Yes! It should be the parents making sure that the children are studying instead of playing games if their grades are bad. Parents need to take responsibility instead of trying to pawn it off on someone else, and people need to stop trying to be someone's parent when they aren't.
Besides, what's to stop the kid from walking down the street and buying the game at the next store? Absolutely nothing, so its a mute point.
I've been thinking for years that they'd be better off putting up their own torrents with the commercials intact at the same time as it airs. I'd be more inclined to download that than the one that surfaces several hours later with the commercials stripped out.
But I like your idea of releasing them before they air, that would really give people even more incentive to download the legitimate copies (in which they can still have their commercials). Though, I absolutely hate the idea of them embedding the commercials into the show itself, that's just tacky and distracting.
I got optimistic when some of the major studios started offering their shows online, until I found out that the quality was no where near that of your typical torrent,you have to watch it in a tiny box inside your web browser and they only offer it a day or more after the broadcast. They still don't get it.
The funny thing is that offering the shows online in an easily downloadable and viewable format, without any DRM (and even without the commercials) would actually help their shows a great deal overall, but they seem to fail to see the big picture. There are still a lot of people out there that don't know how to find and download the shows online and don't have a DVR that records for them automatically, so when they miss an episode of a show that will leave you clueless and baffled if you miss an episode or two (such as LOST or 24), they'll likely just stop watching. If they could easily watch the episode(s) they missed on demand, then they'll keep watching the show when its broadcast (and thus watch the commercials).
This is why I often wonder why the local power company (PNM in my case) bothers to advertise (they put up billboards and run television commercials), its not like there is anyone that they are competing against, and unless your Amish, you're probably going to need power (and there aren't many Amish in New Mexico).
My point wasn't that NM sucks; sorry if it came out that way. I am just suggesting that the taxpayer money (if they have to have it) could have been spent better on something else, like scholarships for poor kids or a terraforming project or whatever benefits the taxpayers (a tax rebate perhaps)? I suppose that the taxpayer money could be better spent, but I bet their hope is that this will create more jobs for locals as businesses start to move in, which would be a huge benefit.
As far as the scholarships idea, we already have the New Mexico Lottery which gives full-ride scholarships to college for all graduating seniors going to one of the state universities (assuming they keep their grades up). Unfortunately I opted to go out of state initially and then came back after 2.5 years so I wasn't able to take advantage of it.
I thought this was finally the announcement that they were done with the linux and mac clients.
I first heard about this back in April when I was still using Linux on my gaming machine (I've since put winXP on it because I was growing irritated with the performance of WoW and how every patch for both WoW and EVE was like a coin toss whether or not it would bork the whole game).
I'm still excited about the new EVE client though, even if it is just in a wine/cedega wrapper, because then it (probably) won't bork the whole game when theres a new patch and (presumably) I won't have to pay the $5/month for Cedega (not that that was much of a problem)
I've been using the trick they mentioned to see the larger versions of people's profile pictures for years, and now everyone is going to know about it (or at least the 3 people that read CNET)
Here is the question: Should the road builder be forced to open up his private roadways to the public, at no cost, even though he spent $X Billion of his own money building the roads? Except we're talking about the last stretch of road between the nearest major city and your house, and you're paying a monthly fee for using that road so you can go places and people can bring things to you. They want to charge BOTH you, and UPS/FedEx/DHS for the same thing. They want money from both ends instead of actually upgrading their roads to provide you with what they promised you for and what you're paying for.
The ISPs are complaining that without this, there won't be enough bandwidth for all of the traffic that's going to be growing in the future. If they can't guarantee what they promised their customers, its not the content provider's fault, its the ISPs' fault for promising what they can't provide and/or not upgrading their infrastructure to provide what their customers are paying for.
As someone who lives in New Mexico (and spent most of my life here), I can say things really aren't that bad. There's actually a lot going on in the state. We've got two national laboratories, three air force bases, and a number of companies have facilities here including Intel. Ever heard of the atomic bomb? That was made in New Mexico.
You know.... reading this, made me wonder exactly why it was that we never heard a huge fuss from the RIAA back when places like KMart and Zayre and Caldor and other potential discount houses would sell cassettes for $1.99 or.99 cents. I'd imagine that the RIAA doesn't care about that sort of thing, because they already got their money when the sold the cassettes/CDs/whatever to the store in the first place. If the retail store wants to sell it at a loss, then that's their decision to make.
I tried to install the AMD 64-bit version of Feisty, and the CD wouldn't even boot. None of my hardware is exotic by any stretch of the imagination, yet the GUI installer wouldn't even load. A few inquiries on the Ubuntu forums got a few suggestions to try the non-GUI install. I don't feel I should have to slog through a text install in the year 2007, so I didn't give Feisty a second thought. I had the same problem. Apparently it has something to do with the drivers for the bootloader/framebuffer with certain graphics cards. Even if you did get it installed, you'd have to manually disable the nifty graphical loading screen because that wouldn't work either.
At this point, you'd still want the 32-bit version anywhere because certain things just won't work, you'll have to install separate 32-bit versions of some software, and the driver support just isn't there yet (though that goes for Windows as well).
On another note, have they announced when Gutsy is going to be released? Because if they did, I must have missed it.
The vexing thing is, X has supported multiple monitors for some time, and can happily span desktops across monitors with xinerama - but it can be a nightmare to set up. I configured it correctly once about 6 years ago and I've been rehashing and tweaking the same config file ever since. Unless something has changed drastically (and I'm prepared to accept it may have There are several ways to get multiple monitors working, none of which are terribly hard to get working, but which one(s) you can get working depends on your chipset (i.e. ATI, nVidia, Intel). The nVidia Twinview is probably the easiest to set up with the binary drivers, at least from my experience.
Well, you can change the resolution in Ubuntu if it detects your screen resolutions properly, unfortunately my monitors are 1440x900 and for some reason it put me in 1024x768 mode (so everything is stretched out) when I first installed, and put "1440x1440" in my xorg.conf file...
As for reconfiguring for a second monitor, changing resolution/color depth on the fly, you're right, there is no generic way, but if you use the binary nVidia drivers, you can do all of that (and more!) in a nifty little GUI they provide you with. Of course this is the doing of nVidia themselves.
Standard install method so all linux packages don't need to be repacked..deb.rpm etc... pick one please I agree with this. This would be a HUGE step forward, but I suspect that this wouldn't work too well because of differences in the directory structures (among other things) of different distros, so will probably never happen
Pick a WM so all apps work/look the same on all distros. While this would be a good thing (I use gnome and hate how KDE apps like Amarok look in it), it really kind of defeats the entire point of Linux. Its all about choice. Now if they could come up with some sort of common way to describe menus, buttons, graphics, etc so that things like themes would work with all of them, that would be something I would love.
WINE, or Crossover office integrated for compatabilty for windows apps. For most apps (or at least things I've tried), this works great. VMware also works fantastically for pretty much anything other than games. Of course there is still a lot of room for improvement.
If you can get my motherboard and games running on Linux, I might finally switch. Just this weekend I installed Windows on my gaming machine after using Linux only on it for 6+ months. All the games I tried either worked (with varying degree) with either WINE or Cedega, but whenever a patch came out, it was a gamble whether or not it would make the game unplayable. So, you can do it, but its nowhere near 100%.
However, I think the burden for this doesn't lie on the Linux developers as much as it does the games developers. Why should software designed specifically for one operating system necessarily be required to run on another? If you went out and bought a PS3 game, you wouldn't expect to be able to put it in your xbox360 and have it work. What we need is the companies making the games to release versions of their games designed specifically for Linux.
Using Gentoo will not give you a deeper understanding of a linux system than using Debian or SuSE, or most of the other 100 linux distros available. Actually, it does, or at least it used to. Though the last time I checked, you could only install from stage 3 unless you really did some digging.
I used to use Gentoo, but have since moved to Ubuntu because as much as I liked Gentoo, Ubuntu is far easier to setup and maintain (though some might take issue with the latter), and I like to spend my time using my computer, not building, compiling, rebuilding.
I've installed Gentoo from a stage 1 on several occasions, and that gave me a great understanding of how the system actually works from the ground up. When you have to configure your kernel, modules, use flags, boot loader, partitions, and desktop environment by hand, it really gives you a lot of knowledge. Certainly a lot more than the Ubuntu installer does; you could install Ubuntu without knowing anything about partitions or what a kernel and modules are. All of that is fine, great actually, but if you do want to know how the system works, its going to be a lot harder to figure that out.
That depends on your definition of hard. People have fought over sugar, weed and other happy substances. I guess DVDs could also be on the list. It better be a good movie. And just think, they can get documentary film crews to film the war and then sell that too!
I used to be a Gentoo user, but then I tried Ubuntu and never looked back. The main thing I liked about Gentoo was portage, which is handled via the package manager (and it automatically tells me there are updates available) or via apt-get if I feel like it. It's just a lot easier to work with and maintain on a daily basis, but I am glad that I used Gentoo (and built from stage 1 back in the day) because I have a much better idea of what is going on behind the scenes, but I don't have to see it all the time.
With Ubuntu, I don't have to wait for the code to compile, run the risk that the compile will fail and have to start it over and pray it works this time, worry about it overwriting my config files and having it bork my entire system (with the exception of the nVidia drivers, those are still a pain it seems), or forget to 'emerge world' for a long time and then discover everything is so out of date I have to rebuild the whole system from scratch again.
Never shopped there in my life, never will. If you've never shopped there, how can you know its a worthless store?
I'm not saying it isn't worthless (or that it is), just curious how you can claim that without experiencing it for yourself.
Well after just skimming over TFA, it looks like the study was time based, so of course MMO's are going to rank high, as the people playing them generally spend a lot of time doing so. People watching YouTube (in general) are not spending as many hours per day watching video clips as people are raiding to get their phat epic loots.
Good point. Some people will want to be connected to everything, and others including myself will only want their real info on one site (such as myspace) and everything else will be anonymous. I don't want 50,000 social networking sites to know my address, phone number, AIM screen name, my personal preferences, and what I look like. The ability to abuse all that info is too great. But TFA is talking about making the relationship connections standardized and shared between all social networking sites, not address, phone number, AIM screen name or anything beyond "I know this person". Any additional information (i.e. your personal information, or even things like how you know that person) would be specific to the individual site and layered on top.
The idea is if you had a MySpace profile and ad 50 friends on there, and then you joined Facebook, it would automatically list those 50 people on your Facebook as well, without you (or your "friend") having to do anything. Of course then you would still have to set up things like "I went to college with this person" or whatever, but you wouldn't have to try and find all of your friends on whatever new site you decided to join.
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Besides, what's to stop the kid from walking down the street and buying the game at the next store? Absolutely nothing, so its a mute point.
But I like your idea of releasing them before they air, that would really give people even more incentive to download the legitimate copies (in which they can still have their commercials). Though, I absolutely hate the idea of them embedding the commercials into the show itself, that's just tacky and distracting.
I got optimistic when some of the major studios started offering their shows online, until I found out that the quality was no where near that of your typical torrent,you have to watch it in a tiny box inside your web browser and they only offer it a day or more after the broadcast. They still don't get it.
The funny thing is that offering the shows online in an easily downloadable and viewable format, without any DRM (and even without the commercials) would actually help their shows a great deal overall, but they seem to fail to see the big picture. There are still a lot of people out there that don't know how to find and download the shows online and don't have a DVR that records for them automatically, so when they miss an episode of a show that will leave you clueless and baffled if you miss an episode or two (such as LOST or 24), they'll likely just stop watching. If they could easily watch the episode(s) they missed on demand, then they'll keep watching the show when its broadcast (and thus watch the commercials).
This is why I often wonder why the local power company (PNM in my case) bothers to advertise (they put up billboards and run television commercials), its not like there is anyone that they are competing against, and unless your Amish, you're probably going to need power (and there aren't many Amish in New Mexico).
Maybe because someone did?
As far as the scholarships idea, we already have the New Mexico Lottery which gives full-ride scholarships to college for all graduating seniors going to one of the state universities (assuming they keep their grades up). Unfortunately I opted to go out of state initially and then came back after 2.5 years so I wasn't able to take advantage of it.
I first heard about this back in April when I was still using Linux on my gaming machine (I've since put winXP on it because I was growing irritated with the performance of WoW and how every patch for both WoW and EVE was like a coin toss whether or not it would bork the whole game).
I'm still excited about the new EVE client though, even if it is just in a wine/cedega wrapper, because then it (probably) won't bork the whole game when theres a new patch and (presumably) I won't have to pay the $5/month for Cedega (not that that was much of a problem)
I've been using the trick they mentioned to see the larger versions of people's profile pictures for years, and now everyone is going to know about it (or at least the 3 people that read CNET)
The ISPs are complaining that without this, there won't be enough bandwidth for all of the traffic that's going to be growing in the future. If they can't guarantee what they promised their customers, its not the content provider's fault, its the ISPs' fault for promising what they can't provide and/or not upgrading their infrastructure to provide what their customers are paying for.
As someone who lives in New Mexico (and spent most of my life here), I can say things really aren't that bad. There's actually a lot going on in the state. We've got two national laboratories, three air force bases, and a number of companies have facilities here including Intel. Ever heard of the atomic bomb? That was made in New Mexico.
At this point, you'd still want the 32-bit version anywhere because certain things just won't work, you'll have to install separate 32-bit versions of some software, and the driver support just isn't there yet (though that goes for Windows as well).
On another note, have they announced when Gutsy is going to be released? Because if they did, I must have missed it.
As for reconfiguring for a second monitor, changing resolution/color depth on the fly, you're right, there is no generic way, but if you use the binary nVidia drivers, you can do all of that (and more!) in a nifty little GUI they provide you with. Of course this is the doing of nVidia themselves.
However, I think the burden for this doesn't lie on the Linux developers as much as it does the games developers. Why should software designed specifically for one operating system necessarily be required to run on another? If you went out and bought a PS3 game, you wouldn't expect to be able to put it in your xbox360 and have it work. What we need is the companies making the games to release versions of their games designed specifically for Linux.
I used to use Gentoo, but have since moved to Ubuntu because as much as I liked Gentoo, Ubuntu is far easier to setup and maintain (though some might take issue with the latter), and I like to spend my time using my computer, not building, compiling, rebuilding.
I've installed Gentoo from a stage 1 on several occasions, and that gave me a great understanding of how the system actually works from the ground up. When you have to configure your kernel, modules, use flags, boot loader, partitions, and desktop environment by hand, it really gives you a lot of knowledge. Certainly a lot more than the Ubuntu installer does; you could install Ubuntu without knowing anything about partitions or what a kernel and modules are. All of that is fine, great actually, but if you do want to know how the system works, its going to be a lot harder to figure that out.
Well done.
Yeah, as much as I sympathize that they lost their vehicle, I also want to see the video of this thing blowing up!
... what could possibly go wrong!?
With Ubuntu, I don't have to wait for the code to compile, run the risk that the compile will fail and have to start it over and pray it works this time, worry about it overwriting my config files and having it bork my entire system (with the exception of the nVidia drivers, those are still a pain it seems), or forget to 'emerge world' for a long time and then discover everything is so out of date I have to rebuild the whole system from scratch again.
Well after just skimming over TFA, it looks like the study was time based, so of course MMO's are going to rank high, as the people playing them generally spend a lot of time doing so. People watching YouTube (in general) are not spending as many hours per day watching video clips as people are raiding to get their phat epic loots.
The idea is if you had a MySpace profile and ad 50 friends on there, and then you joined Facebook, it would automatically list those 50 people on your Facebook as well, without you (or your "friend") having to do anything. Of course then you would still have to set up things like "I went to college with this person" or whatever, but you wouldn't have to try and find all of your friends on whatever new site you decided to join.