Agreed. Debian (and all it's variants) are my favorite distros by far. Everything just works as expected, not to mention their package management system (apt) is the superior binary package management system by far (gentoo's portage system is really nice as well, but I'm not so much a fan of installing from source).
Well I don't know where you get your downloaded movies, but I can get 720p movies compressed with H.264 accompanied by Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and enjoy it on my rather nice home theatre system viewed on my 60" Sony HD television set. Oh, and I can watch it on my schedule and serve whatever refreshments suit my own fancy. If I want chicken tika masala, by god I'll have it! And I'll wash it down with a crisp lager, thankyouverymuch. And if I want crack and hookers to complement my fine pirated film, then so be it! In fact, forget the film..
Apple is a proprietary company with an obsession with keeping tight control over their hardware/software. They always have and always will exercise tight control over their hardware/software platforms. I speculate this is the main reason why Apple was never adopted much in the business world, outside of media companies. It's either Apple's way or the highway. If Apple seriously wants to compete in the business world, then they're going to have to drop their restrictions a bit to allow more flexibility with 3rd-party vendors.
I categorically resent that. Historically our business transformation architecture achieves multipoint synergies by the close-tracking of business channel optimisation strategies, and our decision workshopping with regard to procurement of necessary infrastructure precludes the detail assessment quid-pro-quo with regard to non-executive decision makers. If I say we need duplicate DHCP servers then by god I want them to be exact duplicates, from their highly redundant address lists right down to the tiny little rubber feet! You forgot to pepper "value" in there as much as possible.
I will NEVER use a joystick to play an FPS. Period. It's inferior. Period. A good mouser can beat the best joysticker everytime, given a level playing field (and before you start, it's almost NEVER a level playing field - so don't tell me how good you are on a console. Amen. If I had some mod points, I'd give them all to you.
Usually NVIDIA makes their Windows drivers their best drivers, and Linux is supported as an afterthought because they can make a few percentage points more in sales this way... Not really. Nvidia's drivers are designed incredibly well. Their drivers were designed ground-up to abstract all of the rendering code such that porting it to different platforms is a simple process of designing a shim to connect the driver engine to a specific OS's API. So, with the exception of the driver shim, the codebase is almost identical.
I'd have been interested to see where WinXP would have stacked up against the others. Whoops, clicked submit too early. I was also going to add that since the codebase for the Linux and WinXP drivers are nearly identical (according to nvidia), it seems like it would have been more of an OS-dependent benchmark.
I'm probably going to get trolled for this, but here goes. As long as there's people using Visual Studio, there will be a demand for Silverlight Apps. I'll have to give credit to Microsoft when it comes to Visual Studio's ability to integrate lots of different technologies in one easy-to-use platform. I hate Microsoft as much as the next person, but my least painful experience with them was using Visual Studio back in school. As soon as they integrate this stuff into Visual Studio (maybe VS 2008 already has this?), people will start using it.
I hope that it continues to send waves down the IT marketplace and continues to encourage organizations to provide free (libre) software. It will...FOSS is the way of the future for software. All the big software companies know it and are either 1.) embracing it and integrating it into their business model (RedHat, IBM, Sun), or 2.) casting it out and hope they can bury it with FUD and litigation (Microsoft, SCO). More and more proprietary companies are turning to the light side as they realize this. Some faster than others.
After billions are spent on homeland security, the general public inconvenienced to hell, some of our freedom taken away in the name of security..and something like this is allowed to happen? Well, I sure do feel safe.
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I'm looking forward to freedom day. My biggest concern is to go with an Italian or lemon-based flag marinade.
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There, fixed that for you.
Agreed. Debian (and all it's variants) are my favorite distros by far. Everything just works as expected, not to mention their package management system (apt) is the superior binary package management system by far (gentoo's portage system is really nice as well, but I'm not so much a fan of installing from source).
But I'd rather see a Congressman who can write sensible legislature.
Whenever I hear of vaporware tech, I can't help but think of this.
Unfortunately, I'm sure it's nothing that a big canvas bag with a money sign on it can't fix.
Apple is a proprietary company with an obsession with keeping tight control over their hardware/software. They always have and always will exercise tight control over their hardware/software platforms. I speculate this is the main reason why Apple was never adopted much in the business world, outside of media companies. It's either Apple's way or the highway. If Apple seriously wants to compete in the business world, then they're going to have to drop their restrictions a bit to allow more flexibility with 3rd-party vendors.
When all else fails, kindly remind them that you're the one with billions of dollars, not the audience trolls :).
That's nothin. The good folks in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female have had this technology for years.
So thats's why all those crazy, lonely women live so long.
I'd say they should date anyone who finds them interesting...it's not like they're gonna be pulling boy-band ass.
I'd like to see how far anyone would get with a joystick in, say, rocket arena, or ETQW ;)
I'd have been interested to see where WinXP would have stacked up against the others.
De Icaza is the biggest ass kisser in IT history.
I'm probably going to get trolled for this, but here goes. As long as there's people using Visual Studio, there will be a demand for Silverlight Apps. I'll have to give credit to Microsoft when it comes to Visual Studio's ability to integrate lots of different technologies in one easy-to-use platform. I hate Microsoft as much as the next person, but my least painful experience with them was using Visual Studio back in school. As soon as they integrate this stuff into Visual Studio (maybe VS 2008 already has this?), people will start using it.
After billions are spent on homeland security, the general public inconvenienced to hell, some of our freedom taken away in the name of security..and something like this is allowed to happen? Well, I sure do feel safe.