Netscape couldn't overtake a browser that came with theOS, why do you think Mozilla will?
Besides, IE5.x has had the same functionality. And, power users can get Guidescope (http://www.guidescope.com/) or Junkbuster if they want to manage their cookies effectively.
What application will they provide every user so that they can watch their download useage? Or, will they try to hide the numbers and then just start executing PING requests to users to put them over the 3GB limit each month?
Would be a nice way to suppliment their cash-flow, no?
"(Same to all the stupid people who write phrases like 'Douglas Adam's' or even 'Hitchicker'. Christ on a bicycle, have none of you ever read anything!)
...seventh Hitch-Hiker (sic) novel..."
...ideas in a faux-HitchHiker (sic)...
If you're going to slam on people not spelling "hitchhiker" correctly you could at least manage to spell it correctly (or even consistently) in your own post.
Would I rather run Blender, 3DSMax 4, Adobe Premiere 6, and Adobe After Effects 5 on a P90 or a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 (or a Gig+ Athlon)?
Hmmm, let me thing about that for a moment...
Don't discount multimedia work as "not for your average user", either. With most common desktop OSes (Mac OS9/OSX and Windows ME) shipping with video production software and photo-editing tools graphic manipulation speed is squarely in the realm of the average user's needs now.
Treaties are not "on the same level" as the Constituion. The Constitution is the document upon which all other laws must be judged. The only legal way to supercede the Constitution is to ammend it. Congress may very well attempt to pass laws and sign treaties that go counter to the Constituion. This is why we have to other branches of government to keep them (and each other) in check.
Where ordinary Americans may lose out is on freedom of speech issues. Many countries have far more restrictive policies on libel and on what citizens may or may not say about touchy subjects like politics or religion, especially if those opinions are published on the Internet.
The second that Bulgaria came forward and said the FBI had to nab an OpEd writer for the NY Times because of something he said on the paper's web site, the paper, the ACLU, and any # of congressmen, senators, and lawyers would start making the argument about the fact that a world wide convention can not supercede the constitution that governs this nation
Because Sony has saturation at the TV with PS1. They're hoping to turn this into saturation at the TV with PS2. Why would AOL want to waste the time, effort, and expense to try and get that same type of penetration with a new set-top box? Couple that with the fact that Sony is probably throwing them a lot of money to do this, and you see how the decision was made.
4) Q: I am interested in over-clocking my system. Would a Koolance PC help me with this?
A: The current PC addresses our intended customers: the home and office user, who admire a quiet system with the added efficiency of liquid cooling. For the high-performance user, we do not feel our present system can accommodate the additional stresses placed on it by overclocking the components. Please check the news page for updates on our performance-oriented PC model coming in August.
Tribes 2 is also, "Yesterday's game". The 3D engine in it is just an evolutionary upgrade from the Tribes 1 engine.
Until games come out that specifically make use of the GeForce 3's new capabilities (per pixel shaders, vertex shaders, etc...) then there won't be any program that gives a total picture of what the card can do.
Your statement only holds true if the mainstream press picks up on the story.
They won't.
Until CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Newseek, The New York Times, et. al... publish about this all it does is expose the DMCA for what it is - "a crude weapon intended to bully and threaten" to the people that already understand this.
The fact that a lot of academics and Slashdot readers now know that the DMCA is broken won't contribute towards any significant amount of change.
2) aol agreed to make their im service available to other clients as part of their agreement with the ftc. as a condition of their merger with time warner.
No they didn't. Many other industry groups/lawmakers worked with the FTC/FCC to try to get that stipulation in there. AOL did not volunteer to do it.
In the end though, it didn't happen. You should go read the ruling before you talk about it. The FTC/FCC said that AOL has to open up their AIM service for "future technologies" (e.g. voice and video). There is nothing in the ruling that says AOL has to open up AIM as it currently functions.
Nice examples. But, unfortunately, none of them are anything that a user who "buys a PC for games and simple office work" cares a whit about.
So, really, they don't do anything to answer my question in a way that is postive for Linux.
Again, I'll ask, what non-commercial Linux software is there for the user who "buys a PC for games and simple office work" that is better than what is available for Windows? What overwhelming compeling reason is there for an average user to switch to linux as their main home OS?
What non-commerical linux community written software that a consumer who buys a pc for games and simple office work is better than what can be had for Windows?
Netscape 6? No. Sorry, IE5 is a better browser. Mail clients? No. They're a dime a dozen on Windows also--and many of those are excellent mail clients. THe same holds true for news readers, ftp clients, and IRC programs.
Office apps? Maybe But people will want to use at home what they use at work. Games? I don't think there are many non-commercial Linux games that hold a candle to any commerical offering (on either Linux or Windows). In the commerical games camp you only have ports of games that already exist on Windows.
So what, if anything, would a Windows user see in non-commercial linux software that would make them want to switch OSes?
At best U9 was one slightly worse than average game that you then had to play 8 times.
* Go To Town
* Find out what evil has befallen them.
* Go to the bottom of a dungeon
*Beat up some guy in a purple outfit and take the sygil he is carrying
* Find someone who is carrying a special item you need
* Go to a broken altar
* Pray
* Everything is hunky-dory
*Lather, Rinse, Repeat 7 more times.
This "What about Sun? What about BSD?" comment has appeared quite often in this thread.
I have to ask one thing, "Where is it written that all Open Source software must be instantly available for all platforms?" Eazel is in this for money (with their services). Maybe they've decided that there won't be a sufficient return on investment for the time it would take to make Solaris or BSD versions of Nautilus.
I remember a NeXTstep feature which was the handful : The first time you selected more than one file in a view, you then had an icon showing a hand which appeared. You could preserve this icon by putting it on the filer window shelf. Once there, you could use as a temporary directory and drag subsequently chosen files so that at the end you could copy/move/delete, etc. all the selected files at once.
That doesn't seem more convenient to me. It actually seems more complex. Navigating to different souce directories and copying files to the final destination directory as you find them doesn't involve any temporary destination folder. The NeXT solution has you find files in different souce directories, add those files to an interim destination list, and then copy that list to the final destination directory.
You still have to find the source files, but you've added the layer of making a copy list and then dragging that copy list to your destination. At best you've actually *added* a whole click-drag operation to the procedure. It's not really adding any convenience.
- Click and drag files without having to open two different directory views (if I drag and hold over a folder long enough it should open)
Most all file managers will understand that you want to copy the files you are currently dragging into a given folder if you just drop them on that folder icon. You don't have to actually open the destination folder.
Now, if you want to go to directories deep--then you do have to open stuff up. I actually like the way Windows does it. It lets you ctrl-C the files to the clipboard. Then you can navigate to the folder you want and ctrl-v to paste them (then it actually performs the copy--so I don't think anything actually get's saved on the clipboard). With that method you at least don't have to have everything set up before you start the copy.
That statement is based on the assumption that MS looked at OS-X and then decided to use the same image. It's entirely possible (and more plausible) that both teams, earlier in development of their respective OS's, made a similar design decision--without knowing what the other team was doing.
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Netscape couldn't overtake a browser that came with theOS, why do you think Mozilla will?
Besides, IE5.x has had the same functionality. And, power users can get Guidescope (http://www.guidescope.com/) or Junkbuster if they want to manage their cookies effectively.
MS does provide zip-folder functionality in it's Win98 Plus product. But that isn't free, either.
Would be a nice way to suppliment their cash-flow, no?
nVidia has a motherboard chipset that offers integrated sound, video, and an extremely high bandwidth between the two chips?
So now the PC platform has finally come full circle in it's design and reached the point that the Amiga was in 1987
...seventh Hitch-Hiker (sic) novel..."
...ideas in a faux-HitchHiker (sic)...
If you're going to slam on people not spelling "hitchhiker" correctly you could at least manage to spell it correctly (or even consistently) in your own post.
Would I rather run Blender, 3DSMax 4, Adobe Premiere 6, and Adobe After Effects 5 on a P90 or a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 (or a Gig+ Athlon)?
Hmmm, let me thing about that for a moment...
Don't discount multimedia work as "not for your average user", either. With most common desktop OSes (Mac OS9/OSX and Windows ME) shipping with video production software and photo-editing tools graphic manipulation speed is squarely in the realm of the average user's needs now.
Treaties are not "on the same level" as the Constituion. The Constitution is the document upon which all other laws must be judged. The only legal way to supercede the Constitution is to ammend it. Congress may very well attempt to pass laws and sign treaties that go counter to the Constituion. This is why we have to other branches of government to keep them (and each other) in check.
The second that Bulgaria came forward and said the FBI had to nab an OpEd writer for the NY Times because of something he said on the paper's web site, the paper, the ACLU, and any # of congressmen, senators, and lawyers would start making the argument about the fact that a world wide convention can not supercede the constitution that governs this nation
Because Sony has saturation at the TV with PS1. They're hoping to turn this into saturation at the TV with PS2. Why would AOL want to waste the time, effort, and expense to try and get that same type of penetration with a new set-top box? Couple that with the fact that Sony is probably throwing them a lot of money to do this, and you see how the decision was made.
4) Q: I am interested in over-clocking my system. Would a Koolance PC help me with this?
A: The current PC addresses our intended customers: the home and office user, who admire a quiet system with the added efficiency of liquid cooling. For the high-performance user, we do not feel our present system can accommodate the additional stresses placed on it by overclocking the components. Please check the news page for updates on our performance-oriented PC model coming in August.
Tribes 2 is also, "Yesterday's game". The 3D engine in it is just an evolutionary upgrade from the Tribes 1 engine.
Until games come out that specifically make use of the GeForce 3's new capabilities (per pixel shaders, vertex shaders, etc...) then there won't be any program that gives a total picture of what the card can do.
We had border states in the US during the Gulf War?
How odd....
They won't.
Until CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Newseek, The New York Times, et. al... publish about this all it does is expose the DMCA for what it is - "a crude weapon intended to bully and threaten" to the people that already understand this.
The fact that a lot of academics and Slashdot readers now know that the DMCA is broken won't contribute towards any significant amount of change.
No they didn't. Many other industry groups/lawmakers worked with the FTC/FCC to try to get that stipulation in there. AOL did not volunteer to do it.
In the end though, it didn't happen. You should go read the ruling before you talk about it. The FTC/FCC said that AOL has to open up their AIM service for "future technologies" (e.g. voice and video). There is nothing in the ruling that says AOL has to open up AIM as it currently functions.
So, really, they don't do anything to answer my question in a way that is postive for Linux.
Again, I'll ask, what non-commercial Linux software is there for the user who "buys a PC for games and simple office work" that is better than what is available for Windows? What overwhelming compeling reason is there for an average user to switch to linux as their main home OS?
What non-commerical linux community written software that a consumer who buys a pc for games and simple office work is better than what can be had for Windows?
Netscape 6? No. Sorry, IE5 is a better browser. Mail clients? No. They're a dime a dozen on Windows also--and many of those are excellent mail clients. THe same holds true for news readers, ftp clients, and IRC programs.
Office apps? Maybe But people will want to use at home what they use at work. Games? I don't think there are many non-commercial Linux games that hold a candle to any commerical offering (on either Linux or Windows). In the commerical games camp you only have ports of games that already exist on Windows.
So what, if anything, would a Windows user see in non-commercial linux software that would make them want to switch OSes?
At best U9 was one slightly worse than average game that you then had to play 8 times.
* Go To Town
* Find out what evil has befallen them.
* Go to the bottom of a dungeon
*Beat up some guy in a purple outfit and take the sygil he is carrying
* Find someone who is carrying a special item you need
* Go to a broken altar
* Pray
* Everything is hunky-dory
*Lather, Rinse, Repeat 7 more times.
Blech
Laptop computers
Apple Newtons
Sharp Wizards
Sharp Zauruses (Zauri?)
PCS Cellphones
Commodore SX-64 (the lugable one)
Original Compaq 'portable' computers
Franklin electronic organizers
etc...
All of these fit into NCRs incredibly vague definition.
This "What about Sun? What about BSD?" comment has appeared quite often in this thread.
I have to ask one thing, "Where is it written that all Open Source software must be instantly available for all platforms?" Eazel is in this for money (with their services). Maybe they've decided that there won't be a sufficient return on investment for the time it would take to make Solaris or BSD versions of Nautilus.
That doesn't seem more convenient to me. It actually seems more complex. Navigating to different souce directories and copying files to the final destination directory as you find them doesn't involve any temporary destination folder. The NeXT solution has you find files in different souce directories, add those files to an interim destination list, and then copy that list to the final destination directory. You still have to find the source files, but you've added the layer of making a copy list and then dragging that copy list to your destination. At best you've actually *added* a whole click-drag operation to the procedure. It's not really adding any convenience.
- Click and drag files without having to open two different directory views (if I drag and hold over a folder long enough it should open)
Most all file managers will understand that you want to copy the files you are currently dragging into a given folder if you just drop them on that folder icon. You don't have to actually open the destination folder.
Now, if you want to go to directories deep--then you do have to open stuff up. I actually like the way Windows does it. It lets you ctrl-C the files to the clipboard. Then you can navigate to the folder you want and ctrl-v to paste them (then it actually performs the copy--so I don't think anything actually get's saved on the clipboard). With that method you at least don't have to have everything set up before you start the copy.
We can only hope.
C'mon, Hemos. If you had read your post even once before you submitted it you would've caught, "Engalnd".
When will we see the headline, "Slashdot Grammar Checker To Coming Online"?
That statement is based on the assumption that MS looked at OS-X and then decided to use the same image. It's entirely possible (and more plausible) that both teams, earlier in development of their respective OS's, made a similar design decision--without knowing what the other team was doing.
The duck is an image from a stock photo archive. So what if both Microsoft and Apple paid money for the rights to use the same image?