And there is a x64 CS4 coming out, and it's windows only. Mostly because of all the spaghetti code and what seems to be assembler parts, reminds me of the flash plugin...
Adobe has one way of "winning": Support CS3 on Linux, and distribute their own distro (or even just sponsor Ubuntu Studio) to work with CS3 perfectly. Now Adobe has used its "professional" audience to try and push MS out. And hey, isn't an officially-supported CSx one of the biggest "I WANT" about Linux?
There you go, Adobe. You'll give Linux an extra few percents in the market, you'll reduce the chance of Silverlight becoming king (because now flash and flash editor works on every major platform), and hey, you've now got a market in OSs. Imagine the extra revenue from winshops becoming total adobeshops!
Then take to the seas, and begin desalanising (remove salt).
All the sensationalists claim there's a lot of water in the oceans and that it's rising, why not take some out and use it to quench the thirst of the world?
How about you just kindly tell ask your distribution to rebrand all of its software with different names. Firefox is now $Distro Web Browser, Opera is now Opera Web Browser, gFTP is now $Distro FTP Client, gimp is now $Distro Artiste, Pidgin is now Instant Messenger, etc.
Not every program can be called "Internet Explorer". If you don't like how programs are managed, bitch to your distribution, and get other people to do the same. It takes what, 5 minutes to change a package's name to something else? And the original name can be kept in most places...
There is nothing to fear about India. To be honest, when India starts balancing out its interior policies, it would be a very nice, very strong country, something like just under Germany in terms of living quality if not the same or better. They're running the show with good intentions.
I can't say the same about the PRC. I know I'm going to get burned on this each and every time, but I can't see myself supporting such a country.
The thing is, how is India going to fight its neighbours offensively?
Pakhistan has nuclear weapons, the PRC has a larger army, and I can't see India picking a fight with Burma or Bangladesh.
Of course, they do try and keep themselves pacficists. I think that's the biggest reason why you'll rarely see hate against India like you will against other military-friendly (having a large army ready to defend your state can be a good thing you know), although the other states are known to fight serious offensive wars for no reason whatsoever (Tibet anyone?).
Please, "usability"? Do we really have to start making up terms here to say "I don't like using Linux because it's unfamiliar."? And like OSX is very windows-friendly... Single-menubar anyone?
>compatibility
Not at all. OSX works on Apple hardware. And it's only supposed to work on Apple hardware. Linux will work on anything.
Why would I go out, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars upgrading my office to macs, when I can just install Linux on the current hardware? I'm pretty sure my 400$ desktop+LCD from Dell is a lot cheaper than the 599$ headless mac mini or 1200$ iMac.
Wasn't that the one funded by some US health org to try and get people to fix the health problem in the US, Canada, and other places facing the same situation?
Of course, I don't think anybody got a "good" score in that game. We went after it for years and barely got close.
SimEarth was fun too. A bit less "educational" from a quick glance, but playing in it you do understand concepts of how species need some things and will adapt to satisfy needs and how they react to other species, how the planet reacts to events, etc.
SimCity, however, is without a doubt the most "educational". It teaches you that everything you do is wrong and you better try harder to make it right.:)
In the US newer homes are being built so that if they have a pool it's generally solar heated, and it's not expensive at all to install solar panels and you even get it free in some cases up North.
CFLs are not good for the environment. Solar power is cheap, and could be "clean" in the sense that the stuff is lumped in a case in a desert, instead of being expulsed around the world. If China really wanted to innovate, they'd have LED lights.
You really can't compare heat, either. In Canada, excluding the east and west coasts, we're extremely dependant on natural gas and similar fuel to make sure we don't freeze during winter. The north of the US is probably the same; I doubt China can get this cold.
And all this does NOT compare to forcing companies to clean up their factories.
The Chinese government is full of shit and so are the people who clearly can't seem to understand that.
Instead of doing the responsible thing and learning from our mistakes, you took our mistakes and built right on them. The Chinese could have helped build up the solar energy industry, and I would have been 100% supportive of helping them. But no, you have to build more coal and oil energy plants. Thanks, Chinese; now instead of slowly heading towards a strange future, we are now shooting towards it.
That's not even considering the fact that you killed off a nearly unique species of dolphins! You also killed off so much life in your country, you've turned your waters black and orange, and you're killing off whatever marine life that has been trying to stay alive. Not including the fact that you put everybody's space plans in jepoardy; we've now got chuncks of artificial satellites floating around, which they'll be doing for another few thousand years, and they might not ever fall down.
Silent no more? I'd rather the PRC remain silent than spew bullshit. Syria isn't silent. Of course we all know they are full of shit. You are brainwashed. Tibet was a demilitarised country that you invaded, pillaged, and litterally raped. And why? The chairman demands it!
Thanks China, really, thanks. I can see clearly now that you're a wonderful nation boasting freedom of speech and doesn't fall to the censorship that other nations take. And of course, your war of liberation for Tibet was nothing like our war of liberation for Iraq! Of course not! How could Saddam Hussein ever be doing anything wrong to his people!
("[...] as though suddenly millions of Tibetans cried to the sky and were silenced instantly.")
(And as for modpoints, feel free. I don't give a damn.)
Except I don't download movies. I buy the good ones actually.
I don't feel "digital downloads" are worth the dollar per song they ask. Simply because I wouldn't buy the CD in some cases. Other cases, I buy the CD and rip the music off. I can play a CD in my car, can't do that with computer files.
Except, you know, nazi germany was a dictatorship purpoting to be the "superior race", that they would reclaim their "essential living space", slowly kill off whatever "lower" populations lived there and replace them with germanics.
The US is a republic where the people were too stupid to make a firm decision. Wasn't it like 40% of the american people voted in 2004?
Hey bub, if you don't like Bush, vote for the person you like, and bring your friends to vote with you. Want to make a difference? Make your voice head in whatever way you can. Nobody forced you to vote Bush, and he was a massive idiot within the republican party in the first place.
And if you did participate, why didn't you bring your friends and family along with you? If that other 60% had voted for somebody other than Bush, well, guess what, no Bush for the last 4 years. But instead you guys let the poor sod get elected AGAIN./rage. (Oh and go ahead and mod me troll/flamebait again slashdotters, I don't effing care because I'll spend my life with terrible karma if I have to.)
Address your governor then, or whoever representative you can contact, with a number of people who share your idea, and demand that he or she help push this so that it gets passed.
And you know what, oil-lovers won't give a damn, because all this does is make it easier for people to spend money on oil to power their cars until the cheap, reliable, battery problem is solved. (Lower demand = decreased costs = more spending.)
That is of course, in theory. This could make it affordable for a large eletric trains system in cities, who knows. Maybe SimCity did teach us something important.
Installation fees would probably make it cheaper to install it all as one big square.
That said, wouldn't the Neveda Desert be big enough for this? Or is it a bad location?
Of course, Arizona is right next to California and Texas, and if the US can introduce some sort of worker's permit for foreign workers, you could have a large source of energy with a lot of people ready to help maintain it. Or at least to help build it.
Everyone seems to love hating on the Gimp for its windowing choice, but have you ever used it with a WM that allows you to keep certain windows over others?
Under OSX, Photoshop defaults to multi-windowed mode and there doesn't seem to be an option to change it... Where's everybody's complaints there?
That said, I'm hoping GimpShop will change its name to a more PHB-friendly one, and keep its codebase quickly updated & nearly identicle to the GIMP's with the exception of windowing, obviously. That would probably be the biggest win-win situation.
(Just a warning, not bashing anybody here. Don't take this to offense, because I'm just an idiot like the rest of us.)
Ever heard of TV shows getting cancelled because of bad ratings, I don't know about you, but I have yet to meet someone who downloaded entire seasons and hadn't watched the shows anyways. (I don't download TV shows myself, but my friends that do generally download the older seasons and watch the current ones, or have done the opposite)
movie sequels being made because the original sold well, Most movies these days are crap, or don't stick to their original story. Live theatre is looking more and more attractive.
And nothing's stopping you from making your movie independant. With all these "artists" prostituting themselves for millions of dollars a year, I'm sure releasing one movie by themselves isn't going to kill them.
And even then, what the hell? Why is $director or $producer getting paid so much money, why is $actor so freaking rich for just talking and walking, and why the hell does $CEO get millions too unlike $wrtier who gets paid barely anything?
When they learn to pay everyone properly, I'll buy each and every one of my movies. It's not like the 10$ will kill me. This isn't including the topic of piracy.
artists being dumped by a label when their latest album bombs, et cetera?
Labels are such crooks I'm suprised so few people are actively dumping their labels to go independant. My uncle is independant; he's doing just fine. Most people probably won't make the same as if they joined a studio, but if you wanted to make millions off a synthetic voice loosely based on yours, talking about your sex life, might as well start a cult.
It's not hard to see that the creation of media is influenced by people going out and paying for it.
Good media was never influenced by money. Money was just incentive to make even more. But even then, who was paying Da Vinci, who was paying Mozart, those seven-digit salaries today's artists get? And I still think their music was much better than today's crap.
A clarification for those who care; Nunavut probably has the highest rate in the world, in terms of percentage. I work with the Government of Nunavut and Health Canada, and you'd be suprised to see the amount of cases where it's poor sods who've taken a swig of anti-freeze, or have tried to off themselves, or who slash each-other over arguments.
If Canada develops nuclear arms I'm leaving and never coming back, ever.
Now, from what I understand from TFS, this company was not sold after all. Good. Canada has lost one too many developpement companies to the US; where is my Avro Arrow, where's Nortel today? (admittedly, the Arrow should have been given to the US to safeguard...)
Raster was a way to make some fairly believable (if cartoonish) video games. They still require some deliberate suspension-of-disbelief. Only with raytracing do you get the surreal Live-or-memorex feeling of not being able to tell a rendered scene from a photo
I think that was the whole appeal. I don't feel like playing a game where everything is completely realistic. I'd much rather play Mario games, where everyone is cartoonish in the sense that you know it's not a person
Humans feel unsafe around human-like artificial creations. Research uncanny valley.
You could get the HD3450 or HD3470, both of which do well enough (they are the decendents of the X1300 in terms of placement) and use a big maximum of 20W-25W of power. The HD3650 does a good job too in terms of power, I think it's idle use is around 10W and maximum at 30W-40W. The HD3850 idles at ~10W too. (Don't quote me on these though, it's been a while since I looked this up)
For some reason people like to rage against telemarkerters...
But really now this is the most reasonable way to handle the situation if you don't want to be called back because management doesn't seem to understand the concept of "No thank you, I'm not interested.".
I've worked with telemarketers, and the stuff people do to them is rather crazy. It's not the grunts you want to bitch at, complain to the heads of the company.
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Adobe isn't going to die any time soon...
And there is a x64 CS4 coming out, and it's windows only. Mostly because of all the spaghetti code and what seems to be assembler parts, reminds me of the flash plugin...
Adobe has one way of "winning": Support CS3 on Linux, and distribute their own distro (or even just sponsor Ubuntu Studio) to work with CS3 perfectly. Now Adobe has used its "professional" audience to try and push MS out. And hey, isn't an officially-supported CSx one of the biggest "I WANT" about Linux?
There you go, Adobe. You'll give Linux an extra few percents in the market, you'll reduce the chance of Silverlight becoming king (because now flash and flash editor works on every major platform), and hey, you've now got a market in OSs. Imagine the extra revenue from winshops becoming total adobeshops!
Then take to the seas, and begin desalanising (remove salt).
All the sensationalists claim there's a lot of water in the oceans and that it's rising, why not take some out and use it to quench the thirst of the world?
So what the hell, exactly, do you want us to do?
Infringe on another company's trademarks?
How about you just kindly tell ask your distribution to rebrand all of its software with different names. Firefox is now $Distro Web Browser, Opera is now Opera Web Browser, gFTP is now $Distro FTP Client, gimp is now $Distro Artiste, Pidgin is now Instant Messenger, etc.
Not every program can be called "Internet Explorer". If you don't like how programs are managed, bitch to your distribution, and get other people to do the same. It takes what, 5 minutes to change a package's name to something else? And the original name can be kept in most places...
I'm with Anonymous on this one.
;)
There is nothing to fear about India. To be honest, when India starts balancing out its interior policies, it would be a very nice, very strong country, something like just under Germany in terms of living quality if not the same or better. They're running the show with good intentions.
I can't say the same about the PRC. I know I'm going to get burned on this each and every time, but I can't see myself supporting such a country.
And hey, GP, Math is a middle-eastern skill!
The thing is, how is India going to fight its neighbours offensively?
Pakhistan has nuclear weapons, the PRC has a larger army, and I can't see India picking a fight with Burma or Bangladesh.
Of course, they do try and keep themselves pacficists. I think that's the biggest reason why you'll rarely see hate against India like you will against other military-friendly (having a large army ready to defend your state can be a good thing you know), although the other states are known to fight serious offensive wars for no reason whatsoever (Tibet anyone?).
>usability
Please, "usability"? Do we really have to start making up terms here to say "I don't like using Linux because it's unfamiliar."? And like OSX is very windows-friendly... Single-menubar anyone?
>compatibility
Not at all. OSX works on Apple hardware. And it's only supposed to work on Apple hardware. Linux will work on anything.
Why would I go out, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars upgrading my office to macs, when I can just install Linux on the current hardware? I'm pretty sure my 400$ desktop+LCD from Dell is a lot cheaper than the 599$ headless mac mini or 1200$ iMac.
I remember SimHealth...
:)
Wasn't that the one funded by some US health org to try and get people to fix the health problem in the US, Canada, and other places facing the same situation?
Of course, I don't think anybody got a "good" score in that game. We went after it for years and barely got close.
SimEarth was fun too. A bit less "educational" from a quick glance, but playing in it you do understand concepts of how species need some things and will adapt to satisfy needs and how they react to other species, how the planet reacts to events, etc.
SimCity, however, is without a doubt the most "educational". It teaches you that everything you do is wrong and you better try harder to make it right.
At least there's information in the US.
Good luck finding out what's going on when you're in the PRC...
You'll become black and blue, full of bruises when push comes to shove.
Meat has its uses.
That doesn't matter.
In the US newer homes are being built so that if they have a pool it's generally solar heated, and it's not expensive at all to install solar panels and you even get it free in some cases up North.
CFLs are not good for the environment. Solar power is cheap, and could be "clean" in the sense that the stuff is lumped in a case in a desert, instead of being expulsed around the world. If China really wanted to innovate, they'd have LED lights.
You really can't compare heat, either. In Canada, excluding the east and west coasts, we're extremely dependant on natural gas and similar fuel to make sure we don't freeze during winter. The north of the US is probably the same; I doubt China can get this cold.
And all this does NOT compare to forcing companies to clean up their factories.
Great, more wonderful propanganda on Slashdot.
Would you like to educate us on "One China" now?
The Chinese government is full of shit and so are the people who clearly can't seem to understand that.
Instead of doing the responsible thing and learning from our mistakes, you took our mistakes and built right on them. The Chinese could have helped build up the solar energy industry, and I would have been 100% supportive of helping them. But no, you have to build more coal and oil energy plants. Thanks, Chinese; now instead of slowly heading towards a strange future, we are now shooting towards it.
That's not even considering the fact that you killed off a nearly unique species of dolphins! You also killed off so much life in your country, you've turned your waters black and orange, and you're killing off whatever marine life that has been trying to stay alive. Not including the fact that you put everybody's space plans in jepoardy; we've now got chuncks of artificial satellites floating around, which they'll be doing for another few thousand years, and they might not ever fall down.
Silent no more? I'd rather the PRC remain silent than spew bullshit. Syria isn't silent. Of course we all know they are full of shit. You are brainwashed. Tibet was a demilitarised country that you invaded, pillaged, and litterally raped. And why? The chairman demands it!
Thanks China, really, thanks. I can see clearly now that you're a wonderful nation boasting freedom of speech and doesn't fall to the censorship that other nations take. And of course, your war of liberation for Tibet was nothing like our war of liberation for Iraq! Of course not! How could Saddam Hussein ever be doing anything wrong to his people!
("[...] as though suddenly millions of Tibetans cried to the sky and were silenced instantly.")
(And as for modpoints, feel free. I don't give a damn.)
Except I don't download movies. I buy the good ones actually.
I don't feel "digital downloads" are worth the dollar per song they ask. Simply because I wouldn't buy the CD in some cases. Other cases, I buy the CD and rip the music off. I can play a CD in my car, can't do that with computer files.
Except, you know, nazi germany was a dictatorship purpoting to be the "superior race", that they would reclaim their "essential living space", slowly kill off whatever "lower" populations lived there and replace them with germanics.
/rage. (Oh and go ahead and mod me troll/flamebait again slashdotters, I don't effing care because I'll spend my life with terrible karma if I have to.)
The US is a republic where the people were too stupid to make a firm decision. Wasn't it like 40% of the american people voted in 2004?
Hey bub, if you don't like Bush, vote for the person you like, and bring your friends to vote with you. Want to make a difference? Make your voice head in whatever way you can. Nobody forced you to vote Bush, and he was a massive idiot within the republican party in the first place.
And if you did participate, why didn't you bring your friends and family along with you? If that other 60% had voted for somebody other than Bush, well, guess what, no Bush for the last 4 years. But instead you guys let the poor sod get elected AGAIN.
...DEC and Wang...
Haha you said DEC!
Address your governor then, or whoever representative you can contact, with a number of people who share your idea, and demand that he or she help push this so that it gets passed.
And you know what, oil-lovers won't give a damn, because all this does is make it easier for people to spend money on oil to power their cars until the cheap, reliable, battery problem is solved. (Lower demand = decreased costs = more spending.)
That is of course, in theory. This could make it affordable for a large eletric trains system in cities, who knows. Maybe SimCity did teach us something important.
Installation fees would probably make it cheaper to install it all as one big square.
That said, wouldn't the Neveda Desert be big enough for this? Or is it a bad location?
Of course, Arizona is right next to California and Texas, and if the US can introduce some sort of worker's permit for foreign workers, you could have a large source of energy with a lot of people ready to help maintain it. Or at least to help build it.
Everyone seems to love hating on the Gimp for its windowing choice, but have you ever used it with a WM that allows you to keep certain windows over others?
Under OSX, Photoshop defaults to multi-windowed mode and there doesn't seem to be an option to change it... Where's everybody's complaints there?
That said, I'm hoping GimpShop will change its name to a more PHB-friendly one, and keep its codebase quickly updated & nearly identicle to the GIMP's with the exception of windowing, obviously. That would probably be the biggest win-win situation.
(Just a warning, not bashing anybody here. Don't take this to offense, because I'm just an idiot like the rest of us.)
Ever heard of TV shows getting cancelled because of bad ratings,
I don't know about you, but I have yet to meet someone who downloaded entire seasons and hadn't watched the shows anyways. (I don't download TV shows myself, but my friends that do generally download the older seasons and watch the current ones, or have done the opposite)
movie sequels being made because the original sold well,
Most movies these days are crap, or don't stick to their original story. Live theatre is looking more and more attractive.
And nothing's stopping you from making your movie independant. With all these "artists" prostituting themselves for millions of dollars a year, I'm sure releasing one movie by themselves isn't going to kill them.
And even then, what the hell? Why is $director or $producer getting paid so much money, why is $actor so freaking rich for just talking and walking, and why the hell does $CEO get millions too unlike $wrtier who gets paid barely anything?
When they learn to pay everyone properly, I'll buy each and every one of my movies. It's not like the 10$ will kill me. This isn't including the topic of piracy.
artists being dumped by a label when their latest album bombs, et cetera?
Labels are such crooks I'm suprised so few people are actively dumping their labels to go independant. My uncle is independant; he's doing just fine. Most people probably won't make the same as if they joined a studio, but if you wanted to make millions off a synthetic voice loosely based on yours, talking about your sex life, might as well start a cult.
It's not hard to see that the creation of media is influenced by people going out and paying for it.
Good media was never influenced by money. Money was just incentive to make even more. But even then, who was paying Da Vinci, who was paying Mozart, those seven-digit salaries today's artists get? And I still think their music was much better than today's crap.
Retarded me, it's Nunavut.
A clarification for those who care; Nunavut probably has the highest rate in the world, in terms of percentage. I work with the Government of Nunavut and Health Canada, and you'd be suprised to see the amount of cases where it's poor sods who've taken a swig of anti-freeze, or have tried to off themselves, or who slash each-other over arguments.
(Feel free to mod my other post down for me)
High suicide rates?
And you don't mention Nunvaut?
If Canada develops nuclear arms I'm leaving and never coming back, ever.
Now, from what I understand from TFS, this company was not sold after all. Good. Canada has lost one too many developpement companies to the US; where is my Avro Arrow, where's Nortel today? (admittedly, the Arrow should have been given to the US to safeguard...)
I think that was the whole appeal. I don't feel like playing a game where everything is completely realistic. I'd much rather play Mario games, where everyone is cartoonish in the sense that you know it's not a person
Humans feel unsafe around human-like artificial creations. Research uncanny valley.
And why wait for the 9500GT?
You could get the HD3450 or HD3470, both of which do well enough (they are the decendents of the X1300 in terms of placement) and use a big maximum of 20W-25W of power. The HD3650 does a good job too in terms of power, I think it's idle use is around 10W and maximum at 30W-40W. The HD3850 idles at ~10W too. (Don't quote me on these though, it's been a while since I looked this up)
But before somebody jumps to conclusions, it doesn't use urmpi last I checked, but rather APT.
Texstar was created by a group of people who used to manage RPMs/urmpis for Mandriva.
For some reason people like to rage against telemarkerters...
But really now this is the most reasonable way to handle the situation if you don't want to be called back because management doesn't seem to understand the concept of "No thank you, I'm not interested.".
I've worked with telemarketers, and the stuff people do to them is rather crazy. It's not the grunts you want to bitch at, complain to the heads of the company.