I was a huge fan of the show, but as far as I can see, it has run it's course.
Personally, I think it ran it's course when they moved to L.A. To me, nothing says X-files like gloomy, dreary, rainy Vancouver. It was the perfect environment for the show.
What do you defrag it with? That I know of, almost nobody defrags ext2 filesystems because the little gain in doing so is just not worth the time to defrag. (ntfs, on the other hand... I defragged at work after almost a whole year, holy crap what a difference).
The stuck up, snobby attitude that *most* Linux fanatics have
And what's with your Windows fanatic attitude?
Those of us who use Linux like the fact that we have access to the source code. Most of us realize that 99% of Windows users don't care about it. Its a much enjoyed feature for us, and we wouldn't be able to give it up. Why can't you respect that?
Here's a good pro-hydro propaganda "flash" presentation, courtesy of Hydro-Quebec.
As you can see, the majority of Canada's electricity is generated by hydro-electricity. Near the end they show the prevailing winds in North America. You can clearly see that the air in the U.S. mid-west get blown into eastern Canada, including Toronto.
Right now Europe, Japan and large US cities are getting to a point where there is a need for them, and hence the support for the kyoto accord, while countries like Canada and Austrialia and the less densely populated regions of the US are against it*.
Canada endorsed the kyoto protocol once credits were put in for forests, which Canada happens to have a lot of (and this help clean our air). In terms of energy production, the vast majority of Canada's electricity is actually produced by hydro-electric damns, which produce no greenhouse gases.
Most of our greenhouse gases come from transportation (duh, the country is huge). This contrasts with the US (and probably the rest of the world) were most of their greenhouse gases is from electricity generation (coal, gas, etc). And if you're a regular slashdot reader then you're well aware of the shortage of electricity in the US, that's probably their main reason for objecting to the Kyoto protocol.
A lot of the pollution in Canada (especially eastern Canada) actually comes from the US, so many Canadians are upset that the US did not sign the protocol.
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But rather alternatives to PDF
actually he does ask "what PDF-creating applications, especially Open Source ones, have people had either successes (to emulate) or failures (to avoid)?"
How about good, old-fashioned HTML+images?
The problem with html is that it doesn't look the same from one platform to the next. Pdf and postscript both accomplish this. You can print out a pdf datasheet and it'll look exactly like what the author intended.
BTW. Linux is not innovative, it always seems to be one step behind MS
One step behind? It's the other way buddy. Windows is finally catching up in the gui area. Linux had a themable Gui (AND MUCH NICER LOOKING THAN UGLY WINDOWS GUI!), tear-away menus, user bindable quick keys (just highlight something in the menu, then do an unused key-combo), translucent window moving, etc, etc, all way before windows.
Deeper down, Ipv6, virtual hosting (apache), kernel level firewalling, loadable kernel modules (this allows you to install/re-load new drivers without rebooting), beowulf custering, SAMBA (yes, samba is a better, much more flexible, implementation of window's own filesharing system), support over for 30 filesystems from a variety of different OS (windows support what, 3?), Bad ram patch, support for dozens of processors, etc, etc
These are just but a few of the many areas windows is playing catch-up in (or will continue to lack).
barely any driver support,
This is complete uter FUD. Despite having almost ZERO support from hardware manufacturers, linux supports a great deal of hardware. I have yet to own any piece computer harware which didn't have a linux driver, including the much talked about winmodem (a lucent) in my laptop. If there's a device lacking a driver, generally, one should not blame linux, but rather the hardware manufacturer for not being willing to release info.
Much to my joy, I am finally getting a nice Unix worksation at work:-). The time spent on NT will not be missed. All the best of luck to those who have to endure the pain that is windows on a daily basis.
(btw, why the fuck can't windows handle open files properly, if I move an open file, the OS should be able to figure it out, instead I get "sharing violation something", what's up with that? )
Thankfully, the obsession that all companies must embrace the internet is comming to an end.
Why not ignore the internet and try to improve in the parcel businness area (which sucks for non-business customers)? Until transporters become a household item, snail-mail will still have it's place for transporting tangible items.
My question is why would you put a web server on your Toaster or Refridgerator anyways
So you can remotely control them through a web browser. And no proprietary-one-OS-only programs to install. (ok, toaster and fridge arer far fetched, but for a VCR-like device this is a must have).
i think theres an economic thing called 'supply and demand' not sure though.
Well, IANAE (I am not an economist), but there's two other important variables you convieniently left out: Government spending and taxes (and well also interest rates and currency value). Through control of these variables, the government can help the economy get out of recessions or cool it to prevent inflation.
With the fear of an upcoming economic downturn here in Canada, the government's increase in spending is a good thing.
It may have the same socket (Socket370) as the good old Coppermine, but it requires a different I/O-voltage and thus a different chipset.
This is a big thing with 0.13um, the I/O voltage is moving from 3.3V (TTL compatible) to 2.5V (well, some fabs are still offering 3.3V I/Os, but it's a large jump for the level shifters to go from 1.2 to 3.3). Jedec has created a new standard for 2.5V I/Os which is not compatible with older TTL levels. This seems to indicate this new P3 is a 0.13um version.Too bad the article didn't mention the I/O voltage.
On the other hand the 1.5V core mentioned in the article seems a bit high, they may done a quick port without re-sizing the transistors to take advantage of the low-k dielectric and copper interconnects (yay, a True coppermine).
This philosophy is useless under a Windows environment in which the standard shell is functionally broken by UNIX standards (no pipes, for example).
Ah, but that's were the Windows philosophy comes into play: "Install 3rd party tools".
In this case Cygwin/Xfree86 would fit the bill. You'll get a standard unix shell (Bash), an xterm,
and all your favorite handy gnu tools (cat, grep, less, gcc, gzip, etc).
If they win, it sets a precedent that it is ok to reverse engineer algorithms to acheive interoperability with other vendors software... think of Samba, for instance, and what it would mean to them.
Wrong! You don't need to reverse-engineer patents, you just RTFT (read the fucking patent!). The compromise to getting a patent is that the applicant must disclose details of his/her invention.
Anyone know if this release will finally have the render extension for mach64 based ATI cards? I heard it was in cvs but never had the time or energy to grab and compile it. Also support for hardware cursors would make me a very happy too (SimCity3k is quite brutal without it, and the game's software cursors are too sluggish)
So? Most programs such as Netscape or StarOffice are simply unusuable over 10 Mbit ethernet. Network transparency just doesn't cut it except in the case of very simple programs such as terminals and emacs.
It really depends on the toolkit being used. I believe Staroffice and Netscape both use a custom toolkit which are crap. Toolkits such as GTK or QT work much better. I've used very complex Gui programs (from my University days, Opnet comes to mind, something that I couln't dream to afford for my home machine) remotely over the Internet (1Mbit DSL or cable modem) and have gotten acceptable results.
And don't get me started on the horrendous non-standardised GUI. Every application has its own icons and so on.
This is a total non-issue, since when is providing a choice to developers a problem? Since when is competion bad? Linux is Freedom, unlike some other Oses there's no dictators here telling people what there GUIs must look like.
X Networking is *by far* the most useful feature of X. At the company I work for (a chip maker), 90% of the employees absolutely need that feature. If XFree86 was to be drop from Linux, Linux would never make it here (mostly Suns and HPs now).
Just because you don't "get it", doesn't mean it's not a vital feature for some of us.
And as for the eye candy, most linux desktops are way nicer looking than the average ugly and boring windows9x desktops.With the release of XP, Microsoft is only now starting to catch up in that regard.
Interesting. In many countries, the kkk would have been in violation of hate laws, but 2600 would have violated no law. In the US, with DCMA and no hate laws, it's 2600 who are doing something out of "bad faith". Go figure.
They'll go after you for having badly translated sign/manuals/website/etc. (bablefish translations are usually hardly legible). They'll usually give you a warning before hand, but that's not the point.
That's a huge exageration. The difference between Quebec French and France French is like the difference between North American English and British English. Different accents, different expressions, a few alternate spellings, and few alternate words (especially slang); that's perty much it. Do the British accuse us of not speaking English? (Maybe they do:)
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Personally, I think it ran it's course when they moved to L.A. To me, nothing says X-files like gloomy, dreary, rainy Vancouver. It was the perfect environment for the show.
What do you defrag it with? That I know of, almost nobody defrags ext2 filesystems because the little gain in doing so is just not worth the time to defrag. (ntfs, on the other hand... I defragged at work after almost a whole year, holy crap what a difference).
And what's with your Windows fanatic attitude?
Those of us who use Linux like the fact that we have access to the source code. Most of us realize that 99% of Windows users don't care about it. Its a much enjoyed feature for us, and we wouldn't be able to give it up. Why can't you respect that?
As you can see, the majority of Canada's electricity is generated by hydro-electricity. Near the end they show the prevailing winds in North America. You can clearly see that the air in the U.S. mid-west get blown into eastern Canada, including Toronto.
Canada endorsed the kyoto protocol once credits were put in for forests, which Canada happens to have a lot of (and this help clean our air). In terms of energy production, the vast majority of Canada's electricity is actually produced by hydro-electric damns, which produce no greenhouse gases.
Most of our greenhouse gases come from transportation (duh, the country is huge). This contrasts with the US (and probably the rest of the world) were most of their greenhouse gases is from electricity generation (coal, gas, etc). And if you're a regular slashdot reader then you're well aware of the shortage of electricity in the US, that's probably their main reason for objecting to the Kyoto protocol.
A lot of the pollution in Canada (especially eastern Canada) actually comes from the US, so many Canadians are upset that the US did not sign the protocol.
oops, my bad, I must have had a case of temporary italic-blindness or something :->
actually he does ask "what PDF-creating applications, especially Open Source ones, have people had either successes (to emulate) or failures (to avoid)?"
How about good, old-fashioned HTML+images?
The problem with html is that it doesn't look the same from one platform to the next. Pdf and postscript both accomplish this. You can print out a pdf datasheet and it'll look exactly like what the author intended.
One step behind? It's the other way buddy. Windows is finally catching up in the gui area. Linux had a themable Gui (AND MUCH NICER LOOKING THAN UGLY WINDOWS GUI!), tear-away menus, user bindable quick keys (just highlight something in the menu, then do an unused key-combo), translucent window moving, etc, etc, all way before windows.
Deeper down, Ipv6, virtual hosting (apache), kernel level firewalling, loadable kernel modules (this allows you to install/re-load new drivers without rebooting), beowulf custering, SAMBA (yes, samba is a better, much more flexible, implementation of window's own filesharing system), support over for 30 filesystems from a variety of different OS (windows support what, 3?), Bad ram patch, support for dozens of processors, etc, etc
These are just but a few of the many areas windows is playing catch-up in (or will continue to lack).
barely any driver support,
This is complete uter FUD. Despite having almost ZERO support from hardware manufacturers, linux supports a great deal of hardware. I have yet to own any piece computer harware which didn't have a linux driver, including the much talked about winmodem (a lucent) in my laptop. If there's a device lacking a driver, generally, one should not blame linux, but rather the hardware manufacturer for not being willing to release info.
Much to my joy, I am finally getting a nice Unix worksation at work :-). The time spent on NT will not be missed. All the best of luck to those who have to endure the pain that is windows on a daily basis.
(btw, why the fuck can't windows handle open files properly, if I move an open file, the OS should be able to figure it out, instead I get "sharing violation something", what's up with that? )
He's a Lawyer? :-)
Thankfully, the obsession that all companies must embrace the internet is comming to an end. Why not ignore the internet and try to improve in the parcel businness area (which sucks for non-business customers)? Until transporters become a household item, snail-mail will still have it's place for transporting tangible items.
Uh, Moore's 'law' states that the number of transistor per given area doubles every 18 months, it says nothing about "MHz".
Quake III is the only truly fair real world benchmark
Quake3 is more of test of the video card then the CPU's, you'd have to use software rendering to give a fair comparision.
So you can remotely control them through a web browser. And no proprietary-one-OS-only programs to install. (ok, toaster and fridge arer far fetched, but for a VCR-like device this is a must have).
Well, IANAE (I am not an economist), but there's two other important variables you convieniently left out: Government spending and taxes (and well also interest rates and currency value). Through control of these variables, the government can help the economy get out of recessions or cool it to prevent inflation.
With the fear of an upcoming economic downturn here in Canada, the government's increase in spending is a good thing.
It may have the same socket (Socket370) as the good old Coppermine, but it requires a different I/O-voltage and thus a different chipset.
This is a big thing with 0.13um, the I/O voltage is moving from 3.3V (TTL compatible) to 2.5V (well, some fabs are still offering 3.3V I/Os, but it's a large jump for the level shifters to go from 1.2 to 3.3). Jedec has created a new standard for 2.5V I/Os which is not compatible with older TTL levels. This seems to indicate this new P3 is a 0.13um version.Too bad the article didn't mention the I/O voltage.
On the other hand the 1.5V core mentioned in the article seems a bit high, they may done a quick port without re-sizing the transistors to take advantage of the low-k dielectric and copper interconnects (yay, a True coppermine).
oh, and hardware cursors are in too! Simcity3k is now quite playable :-)
Yep it's in 4.1, AA fonts look nice under kde.
Ah, but that's were the Windows philosophy comes into play: "Install 3rd party tools".
In this case Cygwin/Xfree86 would fit the bill. You'll get a standard unix shell (Bash), an xterm, and all your favorite handy gnu tools (cat, grep, less, gcc, gzip, etc).
A couple of Speakers and mics, and you could have a cheap wireless network!(though, the noise may drive you a little nuts).
Wrong! You don't need to reverse-engineer patents, you just RTFT (read the fucking patent!). The compromise to getting a patent is that the applicant must disclose details of his/her invention.
Anyone know if this release will finally have the render extension for mach64 based ATI cards? I heard it was in cvs but never had the time or energy to grab and compile it. Also support for hardware cursors would make me a very happy too (SimCity3k is quite brutal without it, and the game's software cursors are too sluggish)
It really depends on the toolkit being used. I believe Staroffice and Netscape both use a custom toolkit which are crap. Toolkits such as GTK or QT work much better. I've used very complex Gui programs (from my University days, Opnet comes to mind, something that I couln't dream to afford for my home machine) remotely over the Internet (1Mbit DSL or cable modem) and have gotten acceptable results.
And don't get me started on the horrendous non-standardised GUI. Every application has its own icons and so on.
This is a total non-issue, since when is providing a choice to developers a problem? Since when is competion bad? Linux is Freedom, unlike some other Oses there's no dictators here telling people what there GUIs must look like.
Just because you don't "get it", doesn't mean it's not a vital feature for some of us.
And as for the eye candy, most linux desktops are way nicer looking than the average ugly and boring windows9x desktops.With the release of XP, Microsoft is only now starting to catch up in that regard.
Interesting. In many countries, the kkk would have been in violation of hate laws, but 2600 would have violated no law. In the US, with DCMA and no hate laws, it's 2600 who are doing something out of "bad faith". Go figure.
They'll go after you for having badly translated sign/manuals/website/etc. (bablefish translations are usually hardly legible). They'll usually give you a warning before hand, but that's not the point.
That's a huge exageration. The difference between Quebec French and France French is like the difference between North American English and British English. Different accents, different expressions, a few alternate spellings, and few alternate words (especially slang); that's perty much it. Do the British accuse us of not speaking English? (Maybe they do :)