It's called inflation, but that doesn't account for all of it.
The music I buy is about $20 as well, but that usually gets me a double-CD set,thus netting about $10 per disc, which is more in line with the cost of music when tapes were around. Of course, this only applies to the music _I_ buy.;-)
I think you screwed up your formatting. Instead of:
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blah blah blather blah...
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You wanted to say:
<b>I'm an idiot who uses too much bold in a futile attempt to hide the lack of content in my comments.
blah blah blather blah...
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The extra disclaimer is needed for your situation.
Obscure? Help me out here. How is NuSphere obscure? I've heard quite a bit about them. They're even advertising.
What this smells like to me is an attempt by MySQL AB to shut down some competition by attacking the name of their website, not the competition themselves. If they had a problem with NuSphere, they could have went to them directly and asked them to do something else with the name. What they did do is a business attack pure and simple.
You can remove IE, but most Microsoft (and many third party programs) won't work without the HTML rendering engine, MSHTML.DLL. That's what Microsoft was talking about when they said that IE is "essentail".
Unfortunately, nobody ever slapped Microsoft with the fact that a HTML component does not a web browser make.
Actually, the MMX and SSE extensions in the PIII, if they're used appropriately, can provide DSP-level performance on Pentium computers, and the Altivec unit is as fast as any DSP. However, this is only if they can write their own assembly, which very few people can these days. I would suspect that's the reason they picked the PIII.
P.S. Why do you give out your call on your Slashdot posts? There's a lot of kids here who I wouldn't want to know that much of my personal information if I could help it.
Use di and si too, giving you six. Of course, you need to be sure to push those before going into your spiffy texture mapping routine, but I'm sure you can do that.
Actually, there was a fair amount of interest in FrameMaker for Linux, but the *real* reason is someone got to them with FUD that no Linux users buy products.
Then it must be amazing that Japan is a huge market for BeOS. See here, at Hitachi's site.
Personally, I think many people confuse the difficulty of making good Japanese-language software with a lack of ambition for Japanese software. It's not the case. However, making a good Japanese user environment is *hard*. This is not roman script, folks, or anything remotely like it. It takes several third-party-hacks to get Windows useable in Japanese. BeOS ships with Japenese suport, and Linux is well on its way. It it any suprise that there is little Microsoft market there?
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quite the TOS attack.
Were they sending you a copy of your DSL provider's terms of service or something?
Ummm.... I was referring to not having to use the stupid menus at all for programs that aren't in there - it's better than the distro inflicting all sorts of penguin-themed cuteness on me!
My favorite difference (from RedHat RPMs) is the use of the Debian menu system.
Really? It's my favorite difference too - it's the one that's keeping me from using Mandrake. I can stand the arrogance of distributions that think they have a right to take over my window manager menus when I know damn well where my programs are too. (Not to mention that when you upgrade your wm or desktop by hand, you lose their menus!) In general, distribution menus suck, and distribution icons, color schemes, and wallpapers suck too. (Mandrake looks like it was designed by a four year old with a bunch of crayons).
XFS is *on the way*? I run three computers with XFS and will be installing a fourth shortly. Take a look at their site - not only are they at 1.0, but there's a very useful install disc for RH7.1!
Funny - I remember reading or hearing about how when IBM got a subponea to turn over all of its documents, they indexed all of the documents to tape - and then destroyed the table of contents. Thus, the documents were present, but there was no master index on the tape!
IBM sure did slow down that trial and awful lot, more than you would expect from something that was "dragging them down"
I'm still waiting for the announcement that this is somebody's idea of a practical joke. Just the other day I got an email from them saying there were dual Athlon systems coming from them, and I still see old VA hardware ads on the site. Oh, well. Best of luck to y'all.
(On a side note - does this mean that ThinkGeek start selling software too?:-P)
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The music I buy is about $20 as well, but that usually gets me a double-CD set,thus netting about $10 per disc, which is more in line with the cost of music when tapes were around. Of course, this only applies to the music _I_ buy. ;-)
I think you screwed up your formatting. Instead of:
<b>
blah blah blather blah...
</b>,
You wanted to say:
<b>I'm an idiot who uses too much bold in a futile attempt to hide the lack of content in my comments.
blah blah blather blah...
</b>
The extra disclaimer is needed for your situation.
What this smells like to me is an attempt by MySQL AB to shut down some competition by attacking the name of their website, not the competition themselves. If they had a problem with NuSphere, they could have went to them directly and asked them to do something else with the name. What they did do is a business attack pure and simple.
Unfortunately, nobody ever slapped Microsoft with the fact that a HTML component does not a web browser make.
P.S. Why do you give out your call on your Slashdot posts? There's a lot of kids here who I wouldn't want to know that much of my personal information if I could help it.
Hey, that Karicature one is pretty good... did you think of that? Where did it come from?
Use di and si too, giving you six. Of course, you need to be sure to push those before going into your spiffy texture mapping routine, but I'm sure you can do that.
Here's a hint: It's the X Window System, or X11, but never Xwindows.
Here.
Actually, there was a fair amount of interest in FrameMaker for Linux, but the *real* reason is someone got to them with FUD that no Linux users buy products.
Personally, I think many people confuse the difficulty of making good Japanese-language software with a lack of ambition for Japanese software. It's not the case. However, making a good Japanese user environment is *hard*. This is not roman script, folks, or anything remotely like it. It takes several third-party-hacks to get Windows useable in Japanese. BeOS ships with Japenese suport, and Linux is well on its way. It it any suprise that there is little Microsoft market there?
Were they sending you a copy of your DSL provider's terms of service or something?
I just bought a new game that uses OpenAL.
I'm also on a Sparc 20.
I'm not kidding.
Does this include the live image, or just the installer? There's certainly plenty of room on a DVD for a live image...
The 80186 was never used widely outside of embedded systems and was simply a slightly extended 8086.
Ummm.... I was referring to not having to use the stupid menus at all for programs that aren't in there - it's better than the distro inflicting all sorts of penguin-themed cuteness on me!
Please post references. Did he do something stupid to it and is now blaming the company?
Really? It's my favorite difference too - it's the one that's keeping me from using Mandrake. I can stand the arrogance of distributions that think they have a right to take over my window manager menus when I know damn well where my programs are too. (Not to mention that when you upgrade your wm or desktop by hand, you lose their menus!) In general, distribution menus suck, and distribution icons, color schemes, and wallpapers suck too. (Mandrake looks like it was designed by a four year old with a bunch of crayons).
XFS is *on the way*? I run three computers with XFS and will be installing a fourth shortly. Take a look at their site - not only are they at 1.0, but there's a very useful install disc for RH7.1!
IBM sure did slow down that trial and awful lot, more than you would expect from something that was "dragging them down"
Huh? '95 was the first consumer-level windows with their integrated TCP/IP stack in it.
Oh, wait. Nevermind...
Hah. Same here too. Guessing it's just the URL.
(On a side note - does this mean that ThinkGeek start selling software too? :-P)