well, if you don't want to type you can use Synaptic in all it's point-n-clicking goodness, or you could do as I did when I installed Opera, download the.DEB and double click on it. Easier and much better than uncompressing a.zip file and looking for the setup.exe or install.exe since it's just a single file and it's completely integrated with the underlying package manager, unlike some Windows apps I've encountered in the past.
so no, it's not a good point and hasn't been for a long while unless you use one of the "hardcore" distros like Arch or Gentoo, which not only aren't fit for a newbie but never have claimed to be.
All this does it put people's minds at ease that the government is Doing Something. at the risk of sounding paranoid, it also puts "Big Brother is watching YOU" inside students' minds which, whether it's a 'design goal' or just an 'unexpected feature' of this program, is much scarier and damaging to society at large, IMHO.
Vista runs crappy on 512mb. Very true, but XP and OSX 10 runs crappy on 512mb too, so what's your point? Win98 was the last MS OS out there that did fine with that little RAM. first, 512 MBs of RAM is hardly "little", and second, the last MS OS that did fine with that amount was Windows 2000, which also ran perfectly well on 256 MBs as my friends' PC can attest, though 128 MBs may be pushing things a little (whereas 98 ran happily on that amount). Of course, that assumes you aren't running memory-eaters like Photoshop which run like shit on anything less than 1.5GBs no matter the OS, but you can't blame Microsoft for Adobe's incompetence.
not really, I'd be replacing value=time with value=sociability, since crowds would easily beat smaller groups or lone people, in my example the lv20 wouldn't beat the lv56 because his sword is uber-powerful, but rather because the difference between levels is small enough to be compensated by it, so theoretically the lv56 would only need to call a friend with his lv12 character to get his revenge on the lv20 =D
that'd alienate some people, of course, but mostly the ones that play only to maximize their characters' stats, which would be easily compensated by the amount of people looking to sociabilize, role-play, or the ones that don't have as much time to play as the "hardcore" ones, such as the GGP.
Unfortunately... you still have the 80 hour a week players-- so what I want is a game where you can't buy a position or gold and where you can't play more than a certain number of hours per week. ("This is the 20 hour a week server-- all players on this server are limited to 20 hours a week" "This is the 30 hour a week server".. etc. or you could just make leveling up slower and the rewards for it much smaller, so that a lv20 character that got lucky and found a nice sword back when he was lv14 could easily beat a lv56 that was unprepared for an attack. IMHO that'd make the game less Monopoly and more RPG in addition to making the game much less frustrating for newbies, since a party of 5 newbies would at least have a shot at killing that lv86 loser that's trying to kill them.
hey, if I could make all copyright infringement stop tomorrow I would, because maybe that'll finally make people realize the extremely overpriced, bloated pieces of crap that are Photoshop, Office and Windows, but if we don't fight for the privacy of alleged criminals today, when they come after us tomorrow it may already be too late.
and if it matters, I'm posting this from a Xubuntu machine while listening to a playlist full of legally-acquired music, mostly from Magnatunes.com
I'm not calling the GPL license "freedom", I'm saying it *promotes* freedom, because it protects the code licensed under it from being incorporated into products by people who would deny me the right to study, modify, extend and distribute such software in the manner I see fit.
and well, yes, I do think that ensuring modifications are given back to the community helps them, since I believe that for any company who would release their modifications as PD there are at least two that wouldn't do so and keep theirs closed-source, and that for any such example of code not being used in a company for being "too restrictive", there are at least two that contribute their code to the community knowing that their competitors can't just take it, incorporate it into their products and sell it without giving anything back to them, therefore both the user and developer communities benefit, othewise I'd guess the BSDs would be more popular than Linux, which doesn't seem to be the case.
the GPL isn't the most free license there is, that's obvious, but it's the one that *promotes* the most freedom. I don't want to give my code away, I want to help people the most with my code, and by making sure any improvement done to my software is given to the community just like the original was, I'm doing them a much bigger favor than just throwing them a.zip with some source files and saying "there, go and do whatever you want with it, I don't care".
ohh, and most sensible people wouldn't describe "anarchy" as the only free system, so I don't see why it'd apply to software... the GPL is a free license, it's just less free than BSD or Public Domain.
99% of the population will happily pay for a refined product if needed to get their work done, true. Photographers will pay for Lightroom/Aperture, graphic designers will pay for Photoshop/Illustrator, video editors will pay for Final Cut Pro, and journalists will pay for Microsoft Office. But if you think your average musician is happy to pay $699 for Photoshop CS3 just to retouch a photo before sending it to grandma, you're sorely mistaken, and that's why free applications are important for a platform, because photographers, web designers, video editors and etc, are all *people*, who have lives outside their work, and therefore need more than just one big commercial application on their computer.
that's why I'm a happy Linux and BSD user, too. My sysadmin needs are covered by everything UNIX, and my needs as a photographer are happily filled by LightZone, with TheGIMP thrown along for good measure. But I still have direct and quick access via Synaptic to thousands of applications from video players to blog-managing utilities, and if I decide to try and make a vector drawing or build a basic website I don't have to pay $20 to a random internet company for the privilege of doing so.
because, like, being able to buy my mp3 player a lizard skin at my favorite fashion store is TOTALLY required for me to buy it. Not to mention that the flood of accessories came *after* the iPod was a success, not before it.
I'd say the most important part of the iPod's success was that it was affordable, though... here in my own li'l country, I've yet to see someone who owns one besides celebrities, "normal" people all have generic Chinese-made flash-based players, with the same 2GB-at-most capacity, the same MP3/WMA-only compatibility, and the same designed-in-Hell interface, no matter how "fashion-conscious" they may be. But it's hardly surprising considering the iPod costs about 3 months of minimum wage 'round here, is it? and that'd also explain why there are no iPod covers or skins of any kind at fashion stores, and small-sized computer stores have a much longer array of chinese-made replacements than accessories for Apple's favorite cashcow.
me? 1 GB is more than enough for me, the things plug on your PC's USB connector and work just like pendrives (therefore, 100% Linux-compatible, even with good ol' cp and mv), and being able to use generic AAA batteries instead of yet-another-propietary-POS is a big plus for me, so I give my money to the chinese without going through the US first.
in an ideal world, you would've been modded down -1, Redundant for saying about the same thing that Jesus said two thousands years ago, "do unto others..." and all that, but sadly we live in a world that has to be reminded that religions do think "nice guys > sheep" from time to time. Ohh, and you don't have to go to church every Sunday to be a religious person, too, Catholicism is only one branch of Christianity and there *are* other religions in the world too.
and if you're wondering, I'm an atheist but for very different reasons than yours.
no, it just means that if you lock your door with a lock that's easily pickable, it's OK for me to pick it, though breaking in would still be illegal.
This would be a fairly meaningless decision, however, if it wasn't for the fact that it used to be illegal to pick the lock of your own house in the first place. Well, it still is, as long as you use better locks.
mind explaining then, why is your oh-so-holy country named "America"? 'cause legends (and wikipedia) says, that the name was in honor to Américo Vespucio, who was the first to recognize the new continent as such (instead of believing it was a part of Asia), after traveling through what's now South America, and I certainly don't mean by that the area around Texas. And calling a country in honor of a guy who had practically nothing to do with it's history seems kinda foolish to my *ehem*, "non-american" mind.
ps: ohh, and common usage of the word "American" refers to people from the American continent in most of the world, in most languages outside of english. Not that "americans" care much about that, though.
I will go back to the PC Gaming magazine article I believe it was where John Carmack everybody's favorite guy here around here said he was seriously disappointed on the sales of Doom 3 Linux and that would most likely affect future choices on development for games on Linux.
please do, because I've never heard of such thing as "Doom 3 Linux" being for sale, and ID Software's own Doom 3 Linux FAQ states that you need a retail copy of Doom 3 for Windows in order to install the Linux version, which is how I installed and played it btw, so either your memory is failing you, or you confused DooM3 for Descent 3 or something (the last game I recall had different retail versions for both Windows and Linux, as I found out the hard way), but Descent wasn't made by John Carmack so I'd bet on your memory failing.
ohh and btw, both Neverwinter Nights and Enemy Territory run flawlessly on Linux without Wine in case you're interested.
careful with that... murder could be said that it's "freedom from life"...
fact is, socialism and capitalism are just two different solution for the same problem, and there are many examples of failed socialist and capitalist societies, as there are examples of successful socialist and capitalist societies... besides, USA is *so* far from the capitalist ideal that it shouldn't be an example of either...
Sony shoots it's self in the foot with Blu-ray, and Nintendo instead takes the lead with its realization that 90% of the people dont want a uber system for 500 dollars, but would rather a 200 dollarish system that plays fun games, does it well, is backwards compatable, and has some inovative features (like the controller)
umm... no. People mostly want a system that has some sort of standard for it's games (so that they can be easily pirated and/or extended... mostly the first), like CD and DVDs, has nice graphics, and has a good, familiar controller... innovation is cool in graphics, but an innovative controller is like an innovative interface in an Office app or a image editing app: be too innovative and you're just plain weird. Which is the opinion of every non-hardcore-gamer that I've met about the Gamecube... and I certainly don't think that the Revolution will sell to them...
Xbox360 or PS3? dunno, I left the gaming world a couple of years ago, and as a new-casual-gamer I'll just buy a 'cube and a Xbox (since I already have a PS2), old-gen means really-cheap =D probably they'll go to the cheaper one, or the one that's made by the same company than the console they already have... but I can't see the Revolution being that different from the 'cube...
yes, The GIMP is a porn site, Vi is a program to teach little kids the alphabet, Bluefish Thunderbird and Firefox are the mascots of a cartoon, and EMACS is an old piece of software dating back to the times when mainframes were cool.
Wait, that one is actually right...
this is so going to be GIMP-vs-Photoshop all over again, with doses of Flash-sucks, Vi-rules, and the usual dose of propietary-app-is-THE-standard and even worse, those OSS-app-must-behave-like-commercial-app trolls, which are the same OSS-doesn't-innovate trolls... for heaven's sake, can't we just have a WEEK without these flamewars?
I think it was better when we had a new story every week hailing our new Google overlords...
agreed, instruction for removing the bayer matrix from a camera (preferably a prosumer or a dSLR) would be a strong reason to consider this book IMHO, it's the only hack that I'd actually attempt to do (which is AFAIK what you have to do to get a nice, sharp, b&w-only camera).
Yes, I know about converting color images to B&W in PP, but it'd be a nice change, I think... not that I'd do it on my main camera, but still I think that there are many people who at least would attempt it =) and if there's a market for astrophotography-modded cameras (like the Canon 20Da), I think that there would be a market for a sharp, bayer-matrix-less, antialias-filter-less dSLR =)
just askin', but... could you explain the terms "macroevolution" and "microevolution"? dunno, but the way "creationists" (meaning, those that think that God created the world as it is) throw the terms around, it'd seem that they think that pro-Evolution-theory people really believe that life beings "evolution" just like pokemons, and a horse will breed/become a bear in a cold enviroment/while being attacked by a giant lizard/something... which would be, like, the biggest straw-man argument ever, or something:D
kinda off-topic but what the hell... the best high-ISO entry-level camera is the Nikon D50, for sharpness nothing beats a prime, and a wide aperture lets you take photos with less light, so the ideal setup for less than US$1000 would be, without question, a Nikon D50 body with a 50mm f/1.4 prime lens...
Though you should look at the Fuji F10 or the F11, which is a good camera for that purpose... I have the feeling that the D50 would be overkill
you should've tried Opera instead of Firefox. I'm currently posting this from a IBM 380ED, ~166mhz laptop running IceWM+Rox+Opera and it runs just fine (as long as you don't use Flash), but Firefox is *way* too slow on this machine... yeah, Opera ain't OSS, but neither is Windows, so if we're comparing apples to apples...
in any case, no, it isn't the same as using them on a 1+ Ghz computer, but at least I've found it to be perfectly usable (as I said, without Flash... it's slow on one tab, try to imagine on more than 5 =D)
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Originally, GTK+ was created as a spin-off of another well-known open source project: the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). While working on early GIMP versions, Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball created GTK (which stands for GIMP Toolkit) as an alternative to the Motif tool kit, which at that time was not free. (The plus sign was added to the name later, when the tool kit gained object-oriented features and extensibility.)
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well, if you don't want to type you can use Synaptic in all it's point-n-clicking goodness, or you could do as I did when I installed Opera, download the .DEB and double click on it. Easier and much better than uncompressing a .zip file and looking for the setup.exe or install.exe since it's just a single file and it's completely integrated with the underlying package manager, unlike some Windows apps I've encountered in the past.
so no, it's not a good point and hasn't been for a long while unless you use one of the "hardcore" distros like Arch or Gentoo, which not only aren't fit for a newbie but never have claimed to be.
not really, I'd be replacing value=time with value=sociability, since crowds would easily beat smaller groups or lone people, in my example the lv20 wouldn't beat the lv56 because his sword is uber-powerful, but rather because the difference between levels is small enough to be compensated by it, so theoretically the lv56 would only need to call a friend with his lv12 character to get his revenge on the lv20 =D
that'd alienate some people, of course, but mostly the ones that play only to maximize their characters' stats, which would be easily compensated by the amount of people looking to sociabilize, role-play, or the ones that don't have as much time to play as the "hardcore" ones, such as the GGP.
hey, if I could make all copyright infringement stop tomorrow I would, because maybe that'll finally make people realize the extremely overpriced, bloated pieces of crap that are Photoshop, Office and Windows, but if we don't fight for the privacy of alleged criminals today, when they come after us tomorrow it may already be too late.
and if it matters, I'm posting this from a Xubuntu machine while listening to a playlist full of legally-acquired music, mostly from Magnatunes.com
I'm not calling the GPL license "freedom", I'm saying it *promotes* freedom, because it protects the code licensed under it from being incorporated into products by people who would deny me the right to study, modify, extend and distribute such software in the manner I see fit.
and well, yes, I do think that ensuring modifications are given back to the community helps them, since I believe that for any company who would release their modifications as PD there are at least two that wouldn't do so and keep theirs closed-source, and that for any such example of code not being used in a company for being "too restrictive", there are at least two that contribute their code to the community knowing that their competitors can't just take it, incorporate it into their products and sell it without giving anything back to them, therefore both the user and developer communities benefit, othewise I'd guess the BSDs would be more popular than Linux, which doesn't seem to be the case.
the GPL isn't the most free license there is, that's obvious, but it's the one that *promotes* the most freedom. I don't want to give my code away, I want to help people the most with my code, and by making sure any improvement done to my software is given to the community just like the original was, I'm doing them a much bigger favor than just throwing them a .zip with some source files and saying "there, go and do whatever you want with it, I don't care".
ohh, and most sensible people wouldn't describe "anarchy" as the only free system, so I don't see why it'd apply to software... the GPL is a free license, it's just less free than BSD or Public Domain.
99% of the population will happily pay for a refined product if needed to get their work done, true. Photographers will pay for Lightroom/Aperture, graphic designers will pay for Photoshop/Illustrator, video editors will pay for Final Cut Pro, and journalists will pay for Microsoft Office. But if you think your average musician is happy to pay $699 for Photoshop CS3 just to retouch a photo before sending it to grandma, you're sorely mistaken, and that's why free applications are important for a platform, because photographers, web designers, video editors and etc, are all *people*, who have lives outside their work, and therefore need more than just one big commercial application on their computer.
that's why I'm a happy Linux and BSD user, too. My sysadmin needs are covered by everything UNIX, and my needs as a photographer are happily filled by LightZone, with TheGIMP thrown along for good measure. But I still have direct and quick access via Synaptic to thousands of applications from video players to blog-managing utilities, and if I decide to try and make a vector drawing or build a basic website I don't have to pay $20 to a random internet company for the privilege of doing so.
because, like, being able to buy my mp3 player a lizard skin at my favorite fashion store is TOTALLY required for me to buy it. Not to mention that the flood of accessories came *after* the iPod was a success, not before it.
I'd say the most important part of the iPod's success was that it was affordable, though... here in my own li'l country, I've yet to see someone who owns one besides celebrities, "normal" people all have generic Chinese-made flash-based players, with the same 2GB-at-most capacity, the same MP3/WMA-only compatibility, and the same designed-in-Hell interface, no matter how "fashion-conscious" they may be. But it's hardly surprising considering the iPod costs about 3 months of minimum wage 'round here, is it? and that'd also explain why there are no iPod covers or skins of any kind at fashion stores, and small-sized computer stores have a much longer array of chinese-made replacements than accessories for Apple's favorite cashcow.
me? 1 GB is more than enough for me, the things plug on your PC's USB connector and work just like pendrives (therefore, 100% Linux-compatible, even with good ol' cp and mv), and being able to use generic AAA batteries instead of yet-another-propietary-POS is a big plus for me, so I give my money to the chinese without going through the US first.
in an ideal world, you would've been modded down -1, Redundant for saying about the same thing that Jesus said two thousands years ago, "do unto others..." and all that, but sadly we live in a world that has to be reminded that religions do think "nice guys > sheep" from time to time. Ohh, and you don't have to go to church every Sunday to be a religious person, too, Catholicism is only one branch of Christianity and there *are* other religions in the world too.
and if you're wondering, I'm an atheist but for very different reasons than yours.
no, it just means that if you lock your door with a lock that's easily pickable, it's OK for me to pick it, though breaking in would still be illegal.
This would be a fairly meaningless decision, however, if it wasn't for the fact that it used to be illegal to pick the lock of your own house in the first place. Well, it still is, as long as you use better locks.
mind explaining then, why is your oh-so-holy country named "America"? 'cause legends (and wikipedia) says, that the name was in honor to Américo Vespucio, who was the first to recognize the new continent as such (instead of believing it was a part of Asia), after traveling through what's now South America, and I certainly don't mean by that the area around Texas. And calling a country in honor of a guy who had practically nothing to do with it's history seems kinda foolish to my *ehem*, "non-american" mind.
ps: ohh, and common usage of the word "American" refers to people from the American continent in most of the world, in most languages outside of english. Not that "americans" care much about that, though.
please do, because I've never heard of such thing as "Doom 3 Linux" being for sale, and ID Software's own Doom 3 Linux FAQ states that you need a retail copy of Doom 3 for Windows in order to install the Linux version, which is how I installed and played it btw, so either your memory is failing you, or you confused DooM3 for Descent 3 or something (the last game I recall had different retail versions for both Windows and Linux, as I found out the hard way), but Descent wasn't made by John Carmack so I'd bet on your memory failing.
ohh and btw, both Neverwinter Nights and Enemy Territory run flawlessly on Linux without Wine in case you're interested.
careful with that... murder could be said that it's "freedom from life"...
fact is, socialism and capitalism are just two different solution for the same problem, and there are many examples of failed socialist and capitalist societies, as there are examples of successful socialist and capitalist societies... besides, USA is *so* far from the capitalist ideal that it shouldn't be an example of either...
yes, The GIMP is a porn site, Vi is a program to teach little kids the alphabet, Bluefish Thunderbird and Firefox are the mascots of a cartoon, and EMACS is an old piece of software dating back to the times when mainframes were cool. Wait, that one is actually right...
this is so going to be GIMP-vs-Photoshop all over again, with doses of Flash-sucks, Vi-rules, and the usual dose of propietary-app-is-THE-standard and even worse, those OSS-app-must-behave-like-commercial-app trolls, which are the same OSS-doesn't-innovate trolls... for heaven's sake, can't we just have a WEEK without these flamewars? I think it was better when we had a new story every week hailing our new Google overlords...
agreed, instruction for removing the bayer matrix from a camera (preferably a prosumer or a dSLR) would be a strong reason to consider this book IMHO, it's the only hack that I'd actually attempt to do (which is AFAIK what you have to do to get a nice, sharp, b&w-only camera). Yes, I know about converting color images to B&W in PP, but it'd be a nice change, I think... not that I'd do it on my main camera, but still I think that there are many people who at least would attempt it =) and if there's a market for astrophotography-modded cameras (like the Canon 20Da), I think that there would be a market for a sharp, bayer-matrix-less, antialias-filter-less dSLR =)
just askin', but... could you explain the terms "macroevolution" and "microevolution"? dunno, but the way "creationists" (meaning, those that think that God created the world as it is) throw the terms around, it'd seem that they think that pro-Evolution-theory people really believe that life beings "evolution" just like pokemons, and a horse will breed/become a bear in a cold enviroment/while being attacked by a giant lizard/something... which would be, like, the biggest straw-man argument ever, or something :D
kinda off-topic but what the hell... the best high-ISO entry-level camera is the Nikon D50, for sharpness nothing beats a prime, and a wide aperture lets you take photos with less light, so the ideal setup for less than US$1000 would be, without question, a Nikon D50 body with a 50mm f/1.4 prime lens... Though you should look at the Fuji F10 or the F11, which is a good camera for that purpose... I have the feeling that the D50 would be overkill
you should've tried Opera instead of Firefox. I'm currently posting this from a IBM 380ED, ~166mhz laptop running IceWM+Rox+Opera and it runs just fine (as long as you don't use Flash), but Firefox is *way* too slow on this machine... yeah, Opera ain't OSS, but neither is Windows, so if we're comparing apples to apples... in any case, no, it isn't the same as using them on a 1+ Ghz computer, but at least I've found it to be perfectly usable (as I said, without Flash... it's slow on one tab, try to imagine on more than 5 =D)