A friend of mine had a similar issue with a Sony VIO. His LCD gained a number of multicolored spots, not long after he bought the laptop. In his case, they were _not_ caused by customer abuse (he was aware that he shouldn't touch the screen and hadn't dropped it), but sony denied that it could have been a manufacturing (or shipping) issue. They were, however, quite happy to charge him substantially more than the retail price of the laptop to replace the LCD.
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I'd be willing to bet that the adverts you got on ICQ (I got them as well) were put out by AOL (well, maybe not the pr0n).
Remember, AOL owns Miribilis. AIM as advertisements in it as well, they're just less obnoxious in placement.
For end users, I would say that adverts in messages is better, as there are a number of clients that let you block in coming messages from one or more people (I don't remember of the official ICQ does this - I doubt it).
One major difference could be thought of as timing.
When Gates made his statement you could buy computers with 512k _soldered_ to the motherboard. To think that memory capacity would increase by only 25% in a reasonable period of time (say 5 years) is more than presumptuous.
Currently, we are at a point where consumers are just being able to buy singular drives approaching 200GB. Now, as you can buy games nowa days that take up several gig of hard drive space, it's still presumptuous to state that you'll never need more than a terebyte of space, but not nearly so rediculous as Gates (factor of ~10 vs. ~1.25).
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You're just talkin' some jive, right? You know the video card has to keep in memory the color value of _every_single_ pixel right? For a 1600x1200x32 display that's 7.3MB. Add double buffering, and your right at the standard 16MB of video memory. That's _before_ any extra memory for svga computations, or 3d operations.
Now, that's not 2GB, but it's not zilch either.
Well actually, polar bears (if I'm remembering my animal science correctly) _eat_ penguins. As well, penguins live just about everywhere. There are penguins that swim up from lower South America to Brazil; penguins in coastal South Africa. Lots of penguins! While most of know the (ant)artic sort, (kings, emperors, puffins, Tux and the like) there are many others (gentoos, the one that sounds like macoroni, rock hoppers) that move about or live in temperate areas all year round!
It is not purpose of FSF nor the mission of RMS (as I understand these things) to deplete the freedom of the software user. As such, never at any point will they attempt to dictate how you may use your software (that's freedom 0, remember). What RMS does not like is the inclusion of non-free software (ie. software that revokes the freedom of the user) in what is (or at least used to be) purported to be a Free software package.
It was the GNOME project's original goal to be a _Free_ software package, because what was previously available was something of a mixed bag. With the inclusion of non-free software in the official GNOME release, now GNOME is the mixed bag.
I'm not sure what that means for this GNU world, but it would seem that either GNOME has changed its view of the reality, or it is seriously lying to its self.
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As some have said, NT does supposedly have a "posix subsystem," but never in any documentation of have I seen an explaination of what that means to the developer. You don't have access to posix functionality (using MS libraries), such as pthreads and standard *nix stuff.
OTOH, it is fairly simple to wrap alot of win32 stuff with a posix looking layer, but in many cases you loose functionality along the way.
Whether or not the GF3 will be a good buy is questionable. I'm probably not going to purchase one, only because I just dropped US$400 on a GF2.
But regardless of how its going sell, it's rediculous to say that it won't be supported. With the new X server I get similar performance in linux and windows with my GF2. And yes, that's with a custom GLX module (provided by NVidia), which will probably either work with the GF3, or will be modified. And yes, with an alternate kernel module (provided by NVidia) which I took fifteen minutes out of my day to download and install.
This is linux we're talking about. You _always_ have to work a little harder to make things work just right. That's why its fun. Having a much better X server and screaming 3D gaming is worth the extremely small amount of work one has to personally do in taking the extra time to just _wait_ for a download and then just _wait_ for a compile.
Actually, if they owned a big chunk of the Internet, I don't believe they could. It seems to me that the USA vs. Std. Oil Supreme Court case would/could hold precedence in that situation.
However, should I (personally, or as a metaphorical business) put up my _own_ router (or smtp server, or what have you), it is within my ability (and if I'm not mistaken, my legal right) to examine, log, and review _all_ traffic that goes through that server. Obviously, I don't own any of that information; the original creator does. I believe if Microsoft had such a monopoly, they would not be allowed to have such control. As according to the court case above, just because you _own_ the pipeline, doesn't mean you can control what flows through it. As well, It doesn't seem to me that implicit transfer of ownership like that would be legally binding.
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A friend of mine had a similar issue with a Sony VIO. His LCD gained a number of multicolored spots, not long after he bought the laptop. In his case, they were _not_ caused by customer abuse (he was aware that he shouldn't touch the screen and hadn't dropped it), but sony denied that it could have been a manufacturing (or shipping) issue. They were, however, quite happy to charge him substantially more than the retail price of the laptop to replace the LCD.
I'd be willing to bet that the adverts you got on ICQ (I got them as well) were put out by AOL (well, maybe not the pr0n).
Remember, AOL owns Miribilis. AIM as advertisements in it as well, they're just less obnoxious in placement.
For end users, I would say that adverts in messages is better, as there are a number of clients that let you block in coming messages from one or more people (I don't remember of the official ICQ does this - I doubt it).
One major difference could be thought of as timing.
When Gates made his statement you could buy computers with 512k _soldered_ to the motherboard. To think that memory capacity would increase by only 25% in a reasonable period of time (say 5 years) is more than presumptuous.
Currently, we are at a point where consumers are just being able to buy singular drives approaching 200GB. Now, as you can buy games nowa days that take up several gig of hard drive space, it's still presumptuous to state that you'll never need more than a terebyte of space, but not nearly so rediculous as Gates (factor of ~10 vs. ~1.25).
Tom's Hardware has a much more in depth (and useful) review of the new P4, comparing it to other incarnations of the p4 and various AMD XP models.
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You're just talkin' some jive, right? You know the video card has to keep in memory the color value of _every_single_ pixel right? For a 1600x1200x32 display that's 7.3MB. Add double buffering, and your right at the standard 16MB of video memory. That's _before_ any extra memory for svga computations, or 3d operations.
Now, that's not 2GB, but it's not zilch either.
faboo
Well actually, polar bears (if I'm remembering my animal science correctly) _eat_ penguins. As well, penguins live just about everywhere. There are penguins that swim up from lower South America to Brazil; penguins in coastal South Africa. Lots of penguins! While most of know the (ant)artic sort, (kings, emperors, puffins, Tux and the like) there are many others (gentoos, the one that sounds like macoroni, rock hoppers) that move about or live in temperate areas all year round!
It is not purpose of FSF nor the mission of RMS (as I understand these things) to deplete the freedom of the software user. As such, never at any point will they attempt to dictate how you may use your software (that's freedom 0, remember). What RMS does not like is the inclusion of non-free software (ie. software that revokes the freedom of the user) in what is (or at least used to be) purported to be a Free software package.
It was the GNOME project's original goal to be a _Free_ software package, because what was previously available was something of a mixed bag. With the inclusion of non-free software in the official GNOME release, now GNOME is the mixed bag.
I'm not sure what that means for this GNU world, but it would seem that either GNOME has changed its view of the reality, or it is seriously lying to its self.
faboo
As some have said, NT does supposedly have a "posix subsystem," but never in any documentation of have I seen an explaination of what that means to the developer. You don't have access to posix functionality (using MS libraries), such as pthreads and standard *nix stuff.
OTOH, it is fairly simple to wrap alot of win32 stuff with a posix looking layer, but in many cases you loose functionality along the way.
faboo
Whether or not the GF3 will be a good buy is questionable. I'm probably not going to purchase one, only because I just dropped US$400 on a GF2.
But regardless of how its going sell, it's rediculous to say that it won't be supported. With the new X server I get similar performance in linux and windows with my GF2. And yes, that's with a custom GLX module (provided by NVidia), which will probably either work with the GF3, or will be modified. And yes, with an alternate kernel module (provided by NVidia) which I took fifteen minutes out of my day to download and install.
This is linux we're talking about. You _always_ have to work a little harder to make things work just right. That's why its fun. Having a much better X server and screaming 3D gaming is worth the extremely small amount of work one has to personally do in taking the extra time to just _wait_ for a download and then just _wait_ for a compile.
Actually, if they owned a big chunk of the Internet, I don't believe they could. It seems to me that the USA vs. Std. Oil Supreme Court case would/could hold precedence in that situation.
However, should I (personally, or as a metaphorical business) put up my _own_ router (or smtp server, or what have you), it is within my ability (and if I'm not mistaken, my legal right) to examine, log, and review _all_ traffic that goes through that server. Obviously, I don't own any of that information; the original creator does. I believe if Microsoft had such a monopoly, they would not be allowed to have such control. As according to the court case above, just because you _own_ the pipeline, doesn't mean you can control what flows through it. As well, It doesn't seem to me that implicit transfer of ownership like that would be legally binding.
But then, IANAL. *sigh*
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