Well, would you rather they wait for now to release 4.0?
They said it clearly. If they were to delay the release the release would be late, worse, and have less chances of getting fixed. Now we have KDE4, now you can file ALL of those complaints at the KDE team, and they have the chance to fix 'em.
If you don't want to participate in their "beta test", use KDE3. It'll still be supported by the KDE teams for quite a while, and even further if you want that. But KDE3 is old tech and it's starting to show its age IMHO.
KDE 4.0 is a horribly mangled release, and KDE 4.1 can only do so much better...
But KDE4 is the foundation for probably "the best" DE. (as long as you have the ressources to run it;P)
I wonder how many people remember the inital KDE3 releases? Remember KDE3 only got "good" and then barely after 3.5. If you never take risks you'll be like Gnome, same non-existant architechture, no real initiative, with the sole goal of making sure your platform is stable and usable. That's not KDE. KDE is release now, release tomorrow, and never stop hacking even if the sun goes down and the cows come home.
We stand together, The mountain and I Until only the mountain remains Watching As Randy moved across the world With the mountain on his back. Tonight Randy sleeps But the mountain will still weep.
2) We can get OFF the moon. The big gotcha with any other landing. Go to Mars? Yeah, could probably get there and land now. Getting off is the hard part. Don't have that problem with the moon.
And this is why we've been doing it wrong.
Everytime a civilisation crossed over to new lands and reported back to the "mothership", the new territory was consequently looted, pillaged, and raped of all value. It happened by the Spanish, the English, the vikings, the French (but to a lesser degree for the last two, because they didn't stay long, and the french cooperated with some of the natives).
The proper way to colonise a "new world", is to load up a ship of whatever sorts, and load it with enough supplies to give it enough time to create a self-sustaining environment, and give them the tools they'll need to achieve a "biodome", or a "pod" or whatever you want to call it.
Then it's adieu. No more communication after they exit a certain zone, like if they were headed for Mars well when they get past the moon, then no more tracking, no more communication at all (and even then it should have been just in case of emergency, and typical "passing X... Passing Y...").
If it was meant to be, they'll land and create a successful colony, seperate from the motherland. And then other ships get sent, slowly but surely. And then one day you have a small colony. And then it's up to them if they want to talk to you.
If it turns out the US have massive stashes of oil, or we can figure out cold fusion, or they use coal liquification, GW Bush will be seen as the worst US president.
On the other hand, should we run out of fuel, and he continues on to grab Saudi Arabia and Canada on all that power mongering, along with possibly Iran and Syria... He will be seen as a national war hero, a legend amongst men, the greatest US president ever, who helped his nation fend off the communist wave of the modern era...
By "die" I mean eventually be unable to work; it's not like decomposition death, if that's what you meant. And I haven't seen any LEDs from recent years fail in all sorts of tests. Of course they have a MTBF; but at 500,000 hrs+ it's definately not something you'll catch.
And of course, then what is the cause of the shortened lifespan of OLEDs? And I was wondering what the actual lifespan was; I remembered reading a site that said 4,000 hours but I figured that was way too short.
There's a museum with works like that in Niagara Falls, but not to the extent of pixels; it's more like small (2m IIRC in the case of the CN Tower) versions of famous landmarks...
And yeah bulk bricks can be bought from LEGO, and aren't too pricey, at least not compared to buying buckets.
China's position on pollution is no different than what other countries went through... the difference is just one of scale.
Except, you know, we learned from our mistakes.
They didn't learn anything from anyone. All they've been doing is stealing other countries' innovations (especially with cars and military-related devices) and lagging behind on what doesn't make them threatning.
You know, lithium-phosphate batteries would have been easy for them to produce, gaining them electric cars. Electricity from coal, stored in those batteries, running cars.
But no, they don't learn. It's sad because nobody does.
"Nothing changed, only I changed, I grew hard and bitter..."
Well even to the non-chemists it does make some sense; in Sweden they (or at least used to) import limestone from Canada so that they could reintroduce life into their lakes and such. Most of them became too acidic thanks to acid rain...
And yeah, I personally don't see any downside to this. Sure, tampering with nature might not be the smartest move, but it's been proven to work in a lot of cases, and I'm sure our chemist friends can chime in some more if there are any possible dangers. And regardless of if you think "global warming" is real or a scam, corals dying and the acidification of the oceans is still serious business.
I'm still saddened that the real trouble makers, AKA facist china and other big polluters (and actual polluters, like indian ship graveyards) are sitting on the side not commenting while it seems it's Australia doing the work.
LEDs or OLEDs sandwhiched inbetween two sheets or glass or plastic, in desks. Seal it to make it waterproof, with a small switch. Flick it on, your entire workspace is illuminated.
Or even better, give it sensors, for touch. When you touch it and draw something, the LEDs in that path light up to match it. When you press a button on the side it gets "erased", and another one possibly to "lock" (temporarily of course). So, need some light to read those docs? Just draw out a lamp, and avoid it coming from under the paper.
Considering LEDs should pretty inexpensive, it would be an interesting experiment.
If it wasn't for the fact that they, like anything organic, die, they would be THE material for displays. Already Sony is trying to make TVs out of them, and when the technology is perfected every laptop is going to carry one standard. Get ready for 10+ hour battery life on devices like the Asus eeePC. (For the curious, OLEDs have a life of something like 4500 hours for blue, the shortest lifespan, compared to 500,000 for LEDs. So expect some time before you see everything converted to OLED... It's not impossible; Sony is already doing OLED TVs, but yeah they're pricey, like 2500$ for 11")
Oh, and did I mention, (synthetic?) LEDs don't die. They don't die from on/off usage. They don't die from overuse, at least not in your lifetime (at least, I don't think so). They don't die from being abused. They will only die from a surge, realistically (by that I mean extra volts).
The last time I had a winprinter the same happened to me, actually. It was an HP though, somebody had hacked together a pretty damn good driver to get it working. Don't get me wrong; I never intended to make it sound like "LOL MACS CAN'T PRINT" but rather "What if I throw stupid hardware at it?"...
The point I was trying to make is that NOTHING "Just works". Ever. Sorry, but that's the way the world rolls, and we've all been bitten by it.
(Yes, I know, don't feed the trolls and such, but for the sake of the dear reader:)
Maybe in your fantasy world, that is the case. Here in the real world, Microsoft wouldn't exist, if their product didn't work.
Yeah but who the hell has the balls to take them to court? And everybody knew their half-assed products always failed. What else were you going to use, Linux 0.2?
People can bash MS all they want, but still, the bottom line is, if their product didn't work (and in the early days, better than anything else), it wouldn't be as popular. Because, you know, landing a lucky contract with IBM means you have skill.
You're such an adorable little thing, aren't you? I hope you realise if MS didn't land the IBM contract, there would be no MS today. That little one-trick-pony BASIC shop would have died or been swallowed up.
IOW, Linux is free, so that blows the entire Linux "Piracy made windows what it is"... No, windows operability amongst all machines in the class (PC's), as well as a standard desktop (no "you can get whatever flavor desktop you want, don't like gnome, get kde"..... Yeah, I want to support THAT mess with > 1000 desktops under my umbrella ROFLMMFAO), some underhanded business dealings and a lot of luck made Windows what it is. Period. No, you sir, are re-writing history.
I told you plainly. The only reason Windows got its base popularity is because MS-DOS was chosen for the IBM PC. From that point on MS was rolling in dough and could afford to do anything.
Macintosh had a GUI second (GEOS on the COMMODeORE was first), and it cost so much to make the hardware and software, nobody bought that crap (LISA). Then Mac himself came out, and it looked like shit. Windows solved both, in that you could have a clone, or a real IBM, and BOTH machines acted the same way. "Nobody bought that crap" because it came out a long time before windows.
And I hope you realise, you insentive clod, Amiga had the best OS for the longest time, up until BeOS came along. BeOS could run on PPC hardware and on x86. It was lightning-fast, multi-threaded, and was a commercial product. Not only that it had excellent hardware and software support, and "just worked" with its UNIX-like core. In ~1996. So, by that reasoning, shouldn't we all have been using BeOS?
Let's talk about a clone and an IBM, each one running a different flavor of linux, and different desktop GUI's, and then lets talk about support.
If Apple would have made GUI's affordable, MS never would have had an opportunity. Unfortunately, it took HOW many years for the Apple stuff to come down to realistic pricing?
Who cares about Apple, really. The real contender was BeOS and before that the Amiga.
"Different flavours" = different support? I think not. The only difference between linux distributions is package management, and it takes all of two minutes to make a package in another format. Or you know, god forbid, you could compile your programs, and image your hard drives.
Yeah, a EULA gets a company out of most trouble, but at the same time, MS wouldn't BE where they are if their product didn't deliver. Period.
Oh, it delivered alright. Clever troll aren't we? You know, there's plenty of people who don't deliver but still make a killing.
I wonder, if I installed OSX on my DEC Alpha, and then tried to plug in a winprinter, would it "just work"?
Yeah, thought so. It never "just works". It only "just works" in your eyes and in the eyes of countless mac fans because Apple bribes the company into writing an OSX driver, and in exchange they get recognition via a small face sticker. From then on out all the little macfreaks will know "Oh, that printer will work with OSX!".
On the other hand, Linux developpers don't have that. They have to write the drivers themselves. They have to find printers themselves, and reverse-engineer them sometimes. And of course plenty of printers are supported.
Just like you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your mac and expect it to work, you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your linux box and expect it to work. Except, somehow, linux is supposed to magically support everything. Except, you know, nothing supports everything. There are plenty of printers that windows doesn't support but linux does.
"Improving the interface" is something we should do, sure. But tell me something, how much do we need to "improve it"? I don't want to have a single "print" button and then it magically prints. It's not like that in any OS. The current methods are just fine. You click print, you find your printer, and you choose if you want double-sided and what size of paper.
As for GUIs for CLI tools, why? Really, why? There's a reason we have the CLI. The CLI is a direct means of communication with the OS. I tell my computer fetch me this and install it, now. No ifs, ands, or buts. I don't want to open up a GUI tool, wait a minute for it to load, search and wait another minute for THAT to load a single package, and then install it.
And other than package management, really, what would the average user use the command line, that can't be done at all via GUI? Configuring more obscure WMs that don't have a graphical front-end?
I know nobody reads nintendo power but you should read up on Mad World... It's a pretty damn hard core game.
There was also about 6-7 pages detailing new games coming out for the Wii... The only bad thing about the Wii right now is that everybody ignored it at first; that's why they're not getting many new third party games. Everybody headed ass-first to bury themselves in PS3/360 developpement, thinking "hah, nintendo? yeah my ass.".
And of course it does take a while for first party games to come out; SSBB & Twilight Princess, just to name two, were supposed to be gamecube games and at the last minute more or less changed to Wii... And the next games in those series won't happen. Zelda's sequel is set to be a LOT more different than the series we've grown used to; mostly I guess because people gave up on great games.
But video games have been dying as a genre for a long time; it was all downhill after Sony entered the ring and allowed nearly everyone to publish games, and as many as they wanted, and nintendo followed soon after... Sure, there were a few astronomical spikes (Zelda, SuperSmash Bros series, 3D Super Mario games, Animal Crossing(hey, I loved that game!), and maybe Metroid) but as a whole it's all sliding... Even on the PC side, what, the Orange Box and that's about it for really good games. COD4 if you're into war games.
Portal was probably the most recently released game that was actually any fun. And I can say with certainty it's probably the last game to strike like that. Everything else is going to continue to be a rehash of what's already been done.
And not only that, the signal-to-noise ratio is so low, whatever good "small" game gets released (Tales of Symphonia for example) will get very popular very quick but then not get the attention it deserves, because WalMart is busy stocking PETZ games.
I just get "404 Not Found" / "404 Not Found" (title/page).
I wonder if they've suspended it? I've noticed that for a couple days now, but I returned home recently and only used my computer starting two days ago...
Oh, and for some reason the windows computer here has its IE and by consequence Opera bookmarks littered with rogers shit.
The day that VIA claimed its Nano is only for 10"+ laptops...
That and the fact that the HP Mininote has all the potential to be the best subnotebook... But the screen is too glossy (they need to have a matte option), the thing gets pretty hot, the CPU is not very good for the task, and not to mention the exact same laptop (except maybe there's no speakers on the side of the screen for the Dell?) but the Dell happens to be 64-bit and 200$ cheaper... VIA needs to swoop in and supply them with cheap nanos, or they're going to die against the Atom.
This new mandriva laptop doesn't look too great. For 400$+ it's really exorbitant pricing. What advantage does this have over an Asus eee901, really now? I can remove my SSD (I think) and use a flash drive as a boot device... And the only real advantage I can see to having your OS on a stick like this is if you get robbed; but even then if you can yank out a USB flash drive out of a thief's hands as he runs off with your laptop, why couldn't you just hold onto the laptop?
You've got to be kidding me. What was AMD to do against Nehalem then, pray tell? Merge with nVidia? Remember nVidia's outrageous terms for merger? Yeah. Like they're going to do that. Instead they swallowed ATI, albeit now they've got a stomach ache, and produced (possibly, I'm wondering about workstation cards) the greatest video card ever, the HD4870 X2. The best chipsets are also AMD/ATI, like the 780G and its sister chipsets.
Not to mention although Puma and Fusion can't take Intel's CPUs head-on, the entire platform is so much better.
No my friend, the ATI purchase was necessary. Else today AMD would be bunk.
72 and running for presidency? Yikes... I wouldn't doubt more slip ups. Not necessarily because he's incompetent (like a certain someone) but rather he might be losing his edge in terms of delivery... To him he might be a funny guy and that's why he does the odd laugh, and a lot of people might view it positively, but still...
No, he's saying it's a great idea to spark research in synthetic nuclear reactors, to spark research in cold fusion again.
I disagree with McCain on a lot of points but you can't really bash him for wanting to conserve fuel and encourage alternative production methods of energy. It's in his best interest to push the US forward in this sense. Unless we're going to see increased US hostility they're not going to be producing all too much oil, and better to export to our enemies at the 150$/barrel they want than burn it ourselves...
There has been. Haven't you looked around my friend?
Snow in Iraq is one. Europe (or more properly modern USSR) bracing its coldest winter on record was another in 2007 was it?. This year pushing the cooling trend. Yeah, feels like it's getting warmer.
Don't get me wrong. Parent deserves all your mod points if that's your choice. He brought up what he believes to be factual evidence and properly applied it; if that doesn't deserve +4 Informative I don't know what does.
And before somebody makes claims that certain ice shelves in Antarctica are breaking...
Thank you for showing us how weak and useless we can be. It's a miracle really Egypt still has its pyramids. Those ice shelves are what? 3-6 thousand years old like another poster said? 'Nigh time they break off, and help cleanse the oceans a bit of their actual pollution (hello, Indian shipyards, i herd you liek asbestos).
I have full faith in GP. Plenty of people have "done the research" for themselves. Some things are true; corals are headed for some rough time. Others definately aren't. Namely the CO2 myth. Glenn Beck is probably the reason I care; watching his show one night as he was talking about the Ayatollah of Iran being the real threat to "the West" (president of Iran being just a, albeit intelligent, puppet), he turned to global warming as he was reading his mail, and he spurted off on this big rant of sorts.
Yeah, funny how people neglect to inform me of that. Thanks guys. -5 to all the lunatics in the "mainstream" pushing "global warming" like it were acid rain. You neglected to inform me as recent as ~30 years ago people were bracing for an ice age, right after the biggest dump of CO2 in the air, ever in human history (WW2).
Last year (or was it the year before? time flies too quickly without meter) Europe and old USSR territories braced themselves for their coldest recorded winters, ever. Moscow was one of the hardest hit, and so were countries around Georgia. I don't know about the countries in Western Europe though... This year was an incredibly cold year all around in face of all this "global warming" crap we've been facing, and with abundant snow at least in my area... Something you wouldn't see in this sort of region... Of course it's June and we've already got a hotwave...
One thing though that I never really got; hurricanes. Is the frequency upon which they appear and the timing related to the amount of heat, or cold? At least, in the Gulf of Mexico. I would assume it would be because of more cold coming down. I ask because a hurricane hit the other day, something of a record.
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So just out curiosity, who has the best XRender support? Intel? I was hoping ATI would, but that's ATI...
Well, would you rather they wait for now to release 4.0?
They said it clearly. If they were to delay the release the release would be late, worse, and have less chances of getting fixed. Now we have KDE4, now you can file ALL of those complaints at the KDE team, and they have the chance to fix 'em.
If you don't want to participate in their "beta test", use KDE3. It'll still be supported by the KDE teams for quite a while, and even further if you want that. But KDE3 is old tech and it's starting to show its age IMHO.
Agreed.
KDE 4.0 is a horribly mangled release, and KDE 4.1 can only do so much better...
But KDE4 is the foundation for probably "the best" DE. (as long as you have the ressources to run it ;P)
I wonder how many people remember the inital KDE3 releases? Remember KDE3 only got "good" and then barely after 3.5. If you never take risks you'll be like Gnome, same non-existant architechture, no real initiative, with the sole goal of making sure your platform is stable and usable. That's not KDE. KDE is release now, release tomorrow, and never stop hacking even if the sun goes down and the cows come home.
We stand together,
The mountain and I
Until only the mountain remains
Watching
As Randy moved across the world
With the mountain on his back.
Tonight Randy sleeps
But the mountain will still weep.
2) We can get OFF the moon. The big gotcha with any other landing. Go to Mars? Yeah, could probably get there and land now. Getting off is the hard part. Don't have that problem with the moon.
And this is why we've been doing it wrong.
Everytime a civilisation crossed over to new lands and reported back to the "mothership", the new territory was consequently looted, pillaged, and raped of all value. It happened by the Spanish, the English, the vikings, the French (but to a lesser degree for the last two, because they didn't stay long, and the french cooperated with some of the natives).
The proper way to colonise a "new world", is to load up a ship of whatever sorts, and load it with enough supplies to give it enough time to create a self-sustaining environment, and give them the tools they'll need to achieve a "biodome", or a "pod" or whatever you want to call it.
Then it's adieu. No more communication after they exit a certain zone, like if they were headed for Mars well when they get past the moon, then no more tracking, no more communication at all (and even then it should have been just in case of emergency, and typical "passing X... Passing Y...").
If it was meant to be, they'll land and create a successful colony, seperate from the motherland. And then other ships get sent, slowly but surely. And then one day you have a small colony. And then it's up to them if they want to talk to you.
Plus, this makes it politically-neutral.
Off topic, but:
If it turns out the US have massive stashes of oil, or we can figure out cold fusion, or they use coal liquification, GW Bush will be seen as the worst US president.
On the other hand, should we run out of fuel, and he continues on to grab Saudi Arabia and Canada on all that power mongering, along with possibly Iran and Syria... He will be seen as a national war hero, a legend amongst men, the greatest US president ever, who helped his nation fend off the communist wave of the modern era...
Sorry, I didn't word that properly.
By "die" I mean eventually be unable to work; it's not like decomposition death, if that's what you meant. And I haven't seen any LEDs from recent years fail in all sorts of tests. Of course they have a MTBF; but at 500,000 hrs+ it's definately not something you'll catch.
And of course, then what is the cause of the shortened lifespan of OLEDs? And I was wondering what the actual lifespan was; I remembered reading a site that said 4,000 hours but I figured that was way too short.
There's a museum with works like that in Niagara Falls, but not to the extent of pixels; it's more like small (2m IIRC in the case of the CN Tower) versions of famous landmarks...
And yeah bulk bricks can be bought from LEGO, and aren't too pricey, at least not compared to buying buckets.
Plus LEGO bricks last a LONG time.
China's position on pollution is no different than what other countries went through... the difference is just one of scale.
Except, you know, we learned from our mistakes.
They didn't learn anything from anyone. All they've been doing is stealing other countries' innovations (especially with cars and military-related devices) and lagging behind on what doesn't make them threatning.
You know, lithium-phosphate batteries would have been easy for them to produce, gaining them electric cars. Electricity from coal, stored in those batteries, running cars.
But no, they don't learn. It's sad because nobody does.
"Nothing changed, only I changed, I grew hard and bitter..."
Well even to the non-chemists it does make some sense; in Sweden they (or at least used to) import limestone from Canada so that they could reintroduce life into their lakes and such. Most of them became too acidic thanks to acid rain...
And yeah, I personally don't see any downside to this. Sure, tampering with nature might not be the smartest move, but it's been proven to work in a lot of cases, and I'm sure our chemist friends can chime in some more if there are any possible dangers. And regardless of if you think "global warming" is real or a scam, corals dying and the acidification of the oceans is still serious business.
I'm still saddened that the real trouble makers, AKA facist china and other big polluters (and actual polluters, like indian ship graveyards) are sitting on the side not commenting while it seems it's Australia doing the work.
Oh, I love NASA.
Especially when they pull shit like this.
FYI, the temperatures in that chart are in comparaison to 1940-1970, the coldest period in recorded times.
Speaking of desks, you know what would be nice?
LEDs or OLEDs sandwhiched inbetween two sheets or glass or plastic, in desks. Seal it to make it waterproof, with a small switch. Flick it on, your entire workspace is illuminated.
Or even better, give it sensors, for touch. When you touch it and draw something, the LEDs in that path light up to match it. When you press a button on the side it gets "erased", and another one possibly to "lock" (temporarily of course). So, need some light to read those docs? Just draw out a lamp, and avoid it coming from under the paper.
Considering LEDs should pretty inexpensive, it would be an interesting experiment.
OLEDs are incredible.
If it wasn't for the fact that they, like anything organic, die, they would be THE material for displays. Already Sony is trying to make TVs out of them, and when the technology is perfected every laptop is going to carry one standard. Get ready for 10+ hour battery life on devices like the Asus eeePC. (For the curious, OLEDs have a life of something like 4500 hours for blue, the shortest lifespan, compared to 500,000 for LEDs. So expect some time before you see everything converted to OLED... It's not impossible; Sony is already doing OLED TVs, but yeah they're pricey, like 2500$ for 11")
Oh, and did I mention, (synthetic?) LEDs don't die. They don't die from on/off usage. They don't die from overuse, at least not in your lifetime (at least, I don't think so). They don't die from being abused. They will only die from a surge, realistically (by that I mean extra volts).
Well that's enlightening.
The last time I had a winprinter the same happened to me, actually. It was an HP though, somebody had hacked together a pretty damn good driver to get it working. Don't get me wrong; I never intended to make it sound like "LOL MACS CAN'T PRINT" but rather "What if I throw stupid hardware at it?"...
The point I was trying to make is that NOTHING "Just works". Ever. Sorry, but that's the way the world rolls, and we've all been bitten by it.
(Yes, I know, don't feed the trolls and such, but for the sake of the dear reader:)
Maybe in your fantasy world, that is the case. Here in the real world, Microsoft wouldn't exist, if their product didn't work.
Yeah but who the hell has the balls to take them to court? And everybody knew their half-assed products always failed. What else were you going to use, Linux 0.2?
People can bash MS all they want, but still, the bottom line is, if their product didn't work (and in the early days, better than anything else), it wouldn't be as popular.
Because, you know, landing a lucky contract with IBM means you have skill.
You're such an adorable little thing, aren't you? I hope you realise if MS didn't land the IBM contract, there would be no MS today. That little one-trick-pony BASIC shop would have died or been swallowed up.
IOW, Linux is free, so that blows the entire Linux "Piracy made windows what it is"... No, windows operability amongst all machines in the class (PC's), as well as a standard desktop (no "you can get whatever flavor desktop you want, don't like gnome, get kde". .... Yeah, I want to support THAT mess with > 1000 desktops under my umbrella ROFLMMFAO), some underhanded business dealings and a lot of luck made Windows what it is. Period.
No, you sir, are re-writing history.
I told you plainly. The only reason Windows got its base popularity is because MS-DOS was chosen for the IBM PC. From that point on MS was rolling in dough and could afford to do anything.
Macintosh had a GUI second (GEOS on the COMMODeORE was first), and it cost so much to make the hardware and software, nobody bought that crap (LISA). Then Mac himself came out, and it looked like shit. Windows solved both, in that you could have a clone, or a real IBM, and BOTH machines acted the same way.
"Nobody bought that crap" because it came out a long time before windows.
Wow, this is such superior technology!
And I hope you realise, you insentive clod, Amiga had the best OS for the longest time, up until BeOS came along. BeOS could run on PPC hardware and on x86. It was lightning-fast, multi-threaded, and was a commercial product. Not only that it had excellent hardware and software support, and "just worked" with its UNIX-like core. In ~1996. So, by that reasoning, shouldn't we all have been using BeOS?
Let's talk about a clone and an IBM, each one running a different flavor of linux, and different desktop GUI's, and then lets talk about support.
If Apple would have made GUI's affordable, MS never would have had an opportunity. Unfortunately, it took HOW many years for the Apple stuff to come down to realistic pricing?
Who cares about Apple, really. The real contender was BeOS and before that the Amiga.
"Different flavours" = different support? I think not. The only difference between linux distributions is package management, and it takes all of two minutes to make a package in another format. Or you know, god forbid, you could compile your programs, and image your hard drives.
Yeah, a EULA gets a company out of most trouble, but at the same time, MS wouldn't BE where they are if their product didn't deliver. Period.
Oh, it delivered alright. Clever troll aren't we? You know, there's plenty of people who don't deliver but still make a killing.
We call them criminals. MS is one of them.
They also provide no guarantee that anything will work for anyone. You get that with MS, even if it doesn't mean much.
No, MS and pretty much every company with an EULA explicitly states that you are by yourself if something fails.
At least with linux you could always hire a small army of developpers instead of a small army of lawyers and fix whatever the hell needs fixing.
"It just works."
I wonder, if I installed OSX on my DEC Alpha, and then tried to plug in a winprinter, would it "just work"?
Yeah, thought so. It never "just works". It only "just works" in your eyes and in the eyes of countless mac fans because Apple bribes the company into writing an OSX driver, and in exchange they get recognition via a small face sticker. From then on out all the little macfreaks will know "Oh, that printer will work with OSX!".
On the other hand, Linux developpers don't have that. They have to write the drivers themselves. They have to find printers themselves, and reverse-engineer them sometimes. And of course plenty of printers are supported.
Just like you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your mac and expect it to work, you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your linux box and expect it to work. Except, somehow, linux is supposed to magically support everything. Except, you know, nothing supports everything. There are plenty of printers that windows doesn't support but linux does.
"Improving the interface" is something we should do, sure. But tell me something, how much do we need to "improve it"? I don't want to have a single "print" button and then it magically prints. It's not like that in any OS. The current methods are just fine. You click print, you find your printer, and you choose if you want double-sided and what size of paper.
As for GUIs for CLI tools, why? Really, why? There's a reason we have the CLI. The CLI is a direct means of communication with the OS. I tell my computer fetch me this and install it, now. No ifs, ands, or buts. I don't want to open up a GUI tool, wait a minute for it to load, search and wait another minute for THAT to load a single package, and then install it.
And other than package management, really, what would the average user use the command line, that can't be done at all via GUI? Configuring more obscure WMs that don't have a graphical front-end?
...Hard core games
I know nobody reads nintendo power but you should read up on Mad World... It's a pretty damn hard core game.
There was also about 6-7 pages detailing new games coming out for the Wii... The only bad thing about the Wii right now is that everybody ignored it at first; that's why they're not getting many new third party games. Everybody headed ass-first to bury themselves in PS3/360 developpement, thinking "hah, nintendo? yeah my ass.".
And of course it does take a while for first party games to come out; SSBB & Twilight Princess, just to name two, were supposed to be gamecube games and at the last minute more or less changed to Wii... And the next games in those series won't happen. Zelda's sequel is set to be a LOT more different than the series we've grown used to; mostly I guess because people gave up on great games.
But video games have been dying as a genre for a long time; it was all downhill after Sony entered the ring and allowed nearly everyone to publish games, and as many as they wanted, and nintendo followed soon after... Sure, there were a few astronomical spikes (Zelda, SuperSmash Bros series, 3D Super Mario games, Animal Crossing(hey, I loved that game!), and maybe Metroid) but as a whole it's all sliding... Even on the PC side, what, the Orange Box and that's about it for really good games. COD4 if you're into war games.
Portal was probably the most recently released game that was actually any fun. And I can say with certainty it's probably the last game to strike like that. Everything else is going to continue to be a rehash of what's already been done.
And not only that, the signal-to-noise ratio is so low, whatever good "small" game gets released (Tales of Symphonia for example) will get very popular very quick but then not get the attention it deserves, because WalMart is busy stocking PETZ games.
I just get "404 Not Found" / "404 Not Found" (title/page).
I wonder if they've suspended it? I've noticed that for a couple days now, but I returned home recently and only used my computer starting two days ago...
Oh, and for some reason the windows computer here has its IE and by consequence Opera bookmarks littered with rogers shit.
The day that VIA claimed its Nano is only for 10"+ laptops...
That and the fact that the HP Mininote has all the potential to be the best subnotebook... But the screen is too glossy (they need to have a matte option), the thing gets pretty hot, the CPU is not very good for the task, and not to mention the exact same laptop (except maybe there's no speakers on the side of the screen for the Dell?) but the Dell happens to be 64-bit and 200$ cheaper... VIA needs to swoop in and supply them with cheap nanos, or they're going to die against the Atom.
This new mandriva laptop doesn't look too great. For 400$+ it's really exorbitant pricing. What advantage does this have over an Asus eee901, really now? I can remove my SSD (I think) and use a flash drive as a boot device... And the only real advantage I can see to having your OS on a stick like this is if you get robbed; but even then if you can yank out a USB flash drive out of a thief's hands as he runs off with your laptop, why couldn't you just hold onto the laptop?
ATI purchase was a phenomenal mistake?
You've got to be kidding me. What was AMD to do against Nehalem then, pray tell? Merge with nVidia? Remember nVidia's outrageous terms for merger? Yeah. Like they're going to do that. Instead they swallowed ATI, albeit now they've got a stomach ache, and produced (possibly, I'm wondering about workstation cards) the greatest video card ever, the HD4870 X2. The best chipsets are also AMD/ATI, like the 780G and its sister chipsets.
Not to mention although Puma and Fusion can't take Intel's CPUs head-on, the entire platform is so much better.
No my friend, the ATI purchase was necessary. Else today AMD would be bunk.
He's old, Shakrai. Terribly old.
72 and running for presidency? Yikes... I wouldn't doubt more slip ups. Not necessarily because he's incompetent (like a certain someone) but rather he might be losing his edge in terms of delivery... To him he might be a funny guy and that's why he does the odd laugh, and a lot of people might view it positively, but still...
No, he's saying it's a great idea to spark research in synthetic nuclear reactors, to spark research in cold fusion again.
I disagree with McCain on a lot of points but you can't really bash him for wanting to conserve fuel and encourage alternative production methods of energy. It's in his best interest to push the US forward in this sense. Unless we're going to see increased US hostility they're not going to be producing all too much oil, and better to export to our enemies at the 150$/barrel they want than burn it ourselves...
There has been. Haven't you looked around my friend?
Snow in Iraq is one. Europe (or more properly modern USSR) bracing its coldest winter on record was another in 2007 was it?. This year pushing the cooling trend. Yeah, feels like it's getting warmer.
Don't get me wrong. Parent deserves all your mod points if that's your choice. He brought up what he believes to be factual evidence and properly applied it; if that doesn't deserve +4 Informative I don't know what does.
The ice sheets are getting thicker, too.
And before somebody makes claims that certain ice shelves in Antarctica are breaking...
Thank you for showing us how weak and useless we can be. It's a miracle really Egypt still has its pyramids. Those ice shelves are what? 3-6 thousand years old like another poster said? 'Nigh time they break off, and help cleanse the oceans a bit of their actual pollution (hello, Indian shipyards, i herd you liek asbestos).
I have full faith in GP. Plenty of people have "done the research" for themselves. Some things are true; corals are headed for some rough time. Others definately aren't. Namely the CO2 myth. Glenn Beck is probably the reason I care; watching his show one night as he was talking about the Ayatollah of Iran being the real threat to "the West" (president of Iran being just a, albeit intelligent, puppet), he turned to global warming as he was reading his mail, and he spurted off on this big rant of sorts.
And if it wasn't for that, I would have never heard about this:
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Yeah, funny how people neglect to inform me of that. Thanks guys. -5 to all the lunatics in the "mainstream" pushing "global warming" like it were acid rain. You neglected to inform me as recent as ~30 years ago people were bracing for an ice age, right after the biggest dump of CO2 in the air, ever in human history (WW2).
Last year (or was it the year before? time flies too quickly without meter) Europe and old USSR territories braced themselves for their coldest recorded winters, ever. Moscow was one of the hardest hit, and so were countries around Georgia. I don't know about the countries in Western Europe though... This year was an incredibly cold year all around in face of all this "global warming" crap we've been facing, and with abundant snow at least in my area... Something you wouldn't see in this sort of region... Of course it's June and we've already got a hotwave...
One thing though that I never really got; hurricanes. Is the frequency upon which they appear and the timing related to the amount of heat, or cold? At least, in the Gulf of Mexico. I would assume it would be because of more cold coming down. I ask because a hurricane hit the other day, something of a record.