With each release KDE continues to pull furthur and furthur ahead of Gnome it's almost sad.
You compare this childish bickering and flaming with the recent CVS freeze and almost corporation-quality organization going on at the KDE camp and the difference is clear.
QT is now open source and it's incredibly organized. The Gnome libraries are a mess. KDE is also C++ while Gnome is C. KDE is also working on KOffice which is already completely usable and damn impressive.
The Gnome developers who have the maturity and intelligence to do so should start helping the KDE project. While competition is a good thing it really only serves a purpose when the competition competes. Gnome isn't anymore.
I remember the days when Slashdot would break major computing stories a few hours before CNN and Time and Newsweek.
Now they usually squeak in there three or four days later.
All your sellouts are belong to us.
Instead of taking digs at Windows Media Player when posting articles, why doesn't the Unix community come up with something that is even half as useful for streaming video? True, realplayer is on Unix, but it's just not the best solution.
That has dreams of buying this console and setting it up alongside a raid array for a cheap, fast, tiny kickass server?
I'm hoping I'm not and that I can look forward to hosting a full-scale webpage on my "toy." Until that day arrives I've got to shake my maracas in Samba De Amigo!
Why didn't they release the source for the air scrubber? Seems to me that if the air scrubber was open source this wouldn't have been a problem. Each of us could have examined the source and made sure that is was good. Open source is good. Linux.
You miss the whole point. When was the last time a processor came out, brand new, that cost over $1000 dollars that offered no performance gain at all whatsoever even over some chips from that manufacturers previous generation? Do you know how sad that is? Think about that, then consider this:
I buy a processor for what it can do today. Today, the Pentium 4 is a joke. As you concede at the end of your post, by the time it's a viable option AMD will have something new as well. Their new MMXish feature set will be incorporated on new AMD chips long before many if any applications implement support. So why buy now? In computers, and especially computer hardware, it doesn't make sense to buy something for it's "high-speed performance in the long run." Hardware changes too rapidly for that crap. The setup that you buy to get a P4 today will be obsolete in 8-9 months when Intel moves to a different socket type.
Idiots will see the clockspeed and think they are top of the line. Truth be told they are paying twice as much for lower to equal performance. It really makes you wonder how much longer Intel is going to be able to keep their rates at about double AMD's before the general public catches on.
Yes, performance may improve but let's get real. Today, right now, when and where it matters, in the applications that count Intel's flagship is sinking.
The PS/2's launch lineup was the biggest disappointment of all and were it not for EA and Madden and SSX...well, I shudder to think of the possibilities.
It's not just the early games. Check one out in a store. Do they even do ANY anti-aliasing? Pretty sad that a feature that has been standard since the Nintendo 64 is so difficult to do on the PS2. In my opinion Sony completely botched this. Screw supply and demand, sooner or later people are gonna realize that all the games currently out are crap. Dreamcast and Xbox are a snap to develop for. Why waste 3 years trying to implement BASIC features when you could have had not one but two games out by that time. The PS2 is too difficult to develop for and xbox is too close. Buy a Dreamcast now and if anything decent comes out in a few months (all the launch titles blow) then consider picking one up. Otherwise wait for MS and the big X.
To borrow a slogan from somewhere (I can't remember where.) This is all hype, no game.
The Playstation 2 has zero decent games in comparison to the Dreamcast right now. Madden is kinda cool, but NFL2k1 spanks it all over as far as gameplay goes.
By the time good games are out the system will be back down to a reasonable level. And no net play? WTF is that?
Haha, this poor guy has probably been refreshing his browser all day to see if a moderator has given him a higher score with (Funny) next to it. Gonna have to agree with my cowardly friend here.
DVD's aren't even 3d yet which means DeCSS would not only break DVD "encryption" it would also further the humiliation by becoming technically superior.
I'm forking away from the LiViD project. Anyone who wants to join me in building 3DeCSS drop me a line.
A USEFUL distributed project. I have been interested in distributed computing since I first heard of the distributed.net project but I couldn't help but feel it was a waste of time to crack encryption for cash. SETI didn't intrigue me - I leave the X-files on the TV where they belong. OGR was a bit better, but still kind of pointless. But THIS actually has some use.
Count me in!
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karma whore.
I mirrored it, "INSIGHTFUL" is me.
Does this mean that I can view the women of Maxim Magazine On-Line on the moleculer level?
Figuratively this is like Steve Jobs deleting his market share, which is basically already a 0 byte file.
It sounds like their plan is to masquerade as a client and request multiple copies of copyrighted songs and then download them really slow.
So to defeat this, you just tell the program to allow only 1 upload per client and set a minimum download speed.
You compare this childish bickering and flaming with the recent CVS freeze and almost corporation-quality organization going on at the KDE camp and the difference is clear.
QT is now open source and it's incredibly organized. The Gnome libraries are a mess. KDE is also C++ while Gnome is C. KDE is also working on KOffice which is already completely usable and damn impressive.
The Gnome developers who have the maturity and intelligence to do so should start helping the KDE project. While competition is a good thing it really only serves a purpose when the competition competes. Gnome isn't anymore.
Flame away, perhaps I'm just an insane fanboy.
I remember the days when Slashdot would break major computing stories a few hours before CNN and Time and Newsweek. Now they usually squeak in there three or four days later. All your sellouts are belong to us.
Instead of taking digs at Windows Media Player when posting articles, why doesn't the Unix community come up with something that is even half as useful for streaming video? True, realplayer is on Unix, but it's just not the best solution.
Pretty much kills the video editing process used by most professionals.
That has dreams of buying this console and setting it up alongside a raid array for a cheap, fast, tiny kickass server?
I'm hoping I'm not and that I can look forward to hosting a full-scale webpage on my "toy." Until that day arrives I've got to shake my maracas in Samba De Amigo!
I love this console.
It would be released under the AIR license.
Why didn't they release the source for the air scrubber? Seems to me that if the air scrubber was open source this wouldn't have been a problem. Each of us could have examined the source and made sure that is was good. Open source is good. Linux.
Basically a rehash of what the media has been reporting for months and months. Wasn't even written well.
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE. Take notes guys, that all you need to say to get moderated up through the roof.
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And we all know how subjective Tom's Hardware is. Truly an unbiased fount of information over there.
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I buy a processor for what it can do today. Today, the Pentium 4 is a joke. As you concede at the end of your post, by the time it's a viable option AMD will have something new as well. Their new MMXish feature set will be incorporated on new AMD chips long before many if any applications implement support. So why buy now? In computers, and especially computer hardware, it doesn't make sense to buy something for it's "high-speed performance in the long run." Hardware changes too rapidly for that crap. The setup that you buy to get a P4 today will be obsolete in 8-9 months when Intel moves to a different socket type.
Idiots will see the clockspeed and think they are top of the line. Truth be told they are paying twice as much for lower to equal performance. It really makes you wonder how much longer Intel is going to be able to keep their rates at about double AMD's before the general public catches on.
Yes, performance may improve but let's get real. Today, right now, when and where it matters, in the applications that count Intel's flagship is sinking.
Winner: Dreamcast.
The PS/2's launch lineup was the biggest disappointment of all and were it not for EA and Madden and SSX...well, I shudder to think of the possibilities.
Like people who can't spell for example.
It's not just the early games. Check one out in a store. Do they even do ANY anti-aliasing? Pretty sad that a feature that has been standard since the Nintendo 64 is so difficult to do on the PS2. In my opinion Sony completely botched this. Screw supply and demand, sooner or later people are gonna realize that all the games currently out are crap. Dreamcast and Xbox are a snap to develop for. Why waste 3 years trying to implement BASIC features when you could have had not one but two games out by that time. The PS2 is too difficult to develop for and xbox is too close. Buy a Dreamcast now and if anything decent comes out in a few months (all the launch titles blow) then consider picking one up. Otherwise wait for MS and the big X.
The Playstation 2 has zero decent games in comparison to the Dreamcast right now. Madden is kinda cool, but NFL2k1 spanks it all over as far as gameplay goes.
By the time good games are out the system will be back down to a reasonable level. And no net play? WTF is that?
Lame.
It could display DeCSS code...IN 3D!
DVD's aren't even 3d yet which means DeCSS would not only break DVD "encryption" it would also further the humiliation by becoming technically superior.
I'm forking away from the LiViD project. Anyone who wants to join me in building 3DeCSS drop me a line.
=-Sonic
A USEFUL distributed project. I have been interested in distributed computing since I first heard of the distributed.net project but I couldn't help but feel it was a waste of time to crack encryption for cash. SETI didn't intrigue me - I leave the X-files on the TV where they belong. OGR was a bit better, but still kind of pointless. But THIS actually has some use. Count me in!
Wow. I can't believe you actually believe this crap. Moderate this whole story and style of "link first, check later" reporting down.