Carbon dating just checks how much of a sample of Carbon-14 has decayed. It's not as if they take some carbon from the organism and do some weird shit to it, like putting it next to a TV and then throwing it in boiling water to see what happens.
I'd settle for Firefox being faster on Linux. On the same hardware, Firefox on a Windows 2000 install runs much, MUCH faster then it does on an Ubuntu Linux (or for that matter any Linux I've tried) install. What's all that about?
For the most part, I can stand looking at PS1 graphics easier then N64 graphics. PS1's CD medium allowed higher resolution textures compared to N64's, which looked like someone had smeared vasoline on the lens/object.
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That's why there's a ton of different Linux distros, and no "official" one. If you don't like that Fedora Core needs 4 CDs to install, then use Ubuntu (1 CD), Slackware (2 CDs), Arch (1 CD), Gentoo (1 or 2 CDs), Yoper (1 CD), or make your own distro. Arch, for example, is a bare-essentials distro.
Free downloadable content is a feature of a game that adds value to the game, and allows developers to get games out faster by releasing stuff later. Wipeout Pure (for PSP) has been getting free downloadable tracks and it's been working out pretty good for them.
Are any games online on DS yet? I really haven't been following it, but didn't they push back most online games until next year?
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Who said to "force" Microsoft? It sure would be nice if they did, but it's not like anybody would hold a gun to their Balmer's head and get them to do this.
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Notepad is just a plain text editior. Web browsing is a much more advanced program type. I'd say that MS should offer the option of installing a few major web browsers. Opera, Firefox, Netscape, and others that are free. Why not? They're going to be using DVDs for installation of Vista anyway, which should leave a lot of room left over. Failing that, they could easilly prompt on install, and get it to download and open the installer. It's not like they have to offer every flavor of web browsing, but some easy options would be nice right from the get-go .
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IE and Firefox are both free (price wise). Microsoft doesn't make money on IE, so why shouldn't they offer Firefox as an alternative?
It also wouldn't bloat things if MS gave you options at install time as to which you wanted. For exclusively Firefox users on Windows, it would make things lighter since you wouldn't have IE installed to waste space on the HDD.
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Gaim is really good for convergence of IM protocols, but... I really don't think many would embrace it as they would Firefox or The GIMP. The fact is that it doesn't really support extras for the IM protocols. With Google Talk and MSN in Gaim, I've wanted to have a voice converstaion many a time, but couldn't because it wasn't supported. Sure, there's Skype, but not many people I know use it (except as a quick novelty), and it isn't supported by Gaim.
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Gaming is something that Linux does lack. It's a good thing that consoles are so popular, though, since one could just use a PS2/Xbox/GCN whenever they need their fix of gaming.
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SuSE was hell for me the first time I used it to install stuff. I didn't know how to use the command line, so everything I installed was through YaST, which is slow as fuck on my computer, and kept giving me warnings that I was missing python libraries that I couldn't seem to find. Then I got into using the command line and everything was good, then I started using Debian and everything was excellent with apt.
Now, I know you said you know about Yum and Apt and don't think your brother would like them, but frontends to apt like Synaptic are incredibly easy, so much so that I've gotten a few people installing Debian Linux (or Ubuntu in some cases since it's easier) just for Synaptic.
For the record, I really dislike installing programs on Windows after being spoiled with Apt/Synaptic. It's not just click and install, it's open a wed browser, google what you're looking for, go to the site, download it (which often has a low bit-rate because of slow servers), then click and install something that more often than not will expire in a week.
Yep. I thought Zonk had finally given up his tips for getting chicks.
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One thing I find lacking most times I use Windows (compared to KDE and GNOME) is that when I press Print-screen key, it doesn't just open a window asking me to save the screenshot. KSnapshot and whatever the hell the name of the thing GNOME uses is are quite easy, and save time compared to the extra Start -> Run -> mspaint -> CTRL-V -> File -> Save As -> etc that's involved with Windows.
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I think the big thing is that MS doesn't offer anything but MS software in their OS. If they were to give you the option of installing VLC and Windows Media Player, MSPaint and GIMP, or even Internet Explorer and Firefox (many would love the ability to REMOVE IE, but that's another point) then there wouldn't be so much of a problem. That's basically the reason you don't hear people complaining that Ubuntu Linux comes pre-installed with Firefox and not Konqueror, Galeon, (or what have you), since they're not Ubuntu's products.
but in recent years they seem to have been continually dwindling in numbers.
Not really. If you look back all the way to the NES days (yes I'm aware gaming was big before NES, but I wasn't alive and don't know much about it), there was just about the same ratio of innovative to terribly generic games as there is now.
Looking at your post list, it looks like someone with mod points has been following your posts and marking things down without real reason. That's slashdot for you, though, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.
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Oh, I'm sure this is redundant by now... Like everyone else, I thought it was the first post.
Happiness is a warm gun.
Offer Firefox.
One thing is for sure: Only bad can come of this.
Carbon dating just checks how much of a sample of Carbon-14 has decayed. It's not as if they take some carbon from the organism and do some weird shit to it, like putting it next to a TV and then throwing it in boiling water to see what happens.
I'd settle for Firefox being faster on Linux. On the same hardware, Firefox on a Windows 2000 install runs much, MUCH faster then it does on an Ubuntu Linux (or for that matter any Linux I've tried) install. What's all that about?
For the most part, I can stand looking at PS1 graphics easier then N64 graphics. PS1's CD medium allowed higher resolution textures compared to N64's, which looked like someone had smeared vasoline on the lens/object.
PS1's getting the award, not the PS2.
Emmys were awards for TV shows.
That's why there's a ton of different Linux distros, and no "official" one. If you don't like that Fedora Core needs 4 CDs to install, then use Ubuntu (1 CD), Slackware (2 CDs), Arch (1 CD), Gentoo (1 or 2 CDs), Yoper (1 CD), or make your own distro. Arch, for example, is a bare-essentials distro.
Free downloadable content is a feature of a game that adds value to the game, and allows developers to get games out faster by releasing stuff later. Wipeout Pure (for PSP) has been getting free downloadable tracks and it's been working out pretty good for them.
Are any games online on DS yet? I really haven't been following it, but didn't they push back most online games until next year?
Who said to "force" Microsoft? It sure would be nice if they did, but it's not like anybody would hold a gun to their Balmer's head and get them to do this.
Notepad is just a plain text editior. Web browsing is a much more advanced program type. I'd say that MS should offer the option of installing a few major web browsers. Opera, Firefox, Netscape, and others that are free. Why not? They're going to be using DVDs for installation of Vista anyway, which should leave a lot of room left over. Failing that, they could easilly prompt on install, and get it to download and open the installer. It's not like they have to offer every flavor of web browsing, but some easy options would be nice right from the get-go .
IE and Firefox are both free (price wise). Microsoft doesn't make money on IE, so why shouldn't they offer Firefox as an alternative?
It also wouldn't bloat things if MS gave you options at install time as to which you wanted. For exclusively Firefox users on Windows, it would make things lighter since you wouldn't have IE installed to waste space on the HDD.
Gaim is really good for convergence of IM protocols, but... I really don't think many would embrace it as they would Firefox or The GIMP. The fact is that it doesn't really support extras for the IM protocols. With Google Talk and MSN in Gaim, I've wanted to have a voice converstaion many a time, but couldn't because it wasn't supported. Sure, there's Skype, but not many people I know use it (except as a quick novelty), and it isn't supported by Gaim.
Gaming is something that Linux does lack. It's a good thing that consoles are so popular, though, since one could just use a PS2/Xbox/GCN whenever they need their fix of gaming.
SuSE was hell for me the first time I used it to install stuff. I didn't know how to use the command line, so everything I installed was through YaST, which is slow as fuck on my computer, and kept giving me warnings that I was missing python libraries that I couldn't seem to find. Then I got into using the command line and everything was good, then I started using Debian and everything was excellent with apt.
Now, I know you said you know about Yum and Apt and don't think your brother would like them, but frontends to apt like Synaptic are incredibly easy, so much so that I've gotten a few people installing Debian Linux (or Ubuntu in some cases since it's easier) just for Synaptic.
For the record, I really dislike installing programs on Windows after being spoiled with Apt/Synaptic. It's not just click and install, it's open a wed browser, google what you're looking for, go to the site, download it (which often has a low bit-rate because of slow servers), then click and install something that more often than not will expire in a week.
Yep. I thought Zonk had finally given up his tips for getting chicks.
One thing I find lacking most times I use Windows (compared to KDE and GNOME) is that when I press Print-screen key, it doesn't just open a window asking me to save the screenshot. KSnapshot and whatever the hell the name of the thing GNOME uses is are quite easy, and save time compared to the extra Start -> Run -> mspaint -> CTRL-V -> File -> Save As -> etc that's involved with Windows.
I think the big thing is that MS doesn't offer anything but MS software in their OS. If they were to give you the option of installing VLC and Windows Media Player, MSPaint and GIMP, or even Internet Explorer and Firefox (many would love the ability to REMOVE IE, but that's another point) then there wouldn't be so much of a problem. That's basically the reason you don't hear people complaining that Ubuntu Linux comes pre-installed with Firefox and not Konqueror, Galeon, (or what have you), since they're not Ubuntu's products.
but in recent years they seem to have been continually dwindling in numbers.
Not really. If you look back all the way to the NES days (yes I'm aware gaming was big before NES, but I wasn't alive and don't know much about it), there was just about the same ratio of innovative to terribly generic games as there is now.
Looking at your post list, it looks like someone with mod points has been following your posts and marking things down without real reason. That's slashdot for you, though, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.
Blu-Ray actually has a backing.
And besides that, it looks like quite a number of movies are being made and bought in UMD form.
I predict that by ten we'll be calling Google "Skynet".