"Mandriva's web presence is a messy conglomeration of several different web sites, while its "Mandriva Club", originally designed to provide added value to paying customers, has been getting mixed reviews. Although the company has been addressing some of the criticism, it continues to face an uphill battle in persuading new Linux users or users of other distributions to try (and buy) its products."
One of my friends at Stanford told me to 'take care' of my social networking sites like orkut and facebook. According to him, many universities now google the graduate applicants and scan their social networking profiles. I don't like this one bit.
I don't think there has been a marked change in the trend in GPU pricing. Crysis is already one and half years old. So it is no surprise that today's modestly priced card should be able to run it well enough. Similarly, the budget GPU in the $100-150 segment should be able to run most of the games at reasonably high settings.
But what about few years down the lane? The developers will keep churning out better games. These budged GPU's won't be able to cope up with their requirements. I am pretty sure that today's GTX295 will not require an upgrade for at least 5 years. Please correct me if I'm wrong. One guy I know bought the 8800 GTS 640 MB just when it was released for ridiculously high price. Even today he has no problems playing the latest games at max settings.
My first touch with *nix systems when I started going to university (IIT Bombay). The central Computer Center had crappy old Sun Solaris systems and the hostel computer room had Fedora 2 systems which were a bit better.
The Solaris systems almost didn't have any GUI, except for Firefox. We were searching for a topic for the CS 101 project and downloaded a compressed file in the process. I spent around an hour on going about how to extract the files from the archive. It was a nightmare. Later I took on to Linux pretty well, although never shifted to it full-time because of my addiction to PES.
A few, like Yadav there, want to just halt the clock and hope for the best.
Precisely. And these highlights from his manifesto appeared (and were ridiculed) on the front page of the leading English daily. The educated masses will laugh at the manifesto and never vote for him. But that does not deter Yadav from practicing vote-bank politics over the massive number of poor, uneducated people who think he would be actually doing them some good.
I too realize the concerns surrounding unemployment increase due to automation. This is one of the reasons agriculture is still the predominant occupation in India and is largely unmechanized. But then this results in ridiculously low productivity of arable land. Sometimes I think intense and mechanized collective farming should be introduced on an experimental basis.
Yes, I am from India and I'm glad to see your opinion. India does not have communist roots though. The reason why India is still referred to as 'third-world' country is because post-WWII, we did not align with either the capitalist bloc or the communist bloc. For textbook purposes, we adopted a 'mixed economy' in which major sectors (transportation, defense, heavy industries, etc.) were to be public. However, the economy showed all the characteristics of a stagnant, closed system with very slow growth rate. In 1991, massive liberalization was carried out thanks to which the growth rate accelerated vastly. Today, there is absolutely nothing socialist or communist about India even though the preamble to constitution states that India is a 'SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC'.
Might be slightly off-topic, but cannot help pointing out. With general elections in India round the corner, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of a prominent political party calls for elimination of Computers and English. http://elections.ndtv.com/news_story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20090090458&: "The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines." And we are supposed to compete economically along with US, EU and China.
I haven't even RTFA. But it makes sense to sell DLC for extra $$. Especially when you know that lots of people are hooked on to your game. Cashing in on addiction is a very old strategy.
All the stuff. Latest eye-candy, latest office, latest amarok, latest firefox, latest foo, latest bar. You can also upgrade the individual packages but then why not upgrade the entire OS too? As I mentioned, there are some small improvements each time. Some may be useful, some not.
One of the guys I know upgraded his ubuntu system so that he could get the close buttons on each tab of his terminal which were not available then.
But the point is that its the urge to have the latest stuff and try out things. May or may not be justified. Debian sid branch is there for a reason and even regular desktop users use it.
Correct. Here at IIT Bombay, we have a local mirror of all repositories of major linux distributions. Saves a lot of bandwidth as well as time. All packages get downloaded very fast ~ 5 Mbps.
I guess most of US universities must also have a local mirror.
Firstly, there is an urge among many, many individual users to have the 'latest' stuff on their machines.
Secondly, many would like to try out the new things in the latest distribution. Some things can be quite helpful. Ubuntu has always added small but useful things in each distribution.
Servers is totally different case. But shouldn't servers be running debian anways?
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And maybe they also have to start thinking about several of their products like Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
I haven't tried it yet. Is it that good or that bad?
Are you the actor in the movie "Blackholes in a Glaxy"?
"Mandriva's web presence is a messy conglomeration of several different web sites, while its "Mandriva Club", originally designed to provide added value to paying customers, has been getting mixed reviews. Although the company has been addressing some of the criticism, it continues to face an uphill battle in persuading new Linux users or users of other distributions to try (and buy) its products."
AGP, not so much.
It is because of the lack of AGP ports, right? This has got nothing to do with compatibility issues.
One of my friends at Stanford told me to 'take care' of my social networking sites like orkut and facebook. According to him, many universities now google the graduate applicants and scan their social networking profiles. I don't like this one bit.
I don't think there has been a marked change in the trend in GPU pricing. Crysis is already one and half years old. So it is no surprise that today's modestly priced card should be able to run it well enough. Similarly, the budget GPU in the $100-150 segment should be able to run most of the games at reasonably high settings.
But what about few years down the lane? The developers will keep churning out better games. These budged GPU's won't be able to cope up with their requirements. I am pretty sure that today's GTX295 will not require an upgrade for at least 5 years. Please correct me if I'm wrong. One guy I know bought the 8800 GTS 640 MB just when it was released for ridiculously high price. Even today he has no problems playing the latest games at max settings.
Spot on. No one asks the question whether the age of Rolls Royce and Bugatti would go away.
I was wondering from a long time whey videos on the BBC site cannot be accessed from here in India. Is this the reason?
Seriously. Why does every other new search engine has to labeled as Google-killer? The hype surrounding cuil died down like anything.
Like who? Please enlighten.
The Solaris systems almost didn't have any GUI, except for Firefox. We were searching for a topic for the CS 101 project and downloaded a compressed file in the process. I spent around an hour on going about how to extract the files from the archive. It was a nightmare. Later I took on to Linux pretty well, although never shifted to it full-time because of my addiction to PES.
On an unrelated matter, he cannot do 24+58 in his head and he teaches 'Aircraft Design'.
Could there be any reason aside from lack of revenue generation?
A few, like Yadav there, want to just halt the clock and hope for the best.
Precisely. And these highlights from his manifesto appeared (and were ridiculed) on the front page of the leading English daily. The educated masses will laugh at the manifesto and never vote for him. But that does not deter Yadav from practicing vote-bank politics over the massive number of poor, uneducated people who think he would be actually doing them some good.
I too realize the concerns surrounding unemployment increase due to automation. This is one of the reasons agriculture is still the predominant occupation in India and is largely unmechanized. But then this results in ridiculously low productivity of arable land. Sometimes I think intense and mechanized collective farming should be introduced on an experimental basis.
Yes, I am from India and I'm glad to see your opinion. India does not have communist roots though. The reason why India is still referred to as 'third-world' country is because post-WWII, we did not align with either the capitalist bloc or the communist bloc. For textbook purposes, we adopted a 'mixed economy' in which major sectors (transportation, defense, heavy industries, etc.) were to be public. However, the economy showed all the characteristics of a stagnant, closed system with very slow growth rate. In 1991, massive liberalization was carried out thanks to which the growth rate accelerated vastly. Today, there is absolutely nothing socialist or communist about India even though the preamble to constitution states that India is a 'SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC'.
Might be slightly off-topic, but cannot help pointing out. With general elections in India round the corner, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of a prominent political party calls for elimination of Computers and English. http://elections.ndtv.com/news_story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20090090458&: "The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines." And we are supposed to compete economically along with US, EU and China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downloadable_content
I haven't even RTFA. But it makes sense to sell DLC for extra $$. Especially when you know that lots of people are hooked on to your game. Cashing in on addiction is a very old strategy.
I think its the only supercomputer in India. Hence the hype. I too think its natural for a supercomputer to give computing power on lease to others.
All the stuff. Latest eye-candy, latest office, latest amarok, latest firefox, latest foo, latest bar. You can also upgrade the individual packages but then why not upgrade the entire OS too? As I mentioned, there are some small improvements each time. Some may be useful, some not. One of the guys I know upgraded his ubuntu system so that he could get the close buttons on each tab of his terminal which were not available then. But the point is that its the urge to have the latest stuff and try out things. May or may not be justified. Debian sid branch is there for a reason and even regular desktop users use it.
Correct. Here at IIT Bombay, we have a local mirror of all repositories of major linux distributions. Saves a lot of bandwidth as well as time. All packages get downloaded very fast ~ 5 Mbps. I guess most of US universities must also have a local mirror.
Firstly, there is an urge among many, many individual users to have the 'latest' stuff on their machines. Secondly, many would like to try out the new things in the latest distribution. Some things can be quite helpful. Ubuntu has always added small but useful things in each distribution. Servers is totally different case. But shouldn't servers be running debian anways?
Maybe the Moldovian government should borrow idea from The Guardian and launch a national newspaper on twitter to fight against the rebels.
Maybe you got your desired username. Today it is almost impossible to get desired, proper username without arbitrary numbers in it.