You know, for all the talk of how Halo made the XBox, I think the inverse is true as well. Halo (and Halo 2) was a good game, but not a great one. If it had originally come out for the PC it likely would have been lost in the crowd. The fact that there was really nothing available for the XBox at launch probably played a big part in how big the game got.
I wouldn't trust any alternative GUIs on Windows after trying a few, BB4Win included. But hey, if you like playing Russian Roulette with your computer, be my guest.
I'm going to echo this, but in this case I'd say try and make sure the distros you try (and familiarize yourself with) are either released/maintained by large companies or have HUGE online communities. If you're planning on doing this for a business, it'll be an easier sell to your superiors and less stressful for you if you wind up going with a Linux distro that has a support infrastructure for those moments you run into a wall trying to solve an issue. Off the top of my head, that means Red Hat or Novell/SuSE, but there's probably another for-profit Linux company out there that I'm forgetting.
By the way, if you do choose one of these distros, avoid calling their support while you're learning if you can. The more you can figure out on your own, the less you'll have to call them for in the future. Look at them as an oh-shit-emergency thing, not a basic help thing.
If the Doom movie doesn't include such great lines I'm going to be sorely disappointed. In fact, I think they should have just based the movie off of that comic.
1. KDE is closer to Windows in look-and-feel than Mac OS X is (there are some major differences, but at a glance this is mostly true.) 2. As long as Apple insists that you run Mac OS on Apple hardware only, it's never going to take over the market.
I guess Fluxbox, IceWM, and the rest don't exist, right? If the big DE's run poorly on certain older hardware, I can just switch to something lighter. Can I do that in Windows? Uh, no.
You don't take a well-loved, well-established game with a deeply entrenched fan base and COMPLETELY CHANGE the core concept, but keep the name.
And how did the core concept of Zelda change with the Wind Waker? The gameplay was astonishingly similar to Ocarina of Time, and the basic storyline was pretty much the same as it always was. The only change was that it was a little more light-hearted. Even the other Zelda games were hardly about brooding in darkness over the fate of Hyrule.
Australia also doesn't get snow or -30 temperatures. And what about riding through the exits? Are you seriously going to tell me that riding through a route with traffic signals to stop most traffic is more dangerous than riding on the shoulder, cutting across the exit to continue on the shoulder and hoping that the 100km/h traffic slows down to let you through?
Oh yeah, and it would still only be useable transportation for half the year. It's not unusual for the mercury to hit -30C before windchill around here in winter. That's mighty cold to be riding a bike.
1 hour with a bike? That's assuming I can ride it on the freeway, which is asking for death. Not taking the freeway adds a considerable distance to the trip.
Actually, Apt can break compatibility with Linspire's proprietary CNR software installer. Not a problem for most people (and CNR is a great tool for most of them) but since CNR lacks a lot of great apps that a geek like me would use, it's a bit of a deal breaker. Also, Linspire doesn't come with any tools for building from source (but they're available through CNR). Again, not a problem for the market they're aiming for but it's a deal breaker if an app I need only comes in a source tarball, and it makes it a huge pain to compile a custom kernel. It's not as infinitely configurable as most free distros either, unless you don't mind breaking or removing most of what makes Linspire what it is. I don't give a shit about eye candy, I just like to have full control of my machine and so Linspire is not for me. For people who don't like to play around with their computer as much, it's a great distro. The only "support" call I've gotten from either my brother or dad was when a power outage fried my brother's hard drive. No virus calls, no "my computer is slow, what's wrong?", no nothing. It "just works" for what they use it for and that's good enough.
Unfortunately for the environmentalists this is not what you wanted to happen when we started running out of oil but this is by far the most practical realistic solution that will work to give us time to find alternatives.
I get the feeling that while it would give us time to find alternatives, if it provides enough supply we'll just wind up in the same boat we're in now. That is to say, we'll put off looking for alternatives until it's too late again. It's happened before, it's happening now, and should this provide enough supply, it will happen again.
You use up 1 barrel for every 3 that you extract(30 %).
I caught this in TFA as well. That's around the same EPR as biodiesel (biodiesel ranges from 3-4:1). If we're considering this stuff, shouldn't we also be considering biodiesel on a larger scale? It will be FAR less damaging to the environment than this stuff will be.
I live in Edmonton. It takes me 35-45 minutes during rush hour to get to work depending on the traffic and I commute around 17km each way. To take the bus to work would take over two hours, and the last bus to where I work stops just as I get off. If I miss it, it's a long walk home. It would take billions of dollars to give Edmonton an efficient public transit system because it has some of the worst urban sprawl in the world. The auto industry has little to do with it these days, it's a catch-22 situation. Public transportation won't get better until people use it, and people won't use it until it gets better.
For the few of us who actually *gasp* use big hulking V8s to do more than just run to the grocery store, how will your fuel efficient engine perform?
That's why large trucks are exempt from CAFE requirements. The problem there is that the Big 3 use the GVW exemption as an excuse to build bigger vehicles that obviously have no use for actual work in the sense we're talking about. Perhaps the EPA needs to start classifying vehicles based on more than just their gross vehicle weight? It's pretty obvious to most people that an H2 and an F-350 are designed for very different tasks, I don't see why regulations can't reflect that.
To add to this, in many US locations public transportation simply is not an option. I live about 30 miles north of Downtown Dallas. Public buses and rail lines don't even run up here, which means I would have to drive a decent clip just to get to a public transport station. And then I'm not even guaranteed that my destination is reachable.
I've noticed that this is the case in most of western Canada and the western and southern U.S. So much space for the cities to expand combined with low gas prices led to huge amounts of urban sprawl. Now the people are kicking themselves and even if public transportation was extended to those outlying communities, it just wouldn't be very effective anyway.
And with the LGPL you also have to release your code if you a) include the LGPLed code in your program or b) modify the LGPLed application or library. The difference is that you can link to LGPLed libraries from your app without having to open up your own code.
I'll back this statement up. Linspire 4.5 was the distro I set up on my brother and dad's computers so that they wouldn't call me all the time about viruses/spyware. I found the whole thing quite limiting and personally use FreeBSD and Ubuntu, but for what they use their computers for Linspire "just works" and that's enough for them.
The DS can be hacked much more easily than the PSP. Maybe you should google "PassMe" or "WifiMe". How is the hacking going with those 1.51 and 2.0 PSP firmware upgrades?
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You know, for all the talk of how Halo made the XBox, I think the inverse is true as well. Halo (and Halo 2) was a good game, but not a great one. If it had originally come out for the PC it likely would have been lost in the crowd. The fact that there was really nothing available for the XBox at launch probably played a big part in how big the game got.
The college of total bullshit, and the origin is out of his ass.
I wouldn't trust any alternative GUIs on Windows after trying a few, BB4Win included. But hey, if you like playing Russian Roulette with your computer, be my guest.
Try at least two distros.
I'm going to echo this, but in this case I'd say try and make sure the distros you try (and familiarize yourself with) are either released/maintained by large companies or have HUGE online communities. If you're planning on doing this for a business, it'll be an easier sell to your superiors and less stressful for you if you wind up going with a Linux distro that has a support infrastructure for those moments you run into a wall trying to solve an issue. Off the top of my head, that means Red Hat or Novell/SuSE, but there's probably another for-profit Linux company out there that I'm forgetting.
By the way, if you do choose one of these distros, avoid calling their support while you're learning if you can. The more you can figure out on your own, the less you'll have to call them for in the future. Look at them as an oh-shit-emergency thing, not a basic help thing.
If the Doom movie doesn't include such great lines I'm going to be sorely disappointed. In fact, I think they should have just based the movie off of that comic.
I was actually going to mention these myself. They're actually not bad as long as you don't take them too seriously. An amusing distraction.
Yes there is. It's called an election.
Two responses here:
1. KDE is closer to Windows in look-and-feel than Mac OS X is (there are some major differences, but at a glance this is mostly true.)
2. As long as Apple insists that you run Mac OS on Apple hardware only, it's never going to take over the market.
I guess Fluxbox, IceWM, and the rest don't exist, right? If the big DE's run poorly on certain older hardware, I can just switch to something lighter. Can I do that in Windows? Uh, no.
You don't take a well-loved, well-established game with a deeply entrenched fan base and COMPLETELY CHANGE the core concept, but keep the name.
And how did the core concept of Zelda change with the Wind Waker? The gameplay was astonishingly similar to Ocarina of Time, and the basic storyline was pretty much the same as it always was. The only change was that it was a little more light-hearted. Even the other Zelda games were hardly about brooding in darkness over the fate of Hyrule.
Australia also doesn't get snow or -30 temperatures. And what about riding through the exits? Are you seriously going to tell me that riding through a route with traffic signals to stop most traffic is more dangerous than riding on the shoulder, cutting across the exit to continue on the shoulder and hoping that the 100km/h traffic slows down to let you through?
Oh yeah, and it would still only be useable transportation for half the year. It's not unusual for the mercury to hit -30C before windchill around here in winter. That's mighty cold to be riding a bike.
1 hour with a bike? That's assuming I can ride it on the freeway, which is asking for death. Not taking the freeway adds a considerable distance to the trip.
Actually, Apt can break compatibility with Linspire's proprietary CNR software installer. Not a problem for most people (and CNR is a great tool for most of them) but since CNR lacks a lot of great apps that a geek like me would use, it's a bit of a deal breaker. Also, Linspire doesn't come with any tools for building from source (but they're available through CNR). Again, not a problem for the market they're aiming for but it's a deal breaker if an app I need only comes in a source tarball, and it makes it a huge pain to compile a custom kernel. It's not as infinitely configurable as most free distros either, unless you don't mind breaking or removing most of what makes Linspire what it is. I don't give a shit about eye candy, I just like to have full control of my machine and so Linspire is not for me. For people who don't like to play around with their computer as much, it's a great distro. The only "support" call I've gotten from either my brother or dad was when a power outage fried my brother's hard drive. No virus calls, no "my computer is slow, what's wrong?", no nothing. It "just works" for what they use it for and that's good enough.
Either way, MS will have a lot of dancing to do to explain why it is that every other word processor will use OpenDoc but them.
Good thing they've already started.
Unfortunately for the environmentalists this is not what you wanted to happen when we started running out of oil but this is by far the most practical realistic solution that will work to give us time to find alternatives.
I get the feeling that while it would give us time to find alternatives, if it provides enough supply we'll just wind up in the same boat we're in now. That is to say, we'll put off looking for alternatives until it's too late again. It's happened before, it's happening now, and should this provide enough supply, it will happen again.
You use up 1 barrel for every 3 that you extract(30 %).
I caught this in TFA as well. That's around the same EPR as biodiesel (biodiesel ranges from 3-4:1). If we're considering this stuff, shouldn't we also be considering biodiesel on a larger scale? It will be FAR less damaging to the environment than this stuff will be.
I live in Edmonton. It takes me 35-45 minutes during rush hour to get to work depending on the traffic and I commute around 17km each way. To take the bus to work would take over two hours, and the last bus to where I work stops just as I get off. If I miss it, it's a long walk home. It would take billions of dollars to give Edmonton an efficient public transit system because it has some of the worst urban sprawl in the world. The auto industry has little to do with it these days, it's a catch-22 situation. Public transportation won't get better until people use it, and people won't use it until it gets better.
For the few of us who actually *gasp* use big hulking V8s to do more than just run to the grocery store, how will your fuel efficient engine perform?
That's why large trucks are exempt from CAFE requirements. The problem there is that the Big 3 use the GVW exemption as an excuse to build bigger vehicles that obviously have no use for actual work in the sense we're talking about. Perhaps the EPA needs to start classifying vehicles based on more than just their gross vehicle weight? It's pretty obvious to most people that an H2 and an F-350 are designed for very different tasks, I don't see why regulations can't reflect that.
To add to this, in many US locations public transportation simply is not an option. I live about 30 miles north of Downtown Dallas. Public buses and rail lines don't even run up here, which means I would have to drive a decent clip just to get to a public transport station. And then I'm not even guaranteed that my destination is reachable.
I've noticed that this is the case in most of western Canada and the western and southern U.S. So much space for the cities to expand combined with low gas prices led to huge amounts of urban sprawl. Now the people are kicking themselves and even if public transportation was extended to those outlying communities, it just wouldn't be very effective anyway.
And with the LGPL you also have to release your code if you a) include the LGPLed code in your program or b) modify the LGPLed application or library. The difference is that you can link to LGPLed libraries from your app without having to open up your own code.
I'll back this statement up. Linspire 4.5 was the distro I set up on my brother and dad's computers so that they wouldn't call me all the time about viruses/spyware. I found the whole thing quite limiting and personally use FreeBSD and Ubuntu, but for what they use their computers for Linspire "just works" and that's enough for them.
You wouldn't happen to have a torrent of the finished version, would you?
Fear Effect made it into the Honorable Mentions.
The DS can be hacked much more easily than the PSP. Maybe you should google "PassMe" or "WifiMe". How is the hacking going with those 1.51 and 2.0 PSP firmware upgrades?