Consistent, fast, attractive desktop layer that doesn't annoy the living fuck out of me like X11 does, PLUS supports UNIX tools AND killer apps like Photoshop...
Never has been in my experience. Maybe versus IE on Solaris, but sure as hell not on Windows.
I've never benchmarked them, and I don't know why, but IE always "feels" faster under windows than Moz does. (Yes, I have used the most recent build.)
Nevertheless, notice I was not saying "Mozilla suX0rs!", I was merely pointing out (sarcastically, I will grant you that) that large, active open projects can, and will, have bugs,
bugs that potentially will take years to fix.
Just like closed software. I like Mozilla, it might not be on par with IE yet (mostly speed issues) but it beats the living hell out of the festering pile of horseshit that is NS4, that's for sure.
I came upon an XB controller last month, and did exactly what you said - hacked a USB connector
on to the cable.
On plugging it into my machine (WXP), it was detected, and two devices showed up:
1) Some sort of hub-type gadget (possibly for the "card slots" on the bottom of the controller?)
2) An "Unknown Device", which I'm assuming to be the actual control interface.
If I knew anything about writing USB device drivers,
I'd try to hack one up, but I don't, so I haven't.
I prolly should try plugging it into a Linsux box just for shits and giggles, might at least be able to get the device ID or something else interesting.
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(Posting with a text browser, so the formatting might be fucked up...)
How can a professional journalist be so irresponsible as to write things like:
Well, the same way a pro journalist can call a semiauto rifle an assualt weapon, but that's really beside the point.
Journalists are dumb, this fact is proven nearly every day.
Ximian, a company working to improve the Linux operating system for ordinary computer users, has made a philosophical shift in a key new open-source software project that now will be governed by a less restrictive license [emphasis added].
Umm...Maybe you haven't read it lately, but the GPL *is* as restrictive license.
A restriction is still a restriction, no matter if it's ultimate goal is openness or profit.
Agreed, this is a huge advantage that the linux desktop has that no one seems to mention.
...No one gives a shit about linux on the desktop.
If linux on the desktop held as many users as say, Windows, I can guarantee there would be just as many spyware and generally rude apps.
The only thing linux is relatively immune from (assuming you're not a dumbass that always runs as root) is viruses.
Linux is just as vulnerable to spies and trojans, it's just there are so few desktop linux users that it's not even worth it for someone to write them.
You're only immune because no one has targeted you.
Dance
Bum rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
As a result artists would either a) not make art, b) not share their art except at closely held screenings, c) start charging a whole lot more for the copies that you can get.
So your saying, "art for art's sake" will be rendered obselete too?
We would go back in time to the age of Live Performances. Opera, Plays, Concerts would rise in prominence. Is that such a bad thing? No more pre-digested digitally-mangled record company pap for your ears?
Music made by people that care enough about their music to play their own instruments and write their own songs?
Because there would be no incentive. The only incentive real artists need is themslves.
In a world without copyright, people would still produce art. They would still record and still make movies.
Humans were creating artistic works before money even existed.
People will still buy art, too-
partly because people like it and want to support the creation of more, and partly because for many people, copying takes more effort than just going to the store and buying it.
Does anyone out there know if any of the PLD companies (Xilinx, Altera, etc) offer inexpensive (<$500) dev kits for personal/noncommercial use?
I've been wanting to try using PLDs in some of my projects for pretty much as long as I've known such things existed,
but the cost of the tools I've seen is prohibitive to most anyone without corporate or university backing.
Wow. That is (seriously) the first time I've heard that.
It seems the universal bitch about the Xbox is the gigantic, unweildly controller.
I have both a GC and an XB controller, and IMO, the GC controller beats the XB one easy.
I have large hands so the XB controller wasn't/painful/, but I can't imagine a kid using that thing without feeling some pain.
Yes, the GC controller is similar to a PS controller, but the PS controller design is a good one that works equally well with all sizes of hands.
It seems like MS decided to randomly mix together design concepts from like 5 different controllers, and got, well, just that - a big, mutated frankenstein of a controller.
Sometimes I can easily copy/paste between apps, while other times it just doesn't happen. Chances are good that I'm being a dolt, but it's one of my biggest complaints about the X-GUI's.
That is one of many things that will never work "right" (i.e. as well as win/mac),
because X sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls.
The specs say it requires Windows. What's the deal with linux support?
Who uses linux for pro audio?[1]
This guy sounds like he's doing something a bit more advanced than playing MP3 remixes of the "Free Software Song".
Something where decent software support just might come into the picture.
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[1] Nobody. Last I heard all the major PA wares were win/mac only.
No, it's the BMW of hardware.
Mac hardware is the closest mass-market thing I've seen to UNIX workstation hardware.
It really is nice, if you can afford it.
Does ANY application that apple comes out with come with source/linux version?
Source? Well, there's that whole "Darwin" thing.
(Which, BTW, is BSD-derived, so they didn't have to open it if they didn't want to.)
As for linux versions, of Apple software why would they do such a thing?
Apple's new core OS is BSD, and their display layer is vastly different from (and far, far, far better than) X11.
Slashdot Mirror
Consistent, fast, attractive desktop layer that doesn't annoy the living fuck out of me like X11 does, PLUS supports UNIX tools AND killer apps like Photoshop...
...PRICELESS.
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Mozilla is at least as fast as IE6 now.
Never has been in my experience. Maybe versus IE on Solaris, but sure as hell not on Windows.
I've never benchmarked them, and I don't know why, but IE always "feels" faster under windows than Moz does. (Yes, I have used the most recent build.)
Nevertheless, notice I was not saying "Mozilla suX0rs!", I was merely pointing out (sarcastically, I will grant you that) that large, active open projects can, and will, have bugs,
bugs that potentially will take years to fix.
Just like closed software.
I like Mozilla, it might not be on par with IE yet (mostly speed issues) but it beats the living hell out of the festering pile of horseshit that is NS4, that's for sure.
Your argument is lame.
No, you just missed the point.
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Care to back this up, say with some examples of projects where large numbers of people swarmed over the code and still couldn't fix the bugs?
Mozilla, anyone?
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Three years. Still buggy, still slow, still no release. But hey, we have themes!
At least as far as I can tell.
I came upon an XB controller last month, and did exactly what you said - hacked a USB connector
on to the cable.
On plugging it into my machine (WXP), it was detected, and two devices showed up:
1) Some sort of hub-type gadget (possibly for the "card slots" on the bottom of the controller?)
2) An "Unknown Device", which I'm assuming to be the actual control interface.
If I knew anything about writing USB device drivers,
I'd try to hack one up, but I don't, so I haven't.
I prolly should try plugging it into a Linsux box just for shits and giggles, might at least be able to get the device ID or something else interesting.
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(Posting with a text browser, so the formatting might be fucked up...)
That isn't a UI, its a hackery of widgets tossed and turned until something popped out.
You mean it looks like X?
-or-
Don't worry, it's prolly just in "X11 emulation mode".
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Purple Helmet linux?
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It's linux...BLOWING JIZZ ALL OVER YOUR FACE!
rofl, u assume someone is using ms just cos they dont like linux? thats kind of egocentric aint it?
Of course not! Everyone knows there are only two operating systems in existance, linux (may Allah bless it's name), and Windows.
Do you need to be sent to a re-education camp?
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Why is a dev kernel revision being put on the front page?
No "real" news to report?
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How can a professional journalist be so irresponsible as to write things like:
Well, the same way a pro journalist can call a semiauto rifle an assualt weapon, but that's really beside the point.
Journalists are dumb, this fact is proven nearly every day.
Ximian, a company working to improve the Linux operating system for ordinary computer users, has made a philosophical shift in a key new open-source software project that now will be governed by a less restrictive license [emphasis added].
Umm...Maybe you haven't read it lately, but the GPL *is* as restrictive license.
A restriction is still a restriction, no matter if it's ultimate goal is openness or profit.
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Mmm....If your ass is a chinese restaurant, I'll have the poo-poo platter!
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Agreed, this is a huge advantage that the linux desktop has that no one seems to mention.
...No one gives a shit about linux on the desktop.
If linux on the desktop held as many users as say, Windows, I can guarantee there would be just as many spyware and generally rude apps.
The only thing linux is relatively immune from (assuming you're not a dumbass that always runs as root) is viruses.
Linux is just as vulnerable to spies and trojans, it's just there are so few desktop linux users that it's not even worth it for someone to write them.
You're only immune because no one has targeted you.
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just too subversive for little kids
Yeah, we wouldn't want our kids thinking, now would we?
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Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance
Bum rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
That reminds me...
Golden-rod.
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As a result artists would either a) not make art, b) not share their art except at closely held screenings, c) start charging a whole lot more for the copies that you can get.
So your saying, "art for art's sake" will be rendered obselete too?
We would go back in time to the age of Live Performances. Opera, Plays, Concerts would rise in prominence.
Is that such a bad thing? No more pre-digested digitally-mangled record company pap for your ears?
Music made by people that care enough about their music to play their own instruments and write their own songs?
Because there would be no incentive.
The only incentive real artists need is themslves.
In a world without copyright, people would still produce art. They would still record and still make movies.
Humans were creating artistic works before money even existed.
People will still buy art, too-
partly because people like it and want to support the creation of more, and partly because for many people, copying takes more effort than just going to the store and buying it.
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Does anyone out there know if any of the PLD companies (Xilinx, Altera, etc) offer inexpensive (<$500) dev kits for personal/noncommercial use?
I've been wanting to try using PLDs in some of my projects for pretty much as long as I've known such things existed,
but the cost of the tools I've seen is prohibitive to most anyone without corporate or university backing.
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Knowing slashdot, they'd prolly implement it by comparing how well they compress.
You know they're dying to use this revolutionary compression filter technology in other places!
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No, it has a better controller
/painful/, but I can't imagine a kid using that thing without feeling some pain.
Wow. That is (seriously) the first time I've heard that.
It seems the universal bitch about the Xbox is the gigantic, unweildly controller.
I have both a GC and an XB controller, and IMO, the GC controller beats the XB one easy.
I have large hands so the XB controller wasn't
Yes, the GC controller is similar to a PS controller, but the PS controller design is a good one that works equally well with all sizes of hands.
It seems like MS decided to randomly mix together design concepts from like 5 different controllers, and got, well, just that - a big, mutated frankenstein of a controller.
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Is the new theme song.
Rock
the
fucking
mullet.
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If thats what you want, check the USB On the go extention to USB2.
I'd rather just take the (proven, existant, and nearly ubiquitous in the DV world) 1394 interface.
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Logic on crapdot? No way!
Roblimo, the author of the article, equates XP with "a permanent backdoor into your computer."
Hey, guess what!
Roblimo's full of shit!
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Sometimes I can easily copy/paste between apps, while other times it just doesn't happen. Chances are good that I'm being a dolt, but it's one of my biggest complaints about the X-GUI's.
That is one of many things that will never work "right" (i.e. as well as win/mac),
because X sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls.
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The specs say it requires Windows. What's the deal with linux support?
Who uses linux for pro audio?[1]
This guy sounds like he's doing something a bit more advanced than playing MP3 remixes of the "Free Software Song".
Something where decent software support just might come into the picture.
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[1] Nobody. Last I heard all the major PA wares were win/mac only.
It's hardly the Rolls Royce of hardware
No, it's the BMW of hardware.
Mac hardware is the closest mass-market thing I've seen to UNIX workstation hardware.
It really is nice, if you can afford it.
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Does ANY application that apple comes out with come with source/linux version?
Source? Well, there's that whole "Darwin" thing.
(Which, BTW, is BSD-derived, so they didn't have to open it if they didn't want to.)
As for linux versions, of Apple software why would they do such a thing?
Apple's new core OS is BSD, and their display layer is vastly different from (and far, far, far better than) X11.
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