I thought all passwords were hashed now instead of just stored as plain-text. If those IT admins store passwords like that, they deserve to be laid off.
I read for example about a planet orbiting a pulsar whose orbital period was half of Earth's. Turns out it was a misconfiguration involving the Doppler effect.
I'll need more evidence than this horrible correlation. Something involving deep space probes would be better. But if it turns out to be true, then this is HUGE!
Because Microsoft doesn't want people to know how much Lenovo pays for their licenses. That's also why corporations are so reluctant to publicly show their support for FOSS. They're afraid they'll have to pay some more "administrative" charges.
WTF? I think we should first concentrate on finding something that somewhat resembles our microbial life before we spend a lot of government funds to ship a PCR detector there. Not only do they assume that life there has genes in about the same way as ours but also that they are made from the same nucleotides. What would be the odds of that? (excluding panspermia and so on).
3 ad hominem's, including but not limited to unreasonable assumptions about my continence. And I am the one modded troll? I honestly admit my statement is way too excessive but jezus, you could just try to point out what I said was wrong instead of just making silly statements.
YES, I have coded more than one line in my life. And I've been out of diapers since way before 1997. And I know what I'm talking about, otherwise I wouldn't post.
...ripping of FOS software and giving nothing back except for the compulsory parts (thanks to GPL)? ...being backed by a 156 billion $ company behind it and still about the same marketshare as Linux? ...completely locking your users to that company, taking away all freedom?
You forgetting these are full-time kernel developers. They would offer their firstborn son in exchange for a 0.049% better scheduler if they could ever have partners.
But I still thinks the Android platform will amaze us all.
And still, if it allows me to develop my OWN applications instead of being chained to one company, it'll be a million times more interesting than iPhone. I am already happy because the phone shown here has no touch-screen.
This thing looks so awesome. Too bad it'll probably never get enough market share for those GKey's to become even more interesting. Image going to a LAN-party or something and only bringing a USB stick (and a spare possibly). This could also kill or at least diminish the hardware incompatibility issues Linux sometimes has.
And this crap. Nobody here actually believes this right? OneStat, XiTi and W3 Counter give OS X a more meager 4%. In fact, only Gartner give Apple 8%, everywhere else I find half of that.
Apple isn't going to boom, not now, not ever if they uphold their image of being the 'trendy' and 'cool' one. Besides, because they are a company and because of their lock-in policies they are much more easier antagonized by Microsoft or others.
Every citizen of Europe gives 60 times less to the ESA a year than a citizen of the USA gives to the NASA a year. And even the NASA doesn't get as much as it should get. I think the ESA does quite well.
Relax man. I was semi-joking. And while I respect other cultures, I don't respect outright stupidity or cruelty. It's for the same reason that when I would go to vacation in Saudi-Arabia, I wouldn't treat my wife like shit that the imperial system sucks in a decimal system.
Stupid imperialistic units. I have to divide every amount of feet by three to understand what they are meaning. Why can't you guys just follow the rest of the world?
Seriously? I would have expected a reply because I told the truth about OS X, but I never expected anyone to think Vista had a better desktop experience than Linux. The times I had to work on a Vista box felt like torture.
And still no first post. Strange isn't it. This is one of the brighter minds of Computer Science and still I, a computer geek, have never heard of him.
And more important: no linux version. I'll think I'll Wine it maybe. By the way, the game is built on DirectX so don't expect any other platform anytime soon. Seriously, why do people still code with DirectX.
And saying it's hard to install makes no sense. OS X is preinstalled and can only be installed on a very, very limited number of computers. You can't just compare them. OS X is not 'better' at installing, it's just out of category.
Well, if it makes you feel any better then you could say Linux doesn't compete in the category 100% of the people wants - computers with operating systems. Of course that'd just start a small flamewar over how Linux took only two clicks to install and how their grandmother could do it. And now Linux has a few preinstalled variations, not much more hardware choice than Macs on that though, but isn't it really convienient to define it out like that? "Easiest to install except the operating systems that don't need installation"? Isn't that something like saying "Cheapest car maintenance except the cars that don't need maintenance"? Is there any reason whatsoever having to install it yourself should be considered a feature? Being easy certainly reduces the drawback, but I can't see the advantage.
Linux is just not in the position to be preinstalled on computers. But if you want to play it that way: when I installed Linux on the laptop of my friend (a brand new laptop, every piece of hardware works) he told me what he needed. That means that the Linux OS on his computer was installed exactly to his needs. That's a lot better than Mac does. And I prefer a car that needs a little bit of maintenance than a car that needs to be locked and shipped back to the car factory for maintenance.
And Linux still does a lot better than Windows in terms of hardware compatibility.
Show me a piece of hardware that doesn't work on Windows, and it's some obscure thing that once had a Windows driver but the producer stopped making drivers for years ago. I can tell you of plenty current hardware that doesn't work right on Linux though. You can start by getting drivers for my parent's printer or fix that my firewire drive falls asleep (it's a Linux driver issue, yes). And last I tried installing it on my Toshiba laptop it wouldn't even boot the CD...
Okay I'll show you some hardware: Infiniband Every single thing in this PowerPC computer I have here My Play Station Portable (MIPS architecture)
Linux works perfectly with any of these but Windows can't even try. Windows is just like Mac quite good in it's limited subset. But Linux supports more hardware than any other OS on the planet.
And that it won't boot is a fatal flaw in your BIOS and has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. Don't blame everything on it.
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I thought all passwords were hashed now instead of just stored as plain-text. If those IT admins store passwords like that, they deserve to be laid off.
...but not the subject of the experiment.
I read for example about a planet orbiting a pulsar whose orbital period was half of Earth's. Turns out it was a misconfiguration involving the Doppler effect.
I'll need more evidence than this horrible correlation. Something involving deep space probes would be better. But if it turns out to be true, then this is HUGE!
Because Microsoft doesn't want people to know how much Lenovo pays for their licenses.
That's also why corporations are so reluctant to publicly show their support for FOSS. They're afraid they'll have to pay some more "administrative" charges.
WTF? I think we should first concentrate on finding something that somewhat resembles our microbial life before we spend a lot of government funds to ship a PCR detector there.
Not only do they assume that life there has genes in about the same way as ours but also that they are made from the same nucleotides. What would be the odds of that? (excluding panspermia and so on).
3 ad hominem's, including but not limited to unreasonable assumptions about my continence. And I am the one modded troll?
I honestly admit my statement is way too excessive but jezus, you could just try to point out what I said was wrong instead of just making silly statements.
YES, I have coded more than one line in my life. And I've been out of diapers since way before 1997. And I know what I'm talking about, otherwise I wouldn't post.
Not really, I should have expected it with such a post.
I probably was a bit too harsh.But still, Troll is a tad too much.
...ripping of FOS software and giving nothing back except for the compulsory parts (thanks to GPL)?
...being backed by a 156 billion $ company behind it and still about the same marketshare as Linux?
...completely locking your users to that company, taking away all freedom?
Congratulations, I guess.
You forgetting these are full-time kernel developers. They would offer their firstborn son in exchange for a 0.049% better scheduler if they could ever have partners.
It's all about the smile. The red-haired girl suddenly looks so much better when she's smiling.
But I still thinks the Android platform will amaze us all.
And still, if it allows me to develop my OWN applications instead of being chained to one company, it'll be a million times more interesting than iPhone. I am already happy because the phone shown here has no touch-screen.
That, Sir, is frigging awesome.
I feel guilty for actually wanting this to happen for a split second.
This thing looks so awesome. Too bad it'll probably never get enough market share for those GKey's to become even more interesting. Image going to a LAN-party or something and only bringing a USB stick (and a spare possibly).
This could also kill or at least diminish the hardware incompatibility issues Linux sometimes has.
Am I a bad geek for not knowing what this is all about?
Why do we have to fix this ourselves. Can't RHT just issue a new update fixing it?
Also, don't they test their updates?
And this crap. Nobody here actually believes this right? OneStat, XiTi and W3 Counter give OS X a more meager 4%. In fact, only Gartner give Apple 8%, everywhere else I find half of that.
Apple isn't going to boom, not now, not ever if they uphold their image of being the 'trendy' and 'cool' one.
Besides, because they are a company and because of their lock-in policies they are much more easier antagonized by Microsoft or others.
Every citizen of Europe gives 60 times less to the ESA a year than a citizen of the USA gives to the NASA a year. And even the NASA doesn't get as much as it should get.
I think the ESA does quite well.
Relax man. I was semi-joking. And while I respect other cultures, I don't respect outright stupidity or cruelty. It's for the same reason that when I would go to vacation in Saudi-Arabia, I wouldn't treat my wife like shit that the imperial system sucks in a decimal system.
What device do you use to measure 25 cm?
Stupid imperialistic units. I have to divide every amount of feet by three to understand what they are meaning. Why can't you guys just follow the rest of the world?
Seriously? I would have expected a reply because I told the truth about OS X, but I never expected anyone to think Vista had a better desktop experience than Linux. The times I had to work on a Vista box felt like torture.
SDL is used by Quake 4, Neverwinter Nights, ET:QW, UT2003/2004, Doom 3, Spore , and others
If those are small games, I don't know what a big one is.
So why not SDL?
That's easy and Microsoft is discontinuing parts of DirectX making it more and more necessary to combine libraries?
And still no first post.
Strange isn't it. This is one of the brighter minds of Computer Science and still I, a computer geek, have never heard of him.
And more important: no linux version. I'll think I'll Wine it maybe.
By the way, the game is built on DirectX so don't expect any other platform anytime soon. Seriously, why do people still code with DirectX.
And saying it's hard to install makes no sense. OS X is preinstalled and can only be installed on a very, very limited number of computers. You can't just compare them. OS X is not 'better' at installing, it's just out of category.
Well, if it makes you feel any better then you could say Linux doesn't compete in the category 100% of the people wants - computers with operating systems. Of course that'd just start a small flamewar over how Linux took only two clicks to install and how their grandmother could do it. And now Linux has a few preinstalled variations, not much more hardware choice than Macs on that though, but isn't it really convienient to define it out like that? "Easiest to install except the operating systems that don't need installation"? Isn't that something like saying "Cheapest car maintenance except the cars that don't need maintenance"? Is there any reason whatsoever having to install it yourself should be considered a feature? Being easy certainly reduces the drawback, but I can't see the advantage.
Linux is just not in the position to be preinstalled on computers. But if you want to play it that way: when I installed Linux on the laptop of my friend (a brand new laptop, every piece of hardware works) he told me what he needed. That means that the Linux OS on his computer was installed exactly to his needs. That's a lot better than Mac does.
And I prefer a car that needs a little bit of maintenance than a car that needs to be locked and shipped back to the car factory for maintenance.
And Linux still does a lot better than Windows in terms of hardware compatibility.
Show me a piece of hardware that doesn't work on Windows, and it's some obscure thing that once had a Windows driver but the producer stopped making drivers for years ago. I can tell you of plenty current hardware that doesn't work right on Linux though. You can start by getting drivers for my parent's printer or fix that my firewire drive falls asleep (it's a Linux driver issue, yes). And last I tried installing it on my Toshiba laptop it wouldn't even boot the CD...
Okay I'll show you some hardware:
Infiniband
Every single thing in this PowerPC computer I have here
My Play Station Portable (MIPS architecture)
Linux works perfectly with any of these but Windows can't even try. Windows is just like Mac quite good in it's limited subset. But Linux supports more hardware than any other OS on the planet.
And that it won't boot is a fatal flaw in your BIOS and has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. Don't blame everything on it.