Comment But ... but ... (Score 1) 136
This must be ancient alien plastic.
This must be ancient alien plastic.
A new face for EVIL.
My thoughts are that posting in on-line communities is done mostly for reasons of self-esteem (although there are obviously other motivations) by people whose task is to share and receive useful-to-them information.
If your self-esteem is high, the post itself provides the validation and positive or negative comments have little to no effect on what you post since validation is intrinsic.
If your self-esteem is low, validation comes through feedback. Positive feedback is then seen to come from kindred souls and negative feedback from trolls. In both cases, validation is extrinsic and therefore has a volatile effect on the poster.
My problem with TFA is what they quantify as "better" content. People post using words, phrases and grammar that they come equipped with; their level of education is fixed for the most part; their real-life experience and socialization is essentially fixed for the short run. Their ideas and opinions are already formed. There will not be any substantial improvement in the quality of what people post, no matter what the feedback is.
Obviously, we need to fund more studies, especially studies done at exotic locales and funded by government money.
Without Linux, GNU, and BSD, it's no stretch to say that we may not have had an Internet today in any way that we'd recognize
It would most likely look like AOL and BBS.
Does Slashdot get all its news stories from FARK.com?
I read most of the current crop there first.
Unless you compile from vetted source code on an un-compromised system using an un-compromised compiler, etc., you can't be certain the binary they provide is the same as what compiling the source code would provide.
So who added that little sentence to the farm bill?
Coffin . . . meet nail.
For those of us who wish to hasten the death of GNOME, is there anything we can do?
Yes. Contribute money so they don't change the way they do business.
Agreed; bail them out. They will not learn any lesson from their poor decisions and will perpetuate them.
This same divergence from their core mission was responsible for the downfall of Mandriva who spent their IPO money on "remote learning" technologies and abandoned their community of loyal users to "do it their own way" because they "knew better".
for openGL?
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The dosbox configs for example have no consistency in the style department, so you actually have to understand them in order to write the new one.
Rather than just complain, you could contrinute better DOSBOX configs back to the GOG community and encourage GOG to write to a higher standard by example.
PlayOnLinux can already access your GOG account and install many Windows games automatically and run them using WINE.
Here's a good tip for older games that use DOS4GW.EXE: download the GPL'ed binary from http://dos32a.narechk.net/inde... and re-name it DOS4GW.EXE, then substutite it for the original. You'll find a noticable improvement in game performance, even using WINE o DOSBOX.
If your game uses CWSDPMI.EXE , download the latest version of it from http://web.archive.org/web/201...
Not everybody uses Ubuntu or Mint.
It's a shame they decided to support a specific "distro" instead of just generic Linux. How hard can that be?
What's wrong with specifying minimum version numbers for libraries, using
Or better yet, ship the required libraries with the binaries (providing the source code via ftp) and using a wrapper script to load the correct libraries and run the game for a "works-every-time" experience.
To GOG's credit, their support forums contain a wealth of information about running some of these games using Linux. As well, PlayOnLinux can install supported *.exe games directly from your account at GOG, so they have been supportive of Linux for a very long time.
Has my meemaw's computer been compromised?
So I don't see the problem.
Moneyliness is next to Godliness. -- Andries van Dam
