If they wanted to get a cue from Apple, Intel would have switched us all to Open Firmware. They are very much taking a cue from AMD (specifically the original Alpha team that AMD hired for their snazzy new CPUs).
What would would a slashdot story be without the "Apple is the panacea for everything" post ? heh
Maybe not, but it's been a long time since you could buy an x86 machine that lasted as long. Back in the early 80's, I remember HP and DEC PC's that would wear like a tank. Today, every x86 machine I see is flimsy as hell.
Have you purchased an IBM recently ? Or any ThinkPad ever made by IBM ? heh
What is nice is that the 'heated air' effects work really nice because it's a DirectX 9.0 card (I also see no real slowdown there),
Doom3 is based on OpenGL, not DirectX-Anything. Actually, all of Carmack's work is OpenGL based. Hence why Mac and Linux love his games, and there is always a linux/mac port of his games eventually
I'm finding those wireless encryption thing to be a load of bullshit.
It seems like everytime they finally seem to get the crypto part down (WPA), we get something new (WPA2). I think I'll wait for WPA12938491849034 before upgrading any of my hardware.
Thankfully we have IPsec. (if only the OS-X version didn't suck so much)
As much as I love Sonic, I can't stand what they keep doing to him.
My gf and I both own Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut and Sonic Heros (game cube games). While the games are both fun, the image that Sonic and friends give off is excessively Tacky. Tacky in a really annoying matter (ie: they have dumb sayings like "Lets Blast off with sonic speed! Alright! OK!")
And have you seen the sonic cartoon currently playing on The WB ? Those characters are beyond goofy and dumb. When I was a kind (10 years ago?), There used to be a really nice sonic cartoon on Saturday mornings (ABC broadcasted), and it had a much more serious look and feel (animation wise).
Sega & Sonic Team: Stop screwing up Sonic and licensing it to all the wrong people
... when they can no longer make out in their cars without the fear of someone listening into their doings.
While this may come off as a joke, I'm being %100 serious. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this has some implications on exact when these black boxes do function and when they don't. (IE: they only work when the car is in motion, etc)
Don't get me wrong, I too am wholefully greatful that Steve Job's health is improving and that he apparently isn't in any clear danger. But why slashdot of all places ?
I wonder what Apple is paying slashdot to post so many ipod stories
(Yes yes, cue in the "just block the ipod section in your preferences" responces. Its not an issue of blocking anything, but how every small thing about a single product is getting posted on to the front page.)
You know, for some reason, I feel bad for the IE Developers, who are probably a bunch of well meaning people that are hampered by upper-management decisions.
That has nothing to do with upper-management decisions. More like Microsoft's human resources problem of hiring people from good colleges who lack real programming experience.
B) The spammers themselves will be on this panel (ie: Sudan being on the Human Rights board)
C) The few non-spammers on this panel will have no idea what spam is. They'll be more interested in joining the mindless anti-Isreal propaganda the UN loves to engage in (Somehow anti-Isreali spam will be allowed by the UN, just watch it)
D) This panel will report to another panel, which in turn will report to some other panel, and thereby getting nothing done (their website has an amusing pic about just this)
E) Even if this panel wanted to get something done, there would be much infighting and mindless bickering between a bunch of guys who continue to treat the UN as the mindless boys-club it has grown to be
... in contrast to the GPL, which obligates developers to make their modifications available to the public.
Erm, no. This has been said a billion times, and I suppose it will be said again. The GPL does not require you to give back your changes to the public. It does, however, require you to give the source code to whoever you in turn gave the program too.
Example: If I sell a modified version of the kernel to the Pentagon, I must provide the source to the Pentagon, but no one else. Not even the NSA, or some state gov't, etc etc. It is a very simple concept. (Ingenious when you think about it.)
don't get me wrong, this is a great subject to discuss, but I can't help deny that I'm surprised to see it on Slashdot. This seems more like a story that would appear on fark.com. (except with a much shorter tag line, and a billion times the stupidity level.)
I suppose I should justify myself for the above. This isn't an anti-apple, and I refuse to block apple stories. But i'm tired of lots of useless Apple news being posted to slashdot right next to the stuff that actually matters. (Ie: This story versus Xgrid info.)
Its kind of like what has happened to the hardware topic on slashdot. Most of those stories aren't even that useful. ("OOoh! its another cool mod!" BLEH!).
There needs to be some sort of story-moderation mechanism by the readers on slashdot.
Is this some sort of insult or something? The distro that has the absurdly expensive yearly-lockin, super annoying marketing practises, and does thing as root ?
As a linux user, I feel offended. I think the likes of Mandrake or Suse would be a MUCH better idea.
Sunny Dubey
PS: Just for kicks, Pricewatch supports LinBullShit too, *cough**cough*
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why does GNUstep need to have a top devel dir in my home directory ? Why couldn't it be a freaking dot-dir like every other program ?
it seems a bit arrogant to me that something needs its own directory in the root of my home directory.
I don't even use GNUstep, but its always there. It keeps coming back too, after I remove it.
Sunny Dubey
ummm ...
no
If they wanted to get a cue from Apple, Intel would have switched us all to Open Firmware. They are very much taking a cue from AMD (specifically the original Alpha team that AMD hired for their snazzy new CPUs).
What would would a slashdot story be without the "Apple is the panacea for everything" post ? heh
Sunny Dubey
Maybe not, but it's been a long time since you could buy an x86 machine that lasted as long. Back in the early 80's, I remember HP and DEC PC's that would wear like a tank. Today, every x86 machine I see is flimsy as hell.
Have you purchased an IBM recently ? Or any ThinkPad ever made by IBM ? heh
Sunny Dubey
What is nice is that the 'heated air' effects work really nice because it's a DirectX 9.0 card (I also see no real slowdown there),
Doom3 is based on OpenGL, not DirectX-Anything. Actually, all of Carmack's work is OpenGL based. Hence why Mac and Linux love his games, and there is always a linux/mac port of his games eventually
Sunny Dubey
Or do we have to buy new products ?
I'm finding those wireless encryption thing to be a load of bullshit.
It seems like everytime they finally seem to get the crypto part down (WPA), we get something new (WPA2). I think I'll wait for WPA12938491849034 before upgrading any of my hardware.
Thankfully we have IPsec. (if only the OS-X version didn't suck so much)
Sunny Dubey
the sad part is, some of them are still running ...
The following is the Paper everyone will link to. And the following provides some nice diagrams to look at
And just for kicks: Some really freaky pictures. (The second one really gets to people, he is working IN the bloody thing!!)
Sunny Dubey
As much as I love Sonic, I can't stand what they keep doing to him.
My gf and I both own Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut and Sonic Heros (game cube games). While the games are both fun, the image that Sonic and friends give off is excessively Tacky. Tacky in a really annoying matter (ie: they have dumb sayings like "Lets Blast off with sonic speed! Alright! OK!")
And have you seen the sonic cartoon currently playing on The WB ? Those characters are beyond goofy and dumb. When I was a kind (10 years ago?), There used to be a really nice sonic cartoon on Saturday mornings (ABC broadcasted), and it had a much more serious look and feel (animation wise).
Sega & Sonic Team: Stop screwing up Sonic and licensing it to all the wrong people
Sunny Dubey
NO spellcheck of any kind was used, deal with it.
... when they can no longer make out in their cars without the fear of someone listening into their doings.
While this may come off as a joke, I'm being %100 serious. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this has some implications on exact when these black boxes do function and when they don't. (IE: they only work when the car is in motion, etc)
Sunny Dubey
Can we get an official word on whats going on?
Sunny Dubey
Here
but this qualifies as news worthy ?
Don't get me wrong, I too am wholefully greatful that Steve Job's health is improving and that he apparently isn't in any clear danger. But why slashdot of all places ?
Sunny Dubey
bleh
I wonder what Apple is paying slashdot to post so many ipod stories
(Yes yes, cue in the "just block the ipod section in your preferences" responces. Its not an issue of blocking anything, but how every small thing about a single product is getting posted on to the front page.)
Sunny Dubey
Great
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As if our video-games didn't have enough mindless violence. Now they'll have this hard core hate that the Hip-Hop preaches like there is no tomorrow.
Think I'm really biased (which I am) or am trolling ? Well apparently Bill Cosby agrees with me
Sunny Dubey
Resident of New York City, lots of mindless hip-hop here
You know, for some reason, I feel bad for the IE Developers, who are probably a bunch of well meaning people that are hampered by upper-management decisions.
No, they are idiots. Remember that simple BMP image buffer over-flow found when the leak of the Windows Source code ?
That has nothing to do with upper-management decisions. More like Microsoft's human resources problem of hiring people from good colleges who lack real programming experience.
Sunny Dubey
A) The UN doesn't get it (they never do)
B) The spammers themselves will be on this panel (ie: Sudan being on the Human Rights board)
C) The few non-spammers on this panel will have no idea what spam is. They'll be more interested in joining the mindless anti-Isreal propaganda the UN loves to engage in (Somehow anti-Isreali spam will be allowed by the UN, just watch it)
D) This panel will report to another panel, which in turn will report to some other panel, and thereby getting nothing done (their website has an amusing pic about just this)
E) Even if this panel wanted to get something done, there would be much infighting and mindless bickering between a bunch of guys who continue to treat the UN as the mindless boys-club it has grown to be
Sunny Dubey
Windows + .Net for a simple picture frame ?
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wtf ? do they not teach the concept of KISS in school anymore ?
I think the likes of TRON will be around for quite sometime
Sunny Dubey
I wonder how Apple's work on this for their Safari will effect KDE's KHTML
Sunny Dubey
By looking at the amusing and clever jabs at Microsoft from Apple. It appears that Apple seems to think of Microsoft as more competition than linux ...
Either that, or Apple is just having some good old fun (something the PC industry is in dire need of).
Sunny Dubey
Quote:
... in contrast to the GPL, which obligates developers to make their modifications available to the public.
Erm, no. This has been said a billion times, and I suppose it will be said again. The GPL does not require you to give back your changes to the public. It does, however, require you to give the source code to whoever you in turn gave the program too.
Example: If I sell a modified version of the kernel to the Pentagon, I must provide the source to the Pentagon, but no one else. Not even the NSA, or some state gov't, etc etc. It is a very simple concept. (Ingenious when you think about it.)
Sunny Dubey
don't get me wrong, this is a great subject to discuss, but I can't help deny that I'm surprised to see it on Slashdot. This seems more like a story that would appear on fark.com. (except with a much shorter tag line, and a billion times the stupidity level.)
Sunny Dubey
US: 0 EU: 0 MS: 2 Sunny Dubey
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I suppose I should justify myself for the above. This isn't an anti-apple, and I refuse to block apple stories. But i'm tired of lots of useless Apple news being posted to slashdot right next to the stuff that actually matters. (Ie: This story versus Xgrid info.)
Its kind of like what has happened to the hardware topic on slashdot. Most of those stories aren't even that useful. ("OOoh! its another cool mod!" BLEH!).
There needs to be some sort of story-moderation mechanism by the readers on slashdot.
Sunny Dubey
I sure am
Go ahead, mod me down, but I'm pretty damn sure loads of other slashdot folk agree with me on this one.
Sunny Dubey
Is this some sort of insult or something? The distro that has the absurdly expensive yearly-lockin, super annoying marketing practises, and does thing as root ?
As a linux user, I feel offended. I think the likes of Mandrake or Suse would be a MUCH better idea.
Sunny Dubey
PS: Just for kicks, Pricewatch supports LinBullShit too, *cough**cough*