Poverty, corruption. Yes, speaking of which, that's a pretty frightening combination. I just hope MS doesn't "buy off" the people in power here to keep using the unfree option.
Specifically, they had two bloodless revolutions (EDSA I and II, ousting Marcos and Estrada, respectively). Someday we'll oust Ballmer and gang too. No shedding of blood of course.:)
$20+$30 is still expensive. That's about 1/4th the monthly salary of the average worker here. The OEM version of XP is roughly $100 when converted. Basic Office (no Powerpoint) costs around $200-300. Don't even get me started on Vista Ultimate (and the hardware upgrade that comes with it). If people in the US think its robbery, its practically a small fortune over here. OTOH, Linux would run on machines we already own.
If the true goal of a computer program for a school is to ready its students for the workplace, then is linux really the best method of doing so? Isn't the school in some way doing its students a dis-service my training them on a computing method that they will very likely never use again? I do agree in principle, that is, if one happens to live in a developed country with a stable IT-infrastructure, well-entrenched in Microsoft products. A lot of small to medium business here in the Philippines use pirated MS XP+Office (plus other MS-based products) but an awareness about piracy and open-standards has been steadily growning. When there was an anti-piracy crackdown a couple of years back, quite a number of those companies made the switch to Linux. Some were partial conversions, the others went all the way. I personally converted one company's group of about 8-10 workstations, plus got my friends to do the same. The company I work for started on Ubuntu 5.10 from scratch. (Roughly 50 workstations, we've maintained a few windows boxes for that odd application or two, or for some esoteric file conversions.)
Asus Eees are selling like hotcakes and they're now very hard to find in stores. I'll go out on a limb here and say that when these kids grow up, it'll be mostly a Linux workplace, at least on this part of the planet. I've heard the jokes about 'The Year of Linux on the Desktop' etc, but somehow I have this feeling that if such a time would come, it would start from developing countries like ours.
Yes, Frank Klepacki's one of the best. (Also loved the ambient tracks from Tiberian Sun.) Too bad there is no straightforward way of getting the tracks from those games. I bought the tracks from emusic. I'm also partial to the Terran tracks from Starcraft. The intro music for Broodwar can be downloaded for free from Blizzard.
One of my other favorites are the tracks from KKND2. (Krush Kill N Destroy 2). And its nice that they're already in.wav.
I had an earlier post saying that I saved my old RPG games usually right before the final boss, etc, as 'trophies' to relive the final moments, or maybe show them to friends.
Some of those games are so old I've long since lost the floppies they were on. I recently "re-completed" Bard's Tale I and now playing Wizardry I. (Having the old maps help a lot!)
I agree that I don't have to be playing them because I'm forced to. Having lost those floppies has given me the excuse to play them all over again! Tedious yeah, but not any less fun!
Maybe its just me, but I'm pretty sentimental about some of the games, particularly RPGs, that I play. Yes, while its true you usually just start a new game you just completed, I usually save the last turn or sequence (before the final boss kill, final room, whatever) as 'trophies' of a sort. I can just reload those final turns/sequences anytime I want to relive those moments.
In other type of games, its so that the rooms I've already unlocked stay unlocked. (Q3 is the first thing that comes to mind.)
In Civ, I store my saved games of note: biggest empire, earliest to go to Alpha Centauri, etc.
Will it work on GNOME or Xfce? I'm currently using Icewm. Do you have to install KDE for this one? Or just the KDE libs? (Would still be a large dl even if just the latter.)
Yes I hope so too. I live outside the States and I can't buy from either iTunes or Amazon. Emusic's good, but still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of selection.
True. I live in the Manila. As I rushed off to buy a few tunes, I saw this: Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers. What a big disappointment. I've long wanted to buy some mainstream music from the likes of iTunes, Napster, Walmart, etc, but I always get put off by the fact they won't sell outside the U.S. What's the deal? I mean an extra several million dollars in revenue isn't the worst thing in the world. (And they always complain about piracy in Asia yada yada, as if I can't rip the stuff anyway, but that's another story. It may come as a surprise to them that there are actually people who want to pay for these downloads.) Anyway, since I've been buying (tangible) stuff from Amazon for almost a decade now, I thought Amazon had one over the companies I mentioned. (Not to mention they're DRM-free.)
I guess I'm stuck with good old Emusic for now, which isn't a bad thing. They have had little or no restrictions selling outside the States, with the exception of the odd album here and there. C'mon Amazon, we appreciate you finally selling DRM-free music, but I sure hope you open up to the rest of us. Only then can I say 'finally!'
Reminds me of the 486SX. Basically a 486DX chip with a defective FPU, disabled, then sold. At least the early batches were, anyway. This is an excellent move by AMD. Somewhere in between dual and quad-cores at competetive prices, which I suspect would be somewhere closer to dual-cores.
Hmmm. Interesting. At the top of my head: Macross Saga Zhang Ziyi as Lynn Minmei Jennifer Aniston as Lisa Hayes Yup. I agree. Owen Wilson as Roy Fokker Topher Grace as Max Sterling Claudia Grant? Halle Berry!
And if ever... Robotech Masters Claire Danes as Dana Sterling Wilmer Valderrama as Bowie Keanu Reeves as Zor
Robotech Invid Matt Damon as Scott Bernard Orlando Bloom as Lancer (aka Yellow dancer) Reese Witherspoon as Rook Bartley
We're closer to 2015 than Marty's 1985, and we still have no flying cars in mainstream use. Or not even close. We still won't have them in 2029. Its not just about producing consumer-grade flying Toyotas or Hondas, we'd need a whole new sky infrastructure, or something like that.
And after they ransack our 80s memories, they'll pillage our 90s memories. I'd love to see a Starblazers or Robotech movie though.
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This is mainly for those who roll their own using LFS, but Hardened Linux From Scratch should give some tips, and practical advice, which critical areas need patching, plus proper practices.
Oops. Sorry about that. Modded you up, but I just had to reply to your post, and I didn't realize you'd get unmodded even after posting as AC. Anyway, as I said, I do agree with your points. Opportunities for networking abound early in life. Better not botch it.
Gnumeric isn't strictly gnome. I'm running it on Xfce. Gnumeric's dependencies are pretty straightforward to install, in case your system doesn't already have those libraries.
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Poverty, corruption. Yes, speaking of which, that's a pretty frightening combination. I just hope MS doesn't "buy off" the people in power here to keep using the unfree option.
$20+$30 is still expensive. That's about 1/4th the monthly salary of the average worker here. The OEM version of XP is roughly $100 when converted. Basic Office (no Powerpoint) costs around $200-300. Don't even get me started on Vista Ultimate (and the hardware upgrade that comes with it). If people in the US think its robbery, its practically a small fortune over here. OTOH, Linux would run on machines we already own.
Asus Eees are selling like hotcakes and they're now very hard to find in stores. I'll go out on a limb here and say that when these kids grow up, it'll be mostly a Linux workplace, at least on this part of the planet. I've heard the jokes about 'The Year of Linux on the Desktop' etc, but somehow I have this feeling that if such a time would come, it would start from developing countries like ours.
Which version of Opera are you using? I too have an old 128MB desktop and I'm looking into using Opera.
Its coming out I tell ya! Better believe it!
They may call it what they want, but I just lost a whole freakin' day because of that. Thanks /.
Yes, Frank Klepacki's one of the best. (Also loved the ambient tracks from Tiberian Sun.) Too bad there is no straightforward way of getting the tracks from those games. I bought the tracks from emusic. I'm also partial to the Terran tracks from Starcraft. The intro music for Broodwar can be downloaded for free from Blizzard.
.wav.
One of my other favorites are the tracks from KKND2. (Krush Kill N Destroy 2). And its nice that they're already in
I had an earlier post saying that I saved my old RPG games usually right before the final boss, etc, as 'trophies' to relive the final moments, or maybe show them to friends.
Some of those games are so old I've long since lost the floppies they were on. I recently "re-completed" Bard's Tale I and now playing Wizardry I. (Having the old maps help a lot!)
I agree that I don't have to be playing them because I'm forced to. Having lost those floppies has given me the excuse to play them all over again! Tedious yeah, but not any less fun!
Maybe its just me, but I'm pretty sentimental about some of the games, particularly RPGs, that I play. Yes, while its true you usually just start a new game you just completed, I usually save the last turn or sequence (before the final boss kill, final room, whatever) as 'trophies' of a sort. I can just reload those final turns/sequences anytime I want to relive those moments.
In other type of games, its so that the rooms I've already unlocked stay unlocked. (Q3 is the first thing that comes to mind.)
In Civ, I store my saved games of note: biggest empire, earliest to go to Alpha Centauri, etc.
They should have beta-tested it first on Myspace.
The 1st Ed AD&D still has a place in my heart. I haven't played a real table-top game in decades but if I ever do, I'll just use my 1st Ed books. I have a hunch I'm not the only one who feels like this. If you don't have the old rulebooks anymore, you can buy them from Paizo or download OSRIC (Old School Reference & Index Compilation, a project aiming to provide a copyright-free version of early editions of Dungeons and Dragons). I still might get 4E at any rate, just for the heck of it and see how the game has evolved.
Will it work on GNOME or Xfce? I'm currently using Icewm. Do you have to install KDE for this one? Or just the KDE libs? (Would still be a large dl even if just the latter.)
10 years is fine and all. Can't wait till next year when /. turns three!
Yes I hope so too. I live outside the States and I can't buy from either iTunes or Amazon. Emusic's good, but still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of selection.
True. I live in the Manila. As I rushed off to buy a few tunes, I saw this: Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers. What a big disappointment. I've long wanted to buy some mainstream music from the likes of iTunes, Napster, Walmart, etc, but I always get put off by the fact they won't sell outside the U.S. What's the deal? I mean an extra several million dollars in revenue isn't the worst thing in the world. (And they always complain about piracy in Asia yada yada, as if I can't rip the stuff anyway, but that's another story. It may come as a surprise to them that there are actually people who want to pay for these downloads.) Anyway, since I've been buying (tangible) stuff from Amazon for almost a decade now, I thought Amazon had one over the companies I mentioned. (Not to mention they're DRM-free.)
I guess I'm stuck with good old Emusic for now, which isn't a bad thing. They have had little or no restrictions selling outside the States, with the exception of the odd album here and there. C'mon Amazon, we appreciate you finally selling DRM-free music, but I sure hope you open up to the rest of us. Only then can I say 'finally!'
Reminds me of the 486SX. Basically a 486DX chip with a defective FPU, disabled, then sold. At least the early batches were, anyway. This is an excellent move by AMD. Somewhere in between dual and quad-cores at competetive prices, which I suspect would be somewhere closer to dual-cores.
Hmmm. Interesting.
At the top of my head:
Macross Saga
Zhang Ziyi as Lynn Minmei
Jennifer Aniston as Lisa Hayes
Yup. I agree. Owen Wilson as Roy Fokker
Topher Grace as Max Sterling
Claudia Grant? Halle Berry!
And if ever...
Robotech Masters
Claire Danes as Dana Sterling
Wilmer Valderrama as Bowie
Keanu Reeves as Zor
Robotech Invid
Matt Damon as Scott Bernard
Orlando Bloom as Lancer (aka Yellow dancer)
Reese Witherspoon as Rook Bartley
That's all I can think of now...
Yup. I've been playing Simcity for more than a decade now and I can't seem to win. Can't even get those stupid arcologies to blast off.
We're closer to 2015 than Marty's 1985, and we still have no flying cars in mainstream use. Or not even close. We still won't have them in 2029. Its not just about producing consumer-grade flying Toyotas or Hondas, we'd need a whole new sky infrastructure, or something like that.
And after they ransack our 80s memories, they'll pillage our 90s memories. I'd love to see a Starblazers or Robotech movie though.
This is mainly for those who roll their own using LFS, but Hardened Linux From Scratch should give some tips, and practical advice, which critical areas need patching, plus proper practices.
Oops. Sorry about that. Modded you up, but I just had to reply to your post, and I didn't realize you'd get unmodded even after posting as AC. Anyway, as I said, I do agree with your points. Opportunities for networking abound early in life. Better not botch it.
Gnumeric isn't strictly gnome. I'm running it on Xfce. Gnumeric's dependencies are pretty straightforward to install, in case your system doesn't already have those libraries.
I guess they went overboard with that one and took it seriously.
1. Sell $150 Linux laptop.
2. ???
3. Profit!