You can still use the PRO versions and get longer lifecycles if you run a business.
I don't see any indication that Professional has a longer life cycle than Personal.
Advanced Server has a three-year cycle, but you pay at least $800 for each of those years.
I would love to have a Vera Serif Italic and Vera Serif Italic Bold to go with the rest of the family, but I'm not the one paying Bitstream to do this.
Thanks for the correction.
I couldn't get through to bitstream.com.
I'm okay with oblique, but the lack of a serif italic is disappointing.
Hopefully, this won't be Bitstream's last announcement.
10 Fonts (not typefaces, fonts - there is a difference) that are properly designed can take years to produce....
Sure we have Arial, Courier, Helvetica, but one typeface is not good in all cases....
If people can learn to apply the styles of good typography to their projects then we all benefit through better legibility, readability, and aesthetic means.
Other posts indicate that Bitstream is releasing a family of three related typefaces, adapted from Prima: Vera, Vera Sans, and Vera Sans Mono.
This is terrific, as they look much better matched than Times, Arial, and Courier.
Unfortunately, Vera Sans Mono does not seem to include an italic or a bold italic.
Even if the italic is a simple slant, it looks better than letting the computer butcher it.
I like to have a slant mono for commands in headings:
<h3>Using <tt>ls</tt> to list directory contents</h3>
Using ls to list directory contents
I wouldn't necessarily use that design in a manual, but it's a natural for a quick stylesheet that you might use with DocBook.
Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't the GPL mean require them to release the source code freely?
(As in publicly downloadable?) So a user could compile Mandrake free of charge?
No, if Mandrake distributes source along with binaries (you know, those three CDs you never use), they have fulfilled their GPL obligations.
The GPL does not require that you host an FTP site for the whole free-loading world.
You can charge as much as you want for a CD, but you have to accept that someone can turn around and distribute GPLed programs from the CD.
Note, however, that the CD itself (i.e., the compilation) is not necessarily GPLed.
The proprietary installer and configuration tools on SuSE CDs prevent you from sharing them with your friends.
The trademarked icons on Red Hat ISOs prevent you from selling them.
Mandrake will merge with another firm looking for a way to stay alive. Users can help keep the company afloat for only so long. Maybe it will cut expenses by joining United Linux. Maybe it will get together with its Latin language sister firm Connectiva. Or maybe Microsoft will step forward with a smile to offer the struggling distribution much needed cash in order to get in the game.
While I wouldn't miss Mandrake too much, I think it has had a positive influence on other distros,
and it certainly gave KDE an early boost.
It is very common for software to be licensed under different terms.
For example, one person may get an unlimited, perpetual license to use Oracle, wherease someone else may get a ten-user, one-year license.
Same code, different licenses.
Similarly, one person may get a paid license for Aladdin GhostScript, someone else may get it under the AFPL, and someone else may wait a year and get it under the GNU GPL.
The code may be identical, but the license defines what you're allowed to do with it.
It may be depressing to realize that you've paid thousands of dollars for something as intangible as a license, but sometimes it's called for.
Opera Software, for example, doesn't want to release their browser under the GPL, so they've paid TrollTech for the right to link to Qt without distributing source.
Someone who pursues a strategy like this runs the risk that someone else will develop an improvement, without assigning copyright (i.e., create a fork).
If the improvement is compelling, it can cut into the demand for the proprietary version.
This opens up some other interesting scenarios.
For example, someone forks Qt from the GPL source.
It would not be legal for Opera to link to that version without permission from TrollTech and the owner(s) of the fork.
Have you not heard of Kylix Open Edition?
You can't be refusing to use it just because the compiler itself is not open source since you just said you use Delphi.
Kylix Open Edition is only licensed for the creation of GNU GPL programs. The TurboPower components will be released under the MPL.
Unless the TurboPower components are dual licensed under a GPL-compatible license, they will not be of much use with Kylix Open Edition.
Am I the only person who is sick of computers requiring such obscene amounts of power?
You have a choice in the matter.
If you want top of the line performance, get an Athlon or a Pentium 4 (50 - 70 W) with power-hungry components.
Otherwise, you can get a Celeron (25 W), a K6-III+ (20 W), or a C3 (10 W) with one hard drive and a video card that doesn't require active cooling.
I bought a little FlexATX bare-bones system that's a little smaller than a bread box.
I put in a 5,400 RPM drive and a Celeron 850.
The only fan is in the 100 W power supply.
Not a SINGLE comparison is between the same kind of cable.
False: see page six, comparing generic composite to Monster composite (noticeable improvement) and generic S-video to Monster S-video (slight improvement in zoomed-in screenshot).
Why is it that they suddenly have 5 CDs to put everything on?
RH 7.3 was 5 CDs as well: 2 1/2 for binary RPMs and 2 1/2 for source RPMs.
(If you're downloading ISOs, you just need discs 1, 2, and 3.)
The beta even required 700 MB CD-Rs, probably due to Open Office.
Contrary to the anti-Bluecurve hype, Red Hat is still about choice, so you get two desktop environments, a selection of window managers, three office suites, two browsers, etc.
At least we're not all wage slaves who couldn't give a rats ass what they were working for and who they were serving.
Bernhard quits a job developing free software (in a recession, mind you) over a disagreement with the product manager and you're glad that he's not a wage slave?
Trust fund baby is more like it.
Maybe he thinks he can write his own ticket, but most of us are just putting gas in the president's Porsche.
Either $2500 to update my (then) slightly obsolete machine, or $200 to get the PS2...
Best of all, I can buy used games for $20-$30
How were you planning on spending $2,500?
That's exactly the cost of a system I spec.'d out last week from Dell (on sale): dual 1.8 GHz P4 Xeon with 1 GB RDRAM and a Quadro4 700 XGL.
You can get a game PC that will beat any console for well under $1,000.
As for games, I haven't seen Max Payne or Grand Theft Auto 3 (used) for the console at less than $45.
Meanwhile, I can get great one- or two-year old PC games for $10 - $20.
If the Playstation works for you, more power to you.
I just can't give up the flight sims, driving games, shooters, and strategy games that play so well on the PC.
You mean I don't have to worry about how much memory I have...?
On the other hand, if a console game lags or stutters, it's never going to get better.
I've heard that Unreal Tournament and Grand Theft Auto 3 for PS2 suffer from low frame rates.
There's no patch, no driver update, or memory upgrade to help you.
I like that Quake 2 looks better now than it did three years ago: higher res., anti aliasing, anistropic filtering.
Of course, it's still 16 bits of brown.
The PC port of GTA3 uses the keyboard for driving?
It uses anything you want, but it works best with keyboard and mouse or with a Dual Shock clone, like the Thrustmaster Dual Power.
Unfortunately the game's input menu sucks.
You're limited in how you can assign axes and buttons.
For example, it will not use steering wheel pedals properly.
Take a quick look at your scrollbar.
Does it looked themed?
Do the menues theme correctly?
No.
I honestly hadn't noticed that the scrollbar fails to theme.
Not sure whether they can fix that.
On the other hand, the menus look fine on my system: fonts, checkboxes, and radio buttons all look correct.
it doesn't use the widgets from gtk and it doesn't have the sidebar
If you were expecting HTML widgets, like form buttons, to come from GTK+, then that is way beyond the scope of Galeon, or any Mozilla-based browser.
All the window decorations and dialog boxes are GTK+.
As for the sidebar, that's the first thing I turned off in Mozilla.
You can dock the bookmarks toolbar on the left, instead of the top, but I'm not sure that what's you're looking for.
I am not aware of many (any?) games that can take advantage of more than 64MB of texture RAM
Well, the article shows (as did Anand, and others, in June) that Jedi Knight II can use the extra memory for a 10 - 25% increase in FPS.
We've heard the Unreal Tournament 2003 will use more detailed textures than the demo, so 128 MB may help there, too.
Edward Tufte, author of Visual Display of Quantitative Information, would not be pleased with PNY's marketing.
The bar graph on the back of the box implies that the 64 MB version is 150% faster than the 128 MB version, based on a 3D Mark score that is only 2% higher.
I chose 64 MB for the value ($100), because it seems silly to spend more on something that is already eclipsed by the Radeon 9700 Pro, not to mention the forthcoming NV30.
If it was only $30, I'd agree, but I picked up the 64 MB 4200 for $100 this weekend at Best Buy.
Also, for what it's worth, the 64 MB version of the 4200 ships with faster memory (3.6 ns, clocked at 250 MHz DDR) than the 128 MB version (4 ns, clocked at 222 MHz DDR).
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I don't see any indication that Professional has a longer life cycle than Personal. Advanced Server has a three-year cycle, but you pay at least $800 for each of those years.
Thanks for the correction. I couldn't get through to bitstream.com.
I'm okay with oblique, but the lack of a serif italic is disappointing. Hopefully, this won't be Bitstream's last announcement.
Other posts indicate that Bitstream is releasing a family of three related typefaces, adapted from Prima: Vera, Vera Sans, and Vera Sans Mono. This is terrific, as they look much better matched than Times, Arial, and Courier.
Unfortunately, Vera Sans Mono does not seem to include an italic or a bold italic. Even if the italic is a simple slant, it looks better than letting the computer butcher it. I like to have a slant mono for commands in headings:
I wouldn't necessarily use that design in a manual, but it's a natural for a quick stylesheet that you might use with DocBook.Qt/X11 Free Edition is dual licensed under the Q Public License and the GNU General Public License.
Qt Non-Commercial Edition for Microsoft Windows is licensed under the Qt Non-Commercial license.
In other words, after paying $1,550 for a license and $480 for support, you have the option of paying an additional $149 for media.
No, if Mandrake distributes source along with binaries (you know, those three CDs you never use), they have fulfilled their GPL obligations. The GPL does not require that you host an FTP site for the whole free-loading world.
You can charge as much as you want for a CD, but you have to accept that someone can turn around and distribute GPLed programs from the CD. Note, however, that the CD itself (i.e., the compilation) is not necessarily GPLed. The proprietary installer and configuration tools on SuSE CDs prevent you from sharing them with your friends. The trademarked icons on Red Hat ISOs prevent you from selling them.
It is very common for software to be licensed under different terms. For example, one person may get an unlimited, perpetual license to use Oracle, wherease someone else may get a ten-user, one-year license. Same code, different licenses.
Similarly, one person may get a paid license for Aladdin GhostScript, someone else may get it under the AFPL, and someone else may wait a year and get it under the GNU GPL. The code may be identical, but the license defines what you're allowed to do with it.
It may be depressing to realize that you've paid thousands of dollars for something as intangible as a license, but sometimes it's called for. Opera Software, for example, doesn't want to release their browser under the GPL, so they've paid TrollTech for the right to link to Qt without distributing source.
Someone who pursues a strategy like this runs the risk that someone else will develop an improvement, without assigning copyright (i.e., create a fork). If the improvement is compelling, it can cut into the demand for the proprietary version.
This opens up some other interesting scenarios. For example, someone forks Qt from the GPL source. It would not be legal for Opera to link to that version without permission from TrollTech and the owner(s) of the fork.
Kylix Open Edition is only licensed for the creation of GNU GPL programs. The TurboPower components will be released under the MPL.
Unless the TurboPower components are dual licensed under a GPL-compatible license, they will not be of much use with Kylix Open Edition.
I hope you mean a router, because a hub is less secure, and can cause you to take more than one IP address.
You have a choice in the matter. If you want top of the line performance, get an Athlon or a Pentium 4 (50 - 70 W) with power-hungry components. Otherwise, you can get a Celeron (25 W), a K6-III+ (20 W), or a C3 (10 W) with one hard drive and a video card that doesn't require active cooling.
I bought a little FlexATX bare-bones system that's a little smaller than a bread box. I put in a 5,400 RPM drive and a Celeron 850. The only fan is in the 100 W power supply.
False: see page six, comparing generic composite to Monster composite (noticeable improvement) and generic S-video to Monster S-video (slight improvement in zoomed-in screenshot).
Actually, if you made it to page six, the article does just that. I couldn't see a difference, except in the zoomed-in screenshot.
RH 7.3 was 5 CDs as well: 2 1/2 for binary RPMs and 2 1/2 for source RPMs. (If you're downloading ISOs, you just need discs 1, 2, and 3.) The beta even required 700 MB CD-Rs, probably due to Open Office. Contrary to the anti-Bluecurve hype, Red Hat is still about choice, so you get two desktop environments, a selection of window managers, three office suites, two browsers, etc.
And Red Hat code names are usually related to each other, as chronicled here: valhalla -> limbo -> null -> psyche.
Bernhard quits a job developing free software (in a recession, mind you) over a disagreement with the product manager and you're glad that he's not a wage slave? Trust fund baby is more like it. Maybe he thinks he can write his own ticket, but most of us are just putting gas in the president's Porsche.
How were you planning on spending $2,500? That's exactly the cost of a system I spec.'d out last week from Dell (on sale): dual 1.8 GHz P4 Xeon with 1 GB RDRAM and a Quadro4 700 XGL. You can get a game PC that will beat any console for well under $1,000.
As for games, I haven't seen Max Payne or Grand Theft Auto 3 (used) for the console at less than $45. Meanwhile, I can get great one- or two-year old PC games for $10 - $20.
If the Playstation works for you, more power to you. I just can't give up the flight sims, driving games, shooters, and strategy games that play so well on the PC.
On the other hand, if a console game lags or stutters, it's never going to get better. I've heard that Unreal Tournament and Grand Theft Auto 3 for PS2 suffer from low frame rates. There's no patch, no driver update, or memory upgrade to help you.
I like that Quake 2 looks better now than it did three years ago: higher res., anti aliasing, anistropic filtering. Of course, it's still 16 bits of brown.
It uses anything you want, but it works best with keyboard and mouse or with a Dual Shock clone, like the Thrustmaster Dual Power.
Unfortunately the game's input menu sucks. You're limited in how you can assign axes and buttons. For example, it will not use steering wheel pedals properly.
I honestly hadn't noticed that the scrollbar fails to theme. Not sure whether they can fix that. On the other hand, the menus look fine on my system: fonts, checkboxes, and radio buttons all look correct.
If you were expecting HTML widgets, like form buttons, to come from GTK+, then that is way beyond the scope of Galeon, or any Mozilla-based browser. All the window decorations and dialog boxes are GTK+.
As for the sidebar, that's the first thing I turned off in Mozilla. You can dock the bookmarks toolbar on the left, instead of the top, but I'm not sure that what's you're looking for.
The only thing I've found that Mozilla has that Galeon doesn't is a few focus bugs. What's missing?
Well, the article shows (as did Anand, and others, in June) that Jedi Knight II can use the extra memory for a 10 - 25% increase in FPS. We've heard the Unreal Tournament 2003 will use more detailed textures than the demo, so 128 MB may help there, too.
Edward Tufte, author of Visual Display of Quantitative Information, would not be pleased with PNY's marketing. The bar graph on the back of the box implies that the 64 MB version is 150% faster than the 128 MB version, based on a 3D Mark score that is only 2% higher.
I chose 64 MB for the value ($100), because it seems silly to spend more on something that is already eclipsed by the Radeon 9700 Pro, not to mention the forthcoming NV30.
If it was only $30, I'd agree, but I picked up the 64 MB 4200 for $100 this weekend at Best Buy. Also, for what it's worth, the 64 MB version of the 4200 ships with faster memory (3.6 ns, clocked at 250 MHz DDR) than the 128 MB version (4 ns, clocked at 222 MHz DDR).