Had I bought Windows 7, I wouldn't have to use the PS3 or 360 at all. I could stream Netflix in it, watch downloaded TV thingies, consume Hulu and whatever else I'd want to do. The only thing it wouldn't do would be due to it being a small form factor PC and not having a blu-ray or DVD drive.
What's stopping you from getting Windows now?
Mostly laziness, and the lack of a decent video card in the machine. It's got a decent on-board video card but that can't handle high def stuff without stuttering. So really, it was a multiple fail for a media PC, but I learned stuff. Eventually I'll probably use that PC for something else, and I'll wipe it and put Win7 or XP on it.
I used Ubuntu for a couple of months on my Desktop and I really liked it but not being able to use Netflix or Spotify on it without at VM or a lot of fiddling was too much of a bitch. If I could get a cheaper small laptop that wasn't just a shitty netbook with ubuntu on it I could see using that but I'll stick with windows for the most part.
I use Linux for coding and serving, but Windows for multimedia consumption/production, gaming, and everyday computing. I could probably get away with Linux for media consumption and everyday web browsing thanks to Firefox, mplayer, and Amarok, but no Spotify. But I need iTunes for my iPhone, and I actually like iTunes. Also, there are things such as Lightroom.
What it really comes down to is that anything I need to do in Linux will work fine in VirtualBox no problem. The things I do in Windows can not be in a virtual machine. Rather than the pain of dual booting, I just put Linux in a VM and open it when I have to code.
You can always pirate Windows and dual boot. Just make Ubuntu your default and only go into Windows for gaming.
The issue right now is that the drive containing my Windows installation failed. Or at least, some part of the installation is corrupted to the point where I cannot boot into Windows. This is what sparked my musings about the necessity of a tower. Also, that's why I'm running Ubuntu.
But yeah, if this doesn't work, then I'll be dual-booting. Honestly, I'm not sure why I didn't bother trying out Ubuntu earlier.
That's how it starts. After about two weeks you'll realize that (as a desktop PC) Ubuntu does everything your Windows did, but a bit worse and requires more fiddling. Considering your time is worth about $30/hr or so, you'll eventually realize that all the fiddling you're doing is costing you more money than if you had just bought Windows and it worked straight away.
I don't have to really do that much fiddling to get things working, but yeah, it doesn't work quite as well as Windows for most of my media consumption. It works well enough for now, though, so I'll get around to getting a replacement hard drive when I feel like it.
To get Spotify working, you run the official binary you can download from the website or their repository. Isn't Netflix just a website? If you download media in formats worth a damn, chances are it'll work much better and less painfully using things like Totem or Mplayer than Windows alternatives.
To get Spotify working, you run the official binary you can download from the website or their repository. Isn't Netflix just a website? If you download media in formats worth a damn, chances are it'll work much better and less painfully using things like Totem or Mplayer than Windows alternatives.
Netflix uses Silverlight, which doesn't work with Ubuntu. downloaded media works fine in VLC, but high def stuff stutters because of my hardware.
VLC /looks like crap/ more often than not. Many formats are glitchy. Its heavier than other players, it doesn't have the features you expect, and used not to have support for basic meta things, like, chapters. It would work better on Linux using whatever is your distro standard. It'll most likely ask you something like "Yo I don't do this shit very well. Do you want me to?", make sure you answer yes.
There is Mono for Linux, which does the Silverlight DRM stuff, and the Windows version works through Wine they say. I can't confirm this.
You can always pirate Windows and dual boot. Just make Ubuntu your default and only go into Windows for gaming.
The issue right now is that the drive containing my Windows installation failed. Or at least, some part of the installation is corrupted to the point where I cannot boot into Windows. This is what sparked my musings about the necessity of a tower. Also, that's why I'm running Ubuntu.
But yeah, if this doesn't work, then I'll be dual-booting. Honestly, I'm not sure why I didn't bother trying out Ubuntu earlier.
That's how it starts. After about two weeks you'll realize that (as a desktop PC) Ubuntu does everything your Windows did, but a bit worse and requires more fiddling. Considering your time is worth about $30/hr or so, you'll eventually realize that all the fiddling you're doing is costing you more money than if you had just bought Windows and it worked straight away.
Unless you are writing software. Then the opposite.
I have had a vision: to drive from Lisbon to Beijing. The only difficulty (besides 3 years without employment, needing to learn 3 languages, etc.) is that there is no way around Iran without going around the Caspian Sea.
To get Spotify working, you run the official binary you can download from the website or their repository. Isn't Netflix just a website? If you download media in formats worth a damn, chances are it'll work much better and less painfully using things like Totem or Mplayer than Windows alternatives.
Netflix uses Silverlight, which doesn't work with Ubuntu. downloaded media works fine in VLC, but high def stuff stutters because of my hardware.
There is a version of Silverlight called Moonlight that works with linux. Get that.
"Christian" students respond to school losing court case concerning prayer banner in school.
You know, I went through Middle School and High School in Smithfield, which is only a few miles from Cranston High. One of the biggest things they taught in our history classes was that Roger Williams, though an immensely religious man, always said that religion should not be forced onto people. That was one of the reasons he founded Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations: because he was being persecuted in Massachusetts for his religious and political views. Hell, he started pissing of the Massachusetts church the minute he stepped off the boat from England because he didn't think church and state should be intermingled.
The current climate of tolerance in the Christian faith is the product of an emphasis on the Old Testament without looking at the revisions that separate them from the Jews. God is like John Lennon: He used to be cruel and mean, but then someone showed him the way of kindness and compassion and he became a happier person. However, Jesus didn't break up the Beatles. That would've been a bit of a deal-breaker.
The current climate of tolerance in the Christian faith is the product of an emphasis on the Old Testament without looking at the revisions that separate them from the Jews. God is like John Lennon: He used to be cruel and mean, but then someone showed him the way of kindness and compassion and he became a happier person. However, Jesus didn't break up the Beatles. That would've been a bit of a deal-breaker.
I think a lot of my problem with Christians is how much the religion has been politicized recently (in the past 20 years or so), alongside the push towards evangelism for whatever reason that has come up. They focus on the scriptures that tell them to go and proselytize while putting less emphasis on the tolerance scriptures, and emphasizing that the "neighbor" scriptures generally apply to the members of the same church/religion.
So therefore, since they think that they are doing God's will by pushing their (correct, continually reaffirmed) beliefs on others, they think that any possible avenue of pursuing this is righteous. So... we get what outsiders think may be "rude", where they think it's perfectly reasonable. After all, they're looking out for your eternal soul.
Interesting how they also seem to forget the story of the Good Samaritan, which is definitely a case of "love your neighbor" when the neighbor isn't someone with the same beliefs as you... Well, given what you mentioned about how the selectively ignore parts of the scriptures, maybe it's not so interesting.
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Mostly laziness, and the lack of a decent video card in the machine. It's got a decent on-board video card but that can't handle high def stuff without stuttering. So really, it was a multiple fail for a media PC, but I learned stuff. Eventually I'll probably use that PC for something else, and I'll wipe it and put Win7 or XP on it.
What it really comes down to is that anything I need to do in Linux will work fine in VirtualBox no problem. The things I do in Windows can not be in a virtual machine. Rather than the pain of dual booting, I just put Linux in a VM and open it when I have to code.
There is Mono for Linux, which does the Silverlight DRM stuff, and the Windows version works through Wine they say. I can't confirm this.
You know, I went through Middle School and High School in Smithfield, which is only a few miles from Cranston High. One of the biggest things they taught in our history classes was that Roger Williams, though an immensely religious man, always said that religion should not be forced onto people. That was one of the reasons he founded Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations: because he was being persecuted in Massachusetts for his religious and political views. Hell, he started pissing of the Massachusetts church the minute he stepped off the boat from England because he didn't think church and state should be intermingled.
Roger Williams was kind of a badass.
So therefore, since they think that they are doing God's will by pushing their (correct, continually reaffirmed) beliefs on others, they think that any possible avenue of pursuing this is righteous. So... we get what outsiders think may be "rude", where they think it's perfectly reasonable. After all, they're looking out for your eternal soul.