Well, sorta complaining. I have Q3Arena for free on my Windows partition on this computer, why can't I do the same thing for free on my Linux machines? I see why I don't get to install the full retail verson for free, but why can't I use the same process on the demo?
I'm not really complaining though, just kinda frustrated about it. My point was that the install process is not 'easy' to install retail games on Linux. I can't 'yum install half-life' and the above Gentoo user can't 'emerge WoW'.
It isn't bad, but it IS complicated. There are RPM packages that I installed, but couldn't finish because I didn't have a full retail install of the game. I had the demo, but it doesn't count.
Actually, he's right. Well, partially. The quake3 packages are just the open sourced engine. To actually get the game to run, you have to load the game itself. The analogy would be that you can get a free chessboard, but the pieces are sold seperatley. I couldn't even use the Q3Ademo on my Linux box:-/
The difference here is in usage. Before I switched entirely to Linux, I would also do very little troubleshooting before I would just reinstall. Of course, whenever possible I would install over the existing installation, but I would occasionally nuke my system entirely.
If I work on someone else's computer, reinstall is pretty much my last option. They don't have a simple backup system that they can use to move their data to another location, and they don't keep their drivers on a USB key for the occasion. You, sir, are a gamer, and care little about data, and are prepared for constant nuking and reinstalling. Keeps your configuration streamlined anyway, registry debris won't get in your way, and driver issues are minimized. When I was a gamer, I would reinstall every three months whether I needed it or not.
I wouldn't be upgrading to Vista anyway, so this particular issue doesn't affect me. My mother is the only one that would get it, but her hardware won't support it so I won't be driving six hours to spend three days migrating her to Vista. Same for all of my friends, their hardware won't support it. Microsoft revenue from me and mine = $0.00. I'll be getting what I need to be able to troubleshoot from the Release Candidate DVDs I downloaded.
IIRC, you only get the 'pound me in the ass' in prison, and prison is only for those sentences over a year in most places. He'll get county lockup for this one, I'm pretty sure.
If I had a mod point left for this discussion, I would totally dig you out of your -1 hole.
Think about this a minute. Without learning the rules of survival in a quasi-controlled environment like a playground, they are either going to learn it outside where they get left to bleed alone, or they won't learn it at all. That means they become bullies or the abused for the rest of their lives. The bullies become politicians or prisoners, depending on their choices later, and the abused become the sheep and the whiners that want the next handout.
The problem is, noone will ever know. By the time this cycle fulfills itself, noone will be around to point out what they did wrong. Then it's REALLY 1984 meets Mad Max. . . try wrapping your head around THAT one for a while.
I guess it wouldn't be so bad that we're getting soft as a nation, if the rest of the world was joining us in it. The truth is, there are lots of other people out there that would like us to be soft enough to leave them alone so they can get away with things. If the US and the UK let this kind of crap go on, then the next two generations will be the Dark Ages all over again, but this time with BioChem and ThermoNuclear weapons. Pretty, huh?
The Gates Foundation always struck me as a little . . . odd. Like, they are trying to hide the Evil of MS by saying "Lookie, lookie, we do so much GOOD for the world". Don't get me wrong, the Gates foundation does lots of good things, but I always cringe when I hear about it.
I don't have my factbooks handy, and am too lazy to look it up (the pool is calling my name), but IIRC, the countries that the US owes the most money to, also owe us quite a bit. If the deficit stays where it is, everyone keeps paying interest and such, but if anyone calls their debts in, the whole thing starts to evaporate. Anyone that can link those numbers is welcome to correct me (please don't rant at me, but corrections are welcome).
I think there was a paradigm shift in the system at some point. As the government got more proactive in developing defense systems, the government became more innovative than the private sector. In the modern design world, private defense contracts are where the real design happens. It makes for a fuzzy line, but that makes it so that more military development is getting into commercial implementation.
It's a Good Thing (tm). If it were a Necessary Evil (tm), we would be reluctant to do it, and we would be the next target because of it. Besides, when technology like this is developed, it's contracted to the private sector to build it. A few design generations later, it ends up being incorporated into commercial craft, because Boeing, etc know how the design works.
I think the error in your logic is the target of the R&D. Consumers don't like change. Government can change technology much more easily. I don't have a fuel cell vehicle because it requires me and a large percentage of the population to start buying them. I don't know about you, but buying a new car isn't in my budget.
The thing about fuel cell, or any alternative fuel vehicles, is that we have to get to critical mass before it can happen. If you can see a way to do that, then do it and you will be the next multi-billionaire in this country. To make it work, you either have to have the money to immediately implement the fuel on a national scale without having the sales to get there, or it has to be 100% compatible with existing engines.
I think what we need to work on is a method to easily and inexpensively retrofit existing engines to work with alternative fuels. If I could go to Schucks and spend less than $2000 on an engine add-on that would let me use an alternate fuel, I would do it. I have seen several articles on Slashdot about hydrogen-injection systems for motors, some you have to buy hydrogen for, and some that create it themselves. The problem is, they all turn into vaporware. Someone needs to fund the people that are trying to develop them, or do it themselves so it works. I'll be the first in line to buy one, but I can't afford to go spend $30-60,000 on a new car that might use alternative fuels. And I don't know many that could. I live in the Seattle area, and I don't seen any stations that are selling Hydrogen, either.
The issue i have with the 'close button on tabs' "feature" is simple. I have closed tabs in opera when I'm trying to select them because my tabs got small (about a dozen loaded) and the close button was as big or bigger than the rest of the tab.
I haven't used the close button on the FF tabbar since I figured out that middle-click will close a tab. Before I knew that, I used right-click->close tab to close them if they were in the background.
There are several features in FF2 that I hope can be easily disabled. Adding clutter to the core is not the way to go forward and keep your advantages here. Right now, FF consists of tabs, address bar, search field, and in-page find. Any other features are extensions. I like what they're doing to clean up the UI (add-ins item will be nice for exensions and themes, they should move search engines to this), their only other focus should be stability.
For the record, I've only run into the memory leak at my last job, and that was more likley the memory-intensive database we used, and having a dozen tabs open with different views of it. FF/win32 usually takes up between 40 and 80mb, I've never seen it breat 100m. Under Linux, it usually hovers around 30mb.
Actually, on a GSM phone, that data is pulled from the network on a regular interval or when the phone is powered on. With a CDMA network, it has to be downloaded to the phone manually (*228 on VZW).
I've found that I had much better performance with CDMA than GSM. My history of cellular history is Analog (Airtouch), TDMA (CellularOne), PCS-CDMA (Sprint) GSM-CDMA (T-Mobile), CDMA (Verizon), and GSM (Cingular). Of all, the best performance with Verizon wherever I've gone. Of the various phones I've used, I have never found handsets that compare to Nokia.
That being said, T-Mobile was the absolute worst, followed closely by Sprint. Cellular One was shaky at best, and they had a Magical Billing System that required constant attention, like the time I lost my battery (damn cat) and I got a bill with a $100 overage. Verizon had the best signal, but their customer service tanked. 'Worry free' my ass. I want to be able to change to a compatable handset without hearing a bunch of idiots telling me that my phone isn't compatable when it works better on their network than the ones I bought from them.
Cingular is my current provider, and they are second in signal to Verizon, but there's a long stretch between them. I often get static on the line, dropped calls, drop outs, digital interference, and failed connections. Since you don't actually get static on a digital GSM system, I must assume that there must be some problem on the backend that will be resolved as they finish their integration with ATT's network. I hope. Maybe? Their new ads about the fewest dropped calls is irritating. There is serious massaging of the data going on there. They can't be counting failed connections, or dropoffs between towers. Or calls that don't drop, but are otherwise useless, like one-way conversations and such. Still much better than T-Mo or CellOne->RCC->Unicel by a longshot.
Their customer service people actually listen to me and don't give me some bullshit story when I want them to do something. When they tell me no, it's for a valid reason, not "your phone is not compatable and/or E911 complient" when I used the SAME PHONE on their network for 8 months before with better service than any of the phones I bought from them, and the one time I called 911 on it, the operator knew where I was better than I did. If you have seen that rant before, then yes, I'm a little bitter about it, lol.
I would suggest that if you want the best signal, you get Verizon with a Nokia phone, you'll like the 6236, a friend has it and loves it. If you want decent signal with better customer service, go Cingular. If you want to constantly be chasing the edge of your signal, or redialing numbers, go with Sprint or T-Mobile.
And, if you want to communicate with someone, go to their house, eat their food, and laugh at their stupid jokes:-P
Its amazing how every time I update my resume, I get dozens of people that think I would make a great Insurance salesman, even though all of my experience is in tech support and one gig at RadioShack. I get offers from Monster and CareerBuilder, but none of them are useful to me. I'm not sure that making it hidden wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Luke was being trained in the Force, and was actively using it, where Lea was not. Also, the fact that his first encounter with Vader was around the same time as Vader runs into Obi-wan again would have gotten him thinking about it. And, of course, Luke kept his surname.
He knew of Lea as a pollitical figure, and suspected her of being a traitor, but I doubt that he spent any time questioning her parentage.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, sorta complaining. I have Q3Arena for free on my Windows partition on this computer, why can't I do the same thing for free on my Linux machines? I see why I don't get to install the full retail verson for free, but why can't I use the same process on the demo?
I'm not really complaining though, just kinda frustrated about it. My point was that the install process is not 'easy' to install retail games on Linux. I can't 'yum install half-life' and the above Gentoo user can't 'emerge WoW'.
It isn't bad, but it IS complicated. There are RPM packages that I installed, but couldn't finish because I didn't have a full retail install of the game. I had the demo, but it doesn't count.
Actually, he's right. Well, partially. The quake3 packages are just the open sourced engine. To actually get the game to run, you have to load the game itself. The analogy would be that you can get a free chessboard, but the pieces are sold seperatley. I couldn't even use the Q3Ademo on my Linux box :-/
He will. And some other toys.
Hope you like The Sodomizer. . . 18 inches of spring loaded steel.
The difference here is in usage. Before I switched entirely to Linux, I would also do very little troubleshooting before I would just reinstall. Of course, whenever possible I would install over the existing installation, but I would occasionally nuke my system entirely.
If I work on someone else's computer, reinstall is pretty much my last option. They don't have a simple backup system that they can use to move their data to another location, and they don't keep their drivers on a USB key for the occasion. You, sir, are a gamer, and care little about data, and are prepared for constant nuking and reinstalling. Keeps your configuration streamlined anyway, registry debris won't get in your way, and driver issues are minimized. When I was a gamer, I would reinstall every three months whether I needed it or not.
I wouldn't be upgrading to Vista anyway, so this particular issue doesn't affect me. My mother is the only one that would get it, but her hardware won't support it so I won't be driving six hours to spend three days migrating her to Vista. Same for all of my friends, their hardware won't support it. Microsoft revenue from me and mine = $0.00. I'll be getting what I need to be able to troubleshoot from the Release Candidate DVDs I downloaded.
IIRC, you only get the 'pound me in the ass' in prison, and prison is only for those sentences over a year in most places. He'll get county lockup for this one, I'm pretty sure.
Does that make me a vegitarian?
Or middle click. . .
If I had a mod point left for this discussion, I would totally dig you out of your -1 hole.
Think about this a minute. Without learning the rules of survival in a quasi-controlled environment like a playground, they are either going to learn it outside where they get left to bleed alone, or they won't learn it at all. That means they become bullies or the abused for the rest of their lives. The bullies become politicians or prisoners, depending on their choices later, and the abused become the sheep and the whiners that want the next handout.
The problem is, noone will ever know. By the time this cycle fulfills itself, noone will be around to point out what they did wrong. Then it's REALLY 1984 meets Mad Max. . . try wrapping your head around THAT one for a while.
I guess it wouldn't be so bad that we're getting soft as a nation, if the rest of the world was joining us in it. The truth is, there are lots of other people out there that would like us to be soft enough to leave them alone so they can get away with things. If the US and the UK let this kind of crap go on, then the next two generations will be the Dark Ages all over again, but this time with BioChem and ThermoNuclear weapons. Pretty, huh?
and here I am, without any mod points to give you a well-earned "insigtful". . .
$260 on newegg
linky
Now, I'm convinced that this idea sucks. Thank you for showing me the light!
The Gates Foundation always struck me as a little . . . odd. Like, they are trying to hide the Evil of MS by saying "Lookie, lookie, we do so much GOOD for the world". Don't get me wrong, the Gates foundation does lots of good things, but I always cringe when I hear about it.
I don't have my factbooks handy, and am too lazy to look it up (the pool is calling my name), but IIRC, the countries that the US owes the most money to, also owe us quite a bit. If the deficit stays where it is, everyone keeps paying interest and such, but if anyone calls their debts in, the whole thing starts to evaporate. Anyone that can link those numbers is welcome to correct me (please don't rant at me, but corrections are welcome).
I think there was a paradigm shift in the system at some point. As the government got more proactive in developing defense systems, the government became more innovative than the private sector. In the modern design world, private defense contracts are where the real design happens. It makes for a fuzzy line, but that makes it so that more military development is getting into commercial implementation.
It's a Good Thing (tm). If it were a Necessary Evil (tm), we would be reluctant to do it, and we would be the next target because of it. Besides, when technology like this is developed, it's contracted to the private sector to build it. A few design generations later, it ends up being incorporated into commercial craft, because Boeing, etc know how the design works.
I think the error in your logic is the target of the R&D. Consumers don't like change. Government can change technology much more easily. I don't have a fuel cell vehicle because it requires me and a large percentage of the population to start buying them. I don't know about you, but buying a new car isn't in my budget.
The thing about fuel cell, or any alternative fuel vehicles, is that we have to get to critical mass before it can happen. If you can see a way to do that, then do it and you will be the next multi-billionaire in this country. To make it work, you either have to have the money to immediately implement the fuel on a national scale without having the sales to get there, or it has to be 100% compatible with existing engines.
I think what we need to work on is a method to easily and inexpensively retrofit existing engines to work with alternative fuels. If I could go to Schucks and spend less than $2000 on an engine add-on that would let me use an alternate fuel, I would do it. I have seen several articles on Slashdot about hydrogen-injection systems for motors, some you have to buy hydrogen for, and some that create it themselves. The problem is, they all turn into vaporware. Someone needs to fund the people that are trying to develop them, or do it themselves so it works. I'll be the first in line to buy one, but I can't afford to go spend $30-60,000 on a new car that might use alternative fuels. And I don't know many that could. I live in the Seattle area, and I don't seen any stations that are selling Hydrogen, either.
Aww, see. Now you made me hungry. . . And not a puppy to be found! Guess I'll just have to resort to killing kittens. . .
(Please, look for the sarchasm before modding, you might fall and get hurt)
The issue i have with the 'close button on tabs' "feature" is simple. I have closed tabs in opera when I'm trying to select them because my tabs got small (about a dozen loaded) and the close button was as big or bigger than the rest of the tab.
I haven't used the close button on the FF tabbar since I figured out that middle-click will close a tab. Before I knew that, I used right-click->close tab to close them if they were in the background.
There are several features in FF2 that I hope can be easily disabled. Adding clutter to the core is not the way to go forward and keep your advantages here. Right now, FF consists of tabs, address bar, search field, and in-page find. Any other features are extensions. I like what they're doing to clean up the UI (add-ins item will be nice for exensions and themes, they should move search engines to this), their only other focus should be stability.
For the record, I've only run into the memory leak at my last job, and that was more likley the memory-intensive database we used, and having a dozen tabs open with different views of it. FF/win32 usually takes up between 40 and 80mb, I've never seen it breat 100m. Under Linux, it usually hovers around 30mb.
Actually, on a GSM phone, that data is pulled from the network on a regular interval or when the phone is powered on. With a CDMA network, it has to be downloaded to the phone manually (*228 on VZW).
:-P
I've found that I had much better performance with CDMA than GSM. My history of cellular history is Analog (Airtouch), TDMA (CellularOne), PCS-CDMA (Sprint) GSM-CDMA (T-Mobile), CDMA (Verizon), and GSM (Cingular). Of all, the best performance with Verizon wherever I've gone. Of the various phones I've used, I have never found handsets that compare to Nokia.
That being said, T-Mobile was the absolute worst, followed closely by Sprint. Cellular One was shaky at best, and they had a Magical Billing System that required constant attention, like the time I lost my battery (damn cat) and I got a bill with a $100 overage. Verizon had the best signal, but their customer service tanked. 'Worry free' my ass. I want to be able to change to a compatable handset without hearing a bunch of idiots telling me that my phone isn't compatable when it works better on their network than the ones I bought from them.
Cingular is my current provider, and they are second in signal to Verizon, but there's a long stretch between them. I often get static on the line, dropped calls, drop outs, digital interference, and failed connections. Since you don't actually get static on a digital GSM system, I must assume that there must be some problem on the backend that will be resolved as they finish their integration with ATT's network. I hope. Maybe? Their new ads about the fewest dropped calls is irritating. There is serious massaging of the data going on there. They can't be counting failed connections, or dropoffs between towers. Or calls that don't drop, but are otherwise useless, like one-way conversations and such. Still much better than T-Mo or CellOne->RCC->Unicel by a longshot.
Their customer service people actually listen to me and don't give me some bullshit story when I want them to do something. When they tell me no, it's for a valid reason, not "your phone is not compatable and/or E911 complient" when I used the SAME PHONE on their network for 8 months before with better service than any of the phones I bought from them, and the one time I called 911 on it, the operator knew where I was better than I did. If you have seen that rant before, then yes, I'm a little bitter about it, lol.
I would suggest that if you want the best signal, you get Verizon with a Nokia phone, you'll like the 6236, a friend has it and loves it. If you want decent signal with better customer service, go Cingular. If you want to constantly be chasing the edge of your signal, or redialing numbers, go with Sprint or T-Mobile.
And, if you want to communicate with someone, go to their house, eat their food, and laugh at their stupid jokes
Quote from somewhere - "Do not make yourself irreplaceable, for you cannot be promoted if you do."
Its amazing how every time I update my resume, I get dozens of people that think I would make a great Insurance salesman, even though all of my experience is in tech support and one gig at RadioShack. I get offers from Monster and CareerBuilder, but none of them are useful to me. I'm not sure that making it hidden wouldn't be such a bad idea.
St. Helens webcam, for those interested.
Luke was being trained in the Force, and was actively using it, where Lea was not. Also, the fact that his first encounter with Vader was around the same time as Vader runs into Obi-wan again would have gotten him thinking about it. And, of course, Luke kept his surname.
He knew of Lea as a pollitical figure, and suspected her of being a traitor, but I doubt that he spent any time questioning her parentage.
I could feel that video sucking the intelligence out of me. . . that was wrong. Very very wrong.