Heh, I've done that too... I also find myself coming up to a corner and thinking "just a bit closer, just a bit closer - NOW!" and making abrupt turns at the last minute.
...isn't anything new. Some of the experiences I've had are almost certainly shared by others:
Marathon - An urge to run-punch random passersby. Quake - The old two-step sideways shuffle before turning a corner. Tetris - I'm sure everybody's had a falling block dream once or twice. Gran Turismo - You really have to watch yourself when getting in the car after a session with this...
Yeah, I guess it's one of those "Well, we don't want to make them too fast..." situations, where if the performance is too good they kill off their high end business.
Yeah, similar thing here - I use either Mozilla or Firefox at work and at home for pretty much everything, but the company timesheet site and internal website (including things like the phonelist) refuse to work under anything other than IE.
Good work guys, it wouldn't have taken any more than a couple of days to figure out how to get your frigging menubar to work in a way that didn't require the security equivalent of a gigantic Swiss Cheese.
Come on, I'm sure whoever wrote the article wasn't expecting you to immediately run out and plunk down a couple of thousand dollars for a Mac just to use this peripheral.
I was referring to the fact that RHE WS is a product intended for corporate use, not individual use, and which when purchased from RH comes with a support contract.
If you want support for that distro, pay RH, but don't whine about it here, OK?
Please don't reply unless your proposed editor has column mode that works like in UE, including automatic numbering and multi-line text entry.
Sounds like you've already decided what you want to use, and you're just trying to get other people to tell you you've made the right choice.
It's like saying, "I'd use another word processor instead of Word, as long as it had exactly the same icon layout, and that button on the text properties dialogue is 13 pixels from the top, like it is in Word."
Did you ever consider that the company should just stop being lazy and write that 0.01% of their product themself?
Every time I see this argument ("But the company put a lot of their own work into the product too, honest!"), I think "Then why are they trying to be such cheapass bastards and cheat somebody else out of their work?"
The Sonos Controller and ZonePlayers are powered by a Linux implementation that Sonos developed in-house. The implementation is based on a 2.4 kernel, with backporting of threading and other features from 2.6, according to MacFarlane. "We have a great team of ex-Microsoft people who are real comfortable with kernel-level work," MacFarlane says, adding that some of Sonos's Microsoft expats worked on the FrontPage team. The team is working on a 2.6 kernel implementation, but felt the new kernel was not yet stable enough for the initial production release, MacFarlane adds.
It's a joke, right? Please, tell me it's a joke...
Arguments such as 'my family has to eat', 'how would programs like Photoshop be developed if it was Free?', "I am free to distribute software I write under any license I like", etc etc, are missing the point.
I think you're possibly missing the point of some of those replies. If someone walks up to you and says, "If you work on this software application we will give you this much money", and you do that, and then you find that someone else is willing to give you even more money to work on a similar application, and so on, you end up making a lot of money. Now, if somebody else comes up to you and says, "If you work on solving this problem, you might or might not make some money, and you might or might not become famous among a fairly obscure group of people", would you do that? Or would you continue trying to make more money?
In your case, you might answer that you would go and work on that problem in exchange for the chance to gain some recognition and maybe some money - but I think you'd find a majority of people wouldn't; they'd choose making more money.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good thing, but this is how our society mostly works at the moment, and people who have been inculcated with this viewpoint would most likely find it very difficult to move around to a position closer to Stallman's way of thinking.
You have a very simplistic way of viewing the world.
If a large corporation offers to move one of its factories to a country with a GDP less than that of, say, Nevada, in return for some tax breaks, do you think the government of that country will say no?
After a couple of years, if that corporation says that wages are climbing too quickly and it may have to leave if it isn't stopped, do you think the government will sit by and do nothing? Or do you think they might move ahead with measures to reduce further wage increases?
If you're saying that that's what the people in that country have to put up with in order to be given a better standard of living at some point in the future, that's bullshit. Corporations these days play countries off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can, and they ensure that this state of affairs won't change by locking in countries to free-trade agreements, which are enforced for them by larger, wealthier countries.
The world ain't black and white, and smartass soundbites like "protectionism only prolongs the poverty" don't help people living on an annual wage lower than your weekly junk-food budget.
He did say he was tweaking it, which in Windows would require that you go to some website like "www.1337gam3rz.tx", register, and download a 5MB utility infected with spyware to do effectively the same thing.
It depends very much on the version of the drivers you're using. A year or so ago, I got ~1300FPS with a 9200SE; with the current version, it's around ~750FPS (running on the same 800MHz P3 box).
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Heh, I've done that too... I also find myself coming up to a corner and thinking "just a bit closer, just a bit closer - NOW!" and making abrupt turns at the last minute.
...isn't anything new. Some of the experiences I've had are almost certainly shared by others:
Marathon - An urge to run-punch random passersby.
Quake - The old two-step sideways shuffle before turning a corner.
Tetris - I'm sure everybody's had a falling block dream once or twice.
Gran Turismo - You really have to watch yourself when getting in the car after a session with this...
Sigs are retroactive, remember...
Please note that it was not Linus who named it Linux... I believe the name that Linus chose was "Freax".
Yeah, I guess it's one of those "Well, we don't want to make them too fast..." situations, where if the performance is too good they kill off their high end business.
Yeah, similar thing here - I use either Mozilla or Firefox at work and at home for pretty much everything, but the company timesheet site and internal website (including things like the phonelist) refuse to work under anything other than IE.
Good work guys, it wouldn't have taken any more than a couple of days to figure out how to get your frigging menubar to work in a way that didn't require the security equivalent of a gigantic Swiss Cheese.
Because, uh... you already own a Mac?
Come on, I'm sure whoever wrote the article wasn't expecting you to immediately run out and plunk down a couple of thousand dollars for a Mac just to use this peripheral.
ATI is supposed to be releasing a new set of drivers this month which will fix the current problems with Xorg6.8, 64bit distros, etc.
You have got to be kidding me... they go to all the trouble of adding the 64 bit extensions in, and we still have to use bounce buffers for DMA?!
Screw that, my next PC is using AMD.
it's crapp... it detects c:\windows\system32\iexplore.exe as being a trojan horse.
Dunno, seems pretty accurate to me...
Heh ;) That "one feature that stops the average Joe from using Linux" seems to change every year...
In any case, yes, I imagine you're correct (I don't live in the US so I don't know what your banks are like other than by hearsay).
I was referring to the fact that RHE WS is a product intended for corporate use, not individual use, and which when purchased from RH comes with a support contract.
If you want support for that distro, pay RH, but don't whine about it here, OK?
At id, a "buck" is equal to one meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelion dollars of non-id currency.
Bad karma...
Next time, Microsoft had better attendees frisked for rogue remote controls! Damn GNU hippies!
:-)
Try it and I'll tear you a GNU/asshole, MS slaveboy!
Try watching "Twins" or "Kindergarten Cop" - he's also got a I'm-trying-to-be-funny robo-voice.
Please don't reply unless your proposed editor has column mode that works like in UE, including automatic numbering and multi-line text entry.
Sounds like you've already decided what you want to use, and you're just trying to get other people to tell you you've made the right choice.
It's like saying, "I'd use another word processor instead of Word, as long as it had exactly the same icon layout, and that button on the text properties dialogue is 13 pixels from the top, like it is in Word."
Why are you using Red Hat Enterprise 3WS at home instead of Fedora Core or something else?
FC: # yum install gnucash
Debian: # apt-get install gnucash
After that, you just need to press the 'y' key. Once.
Did you ever consider that the company should just stop being lazy and write that 0.01% of their product themself?
Every time I see this argument ("But the company put a lot of their own work into the product too, honest!"), I think "Then why are they trying to be such cheapass bastards and cheat somebody else out of their work?"
The Sonos Controller and ZonePlayers are powered by a Linux implementation that Sonos developed in-house. The implementation is based on a 2.4 kernel, with backporting of threading and other features from 2.6, according to MacFarlane. "We have a great team of ex-Microsoft people who are real comfortable with kernel-level work," MacFarlane says, adding that some of Sonos's Microsoft expats worked on the FrontPage team. The team is working on a 2.6 kernel implementation, but felt the new kernel was not yet stable enough for the initial production release, MacFarlane adds.
It's a joke, right? Please, tell me it's a joke...
Arguments such as 'my family has to eat', 'how would programs like Photoshop be developed if it was Free?', "I am free to distribute software I write under any license I like", etc etc, are missing the point.
I think you're possibly missing the point of some of those replies.
If someone walks up to you and says, "If you work on this software application we will give you this much money", and you do that, and then you find that someone else is willing to give you even more money to work on a similar application, and so on, you end up making a lot of money.
Now, if somebody else comes up to you and says, "If you work on solving this problem, you might or might not make some money, and you might or might not become famous among a fairly obscure group of people", would you do that? Or would you continue trying to make more money?
In your case, you might answer that you would go and work on that problem in exchange for the chance to gain some recognition and maybe some money - but I think you'd find a majority of people wouldn't; they'd choose making more money.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good thing, but this is how our society mostly works at the moment, and people who have been inculcated with this viewpoint would most likely find it very difficult to move around to a position closer to Stallman's way of thinking.
You have a very simplistic way of viewing the world.
If a large corporation offers to move one of its factories to a country with a GDP less than that of, say, Nevada, in return for some tax breaks, do you think the government of that country will say no?
After a couple of years, if that corporation says that wages are climbing too quickly and it may have to leave if it isn't stopped, do you think the government will sit by and do nothing? Or do you think they might move ahead with measures to reduce further wage increases?
If you're saying that that's what the people in that country have to put up with in order to be given a better standard of living at some point in the future, that's bullshit. Corporations these days play countries off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can, and they ensure that this state of affairs won't change by locking in countries to free-trade agreements, which are enforced for them by larger, wealthier countries.
The world ain't black and white, and smartass soundbites like "protectionism only prolongs the poverty" don't help people living on an annual wage lower than your weekly junk-food budget.
Where did I say it is? He mentioned that he saw wildly different results with glxgears - I gave an explanation. That's it.
He did say he was tweaking it, which in Windows would require that you go to some website like "www.1337gam3rz.tx", register, and download a 5MB utility infected with spyware to do effectively the same thing.
It depends very much on the version of the drivers you're using.
A year or so ago, I got ~1300FPS with a 9200SE; with the current version, it's around ~750FPS (running on the same 800MHz P3 box).