hacking does't fall under consumer law. It falls under criminal law.
Uhm, actually, the previous guy didn't say that the laws were consumer laws, he didn't even mention what kind of laws they were. He just said that they were "pro-consumer".
A slimmed and very much dumbed down Linux distro, with massive hardware support that is as easy to set up as Windows... without dependency problems... is something that would put Linux on many more desktops than today. Imho.
I don't think multimedia apps for Linux would be targeting the average Linux user. Audio professionals, on the other hand, almost always pay for the software they use.
Besides, about 98% of professional audio tweaks use Macs. The other 2% use Amiga.:)
Hmm... I guess more people are using various Ataris than Amigas for sound. I recently talked with some guys that still use Atari Falcon for (professional) music recording.
But your point stands correct. I have yet to see audio apps for Linux that can compete with the ones available for Mac/Atari/Amiga/Wintel.
Everybody are excited about Ericsson's and Nokia's new top-of-the-line models, but are there any alternatives? One that seems pretty cool to me in the previews is the Panasonic GD87, mainly because of the polyphonic ringtones, 65k colours display and digital camera. No JAVA tho, it seems. If it is cheap enough it will probably be one to consider anyway? Anyone know any more cool "underdog" alternatives?
But given my not-too-good financial state at the moment I will probably have to set my aims lower. I have found two alternatives that seem pretty nice and good value for the money:
Siemens M50 is cheap, has JAVA and GPRS, but two colour display and monophonic ringtones.
Panasonic GD67 has got 256 colours display and polyphonic ringtones, but no JAVA there either. It will probably cost about the same as the Siemens M50.
Are there any other cellphones among the cheaper ones that can beat those two that I should know about?
The worst part when playig MP FPS, is when you can't get into the "zone". When every shot seem to hit something else than your target and every other player plays like a god.
Well, you can't really blame the game engine for that, can you? I checked it out and found it quite impressive. Guess some really determined mod guys could make something very cool out of this, when it is OS:ed...
And you do know that you can change the difficulty level, right?;)
It would be cool to try it out MP, but all the MP servers seems to be/.:ed. Any more servers anyone?
No, me neither. Why would Bill Gates h4x0r GPL'd software when his Windows series reaches a far greater number of users? Another great thing for him is that nobody would even know he h4x0r3d Windows if he did.
I am not sure if Bill does any h4x0r1ng anymore tho?
Yes, you are right in parts, but in the event of the massive electronic failure you spoke of, you would still probably have a hard time controlling the vehicle. It will require a certain amount of muscles. Aunt betty might not have those. I have tried driving servo controlled cars with the servos off (legally) and I can tell you, it was no picnic.
What do you think controls the servos that indirectly give you control of your brakes and steering in most modern cars? The handbrake is still a physical control in most models, I guess. I would still not feel comfotable driving a car where the only means of manuervering is a handbrake, though.
Uhm, who said anything about Commodore 64? The screenshots of these apps looked more like PC-CGA graphics to me. If they had been C64 screens they would have been much more colorful and generally nice looking.:)
Michael Phipps gave an interesting answer to the "Why openbeos?"-question in the Q&A-session:
[Captcpu] Here's a nice one from: [mwilber] Why did you decide to start the OpenBeOS project? [17:35:47] [mphipps] Insanity.;-) [17:36:25] [Captcpu] good answer:) [17:36:52] [Captcpu] but wait..there's more...[mphipps] Seriously - I had a project that I have been working on for years on BeOS. The short version of the story is that it is an object oriented paradigm in which every class is a process and every instance is a thread. It needs hyper fast messaging and process/thread swapping. No other OS will do that. Even R5 wasn't the best. [17:37:47] [mphipps] So, when the Palm announcement was made, I looked at Linux and the BSD's, but none of them were as fast and as easy to use. So I decided that BeOS must continue on.
Hopefully more people will see things the same way. Some things are hard to do, or outright impossible in most common enviroments today. If enough people makes this realization OBOS could have a very nice thing going.
Another thing that often is forgotten when talking about OBOS is that the goal is not only to recreate BeOS as OSS. It goes beyond that. The goal of OBOS R1 is to recreate BeOS R5, but when the devlopment continues towards OBOS r2, new interresting stuff is going to be implemented. The plans of what to include in the post-r1-releases of OBOS are made at the Glass Elevator mailing list
Well, if OBOS turns out to be as great as many of us hope it will be, it will probably market itself. Afaik, the OBOS team has not been actively marketing their project very much, yet they have recived a "lot" of attention.
What primarily speaks in favour of OBOS compared to Linux is a much less steep learning curve.
On the language issue, yes, this guy's work loses a lot in other languages: in English, e.g., the most frequent letter is "e", while in Portuguese "a" occurs the most. I use both languages during the same day, there wouldn't be a perfect layout for both.
The solution of your "problem" exist in the.tar.gz at the homepage of that guy. I think.
Record everything you type during a day (or even better, a longer period of time) and figure out your perfect key-combo.
Why not set up a Microsoft Certified (monkey boy) Dance outside their booth. If someone questions your behavior you can just tell them you are a fan of Steve Ballmer and paying a tribute.
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No, no, no! Why would you read all these comics, when Robotman (Monty) is (are?) the only comic(s) you will ever need? :)
Jim Meddick for Statsminister! (or President, or Whatever...)
Knives and Vodka? :)
Might be they are not christians?
Communist country?
Check your facts, troll.
Completely OT, but...
An 800 pound elephant? Is that a baby elephant?
On the other hand I thought CG actor Yoda in SWII felt more alive than several of the other actors. ;)
hacking does't fall under consumer law. It falls under criminal law.
Uhm, actually, the previous guy didn't say that the laws were consumer laws, he didn't even mention what kind of laws they were. He just said that they were "pro-consumer".
A slimmed and very much dumbed down Linux distro, with massive hardware support that is as easy to set up as Windows... without dependency problems... is something that would put Linux on many more desktops than today. Imho.
Lycoris? MDK? Lindows? Nah... Not there yet.
I don't think multimedia apps for Linux would be targeting the average Linux user. Audio professionals, on the other hand, almost always pay for the software they use.
Besides, about 98% of professional audio tweaks use Macs. The other 2% use Amiga. :)
Hmm... I guess more people are using various Ataris than Amigas for sound. I recently talked with some guys that still use Atari Falcon for (professional) music recording.
But your point stands correct. I have yet to see audio apps for Linux that can compete with the ones available for Mac/Atari/Amiga/Wintel.
Everybody are excited about Ericsson's and Nokia's new top-of-the-line models, but are there any alternatives? One that seems pretty cool to me in the previews is the Panasonic GD87, mainly because of the polyphonic ringtones, 65k colours display and digital camera. No JAVA tho, it seems. If it is cheap enough it will probably be one to consider anyway? Anyone know any more cool "underdog" alternatives?
But given my not-too-good financial state at the moment I will probably have to set my aims lower. I have found two alternatives that seem pretty nice and good value for the money:
Siemens M50 is cheap, has JAVA and GPRS, but two colour display and monophonic ringtones.
Panasonic GD67 has got 256 colours display and polyphonic ringtones, but no JAVA there either. It will probably cost about the same as the Siemens M50.
Are there any other cellphones among the cheaper ones that can beat those two that I should know about?
The worst part when playig MP FPS, is when you can't get into the "zone". When every shot seem to hit something else than your target and every other player plays like a god.
Well, you can't really blame the game engine for that, can you? I checked it out and found it quite impressive. Guess some really determined mod guys could make something very cool out of this, when it is OS:ed...
And you do know that you can change the difficulty level, right? ;)
It would be cool to try it out MP, but all the MP servers seems to be /.:ed. Any more servers anyone?
Are you the guy that thinks that you can get away with it?
No, me neither. Why would Bill Gates h4x0r GPL'd software when his Windows series reaches a far greater number of users? Another great thing for him is that nobody would even know he h4x0r3d Windows if he did.
I am not sure if Bill does any h4x0r1ng anymore tho?
Yes, you are right in parts, but in the event of the massive electronic failure you spoke of, you would still probably have a hard time controlling the vehicle. It will require a certain amount of muscles. Aunt betty might not have those. I have tried driving servo controlled cars with the servos off (legally) and I can tell you, it was no picnic.
What do you think controls the servos that indirectly give you control of your brakes and steering in most modern cars? The handbrake is still a physical control in most models, I guess. I would still not feel comfotable driving a car where the only means of manuervering is a handbrake, though.
Uhm, who said anything about Commodore 64? The screenshots of these apps looked more like PC-CGA graphics to me. If they had been C64 screens they would have been much more colorful and generally nice looking. :)
Redmond delenda est. :)
You mean something like WinBe?
Michael Phipps gave an interesting answer to the "Why openbeos?"-question in the Q&A-session:
[Captcpu] Here's a nice one from: [mwilber] Why did you decide to start the OpenBeOS project? ;-) :)
[17:35:47] [mphipps] Insanity.
[17:36:25] [Captcpu] good answer
[17:36:52] [Captcpu] but wait..there's more...[mphipps] Seriously - I had a project that I have been working on for years on BeOS. The short version of the story is that it is an object oriented paradigm in which every class is a process and every instance is a thread. It needs hyper fast messaging and process/thread swapping. No other OS will do that. Even R5 wasn't the best.
[17:37:47] [mphipps] So, when the Palm announcement was made, I looked at Linux and the BSD's, but none of them were as fast and as easy to use. So I decided that BeOS must continue on.
Hopefully more people will see things the same way. Some things are hard to do, or outright impossible in most common enviroments today. If enough people makes this realization OBOS could have a very nice thing going.
Another thing that often is forgotten when talking about OBOS is that the goal is not only to recreate BeOS as OSS. It goes beyond that. The goal of OBOS R1 is to recreate BeOS R5, but when the devlopment continues towards OBOS r2, new interresting stuff is going to be implemented. The plans of what to include in the post-r1-releases of OBOS are made at the Glass Elevator mailing list
Well, if OBOS turns out to be as great as many of us hope it will be, it will probably market itself. Afaik, the OBOS team has not been actively marketing their project very much, yet they have recived a "lot" of attention.
What primarily speaks in favour of OBOS compared to Linux is a much less steep learning curve.
When speaking about ICQ clients for windows, check out:
Miranda IM
It has also got some MSN support.
On the language issue, yes, this guy's work loses a lot in other languages: in English, e.g., the most frequent letter is "e", while in Portuguese "a" occurs the most. I use both languages during the same day, there wouldn't be a perfect layout for both.
The solution of your "problem" exist in the .tar.gz at the homepage of that guy. I think.
Record everything you type during a day (or even better, a longer period of time) and figure out your perfect key-combo.
Pelt them with eggs???
Why not set up a Microsoft Certified (monkey boy) Dance outside their booth. If someone questions your behavior you can just tell them you are a fan of Steve Ballmer and paying a tribute.