Wow, how typical. You point out the shortcomings of Linux and someone takes personal offense. Just one more thing wrong with linux: It's community.
Yes, we are a community, which is why we usually try to help each other with our problems. If there exists a problem, then we can ask others for help, and they help us fix it. Otherwise we have to wait on a telephone for 3 hours before Mircosoft tells us that they can't help us unless we ship our computer to them. (Real experience)
No. Supporting Linux is not hard at all [opera.com]. It's not like you have to release 10 different packages for each distribution you support... and stuff.
so go after one distro at a time. The modifications for each aren't that complex once you have a base. Would just take some tweaking.
You say "It's not as hard as you think." I say, "It's easier said than done."
For a linux developer, this would not be difficult. For a Windows only developer, it could take 10+ years.
Yeah, I'm a troll. Instead of developing a modern tool chain, linux folk scream, "Emacs/VIM, the GNU toolchain and a command line debugger is all you will ever need!" Which, wherein lies the most fundamental problem of the Linux crowd, they feel entitled to tell people what they should want and need, rather than listen to what people want and need. And then you call them a troll.
No one was telling you what to want. He just said that he didn't like C#... Use what you want. We honestly don't care.
Or NT 7.1? Makes about as much sense as Windows 7...
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Really?
NT 6.0 Windows Vista
NT 6.0 Windows Server 2008
NT 6.1 Windows 7
I always did like Microsoft's naming scheme.
Although, I suppose technically it is the 7th home distro. If you count the orignial NT's and don't count things like windows 2000, and XP64 and Home Server, or pre-NT
Personally, I find that ATI is usually more bloated than nVidia. My first graphics card was an ATI, a Radeon 9250 I beleive, and it performed well. I still had it lying around on a shelf, and tested it the other day, and it still performed fine after 3 years of shelf-life. However, I will say that the control panel was very difficult to use.
I prefer nVidia myself, for three main reasons. First, although it is purely a personal choice, green and black strike me better than red on white. Second, the control panel is nice and small and tidy, with everything easy to find. Third, linux support for nVidia has proved much better, as I could not get another ATI (I forget the model) working 100% on linux at all.
Agree to the steam point.
Steam is by no means a perfect system, however the concept is an effective one. By having all games tied to an online account, it does the following:
1. Protects Developers from piracy to an extent
2. Allows users to retain functionality of their games while still pleasing the developers
3. Users don't have to worry about losing their CD
4. You can take your games anywhere there is internet access
5. purchasing games is easy
more developers should use a system
Although IPv6 will be glorious when it arrives for the masses to use, it is still just as temporary well. It will eventually run out. Faster actually, since, as I have come to understand it, correct me if i am wrong, each individual computer will have its own global IP. Meaning that a company with 1 outer connection, and 5000 networked computers has the potential to take up 5000 global IP's instead of one. Just my thoughts.
They should make high school more like college. Yes, if you know the material, and you don't want to listen to boring lectures, then you can only come for tests and quizzes and such, and do fine. This rewards those who are exceptional minds, or simply know the material, and does not penalize those who are normal, as they aren't doing anything other than what they normally would. If a student fails, then they fail. If you fail something in the 'real world' then most of the time, you don't get a chance to go back and fix it. You messed up, and will have to deal with it. Sliding poor students through school like the system in the article glorifies the failures, and takes respect away from the successes. If you can accomplish the same thing (high school graduation) by not doing anything first semester, then getting an 82% on everything second semester, you pass with 66%. With an F and a C in every class, you pass just the same as someone with straight A's. I call bullshit.
Better yet.
Make the grading percentile distribution more like:
A - 100% - 81%
B - 80% - 61%
C - 60% - 41%
D - 40% - 21%
F - 20% - 0%
Personally, if I am to have a brain surgeon working on my brain, I would like him to know more than 81% of what he is doing, even if he made all A's in high school. Extreme example, but applies to most jobs.
Set oFilesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If not oFilesys.FileExists("c:\results.txt") Then
Set oFiletxt = oFilesys.CreateTextFile("c:\results.txt", True)
else
set oFiletxt = oFilesys.OpenTextFile(strFile, 8, True)
end if
if (msgbox("YOUR TEXT HERE", vbQuestion & vbYesNO, "TITLE HERE")) = vbYes then
oFiletxt.WriteLine("User Clicked Yes")
else
oFiletxt.WriteLine("User Clicked No")
end if
oFiletxt.Close
Haven't tested, but something like that should work
You can write a VBscript that does this and stick in somewhere in the startup processes, either under Start->Programs->Startup, or a deeper location.
Pop up a dialog saying whatever you want, then record whether they clicked yes or no to a txt file.
Crude, but it works.
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Wow, how typical. You point out the shortcomings of Linux and someone takes personal offense. Just one more thing wrong with linux: It's community.
Yes, we are a community, which is why we usually try to help each other with our problems. If there exists a problem, then we can ask others for help, and they help us fix it. Otherwise we have to wait on a telephone for 3 hours before Mircosoft tells us that they can't help us unless we ship our computer to them. (Real experience)
No. Supporting Linux is not hard at all [opera.com]. It's not like you have to release 10 different packages for each distribution you support... and stuff.
so go after one distro at a time. The modifications for each aren't that complex once you have a base. Would just take some tweaking.
You say "It's not as hard as you think." I say, "It's easier said than done."
For a linux developer, this would not be difficult. For a Windows only developer, it could take 10+ years.
Yeah, I'm a troll. Instead of developing a modern tool chain, linux folk scream, "Emacs/VIM, the GNU toolchain and a command line debugger is all you will ever need!" Which, wherein lies the most fundamental problem of the Linux crowd, they feel entitled to tell people what they should want and need, rather than listen to what people want and need. And then you call them a troll.
No one was telling you what to want. He just said that he didn't like C#... Use what you want. We honestly don't care.
Or NT 7.1? Makes about as much sense as Windows 7...
Really?
NT 6.0 Windows Vista
NT 6.0 Windows Server 2008
NT 6.1 Windows 7
I always did like Microsoft's naming scheme.
Although, I suppose technically it is the 7th home distro. If you count the orignial NT's and don't count things like windows 2000, and XP64 and Home Server, or pre-NT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases
Enable proposed and backports. Then all fixes are coming down the pipes.
Don't be a nadir hater!!!!!!
Personally, I find that ATI is usually more bloated than nVidia. My first graphics card was an ATI, a Radeon 9250 I beleive, and it performed well. I still had it lying around on a shelf, and tested it the other day, and it still performed fine after 3 years of shelf-life. However, I will say that the control panel was very difficult to use.
I prefer nVidia myself, for three main reasons. First, although it is purely a personal choice, green and black strike me better than red on white. Second, the control panel is nice and small and tidy, with everything easy to find. Third, linux support for nVidia has proved much better, as I could not get another ATI (I forget the model) working 100% on linux at all.
Anyone have a preference?
Agree to the steam point. Steam is by no means a perfect system, however the concept is an effective one. By having all games tied to an online account, it does the following: 1. Protects Developers from piracy to an extent 2. Allows users to retain functionality of their games while still pleasing the developers 3. Users don't have to worry about losing their CD 4. You can take your games anywhere there is internet access 5. purchasing games is easy more developers should use a system
It is mostly up to the ISP's right now. I can't just 'turn on' IPv6 for my computer. My ISP has to use it before I can.
Although IPv6 will be glorious when it arrives for the masses to use, it is still just as temporary well. It will eventually run out. Faster actually, since, as I have come to understand it, correct me if i am wrong, each individual computer will have its own global IP. Meaning that a company with 1 outer connection, and 5000 networked computers has the potential to take up 5000 global IP's instead of one. Just my thoughts.
They should make high school more like college. Yes, if you know the material, and you don't want to listen to boring lectures, then you can only come for tests and quizzes and such, and do fine. This rewards those who are exceptional minds, or simply know the material, and does not penalize those who are normal, as they aren't doing anything other than what they normally would. If a student fails, then they fail. If you fail something in the 'real world' then most of the time, you don't get a chance to go back and fix it. You messed up, and will have to deal with it. Sliding poor students through school like the system in the article glorifies the failures, and takes respect away from the successes. If you can accomplish the same thing (high school graduation) by not doing anything first semester, then getting an 82% on everything second semester, you pass with 66%. With an F and a C in every class, you pass just the same as someone with straight A's. I call bullshit.
Better yet. Make the grading percentile distribution more like: A - 100% - 81% B - 80% - 61% C - 60% - 41% D - 40% - 21% F - 20% - 0%
Personally, if I am to have a brain surgeon working on my brain, I would like him to know more than 81% of what he is doing, even if he made all A's in high school. Extreme example, but applies to most jobs.
Set oFilesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If not oFilesys.FileExists("c:\results.txt") Then
Set oFiletxt = oFilesys.CreateTextFile("c:\results.txt", True)
else
set oFiletxt = oFilesys.OpenTextFile(strFile, 8, True)
end if
if (msgbox("YOUR TEXT HERE", vbQuestion & vbYesNO, "TITLE HERE")) = vbYes then
oFiletxt.WriteLine("User Clicked Yes")
else
oFiletxt.WriteLine("User Clicked No")
end if
oFiletxt.Close
Haven't tested, but something like that should work
You can write a VBscript that does this and stick in somewhere in the startup processes, either under Start->Programs->Startup, or a deeper location. Pop up a dialog saying whatever you want, then record whether they clicked yes or no to a txt file. Crude, but it works.