Of course our cost of living ain't squat compared to yours...
Certain geek stereotypes have some basis in reality. One in particular keeps my cost-of-living pretty low...
Plus it is really pretty here, with all the houses looking straight out of "Gone with the Wind", with lots of swimming holes and nature trails. The apartment complex I live in is actually one of the newer ones (1925) and used to house Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis when they were on the chitlin circuit.
Our main claim to fame is as one of two gateways to the Giant Forest.
This is exactly why I switched from Linux back to Vista...I'm not a programmer...my attempts to pretty up just my desktop experience didn't produce anything I could continue with.
Eh. Some of us non-programmers can't stand form without function. I would always revert Windows desktops to the Win2k theme (though I would leave the Start menu alone) and turn off all sorts of little visual effects that I've never noticed.
For better or worse, compiz wobbly windows probably drove more users to Linux than, say, the superior workflow paradigm of multiple workspaces.
Multiple workspaces has got to be the feature that puts FOSS desktops above Winodws' in my mind (and then there's the cli...). Trying to multitask on a Windows machine is almost suffocating these days.
From my personal experience, most of the really good programmers that I know _do_ contribute to open source.
I don't doubt that it's true, though one could argue that you have a biased sample. Birds of a feather, and all that...
Like figuring out soft drink marketshare by polling a Coca-Cola bottling plant.
Opera and Safari have rather low adoption rates. Acid3 compliance is purely a marketing gimmick until people actually implementing those features in real webpages. Opera and Apple decided that such a gimmick was a relatively fast and cheap way to get publicity, but we don't know what damage was incurred in the codebase(s) to make it happen.
Few websites will use the final 7 tests until Mozilla or MS get around to it. Mozilla can afford to take it slow and implement the features properly, rather than tacking it on. MS obviously isn't in any hurry.
Instead of immutable hard drives, you could simply make a snapshot of a fresh install and revert to that if the VM gets out of control. That way Windows update & such won't be bugging you that updates are available every time you boot.
If I can learn how to do that, anybody can. And my high school counsellors (not to mention my family and their friends) thought I would never amount to anything.
You haven't said whether they have been proven right or not. (though your tone implies that you are using your skills for more than test loads on your LAN, in your mother's basement)
Proclaiming that the Linux Revolution is upon us every time Microsoft slips up will only make you look silly.
For people to switch, they need to either know about a superior alternative and have greed set in, or need to be unsatisfied with what they have to the point that they are looking for options. Without a cohesive marketing campaign for Linux, Apple gets the former and most of the latter.
Is that what those massive grey boxes that shove all the text to the right are? I've been resorting to Ctrl+- to zoom out and fix that. Zooming back in brings it back.
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Of course our cost of living ain't squat compared to yours...
Certain geek stereotypes have some basis in reality. One in particular keeps my cost-of-living pretty low...
Plus it is really pretty here, with all the houses looking straight out of "Gone with the Wind", with lots of swimming holes and nature trails. The apartment complex I live in is actually one of the newer ones (1925) and used to house Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis when they were on the chitlin circuit.
Our main claim to fame is as one of two gateways to the Giant Forest.
Yeah, which is why Persian language is a completely dead one...
The British Empire isn't what it used to be, but English is the lingua franca anyways.
...with it already 100f in the shade here in AR temp matters.
Today in California we're getting a pleasant 86 degrees Fahrenheit, but we had upwards of 105 the other day.
And here I thought it was exposure to sunlight.
This is exactly why I switched from Linux back to Vista...I'm not a programmer...my attempts to pretty up just my desktop experience didn't produce anything I could continue with.
Eh. Some of us non-programmers can't stand form without function. I would always revert Windows desktops to the Win2k theme (though I would leave the Start menu alone) and turn off all sorts of little visual effects that I've never noticed.
For better or worse, compiz wobbly windows probably drove more users to Linux than, say, the superior workflow paradigm of multiple workspaces.
Multiple workspaces has got to be the feature that puts FOSS desktops above Winodws' in my mind (and then there's the cli...). Trying to multitask on a Windows machine is almost suffocating these days.
From my personal experience, most of the really good programmers that I know _do_ contribute to open source.
I don't doubt that it's true, though one could argue that you have a biased sample. Birds of a feather, and all that...
Like figuring out soft drink marketshare by polling a Coca-Cola bottling plant.
I zoom out. Once removes most of them. A second zoom-out removes the rest completely. That being said, I haven't been getting the problem any more.
Pretty sure that SLI requires the two video cards to be actually connected.
That's SLI, which is NVidia's dual-card system. Doesn't ATI have their own? (Crossfire?). Maybe that's different.
If you mean that AMD would put the GPU on the motherboard, I would still think you would need a SLI connector on that separate GPU actually connected.
So? Include the cable with the card and mandate a port on the motherboard. Or include a PCI-E 1x card with the processor.
Probably to avoid confusion with University of California.
Well, they obviously haven't been protecting it. Isn't that one of the requirements of keeping a patent?
Please?
Opera and Safari have rather low adoption rates. Acid3 compliance is purely a marketing gimmick until people actually implementing those features in real webpages. Opera and Apple decided that such a gimmick was a relatively fast and cheap way to get publicity, but we don't know what damage was incurred in the codebase(s) to make it happen.
Few websites will use the final 7 tests until Mozilla or MS get around to it. Mozilla can afford to take it slow and implement the features properly, rather than tacking it on. MS obviously isn't in any hurry.
So make a better patent-free codec, or buy a licence for the world.
Adblock Plus & NoScript work fine in Minefield, so they almost certainly will work in the RC. I don't know about other plugins, though.
RC1 still scores a 93/100 on the Acid3 test.
Minefield has scored 94/100 for quite some time now, so I doubt Shiretoko will score any better at release.
What do you think the judge was before he became a judge?
IIRC, the founders of Google have an "income" of $1.
Instead of immutable hard drives, you could simply make a snapshot of a fresh install and revert to that if the VM gets out of control. That way Windows update & such won't be bugging you that updates are available every time you boot.
If I can learn how to do that, anybody can. And my high school counsellors (not to mention my family and their friends) thought I would never amount to anything.
You haven't said whether they have been proven right or not. (though your tone implies that you are using your skills for more than test loads on your LAN, in your mother's basement)
Proclaiming that the Linux Revolution is upon us every time Microsoft slips up will only make you look silly.
For people to switch, they need to either know about a superior alternative and have greed set in, or need to be unsatisfied with what they have to the point that they are looking for options. Without a cohesive marketing campaign for Linux, Apple gets the former and most of the latter.
Oh, that's nice! Force him to take a sick day...
That's what they're there for...
Isn't this the process that makes lots of test/tube babies, and discards the ones that don't meant the parent's criteria?
Is that what those massive grey boxes that shove all the text to the right are? I've been resorting to Ctrl+- to zoom out and fix that. Zooming back in brings it back.
...we never went there?
Since when has that been a prerequisite?