"[...] reduce the amount of television they watch permanently."
Should we also have a national "Don't read that book Week"?
This sounds like dumb crap from people who believe they're "special" because they don't watch TV. The only thing "special" about them is their pompus belief that not watching TV makes them better.
I'd support a "think about what you watch" campaign, but not this.
Or they're fast because they're beta drivers. Just wait till they need to implement fixes for broken stuff (maybe working around creative-bugs <bitter>).
However, Apple has pretty much always had a superior OS [..]
C'mon! By "pretty much" you mean "except for every release of MacOS and the original OS X?". If so, yes, I guess they've "always" had a superior OS.
That slow-as-molass cooperative-multitasking non-MMU OS where "multitasking" was more like "select a program to run up front", that was kicked up and down the street by AmigaOS, is just a figment of my imagination I guess.
You can always upgrade to http://www.foobar2000.org/ instead. No more nonstandard interface, a decent mass-tagger, excellent replay-gain support, etc. What's not to like?
Sue the world if you will, I still won't buy from the people you represent. Also, I saw a Swedish IFPI-representative on the news this morning and she said that they (Swedish branch) wouldn't get involved in litigation just yet.
On a positive note (for music-distribution-done-right lovers), the forthcoming album of Machinae Supremacy (1:st of May release date) will open for pre-orders tomorrow at distributor MBD Records.
[...] unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm.
Any evidence for this assertion that mydoom was aimed at SCO in any way or form other than a way for the scumsucking malwarewriters/spammers who unleashed it to make the news/redirect attention?
Also, wouldn't it be a good idea to ask the user on installation of popcon if this is a "desktop-" or "server-type" install of debian, and tag the data with that? That way we could have (beyond split statistics) jigdo/people compiling well composed CDs for those two different purposes. I'm guessing the software layout could be significantly different.
I guess you could infer the type from the data itself, but...
but it never occured to you to actually look into those scripts?
No, not really. Not to any great extent. The impression I had was that YaST would simply "work" and that I should be able to do everything from there, making manual inspection and editing of scripts obsolete. After all, if I had to manage scripts and configuration files manually, then what's the point of YaST? I was already using slackware where I had to do pretty much everything manually - and had for years - and I liked it! I knew that to edit my network settings I'd go to/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or whatever (I'm a debian user nowadays)
Of course I looked around. I was learning! Remember seeing prominent 'don't edit this file by hand' notices, but no real information on where/when/how it was managed by YaST.
... nuff said.
Yes, if you think that you can draw simple conclusions from a 'slice of life' that is a post on slashdot, and that anything that wasn't explicitly mentioned in said post a) never occured to the person and b) much less happened, then yes, "nuff said".
Several years ago, when I first used YaST, I found it to be superior to the rest of the all-in-one administation tools around at the time.
Several years ago, when I came from Slackware to SuSe (just playing around), I found YaST to be extremely irritating, confusing and all together useless. I'd make a small change in a menu and that would trigger the running of lots and lots of mysterious scripts all over the place, doing gawd knows what. Went back to slackware after that.
(This was, as I said, years ago and is not a comment on YaST as of today).
When they change to socket 939, however, you'll be stuck with what you've got--no upgrade for you!
AMD has indicated that 939 and 940 will coexist for a while, meaning that yes, there should be both 939 and 940 versions available of the same speed grade, probably for a year or so.
Then if that's enought or not, that's up to you. But remember that the rest of the platform evolves too, so if you're going after the top-of-the-line with every upgrade, just replacing the CPU(s) wouldn't be enought anyhow, so a socket-change wouldn't matter.
Don't forget to expose these options to the user. Games a pretty good at this nowadays, but it's pretty important that there's some way for the user to actually decide these things, they shouldn't all be left up to 'timing loops' and 'hardware IDs'.
Not only do some gamers perfer framerate over display details or vice-versa, but it's also important for the future where the same game might meet with hardware that is literally 10 times as fast as the state-of-the-art at the time it was released.
Just to show that this couldn't possibly come as a surprise for whoever PHB'es penned these agreements:
Customers who "upgrade" to the Licensing 6.0 scheme also lose ownership of Microsoft software products and are thereby nudged into limited term licensing with periodic extensions (with or without any code updates), as shall be dictated by Microsoft -- in other words, software leases. -- The Inq. 16 July 2002
..and..
"According to a report on News.com, a survey of 1000 technology managers around the world showed that the 60% of companies that signed up for the deal have ended up paying more." -- The Inq.. 21 March 2003.
So it's not "news" that this scheme would cost you a whole lot with the possibility (and high probability) of giving almost nothing in return.
If anyone who signing up for Licensing 6.0 actually believed that Microsoft would let them get the next great thing "for free", then I've got one nice bridge to sel^H^H^Hlease them.
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"[...] reduce the amount of television they watch permanently."
Should we also have a national "Don't read that book Week"?
This sounds like dumb crap from people who believe they're "special" because they don't watch TV. The only thing "special" about them is their pompus belief that not watching TV makes them better.
I'd support a "think about what you watch" campaign, but not this.
Google 'Perlin Noise'. Read 'Procedural' as 'described mathematically'.
Here you go.
[...] even with beta drivers.
Or they're fast because they're beta drivers. Just wait till they need to implement fixes for broken stuff (maybe working around creative-bugs <bitter>).
So do you own Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (part 1) already?
However, Apple has pretty much always had a superior OS [..]
C'mon! By "pretty much" you mean "except for every release of MacOS and the original OS X?". If so, yes, I guess they've "always" had a superior OS.
That slow-as-molass cooperative-multitasking non-MMU OS where "multitasking" was more like "select a program to run up front", that was kicked up and down the street by AmigaOS, is just a figment of my imagination I guess.
<"I just haven't heard anything new I'd like to buy"
The last few weeks I've ordered two copies of Machinae Supremacy - Deus Ex Machinae, and one each of Dark Tranquillity - Live Damage (DVD), Dia Psalma - Efter Allt, In Flames - Soundtrack to your escape (digi) -- and just now I'm thinking that maybe I should complete my collection with a few more old albums on CD, like In Flames' Colony and Lunar Strain.
Let's see..
Number of albums from hugh evil record labels: 0
Number of albums with copy-prevention mechanisms: 0.
Yes, all good.
"Someone during concert performaces had clap his hands !!! - to the performers... isn'it a bit strange?"
If so, that's not the only thing that's a bit strange.
You can always upgrade to http://www.foobar2000.org/ instead. No more nonstandard interface, a decent mass-tagger, excellent replay-gain support, etc. What's not to like?
Joss Whedon provided good commentary on several of the "Buffy" and "Firefly" disks, too.
Whedon/Jane Espenson on Angel can be pretty interesting too.
It also looks like they turned off anonymous postings on a 2001 april fools day.
Yes, that was the best day in slashdot history, ever.
It's been "down hill" for EA since Bard's Tale III
It's just now catching up with them.
Icewind Dale (my favorite of his)
Do you own the soundtrack? I've got a glitch in the first track (a few seconds in) which is very irritating. :-(
Wanted to know if I'm alone. It looks like a manufacturing problem because it's there on the all new CD and there isn't a visible error on it.
Sue the world if you will, I still won't buy from the people you represent. Also, I saw a Swedish IFPI-representative on the news this morning and she said that they (Swedish branch) wouldn't get involved in litigation just yet.
On a positive note (for music-distribution-done-right lovers), the forthcoming album of Machinae Supremacy (1:st of May release date) will open for pre-orders tomorrow at distributor MBD Records.
[...] unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm.
Any evidence for this assertion that mydoom was aimed at SCO in any way or form other than a way for the scumsucking malwarewriters/spammers who unleashed it to make the news/redirect attention?
Will I get a CC of what is sent out?
Also, wouldn't it be a good idea to ask the user on installation of popcon if this is a "desktop-" or "server-type" install of debian, and tag the data with that? That way we could have (beyond split statistics) jigdo/people compiling well composed CDs for those two different purposes. I'm guessing the software layout could be significantly different.
I guess you could infer the type from the data itself, but...
And no, I haven't RTFM. Yet.
but it never occured to you to actually look into those scripts?
No, not really. Not to any great extent. The impression I had was that YaST would simply "work" and that I should be able to do everything from there, making manual inspection and editing of scripts obsolete. After all, if I had to manage scripts and configuration files manually, then what's the point of YaST? I was already using slackware where I had to do pretty much everything manually - and had for years - and I liked it! I knew that to edit my network settings I'd go to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or whatever (I'm a debian user nowadays)
Of course I looked around. I was learning! Remember seeing prominent 'don't edit this file by hand' notices, but no real information on where/when/how it was managed by YaST.
Yes, if you think that you can draw simple conclusions from a 'slice of life' that is a post on slashdot, and that anything that wasn't explicitly mentioned in said post a) never occured to the person and b) much less happened, then yes, "nuff said".
I can't speak for everyone else (amazing that), but I'm still "boycotting". This particular game wasn't anything I'd go for anyhow, but..
Several years ago, when I first used YaST, I found it to be superior to the rest of the all-in-one administation tools around at the time.
Several years ago, when I came from Slackware to SuSe (just playing around), I found YaST to be extremely irritating, confusing and all together useless. I'd make a small change in a menu and that would trigger the running of lots and lots of mysterious scripts all over the place, doing gawd knows what. Went back to slackware after that.
(This was, as I said, years ago and is not a comment on YaST as of today).
When they change to socket 939, however, you'll be stuck with what you've got--no upgrade for you!
AMD has indicated that 939 and 940 will coexist for a while, meaning that yes, there should be both 939 and 940 versions available of the same speed grade, probably for a year or so.
Then if that's enought or not, that's up to you. But remember that the rest of the platform evolves too, so if you're going after the top-of-the-line with every upgrade, just replacing the CPU(s) wouldn't be enought anyhow, so a socket-change wouldn't matter.
Surely a product of this process is more information?
Don't forget to expose these options to the user. Games a pretty good at this nowadays, but it's pretty important that there's some way for the user to actually decide these things, they shouldn't all be left up to 'timing loops' and 'hardware IDs'.
Not only do some gamers perfer framerate over display details or vice-versa, but it's also important for the future where the same game might meet with hardware that is literally 10 times as fast as the state-of-the-art at the time it was released.
Great, then we'd get what we have on the graphics card market; two giants spending significant amounts of time to make 3DMark run faster.
There are complexities and tradeoffs.... ah, forget it.
I don't remember there even being the possibility that simply nothing would be shipped.
Then rejoice, because I posted one (of many) such references above. It's from 2002 as you can see.
Not to call the parent a troll,
You better not. Not everything you disagree with is "a troll".
Just to show that this couldn't possibly come as a surprise for whoever PHB'es penned these agreements:
..and..
So it's not "news" that this scheme would cost you a whole lot with the possibility (and high probability) of giving almost nothing in return.
If anyone who signing up for Licensing 6.0 actually believed that Microsoft would let them get the next great thing "for free", then I've got one nice bridge to sel^H^H^Hlease them.