Ubuntu on servers is a bad, bad idea. It'd be like running your hardware on Debian Sid all of the time with neither thought nor care as to the consequences.
Debian servers--cool. Hed Rat servers--sure, why not. Ubuntu? Please god no. Leave Ubuntu on the desktop, where it does a good job.
Inspirons, on the other hand--I have an Inspiron E1505, and I actually like the two-tone case. Unlike some other laptops, the plastic is the color through and through; I type on this thing a LOT and the plastic's wearing down (a touch slower than my last laptop, a Thinkpad), but it hasn't lost its color.
I have noticed intermittent trouble with the wireless, but it only happens on Windows (doesn't on Linux), so I assume that it's just driver trouble. My only real beef with the laptop is that it doesn't have a nipplemouse, but since that's more or less an IBM thing I can't fault them heavily on it.
"Oblivion with guns" is what we'll get, and that is semantically equivalent to a steaming pile of bloody dog shit.
Bethesda has made exactly nothing worth a damn since Daggerfall. Oblivion was the first game in a LONG time I uninstalled without beating it.
Leonard Boyarsky isn't involved. Tim Cain isn't involved. Even Chris frigging Avellone isn't. It's like someone making Pulp Fiction II without Quentin Tarantino or any of the actors related to the first one. Pulp Fiction II would suck anyway, but it has zero chance without its original creator involved.
Stephen King...meh. While I don't like the book, Stephen King is a good, solid guy. I've met him many times and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. He's an alumni of my school, is one of the biggest monetary contributors to the place (and actually gives money to stuff that isn't hockey), and he's an amazing guy to listen to.
Would I trade him for another ten years of Kurt? Well, yeah. But it's nothing personal. I'd trade just about anything for another ten years of Kurt.
IMO, the Sixaxis controller would probably be better for it. In my experience, the PS3's motion sensor (namely, in fl0w, among others) kicks all manner of ass.
that thing that Xbox Live was doing where people can make and upload their own game for others to play
XNA is what you're thinking of. Good idea--except games made with XNA must be released freely, with source, because you can't distribute them. Players of the indie games have to fork over a monthly fee to boot. The only people making money are Microsoft--fl0w on the PS3 at least pays the developers, too.
XNA is not a good system, even though the technical aspects of programming with it are amazing.
4. They were smacked down by the University of Maine [blogspot.com], which followed the University of Wisconsin [slashdot.org] in refusing to act as the RIAA's collection agent.
This sounds nice, Mr. Beckerman, but I'm a student at UMO and an IT monkey to boot. They didn't give the letters to the students, but they e-mailed and phoned all of the charged students and said "if you want them, you can come pick them up right here."
And my bosses, unfortunately, think it's a smart idea to keep static IPs for every student, and keep easy-to-access records for them (if you don't believe me, do a reverse DNS on 130.111.241.53). It sounds a lot nicer than it really is.:/
I use Windows.Forms when doing stuff in both.NET and Mono for the simple reason that under Linux it'll use GTK# or whatever and under Windows it'll use the GDI. It does what it needs to do, where it needs to do it.
* Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported. * The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported. * Introduced support for , which puts resources into the browser's offline cache. This allows a web application to ensure that its resources are available in the cache when the browser goes into offline mode. See * * * Marking Resources for Offline Use for further details on offline support. * Improved precision of layout and scaling across a wide range of screen and printer resolutions. * Implemented cycle collection in XPCOM, which detects cases where two released objects hold one another, but neither is held by anyone else. In this scenario, both objects can safely be purged. Previously, the holds each has on the other would have prevented them from being purged. * Added support for the HttpOnly cookie attribute, which marks a cookie as readable only by the server and not by client-side scripts. * Added a new preference, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page", which notifies the user when the page specifies HTTP-EQUIV=refresh. * Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Windows 98, and Windows ME are not supported for Gecko 1.9. * OS X 10.2 is no longer supported, and OS X 10.3.9 or better is required. * The non-standard JavaScript Script object is no longer supported. * Moving DOM nodes between documents now requires a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification.
It's kind of sketchy that they're not supporting older Windows or OS X versions, but I don't think that's a huge deal. I wish they'd reintroduced MNG instead of APNG (purely a personal preference; APNG is probably actually a better way of doing it), and any fixes to JavaScript are nice to have.
I "played" it for about two weeks. Made about $120 by portraying myself as an "accomplished scripter" (in reality, I was learning it on the fly) and doing consulting work.
The language is just plain weird and the functionality fairly limited. Unless you're doing special work for someone, it's not going to make any money.
It's also laggy as hell.
I wouldn't play there again. Although I like my avatar, who looks like 47 from Hitman.
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You are operating on principles that are not sound. 'Humane' is a feel-good term, but does not in itself carry any weight.
Would it be nice to be able to provide health care to everyone? Yes. Would it be fair or even doable? Not at present.
The appeal of 'humane' treatment is not a good one.
Everyone has the right to health care
Why?
Ubuntu on servers is a bad, bad idea. It'd be like running your hardware on Debian Sid all of the time with neither thought nor care as to the consequences.
Debian servers--cool. Hed Rat servers--sure, why not. Ubuntu? Please god no. Leave Ubuntu on the desktop, where it does a good job.
The 1505/1501 looks considerably snazzier than the older Inspirons.
Latitudes suck.
Inspirons, on the other hand--I have an Inspiron E1505, and I actually like the two-tone case. Unlike some other laptops, the plastic is the color through and through; I type on this thing a LOT and the plastic's wearing down (a touch slower than my last laptop, a Thinkpad), but it hasn't lost its color.
I have noticed intermittent trouble with the wireless, but it only happens on Windows (doesn't on Linux), so I assume that it's just driver trouble. My only real beef with the laptop is that it doesn't have a nipplemouse, but since that's more or less an IBM thing I can't fault them heavily on it.
It's a Google Summer of Code project this year, actually...
My own project, heh heh--
And when that gets honored, we'll use it.
If you don't want Bethesday to make it - who the hell DO you want?
If I can't have Leonard Boyarsky and Tim Cain? I'd take Warren Spector.
Can you start caring about a shift key?
"Oblivion with guns" is what we'll get, and that is semantically equivalent to a steaming pile of bloody dog shit.
Bethesda has made exactly nothing worth a damn since Daggerfall. Oblivion was the first game in a LONG time I uninstalled without beating it.
Leonard Boyarsky isn't involved. Tim Cain isn't involved. Even Chris frigging Avellone isn't. It's like someone making Pulp Fiction II without Quentin Tarantino or any of the actors related to the first one. Pulp Fiction II would suck anyway, but it has zero chance without its original creator involved.
Anne Rice, definitely. Kill that gothy crap off.
Stephen King...meh. While I don't like the book, Stephen King is a good, solid guy. I've met him many times and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. He's an alumni of my school, is one of the biggest monetary contributors to the place (and actually gives money to stuff that isn't hockey), and he's an amazing guy to listen to.
Would I trade him for another ten years of Kurt? Well, yeah. But it's nothing personal. I'd trade just about anything for another ten years of Kurt.
I wonder if the "holyshit" tag is appropriate here.
IMO, the Sixaxis controller would probably be better for it. In my experience, the PS3's motion sensor (namely, in fl0w, among others) kicks all manner of ass.
Then again, the Wii pisses me off. I'm biased.
that thing that Xbox Live was doing where people can make and upload their own game for others to play
XNA is what you're thinking of. Good idea--except games made with XNA must be released freely, with source, because you can't distribute them. Players of the indie games have to fork over a monthly fee to boot. The only people making money are Microsoft--fl0w on the PS3 at least pays the developers, too.
XNA is not a good system, even though the technical aspects of programming with it are amazing.
Thanks for the tip. That $20 will buy me a lot of ramen.
FishWithAHammer works the computer clusters (just started a couple weeks ago). But it's all over the internal boards.
Everyone calls it UMO or UMaine. "UM" sounds stupid when spoken, and doesn't look right next to "UMM", "UMPI", and the rest.
;)
The legislature can bite my shiny metal ass.
No idea. But it does prove my point. ;)
4. They were smacked down by the University of Maine [blogspot.com], which followed the University of Wisconsin [slashdot.org] in refusing to act as the RIAA's collection agent.
:/
This sounds nice, Mr. Beckerman, but I'm a student at UMO and an IT monkey to boot. They didn't give the letters to the students, but they e-mailed and phoned all of the charged students and said "if you want them, you can come pick them up right here."
And my bosses, unfortunately, think it's a smart idea to keep static IPs for every student, and keep easy-to-access records for them (if you don't believe me, do a reverse DNS on 130.111.241.53). It sounds a lot nicer than it really is.
Raw GTK, that is.
.NET and Mono for the simple reason that under Linux it'll use GTK# or whatever and under Windows it'll use the GDI. It does what it needs to do, where it needs to do it.
I use Windows.Forms when doing stuff in both
...Geico has a phone line to the afterlife?
* Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported.
* The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported.
* Introduced support for , which puts resources into the browser's offline cache. This allows a web application to ensure that its resources are available in the cache when the browser goes into offline mode. See * * * Marking Resources for Offline Use for further details on offline support.
* Improved precision of layout and scaling across a wide range of screen and printer resolutions.
* Implemented cycle collection in XPCOM, which detects cases where two released objects hold one another, but neither is held by anyone else. In this scenario, both objects can safely be purged. Previously, the holds each has on the other would have prevented them from being purged.
* Added support for the HttpOnly cookie attribute, which marks a cookie as readable only by the server and not by client-side scripts.
* Added a new preference, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page", which notifies the user when the page specifies HTTP-EQUIV=refresh.
* Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Windows 98, and Windows ME are not supported for Gecko 1.9.
* OS X 10.2 is no longer supported, and OS X 10.3.9 or better is required.
* The non-standard JavaScript Script object is no longer supported.
* Moving DOM nodes between documents now requires a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification.
It's kind of sketchy that they're not supporting older Windows or OS X versions, but I don't think that's a huge deal. I wish they'd reintroduced MNG instead of APNG (purely a personal preference; APNG is probably actually a better way of doing it), and any fixes to JavaScript are nice to have.
I "played" it for about two weeks. Made about $120 by portraying myself as an "accomplished scripter" (in reality, I was learning it on the fly) and doing consulting work.
The language is just plain weird and the functionality fairly limited. Unless you're doing special work for someone, it's not going to make any money.
It's also laggy as hell.
I wouldn't play there again. Although I like my avatar, who looks like 47 from Hitman.
Adept is an abortion. There's not a lot else to say about it.
Synaptic is decent, but adept is just bad.
Flamebait? Jesus, the slashbots are out in force today.
I'm an open-source contributor. I run a Linux network. I use Kubuntu. That doesn't change its flaws, you fucking moron mods.