errr....wasn't the mithril shirt made by the dwarfs? It was given to Bilbo by anelve (as much as I recall) but from what I understood the dwarfes made those shorts. So no Magic here. Just regular dwarfish smithing genius.
The more you push the market the sooner we will see our carbon based kickass screens on the shelfs...so get out and do your duty as a consumer: create demand!;-)
...but my experience differs. I used to work in a beta testing group for a small german software publisher. Actually my job was to implement this team since there was nothing like this before. When we started I was confident that we could enhance the quality of our products but reality cured me: The only thing that changed was that they put a huge sticker on the boxes "Quality tested by our great beta testing team!" or something like that. But they turned down EVERY single review we wrote and whenever it would have caused a delay for launching the product they just didnt care. After two years they shut the betatesting group down again since we didnt improve the product quality [cough]how could this be?[cough]. As far as I know they kept the stickers, though.;-)
Over here in a big german publishing company this is the exact and sole reason we keep running Win2k Servers: Exchange. We could switch Print and Fileservers over to OS-Software. We are running firewalls and proxies with Linux already but we have to stick with Exchange and since Microsoft makes us pay for every single client connecting to MS-Exchange we can as well leave the print and fileservers running. Theses two server licenses arent killing us (in terms of money). As soon as there is a real, usable and easy to administer OS-Exchange Replacement I would have a much better position on demanding the use of Linux on our servers. I bet we would switch rather today than tomorrow. Promise!
They could make the Star Wars plot twist and make a movie about Bilbos earlier adventures. After killing Smaug we could go back even further and make a trilogy out of the Silmarillion scaring away both, the diehard fans (for replacing the young Arwen with Natalie Imbruglia) and the rest of the crowd for confusing them with a new main character every 15 minutes.
cu, Lispy
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Actually I prefer to think about Google, or the web in general, as the hitchikers guide to galaxy as described in Douglas Adams novels. It knows about anything but most of the time the answer might not quite be what you were looking for.
"But imagine keeping e-mail a bit more like a blog. Then suddenly, youâ(TM)ve got instant messaging qualities and e-mail qualities happening at the same time."
That is the exact reason I use a threaded view in Evolution. WhatÂs more, I canÂt do without the virutal folders wich allow me to filter what I see on a daily basis. The times when I saw my "real" inbox are definetly over. Many other mailclients (Sylpheed for example) provide a similar approach to organizing mails. The way most people use their mailclients IÂm not surprised they canÂt handle the traffic anymore. But: the features are there, people just have to start using it.
there is a great Gnome-Project wich adapts pretty fast to new Mozilla releases and ships with antialiased fonts (I didnÂt like them in the beginning but am an addict now;-) called Dropline-Gnome. I keep installing this for my newbies along with Slackware wich I prefer as a Newbie-Distro for itÂs clear structure. From this day on I stopped worrying about fonts in Mozilla. Most Gnome Apps use these fonts so it provides a consistent look&feel, too.
But last time I tried Firebird I realised the problem was still there. The defaults are ok...but not a beauty. Well, if for non-slackware users I guess Ximian-Gnome ships with antialiased fonts as well...
Whatever Via Mini-ITX it is they are using I hope they wrote some decent accelerated graphics-drivers. Last time I checked the Mini-ITX graphics chip was poorly supported under Linux. Via provided no drivers for the hardware mpeg-encoder and without it DVD-playback was a pain in the a**. Generic OS-drivers worked but gave away a lot of performance compared to running WinXP with decent drivers...
Maybe I'm way too naive but isn't a GM Pet just a mutation? If you release it in the wild it competes with the other species out there. The GM-Pet might be superiour and extinct other species but most likely it is not since all his mutations are just pleasing the human eye. So I don't see a real danger in here. Personally I trust evolution and competition. This will all be taken care of by natures forces.
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DidnÂt they try to do this by inventing MS-Channels and Active-Desktop back in the 1998?
Yup, it was invented by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland. Personally I believe they are referring to the 1960s where Berkeley was full of spaced out LSD Students (at least in my naive, german vision of the american 60s;-).
I really have no firsthand experience with Entourage. I made my assumptions on what I've heard from our Apple Admins. Personally I think the problems they had were caused by using Entourage with our (aging) MS-Exchange Server. Not sure though. Wasn't a big fan of Express either but my Mom and some friends of mine are using it and seem to like it. Personally I use neither. I use yet another Outlook-Ripoff...;-)
As far as i know they didn't port Outlook after Office 97. The new Mailclient/Groupware is called Entourage and it's an Apple-Exclusive. Thank god, because from what Ie heard, this beast seriously sucks.
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this is really funny. Where are my modpoints when I need em?
I wonder, with all those new Linux boxes on shelfes right now, what the actual sales numbers are? The question we have to ask is:
Is the market adopting the new offer or is it just PC-distributors saving a few cents on the Microsoft tax to raise their profits?
I would really like to know how many Joe Sixpacks are converting and buying the new offer and what their overall opinion about the product is.
Maybe some of them dont even realize that all their Windows games wont run and are totally disappointed by Linux...
cu,
Lispy
Lol, you may be right. I guess I was mixing Middleearth stuff with Warhammer again....
btw, this looks cool, doesn't it?
errr....wasn't the mithril shirt made by the dwarfs?
It was given to Bilbo by anelve (as much as I recall) but from what I understood the dwarfes made those shorts. So no Magic here. Just regular dwarfish smithing genius.
Just one? Move it and buy another.
;-)
The more you push the market the sooner we will see our carbon based kickass screens on the shelfs...so get out and do your duty as a consumer:
create demand!
...but my experience differs. I used to work in a beta testing group for a small german software publisher. Actually my job was to implement this team since there was nothing like this before. When we started I was confident that we could enhance the quality of our products but reality cured me: The only thing that changed was that they put a huge sticker on the boxes "Quality tested by our great beta testing team!" or something like that. But they turned down EVERY single review we wrote and whenever it would have caused a delay for launching the product they just didnt care. After two years they shut the betatesting group down again since we didnt improve the product quality [cough]how could this be?[cough]. As far as I know they kept the stickers, though. ;-)
Over here in a big german publishing company this is the exact and sole reason we keep running Win2k Servers: Exchange. We could switch Print and Fileservers over to OS-Software. We are running firewalls and proxies with Linux already but we have to stick with Exchange and since Microsoft makes us pay for every single client connecting to MS-Exchange we can as well leave the print and fileservers running. Theses two server licenses arent killing us (in terms of money). As soon as there is a real, usable and easy to administer OS-Exchange Replacement I would have a much better position on demanding the use of Linux on our servers. I bet we would switch rather today than tomorrow. Promise!
cu,
Lispy
They could make the Star Wars plot twist and make a movie about Bilbos earlier adventures. After killing Smaug we could go back even further and make a trilogy out of the Silmarillion scaring away both, the diehard fans (for replacing the young Arwen with Natalie Imbruglia) and the rest of the crowd for confusing them with a new main character every 15 minutes.
cu,
Lispy
Actually I prefer to think about Google, or the web in general, as the hitchikers guide to galaxy as described in Douglas Adams novels. It knows about anything but most of the time the answer might not quite be what you were looking for.
cu,
Lispy
the CPU. Motorolas never get as hot as an Athlon Thunderbird.
"But imagine keeping e-mail a bit more like a blog. Then suddenly, youâ(TM)ve got instant messaging qualities and e-mail qualities happening at the same time."
That is the exact reason I use a threaded view in Evolution. WhatÂs more, I canÂt do without the virutal folders wich allow me to filter what I see on a daily basis. The times when I saw my "real" inbox are definetly over. Many other mailclients (Sylpheed for example) provide a similar approach to organizing mails. The way most people use their mailclients IÂm not surprised they canÂt handle the traffic anymore. But: the features are there, people just have to start using it.
cu,
Lispy
there is a great Gnome-Project wich adapts pretty fast to new Mozilla releases and ships with antialiased fonts (I didnÂt like them in the beginning but am an addict now ;-) called Dropline-Gnome. I keep installing this for my newbies along with Slackware wich I prefer as a Newbie-Distro for itÂs clear structure. From this day on I stopped worrying about fonts in Mozilla. Most Gnome Apps use these fonts so it provides a consistent look&feel, too.
But last time I tried Firebird I realised the problem was still there. The defaults are ok...but not a beauty. Well, if for non-slackware users I guess Ximian-Gnome ships with antialiased fonts as well...
Whatever Via Mini-ITX it is they are using I hope they wrote some decent accelerated graphics-drivers. Last time I checked the Mini-ITX graphics chip was poorly supported under Linux. Via provided no drivers for the hardware mpeg-encoder and without it DVD-playback was a pain in the a**. Generic OS-drivers worked but gave away a lot of performance compared to running WinXP with decent drivers...
Ok, take a look at that.
;-)
All of this comes FREE (as in GPLed) with version 9 of Slackware-Linux, and before you answer make sure youÂve read your Eulas for iTunes and alike.
Btw: Did it ever cross your mind that you PAID for these Software Packages by purchasing your Apple Hardware? Just an idea...
PS: I like Apple as much as the next guy but this just makes no sense...
...or it is in fact Microsoft mapping Linux Servers. ;-)
...why do I have to reboot? My uptime! My precious uptime! ;-)
Maybe I'm way too naive but isn't a GM Pet just a mutation? If you release it in the wild it competes with the other species out there. The GM-Pet might be superiour and extinct other species but most likely it is not since all his mutations are just pleasing the human eye. So I don't see a real danger in here. Personally I trust evolution and competition. This will all be taken care of by natures forces.
DidnÂt they try to do this by inventing MS-Channels and Active-Desktop back in the 1998?
Yup, it was invented by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland. Personally I believe they are referring to the 1960s where Berkeley was full of spaced out LSD Students (at least in my naive, german vision of the american 60s;-).
cu,
Lispy
Amen. This was truly the worst.
I really have no firsthand experience with Entourage. I made my assumptions on what I've heard from our Apple Admins. Personally I think the problems they had were caused by using Entourage with our (aging) MS-Exchange Server. Not sure though. Wasn't a big fan of Express either but my Mom and some friends of mine are using it and seem to like it. Personally I use neither. I use yet another Outlook-Ripoff... ;-)
As far as i know they didn't port Outlook after Office 97. The new Mailclient/Groupware is called Entourage and it's an Apple-Exclusive. Thank god, because from what Ie heard, this beast seriously sucks.
When I was a 16 year old kid my daddy gave me some (german) army rations wich were older than me. Creepy! ;-)