Linux Much More Secure than Windows. see. Its true as-well , my job is to keep my server secure and operational and i can achive this with far greater efficency with unix type OSs such as solaris or linux. I admit alot of this is my experiance,which is mainly with solaris and linux , though i am fully qualified to run a windows server and have , i just honestly could not say i trusted the system as much.
This may be a biased opinion and i wont argue if you acuse me of being slightly against using windows() , once bitten twice shy and the ammount of times ive had patches from MS software bite back i have good reason for distrust. Linux is by no means perfect (this is why i still have solaris ) and is lacking in a few areas( far fewer than even just this time last year , and improving daily)However the only thing that microsoft currently has over linux(in my opinion) is the quantity of official drivers and software releases from various companys.
From the makers of "Free,as in costs money" we have "advatage, as in Same thing later". I have to ask which dictionary they are using.. Seriously i know marketing people are usualy full of crap , but normaly they try to avoid silly statments that are near out and out lies
Yes i think it will be a major boost for internet trolls. MY first thought was "Fad" then my second thought was "Goat shock trolls" , honestly i dont use the service but i hope it does not catch on as its so open to abuse its unreal.. i honestly cant think of a single good thing that can be achived by having this on a forum(weighed against the negatives that is)
Ive never played a bad game with good voice acting, Ive played plenty of good games with bad voice overs though. For a story driven RPG it can make or break the illusion , sure for alot of games its a silly stunt. The thing about gameplay is that you cant just throw money at it and make it hapen, it requires skill and time , however you can improve the audio by throwing cash at it
Same thing hapend with pong,pac-man and space invaiders . a hell of alot of the players then were mid 20s in the pubs and bars.The only diference now is that its more of a portable commodity ala a mobile phone
My laptop was 800 at the time the xbox was origionaly 400 and even then was sold at a loss , so my laptop cost 800 remove the screen , half the ram , and remove the markup im pretty sure it wouldnt of cost that much more than 400. If i look around nowadays i can be a celeron or p3 700mhz laptop for around 200 maybe 250.. which is i belive the current going rate for an xbox is it not
Compare the XBOX to a MacMini. I think you can see where im going with that. in essence the mini is a far more powerfull machine(except perhaps the graphics) Yet the xbox which whilst being a few years old i do admit , weight alot more than the mini and is a hell of alot louder..ok perhaps im not comparing oranges to oranges. but for example i do have a p3 laptop from around the same time , roughly the same specs as the xbox , yet its a fraction of the size , a fraction of the weight(that fraction probably being 1/4). I think we are on solid ground when we say that the origional xbox was poorly designed..
I admit the mini is perhaps a poor example , but the laptop is not
Honestly , being a member of the SAG does not make you a good actor.. The problem is that not nearly enough attention is paid/Budget funds budgeted to hiring actors,either that or they just hire anyone who offers.
Notable exceptions to this rule are the GTA games (after 2) and Planescape:torment. You can tell that real care care was done in the casting for most of the charichters(on the janitor note , i belive one of the DJS in GTA3 was the marketing manager for DMA,he was also one of the best actors in the game).
I have no real clue why such little care is paid in such an important area , but as i stated previously my main suspicions is the PHBs and the budget.
Not that i disagre with you totaly , but one thing. The "if you dont like it move somewhere else " Is a rather specious argument. It is his site , and yes he is free to take pay offs if he did , or as may be the case and it was an honest decision to remove it,then he is free to do that. However we as readers have a right to complain and to make it known that we dislike this decision and have strong suspicions about it. We as Readers complain because we enjoy a site and don't want to leave it.We would rather that the site does not go down a certain path as we are sure it will be bad for the long term development of a site,So we yell out and protest. In the end though there is nothing more we can do if the behaviour continues, then we leave and vote with our feet, Though first its always good to try and protest but you need to learn when your acting like Canute.
Totaly agree , the review did not deserve censorship , however i feel gamefaqs sponsers may disagree. The quality of Gamefaqs reader reviews has never been universaly great , some of them were just awfull whilst others were rather good, and i can honestly say that this review was amongst the better.So why did it get pulled..
1:) perhaps it was a mistake and the person misread it 2:) do sony have any Large ad campaigns on gamespot
We all know that games-sites(not naming any specific examples like gamespy or gamespot) are paid for reviews and are rather bias depending on the Running Ad-campaigns , its just sad to see that gamefaqs is going doing this path too.
I personaly like to read a few positive and a few negative reviews (some by fanbois and some by system haters also help to give me balanced view) as honestly you want to know both the good and the bad , if they start censoring like this then how am i ment to get a view of both sides
Gaming has always been somewhat cool , Since the days of the NES a "nintendo" has been a household name , They would get featured on TV programs and on anything else you could fit a famicon.The playstation ran with it and was the "Cool" system for the later part of the 90s, Sure 90% of the people had no clue what the hell a playstation was or what it did , but alot of people owned one and everyone knew the name , Playstation became synonymous wth Console.Later the rebranding to PSX notched it up another few cool factors , yet people still called it the playstation (or the nintendo).
So now we have the PSP and the DS , tell you what the PSP is going to get called a gameboy by most people as will the DS. Im sorry but Paris hilton is not a sign of something being cool...Can anyone tell me what the hell this woman has done(Being a rich slut does not make you cool).... My point being The PSP and DS are cool for the very same reasons that the Playstation , Snes, megadrive(Genisis in the US) , NES and Gameboy were cool. They are the cultural icons for the games industry , they are the hoovers of the gaming world, People will walk up to you and ask "OOOH is that a *PSP* can i see".Nothing new here just the same old fashion sheek that has been on the edge of gaming since the NES
Dont get me wrong , i am very much pro union in some situations, However the SAG is an example of why some unions are seen as abusive groups of organised criminals. A union is there for one reason , to protect the rights of the workers. Now this does not include boycotting a small company who hires non-union workers.. Fair enough to boycot the studio if it hires people during a strike but this is just silly. Perhaps back in the day the Screen actors guild was used to right a few wrongs(I have my doubts) but now all they do is keep the exclusive club going and try to hike up wages for the elite. (/Rant)
I currently can't try archie , though i intend to the minute a version is released for Mac,linux or BSD. Simple reason as to why its hard to use , well a two fold awnser 1: its alpha 2: its a completly new way of working and still well into development.
Its an experiment into the best user enviroment, It is not like the standerd Windowing GUI you are used to , nor is it that much like shell. EMACS is a good example and the closest thing to it i have used (remembering i have only read up on the interface not had a chance to use it yet). I as a computer user really look forward to learning a new interface or way of interacting with my computer and i for one am not entierly sold as of yet on Raskin's interface , But i will give it a fair try but please dont judge it from such an early version and please explain what you find awfull (in more detail)as the developers are probably reading this and the human interface devs are as i recall very open to suggestions about problems.
it is only cryptic i would say as you have only used it for a short while.
I have all the knowlidge i need to construct myself a mode of transportation similar to a car.. It wont be nice,it wont be pretty , and it wont work like its ment to... just because people have the Means and perhaps some of the knowlidge it does not mean they have the skills and it definantly does not mean its the best way to do it. We only dont need to reinvent the wheel because its round , however if it were octagonal or square then reinventing the wheel may have been a good step forward
Two points 1:) are you sugesting Britney spears or metalica(since "and justice")have a single good song on these albums;) 2:) meet the http://creativecommons.org/ , The Creative commons is your FSF for the Arts
Lawyers are a little like Knives. You can spread your bread with one or You can stab someone. In other words lawyers are total Tools Unfortunatly,unlike other Tools these Tools are in it for the money and where-as the knife more often that not is spreading the bread , the lawyer is more likely to be stabing someone for some cash,Metaphoricaly speaking..I think
The difrence is simple. I create a piece of music and release it.
Case 1: Joe Schmoo Downloads , sends it to a couple of freinds,This while not totaly upstanding is no big deal really and may make me some more sales as his freind hear it and go "hey this rocks , im off to buy the CD"
Case 2: Joe schmoo Downloads it , releases it as Joe Schmoo sings "piece of music" and makes money off it whilst not giving me credit.
Basicaly The people downloading the music are not making money off of my work and giving nothing in return, perhaps they will drum up some new sales for me (pirates who burn the CDs and then sell them deserve everything they have comming.) The GPL violator on the other hand is taking my honest hard work and selling it whilst giving nothing back. The GPL allows for comerical products based on the code , so-long as we abide by the rules of the copyleft and give back our changes.
The difrence is simply this,Profiting off others work and giving nothing back compared to not paying. Both are arguably wrong , but i would consider the prior far graver
I do not harbour any grudge against the Artists who want to sell music , I do however despise the tactics that the RIAA use in prosecuting innocent civilians , well i call them inocent as most of the cases are settled out of court as the people can't afford to defend them-selves so we shall never know. Being Pro GPL/anti RIAA does not mean we have to be anti-capitalists.
Couldnt agree more , I find myself subconsiously hitting my hotkeys for "show all open windows" on fluxbox ... on that note. Does anyone know an implementation of this for the FreeDesktop(honestly i dont care which,it is enough for me to switch to nearly any windows manager or desktop enviroment)
The way i hear the plot goes is Jon Romero (Rock) Raises his mighty sword above his head and screams "by the power of Grayskull ID have the power" and becomes ID man and forms the company. Later She-ra apears and they have a fight with skelator and the upshot is doom is released... Only now do i realise that HE-Man was masters of the universe not doom but still the similaritys are remarkable... Honestly though its a great Book but I do'nt see it working as a film,without a little artistic license.
The usefullness all depends on what your doing, If im at home and want to keep an eye on my stocks but not leave a browser window open or if im doing some accounting and want quick access to a caclulator that is easy to wip out and throw away. How about i would like to check my emails quickly and easily then that can eassily be accomidated too or perhaps a quick reference dictionary. What about a rather nice library reference tool(For C code or Objective C or etc) that could search a database depending on a word you have in the clipboard so you can see what a function or a class or blah is for without taking up perminant screen space Yes it is a toy , yes other things can do these tasks equally well but non of these things are normaly lumped together and wont function in the same fashion as dashboard. Honestly its one of these things you do not need till you use it,, then its a pain to do without.
Having seen some screenshots of Longhorn I really must say a resounding "Dear God No".. well actualy i would say "yes" they asked someone who was looking to bring MS down
Couldnt agree more , the last couple of years has seen a real upsurge in the eye candy linux has to offer(can't wait for Cairo) In my eyes the FreeDesktop world has long since surpassed windows in GUI gloss (although if you mix and match GTK/Motif/QT aps its hard to get a solid look and feel).
The only thing i find the freedesktop still cant hold a candle to (and this is just right now , as projects such as cairo are really showing promis) is OS X.Even if you dont like the GUI you can apreciate the wonderfull rendering and smoth near seamless design of cocoa .
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Linux Much More Secure than Windows . . . ,which is mainly with solaris and linux , though i am fully qualified to run a windows server and have , i just honestly could not say i trusted the system as much.
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Its true as-well , my job is to keep my server secure and operational and i can achive this with far greater efficency with unix type OSs such as solaris or linux
I admit alot of this is my experiance
This may be a biased opinion and i wont argue if you acuse me of being slightly against using windows() , once bitten twice shy and the ammount of times ive had patches from MS software bite back i have good reason for distrust.
Linux is by no means perfect (this is why i still have solaris ) and is lacking in a few areas( far fewer than even just this time last year , and improving daily)However the only thing that microsoft currently has over linux(in my opinion) is the quantity of official drivers and software releases from various companys.
From the makers of "Free ,as in costs money" we have "advatage, as in Same thing later". ..
I have to ask which dictionary they are using
Seriously i know marketing people are usualy full of crap , but normaly they try to avoid silly statments that are near out and out lies
Yes i think it will be a major boost for internet trolls. .. i honestly cant think of a single good thing that can be achived by having this on a forum(weighed against the negatives that is)
MY first thought was "Fad" then my second thought was "Goat shock trolls" , honestly i dont use the service but i hope it does not catch on as its so open to abuse its unreal
Ive never played a bad game with good voice acting, Ive played plenty of good games with bad voice overs though. .
For a story driven RPG it can make or break the illusion , sure for alot of games its a silly stunt
The thing about gameplay is that you cant just throw money at it and make it hapen, it requires skill and time , however you can improve the audio by throwing cash at it
Same thing hapend with pong ,pac-man and space invaiders . a hell of alot of the players then were mid 20s in the pubs and bars.The only diference now is that its more of a portable commodity ala a mobile phone
My laptop was 800 at the time the xbox was origionaly 400 and even then was sold at a loss , so my laptop cost 800 remove the screen , half the ram , and remove the markup im pretty sure it wouldnt of cost that much more than 400. .. which is i belive the current going rate for an xbox is it not
If i look around nowadays i can be a celeron or p3 700mhz laptop for around 200 maybe 250
as Calculon said "Im not familiar witht he type of thing im seing here".
hahah this is rather amusing if slightly insane
Compare the XBOX to a MacMini.
I think you can see where im going with that.
in essence the mini is a far more powerfull machine(except perhaps the graphics)
Yet the xbox which whilst being a few years old i do admit , weight alot more than the mini and is a hell of alot louder..ok perhaps im not comparing oranges to oranges. but for example i do have a p3 laptop from around the same time , roughly the same specs as the xbox , yet its a fraction of the size , a fraction of the weight(that fraction probably being 1/4).
I think we are on solid ground when we say that the origional xbox was poorly designed..
I admit the mini is perhaps a poor example , but the laptop is not
Honestly , being a member of the SAG does not make you a good actor .. /Budget funds budgeted to hiring actors ,either that or they just hire anyone who offers.
The problem is that not nearly enough attention is paid
Notable exceptions to this rule are the GTA games (after 2) and Planescape:torment.
You can tell that real care care was done in the casting for most of the charichters(on the janitor note , i belive one of the DJS in GTA3 was the marketing manager for DMA,he was also one of the best actors in the game).
I have no real clue why such little care is paid in such an important area , but as i stated previously my main suspicions is the PHBs and the budget.
Not that i disagre with you totaly , but one thing. ,then he is free to do that. .We would rather that the site does not go down a certain path as we are sure it will be bad for the long term development of a site ,So we yell out and protest.
The "if you dont like it move somewhere else " Is a rather specious argument.
It is his site , and yes he is free to take pay offs if he did , or as may be the case and it was an honest decision to remove it
However we as readers have a right to complain and to make it known that we dislike this decision and have strong suspicions about it.
We as Readers complain because we enjoy a site and don't want to leave it
In the end though there is nothing more we can do if the behaviour continues, then we leave and vote with our feet, Though first its always good to try and protest but you need to learn when your acting like Canute.
Totaly agree , the review did not deserve censorship , however i feel gamefaqs sponsers may disagree. .So why did it get pulled..
The quality of Gamefaqs reader reviews has never been universaly great , some of them were just awfull whilst others were rather good, and i can honestly say that this review was amongst the better
1:) perhaps it was a mistake and the person misread it
2:) do sony have any Large ad campaigns on gamespot
We all know that games-sites(not naming any specific examples like gamespy or gamespot) are paid for reviews and are rather bias depending on the Running Ad-campaigns , its just sad to see that gamefaqs is going doing this path too.
I personaly like to read a few positive and a few negative reviews (some by fanbois and some by system haters also help to give me balanced view) as honestly you want to know both the good and the bad , if they start censoring like this then how am i ment to get a view of both sides
Gaming has always been somewhat cool , Since the days of the NES a "nintendo" has been a household name , They would get featured on TV programs and on anything else you could fit a famicon.The playstation ran with it and was the "Cool" system for the later part of the 90s, Sure 90% of the people had no clue what the hell a playstation was or what it did , but alot of people owned one and everyone knew the name , Playstation became synonymous wth Console.Later the rebranding to PSX notched it up another few cool factors , yet people still called it the playstation (or the nintendo).
. ...Can anyone tell me what the hell this woman has done(Being a rich slut does not make you cool) ....
So now we have the PSP and the DS , tell you what the PSP is going to get called a gameboy by most people as will the DS
Im sorry but Paris hilton is not a sign of something being cool
My point being The PSP and DS are cool for the very same reasons that the Playstation , Snes, megadrive(Genisis in the US) , NES and Gameboy were cool.
They are the cultural icons for the games industry , they are the hoovers of the gaming world, People will walk up to you and ask "OOOH is that a *PSP* can i see".Nothing new here just the same old fashion sheek that has been on the edge of gaming since the NES
Dont get me wrong , i am very much pro union in some situations, However the SAG is an example of why some unions are seen as abusive groups of organised criminals. . .
A union is there for one reason , to protect the rights of the workers
Now this does not include boycotting a small company who hires non-union workers..
Fair enough to boycot the studio if it hires people during a strike but this is just silly.
Perhaps back in the day the Screen actors guild was used to right a few wrongs(I have my doubts) but now all they do is keep the exclusive club going and try to hike up wages for the elite
(/Rant)
I currently can't try archie , though i intend to the minute a version is released for Mac ,linux or BSD.
Simple reason as to why its hard to use , well a two fold awnser
1: its alpha
2: its a completly new way of working and still well into development.
Its an experiment into the best user enviroment, It is not like the standerd Windowing GUI you are used to , nor is it that much like shell.
EMACS is a good example and the closest thing to it i have used (remembering i have only read up on the interface not had a chance to use it yet).
I as a computer user really look forward to learning a new interface or way of interacting with my computer and i for one am not entierly sold as of yet on Raskin's interface , But i will give it a fair try but please dont judge it from such an early version and please explain what you find awfull (in more detail)as the developers are probably reading this and the human interface devs are as i recall very open to suggestions about problems.
it is only cryptic i would say as you have only used it for a short while.
I have all the knowlidge i need to construct myself a mode of transportation similar to a car .. It wont be nice ,it wont be pretty , and it wont work like its ment to ... just because people have the Means and perhaps some of the knowlidge it does not mean they have the skills and it definantly does not mean its the best way to do it.
We only dont need to reinvent the wheel because its round , however if it were octagonal or square then reinventing the wheel may have been a good step forward
Two points ;)
1:) are you sugesting Britney spears or metalica(since "and justice")have a single good song on these albums
2:) meet the http://creativecommons.org/ , The Creative commons is your FSF for the Arts
Lawyers are a little like Knives . . ,unlike other Tools these Tools are in it for the money and where-as the knife more often that not is spreading the bread , the lawyer is more likely to be stabing someone for some cash ,Metaphoricaly speaking..I think
You can spread your bread with one or You can stab someone
In other words lawyers are total Tools
Unfortunatly
The difrence is simple . .
,Profiting off others work and giving nothing back compared to not paying.
I create a piece of music and release it
Case 1: Joe Schmoo Downloads , sends it to a couple of freinds,This while not totaly upstanding is no big deal really and may make me some more sales as his freind hear it and go "hey this rocks , im off to buy the CD"
Case 2: Joe schmoo Downloads it , releases it as Joe Schmoo sings "piece of music"
and makes money off it whilst not giving me credit.
Basicaly The people downloading the music are not making money off of my work and giving nothing in return, perhaps they will drum up some new sales for me (pirates who burn the CDs and then sell them deserve everything they have comming.)
The GPL violator on the other hand is taking my honest hard work and selling it whilst giving nothing back.
The GPL allows for comerical products based on the code , so-long as we abide by the rules of the copyleft and give back our changes.
The difrence is simply this
Both are arguably wrong , but i would consider the prior far graver
I do not harbour any grudge against the Artists who want to sell music , I do however despise the tactics that the RIAA use in prosecuting innocent civilians , well i call them inocent as most of the cases are settled out of court as the people can't afford to defend them-selves so we shall never know . /anti RIAA does not mean we have to be anti-capitalists.
Being Pro GPL
Couldnt agree more , I find myself subconsiously hitting my hotkeys for "show all open windows" on fluxbox . .. on that note. ,it is enough for me to switch to nearly any windows manager or desktop enviroment)
Does anyone know an implementation of this for the FreeDesktop(honestly i dont care which
The way i hear the plot goes is Jon Romero (Rock) Raises his mighty sword above his head and screams "by the power of Grayskull ID have the power" and becomes ID man and forms the company. ,without a little artistic license.
Later She-ra apears and they have a fight with skelator and the upshot is doom is released...
Only now do i realise that HE-Man was masters of the universe not doom but still the similaritys are remarkable...
Honestly though its a great Book but I do'nt see it working as a film
The usefullness all depends on what your doing , ,, then its a pain to do without.
If im at home and want to keep an eye on my stocks but not leave a browser window open or if im doing some accounting and want quick access to a caclulator that is easy to wip out and throw away.
How about i would like to check my emails quickly and easily then that can eassily be accomidated too or perhaps a quick reference dictionary.
What about a rather nice library reference tool(For C code or Objective C or etc) that could search a database depending on a word you have in the clipboard so you can see what a function or a class or blah is for without taking up perminant screen space
Yes it is a toy , yes other things can do these tasks equally well but non of these things are normaly lumped together and wont function in the same fashion as dashboard. Honestly its one of these things you do not need till you use it
its always funny if your not on the reciving end ;)
Having seen some screenshots of Longhorn I really must say a resounding "Dear God No"..
well actualy i would say "yes" they asked someone who was looking to bring MS down
Couldnt agree more , the last couple of years has seen a real upsurge in the eye candy linux has to offer(can't wait for Cairo) In my eyes the FreeDesktop world has long since surpassed windows in GUI gloss (although if you mix and match GTK /Motif/QT aps its hard to get a solid look and feel) .
.Even if you dont like the GUI you can apreciate the wonderfull rendering and smoth near seamless design of cocoa .
The only thing i find the freedesktop still cant hold a candle to (and this is just right now , as projects such as cairo are really showing promis) is OS X