I'm sorry Peter Jackson didn't film The Scouring of the Shire. It would have made a nice addition to the Extended DVD, even if it didn't "work" for a box-office feature. The Voice of Saruman, and Shelob's attack are both in The Two Towers, and personally I think Jackson should have filmed it that way, removing the unnecessary Arwen scenes to compensate. But that's just me.
Is this another one of GWB's evil plots to get another fake victory? I wouldn't want to release such code out in the open. It could be used for evil...evil!
Linux users can try out Nat Friedman's Beagle, which does something like what Google's desktop does. The Dashboard project uses it to find information pertinent to your current desktop task and displays it in a sidebar. Pretty neat. It's one of the C#/Mono projects that's available for Linux.
I've never tried SuSE Linux after it was acquired by Novell (who also owns Ximian). A lot of people have said SuSE is KDE-centric, but now that Novell has put a KDE team and a GNOME team under one roof, is the Linux desktop experience more "unified"? When Redhat tried to unify the desktops, there was a backlash of sorts... but I haven't heard from SuSE. How does the SuSE desktop feel, in both KDE and GNOME modes?
After reading your presentation on the death of systems research, I was rather disappointed at the dismal situation presented. Has anything changed since you presented that talk, or have your thoughts changed about the matter? As someone who is interested in systems research, what do you think is the most promising direction that is emerging today?
In Malaysia (a country where the XP lite crap edition is targeted), most small vendors have a pirated Windows preloaded anyway. Gartner would have us think in 'emerging markets', buying a computer with Linux installed is an excuse to pirate Windows, but the reality is nobody needs an excuse to do so... heck most PC's probably come with a pirated Windows preinstalled:).
Over here in Malaysia, if anyone were to buy a computer with Linux pre-installed, you can bet it's because they were interested in Linux and didn't want to install it themselves (possibly due to inexperience with such things).
I don't know why, but all these "analysis" things all seem to stem from the arrogant assumption that everyone wants to use Windows, and will do anything to get it.
After he created his story, he went back and changed the story around - making some changes that seem to have pissed off a couple of people here and there...
Big deal. Even Tolkien was also guilty of revisionist history. He changed the Gollum scene in "The Hobbit" after it was published to be better in line with the sequel (in the original, Gollum freely gives away the magic ring as a gift instead of having Bilbo run off with it to Gollum's dismay).
...if only computers (namely Macs) had this technology back in the 80's our favourite 23rd century engineering hero wouldn't have had so much trouble using one at the
plexiglass plant. "Hellooooo computer". Still cracks me up.
Back in the day when MacGyver got stuck in that "smart building" and got attacked by dalek robots, he had to devise all kinds of things to stop them... if he had this he could have done a Jeff Goldblum-esque "upload virus" from his Swiss Army knife and have the rampaging robots under his control!
With Java at least you can complile it just once, then ship multiple VMs , rather than having to adust your code and re-compile for every target platform.
Problem : You can't ship a VM if it does not exist for your particular arch + OS combination. There's no VM for Linux-Sparc, if I'm not mistaken.
Ok I messed up, it's not really a dupe per se, just Terry repeating himself (So perhaps that counts as a dupe? No?). But heck, I guess moderators don't RTFA either, so I welcome the karma:)
Batman & Robin has to be the absolute worst movie ever. Sure there are similarly campy, idiotic movies out there, but the amount of money wasted in making this horrible movie makes it a bigger insult.
Tim Burton's Batman movies were cool. Joel Schumacher just totally ruined the franchise. When I saw Batman whip out his "Bat Credit Card" in the middle of some crazy rave party with dancing gorillas, that was the moment when it was clear that Batman had clearly jumped the shark.
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...as if a million curious geeks suddenly pointed their browsers towards a webserver, which cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced.
I'm sorry Peter Jackson didn't film The Scouring of the Shire. It would have made a nice addition to the Extended DVD, even if it didn't "work" for a box-office feature. The Voice of Saruman, and Shelob's attack are both in The Two Towers, and personally I think Jackson should have filmed it that way, removing the unnecessary Arwen scenes to compensate. But that's just me.
Is this another one of GWB's evil plots to get another fake victory? I wouldn't want to release such code out in the open. It could be used for evil...evil!
Linux users can try out Nat Friedman's Beagle, which does something like what Google's desktop does. The Dashboard project uses it to find information pertinent to your current desktop task and displays it in a sidebar. Pretty neat. It's one of the C#/Mono projects that's available for Linux.
Did Netcraft confirm it?
*ducks*
The kid is as smart as his mother and twice as smart as me.
He just admitted that his wife is twice as smart as he is. She must read his column.
I've never tried SuSE Linux after it was acquired by Novell (who also owns Ximian). A lot of people have said SuSE is KDE-centric, but now that Novell has put a KDE team and a GNOME team under one roof, is the Linux desktop experience more "unified"? When Redhat tried to unify the desktops, there was a backlash of sorts... but I haven't heard from SuSE. How does the SuSE desktop feel, in both KDE and GNOME modes?
After reading your presentation on the death of systems research, I was rather disappointed at the dismal situation presented. Has anything changed since you presented that talk, or have your thoughts changed about the matter? As someone who is interested in systems research, what do you think is the most promising direction that is emerging today?
In Malaysia (a country where the XP lite crap edition is targeted), most small vendors have a pirated Windows preloaded anyway. Gartner would have us think in 'emerging markets', buying a computer with Linux installed is an excuse to pirate Windows, but the reality is nobody needs an excuse to do so... heck most PC's probably come with a pirated Windows preinstalled :).
Over here in Malaysia, if anyone were to buy a computer with Linux pre-installed, you can bet it's because they were interested in Linux and didn't want to install it themselves (possibly due to inexperience with such things).
I don't know why, but all these "analysis" things all seem to stem from the arrogant assumption that everyone wants to use Windows, and will do anything to get it.
I am reminded of a scene from Batman Returns when The Penguin says:
"Stop global warming. Start global cooling. Make the world a colder place!"
Maybe that's what's happening. The Penguin is taking over the world. Yay. We'll have Linux world domination yet!
Tinux!
After he created his story, he went back and changed the story around - making some changes that seem to have pissed off a couple of people here and there...
Big deal. Even Tolkien was also guilty of revisionist history. He changed the Gollum scene in "The Hobbit" after it was published to be better in line with the sequel (in the original, Gollum freely gives away the magic ring as a gift instead of having Bilbo run off with it to Gollum's dismay).
Are you still using Lotus 1-2-3, too?
With Windows 1.0! Where you can integrate your spreadsheet with MIAMI VICE!
Satirewire.com "interviewed" Jeeves a while back. The results are nothing short of hilarious.
It says "Niagra chip", not "Viagra chip".
...if only computers (namely Macs) had this technology back in the 80's our favourite 23rd century engineering hero wouldn't have had so much trouble using one at the plexiglass plant. "Hellooooo computer". Still cracks me up.
Back in the day when MacGyver got stuck in that "smart building" and got attacked by dalek robots, he had to devise all kinds of things to stop them... if he had this he could have done a Jeff Goldblum-esque "upload virus" from his Swiss Army knife and have the rampaging robots under his control!
bye bye new GUI
bye bye new API
Ah, the Longhorn version of American Pie. Come on, what's the next verse?
With Java at least you can complile it just once, then ship multiple VMs , rather than having to adust your code and re-compile for every target platform.
Problem : You can't ship a VM if it does not exist for your particular arch + OS combination. There's no VM for Linux-Sparc, if I'm not mistaken.
Ok I messed up, it's not really a dupe per se, just Terry repeating himself (So perhaps that counts as a dupe? No?). But heck, I guess moderators don't RTFA either, so I welcome the karma :)
Yeah, no wonder this post looked familiar. Yup, it's a dupe, folks.
What's with all the links to half-naked men? Dammit, Slashdot has gone all metrosexual these days.
Batman & Robin has to be the absolute worst movie ever. Sure there are similarly campy, idiotic movies out there, but the amount of money wasted in making this horrible movie makes it a bigger insult.
Tim Burton's Batman movies were cool. Joel Schumacher just totally ruined the franchise. When I saw Batman whip out his "Bat Credit Card" in the middle of some crazy rave party with dancing gorillas, that was the moment when it was clear that Batman had clearly jumped the shark.
I wish they'd update the Objective C bindings for Gnome instead. It'd be nice to use Obj C to create Gnome programs. It's a nice, clean OO language.
Why do they keep bolting more and more stuff on ? Isn't it big enough already ?
And some say Gnome doesn't have *enough* features. Man, you just can't win. Maybe it's just fashionable to bash Gnome.