Flash is abysmal on Linux, this is true. However, I find Firefox in general to be sluggish and less stable and more of a memory hog on Linux than in Windows, so Flash isn't alone.
Adobe has never made a version of Photoshop for Linux, even though, most likely it would only require a couple of code changes that their staff could probably handle easily.
Adobe does not like Open Source. They want to sell their proprietary software, and I get the feeling they think ANY FOSS is bad for them, and honestly they are probably right. I'm looking forward to the day when The Gimp and moonlight completely bury flash and photoshop.
Let them rot in hell, along with MS, Creative, and all the other corporations that are so feverishly and fiendishly trying to hold onto their markets and fight FOSS tooth and nail.
I for one am happy to do 90% of what I need to do in the GIMP anyway. For the other 10%, Photoshop works well in enough in XP under Virtualbox, and then I just close that VM away back into the bliss of freedom and more efficient FOSS living.
I absolutely love Urban Terror, which has a Linux binary, and I also love all my old SNES, NES, and N64 games.
Also, the native Linux binary of Dolphin, which plays gamecube roms and ALMOST wii roms, works nearly identical to the windows version, depending on SVN.
How about you read some. And try to give us scientific references, as that pop culture you threw at me I've read already, and was not at all impressed, though sometimes Maddox is funnier than others, and sometimes his Conservative-Colbertism is on the money. That article however is not one of them, in my opinion. I like his reviews of children's art, however. Top rate.
Now go and read, and debate this on scientific points, or STFU.
Actually, it's not a stretch at all. The Bush family and the Bin Laden family have been close friends and business partners for decades. That is half the point of this whole line of inquiry. Or have you not seen the footage of Bush Sr. kissing the arab dude? I'd love to be a loon and making the whole thing up, or frightened for no good reason, and the bill of rights is still safe, JFK was shot from behind, and that Diebold counts our votes. I'd like very much for all of that to be true, but unfortunately the facts surrounding the case DO NOT provide evidence for that hypothesis. Quite the contrary.
Thermate was not a mis-spell. Thermate is different than Thermite, though very similar, it has additional sulfer to speed up and increase the reaction.
It is the way buildings are currently demolished by professionals, and lends itself strongly to Occam's Razor.
Those buildings WERE NOT AIR, and they WERE NOT EMPTY. They had GIANT solid steel beams throughout their entire core. Just do the minimal of research on destruction of sky scrapers. Do even a small comparison of a few demolitions, watch those tapes, review the evidence at hand and tell me how planes melted those central steel columns when jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt steel that quickly or thoroughly.
Please stop parroting your idiotic philosophical ideas and re-hashed Popular Mechanics references. Read all the various reports, including the scientific peer-reviewed ones, and then draw your own fresh conclusions.
It was painfully evident and obvious that very few of the haters who are also apparently modding me down have done any research, AT ALL.
The "government" was well aware of 9/11 before it happened, because they were in charge of the entire operation. There is VAST evidence suggesting that there were tons of bombs in both of the twin towers.
If you really want to talk about science, you will not be refuting me. You will be actively refuting the 9/11 commission report, the NIST conclusions, the "official story", and all the other lies that have been propagated on a populace that does not know enough about physics, construction, media manipulation, and logic to even begin to question the "official" story.
It is a simple fact that there was THERMATE in the buildings, which is an incendiary of incredible strength, burning in an exothermic reaction hotter than the core of the sun.
It is a simple fact that all 3 WTC buildings fell at free fall speed, completely impossible WITHOUT the use of explosives and incendiaries.
Refute Steven Jones, a Mormon, and a highly respected academic. Refute the engineers that built the world trade center buildings. Refute the eye witnesses that carried wounded people out of the towers that were clearly injured by explosives.
9/11 was an inside job. Do your scientific research and refute that.
Government stages false flag terror operations, including sending Anthrax to government officials, 9/11, World Trade Center Building 7, Pentagon. Senate and Congress are scared, vote for patriot act, vote for war in Iraq, Afghanistan, vote for telecom immunity and wire tapping.
End of the Constitution
End of Democracy
Once again, fascism starts giant world war and millions die.
A much more prevalent factor in the current economy is the rapid loss of value of the dollar. Many things besides oil have inflated in price much more, and that's because there is virtually no faith in the dollar as a currency because we have bankrupted the country fighting wars we could not afford in ways that were clearly wasteful and idiotic.
But yeah, the speculation has inflated oil even more on top of that, but compared to the loss of value of the dollar, it's very minor.
Well, they could easily work if you augment the charge with solar panels at home, and then use that electricity to charge the car at night, which is yet another reason we need better energy storage, which I believe is what the initial story is all about, no?
I like this idea for a multitude of reasons. One is that then the average home would have a large storage of water, which, in times of war or disaster would be a VERY GOOD THING, in my opinion. What's the numbers? What kind of water tower would you need to store the 1 kw it takes to keep your home alive all night?
I'm very glad that parents and lawmakers are spending so much time on kids getting virtually drunk, virtually running over old ladies, and virtually killing hookers.
Clearly, with global warming, increasing corporate consolidation in every industry, multiple wars and genocides planet-wide that we are either funding indirectly, directly, or directly a part of, a decline in the middle class that is readily apparent, a national debt that spiraled out of control under Reagan, and is now MUCH worse, species going extinct across almost every ecosystem, increasing levels of obesity, heart-disease, cancer, and genetic disorders, bread inflating in price over seven fold while the dollar deflates into toilet paper, irregular voting results, procedures, and a subsequent media black-out, questions about building seven, huge set-backs in education, a completely broken health care system, bogged down freeways and corporate toll roads, the sub-prime start of a NEW great depression, cameras on every street corner, and astronauts claiming there is higher intelligence in our region, it is refreshing to see that parents and lawmakers care about the important stuff, like virtual beer-pong. Clearly, their priorities are very much in order.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to having a conversation that is being listened to about how my friend was practically raped at the airport by the DHS on my over-priced corporate cell phone that is giving me cancer. Have a nice fucking day.
Great analogy. I think MS is going to do EXACTLY what Japan did facing the atomic bomb:
Implode, be incinerated, be eviscerated, bleed to death, slowly fall apart from radiation, and gasp desperately for a few more breaths of air, ultimately surrendering. Have you tried Vista?
Well, it's hard for me to even enjoy CS, in comparison. But I do have another friend who would side with ya.:) I tell him to meet me on the wtf|San Diego server anytime, biotch.
Urban Terror runs PERFECTLY under wine (there's also a Linux native version that fails to run for me), is superior in every way to counterstrike, and is total free (as in beer). So rather than counterstrike failing to run in a VM, why not try Urban Terror in wine? I have an OLD machine, and I still get 100+ fps even under compiz.
I'm doing THE EXACT SAME THING. I rarely run Vista though, because it seems slower and more pointless than XP. I mean, all the windows apps I regularly need seem to run very well in an XP VM. But alt+ctrl+-> over 3d across a cube back to my emerald/compiz/hardy installation is BEAUTIFUL. Highly recommended.
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Adobe is obviously no friend of Linux.
Flash is abysmal on Linux, this is true. However, I find Firefox in general to be sluggish and less stable and more of a memory hog on Linux than in Windows, so Flash isn't alone.
Adobe has never made a version of Photoshop for Linux, even though, most likely it would only require a couple of code changes that their staff could probably handle easily.
Adobe does not like Open Source. They want to sell their proprietary software, and I get the feeling they think ANY FOSS is bad for them, and honestly they are probably right. I'm looking forward to the day when The Gimp and moonlight completely bury flash and photoshop.
Let them rot in hell, along with MS, Creative, and all the other corporations that are so feverishly and fiendishly trying to hold onto their markets and fight FOSS tooth and nail.
I for one am happy to do 90% of what I need to do in the GIMP anyway. For the other 10%, Photoshop works well in enough in XP under Virtualbox, and then I just close that VM away back into the bliss of freedom and more efficient FOSS living.
I absolutely love Urban Terror, which has a Linux binary, and I also love all my old SNES, NES, and N64 games.
Also, the native Linux binary of Dolphin, which plays gamecube roms and ALMOST wii roms, works nearly identical to the windows version, depending on SVN.
That and Civ 2 in a VM, and I'm good to go!
How about you read some. And try to give us scientific references, as that pop culture you threw at me I've read already, and was not at all impressed, though sometimes Maddox is funnier than others, and sometimes his Conservative-Colbertism is on the money. That article however is not one of them, in my opinion. I like his reviews of children's art, however. Top rate.
Now go and read, and debate this on scientific points, or STFU.
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/JonesWTC911SciMethod.pdf
Actually, it's not a stretch at all. The Bush family and the Bin Laden family have been close friends and business partners for decades. That is half the point of this whole line of inquiry. Or have you not seen the footage of Bush Sr. kissing the arab dude? I'd love to be a loon and making the whole thing up, or frightened for no good reason, and the bill of rights is still safe, JFK was shot from behind, and that Diebold counts our votes. I'd like very much for all of that to be true, but unfortunately the facts surrounding the case DO NOT provide evidence for that hypothesis. Quite the contrary.
Thermate was not a mis-spell. Thermate is different than Thermite, though very similar, it has additional sulfer to speed up and increase the reaction.
It is the way buildings are currently demolished by professionals, and lends itself strongly to Occam's Razor.
Those buildings WERE NOT AIR, and they WERE NOT EMPTY. They had GIANT solid steel beams throughout their entire core. Just do the minimal of research on destruction of sky scrapers. Do even a small comparison of a few demolitions, watch those tapes, review the evidence at hand and tell me how planes melted those central steel columns when jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt steel that quickly or thoroughly.
Please stop parroting your idiotic philosophical ideas and re-hashed Popular Mechanics references. Read all the various reports, including the scientific peer-reviewed ones, and then draw your own fresh conclusions.
It was painfully evident and obvious that very few of the haters who are also apparently modding me down have done any research, AT ALL.
The "government" was well aware of 9/11 before it happened, because they were in charge of the entire operation. There is VAST evidence suggesting that there were tons of bombs in both of the twin towers.
If you really want to talk about science, you will not be refuting me. You will be actively refuting the 9/11 commission report, the NIST conclusions, the "official story", and all the other lies that have been propagated on a populace that does not know enough about physics, construction, media manipulation, and logic to even begin to question the "official" story.
It is a simple fact that there was THERMATE in the buildings, which is an incendiary of incredible strength, burning in an exothermic reaction hotter than the core of the sun.
It is a simple fact that all 3 WTC buildings fell at free fall speed, completely impossible WITHOUT the use of explosives and incendiaries.
Refute Steven Jones, a Mormon, and a highly respected academic. Refute the engineers that built the world trade center buildings. Refute the eye witnesses that carried wounded people out of the towers that were clearly injured by explosives.
9/11 was an inside job. Do your scientific research and refute that.
Government stages false flag terror operations, including sending Anthrax to government officials, 9/11, World Trade Center Building 7, Pentagon. Senate and Congress are scared, vote for patriot act, vote for war in Iraq, Afghanistan, vote for telecom immunity and wire tapping.
End of the Constitution
End of Democracy
Once again, fascism starts giant world war and millions die.
I'm pretty sure this recipe is vaguely familiar.
So can I have my molecular assembler yet?
A much more prevalent factor in the current economy is the rapid loss of value of the dollar. Many things besides oil have inflated in price much more, and that's because there is virtually no faith in the dollar as a currency because we have bankrupted the country fighting wars we could not afford in ways that were clearly wasteful and idiotic.
But yeah, the speculation has inflated oil even more on top of that, but compared to the loss of value of the dollar, it's very minor.
Let's not get everybody all riled up because of yet another government cover-up.
I mean, you really want to start asking questions about JFK?!?
Does this mean I can have a free Oxygen bar in my house? Sweet!
Well, they could easily work if you augment the charge with solar panels at home, and then use that electricity to charge the car at night, which is yet another reason we need better energy storage, which I believe is what the initial story is all about, no?
I like this idea for a multitude of reasons. One is that then the average home would have a large storage of water, which, in times of war or disaster would be a VERY GOOD THING, in my opinion. What's the numbers? What kind of water tower would you need to store the 1 kw it takes to keep your home alive all night?
What are you trying to do, ruin my sex life?
Can we have a super pretty version of Civilization 2? It just seems like more fun than the other civs.
I'm very glad that parents and lawmakers are spending so much time on kids getting virtually drunk, virtually running over old ladies, and virtually killing hookers.
Clearly, with global warming, increasing corporate consolidation in every industry, multiple wars and genocides planet-wide that we are either funding indirectly, directly, or directly a part of, a decline in the middle class that is readily apparent, a national debt that spiraled out of control under Reagan, and is now MUCH worse, species going extinct across almost every ecosystem, increasing levels of obesity, heart-disease, cancer, and genetic disorders, bread inflating in price over seven fold while the dollar deflates into toilet paper, irregular voting results, procedures, and a subsequent media black-out, questions about building seven, huge set-backs in education, a completely broken health care system, bogged down freeways and corporate toll roads, the sub-prime start of a NEW great depression, cameras on every street corner, and astronauts claiming there is higher intelligence in our region, it is refreshing to see that parents and lawmakers care about the important stuff, like virtual beer-pong. Clearly, their priorities are very much in order.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to having a conversation that is being listened to about how my friend was practically raped at the airport by the DHS on my over-priced corporate cell phone that is giving me cancer. Have a nice fucking day.
.... still be very bad drivers.
.....And dominate the auto industry with reliable hybrids.
Linux.
And some others that I like:
Gimp
SumatraPDF
Pidgin
Open Office
Dscaler
Zsnes
VLC
Virtualdub
Audacity
Thunderbird
Virtualbox
Great analogy. I think MS is going to do EXACTLY what Japan did facing the atomic bomb:
Implode, be incinerated, be eviscerated, bleed to death, slowly fall apart from radiation, and gasp desperately for a few more breaths of air, ultimately surrendering. Have you tried Vista?
I hear what you're saying, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" But I really think we can beat 'em. Have you tried the latest Ubuntu?
Well, it's hard for me to even enjoy CS, in comparison. But I do have another friend who would side with ya. :) I tell him to meet me on the wtf|San Diego server anytime, biotch.
You haven't tried ZSNES in a VM yet, have you? :)
...That joke was so ripe for the picking. But I couldn't agree more. I think all Celine Dion purchasers should also get a hefty refund check.
Urban Terror runs PERFECTLY under wine (there's also a Linux native version that fails to run for me), is superior in every way to counterstrike, and is total free (as in beer). So rather than counterstrike failing to run in a VM, why not try Urban Terror in wine? I have an OLD machine, and I still get 100+ fps even under compiz.
I'm doing THE EXACT SAME THING. I rarely run Vista though, because it seems slower and more pointless than XP. I mean, all the windows apps I regularly need seem to run very well in an XP VM. But alt+ctrl+-> over 3d across a cube back to my emerald/compiz/hardy installation is BEAUTIFUL. Highly recommended.