Just get the damn browser stable and worry about added features later.
Seriously, who needs tabbed browsing and mouse gestures if the browser's too unstable to use on a regular basis? Time spent on coding unnecessary toys is time wasted from getting a final stable product shipped.
You have the option under FreeBSD to just download the port and then have it unzipped so that you can actually modify the source, if that's what you're asking. I've done this several times before, then a make all install finishes compiling and installing the ports.
Yeah, getting only $100,000 a year for basically sitting at a computer ranks right up there with slaving away 12 hours a day in an unsanitary steel factory for $5 a week.
Have you guys seen their nasty recommended system requirements for this thing? They want at least a Pentium II/III (400 Mhz) processor with 128 Megs of RAM. They also recommend a 3D accelerated graphics card.
WTF for? Is the talking paperclip rendered in 3D now? Does he have his own little 3D house, with a 3D paperclip family and real life experiences? Jesus' shit, this isn't a top of the line game. It's a damn office suite. You type stuff in and print it out. You thought StarOffice was bloat, this is just nasty.
I think the govt is forgetting what it is for, and that is serving public interest. I fail to see how public interest is being served here.
In my opinion the ability to communicate is a public good, and should be protected as such.
Your right to communicate right now involves going to the government and being granted permission to use "their" airwaves. You have a twisted view of free communication. If they don't like what you're promoting, you don't get airspace. You would gain nothing either way, but privatization is better because it gets government out of things.
Next thing they'll be selling is the frequencies I use when I speak. And I'll have a very small device attached to my throat that prohibits me to speak when I forgot to pay my bills.
Do you have any idea what the difference between private and public is? You seem to be saying "selling...the frequencies", implying private ownership, but then you contradict yourself by implying public ownership with the statement "when I forgot to pay my bills." Tell me, which one is it you're against? Or do you not have any clue?
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Windows 2000 has direct support for Direct3D and it still can't play games such as AOE2 and NBA Live. What makes you people think that a patched Linux will run these games?
It's just that everywhere else, people aren't giving it enough time. Capitalism didn't just start one day. It was a gradual process that evolved over hundreds of years in Europe and America. We had time to adapt.
Many people in third world countries want capitalism to bring immediate benefits to their standards of living. You can't go from agricultural to post-industrial society in ten years, folks. People need to give this process time.
it and wiped out most of the life on earth, including the trilobites.
Unfortunately, the tribble, a distant cousin of the trilobite, survived the impact and is now multiplying at a phenominal rate. Scientists predict that Earth's days are numbered. If we don't die from an asteroid, scientists say, the tribbles will take all of our food, water, and air supplies. Mankind's reign as kings of the world are over. Long live the tribble!
Austrialian bill 1043, passed in 1956, banned pornography and violent material from the media. On several occasions, porno companies have been taken to court, but their cases have been dismissed because bill 1043 doesn't clearly state what is considered pornography. Same thing goes for violent material.
This new bill passed by the Austrialian Government is just a modification of the 1956 bill, defining pornography as "anything whose sole purpose is sexual stimulation", and violent material as "any situation where a person is intentionally harmed by another person."
The review would be okay, if he was reviewing an office suite. The author goes through the installation process and tells some general features of OpenBSD, but never even reviews security or stability, OpenBSD's strongest points. I don't even think he mentioned encryption one time. Come on, this is supposed to be a friggin' server OS, not some Windows replacement! Can't we at least have benchmarks?
The most important area I believe, where Linux lags behind Windows, is education software in general. This is more important in gaming if we want Linux to replace Windows in schools and Libraries. One of the major reasons I had to switch back to Windows was because my SAT Prep program and my AP History program only ran under Windows. I think that it would be in Linux's greatest interests if someone could convince a major education software company to port to KDE2 (which is ideal in that it already has an office suite and webbrowser). Only then would Linux really be able to compete in schools and libraries.
How come nobody has mentioned NetBSD? If I were on a Mac, and I didn't like my OS, I would switch to NetBSD. It has far more support than Darwin, includes more software, Linux compatability (or is that restricted to the x86 platform?), has ports and a makeworld system that quite frankly, leaves Darwin behind in the dust. Of course this is Slashdot, where BSD gets little or no mention...
This doesn't have anything much to do with GNOME, but I found all the Sun logos intruiging...
What does that tell you? It tells me that they're running GNOME on Solaris. Why is it that anytime you see GNOME or KDE or whatever on television, you always assume that Linux is running under it? Remember that GNOME runs on just about every UNIX. In this case, it's Solaris. So next time, don't get too excited and assume that it's Linux.
I don't think this would make more gaming companies want to port to Linux. Why? Because they would have to recompile the game with WINE and Linux to get a native binary. Unfortunately, with these 600Meg-1Gig games you see, that would mean adding another CD (or two) to the box, which would cost money, as well as add weight for shipping costs. Why not just go ahead and create a Linux version seperately, if it's going to cost so much more?
The other option would be to compile a Windows only version, test it using WINE on Linux, and if it works, ship it with that version of WINE on the CD. Unfortunately, using WINE as an emulator will see significant loses in speed and framerate (or at least in my experience).
The gap between public schools and their private counterparts is growing, and quite frankly, public schools are falling flat on their faces. Online schools solve the problem of educating the physically disabled by bringing education to *them*, as opposed to bussing them to a public school where they won't learn anything outside of sharing and being special, simply because they are placed in a class with mentally retarded students. Unfortunately, state and federal governments just don't *get* it. If the students aren't succeeding, maybe we should pour more money in, build more ramps, etc. Maybe if they would realize that the physically disabled aren't the same as total wackos and retards, the physically disabled would do better in school. But no. So I'm glad to see someone making an effort to educate these kids. Now if only public schools would follow this example...
"These genome projects are the way to gather intellectual property positions, for example if we identify the function of a useful gene we could patent it. Without participation in this type of pure research, we will be left behind."
This is a shame. All that scientists are worried about these days is patenting the genome of something so they can get rich. Whatever happened to research for the benefit of mankind? Whatever happened to putting politics aside when it came to science? A damn shame.
This is great for Linux, because we are one step closer to having a standard for installing packages. Of course, it's almost certain RedHat would oppose any attempt to get rid of it's inferior RPM format. That would be a shame, considering that Linux's greatest competition comes from each other, and not say, Microsoft. I think the *BSD's are getting it right by putting their differences aside and embracing OpenPorts. Maybe RedHat should do the same thing.
Does anyone notice that all of the mistakes they listed are relatively recent events? I mean, sure five years ago in computer history is a long time, but this is a company that's been around for thirty years. Surely, they've made bigger mistakes than these.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but if you work at the CIA, you're not there to chat. You're there to do work. The CIA has every right to be mad. Wouldn't you be mad if you went to the DMV to take a driving test, and they said, "Come back Friday, I'm in a chatroom right now...?"
I think that Apple should open source the GUI to their Operating System. They can still charge users for the software and source code--open source does not mean free--and their profits would soar as people from all variants of UNIX would want to buy it and hack it so that it would work on their system. At this stage, Apple is running on dry, and this sounds like a good solution to solve their problems (but maybe only temporarily).
This may be off-topic (actually it isn't, since there isn't a story), but why don't the Libertarians get as much press coverage as Ralph Nader or the Reform Party? I mean come on, the Libertarian party is the third largest party in the US, and it isn't even listed in Yahoo!'s 2000 Election section.
Have any of you Nader-voters actually read what Ralph Nader stands for? If you did, you wouldn't be so quick to vote for him.
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Just get the damn browser stable and worry about added features later.
Seriously, who needs tabbed browsing and mouse gestures if the browser's too unstable to use on a regular basis? Time spent on coding unnecessary toys is time wasted from getting a final stable product shipped.
I have a gesture for Mozilla...
You have the option under FreeBSD to just download the port and then have it unzipped so that you can actually modify the source, if that's what you're asking. I've done this several times before, then a make all install finishes compiling and installing the ports.
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Yeah, getting only $100,000 a year for basically sitting at a computer ranks right up there with slaving away 12 hours a day in an unsanitary steel factory for $5 a week.
Please.
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Have you guys seen their nasty recommended system requirements for this thing? They want at least a Pentium II/III (400 Mhz) processor with 128 Megs of RAM. They also recommend a 3D accelerated graphics card.
WTF for? Is the talking paperclip rendered in 3D now? Does he have his own little 3D house, with a 3D paperclip family and real life experiences? Jesus' shit, this isn't a top of the line game. It's a damn office suite. You type stuff in and print it out. You thought StarOffice was bloat, this is just nasty.
You can try it for 30 Days here.
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I think the govt is forgetting what it is for, and that is serving public interest. I fail to see how public interest is being served here. In my opinion the ability to communicate is a public good, and should be protected as such.
Your right to communicate right now involves going to the government and being granted permission to use "their" airwaves. You have a twisted view of free communication. If they don't like what you're promoting, you don't get airspace. You would gain nothing either way, but privatization is better because it gets government out of things.
Next thing they'll be selling is the frequencies I use when I speak. And I'll have a very small device attached to my throat that prohibits me to speak when I forgot to pay my bills.
Do you have any idea what the difference between private and public is? You seem to be saying "selling...the frequencies", implying private ownership, but then you contradict yourself by implying public ownership with the statement "when I forgot to pay my bills." Tell me, which one is it you're against? Or do you not have any clue?
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Windows 2000 has direct support for Direct3D and it still can't play games such as AOE2 and NBA Live. What makes you people think that a patched Linux will run these games?
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In a few months a similar program will be in Debian and everybody will be rejoicing it as the greatest thing since apt-get.
Great innovation by the BSD guys. Unfortunately, they never get any publicity for getting things right...
Give us free!
GIVE US FREE!
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For the same reasons people choose to use BSD over Linux. Any 'linux vs bsd' search will give you answers.
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It's just that everywhere else, people aren't giving it enough time. Capitalism didn't just start one day. It was a gradual process that evolved over hundreds of years in Europe and America. We had time to adapt.
Many people in third world countries want capitalism to bring immediate benefits to their standards of living. You can't go from agricultural to post-industrial society in ten years, folks. People need to give this process time.
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it and wiped out most of the life on earth, including the trilobites.
Unfortunately, the tribble, a distant cousin of the trilobite, survived the impact and is now multiplying at a phenominal rate. Scientists predict that Earth's days are numbered. If we don't die from an asteroid, scientists say, the tribbles will take all of our food, water, and air supplies. Mankind's reign as kings of the world are over. Long live the tribble!
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Austrialian bill 1043, passed in 1956, banned pornography and violent material from the media. On several occasions, porno companies have been taken to court, but their cases have been dismissed because bill 1043 doesn't clearly state what is considered pornography. Same thing goes for violent material.
This new bill passed by the Austrialian Government is just a modification of the 1956 bill, defining pornography as "anything whose sole purpose is sexual stimulation", and violent material as "any situation where a person is intentionally harmed by another person."
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The review would be okay, if he was reviewing an office suite. The author goes through the installation process and tells some general features of OpenBSD, but never even reviews security or stability, OpenBSD's strongest points. I don't even think he mentioned encryption one time. Come on, this is supposed to be a friggin' server OS, not some Windows replacement! Can't we at least have benchmarks?
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The most important area I believe, where Linux lags behind Windows, is education software in general. This is more important in gaming if we want Linux to replace Windows in schools and Libraries. One of the major reasons I had to switch back to Windows was because my SAT Prep program and my AP History program only ran under Windows. I think that it would be in Linux's greatest interests if someone could convince a major education software company to port to KDE2 (which is ideal in that it already has an office suite and webbrowser). Only then would Linux really be able to compete in schools and libraries.
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How come nobody has mentioned NetBSD? If I were on a Mac, and I didn't like my OS, I would switch to NetBSD. It has far more support than Darwin, includes more software, Linux compatability (or is that restricted to the x86 platform?), has ports and a makeworld system that quite frankly, leaves Darwin behind in the dust. Of course this is Slashdot, where BSD gets little or no mention...
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This doesn't have anything much to do with GNOME, but I found all the Sun logos intruiging...
What does that tell you? It tells me that they're running GNOME on Solaris. Why is it that anytime you see GNOME or KDE or whatever on television, you always assume that Linux is running under it? Remember that GNOME runs on just about every UNIX. In this case, it's Solaris. So next time, don't get too excited and assume that it's Linux.
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I don't think this would make more gaming companies want to port to Linux. Why? Because they would have to recompile the game with WINE and Linux to get a native binary. Unfortunately, with these 600Meg-1Gig games you see, that would mean adding another CD (or two) to the box, which would cost money, as well as add weight for shipping costs. Why not just go ahead and create a Linux version seperately, if it's going to cost so much more?
The other option would be to compile a Windows only version, test it using WINE on Linux, and if it works, ship it with that version of WINE on the CD. Unfortunately, using WINE as an emulator will see significant loses in speed and framerate (or at least in my experience).
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The gap between public schools and their private counterparts is growing, and quite frankly, public schools are falling flat on their faces. Online schools solve the problem of educating the physically disabled by bringing education to *them*, as opposed to bussing them to a public school where they won't learn anything outside of sharing and being special, simply because they are placed in a class with mentally retarded students. Unfortunately, state and federal governments just don't *get* it. If the students aren't succeeding, maybe we should pour more money in, build more ramps, etc. Maybe if they would realize that the physically disabled aren't the same as total wackos and retards, the physically disabled would do better in school. But no. So I'm glad to see someone making an effort to educate these kids. Now if only public schools would follow this example...
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US Mirrors:
ftp://ftp.insync.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/gimp/
ftp://froody.res.cmu.edu/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.cs.stevens-tech.edu/mirrors/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ameth.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
Thank you.
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"These genome projects are the way to gather intellectual property positions, for example if we identify the function of a useful gene we could patent it. Without participation in this type of pure research, we will be left behind."
This is a shame. All that scientists are worried about these days is patenting the genome of something so they can get rich. Whatever happened to research for the benefit of mankind? Whatever happened to putting politics aside when it came to science? A damn shame.
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This is great for Linux, because we are one step closer to having a standard for installing packages. Of course, it's almost certain RedHat would oppose any attempt to get rid of it's inferior RPM format. That would be a shame, considering that Linux's greatest competition comes from each other, and not say, Microsoft. I think the *BSD's are getting it right by putting their differences aside and embracing OpenPorts. Maybe RedHat should do the same thing.
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Does anyone notice that all of the mistakes they listed are relatively recent events? I mean, sure five years ago in computer history is a long time, but this is a company that's been around for thirty years. Surely, they've made bigger mistakes than these.
And I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but here's a pretty good website on the x86.
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Why don't US sites have to use .USA or .US in their extension? Is it because we think we're better than everyone, or what?
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Excuse me if I'm wrong, but if you work at the CIA, you're not there to chat. You're there to do work. The CIA has every right to be mad.
Wouldn't you be mad if you went to the DMV to take a driving test, and they said, "Come back Friday, I'm in a chatroom right now...?"
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I think that Apple should open source the GUI to their Operating System. They can still charge users for the software and source code--open source does not mean free--and their profits would soar as people from all variants of UNIX would want to buy it and hack it so that it would work on their system. At this stage, Apple is running on dry, and this sounds like a good solution to solve their problems (but maybe only temporarily).
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This may be off-topic (actually it isn't, since there isn't a story), but why don't the Libertarians get as much press coverage as Ralph Nader or the Reform Party? I mean come on, the Libertarian party is the third largest party in the US, and it isn't even listed in Yahoo!'s 2000 Election section.
Have any of you Nader-voters actually read what Ralph Nader stands for? If you did, you wouldn't be so quick to vote for him.
Libertarian FAQ
Harry Browne, Libertarian for President
Thank you, have a nice day!
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