Its funny to think about some of the points in the article. My favorite is that sound doesn't work and you need to use the cli for many tasks. My recent experience in upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 resulted in an inability to capture from my laptops microphone array. I tried to fix it from the cli and failed. I then, as a last resort, attempted to fix it using the advanced pulseaudio config panel and to my tremendous suprise, was successful. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that happening.
Wasn't that the point behind those liberation fonts that Red Hat put out a year or two ago that had the same metrics as Times New Roman and co. Shouldn't they paginate exactly the same?
OpenOffice Draw is kind of stunted, but it can do a minimal bit of shapes/connectors and such things. To be honest, I haven't every really tried to do more, but it might be interesting. I believe it is actually marketed as a Visio competitor.
If you can't measure it (or quantify it in some way) it didn't happen. So yes, while this in no way invalidates climate change models, I would consider it to substantially weaken them.
Thus, the answer is clearly shared memory or message passing handled by the kernel or a low level daemon. I'm pretty sure every OS supports this model in some fashion.
I took the implication was that the Queen was just another drone that was chosen to embody the collective consciousness. It made for some interesting dialog between Data and the Queen. But I think the the idea is that even though the Borg have a collective consciousness why would that uber-mind be cold and emotionless. Since its probably damn near impossible to portray the traditional disembodied group echo as having emotion I think the Queen was a reasonable plot vehicle as a "Borg Mouthpiece" much as Locutus was meant to be.
I got a kick out of Zephram Cochrane too. After all, if you literally are living in a post-apocalyptic world why wouldn't you be somewhat of a nihilist.
I won't mod you flamebait; I'll just be pedantic. glib is a component of the Gtk+ stack. glibc is the c library from the gnu project. Please try again...
I believe the eugenics wars serves as the explanation for why the Federation has never reached a singularity. Paranoid fear of modifying itself too much has prevented the singularity.
And what possible benefit would changing the XUL backend bring when there are already Qt or Gtk themes that immitate the other. Seems like a waste of time for little gain when most of the graphics action going on in firefox is going to be on the page.
Why? if its done properly, the bulk of gecko code will be shared between rendering processes. Everything else you would need a copy of anyway because it is page specific. And whatever passes for the actual process handle can't possibly be that big.
Ok? And what happens when you have multiple windows with interactive content that you want to access in tandem. Or just view one to provide input for another. Oh wait, you now have to switch focus back and forth instead of just arranging the windows on the screen.
It annoys me that flash and scripts are so obnoxious, but wouldn't it be easier to just close the offending tabs and then use the recently closed tabs list to reopen them?
All I can say is Chrome did a better job. I've found that opening new tabs is instantanous in Chrome, while it takes up to a second in IE 8. That sluggishness is my only complaint about IE 8.
Who says we need to generate the energy at all. How much solar radiation could a large vessel collect from inside of Mercury's orbit for an extended period of time. Who needs impressive generators when all you need is a giant capacitor. Then all you have to do is cross your fingers and hope you collected enough to do whatever it is you needed to do.
Right... its totally MS engineers job to go hunting around OOo's source code to find out how to implement an undocumented "But its the spirit of the standard" feature and then clean room reverse engineer it.
I feel like you've compared apples to oranges. Let us ponder how your scenario would play out given linux. Replacing 32-bit ubuntu with 64-bit kubuntu is basically like replacing 32-bit vista with 64-bit vista running one of those fancy shell replacements. Same thing under the hood. Granted, a few vista 64-bit drivers aren't quite there, but by now all the major vendors have gotten their game face on.
What would have actually transpired if you had attempted to do what you did with XP would be install some ancient version of Ubuntu, lets say 6.10 and then compiled a kernel recent enough to contain whatever driver it is that you are looking for, all the while hoping that you didn't just break some critical part of your system that sits on the kernel/usermode boundary. Take HAL or ALSA for instance.
You just demonstrated my point though. How old is the X1xxx series? I can't remember, but still, the latest ATI cards still aren't up to par yet. So, its worth shying away from them.
I believe there is another phenomenon at work that you didn't mention. In my experience, Linux users will shy away from the latest, most powerful hardware for the simple fact that it is less likely to work properly or be fully supported. Afterall, what point is there in gettign the absolute latest NVidia card with 512MB ram and however many bajillion stream processors they have these days when it isn't going to work particularly well. For years the message I always heard was "Go Intel, it'll mostly work." Intel can't run demanding games though.
However, my minimal economist theory says that profits approach zero in a capitalist system. There zero point is a lower price with lower taxes, therefore, prices have a lower floor.
Ok, let me rephrase. ODF is in 1.2 draft now. I think you may have missed my point is. My point was more that when they started working on ODF support (which I'm sure was quite a while ago since I recall MS claiming they would support ODF sometime in 2007), it made more sense to target 1.1 than 1.2.
It actually works well with other filetypes. My personal experience (loading odt files with equations in them). Works quite well. It even imports the equations into the shiney new formula editor in Office 2007, which, quite frankly, is worlds ahead of the one in OpenOffice.org
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Its funny to think about some of the points in the article. My favorite is that sound doesn't work and you need to use the cli for many tasks. My recent experience in upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 resulted in an inability to capture from my laptops microphone array. I tried to fix it from the cli and failed. I then, as a last resort, attempted to fix it using the advanced pulseaudio config panel and to my tremendous suprise, was successful. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that happening.
Wasn't that the point behind those liberation fonts that Red Hat put out a year or two ago that had the same metrics as Times New Roman and co. Shouldn't they paginate exactly the same?
OpenOffice Draw is kind of stunted, but it can do a minimal bit of shapes/connectors and such things. To be honest, I haven't every really tried to do more, but it might be interesting. I believe it is actually marketed as a Visio competitor.
It it warms further, wouldn't it dry out?
If you can't measure it (or quantify it in some way) it didn't happen. So yes, while this in no way invalidates climate change models, I would consider it to substantially weaken them.
Thus, the answer is clearly shared memory or message passing handled by the kernel or a low level daemon. I'm pretty sure every OS supports this model in some fashion.
I took the implication was that the Queen was just another drone that was chosen to embody the collective consciousness. It made for some interesting dialog between Data and the Queen. But I think the the idea is that even though the Borg have a collective consciousness why would that uber-mind be cold and emotionless. Since its probably damn near impossible to portray the traditional disembodied group echo as having emotion I think the Queen was a reasonable plot vehicle as a "Borg Mouthpiece" much as Locutus was meant to be.
I got a kick out of Zephram Cochrane too. After all, if you literally are living in a post-apocalyptic world why wouldn't you be somewhat of a nihilist.
I won't mod you flamebait; I'll just be pedantic. glib is a component of the Gtk+ stack. glibc is the c library from the gnu project. Please try again...
I believe the eugenics wars serves as the explanation for why the Federation has never reached a singularity. Paranoid fear of modifying itself too much has prevented the singularity.
I'm lost, but are you referring to the TOS book sequence that started with Wagon Train to the Stars?
And what possible benefit would changing the XUL backend bring when there are already Qt or Gtk themes that immitate the other. Seems like a waste of time for little gain when most of the graphics action going on in firefox is going to be on the page.
Why? if its done properly, the bulk of gecko code will be shared between rendering processes. Everything else you would need a copy of anyway because it is page specific. And whatever passes for the actual process handle can't possibly be that big.
Ok? And what happens when you have multiple windows with interactive content that you want to access in tandem. Or just view one to provide input for another. Oh wait, you now have to switch focus back and forth instead of just arranging the windows on the screen.
It annoys me that flash and scripts are so obnoxious, but wouldn't it be easier to just close the offending tabs and then use the recently closed tabs list to reopen them?
All I can say is Chrome did a better job. I've found that opening new tabs is instantanous in Chrome, while it takes up to a second in IE 8. That sluggishness is my only complaint about IE 8.
Who says we need to generate the energy at all. How much solar radiation could a large vessel collect from inside of Mercury's orbit for an extended period of time. Who needs impressive generators when all you need is a giant capacitor. Then all you have to do is cross your fingers and hope you collected enough to do whatever it is you needed to do.
Heisenberg compensators. Gosh!
Right... its totally MS engineers job to go hunting around OOo's source code to find out how to implement an undocumented "But its the spirit of the standard" feature and then clean room reverse engineer it.
I feel like you've compared apples to oranges. Let us ponder how your scenario would play out given linux. Replacing 32-bit ubuntu with 64-bit kubuntu is basically like replacing 32-bit vista with 64-bit vista running one of those fancy shell replacements. Same thing under the hood. Granted, a few vista 64-bit drivers aren't quite there, but by now all the major vendors have gotten their game face on.
What would have actually transpired if you had attempted to do what you did with XP would be install some ancient version of Ubuntu, lets say 6.10 and then compiled a kernel recent enough to contain whatever driver it is that you are looking for, all the while hoping that you didn't just break some critical part of your system that sits on the kernel/usermode boundary. Take HAL or ALSA for instance.
You just demonstrated my point though. How old is the X1xxx series? I can't remember, but still, the latest ATI cards still aren't up to par yet. So, its worth shying away from them.
I believe there is another phenomenon at work that you didn't mention. In my experience, Linux users will shy away from the latest, most powerful hardware for the simple fact that it is less likely to work properly or be fully supported. Afterall, what point is there in gettign the absolute latest NVidia card with 512MB ram and however many bajillion stream processors they have these days when it isn't going to work particularly well. For years the message I always heard was "Go Intel, it'll mostly work." Intel can't run demanding games though.
Mod ac informative please.
However, my minimal economist theory says that profits approach zero in a capitalist system. There zero point is a lower price with lower taxes, therefore, prices have a lower floor.
Ok, let me rephrase. ODF is in 1.2 draft now. I think you may have missed my point is. My point was more that when they started working on ODF support (which I'm sure was quite a while ago since I recall MS claiming they would support ODF sometime in 2007), it made more sense to target 1.1 than 1.2.
It actually works well with other filetypes. My personal experience (loading odt files with equations in them). Works quite well. It even imports the equations into the shiney new formula editor in Office 2007, which, quite frankly, is worlds ahead of the one in OpenOffice.org
But... But... That's what microsoft did with OOXML. How dare you compare us to the vagabonds!