But, actually, if you do any gaming in Linux, as limited as it is, you pretty much need a nVidia card. Yeah, binary blob and stuff, kernel taint, whatever, but it does the work for me.
I have a terminal and, somehow, my tablet came with busybox installed, but I am used to Bash. I happened to find, not long after my post, a collection of basic binaries such as wget, grep, coreutils, bash, etc. That kind of does the work, but I require rooting to go any further. Because of the hard-to-identify-because-of-too-many-models nature of WM8650 tablets, I am not attempting flashing the ROM until I have recovery hardware (I bricked a tablet with a ROM supposedly custom-made for the model, got it repaired but not risking it until prepared). Maybe I can work with a chroot and a minimalistic debian, investigating if I can bypass the need for root right now (AKA without requiring mount, that should work). Stuff like superoneclick does not work because the tablet is never recognized by windows, and z4root says it works but doesn't. I have a "su" binary installed in the tablet, but it will never work (something about requiring suid)... painful stuff.
I wonder if this can be made to run in a low-grade "Wondermedia" Chinese tablet? If so, would be a totally nice thing to make the most of the hardware. I'd get it installed like right now. It's mostly because I get mixed feelings for Android. While it certainly works for little things to do with a phone or tablet, I can't help but feel it lacks stuff to make it productive. It'd be so convenient to have a little bash+sed+awk+etc environment to do little scripts on the road, or a working python terminal**...and the market is convenient, but a lot of the stuff takes me back to the bad aspects of shareware. So I would really want to run Ubuntu on it, and use familiar apps like Pidgin with OTR, a bash scripting environment...etc. And I think Unity in a tablet is a good thing to have, even if just Unity2D.
My cheap-ass (way under $100) Chinese Wondermedia tablet with shitty resistive screen and incredibly low specs does have such USB port for USB storage, USB HID (keyboards. Pads?) and 3G modems. The only thing it lacks is a camera that can handle QR scanning and a stronger WIFI antenna (can be modded easily, though). I know other variants of this tablet also have support for Ethernet interfaces besides the USB port. It's cheap (in a derogatory sense), it's slow, but damn, for the price it's incredibly convenient if you can stand the "bury your finger on it" screen input...and I am even getting used to that after a week.
Indeed, I just purchased one cheap Android tablet for 80â and the specs are only marginally inferior. (less CPU and half RAM, same resistive type of screen). I didn't realize how limited the Spark is until I had a similar tablet in hand. It's a failure waiting to happen. (if not a failure already)...I mean, totally not buying this for $250+. ~$100 would be a more realistic price. Just the resistive screen is enough of a turnoff, and to make things worse you can find decent Android tablets with good touch and superior specs for those $250+. KDE is my desktop of choice, but...not worth paying $100 for it.
iOS has a lot of attention and probably has more first-time and low-quality coders than Android. If Android was more popular, iOS apps would be less crashy instead.
It's common sense, really. And says nothing of the platform, only the dev crowds drawn to them.
I actually like it, but I have acute versionitis, I use git/hg/etc more than apt-get...so I don't count. The transition from latest versions has been quite smooth actually. No addons here (30+) failed to load in about 3-4 releases (beta channel).
I am what marketing calls a "harcore gamer". Honed in the days of 8 and 16 bits to today. I love games that are 2D/sprite-based, and miss many old classics, I dislike a lot of today's games, and I still play my old-time favorites, and still discover games from that time that I find excellent even after I grew old and grumpy. But man, those 3 you mention, are absolutely proper games. Minecraft is just not specially challenging, but you can find user-made maps that put gameplay as hardcore as it gets (Vechs' maps for example). Portal 2 is good gameplay and a great set of characters to enjoy, I'd consider it one of the best games ever. Battlefield, there isn't much if you aren't into online multiplayer, but I don't see why it's not a proper game anyway.
If you want to put an example of bad games, use Skinner-box-based games, or those were there are only graphics and gameplay is crappy, or where the graphics are uniformly brown without offering much else, or shallow Mobile games that nobody wants to play twice (there can be good ones of course, but the average game is pretty shallow). Also the amount of shovelware that plagued the Wii and the late life of the DS count as pretty shitty games. Portal is definitely not one of those.
The only thing that is consistently different from arcade-era games is a lack of difficulty (you can quicksave and/or continue without losing much time in most modern games), but I'd solve that with extra difficulty modes, that's what they are for.
Portal and Minecraft are very old-school games, the very example you reply to is wrong.
What makes classic games classic? Emphasis on gameplay over anything else. Quick games you can start in less than 5 minutes without sitting through options or too much story. Yet complex enough to last a long time and relying on skill rather than invested time (except RPGs of course) (and as opposed to random, dime-a-dozen-note the emphasis, that means "not the good ones"- iOS/Android games that are extremely shallow). Minecraft exhibits such characteristics, Portal does, but also has a nice story on top at the same time (a brilliant game in short). Battlefield might not be my favorite title but it's pretty old-school if you think about it, it just happens to be mostly online stuff.
But where Portal and such do it right, there are plenty of games where gameplay is a mere afterthought.
Also those were the worst possible examples ever, really. I don't think any old-schooler/hardcore gamer can complain about Portal, and never saw it happening myself. I did see complaints about Minecraft but mostly because its former lack of an "end" (and I haven't seen any other complaint in that style since it got an actual End).
But what was the excuse for 130 years ago? If climate is changing to be hotter, how come there are records of similar temperatures from many years ago?
That's also what I meant with "real world logic". You'd expect those kids to misbehave way more than they do (in fact, it's only the adults who actually seem to break laws). Seriously, give a real-life 8yo a Zekrom and prepare to see a large crater from Google Earth.
It's fortunate that the world of pokemon doesn't operate on real world logic. It's worth studying what would happen if it was a real system. I wonder what kind of odd regulations and rules the real world would impose over such a thing.
I don't have an account on any of those two services. I guess it shows. But then again I only mentioned those because it's selling of music and movies, which is related to this article. No other intent on it.
I don't know what you perceive of me, but if asked to not buy something, I am more than happy to oblige. Specially because I have no money to spare, and I have no concept of "brand loyalty". They be loyal to ME first, and later we'll see if I am loyal to THEM.
We aren't talking bank of america (read: influences people's money, hence it's maximum priority) we are talking MEDIA like videogames, music and movies. How can you dare calling me apathetic on something that is not even required for day-to-day survival? I am apathetic, but about them and their products, that's where I am apathetic. Thus, they don't see a penny from me, I won't recommend their products to anyone, and I won't even care about their releases, I don't even download them, because they suck. I not only have more money for survival, but I am not wasting my time with their inane superhero movies, cookie-cutter FPSs and heavily filtered pop singers. I don't even pirate their garbage, it's not worth it. Sure, I might miss out on one or two good things, but it's media, I don't need media other than to kill time
I can teach you a thing or two about boycotting those idiots. And I still believe boycotts, for media, do not work. Check the sales of the DRM-filled games that everyone calls boycott on, but they still sell millions every time. How do you call that other than "boycott not working"? As long as people feels the need to purchase the lastest movie/album/game, boycotts will fail. Thing is, I don't know there that "need" comes from, because in the latest years, media releases are just excuses to test out new content blockers/DRM instead of releasing new content.
I am not a hacktivist of any form, but in the terms of the article, and trying to imagine myself as one of those hackers, I just cannot imagine what damage they cause by hacking a mere face site. It'd be like if having the choice to take down my blog or my sales outlet, they pick my blog.
Taking that down is not worth it. If I was going to be charged as a terrorist for shutting down the freaking DoJ, I'd rather take away a few hours of sales to the people I am interesting in harming by shutting down their connections with their customers. It's the only kind of attack they can understand.
However, to fight FOR public domain, you need to create stuff. At least that's how I understand fighting FOR public domain, by expanding and adding more to it. Unfortunately, both you and I know that few can do that kind of thing. It was always easier to find soldiers than artists. Few fight "for" something, almost everyone fights "against" something.
Since the article is related to direct attacks, I replied on those terms.
I have seen a lot of boycotts in my life. From media stuff to real-life boycotts of food products and similar "real" goods. Not a single one worked, I'd even say that the numbers barely moved from the "intended result". Companies never notice boycott efforts, as well. As much they'll see a drop of 300 units in a expected sale of one million units. Which they will blame on piracy anyway.
What the hell, Anonymous? What damage does hacking DoJ or the RIAA/MPA sites? Hack iTunes, hack Netflix, hack pages that offer services whose money goes to RIAA pockets. If you shut down a page that offers nothing, what you get is nothing. (except being charged for (pretty much) terrorism without causing any significant damage to the people you want to attack).
Anonymous should damage their SOURCES OF REVENUE, not their useless face sites.
There's the IMGlikeOpera addon that does that feature while still allowing to load per-site or individual images. It's my main reason to stick to Firefox, since Chrome addons can't prevent content from loading.
Unfortunately that addon is one of the first addons to break if something changes, and it's not developed actively at all. On its favor, it didn't break in about 4 releases, but can happen anytime.
Firefox is the app that uses the most RAM in my system, has always been, even more that Skyrim under WINE. I tried Chrome for a while, and while I didn't dislike it, I simply didn't want to forfeit my customized environment. However, I never saw Chrome as using any less RAM. I usually got Firefox with 20+ tabs open (and around 100 in "not loaded in RAM" mode with the new features, think old BarTab) grouped in Panorama groups. In Chrome, because tab space is small, I usually had around 20, and both browsers were consuming 400mb of RAM each. I'd say Firefox uses LESS memory overall. Thing is, firefox FEELS slow. Try to open Youtube's subscriptions page and you'll lose control of the browser for at least one second.
I can easily see people unable to close their porn when their significant other enters the room. Porn moves the world, thus people would prefer to use Chrome for porn. Thus Chrome's usage rises while Firefox's decreases. If Mozilla makes it more convenient to use Firefox for porn, the browser usage will crush Chrome.
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Argh, some day I will understand that kind of stuff. Let me blame the language barrier... yes, that'll do.
But, actually, if you do any gaming in Linux, as limited as it is, you pretty much need a nVidia card.
Yeah, binary blob and stuff, kernel taint, whatever, but it does the work for me.
I have a terminal and, somehow, my tablet came with busybox installed, but I am used to Bash.
I happened to find, not long after my post, a collection of basic binaries such as wget, grep, coreutils, bash, etc. That kind of does the work, but I require rooting to go any further.
Because of the hard-to-identify-because-of-too-many-models nature of WM8650 tablets, I am not attempting flashing the ROM until I have recovery hardware (I bricked a tablet with a ROM supposedly custom-made for the model, got it repaired but not risking it until prepared). Maybe I can work with a chroot and a minimalistic debian, investigating if I can bypass the need for root right now (AKA without requiring mount, that should work). Stuff like superoneclick does not work because the tablet is never recognized by windows, and z4root says it works but doesn't. I have a "su" binary installed in the tablet, but it will never work (something about requiring suid)... painful stuff.
I wonder if this can be made to run in a low-grade "Wondermedia" Chinese tablet? If so, would be a totally nice thing to make the most of the hardware. I'd get it installed like right now.
It's mostly because I get mixed feelings for Android. While it certainly works for little things to do with a phone or tablet, I can't help but feel it lacks stuff to make it productive. It'd be so convenient to have a little bash+sed+awk+etc environment to do little scripts on the road, or a working python terminal**...and the market is convenient, but a lot of the stuff takes me back to the bad aspects of shareware. So I would really want to run Ubuntu on it, and use familiar apps like Pidgin with OTR, a bash scripting environment...etc. And I think Unity in a tablet is a good thing to have, even if just Unity2D.
My cheap-ass (way under $100) Chinese Wondermedia tablet with shitty resistive screen and incredibly low specs does have such USB port for USB storage, USB HID (keyboards. Pads?) and 3G modems. The only thing it lacks is a camera that can handle QR scanning and a stronger WIFI antenna (can be modded easily, though).
I know other variants of this tablet also have support for Ethernet interfaces besides the USB port.
It's cheap (in a derogatory sense), it's slow, but damn, for the price it's incredibly convenient if you can stand the "bury your finger on it" screen input...and I am even getting used to that after a week.
Hush! Don't give them ideas, they might start...uh...regulating the inaudible spectrum or even silence!
Indeed, I just purchased one cheap Android tablet for 80â and the specs are only marginally inferior. (less CPU and half RAM, same resistive type of screen). I didn't realize how limited the Spark is until I had a similar tablet in hand. It's a failure waiting to happen. (if not a failure already) ...I mean, totally not buying this for $250+. ~$100 would be a more realistic price. Just the resistive screen is enough of a turnoff, and to make things worse you can find decent Android tablets with good touch and superior specs for those $250+. KDE is my desktop of choice, but...not worth paying $100 for it.
iOS has a lot of attention and probably has more first-time and low-quality coders than Android. If Android was more popular, iOS apps would be less crashy instead.
It's common sense, really. And says nothing of the platform, only the dev crowds drawn to them.
I actually like it, but I have acute versionitis, I use git/hg/etc more than apt-get...so I don't count.
The transition from latest versions has been quite smooth actually. No addons here (30+) failed to load in about 3-4 releases (beta channel).
Let's put it this way. Would you boycott "Small Fish" or "Big Fish©®tm"? Which one has more possibilities to appear in media and thus have any chance to deliver a message if at all?
I am what marketing calls a "harcore gamer". Honed in the days of 8 and 16 bits to today.
I love games that are 2D/sprite-based, and miss many old classics, I dislike a lot of today's games, and I still play my old-time favorites, and still discover games from that time that I find excellent even after I grew old and grumpy.
But man, those 3 you mention, are absolutely proper games.
Minecraft is just not specially challenging, but you can find user-made maps that put gameplay as hardcore as it gets (Vechs' maps for example). Portal 2 is good gameplay and a great set of characters to enjoy, I'd consider it one of the best games ever. Battlefield, there isn't much if you aren't into online multiplayer, but I don't see why it's not a proper game anyway.
If you want to put an example of bad games, use Skinner-box-based games, or those were there are only graphics and gameplay is crappy, or where the graphics are uniformly brown without offering much else, or shallow Mobile games that nobody wants to play twice (there can be good ones of course, but the average game is pretty shallow). Also the amount of shovelware that plagued the Wii and the late life of the DS count as pretty shitty games. Portal is definitely not one of those.
The only thing that is consistently different from arcade-era games is a lack of difficulty (you can quicksave and/or continue without losing much time in most modern games), but I'd solve that with extra difficulty modes, that's what they are for.
Portal and Minecraft are very old-school games, the very example you reply to is wrong.
What makes classic games classic? Emphasis on gameplay over anything else. Quick games you can start in less than 5 minutes without sitting through options or too much story. Yet complex enough to last a long time and relying on skill rather than invested time (except RPGs of course) (and as opposed to random, dime-a-dozen-note the emphasis, that means "not the good ones"- iOS/Android games that are extremely shallow). Minecraft exhibits such characteristics, Portal does, but also has a nice story on top at the same time (a brilliant game in short). Battlefield might not be my favorite title but it's pretty old-school if you think about it, it just happens to be mostly online stuff.
But where Portal and such do it right, there are plenty of games where gameplay is a mere afterthought.
Also those were the worst possible examples ever, really. I don't think any old-schooler/hardcore gamer can complain about Portal, and never saw it happening myself. I did see complaints about Minecraft but mostly because its former lack of an "end" (and I haven't seen any other complaint in that style since it got an actual End).
It was a legit question, who downvoted it?
But what was the excuse for 130 years ago? If climate is changing to be hotter, how come there are records of similar temperatures from many years ago?
That's also what I meant with "real world logic". You'd expect those kids to misbehave way more than they do (in fact, it's only the adults who actually seem to break laws).
Seriously, give a real-life 8yo a Zekrom and prepare to see a large crater from Google Earth.
It's fortunate that the world of pokemon doesn't operate on real world logic. It's worth studying what would happen if it was a real system. I wonder what kind of odd regulations and rules the real world would impose over such a thing.
I don't have an account on any of those two services. I guess it shows.
But then again I only mentioned those because it's selling of music and movies, which is related to this article. No other intent on it.
Thanks- *high fives*
Can these hacktivist groups do something like that?
I don't know what you perceive of me, but if asked to not buy something, I am more than happy to oblige. Specially because I have no money to spare, and I have no concept of "brand loyalty". They be loyal to ME first, and later we'll see if I am loyal to THEM.
We aren't talking bank of america (read: influences people's money, hence it's maximum priority) we are talking MEDIA like videogames, music and movies. How can you dare calling me apathetic on something that is not even required for day-to-day survival? I am apathetic, but about them and their products, that's where I am apathetic. Thus, they don't see a penny from me, I won't recommend their products to anyone, and I won't even care about their releases, I don't even download them, because they suck. I not only have more money for survival, but I am not wasting my time with their inane superhero movies, cookie-cutter FPSs and heavily filtered pop singers. I don't even pirate their garbage, it's not worth it. Sure, I might miss out on one or two good things, but it's media, I don't need media other than to kill time
I can teach you a thing or two about boycotting those idiots. And I still believe boycotts, for media, do not work. Check the sales of the DRM-filled games that everyone calls boycott on, but they still sell millions every time. How do you call that other than "boycott not working"?
As long as people feels the need to purchase the lastest movie/album/game, boycotts will fail. Thing is, I don't know there that "need" comes from, because in the latest years, media releases are just excuses to test out new content blockers/DRM instead of releasing new content.
Fucking kids, now get off my damn lawn.
I am not a hacktivist of any form, but in the terms of the article, and trying to imagine myself as one of those hackers, I just cannot imagine what damage they cause by hacking a mere face site. It'd be like if having the choice to take down my blog or my sales outlet, they pick my blog.
Taking that down is not worth it. If I was going to be charged as a terrorist for shutting down the freaking DoJ, I'd rather take away a few hours of sales to the people I am interesting in harming by shutting down their connections with their customers. It's the only kind of attack they can understand.
However, to fight FOR public domain, you need to create stuff. At least that's how I understand fighting FOR public domain, by expanding and adding more to it. Unfortunately, both you and I know that few can do that kind of thing. It was always easier to find soldiers than artists.
Few fight "for" something, almost everyone fights "against" something.
Since the article is related to direct attacks, I replied on those terms.
I have seen a lot of boycotts in my life. From media stuff to real-life boycotts of food products and similar "real" goods. Not a single one worked, I'd even say that the numbers barely moved from the "intended result". Companies never notice boycott efforts, as well. As much they'll see a drop of 300 units in a expected sale of one million units. Which they will blame on piracy anyway.
What the hell, Anonymous? What damage does hacking DoJ or the RIAA/MPA sites?
Hack iTunes, hack Netflix, hack pages that offer services whose money goes to RIAA pockets. If you shut down a page that offers nothing, what you get is nothing. (except being charged for (pretty much) terrorism without causing any significant damage to the people you want to attack).
Anonymous should damage their SOURCES OF REVENUE, not their useless face sites.
There's the IMGlikeOpera addon that does that feature while still allowing to load per-site or individual images. It's my main reason to stick to Firefox, since Chrome addons can't prevent content from loading.
Unfortunately that addon is one of the first addons to break if something changes, and it's not developed actively at all. On its favor, it didn't break in about 4 releases, but can happen anytime.
Firefox is the app that uses the most RAM in my system, has always been, even more that Skyrim under WINE. I tried Chrome for a while, and while I didn't dislike it, I simply didn't want to forfeit my customized environment.
However, I never saw Chrome as using any less RAM. I usually got Firefox with 20+ tabs open (and around 100 in "not loaded in RAM" mode with the new features, think old BarTab) grouped in Panorama groups. In Chrome, because tab space is small, I usually had around 20, and both browsers were consuming 400mb of RAM each. I'd say Firefox uses LESS memory overall.
Thing is, firefox FEELS slow. Try to open Youtube's subscriptions page and you'll lose control of the browser for at least one second.
I can easily see people unable to close their porn when their significant other enters the room. Porn moves the world, thus people would prefer to use Chrome for porn. Thus Chrome's usage rises while Firefox's decreases. If Mozilla makes it more convenient to use Firefox for porn, the browser usage will crush Chrome.