Care to state which VNs you consider the greatest? *Puts on weeaboo hat* Looking at the top list at vndb (http://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tagspoil-0;o=d;s=rating), the majority of the western audience predominantly considers the greatest titles to be those produced by big companies like Key and Nitro+ -- hardly a couple of kids in their basements. Higurashi and Umineko are doujin titles, but they were hardly slapped together over a summer holiday.
As far as western VNs go, the most popular is probably Katawa Shoujo, and that took literally years to make. And even as a finished product, it can hardly be considered even remotely in the same league as MLA or CrossChannel. Other western VNs made by a basement dwellers are invariably bad. It's also worth noting that doujin software tends to have more salability in Japan than indie software has had in the west until recently (though this seems to be changing for the better).
While I doubt the megatokyo vn is going be all that great, I can understand the need for financial support if it's going to have a hope of being anywhere half-decent. I chucked the guy my $10 and wish him well -- not because I am particularly hopeful of this specific title, but because I think it's nice that the medium gets some exposure apart from the lolcartoonporn kind.
Works fine on arch (yaourt -S steam), and I haven't heard anyone else complain. Just because valve packages steam for ubuntu, doesn't mean it doesn't work on other distros. It's unreasonable to expect valve to package its software specific to each and every distro, version and architecture. I don't know if your last comment was supposed to be funny, but repackaging hardly requires a software engineer.
While definitely cool project, I think there are better examples out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QcfZGDvHU8#t=16 also shows an auto tracking turret with portal voices. However in this case the tracking seems quick enough to be useful, and it actually hurts people. Add some white plastic, and you're pretty close to the "real" deal.
My grandparents are dead, so I can't really speak for them (insert bad bsd joke here), but I know my mother has no problems clicking on the wifi icon in ubuntu. Really, while wifi can be nuisance in some distributions, ubuntu has come a long way. Even a generic acer laptop which one of my neighbors uses, complete with a (reputedly horrible) broadcom wnic, worked out of the box on. While I'm sure there are still some black spots on the linux wifi map, you have to be pretty unlucky to get something which doesn't work out of the box on said distribution. And if you want to eliminate luck as a factor, you can spend five minutes extra the next time you buy a computer, and make sure you get one with atheros or intel chipsets.
While Apple hardware may be excellent, their macbook line is still overpriced by $3-400 compared to a similarly spec-ed Lenovo. This I believe, is the biggest rationale for not choosing apple. If you can get a similar or better non-Apple computer for less price than an Apple, why would you go with the Apple? Especially if all you do is play solitaire and flash games, which you can do on ubuntu just as well as on osx (easier according to my mother, as the dock confused her).
On a side note, as I'm sure some will suggest installing OSX on non-Apple PC's. When I recently installed 10.5.* on my T60, the wifi (iwl3945) refused to work. I don't think the drivers were ready. On the other hand, ubuntu immediately recognized the card and configured it; so I can only assume that the whole OSX "just works" experience only applies to Apple produced PC's.
I am the bone of my Mac
Silicon is my body, and electrons are my blood
I have written over a thousand lines
Unknown to -1
Nor known to 0
Have withstood pain to use many API
Yet those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray, unlimited xcode works
The reason you're seeing those packages with both kde and gnome vesions is probably because they're available (from upstream) with both qt and gtk frontends, and as such binaries of both are included in the distribution. Admittedly, this can be somewhat cumbersome, especially if you don't know which toolkit you prefer, but you are, regardless, able to use the less ideal version. Unfortunately, this is pretty hard to fix in a binary based distribution, so long as the users have a choice of using both gtk and qt software. One possible solution would be to have a preselected preference of toolkit, having the package manager automagically make the right choice of which version to install, hiding the other. Source based distributions, like gentoo, rather effortlessly solves this issue (much in the same way) by only compiling packages with a preset number of flags.
You won't see packages for the more minimalistic WM's like fluxbox, as they really are just that, window managers with minimal fluff. Occasionally they'll include a graphical settings utility, but these will be written with some other readily available toolkit. Even xfce, which is really a full-fledged DE, uses gtk, so for a xfce-based desktop, the gnome packages would be the "correct" choice. Also, qt and gtk aren't really the only popular toolkits; many people prefer wxwidgets or fltk, or for that matter plain old tk, as such you'll see programs with even more toolkits. Even weirder is perhaps evas (honestly I'm not sure if that's the name of the toolkit. It is of part of it as a whole, I believe, but I'm on shaky ground here. It's something starting with an e, anyway;) from enlightenment, which that entire wm/de hybrid (dr17, that is) is based around. Oh and that gnustep thing. But I digress. The point I was trying to make, is that you can use whatever mishmash of tk's together, and it won't break anything but the hearts of Digital Media Design majors.
Your point about abstracting DE details is, imo, right on spot though, but I'm not really sure a new API is the answer. Some kind of daemon figuring out what best theme/color/font to use for all tk's, or for that matter a unified config tool, seems easier, and if it worked, would work wonders with the whole "desktop experience". I'm running a fairly mixed setup myself (fluxbox, thunar, firefox, qgo, amarok, amule, etc), and the time spent getting amarok to have just the correct hue of gray is rather annoying. Not to mention the fact that I have to install the kde configuration program, which I don't want and which I don't have a need for, apart from to make amarok look like my gtk apps.
I usually turn my laptop off when I don't use it, so I can't comment on most of your points, however valid they seem. Still, your take on QT and GTK is wrong. So much in fact that I don't know whether you're trying to be funny or if it's just plain old lack of education. In case it's the latter; QT and GTK have always been able to co-exist side by side, you simply need to have the graphic libraries installed, just like you'd need to install GTK to install Gimp on Windows. If you doubt me, feel free to select k3b (a very neat QT burning app) from the package manager and install it. Pretty effortless, right?
The argument that "choice" is bad for linux is one of the sadder things I hear. Not because it says much about linux (or any other pieces of computer software, for that matter), but because it shows how much people resent the freedom they have, and wish it away. (Baaaw, etc.)
Probably not. The appeal with these fonts, as I understand it, is that they can be distributed along with the rest of the operating system. Corefonts have some slight copyright issues. From the licence:
Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.
Note in particular the "Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product." part.
While I can agree that flash-only sites are evil, you could always try the flash beta if you're desperate for the content. Works for me.
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>> But does it run linux?
No. It seems that many believed/hoped it would, since it uses the doom3 engine. However, apparently ``There just really isn't any big demand for it" - see this post in this thread. There isn't supposed to be a mac port either, so save your time if you're not a windows/xbox user.
I agree that SuSE's KDE stuff was pretty sleek. If I were you I'd have have a look at Kubuntu or Mandriva - both were pretty KDE-centric last time I checked them out.
Presuming you mean MacOSX, then yes;
Check out aMule & MLDonkey. They're both quite popular and multi-platform.
There's also the offical client/version that is also supposed to work on OSX, but I haven't tried it myself. Hope that's akin to what you were looking for.
The story, although concluding that the state of linux laptops in 2005 'is a lot better' than in 2004, says an awful lot of nice things about SuSE 9.1, in spite of it being an April 2004 distribution. And Linspire 4.5 is, according to distrowatch, from December 2003.
It would be nice if a 2005 test actually used the 2005 versions of the distros (eg. Linspire 5.0 and SuSE 9.3)
On another note, I do find it somewhat disappointing that Ubuntu was omitted from the test. I recently tried the LiveCD and it seemed very much laptop ready.
>>>TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads.
A norwegian channel, http://www.nrk.no/ (click on NRK NETT-TV, between the ads) , already does what this article advertizes, I belive.
- It allows for downloads of already-aired shows to the public, and for no cost too.
It should be noted, however, that NRK is a government ``owned" channel, and that one could say that this service is already paid for by our tax-money. Still - it can hardly belive that this is the only TV-channel to do such a thing.
Is this really such a new thing?
From the pics at the gnome site it look like they have included some cute window shadows equal to those found in OSX. Can anyone confirm that this indeed the case?
Also, are there any words on when this will hit unstable?
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Care to state which VNs you consider the greatest? *Puts on weeaboo hat* Looking at the top list at vndb (http://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tagspoil-0;o=d;s=rating), the majority of the western audience predominantly considers the greatest titles to be those produced by big companies like Key and Nitro+ -- hardly a couple of kids in their basements. Higurashi and Umineko are doujin titles, but they were hardly slapped together over a summer holiday.
As far as western VNs go, the most popular is probably Katawa Shoujo, and that took literally years to make. And even as a finished product, it can hardly be considered even remotely in the same league as MLA or CrossChannel. Other western VNs made by a basement dwellers are invariably bad. It's also worth noting that doujin software tends to have more salability in Japan than indie software has had in the west until recently (though this seems to be changing for the better).
While I doubt the megatokyo vn is going be all that great, I can understand the need for financial support if it's going to have a hope of being anywhere half-decent. I chucked the guy my $10 and wish him well -- not because I am particularly hopeful of this specific title, but because I think it's nice that the medium gets some exposure apart from the lolcartoonporn kind.
Works fine on arch (yaourt -S steam), and I haven't heard anyone else complain. Just because valve packages steam for ubuntu, doesn't mean it doesn't work on other distros. It's unreasonable to expect valve to package its software specific to each and every distro, version and architecture. I don't know if your last comment was supposed to be funny, but repackaging hardly requires a software engineer.
While definitely cool project, I think there are better examples out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QcfZGDvHU8#t=16 also shows an auto tracking turret with portal voices. However in this case the tracking seems quick enough to be useful, and it actually hurts people. Add some white plastic, and you're pretty close to the "real" deal.
According to intel it's about 0.04.
A divisible by two UID club would be better, surely.
My grandparents are dead, so I can't really speak for them (insert bad bsd joke here), but I know my mother has no problems clicking on the wifi icon in ubuntu. Really, while wifi can be nuisance in some distributions, ubuntu has come a long way. Even a generic acer laptop which one of my neighbors uses, complete with a (reputedly horrible) broadcom wnic, worked out of the box on. While I'm sure there are still some black spots on the linux wifi map, you have to be pretty unlucky to get something which doesn't work out of the box on said distribution. And if you want to eliminate luck as a factor, you can spend five minutes extra the next time you buy a computer, and make sure you get one with atheros or intel chipsets.
While Apple hardware may be excellent, their macbook line is still overpriced by $3-400 compared to a similarly spec-ed Lenovo. This I believe, is the biggest rationale for not choosing apple. If you can get a similar or better non-Apple computer for less price than an Apple, why would you go with the Apple? Especially if all you do is play solitaire and flash games, which you can do on ubuntu just as well as on osx (easier according to my mother, as the dock confused her).
On a side note, as I'm sure some will suggest installing OSX on non-Apple PC's. When I recently installed 10.5.* on my T60, the wifi (iwl3945) refused to work. I don't think the drivers were ready. On the other hand, ubuntu immediately recognized the card and configured it; so I can only assume that the whole OSX "just works" experience only applies to Apple produced PC's.
I am the bone of my Mac
Silicon is my body, and electrons are my blood
I have written over a thousand lines
Unknown to -1
Nor known to 0
Have withstood pain to use many API
Yet those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray, unlimited xcode works
The reason you're seeing those packages with both kde and gnome vesions is probably because they're available (from upstream) with both qt and gtk frontends, and as such binaries of both are included in the distribution. Admittedly, this can be somewhat cumbersome, especially if you don't know which toolkit you prefer, but you are, regardless, able to use the less ideal version. Unfortunately, this is pretty hard to fix in a binary based distribution, so long as the users have a choice of using both gtk and qt software. One possible solution would be to have a preselected preference of toolkit, having the package manager automagically make the right choice of which version to install, hiding the other. Source based distributions, like gentoo, rather effortlessly solves this issue (much in the same way) by only compiling packages with a preset number of flags.
;) from enlightenment, which that entire wm/de hybrid (dr17, that is) is based around. Oh and that gnustep thing. But I digress. The point I was trying to make, is that you can use whatever mishmash of tk's together, and it won't break anything but the hearts of Digital Media Design majors.
You won't see packages for the more minimalistic WM's like fluxbox, as they really are just that, window managers with minimal fluff. Occasionally they'll include a graphical settings utility, but these will be written with some other readily available toolkit. Even xfce, which is really a full-fledged DE, uses gtk, so for a xfce-based desktop, the gnome packages would be the "correct" choice. Also, qt and gtk aren't really the only popular toolkits; many people prefer wxwidgets or fltk, or for that matter plain old tk, as such you'll see programs with even more toolkits. Even weirder is perhaps evas (honestly I'm not sure if that's the name of the toolkit. It is of part of it as a whole, I believe, but I'm on shaky ground here. It's something starting with an e, anyway
Your point about abstracting DE details is, imo, right on spot though, but I'm not really sure a new API is the answer. Some kind of daemon figuring out what best theme/color/font to use for all tk's, or for that matter a unified config tool, seems easier, and if it worked, would work wonders with the whole "desktop experience". I'm running a fairly mixed setup myself (fluxbox, thunar, firefox, qgo, amarok, amule, etc), and the time spent getting amarok to have just the correct hue of gray is rather annoying. Not to mention the fact that I have to install the kde configuration program, which I don't want and which I don't have a need for, apart from to make amarok look like my gtk apps.
I usually turn my laptop off when I don't use it, so I can't comment on most of your points, however valid they seem. Still, your take on QT and GTK is wrong. So much in fact that I don't know whether you're trying to be funny or if it's just plain old lack of education. In case it's the latter; QT and GTK have always been able to co-exist side by side, you simply need to have the graphic libraries installed, just like you'd need to install GTK to install Gimp on Windows. If you doubt me, feel free to select k3b (a very neat QT burning app) from the package manager and install it. Pretty effortless, right?
The argument that "choice" is bad for linux is one of the sadder things I hear. Not because it says much about linux (or any other pieces of computer software, for that matter), but because it shows how much people resent the freedom they have, and wish it away. (Baaaw, etc.)
Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.
Note in particular the "Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product." part.
While I can agree that flash-only sites are evil, you could always try the flash beta if you're desperate for the content. Works for me.
>> But does it run linux?
No. It seems that many believed/hoped it would, since it uses the doom3 engine. However, apparently ``There just really isn't any big demand for it" - see this post in this thread.
There isn't supposed to be a mac port either, so save your time if you're not a windows/xbox user.
Linux-gamers have put up a review, if anyone are interested.
Doesn't seem too shabby.
I agree that SuSE's KDE stuff was pretty sleek.
If I were you I'd have have a look at Kubuntu or Mandriva - both were pretty KDE-centric last time I checked them out.
Presuming you mean MacOSX, then yes;
Check out aMule & MLDonkey. They're both quite popular and multi-platform.
There's also the offical client/version that is also supposed to work on OSX, but I haven't tried it myself.
Hope that's akin to what you were looking for.
The story, although concluding that the state of linux laptops in 2005 'is a lot better' than in 2004, says an awful lot of nice things about SuSE 9.1, in spite of it being an April 2004 distribution. And Linspire 4.5 is, according to distrowatch, from December 2003.
It would be nice if a 2005 test actually used the 2005 versions of the distros (eg. Linspire 5.0 and SuSE 9.3)
On another note, I do find it somewhat disappointing that Ubuntu was omitted from the test. I recently tried the LiveCD and it seemed very much laptop ready.
>>>TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads.
A norwegian channel, http://www.nrk.no/ (click on NRK NETT-TV, between the ads) , already does what this article advertizes, I belive.
- It allows for downloads of already-aired shows to the public, and for no cost too.
It should be noted, however, that NRK is a government ``owned" channel, and that one could say that this service is already paid for by our tax-money.
Still - it can hardly belive that this is the only TV-channel to do such a thing.
Is this really such a new thing?
The iPhone Shuffle!
Calls your friends (and maybe your boss) at random times, in random order. The new random order. Enjoy the uncertainty.
(Sorry, didn't RTFAS)
From the pics at the gnome site it look like they have included some cute window shadows equal to those found in OSX. Can anyone confirm that this indeed the case? Also, are there any words on when this will hit unstable?
One of the best features of v3 over v2 is IMHO the supportage of vanilla Debian packages. I totally *wrecked* my friend's fresh install of v2 by enabling sarge repositories in sources.list; however, on my mother's laptop (Yes, my mother runs linux.), with v3, everything works as it should. If I recall correctly, it even prompted me to enable vanilla repositories the first time I started ``Xandros Networks" (Outpimped version of Synaptic, I belive). Oh, yes, and did I mention that it actually recognized and configured all the software on the laptop(a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 7600K) automagically? Only knoppix/knoppix forks were able to do that before it. I would definitly recommend Xandros 3 to anyone who wants something that ``Just works, dammit!"©, but still like to have something Debianish - Be it if for their notebooks or Desktops.