Use it to annoy co-workers I can! Take it to useless meetings I can! Imagine talking backwards with a Yoda finger puppet. Much fun and hilarity I guarantee.
Looks like publishers are really looking forward to cashing in on the Tolkien-hype we've been getting nowadays.
I am looking forward to reading this though. Besides the handwriting, is the fingerprint the only proof that this was written by Tolkien? Does his son know about this?
I guess they'd last longer than paper books too, and resistant to those little silver bugs. Imagine books that could last longer than they currently can, so people in the distant future can still read ancient books as they are still intact.
Mod me down if you like, but XP is frickin' ugly!. Contrasting primary colors? Who's lamebrain idea was that? And that sickening shade of blue... ugh... and those fat borders. Excuse me while I puke just thinking about it.
There. Somebody had to say it.
Just because it's from Microsoft it doesn't make it automatically "pretty".
Sauron had this problem too. He kept losing his magic ring to short people with furry feet. But he made up for it by having an army of orcs and black riders to retrieve it for him. Maybe you could do try that eh?
But the drivers are open source. They just aren't GPL. Which is good enough for me, since I can compile it against any customized kernel I'm using.
If they were completely binary, you'd have to grab the drivers for a specific kernel for a specific distro (Hed Rat being the most popular). That's the argument against binary-only kernel modules.
Removing binary-only module support is a good thing. Binary-only modules suck. Big time. Binary-only module support is about as good as no support at all. The reason being is a module compiled for a specific kernel can't be used (safely) on another kernel. So a vendor releases a module for the latest Redhat kernel. How about people who use other distros? How about people who custom-patch their kernel and run a less popular distro like Slackware?
NVidia do release source versions of their modules, but not with a GPL license. So NVidia is a different case.
...apart from the cheesy opening sequence. The "cut-scenes" are more like static slide shows. Couldn't be too hard to write up a drop-in replacement for something like that?
Not only that, but they also mostly unrelated in terms of plotline. Besides the recurring characters, each episode deals with a different theme and crisis. It's better to be made into a mini series or something.
Are they going to change the name of US Robots and Mechanical Men Corp to "North American Robotics" again as in "The Bicentennial Man" movie (which is ironic; the reason for the name change is so that it wouldn't infringe on US Robotics, but US Robotics got its name from Asimov's stories!).
The whole point of Linux development is to , explore strange new algorithms, seek out new drivers and new filesytems, to boldly code where on one has coded before:)
As with all experimental endeavours, you do sometimes get better results, sometimes worse, but from those mistakes lessons are learned and better methods are devised.
I wonder how well it compares to the BSD kernels, in both performance and stability?
I was wondering that myself. The *BSD's are more or less "distros" complete with userland tools whereas Linux is just a kernel. The complete OS+tools should be called GNU/Linux (as RMS insists).
Whenever I see posts that say "*BSD is better than Linux", most of the time they are referring to some userland aspect of *BSD compared to some GNU/Linux distro, and not "Linux" the kernel itself. Which isn't really fair IMHO, since most of the time it's not "Linux"'s fault for whatever is being bashed at the time.
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You do realize there's no such thing as a lightsaber or a Jedi right? Uh... right??
Use it to annoy co-workers I can! Take it to useless meetings I can! Imagine talking backwards with a Yoda finger puppet. Much fun and hilarity I guarantee.
...and in Soviet Russia, DVD's crack you!!!
* ducks *
Looks like publishers are really looking forward to cashing in on the Tolkien-hype we've been getting nowadays.
I am looking forward to reading this though. Besides the handwriting, is the fingerprint the only proof that this was written by Tolkien? Does his son know about this?
I guess they'd last longer than paper books too, and resistant to those little silver bugs. Imagine books that could last longer than they currently can, so people in the distant future can still read ancient books as they are still intact.
Oh man, somebody mod this guy +5 Funny :)
That's the dumbest story I've ever heard. It sounds like the plot for a very low-budget 60's sci-fi movie.
I'll be running my P4 at 3 Gigahertz, thankyouverymuch.
;)
True, but your architecture still sux
The elf workforce has been downsized 70%
I was under the impression that the Eldar left for the undying lands long before. Or did they leave because they were downsized?
The Windows XP interface is hideous!!!
Mod me down if you like, but XP is frickin' ugly!. Contrasting primary colors? Who's lamebrain idea was that? And that sickening shade of blue... ugh... and those fat borders. Excuse me while I puke just thinking about it.
There. Somebody had to say it.
Just because it's from Microsoft it doesn't make it automatically "pretty".
Sauron had this problem too. He kept losing his magic ring to short people with furry feet. But he made up for it by having an army of orcs and black riders to retrieve it for him. Maybe you could do try that eh?
It certainly sounds like "My life for hire". Kinda appropriate too, considering you have to pay to construct those little soldiers.
Bah! Protoss rulez! :)
Especially the guy who goes "my life for hire" when you click on him.
Even that is good enough to completely avoid all problems associated with kernel modules that are completely binary.
But the drivers are open source. They just aren't GPL. Which is good enough for me, since I can compile it against any customized kernel I'm using.
If they were completely binary, you'd have to grab the drivers for a specific kernel for a specific distro (Hed Rat being the most popular). That's the argument against binary-only kernel modules.
Removing binary-only module support is a good thing. Binary-only modules suck. Big time. Binary-only module support is about as good as no support at all. The reason being is a module compiled for a specific kernel can't be used (safely) on another kernel. So a vendor releases a module for the latest Redhat kernel. How about people who use other distros? How about people who custom-patch their kernel and run a less popular distro like Slackware?
NVidia do release source versions of their modules, but not with a GPL license. So NVidia is a different case.
...apart from the cheesy opening sequence. The "cut-scenes" are more like static slide shows. Couldn't be too hard to write up a drop-in replacement for something like that?
IBM may have been evil, but at least it's cool. Let's recap shall we...
:)
IBM's innovations : relational databases and SQL, RISC technology, scanning tunnelling microscopes, speech recognition, hard disk drives
Microsoft's innovations : talking paper clip, BSOD, the awesome FAT filesytem, MSN and passport
I like the cool evil better
A moment of silence for the Little Operating System That Could Have Been.
Now it's just another corpse on the bloody trail of the rampaging Alternative PC OS Killer that is Micro$oft.
Rest in peace, OS/2
I know this is gonna get buried in a pile of similar comments, but congrats from me to Rob and Kathleen.
Now CmdrTaco, I asked before and I asked again... how does one go about getting a girl to like geeks like us, let alone marry us?
Not only that, but they also mostly unrelated in terms of plotline. Besides the recurring characters, each episode deals with a different theme and crisis. It's better to be made into a mini series or something.
Are they going to change the name of US Robots and Mechanical Men Corp to "North American Robotics" again as in "The Bicentennial Man" movie (which is ironic; the reason for the name change is so that it wouldn't infringe on US Robotics, but US Robotics got its name from Asimov's stories!).
Somebody buy the domain name "savetaken.com" quick :)
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Beautiful! This is truly a Slashdot moment to cherish.
If I compile some source code on a Debian system don't I get the same functionality as I would if I compiled the same code on a Mandrake system?
:)
You've just stumbled upon the "perimeter of wisdom"
(kind of remember a quote from Calvin & Hobbes that sounded like that)
The whole point of Linux development is to , explore strange new algorithms, seek out new drivers and new filesytems, to boldly code where on one has coded before :)
As with all experimental endeavours, you do sometimes get better results, sometimes worse, but from those mistakes lessons are learned and better methods are devised.
It's not about "marketing". It never was.
I wonder how well it compares to the BSD kernels, in both performance and stability?
I was wondering that myself. The *BSD's are more or less "distros" complete with userland tools whereas Linux is just a kernel. The complete OS+tools should be called GNU/Linux (as RMS insists).
Whenever I see posts that say "*BSD is better than Linux", most of the time they are referring to some userland aspect of *BSD compared to some GNU/Linux distro, and not "Linux" the kernel itself. Which isn't really fair IMHO, since most of the time it's not "Linux"'s fault for whatever is being bashed at the time.