When they realize they aren't getting the same user experience as their friends and neighbors, the public outcry will start.
Most of the computer Ignorantsia are having lots of compatibility problems with Windows. Thost that chose Lindows will hear about all those same kind of issues from their Windows-using friends and just chalk it up to being "par for the course."
Did you ever stop and wonder why apps like Discreet's 3D Studio MAX R5 or Avid|DS and Symphony only work on Windows NT/2000 systems? Perhaps they know something you don't. In fact, I'd stake my entire life savings on that fact.
More likely they are being paid something you don't know about.
The cold war, with its "capitalism vs communism" rhetoric, ended much like the civil war. The USA won, but we wound up with all of the desired goals of the other side, anyway.
Actually, the USA lost the Civil War, because it had to axe a great number of its founding principals in order to enforce the Holy Federal Will(tM) on the South. It's not so much the "United States of America" so much as the "People's Republic of America" since then, particularly with the continually increasing power of a centralized Federal bureacracy.
In other news: Federal Income tax is less than 1 century old, but has spread from taxing the richest 3% of the nation to nearly everybody... and "Government must do more!"
It's Like That Old Saying:
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"People who want to sacrifice freedom for 'security,'..." are lining up to use Palladium.
It's called competition... and now it's saving M$ customers some hard-earned money. Attention $heep: take your "savings" from lowered OS costs and realize that's how much you have been sheared all these years as M$ has driven DRDOS/Novell/OS2/BeOS from the market...
So please, next time announce that slashdot creates a low concentration/volume which in turn causes users in high concentration/volume areas to move to slashdot for equilibrium.
Very well put. So the high concentration of Microsoft "news" out there that says (in heavy Soviet accent): "Don't worry, Comrade! Microsoft is strong! Keep using "compatibility!" Don our proprietary DRM and.NET chains to keep you safe! Freedom is slavery! In Russia... computer uses you!" creates a high pressure "Pravda" environment that causes more people to flow into low pressure "Truth" zones...
I prefer the standard blue XP style to Plex, and expect this visual style to disappear by later builds. In fact, Plex is so bad, that I originally thought that this Longhorn alpha was nothing more than a hacked-together XP build. I still wonder about it.
The truth shall set you free!
In other news: the proper "shell" for all computer interactions is a proprietary web-browser, and the proper "file system" for all computer data is a proprietary database. Gee, the Mac with all its open shells and file systems is looking less and less proprietary with every new Windows release!
modern e-mail functionality?! I mean, how am I supposed to use an e-mail client that won't respond to Active Virus commands that send copies of itself to everyone in my address book? PINE is just No Fun!
One has to wonder: if you produce something on your Mac, are you going to be able to tap into all that DMCA pay-as-you-play goodness, or are you going to need a DRM-authorship liscense to distribute your wares that is only affordable to the largest media companies?
Something to think about...
Hate "crimes" are inherently though crimes. They punish you additionally for what you think, rather than only based on what you do
So? Most crimes take into account the mental state of the perpetrator. E.g., consider in most jurisdictions the difference between first degree murder, second degree murder, and manslaughter. Would you say that first degree murder is a thought crime?
Degrees of murder/manslaughter only serve to ascertain level of planning the crime. It doens't matter weather you hated the victim or not... you could have been hired... or trade murders... or any number of "motivations." What matters is that you knew ahead of time what you were going to do and (here's the important part) you did it.
You can't go to jail for thinking or saying anything without commiting some sort of "act"... at least not yet.
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With few exceptions, the programs (which are all console-based, BTW, so it has nothing to do with graphics) are always faster on the PIII. Sometimes faster by twice or three times.
I think it has some to do with the OS, and a lot more to do with the languages themselves. I had a PERL script I used to run on a 233Mhz G3 under LinuxPPC that was just barely twice as slow as a dual-866 PIII running Red Hat at work. So I am convinced of quite the opposite.
Why is it that the oggenc on the Mac won't encode if you give it the path:/Volumes/Audio\ CD/Track\ 01.cdda?
I get some sort of volume-is-read-only error. Of course it's read-only! It's the CD! I finally got it to encode after I copied the track from the CD to my HD.
This sux. Anyone have the answer to this?
Putting two CPU cores on a single die is also more costly, as you are basically doubling your failure rates. So if you were tossing out 5-10% of dies when they were single-core due to defects, it's within the realm of possibility that you'll need to scrap 10-15% of your dual-core dies, ceteris paribus.
But if they did their design right, they wouldn't have to have a dual-core and a single-core fab. They would just be able to cut the dead/slow die off the good one and sell it as a single, or else disable one and mount it in the same package and sell it as a single.
This whole story reminds me of 2000 when news of the G5 was circulating. So what happened? Now IBM is suddenly taking over desktop PPC development? WTF? Why doesnt Apple just use commodity X86 hardware? Its faster and is leading the industry in innovation.
Simple. In 2000 X86 hardware wasn't leading jack in innovation.
Why aren't they planning on delivering a 4GHz part, since their competitors are?
It's a design decision. The P4 was designed to go balls-to-the-wall with Gigahertz into the stratosphere from the beginning of its design cycle a few years ago. Virtually no other processor in the world, other than the AMD Athlon go over 2Ghz right now. Even Intel doesn't have its Itanium 2 anywhere appreciably above 1 Ghz... along with Sun, IBM, Motorola, and Apple's CPU's.
College is where people are taught to turn off their minds and subscribe to politically-correct orthodoxy, so shearing the sheep at the shearing station is the right tack for Valenti et al.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that the Constitution is a wonderful piece of law... but there is nothing inherently special or "Holy" about it -- as with any law.
If the people don't remember and adhere to the philosophy of freedom and the vision that inspired the law... it doesn't matter how many Constitutions or Amendments or other wonderful you write. They are only so many pieces of paper, and the people are only so many slaves without a clue... and the most prescient and powerful among them are but lawyers.
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Cool beans! Welcome to the party, dudes! I've been waiting to see this Slashdot article for the past 3 years!
In other news: Federal Income tax is less than 1 century old, but has spread from taxing the richest 3% of the nation to nearly everybody... and "Government must do more!"
"People who want to sacrifice freedom for 'security,'..." are lining up to use Palladium.
It's called competition... and now it's saving M$ customers some hard-earned money. Attention $heep: take your "savings" from lowered OS costs and realize that's how much you have been sheared all these years as M$ has driven DRDOS/Novell/OS2/BeOS from the market...
DRM measures and .NET will fix all of this... honest... mmm... pfffft... heh... ha... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
In other news: the proper "shell" for all computer interactions is a proprietary web-browser, and the proper "file system" for all computer data is a proprietary database. Gee, the Mac with all its open shells and file systems is looking less and less proprietary with every new Windows release!
modern e-mail functionality?! I mean, how am I supposed to use an e-mail client that won't respond to Active Virus commands that send copies of itself to everyone in my address book? PINE is just No Fun!
One has to wonder: if you produce something on your Mac, are you going to be able to tap into all that DMCA pay-as-you-play goodness, or are you going to need a DRM-authorship liscense to distribute your wares that is only affordable to the largest media companies? Something to think about...
You can't go to jail for thinking or saying anything without commiting some sort of "act"... at least not yet.
Is Paved With "Good" Intentions.
Being able to surf while sitting on throne is an idea flush with possiblities... now... how to advertize it...
Why is it that the oggenc on the Mac won't encode if you give it the path: /Volumes/Audio\ CD/Track\ 01.cdda?
I get some sort of volume-is-read-only error. Of course it's read-only! It's the CD! I finally got it to encode after I copied the track from the CD to my HD.
This sux. Anyone have the answer to this?
So when is Ogg coming to the iPod?
... because they perceive M$ OS to be clunky, junky, and unsafe at any megahertz!
College is where people are taught to turn off their minds and subscribe to politically-correct orthodoxy, so shearing the sheep at the shearing station is the right tack for Valenti et al.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that the Constitution is a wonderful piece of law... but there is nothing inherently special or "Holy" about it -- as with any law. If the people don't remember and adhere to the philosophy of freedom and the vision that inspired the law... it doesn't matter how many Constitutions or Amendments or other wonderful you write. They are only so many pieces of paper, and the people are only so many slaves without a clue... and the most prescient and powerful among them are but lawyers.