes for a much better tale, too. To go with the geeky reference, that's why Stargate worked so much better at the start of each enemy-era; once the antagonists get cut down to size it's not nearly as interesting as when the heroes face impossible odds.
that eliminating/reducing the human population wouldn't be beneficial to the world? I'm pretty sure it would be. The only question is whether we feel selfish about it or not (at the end of the day I must admit I kinda do myself, but I'm saving being radical for when I get older, heh).
(2) This is a UN body. Can you name for me three UN successes in the past 25 years? Just three. I can name three failures in about two seconds... Rwanda, Darfur, Oil for Food program, 17 Iraqi resolutions, Lebanon, Iran, North Korea... Oh, I was only supposed to stop at three?
3) Can anyone list a single doomsday environmental prediction that has come true? Just one. That's all I ask. One single doomsday prediction that has come true. (I guess THIS time they're right)
Also, random loony people are loony. News at 11? Furthermore your attacks are entirely ad hominem, and many of them are vast generalizations. Two different faults: one, you equate all environmentalists; two, you act as if world problems that the U.N. didn't solve are somehow only the failure of the U.N. Hey, lets go with the zeitgeist and quote Wikipedia on the Rwandan genocide:
"Despite international news media coverage of the violence as it unfolded, most countries, including France, Belgium, and the United States, declined to intervene or speak out against the massacres."
Point is that this was an international failure, and that aspect of the nature of the crisis and of the slow nature of the U.N. security council and its members to respond to anything not affecting their own countries. In no way does this preclude a scientific study commissioned by a U.N. body from being factually accurate!
But fine. Three successes? East Timor, ODA, anti-disease programs like their HIV/Aids or malaria fights (sure they haven't wiped them out, but they've done a lot of good where nearly no one was doing anything before). But enough of ad hominem. Debate the merits or shortcomings of the actual theories and tests, or are you afraid that you wouldn't be able to debunk them with the same ease with which you sully the reputation of those related tangentally to the researchers?
Personally this sounds like exactly what I've been looking for to get drivers that'll read my Ext3 partitions installed and loaded without all the Vista SDK nonsense required to get past the signing crap. If I'm scared of malware and virii, I'd use something by a company I trust and respect (Kaspersky is my personal favourite, especially since it's easy to exclude files/folders on the basis of "if you detect X here, ignore" so I can keep false positives or test samples or anonymail or etc), not Microsoft! From Microsoft I just want the bare OS, at most. The good things about Windows have always been programs that run ontop of it (EAC, Powertab, Nero, games), anything that restricts what can get installed is another reason for me to use something else.
Well I know what you said that wasn't the point, but still . . . people talk down about Bob too much. It was cool, dammit! Admittedly I was in middle school at the time, but still. I'm not sure I can think of any example of innovation more radical, shifting the paradigm from desktop to a house, seriously now the meeting where they came up with that must have been "man, I'm soooooo high right now . . . oh heyheyhey, you know what would be awesome? Say, like, instead of clicking on icons, programs and files were, like objects in a virtual house! Ohhhh man that'd be sweet."
Sad that the only thing to survive that was the damn dog. Most of the other avatars were cool and quirky, but no, no future for them.
Hmm. I think I'm going to re-download Bob, boot into Vista, and see if I can hack it into running . . . on that note, I wonder if WINE runs it? Damn, doesn't seem to work.
Or to sum this up on-topic, maybe a new MS Bob could be the killer app? Market as a UI for kids, mayhaps?
Not sure about all these other people noting problems, Konqueror on AMD64 (Kubuntu Edgy, haven't bothered with Feisty yet though I had an upgrade going on another computer to test if the beta is worth switching to yet). It just displays nothing. Hmm, let me see if other browsers complain more, I'll go through the rest of my browser list in alphabetical order:
- Heh, Amaya goes "Not enough memory" and runs away (ie. it shuts down entirely after you hit "okay")
- Iceweasel says the image cannot be displayed because it contains errors.
- Firefox, whether 32-bit or 64-bit, gives the same complaint as its logo-less brother.
- Wait, why do I have Iceweasel before Firefox in alphabetical order? Whatever.
I was just over visiting one of my friends. She's still running a rickety old Win2k box, and contemplating buying a new computer . . . and probably installing Windows on it.
"But really, why Windows?" I asked.
"I don't get Linux!" she argued.
"Come on, for what you do you don't need to get the guts of it."
"True," she admitted, "but . . . won't things be all different? I need my browser, and GIMP, and . .."
"Yeah, yeah," I said, "that's all Linux native. It'd be the same, just, yaknow, without Windows underneath."
From an end-user's prospective, perhaps. But from a developer's perspective, the GPL takes away the right to distribute closed-source programs if you, in any way, use an GPL'd product. That would be a large TAKING AWAY of a right if one didn't read and understand the contract.
But if it wasn't under the GPL then they wouldn't have the right to use it anyway. It doesn't take away any rights! It adds certain conditional rights, yes, but it doesn't remove any rights that you otherwise would have had. And also it isn't if you "in any way use" something written under GPL, otherwise for example the NVIDIA binary blobs would be breaking the GPL (go ahead and tell me that it isn't using GPL'd 'products' when I install the NVIDIA driver on my debian-based system!).
And honestly, what developer worth his or her salt doesn't understand the GPL enough to make an informed decision on this?
just a guy he knew. I'm not sure he disagrees with your assessment;) It's a real problem, though; there are alot of stupid people out there, or at least people who have long since lost the ability to really think (the world tends to train it out of them).
Is this a case where using a really non-standard browser (well, I mean, Konqueror is standard for KDE but it's not like KDE is a common household word in middle America, heh) leaves one untouched? Or is this potentially a wider implementation problem?
I did RTFA, and it is speculated upon. In Michal Zalewski's bug submission:
Opera is unlikely to be vulnerable to that exact attack, because it is
impossible to focus on the file input text field, only on the 'browse'
button; other browsers were not tested, but I would expect at least some
to be susceptible (naturally, on MacOS X or Linux, test cases have to
be modified to access an existing file). However this leaves the question mostly still open (even Opera perhaps, if something related that took into account Opera's different handling of these cases, right? Or am I reading wrong?).
Steve Jobs has publicly stated that the DRM is there only because the record industry demands it, and that if the record industry would allow DRM-free music sales, Apple would remove the DRM from the iTunes Store.
Translation #1: Now that iPod monopolizes the digital music player market we no longer need the "loss leader" iTMS sales. iTMS has accomplished its mission of pumping up iPod sales. Now it can transition to a new role, perhaps even become a profit center.
Translation #2: "Europe" wants to force us to license fair play to others, lets start a FUD/PR campaign and "play the victim"; blame our product's lack of interoperability on the recording industry. It doesn't matter that we ask for something unrealistic, it makes us look like heroes, and give politicians an out after our lobbyists visit them. Exactly. The reality is that Steve Jobs is a relentless, pragmatic businessman; as I once read someone commenting, the fact that he does it in a way that people love him for it doesn't make him less of a pure businessman and marketer, it shows how good he is at it. So good that people can't bring themselves to believe it, and mod rather astute comments like Parent here as "Troll".
Ubuntu have frozen on boot on all computers I have tried it on, while Fedora and CentOS works flawlessly. I refuse to even try booting Ubuntu with a modified kernel command line, since most or all Ubuntu users tout the "ease of use" of Ubuntu, in contrast to such "hard-to-use" distros like Fedora.
Ubuntu won't be installed on any computer near me unless it can be booted without a whole load of kernel parameters. Ubuntu quite frankly sucks. I hate to claim FUD, but I'm not sure what else this could be.
What are you trying to install, some pre-alpha release of 5.04 or something? Or by "computers" do you mean you're trying to install the i386 version on, like, an old iMac or a PS3? Seriously, I just installed Ubuntu on an ancient Toshiba laptop (didn't even have an ethernet adapter) and the ancient 5.04 that the laptop's owner had installed himself even worked decently. I hate 5.04 (and it wasn't working with his pcmcia Wireless-G card, wouldn't even detect that it was there) so that's when I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu . . . and 6.10 worked flawlessly. Well, flawlessly but really really damn slow;) this thing had, like, 8GB of HDD space or something tiny. He really wanted Ubuntu, but I went and added xubuntu-desktop as the default and told him that, but he was quite happy to resurrect his laptop (and Xfce runs much, much faster than Gnome, obviously, which he could nonetheless boot into if he wanted the shiny "modern" GUI). Oh yeah, and his pcmcia wireless card? It even asked me in the install if I wanted to use it as the primary network interface.
That's only one example, yeah, but I'd argue it's a border case, something really old and rather proprietary. On the other end I also installed Kubuntu 6.10 on my sister's new Acer laptop about a month ago (the upside of Vista: XP machines clearanced recklessly). Too bad 7.04 isn't out yet, it has a few little tidbits that would be nice with a laptop, but despite having previously been an exclusive Windows user my sister is quite satisfied. And nearly all I did was just install it, clicking next-next-next and etc (weirdly the Acer laptop had half the HDD partitioned to a blank Fat32, it's like it was deliberately set up for a Linux/Windows dual-boot). I've also installed on a friend's old Compaq, another friend's Dell, and the AMD64 release of Kubuntu 6.10 on my semi-brand-new AMD socket 939 X2 (on a SATA drive, and the chipset the motherboard uses was unsupportable by Linux until relatively recently). And so on and so on.
At no point have I ever had to add a single kernel parameter.
That includes my older computer where I started with 5.10 preview release, started fucking with things that I shouldn't have (in many ways moreso than ESR, and I certainly know a hell of a lot less than him, especially at the time) and bungled several upgrades, and still, still I never had to do anything at all with kernel parameters.
Parent, I cannot think of many reasonable explanations for your troubles with Ubuntu, especially since you make it sound like every computer you've seen won't work with Ubuntu without unholy invocations. Perhaps you are the unluckiest person in the world, yet only with Ubuntu?
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I think the point was that it hasn't been released for Linux. The support for the HL2 engine in Linux doesn't come from anywhere near Valve, and in a sense it's not that it's running on Linux, it's running on a compatibility layer . . . okay, quibbles, but if to run a program the Linux computer has to pretend to be running Windows then that's not really a win, eh? Does say something that such hostile software can be made to run so well on Linux though :)
I think instead of the HL and UT engines you mean UT-kinda and Carmack's engine; ET:QW is the game I play most these days, and it's so brilliant not to have to reboot into Windows to play a game! All the iD-related (ie. made by them or by close studios) also run on Linux, which is actually the reason why I ran/played Quake 4 (or, as I call it, the Single Player Game That Halo Should Have Been). The UT engine can entirely run on Linux, up to and including the latest version, but UT3 is being held back by licensing issues with an unnamed third-party piece of middleware so it isn't publically available; another example of where it's not even remotely technical issues holding up commercial applications from running on Linux, it's corporate and copyright issues.
I remember using OS X when it first came out and it was a NIGHTMARE, but that's another story. Point is though that 75% of the Mac users (and Apple fanboys in general; adopters from the last 4 years or so it's more like 95%) I have met are sheep. I work in a retail store as my part time job, and so many people buy iPods having no clue that there are any alternatives . . . I showed some guy a Zen Stone Plus the other day and he was blown away (and I'm no Creative fan, not by a long shot). I'd estimate of the rest, 5% are longtime Mac users that made the decision (or had it made for them, through work or whatnot) a long time ago, 4% would like to run something else but hate Microsoft and/or Windows and Linux hasn't worked out for them for whatever reason. The other 1% is you :)
Actually, instead of an MBR, Macs use Intel's EFI boot loader. Which is much, much harder to fix if things go wrong, and I'd suspect the bug in question here has something at least tangentally to do with that. Isn't progress grand?
Last I heard the OS itself was, at very least, not 100% 64 bit. I honestly could never get a straight answer how it fell, because they don't tend to talk about it much and so even my Mac-loving friends can't seem to quite explain it to me. Besides, the Core Duos were 32-bit; it was the Core 2 Duos that went back to 64-bit again, so none of the earlier Intel Macs have the EMT64 extentions. At least, that's as far as I can figure, and a quick check of wikipedia seems to confirm that. Although hey, mixing 32-bit and 64-bit probably makes the underlying system confusing and unpredictable enough from an invader's point of view that it might lead to more security ;) (trying to reply to you while staying on topic, heh).
Oh, cool, so you can use non-iPod DAPs with iTunes now? And other devices and software can talk with iTunes shares? And Macs can play FLAC and vorbis and
Not that I actually disagree with you that Microsoft is worse, or that Sony is the worst. But I could find a hell of a lot more examples if I actually tried, those are just the ones that bug me the most---along with, why has it taken them 'till 10.5 to get virtual desktops, and they're claiming that they're revolutionary when CDE and pretty much every other *nix environment has had them for ages? So they're finally relenting, yes, but they're being really obnoxious about it. I would not at all say that their NIH-era has ended, just simmered down significantly (I'll certainly grant you that), and yeah, of course they look innocent compared to Microsoft and Sony but that ain't sayin' much!
I had my doubts, but now that I've looked at Apple's entirely unbiased official site I'm convinced!
Seriously, do your research first. Safari kindof cheats (and by kindof, I mean majorly) with onload, see this article for example. Quote, "Well, its results are almost certainly wrong, and it will appear a lot faster than it really is, if JavaScript is used to time it. The results are completely unreliable." The author suspects it wasn't intentional cheating, though. Regardless it's not as straightforward of an issue as Apple's PR department would like you to think.
(by the way, Konqueror launches far faster than Safari 3 claims to on that publicity site; is that Konqueror being quick, Windows being slow, 64-bit computing actually being an improvement, or the fact that they tested that on an iMac? I bet they used XP SP2 Home
Hmm, seeing as I choose neither the Microsoft-based evil or the Apple-based evil, if we're all choosing whichever evil suits us I guess mine is piracy? (Honestly what I tend to do is download music, then if I like it I go out and buy it in vinyl; some crazy-cool record companies are even offering free mp3 downloads with vinyl purchases, if one wants to do things entirely the "legit" way). But honestly I don't think you have to choose an evil that suits you . . . there are other choices out there besides evil! Don't act like people have to use the iTMS and the only small alternative is the Zune store or something.
(Personally my own caveat is that I like-to-the-point-of-need things in lossless, and hell, we have the storage nowadays so there's no excuse . . . much of my music is in FLAC, and it actually pains my ears to hear things from iTMS).
a more relevant analogy would be "you sound like a person who attaches the CPU fan with twist ties."
Which I did once.
Still solid as a rock to this day. Computer was crap so we didn't care, it was a few friends making a frankenstein setup from spare parts, but the fan's on tighter than one would expect and runs just fine.
The thing is, if you let all these overreactions run rampant people start being afraid for fear of falling under one of these reactions. Hell, even now people are saying "well hey, in these days," (ie. The Post 9-11 World (tm)), "we have to react differently, and we have to teach our kids not to be suspicious." One of the posts in TFA responds to this mentality with a quite excellent point.
It almost seems like the only way to win here is for the map to be public. Of course that's not going to help the kid's case. but honestly. If it was private they'd claim "see, training in secret!" If it's public then "encouraging kids to shoot around in schools!" I've just always thought, as nearly every second post today has mentioned, that the school kind of layout would make for perfect deathmatching, and hell, it would be a far less limited environment than most small-or-linear maps that modern games seem to be unable to move beyond.
So, please some one, get us this map. I'll host it myself at my university web space, if need be (feel free to e-mail me at philurichmarkiii at yahoo dot commerce if you have it and I'll post a journal then with a link to it on my web space).
Seriously, it's very cathartic to shake my fists in the air and curse the darkness, don't knock it. It's an old tale, having such a powerful implacable enemy stiffens the spirit of the protagonists. Makes for a much better tale, too. To go with the geeky reference, that's why Stargate worked so much better at the start of each enemy-era; once the antagonists get cut down to size it's not nearly as interesting as when the heroes face impossible odds.
Also, random loony people are loony. News at 11? Furthermore your attacks are entirely ad hominem, and many of them are vast generalizations. Two different faults: one, you equate all environmentalists; two, you act as if world problems that the U.N. didn't solve are somehow only the failure of the U.N. Hey, lets go with the zeitgeist and quote Wikipedia on the Rwandan genocide:
Point is that this was an international failure, and that aspect of the nature of the crisis and of the slow nature of the U.N. security council and its members to respond to anything not affecting their own countries. In no way does this preclude a scientific study commissioned by a U.N. body from being factually accurate!
But fine. Three successes? East Timor, ODA, anti-disease programs like their HIV/Aids or malaria fights (sure they haven't wiped them out, but they've done a lot of good where nearly no one was doing anything before). But enough of ad hominem. Debate the merits or shortcomings of the actual theories and tests, or are you afraid that you wouldn't be able to debunk them with the same ease with which you sully the reputation of those related tangentally to the researchers?
Personally this sounds like exactly what I've been looking for to get drivers that'll read my Ext3 partitions installed and loaded without all the Vista SDK nonsense required to get past the signing crap. If I'm scared of malware and virii, I'd use something by a company I trust and respect (Kaspersky is my personal favourite, especially since it's easy to exclude files/folders on the basis of "if you detect X here, ignore" so I can keep false positives or test samples or anonymail or etc), not Microsoft! From Microsoft I just want the bare OS, at most. The good things about Windows have always been programs that run ontop of it (EAC, Powertab, Nero, games), anything that restricts what can get installed is another reason for me to use something else.
Aha!
I had always wondered why the non-US ASUS sites were so good but the "actual"
Are you dissing Microsoft Bob?
Well I know what you said that wasn't the point, but still . . . people talk down about Bob too much. It was cool, dammit! Admittedly I was in middle school at the time, but still. I'm not sure I can think of any example of innovation more radical, shifting the paradigm from desktop to a house, seriously now the meeting where they came up with that must have been "man, I'm soooooo high right now . . . oh heyheyhey, you know what would be awesome? Say, like, instead of clicking on icons, programs and files were, like objects in a virtual house! Ohhhh man that'd be sweet."
Sad that the only thing to survive that was the damn dog. Most of the other avatars were cool and quirky, but no, no future for them.
Hmm. I think I'm going to re-download Bob, boot into Vista, and see if I can hack it into running . . . on that note, I wonder if WINE runs it? Damn, doesn't seem to work.
Or to sum this up on-topic, maybe a new MS Bob could be the killer app? Market as a UI for kids, mayhaps?
Not sure about all these other people noting problems, Konqueror on AMD64 (Kubuntu Edgy, haven't bothered with Feisty yet though I had an upgrade going on another computer to test if the beta is worth switching to yet). It just displays nothing. Hmm, let me see if other browsers complain more, I'll go through the rest of my browser list in alphabetical order:
- Heh, Amaya goes "Not enough memory" and runs away (ie. it shuts down entirely after you hit "okay")
- Iceweasel says the image cannot be displayed because it contains errors.
- Firefox, whether 32-bit or 64-bit, gives the same complaint as its logo-less brother.
- Wait, why do I have Iceweasel before Firefox in alphabetical order? Whatever.
- Lynx couldn't care less, naturally.
see here for a pretty good one, referencing the new NIN album in the process.
I was just over visiting one of my friends. She's still running a rickety old Win2k box, and contemplating buying a new computer . . . and probably installing Windows on it.
."
"But really, why Windows?" I asked.
"I don't get Linux!" she argued.
"Come on, for what you do you don't need to get the guts of it."
"True," she admitted, "but . . . won't things be all different? I need my browser, and GIMP, and . .
"Yeah, yeah," I said, "that's all Linux native. It'd be the same, just, yaknow, without Windows underneath."
"Oh," she said. "That wouldn't be bad at all."
But if it wasn't under the GPL then they wouldn't have the right to use it anyway. It doesn't take away any rights! It adds certain conditional rights, yes, but it doesn't remove any rights that you otherwise would have had. And also it isn't if you "in any way use" something written under GPL, otherwise for example the NVIDIA binary blobs would be breaking the GPL (go ahead and tell me that it isn't using GPL'd 'products' when I install the NVIDIA driver on my debian-based system!).
And honestly, what developer worth his or her salt doesn't understand the GPL enough to make an informed decision on this?
just a guy he knew. I'm not sure he disagrees with your assessment ;) It's a real problem, though; there are alot of stupid people out there, or at least people who have long since lost the ability to really think (the world tends to train it out of them).
Translation #1: Now that iPod monopolizes the digital music player market we no longer need the "loss leader" iTMS sales. iTMS has accomplished its mission of pumping up iPod sales. Now it can transition to a new role, perhaps even become a profit center.
Translation #2: "Europe" wants to force us to license fair play to others, lets start a FUD/PR campaign and "play the victim"; blame our product's lack of interoperability on the recording industry. It doesn't matter that we ask for something unrealistic, it makes us look like heroes, and give politicians an out after our lobbyists visit them. Exactly. The reality is that Steve Jobs is a relentless, pragmatic businessman; as I once read someone commenting, the fact that he does it in a way that people love him for it doesn't make him less of a pure businessman and marketer, it shows how good he is at it. So good that people can't bring themselves to believe it, and mod rather astute comments like Parent here as "Troll".
Ubuntu won't be installed on any computer near me unless it can be booted without a whole load of kernel parameters. Ubuntu quite frankly sucks. I hate to claim FUD, but I'm not sure what else this could be.
What are you trying to install, some pre-alpha release of 5.04 or something? Or by "computers" do you mean you're trying to install the i386 version on, like, an old iMac or a PS3? Seriously, I just installed Ubuntu on an ancient Toshiba laptop (didn't even have an ethernet adapter) and the ancient 5.04 that the laptop's owner had installed himself even worked decently. I hate 5.04 (and it wasn't working with his pcmcia Wireless-G card, wouldn't even detect that it was there) so that's when I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu . . . and 6.10 worked flawlessly. Well, flawlessly but really really damn slow
That's only one example, yeah, but I'd argue it's a border case, something really old and rather proprietary. On the other end I also installed Kubuntu 6.10 on my sister's new Acer laptop about a month ago (the upside of Vista: XP machines clearanced recklessly). Too bad 7.04 isn't out yet, it has a few little tidbits that would be nice with a laptop, but despite having previously been an exclusive Windows user my sister is quite satisfied. And nearly all I did was just install it, clicking next-next-next and etc (weirdly the Acer laptop had half the HDD partitioned to a blank Fat32, it's like it was deliberately set up for a Linux/Windows dual-boot). I've also installed on a friend's old Compaq, another friend's Dell, and the AMD64 release of Kubuntu 6.10 on my semi-brand-new AMD socket 939 X2 (on a SATA drive, and the chipset the motherboard uses was unsupportable by Linux until relatively recently). And so on and so on.
At no point have I ever had to add a single kernel parameter.
That includes my older computer where I started with 5.10 preview release, started fucking with things that I shouldn't have (in many ways moreso than ESR, and I certainly know a hell of a lot less than him, especially at the time) and bungled several upgrades, and still, still I never had to do anything at all with kernel parameters.
Parent, I cannot think of many reasonable explanations for your troubles with Ubuntu, especially since you make it sound like every computer you've seen won't work with Ubuntu without unholy invocations. Perhaps you are the unluckiest person in the world, yet only with Ubuntu?