What's the access times on these? Will they be as slow as regular floppies? That's what kept me from purchasing a Superdisk drive last time (and instead bought a Zip, which is speedy).
Use MS stuff at work if you need to. Use Linux at home for play.
That's what I do. (Actually, it's more like Windows 98 at school, Linux/Windows 2000/FreeBSD/Texas Instruments 99-4A/whatever I can get my mitts on at home.:) )
Hmm. I don't know if I would totally argue that "thinking outside the box" is valid here. Artists think outside the box. Writers think outside the box. But computer people, on a whole, have to fit and constrain to some box. There is an industry out there, with corporations and such, that like to mold computer people to its shape.
Nothing against gays or your theory, but I think the answer is much more simpler: there's more men involved with computer science. Even with the transgression over the past few years, something like 80% of computer people are men. Take a look at MIT.
Like sex bears like sex encounters. I go to Sarah Lawrence College, where the campus is predominantly women (something like 70-80%). Guess how many are lesbians? Yes, it's true, there are a good number who come to Sarah Lawrence knowing it's a "gay school" (I didn't have a clue -- I came here for the writing and to follow some computer science), but there are quite a few freshman convert females (much to the dismay of my straight male brethren).
6. Key players will have a scoreboard video intro scored with a rock song as they enter onto the field. Prior to the snap, players may use a wireless microphone for talking trash about the other team over the stadium loudspeakers.
It's one thing to emulate the *idea* of MaxOS X. A pretty flushing effect when the program is minimized. See-through dialog boxes. A program that will search through your folders one-by-one, from left to right on the screen.
It's another thing to blatantly use the same thin lines that adorn all the windows (and the case of the iMac). Copy the Bondi blue exactly by looking up its Pantone color. Placing an apple in the exact same areas of the screen, with the piece cut out, just like the logo.
OS X is not totally open source, folks. The underlying system is, by the GUI is entirely Apple (And rightfully so. If they didn't own the GUI they would own none of OS X, and wouldn't be able to make a profit on it [*cough* Redhat trying to make money off free products *cough*]).
If you're going to tweak your KDE 2 theme to have translucent windows (if this is at all possible) be my guest. If you want to put a blue Apple logo on your menu bar, consider yourself screwed.
What's the advantage of Motif over something like Windows? Customizibility? I can add new context menus in Windows 2000. I can program GUI interfaces interweving the standard widgets and my own custom ones. Themes are supported (and Windows was the first OS to really allow this anyway).
I've used Motif, and quite frankly the managability just scared me. KDE is my desktop of choice right now (although I would like more Linux apps developers to support the available menus).
In terms of pure functionality, Windows and MacOS are tied at first for me. On PDA's, PalmOS follows a close second (only problem-- limited resolution to draw new widgets).
Wouldn't voice interaction (saying "Word Processor", and having it open) essentially provide all of the functionality this man is suggesting? You would never really have to deal with the OS or even interface icons. Everything would be in your head. You just say "I need to write something" and the appropriate application opens up.
I'm thinking the computer from Star Trek. Or that one communications commercial I saw with the pretend, futuristic agent software saying "I got those tickets you wanted."
Then, the OS would be all but gone to the end user. Wouldn't it?
I agree that C and C++ aren't the most secure languages for this kind of thing, but if not them, what languages would we use for stuff like this? Java?
If we're going to undermine buffer overflows completely, we may as well go back to using Cobol or Fortran. No buffers there.
I love the Dreamcast, and I agree with you, this certainly puts a damper on the next year. I'm looking forward to these games as well, and fortunately, I already own a system to enjoy it.
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What's the access times on these? Will they be as slow as regular floppies? That's what kept me from purchasing a Superdisk drive last time (and instead bought a Zip, which is speedy).
Great googly moogly, does Slashdot ever need a story moderation system.
That's what I do. (Actually, it's more like Windows 98 at school, Linux/Windows 2000/FreeBSD/Texas Instruments 99-4A/whatever I can get my mitts on at home. :) )
Yes, but everyone knows that if I wanted a set of flamebaited replies, I would not post the original using an AC. ;)
Nothing against gays or your theory, but I think the answer is much more simpler: there's more men involved with computer science. Even with the transgression over the past few years, something like 80% of computer people are men. Take a look at MIT.
Like sex bears like sex encounters. I go to Sarah Lawrence College, where the campus is predominantly women (something like 70-80%). Guess how many are lesbians? Yes, it's true, there are a good number who come to Sarah Lawrence knowing it's a "gay school" (I didn't have a clue -- I came here for the writing and to follow some computer science), but there are quite a few freshman convert females (much to the dismay of my straight male brethren).
10 bucks says I think this will actually happen.
Oh God give the Jon Katz bullshit a rest. You don't like his articles, turn them off. That's what Slash is for. Sheesh.
Also remember people: www.msnaoltimewarner.com is still available (*shivvers*).
Uh duh.
But to who? Not my box. Just the DNS server (one would assume, if the ISP was running only the DNS on that server).
I don't think this hack can trace back through my ISP's DNS, find my machine, and hack into it.
It's another thing to blatantly use the same thin lines that adorn all the windows (and the case of the iMac). Copy the Bondi blue exactly by looking up its Pantone color. Placing an apple in the exact same areas of the screen, with the piece cut out, just like the logo.
OS X is not totally open source, folks. The underlying system is, by the GUI is entirely Apple (And rightfully so. If they didn't own the GUI they would own none of OS X, and wouldn't be able to make a profit on it [*cough* Redhat trying to make money off free products *cough*]).
If you're going to tweak your KDE 2 theme to have translucent windows (if this is at all possible) be my guest. If you want to put a blue Apple logo on your menu bar, consider yourself screwed.
Outside of server admins, what regular user even has to worry about this? Isn't this more a thing for BugTraq than Slashdot?
Often those 800 numbers aren't even tied to the spam operation directly.
I've used Motif, and quite frankly the managability just scared me. KDE is my desktop of choice right now (although I would like more Linux apps developers to support the available menus).
In terms of pure functionality, Windows and MacOS are tied at first for me. On PDA's, PalmOS follows a close second (only problem-- limited resolution to draw new widgets).
I swear, some of you people would install Linux on toasters if you could.
Natalie Portman is ugly.
Instead, why not look at two of the storiesSlashdot didn't care to accept for you today.
I'm thinking the computer from Star Trek. Or that one communications commercial I saw with the pretend, futuristic agent software saying "I got those tickets you wanted."
Then, the OS would be all but gone to the end user. Wouldn't it?
BTW, in other news, MS has released some of its source code to businesses, and they've also started to tie media management into the OS. But since neither is obviously important to the Slashdot community, Rob and Co. doesn't feel a need to accept the stories. Whatever.
I've been looking for a "shut up when you're ranting CmdrTaco button" but they don't seem to have one. :)
Ah. Good point.
How is this possibly redundant?
There is an easy solution. Just check the slashbox setting for the patent category.
Thank God CmdrTaco placed patents in its own category. I like to turn it off on occasion when he goes into a huge rant (like for the CueCat).
If we're going to undermine buffer overflows completely, we may as well go back to using Cobol or Fortran. No buffers there.
Windows 2000 has a talk program.
You can reconfigure the command line to your liking (I did with some 3rd-party free utilities).
Name me one package manager in Linux that doesn't occasionally fuck EVERYTHING up?
I love the Dreamcast, and I agree with you, this certainly puts a damper on the next year. I'm looking forward to these games as well, and fortunately, I already own a system to enjoy it.