i.e. email. It makes sense to what? Integrate email functionality with email cients and browsers? That makes no sense whatsoever. Email clients and browsers should already possess such functionality. And scheduling meetings isn't a very difficult task. I personally choose not to do such horrible things to my coworkers, but sometimes companies want productivity. Heh, your guess is as good as mine there. Did you know that a productive TEAM can cooporate without the need for meetings and still keep members informed through the use of email and mailing lists?
No, its called galeon, and you must learn how to install it. Go grab the mozilla source and start an mget of the gnome distro. You'll be here for a while.:)
But Seriously, Galeon kicks ass over IE or any other browser, in my opinion. At least the price is right and the performace quite acceptable and unlike most the competing products it was design around one thing, web browsing. Distributions will start including it in their next release, I'm sure. And Galeon, along with Evolution and open office, complete the requirements for a fully functional desktop suite for newbies. The rest of us already knew they had a fully functional suite built in, vi as your IDE, word processor, spreadsheet, and multipurpose tool, tex for the pros, emacs for the masochists, and lynx/elm/pine for everything web related. No GUI required.:)
Oh, and you can't ever forget the GIMP!!! Best image manipulation tool EVER!!!
Here's the solution as you see it. Take away all the options and force everyone to use your dumbed down desktop that looks and acts likes windows. Though you did have a good point about unique applications, but I believe if you search freashmeat a little more you'll find plenty. It is true that XFree86 is big and slightly difficult to configure, for a newbie, but that's why a lot of distributions are including automated configuration tools that are getting better and better. Plus XFree is not slow, its actually the best implementation of the X protocol to date. And that gives users options, such as the ability to execute their GUI apps remotely. But let's face it, Linux is an anarchist's OS, and you don't appear to be an anarchist from your post. Perhaps Windows or OSX would be a better OS for you?
I personally don't want more than.25% of the population using Linux. Linux is my OS, and it also belongs to a few of my friends. But Joe American is an ignorant moron when it comes to computers or any type of technology or anything else. I would prefer to keep them as far away from my desktop as possible. Heh, here I'm writing this on a wintendoze box. But as you can see I know how to make software work for me, not the other way around. That is why I'm one of the select.25%, not the sheepish 99.75%. I guess you could say we're the top.25% of the technological foodchain. Most people don't want to understand their hardware, let alone their software. GNU, baby, yeah!
I see, you're right. The GUI is definitely better than the command line. And BeOS/OSX kick ass over Linux/UNIX because they are newer and were designed around a GUI, not a stupid CLI. And you can almost do everything you can in a CLI in the OSX GUI! And if you disagree you are WRONG, wrong, wrong, wrong. Because the GUI is better. So there.
As soon as you can show me a GUI that can tar pipe important data from a broken unbootable system with much disk corruption you'll have me hooked. Death to all who apropos us!
I believe what the parent post was talking about was more than just the CLI, such as Terminal for OSX. Terminal is a fine app as is the shell that runs underneath, but the importance of the command line interface is not its shell. Your filesystem is composed of many paths including libraries, binaries and various apps that help you script (to script is to write out multiple commands into a single executable file). These scripts you create can be combined with pipes and sockets and allowed to communicate in various ways. When combined into a network of scripts they perform the task of automation. Automation is what makes the command line faster, simpler and easier to use than the GUI. Automation is what computers are all about. Automation is simply telling the computer to do all the work for you, since it already knows what it needs to do. (You've set that up before hand in some small config file or something somewhere, ie. unimportant details!)
But it has a drawback. The CLI requires its users to be openminded and capable of learning new things all the time, because it is everchanging. On the command line your user account is like a universe in itself. Everytime you change users you can potentially be changing universes, where your paths, commands and shells are completely different. Everytime you login to a new system or logout of a system your universe changes. You need to be quick and nimble to fully comprehend your situation as the virtual world around you (in your head) constantly changes. The advantage of this, however, is that you will become closer to your computer, better to understand how it feels and what its doing. And perhaps when you are ready... But, for right now, the GUI is fun and easy. Go have fun.:)
No, this is all way too complex. We must reduce things to the point where people need to be the operators again. In a world where everyone was forced to be a computer operator if they wanted to be a computer users then they'd reallize that the process they want to operate needs to access the filesystem and possibly some of their personal files. So instead of dumbing down the desktop GUI further, let's get rid of it altogether as well as the OS. Hell, who really needs a kernel to run all those processes and access all those files behind our backs. How could anyone keep up with a system running millions of operations a second? We should slow down the CPUs as well so computers can only type as fast as we can read. Oh, oh, oh, I got it! Give them all a Commodore 64. No OS, no FS, no GUI. That's it! Now they can really learn how computers work!
Features besides email in an email client? I think the features they are talking about are things like calendar support, etc. I don't see why they are so important for an organization, however, since I've always thought that your mail client should be your mail client, not your toaster or PDA. Similar to web clients it seems the M$ world has everything backwards. Not only do they think your browser should be your OS, they think your mail client should serve you coffee and that must be supported by your mail servers as well.
Well, I for one, have used some betas of evolution, and from what I can tell it handles email better than any client I've used before including outlook. So why bother with all those extra features you don't need to get hooked on and start implementing a corporate PDA system alongside your stable working email network. This is why we learned to network in the first place, isn't it?
Oh, well, that's different. If my government wants to cleans humanity then I'm all for that. And here I just thought they wanted to enslave the population of the planet in some globalization of corporate powers and trade. Either way at least I'm in the country with the biggest guns. We have become so efficient at killing people there is no way you can stop us. And if we cleans humanity by killing all the people that disagree with us, then everyone will agree, and thus be happy.:)
No, but seriously, when I think about it I can't honestly remember when this country was ever free. When I was a kid I remember my friends having their money or personal property taken away from them for walking across the street. I don't know what freedom is, but if you can't walk across the street without breaking a law I think you've got a long way to go. That's why I don't understand all this propoganda today. Our government filled my head with all this freedom and patriotic crap when I was in school. And now it has the audacity to tell me that fighting terrorism is preserving the freedoms I still lack. The freedoms my government still keeps from me!?!
When I think of the flag (other than those cheap plastic ones people hang off thier cars) I think about freedom from tyrany and oppression, I think about the 4th of july, about cannons and guns and the men that died fighting for our constitution. The very constitution my government now finds inconvenient in their War on . And it makes me sick to see all those flags flying today. Normally when I look at the flag I feel patriotic. I'm one of the men that's willing to give his life for the freedom I'm still fighting for, without hesitation. I'm also willing to kill for it. But when I see a flag today I don't feel patriotic. I hate you and everything you stand for, for making me look at my flag in this wartime context.
Its a sad day for this American. I wish a country existed that cared more about its people!=consumers and education/Freedom of Information than money. If there is one and you're looking for sys admins, programmers, network engineers or people willing to work for free for the common good, I'm ready to move.
-Caleb
P.S. I wish I could fix this great nation, but I honestly don't think its possible to repair it. How can you explain love (peace and understanding) and technology to a nation of devout ignorants who thrive on sex, violence and destruction?
These computers would be excellent for computing out answers to problems using genetic programming. When you write programs that modify themselves you want to create random subroutines and expect things like deformity caused by rf or in this case a natural.2% error. It wouldn't matter as long as the system could spit out the answer to the question.
And for other applications this technology can easily be checked for errors with common methods. Lets face it computer engineers have been dealing with error correction for decades now. They won't have any problem fixing a mere.2% chance of error. How accurate do you think your CD-ROMs are? I would be amazed if any of mine had less than.2% errors that were fixed by the hardware ecc.
Then I have to ask you. Do you think choosing President Bush was an informed political decision for the people who voted for him? When was the last time the public made an informed political decision?
I think the equation you are looking for is the force of gravity F is equal to the gravitational constant G multiplied by the mass of both objects m1 and m2 over the square of the distance between them r. This is also equal to the mass times its acceleration, and its acceleration is the acceleration acting on it due to gravity. F=Gm1m2/r^2=m2a
I have to go configure a couple unix systems so go look up G in your local physics book and calculate out a for a 100kg object sitting at sea level. It should equal about 9.8m/s^2. Also calculate out a for an object at 50 miles above sea level. It should be less.:)
Transmeta still has time to open their code morphing technology and let the open source community hack everything that will be needed to allow their chip to run OSX, HPUX, IRIX and Solaris natively. If Transmeta wanted to beat any other chip maker at their own game they had a limitted chance, similar to how java had a chance at beating any other web browser. It is an abstracted idea capable of running on anything. Transmeta CPUs are an abstracted instruction set capable of running any other software if the proper bridges are built into the code morhping software. Unfortunately transmeta holds the key to their toolshed that houses the materials required to build those bridges. They have a few thousand people willing to help them for free but won't give up that key.
Ah well, I don't care. I just hope they take their freakin IP with 'em.:)
I always thought the point of open source software and linux and the GPL was to have options with variety and purpose and individuality. Linux is capable of running both a DirectFB and XFree86 server on your computer at the same time. X still offers older systems the portability and compatibility with modern hardware while DirectFB seems to be a more simplified way of doing accelerated graphics. This is awesome! Apps will be ported, you will have more choices and perhaps better performance, stability, security, portability and compatibility because of it. I love freedom:)
I work in helpdesk and currently support every flavor of unix on a best effort basis. And we are a M$ shop. If any user wants their spell checker to work on linux I would be willing to search the available spell checkers on linux and report to the users with options or possibly a solution to fix their current system. Since linux is open source you can go in and change a specific app, upgrade it, etc. without the need to reinstall the whole freakin' OS. In my opinion corporations needs to hire more competent helpdesk people and have their users use computers to do their job, not the other way around.
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Look at how far the distros have come in the last 12 months. They aren't perfect yet, but they've definitely made improvement.
I just wanted to comment once more on Postal. If they don't need to write much code to port that game, and it looks like it should be pretty easy to port/write, then Loki could have it out the door and potential revenue from sales real soon. Plus Postal should be easy to customize for individual contributors like myself. But y'know the best thing about Loki games? They don't require you to go to your closet and dig out your CD to play the game. You can install them somewhere on your 100+GB harddrive and play them whenever you feel like it. Imagine having a game arcade filled with all the modern and classic games you could ever want, sitting on your harddrive waiting for you. That's linux in a nutshell! And I would repurchase postal just to have it sitting on my harddrive for those days when I really need to toss malitav cocktails into marching bands. I've been getting those a lot lately. Can't wait for carmageddon 2 or black and white to be ported. I love Loki!
You, my friend, are my personal hero for the day. Thank you!:)
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There's something just plain sick and wrong about Linux users
God I love that quote, don't you? Yes, there is something sick and wrong with linux users. Just like there's a lot sick and wrong with TV watchers and the popular media/news. Specially when Time magazine is willing to print full color pictures of real people dying. All in the name of terrorism. At least fictional characters in games like Postal will allow me to take my frustration with my government and people out on my computer keyboard and a few burning pixels. And perhaps if we directed our general disgust with gore towards the media and entertainment industry during a time like this we wouldn't be so sick and wrong.
But you know what I think? Do you really want to know? I think Americans actually like the gore. I think they enjoy the entertainment of watching death and destruction, even if it is real, on TV. Then why am I so sick and wrong for being entertained by it in a virtual setting? At least I'm no hypocrite about it. I admit it. I'm sick and wrong.
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4. Postal has an interresting engine that runs on pentium 166, meaning it's worthless. Nobody ever re-used that crap. Or somebody did and he's an idiot.
Well, unix was originally designed back in the '70s and Linux runs on 386s. Does that mean they are worthless? The value in a game or any piece of software is what is does for the user, not does it require the latest hardware to run. Postal is a fun game to play for my sadisticly twisted mind. You may not be so sadistic, and that's good. But it doesn't make Postal any less fun for me. Oh, and you can get the G450 to work with tribes 2 if you grab the latest CVS snapshot of XF86 4.1.0. They added a patch to fix some problems with tribes 2 as posted on www.linuxgames.com a couple months ago.
Oh now stop it. You care about games and linux. You're just frustrated because its taking so long for everything to work right. Have faith, we'll get it to install and configure itself correctly and eventually be much better than windows. Although I doubt you'll ever be able to run the cutting edge M$ games or graphics apps, but who really needs those anyway. We have 3D audio and video and Gigs of games to take the edge off when we've been working those long hard hours. Linux is there, just give the distros 6 months, they'll figure it out.
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I couldn't agree with you more. Linux IS ready for the gaming market. Currently many distributions are adding the finishing touches to configure 3D graphics correctly. However with XFree86 4.0, DRI and Mesa are integrated into the X window system, making it nearly as easy as windows to configure. You have to edit a text file,/etc/X11/XF86config-4, preferrably with vi, but it isn't as hard as you think and soon there will be GUI configuration tools to do all the work for you.
Linux isn't targetted at the mainstream gaming market. It doesn't need to be. It has support for the latest graphics hardware and all the free libraries and tools you need to build your own games.
My favorite things about Linux gaming are you don't have to deal with all that copyright bullshit and 99.9% of the time your game will run stably and NOT take out your OS if it decides to crash. What I meant about the copyright stuff is all the games I've purchased from Loki don't require you to insert the CD to play the game, as long as you do a full install. They don't even require you to grab an illegal patch off the net or anything. They run directly off your harddrive. Even Tribes 2 or UT do this. My CDRW will last at least twice as long if I only have to use it for installs and burns instead of reading constantly whenever I play my games. That alone is worth the wait. I guess I'll just have to suffer and play Quake 3, UT, Tribes 2, Postal, Alpha Centauri, Descent 3, Heretic, Rune, Civ 3, Deus X, etc. until Linux is finally recognised as a gaming platform.
A webpad running crusoe that is only a year (2 generations) behind the current technology. Transmeta has more than exceeded my expectation. Heh, I never thought that company would get off the ground without openning their code morphing tech. Maybe in a few years they'll come out with a webpad that meets my requirements: minimum 1024x768 res, 128+ ram, 10+ GB HD, built in 802.11b or faster wireless, 100Mb ethernet, pcmcia, 1" thick, and preferable 3d accel. gfx. In fact the aquapad would meet my requirements if they had a better display and built in wireless/ethernet. Afterall that is what a webpad is about, isn't it?
Who said anything about trading? I seriously doubt our current administration is going to give the public much of a choice when it comes to our personal liberties and freedoms. If a law can not be passed because it infringes on too many rights then they'll rewrite it so it doesn't sound like it infringes quite as much or so it doesn't infringe for quite as long. Then I'm sure in a few months they'll write another and another and another. How many laws already trample over freedom? How many more does it take before the people do anything about it? Want an answer? Really? Let's just call it infinite ignorance. The american public are passionate idiots. Make no mistake, they will not do anything to protect their freedom, so long as they have their TV. Mmmmm, I love my TV. Don't you?!?
And the DMCA wasn't dumb. It was risible, it might be struck down yet, but it's on the books, and it's hurting real people right now.
The DMCA also gives the public additional powers. People can encrypt their data and be relatively secure from corporations decrypting it or commenting on the content legally, since anyone can sue anyone for decrypted content that was encrypted for the purpose of protecting copyright. Furthermore most citizens can obtain a business license fairly cheaply, which might give them additional leverage to send the government's attack dogs after anyone that is suspected of infringing on this law. Although I doubt the FBI would arrest a member of the RIAA on a simple rumor of infringement from a small business, like they did with Dmitry, but its about time we started hitting them over the head with the very laws they use to hurt us. Encrypt EVERYTHING and copyright EVERYTHING from now on!
(c) Copyright 2001 by Caleb Mulford. All rights reserved!
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another . . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
By selling unencrypted cds the RIAA and its affiliates are assisting, with knowledge of infringing activity, the infringing conduct of another. They know people are ripping mp3s from their cds but they continue to sell unencrypted, insecure content to the public, fully aware of the consequences. They are assisting in this highly illegal activity and they need to be stopped! Let's sue 'em.
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We should initiate the draft and send over hundreds of thousands of american troops to conquer the Talibon and bin Laden. Who cares if a few thousands Americans die? We have to fight and die for those thousands of poor innocent victims that died when the Talibon and bin Laden declared war on us through terrorist acts. We should also kill everyone in Iraq, too, cuz they suck! Oh, and maybe pakistan and egypt if they don't help us seek our revenge. I'm with you, man. Give me a gun and a bag of weed and I'll be right there by your side killing all the helpless women and children I can. Hell, maybe we can even set off a few nukes. We'll call it a BBQ.;)
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i.e. email. It makes sense to what? Integrate email functionality with email cients and browsers? That makes no sense whatsoever. Email clients and browsers should already possess such functionality. And scheduling meetings isn't a very difficult task. I personally choose not to do such horrible things to my coworkers, but sometimes companies want productivity. Heh, your guess is as good as mine there. Did you know that a productive TEAM can cooporate without the need for meetings and still keep members informed through the use of email and mailing lists?
No, its called galeon, and you must learn how to install it. Go grab the mozilla source and start an mget of the gnome distro. You'll be here for a while.
But Seriously, Galeon kicks ass over IE or any other browser, in my opinion. At least the price is right and the performace quite acceptable and unlike most the competing products it was design around one thing, web browsing. Distributions will start including it in their next release, I'm sure. And Galeon, along with Evolution and open office, complete the requirements for a fully functional desktop suite for newbies. The rest of us already knew they had a fully functional suite built in, vi as your IDE, word processor, spreadsheet, and multipurpose tool, tex for the pros, emacs for the masochists, and lynx/elm/pine for everything web related. No GUI required.
Oh, and you can't ever forget the GIMP!!! Best image manipulation tool EVER!!!
Here's the solution as you see it. Take away all the options and force everyone to use your dumbed down desktop that looks and acts likes windows. Though you did have a good point about unique applications, but I believe if you search freashmeat a little more you'll find plenty. It is true that XFree86 is big and slightly difficult to configure, for a newbie, but that's why a lot of distributions are including automated configuration tools that are getting better and better. Plus XFree is not slow, its actually the best implementation of the X protocol to date. And that gives users options, such as the ability to execute their GUI apps remotely. But let's face it, Linux is an anarchist's OS, and you don't appear to be an anarchist from your post. Perhaps Windows or OSX would be a better OS for you? .25% of the population using Linux. Linux is my OS, and it also belongs to a few of my friends. But Joe American is an ignorant moron when it comes to computers or any type of technology or anything else. I would prefer to keep them as far away from my desktop as possible. Heh, here I'm writing this on a wintendoze box. But as you can see I know how to make software work for me, not the other way around. That is why I'm one of the select .25%, not the sheepish 99.75%. I guess you could say we're the top .25% of the technological foodchain. Most people don't want to understand their hardware, let alone their software. GNU, baby, yeah!
I personally don't want more than
I see, you're right. The GUI is definitely better than the command line. And BeOS/OSX kick ass over Linux/UNIX because they are newer and were designed around a GUI, not a stupid CLI. And you can almost do everything you can in a CLI in the OSX GUI! And if you disagree you are WRONG, wrong, wrong, wrong. Because the GUI is better. So there.
As soon as you can show me a GUI that can tar pipe important data from a broken unbootable system with much disk corruption you'll have me hooked. Death to all who apropos us!
I believe what the parent post was talking about was more than just the CLI, such as Terminal for OSX. Terminal is a fine app as is the shell that runs underneath, but the importance of the command line interface is not its shell. Your filesystem is composed of many paths including libraries, binaries and various apps that help you script (to script is to write out multiple commands into a single executable file). These scripts you create can be combined with pipes and sockets and allowed to communicate in various ways. When combined into a network of scripts they perform the task of automation. Automation is what makes the command line faster, simpler and easier to use than the GUI. Automation is what computers are all about. Automation is simply telling the computer to do all the work for you, since it already knows what it needs to do. (You've set that up before hand in some small config file or something somewhere, ie. unimportant details!)
But it has a drawback. The CLI requires its users to be openminded and capable of learning new things all the time, because it is everchanging. On the command line your user account is like a universe in itself. Everytime you change users you can potentially be changing universes, where your paths, commands and shells are completely different. Everytime you login to a new system or logout of a system your universe changes. You need to be quick and nimble to fully comprehend your situation as the virtual world around you (in your head) constantly changes. The advantage of this, however, is that you will become closer to your computer, better to understand how it feels and what its doing. And perhaps when you are ready... But, for right now, the GUI is fun and easy. Go have fun.
No, this is all way too complex. We must reduce things to the point where people need to be the operators again. In a world where everyone was forced to be a computer operator if they wanted to be a computer users then they'd reallize that the process they want to operate needs to access the filesystem and possibly some of their personal files. So instead of dumbing down the desktop GUI further, let's get rid of it altogether as well as the OS. Hell, who really needs a kernel to run all those processes and access all those files behind our backs. How could anyone keep up with a system running millions of operations a second? We should slow down the CPUs as well so computers can only type as fast as we can read. Oh, oh, oh, I got it! Give them all a Commodore 64. No OS, no FS, no GUI. That's it! Now they can really learn how computers work!
Ready.
Features besides email in an email client? I think the features they are talking about are things like calendar support, etc. I don't see why they are so important for an organization, however, since I've always thought that your mail client should be your mail client, not your toaster or PDA. Similar to web clients it seems the M$ world has everything backwards. Not only do they think your browser should be your OS, they think your mail client should serve you coffee and that must be supported by your mail servers as well.
Well, I for one, have used some betas of evolution, and from what I can tell it handles email better than any client I've used before including outlook. So why bother with all those extra features you don't need to get hooked on and start implementing a corporate PDA system alongside your stable working email network. This is why we learned to network in the first place, isn't it?
Oh, well, that's different. If my government wants to cleans humanity then I'm all for that. And here I just thought they wanted to enslave the population of the planet in some globalization of corporate powers and trade. Either way at least I'm in the country with the biggest guns. We have become so efficient at killing people there is no way you can stop us. And if we cleans humanity by killing all the people that disagree with us, then everyone will agree, and thus be happy. :)
Oh, no, I'm not being sarcastic. I'm an American.
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To party!
No, but seriously, when I think about it I can't honestly remember when this country was ever free. When I was a kid I remember my friends having their money or personal property taken away from them for walking across the street. I don't know what freedom is, but if you can't walk across the street without breaking a law I think you've got a long way to go. That's why I don't understand all this propoganda today. Our government filled my head with all this freedom and patriotic crap when I was in school. And now it has the audacity to tell me that fighting terrorism is preserving the freedoms I still lack. The freedoms my government still keeps from me!?!
When I think of the flag (other than those cheap plastic ones people hang off thier cars) I think about freedom from tyrany and oppression, I think about the 4th of july, about cannons and guns and the men that died fighting for our constitution. The very constitution my government now finds inconvenient in their War on . And it makes me sick to see all those flags flying today. Normally when I look at the flag I feel patriotic. I'm one of the men that's willing to give his life for the freedom I'm still fighting for, without hesitation. I'm also willing to kill for it. But when I see a flag today I don't feel patriotic. I hate you and everything you stand for, for making me look at my flag in this wartime context.
Its a sad day for this American. I wish a country existed that cared more about its people!=consumers and education/Freedom of Information than money. If there is one and you're looking for sys admins, programmers, network engineers or people willing to work for free for the common good, I'm ready to move.
-Caleb
P.S. I wish I could fix this great nation, but I honestly don't think its possible to repair it. How can you explain love (peace and understanding) and technology to a nation of devout ignorants who thrive on sex, violence and destruction?
These computers would be excellent for computing out answers to problems using genetic programming. When you write programs that modify themselves you want to create random subroutines and expect things like deformity caused by rf or in this case a natural
And for other applications this technology can easily be checked for errors with common methods. Lets face it computer engineers have been dealing with error correction for decades now. They won't have any problem fixing a mere
Then I have to ask you. Do you think choosing President Bush was an informed political decision for the people who voted for him? When was the last time the public made an informed political decision?
I think the equation you are looking for is the force of gravity F is equal to the gravitational constant G multiplied by the mass of both objects m1 and m2 over the square of the distance between them r. This is also equal to the mass times its acceleration, and its acceleration is the acceleration acting on it due to gravity. F=Gm1m2/r^2=m2a
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I have to go configure a couple unix systems so go look up G in your local physics book and calculate out a for a 100kg object sitting at sea level. It should equal about 9.8m/s^2. Also calculate out a for an object at 50 miles above sea level. It should be less.
Transmeta still has time to open their code morphing technology and let the open source community hack everything that will be needed to allow their chip to run OSX, HPUX, IRIX and Solaris natively. If Transmeta wanted to beat any other chip maker at their own game they had a limitted chance, similar to how java had a chance at beating any other web browser. It is an abstracted idea capable of running on anything. Transmeta CPUs are an abstracted instruction set capable of running any other software if the proper bridges are built into the code morhping software. Unfortunately transmeta holds the key to their toolshed that houses the materials required to build those bridges. They have a few thousand people willing to help them for free but won't give up that key.
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Ah well, I don't care. I just hope they take their freakin IP with 'em.
I always thought the point of open source software and linux and the GPL was to have options with variety and purpose and individuality. Linux is capable of running both a DirectFB and XFree86 server on your computer at the same time. X still offers older systems the portability and compatibility with modern hardware while DirectFB seems to be a more simplified way of doing accelerated graphics. This is awesome! Apps will be ported, you will have more choices and perhaps better performance, stability, security, portability and compatibility because of it. I love freedom
I work in helpdesk and currently support every flavor of unix on a best effort basis. And we are a M$ shop. If any user wants their spell checker to work on linux I would be willing to search the available spell checkers on linux and report to the users with options or possibly a solution to fix their current system. Since linux is open source you can go in and change a specific app, upgrade it, etc. without the need to reinstall the whole freakin' OS. In my opinion corporations needs to hire more competent helpdesk people and have their users use computers to do their job, not the other way around.
Look at how far the distros have come in the last 12 months. They aren't perfect yet, but they've definitely made improvement.
I just wanted to comment once more on Postal. If they don't need to write much code to port that game, and it looks like it should be pretty easy to port/write, then Loki could have it out the door and potential revenue from sales real soon. Plus Postal should be easy to customize for individual contributors like myself. But y'know the best thing about Loki games? They don't require you to go to your closet and dig out your CD to play the game. You can install them somewhere on your 100+GB harddrive and play them whenever you feel like it. Imagine having a game arcade filled with all the modern and classic games you could ever want, sitting on your harddrive waiting for you. That's linux in a nutshell! And I would repurchase postal just to have it sitting on my harddrive for those days when I really need to toss malitav cocktails into marching bands. I've been getting those a lot lately. Can't wait for carmageddon 2 or black and white to be ported. I love Loki!
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You, my friend, are my personal hero for the day. Thank you!
There's something just plain sick and wrong about Linux users
God I love that quote, don't you? Yes, there is something sick and wrong with linux users. Just like there's a lot sick and wrong with TV watchers and the popular media/news. Specially when Time magazine is willing to print full color pictures of real people dying. All in the name of terrorism. At least fictional characters in games like Postal will allow me to take my frustration with my government and people out on my computer keyboard and a few burning pixels. And perhaps if we directed our general disgust with gore towards the media and entertainment industry during a time like this we wouldn't be so sick and wrong.
But you know what I think? Do you really want to know? I think Americans actually like the gore. I think they enjoy the entertainment of watching death and destruction, even if it is real, on TV. Then why am I so sick and wrong for being entertained by it in a virtual setting? At least I'm no hypocrite about it. I admit it. I'm sick and wrong.
4. Postal has an interresting engine that runs on pentium 166, meaning it's worthless. Nobody ever re-used that crap. Or somebody did and he's an idiot.
Well, unix was originally designed back in the '70s and Linux runs on 386s. Does that mean they are worthless? The value in a game or any piece of software is what is does for the user, not does it require the latest hardware to run. Postal is a fun game to play for my sadisticly twisted mind. You may not be so sadistic, and that's good. But it doesn't make Postal any less fun for me. Oh, and you can get the G450 to work with tribes 2 if you grab the latest CVS snapshot of XF86 4.1.0. They added a patch to fix some problems with tribes 2 as posted on www.linuxgames.com a couple months ago.
Oh now stop it. You care about games and linux. You're just frustrated because its taking so long for everything to work right. Have faith, we'll get it to install and configure itself correctly and eventually be much better than windows. Although I doubt you'll ever be able to run the cutting edge M$ games or graphics apps, but who really needs those anyway. We have 3D audio and video and Gigs of games to take the edge off when we've been working those long hard hours. Linux is there, just give the distros 6 months, they'll figure it out.
I couldn't agree with you more. Linux IS ready for the gaming market. Currently many distributions are adding the finishing touches to configure 3D graphics correctly. However with XFree86 4.0, DRI and Mesa are integrated into the X window system, making it nearly as easy as windows to configure. You have to edit a text file,
Linux isn't targetted at the mainstream gaming market. It doesn't need to be. It has support for the latest graphics hardware and all the free libraries and tools you need to build your own games.
My favorite things about Linux gaming are you don't have to deal with all that copyright bullshit and 99.9% of the time your game will run stably and NOT take out your OS if it decides to crash. What I meant about the copyright stuff is all the games I've purchased from Loki don't require you to insert the CD to play the game, as long as you do a full install. They don't even require you to grab an illegal patch off the net or anything. They run directly off your harddrive. Even Tribes 2 or UT do this. My CDRW will last at least twice as long if I only have to use it for installs and burns instead of reading constantly whenever I play my games. That alone is worth the wait. I guess I'll just have to suffer and play Quake 3, UT, Tribes 2, Postal, Alpha Centauri, Descent 3, Heretic, Rune, Civ 3, Deus X, etc. until Linux is finally recognised as a gaming platform.
A webpad running crusoe that is only a year (2 generations) behind the current technology. Transmeta has more than exceeded my expectation. Heh, I never thought that company would get off the ground without openning their code morphing tech. Maybe in a few years they'll come out with a webpad that meets my requirements: minimum 1024x768 res, 128+ ram, 10+ GB HD, built in 802.11b or faster wireless, 100Mb ethernet, pcmcia, 1" thick, and preferable 3d accel. gfx. In fact the aquapad would meet my requirements if they had a better display and built in wireless/ethernet. Afterall that is what a webpad is about, isn't it?
think 'star trek'
I'm not willing to trade.
Who said anything about trading? I seriously doubt our current administration is going to give the public much of a choice when it comes to our personal liberties and freedoms. If a law can not be passed because it infringes on too many rights then they'll rewrite it so it doesn't sound like it infringes quite as much or so it doesn't infringe for quite as long. Then I'm sure in a few months they'll write another and another and another. How many laws already trample over freedom? How many more does it take before the people do anything about it? Want an answer? Really? Let's just call it infinite ignorance. The american public are passionate idiots. Make no mistake, they will not do anything to protect their freedom, so long as they have their TV. Mmmmm, I love my TV. Don't you?!?
And the DMCA wasn't dumb. It was risible, it might be struck down yet, but it's on the books, and it's hurting real people right now.
The DMCA also gives the public additional powers. People can encrypt their data and be relatively secure from corporations decrypting it or commenting on the content legally, since anyone can sue anyone for decrypted content that was encrypted for the purpose of protecting copyright. Furthermore most citizens can obtain a business license fairly cheaply, which might give them additional leverage to send the government's attack dogs after anyone that is suspected of infringing on this law. Although I doubt the FBI would arrest a member of the RIAA on a simple rumor of infringement from a small business, like they did with Dmitry, but its about time we started hitting them over the head with the very laws they use to hurt us. Encrypt EVERYTHING and copyright EVERYTHING from now on!
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By selling unencrypted cds the RIAA and its affiliates are assisting, with knowledge of infringing activity, the infringing conduct of another. They know people are ripping mp3s from their cds but they continue to sell unencrypted, insecure content to the public, fully aware of the consequences. They are assisting in this highly illegal activity and they need to be stopped! Let's sue 'em.
We should initiate the draft and send over hundreds of thousands of american troops to conquer the Talibon and bin Laden. Who cares if a few thousands Americans die? We have to fight and die for those thousands of poor innocent victims that died when the Talibon and bin Laden declared war on us through terrorist acts. We should also kill everyone in Iraq, too, cuz they suck! Oh, and maybe pakistan and egypt if they don't help us seek our revenge. I'm with you, man. Give me a gun and a bag of weed and I'll be right there by your side killing all the helpless women and children I can. Hell, maybe we can even set off a few nukes. We'll call it a BBQ.
Peace.