Kind of amusing that you're bashing a $500 device when your $320 netbook has been in for repair FOUR TIMES. People always rail on the interchangable battery thing, but I've never carried spare batteries for ANYTHING I've owned. If you're on the move, do you really want to lug around a couple extra pounds? They list 10 hours of battery life including video playback, which, judging by my experiences with a 1st gen iPod touch, is believable.
This thing is more a web-surfing super eBook reader than a true netbook, but in my opinion, it looks awesome. No, it's not a hacker's dream come true mega-portable computer, it's a "normal" person's digital media device. It's for eBooks, music, photos, the web and email and it's designed to do those tasks in a sleek, sexy, simple manner.
This happens with every Apple product announcement. People speculate and expect it to have every feature under the sun, cost next to nothing and be 100% open source, cure cancer, make coffee and have its only environmental by-product be rainbows. Sorry, people, this is the real world. This product looks awesome for what it's designed to be. It's not going to replace your netbook for hacking perl on your favorite geek project and it's not supposed to.
Um, hospitals DO have a use for it. Almost every insurance company requires it to process your claim. Now, whether the insurance companies should be able to do that is a whole different argument.
Or there is of course, another possibility: That humans are the only "intelligent" species using radio transmission as a communications medium and that any other "intelligent" species is such a great distance away and/or in a region of space where we haven't been listening that we are unable to detect them.
Way to NOT read anything but the summary. Apple specifically stated there will be a way for businesses to internally distribute their own "internal" applications. That's why there's an "individual" developer license and an "enterprise" developer license, which costs more. No, they didn't reveal details about how this would work yet, probably because they are still working out the bugs. After all, they did say this is a BETA SDK.
Games are already too expensive as it is, which is one reason I quit playing them about 2 years ago. I can get a lot more enjoyment out of $60 doing something outside or with friends and family than I can spending hours in the basement mashing buttons.
It's simple. Apple does NOT have a monopoly on the portable digital music player market, nor do they have one on the on-line music business. It's a simple matter of market share. While Apple may be the most popular player/store combo right now, their market share is still less than 50% of the total market. Compare that to the over 90% market share of MS Windows and I think you can see what the difference is.
If you don't like being "locked into" Apple's technology, there are other viable alternatives with significant market share.
So let's play a numbers game. Let's say there's around 100 billion stars in our galaxy (a generally well-accepted estimate) and 100 billion galaxies (again, a fairly well-accepted estimate).
We've surveyed 120 stars. That's a whopping 1.2 * 10^-19 PERCENT of the stars that we know about. Somehow I think it's a little early to be giving up.
Obviously you've never watched '24'. DVD is the ONLY way to watch the show without pulling your hair out at the end of every episode because they leave you hanging. The guys who write for that show have definitely mastered the art of the cliffhanger, and that's what it takes to keep the audience coming back for more.
I have never watched 24 during a broadcast, only on DVD (I own both season 1 & 2 and have avoided watching season 3 so I can watch it all on DVD) yet it's probably my favorite TV show. It's just a lot more convenient for me to be able to watch 2 or 3 episodes in a row on the weekends instead of being in front of the TV when FOX wants me there.
Doesn't matter. They'll just clearly state an "absolutely no refunds on opened DVDs" policy like they do on software. They might give you an exchange for the same thing (limit 1) but there's no way an entertainment store will ever give you you're money back once it's in their grasp.
Anyone who attempts to return software must be a pirate anyway. Nevermind the fact that you could have tried to install the software and despite the fact that the box says it will work on your machine, it doesn't. Once you break that seal, forget getting your money back.
Wow, this sounds great, but how does this PHONE do with making PHONE CALLS? You know, the thing you use your phone for 90% of the time? I'd bet that most people who have camera/mp3/video/whatever capabilities in their phones probably use those for about 3 days until the "look, it's cool" factor wears off, then they just talk on their phone like normal people.
Umm, comparing Corel Draw to Photoshop is like comparing MS Word to Frontpage, you can do the same things in them, but their focus is completely different. Corel Draw is vector graphics program, similar to Adobe Illustrator. Photoshop is a bitmap graphics package. Corel's equivalent is Photo-Paint. The small graphics design company I work for OVERWHELMINGLY prefers Corel Draw to Adobe Illustrator. Too bad Adobe dominates the market. In many ways, Draw is a better program, more in line with standards and doesn't try to draw things for you like Illustrator sometimes will.
There's no such thing as "primary" and "secondary" protocols in gaim anymore. You don't have to build separate protocol plugins to make them work. Historically, gaim did start as an AIM client, but now it is no more an AIM client than Trillian is. Would you say Trillian is primarily an MSN or AIM client? What about Kopete? You're just hung up on the name. Well, let me suggest you just think of it this way: G - Gnome A - All Purpose I - Instant M - Messenger
This is by far the dumbest method of controlling P2P traffic I've ever heard. At Kansas State, you can have any P2P program you want on your harddrive, it's just not gonna give you any performance at all. I know the guy who does the "bandwidth shaping" as they call it, and he's real, real good. Honestly, I have no idea how it works, but he's given several talks on the topic of eliminating p2p traffic on college networks. All he'll tell me is it doesn't work by port numbers, it doesn't work by IPs and it's not protocol specific. Yet within 2 or 3 days of a new p2p program being released transfer rates for it are crushed down to the 0.1 k/sec range.
That's the best solution. Let the students have whatever programs they want on THEIR computers, but control YOUR resources appropriately.
It's a simple script that downloads the latest and builds everything that gnome needs. Seriously, is there are REASON you want to try to compile something this complex by hand?
There are serveral similar build scripts including jhbuild, yagnobs, cvsgnome. Why don't you try building with one of these? They don't require an automatic packaging utility, just builds what you need for gnome without you having to./configure;make;make install everything yourself.
Does MS have a right to close off their network to "officially-supported clients" only? Absolutely. That doesn't mean we have to like it. So far I haven't seen too many anti-competitive, MS is the devil reactions to it (although they're coming, this is Slashdot after all), just people pissed off about something that is going to be a major pain in the ass.
Redhat doesn't HAVE to do this, and I'll wager it doesn't put "money in their pocket" as so many Redhat bashers seem to be obessed with mentioning. It's good PR, yes, but it's also good for the community.
Redhat makes IMHO the BEST out-of-the box distro. You want something that just works (tm)? 95% of the time, you're talking about Redhat. Is it perfect? No, not by a long shot, but it amazes me the sheer number of people who attack Redhat just because they are the market leader. Remember kids, if it's popular, it must be crap!
> Getting RH9 to see them is another problem altogether...
Uhhh, untar-gzing to/usr/share/themes or ~/.themes is hard?
Apparently so is Applications->Preferences->Theme (in Gnome, which is what Redhat is targeted towards).
If it's difficult to find in whatever *box or *wm is the "in" thing for people who claim Gnome and KDE are both slow, then that's a problem with that wm, not Redhat.
Look out, Sarah Michelle Gellar has been referenced on Slashdot by her initials. This puts her in the same category as RMS and ESR doesn't it? I'm sure this is a great thing for linux, er, um, somehow.
Okay, look, it's early, haven't had my caffeine yet.
Ever heard digital distortion? It's downright disgusting and would only be considered useful by certain Industrial-Noise outfits.
Please tell me you're not serious. Digital distortion (depending on how implemented) can give various sounds. Sure, it will never be the same as your favorite tube, but it also doesn't radiate a small star's worth of heat or run at 250 V.
Why do people claim that tube-based audio products sound "better" or "warmer"? It's because of the harmonics involved in the distortion. Tubes produce mostly even harmonics, which sound "softer" to the typical human ear. Transistors tend to produce more odd harmonics, which give the signal a "harsh" tone. "Better" depends completely on the desired effect, but all methods of distortion essentially do the same thing.
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Kind of amusing that you're bashing a $500 device when your $320 netbook has been in for repair FOUR TIMES. People always rail on the interchangable battery thing, but I've never carried spare batteries for ANYTHING I've owned. If you're on the move, do you really want to lug around a couple extra pounds? They list 10 hours of battery life including video playback, which, judging by my experiences with a 1st gen iPod touch, is believable.
This thing is more a web-surfing super eBook reader than a true netbook, but in my opinion, it looks awesome. No, it's not a hacker's dream come true mega-portable computer, it's a "normal" person's digital media device. It's for eBooks, music, photos, the web and email and it's designed to do those tasks in a sleek, sexy, simple manner.
This happens with every Apple product announcement. People speculate and expect it to have every feature under the sun, cost next to nothing and be 100% open source, cure cancer, make coffee and have its only environmental by-product be rainbows. Sorry, people, this is the real world. This product looks awesome for what it's designed to be. It's not going to replace your netbook for hacking perl on your favorite geek project and it's not supposed to.
Um, hospitals DO have a use for it. Almost every insurance company requires it to process your claim. Now, whether the insurance companies should be able to do that is a whole different argument.
Or there is of course, another possibility: That humans are the only "intelligent" species using radio transmission as a communications medium and that any other "intelligent" species is such a great distance away and/or in a region of space where we haven't been listening that we are unable to detect them.
Way to NOT read anything but the summary. Apple specifically stated there will be a way for businesses to internally distribute their own "internal" applications. That's why there's an "individual" developer license and an "enterprise" developer license, which costs more. No, they didn't reveal details about how this would work yet, probably because they are still working out the bugs. After all, they did say this is a BETA SDK.
Games are already too expensive as it is, which is one reason I quit playing them about 2 years ago. I can get a lot more enjoyment out of $60 doing something outside or with friends and family than I can spending hours in the basement mashing buttons.
Glad I'm not playing WoW if those are considered "beautiful screenshots".
It's simple. Apple does NOT have a monopoly on the portable digital music player market, nor do they have one on the on-line music business. It's a simple matter of market share. While Apple may be the most popular player/store combo right now, their market share is still less than 50% of the total market. Compare that to the over 90% market share of MS Windows and I think you can see what the difference is.
If you don't like being "locked into" Apple's technology, there are other viable alternatives with significant market share.
So let's play a numbers game. Let's say there's around 100 billion stars in our galaxy (a generally well-accepted estimate) and 100 billion galaxies (again, a fairly well-accepted estimate).
We've surveyed 120 stars. That's a whopping 1.2 * 10^-19 PERCENT of the stars that we know about. Somehow I think it's a little early to be giving up.
Obviously you've never watched '24'. DVD is the ONLY way to watch the show without pulling your hair out at the end of every episode because they leave you hanging. The guys who write for that show have definitely mastered the art of the cliffhanger, and that's what it takes to keep the audience coming back for more.
I have never watched 24 during a broadcast, only on DVD (I own both season 1 & 2 and have avoided watching season 3 so I can watch it all on DVD) yet it's probably my favorite TV show. It's just a lot more convenient for me to be able to watch 2 or 3 episodes in a row on the weekends instead of being in front of the TV when FOX wants me there.
Doesn't matter. They'll just clearly state an "absolutely no refunds on opened DVDs" policy like they do on software. They might give you an exchange for the same thing (limit 1) but there's no way an entertainment store will ever give you you're money back once it's in their grasp.
Anyone who attempts to return software must be a pirate anyway. Nevermind the fact that you could have tried to install the software and despite the fact that the box says it will work on your machine, it doesn't. Once you break that seal, forget getting your money back.
Uninstall your old gtk runtime, install the new runtime. REBOOT. Unfortunately, you cannot skip this last step. At least that's what fixed it for me.
Java Desktop has nothing to do with Java. It's a modified Gnome 2.x themed up with Java name branding all over it.
Wow, this sounds great, but how does this PHONE do with making PHONE CALLS? You know, the thing you use your phone for 90% of the time? I'd bet that most people who have camera/mp3/video/whatever capabilities in their phones probably use those for about 3 days until the "look, it's cool" factor wears off, then they just talk on their phone like normal people.
Umm, comparing Corel Draw to Photoshop is like comparing MS Word to Frontpage, you can do the same things in them, but their focus is completely different. Corel Draw is vector graphics program, similar to Adobe Illustrator. Photoshop is a bitmap graphics package. Corel's equivalent is Photo-Paint. The small graphics design company I work for OVERWHELMINGLY prefers Corel Draw to Adobe Illustrator. Too bad Adobe dominates the market. In many ways, Draw is a better program, more in line with standards and doesn't try to draw things for you like Illustrator sometimes will.
Uh apparently, you missed this which says IBM has already dumped notes because it sucks:
No more notes
There's no such thing as "primary" and "secondary" protocols in gaim anymore. You don't have to build separate protocol plugins to make them work. Historically, gaim did start as an AIM client, but now it is no more an AIM client than Trillian is. Would you say Trillian is primarily an MSN or AIM client? What about Kopete? You're just hung up on the name. Well, let me suggest you just think of it this way:
G - Gnome
A - All Purpose
I - Instant
M - Messenger
This is by far the dumbest method of controlling P2P traffic I've ever heard. At Kansas State, you can have any P2P program you want on your harddrive, it's just not gonna give you any performance at all. I know the guy who does the "bandwidth shaping" as they call it, and he's real, real good. Honestly, I have no idea how it works, but he's given several talks on the topic of eliminating p2p traffic on college networks. All he'll tell me is it doesn't work by port numbers, it doesn't work by IPs and it's not protocol specific. Yet within 2 or 3 days of a new p2p program being released transfer rates for it are crushed down to the 0.1 k/sec range.
That's the best solution. Let the students have whatever programs they want on THEIR computers, but control YOUR resources appropriately.
1 word for you:
./configure;make;make install everything yourself.
GARNOME
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome
It's a simple script that downloads the latest and builds everything that gnome needs. Seriously, is there are REASON you want to try to compile something this complex by hand?
There are serveral similar build scripts including jhbuild, yagnobs, cvsgnome. Why don't you try building with one of these? They don't require an automatic packaging utility, just builds what you need for gnome without you having to
Does MS have a right to close off their network to "officially-supported clients" only? Absolutely. That doesn't mean we have to like it. So far I haven't seen too many anti-competitive, MS is the devil reactions to it (although they're coming, this is Slashdot after all), just people pissed off about something that is going to be a major pain in the ass.
Redhat doesn't HAVE to do this, and I'll wager it doesn't put "money in their pocket" as so many Redhat bashers seem to be obessed with mentioning. It's good PR, yes, but it's also good for the community.
Redhat makes IMHO the BEST out-of-the box distro. You want something that just works (tm)? 95% of the time, you're talking about Redhat. Is it perfect? No, not by a long shot, but it amazes me the sheer number of people who attack Redhat just because they are the market leader. Remember kids, if it's popular, it must be crap!
> Getting RH9 to see them is another problem altogether...
/usr/share/themes or ~/.themes is hard?
Uhhh, untar-gzing to
Apparently so is Applications->Preferences->Theme
(in Gnome, which is what Redhat is targeted towards).
If it's difficult to find in whatever *box or *wm is the "in" thing for people who claim Gnome and KDE are both slow, then that's a problem with that wm, not Redhat.
Yeah, but you can clearly see that it's not a "standard" 404 page generated by either IIS or apache. Viewing the page source reveals Microsoft's fix:
--Begin Page Source--
404 not found
--End Page Source--
That's right, not even a "real" 404, just a text file claiming to be a 404.
Look out, Sarah Michelle Gellar has been referenced on Slashdot by her initials. This puts her in the same category as RMS and ESR doesn't it? I'm sure this is a great thing for linux, er, um, somehow.
Okay, look, it's early, haven't had my caffeine yet.
Actually, I think Bob always said "There are no mistakes, just happy accidents," but I could be wrong.
Ever heard digital distortion? It's downright disgusting and would only be considered useful by certain Industrial-Noise outfits.
Please tell me you're not serious. Digital distortion (depending on how implemented) can give various sounds. Sure, it will never be the same as your favorite tube, but it also doesn't radiate a small star's worth of heat or run at 250 V.
Why do people claim that tube-based audio products sound "better" or "warmer"? It's because of the harmonics involved in the distortion. Tubes produce mostly even harmonics, which sound "softer" to the typical human ear. Transistors tend to produce more odd harmonics, which give the signal a "harsh" tone. "Better" depends completely on the desired effect, but all methods of distortion essentially do the same thing.