Every MS Office / XP licence saved is more for weapons and ammunition! Taiwan can distribute an automatic rifle, 3 grenades and a 1000 rounds of ammunition with every copy of OpenOffice and Linux.
Strip malls also generally require driving to, but they are not arranged in any logical or sensible fashion. You might find a pharmacy sharing a lot with a mattress centre, a grocery store next to another grocery store and so on. You might have to drive miles to do everything you need.
Europe has the right idea and centralises stuff and you can walk from store to store. At least that way you save the driving between stores and there is better public transportation too since it is the place everyone wants to get to.
The US will never be free of oil until it starts to design cities and towns with decent public transportation, cycle lanes and pedestrian paths and crossings. Or while cities and towns are allowed to sprawl with miles upon mile of strip malls with no centralised shopping areas or business districts as such. Or while motor companies continue to sell "lifestyle" SUVs which have horrendous mileage. Or while its citizens have a fat ass drive everywhere mentality. Or while you elect a president who continues to promote oil for the benefit of his own pocket and his oil buddies.
I believe this is the ultimate goal of the studios - the transmit pictures in real time along fibre optic cable / satellite to the movie houses. I don't see cinemas going for this and I don't see where this bandwidth is going to come from.
More realistically, I expect movies to be downloaded from dvd/cable/satellite and cached on some uber server installed at the cinema. This server can then be programmed to dump out the movie to one or more projectors at the appropriate times through a local network.
With so many 10+ screen cinemas cropping up, this sort of arrangement is inevitable, even though digital projection still sucks. Give it a few more years and hopefully the resolution will be enough that it will become acceptable.
I presume that someone with the inclination and the source code could build a smaller version if they wanted. It is just no one has bothered. Perhaps it could be you who tries?
As for EMACS, I've used it in the past, but to me it is the epitome of over-engineered bloat. If you just want to edit stuff you're better off going for something like Jed or MicroEMACS that do the same in a fraction of the space.
What do you mean "use the Aqua interface"? It certainly uses Aqua to render the appearance of the buttons via the theme engine (assuming they've specified to render with the native style), and the behaviour is pretty similar too. I doubt many people would be able to tell a "native" app from Mozilla.
Netscape 7.0 is Mozilla 1.0.0 after going through another round of testing. So it should be more stable and offers AIM/ICQ support and integration into Netscape.com. It probably offers a few extra enterprise level facilities such as customisation via the CCK but I don't know what else.
Take your pick of Mozilla or Netscape, but at the end of the day, stability and support is more important for some people. Netscape also has built-in AIM/ICQ clients and a few other extras (e.g. spellchecker).
5. MS don't have to keep lowering the Xbox price. In fact, a major sales channel that Sony and Nintendo don't have is the cable companies. Expect to see the Xbox offered as a rental item, for about $15 per month along with Xbox Live subscription and stripped-down broadband Internet Connectivity (i.e. Xbox only).
I wouldn't be so sure. Disney and Time Warner would be more than happy to hop into bed with Nintendo or Sony if it were financially worthwhile. There have been repeated murmurings of Sony/AOL tie-ins (i.e. AOL provides an ISP service that works on the PS/2), and Disney & Nintendo sounds like a nice, wholesome match too.
Thus armed, both Nintendo & Sony would be in a just as good a position to compete as Microsoft - in some ways more so, because AOL has decent parental controls and the bandwidth to deliver a service and much more content besides, and Disney because it has it's own wholesome image which ties in nicely with Nintendo's and also has its own titles and content to tie-in.
No, it was a big bloated monster in its default configuration (either by building or installing from Red Hat). I tried both.
I didn't have to do anything to make it so. I had to do a lot to make it conform - disabling some of the memory overhead and turning off the windows - but it took a lot of wading through config files to get it into an acceptable state and even then it poked its nose up every now and again. It was a like a game of whack-a-mole. Sawmill behaved properly right out of the box.
It was also a big bloated download, constituting about 10mb of stuff to grab compared to about 1mb (at the time) for Sawmill. Even nowadays, Sawfish is only a 3 or so megs of download.
I wouldn't have called Enlightenment a desktop shell (E16) at the time that GNOME was being released - it was a big bloaty WM with some kewl fx and a few other bits of half functional crap bolted on the side that were hard to remove or get working right under GNOME. It was certainly no replacement for GNOME and never seemed to like running as just a WM under GNOME even it could have.
So therefore it's not hard to guess the cause of Red Hat / Raster split - Red Hat wanted a functioning, lightweight WM to put behind GNOME so it could sell it to businesses and normal users while Raster wanted to work on his kewl fx and ignore these basic fundamental requirements. It's no surprise that E was dumped.
I was extremely thankful when Sawfish turned up - it was about 1/10th the size and did exactly what it was supposed to.
I dumped Enlightenment in favour of Sawmill (as it was known then), simply because E was a big bloated monster that wanted to own the desktop whereas Sawfish knew its place - to be a window manager and nothing more. It was not hard to see why Red Hat dropped it - they needed a WM, not an entire desktop and the kitchen sink.
Frankly me and probably 99% of other GNOME users don't give a crap what WM they're running as long as it doesn't get in the way of GNOME. It should be as unobtrusive as possible and limit its features to window-manager-y things.
I suppose E would be a good fit if you didn't want to run GNOME, or could put up with the bloat, or wanted to run kewl gigeresque desktops with metal knobs and shit, but for the rest of who just want to run some GNOME apps, then Sawmill is a perfectly usable and functional WM.
Ultimately I'd like to NOT KNOW what WM I'm running. I don't really care that much as long as it moves windows around and is reasonably skinnable. If Metacity is a move in that direction then that fine by me. The sooner I don't need to know what WM is running the better.
I use it when I'm on the road. It might be perceived as a crappy client, but the fact is its wonderful for road warriors. AOL has dial up connections just about anywhere in the world and once you're logged in, you can minimize AOL and run with any browser you like.
I just saw it (a free ticket) and I'm very, very glad I didn't wait in line like some sad bastards did.
The ending is good but most of the rest is just too much much inane dialogue and generally dull to be taken seriously. So far Lucas has produced two "prequels", neither of which compare well with the first three.
I'd give it 6 or 7 out of ten. The ending saved it - just.
I like the installer, but the rest is cobbled together and extremely poorly integrated, off the top of my head problems I encountered in 8.2 include:
Badly integrated config tools. Why can't they appear in the GNOME/KDE control panel?
A terrible "new user" wizard. It's indescribably awful.
Menus filled with too much stuff, (3 IRC clients, 2 floppy disk formatters etc.)
Badly positioned icons in the default desktop.
A control centre icon on the desktop that launches a different app from the control centre item in the menu.
Confusing help system - multiple icons in different places.
Inconsistency in behaviour of config tools compared to KDE/GNOME - OK/Cancel button order different, different icons & other inconsistencies.
DrakConf information panels which ask you "Do you want to apply the changes?" when they have nothing to change.
So Mandrake is a mess from a UI standpoint. But once you get over that it's a lot of fun. I can't help but feel that their terrible UI isn't doing them any favours though.
Mandrake always feels like Red Hat + 1. It's more cutting edge and has more packages. This makes it more "fun" IMHO, thought there is obviously a trade off to be made with stability. Mandrake are pretty good with updates so releases tend to get very stable over time.
I don't think I'd trust it for serious server stuff but it works great on the desktop and I've been running it as a firewall/proxy on an antique PC for several years with not a single problem. The installer is also very nice.
With that said, someone should go into their offices and beat some sense into them regarding usability. The UI is hopelessly inconsistent and some of the tools are downright crap and/or confusing. Mandrake 8.2 is by far the worst "new user" experience of recent releases.
I seriously think Linux could have a better, more consistent and friendly UI than either XP or OS X but distro makes seem to be doing their damndest to put new users off with their slapdash, cobbled together efforts.
That might stop the crap going to wrong address in the first place, but the story demonstrates that even if you did voluntarily opt-in, you'd find it very hard to opt out.
Besides, if I wanted to get someone spammed I would just stick their email addresses in a few usenet posts, webpages etc. and it would soon get noticed.
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Every MS Office / XP licence saved is more for weapons and ammunition! Taiwan can distribute an automatic rifle, 3 grenades and a 1000 rounds of ammunition with every copy of OpenOffice and Linux.
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Europe has the right idea and centralises stuff and you can walk from store to store. At least that way you save the driving between stores and there is better public transportation too since it is the place everyone wants to get to.
The US will never be free of oil until it starts to design cities and towns with decent public transportation, cycle lanes and pedestrian paths and crossings. Or while cities and towns are allowed to sprawl with miles upon mile of strip malls with no centralised shopping areas or business districts as such. Or while motor companies continue to sell "lifestyle" SUVs which have horrendous mileage. Or while its citizens have a fat ass drive everywhere mentality. Or while you elect a president who continues to promote oil for the benefit of his own pocket and his oil buddies.
Hmm, I wonder which distribution these four will standardize on.
More realistically, I expect movies to be downloaded from dvd/cable/satellite and cached on some uber server installed at the cinema. This server can then be programmed to dump out the movie to one or more projectors at the appropriate times through a local network.
With so many 10+ screen cinemas cropping up, this sort of arrangement is inevitable, even though digital projection still sucks. Give it a few more years and hopefully the resolution will be enough that it will become acceptable.
As for EMACS, I've used it in the past, but to me it is the epitome of over-engineered bloat. If you just want to edit stuff you're better off going for something like Jed or MicroEMACS that do the same in a fraction of the space.
Well bully for you. Perhaps you should be reading LinuxToday as well as Slashdot if you want to read when kernels are released.
If you want a decent, compact editor you should try something like Jed - an EMACS clone but about 1/10th the size.
I can't say I find it any more bloated than running IE and Outlook for instance.
What do you mean "use the Aqua interface"? It certainly uses Aqua to render the appearance of the buttons via the theme engine (assuming they've specified to render with the native style), and the behaviour is pretty similar too. I doubt many people would be able to tell a "native" app from Mozilla.
Netscape 7.0 is Mozilla 1.0.0 after going through another round of testing. So it should be more stable and offers AIM/ICQ support and integration into Netscape.com. It probably offers a few extra enterprise level facilities such as customisation via the CCK but I don't know what else.
Take your pick of Mozilla or Netscape, but at the end of the day, stability and support is more important for some people. Netscape also has built-in AIM/ICQ clients and a few other extras (e.g. spellchecker).
I wouldn't be so sure. Disney and Time Warner would be more than happy to hop into bed with Nintendo or Sony if it were financially worthwhile. There have been repeated murmurings of Sony/AOL tie-ins (i.e. AOL provides an ISP service that works on the PS/2), and Disney & Nintendo sounds like a nice, wholesome match too.
Thus armed, both Nintendo & Sony would be in a just as good a position to compete as Microsoft - in some ways more so, because AOL has decent parental controls and the bandwidth to deliver a service and much more content besides, and Disney because it has it's own wholesome image which ties in nicely with Nintendo's and also has its own titles and content to tie-in.
I didn't have to do anything to make it so. I had to do a lot to make it conform - disabling some of the memory overhead and turning off the windows - but it took a lot of wading through config files to get it into an acceptable state and even then it poked its nose up every now and again. It was a like a game of whack-a-mole. Sawmill behaved properly right out of the box.
It was also a big bloated download, constituting about 10mb of stuff to grab compared to about 1mb (at the time) for Sawmill. Even nowadays, Sawfish is only a 3 or so megs of download.
So therefore it's not hard to guess the cause of Red Hat / Raster split - Red Hat wanted a functioning, lightweight WM to put behind GNOME so it could sell it to businesses and normal users while Raster wanted to work on his kewl fx and ignore these basic fundamental requirements. It's no surprise that E was dumped.
I was extremely thankful when Sawfish turned up - it was about 1/10th the size and did exactly what it was supposed to.
For good measure also uncheck "Change status bar text", "Move or resize existing windows" and "Open unrequested windows".
Jesus saves, but Metacity scores off the rebound.
Frankly me and probably 99% of other GNOME users don't give a crap what WM they're running as long as it doesn't get in the way of GNOME. It should be as unobtrusive as possible and limit its features to window-manager-y things.
I suppose E would be a good fit if you didn't want to run GNOME, or could put up with the bloat, or wanted to run kewl gigeresque desktops with metal knobs and shit, but for the rest of who just want to run some GNOME apps, then Sawmill is a perfectly usable and functional WM.
Ultimately I'd like to NOT KNOW what WM I'm running. I don't really care that much as long as it moves windows around and is reasonably skinnable. If Metacity is a move in that direction then that fine by me. The sooner I don't need to know what WM is running the better.
I use it when I'm on the road. It might be perceived as a crappy client, but the fact is its wonderful for road warriors. AOL has dial up connections just about anywhere in the world and once you're logged in, you can minimize AOL and run with any browser you like.
The ending is good but most of the rest is just too much much inane dialogue and generally dull to be taken seriously. So far Lucas has produced two "prequels", neither of which compare well with the first three.
I'd give it 6 or 7 out of ten. The ending saved it - just.
I like the installer, but the rest is cobbled together and extremely poorly integrated, off the top of my head problems I encountered in 8.2 include:
So Mandrake is a mess from a UI standpoint. But once you get over that it's a lot of fun. I can't help but feel that their terrible UI isn't doing them any favours though.
I don't think I'd trust it for serious server stuff but it works great on the desktop and I've been running it as a firewall/proxy on an antique PC for several years with not a single problem. The installer is also very nice.
With that said, someone should go into their offices and beat some sense into them regarding usability. The UI is hopelessly inconsistent and some of the tools are downright crap and/or confusing. Mandrake 8.2 is by far the worst "new user" experience of recent releases.
I seriously think Linux could have a better, more consistent and friendly UI than either XP or OS X but distro makes seem to be doing their damndest to put new users off with their slapdash, cobbled together efforts.
The one place RH probably beats Mandrake is in polish, in the UI and the packages but it's still a major sacrifice.
Besides, if I wanted to get someone spammed I would just stick their email addresses in a few usenet posts, webpages etc. and it would soon get noticed.