presently my dad uses juno to do his email. that and solitaire is all the computer ever gets used for. you know i don't know whether to care or not. if they want the few random processor cycles from a 300Mhz pc that is mostly off and doesn't have a dedicated phone line they are welcome to them. So long as i don't have to constantly show my dad how to send his email. I mean have you used Juno. Its KISS. (keep it simple stupid) My dad needs that. I need him to have it. I'm thinking Emacs is a bit beyond him.
well, I have win2k, winme and linux all running on one machine. why? win2k is rock stable i don't care what side of the os bed you get out on its pretty damn good not just for microsoft but for everyone. winme plays my damn games like a champ. the difference between homeworld or civ ctpII on winme vs. win2k is significant in the least. linux is for fun and adventure in a kind of geek way. it is not fun in a play my games kinda way. and for all the hoopla about linux being better. it still doesn't do many of the things that are second nature to the win series. I'm not bitching I'm just saying that some things are better for different things. I mean christ can't we all just get along. when will the linux vs MS crap die? linux does some thigns great MS does some things great. its because of this that system commander was invented.
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Some may disagree with me on this one but, I've been doing some informal polling over the last few years as to what generations remember. My parents (members of the greatest generation) only recall that challenger happened. ( my girlfriend's younger sisters and my younger coworkers don't remember it at all and when they are reminded they just ackowledge it and move on. Big deal they seem to think (no slight to our younger/.ers here) my generation (gen-X) seem to recall challenger with a clarity few others do. I think challenger was the first time we learned that the people on the tv can die. I think that helped to burn the image in our minds. the way the exhaust trail forked off has been in my head for as long as i can remember and i can remember little before that as being real. the fact that a teacher died that could easily have been one of our teachers also cemented the image and memory further. I remember challenger every year and i remember the consequences of it (the nasa state of affairs, my generations seeming disregard for life in many instances) i think that when historians look back on my generation they will see challenger as one of the pivotal moments in our lives. Its no vietnam or wwii or depression but it had a lasting impact made all the more powerful for its suddeness and quickness.
Instead, NBC makes miniseries after miniseries about the old testament instead of recounting the real and documented tragedies that occurred among the history of science.
Thats Turner doing those OT movies. NBC and Hallmark are the ones doing the (i think rather good) adaptations of Gulliver and Oddyssey and Alice in WL.
as for the tragedies of the history of science. I don't think anyone is yet ready for the movie of the week about "Feynman and the Deadly Gasket". Cause I'm not ready and thats the only real scientific tragedy that i can think of that anyone other than a geek would consider a tragedy.
Yes, you me and James Burke know all the stories but its just us for a reason. Cause no one else cares and we can't force them too.
personally i think this sort of thing is bizarre. I write. nothing you folks can read but if i were to ever kick the bucket and my child wanted to complete my work for me i would come back from the grave and throttle them. first i'd be disappointed that they couldn't come up with their own ideas. second i'd be pissed that they felt they could do as well as i.
on long stories. I love long stories in science fiction. Dune and Foundation really sated my appetite for sometime. I just love seeing the references back and the foreshadowing of the other books. its obvious but its so much fun to think to yourself "wow i know who's about to appear on the next page" and then turn the page and there is a character or a reference to a character that you practically slept with for a week while reading the first book (if it actually takes you that long to read it) thats why i love those long sotries with recurrin g characters and the children of characters appearing in and out of the stories. the problem with herberts son doing Dune. by his doing it he changes the characters and the people i expect to be familiar are like some kind of pod-person.
perhaps we should just create a section devoted to people bitching about slashdot. get a life man this is robs site. he does as he pleases. i personally think thats damn skippy. rob if you want to make the page into a 24hr anus cam you go right on ahead and do it. damn folks shut up. I am so frickin tired of hearing it. i would skip it but its impossible cause usually somewhere in a post that i really want to read up on are your damn comments hogging up all the space. shut up! shut up! shut up! hows about this. GO MAKE YOUR OWN GODDAMN WEBPAGE AND SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP. sorry about the language kids and the caps but I'm a little upset. i'll go take my pills now.
I'm no skydiver. I'd like too but I'd also like to be president too. so i don't know about this and no one has addressed it yet how does she know where she is? i mean certainly there is some part of the planet where she would prefer to land. a field versus a forest or lake. when she falling and reaches a strata of air more conducive to steering how will she kow which direction to stear? GPS is all i can think of othere than dead reckoning but GPS would need time to get a fix on her and moving that fast I don't think that likely. so whats the deal skydivers. i mean at 31 miles can you see where you're headed?
>>I think if they were simpl aiming for a few >>more hits they would have piucked a more high >>profile venue to make their mark
agreed. I think/.ers are starting to get a little full of ourselves. blackstar prolly knows the only people that would care about this is us. they know we're the only ones interested in it. They also know we're cheap bastards. I mena come on. we use a FREE OS. how loaded with dough can we be?
i swear to god (actually im an atheist but you get the idea) i just finished watching 2001. had to introduce the gf to clarke. admittedly 2001 is a bit outdated now but at least clarke had a goal. he also had reality in mind when he wrote it. with the exception of hal we could probably do all the things that happen in that movie today. too bad americans just don't care anymore. oh and for everyone from the mars discussion a couple of posts back so concerned that we are wasting money on space that could be used on the poor i don't see the general public to damn concerned with the poor these days either. check your polls. the chances that a republican offering a hug tax cut will win are pretty fair. if we cut those taxes who do you think will lose out? space, children, the homeles, or corporate welfare? i don't see marlboro as being too worried at the prospect.
computers have evolved more as an industry in the last fifty years than any other industry has ever in the history of the world. it has done so for the most part because those responsible were left alone. we managed our own solutions to our own problems. those that have only a rudmentary knowledge of our abilities hould not be allowed to legislate to us. if the government intends to legislate our basic methods away, the methods by which we have thrived and brought forth the greatest economic boom in the history of the world than they should at the very least be able to understand the difference between hacker and cracker. they should all be required to pass a test of knowledge of computers. i would expect that they should all have a copy of the jargon file at hand just like they do those contitutions they ignore. this is simple. legislation without representation. Jefferson had said that he hoped the citizenry would be educated well in their nations laws and lawmaking processes. well, this particular contigent of society that has been under heavy attack of late (re: turning hearts black, etc..) is educated. we should demand that our legislators be the same and if they should continue with these inane laws that only handicap us (we who give them their great economy) then we should simply ignore them and practice as Thoreau and King and Ghandi did through civil disobedience. perhaps they will eventually realize that their way is the wrong one.
Things like this are what make me wish we could all just get together and rebuild.
its just this kind of crap thats making me wnat to start a new internet. something no coporation could get onto without a review by a council of geeks (for lack of a better term) that the goverment couldn't get into because it was a private web (not public like the net) but that would allow any user on should they agree that they are prepared for the chaos and don't expect someone to hold their hands. I'm certain a new net with some new technology ould simply rock. without all the banter about the net turning young boys hearts dark. You know when bush said that he forgot to mention that it turns more hearts into code than it does into darkness. I love vint cerf and tcp/ip but i'm willing to bet he could do something new or that anyone could. TCP/ip is how old? It would also be nice to have a series of open organizations that decide the direction of the new net. global elections of flks who would help determine things like TLDs. instead of having some government orgs decide when and if we get.web. a net with a built in payment method so you wouldn't need a credit card but could still remain anonymous. would make micro payment easy. I think there really are a few billion inovations we could add that would make the net, or a new net a better place. and i'm not talking about internet II. something really different. suddenly I'm getting really off-topic think I'll go post to ASK.
folowing all of these arguments then, where does DOS come in? I mean MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS, PC-DOS, Free-DOS? Are they still operating systems? Cause if they aren't how in the hell did i ever get tie-fighter to run? And the statement that the OS is the software that the programmer or user need to be productive sounds a bit whacked. I'm just as productive whether i have a pc or not. I've got a blackboard painted on my wall (crayola paints, they are nifty aren't they) and I feel quite productive when i get to scribbling on it.
firstly since when has a CEO been seen as a reliable source? secondly I believe slashdot has run several posts regarding the fragility of linux. I don't mean capabilites but the fragility of the source. it can be broken up and put back in any form. The forking of kernels is one such proof of that. i see quite the opposite for linux and open source. I see things becoming even more fractured all to the better. how convenient for the CEO of turbolinux to say that there shall be one distro in the future how nice if it were theirs. I don't think that debian would care for that. besides. if i wished i could make a ditro of my own. how inane to say that linux is going to a one distro world and how opposite to the very movement. This only strikes me as one more in a long series of ignorant comments by the big distro companies such as Red Hats recent claim on the origins of open source. This is making me giggle terribly. Glad i use debian.
I'm not from Japan, I'm from Virginia so I'm not speaking with any authority on this but I recall I've always heard how in Japan most of the companies are run much as the US mafia is. with families of companies being joined together. Just from what I've read here from Japanese citizens reminds me of that and i was wondering if that is a factor here with NTT. just thought i'd throw that out.
well, i think you're missing my point. Linux distros will hold your hand to a degree in the area of partitioning and such. But, what happens when your video card or some other device crucial to getting the system working doesn't without tweaks? Windows doesn't hold your hand it directs it. Until linux can do that we will remain a hobbyists and experts community. The only proof that open source works is if everyone can use it. not just the geeks
well... just to add to the i love this one better list. I've got debian running now and it's great.
also. we all know the only way to know true statistics on usage is through the ever reliable slashdot poll.
finally, I have to agree with be-fan about linux apps. They really do blow. Nothing against those developers busting their butts out there to give us some really cool programs but come on. some of the apps out there really do blow. Also... (flame retardant underwear on) how often have you heard that the benefit of open source is that things move faster. bugs are found and fixed in no time. (personally the kernel is about one of the few things that does get updated on a really regular basis) How long has work on mozilla been going on? and they have code to work from to begin with? And no matter what you may say there is sill no distro that installs as easy as windows. even the easiest distro install can still have problems.
i was thinking earlier (i really can) about gnucash. thats one app that is often touted to show how windows like apps can be found in the open source world. but in quicken i can connect direct to my bank and have my QIF files updated automagically. I really have serious doubts I'll ever get my bank to work with gnucash and i don't care how many petitions we write i just don't see it happening.
you can make as many excuses as you want but linux is strugling and has been for a while. even after MS is broken up they'll still be dominant. folks go on and on about the great software that groups like red hat have provided to the community. like what? RPM? big deal. i know there are lots of things that have been added under the hood but what can you show me on the face of linux? GNOME? come on its still not totally stable. KDE? so it looks pretty big deal. I still can't get my sound card to work and not because i don't know how to compile a kernel but because there are no drivers for it and i don't think there ever will be.
Ok now finally and i mean it this time. the kernel. Linus has done a superb job in creating linux. just flippin marvelous. the fact that he continues to do it sans pay is admirable. will the next guy? oh and when will it be that in order to upgrade my machine all i do is insert a disk and hit upgrade and not go through configure make, make install? how about that Red Hat how about making it that easy. and no no matter what you want to point to it still ain't point click easy. I really don't think we want it to be. if that were to happen then my mom could use it and god forbid that happens. bad enough we run into aol users on IRC now. heaven forfend we should find out they're runnin linux too. we say we want it but i really don't think that the majority of us do.
This is what I've been waiting for. An iBook that is realtively the same as an iMac with the exception that the iBook is less expandable than the iMac not that the iMac is all that expandable.I really think I'll get an iBook now well not now I'll wait till the tax return comes around the same time as OSX and Apple by then may have increased ram or hard drive or lowered the price a hundred or so. As for the color. I kinda like it. I'll probably get the airport too. Earthlink just bombarded me with pleas that i sign up for DSL. which i will once they get it down my street. Anyway. I look forward to getting an iBook and to whatever Apple decides to do for a follow up to all of this next year.
actually its kinda both. it would be hot for a while (ala Venus) then cool down considerably (ala mars). I'm sure there are far smarter/.ers that could explain better. But, in my mind tinkering with the atmosphere intentionally or not is not a good idea. And for those who think all this environmental propoganda is a just a bunch of hooey and could give a damn about recycling do you honestly think that not recycling won't have an effect or that pumping exhaust into the air won't have some kind of adverse effect no matter what that may be.
Some anti-environmentalists (and i can only call them that) mention the cyclical nature of Earth in defense of their not giving a damn about the enviroment. well yeah the earth will be fine it just won't be fine for us. And as for the cycle the earth never had 6 billion people chain smoking nissans before either. In the past there was always some kinf of balance, a give and take. Now, its become more of a take, no give or very little give.
and for those that just don't care cause they won't be around in fifty years. You're a selfich bastard and should impale yourself now. I mean it. do it.
Since my last upgrade was from 300MHZ to 500, both AMD and i just spent more cash on my case than the chip including shipping and that took about two years. I figure I'll be getting one of these new fangled 1GHZ machines sometime around 2004 or so. By then I'm hoping for implants directly to my cortex so I'm not that miffed, just unimpressed.
on a side note the P4 is going to be aircooled just like all chips are (as manufactured) Why don't AMD or Intel just do what we'll do to the chips when we get them from the git go. Water cool them or super air cool them or use some kind of advanced peltier system? Anything to show that they are thinking ahead. I'd be more willing to accept water in my PC than a 1 pound heatsink.
ok.. this may be something we've gone over before but with the potential breakup of microsoft into apps and os who gets the hardware? The mice and all well, flip a coin but the xbox has portions of the win2000/nt code and APIs as well as some other stuff. I'm only peripherally paying attention to the xbox now.. but who would own it? Apps or OS?
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funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. hilarious. I walked right into it. brill delivery. thanks for making me wake the house.
in a brief glance. all of three seconds. It looks to me like the new logo rather closely resembles the old BeOS logo. You know with the red and blue letters. Could someone go and smack intel please? Blue and red? Didn't any of them ever see a colour wheel in art class?
I just thought that I might take the time now to mention that this is another reason why the OS wars need to die a quick and painful death. Why on earth do we have to pick one over the other? I like Windows. (There goes my Karma) I also like Linux. (again my karma jumps all over the place) I like Be too. And for that matter Mac, someday I'll even be able to afford one. Why not just say I like this and I like that and I use them all? And don't say it has anything to do with price or philosophy. it doesn't. you're lying to yourself if you think that those are the reasons you use OS*whatever. linux users use linux cause they like to be edgy, cause in the real world they are the guy that doesn't get the girl. Windows is for people that just don't care. Be is for PC users that wish they had a mac. and mac is for people that can't imagine what a second mouse button would be good for. Why not just love them all and end the wars. Call me a social butterfly of the OS world if you will. I just love having different OSs that do different things. I think alot of us dislike MS cause thats all most of us get to see. I personally miss the command line. Linux and Be look different and do things different. thats what gets our collective juices going. but if you think that will in any way sway a newbie, you're nuts. They know microsoft and monopoly or not they are gonna use it, and screw those nuts in the open world. Its just looks like the OS world is breaking down like a high school cafeteria... geeks in one corner (linux) jocks in another (windows) and the artsy goth people over there (BeOS and Mac). please no touching.
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presently my dad uses juno to do his email. that and solitaire is all the computer ever gets used for. you know i don't know whether to care or not. if they want the few random processor cycles from a 300Mhz pc that is mostly off and doesn't have a dedicated phone line they are welcome to them. So long as i don't have to constantly show my dad how to send his email. I mean have you used Juno. Its KISS. (keep it simple stupid) My dad needs that. I need him to have it. I'm thinking Emacs is a bit beyond him.
well, I have win2k, winme and linux all running on one machine. why? win2k is rock stable i don't care what side of the os bed you get out on its pretty damn good not just for microsoft but for everyone. winme plays my damn games like a champ. the difference between homeworld or civ ctpII on winme vs. win2k is significant in the least. linux is for fun and adventure in a kind of geek way. it is not fun in a play my games kinda way. and for all the hoopla about linux being better. it still doesn't do many of the things that are second nature to the win series. I'm not bitching I'm just saying that some things are better for different things. I mean christ can't we all just get along. when will the linux vs MS crap die? linux does some thigns great MS does some things great. its because of this that system commander was invented.
Some may disagree with me on this one but, I've been doing some informal polling over the last few years as to what generations remember. My parents (members of the greatest generation) only recall that challenger happened. ( my girlfriend's younger sisters and my younger coworkers don't remember it at all and when they are reminded they just ackowledge it and move on. Big deal they seem to think (no slight to our younger /.ers here) my generation (gen-X) seem to recall challenger with a clarity few others do. I think challenger was the first time we learned that the people on the tv can die. I think that helped to burn the image in our minds. the way the exhaust trail forked off has been in my head for as long as i can remember and i can remember little before that as being real. the fact that a teacher died that could easily have been one of our teachers also cemented the image and memory further. I remember challenger every year and i remember the consequences of it (the nasa state of affairs, my generations seeming disregard for life in many instances) i think that when historians look back on my generation they will see challenger as one of the pivotal moments in our lives. Its no vietnam or wwii or depression but it had a lasting impact made all the more powerful for its suddeness and quickness.
Thats Turner doing those OT movies. NBC and Hallmark are the ones doing the (i think rather good) adaptations of Gulliver and Oddyssey and Alice in WL.
as for the tragedies of the history of science. I don't think anyone is yet ready for the movie of the week about "Feynman and the Deadly Gasket". Cause I'm not ready and thats the only real scientific tragedy that i can think of that anyone other than a geek would consider a tragedy.
Yes, you me and James Burke know all the stories but its just us for a reason. Cause no one else cares and we can't force them too.
personally i think this sort of thing is bizarre. I write. nothing you folks can read but if i were to ever kick the bucket and my child wanted to complete my work for me i would come back from the grave and throttle them. first i'd be disappointed that they couldn't come up with their own ideas. second i'd be pissed that they felt they could do as well as i.
on long stories. I love long stories in science fiction. Dune and Foundation really sated my appetite for sometime. I just love seeing the references back and the foreshadowing of the other books. its obvious but its so much fun to think to yourself "wow i know who's about to appear on the next page" and then turn the page and there is a character or a reference to a character that you practically slept with for a week while reading the first book (if it actually takes you that long to read it) thats why i love those long sotries with recurrin g characters and the children of characters appearing in and out of the stories. the problem with herberts son doing Dune. by his doing it he changes the characters and the people i expect to be familiar are like some kind of pod-person.
perhaps we should just create a section devoted to people bitching about slashdot. get a life man this is robs site. he does as he pleases. i personally think thats damn skippy. rob if you want to make the page into a 24hr anus cam you go right on ahead and do it. damn folks shut up. I am so frickin tired of hearing it. i would skip it but its impossible cause usually somewhere in a post that i really want to read up on are your damn comments hogging up all the space. shut up! shut up! shut up! hows about this. GO MAKE YOUR OWN GODDAMN WEBPAGE AND SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP. sorry about the language kids and the caps but I'm a little upset. i'll go take my pills now.
I'm no skydiver. I'd like too but I'd also like to be president too. so i don't know about this and no one has addressed it yet how does she know where she is? i mean certainly there is some part of the planet where she would prefer to land. a field versus a forest or lake. when she falling and reaches a strata of air more conducive to steering how will she kow which direction to stear? GPS is all i can think of othere than dead reckoning but GPS would need time to get a fix on her and moving that fast I don't think that likely. so whats the deal skydivers. i mean at 31 miles can you see where you're headed?
>>I think if they were simpl aiming for a few >>more hits they would have piucked a more high >>profile venue to make their mark
/.ers are starting to get a little full of ourselves. blackstar prolly knows the only people that would care about this is us. they know we're the only ones interested in it. They also know we're cheap bastards. I mena come on. we use a FREE OS. how loaded with dough can we be?
agreed. I think
i swear to god (actually im an atheist but you get the idea) i just finished watching 2001. had to introduce the gf to clarke. admittedly 2001 is a bit outdated now but at least clarke had a goal. he also had reality in mind when he wrote it. with the exception of hal we could probably do all the things that happen in that movie today. too bad americans just don't care anymore. oh and for everyone from the mars discussion a couple of posts back so concerned that we are wasting money on space that could be used on the poor i don't see the general public to damn concerned with the poor these days either. check your polls. the chances that a republican offering a hug tax cut will win are pretty fair. if we cut those taxes who do you think will lose out? space, children, the homeles, or corporate welfare? i don't see marlboro as being too worried at the prospect.
computers have evolved more as an industry in the last fifty years than any other industry has ever in the history of the world. it has done so for the most part because those responsible were left alone. we managed our own solutions to our own problems. those that have only a rudmentary knowledge of our abilities hould not be allowed to legislate to us. if the government intends to legislate our basic methods away, the methods by which we have thrived and brought forth the greatest economic boom in the history of the world than they should at the very least be able to understand the difference between hacker and cracker. they should all be required to pass a test of knowledge of computers. i would expect that they should all have a copy of the jargon file at hand just like they do those contitutions they ignore. this is simple. legislation without representation. Jefferson had said that he hoped the citizenry would be educated well in their nations laws and lawmaking processes. well, this particular contigent of society that has been under heavy attack of late (re: turning hearts black, etc..) is educated. we should demand that our legislators be the same and if they should continue with these inane laws that only handicap us (we who give them their great economy) then we should simply ignore them and practice as Thoreau and King and Ghandi did through civil disobedience. perhaps they will eventually realize that their way is the wrong one.
Things like this are what make me wish we could all just get together and rebuild.
.web. a net with a built in payment method so you wouldn't need a credit card but could still remain anonymous. would make micro payment easy. I think there really are a few billion inovations we could add that would make the net, or a new net a better place. and i'm not talking about internet II. something really different. suddenly I'm getting really off-topic think I'll go post to ASK.
its just this kind of crap thats making me wnat to start a new internet. something no coporation could get onto without a review by a council of geeks (for lack of a better term) that the goverment couldn't get into because it was a private web (not public like the net) but that would allow any user on should they agree that they are prepared for the chaos and don't expect someone to hold their hands. I'm certain a new net with some new technology ould simply rock. without all the banter about the net turning young boys hearts dark. You know when bush said that he forgot to mention that it turns more hearts into code than it does into darkness. I love vint cerf and tcp/ip but i'm willing to bet he could do something new or that anyone could. TCP/ip is how old? It would also be nice to have a series of open organizations that decide the direction of the new net. global elections of flks who would help determine things like TLDs. instead of having some government orgs decide when and if we get
folowing all of these arguments then, where does DOS come in? I mean MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS, PC-DOS, Free-DOS? Are they still operating systems? Cause if they aren't how in the hell did i ever get tie-fighter to run? And the statement that the OS is the software that the programmer or user need to be productive sounds a bit whacked. I'm just as productive whether i have a pc or not. I've got a blackboard painted on my wall (crayola paints, they are nifty aren't they) and I feel quite productive when i get to scribbling on it.
You know if the theories hold out we may not have to worry about chasing down pioneer. Space is curved.
firstly since when has a CEO been seen as a reliable source? secondly I believe slashdot has run several posts regarding the fragility of linux. I don't mean capabilites but the fragility of the source. it can be broken up and put back in any form. The forking of kernels is one such proof of that. i see quite the opposite for linux and open source. I see things becoming even more fractured all to the better. how convenient for the CEO of turbolinux to say that there shall be one distro in the future how nice if it were theirs. I don't think that debian would care for that. besides. if i wished i could make a ditro of my own. how inane to say that linux is going to a one distro world and how opposite to the very movement. This only strikes me as one more in a long series of ignorant comments by the big distro companies such as Red Hats recent claim on the origins of open source. This is making me giggle terribly. Glad i use debian.
I'm not from Japan, I'm from Virginia so I'm not
speaking with any authority on this but I recall
I've always heard how in Japan most of the
companies are run much as the US mafia is. with
families of companies being joined together.
Just from what I've read here from Japanese
citizens reminds me of that and i was wondering if
that is a factor here with NTT. just thought i'd
throw that out.
well, i think you're missing my point. Linux
distros will hold your hand to a degree in the
area of partitioning and such. But, what
happens when your video card or some other device
crucial to getting the system working doesn't
without tweaks? Windows doesn't hold your hand
it directs it. Until linux can do that we will
remain a hobbyists and experts community. The
only proof that open source works is if everyone
can use it. not just the geeks
well... just to add to the i love this one better list. I've got debian running now and it's great.
also. we all know the only way to know true statistics on usage is through the ever reliable slashdot poll.
finally, I have to agree with be-fan about linux apps. They really do blow. Nothing against those developers busting their butts out there to give us some really cool programs but come on. some of the apps out there really do blow. Also... (flame retardant underwear on) how often have you heard that the benefit of open source is that things move faster. bugs are found and fixed in no time. (personally the kernel is about one of the few things that does get updated on a really regular basis) How long has work on mozilla been going on? and they have code to work from to begin with? And no matter what you may say there is sill no distro that installs as easy as windows. even the easiest distro install can still have problems.
i was thinking earlier (i really can) about gnucash. thats one app that is often touted to show how windows like apps can be found in the open source world. but in quicken i can connect direct to my bank and have my QIF files updated automagically. I really have serious doubts I'll ever get my bank to work with gnucash and i don't care how many petitions we write i just don't see it happening.
you can make as many excuses as you want but linux is strugling and has been for a while. even after MS is broken up they'll still be dominant. folks go on and on about the great software that groups like red hat have provided to the community. like what? RPM? big deal. i know there are lots of things that have been added under the hood but what can you show me on the face of linux? GNOME? come on its still not totally stable. KDE? so it looks pretty big deal. I still can't get my sound card to work and not because i don't know how to compile a kernel but because there are no drivers for it and i don't think there ever will be.
Ok now finally and i mean it this time. the kernel. Linus has done a superb job in creating linux. just flippin marvelous. the fact that he continues to do it sans pay is admirable. will the next guy? oh and when will it be that in order to upgrade my machine all i do is insert a disk and hit upgrade and not go through configure make, make install? how about that Red Hat how about making it that easy. and no no matter what you want to point to it still ain't point click easy. I really don't think we want it to be. if that were to happen then my mom could use it and god forbid that happens. bad enough we run into aol users on IRC now. heaven forfend we should find out they're runnin linux too. we say we want it but i really don't think that the majority of us do.
(I'm sleeping in my flame retardant underpants)
This is what I've been waiting for. An iBook that is realtively the same as an iMac with the exception that the iBook is less expandable than the iMac not that the iMac is all that expandable.I really think I'll get an iBook now well not now I'll wait till the tax return comes around the same time as OSX and Apple by then may have increased ram or hard drive or lowered the price a hundred or so. As for the color. I kinda like it. I'll probably get the airport too. Earthlink just bombarded me with pleas that i sign up for DSL. which i will once they get it down my street. Anyway. I look forward to getting an iBook and to whatever Apple decides to do for a follow up to all of this next year.
actually its kinda both. it would be hot for a while (ala Venus) then cool down considerably (ala mars). I'm sure there are far smarter /.ers that could explain better. But, in my mind tinkering with the atmosphere intentionally or not is not a good idea. And for those who think all this environmental propoganda is a just a bunch of hooey and could give a damn about recycling do you honestly think that not recycling won't have an effect or that pumping exhaust into the air won't have some kind of adverse effect no matter what that may be.
Some anti-environmentalists (and i can only call them that) mention the cyclical nature of Earth in defense of their not giving a damn about the enviroment. well yeah the earth will be fine it just won't be fine for us. And as for the cycle the earth never had 6 billion people chain smoking nissans before either. In the past there was always some kinf of balance, a give and take. Now, its become more of a take, no give or very little give.
and for those that just don't care cause they won't be around in fifty years. You're a selfich bastard and should impale yourself now. I mean it. do it.
Since my last upgrade was from 300MHZ to 500, both AMD and i just spent more cash on my case than the chip including shipping and that took about two years. I figure I'll be getting one of these new fangled 1GHZ machines sometime around 2004 or so. By then I'm hoping for implants directly to my cortex so I'm not that miffed, just unimpressed.
on a side note the P4 is going to be aircooled just like all chips are (as manufactured) Why don't AMD or Intel just do what we'll do to the chips when we get them from the git go. Water cool them or super air cool them or use some kind of advanced peltier system? Anything to show that they are thinking ahead. I'd be more willing to accept water in my PC than a 1 pound heatsink.
ok.. this may be something we've gone over before but with the potential breakup of microsoft into apps and os who gets the hardware? The mice and all well, flip a coin but the xbox has portions of the win2000/nt code and APIs as well as some other stuff. I'm only peripherally paying attention to the xbox now.. but who would own it? Apps or OS?
funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. hilarious. I walked right into it. brill delivery. thanks for making me wake the house.
in a brief glance. all of three seconds. It looks to me like the new logo rather closely resembles the old BeOS logo. You know with the red and blue letters. Could someone go and smack intel please? Blue and red? Didn't any of them ever see a colour wheel in art class?
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I just thought that I might take the time now to mention that this is another reason why the OS wars need to die a quick and painful death. Why on earth do we have to pick one over the other? I like Windows. (There goes my Karma) I also like Linux. (again my karma jumps all over the place) I like Be too. And for that matter Mac, someday I'll even be able to afford one. Why not just say I like this and I like that and I use them all? And don't say it has anything to do with price or philosophy. it doesn't. you're lying to yourself if you think that those are the reasons you use OS*whatever. linux users use linux cause they like to be edgy, cause in the real world they are the guy that doesn't get the girl. Windows is for people that just don't care. Be is for PC users that wish they had a mac. and mac is for people that can't imagine what a second mouse button would be good for. Why not just love them all and end the wars. Call me a social butterfly of the OS world if you will. I just love having different OSs that do different things. I think alot of us dislike MS cause thats all most of us get to see. I personally miss the command line. Linux and Be look different and do things different. thats what gets our collective juices going. but if you think that will in any way sway a newbie, you're nuts. They know microsoft and monopoly or not they are gonna use it, and screw those nuts in the open world. Its just looks like the OS world is breaking down like a high school cafeteria... geeks in one corner (linux) jocks in another (windows) and the artsy goth people over there (BeOS and Mac). please no touching.