What you are saying is half true. Why? Because here in spanish speaking countries we consider that America (there is no Americas in spanish) is the continent (one continent) and United States is the country. In spanish, the denonym for americans is 'estadounidense'. Informally we use the term 'norteamericano' (northamerican) or 'gringo'. But, we use the term 'America del Norte' (North America) to refer to the area from Canada to Panama (or Mexico).
The term America, which from its origins is used to refer to the new world, means United States to english speakers because it's the only part of the continent that you have cared about since the english arrived here.
The same thing happened to me with my old Epson Stylus Color 6 years ago.
Then I bought a Lexmark Z42, whose cartridges have got the printing heads. I never checked beforehand the price of new cartridges or the availability of third party ones. I also didn't check if it was Linux compatible, cause I my hardware didn't support Linux back. That was the worst purchase I've ever done, I bought a Linux incompatible (for many years) printer for more than a hundred bucks which uses $30 cartridges.
Moral: Don't buy Lexmarks. Don't buy printers without knowing the cost of its supplies.(stupid, stupid) Check with a real person if the printer you want to buy works in Linux, mine had drivers, but they didn't work. Get a laser and print your photos in a studio, the price of a photo printer plus paper and photo ink is not worth it. If you don't have the cash to get the laser or don't print that much, get a cheap ass Canon inkjet.
In my laptop usplash doesn't work, I get a text boot screen. I don't know why, but it must have happened because I upgraded from 7.01 to devel in february. I also had weird issues like this updating to devel versions on the past.
I have never upgraded to stable versions in the past, so I would recommend you to install hardy from scratch.
WTF are you talking about?!
What you are saying makes no sense. Why are you comparing 2 4:3 monitors with laptop displays??
Talking about the GIMP, did you know that it is way more usable to have all windows in one screen instead that having them spread all over your screens, for short memory purposes (do you know anything about ui design?).
I know it's hard to understand what I'm saying. I agree that Apple or Microsoft shouldn't be responsible, but in reality they should take in account that software from major third parties should continue working after minor updates. Why? Because their operating systems are just platforms to run them.
People don't buy computers to run Mac OS or Windows, they buy them to run Photoshop, Office, etc.
I'm sorry sir, but if Apple wanted to keep their customers happy they should have checked if any update could have problems with popular 3rd party software.
Also, they shouldn't have changed the Quicktime API behavior between minor updates for DRMs sake!
BTW, I can't believe that Apple doesn't install multiple versions of Quicktime in parallel for better application compatiblity.
You are right, Ars Technica seems to be drawing conclusions out of nowhere. They cite the BigChampagne CEO but he never mentions that the higher traffic could be attributed to piracy. Also, the article doesn't mention if other P2P networks like eDonkey have gotten less users, thing that could explain the surge.
PS: BigChampagne, the people who made the study, is a company that analyzes which music is popular on P2P networks. They've got like a P2P equivalent of the Billboard charts.
It doesn't matter if Safari is useful or not. The problem is that the Apple Updater tries to install iTunes and Safari by default when it finds an update in Quicktime. Imagine if Sun forcedly installed OO.org using the Java SE updater program... that would be fucking wrong.
>> A linux desktop O/S is just as insecure technically. >Secure from what? Internal or external threats? In the internal case it exhibits better protection from escalation of privilege (than windows, see >Sony rootkit for an example). In the external case is affords simpler accounting of the processes laying around.
You are taking things out of context. You don't need root privileges at all to make a botnet to work.
>>The linux (and Apple) desktops are just more secure by the same reason a hut in a small remote village is more secure than an apartment in a big >city ghetto - a one room apartment with many locks, metal doors and chains, but where the occupants let in muggers just because they said they were >from Ebay.
>No, it is more secure for a some applications because less of the network facing executable code needs to run at as high a privilege level.
I repeat, the privilege level is irrelevant for a worm to infect your computer, they can even run as any user. You can infect your computer using any popular desktop application that faces the internet, think web browsers.
It's very improbable that Linux has better compatibility with old Windows programs because Wine also works on Windows...
Geez... that guy should just shut the fuck up, he is helping nobody with an article full of lies and crap like that. I've seen TOO MANY articles from guys that promote Linux because they love to hate Windows. The big issue with that is that they make us Linux users look like jackasses and liars, cause their articles give false expectations to people that would like to switch.
Benchmarks mean nothing, specially these ones.
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Ruby 1.9.0 Released
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Well, it seems that Ruby 1.9.0 is the fastest implementation available,
it also is reflects the newest version of the language... but I would
really like to see benchmarks based on real apps based on things like
Mephisto,Radiant CMS and/or Mongrel.
Also, does someone have a list with the most important features? The summary
is way too poor.
Mod parent up, Informative. A lot of people here seem to believe that h.264 = FLV when it's not.
h.264 AVC is NOT a widely used format! It is only used on iPods and some other devices like cellphones (3gp).
Also, it is not being used for video streaming sites, so saying that h.264 could be better for us because of the mayority of the content available online is in that format is a fucking lie.
Maybe someone has played waaay to much Manhunt 2 lately.
You can thank that Thompson doesn't hang around here, cause I bet Thompson would sue Rockstar for adding subliminal messages to the game that make people want him dismembered. The weird thing is that I firmly believe that Rockstar are capable of doing that kind of thing.
It doesn't matter if Valve deactivated the games later, it was stated on the box that the game is region locked, so Valve has the right to enforce the lock whenever they want to.
Also Valve has no responsibility to refund those people, they didn't get ripped off by Valve, they got ripped off by the shoddy sellers on eBay. IMO, the latter ones should be sued and... stoned.
Anyway, you are right that Valve shouldn't ban those people, but as Doug said, if you've any problem contact Valve support.
They discontinued it in 2005. And it was made for the GBA.
Nintendo did not offer an online game store in Japan for the Play-Yan like they are doing right now with the Wii (with a heavy layer of DRM), in fact, the only content they made available were some free games.
So, I paid for [a locked version of] XP, and I [stole an unlocked version of] XP. I'm happy.
I edited your last statement for accuracy.
If you don't like their rules, don't play their game. Heck, I hate that kind of comments. People don't use Windows because we want to, we use it because it is a
tool to use other programs that help us at work.
Saying that switching to another OS is easy is absurd when we need to use specific software.
I respect Nolan for his GREAT contribution to the gaming industry, but I can't believe he said that current generation games are pure trash.
Come on, the company he founded was a great contributor to the videogame crash. The crash happened many years ago, and a phenomemon like that hasn't repeated ever since; not because there are huge budgets or people buy crap, but because there are very good games in the market. There are games with charismatic characters (Mario), cinematic experiences (Goldeneye, Metal Gear Solid), inmersive worlds (Oblivion, Zelda, Half-Life), or plain-ol fun (Wii Sports, Mario Kart, DDR, Guitar Hero, Metal Slug).
Maybe he is ranting against american game publishers like EA, Activision, that like to market the same crap season after season, giving no more entertaining value. Maybe he is too old and don't play complex games. But that is no excuse, because there are also really good indie (or indie like) games, like Every Extend, Geometry Wars, Bejeweled, Clubhouse Games, Pac Mac CE. Games that are WAY more fun than the late 70s titles.
I also been thinking that maybe he doesn't really like videogames, but he likes to make them. It has always happened, just read some interviews to game developers and they'll tell you they don't really play games. Maybe he liked the old games, closer to the heart of the beginnings of videogaming, he was a protagonist in the revolution. Right now, there is nothing, in gaming, that makes him PASSIONATE because he FEELS there hasn't been a real Paradigm Shift(TM) in the way games are made or people interact with them. I hope he is trying to say what I have just written, but the interview is very poorly done to draw any conclusions.
I only have one message to him: Mr. Bushnell, thank you, you're work has made a great impact in our lives, in ways that no one can imagine. I'm glad you are still an active innovator, I love your restaurant idea, but don't treat the gaming industry like that, please look at Wii Sports and Wii Fit and you'll really see gaming is changing for the great benefit of our glorious nation.
Such a shame that I can't mod this past +5 funny. Such a shame that I can't mod this post +5 insightful.
I would have done it, but I can't because of this post.
IANABA (I am not a business analyst), but moronic lawsuits shouldn't cause stock prices to fall. Stock prices SHOULD fall if there's a possibility that Apple could lose a case like that, which means that the case is not so moronic after all, or maybe the way justice is enforced in the US is a bit of a joke.
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What you are saying is half true. Why? Because here in spanish speaking countries we consider that America (there is no Americas in spanish) is the continent (one continent) and United States is the country. In spanish, the denonym for americans is 'estadounidense'. Informally we use the term 'norteamericano' (northamerican) or 'gringo'. But, we use the term 'America del Norte' (North America) to refer to the area from Canada to Panama (or Mexico).
The term America, which from its origins is used to refer to the new world, means United States to english speakers because it's the only part of the continent that you have cared about since the english arrived here.
I got mine for free with a Diebold voting machine key.
The same thing happened to me with my old Epson Stylus Color 6 years ago.
Then I bought a Lexmark Z42, whose cartridges have got the printing heads. I never checked beforehand the price of new cartridges or the availability of third party ones. I also didn't check if it was Linux compatible, cause I my hardware didn't support Linux back. That was the worst purchase I've ever done, I bought a Linux incompatible (for many years) printer for more than a hundred bucks which uses $30 cartridges.
Moral:
Don't buy Lexmarks.
Don't buy printers without knowing the cost of its supplies.(stupid, stupid)
Check with a real person if the printer you want to buy works in Linux, mine had drivers, but they didn't work.
Get a laser and print your photos in a studio, the price of a photo printer plus paper and photo ink is not worth it. If you don't have the cash to get the laser or don't print that much, get a cheap ass Canon inkjet.
yes!! thanks!! it seems that messing around with partition tables doesn't play nice with upgrading the kernel.
Have you tried installing Hardy from scratch?
In my laptop usplash doesn't work, I get a text boot screen. I don't know why, but it must have happened because I upgraded from 7.01 to devel in february. I also had weird issues like this updating to devel versions on the past.
I have never upgraded to stable versions in the past, so I would recommend you to install hardy from scratch.
WTF are you talking about?! What you are saying makes no sense. Why are you comparing 2 4:3 monitors with laptop displays??
Talking about the GIMP, did you know that it is way more usable to have all windows in one screen instead that having them spread all over your screens, for short memory purposes (do you know anything about ui design?).
I know it's hard to understand what I'm saying. I agree that Apple or Microsoft shouldn't be responsible, but in reality they should take in account that software from major third parties should continue working after minor updates. Why? Because their operating systems are just platforms to run them.
People don't buy computers to run Mac OS or Windows, they buy them to run Photoshop, Office, etc.
I'm sorry sir, but if Apple wanted to keep their customers happy they should have checked if any update could have problems with popular 3rd party software.
Also, they shouldn't have changed the Quicktime API behavior between minor updates for DRMs sake!
BTW, I can't believe that Apple doesn't install multiple versions of Quicktime in parallel for better application compatiblity.
PS: BigChampagne, the people who made the study, is a company that analyzes which music is popular on P2P networks. They've got like a P2P equivalent of the Billboard charts.
It doesn't matter if Safari is useful or not.
The problem is that the Apple Updater tries to install iTunes and Safari by default when it finds an update in Quicktime. Imagine if Sun forcedly installed OO.org using the Java SE updater program... that would be fucking wrong.
Any programmer could be working under heavy stress, so I don't get your point that programmers working on violent games can get more violent.
And GTK is a mess, not like QT. I use GNOME only because KDE suffers of Kfeaturitis.
>> A linux desktop O/S is just as insecure technically.
>Secure from what? Internal or external threats? In the internal case it exhibits better protection from escalation of privilege (than windows, see >Sony rootkit for an example). In the external case is affords simpler accounting of the processes laying around.
You are taking things out of context. You don't need root privileges at all to make a botnet to work.
>>The linux (and Apple) desktops are just more secure by the same reason a hut in a small remote village is more secure than an apartment in a big >city ghetto - a one room apartment with many locks, metal doors and chains, but where the occupants let in muggers just because they said they were >from Ebay.
>No, it is more secure for a some applications because less of the network facing executable code needs to run at as high a privilege level.
I repeat, the privilege level is irrelevant for a worm to infect your computer, they can even run as any user. You can infect your computer using any popular desktop application that faces the internet, think web browsers.
It's very improbable that Linux has better compatibility with old Windows programs because Wine also works on Windows ...
Geez... that guy should just shut the fuck up, he is helping nobody with an article full of lies and crap like that. I've seen TOO MANY articles from guys that promote Linux because they love to hate Windows. The big issue with that is that they make us Linux users look like jackasses and liars, cause their articles give false expectations to people that would like to switch.
Well, it seems that Ruby 1.9.0 is the fastest implementation available, it also is reflects the newest version of the language... but I would really like to see benchmarks based on real apps based on things like Mephisto,Radiant CMS and/or Mongrel. Also, does someone have a list with the most important features? The summary is way too poor.
Mod parent up, Informative.
A lot of people here seem to believe that h.264 = FLV when it's not.
h.264 AVC is NOT a widely used format! It is only used on iPods and some other devices like cellphones (3gp).
Also, it is not being used for video streaming sites, so saying that h.264 could be better for us because of the mayority of the content available online is in that format is a fucking lie.
Maybe someone has played waaay to much Manhunt 2 lately.
You can thank that Thompson doesn't hang around here, cause I bet Thompson would sue Rockstar for adding subliminal messages to the game that make people want him dismembered. The weird thing is that I firmly believe that Rockstar are capable of doing that kind of thing.
Also Valve has no responsibility to refund those people, they didn't get ripped off by Valve, they got ripped off by the shoddy sellers on eBay. IMO, the latter ones should be sued and ... stoned.
Anyway, you are right that Valve shouldn't ban those people, but as Doug said, if you've any problem contact Valve support.
A real president that respects and believes in democracy won't veto a congress bill, because it's the people who voted for them.
Nintendo did not offer an online game store in Japan for the Play-Yan like they are doing right now with the Wii (with a heavy layer of DRM), in fact, the only content they made available were some free games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Yan
I edited your last statement for accuracy.
If you don't like their rules, don't play their game.
Heck, I hate that kind of comments. People don't use Windows because we want to, we use it because it is a tool to use other programs that help us at work.
Saying that switching to another OS is easy is absurd when we need to use specific software.
I respect Nolan for his GREAT contribution to the gaming industry, but I can't believe he said that current generation games are pure trash.
Come on, the company he founded was a great contributor to the videogame crash. The crash happened many years ago, and a phenomemon like that hasn't repeated ever since; not because there are huge budgets or people buy crap, but because there are very good games in the market. There are games with charismatic characters (Mario), cinematic experiences (Goldeneye, Metal Gear Solid), inmersive worlds (Oblivion, Zelda, Half-Life), or plain-ol fun (Wii Sports, Mario Kart, DDR, Guitar Hero, Metal Slug).
Maybe he is ranting against american game publishers like EA, Activision, that like to market the same crap season after season, giving no more entertaining value. Maybe he is too old and don't play complex games. But that is no excuse, because there are also really good indie (or indie like) games, like Every Extend, Geometry Wars, Bejeweled, Clubhouse Games, Pac Mac CE. Games that are WAY more fun than the late 70s titles.
I also been thinking that maybe he doesn't really like videogames, but he likes to make them. It has always happened, just read some interviews to game developers and they'll tell you they don't really play games. Maybe he liked the old games, closer to the heart of the beginnings of videogaming, he was a protagonist in the revolution. Right now, there is nothing, in gaming, that makes him PASSIONATE because he FEELS there hasn't been a real Paradigm Shift(TM) in the way games are made or people interact with them. I hope he is trying to say what I have just written, but the interview is very poorly done to draw any conclusions.
I only have one message to him: Mr. Bushnell, thank you, you're work has made a great impact in our lives, in ways that no one can imagine. I'm glad you are still an active innovator, I love your restaurant idea, but don't treat the gaming industry like that, please look at Wii Sports and Wii Fit and you'll really see gaming is changing for the great benefit of our glorious nation.
I would have done it, but I can't because of this post.
Calling it Linux is an offense to the FOSS community...
At it seems even Microsoft knows that.
geez...
IANABA (I am not a business analyst), but moronic lawsuits shouldn't cause stock prices to fall. Stock prices SHOULD fall if there's a possibility that Apple could lose a case like that, which means that the case is not so moronic after all, or maybe the way justice is enforced in the US is a bit of a joke.