Would you believe that, in a society with many different people, it's possible for some people to believe one thing and other people to believe another?
I can't speak for Gimp, but Photoshop is not a drawing program. It is an image manipulation program. If you're looking to draw, try something like Corel Painter or openCanvas. (note that despite what you might assume from the latter's name, it is not open source)
Yes... of course I am, I said I was using Linux didn't I.
Ha ha! Funny. It sounds like you're using Red Hat in particular, which has a reputation for poor support for newer hardware -- as recent as about a year ago, for example, I know first-hand that their Enterprise distribution simply did not officially support firewire -- as well as package manager dependency hell. Seriously. Try something else.
If (like Big Brother TV Reality), Linux was made for the average person, then Linux would be Windows.
Ok, I give up. I'm amazed at how you keep brushing aside the topic at hand with hyperbole and you keep getting modded up for it.
In other words, it basically sounds like you're using a distribution that has poor hardware detection and package management.
You also ignored my last question -- are you sure you never had to install drivers for that onboard NIC in Windows? How about video drivers? Did you have to configure those drivers to use both monitors properly after they were installed? How about printer/scanner/copier drivers?
Besides that, the discussion is going off topic. First, normal users never install their own operating systems; they come pre-installed, so installation issues are moot. Second, even if installing an operating system takes some technical knowledge, that doesn't mean you need the same knowledge in order to use it, which is what this thread was originally about.
Well, I can't speak for Vista, but Windows XP runs on my box without me having to know how to use VI, GCC, Make, Yum, C, C++ and write down IRQs, ports, numbers from the inside of my computer first.
Uh, you can also use Linux without needing to know how to use those things. In fact, out of the programs you've listed, the only one I'm aware of that's present in a default Ubuntu install is Vi. (and even then, only a minimal version of Vim) I can't even recall the last time I needed to know the IRQ number for anything.
Out of curiosity, how much of your hardware does Windows XP recognize and use perfectly on a fresh install?
It works in all cases, even for add on libraries (it's very easy to build additional autocomplete databases), and parses super fast (near instantaneous) -- and actually does the right thing in all cases.
I have to ask -- is there something special you have to do to get KDevelop's autocomplete to work well? I'm using the latest version provided by Kubuntu, and despite how much I try to fiddle with, most of the time it does nothing more than auto-expand to complete any word in the current document after I've typed the first three letters. And I mean ANY word -- you have no idea how annoying it is when it inserts "trying" every time I type "try", just because I have a comment somewhere that has the word "trying" in it. On rare occasions I have seen it actually list an object's members for me after I type a ".", but only rarely, and I haven't figured out how to reproduce it regularly.
Actually, recalibrating would only be necessary if the position of the sensor bar changed with respect to your TV (or if it were moved to a different TV). The point of the calibration is so that the Wii knows how the bar is positioned with regards to your TV, how wide it is compared to your TV, and how large your TV is compared to the size of the Wiimote's IR camera. With that information, it's possible for the Wiimote to precisely calculate its position and angle with regards to the screen from any position, as long as the camera can see the bar.
The issue that is really key here is that "sensor" bar is a misnomer. The bar is just a set of IR lights, and each Wiimote has an IR camera that takes pictures of these lights; the Wiimote has a chip on it that tracks the position and intensity of those lights and sends the data back to the Wii, and from that data it can tell the angle and distance of the Wiimote from your screen.
If you're using AdBlock Plus, I'd recommend that you subscribe to EasyList rather than use Filterset.G. Filterset.G is designed for the original AdBlock, and doesn't take advantage of a number of featues that AdBlock Plus has; for example, it features automatic subscription updating, so you don't need another extension just to update it. Also, the Filterset.G updater will blow away any customizations you've made to the block list when it updates, while EasyList won't. For more info, read the FAQ.
Ok, I think you need to go and review your grade school punctuation classes. I said this: "you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse but I don't" not this: "you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse, but I don't"
Can you tell what the difference between those is? I'll give you a hint: you think I meant the second.
That comment of yours doesn't even make sense; you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse but I don't, and that using it somehow bestows knowledge of third-party extensions upon the user. What would be the point of lying about that? Are you just trying to start a fight?
I don't do web development, anyway, so I'm not at all familiar with the WTP. And I know what "I18n" means -- the question is, why do I care? How is it relevant to the rest of the summary?
Besides that, my post was intended as less of an inquiry and more of a comment on how horribly written the summary is.
I use Eclipse, and I don't even have any idea what this article is about. What is MyEclipse? What is a GA release? What does it have to do with Vi? What is Eclipse WTP? Why should I care if it's "fully I18n enabled"? Could you please explain anything about what you're talking about?
a) Chips don't make noise. Fans do. I'm not familiar with the PS3's interior design, but I'd be willing to bet that the PS2 chip does not have a dedicated fan -- or, if it does, it's only active when the chip is running. That means the system won't be any quieter when playing PS3 games.
b) In modern electronics, different aspects of the system are kept highly componentized. It is unlikely that the removal of a PS2 compatibility chip will have any effect on the rest of the system, positive or negative.
c) See B. The PS2 emulation aspect of the system will be the only part that is less prone to breaking, simply because it doesn't exist any more.
What KDE and gnome should do is open up the whole interface for scripting.
You can already do this, to a degree. For KDE, at least, I'm not so familiar with gnome. Read up on DCOP. The next release of KDE is going to have a scripting framework called Kross, which is also quite powerful.
Instead of having KDE as one massive blob, it should be possible to just use the dock, for example.
KDE isn't one massive blob. Just want the dock? That's a program called "kicker". The window manager is "kwin". You've also got the KHTML HTML rendering engine, the KIO network-transparent file access system, the aRts sound server, and hundreds of other packages divided into other categories.
Now in MS windows you can set up accounts for different users and they can customize to some degree their interface. Not so versatile but again the idea is there of allowing users to have the interface they want without concern for interface selection of another user that would be using the same machine.
This is how it should be on GNU/Linux, and is to some extent.
Have you actually used Linux? Every single login manager I'm aware of lets the user choose between desktop managers when the log in. You can have KDE, Gnome, Blackbox, XFCE, and whatever else you want installed at the same time and choose between then when you log in. After you're logged in, you can further customize your desktop's appearance, and it won't affect other users at all. I'm not sure what you mean by "to some extent." The current state of affairs is much, much more customizable than Windows is.
Innovate the ability of the user to easily change interfaces and even be able to load their prefered interface off a USB thumb drive.
This, unfortunately, isn't "not easy" so much as it is simply not feasible. When you go between different Linux systems, you have to deal with different libraries, different system layouts, and even binary incompatibilities -- there is no guarantee that a binary compiled on one system will work on another of a different distribution (in fact, it probably won't). You can already carry around your configuration files on a USB key if you like, but it is simply far easier to just install your desktop manager of choice on whatever system you want to work on.
If you really must have your own customized Linux distribution and desktop evironment everywhere you go, though, you could just use Knoppix.
Ultimately its up to Linus to support the possibility at the kernel level....
Wait.. what? Why? Do you even understand what the kernel does? I'll give you a hint: it has nothing to do with desktop manager functionality. Any features like you've suggested would have nothing to do with the kernel.
Either you are horribly misinformed about Linux, or you have completely failed to get your point across.
Why is the mainstream news media failing to report on this potential breakthrough?
Because this is a potential cure for cancer, not a proven one, and potential cures are a dime a dozen. If they made a big hooplah every time somebody came out with a potential cure, that's all they'd ever be reporting about.
Actually, the SNES had two games -- Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean -- that were 48 Mb (or 6 MB). There were also a decent number of 32 Mb games, and quite a few 16 and 24 Mb ones. In fact, 4 Mb is the smallest size I'm aware of, and the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Super Mario World.
Out of curiosity, how would I go about getting a random company to sell me a plan without a phone? I had a friend who tried to do what you describe a few months ago, and he simply wasn't able to buy a plan without the company foisting a phone upon him as well -- and how would you get the plan to work with your old phone?
Ok. I'm not saying that in the real world, Java will perform just as much better than Perl as it did in those benchmarks -- but I am saying that it will still blow Perl away. It simply doesn't make sense that Java could soundly beat Perl in almost every single benchmark and then suddenly be worse in a "real" situation -- besides, many of those are possible real situations. In my job, for example, I do a lot of FFTs. A lot. Regardless of how the other aspects of the language perform, whichever language can do FFTs the fastest is generally the best for my purposes.
So, rather than hyperbole and unsubstantiated anecdotes, do you have any verifiable data that backs up your opinion?
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It is well known that any good software vendor uses the software they sell (if possible). It's called eating your own dog food.
Would you believe that, in a society with many different people, it's possible for some people to believe one thing and other people to believe another?
I can't speak for Gimp, but Photoshop is not a drawing program. It is an image manipulation program. If you're looking to draw, try something like Corel Painter or openCanvas. (note that despite what you might assume from the latter's name, it is not open source)
And, if you use Linux, you can't use it until you've installed it, so the other poster's points are valid.
Unless it's installed for you. Please pay attention to the rest of the thread.
Yes... of course I am, I said I was using Linux didn't I.
Ha ha! Funny. It sounds like you're using Red Hat in particular, which has a reputation for poor support for newer hardware -- as recent as about a year ago, for example, I know first-hand that their Enterprise distribution simply did not officially support firewire -- as well as package manager dependency hell. Seriously. Try something else.
If (like Big Brother TV Reality), Linux was made for the average person, then Linux would be Windows.
Ok, I give up. I'm amazed at how you keep brushing aside the topic at hand with hyperbole and you keep getting modded up for it.
In other words, it basically sounds like you're using a distribution that has poor hardware detection and package management.
You also ignored my last question -- are you sure you never had to install drivers for that onboard NIC in Windows? How about video drivers? Did you have to configure those drivers to use both monitors properly after they were installed? How about printer/scanner/copier drivers?
Besides that, the discussion is going off topic. First, normal users never install their own operating systems; they come pre-installed, so installation issues are moot. Second, even if installing an operating system takes some technical knowledge, that doesn't mean you need the same knowledge in order to use it, which is what this thread was originally about.
Well, I can't speak for Vista, but Windows XP runs on my box without me having to know how to use VI, GCC, Make, Yum, C, C++ and write down IRQs, ports, numbers from the inside of my computer first.
Uh, you can also use Linux without needing to know how to use those things. In fact, out of the programs you've listed, the only one I'm aware of that's present in a default Ubuntu install is Vi. (and even then, only a minimal version of Vim) I can't even recall the last time I needed to know the IRQ number for anything.
Out of curiosity, how much of your hardware does Windows XP recognize and use perfectly on a fresh install?
It works in all cases, even for add on libraries (it's very easy to build additional autocomplete databases), and parses super fast (near instantaneous) -- and actually does the right thing in all cases.
I have to ask -- is there something special you have to do to get KDevelop's autocomplete to work well? I'm using the latest version provided by Kubuntu, and despite how much I try to fiddle with, most of the time it does nothing more than auto-expand to complete any word in the current document after I've typed the first three letters. And I mean ANY word -- you have no idea how annoying it is when it inserts "trying" every time I type "try", just because I have a comment somewhere that has the word "trying" in it. On rare occasions I have seen it actually list an object's members for me after I type a ".", but only rarely, and I haven't figured out how to reproduce it regularly.
I have the solution to all of your problems:
http://www.usb-port.com/rm203.html
Actually, recalibrating would only be necessary if the position of the sensor bar changed with respect to your TV (or if it were moved to a different TV). The point of the calibration is so that the Wii knows how the bar is positioned with regards to your TV, how wide it is compared to your TV, and how large your TV is compared to the size of the Wiimote's IR camera. With that information, it's possible for the Wiimote to precisely calculate its position and angle with regards to the screen from any position, as long as the camera can see the bar.
The issue that is really key here is that "sensor" bar is a misnomer. The bar is just a set of IR lights, and each Wiimote has an IR camera that takes pictures of these lights; the Wiimote has a chip on it that tracks the position and intensity of those lights and sends the data back to the Wii, and from that data it can tell the angle and distance of the Wiimote from your screen.
If you're using AdBlock Plus, I'd recommend that you subscribe to EasyList rather than use Filterset.G. Filterset.G is designed for the original AdBlock, and doesn't take advantage of a number of featues that AdBlock Plus has; for example, it features automatic subscription updating, so you don't need another extension just to update it. Also, the Filterset.G updater will blow away any customizations you've made to the block list when it updates, while EasyList won't. For more info, read the FAQ.
Ok, I think you need to go and review your grade school punctuation classes. I said this:
"you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse but I don't"
not this:
"you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse, but I don't"
Can you tell what the difference between those is? I'll give you a hint: you think I meant the second.
That comment of yours doesn't even make sense; you're inferring that I said I used Eclipse but I don't, and that using it somehow bestows knowledge of third-party extensions upon the user. What would be the point of lying about that? Are you just trying to start a fight?
I don't do web development, anyway, so I'm not at all familiar with the WTP. And I know what "I18n" means -- the question is, why do I care? How is it relevant to the rest of the summary?
Besides that, my post was intended as less of an inquiry and more of a comment on how horribly written the summary is.
I use Eclipse, and I don't even have any idea what this article is about. What is MyEclipse? What is a GA release? What does it have to do with Vi? What is Eclipse WTP? Why should I care if it's "fully I18n enabled"? Could you please explain anything about what you're talking about?
Objections Over Antibiotic Approved for Use in Cattle
But why would you use objections in cattle? I'd rather see them use the antibiotic.
Unfortunately:
a) Chips don't make noise. Fans do. I'm not familiar with the PS3's interior design, but I'd be willing to bet that the PS2 chip does not have a dedicated fan -- or, if it does, it's only active when the chip is running. That means the system won't be any quieter when playing PS3 games.
b) In modern electronics, different aspects of the system are kept highly componentized. It is unlikely that the removal of a PS2 compatibility chip will have any effect on the rest of the system, positive or negative.
c) See B. The PS2 emulation aspect of the system will be the only part that is less prone to breaking, simply because it doesn't exist any more.
What KDE and gnome should do is open up the whole interface for scripting.
You can already do this, to a degree. For KDE, at least, I'm not so familiar with gnome. Read up on DCOP. The next release of KDE is going to have a scripting framework called Kross, which is also quite powerful.
Instead of having KDE as one massive blob, it should be possible to just use the dock, for example.
KDE isn't one massive blob. Just want the dock? That's a program called "kicker". The window manager is "kwin". You've also got the KHTML HTML rendering engine, the KIO network-transparent file access system, the aRts sound server, and hundreds of other packages divided into other categories.
Now in MS windows you can set up accounts for different users and they can customize to some degree their interface. Not so versatile but again the idea is there of allowing users to have the interface they want without concern for interface selection of another user that would be using the same machine.
This is how it should be on GNU/Linux, and is to some extent.
Have you actually used Linux? Every single login manager I'm aware of lets the user choose between desktop managers when the log in. You can have KDE, Gnome, Blackbox, XFCE, and whatever else you want installed at the same time and choose between then when you log in. After you're logged in, you can further customize your desktop's appearance, and it won't affect other users at all. I'm not sure what you mean by "to some extent." The current state of affairs is much, much more customizable than Windows is.
Innovate the ability of the user to easily change interfaces and even be able to load their prefered interface off a USB thumb drive.
This, unfortunately, isn't "not easy" so much as it is simply not feasible. When you go between different Linux systems, you have to deal with different libraries, different system layouts, and even binary incompatibilities -- there is no guarantee that a binary compiled on one system will work on another of a different distribution (in fact, it probably won't). You can already carry around your configuration files on a USB key if you like, but it is simply far easier to just install your desktop manager of choice on whatever system you want to work on.
If you really must have your own customized Linux distribution and desktop evironment everywhere you go, though, you could just use Knoppix.
Ultimately its up to Linus to support the possibility at the kernel level....
Wait.. what? Why? Do you even understand what the kernel does? I'll give you a hint: it has nothing to do with desktop manager functionality. Any features like you've suggested would have nothing to do with the kernel.
Either you are horribly misinformed about Linux, or you have completely failed to get your point across.
I'm guessing it's been a while since you've checked, because I'm running the very latest version of iTunes (7.0.2.16) on XP 64 with no problems.
Why is the mainstream news media failing to report on this potential breakthrough?
Because this is a potential cure for cancer, not a proven one, and potential cures are a dime a dozen. If they made a big hooplah every time somebody came out with a potential cure, that's all they'd ever be reporting about.
"Deathly" is a perfectly good word. It means "like or resembling death." "Deadly," on the other hand, means "causing death."
Actually, the SNES had two games -- Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean -- that were 48 Mb (or 6 MB). There were also a decent number of 32 Mb games, and quite a few 16 and 24 Mb ones. In fact, 4 Mb is the smallest size I'm aware of, and the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Super Mario World.
Out of curiosity, how would I go about getting a random company to sell me a plan without a phone? I had a friend who tried to do what you describe a few months ago, and he simply wasn't able to buy a plan without the company foisting a phone upon him as well -- and how would you get the plan to work with your old phone?
Ok. I'm not saying that in the real world, Java will perform just as much better than Perl as it did in those benchmarks -- but I am saying that it will still blow Perl away. It simply doesn't make sense that Java could soundly beat Perl in almost every single benchmark and then suddenly be worse in a "real" situation -- besides, many of those are possible real situations. In my job, for example, I do a lot of FFTs. A lot. Regardless of how the other aspects of the language perform, whichever language can do FFTs the fastest is generally the best for my purposes.
So, rather than hyperbole and unsubstantiated anecdotes, do you have any verifiable data that backs up your opinion?
Of course, I meant to say "Why did the parent get modded as troll?" That'll teach me not to use the preview button...