SoundJam MP, developed by Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1999,[5] became the basis for iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000
I won't argue over Linux distros from 2001, but I will say that the slip-streaming process is very much analogous to installing the drivers after installing. You still need to find the correct drivers, you need to know how to make the slip-streamed install, etc, etc. Sure, it makes the install process itself simpler at the cost of extra overhead beforehand. You're just moving the work around.
The last time I installed XP on my laptop I had lost some, but not all, of the OEM-supplied driver disks, and it ended up taking me a total of about eighteen hours of solid graft to get it to work. Incidentally, I grew up on Windows, and have only really gotten into FOSS stuff in the last three or four years, and the last time I installed Ubuntu (which took about twenty minutes) it had already configured my screen to the right resolution, got the wi-fi and bluetooth working, got the frickin' bog standard ethernet adapter working, and suggested that I might want to download the right drivers for my GPU by clicking OK and typing my password.
This is dead on! I tried to put XP on a laptop I found at the dumpster. Even after tracking down the drivers from the vendors website the bloody thing still didn't work right.
Pop in a Linux Mint disk and just like that I have a functional system. Sure, it has a few quirks (which I can't tell if it is the hardware or the software) but it's totally usable.
...and I still have to look up which packages I need to install to listen to MP3s or watch DVDs.
Try Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/ it's an Ubuntu variant that comes with a bunch of the proprietary stuff vanilla Ubuntu doesn't come with out of the box. It's pretty slick.
I agree completely with your assessment of EVE. The newbie corps are a gold mine of information since many experienced players create alts to do Industry or whatever and stick around in the initial corps.
WoW definitely does not offer the same kind of help for new players. I dunno if being a dickhead is in the EULA or what but my experience with WoW is pretty similar to the GP's.
Why are such pathetic working condidtions tolerated?
'Cause Americans are Hard Workers goldurnit and only a Socialist would mandate minimum vacation time! If you don't like getting treated like shit at your current employer, roll the dice and see if you can't get treated slightly less shitty at the next one!
We're still shackled by the Puritans and their lunacy. Who knows when we'll finally cast off THAT baggage. And then it's socialism city baby!!! Yeeee-haw!
Quiet you fool! That's the mind control signal the Reptillians use to control the population. If they know that you know then they'll come after you for sure. Your best bet is to get some Orgone and put it all around your house and even wear some on you at all times. Pretty soon you'll start to see through the Reptillian disguises and know their true form. Watch out though, the Reptillians are nasty buggers and they'll mess you up good if you bring yourself to their attention.
If your goal is a bunch of grumpy developers, then by all means force your dev team to work solely on a bunch of shoddy Netbooks. Instead of using such limited machines for development, test the app throughly on limited hardware and use the data gained for tuning.
Silly boy. The Internet wouldn't "inter-operate" any better without Microsoft than it does now. See, the problem is that humans have trouble inter-operating with each other in the first place, so it stands to reason that their inventions probably won't inter-operate either.
If it weren't Microsoft's "proprietary digital glop" it'd be someone else's. Hell, even the FOSS digital glop doesn't always play nice. Humans are highly territorial, even in the digital realm. People naturally have different, and often mutually exclusive ways of thinking about, and tackling problems. Very bad for inter-operation.
But go right ahead and keep pulling for that inter-operating digital utopia. It'll happen just after the Year of Linux on the desktop.
The syntax is also closer to Ruby with respect to the "everything is an object" philosophy (numbers have callable methods, etc.)
Hmm? Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> t=1 >>> t.__add__(1) 2 >>> (1).__add__(1) 2
The only caveat I see here is that Python doesn't like it when you try to call methods from an integer literal.
Notepad? Seriously? I fully understand not liking stuff like VS, but notepad just seems a wee bit masochistic... Even VI would be an improvement over notepad! (I kid, I kid)
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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#History):
SoundJam MP, developed by Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1999,[5] became the basis for iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000
I won't argue over Linux distros from 2001, but I will say that the slip-streaming process is very much analogous to installing the drivers after installing. You still need to find the correct drivers, you need to know how to make the slip-streamed install, etc, etc. Sure, it makes the install process itself simpler at the cost of extra overhead beforehand. You're just moving the work around.
How dare you try to stop some good old fashioned hand-wringing with your dastardly logic! For shame.
The last time I installed XP on my laptop I had lost some, but not all, of the OEM-supplied driver disks, and it ended up taking me a total of about eighteen hours of solid graft to get it to work. Incidentally, I grew up on Windows, and have only really gotten into FOSS stuff in the last three or four years, and the last time I installed Ubuntu (which took about twenty minutes) it had already configured my screen to the right resolution, got the wi-fi and bluetooth working, got the frickin' bog standard ethernet adapter working, and suggested that I might want to download the right drivers for my GPU by clicking OK and typing my password.
This is dead on! I tried to put XP on a laptop I found at the dumpster. Even after tracking down the drivers from the vendors website the bloody thing still didn't work right.
Pop in a Linux Mint disk and just like that I have a functional system. Sure, it has a few quirks (which I can't tell if it is the hardware or the software) but it's totally usable.
...and I still have to look up which packages I need to install to listen to MP3s or watch DVDs.
Try Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/ it's an Ubuntu variant that comes with a bunch of the proprietary stuff vanilla Ubuntu doesn't come with out of the box. It's pretty slick.
I agree completely with your assessment of EVE. The newbie corps are a gold mine of information since many experienced players create alts to do Industry or whatever and stick around in the initial corps.
WoW definitely does not offer the same kind of help for new players. I dunno if being a dickhead is in the EULA or what but my experience with WoW is pretty similar to the GP's.
Why are such pathetic working condidtions tolerated?
'Cause Americans are Hard Workers goldurnit and only a Socialist would mandate minimum vacation time! If you don't like getting treated like shit at your current employer, roll the dice and see if you can't get treated slightly less shitty at the next one!
We're still shackled by the Puritans and their lunacy. Who knows when we'll finally cast off THAT baggage. And then it's socialism city baby!!! Yeeee-haw!
... slashdot ... it's running on messed-up failing software...
Quoted for truth.
However, there is not necessarily any correlation between Slashcode being terrible and the fact that it is open source.
Quiet you fool! That's the mind control signal the Reptillians use to control the population. If they know that you know then they'll come after you for sure. Your best bet is to get some Orgone and put it all around your house and even wear some on you at all times. Pretty soon you'll start to see through the Reptillian disguises and know their true form. Watch out though, the Reptillians are nasty buggers and they'll mess you up good if you bring yourself to their attention.
Good luck!
he does it all the tyme. its fucking weird.
Just Fucking Google It
Latin? For real? But... why?
Yes, but calling the beings that serve in congress "cretins" is really an unfair assault on those who hale from Crete.
Actually, we call people from Crete, Greeks.
If your goal is a bunch of grumpy developers, then by all means force your dev team to work solely on a bunch of shoddy Netbooks. Instead of using such limited machines for development, test the app throughly on limited hardware and use the data gained for tuning.
He forgot to credit MC Chris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhnw1gFuDA
The c# syntax is a real advantage over vb.net.
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[citation needed]
Your sig is apropos to your comment. Please enlighten us with the real advantages of C#'s syntax over VB.Net's. And no, familiarity doesn't count.
Silly boy. The Internet wouldn't "inter-operate" any better without Microsoft than it does now. See, the problem is that humans have trouble inter-operating with each other in the first place, so it stands to reason that their inventions probably won't inter-operate either.
If it weren't Microsoft's "proprietary digital glop" it'd be someone else's. Hell, even the FOSS digital glop doesn't always play nice. Humans are highly territorial, even in the digital realm. People naturally have different, and often mutually exclusive ways of thinking about, and tackling problems. Very bad for inter-operation.
But go right ahead and keep pulling for that inter-operating digital utopia. It'll happen just after the Year of Linux on the desktop.
You must be new here...
The syntax is also closer to Ruby with respect to the "everything is an object" philosophy (numbers have callable methods, etc.)
Hmm?
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> t=1
>>> t.__add__(1)
2
>>> (1).__add__(1)
2
The only caveat I see here is that Python doesn't like it when you try to call methods from an integer literal.
...there better not be any more interfaces like that around.
Don't be silly! The new ones run Vista. The PORV indicator light is a Sidebar widget now.
no
Hmm, Xenophobic Xanthareel has a nice ring to it...
I always knew you were crazy, but this is a whole new low.
Good job!
Notepad? Seriously? I fully understand not liking stuff like VS, but notepad just seems a wee bit masochistic...
Even VI would be an improvement over notepad! (I kid, I kid)
Hear hear!
That's why I enjoyed the new Star Wars movies. It was as if I could hear a million souls cry out in anguish. Delicious.
In all honesty, anyone who puts so much of their being into a movie deserves to have their whole world brought crumbling down by a terrible sequel.
Only because the right wing is already rotten!