Um, calm down. The article is mostly about Miguel de Icaza, who isn't from America at all (in fact, he was barred from it). And another thing, the article was written BY A MEXICAN! I'm sure you have justification for your axe-grinding with the American people (feel free to yell at me next time you're over), but this isn't the time.
Sega tends to be first. They were there first with the Genesis and then the SegaCD. They were there first with the Saturn. They'll be there first with Dreamcast. The Genesis worked out. The second two did not. We'll see how this last one goes.
Ah, but until games for Linux mature, you can spend the $100+ you would have spent on Windows to use your machine for games and put it towards a console. My only problems are that consoles do not have good strategy/rpg games (FFVII does not count, thank you very much) and because of licensing, games cost more for consoles.
This is one of the most unique mainstream articles I've ever seen. They even put RMS's name before Linus's! And RMS is a "programming genius" while Linus is a "Finnish programmer". How unusual!
Good points. I was about to say that tech people would be the market for NT, not Joe User, but your example of your boss corrected me. But Microsofct isn't on trial for a server monopoly, becuase they don't have one. I'd be mighty impressed if they're preemptively boosting competitors for a trial they might face 5 years down the road!
No, there's no censorship, just moderation. Slashdot has the best "censorship" system I've ever seen. If a moderator dislikes a post, he/she (well, he) makes it have a lower score. Thus you have to lower your threshold to see it. If you want, permanently set your threshold to -2 and you'll see it all. I just checked at -2 to see what you guys were complaining about, and the post was still there, for people like me, but it and the "1st post" post were downgraded, so that I didn't have to wade through them on my way to real, intelligent discussion. I really appreciate it. Remember, it's not censorship if you can still see it!
If MS is trying to prove that they don't have a monopoly by boosting the image of the competetion (I even read a positive article about Boies on Slate.com!), they're doing a very bad job. No one has ever suggested that Microsoft has a monopoly in the server market. It's the desktop market that matters, and I haven't seen any mainstream media (especially ones owned by MS) saying that Linux is a worthwhile desktop OS replacement.
The funny thing is that he said we don't need to worry about accidental launchings, but watch out if you live near a silo becaus they're a bit worried about what will happen to the missiles while they're still on the ground!
Yes, of course, compliance is good for Java. The problem is that the people working at Blackdawn (is that it?) can't release their source until it's finished. This is a problem, as open source things tend to get finished much quicker when they're actually open.
This is a very unique/. effect. You can load the page, but you'll never see the picutures, because when someone does see the picture, they won't like it (we have such taste!), so it has to generate a new picutre, which you can't see for a while. Odd.
What we need are cheap geometry chips. The bottleneck on most 3D cards right now is the CPU and/or the bus. They just can't feed the card enoug triangles to keep it happy. This would be solved if there were cheap geometry chips that could be put on the 3dcard. Then your CPU could be 50% idle while running Quake:) I mean, think about it, the only reason people buy these powerful chips (these x86 chips) is because of games, multimedia processing (get an SGI, which are, I know x86, but at least they're different) maybe server stuff (get a Sun or an Alpha). With cheap geometry processors, you knock out a LOT of Intel's market and KNI becomes practically useless.
I don't know if this is in this version of the story, but in the Reutur's (however that's spelled) version, it had something like "He said that that when Microsoft says 'owning' the market, they mean finding a way to make it work better." I laughed at that one.
Well, yes, that chap's name was Dvorak, so he did have a vested interest. But it doesn't take a genius to do a simple test. Use an anagram program to check how many things you can make with asdfghjkl; or with aoeuidhtns and you'll see the difference.
It's not like the keyboard stops you from using Dvorak. I've been using Dvorak for about a year now, on QWERTY keyboards. If you have to look at the keys, Dvorak isn't going to help you anyway.
No, _they_ didn't get in working quickly at all. I asked Matrox about X support, and they told me to look at Xi. Suse ended up releasing the driver, not Matrox. And I never said the card itself was bad. It's actually quite decent. It's just their customer service and driver support that sucks. (They also completely botched K6-2 compatibility; no, not just support for 3dNOW; the things make Super7-based machines crash all the time in Windows--even more than they would do otherwise)
Personally, I'm hoping this will help someone embarrass Matrox very, very badly. They promised that they would have a working OpenGL driver in September (about a month after the Millenium G200 was released and the month that the Mystique G200 was released). October, still nothing, but they say it's almost ready. Same thing in late November. Then they release an alpha driver in December which actually works worse than the D3D wrapper in most cases. What had they been doing all that time?! But the worst part is that they were lying to their customers (including me) all the time. I really doubt they realistically believed they could have that thing out in a month in August. Their customer relations were very, very bad. And they treated the people at www.matroxusers.com as their own customer service department, one they didn't have to pay. I hope someone comes out with an OpenGL driver in Linux for the G200 very quickly to further shame Matrox. It's sad; they used to be a good company. I will never buy another card from them, though.
I've wondered this but never got up the nerve to post to a newsgroup, but at least this is on topic. What's a Primary Domain Controller do, anyway? I've never used NT, just Linux and Win95/98. It's obviously something important (and presumably useful). Would someone care to enlighten me?
As RMS was explaining earlier, developers should use the GPL when they are offering something that users and developers can't get from the commercial world. The LGPL is useful for things that they could get somewhere else. At least it keeps the source open while still making it possible to compete. As it stands now, Redhat, Debian, etc. can't distribute a version of xanim that can play the newer codecs (i.e., almost anything you get off the internet you can't play with the stock xanim). How are we supposed to conquer the desktop like that? "I'm sorry, you just have to download these separate packages, edit the makefile, and recompile. That's all there is" is not going to cut it with people's grandmas. What do you guys think?
I see lots of "This is old" and "I want one" posts, but would someone please tell me the good news? The transcipt was quite low on explaining what we're doing to prepare against these things. The thought of invisible weapons sounds really, really bad. These would go in the category with biological weapons in my mind, but at least I know we're doing something to prepare for those. What are we doing to prevent these kinds of attacks? Someone make me feel better!
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Um, calm down. The article is mostly about Miguel de Icaza, who isn't from America at all (in fact, he was barred from it). And another thing, the article was written BY A MEXICAN! I'm sure you have justification for your axe-grinding with the American people (feel free to yell at me next time you're over), but this isn't the time.
Sega tends to be first. They were there first with the Genesis and then the SegaCD. They were there first with the Saturn. They'll be there first with Dreamcast. The Genesis worked out. The second two did not. We'll see how this last one goes.
Ah, but until games for Linux mature, you can spend the $100+ you would have spent on Windows to use your machine for games and put it towards a console. My only problems are that consoles do not have good strategy/rpg games (FFVII does not count, thank you very much) and because of licensing, games cost more for consoles.
This is one of the most unique mainstream articles I've ever seen. They even put RMS's name before Linus's! And RMS is a "programming genius" while Linus is a "Finnish programmer". How unusual!
Well, it's a kind of drug in _Neuromancer_.
Good points. I was about to say that tech people would be the market for NT, not Joe User, but your example of your boss corrected me. But Microsofct isn't on trial for a server monopoly, becuase they don't have one. I'd be mighty impressed if they're preemptively boosting competitors for a trial they might face 5 years down the road!
No, there's no censorship, just moderation. Slashdot has the best "censorship" system I've ever seen. If a moderator dislikes a post, he/she (well, he) makes it have a lower score. Thus you have to lower your threshold to see it. If you want, permanently set your threshold to -2 and you'll see it all. I just checked at -2 to see what you guys were complaining about, and the post was still there, for people like me, but it and the "1st post" post were downgraded, so that I didn't have to wade through them on my way to real, intelligent discussion. I really appreciate it. Remember, it's not censorship if you can still see it!
If MS is trying to prove that they don't have a monopoly by boosting the image of the competetion (I even read a positive article about Boies on Slate.com!), they're doing a very bad job. No one has ever suggested that Microsoft has a monopoly in the server market. It's the desktop market that matters, and I haven't seen any mainstream media (especially ones owned by MS) saying that Linux is a worthwhile desktop OS replacement.
It only counts retail sales, not corporate sales, which AMD lags WAY behind in. But still, great for them!
The funny thing is that he said we don't need to worry about accidental launchings, but watch out if you live near a silo becaus they're a bit worried about what will happen to the missiles while they're still on the ground!
Yes, of course, compliance is good for Java. The problem is that the people working at Blackdawn (is that it?) can't release their source until it's finished. This is a problem, as open source things tend to get finished much quicker when they're actually open.
The difference is that spam is unwanted. Perhaps you might have your emails to people who don't like you curtailed, but not the ones that people want.
This is a very unique /. effect. You can load the page, but you'll never see the picutures, because when someone does see the picture, they won't like it (we have such taste!), so it has to generate a new picutre, which you can't see for a while. Odd.
What we need are cheap geometry chips. The bottleneck on most 3D cards right now is the CPU and/or the bus. They just can't feed the card enoug triangles to keep it happy. This would be solved if there were cheap geometry chips that could be put on the 3dcard. Then your CPU could be 50% idle while running Quake :) I mean, think about it, the only reason people buy these powerful chips (these x86 chips) is because of games, multimedia processing (get an SGI, which are, I know x86, but at least they're different) maybe server stuff (get a Sun or an Alpha). With cheap geometry processors, you knock out a LOT of Intel's market and KNI becomes practically useless.
I don't know if this is in this version of the story, but in the Reutur's (however that's spelled) version, it had something like "He said that that when Microsoft says 'owning' the market, they mean finding a way to make it work better." I laughed at that one.
Well, yes, that chap's name was Dvorak, so he did have a vested interest. But it doesn't take a genius to do a simple test. Use an anagram program to check how many things you can make with asdfghjkl; or with aoeuidhtns and you'll see the difference.
It's not like the keyboard stops you from using Dvorak. I've been using Dvorak for about a year now, on QWERTY keyboards. If you have to look at the keys, Dvorak isn't going to help you anyway.
Where are you seeing these amazingly cheap laptops, if I may ask.
From the looks of the paper, a Tex file would have been very appropriate. I bet come Monday, when they get /.'d, they'll reconsider.
No, _they_ didn't get in working quickly at all. I asked Matrox about X support, and they told me to look at Xi. Suse ended up releasing the driver, not Matrox. And I never said the card itself was bad. It's actually quite decent. It's just their customer service and driver support that sucks. (They also completely botched K6-2 compatibility; no, not just support for 3dNOW; the things make Super7-based machines crash all the time in Windows--even more than they would do otherwise)
Personally, I'm hoping this will help someone embarrass Matrox very, very badly. They promised that they would have a working OpenGL driver in September (about a month after the Millenium G200 was released and the month that the Mystique G200 was released). October, still nothing, but they say it's almost ready. Same thing in late November. Then they release an alpha driver in December which actually works worse than the D3D wrapper in most cases. What had they been doing all that time?! But the worst part is that they were lying to their customers (including me) all the time. I really doubt they realistically believed they could have that thing out in a month in August. Their customer relations were very, very bad. And they treated the people at www.matroxusers.com as their own customer service department, one they didn't have to pay. I hope someone comes out with an OpenGL driver in Linux for the G200 very quickly to further shame Matrox. It's sad; they used to be a good company. I will never buy another card from them, though.
I've wondered this but never got up the nerve to post to a newsgroup, but at least this is on topic. What's a Primary Domain Controller do, anyway? I've never used NT, just Linux and Win95/98. It's obviously something important (and presumably useful). Would someone care to enlighten me?
He fell out of the tree because they switched to cows instead of primates. Cows do not do well in trees.
As RMS was explaining earlier, developers should use the GPL when they are offering something that users and developers can't get from the commercial world. The LGPL is useful for things that they could get somewhere else. At least it keeps the source open while still making it possible to compete. As it stands now, Redhat, Debian, etc. can't distribute a version of xanim that can play the newer codecs (i.e., almost anything you get off the internet you can't play with the stock xanim). How are we supposed to conquer the desktop like that? "I'm sorry, you just have to download these separate packages, edit the makefile, and recompile. That's all there is" is not going to cut it with people's grandmas. What do you guys think?
I see lots of "This is old" and "I want one" posts, but would someone please tell me the good news? The transcipt was quite low on explaining what we're doing to prepare against these things. The thought of invisible weapons sounds really, really bad. These would go in the category with biological weapons in my mind, but at least I know we're doing something to prepare for those. What are we doing to prevent these kinds of attacks? Someone make me feel better!