While I'm sure that everything you said is correct, I think you are looking at it from the wrong perspective. I think what he was talking about was consistent UI, look and feel type of thing. Users really don't care what the programmer had to go through to make it work...they just want it to work. having said that, I can see your point, and I hope that all the X developers see it too. We can learn a lot from successes and blunders that MS has made, I know most people would rather have nothing to do at all with MS, but I think that is the wrong attitude. We need to take our collective past experiences, and turn it into one killer OS.
as was stated above, how low do you have to set your threshold to see everything? -1000? -1000000? -maxInt? how about seting the minimum to like -10. and the max to 10. with 1 default rating of 1 for logged in users, and 0 for ACs. -10 would be for really bad, just flamebait stuff. At the very least I think there should be a defined range of values.
I had two video cards isntalled at one time. a Diamond Stealth 3200, and a Diamond Viper 330 (acutally a voodoo card as well - yes it was a diamond too =P ) and there were no conflicts. As for have dual monitor...dunno about that...from what I heard they have to be both the same card... of course I am probably wrong. either way NT wouldn't do it for me.
Mike
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Stampede has had the 2.2.1 kernel since Feb 15... granted Stampede is still in beta, but some distros do have the new kernel...
Internet Fridge its a fridge with a built in 233 pentium and 32 megs a RAM and win 95. bet you could over clock that puppy like there is no tomorrow!! (depending on where the CPU is of course...)
the dates on this seem a little weird: Posted by Justin on Monday February 29, @11:00AM but the comments are dated: Monday March 01, @12:10AM a little weird =P
where is RMS? Sure Linus helped create the whole surge in the open source popularity...but RMS had the "vision" to start the the FSF, GPL... I'd say he deserves the award more than Linus...
The general theme here seems to be that if a progam runs on windows, then everything about it is bad. which of course is not true. There are plenty of well written, very usable software that runs on Windows. to name a few Photoshop, Opera, ICQ, EZ CD Creator, and Games. to many people games is the only reason that they still have Windows, bringing lots of programmers to Linux will probably mean that more gaming companies will create games specifically for Linux. DOn't get me wrong, there are a lot of great apps for Linux, but more programmers means more choice, it will help to get existing programs out of beta sooner, and they will probably have more features. This will also force hardware companines to make drivers for Linux, so that you won't have to pause before you go and buy the latest wiz-bang thing to think if it will be fully supported in Linux. if there is more backing by commercial companies, then more users will probably follow, which, to me, is a Good Thing (TM). and as _always_ if you don't like it, then for God sakes don't use it!!
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While I'm sure that everything you said is correct, I think you are looking at it from the wrong perspective. I think what he was talking about was consistent UI, look and feel type of thing. Users really don't care what the programmer had to go through to make it work...they just want it to work.
having said that, I can see your point, and I hope that all the X developers see it too.
We can learn a lot from successes and blunders that MS has made, I know most people would rather have nothing to do at all with MS, but I think that is the wrong attitude. We need to take our collective past experiences, and turn it into one killer OS.
as was stated above, how low do you have to set your threshold to see everything? -1000? -1000000? -maxInt?
how about seting the minimum to like -10. and the max to 10. with 1 default rating of 1 for logged in users, and 0 for ACs.
-10 would be for really bad, just flamebait stuff.
At the very least I think there should be a defined range of values.
I had two video cards isntalled at one time. a Diamond Stealth 3200, and a Diamond Viper 330 (acutally a voodoo card as well - yes it was a diamond too =P ) and there were no conflicts. As for have dual monitor...dunno about that...from what I heard they have to be both the same card... of course I am probably wrong. either way NT wouldn't do it for me.
Mike
Stampede has had the 2.2.1 kernel since Feb 15...
granted Stampede is still in beta, but some distros do have the new kernel...
Internet Fridge its a fridge with a built in 233 pentium and 32 megs a RAM and win 95. bet you could over clock that puppy like there is no tomorrow!! (depending on where the CPU is of course...)
the dates on this seem a little weird:
Posted by Justin on Monday February 29, @11:00AM
but the comments are dated:
Monday March 01, @12:10AM
a little weird =P
(oh and local time here is 01:56 EST)
where is RMS? Sure Linus helped create the whole surge in the open source popularity...but RMS had the "vision" to start the the FSF, GPL...
I'd say he deserves the award more than Linus...
anyone else find it ironic that he is making fun of Europeans, and his web site is www.europa.com?
just a thought...
The general theme here seems to be that if a progam runs on windows, then everything about it is bad. which of course is not true. There are plenty of well written, very usable software that runs on Windows. to name a few Photoshop, Opera, ICQ, EZ CD Creator, and Games.
to many people games is the only reason that they still have Windows, bringing lots of programmers to Linux will probably mean that more gaming companies will create games specifically for Linux.
DOn't get me wrong, there are a lot of great apps for Linux, but more programmers means more choice, it will help to get existing programs out of beta sooner, and they will probably have more features. This will also force hardware companines to make drivers for Linux, so that you won't have to pause before you go and buy the latest wiz-bang thing to think if it will be fully supported in Linux. if there is more backing by commercial companies, then more users will probably follow, which, to me, is a Good Thing (TM).
and as _always_ if you don't like it, then for God sakes don't use it!!