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Comment Games, Blu-ray and Canon (Score 0) 1215

by erickfis (#43973001) Attached to: What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013?
I love linux and use it every day for working, in my office on my laptop. The passion had begun with slackware back in college (2002) and now I'm using kubuntu. I get stuff done: libre office, gimp, inkscape, librecad, vlc, firefox, transcode, openshot and etc.... BUT my biggest disappointment is that linux wont play my games, wont play my rented blu-ray movies, wont play netflix and wont run my Canon EOS software. Raw image software on linux cant compete with canon eos. So even today I have a windows pc on my living room, there is no way around....

Comment Re:Kind of sad (Score 0) 226

by erickfis (#43495329) Attached to: Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May

Every other OS I've used has had a higher maintenance burden.

I've been using kubunt 12.04 for quite some time now, and I'm really pleased. It's really well polished. Before that, I was using ubuntu (blahrg!) and before that, slackware, but I got tired of compiling everything by myself. Apt-get and Muon are a great step ahead for linux!

Comment My "just works" history (Score 0) 815

by erickfis (#43114515) Attached to: Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac
I used to use slackware since 2002, when I bought a PC for using at home and got pissed of with the pre-installed windows xp. Back then, slackware 9 just worked for me. I got in love with it. But, just like someone else said before, after college, time started to become an issue. Later in 2010 I was introduced to ubuntu and realized there was a new level of the 'just works' experience. Since then I'm using ubuntu. I even like unity, got no problems using it. I use it for everyday work. No more ./configure, no more messing around, no more initrd or whatever: I just get my shit done. The system works for me now. The only flaw it has right nowt that bugs me its that it cannot play blu-ray discs. Well, not the ones I rent from blockbuster. This and games. Thus, at home i'm still stuck with the win7.

Comment Re:Gamers are not idiots ... (Score 0) 393

by erickfis (#42955527) Attached to: The End Is Near for GameStop

1. Playing a Game for Windows Live (GFWL) game on Steam and having the GFWL fail to connect, disconnect midgame, and choke up so often as to make a fun game unfun (Dark Souls...)
6. Online requirements for single player games 7

You are not alone, fellow gamer. The two item above really give me the nerves!

Comment Re:No more time travel! (Score 0) 735

by erickfis (#42713791) Attached to: J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII

I wouldn't say that the time travel where the problem with Lost, the main problem with Lost was building up all this backstory with Dharma & Co and then end it all with "oh we crated a faked dream world so that we all could go to heaven together".

this! introducing religion in the grand finale as the explanation for the whole thing really ruined the show. I mean, I was really pumped and excited with the time-travels and sci-fi stuff and possibilities then they came up with religion? come on!
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Lag Analysis For the PlayStation Move 71

Posted by Soulskill from the swing-and-a-miss dept.
The $64,000 question about Sony's upcoming motion control system, the PlayStation Move, is how responsive it will be compared to traditional console controllers and its counterparts from Nintendo and Microsoft. Eurogamer slowed down videos of Sony's tech demo software to establish a rough baseline latency that developers will have to work with. Quoting: "While exact latency measurements aren't possible in these conditions, a ballpark idea of the level of response isn't a problem at all. The methodology is remarkably straightforward. Keep your hand as steady as possible, then make fast motions with the controller. Count the frames between your hand moving, and the motion being carried out on-screen. Equally illuminating is to stop your movement suddenly, then count the frames necessary for your on-screen counterpart to catch up. While not 100 per cent accurate, repeat the process enough times and the frame difference becomes fairly evident. Bearing all of that in mind, and recognizing that we don't know how much latency the display itself is adding, I'd say that a ballpark figure of around 133ms of controller lag (give or take a frame) seems reasonable, certainly not the ultra-fast crispness of response we see from games like Burnout Paradise or Modern Warfare, but fine for most of the applications you would want from such a controller."
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After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy from the terminal-velocity dept.
The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."

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