why can't you purchase it online or have someone else w/broadband DL and burn it for you?
You ask that because you probably don't know Fry's. It's sort of a legend among the geeks/hackers (mainly in Northern California). You could even find the Agenda VR3 there a few months ago (not sure if they still have it though).
People used to joke that if you are a girl in the Silicon Valley, you should hang in a Fry's store if you are looking for a date.
Hmm, that's weird. I actually had the oportunity to install linux on that laptop, and I couldn't get a higher resolution, X said the driver for the card (I think it was ATI Mobility) didn't support that resolution. As the winblows driver didn't support it neither, I didn't bother to try to get it working on X.
It might be a Ultra SVGA monitor, then. I once saw a 15" Compaq (model 2710US) on Circuity City, where it was claimed to support up to 1600x1200 too. But that was the virtual resolution (i.e., the winblows desktop would have that resolution, but physically it would still be 1024x768, and you would need to scroll the screen to reach the full resolution).
but a 15" LCD has the same viewable area of a 17" CRT
Maybe they have the same viewable area, but most of the times not the maximum resolution. Typically, you can get 1280x1024 in a 17" CRT, but not more than 1024x768 on a 15" LCD (on a laptop, for instance, the monitor must be SVGA+ our USVGA to achieve more than 1024x768).
I agree with you, the companies implement this system with good intentions. The problem is that the employees could abuse the system for a couple of bucks (at least that's the impression I got when I talked with my friend).
I tried it once, but most of the time either the GUI crashed or it displayed un-readable results (i.e., some weird non-ascii characters). The java/web client was slightly better at that point, but still with problems.
Anyway, that was months ago, they might have evolved since then...
I don't know if this is the case with Symantec, but I have a friend that works for a company in the semi-conductors business, and that company has a patent-incentive policy: for each patent request filled, the author receives a US$500 bonus. If the request is approved (and the company - not the author, of course - gets the patent), he/she gets another US$2000.
That would explain a lot of crazy/stupid/useless patents...
I have the feeling that they have the idea that a linux user is smart enough to find the link (as you mentioned, you would spend more time in your decision process), which is the perfect example of what the companies think about linux (i.e., it's not used by your average Joe AOL user).
But you're right, it wouldn't hurt for them to have such a link.
This is pretty much just a "bad marketing" or "bad website" issue, but none the less, it was enough for me to buy 7 nVidia cards;)
Maybe you should tell them that (as NOT having the link actually hurt them:)
I knew they provided something that you could compile with your own kernel (I mean, not the ones that come with your distro), but I never bothered to look at it.
Still, DivXNetworks and Fraunhofer are confident that they can jointly develop a digital rights management system that provides content owners with a secure means to distribute copyrighted works over the Web.
It doesn't matter what they do, sooner or later someone will break it, it's just a matter of time. There is no ultimate "secure means", as there is no 100% secure system!
I have 2 computers at home, one with a nVidia TNT2 card and the other with an ATI Rage Pro 128, and I can tell you, I'm much happier with the ATI one (the nVidia one sometimes freezes the whole system, for instance).
The overall situation (If I'm not wrong) is that even though nVidia provides the drivers (and even the source), they don't disclose technical information about the cards, while ATI does the opposite.
As pudge mentioned, because they could lose money on sales of Macs (as people wouldn't need them for accessing the iPod).
How different is this from connecting my Apple USB keyboard to my PC?
Because there is no PC company losing money selling USB keyboards just because you are using Apple's instead. In fact, that could be the case if the PCs were not an open architecture, but still controlled by IBM.
Solitaire isn't a stand-alone video game. It comes included with Windows, which is what people are buying.
That's true. In fact, Solitaire is not even a game, it's part of the operating system. You cannot remove it from the system and replace it with another game (like pysol), the operating system woudln't work without it...
At the bottom of the main page, they say: Java and Java-based marks are trademarks or registered rademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. JavaRanch is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc. in any way. Except we like them a lot.
Well, I guess they don't like Sun that much anymore...
I signed up with iname.net for "free forwarding for life."
Well, they are keeping their word, at least for now. I have an iname.com account for about 3 years, and I can still use auto-forwarding from it. On the other side, I just created a new mail.com account recently (there is no iname.com anymore) and to get auto-forwarding you need to pay the premium services (about $30/month). Worse yet, because of that limitation, I created another account on Yahoo:(
Anyway, the overall situation is sad. It's another sign that the days 'free-services-internet' are coming to an end. I have friends that keep changing their ISPs (and consequently the email address) and I always advice them to select a fixed email address (like iname or yahoo) and auto-forward that email to the real one (i.e., whatever is the email at their ISP at the moment), but now this option is limited..
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why can't you purchase it online or have someone else w/broadband DL and burn it for you?
You ask that because you probably don't know Fry's. It's sort of a legend among the geeks/hackers (mainly in Northern California). You could even find the Agenda VR3 there a few months ago (not sure if they still have it though).
People used to joke that if you are a girl in the Silicon Valley, you should hang in a Fry's store if you are looking for a date.
I actually thought they were talking about an e-mail bomb...
Of course, he is twice as smart as the people in Shelbyville (now we know where the roller coaster guy leaves).
Hmm, that's weird. I actually had the oportunity to install linux on that laptop, and I couldn't get a higher resolution, X said the driver for the card (I think it was ATI Mobility) didn't support that resolution.
As the winblows driver didn't support it neither, I didn't bother to try to get it working on X.
It might be a Ultra SVGA monitor, then.
I once saw a 15" Compaq (model 2710US) on Circuity City, where it was claimed to support up to 1600x1200 too. But that was the virtual resolution (i.e., the winblows desktop would have that resolution, but physically it would still be 1024x768, and you would need to scroll the screen to reach the full resolution).
but a 15" LCD has the same viewable area of a 17" CRT
Maybe they have the same viewable area, but most of the times not the maximum resolution. Typically, you can get 1280x1024 in a 17" CRT, but not more than 1024x768 on a 15" LCD (on a laptop, for instance, the monitor must be SVGA+ our USVGA to achieve more than 1024x768).
I agree with you, the companies implement this system with good intentions.
The problem is that the employees could abuse the system for a couple of bucks (at least that's the impression I got when I talked with my friend).
I tried it once, but most of the time either the GUI crashed or it displayed un-readable results (i.e., some weird non-ascii characters). The java/web client was slightly better at that point, but still with problems.
Anyway, that was months ago, they might have evolved since then...
When will this insanity end?
I don't know if this is the case with Symantec, but I have a friend that works for a company in the semi-conductors business, and that company has a patent-incentive policy: for each patent request filled, the author receives a US$500 bonus. If the request is approved (and the company - not the author, of course - gets the patent), he/she gets another US$2000.
That would explain a lot of crazy/stupid/useless patents...
I have the feeling that they have the idea that a linux user is smart enough to find the link (as you mentioned, you would spend more time in your decision process), which is the perfect example of what the companies think about linux (i.e., it's not used by your average Joe AOL user).
;)
:)
But you're right, it wouldn't hurt for them to have such a link.
This is pretty much just a "bad marketing" or "bad website" issue, but none the less, it was enough for me to buy 7 nVidia cards
Maybe you should tell them that (as NOT having the link actually hurt them
Thanks.
I knew they provided something that you could compile with your own kernel (I mean, not the ones that come with your distro), but I never bothered to look at it.
Still, DivXNetworks and Fraunhofer are confident that they can jointly develop a digital rights management system that provides content owners with a secure means to distribute copyrighted works over the Web.
It doesn't matter what they do, sooner or later someone will break it, it's just a matter of time. There is no ultimate "secure means", as there is no 100% secure system!
So maybe they are just missing a link to:
http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html
I have 2 computers at home, one with a nVidia TNT2 card and the other with an ATI Rage Pro 128, and I can tell you, I'm much happier with the ATI one (the nVidia one sometimes freezes the whole system, for instance).
The overall situation (If I'm not wrong) is that even though nVidia provides the drivers (and even the source), they don't disclose technical information about the cards, while ATI does the opposite.
Or maybe:
:)
'Linux kernel 2.4.19 is out"
PS: don't forget today is 2/4
Here is a post from Linus Torvalds. Seems like he has had enough linux for now
And here is a post from a Slashdot reader. Seems like he has had enough jokes for today.
Linus doesn't talk shit.
Didn't he say the MacOS-X was a piece of crap?
(I think I heard it on this month's LM, but I can't confirm)
PS: before the trolls start, seems like he called the microkernel, not the OS itself...
Why would Apple sue?
As pudge mentioned, because they could lose money on sales of Macs (as people wouldn't need them for accessing the iPod).
How different is this from connecting my Apple USB keyboard to my PC?
Because there is no PC company losing money selling USB keyboards just because you are using Apple's instead. In fact, that could be the case if the PCs were not an open architecture, but still controlled by IBM.
Solitaire isn't a stand-alone video game. It comes included with Windows, which is what people are buying.
That's true. In fact, Solitaire is not even a game, it's part of the operating system. You cannot remove it from the system and replace it with another game (like pysol), the operating system woudln't work without it...
This schema would allow The Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack for
The Wizard of Oz.
If you have useres that use Excell and stick to one sheet and have a graph or two - they can easily use OpenOffice/StartOffice/KSpread
And gnumeric
They need to be migrated over to LeX
I don't know what you mean by LeX, but I assume you meant Tex/Latex or lyx/klyx (which are WYSIWYG frontends to tex/latex).
Like XP or Red Bull (Red Bull gives you wings).
At least they have some sense of humor:
Problem B Undecodable Codes
Phil Oracle has a unique ability that makes him indispensable at the National Spying Agency.
(it would be even funnier if the guy was called Bill Oracle or Ellisun Gates, but then they would had gone too far...)
At the bottom of the main page, they say:
Java and Java-based marks are trademarks or registered rademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
JavaRanch is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc. in any way. Except we like them a lot.
Well, I guess they don't like Sun that much anymore...
I signed up with iname.net for "free forwarding for life."
:(
Well, they are keeping their word, at least for now. I have an iname.com account for about 3 years, and I can still use auto-forwarding from it. On the other side, I just created a new mail.com account recently (there is no iname.com anymore) and to get auto-forwarding you need to pay the premium services (about $30/month). Worse yet, because of that limitation, I created another account on Yahoo
Anyway, the overall situation is sad. It's another sign that the days 'free-services-internet' are coming to an end. I have friends that keep changing their ISPs (and consequently the email address) and I always advice them to select a fixed email address (like iname or yahoo) and auto-forward that email to the real one (i.e., whatever is the email at their ISP at the moment), but now this option is limited..
Scott and babe head back to Scott's place and the rest is history ;0)
Yep, they played X-Man the whole night long...