Back when I played Warcraft II on Mac over AOL (yes, good times), and your game was lagging a bit, the trick was to say, "hold down Command and type QUICK to get rid of the lag." Of course, Command-Q is the shortcut for Quit on MacOS. (You could be sure that everyone playing was a Mac user, because WC2 didn't support TCP/IP connections on Windows until the "silver" version came out years later.) I also saw this a few times on Hotline servers... "Hold down Command and type QUICK to speed up your downloads."
This is not unusual in the US, in any area of technology. I've seen USians build major roads with nothing more than sand for a foundation - 2000AD cars running on 2000BC infrastructure. Sure, the roads break up badly, and I'm certain there are many accidents and deaths on US roads as a result, but cheap & quick seems to be the in-thing. Thomas Telford these guys are not.
In what state?
I was about to call BS on that, but then I remembered about this thing called "The South," and I thought maybe I'd check instead.
In an effort to *encourage* this sort of thing, I've bought every single classic games collection out there for my Xbox 1. (The best is the Sonic Mega Collection-- spent weeks playing those!) I'm still waiting for a company to release the best titles from the Commodore 64, but given how many C-64 game makers there were, and how many have gone out of business, that's not very likely.
Still, you'd think EA, who was a major maker of C-64 games and still around, would release a collection.
To use your printing example the typically Unix based printing systems LP, LPR, Cups are all designed to be administered remotely not locally. They are all designed to generate automated error reports which can be emailed to administrators. LPR and CUPS are designed to be robust and fail less often. The fact is for an administrator its very useful that LPR and Cups expose the administrator to the details of communication and allow these to be modified in easy ways.
If you know how to do all those things you just described, no school district in the US can hire you-- you're too expensive for them.
I can't believe that people don't want to hire the genius that thought up putting rockets in the hilts of katanas and using them to fly around! Unbelievable. Kudos on predicting a multiplayer game with vehicles mere weeks before Starsiege Tribes was released.
I can't believe that people don't want to hire the genius that thought up putting rockets in the hilts of katanas and using them to fly around! Unbelievable. Kudos on predicting a multiplayer game with vehicles mere weeks before Starsiege Tribes was released.
No, if you want to get downmodded quickly, go to the gaming topic and post something negative about Nintendo. It doesn't matter if your post contains nothing but 100% fact, it'll still be marked -1 Flamebait in less than five minutes. In fact, I think the strongest bias on Slashdot isn't the Liberal bias, or even the Linux bias, but the Nintendo bias in the games section. It's insane.
Yes, whereas Windows is far better because it only supports 1 type of CPU (x86)... I'm not sure what you're complaining about here - of course you can't run a program on an incompatable CPU, nomatter what OS you're using.
*cough* OS X *cough*
And before that, MacOS 7-current will run programs designed for 680x0 CPUs on PPC CPUs. In fact, if you can run Classic on a x86 Mac (not sure if that works...) you could conceivable run 680x0 apps on x86.
I bought a Zenith TV (not sure if that counts as a small brand or not, but it's certainly no Sony) because at the time, they were the last American company that made TVs. Anything else would have come from Korea or Japan.
Oh, and that intelligent choice came about because of an article I read on the internet about the Japanese domination in electronics.
I wonder if he knows there's a menu item you can use to 'de-authorize' all the currently-authorized computers (which is 5, not 3) and then you can re-authorize the ones you want.
I'll give you Lemmings... but citing an obvious rip-off of Q-Bert as a creative game, that doesn't strike you as odd?
Just like all those Linux users who always go on about how Frozen Bubble is the most creative best game ever without mentioning it's just a clone of Bust-A-Move.
Hexic HD, IMO the best Live Arcade game, is only available for Xbox 360. So while you can play many of the Live Arcade games on your PC, there are some you cannot.
Hexic HD is a hex-tile-based puzzle game from the creator of Tetris, and it's addictive as all hell. I've worn out a 360 controller's rechargable battery in one-sitting playing it.
Live Arcade also has some games that you could play on your PC at one time, but are no longer available. For instance, Crystal Quest.
Probably because they're making them backwards-compatible with DVD/CD drives, which means that each drive has to have two independent assemblies-- the blue laser, and the normal laser used with today's DVD. (Whatever color it is.) That's just a guess.
If the PS3 wasn't backwards compatible, and it was *only* a blue laser drive, I bet it'd be quite a bit cheaper.
I don't know where the hell the article writer buys gum, but this thing is twice the size of a NANO. Now a Nano isn't huge, but it's a lot bigger than a stick of gum. (The Shuffle is gum-sized, but this isn't even close to Shuffle territory-- it has a 1.something inch screen.)
(Seriously, who cares about these "my penis [Linux software] is bigger than your penis" posts? Who gives a shit? iTunes is virtually the only music player software I've found that doesn't look like crap and has enough features to keep me happy. If you like Amarok better, fine! But don't make it sound like I'm some kind of idiot for liking iTunes.)
As a Mac user, I can assure you that Menus are not standardized. (Although I give you buttons.) Every time I use some crappy X11 application or Windows/Linux port on my Mac, and the menu closes the nanosecond my mouse leaves the menu rectangle, I know that whoever wrote it certainly isn't a Mac user or, presumably, even a *mouse* user.
Look, if I'm in a menu, and there's a submenu, give me a little bit of leeway so I can move the mouse *diagonally* from the menu to the submenu. I'm sick of all these crappy menus that close the nanosecond the curser leaves, so you have to open the menu *again* then move the mouse really slow and carefully to hit the submenu. Grah.
Also, Mac textfields look/act absolutely nothing like Windows or Linux textfields.
I like anybody with the guts to turn the fact that the Gamecube has a teeny storage medium into some kind of advantage for the system. Gotta love Slashdot.
If it's a "legal project with legal uses", why would it need to be decentralized? The entire point of decentralizing P2P services is to prevent the entire system from being shut down by the RIAA/MPAA/someone.
Look at Bittorrent for example. Tons of people use it to steal crap, no doubt about it. But since it was developed to be a "legal project with legal uses" there's no effort to shut down Bittorrent. (Some sites using Bittorrent have been shut down, but they were pirating material beyond-a-doubt.)
The very fact that you're going through so much effort to make it decentralized and secure from spoofed files means you're not going to be seen as a legimate project... legimate projects, like bittorrent, don't worry about such things.
Yes, but, uh, it's THEIR software. They can put whatever price on it they want... they can charge $5,000 if they wanted. Or $50,000. You as a consumer have the right to choose either to buy it, or not buy it. That's how the whole damned system *works*.
If everyone agreed with you and thought it was overpriced, then Adobe wouldn't sell as many copies and they'd either have to lower the price or they'd go out of business. Again, that's how the system *works*.
Personally, I believe that home/hobby users should be perfectly content with Photoshop Elements which does probably 80% of what Photoshop does and costs a tenth as much. Wild-ass guess here, but I bet most people who pirate Photoshop because it's "too expensive" don't use more features than are available in Elements anyway.
Additionally, obviously, if Photoshop is overpriced, you should be able to create a competitor and sell it for less, right? That's pretty much the definition of overpriced. Therefore, if you want to undercut Photoshop and steal their market, get together a few investors and go for it. That's also part of how the system works. InDesign grabbed a ton of customers from Quark.
Ok, that covers *one* of the products I mentioned on *some* distributions. Now how about an equally easy solution for all of the products that works on all distributions?
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Back when I played Warcraft II on Mac over AOL (yes, good times), and your game was lagging a bit, the trick was to say, "hold down Command and type QUICK to get rid of the lag." Of course, Command-Q is the shortcut for Quit on MacOS. (You could be sure that everyone playing was a Mac user, because WC2 didn't support TCP/IP connections on Windows until the "silver" version came out years later.) I also saw this a few times on Hotline servers... "Hold down Command and type QUICK to speed up your downloads."
This is not unusual in the US, in any area of technology. I've seen USians build major roads with nothing more than sand for a foundation - 2000AD cars running on 2000BC infrastructure. Sure, the roads break up badly, and I'm certain there are many accidents and deaths on US roads as a result, but cheap & quick seems to be the in-thing. Thomas Telford these guys are not.
In what state?
I was about to call BS on that, but then I remembered about this thing called "The South," and I thought maybe I'd check instead.
Some people like to own legal copies of things.
In an effort to *encourage* this sort of thing, I've bought every single classic games collection out there for my Xbox 1. (The best is the Sonic Mega Collection-- spent weeks playing those!) I'm still waiting for a company to release the best titles from the Commodore 64, but given how many C-64 game makers there were, and how many have gone out of business, that's not very likely.
Still, you'd think EA, who was a major maker of C-64 games and still around, would release a collection.
To use your printing example the typically Unix based printing systems LP, LPR, Cups are all designed to be administered remotely not locally. They are all designed to generate automated error reports which can be emailed to administrators. LPR and CUPS are designed to be robust and fail less often. The fact is for an administrator its very useful that LPR and Cups expose the administrator to the details of communication and allow these to be modified in easy ways.
If you know how to do all those things you just described, no school district in the US can hire you-- you're too expensive for them.
That's a big part of the problem.
Yes, open source is obviously better because there's never any typos or grammatical errors on Slashdot.
Time zones. They're like 8 hours ahead of me in PST.
What the holy hell are you talking about?
Mod: -1, Incomprehensible
Woot! It's CrazyJim1! Where you been, buddy!?
I can't believe that people don't want to hire the genius that thought up putting rockets in the hilts of katanas and using them to fly around! Unbelievable. Kudos on predicting a multiplayer game with vehicles mere weeks before Starsiege Tribes was released.
Woot! It's CrazyJim1! Where you been, buddy!?
I can't believe that people don't want to hire the genius that thought up putting rockets in the hilts of katanas and using them to fly around! Unbelievable. Kudos on predicting a multiplayer game with vehicles mere weeks before Starsiege Tribes was released.
No, if you want to get downmodded quickly, go to the gaming topic and post something negative about Nintendo. It doesn't matter if your post contains nothing but 100% fact, it'll still be marked -1 Flamebait in less than five minutes. In fact, I think the strongest bias on Slashdot isn't the Liberal bias, or even the Linux bias, but the Nintendo bias in the games section. It's insane.
Yes, whereas Windows is far better because it only supports 1 type of CPU (x86)... I'm not sure what you're complaining about here - of course you can't run a program on an incompatable CPU, nomatter what OS you're using.
*cough* OS X *cough*
And before that, MacOS 7-current will run programs designed for 680x0 CPUs on PPC CPUs. In fact, if you can run Classic on a x86 Mac (not sure if that works...) you could conceivable run 680x0 apps on x86.
What makes you think they wouldn't install the same amount of crap on the Linux machines? Out of curiousity...
I bought a Zenith TV (not sure if that counts as a small brand or not, but it's certainly no Sony) because at the time, they were the last American company that made TVs. Anything else would have come from Korea or Japan.
Oh, and that intelligent choice came about because of an article I read on the internet about the Japanese domination in electronics.
I wonder if he knows there's a menu item you can use to 'de-authorize' all the currently-authorized computers (which is 5, not 3) and then you can re-authorize the ones you want.
I'll give you Lemmings... but citing an obvious rip-off of Q-Bert as a creative game, that doesn't strike you as odd?
Just like all those Linux users who always go on about how Frozen Bubble is the most creative best game ever without mentioning it's just a clone of Bust-A-Move.
Hexic HD, IMO the best Live Arcade game, is only available for Xbox 360. So while you can play many of the Live Arcade games on your PC, there are some you cannot.
Hexic HD is a hex-tile-based puzzle game from the creator of Tetris, and it's addictive as all hell. I've worn out a 360 controller's rechargable battery in one-sitting playing it.
Live Arcade also has some games that you could play on your PC at one time, but are no longer available. For instance, Crystal Quest.
Probably because they're making them backwards-compatible with DVD/CD drives, which means that each drive has to have two independent assemblies-- the blue laser, and the normal laser used with today's DVD. (Whatever color it is.) That's just a guess.
If the PS3 wasn't backwards compatible, and it was *only* a blue laser drive, I bet it'd be quite a bit cheaper.
I don't know where the hell the article writer buys gum, but this thing is twice the size of a NANO. Now a Nano isn't huge, but it's a lot bigger than a stick of gum. (The Shuffle is gum-sized, but this isn't even close to Shuffle territory-- it has a 1.something inch screen.)
iTunes can download TV shows. And runs on OS X.
So there! Nyah nyah!
(Seriously, who cares about these "my penis [Linux software] is bigger than your penis" posts? Who gives a shit? iTunes is virtually the only music player software I've found that doesn't look like crap and has enough features to keep me happy. If you like Amarok better, fine! But don't make it sound like I'm some kind of idiot for liking iTunes.)
As a Mac user, I can assure you that Menus are not standardized. (Although I give you buttons.) Every time I use some crappy X11 application or Windows/Linux port on my Mac, and the menu closes the nanosecond my mouse leaves the menu rectangle, I know that whoever wrote it certainly isn't a Mac user or, presumably, even a *mouse* user.
Look, if I'm in a menu, and there's a submenu, give me a little bit of leeway so I can move the mouse *diagonally* from the menu to the submenu. I'm sick of all these crappy menus that close the nanosecond the curser leaves, so you have to open the menu *again* then move the mouse really slow and carefully to hit the submenu. Grah.
Also, Mac textfields look/act absolutely nothing like Windows or Linux textfields.
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I like anybody with the guts to turn the fact that the Gamecube has a teeny storage medium into some kind of advantage for the system. Gotta love Slashdot.
Stupid question:
If it's a "legal project with legal uses", why would it need to be decentralized? The entire point of decentralizing P2P services is to prevent the entire system from being shut down by the RIAA/MPAA/someone.
Look at Bittorrent for example. Tons of people use it to steal crap, no doubt about it. But since it was developed to be a "legal project with legal uses" there's no effort to shut down Bittorrent. (Some sites using Bittorrent have been shut down, but they were pirating material beyond-a-doubt.)
The very fact that you're going through so much effort to make it decentralized and secure from spoofed files means you're not going to be seen as a legimate project... legimate projects, like bittorrent, don't worry about such things.
Yes, but, uh, it's THEIR software. They can put whatever price on it they want... they can charge $5,000 if they wanted. Or $50,000. You as a consumer have the right to choose either to buy it, or not buy it. That's how the whole damned system *works*.
If everyone agreed with you and thought it was overpriced, then Adobe wouldn't sell as many copies and they'd either have to lower the price or they'd go out of business. Again, that's how the system *works*.
Personally, I believe that home/hobby users should be perfectly content with Photoshop Elements which does probably 80% of what Photoshop does and costs a tenth as much. Wild-ass guess here, but I bet most people who pirate Photoshop because it's "too expensive" don't use more features than are available in Elements anyway.
Additionally, obviously, if Photoshop is overpriced, you should be able to create a competitor and sell it for less, right? That's pretty much the definition of overpriced. Therefore, if you want to undercut Photoshop and steal their market, get together a few investors and go for it. That's also part of how the system works. InDesign grabbed a ton of customers from Quark.
Ok, that covers *one* of the products I mentioned on *some* distributions. Now how about an equally easy solution for all of the products that works on all distributions?