The irony is that most classic literature would very likely fail these tests. Nobody writes like that in Beowulf, teachers wouldn't pass someone who did; however, it is a classic.
I own two Java books and have seen others.. they suck. It isn't that the books aren't well written, it is that Sun's documentation is really good. Just stick with Sun's documentation and you should be fine, IMHO.
T-mobile and Cingular are the only GSM providers in the USA.. unfortunately, the GSM networks are very good and you don't get nearly the quality that you get from a CDMA provider.
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Explain that to my mother, or my grandmother. Trust me, they need big graphical buttons.. my mother doesn't even know which buttons are play and stop on her VCR unless there are words to describe them.
The firmware limits what the drive will accept, the DVD software player must also accept multiple regions. On Linux, this isn't a problem.. but in Windows, most/all DVD players are region-locked as well.. that program unlocks the player, but does not unlock the drive:(
Cell phones in Europe already have this problem as well as a Nextel phone a company used to work for had. Luckily, I haven't gotten it on my own phone yet.
Of course, if you're in America you probably want to skip the Great PatriotWall of America. Checkout http://www.publicproxyservers.com/ to by-pass the monitoring/filtering that the USA does to us.
So instead of fighting terrorism, you want to build socialism? I'm not a friend of recent politics.. I don't like this anti-terrorism and anti-freedom movement that you see being made by those in poewr. However, what you want is socialism.
Sure, it will work for you right now. The unemployed and farmers LOVE socialism. Unfortunately, the system doesn't work.
Even if they "forgot" to include it in the box, DELL offered no way for him to review the licenses other than telling him what software was included and told him to look on their websites.. ASSUMING that he had a computer with internet access AND that the EULA were the same for the OEM and non-OEM versions of the software.
Basically, if you really care about what you're signing, you shouldn't buy a Dell.
1. Linux is not an operating system like MS Windows, it is ONLY a part of the operating system. 2. A product most similiar to MS Windows is a Linux distribution, which IS a full operating system. 3. Users chose their Linux distribution (OS), the Linux distribution (OS) choses their desktop environment.
Ultimately, the user is given a choice of many different operating systems based on linux providing application compatability.
Just because it is different than MS Windows doesn't mean it doesn't work, doesn't make sense, or can't succeed.
Patents destroy open source. I personally feel that non-profit opensource projects should be immune to patent law. Furthermore, it should be required that patents have a working implementation; one should not be able to patent something just because they have an idea.. if I had the money, I could patent a lot of really great ideas; however, I don't think the patent system should be abused that way.
Is that a Kanga, the 3500 with G3 processor? or is it a Wallstreet?
You can upgrade a Walstreet to a G4 processor with the help of PowerLogix
And you're right.. My 400mhz Pismo (2000/firewire) powerbook is durable. It might not be made of titanium or aluminium, but it is nearly indestrutable.
I've had it since July 2000, I just replaced a battery, AC adapter, upgraded to 320 MB ram, and upgraded the harddrive. I'm considering the 900mhz upgrade chip as well. I'm going to continue investing in this machine until it dies or becomes throughly obsolete, I don't see that happening for another 2-3 years. 5-6 years from a $2000 laptop + $800 in upgrades/replacement-parts isn't too bad (including processor upgrade)
I just counted them and Mozilla has 6 'not ok' and Opera has 7 'not ok' tags. Opera has less incomplete/buggy/quirky properties. Opera may be winning by a hair.
It appears that they are pretty evenly matched. It would be wonderful to see how well Mozilla 1.5 fairs against Opera; I'd imagine that many of those incomplete/buggy properties are now fixed in 1.5.
I don't personally think so after both browsing pages and writing pages for both. I think it is fairly known that KHTML is not nearly as advanced as Gecko; however, it is certainly MUCH faster.
Once KHTML has matured into a sweet beautiful woman, Mozilla will look like a fat, ugly, homeless man. Unfortunately, right now Mozilla is a fat, rich guy and KHTML is still a teenager with a promising future.
For those too afraid or lazy to click, Mozilla 1.4 kicks butt, followed by Opera, and KHTML (safari).
IE 5.5 for MacOS, MSN for MacOS X, and IE6 (windows) seem to be nearly on par with CSS2 support; however, if I had to judge I'd say that the support ranks with MSN on top, followed by IE 5.5 and finally IE 6.
Omniweb and iCab were at the bottom of the barrel. Simply bad. This page does not reflect the fact that Omniweb will start using the KHTML engine so it should have idential support to that of Safari in the near future.
Imagine two situations: 1. 800x600 drawing each pixel 2. 1600x1200 drawing 2x2 text characters to represent an 800x600 display.
Both situations will result in an 800x600 display; however, the second will be much slower and will actually require more expensive hardware.
Nearly any monitor from the local junkyard will do 800x600 resolution, but not many at your local BestBuy or Frys will do 1600x1200.
Solution 2 would result in loss of quality due to the limitations of ASCII art and the console; however, assuming that these problems were eliminated, the solution is still slower.
It requires more power to render fonts than it does to render pixmaps. Text interfaces are generally faster and require less hardware simply because text interfaces render less information and run at lower resolutions than graphical displays. At 2x2 pixels for the fonts, the fonts would have to be special or scaled which would be even slower.
This isn't to say that curses/text interfaces are a bad idea.. they just aren't a replacement for any modern pixmap-based windowing system.
I personally make my.bash_history files chattr'ed +a (append-only). This is exceptionally useful in a server environment where you don't want users mucking with their history files.
I just hope they choose a platform independant medium.. something open like MPEG, versus realmedia or sorenson (although realmedia isn't as evil as it used to be).
My biggest worry is that they will use streaming rather than just giving access to the files.. you can use mplayer to save the streams, but it is a hack... but I guess you can't knock free, even if it is crippled.
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The irony is that most classic literature would very likely fail these tests. Nobody writes like that in Beowulf, teachers wouldn't pass someone who did; however, it is a classic.
I own two Java books and have seen others.. they suck. It isn't that the books aren't well written, it is that Sun's documentation is really good. Just stick with Sun's documentation and you should be fine, IMHO.
Funny, because Fahrenheit 451 was the first thing I thought when I read the title of the article :)
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You're right, he does describe video walls. The movie only had a plasma screen though
But gstreamer and xine are both shared libraries, gstreamer even has a python binding. This works out a LOT better for writing frontends.
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The truth is that Mplayer's only redeeming attribute is the fact it can play just about anything, provided it is compiled right.
I just hope that Xine and/or gstreamer catch up quickly
T-mobile and Cingular are the only GSM providers in the USA.. unfortunately, the GSM networks are very good and you don't get nearly the quality that you get from a CDMA provider.
Explain that to my mother, or my grandmother. Trust me, they need big graphical buttons.. my mother doesn't even know which buttons are play and stop on her VCR unless there are words to describe them.
The firmware limits what the drive will accept, the DVD software player must also accept multiple regions. On Linux, this isn't a problem.. but in Windows, most/all DVD players are region-locked as well.. that program unlocks the player, but does not unlock the drive :(
Some drives can be made region-free, some cannot.
In english, you can say that the second screen is "on top" of the first to mean that it is covering it.
Cell phones in Europe already have this problem as well as a Nextel phone a company used to work for had. Luckily, I haven't gotten it on my own phone yet.
I was referring to comment #3 where user garcia critiqued the anti-communism/anti-terrorism wars of the USA.
His post was pro-socialism. His pro-freedom and pro-socialism approach doesn't match.
He is either a troll, or an idiot.
Of course, if you're in America you probably want to skip the Great PatriotWall of America. Checkout http://www.publicproxyservers.com/ to by-pass the monitoring/filtering that the USA does to us.
So instead of fighting terrorism, you want to build socialism? I'm not a friend of recent politics.. I don't like this anti-terrorism and anti-freedom movement that you see being made by those in poewr. However, what you want is socialism.
Sure, it will work for you right now. The unemployed and farmers LOVE socialism. Unfortunately, the system doesn't work.
Even if they "forgot" to include it in the box, DELL offered no way for him to review the licenses other than telling him what software was included and told him to look on their websites.. ASSUMING that he had a computer with internet access AND that the EULA were the same for the OEM and non-OEM versions of the software.
Basically, if you really care about what you're signing, you shouldn't buy a Dell.
You might get lucky then.. PowerLogix or another company might still be developing upgrade chips for that machine. Cross your fingers :)
1. Linux is not an operating system like MS Windows, it is ONLY a part of the operating system.
2. A product most similiar to MS Windows is a Linux distribution, which IS a full operating system.
3. Users chose their Linux distribution (OS), the Linux distribution (OS) choses their desktop environment.
Ultimately, the user is given a choice of many different operating systems based on linux providing application compatability.
Just because it is different than MS Windows doesn't mean it doesn't work, doesn't make sense, or can't succeed.
Patents destroy open source. I personally feel that non-profit opensource projects should be immune to patent law. Furthermore, it should be required that patents have a working implementation; one should not be able to patent something just because they have an idea.. if I had the money, I could patent a lot of really great ideas; however, I don't think the patent system should be abused that way.
Is that a Kanga, the 3500 with G3 processor? or is it a Wallstreet?
You can upgrade a Walstreet to a G4 processor with the help of PowerLogix
And you're right.. My 400mhz Pismo (2000/firewire) powerbook is durable. It might not be made of titanium or aluminium, but it is nearly indestrutable.
I've had it since July 2000, I just replaced a battery, AC adapter, upgraded to 320 MB ram, and upgraded the harddrive. I'm considering the 900mhz upgrade chip as well. I'm going to continue investing in this machine until it dies or becomes throughly obsolete, I don't see that happening for another 2-3 years. 5-6 years from a $2000 laptop + $800 in upgrades/replacement-parts isn't too bad (including processor upgrade)
I just counted them and Mozilla has 6 'not ok' and Opera has 7 'not ok' tags. Opera has less incomplete/buggy/quirky properties. Opera may be winning by a hair.
It appears that they are pretty evenly matched. It would be wonderful to see how well Mozilla 1.5 fairs against Opera; I'd imagine that many of those incomplete/buggy properties are now fixed in 1.5.
I don't personally think so after both browsing pages and writing pages for both. I think it is fairly known that KHTML is not nearly as advanced as Gecko; however, it is certainly MUCH faster.
Once KHTML has matured into a sweet beautiful woman, Mozilla will look like a fat, ugly, homeless man. Unfortunately, right now Mozilla is a fat, rich guy and KHTML is still a teenager with a promising future.
For those too afraid or lazy to click,
Mozilla 1.4 kicks butt, followed by Opera, and KHTML (safari).
IE 5.5 for MacOS, MSN for MacOS X, and IE6 (windows) seem to be nearly on par with CSS2 support; however, if I had to judge I'd say that the support ranks with MSN on top, followed by IE 5.5 and finally IE 6.
Omniweb and iCab were at the bottom of the barrel. Simply bad. This page does not reflect the fact that Omniweb will start using the KHTML engine so it should have idential support to that of Safari in the near future.
"Along that line, are there any good places to look for mozilla/mozilla firebird's CSS2 compliance?"
Very good.. if you don't realize already, IE is terrible with CSS2. Nothing (yet) beats gecko's (mozilla renderer) CSS 1/2 compliance.
The most complete list I'm currently aware of is at macedition check it out here
That would be slower than drawing pixels.
Imagine two situations:
1. 800x600 drawing each pixel
2. 1600x1200 drawing 2x2 text characters to represent an 800x600 display.
Both situations will result in an 800x600 display; however, the second will be much slower and will actually require more expensive hardware.
Nearly any monitor from the local junkyard will do 800x600 resolution, but not many at your local BestBuy or Frys will do 1600x1200.
Solution 2 would result in loss of quality due to the limitations of ASCII art and the console; however, assuming that these problems were eliminated, the solution is still slower.
It requires more power to render fonts than it does to render pixmaps. Text interfaces are generally faster and require less hardware simply because text interfaces render less information and run at lower resolutions than graphical displays. At 2x2 pixels for the fonts, the fonts would have to be special or scaled which would be even slower.
This isn't to say that curses/text interfaces are a bad idea.. they just aren't a replacement for any modern pixmap-based windowing system.
you could do it, but you would need a very high resolution monitor to make those characters more than a few pixels large.
If you wanted to have each character only 1-4 pixels, then it would be a lot faster to use X11.
I personally make my .bash_history files chattr'ed +a (append-only). This is exceptionally useful in a server environment where you don't want users mucking with their history files.
I just hope they choose a platform independant medium.. something open like MPEG, versus realmedia or sorenson (although realmedia isn't as evil as it used to be).
My biggest worry is that they will use streaming rather than just giving access to the files.. you can use mplayer to save the streams, but it is a hack... but I guess you can't knock free, even if it is crippled.