I've read articles that described it as two specs. I cut myself all the time on stupid stuff. I got blood on my shirt the other day because my puppy drew blood from my knuckle while playing.
No body, no witness, no murder weapon, nothing to suggest definitively she is dead.
There is reasonable doubt she may in fact be in Russia. She wouldn't likely abandon her kids, but her kids are in Russia as well.
In Omaha, they convicted a man without a body, but they had enough blood at the scene to prove that a person lost enough blood to die. After the conviction, he led the cops to the body.
Prey was less likely to ship than Duke Nukem Forever. No one knew they were even working on it, and there was less interest in the title. Part of the reason that Duke Nukem Forever is taking forever, is because they changed engines so many times. While working on Prey, they seemed to have settled on an engine, and were redoing art assets.
They did release a new teaser trailer, and they did confirm a 2008 release date, where as they were unwilling to state a release date before. I'm not sure they will make that window, but I feel pretty comfortable it will ship within 12 months. I said 18 to be somewhat on the safe side, but it will likely be less than 12.
The Force Unleashed is also coming to the Wii, from another developer, with a different engine, and no impressive physics effects. The game has the same name, but is it the same game?
That's like saying the GBA version of Madden 08 is the same is the PS3/360 version of Madden 08.
I was bored with The Sims in just a few hours. Why play something so mundane? Yet, last time I checked, it was the best selling PC game of all time, and it wasn't even close.
Spore seems like taking The Sims, and making both the gameplay and design process far less repetitive, and far more interesting. I'm not sure I'd ever have the same gameplay experience twice. Add-in internet play, and it does seem like a slam dunk.
Prey was vaporware and shipped. Mark my words, Duke Nukem Forever will ship within the next 18 months and we'll have to start joking about the Phantom instead.
The Linux Desktop is gaining in popularity, and is becoming mainstream. More and more countries are switching all schools and government desktops to Linux every day. Brazil is installing 52 million KDE desktops in their schools right now. WalMart and Dell will both sell you a Linux PC. If that isn't mainstream, I don't know what is. At best, Linux will likely never top 5-10% of the US Desktop market, but I wouldn't be shocked to see it reach Firefox levels (25-30% adoption rates) in the rest of the world.
I'm going to log into the Ubuntu and Kubuntu forums and see what I can find from messages posted publicly, but I ran into crap in the irc channels, and both forums repeatedly. I reported one post for flaming, and that is when a mod started ripping into me repeatedly through a PM.
I'm the only enderandrew on the internet, and any Google search will show the countless forums I'm registered on. I never run into problems with moderators. I'm not full of shit, and I really don't care for people calling me a liar.
If you're 100% convinced there aren't any fanatical asshats in the Ubuntu community about everything 100% free, you apparently haven't read up anything on Gobuntu, or how they even blast Firefox for not being free.
Here you can see one of my requests for help. I used Google first, I was polite, and I asked questions.
I forgot some of the other problems I had right off the bat, like the touchpad not working well, couldn't install a samba shared printer in KDE, and OpenOffice being horribly slow. Again, didn't have those problems on other distros.
The people who responded with any attempt at helpful information I thanked and was very polite.
I don't believe a single distro shipped with 4.0 as the default, though I believe Fedora 9 will ship with 4.0.3 and will be the first to use a 4 series as default, which means you had to go out of your way to install KDE 4.
The KDE 4 website says quite clearly that it hasn't reached full feature parity and isn't ready for everyday use for everyone.
I'm not sure what isn't clear about that.
And who said the release was final? They are releasing new versions every three weeks right now. Seems far from final.
Then you're just in semantics on what you call a release I'm quoting you, quoting me and all, but I wasn't assaulting you specifically. In context, I was saying if you call something a beta for years, rather than ever have a release, then that is just semantics. Google updates their code and services all the time. People keep suggesting that KDE should have called 4.0 something other than a release, but again, it is just semantics.
Aaron was quite clear, repeatedly on what the release was and wasn't.
And saying that 4.0 doesn't fully represent everything that 4 will be isn't drivel. Apparently you didn't use KDE 3.0 or KDE 2.0
As for releasing it, you don't know what bugs you have until people use the product to an extent. KDE 4 went through alpha and beta builds, but got far more bug reports when people used it after release.
Not to mention that releasing it meant getting public attention to attract new developers. Since release, plenty of developers have jumped on the Plasma bandwagon, fixing bugs, adding features, and developing widgets. If KDE 4 was still a low-profile beta, that likely wouldn't be the case.
Why was it a debacle? They said for months upfront that it wouldn't have full feature parity with KDE 3.5.x at the 4.0 mark.
Did it load? Was it horribly broken?
Most of the core stuff was there and working fairly well for such a large refactoring. Obviously, tons of bugs have been squashed since the 4.0 release, but any major release of that magnitude will have some bugs, unless you are Google and just leave something in beta for years and years.
Then you're just in semantics on what you call a release.
How many lives of code are in the KDE SVN? He designed the concept of Plasma, designed a complete refactoring, did a bunch of coding himself, did a bunch of PR, changed the build system, and largely rebuilt KDE from the ground up. That is no small task given the time frame. The fact that there is a very stable KDE 4 desktop literally a few months after the 4.0 release said they got it mostly right. To top it all off, at the same time he was also developing Mac OS X and Windows ports from the ground up as well.
I have been critical of a few things (Plasma's website over promised a revolution, when the interface itself isn't that revolutionary yet, though it has the potential via Plasma, and I loathe Kickoff) but KDE 4 has so many new things to offer at once.
Oh, and here is the real kicker. KDE 4 offers tons of new features and technology, and they rushed through it quickly, rewriting largley from the ground up, yet it is more efficient that KDE 3.5.9, which they've had years to tweak and optimize. KDE 4.1 is already promising to be faster and leaner than KDE 4.0
Name one other project of that magnitude that pulled off a release like that this year.
I'd say that qualifies him for best project manager of the year.
I'm all for a free Tibet. I somewhat agree with Google though that they said it was better to comply and create inroads rather than not be in China at all.
Almost everything in my post is easily verifiable.
For the record, I don't take kindly to being called a liar by someone who is not only full of shit themselves, but also unwilling to post under their own name.
There are several schools and sites that contribute to opencourseware, but last time I checked, most MIT classes specifically provided recorded lectures and lecture notes.
I'm all about Gentoo myself, but my wife decided to give Linux a go so we tried several distros. We tried Kubuntu on her laptop with 7.10 I believe.
Out of the box there were no codecs and all that, which I wasn't shocked by, but I was routinely assaulted on the forums and chat room for even asking about them. How dare you install non-free software! Convert your 20 gig library of mp3's to ogg!
She had an ATI Card in her laptop, and I wanted to show her compiz. There isn't a free driver that provides 3D acceleration for her card. The instructions I found via Google said to use a restricted modules manager that didn't exist. I found later you can install it seperately, but that module doesn't ship with the distro. Again, I was routinely assaulted for even asking how to install the ATI driver. The traditional install methods work on every other distro, but fail on *buntu. I got it working after pulling out much hair.
Next, several software programs that shipped by default with the distro were just broken. Kicker and Konqui crashed all the time. I submitted bug reports and was informed I either didn't know how to use the apps (clearly, I don't know how to use kicker, though I have zero issues with in on Gentoo) or that my problem was using a x86_64 build which weren't "officially" supported, despite the fact that they are official releases, and you can get LTS support for x86_64 releases. I wonder what Mark would say about his mods saying x86_64 isn't official.
To boot, we never got wireless working on her laptop, not once. I wanted to install madwifi, and try a different kernel. I downloaded the mm source, but there were no build tools. I was searching for the right packages, and again was assualted for asking. "You should never attempt to compile anything! That is only for devs! Never touch the kernel! What are you thinking!" There was no nice meta-package I found that pulled in a complete toolchain. But I got all the packages I needed eventually. But when I booted my -mm kernel, it wouldn't load synaptics, ati driver, etc. because I lacked a restricted modules package specific for my kernel uname. I googled and asked repeatedly, and no one would help with how to produce this package myself.
I installed Suse, and wireless worked out of the box. I tried a few distros, and my wife eventually settled on Sabayon, where everything worked out of the box.
However, not only did Kubuntu have horrible packages that were broken, it had by far the worse default KDE desktop I saw. It also lacked the standard features that Mark was currently pimping for the Ubuntu release, because they are quite slow trying to work those features in Kubuntu.
Fedora, Suse and all the other big boys have custom theming for both their Gnome and KDE desktops. Suse has been providing some great patches, backporting stuff from KDE 4.1 trunk, etc.
Ubuntu says, this is what you're getting. Don't think about installing anything non-free, don't mess with packages, don't touch the kernel, live with the default, and like it!
I actually had a mod suggest to me that I should divorce my wife because she bought a laptop that wasn't 100% supported by free drivers. That's a great community.
However, if you'd like I can really go into some lengthy rants about 1,000 things wrong with Ubuntu.
opencourseware utilizes textbooks, which is why I suggested they might be able to adopt some of these "free" textbooks, allowing for a truly free class. MIT said one of their goals was allowing people in developing nations to get their education without actually attending MIT. Because of the textbooks, that isn't feasible unless people in developing nations have access to those books.
As for content from opencouseware going into books, opencourseware does provide lectures. Where do you think textbooks get written, if not by the professors?
Adoption by opencourseware would no doubt improve visiblity of these projects. I also wonder if content taken from opencourseware could be put into these books.
SimCity was just open-sourced, and there is the even better Lincity-NG, but where are the open source clones of Number Numbers, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, etc?
kde-edu is a nice start, but if there were more education programs, I think Linux would make more inroads in schools. Introducing kids early on to the concept of free software, and choices in picking your software is very important.
Pro-lifers will bomb abortion clinics. And I read a story on the AP feed (I work for a newspaper) about how two guys arguing over the Bible got in a fist-fight, and the one beat the other to death.
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Please define trivial.
I've read articles that described it as two specs. I cut myself all the time on stupid stuff. I got blood on my shirt the other day because my puppy drew blood from my knuckle while playing.
No body, no witness, no murder weapon, nothing to suggest definitively she is dead.
There is reasonable doubt she may in fact be in Russia. She wouldn't likely abandon her kids, but her kids are in Russia as well.
In Omaha, they convicted a man without a body, but they had enough blood at the scene to prove that a person lost enough blood to die. After the conviction, he led the cops to the body.
Prey was less likely to ship than Duke Nukem Forever. No one knew they were even working on it, and there was less interest in the title. Part of the reason that Duke Nukem Forever is taking forever, is because they changed engines so many times. While working on Prey, they seemed to have settled on an engine, and were redoing art assets.
They did release a new teaser trailer, and they did confirm a 2008 release date, where as they were unwilling to state a release date before. I'm not sure they will make that window, but I feel pretty comfortable it will ship within 12 months. I said 18 to be somewhat on the safe side, but it will likely be less than 12.
The Force Unleashed is also coming to the Wii, from another developer, with a different engine, and no impressive physics effects. The game has the same name, but is it the same game?
That's like saying the GBA version of Madden 08 is the same is the PS3/360 version of Madden 08.
I was bored with The Sims in just a few hours. Why play something so mundane? Yet, last time I checked, it was the best selling PC game of all time, and it wasn't even close.
Spore seems like taking The Sims, and making both the gameplay and design process far less repetitive, and far more interesting. I'm not sure I'd ever have the same gameplay experience twice. Add-in internet play, and it does seem like a slam dunk.
Prey was vaporware and shipped. Mark my words, Duke Nukem Forever will ship within the next 18 months and we'll have to start joking about the Phantom instead.
The Linux Desktop is gaining in popularity, and is becoming mainstream. More and more countries are switching all schools and government desktops to Linux every day. Brazil is installing 52 million KDE desktops in their schools right now. WalMart and Dell will both sell you a Linux PC. If that isn't mainstream, I don't know what is. At best, Linux will likely never top 5-10% of the US Desktop market, but I wouldn't be shocked to see it reach Firefox levels (25-30% adoption rates) in the rest of the world.
Hurd is a joke.
PHP 6 will likely happen.
And the kicker is that you can get the demo for free. You don't even have to spend the lowly $10.
It was a series of PM's on the Ubuntu forums.
I'm going to log into the Ubuntu and Kubuntu forums and see what I can find from messages posted publicly, but I ran into crap in the irc channels, and both forums repeatedly. I reported one post for flaming, and that is when a mod started ripping into me repeatedly through a PM.
I'm the only enderandrew on the internet, and any Google search will show the countless forums I'm registered on. I never run into problems with moderators. I'm not full of shit, and I really don't care for people calling me a liar.
If you're 100% convinced there aren't any fanatical asshats in the Ubuntu community about everything 100% free, you apparently haven't read up anything on Gobuntu, or how they even blast Firefox for not being free.
Here you can see one of my requests for help. I used Google first, I was polite, and I asked questions.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=485527
I forgot some of the other problems I had right off the bat, like the touchpad not working well, couldn't install a samba shared printer in KDE, and OpenOffice being horribly slow. Again, didn't have those problems on other distros.
The people who responded with any attempt at helpful information I thanked and was very polite.
I don't believe a single distro shipped with 4.0 as the default, though I believe Fedora 9 will ship with 4.0.3 and will be the first to use a 4 series as default, which means you had to go out of your way to install KDE 4.
The KDE 4 website says quite clearly that it hasn't reached full feature parity and isn't ready for everyday use for everyone.
I'm not sure what isn't clear about that.
And who said the release was final? They are releasing new versions every three weeks right now. Seems far from final.
Aaron was quite clear, repeatedly on what the release was and wasn't.
And saying that 4.0 doesn't fully represent everything that 4 will be isn't drivel. Apparently you didn't use KDE 3.0 or KDE 2.0
As for releasing it, you don't know what bugs you have until people use the product to an extent. KDE 4 went through alpha and beta builds, but got far more bug reports when people used it after release.
Not to mention that releasing it meant getting public attention to attract new developers. Since release, plenty of developers have jumped on the Plasma bandwagon, fixing bugs, adding features, and developing widgets. If KDE 4 was still a low-profile beta, that likely wouldn't be the case.
Why was it a debacle? They said for months upfront that it wouldn't have full feature parity with KDE 3.5.x at the 4.0 mark.
Did it load? Was it horribly broken?
Most of the core stuff was there and working fairly well for such a large refactoring. Obviously, tons of bugs have been squashed since the 4.0 release, but any major release of that magnitude will have some bugs, unless you are Google and just leave something in beta for years and years.
Then you're just in semantics on what you call a release.
How many lives of code are in the KDE SVN? He designed the concept of Plasma, designed a complete refactoring, did a bunch of coding himself, did a bunch of PR, changed the build system, and largely rebuilt KDE from the ground up. That is no small task given the time frame. The fact that there is a very stable KDE 4 desktop literally a few months after the 4.0 release said they got it mostly right. To top it all off, at the same time he was also developing Mac OS X and Windows ports from the ground up as well.
I have been critical of a few things (Plasma's website over promised a revolution, when the interface itself isn't that revolutionary yet, though it has the potential via Plasma, and I loathe Kickoff) but KDE 4 has so many new things to offer at once.
Sonnet
Decibel
Plasma
Phonon
Multi-platform releases
Tenor
Oxygen
Built-in composite effects
Nepomuk/Strigi
New apps
Oh, and here is the real kicker. KDE 4 offers tons of new features and technology, and they rushed through it quickly, rewriting largley from the ground up, yet it is more efficient that KDE 3.5.9, which they've had years to tweak and optimize. KDE 4.1 is already promising to be faster and leaner than KDE 4.0
Name one other project of that magnitude that pulled off a release like that this year.
I'd say that qualifies him for best project manager of the year.
No, it was quite a back and forth. He said something like, "it serves you right for not buying hardware that has 100% free drivers."
I said, "well, I try to buy hardware with Linux in mind, but my wife bought this laptop before she decided to switch to Linux."
He told me I was stupid for marrying her if she didn't know what to buy, and that I should divorce her.
I'm all for a free Tibet. I somewhat agree with Google though that they said it was better to comply and create inroads rather than not be in China at all.
So says anonymous coward.
Almost everything in my post is easily verifiable.
For the record, I don't take kindly to being called a liar by someone who is not only full of shit themselves, but also unwilling to post under their own name.
There are several schools and sites that contribute to opencourseware, but last time I checked, most MIT classes specifically provided recorded lectures and lecture notes.
I'm all about Gentoo myself, but my wife decided to give Linux a go so we tried several distros. We tried Kubuntu on her laptop with 7.10 I believe.
Out of the box there were no codecs and all that, which I wasn't shocked by, but I was routinely assaulted on the forums and chat room for even asking about them. How dare you install non-free software! Convert your 20 gig library of mp3's to ogg!
She had an ATI Card in her laptop, and I wanted to show her compiz. There isn't a free driver that provides 3D acceleration for her card. The instructions I found via Google said to use a restricted modules manager that didn't exist. I found later you can install it seperately, but that module doesn't ship with the distro. Again, I was routinely assaulted for even asking how to install the ATI driver. The traditional install methods work on every other distro, but fail on *buntu. I got it working after pulling out much hair.
Next, several software programs that shipped by default with the distro were just broken. Kicker and Konqui crashed all the time. I submitted bug reports and was informed I either didn't know how to use the apps (clearly, I don't know how to use kicker, though I have zero issues with in on Gentoo) or that my problem was using a x86_64 build which weren't "officially" supported, despite the fact that they are official releases, and you can get LTS support for x86_64 releases. I wonder what Mark would say about his mods saying x86_64 isn't official.
To boot, we never got wireless working on her laptop, not once. I wanted to install madwifi, and try a different kernel. I downloaded the mm source, but there were no build tools. I was searching for the right packages, and again was assualted for asking. "You should never attempt to compile anything! That is only for devs! Never touch the kernel! What are you thinking!" There was no nice meta-package I found that pulled in a complete toolchain. But I got all the packages I needed eventually. But when I booted my -mm kernel, it wouldn't load synaptics, ati driver, etc. because I lacked a restricted modules package specific for my kernel uname. I googled and asked repeatedly, and no one would help with how to produce this package myself.
I installed Suse, and wireless worked out of the box. I tried a few distros, and my wife eventually settled on Sabayon, where everything worked out of the box.
However, not only did Kubuntu have horrible packages that were broken, it had by far the worse default KDE desktop I saw. It also lacked the standard features that Mark was currently pimping for the Ubuntu release, because they are quite slow trying to work those features in Kubuntu.
Fedora, Suse and all the other big boys have custom theming for both their Gnome and KDE desktops. Suse has been providing some great patches, backporting stuff from KDE 4.1 trunk, etc.
Ubuntu says, this is what you're getting. Don't think about installing anything non-free, don't mess with packages, don't touch the kernel, live with the default, and like it!
I actually had a mod suggest to me that I should divorce my wife because she bought a laptop that wasn't 100% supported by free drivers. That's a great community.
However, if you'd like I can really go into some lengthy rants about 1,000 things wrong with Ubuntu.
opencourseware utilizes textbooks, which is why I suggested they might be able to adopt some of these "free" textbooks, allowing for a truly free class. MIT said one of their goals was allowing people in developing nations to get their education without actually attending MIT. Because of the textbooks, that isn't feasible unless people in developing nations have access to those books.
As for content from opencouseware going into books, opencourseware does provide lectures. Where do you think textbooks get written, if not by the professors?
I think the idea is to try and have colleges adopt them. Using a non-standard book for a class isn't very helpful, as you pointed out.
Adoption by opencourseware would no doubt improve visiblity of these projects. I also wonder if content taken from opencourseware could be put into these books.
For PR or actual software?
I loathe Ubuntu, and most everything about it. However, he does a good job promoting his product, even if the product itself isn't very good.
Best Kernel Hacker - Andrew Morton (-mm kernel line)
Best Project Leader - Aaron Sergio (KDE 4)
SimCity was just open-sourced, and there is the even better Lincity-NG, but where are the open source clones of Number Numbers, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, etc?
kde-edu is a nice start, but if there were more education programs, I think Linux would make more inroads in schools. Introducing kids early on to the concept of free software, and choices in picking your software is very important.
I wasn't discussing what Gates wants. Gates has money. You're right that he wants control and market share.
I was discussing whether or not it is possible to make money of GPL software, which some people foolishly want to insist you can't.
It's called a joke. I don't believe anyone seriously thinks he eats babies.
And clearly you don't understand the term "witch hunt style tactics".
Pro-lifers will bomb abortion clinics. And I read a story on the AP feed (I work for a newspaper) about how two guys arguing over the Bible got in a fist-fight, and the one beat the other to death.
Peace protesters can in fact get violent.