you dont need a mac. you need tools to do your job a SUN or Intel box can do as well as any MAC and are used every day.
The Macintosh interface has subtle features that make things more efficient. For example, to access the menu bar on an interface patterned after that of the Mac OS (mac or kde2), I can just flick the mouse upward; the top of the screen keeps my mouse pointer in the menu bar. To access the menu bar on pretty much everything else (windows, gnome, irix, cde, etc.) where the menu falls inside the window, I have to aim for a tiny portion of the screen; aiming in two dimensions instead of one slows me down about 500 milliseconds per menu access, which adds up rapidly over a work day.
Possible problem: are there any browsers that cannot request the ad image while the main content page is stalled?
Yes. Browsers that use curses or a speech interface instead of an X11, GDI, or Quartz interface generally do not download inline images. Even graphical browsers that don't support GIF (patent reasons) or SWF (because Macromedia hasn't ported flash to the platform) don't display some types of ads.
My oh-so-beautiful T22's LCD is at a wonderful 1400x1050, 14.1". The biggest problem is getting nice wallpaper for it
Get wallpaper for any size display up to 1280x1024.
Rescale it in GIMP, GIMP for Windows platform, or any other paint program so that width == 700 and height changes proportionally. Because you're creating a half-size bitmap, the wallpaper will lose a little detail, but that just makes your icons stand out more.
If you started with 1280x1024 wallpaper, you now have a 700x560 picture. Crop off the top 35 pixels.
Convert to 256 colors using optimal palette and the best dither settings. (A 256-color wallpaper takes less space in RAM.)
Save it in c:\windows or wherever your OS keeps its wallpaper.
In Windows, right-click the desktop and choose Properties; it should put you on the wallpaper tab. In any other desktop environment, find the analogous control panel. Choose your new wallpaper, tell the system to scale it to the full screen, and click OK.
The reason they ask theme makers to take down Aqua clones is very simple: they cannot play favorites. If they don't vigorously defened their rights and brand image, they lose them.
Under the Lanham Act and Dilution Act, a trademark owner also has the option of settling by just licensing the trademark to the defendant, without any ill effect on the trademark's strength.
who profitted most from the wtc bombings? Gary Condit?
Last time we had both a sex scandal and a war at the same time (i.e. lewinsky + kosovo), Congress managed to slip two bad laws onto the books: the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This time, disney and the rest of MPAA are shooting for getting the pro-obsecurity SSSCA passed. To make it look less like an IP bill, MPAA has added anti-cracking riders.
The buttons in the Aqua theme look like Dr. Mario vitamin pills. Is Apple infringing nintendo's look and feel now?
Actually, the "Vitamins" game in the freepuzzlearena package infringes both nintendo's patent 5,265,888 on the game of Dr. Mario (although non-infringing gameplay is also available, and the infringing gameplay can be compiled out) and Apple's trademark on clickable buttons that look like vitamin pills (the default theme; create others with the Allegro Grabber).
About 1/3 of the way into the shouted part, you wrote:
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
Shouldn't that be "THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS"?
Lameness filter disclaimer: I know that the netiquette standards consider all capital letters to be lame, but the law requires disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability to be "prominent," and the easiest way to do this in plain text is to write them in all caps.
Nobody's holding a gun to their head, saying that they can't create an alternate distribution scheme.
Nobody's holding a firearm to their head, but the labels are saying "All the major labels have essentially the same oppressive contract. All the major labels own the companies that give FM radio its playlists. If you don't sign our contract, you won't get any FM airplay, hardly anybody will know about you, hardly anybody will buy your CDs, and hardly anybody will go to your concerts." Now doesn't that have the same effect as holding a gun to an artist's head?
Philips and sony have a case for trademark infrigement against any company that displays the logo on an incompatible product
I am not a lawyer, but this case looks like infringement on a trademark or certification mark, given that the copy protection may insert more errors on a single disc than the Red Book allows.
unfortunately philips and sony also own the major record companies.
Not anymore. Sony still owns Columbia Records, but Philips sold its copyright-industry holdings to Polygram.
Out of the three computers at home that I use the most (iBook w/internal DVD drive, iMac w/internal CD-ROM, and Dell w/internal CD-R/RW), only one (the Dell) has an analog connection from the CD drive to the sound card... the other two use digital extraction, and thus can't play these CD's.
To better support real-time digital audio extraction, CD-ROM drives often do more powerful error correction when running at the rotation speeds that the Red Book suggests (i.e. 1x). However, if the copyright industry has any say, future CD-ROM drives may support digital audio extraction with error correction only in an encrypted mode that protects the pocketbooks of the publishers.
That's like saying that all Linux does is run programs!
Which would be correct. Linux is a kernel; a kernel's job is to run programs.
Well, but Direct3D is a tad ahead at the moment.
Just a tad, and DirectX Graphics's superiority is in areas that require hardware that most consumers (early adopters excluded) do not yet own. Even so, I hope Microsoft is enjoying its fleeting precious moments of superiority because they will end very soon.
But if infinately weaker than DirectInput
Or "GLUT is infinitely weaker than DirectInput." Could you elaborate?
But does it do MIDI like DirectMusic?
The sound quality of the General MIDI support on most consumer-grade sound cards sucks, and General MIDI has never been good for many genres of electronic music. Point me to a.mid file doing a good impression of a tb-303 to convince me otherwise. Why else did Unreal Tournament use S3M, XM, and IT tracked music instead of MIDI, and most newer games like q3a use streaming MP3 or ogg anyway?
Then what about protocol-independant multiplayer (DirectPlay)
The sockets API is also protocol independent and can support any protocol for which your sockets implementation (such as BSDsock or Winsock2) has a backend.
and multimedia (DirectShow)?
Why can't you use the game engine (built on d3d+dsound or opengl+openal) to do cut scenes, as Metal Gear Solid and Zelda 64 do? Or do you have some other reason for wanting to play movies?
[Allegro, SDL, and ClanLib] can do the same with DirectX, but because of all of DirectX's features, you don't need extra libs
All three libraries have DirectX backends, but they also have backends for operating systems not controlled by Single Point of Failure Corp.
if I was conducting a Jihad, I wouldn't trust the internet either.
Jihad is not terrorism. In fact, the Qur'an prohibitsterrorism against innocent civilians. Islam is a religion of peace, and jihad does not refer to a "holy war" but merely "struggle... such as an internal struggle to follow Islam, a struggle against oppression, or a struggle for peace" (source:).
In any case, except for the nefarious use by criminals, or a few people having fun, there's no reason to use steganography very much. The hope is not to be detected when you do use it.
True, most stego falls into security through obscurity, and few systems have fit the design specs for a good stegosystem:
Difficult to detect that a message (hereinafter a "Watermark") exists in a signal without a key (possibly public key for sdmi; secret key for terrorist applications)
Difficult to remove the Watermark without unacceptably affecting the signal or using a second key (secret key for sdmi; not that important for terrorist apps)
SDMI's four stegosystems failed because it was too easy to remove the watermark from the signal.
Most people clueful enough to use apache wouldn't waste it on such a crappy OS.
On my Dell box that came with Windows ME, to which my school has assigned a semistatic IP address with DHCP, I use Apache HTTP Server for Windows to share files that are too big to send to the average user's e-mail inbox because it's the best free static file server that users can access by clicking on a URL in an e-mail, and it also handles my personal home page without the annoying porn/gambling popups and file size limits that most free hosting providers impose.
By now, you probably asked "why don't you use BSD or Linux?" Easy. The last time I tried Linux, the kernel had trouble talking to my 3COM network card. (Granted, this was to be expected of Red Hat 7 with a 2.4.1 kernel.) I haven't had much available time since then (e.g. to install a more recent Red Hat distro) because over summer vacation, I couldn't make much use of Linux anyway because my computer came with a winmodem, and I don't exactly have the $$$ right now to shell out for a computer designed to run GNU/Linux as its primary operating system.
If you're dissatisfied with the Game Boy Advance... Why did you buy one?
Because nintendo has a 95-year monopoly on games produced by Miyamoto's team, Rare, etc., and exclusive contracts with some publishers. By the time the games fall into the public domain, not only will the lifetime of the system have expired, but so will 99+ percent of the players.
Even ignoring the game design issue and assuming clones like Blizzard's Dia-blow and some freeware game are as good as Zelda(tm), the other portable systems available in stores located in the United States of America (Palm, WinCE, etc.) have input devices that don't work for games and must be tethered to a $1000 PC that 13-year-olds can't afford with paper route income and that their parents think is THE DEVIL!
but from experience with playing gbc games on my AMD k6-2 400 at home, and P3 500 at work, the speed of the emu is comparable to that of the hardware. [strong added by yerricde]
You're comparing the Game Boy Color to the Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Color is about as complex as the old Nintendo Entertainment System to emulate, and LoopyNES (the most accurate NES emulator, available from Zophar.net's NES collection) runs at full speed on a P100.
However, Super NES is about three or four times more complex as NES, and GBA is nearly twice as complex as Super NES, with two layers of Mode 7 and affine transformation (i.e. rotation/scaling) on every single sprite, but with two dumb but easy DMA channels for sound instead of a pain-in-the-ass SPC700 processor.
MS may *say* they own 95% of the server market, but they are *lying*.
They may very well be correct. Economists define "market share" along the lines of "fraction of the total amount of money spent by consumers in return for products," excluding software available for no charge such as AOLserver and Apache HTTP Server. Microsoft's IIS is the most popular HTTP (etc.) server software that's not at least free as in beer, and it may very well have over 90 percent of that market.
The author of the post, and the person who posted the story, clearly wanted to make a comparison between OpenGL and ALL of DirectX, which as as mentioned before, is ludicrous because of all the stuff OpenGL is lacking.
DirectX does only three things: graphics, sound, and input. OpenGL handles graphics, GLUT handles input, and OpenAL can do sound. Other multimedia programming libraries include Allegro, SDL, and ClanLib, all of which can coexist peacefully with OpenGL graphics.
F-Zero, a game that uses the 'mode 7' function, and as i understand it, you had two layers of mode 7, the 'city' below you, and the track itself
Those were the same layer. Start your VCR, crash, and then play the tape back in slow motion; it should be obvious that the entire track + ground is one layer.
not to mention the scrolling background
Two layers of scrolling sky plus the status bar was actually a mode 1 strip. Super NES could change from mode 1 (three scrolling layers) to mode 7 (scaling and rotation) or back on any scanline.
more or less static sprite of your 'car'
That was a plain old sprite. The shadow under your car was actually an oval window that dimmed the palette, while the shadows under other cars were black sprites that flickered at half the display refresh rate.
Sorry for the Fortran; Slashcode strips > and escapes & producing >.
The GBA is supposedly equal to SNES power.
No. Super NES had a 2.8/3.6 MHz 65816 processor (essentially a 65c02 with 16-bit registers, 8-bit data bus, little pipelining) connected to the graphics chip and a 2 MHz SPC700 processor (incompatible variant of 6502 core with some instructions able to treat registers X and Y as a single 16-bit integer) connected to the sound chip. The two CPUs were connected through four slow 8-bit ports; most of the "loading" on Super NES games was actually copying 64 KB worth of sound data from the 65C816 side (which could see the cart) to the SPC700 (which could see only its 64 KB of RAM and its 64-byte BIOS).
GBA, on the other hand, has a 16.8 MHz ARM processor (32-bit registers, 32-bit bus to internal RAM, 16-bit external data bus, no hardware divide, lots of pipelining, C-friendly) connected to both the sound and graphics chips, making it much easier to code for. Its graphics chip also features hardware matrix transformation of sprite coordinates (allowing for 2D scaling and rotation of sprites) as well as four layers of straight background (vs. Super NES's 3) or two layers of "mode 7" 2 1/2-D transformation (vs. Super NES's 1), and a linear bitmap mode (allowing for easier porting of Wolf3d or Doom engines).
Really, why would you need this to be portable? You already have Gameboy, laptops, PDAs- what is PS1 going to give you that you need so badly?
Squaresoft games, especially fighting games such as Tobal and Ehrgeiz. After the Mana 3 and Mario RPG debacles, nintendo and Square refuse to talk to each other. This portable PlayStation console is an attempt to break nintendo's portable monopoly.
And where are you going to take it? In the car- power adapter.
As if. The average family car doesn't have enough juice to power both a TV and a PS1 console. (No, I'm not talking the WB edition SUVs and vans with an integrated TV either.)
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you dont need a mac. you need tools to do your job a SUN or Intel box can do as well as any MAC and are used every day.
The Macintosh interface has subtle features that make things more efficient. For example, to access the menu bar on an interface patterned after that of the Mac OS (mac or kde2), I can just flick the mouse upward; the top of the screen keeps my mouse pointer in the menu bar. To access the menu bar on pretty much everything else (windows, gnome, irix, cde, etc.) where the menu falls inside the window, I have to aim for a tiny portion of the screen; aiming in two dimensions instead of one slows me down about 500 milliseconds per menu access, which adds up rapidly over a work day.
Possible problem: are there any browsers that cannot request the ad image while the main content page is stalled?
Yes. Browsers that use curses or a speech interface instead of an X11, GDI, or Quartz interface generally do not download inline images. Even graphical browsers that don't support GIF (patent reasons) or SWF (because Macromedia hasn't ported flash to the platform) don't display some types of ads.
My oh-so-beautiful T22's LCD is at a wonderful 1400x1050, 14.1". The biggest problem is getting nice wallpaper for it
The reason they ask theme makers to take down Aqua clones is very simple: they cannot play favorites. If they don't vigorously defened their rights and brand image, they lose them.
Under the Lanham Act and Dilution Act, a trademark owner also has the option of settling by just licensing the trademark to the defendant, without any ill effect on the trademark's strength.
who profitted most from the wtc bombings? Gary Condit?
Last time we had both a sex scandal and a war at the same time (i.e. lewinsky + kosovo), Congress managed to slip two bad laws onto the books: the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This time, disney and the rest of MPAA are shooting for getting the pro-obsecurity SSSCA passed. To make it look less like an IP bill, MPAA has added anti-cracking riders.
The buttons in the Aqua theme look like Dr. Mario vitamin pills. Is Apple infringing nintendo's look and feel now?
Actually, the "Vitamins" game in the freepuzzlearena package infringes both nintendo's patent 5,265,888 on the game of Dr. Mario (although non-infringing gameplay is also available, and the infringing gameplay can be compiled out) and Apple's trademark on clickable buttons that look like vitamin pills (the default theme; create others with the Allegro Grabber).
On Windows, you just need binaries, themepaks, source, and this DLL. On *N?X systems, you can recompile it from the source archive; it requires the Allegro library.
Have fun stepping on the toes of big corporations!About 1/3 of the way into the shouted part, you wrote:
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
Shouldn't that be "THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS"?
Lameness filter disclaimer: I know that the netiquette standards consider all capital letters to be lame, but the law requires disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability to be "prominent," and the easiest way to do this in plain text is to write them in all caps.
Nobody's holding a gun to their head, saying that they can't create an alternate distribution scheme.
Nobody's holding a firearm to their head, but the labels are saying "All the major labels have essentially the same oppressive contract. All the major labels own the companies that give FM radio its playlists. If you don't sign our contract, you won't get any FM airplay, hardly anybody will know about you, hardly anybody will buy your CDs, and hardly anybody will go to your concerts." Now doesn't that have the same effect as holding a gun to an artist's head?
Philips and sony have a case for trademark infrigement against any company that displays the logo on an incompatible product
I am not a lawyer, but this case looks like infringement on a trademark or certification mark, given that the copy protection may insert more errors on a single disc than the Red Book allows.
unfortunately philips and sony also own the major record companies.
Not anymore. Sony still owns Columbia Records, but Philips sold its copyright-industry holdings to Polygram.
Out of the three computers at home that I use the most (iBook w/internal DVD drive, iMac w/internal CD-ROM, and Dell w/internal CD-R/RW), only one (the Dell) has an analog connection from the CD drive to the sound card... the other two use digital extraction, and thus can't play these CD's.
To better support real-time digital audio extraction, CD-ROM drives often do more powerful error correction when running at the rotation speeds that the Red Book suggests (i.e. 1x). However, if the copyright industry has any say, future CD-ROM drives may support digital audio extraction with error correction only in an encrypted mode that protects the pocketbooks of the publishers.
Does anyone outside of Microsoft actually use passport for authentication?
All these companies use Passport as one of their authentication methods.
That's like saying that all Linux does is run programs!
Which would be correct. Linux is a kernel; a kernel's job is to run programs.
Well, but Direct3D is a tad ahead at the moment.
Just a tad, and DirectX Graphics's superiority is in areas that require hardware that most consumers (early adopters excluded) do not yet own. Even so, I hope Microsoft is enjoying its fleeting precious moments of superiority because they will end very soon.
But if infinately weaker than DirectInput
Or "GLUT is infinitely weaker than DirectInput." Could you elaborate?
But does it do MIDI like DirectMusic?
The sound quality of the General MIDI support on most consumer-grade sound cards sucks, and General MIDI has never been good for many genres of electronic music. Point me to a .mid file doing a good impression of a tb-303 to convince me otherwise. Why else did Unreal Tournament use S3M, XM, and IT tracked music instead of MIDI, and most newer games like q3a use streaming MP3 or ogg anyway?
Then what about protocol-independant multiplayer (DirectPlay)
The sockets API is also protocol independent and can support any protocol for which your sockets implementation (such as BSDsock or Winsock2) has a backend.
and multimedia (DirectShow)?
Why can't you use the game engine (built on d3d+dsound or opengl+openal) to do cut scenes, as Metal Gear Solid and Zelda 64 do? Or do you have some other reason for wanting to play movies?
[Allegro, SDL, and ClanLib] can do the same with DirectX, but because of all of DirectX's features, you don't need extra libs
All three libraries have DirectX backends, but they also have backends for operating systems not controlled by Single Point of Failure Corp.
if I was conducting a Jihad, I wouldn't trust the internet either.
Jihad is not terrorism. In fact, the Qur'an prohibits terrorism against innocent civilians. Islam is a religion of peace, and jihad does not refer to a "holy war" but merely "struggle ... such as an internal struggle to follow Islam, a struggle against oppression, or a struggle for peace" (source:).
In any case, except for the nefarious use by criminals, or a few people having fun, there's no reason to use steganography very much. The hope is not to be detected when you do use it.
True, most stego falls into security through obscurity, and few systems have fit the design specs for a good stegosystem:
- Difficult to detect that a message (hereinafter a "Watermark") exists in a signal without a key (possibly public key for sdmi; secret key for terrorist applications)
- Difficult to remove the Watermark without unacceptably affecting the signal or using a second key (secret key for sdmi; not that important for terrorist apps)
SDMI's four stegosystems failed because it was too easy to remove the watermark from the signal.Most people clueful enough to use apache wouldn't waste it on such a crappy OS.
On my Dell box that came with Windows ME, to which my school has assigned a semistatic IP address with DHCP, I use Apache HTTP Server for Windows to share files that are too big to send to the average user's e-mail inbox because it's the best free static file server that users can access by clicking on a URL in an e-mail, and it also handles my personal home page without the annoying porn/gambling popups and file size limits that most free hosting providers impose.
By now, you probably asked "why don't you use BSD or Linux?" Easy. The last time I tried Linux, the kernel had trouble talking to my 3COM network card. (Granted, this was to be expected of Red Hat 7 with a 2.4.1 kernel.) I haven't had much available time since then (e.g. to install a more recent Red Hat distro) because over summer vacation, I couldn't make much use of Linux anyway because my computer came with a winmodem, and I don't exactly have the $$$ right now to shell out for a computer designed to run GNU/Linux as its primary operating system.
If you're dissatisfied with the Game Boy Advance... Why did you buy one?
Because nintendo has a 95-year monopoly on games produced by Miyamoto's team, Rare, etc., and exclusive contracts with some publishers. By the time the games fall into the public domain, not only will the lifetime of the system have expired, but so will 99+ percent of the players.
Even ignoring the game design issue and assuming clones like Blizzard's Dia-blow and some freeware game are as good as Zelda(tm), the other portable systems available in stores located in the United States of America (Palm, WinCE, etc.) have input devices that don't work for games and must be tethered to a $1000 PC that 13-year-olds can't afford with paper route income and that their parents think is THE DEVIL!
but from experience with playing gbc games on my AMD k6-2 400 at home, and P3 500 at work, the speed of the emu is comparable to that of the hardware. [strong added by yerricde]
You're comparing the Game Boy Color to the Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Color is about as complex as the old Nintendo Entertainment System to emulate, and LoopyNES (the most accurate NES emulator, available from Zophar.net's NES collection) runs at full speed on a P100. However, Super NES is about three or four times more complex as NES, and GBA is nearly twice as complex as Super NES, with two layers of Mode 7 and affine transformation (i.e. rotation/scaling) on every single sprite, but with two dumb but easy DMA channels for sound instead of a pain-in-the-ass SPC700 processor.
Here's a comparison of GBA hardware to that of the Super NES:
Read the rest of this comment...
MS may *say* they own 95% of the server market, but they are *lying*.
They may very well be correct. Economists define "market share" along the lines of "fraction of the total amount of money spent by consumers in return for products," excluding software available for no charge such as AOLserver and Apache HTTP Server. Microsoft's IIS is the most popular HTTP (etc.) server software that's not at least free as in beer, and it may very well have over 90 percent of that market.
The author of the post, and the person who posted the story, clearly wanted to make a comparison between OpenGL and ALL of DirectX, which as as mentioned before, is ludicrous because of all the stuff OpenGL is lacking.
DirectX does only three things: graphics, sound, and input. OpenGL handles graphics, GLUT handles input, and OpenAL can do sound. Other multimedia programming libraries include Allegro, SDL, and ClanLib, all of which can coexist peacefully with OpenGL graphics.
LimeWire is a swing app, not an AWT app.
That's like saying "foo is an MFC app, not a Win32 app." JFC (also called Swing) is a layer around AWT and some other classes.
F-Zero, a game that uses the 'mode 7' function, and as i understand it, you had two layers of mode 7, the 'city' below you, and the track itself
Those were the same layer. Start your VCR, crash, and then play the tape back in slow motion; it should be obvious that the entire track + ground is one layer.
not to mention the scrolling background
Two layers of scrolling sky plus the status bar was actually a mode 1 strip. Super NES could change from mode 1 (three scrolling layers) to mode 7 (scaling and rotation) or back on any scanline.
more or less static sprite of your 'car'
That was a plain old sprite. The shadow under your car was actually an oval window that dimmed the palette, while the shadows under other cars were black sprites that flickered at half the display refresh rate.
but what good is the hardware if you can't see the graphics
You mean you don't have the combo light and screen cover? One of those is pretty handy when you drop a CD-ROM drive on your GBA.
The GBA is supposedly equal to SNES power.
No. Super NES had a 2.8/3.6 MHz 65816 processor (essentially a 65c02 with 16-bit registers, 8-bit data bus, little pipelining) connected to the graphics chip and a 2 MHz SPC700 processor (incompatible variant of 6502 core with some instructions able to treat registers X and Y as a single 16-bit integer) connected to the sound chip. The two CPUs were connected through four slow 8-bit ports; most of the "loading" on Super NES games was actually copying 64 KB worth of sound data from the 65C816 side (which could see the cart) to the SPC700 (which could see only its 64 KB of RAM and its 64-byte BIOS).
GBA, on the other hand, has a 16.8 MHz ARM processor (32-bit registers, 32-bit bus to internal RAM, 16-bit external data bus, no hardware divide, lots of pipelining, C-friendly) connected to both the sound and graphics chips, making it much easier to code for. Its graphics chip also features hardware matrix transformation of sprite coordinates (allowing for 2D scaling and rotation of sprites) as well as four layers of straight background (vs. Super NES's 3) or two layers of "mode 7" 2 1/2-D transformation (vs. Super NES's 1), and a linear bitmap mode (allowing for easier porting of Wolf3d or Doom engines).
Really, why would you need this to be portable? You already have Gameboy, laptops, PDAs- what is PS1 going to give you that you need so badly?
Squaresoft games, especially fighting games such as Tobal and Ehrgeiz. After the Mana 3 and Mario RPG debacles, nintendo and Square refuse to talk to each other. This portable PlayStation console is an attempt to break nintendo's portable monopoly.
And where are you going to take it? In the car- power adapter.
As if. The average family car doesn't have enough juice to power both a TV and a PS1 console. (No, I'm not talking the WB edition SUVs and vans with an integrated TV either.)
ReiserFS is still beta software.
"Beta" != low quality. Much of the "beta" stuff in Linux performs better than the equivalent things in the Windows 9x kernel. ReiserFS vs. FAT32?
My Windows 2000 and XP machines run great on this hardware.
Do you run them 24/7, or do you shut them down after surfing for two hours?
Sun using certain tools doesn't make those tools good.
On the contrary, Sun sponsoring the tools' website helps fund improving the tools.
See this for an example [of childish messages]. You'll get the point.
Sorry, but I don't. I couldn't find "child"ish or "juv"enile or "imma"ture or anything similar in the article you mentioned. Could you please explain?