I was exaggerating to make a point. Don't take my words in a way they, obviously, were not intended. I'm just saying, I get crashes with source games under Windows that I did not get playing under Wine.
Plenty, although that wasn't what I said. I said they had not learned much from OSS. If Vista was faster, had a package manager, and was free, then they would be getting somewhere.
As to what is wrong with Vista, the fact that Portal plays more reliably under WINE than Vista does say something (the Vista nVidia drivers crash every 10 seconds with any Source-based game, it seems.)
But yeah, it's not particularly that Vista is terrible (although it is pretty bad, I'd say XP is the best thing M$ put out), more that Linux distros offer so much more, and are free, so why the hell would I pay to use something worse (and then pay for all of the software I need too!)?
Think about it. That means developers will make sure it is correct, it won't affect the end user, just the developers - and if you are a good web developer, it should just make your job easier.
Note this isn't necessarily completely perfectly correct, It's just from memory.
XHTML is better than HTML, the people working on the specs think so, but people are unwilling to adopt XHTML - XHTML 1.0 is a watered down version of what XHTML was meant to be. XHTML 2 will be it's true calling. HTML 5 is apparently meant to be a stepping stone between HTML and XHTML. XHTML 2 is meant to be the next big thing.
Of course, the web isn't even conforming to HTML 4, let alone XHTML in any form or HTML 5. People will continue to hack code together. I want an XHTML, and browsers that will refuse to render incorrect code (like XHTML served as XML currently does).
In our school, 'Research something' means 'go on wikipedia and search for it' now-a-days. That's what everyone does. I generally don't do it just to get information everyone else has not got. Wikipedia makes finding information extremely easy. I think that if Encyclopedia Britannica put an online version up with a good search (might exist, I don't know) and advertised it a little, they'd get just as many people using it. It's ease of use over the ideals behind Wikipedia - I don't think 99% of my school has ever contributed something.
I'd agree. I hardly ever send e-mail - the main use is registrations and the like. I use IM, Fourms and IRC for 90% of my communication, and a mobile for the rest. My friends would add a list of social networking sites to that.
Your 20mbps is from Virgin. Who do cable.
In a lot of, nigh most, areas you cannot get cable, and most areas do not have lines that can handle high speed connections. My point was that most areas will not get those kind of speeds, that is true.
I did not suggest it was ceased. I suggested that not everyone is going to get those speeds for quite some time.
Yes, you can get that, but only in Central London and Manchester. I wasn't blaming anyone, in fact, your little rant there was pointless. I was simply saying, the general UK might get faster speeds at such a time as everywhere else gets even faster speeds. I never said we should get it, I said we might, implying I'd want that.
I think it's a better game than you give it credit for.
The single player was extremely fun, far over and above the average game, and the multiplayer has enough grip to it it's above average too. I'm not going to go into details because, frankly, I can't be bothered (Maybe it's good for lazy gamers, who knows), but it's definitely worth 4/5, at least.
I think PDAs are being replaced by UMPCs - Things like the Asus EEEPC will offer far better performance (along with other advantages like the bigger screen), for about double the size of a PDA - not to mention the same, if not cheaper, price.
And with Gutsy, and it's 'never crash out to bash' ideology, and the x-settings manager that will start if x crashes, you now would not even need to be an intelligent user in this case with Gutsy to get it to work. It's a long-awaited idea, and one that'll be gladly received. It works well too, in 99% of situations. Of course there are some hardware setups that would not work even in this 'safe-mode' style of graphics setup - but they are very few and far between - and anyone using them will probably be able to solve it at a bash prompt, and this is a huge step forward.
I've laughed at people for saying Windows is easier. Bull. Windows is more familiar, maybe. But Linux has now been made so much more easy than windows. Installing and using Vista for gaming after more than a year of Linux only use was hell.
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I was exaggerating to make a point. Don't take my words in a way they, obviously, were not intended. I'm just saying, I get crashes with source games under Windows that I did not get playing under Wine.
How is my hardware faulty? It works fine when I'm running Linux.
Plenty, although that wasn't what I said. I said they had not learned much from OSS. If Vista was faster, had a package manager, and was free, then they would be getting somewhere.
As to what is wrong with Vista, the fact that Portal plays more reliably under WINE than Vista does say something (the Vista nVidia drivers crash every 10 seconds with any Source-based game, it seems.)
But yeah, it's not particularly that Vista is terrible (although it is pretty bad, I'd say XP is the best thing M$ put out), more that Linux distros offer so much more, and are free, so why the hell would I pay to use something worse (and then pay for all of the software I need too!)?
Yeah, he'll share you windows, if you share lots of money with him. Except less share and more give on the money part.
From what I see in Vista...
Very little. (And yes, I have used Vista enough (unfortunately) to say that. Arch Linux/Ubuntu user primarily)
Think about it. That means developers will make sure it is correct, it won't affect the end user, just the developers - and if you are a good web developer, it should just make your job easier.
Note this isn't necessarily completely perfectly correct, It's just from memory.
XHTML is better than HTML, the people working on the specs think so, but people are unwilling to adopt XHTML - XHTML 1.0 is a watered down version of what XHTML was meant to be. XHTML 2 will be it's true calling. HTML 5 is apparently meant to be a stepping stone between HTML and XHTML. XHTML 2 is meant to be the next big thing.
Of course, the web isn't even conforming to HTML 4, let alone XHTML in any form or HTML 5. People will continue to hack code together. I want an XHTML, and browsers that will refuse to render incorrect code (like XHTML served as XML currently does).
In our school, 'Research something' means 'go on wikipedia and search for it' now-a-days. That's what everyone does. I generally don't do it just to get information everyone else has not got. Wikipedia makes finding information extremely easy. I think that if Encyclopedia Britannica put an online version up with a good search (might exist, I don't know) and advertised it a little, they'd get just as many people using it. It's ease of use over the ideals behind Wikipedia - I don't think 99% of my school has ever contributed something.
Didn't work.
No.
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I'd agree. I hardly ever send e-mail - the main use is registrations and the like. I use IM, Fourms and IRC for 90% of my communication, and a mobile for the rest. My friends would add a list of social networking sites to that.
Your 20mbps is from Virgin. Who do cable. In a lot of, nigh most, areas you cannot get cable, and most areas do not have lines that can handle high speed connections. My point was that most areas will not get those kind of speeds, that is true. I did not suggest it was ceased. I suggested that not everyone is going to get those speeds for quite some time.
Yes, you can get that, but only in Central London and Manchester. I wasn't blaming anyone, in fact, your little rant there was pointless. I was simply saying, the general UK might get faster speeds at such a time as everywhere else gets even faster speeds. I never said we should get it, I said we might, implying I'd want that.
Yeah, so here in the UK, We'll be getting 24MB by then! London might be getting 50MB even...
I think it's a better game than you give it credit for. The single player was extremely fun, far over and above the average game, and the multiplayer has enough grip to it it's above average too. I'm not going to go into details because, frankly, I can't be bothered (Maybe it's good for lazy gamers, who knows), but it's definitely worth 4/5, at least.
I think PDAs are being replaced by UMPCs - Things like the Asus EEEPC will offer far better performance (along with other advantages like the bigger screen), for about double the size of a PDA - not to mention the same, if not cheaper, price.
30 people cheering... deafening stuff.
No.
As you were.
If more reviews were like Zero Punctuation, then they could charge for reviews.
Of course, if you use crap speakers, this is all irrelevant anyway.
I'm pretty sure UMPC is Ultra-Mobile PC or something.
And with Gutsy, and it's 'never crash out to bash' ideology, and the x-settings manager that will start if x crashes, you now would not even need to be an intelligent user in this case with Gutsy to get it to work. It's a long-awaited idea, and one that'll be gladly received. It works well too, in 99% of situations. Of course there are some hardware setups that would not work even in this 'safe-mode' style of graphics setup - but they are very few and far between - and anyone using them will probably be able to solve it at a bash prompt, and this is a huge step forward. I've laughed at people for saying Windows is easier. Bull. Windows is more familiar, maybe. But Linux has now been made so much more easy than windows. Installing and using Vista for gaming after more than a year of Linux only use was hell.
Yeah, but a lot of the appeal of Portal is the storyline. Without it, it would have been fun, but not half as good.
That is what you think...