Yes, it is hard enough to get Linux on the desktop. First, this isn't Linux. It's like it just like it's like all the other unices. The entire thing is written from scratch. Including the windowing system and all the GUI stuff. It is not compatible with Linux either. However, they are working on a Linux emulation program.
Anyway, the reason this thing is good is because it looks good. I think the menu has icons that are a bit large and all, but otherwise it looks very nice. There are other Linux distros that look very nice as well, but they are difficult to install for someone that hasn't used Linux before. Of course, it would be best to install an OS without a 50 page manual. So, therefore we eliminate quite a few of the best linux distros. The Linux distros that are super easy to isntall generally end up running KDE or Gnome by default, which are slow. If SkyOS is what it is, then the GUI will be faster and more intuitive.
I look forward to seeing how it all works out, and if I can find my 3GB hdd somewhere, I will install it and play with it - though it'll be hard to beat the speed of my fluxbox, but this one sure looks a hell of a lot better.
Oh, and unlike some of the "out-of-the-box" linux distros...this one is completely free.
Well, I'm not too into that scene, but I am from India, and used to watch a lot, so if anyone is interested, here are some things to search for. 1. Amitab Bachan - great male actor - mostly action movies, also very involved with politics and businesses in india. 2. Devanand - old male actor - back when movies were in black and white. 3. Sadhna - old female actor - worked a lot with devanand - also, very good.
well, I'm not listing anymore, but here is a place to start with a lot of other names and links to various Bollywood sites.
Recent movies to check out - all have subtitles, as most indian movies now do (read: dvd).
Lagaan - a movie loosly based on a true story (the game never happened, but the actual outcome did) of what happened in a village in India during the late 1800's under the British rule.
Earth - About the seperation of India and Pakistan, very moving movie, especially if you know nothing about what happened in 1947.
Various people have various opinions about what the best movies are. Here is one
The list of actors and actresses should set you on your way to search quite easily. I'm sure someone more into the bollywood scene will post and will have more recent movies and actors.
This is good. Very good news. BUT, this is in Norway, and it does not change much for those of us in the US. Yes it does help, because if he was prosecuted, then the MPAA would have won outright, but because he was not, the rock has been chipped. Now only if the US courts would see it as logically as the Norse courts do, then all would be grand. Then again, nothing here is ever done logically. I can't wait for this to really impact the MPAA.
Well, being from NYC, I have to reply. Yes, I've been to Boston, so I think my answers are justified.
Parking is easier when compared to Mahattan. There is more to NYC than just 1 borough.
I'm sorry, but I think Boston driving is worse than NYC driving, and I've done both. Perhaps this is a matter of opinion, but that is what I think. Also, the last time I drove there, there weren't any lane markers on half the roads...that's just silly! Oh, and to make traffic during rush hour faster they turn all the traffic lights to blinking red/orange lights and I got stuck on the wrong end of that light...
According to recent reports (about 1 week ago) NYC crime rate per population is the lowest of cities larger than 100,000 across the nation. In fact it's dropped over the past 2 years. I'm sorry, but now you're just making things up.
skipping down a few, because I don't feel like listing every historical site in NYC...Boston vs NYC rudeness is a matter of your opinion. I've actually found the people here to be very nice, if you attempt to try to talk to more than one person. Sure people are rude, but that's the case in Middletown USA as well.
Museums, you want me to list em? I guarantee you that there are more in NYC that in Boston.
NYC has the most efficient subway system in the country.
Our mayor doesn't suck either. What else are you supposed to do when you're deal the worst hand in poker? He's given a terrible situation with terrble deficits with businesses wanting to leave, and he's been able to tough it out and generate money for the city. He might not be able to win again, but he was able to do more with his situation, than most politicians would have been able to.
Now, given your first statement "Ahhh, NYC snobbism", your's is worse because it's hypocritic. Pathetic. You should learn to do as your say before you expect others to.
Oh, and just to be a snob...when was the last time Boston won a World Series:)
That's silly. Because the last I checked, humans are capable of sending these radio signals (we already do), but are not capable or sending a virus sized microchip to a far off system to investigate them.
So, if they are as advanced (or a little more/less), then SETI will do what they have set out to do.
In the initial weeks of a release, theatres make very little money, and the studio rakes it all in. I don't know what the breakdown it is, but it's something like 80% first week, and then drops off slowly, and after about a month or so, the 80% is on the theatre side.
Yes, the theatres don't make much money compared to the studios, but then perhaps they should work out a deal that benefits me and you, the consumers, not their own money making pockets. I suppose what an investor wants, an investor gets.
Though it would be so bitersweet to see all consumers protest the 5 biggest movies of the year by not going to watch it in the theatres at all.
Or better yet, over the 15 minutes of TV commercials and consumer product commercials we're forced to watch at the Movie Theatre that I just paid 10$ to go to in order to watch a movie.
Read the web-site and you would know.... and quote...
Mapping the Internet weekly will allow us to see major disasters in different parts of the world. The Internet is a huge disaster censor. If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed. The idea of a metaphysical representation of the real world is very interesting to me.
Where are you going to hear a band for the first time? Are you going to trust all of the users on the P2P networks in that these "new artists" (filename renamed) are new artists, and even if they are legitamite new artists, are you going to like the style, genre of music? Radio stations are there to sift out a lot of this for you. Yes, Infinity owns most of them, and yes they play a lot of things per request of the record labels, but there are lots of legitamate radio stations that are free to play anything and everything (of course in the genre of the station).
You can't really think that WE will do it on our own. I personally don't have that kind of time nor the will to search for good music on my own. There is just too much out there. I'd have to go to every local bar here in NYC to see even 1% of them, and then what?
Getting rid of radio is stupid. I see no real reason to get rid of it. I do see a reason to make it less monopolistic and let the smaller stations take control of themselves, but I see NO good reason to get rid of them.
I don't think it is fair to group all zealots in the same group. A religeous zealot should be in a group of their own, as should a coffee zealot. I don't think that they can really compare. Grouping all zealots together and making such a generalization is like grouping all anti-abortionists (pro-life) zealots together and saying that they all want to kill every abortion doctor. That is clearly not the case and some of them are reasonable (with respect to the killing).
I wish I could come up with a better anology to which compare this silly grouping that the author did, but I can't. Anyways. Grouping all zealots together is stupid as the general intentions are different. Some require action (religeon) and some don't (coffee better than tea or whatever).
Personally, I've ran the maphack while playing Diablo2 and I don't exactly feel bad about it. I don't do PVP at all, so no players are being cheated; just PVM, and we all know how mindless D2 monsters are. Quite frankly, I'd be hard pressed to classify the maphack as a cheat
Just because you don't call it cheating doesn't mean it's not cheating. By the rules, IT IS CHEATING. You can't decide what the rules of the game are. If you create it, then you get to decide. Since you didn't you either do what they say, or you're a cheater. There is NO grey area here.
Since D2 is a game that involves very little skill just a lot of mouse clicking, there is little lost; you are playing in the same 4 (or 5) areas over and over again, fighting the same exact monsters.
Then don't play.
Maphack actually increased my enjoyment because I didn't have to spend as much time playing the areas I do not like since I could navigate out of them quicker.
So because you cheated and got to the final goal quicker, it made the game more fun. Well, because someone else cheated and got the coolest items in the game, they had more fun. What's the difference? It's still *cheating.* Stop pretending you're better than all the other cheaters. Just because you do it at a lower level doesn't make you any better.
A thief that robs a bank or steals from a grocery store is still a thief.
Yes they would because the people sending the viruses are OTHER PEOPLE! not in the company. As long as millions of people are using software with holes and unpached Windows, these worms will presist. Now, if everyone overnight switched to Mad Hatter, or any other linux variant, then all of a sudden ALL virus email will stop. Then it will just take someone clever to come up with one that will work in evolution, thunderbird, kmail, etc, etc, etc.
12,892 Linux
4,626 Microsoft
360 BSD ------ 15,878 Total attacks
43,144,374 sites (netcraft) ~64% run Apache - assume all are Linux ~23% run Microsoft
64% * 43,144,374 = 27,612,399 sites running linux 23% * 43,144,374 = 9,923,206 sites running MS
0.0466% Linux sites hacked 0.0466% MS sites hacked
So, they were each hacked equally. Now the real measure would be weather the OS was hacked or software running on the OS was hacked. In particular, compare Windows vs Linux hacks, and then Apache vs IIS hacks, and then compare all remaning. Those would be interesting.
I don't know about this streching one scene as it is 3 or 4 scenes, rather one scens from different angles, and blending it all together. From what I can gather, the purpose of this is to show the same thing from various angles.
Ever see Time Code? It's one story. The entire film is filmed in real time with 4 cameras. No cuts or breaks. So the movie is split into 4 and you see them all at the same time. The sounds fade in and out from the screens and sometimes are blended together. One story, 4 angles. And a lot of overlapping areas where you can see one character (or more) in 2+ cameras.
I don't see how it is very much different than that, except that one streched out scene would be a pain to try to follow....
Back to common sense. If you put coffee in your crotch area and then proceed to drive, if the coffee spills, you deserve it all. There is a complete lack of common sense now and people make up for it by sueing a company. Now you have to cater to stupidity and can't assume that people will realize that it is wrong or stupid to drink toxic substances or put hot coffee in your crotch.
Yes, they made a point with this case, but the sheer amount of money she got was ridiculous. And it also opened the gateway for thousands of people to do the same to other companies. Clearly the case was not frivilous, look at what it has done "for the consumers."
It used to be that the "American Dream" was owning a home. Now, it seems, it is to be able to find something that bothers you ever so slightly and then try to sue someone for it. The "American Dream" is to hire lawyers to take your case and to win a few bucks. If you do it right, you can get several million and invest it and retire at the age of 30. If you screw it up, like Sienfeld's Kramer, then you just keep on trying until you get that million bucks. That is the "American Dream." Screw buying a house. With a million bucks I can buy a mansion!
I use.Net. And I won't dismiss it. But all the bugs are really annoying. Some seem small. For instance, you can't use customized MenuItems in a ContextMenu in a NotifyIcon. That's quite useful if you think about it. If you want a simple application that runs a lot of other programs and processes in your company, it would make sense to use a NotifyIcon application. But every menu (no images allowed here) looks exactly the same. It would be very helpful to have icons and colours. but you can't. This is just one bug. There are quite a few, even within the compilers.
I'm not dismissing it completely, but.Net released by MS is still very much a beta. Even at the 1.1 level.
The only one that *truely* affects Debian here is the kernel bugs. Everything else is software and shouldn't be considered that.
The MS bugs pertain to the MS release software that directly affect the OS and the Office suite. And I would only really consider the VBA and the OS security bulletins here as being that important as that is what affects Windows. So that's 2.
For debian we have 1. The rest are other software! If I wanted to talk about bugs with every piece of software being used in Windows, then let's do that. But clearly you're not.
I unfortunately don't remember the entire case, but because of the hush-hush over the case and i believe the cases happened simultaneously (sp), so testimonials from one case couldn't be served as evidence in the other, therefore resulting in the odd result.
Even under the GPL, there is a provision for a modest copying or production fee.
Right, that is correct, and I said "You can ask for money to download," which would fall under the "copying or production fee." What Samba can't do is arbitrarily choose random people and ask them for money. They must either ask everyone or no-one for money when people download the software.
SCO is not breaking any rules when using Samba. Though we both agree that it is likely that SCO has modified Samba code and not redistributed it, but we're not able to see that, and even if we were customers we'd probably be bound by some agreement by which we can't say anything about Unix.
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Yes, it is hard enough to get Linux on the desktop. First, this isn't Linux. It's like it just like it's like all the other unices. The entire thing is written from scratch. Including the windowing system and all the GUI stuff. It is not compatible with Linux either. However, they are working on a Linux emulation program.
Anyway, the reason this thing is good is because it looks good. I think the menu has icons that are a bit large and all, but otherwise it looks very nice. There are other Linux distros that look very nice as well, but they are difficult to install for someone that hasn't used Linux before. Of course, it would be best to install an OS without a 50 page manual. So, therefore we eliminate quite a few of the best linux distros. The Linux distros that are super easy to isntall generally end up running KDE or Gnome by default, which are slow. If SkyOS is what it is, then the GUI will be faster and more intuitive.
I look forward to seeing how it all works out, and if I can find my 3GB hdd somewhere, I will install it and play with it - though it'll be hard to beat the speed of my fluxbox, but this one sure looks a hell of a lot better.
Oh, and unlike some of the "out-of-the-box" linux distros...this one is completely free.
Go Amish! They NEVER kill an animal for electricity :) And they make really good pretzels too!
1. Amitab Bachan - great male actor - mostly action movies, also very involved with politics and businesses in india.
2. Devanand - old male actor - back when movies were in black and white.
3. Sadhna - old female actor - worked a lot with devanand - also, very good.
well, I'm not listing anymore, but here is a place to start with a lot of other names and links to various Bollywood sites.
Recent movies to check out - all have subtitles, as most indian movies now do (read: dvd).
Lagaan - a movie loosly based on a true story (the game never happened, but the actual outcome did) of what happened in a village in India during the late 1800's under the British rule.
Earth - About the seperation of India and Pakistan, very moving movie, especially if you know nothing about what happened in 1947.
Various people have various opinions about what the best movies are. Here is one
The list of actors and actresses should set you on your way to search quite easily. I'm sure someone more into the bollywood scene will post and will have more recent movies and actors.
This is good. Very good news. BUT, this is in Norway, and it does not change much for those of us in the US. Yes it does help, because if he was prosecuted, then the MPAA would have won outright, but because he was not, the rock has been chipped. Now only if the US courts would see it as logically as the Norse courts do, then all would be grand. Then again, nothing here is ever done logically. I can't wait for this to really impact the MPAA.
Parking is easier when compared to Mahattan. There is more to NYC than just 1 borough.
I'm sorry, but I think Boston driving is worse than NYC driving, and I've done both. Perhaps this is a matter of opinion, but that is what I think. Also, the last time I drove there, there weren't any lane markers on half the roads...that's just silly! Oh, and to make traffic during rush hour faster they turn all the traffic lights to blinking red/orange lights and I got stuck on the wrong end of that light...
According to recent reports (about 1 week ago) NYC crime rate per population is the lowest of cities larger than 100,000 across the nation. In fact it's dropped over the past 2 years. I'm sorry, but now you're just making things up.
skipping down a few, because I don't feel like listing every historical site in NYC...Boston vs NYC rudeness is a matter of your opinion. I've actually found the people here to be very nice, if you attempt to try to talk to more than one person. Sure people are rude, but that's the case in Middletown USA as well.
Museums, you want me to list em? I guarantee you that there are more in NYC that in Boston.
NYC has the most efficient subway system in the country.
Our mayor doesn't suck either. What else are you supposed to do when you're deal the worst hand in poker? He's given a terrible situation with terrble deficits with businesses wanting to leave, and he's been able to tough it out and generate money for the city. He might not be able to win again, but he was able to do more with his situation, than most politicians would have been able to.
:)
Now, given your first statement "Ahhh, NYC snobbism", your's is worse because it's hypocritic. Pathetic. You should learn to do as your say before you expect others to.
Oh, and just to be a snob...when was the last time Boston won a World Series
That's silly. Because the last I checked, humans are capable of sending these radio signals (we already do), but are not capable or sending a virus sized microchip to a far off system to investigate them.
So, if they are as advanced (or a little more/less), then SETI will do what they have set out to do.
In the initial weeks of a release, theatres make very little money, and the studio rakes it all in. I don't know what the breakdown it is, but it's something like 80% first week, and then drops off slowly, and after about a month or so, the 80% is on the theatre side.
Yes, the theatres don't make much money compared to the studios, but then perhaps they should work out a deal that benefits me and you, the consumers, not their own money making pockets. I suppose what an investor wants, an investor gets.
Though it would be so bitersweet to see all consumers protest the 5 biggest movies of the year by not going to watch it in the theatres at all.
Or better yet, over the 15 minutes of TV commercials and consumer product commercials we're forced to watch at the Movie Theatre that I just paid 10$ to go to in order to watch a movie.
Mapping the Internet weekly will allow us to see major disasters in different parts of the world. The Internet is a huge disaster censor. If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed. The idea of a metaphysical representation of the real world is very interesting to me.
The project can show the Internet growth.
The project is art.
Where are you going to hear a band for the first time? Are you going to trust all of the users on the P2P networks in that these "new artists" (filename renamed) are new artists, and even if they are legitamite new artists, are you going to like the style, genre of music? Radio stations are there to sift out a lot of this for you. Yes, Infinity owns most of them, and yes they play a lot of things per request of the record labels, but there are lots of legitamate radio stations that are free to play anything and everything (of course in the genre of the station).
You can't really think that WE will do it on our own. I personally don't have that kind of time nor the will to search for good music on my own. There is just too much out there. I'd have to go to every local bar here in NYC to see even 1% of them, and then what?
Getting rid of radio is stupid. I see no real reason to get rid of it. I do see a reason to make it less monopolistic and let the smaller stations take control of themselves, but I see NO good reason to get rid of them.
I don't think it is fair to group all zealots in the same group. A religeous zealot should be in a group of their own, as should a coffee zealot. I don't think that they can really compare. Grouping all zealots together and making such a generalization is like grouping all anti-abortionists (pro-life) zealots together and saying that they all want to kill every abortion doctor. That is clearly not the case and some of them are reasonable (with respect to the killing).
I wish I could come up with a better anology to which compare this silly grouping that the author did, but I can't. Anyways. Grouping all zealots together is stupid as the general intentions are different. Some require action (religeon) and some don't (coffee better than tea or whatever).
Personally, I've ran the maphack while playing Diablo2 and I don't exactly feel bad about it. I don't do PVP at all, so no players are being cheated; just PVM, and we all know how mindless D2 monsters are. Quite frankly, I'd be hard pressed to classify the maphack as a cheat
Just because you don't call it cheating doesn't mean it's not cheating. By the rules, IT IS CHEATING. You can't decide what the rules of the game are. If you create it, then you get to decide. Since you didn't you either do what they say, or you're a cheater. There is NO grey area here.
Since D2 is a game that involves very little skill just a lot of mouse clicking, there is little lost; you are playing in the same 4 (or 5) areas over and over again, fighting the same exact monsters.
Then don't play.
Maphack actually increased my enjoyment because I didn't have to spend as much time playing the areas I do not like since I could navigate out of them quicker.
So because you cheated and got to the final goal quicker, it made the game more fun. Well, because someone else cheated and got the coolest items in the game, they had more fun. What's the difference? It's still *cheating.* Stop pretending you're better than all the other cheaters. Just because you do it at a lower level doesn't make you any better.
A thief that robs a bank or steals from a grocery store is still a thief.
"Because the machines have no peripherals like floppy disks, it would be difficult for a cracker to install code or steal information."
um, did you _read_ the article?
Yes they would because the people sending the viruses are OTHER PEOPLE! not in the company. As long as millions of people are using software with holes and unpached Windows, these worms will presist. Now, if everyone overnight switched to Mad Hatter, or any other linux variant, then all of a sudden ALL virus email will stop. Then it will just take someone clever to come up with one that will work in evolution, thunderbird, kmail, etc, etc, etc.
12,892 Linux
4,626 Microsoft
360 BSD
------
15,878 Total attacks
43,144,374 sites (netcraft)
~64% run Apache - assume all are Linux
~23% run Microsoft
64% * 43,144,374 = 27,612,399 sites running linux
23% * 43,144,374 = 9,923,206 sites running MS
0.0466% Linux sites hacked
0.0466% MS sites hacked
So, they were each hacked equally. Now the real measure would be weather the OS was hacked or software running on the OS was hacked. In particular, compare Windows vs Linux hacks, and then Apache vs IIS hacks, and then compare all remaning. Those would be interesting.
I don't know about this streching one scene as it is 3 or 4 scenes, rather one scens from different angles, and blending it all together. From what I can gather, the purpose of this is to show the same thing from various angles.
Ever see Time Code? It's one story. The entire film is filmed in real time with 4 cameras. No cuts or breaks. So the movie is split into 4 and you see them all at the same time. The sounds fade in and out from the screens and sometimes are blended together. One story, 4 angles. And a lot of overlapping areas where you can see one character (or more) in 2+ cameras.
I don't see how it is very much different than that, except that one streched out scene would be a pain to try to follow....
Back to common sense. If you put coffee in your crotch area and then proceed to drive, if the coffee spills, you deserve it all. There is a complete lack of common sense now and people make up for it by sueing a company. Now you have to cater to stupidity and can't assume that people will realize that it is wrong or stupid to drink toxic substances or put hot coffee in your crotch.
Yes, they made a point with this case, but the sheer amount of money she got was ridiculous. And it also opened the gateway for thousands of people to do the same to other companies. Clearly the case was not frivilous, look at what it has done "for the consumers."
It used to be that the "American Dream" was owning a home. Now, it seems, it is to be able to find something that bothers you ever so slightly and then try to sue someone for it. The "American Dream" is to hire lawyers to take your case and to win a few bucks. If you do it right, you can get several million and invest it and retire at the age of 30. If you screw it up, like Sienfeld's Kramer, then you just keep on trying until you get that million bucks. That is the "American Dream." Screw buying a house. With a million bucks I can buy a mansion!
I mean Linus Pictures
Anyone else see these pictures on the servers? hehehe, I wonder when these were taken.
I use .Net. And I won't dismiss it. But all the bugs are really annoying. Some seem small. For instance, you can't use customized MenuItems in a ContextMenu in a NotifyIcon. That's quite useful if you think about it. If you want a simple application that runs a lot of other programs and processes in your company, it would make sense to use a NotifyIcon application. But every menu (no images allowed here) looks exactly the same. It would be very helpful to have icons and colours. but you can't. This is just one bug. There are quite a few, even within the compilers.
.Net released by MS is still very much a beta. Even at the 1.1 level.
I'm not dismissing it completely, but
The only one that *truely* affects Debian here is the kernel bugs. Everything else is software and shouldn't be considered that.
The MS bugs pertain to the MS release software that directly affect the OS and the Office suite. And I would only really consider the VBA and the OS security bulletins here as being that important as that is what affects Windows. So that's 2.
For debian we have 1. The rest are other software! If I wanted to talk about bugs with every piece of software being used in Windows, then let's do that. But clearly you're not.
Stop comparing apples to oranges.
I unfortunately don't remember the entire case, but because of the hush-hush over the case and i believe the cases happened simultaneously (sp), so testimonials from one case couldn't be served as evidence in the other, therefore resulting in the odd result.
Even under the GPL, there is a provision for a modest copying or production fee.
Right, that is correct, and I said "You can ask for money to download," which would fall under the "copying or production fee." What Samba can't do is arbitrarily choose random people and ask them for money. They must either ask everyone or no-one for money when people download the software.
SCO is not breaking any rules when using Samba. Though we both agree that it is likely that SCO has modified Samba code and not redistributed it, but we're not able to see that, and even if we were customers we'd probably be bound by some agreement by which we can't say anything about Unix.