PS2 controller: one button for each analog controler ( that's 2 ), plus two buttons for each of your index fingers ( that's 4 ) coming to a total of 6. Not as much as 10, but much better than 2.
XBox controller: almost the same as the PS2 controller, but you only have 4 buttons, since there is only one trigger for each index finger.
Also, on each controller you have the D-pad ( 4 actions ) and four buttons plus start and stop ( and black and white on the xbox ) within a quick one-second push.
Not saying that the console controllers are better, just saying they don't have '2 simultaneous actions'.
I can't say for certian that keyboard + mouse is better, because for the better part of four years I've been using Linux. With that said, I'm going to have to go pick up a copy of UT2004 or Quake4 and see how they work out on Linux to do some of my own keyboard+mouse vs console controller testing.
Re:Mouse for common-- Movement, firing. It works.
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One thing I've found strange is that on a PC, I can't stand reverse y-axis. On the console however, it's nearly essential to me. It's probably from my days of playing Duke Nukem 64 ( yes, 64, as in the version released for the Nintendo 64 ).
But there is an incompatiblity issue between the two of them.
For example, I use mostly GNOME apps ( while using the Fluxbox wm ). Any time I use a KDE app ( usually k3b ), the open file dialog is completly unusable. Why? For some strange reason, I can't resize the open file dialog, so there's no little window ( the part where all the files show up ). Is this because I only have the minimum amount of kde libs needed to run k3b? If that's the case, why isn't something as simple as changing the size of the open file dialog part of the minimum kde library needed to run k3b?
I think that is the issue that a lot of people are talking about ( whether they are GNOME or KDE people ). If you use mostly GNOME, some KDE apps have unusable parts, and the opposite is probably true. If you mainly use one wm, sometimes programs based on a different wm become unusable.
[Yes, I know that there is a gnome version of k3b ( I think it's called gnomebaker ), but sometimes the kde version is just more visible.]
Exactly. If most people complaining actually took the time to do a google search, they'd find out that there IS a reason for all those directories.
If you're complaining about your self-compiled program installing stuff to/bin and/lib, then stop using --exex-dir and --lib-dir, etc.
I wonder if this kind of thing ( people mis-installing programs ) is more common with one distrobution than another? Like on a system like Gentoo or Slackware, where you're encouraged to do more of your own self-compiling, compared with more apt-get type distros.
Although you're right about the directory names not being immediatly being clear to new users. Trying to fix that now probably isn't a good idea though ( would it break dependancies for older systems? ).
There's still a problem with that, though. What if there is a particularly fevered student, who is too passionate about his subject? If (s)he starts posting erroneous information, what are we to do then? The simple point is that untill a LOT more people start to care about Wikipedia, it will be the assinine zealots that control the articles.
And lately English has been running some of it's own words through a home-built ENAIC with half of the punch cards missing, resulting in the commonly known "1337 $P34K".
That page you linked to just scares me. I have AdBlock for Firefox, and all I saw above the fold was the little tab that AdBlock replaces Flash with.
Tha's right folks, I had to scroll down to see what little content there is. Never was an Onion reader, and it doesn't seem like I'm going to become one.
Let me clarify what I said. I'm not saying that the Windows install will be easier for EVERYONE. With some of the newer distrobutions of Linux, installing Linux might be easier for a n00b. I guess it depends on the person.
Part of the problem is yes, Windows comes by default on most machines that people buy right now, and yes, there is still a lot of hardware that is Windows-oriented.
But if a user has to go to a command line at ANY point in an install of Linux, something isn't right. Yes, there are drivers for Windows that will be a bitch and a pain to install. But you can still get a mostly working Windows install without them. You might not have internet access, or only have a 640x480 resolution on your monitor, but at least you have a working computer. Don't get me wrong, if someone has trouble with any part of a Linux install, I'll gladly take over and fix it, just so they don't have to use Windows. But the fact that they need my help in the first place is the part that needs some work. The installer should be able to figure out all that fdisk stuff the grandparent was talking about and either hide it from the user and just do it, or ask the user what they want to do ( difference between 'quick' and 'custom' install? ).
Just for example, I recently just ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my (debian) computer to update xorg and fluxbox. I have an NVidia card, so upgrading xorg overwrote the NVidia GLX driver. When I turned on my computer the next day, it couldn't start the X server. After a quick reinstall of the driver on the command line, I was back up and running. But to figure out what was wrong, I had to reboot the computer into single user mode, figure out what was wrong by going through the X server error log, and then reinstall the driver. How many average computer users are going to be able to figure that out when their "phancy graphical stuff" stops working? Keep in mind, I had to reboot because when the X server borked on me, it froze the keyboard ( couldn't even ctrl-alt-del my way out ).
I love Linux. It just still needs some work, that's all.
Telus ( Western Canada only, as far as I know ) also assigns both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. Easy to check for me, since my router is a home-built Linux box! =D
That's what a quick $YOUR_FAVORITE_SCRIPTING_LANGUAGE script comes in handy, at least if you're using a browser that stores its' bookmarks in html/text, or allows you to export your bookmarks to a html/text-only format. You know, like Firefox does?
It wouldn't be too hard to have an online service or browser plugin to do it for you.
Or even better:
cat $BOOKMARKFILE | sed s/\.com/.com.us/ > $BOOKMARKFILE; echo "All done fixing up the bookmarks, oh great *nix user."
But the arguement isn't to transfer control from the US to another country; rather, it's to transfer control from one country to all countries (or, strictly, an agency representing all/most countries).
Isn't that what ICANN is already? An international(read: controlled by all contries ) corporation that controls DNS and such?
I agree with you 100% on Fluxbox. After dealing with the clunky-ness of Windows, I decided I wanted a very sparse, yet nice-looking WM. Hence, Fluxbox.
Coupled with gDesklets, Fluxbox is the greatest thing I've come across for Linux ( yes, that's hyperbole ).
That's the part of the problem with Linux. If you have to go through all that just to get Linux to install, how is "the average computer user" ( ie, your grandma ) going to be able to install Linux?
I'm not saying that Microsoft is a better choice ( use Linux at home, Debian/unstable ), but Linux still has a few things that need to be fixed before it's truly desktop-ready.
I found a site one day ( pictures and everything ) of a guy who built a mirror 'sun ray'. The only way he got it to work, however, was to have the target about a foot in front of the mirrors.
The problem with using tons of mirrors is that after about a foot, you have to have those things PERFECTLY aligned. I'm talking down to the smallest fratction of an inch you can think of.....divided by ten ( or so ).
The guy on the site I found ( can't find the damned link, Google it ) spent a month or so just doing the math and planing it out just so all the mirrors would reflect properly.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. Every played John Conway's Game of Life? From only a few simple math rules, you get incredibly complex patterns emerging.
He didn't throw it, he used his FUD-tastic psychic ninja skills to levitate it.
He might be trying to make the point that the telco's think that VOIP isn't legitimate, despite what everybody ( at least the /. crowd ) else thinks.
Okay... lets see.
PS2 controller: one button for each analog controler ( that's 2 ), plus two buttons for each of your index fingers ( that's 4 ) coming to a total of 6. Not as much as 10, but much better than 2.
XBox controller: almost the same as the PS2 controller, but you only have 4 buttons, since there is only one trigger for each index finger.
Also, on each controller you have the D-pad ( 4 actions ) and four buttons plus start and stop ( and black and white on the xbox ) within a quick one-second push.
Not saying that the console controllers are better, just saying they don't have '2 simultaneous actions'.
I can't say for certian that keyboard + mouse is better, because for the better part of four years I've been using Linux. With that said, I'm going to have to go pick up a copy of UT2004 or Quake4 and see how they work out on Linux to do some of my own keyboard+mouse vs console controller testing.
One thing I've found strange is that on a PC, I can't stand reverse y-axis. On the console however, it's nearly essential to me. It's probably from my days of playing Duke Nukem 64 ( yes, 64, as in the version released for the Nintendo 64 ).
But there is an incompatiblity issue between the two of them.
For example, I use mostly GNOME apps ( while using the Fluxbox wm ). Any time I use a KDE app ( usually k3b ), the open file dialog is completly unusable. Why? For some strange reason, I can't resize the open file dialog, so there's no little window ( the part where all the files show up ). Is this because I only have the minimum amount of kde libs needed to run k3b? If that's the case, why isn't something as simple as changing the size of the open file dialog part of the minimum kde library needed to run k3b?
I think that is the issue that a lot of people are talking about ( whether they are GNOME or KDE people ). If you use mostly GNOME, some KDE apps have unusable parts, and the opposite is probably true. If you mainly use one wm, sometimes programs based on a different wm become unusable.
[Yes, I know that there is a gnome version of k3b ( I think it's called gnomebaker ), but sometimes the kde version is just more visible.]
Exactly. If most people complaining actually took the time to do a google search, they'd find out that there IS a reason for all those directories.
/bin and /lib, then stop using --exex-dir and --lib-dir, etc.
If you're complaining about your self-compiled program installing stuff to
I wonder if this kind of thing ( people mis-installing programs ) is more common with one distrobution than another? Like on a system like Gentoo or Slackware, where you're encouraged to do more of your own self-compiling, compared with more apt-get type distros.
Although you're right about the directory names not being immediatly being clear to new users. Trying to fix that now probably isn't a good idea though ( would it break dependancies for older systems? ).
But since that would make it harder for you to be tied down to a single provider... it's not going to happen anytime soon =(
There's still a problem with that, though. What if there is a particularly fevered student, who is too passionate about his subject? If (s)he starts posting erroneous information, what are we to do then? The simple point is that untill a LOT more people start to care about Wikipedia, it will be the assinine zealots that control the articles.
I don't think many people can hold a candle to Jack Thompson.
They'd get slapped with a harassment lawsuit, for one.
I think he was refering to other things, like the Battle of 1912, which, when you do remember, you all seem to think you won.
And lately English has been running some of it's own words through a home-built ENAIC with half of the punch cards missing, resulting in the commonly known "1337 $P34K".
Ear Ear!
That page you linked to just scares me. I have AdBlock for Firefox, and all I saw above the fold was the little tab that AdBlock replaces Flash with.
Tha's right folks, I had to scroll down to see what little content there is. Never was an Onion reader, and it doesn't seem like I'm going to become one.
Let me clarify what I said. I'm not saying that the Windows install will be easier for EVERYONE. With some of the newer distrobutions of Linux, installing Linux might be easier for a n00b. I guess it depends on the person.
Part of the problem is yes, Windows comes by default on most machines that people buy right now, and yes, there is still a lot of hardware that is Windows-oriented.
But if a user has to go to a command line at ANY point in an install of Linux, something isn't right. Yes, there are drivers for Windows that will be a bitch and a pain to install. But you can still get a mostly working Windows install without them. You might not have internet access, or only have a 640x480 resolution on your monitor, but at least you have a working computer. Don't get me wrong, if someone has trouble with any part of a Linux install, I'll gladly take over and fix it, just so they don't have to use Windows. But the fact that they need my help in the first place is the part that needs some work. The installer should be able to figure out all that fdisk stuff the grandparent was talking about and either hide it from the user and just do it, or ask the user what they want to do ( difference between 'quick' and 'custom' install? ).
Just for example, I recently just ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my (debian) computer to update xorg and fluxbox. I have an NVidia card, so upgrading xorg overwrote the NVidia GLX driver. When I turned on my computer the next day, it couldn't start the X server. After a quick reinstall of the driver on the command line, I was back up and running. But to figure out what was wrong, I had to reboot the computer into single user mode, figure out what was wrong by going through the X server error log, and then reinstall the driver. How many average computer users are going to be able to figure that out when their "phancy graphical stuff" stops working? Keep in mind, I had to reboot because when the X server borked on me, it froze the keyboard ( couldn't even ctrl-alt-del my way out ).
I love Linux. It just still needs some work, that's all.
Nope. :fea6:/64
What does fe80::/64 have to do with anything? ( just curious, don't have a clue ) Is it like 127.0.0.1 or some other private address space?
Telus ( Western Canada only, as far as I know ) also assigns both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. Easy to check for me, since my router is a home-built Linux box! =D
It wouldn't be too hard to have an online service or browser plugin to do it for you.
Or even better:
...or do I just not know wtf I'm talking about?
Isn't that what ICANN is already? An international(read: controlled by all contries ) corporation that controls DNS and such?
Despite the fact that you only get to practise that expression of poilitical beliefs where they can't be heard by the President or the mass media.
I'm not harping on you (specifically), but your 'full screen' might be 'full screen x2' to somebody else. Just a thought.
Unless, of course, your 'full screen' is 640x480, then you need to do some upgrading. =P
I agree with you 100% on Fluxbox. After dealing with the clunky-ness of Windows, I decided I wanted a very sparse, yet nice-looking WM. Hence, Fluxbox.
Coupled with gDesklets, Fluxbox is the greatest thing I've come across for Linux ( yes, that's hyperbole ).
That's the part of the problem with Linux. If you have to go through all that just to get Linux to install, how is "the average computer user" ( ie, your grandma ) going to be able to install Linux?
I'm not saying that Microsoft is a better choice ( use Linux at home, Debian/unstable ), but Linux still has a few things that need to be fixed before it's truly desktop-ready.
Or if you've ever seen Waking Life, you'll know that it's just easier to go and flick a light switch.
I found a site one day ( pictures and everything ) of a guy who built a mirror 'sun ray'. The only way he got it to work, however, was to have the target about a foot in front of the mirrors.
The problem with using tons of mirrors is that after about a foot, you have to have those things PERFECTLY aligned. I'm talking down to the smallest fratction of an inch you can think of.....divided by ten ( or so ).
The guy on the site I found ( can't find the damned link, Google it ) spent a month or so just doing the math and planing it out just so all the mirrors would reflect properly.