+1 on Ubuntu. I picked up an Eee 1000H this past weekend and installing Easy Peasy (the poorly named Ubuntu Eee distro) via flash drive was ridiculously easy. Everything worked right off the bat without any messing around with config files. The "Netbook Remix" interface is sort of annoying, but very easy to turn off.
I'd be curious to see the sales numbers broken out by territory, especially the movies. Are UMD movies selling well in America, or has Japan been helping those numbers?
Considering no one I know has been the least bit interested in movies, despite enjoying the PSP, I'm honestly surprised with those figures...
That wouldn't be a very good idea...if the repair isn't absolutely necessary, you could risk doing further damage, considering the repair operation would be a new operation. For damage that they're fairly sure won't be fatal, they're much better off just leaving it alone.
I run SuSE 9.2 Pro on an AMD64 - Acrobat's not a problem, but there's no 64 bit version of Flash.
You can kind of get around that by installing a 32 bit version of your browser, with appropriate 32 bit plugins (Flash, Java mainly) and fire that up when you need those plugins, but it's definitely an annoyance.
In my experience, the best way to improve your typing skills is to just practice everday typing. Whether it's posting on a messageboard, IMing (except using abbreviations and shortcuts defeats the purpose), or keeping a diary/journal on your computer just for the sake of practicing typing, the act of typing becomes more and more natural as time goes on.
Programs like Mavis Beacon can be helpful, but once you've spent enough time in front of a keyboard, it becomes second nature to know where the keys are, regardless of whether you use proper style or not. It's a cliche, but in this case, practice makes perfect.
The West Coast Hockey League ceased to exist summer of 2003, and all of the teams were absorbed into the East Coast Hockey League, which is now known just as the ECHL (no longer stands for anything.
Other US hockey leagues are the American Hockey League, Central Hockey League, United Hockey League, and Southern Professional Hockey League.
And I can honestly say I _never_ expected to see the ol' WCHL mentioned on Slashdot...
If the host machine is Windows XP, yes it locks out local users and anyone else trying to connect via RDP.
On Win2K Server (and 2K3 I'd assume as well, but can't verify as I don't use it), you can have a local session running and an RDP session running at the same time without any real performance loss or problems.
I'd guess that if you put the firewall up against your average email user, the average user would shitcan legitimate messages at a much higher rate than the firewall thanks to the fact that the user can get frustrated while the firewall can't. I know my boss accidentally deletes mail from me at least 3 times per week because he's careless while mass-deleting spam in the morning.
Since the firewall functions based upon code rather than emotion and intuition, the firewall's error rate is going to look better and better against human error as it handles more and more mail.
The X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter games are some of my favorite computer games ever made, and I'd be first in line for a new XvT game. Hell, even if it was just a rehash of the same plot, but new and improved graphics I'd go for it.
Sure, some would look at it as a cash-grab - another Star Wars game, and worse yet a rehash of an old one, but at least it would be a rehash of a classic...
Of course, it could be argued that Apple is approaching a monopoly status with the iPod and should open it up.
Why? The iPod is Apple's product and they can do with it as they see fit (within the law of course). There are plenty of other portable music players on the market, and for people that want to be able to play certain music formats, they can buy a different player. I chose to buy an iRiver iHP-140 because it fit my needs/wants best. If I'd bought an iPod, should I have been able to turn around and complain that it can't play a certain format?
I'd really tend to disagree that Apple is anywhere near monopoly status with the iPod...with a lot of other quality music players, not to mention PDAs, cellphones, and other devices that can play music, I don't see a problem. I'm by no means a fan of Apple, but saying they're anywhere near a monopoly is just an exaggeration.
Honestly, the life of an Apple product is a lot longer than a typical windows PC. I still use my Powermac 9500 (running 10.3.4) but I have retired my 600Mhz Pentium III.
That all depends on your uses...I've still got a 7 year old PII chugging along. It's by no means my primary machine, but it still serves a purpose for me.
Surely there's prior art for this...while I'm not old enough to remember the earliest GUIs, I would think someone other than MS invented this.
Anyone have specific examples?
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Oh, come on. MP3.com was sued into obscurity, it didn't fail because it was a bad idea.
So you're saying it wasn't a bad idea for them to follow a business model that was bound to piss off the major labels and get themselves sued into oblivion?
My local Best Buy stocks SuSE, and I know they used to stock Red Hat (may still stock the $99 edition). They may also stock Mandrake, but I honestly don't recall.
And yes, they're sitting there right next to Windows. It may not be equal footing, or equal mindshare, but the market penetration is constantly improving.
Legally I know why it is, but realistically, what's the problem?
I have a large CD collection, and like to keep digital versions of some CDs I listen to frequently on my hard drive (never shared), or burn CDs to carry around with me so I don't have to worry about theft/damage/loss to the original. Why could that even be a problem? Sure, people can pirate, but people are going to find a way to pirate regardless.
Maybe I'm missing the logic of recording execs, but how is pissing consumers off by limiting their rights going to encourage them to buy more CDs?
RTFA yourself - I live in San Diego and we didn't have any printer or any paper trail. I know the machines are capable of it, and the State of CA had mandated it by 2006, but we did not have them for this election.
True, however a business is essentially a person (TaxID and all) without a conscience. As you can see from the last several years of business indictments people do things running a business that are extremely unethical and quite often illegal. When everything is done for the contributing businesses and nothing for the people (or consumers as business likes to say), we end up fucking each other for the almighty dollar.
And that's different from normal people how? Most of the people I meet on any given day are selfish and will screw their fellow man for the almighty dollar. Lack of ethics in the business world is not an effect of being in business, it's simply an extension of a person's morals or lack thereof.
Obviously logic hasn't played a big part in any of their actions, but why in the hell would they sue EV1, one of the few companies that bothered to buy an SCO license, not to mention the fact that they admitted it!
It's not exactly case of biting the hand that feeds you, but it certainly be a case of alienating an ally that probably doesn't need to be alienated.
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+1 on Ubuntu. I picked up an Eee 1000H this past weekend and installing Easy Peasy (the poorly named Ubuntu Eee distro) via flash drive was ridiculously easy. Everything worked right off the bat without any messing around with config files. The "Netbook Remix" interface is sort of annoying, but very easy to turn off.
I'd be curious to see the sales numbers broken out by territory, especially the movies. Are UMD movies selling well in America, or has Japan been helping those numbers?
Considering no one I know has been the least bit interested in movies, despite enjoying the PSP, I'm honestly surprised with those figures...
That wouldn't be a very good idea...if the repair isn't absolutely necessary, you could risk doing further damage, considering the repair operation would be a new operation. For damage that they're fairly sure won't be fatal, they're much better off just leaving it alone.
I run SuSE 9.2 Pro on an AMD64 - Acrobat's not a problem, but there's no 64 bit version of Flash.
You can kind of get around that by installing a 32 bit version of your browser, with appropriate 32 bit plugins (Flash, Java mainly) and fire that up when you need those plugins, but it's definitely an annoyance.
SCO is based in Lindon, Utah, not California.
In my experience, the best way to improve your typing skills is to just practice everday typing. Whether it's posting on a messageboard, IMing (except using abbreviations and shortcuts defeats the purpose), or keeping a diary/journal on your computer just for the sake of practicing typing, the act of typing becomes more and more natural as time goes on.
Programs like Mavis Beacon can be helpful, but once you've spent enough time in front of a keyboard, it becomes second nature to know where the keys are, regardless of whether you use proper style or not. It's a cliche, but in this case, practice makes perfect.
The West Coast Hockey League ceased to exist summer of 2003, and all of the teams were absorbed into the East Coast Hockey League, which is now known just as the ECHL (no longer stands for anything.
Other US hockey leagues are the American Hockey League, Central Hockey League, United Hockey League, and Southern Professional Hockey League.
And I can honestly say I _never_ expected to see the ol' WCHL mentioned on Slashdot...
If the host machine is Windows XP, yes it locks out local users and anyone else trying to connect via RDP.
On Win2K Server (and 2K3 I'd assume as well, but can't verify as I don't use it), you can have a local session running and an RDP session running at the same time without any real performance loss or problems.
I'd guess that if you put the firewall up against your average email user, the average user would shitcan legitimate messages at a much higher rate than the firewall thanks to the fact that the user can get frustrated while the firewall can't. I know my boss accidentally deletes mail from me at least 3 times per week because he's careless while mass-deleting spam in the morning.
Since the firewall functions based upon code rather than emotion and intuition, the firewall's error rate is going to look better and better against human error as it handles more and more mail.
The X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter games are some of my favorite computer games ever made, and I'd be first in line for a new XvT game. Hell, even if it was just a rehash of the same plot, but new and improved graphics I'd go for it.
Sure, some would look at it as a cash-grab - another Star Wars game, and worse yet a rehash of an old one, but at least it would be a rehash of a classic...
Why? The iPod is Apple's product and they can do with it as they see fit (within the law of course). There are plenty of other portable music players on the market, and for people that want to be able to play certain music formats, they can buy a different player. I chose to buy an iRiver iHP-140 because it fit my needs/wants best. If I'd bought an iPod, should I have been able to turn around and complain that it can't play a certain format?
I'd really tend to disagree that Apple is anywhere near monopoly status with the iPod...with a lot of other quality music players, not to mention PDAs, cellphones, and other devices that can play music, I don't see a problem. I'm by no means a fan of Apple, but saying they're anywhere near a monopoly is just an exaggeration.
Lets hope Microsoft doesn't use this as a cue to move thier OS onto those machines.
I can't speak for Diebold's entire line of voting machines, but the ones used in the last election in San Diego County were running Windows CE.
Honestly, the life of an Apple product is a lot longer than a typical windows PC. I still use my Powermac 9500 (running 10.3.4) but I have retired my 600Mhz Pentium III.
That all depends on your uses...I've still got a 7 year old PII chugging along. It's by no means my primary machine, but it still serves a purpose for me.
MS WAS NOT GRANTED A PATENT FOR DOUBLE CLICK.
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And would you care to point out where in my post I used the term "Double click" or any derivative of that?
OK then.
Surely there's prior art for this...while I'm not old enough to remember the earliest GUIs, I would think someone other than MS invented this.
Anyone have specific examples?
Oh, come on. MP3.com was sued into obscurity, it didn't fail because it was a bad idea.
So you're saying it wasn't a bad idea for them to follow a business model that was bound to piss off the major labels and get themselves sued into oblivion?
Read the top post in this thread, dumbass:
I want to be able to use multiple computers via one user interface...
Gee, I don't see anything in there about multiple people trying to use one computer...
Don't KVM switches and/or ssh/VNC/Terminal Services/PC Anywhere/etc. pretty much solve that problem?
My local Best Buy stocks SuSE, and I know they used to stock Red Hat (may still stock the $99 edition). They may also stock Mandrake, but I honestly don't recall.
And yes, they're sitting there right next to Windows. It may not be equal footing, or equal mindshare, but the market penetration is constantly improving.
I'll admit I haven't read it, and therefore can't vouch for its quality, but Linux for Non-Geeks sounds like it may fit the bill.
Are they planning on unifying emacs and vi?!?
Legally I know why it is, but realistically, what's the problem?
I have a large CD collection, and like to keep digital versions of some CDs I listen to frequently on my hard drive (never shared), or burn CDs to carry around with me so I don't have to worry about theft/damage/loss to the original. Why could that even be a problem? Sure, people can pirate, but people are going to find a way to pirate regardless.
Maybe I'm missing the logic of recording execs, but how is pissing consumers off by limiting their rights going to encourage them to buy more CDs?
RTFA yourself - I live in San Diego and we didn't have any printer or any paper trail. I know the machines are capable of it, and the State of CA had mandated it by 2006, but we did not have them for this election.
True, however a business is essentially a person (TaxID and all) without a conscience. As you can see from the last several years of business indictments people do things running a business that are extremely unethical and quite often illegal. When everything is done for the contributing businesses and nothing for the people (or consumers as business likes to say), we end up fucking each other for the almighty dollar.
And that's different from normal people how? Most of the people I meet on any given day are selfish and will screw their fellow man for the almighty dollar. Lack of ethics in the business world is not an effect of being in business, it's simply an extension of a person's morals or lack thereof.
Obviously logic hasn't played a big part in any of their actions, but why in the hell would they sue EV1, one of the few companies that bothered to buy an SCO license, not to mention the fact that they admitted it!
It's not exactly case of biting the hand that feeds you, but it certainly be a case of alienating an ally that probably doesn't need to be alienated.