I don't think asking for basic features that are among the most popular reasons to use a computer today are at all unreasonable to expect of Dell. Having said this, it turns out that 7.04 has the option in add/remove programs to add said codecs, so hopefully users will stumble across this. I was concerned that they would have to go get automatix or something like that.
Maybe he can find where all the CIA secret prisons are while he's at it. Or the WMDs in Iraq. But with all the weed....yeah you're right, cheetos it is...
Of course I know about the joys of automatix. However I think that us computer geeks really don't understand that what is painfully obvious to us is sometimes another language (literally) to others.
Don't flame people for actually acknowledging what needs to be done for Linux to actually work as a mainstream desktop OS.
Good point, however is that how they are being marketed? I suppose it is a foot in the door that might get people hooked on linux at work, but you must admit that today a computer sans DVD and MP3 support is useless to a lot of people.
I was quite enthusiastic about this, especially since I am an Ubuntu user. But without MP3 and DVD support out of the box people aren't going to bite. Dell and Canonical had better get their shit together soon if they want this to work.
Awww, man, would it have killed you to put a "SPOILER" warning on that? Yeah, I'm sure thats what the audience at the globe said after hearing " A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
Cell is still related to POWER in the same sense that PPC is....kind of like AMD64 still being an x86 processor, etc.
Anyway, there is a video out there somewhere of the Cell in a workstation at a trade show demonstrating 3d rendering and stuff, and its quite clear that it is running OS X. So from that there is probably a behind-the-scenes binary sort of like there was with x86 for all those years.
Uhh, I run an ibook with a 1.33Ghz G4 and a gig of ram and I know that it runs smoother than say, a PIII at the same clock speed. What apple does is they make the new OS X releases more RAM and less CPU intensive, so older models can last a lot longer since a RAM upgrade is easier than buying a new machine or upgrading the CPU.
Well, the majority of/. posters probably have more experience dealing with PPC Macs than IBM mainframes, so whenever POWER comes up apple is what comes to mind. It only makes sense that whenever IBM does something cool with power that people will question whether the Intel switch was necessary.
But in the case of high end software, it would not be all universal binaries. Just look at any *nix, they make a version of their OS and its software for LOADS of different architectures.
The difference between what you suggested and 9/11 is that 9/11 would be intentional murder of their comrades as opposed to ignorance of the dangers of radiation, agent orange, etc. The higher ups in the militar that would have had to order/authorize 9/11 would be signing the death warrants on their friends, family members, and so on.
In addition, the US Military would not kill their own like that, or attack their own headquarters. To me that is what ultimately debunks 9/11 conspiracy theories.
The people I work for are experimental psychologists, not clinical psychologists. What mainstream society things and observes about psych is almost always whatever the clinicians/dr phil are doing, and not the scientists in the lab. Paradigm shifts are slower and better researched in the experimental area, and are not flavor of the moment fads. I can assure you that those around me never got into the repressed memory or Jungian bullshit which cannot be empirically verified.
I work in a psych department for/with people who do know this stuff better than 99% of those on/. and they are pretty convinced free will does not exist. I've discussed it with them at great lengths and I'm sure of it as well. Yes, we don't have a great grip on the brain and its operations at all, and even if I am wrong about determinism and quantum theory (which is a theory mind you) there is still absolutely no scientific basis for free will whatsoever! Particles cannot "think" or "think for me." We are just chemical reactions, plain and simple. We like to think of ourselves as special, but really we are not.
Whether or not their is quantum activity in the brain, (and probably so) we do not control said activity and therefore still cannot say that we have free will.
I don't see how that counters my argument though. Electrical signals and chemical reactions control everything we do, and if we really had free will our physiological state would have far less bearing on our behavior and cognition.
Problem with the idea of free will is that we cannot have insight into all the factors influencing a decision. I am a devout determinist, believing that the basic laws of physics (equal actions/reactions) carries down to the neurological level, therefore free will is not actually possible, even in humans. Just the illusion.
Apple has a tendency not to tell the lower level workers anything they don't need to, and would likey expect the same of Cingular if they are working together.
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How can linux users be software pirates when what we run is open source?
I don't think asking for basic features that are among the most popular reasons to use a computer today are at all unreasonable to expect of Dell. Having said this, it turns out that 7.04 has the option in add/remove programs to add said codecs, so hopefully users will stumble across this. I was concerned that they would have to go get automatix or something like that.
Maybe he can find where all the CIA secret prisons are while he's at it. Or the WMDs in Iraq. But with all the weed....yeah you're right, cheetos it is...
Of course I know about the joys of automatix. However I think that us computer geeks really don't understand that what is painfully obvious to us is sometimes another language (literally) to others.
Don't flame people for actually acknowledging what needs to be done for Linux to actually work as a mainstream desktop OS.
Good point, however is that how they are being marketed? I suppose it is a foot in the door that might get people hooked on linux at work, but you must admit that today a computer sans DVD and MP3 support is useless to a lot of people.
I was quite enthusiastic about this, especially since I am an Ubuntu user. But without MP3 and DVD support out of the box people aren't going to bite. Dell and Canonical had better get their shit together soon if they want this to work.
When we say "linux on the desktop" it is referring to mainstream acceptance as a competitor to windows and OS X and usage by your typical joe schmoe.
Yeah, I'm sure thats what the audience at the globe said after hearing " A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
Cell is still related to POWER in the same sense that PPC is....kind of like AMD64 still being an x86 processor, etc.
Anyway, there is a video out there somewhere of the Cell in a workstation at a trade show demonstrating 3d rendering and stuff, and its quite clear that it is running OS X. So from that there is probably a behind-the-scenes binary sort of like there was with x86 for all those years.
Uhh, I run an ibook with a 1.33Ghz G4 and a gig of ram and I know that it runs smoother than say, a PIII at the same clock speed. What apple does is they make the new OS X releases more RAM and less CPU intensive, so older models can last a lot longer since a RAM upgrade is easier than buying a new machine or upgrading the CPU.
They did make a version of NT back in the day that would run on PPC.
Well, the majority of /. posters probably have more experience dealing with PPC Macs than IBM mainframes, so whenever POWER comes up apple is what comes to mind. It only makes sense that whenever IBM does something cool with power that people will question whether the Intel switch was necessary.
But in the case of high end software, it would not be all universal binaries. Just look at any *nix, they make a version of their OS and its software for LOADS of different architectures.
The difference between what you suggested and 9/11 is that 9/11 would be intentional murder of their comrades as opposed to ignorance of the dangers of radiation, agent orange, etc. The higher ups in the militar that would have had to order/authorize 9/11 would be signing the death warrants on their friends, family members, and so on.
In addition, the US Military would not kill their own like that, or attack their own headquarters. To me that is what ultimately debunks 9/11 conspiracy theories.
The people I work for are experimental psychologists, not clinical psychologists. What mainstream society things and observes about psych is almost always whatever the clinicians/dr phil are doing, and not the scientists in the lab. Paradigm shifts are slower and better researched in the experimental area, and are not flavor of the moment fads. I can assure you that those around me never got into the repressed memory or Jungian bullshit which cannot be empirically verified.
www.getautomatix.com
Will solve all your 64 bit codec and flash related woes.
I work in a psych department for/with people who do know this stuff better than 99% of those on /. and they are pretty convinced free will does not exist. I've discussed it with them at great lengths and I'm sure of it as well. Yes, we don't have a great grip on the brain and its operations at all, and even if I am wrong about determinism and quantum theory (which is a theory mind you) there is still absolutely no scientific basis for free will whatsoever! Particles cannot "think" or "think for me." We are just chemical reactions, plain and simple. We like to think of ourselves as special, but really we are not.
Whether or not their is quantum activity in the brain, (and probably so) we do not control said activity and therefore still cannot say that we have free will.
I don't see how that counters my argument though. Electrical signals and chemical reactions control everything we do, and if we really had free will our physiological state would have far less bearing on our behavior and cognition.
Because any thought/action is simply a series of chemical reactions, etc, and not something that can be actually chosen per se.
Problem with the idea of free will is that we cannot have insight into all the factors influencing a decision. I am a devout determinist, believing that the basic laws of physics (equal actions/reactions) carries down to the neurological level, therefore free will is not actually possible, even in humans. Just the illusion.
1. Free Will 2. ???? 3. Profit!
Apple has a tendency not to tell the lower level workers anything they don't need to, and would likey expect the same of Cingular if they are working together.
Hey! They can't treat our patents like that!
Yeah! Only we can treat our patents like that!