Windows 7 appears to be more usable than Vista, but has been found to have the same performance for speed and memory. I assume Microsoft will try to squeeze more performance out of it before release, but I also assume (because they haven't done so already) that they haven't a lot of room to move.
Seconded. We use Wine at work for that one little piece of Windows software. Rather than run another two boxes running Windows just for this one thing, we run them under Wine on CentOS with lots of other stuff.
Anyone who says "Wine isn't enterprise-ready" is simply factually wrong.
For that one little bit of crapware keeping you on Windows, I strongly suggest at least giving it a try in Wine. If it works, WIN! If it doesn't work, report it as a Wine bug and try again in three months.
For a lotta old stuff, Wine is a better Windows than Vista. Its problems are with (a) anything using.NET 2 or later (b) some stuff compiled with the very latest VC++ release.
But XP is not a moving target and will remain relevant for quite some time. Wine is getting there slowly and steadily.
"Really, we're not out to destroy Apple; that will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Dialing from the command line will be the killer feature. Just type dial voice +1-555-1212 -ntwk verizon -prot cdma2000 -ssh-version 2 -a -l -q -9 -b -k -K 14 -x and away you go. Simple and intuitive!
The "trilogy" was just a convenient way of grouping the original short stories and novellas into book form. It's a string of several individual stories. Getting that into movie form will be the interesting bit.
Remember also: the book Foundation is really based on is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bet the scriptwriter won't read that either.
Wonder what they'll do with the encyclopedia bit. "We will go to the far-off planet of Terminus to write Citizendium." "Dude, the Galactic Empire's Wikipedia is soooo much better."
"Standards wars, patent monopolies and the like would seriously interfere with the widespread adoption of any 3D image standard," says Panasonic's Masayuki Kozuka. "So give us your bloody money and don't argue."
The systems will require new players, introduced at $500, and new high-definition televisions. Existing high-definition televisions will be rendered obsolete by the proposal, much as the pre-Blu-Ray "HD-ready" sets were. "Another few thousand is a small price to pay for the very latest in gadgetry. If we dub it 'the third generation of HD,' it should distract the early adopters long enough from lynching us. We'll tell 'em Apple's interested or something."
To keep the "analog hole" closed, viewing will require an orange jumpsuit, handcuffs and sensory deprivation goggles with the displays in the eyepieces. "Any Vista user should be quite accustomed to this."
Blu-Ray discs make up a fantastic 4% of the physical video market, as compared to those old, clunky and frankly rather stale-smelling DVDs which only make up 96% of sales and can't be taken seriously by anyone.
In unrelated news, BitTorrent is now 40% of all Internet traffic, only exceeded by penis spam, while YouTube plays better on 64-bit Linux than Windows Vista.
I'm a happy eMusic customer... I really wish they'd sell lossless. I'd pay more too. (Say, twice as much - lossless files are typically a bit over twice the size of 320kbps MP3.)
For classical, I'm surprised they didn't actually offer lossless copies. Classical fans are the sort of people who can hear the difference. Or like to think they can, anyway.
The other reason to stay with Zen is that of our work team of six, three of us are on Be, one on Zen (me), one on Virgin and one on Pipex. We need more variety for utter reliability on call;-)
(Mind you, if I got company broadband it'd probably be BT. Been there, done that, changed IPs every eight hours, used OpenDNS 'cos BT Openwound can't even run a DNS server competently. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
From all I hear, Be really is Just That Good. They're owned by O2, though, which gives me pause - as noted above, a strong plus point for Zen is that they're still geek-owned and run. I used to be with Eclipse, who were brilliant when they were geek-run and were then bought by Kingston and rapidly turned to complete shit.
Bulldog is about the only broadband company in Britain who could have been improved by being bought by Tiscali. Now that they're not criminally overselling services they literally couldn't provision.
I pay about £5/mo over the going rate for Zen.co.uk, because they're still geek-run and Very Good Indeed. They also superlatively BS'ed British Telecom to get my DSL connected faster than usual at my new house, and that's the sort of service I'm willing to pay for!
I have Sky as well - I looked at the "free" Sky broadband, and to get the equivalent of my Zen connection would be £5/mo less. It's entirely worth it for competent service.
But Virgin offers a new sixteen megabit DSL service! That's sixteen megabits total, of course.
I'm just picturing Virgin's 'thinking.' "We've heard that you can use things called 'computers' to send messages and even pictures. That'd be a good service to offer! We have this bloke in facilities who knows a bit about computers, we could get him to run it between refilling the coffee machines. If we tried, we could probably make it as reliable as our telly. Nobody really minds when the football drops out ten minutes before the end, do they."
Virgin: "We've Never Done It Before, And We Don't Really Know How To."
A physical CD plus case and booklet is under a dollar to press in quantity, so the physical disc isn't actually a huge part of the price tag anyway.
I so wish they'd get more into the Long Tail. Imagine record companies reissing their back catalogues as FLAC or Apple Lossless. They could sell them for a couple of bucks under the CD price and market it to record nerds who want obscurities it's infeasible to distribute physically.
It's like they still don't understand they're not competing with paid downloads, they're competing with free.
(and, being a laptop, the ethernet and wireless chipsets were completely nonstandard)
See, this is why a laptop with Intel everything is good. Because they take their open-source OS support seriously. Keith Packard and Eric Anholt working on the driver team.
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It's not a piracy issue, e.g. BBC iPlayer which works peer-to-peer, is entirely legal and is clogging the tubes in the UK.
I think of Windows antivirus and I think of this picture. "Ur doin it rong."
In my experience, KDE 3 works enough like Windows that you can just shove a Windows user in front of it and they'll use it just fine.
Windows 7 appears to be more usable than Vista, but has been found to have the same performance for speed and memory. I assume Microsoft will try to squeeze more performance out of it before release, but I also assume (because they haven't done so already) that they haven't a lot of room to move.
Seconded. We use Wine at work for that one little piece of Windows software. Rather than run another two boxes running Windows just for this one thing, we run them under Wine on CentOS with lots of other stuff.
Anyone who says "Wine isn't enterprise-ready" is simply factually wrong.
For that one little bit of crapware keeping you on Windows, I strongly suggest at least giving it a try in Wine. If it works, WIN! If it doesn't work, report it as a Wine bug and try again in three months.
For a lotta old stuff, Wine is a better Windows than Vista. Its problems are with (a) anything using .NET 2 or later (b) some stuff compiled with the very latest VC++ release.
But XP is not a moving target and will remain relevant for quite some time. Wine is getting there slowly and steadily.
So, per the link, version 2 will be written in Emacs on the HURD kernel and be operated by eLisp macros written on the fly.
Who the heck modded this flamebait? First para is precisely correct.
It's the GNUphone come to life!
"Really, we're not out to destroy Apple; that will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Dialing from the command line will be the killer feature. Just type dial voice +1-555-1212 -ntwk verizon -prot cdma2000 -ssh-version 2 -a -l -q -9 -b -k -K 14 -x and away you go. Simple and intuitive!
"I would rather have a solid card with a binary blob"
And one day, Nvidia will actually provide a blob that's actually solid. I expect Nouveau to outdo it first, though.
No, that's Ubuntu 10.10.
The "trilogy" was just a convenient way of grouping the original short stories and novellas into book form. It's a string of several individual stories. Getting that into movie form will be the interesting bit.
Remember also: the book Foundation is really based on is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bet the scriptwriter won't read that either.
Wonder what they'll do with the encyclopedia bit. "We will go to the far-off planet of Terminus to write Citizendium." "Dude, the Galactic Empire's Wikipedia is soooo much better."
No-one buying discs? That's OK - Panasonic is pushing 3D Blu-Ray.
"Standards wars, patent monopolies and the like would seriously interfere with the widespread adoption of any 3D image standard," says Panasonic's Masayuki Kozuka. "So give us your bloody money and don't argue."
The systems will require new players, introduced at $500, and new high-definition televisions. Existing high-definition televisions will be rendered obsolete by the proposal, much as the pre-Blu-Ray "HD-ready" sets were. "Another few thousand is a small price to pay for the very latest in gadgetry. If we dub it 'the third generation of HD,' it should distract the early adopters long enough from lynching us. We'll tell 'em Apple's interested or something."
To keep the "analog hole" closed, viewing will require an orange jumpsuit, handcuffs and sensory deprivation goggles with the displays in the eyepieces. "Any Vista user should be quite accustomed to this."
Blu-Ray discs make up a fantastic 4% of the physical video market, as compared to those old, clunky and frankly rather stale-smelling DVDs which only make up 96% of sales and can't be taken seriously by anyone.
In unrelated news, BitTorrent is now 40% of all Internet traffic, only exceeded by penis spam, while YouTube plays better on 64-bit Linux than Windows Vista.
I must admit I stole that line from the graphic on the Uncyclopedia article ;-)
I'm a happy eMusic customer ... I really wish they'd sell lossless. I'd pay more too. (Say, twice as much - lossless files are typically a bit over twice the size of 320kbps MP3.)
Good one!
For classical, I'm surprised they didn't actually offer lossless copies. Classical fans are the sort of people who can hear the difference. Or like to think they can, anyway.
The other reason to stay with Zen is that of our work team of six, three of us are on Be, one on Zen (me), one on Virgin and one on Pipex. We need more variety for utter reliability on call ;-)
(Mind you, if I got company broadband it'd probably be BT. Been there, done that, changed IPs every eight hours, used OpenDNS 'cos BT Openwound can't even run a DNS server competently. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
From all I hear, Be really is Just That Good. They're owned by O2, though, which gives me pause - as noted above, a strong plus point for Zen is that they're still geek-owned and run. I used to be with Eclipse, who were brilliant when they were geek-run and were then bought by Kingston and rapidly turned to complete shit.
Bulldog is about the only broadband company in Britain who could have been improved by being bought by Tiscali. Now that they're not criminally overselling services they literally couldn't provision.
I pay about £5/mo over the going rate for Zen.co.uk, because they're still geek-run and Very Good Indeed. They also superlatively BS'ed British Telecom to get my DSL connected faster than usual at my new house, and that's the sort of service I'm willing to pay for!
I have Sky as well - I looked at the "free" Sky broadband, and to get the equivalent of my Zen connection would be £5/mo less. It's entirely worth it for competent service.
But Virgin offers a new sixteen megabit DSL service! That's sixteen megabits total, of course.
I'm just picturing Virgin's 'thinking.' "We've heard that you can use things called 'computers' to send messages and even pictures. That'd be a good service to offer! We have this bloke in facilities who knows a bit about computers, we could get him to run it between refilling the coffee machines. If we tried, we could probably make it as reliable as our telly. Nobody really minds when the football drops out ten minutes before the end, do they."
Virgin: "We've Never Done It Before, And We Don't Really Know How To."
A physical CD plus case and booklet is under a dollar to press in quantity, so the physical disc isn't actually a huge part of the price tag anyway.
I so wish they'd get more into the Long Tail. Imagine record companies reissing their back catalogues as FLAC or Apple Lossless. They could sell them for a couple of bucks under the CD price and market it to record nerds who want obscurities it's infeasible to distribute physically.
It's like they still don't understand they're not competing with paid downloads, they're competing with free.
My God, this is incredible! This could be worse than terrorists sending messages via Twitter or encoding them in child porn.
Google is clearly a TERRORIST WEAPON and an ENEMY OF THE FREE WORLD. Next we'll find out they're probably part of the Icelandic terrorist financial conspiracy.
So everyone should use Windows Live Search instead. No-one ever got fired for buying Microsoft. Probably.
(and, being a laptop, the ethernet and wireless chipsets were completely nonstandard)
See, this is why a laptop with Intel everything is good. Because they take their open-source OS support seriously. Keith Packard and Eric Anholt working on the driver team.
See, that Home Basic requirements list looks a lot like what you want to run XP well. Or KDE or GNOME well.