The faster buses and larger caches in the PowerBooks are going to keep them running faster than the new iBooks in real-world tasks, even if the CPU speed is the same.
All kidding aside... how will this impact my gaming? (No, seriously)
I've wanted a newer Mac for a while. I would also like to play Warcraft III and maybe some other 3D games and would LOVE to tote an iBook with me to LAN parties instead of my PC. Is the bus speed going to have an effect on gaming? It looks like they include a (fairly) decent video card (Radeon 9200), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I just checked... at least one of your concerns has been fixed. There is a checkbox in Tools->Options->Advanced for keeping the tab bar visible when only one tab is open.
You might want to install the new Google toolbar. It's nice when I absolutely have to use IE (usually just testing a web page in it after designing in the more standards-compliant Mozilla) Anyway, the latest Google toolbar has pop-up blocking for IE.
The last few releases have really come a long way and I, for one, am looking forward to the day when I can use Mono on Windows as a complete replacement for the MS.Net binaries.
I, for one, welcome our new (open- or closed-sourced).NET overlords.
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MP3 are ripe for the picking, but DVDs (or even Divx rips) are not so easy. Once bandwidth and cheap media catches up, the story will change.
I thought so too. But now with a slew of "other" P2P options (new for the Napster/Kazaa crowd I guess) you can find a ton of movie rips. I just bought a spool of $50 blank DVDs online for $1 each. One could theoretically transcode the movie back to DVD, but its probably not worth the effort. Still, its already there if people want it. Judging by how many sources I had when downloading a torrent of "Battle Royale", people want it.
it would allow you to run Windows and Linux under Xen, which is not nearly the same thing.
If it's true that Xen is the base and doesn't sit on a host OS (I can't RTFA, because it appears to be slashdotted at the moment,) it would be very much like VMWare's ESX Server. This is different from their GSX Server in that it is practically its own OS, and is installed on the bare metal of the box.
And since it isn't a proprietary standard, they don't need to latch it on through a plugin.
Um, where exactly is this standard implemented? The only implementation I know of that works well is the plugin from Adobe. Now we're back to square one.
It's a nice play on words, but there are plenty of people who won't make the link between that and writing data onto an optical disk.
I gotta admit... I've been using the program for years and love it, but I just realized earlier this year that the icon for Nero was a burning coloseum.
but if you can handle a kernel compile, you'll have no problem with Gentoo.
You don't even have to handle that now! They have added a new tool (read the instructions for more details on it) that will auto configure the makefile for the kernel to compile with all the options of the LiveCD. With these options, you should get all the hardware "detection" features of the LiveCD kernel on your installed system.
Of course, Gentoo is always about options. You can still go thru and build the kernel yourself.
Buy a game, preferably a newish game that will have a strategy guide available
When asked if you would like to purchase the strategy guide for the game, exclaim to everyone in the store "Why in the world would I want to spend $15 on this strategy guide when I get a better strategy guide on GameFaqs.com for FREE? That's w-w-w-dot-g-a-....
the junk your father-in-law sends you that is either urban legend, or ancient, or both)
If you do offer this class, please tell them about snopes.com. I have told my family about this one and it has cut down on the number of scam reportings, virus hoaxes, and other such nonsense I used to recieve from them.
What's wrong with it is that it's the syntax for dictionaries. Similar to hashes in Perl, it is a built-in type for Python. Anything wrapped in {} would probably be viewed as an attempt to make a dictionary by the parser.
I've discussed this with all my software engineering colleagues, and most of them have white space as their only hang up about the language. I thought this was pretty petty at first, given the other strengths of the language, but one person brought up an extremely good point. A co-worker at his company is blind. He said that having to deal with white space while coding was near impossible (maybe he uses a "pretty printer" or code beautifier after the fact? I don't know) Has anybody on/. had experience with a blind user of Python? How did they work around this issue (if at all?)
I do think it would be nice if there was a way to open and close a block (someone later down in the comments suggested preprocessor comments of
#begin
and
#end
) such that one could use either method. Perhaps there would even be a built in function of the interpreter to spit out the code one way or the other.
I must say I've gotten used to the whitespace over the past year. Using a decent editor makes life much easier in this respect. I would encourage anyone who hasn't tried out Python for this reason alone to give it a shot for a few weeks and see what you think.
Just to chime in, my '95 3000GT has a 1/8th" jack right on the front of the stock Infinity sound system. I've never even considered replacing it because of this. When I needed a CD player for it, I got a Discman. Now I have a 30 gig iPod hooked in to it. Great stuff. Hope to see this on the next car (stereo) I buy.
You mean how they release a movie on DVD, wait 6 months, then screw the customer when they intentionally release a special edition of the DVD with never-before-seen footage, extra commentary, etc...
Am I the only one here who has noticed this and actively done something about it? I know they're going to release a big boxed set of all the Matrix movies, probably even The Animatrix, and I will be there to get it. But I will not be spending money on all the other releases in the mean time.
I don't think open source is ineffective, rather, it is inefficient. While a core group of developers may be employed full time to work on open source projects, I would say the majority of developers work on them in their spare time. Thus, there is no incentive to work on one project over another. Whatever scratches your itch, use it.
I don't know what is stopping the various distributions from taking the best parts of other distros and using it in their own. I think if that happened, we would see the emergence of one "standard" distro (maybe this is why it hasn't happened... a loss of control?) Take the Knoppix hardware detection scripts or Mandrake's configuration tools. I think those would make excellent additions to other distros. I think until we start seeing more cross distro "sharing" of this type, we won't see Linux as a whole be a dominant power in the same ways that MacOS or Windows are now.
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And the #1 job for neo-pagans on the Slashdot Top 10?
A waiter/waitress at Medieval Times! (Remember, they don't have forks in Medieval Times... more Pepsi?)
9.2 FRIED my CDROM drives
Also, 9.2 ate my balls!
The faster buses and larger caches in the PowerBooks are going to keep them running faster than the new iBooks in real-world tasks, even if the CPU speed is the same.
All kidding aside... how will this impact my gaming? (No, seriously)
I've wanted a newer Mac for a while. I would also like to play Warcraft III and maybe some other 3D games and would LOVE to tote an iBook with me to LAN parties instead of my PC. Is the bus speed going to have an effect on gaming? It looks like they include a (fairly) decent video card (Radeon 9200), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I just checked... at least one of your concerns has been fixed. There is a checkbox in Tools->Options->Advanced for keeping the tab bar visible when only one tab is open.
You might want to install the new Google toolbar. It's nice when I absolutely have to use IE (usually just testing a web page in it after designing in the more standards-compliant Mozilla) Anyway, the latest Google toolbar has pop-up blocking for IE.
The last few releases have really come a long way and I, for one, am looking forward to the day when I can use Mono on Windows as a complete replacement for the MS.Net binaries.
.NET overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new (open- or closed-sourced)
MP3 are ripe for the picking, but DVDs (or even Divx rips) are not so easy. Once bandwidth and cheap media catches up, the story will change.
I thought so too. But now with a slew of "other" P2P options (new for the Napster/Kazaa crowd I guess) you can find a ton of movie rips. I just bought a spool of $50 blank DVDs online for $1 each. One could theoretically transcode the movie back to DVD, but its probably not worth the effort. Still, its already there if people want it. Judging by how many sources I had when downloading a torrent of "Battle Royale", people want it.
Although our artists are small, for instance MEME, XAN, WARD and MAZ PLANT OUT, but they are all really excited about the ideas and the licenses.
:)
IS, THERE, A, REQUIREMENT, THAT, OPEN, SOURCED, BAND, NAMES, BE, ALL, CAPS?
Just wondering
it would allow you to run Windows and Linux under Xen, which is not nearly the same thing.
If it's true that Xen is the base and doesn't sit on a host OS (I can't RTFA, because it appears to be slashdotted at the moment,) it would be very much like VMWare's ESX Server. This is different from their GSX Server in that it is practically its own OS, and is installed on the bare metal of the box.
I for one welcome my new smart sofa overlords.
I gotta say that when I think of atrocities, name resolving does not end up first on my list.
And since it isn't a proprietary standard, they don't need to latch it on through a plugin.
Um, where exactly is this standard implemented? The only implementation I know of that works well is the plugin from Adobe. Now we're back to square one.
I'd be willing to bet money that you didn't run Half-Life at that resolution when it first came out ;)
FYI, there's also WebMatrix, which is a free download from Microsoft's web page.
On Nova about 6 years ago...
I'm pretty sure MacGuyver did this about 15 years ago. No, seriously.
It's a nice play on words, but there are plenty of people who won't make the link between that and writing data onto an optical disk.
I gotta admit... I've been using the program for years and love it, but I just realized earlier this year that the icon for Nero was a burning coloseum.
I am dumb.
but if you can handle a kernel compile, you'll have no problem with Gentoo.
You don't even have to handle that now! They have added a new tool (read the instructions for more details on it) that will auto configure the makefile for the kernel to compile with all the options of the LiveCD. With these options, you should get all the hardware "detection" features of the LiveCD kernel on your installed system.
Of course, Gentoo is always about options. You can still go thru and build the kernel yourself.
They've learned not to ask me anymore...
the junk your father-in-law sends you that is either urban legend, or ancient, or both)
If you do offer this class, please tell them about snopes.com. I have told my family about this one and it has cut down on the number of scam reportings, virus hoaxes, and other such nonsense I used to recieve from them.
What's wrong with it is that it's the syntax for dictionaries. Similar to hashes in Perl, it is a built-in type for Python. Anything wrapped in {} would probably be viewed as an attempt to make a dictionary by the parser.
I've discussed this with all my software engineering colleagues, and most of them have white space as their only hang up about the language. I thought this was pretty petty at first, given the other strengths of the language, but one person brought up an extremely good point. A co-worker at his company is blind. He said that having to deal with white space while coding was near impossible (maybe he uses a "pretty printer" or code beautifier after the fact? I don't know) Has anybody on
I do think it would be nice if there was a way to open and close a block (someone later down in the comments suggested preprocessor comments of and ) such that one could use either method. Perhaps there would even be a built in function of the interpreter to spit out the code one way or the other.
I must say I've gotten used to the whitespace over the past year. Using a decent editor makes life much easier in this respect. I would encourage anyone who hasn't tried out Python for this reason alone to give it a shot for a few weeks and see what you think.
Just to chime in, my '95 3000GT has a 1/8th" jack right on the front of the stock Infinity sound system. I've never even considered replacing it because of this. When I needed a CD player for it, I got a Discman. Now I have a 30 gig iPod hooked in to it. Great stuff. Hope to see this on the next car (stereo) I buy.
You mean how they release a movie on DVD, wait 6 months, then screw the customer when they intentionally release a special edition of the DVD with never-before-seen footage, extra commentary, etc...
Am I the only one here who has noticed this and actively done something about it? I know they're going to release a big boxed set of all the Matrix movies, probably even The Animatrix, and I will be there to get it. But I will not be spending money on all the other releases in the mean time.
I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission.
I strongly recommend not using the bright fucking purple from games.slashdot.org. I don't want to burn out anybody's retinas.
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