the worst they will do it listen to you say naughty things to your girlfriend.
I'm sure that's the only thing the KGB were listening for when they were tapping phones.
You're far too trusting of your government. Sure, we're all grateful when wiretapping prevents someone from killing a bunch of people, but the possibility of a power-mad government is far more dangerous and far more likely. What keeps Western democracies from becoming fascist states are the limits placed on the government's power and the dilligence of the people to ensure the government does not overstep those bounds. If you're willing to let the government walk all over those limits, then, to use a cliche, the terrorists have already won.
Yes, because Linux == KHTML. That's all Linux is. And KDE doesn't run on any other platform but Linux. Those stupid Mac users, how can they hate Linux when the rendering engine of one of the browsers for their OS is Linux!
Not sure how well either of these will work for you, but you could try LinuxBIOS and/or InitNG. Either of these alone should speed up your boot time, both together could make it near instant.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time was pretty good, but I don't know if it has enough angst for most Squeenix RPG fans. I can't think of any others, but I'm not really a video game RPG fan anyway.
I personally went with the M3 because of its better GBA support. I don't condone piracy, but the Supercard apparently has some slowdown with many GBA roms and homebrew and even though it wouldn't have made a difference for what I use it for, the thought of leaving that extra capability on the table just bugged the hell out of me. I don't know why. I bought the CF version which is about as big as two GBA carts combined, but the SD version is quite a bit smaller. It's still a little bigger than a Supercard, though, so if you're more concerned with size than compatibility then the Supercard beats the M3 any day.
I think the GP and GGP were exaggerating a bit when they say there are no good games for PSP. There are definitely a few but it's debatable as to whether there are enough to justify a purchase. I can't think of enough that even combined make me think "Damn, I need a PSP" whereas I bought 15 games in the first year I owned my DS, many of which would have been worth buying a DS for on their own.
Now that I think of it, the PSP's price likely has something to do with that. It just came down $100 recently here in Canada and it's still about $80 more than a DS Lite. If the PSP were closer to the same price as the DS I might be able to forgive the smaller library and take a chance on it. As it stands I'm considering just buying a DS Lite so I can bring both DSes with me and play multiplayer games with friends who don't have one yet.
that got picked up by XS Games and is slated for PS2 release next month.
Did it? I downloaded the XBox version a while back but haven't had the chance to play it yet since my XBox isn't yet modded. I didn't think it was actually going to see the light of day.
Actually, a medieval Japan or China based MMORPG would be a nice change of pace if we have to keep MMOs in the past. Far eastern mythology is at least as interesting as European mythology.
The media had absolutely nothing to do with the failure, at least not in the way this article is talking about. Theoretically, piracy should have been impossible because the DC used a proprietary disc format. There should have been no way for pirates to put the games on CDs. The problem is that the theory really didn't pan out. With a minor hack (that found its way into every self-booting image since) the DC could boot games from CDs, and worse, most DC games fit perfectly on one disc for each GD-ROM disc. If the DC had used DVD it wouldn't have changed a thing, it would have only meant burning fewer discs.
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Heh, reminds me of Duke3D. When you come across a dead marine, Duke says "That is one doomed space marine."
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The XBox version of Doom 3 has co-op over the LAN out of the box. I can't remember if it works with Live or not (though I don't think it does), but you should be able to do it over the Internet with XLink or anything similar.
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I haven't tried Halo's co-op because split-screen FPS gaming sucks balls. They should have included LAN co-op on the XBox version, that would have made it worthwhile to play through.
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Plus, I have not yet seen a recent Slashdot story that said "Hey! There is this cool kernel called Linux, written by a Finnish programmer, Linus Torvalds. Check it out!"
No, but there are similar fluff articles about various Linux distros, only a handful of which are actually useful in the slightest. Your articles go back to 98, meaning you've listed less than one per year. Considering how many good ideas are in Plan 9 and how good of an example it could serve to the current crop of kernel hackers and OS geeks, it's worth bringing up from time to time and saying, "Hey, check this out."
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Yeah! Fucking assholes! The only OS they should mention more than once is Linux!
Your point about waste management on Earth is well-stated. However, I believe the OP was talking about managing space waste as a business opportunity. Where there's people, there's garbage, and if we wind up with civilian orbital habitats of any appreciable size and/or quantity, there's bound to be plenty of waste products.
Nintendo did that because carts cost more than disks and CDs. That's pretty much why the industry moved to optical media. It's cheap to manufacture and holds a lot more data than a cartridge.
This is very true. I post on a message board with a community that spreads across Europe (and North America), and it seems like the Germans, Spaniards, and Poles all use better grammar and spelling than most of the native English speakers on the board.
That's hilarious. It reminds me of the Penn & Teller game for Sega CD that has an 8 hour real-time drive through the desert down a straight road that has one turn in it so you can't just put a book on your controller and leave it for the 8 hours.
Fuck, and I just used all my mod points. Seriously, one person even posted that FF7 was disturbing. Are you fucking kidding me? You are one sorry son of a bitch if you were disturbed by that game.
So linux is easily at the point where mom/grandma can use it - but they better have a good admin.
I don't think this is the huge stumbling block that a lot of people say it is. I don't think it's significantly more difficult to fix when something breaks than Windows is if you know what you're doing, and I'd even say it's easier to fix when you reach that "ohshitohshitwhatthefuckishappening" stage. If something goes wrong with Windows (or Mac OS), you need a damn good admin, too. The average computer user has a difficult time entering their email address in Outlook Express. I've spent five minutes trying to get someone to enter a URL in Internet Explorer's address bar. You know, where it says "Address"? Hell, once it took me an hour to walk someone through a copy and paste*. Make no mistake, if even the slightest thing goes wrong with Windows, these people are fucked. Just as fucked as they would be with Linux, Mac OS, BeOS, OS/2. Pick an OS, any OS, these guys are totally fucked. Windows users can get away with this, though, because of the network effect you mentioned. If they break something, there are a million Windows technicians waiting to fix it. Even Mac users have a decent (if smaller) support network if something goes wrong. Until a Linux desktop support infrastructure is in place, we've got to learn to do it ourselves. And since learning things is scary to the average user, it stays in the hands of geeks, and since there aren't enough of us to bolster the numbers (and we'd just do it ourselves anyway), that support infrastructure will be slow to come.
*That's not an exaggeration. I tried explaining it every way I could think of. This person just could not grasp it, and the worst part is that it was an essential step in solving the problem she was having. I quit that job shortly afterwards.
They both have different philosophies and I like both for different reasons. I like Gnome because of its focus on usability and the HIG. It's a very simple and straightforward desktop and I can get things done with it quickly, whereas I find that doing things with KDE is often a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I don't want my UI to treat me like an idiot (a la Windows), and the Gnome people seem to be looking towards making things easy without making things dumbed down.
On the other hand, KDE has all kinds of features and functions that Gnome is either missing or behind in that makes it more fun to use. It's nice to turn on some weird setting and go "cool!" It's also faster in my experience, though the Gnome guys are optimizing now after years of "geez, this feels slow".
I'm using KDE right now and I'm pretty happy with it. My only complaint at the moment is actually not with KDE but GTK apps run in KDE. With or without QT-GTK, my icon settings in GTK apps keep using the ugly Gnome default. This was happening when I was using E17, too. It seems like GTK doesn't remember your theme settings unless you're actually using Gnome.
Actually, they've been in compliance with regards to 90% of their GPL obligations for months. The kernel, uboot, all that stuff is available from their subversion repository last time I checked. The MPlayer source was recently released as well, which as far as I know brings them into full compliance.
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the worst they will do it listen to you say naughty things to your girlfriend.
I'm sure that's the only thing the KGB were listening for when they were tapping phones.
You're far too trusting of your government. Sure, we're all grateful when wiretapping prevents someone from killing a bunch of people, but the possibility of a power-mad government is far more dangerous and far more likely. What keeps Western democracies from becoming fascist states are the limits placed on the government's power and the dilligence of the people to ensure the government does not overstep those bounds. If you're willing to let the government walk all over those limits, then, to use a cliche, the terrorists have already won.
Yes, because Linux == KHTML. That's all Linux is. And KDE doesn't run on any other platform but Linux. Those stupid Mac users, how can they hate Linux when the rendering engine of one of the browsers for their OS is Linux!
(Here's a small sampling of platforms that KDE either runs on or is being ported to.)
Not sure how well either of these will work for you, but you could try LinuxBIOS and/or InitNG. Either of these alone should speed up your boot time, both together could make it near instant.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time was pretty good, but I don't know if it has enough angst for most Squeenix RPG fans. I can't think of any others, but I'm not really a video game RPG fan anyway.
I personally went with the M3 because of its better GBA support. I don't condone piracy, but the Supercard apparently has some slowdown with many GBA roms and homebrew and even though it wouldn't have made a difference for what I use it for, the thought of leaving that extra capability on the table just bugged the hell out of me. I don't know why. I bought the CF version which is about as big as two GBA carts combined, but the SD version is quite a bit smaller. It's still a little bigger than a Supercard, though, so if you're more concerned with size than compatibility then the Supercard beats the M3 any day.
I think the GP and GGP were exaggerating a bit when they say there are no good games for PSP. There are definitely a few but it's debatable as to whether there are enough to justify a purchase. I can't think of enough that even combined make me think "Damn, I need a PSP" whereas I bought 15 games in the first year I owned my DS, many of which would have been worth buying a DS for on their own.
Now that I think of it, the PSP's price likely has something to do with that. It just came down $100 recently here in Canada and it's still about $80 more than a DS Lite. If the PSP were closer to the same price as the DS I might be able to forgive the smaller library and take a chance on it. As it stands I'm considering just buying a DS Lite so I can bring both DSes with me and play multiplayer games with friends who don't have one yet.
that got picked up by XS Games and is slated for PS2 release next month.
Did it? I downloaded the XBox version a while back but haven't had the chance to play it yet since my XBox isn't yet modded. I didn't think it was actually going to see the light of day.
Actually, a medieval Japan or China based MMORPG would be a nice change of pace if we have to keep MMOs in the past. Far eastern mythology is at least as interesting as European mythology.
The media had absolutely nothing to do with the failure, at least not in the way this article is talking about. Theoretically, piracy should have been impossible because the DC used a proprietary disc format. There should have been no way for pirates to put the games on CDs. The problem is that the theory really didn't pan out. With a minor hack (that found its way into every self-booting image since) the DC could boot games from CDs, and worse, most DC games fit perfectly on one disc for each GD-ROM disc. If the DC had used DVD it wouldn't have changed a thing, it would have only meant burning fewer discs.
What are you talking about? You had WKRP!
Heh, reminds me of Duke3D. When you come across a dead marine, Duke says "That is one doomed space marine."
The XBox version of Doom 3 has co-op over the LAN out of the box. I can't remember if it works with Live or not (though I don't think it does), but you should be able to do it over the Internet with XLink or anything similar.
I haven't tried Halo's co-op because split-screen FPS gaming sucks balls. They should have included LAN co-op on the XBox version, that would have made it worthwhile to play through.
Plus, I have not yet seen a recent Slashdot story that said "Hey! There is this cool kernel called Linux, written by a Finnish programmer, Linus Torvalds. Check it out!"
No, but there are similar fluff articles about various Linux distros, only a handful of which are actually useful in the slightest. Your articles go back to 98, meaning you've listed less than one per year. Considering how many good ideas are in Plan 9 and how good of an example it could serve to the current crop of kernel hackers and OS geeks, it's worth bringing up from time to time and saying, "Hey, check this out."
Yeah! Fucking assholes! The only OS they should mention more than once is Linux!
In Japan, he was actually known as Convoy.
In my experience, people who use the word "sheeple" are just as mindless as the people they bitch about.
Your point about waste management on Earth is well-stated. However, I believe the OP was talking about managing space waste as a business opportunity. Where there's people, there's garbage, and if we wind up with civilian orbital habitats of any appreciable size and/or quantity, there's bound to be plenty of waste products.
Nintendo did that because carts cost more than disks and CDs. That's pretty much why the industry moved to optical media. It's cheap to manufacture and holds a lot more data than a cartridge.
This is very true. I post on a message board with a community that spreads across Europe (and North America), and it seems like the Germans, Spaniards, and Poles all use better grammar and spelling than most of the native English speakers on the board.
That's hilarious. It reminds me of the Penn & Teller game for Sega CD that has an 8 hour real-time drive through the desert down a straight road that has one turn in it so you can't just put a book on your controller and leave it for the 8 hours.
Fuck, and I just used all my mod points. Seriously, one person even posted that FF7 was disturbing. Are you fucking kidding me? You are one sorry son of a bitch if you were disturbed by that game.
So linux is easily at the point where mom/grandma can use it - but they better have a good admin.
I don't think this is the huge stumbling block that a lot of people say it is. I don't think it's significantly more difficult to fix when something breaks than Windows is if you know what you're doing, and I'd even say it's easier to fix when you reach that "ohshitohshitwhatthefuckishappening" stage. If something goes wrong with Windows (or Mac OS), you need a damn good admin, too. The average computer user has a difficult time entering their email address in Outlook Express. I've spent five minutes trying to get someone to enter a URL in Internet Explorer's address bar. You know, where it says "Address"? Hell, once it took me an hour to walk someone through a copy and paste*. Make no mistake, if even the slightest thing goes wrong with Windows, these people are fucked. Just as fucked as they would be with Linux, Mac OS, BeOS, OS/2. Pick an OS, any OS, these guys are totally fucked. Windows users can get away with this, though, because of the network effect you mentioned. If they break something, there are a million Windows technicians waiting to fix it. Even Mac users have a decent (if smaller) support network if something goes wrong. Until a Linux desktop support infrastructure is in place, we've got to learn to do it ourselves. And since learning things is scary to the average user, it stays in the hands of geeks, and since there aren't enough of us to bolster the numbers (and we'd just do it ourselves anyway), that support infrastructure will be slow to come.
*That's not an exaggeration. I tried explaining it every way I could think of. This person just could not grasp it, and the worst part is that it was an essential step in solving the problem she was having. I quit that job shortly afterwards.
They both have different philosophies and I like both for different reasons. I like Gnome because of its focus on usability and the HIG. It's a very simple and straightforward desktop and I can get things done with it quickly, whereas I find that doing things with KDE is often a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I don't want my UI to treat me like an idiot (a la Windows), and the Gnome people seem to be looking towards making things easy without making things dumbed down.
On the other hand, KDE has all kinds of features and functions that Gnome is either missing or behind in that makes it more fun to use. It's nice to turn on some weird setting and go "cool!" It's also faster in my experience, though the Gnome guys are optimizing now after years of "geez, this feels slow".
I'm using KDE right now and I'm pretty happy with it. My only complaint at the moment is actually not with KDE but GTK apps run in KDE. With or without QT-GTK, my icon settings in GTK apps keep using the ugly Gnome default. This was happening when I was using E17, too. It seems like GTK doesn't remember your theme settings unless you're actually using Gnome.
Actually, they've been in compliance with regards to 90% of their GPL obligations for months. The kernel, uboot, all that stuff is available from their subversion repository last time I checked. The MPlayer source was recently released as well, which as far as I know brings them into full compliance.