Funny. My least favorite part of Windows is the retarded CLI. And no, I don't want to muck about with installing Cygwin, I want my system to be useable from the get-go.
Yes. I forgot. Programming data processing apps to scale across multiple cores are "toy apps," as are emulators, game engines, and g-code IDEs. Crawl back to your cave troll. I've been programming in Java for a decade. Remember that before you assume memory hungriness isn't the result of stupidity.
OS X's preview is great for viewing PDFs, and there are plenty of Linux programs for doing the same thing. It's only Windows idiots who think they *have* to install Acrobat Reader.
You clearly never watched the old Star Trek. Voyager and DS9 were crap like that. The original, Enterprise, and even TNG to some extent, are all pretty action oriented
the.desktop file format used by KDE, GNOME and Xfce is fairly dangerous actually. It's really easy to embed script in it and disguise it as whatever you want. I emailed all my linux using friends a.desktop disguised as an OpenOffice Document that actually installed a python script which would open a random xkcd comic in firefox every 45 seconds until you figured out how to remove the script and it's auto-reinstaller.
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No, it needs to be correct code. Even if ARM happens to be the only platform that currently exercises the bug, it is still a bug. Goddamn people, I swear we are getting as blase about fixing bugs as a Microsoft shop. There is no such thing as a good bug, a less important bug, etc. If it is a bug and someone has a patch for it, you APPLY THE DAMNED PATCH. If you have a problem with the patch you write a better patch. Not patching at all is never the answer.
Mod this man up. Ubuntu at least is getting a little better, but there was a while when with every new release would break something at a really low level on my system, like when they switched from/dev/hdaN to/dev/sdaN to just using volume id's right in a 2 year period, and I'd have to boot into another OS to edit my fstab. And I haven't found any distros where tutorials more than a year old are more likely to help than to screw something up.
Most of the Windows users I know use Windows because its comes with the computer. Gamers are a small minority.
I started out with "educational games" on our first machine (I was too young to remember the model number), then when we upgraded to a Performa 6400 I began using it for writing, and programming Java with Codewarrior. With the iMac G3 came web browsing, email, more programming and my first foray into the terminal. The G3 served as the primary computer until last summer when the hard drive began acting up and was relegated to a print server for our Personal LaserWriter 320. I bought a Macbook Pro and setup an old Dell with Xubuntu for Mom to check her email and listen to internet radio with.
I've been using Apple's computers since the System 7 days. 3 Apple computers lasted us 18 years (7, 8/9, and 10.3). Obviously other computers (read: laptops, and a couple junk Dells that I turned into Linux boxes) were owned in this period, but those three were our primary computers, and I just now bought my own Macbook Pro. Most Windows users I know buy new machines every 3 or 4 years, and are complaining that its an "old machine" after 2.
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but the real question....is will they run Crysis?
PS/2 was largely phased out in favor of USB.
Wait, you mean there are people who actually read TFA?
Go-Go Godwin!
You can't really compare OGL and DX.....
Funny. My least favorite part of Windows is the retarded CLI. And no, I don't want to muck about with installing Cygwin, I want my system to be useable from the get-go.
Yes. I forgot. Programming data processing apps to scale across multiple cores are "toy apps," as are emulators, game engines, and g-code IDEs. Crawl back to your cave troll. I've been programming in Java for a decade. Remember that before you assume memory hungriness isn't the result of stupidity.
yeah, if you're stupid and don't know how to code.
OS X's preview is great for viewing PDFs, and there are plenty of Linux programs for doing the same thing. It's only Windows idiots who think they *have* to install Acrobat Reader.
You clearly never watched the old Star Trek. Voyager and DS9 were crap like that. The original, Enterprise, and even TNG to some extent, are all pretty action oriented
the .desktop file format used by KDE, GNOME and Xfce is fairly dangerous actually. It's really easy to embed script in it and disguise it as whatever you want. I emailed all my linux using friends a .desktop disguised as an OpenOffice Document that actually installed a python script which would open a random xkcd comic in firefox every 45 seconds until you figured out how to remove the script and it's auto-reinstaller.
and OS X has done it for ages...
3c3 No, it needs to be correct code. Even if ARM happens to be the only platform that currently exercises the bug, it is still a bug. Goddamn people, I swear we are getting as blase about fixing bugs as a Microsoft shop. There is no such thing as a good bug, a less important bug, etc. If it is a bug and someone has a patch for it, you APPLY THE DAMNED PATCH. If you have a problem with the patch you write a better patch. Not patching at all is never the answer.
That probably wasn't correct context for "really low level" but you get my point.
Mod this man up. Ubuntu at least is getting a little better, but there was a while when with every new release would break something at a really low level on my system, like when they switched from /dev/hdaN to /dev/sdaN to just using volume id's right in a 2 year period, and I'd have to boot into another OS to edit my fstab. And I haven't found any distros where tutorials more than a year old are more likely to help than to screw something up.
Someone has to bring it up ;)
I got my Ultimate disks for free. Legally. From Microsoft. WFP surveys ftw.
It installs on double click, not on insert. This fixes even that. Yay auto-update. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
good thing I explicitly disable autorun for every Windows computed I've ever configured for someone.
There's a reason the oil lobby is so against industrial hemp. It makes better plastic AND better fuel.
no kidding. Are you familiar with what happened in Tokelau?
Most of the Windows users I know use Windows because its comes with the computer. Gamers are a small minority. I started out with "educational games" on our first machine (I was too young to remember the model number), then when we upgraded to a Performa 6400 I began using it for writing, and programming Java with Codewarrior. With the iMac G3 came web browsing, email, more programming and my first foray into the terminal. The G3 served as the primary computer until last summer when the hard drive began acting up and was relegated to a print server for our Personal LaserWriter 320. I bought a Macbook Pro and setup an old Dell with Xubuntu for Mom to check her email and listen to internet radio with.
I've been using Apple's computers since the System 7 days. 3 Apple computers lasted us 18 years (7, 8/9, and 10.3). Obviously other computers (read: laptops, and a couple junk Dells that I turned into Linux boxes) were owned in this period, but those three were our primary computers, and I just now bought my own Macbook Pro. Most Windows users I know buy new machines every 3 or 4 years, and are complaining that its an "old machine" after 2.
same reason I use wget or curl for downloading .avi's instead of trying to deal with DivX web player :D
You should check out the 2006 film Amazing Grace, based on the life of William Wilberforce.