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Off of the top of my head (I'm sure a lot of words will be sensored). You should really be more specific. There are a bout a kabillion bands. Anal [bleep] Anally Aborted Fetus Atheist Autopsy Blind Illusion Blood Freak Cannibal Corpse Canvas Solaris Carcass Cattle Decapitation Chuck Shuldiner [rooster] And Ball Torture Control Denied Coroner Cranium Cryptopsy Cynic Death Decapitated Deicide Disembowelment Disrupt Dying Fetus Exhumed Exodus Forbidden General Surgery Ghoul Gorefest Gory Blister Haemorrhage Immolation Impaled Impetigo Insidious Decrepancy Megadeth Monstrosity Morbid Angel Nasty Savage Necrophagist Necrotic Neuraxis Nunslaughter Possessed Sadus Slayer Suffocation Tankard The County Medical Examiners Vulgar Pidgeons WatchTower

Alien Arena

But a vast number of web servers use it because it's the stable branch.

Hello, new release of open-source Quake-based (standalone of course) deathmatch first person shooter. Discuss Alien Arena here. IRC channel is #alienarena @ irc.efnet.net, don't be afraid to join (can be accessed via 'galaxy') :) Works on Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/Most Unices Mac OS X is planned to be supported in the future but none of us developers have any Mac boxes. Please, if you have nothing nice to say -- or at least constructive, don't say it at all! For Screenshots: http://home.comcast.net/~alienrace/media.html http://www.gamepn.com/galleries.php?gallery=561&view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_arena#Screenshots

That's what the People's Republic of China is doing with their One Child Policy. i learned about it, and is it still around? Yes, but it's not exactly the most iron-slated policy.

That's what the People's Republic of China is doing with their One Child Policy.

More Developed Countries like those of Anglo-America, Western Europe.. No. Less Developed Countries like those of Africa, Asia, Latin America.. Yes. Of course with exceptions, like Russia's population declining, Japan's population doing the same.. But no, I think population rates in general will stabilize eventually. My logic is the demographic transition theory. [*:22a5p2jh]Stage 1 - High birth rate, high death rate [*:22a5p2jh]Stage 2 - High birth rate, low death rate [*:22a5p2jh]Stage 3 - Lower (but fairly high) birth rate, low death rate [*:22a5p2jh]Stage 4 - Low birth rate, low death rate [*:22a5p2jh]Stage 5 - Population decreases (Contemporary stage) Several less developed countries are in Stage 2. Most more developed countries are in Stage 4. Once less developed countries go into Stage 3 and 4 their population won't increase so rapidly... diffusion of medical technology and things like family planning will bring them up. And as technological factors go up, we will be able to inhabit land previously thought to be uninhabitable.. The Western part of the United States is very sparsely populated, even more so in harsher environments. Then again, I don't see this happening any time relatively soon. :|

Iguana.. Though make sure you buy him at under a month or two old. They're usually $15 and a great pet. They can be bathroom trained (As easily as a dog). They usually grow around 5-6'. They eat mostly vegetables/fruits, but a little meat won't do much harm -- they can't digest animal proteins very well. Unlike most pet 'lizards,' like Chameleons, Bearded Lizards, etc, you can handle them as much as you want and it won't go into shock, or die. The more you handle him and pay attention the nicer he will be. If you ignore him he will think that wherever he is most of the time is his territory, and likely not want you in it.. :P They swim very well, can hold breath for a while. (20 min or so) They usually just lie around, stick them outside for a while everyday.. Make sure they have a UVB light, and if you can't put him outside you'll need a UVA light aswell. I also suggest to let your Iguana 'free-roam' -- as in he can wonder wherever like a dog. At first I kept mine caged up until about 4 months, I felt that he was big enough. He usually just stays in a little custom 'ledge' I built, but he comes down when he's hungry/thirsty or wants out What can I say, I've had an Iguana for around nine years now and it's one of the most enjoyable pets I've ever had right next to my dogs.

Since ease of use for the inexperienced user became an important factor in usability engineering. Not necessarily equal, but certainly conducive. So, do you still ride your bike with training wheels?.. There is a natural progression to bigger and better things regardless of ease-of-use in the extent that I'm talking about.

You should watch Alan Cox's patent, he's trying to get one on DRM. It's quite funny -- though I doubt it will suffice.

Since when was "easy" equal to "good?" Using an analogy, just like any good game -- you have to take some time to get into alternate operating systems, because they aren't designed 100% for ease-of-use. This design concept fails in that doing this limits flexibility, usability, and pretty much any *bility. I'd rather take the time to get into a nice good game, then instantly be drawn to a mediocre one. Truth be told, people only find Windows easy because they are introduced to it throughout most of their lives. When people boot up another operating system, Unix-based or not, they expect it to be like Windows in many aspects, and it's not. For one, the UI isn't integrated in the kernel, one of the first things they may notice and complain about. In my eyes this is a huge plus. Anyone who wants to read a few pages of documentation for the betterment of their lives, go for it. The population of people ditching Windows is rising every day, and I'm sure we'll have a population boom when Windows Vista comes out. Upon this, I'm not really concerned about the population, it's high enough for several large self-sustaining communities. And furthermore, your argument about it not coming with a bunch of junk is just a plus to me, I like not having my computer pre-bloated with things I'll never use.. Sure, the "Average Blow" will find this "Hard To Use," it's too bad people are so reluctant to RTM for 5 minutes.

Keep It Simple, Stupid! (KISS)

Favorites: 5. Quake III 4. Sauerbraten 3. Doom II 2. UT2k4 1. Quake I Least Favorites: 5. Quake II [it's a decent game, but it ruined the whole Quake series by introducing Strogg and whatnot, and then Quake 4 was a continuation of Quake II.. Sigh] 2-4. INSERT RANDOM SO-CALLED (MMO)RPG here.. 1. World of Warcraft

Link has two http:// -- fix that.

Well, I'm just going to nominate one this time. Sleep Terror Death metal with real Jazz riffs, as well as some other stuff mixed in.

It may be reserved kernel memory.. I don't think Windows reports the memory used by the kernel AFAIK

Using Windows is like playing a Linear RPG. Using Unix is like playing a Non-Linear RPG. Let me see, starting from the beginning Bootloader - Windows: Same generic (NTLDR) bootloader. Linux: Choice between multiple bootloaders, Lilo, Grub, etc. Kernel - Windows: Kernel is updated every meta release (I.E., Windows XP -> Windows Vista), no modification, no configuration. Linux: Kernel is updated every few months, with updates that can be acquired from git periodically (Often multiple submits a day). There are an abundance of custom patch-sets for the Linux kernel, as well as large-scale modifications to port it to alternate platforms (I.E., a Dreamcast). You can configure almost every aspect of it, via the .config file. Userland Tools - Windows: Comes with nothing useful. Linux: Often comes with the GNU Userland tools, I'm not aware of any alternative. (Would BSD userland tools work here?) Desktop Environment - Windows: Forced to use 'explorer.' Linux: KDE, Gnome, XFCE for desktop environments, as well as countless 'stand-alone' Window Managers (100+). Open Development - Windows: On the few odd randomly-downloaded software. Linux: Kernel, Userland tools, and almost all external utilities are open source. Most are under the GPL or BSD/MIT licenses allowing for distribution (GPL: With source code). Package Management - Windows: Click and install, click and uninstall - not reliable, not built to support more exotic and desirable options. Linux: Varies from distribution to distribution. Though, most have a type of database that stores installed packages, upgrading all packages, or a specific package simultaneously, install/remove packages reliably, resolve dependency and automatically install them, resolve reverse dependencies, etc. Hardware Support - Windows: Often drivers come directly from the manufacturer. Though, it only supports few architectures (x86, x86_64, and ia64, previously alpha), and cannot be ported without Windows doing it, and I seriously doubt Windows will port it to anything other than x86-related. Linux: Ported to over thirty CPU architectures, if a vendor does not release official drivers it is often reverse engineered. Ported to many exotic systems, and used in many embedded devices that require low-resources and high responsiveness. And honestly, I don't care to go on. I don't want my operating system forcing things on me (like DRM, or a resource-hungry interface), and too much is unknown. In Linux, everything is non-linear, open-source, and if you want to know how something works -- it's openly available for you. The software library, contrary to popular belief, is quite large. And that's only one offset of Unix.. BSD is more impressive in many aspects. Minix is also quite impressive kernel-wise. Oh, and guess what -- most Unix operating systems are under Posix compliance keeping source compatibility (And sometimes binary) between them. There are other operating systems other than Windows, and Unix derivatives as well. Some are becoming very impressive and one day may rival Windows and Unix derivatives.

Ubuntu and Windows XP are probably about equally 'heavy.' You should probably try a more minimalistic distribution.. (Slackware, DSL, Arch Linux (i686), etc) Maybe change the boot order in your BIOS? Otherwise, no idea.. Retail computers often do weird things.

Audigy 2/4 (Avoid SE and Value editions!)

FreeBSD or Linux.

Every piece of software, game, or operating system is made using a programming language. C/C++ is a programming language. A compiler, say GCC or MingW, turns the source code nto machine readable code. An example of a C program would be #include int main() { printf("Hello World!"); return 0; } This would print out 'Hello World.' When you get into programming games, the code gets very complex. One of the first concepts you should learn is research. So, if you don't know what someone is talking about, it's best to use Google or Wikipedia to help figure it out yourself.. :)

The easiest way to learn is taking a class. A lot of colleges have game programming classes. Though, as a suggestion for the future, use OpenGL and OpenAL over DirectX. Program your games in a language like C or C++.. I learned a lot by snooping around open source game communities. Like, when Quake 1 was open-sourced, I was all over it. There was, and still is a large development community around Quake 1-3, as well as most other open-source games. Be patient -- it's a very hard task to learn programming. I also suggest you learn a lot of mathematics, or at least the basic concepts of mathematics like geometry. Game programming is full of mathematical requirements. Though, if you take a college course, it should cover the mathematics for the most part. Things like physics, and almost every aspect of game programming revolves around math. For example, if I wanted to make stencil-buffered shadows I'd need to know how to calculate the shadow's position by using mathematics based on the light locations. The software you'll need is a compiler, and/or IDE (Integrated development environment), which you can use Dev C++ for both. It uses the MingW (GCC-like) compiler. Though, I don't want to go over your head. Just look for C/C++ tutorials or whatnot. They're simple, you learn the basics, and then I suggest you wait until you can grab a college course on it. Of course, if you're really ambitious you can try yourself -- but as I've said before, it's a VERY RIGOROUS task.

No, people just don't try, they know you're suffering enough. LOL. [*:3p1m02zl]More secure defaults. By default, some ports are blocked off. Users don't have administrative privileges. [*:3p1m02zl]Newly created files cannot be executable. I was going to write a larger list, but I've found an article that explains better than I could, google for more information. http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus

Yeah, I've *tried* many more, but I usually don't have much time for my operating system hobbies anymore. At one time I was developing my own microkernel, but then dumped it later. The task is really rigorous, a lot of research is involved, though I'm developing towards the subject of kernel development, so knowing a vast number of operating systems and their mechanics is always a nice task.

My main operating system is Linux/FreeBSD. Though, I use others.. A vast number of these are ran through emulation/virtualization. FreeDOS, PDP*, C64(Kernal), C128, Linux, Minix, Irix, GNU Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, PC-BSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenDarwin, BeOS, Haiku, Plan 9, Inferno, OS/2, MenuetOS..