I agree with you a 100%. The only problem is, half the time Microsoft blocks out competitors with their monopoly. I don't mind their products, they are superior. But closing standards and other stuff is bad!
Let's say a million people were found to write offending slander about someone in their life on their web page. Should we throw them all in jail?
I could give a rats ass if someone wrote shit about me on the web.
A side rant: I've told Hemos that there needs to be an organization (by techies) that fights all these important issues that come through Slashdot. Rather than having an article, about 500 comments, and thats the end of that. Maybe a page for each case, key people to contact by snail, email, etc. Donations taken. Lawyers hired..
If we let big business decide our new world, imagine what will happen.
Every once in a while I try Linux to check out the desktop. See if I can play any games. But still for my main programs, most don't work or take hours to get running. ie: Quake3: setup with Nvidia accel, xfree86 4, and quake3 (all fine). I was sitting in #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net for like 3 hours to figure out why I was getting some retarded error. They have a nv_check.sh that checks for conflicting gl dlls. It missed two which was my problem. Load times were faster than Windows by the way. Probably 3-4 times faster. But the speed of the mouse was too low, and refresh was too high. So you get pains because if you move the mouse a cm, it doesn't go anywhere. Mouse support in XWindows needs to be improved. These things need to be simplified. There shouldn't be ANY work to play your favorite game. There shouldn't be ANY work to use your desktop. Everything should be still accessible by experts if they prefer to do it the tedious way too. Do linux developers believe that simple is evil or something? There is some SERIOUS UI attention needed in the desktop. I could care less about KExplorer if the UI is still crappy. Double clicking on a setup file and playing a game is great. Linux gaming will never be widely accepted until these things are fixed. If newbies can't do it, then you don't have an audience. I use linux for my server needs. But as a desktop, and a gaming platform Windows 2000 is superior. (98 sucks too) Vice versa Windows 2000 is a shitty bloated server. You guys wonder why Windows has a huge market? It's a segment that has a need and it fills it. If you want Linux to gain more acceptance, step up to the plate and fix these things. I figure Mandrake, Corel, Redhat, etc are leaning towards this route. Though they are becoming bloatware too.(i'm a slack lover)
I have sold my Windows 2000 Professional on EBAY like a month and a half ago without any problems. I included the SERIAL# which is a white sticker on the top of any retail box. Some dude emailed me and asked me why his auction was cancelled and I asked him if he had that #. If you don't state it, I think your auction is pulled.
Thadie Newton was off the hook. That alone was worth the movie. On the part of the acting, I think it would have been better if Jet Li did the fighting scenes. You could obviously see that Tom did the stunts, his martial arts are nothing to be proud of. The motorcycle scene was really cool, except the part where they both jumped in the air and jumped off their bikes. A little unrealistic there. But sliding under a truck, that was awesome. I wasn't execting a great plot, just looking for the action. Though it wasn't as good as I expected, the chick made up for it.
You are dead on. Exactly what I thought. My friend's have lots of copies on tapes. The only reason we don't do it anymore is because we were forced by music companies to USE CDS. That's why we copy CDS NOW. It's so stupid. I remember at warehouse the whole store were tapes and one aisle was cds. Now it's the other way around. What the f*ck do you expect people to be copying? He doesn't understand that if your friends copy, then you can bet others do, and it's probably a much more significant amount of people who copied tapes than he states. One of my friends has like 100s of tapes. But now she burns cds rather than tapes.
Not really. Rollbacks, Transactions, replication, subselects, etc have all been on the todo list. MySQL developers just needed to think out how they were going to impliment them well without sacrificing speed. There is a good article on this (interview with the main guy), but I don't have the URL on me. Check www.zend.com it's in my thread about 1 1/2 weeks ago. All the features that don't make MySQL a full RDBMS will be implimented in this year.
This is why we still have the mouse. Let me see you beat me in Quake2/Quake3 with your trackpoint. On your comment about cts.. you should have your hands level with your desk. If not you should have some gel support, so you don't get it. I use to get pains on my old desk but once I got the pads it went away. My new desk is perfectly flat with my chair so I never get any pains.
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I don't think so. Mail order companies only charge you tax if you are in the same state as them. How is this EU situation different?
I agree with you a 100%. The only problem is, half the time Microsoft blocks out competitors with their monopoly. I don't mind their products, they are superior. But closing standards and other stuff is bad!
I could give a rats ass if someone wrote shit about me on the web.
A side rant: I've told Hemos that there needs to be an organization (by techies) that fights all these important issues that come through Slashdot. Rather than having an article, about 500 comments, and thats the end of that. Maybe a page for each case, key people to contact by snail, email, etc. Donations taken. Lawyers hired..
If we let big business decide our new world, imagine what will happen.
Deepak
This is one of my favorite games right now. I tried playing it under WINE. But it complains that it requires DirectX 6.1a.
Every once in a while I try Linux to check out the desktop. See if I can play any games. But still for my main programs, most don't work or take hours to get running. ie: Quake3: setup with Nvidia accel, xfree86 4, and quake3 (all fine). I was sitting in #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net for like 3 hours to figure out why I was getting some retarded error. They have a nv_check.sh that checks for conflicting gl dlls. It missed two which was my problem. Load times were faster than Windows by the way. Probably 3-4 times faster. But the speed of the mouse was too low, and refresh was too high. So you get pains because if you move the mouse a cm, it doesn't go anywhere. Mouse support in XWindows needs to be improved. These things need to be simplified. There shouldn't be ANY work to play your favorite game. There shouldn't be ANY work to use your desktop. Everything should be still accessible by experts if they prefer to do it the tedious way too. Do linux developers believe that simple is evil or something? There is some SERIOUS UI attention needed in the desktop. I could care less about KExplorer if the UI is still crappy. Double clicking on a setup file and playing a game is great. Linux gaming will never be widely accepted until these things are fixed. If newbies can't do it, then you don't have an audience. I use linux for my server needs. But as a desktop, and a gaming platform Windows 2000 is superior. (98 sucks too) Vice versa Windows 2000 is a shitty bloated server. You guys wonder why Windows has a huge market? It's a segment that has a need and it fills it. If you want Linux to gain more acceptance, step up to the plate and fix these things. I figure Mandrake, Corel, Redhat, etc are leaning towards this route. Though they are becoming bloatware too.(i'm a slack lover)
I have sold my Windows 2000 Professional on EBAY like a month and a half ago without any problems. I included the SERIAL# which is a white sticker on the top of any retail box. Some dude emailed me and asked me why his auction was cancelled and I asked him if he had that #. If you don't state it, I think your auction is pulled.
Thadie Newton was off the hook. That alone was worth the movie. On the part of the acting, I think it would have been better if Jet Li did the fighting scenes. You could obviously see that Tom did the stunts, his martial arts are nothing to be proud of. The motorcycle scene was really cool, except the part where they both jumped in the air and jumped off their bikes. A little unrealistic there. But sliding under a truck, that was awesome. I wasn't execting a great plot, just looking for the action. Though it wasn't as good as I expected, the chick made up for it.
You are dead on. Exactly what I thought. My friend's have lots of copies on tapes. The only reason we don't do it anymore is because we were forced by music companies to USE CDS. That's why we copy CDS NOW. It's so stupid. I remember at warehouse the whole store were tapes and one aisle was cds. Now it's the other way around. What the f*ck do you expect people to be copying? He doesn't understand that if your friends copy, then you can bet others do, and it's probably a much more significant amount of people who copied tapes than he states. One of my friends has like 100s of tapes. But now she burns cds rather than tapes.
Not really. Rollbacks, Transactions, replication, subselects, etc have all been on the todo list. MySQL developers just needed to think out how they were going to impliment them well without sacrificing speed. There is a good article on this (interview with the main guy), but I don't have the URL on me. Check www.zend.com it's in my thread about 1 1/2 weeks ago. All the features that don't make MySQL a full RDBMS will be implimented in this year.
This is why we still have the mouse. Let me see you beat me in Quake2/Quake3 with your trackpoint. On your comment about cts.. you should have your hands level with your desk. If not you should have some gel support, so you don't get it. I use to get pains on my old desk but once I got the pads it went away. My new desk is perfectly flat with my chair so I never get any pains.