-All versions of Winamp after 2.81 -Adobe Acrobat -AOL -java -99% of all "security" software (not just limited to Norton and Mcaffee, but those are the worst/most common! -I'm sure I'm forgetting some more huge ones!
Also: If you really want a very clean system, I suggest using Portable Apps (google it). Tons of great FOSS programs that will not touch the registry or do anything but run and only run when they are opened:
Pidgin GIMP Firefox 3 (Beta 5) Open Office Audacity Sudoku Texas Hold'em (Online and Free!) UltraVNC Infrarecorder (nearly as good as Nero now!) Clamwin Filezilla Bonkenc Virtualdub
Other than those programs, there are a few proprietary softwares that I must have, and there is sadly no open source alternative:
Winamp 2.81 uTorrent 1.5 (later versions are spyware) Virtualbox Urban Terror (though it is ioquake3, so I ALMOST trust it all the way (wish it was portable!)! Joost Cool Edit Pro 2.1 Sibelius Dream Aquarium Skype
And then there are a couple FOSS apps that I can't get portable versions of: Mupen++ Zsnes
Using that list of software I can pretty much do ANYTHING on this machine, and I haven't had any spyware, malware, virii, or slowdowns at all.
There are a few reasons why Ubuntu is pretty great. First it is Free as in beer. Second it is a living, thriving software project, and probably always will be, because it is free as in Open Source. There is virtually no EOL on a big open source project like this. Beyond those reasons are:
Open Office Firefox Pidgin Brasero Compiz Mupen+ TVtime
I recommend trying it out on a second machine, or installing it via wubi.
Emulators are now SUPERIOR to consoles in every way. Better graphics, better controllers, easier load system (don't have to have disks, cartridges all over!). I highly recommend the emulator 1964 and Mario Kart 64. That is THE top game at this house, and we have an xbox 360, a ps2, and 5 networked computers. Doesn't matter, the people who come over always turn on the projector and start Mario Kart 64.
With this setup everybody gets their own 6' screen! We also use the high resolution texture packs, and the surround sound speakers with the sub woofer cranked. The lightning bolt is thunderous!!!
Now wake me up when Java stops sucking the life out of all my windows boxes, so I actually bother to install it. Until then, any java take is remaining solely in the "not on my machine!" category.
Nobody said anything about helium. Hydrogen can be stored much more safely than in 1939, and furthermore, if you do some research on the Hindenburg (of which I've done some extensive reading and studying), the problem wasn't Hydrogen. It was user error, and a HIGHLY explosive and incendiary mix of aluminum oxide (the well known incendiary), rocket fuel and gunpowder being painted on the entire exterior. The tragedy would have been just as bad with helium, probably. We don't paint our cars and airplanes with rocket fuel, gunpowder, and thermite, and honestly on the physics level they seem much more dangerous. Further, speed does not seem to be an issue, when you factor cost vs. speed. Many people drive across the country, which is infinitely slower than plane, because it is also remarkably cheaper, and they get to have their vehicle with them on arrival. If that vehicle was airborne and luxurious to live in, and remarkably cheap to operate (I'm thinking solar panel skin and a couple of big fans)....
I really don't see a niche where zeppelins wouldn't surpass every type of vehicle for nearly every purpose, except for maybe bulk freight where rail is still the optimal choice, and has been since it's inception.
I would much rather bypass all airport security by owning my own carbon fiber zeppelin. I'm looking for venture capitalists, and I'm not joking, either.
There is simply no reason we shouldn't have luxury RV zeppelins by now.
There are emulators......:) So, I can just play it on my PC, like I do SNES and NES, and Sega, and N64, and Playstation, and PS2, and Gamecube, and DS, and........
Remind me again why anybody throws money away on consoles?!?
I am a dyed in the wool FOSS advocate, junkie, news whore, fan, fanboy, and daily user. I literally follow a dozen FOSS projects and read their news sites almost daily.
I have switched every person that I work with, every family member, and every girlfriend and even casual acquaintance over to Firefox.
I have installed the GIMP for tons of people, who now are used to it and don't know why they are not used to photoshop on somebody else's machine.
Teens love Pidgin. They love MySpace IM, MSN, yahoo, AIM, ICQ, and IRC in one chat window.
I wantonly champion the virtues both real and philosophical behind open source, and the open source idea.
That being said, let me give you my take on Linux, on Ubuntu, and on Hardy Heron in particular.
It sucks. It's slow, it lacks the conventions that everyone is comfortable with from Windows. It can't rip mp3s out of the box. It can't play DVDs out of the box. It can't play divx or xvid out of the box. There is no torrent client comparable to utorrent 1.5. There is no replacement that is as fast and clean and good as Winamp 2.81. Project M sucks compared to Milkdrop from 5 years ago. There is no Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The zealots who populate the IRC and forums are frequently rude, demeaning, and argue with the logic of what 95% of the world wants: A FOSS Windows replacement. xvncviewer is not as good and easy to use as UltraVNC. Skype works, but many webcams do not. No Joost. Why the hell can't I just manage my partitions like an adult? Why can't I select one partition and only format that and install Linux THERE? Why must I either choose to reformat a whole drive, resize a drive, etc.?
I am somebody who WANTS to love Linux, and Ubuntu in particular. I'm somebody who LOVES compiz, open office, and other Linux specific advantages.
But I'm on Windows. And I'm not leaving until Linux can fix the majority of those problems I've listed.
Linux fans keep trumpeting about diversity, but that's really a pain in everyone's ass. I can't find a.deb for some files. Then people say don't use.deb files, only use the validated repos. Then some software only comes in an rpm, or as code I have to compile from source, and guess what, I need a specific compiler and a whole set of libraries that don't download automagically, and that I can't pronounce or remember from the error screen that doesn't stay open long enough for me to write it down so I can actually make it all work.
I WANT LINUX TO WIN. STOP TORTURING ME WITH YOUR OBSCURE POLITICAL STANCES AND PAINFUL LACK OF MP3 SUPPORT.
I'm waiting for ReactOS to mature. THAT is what people want. Something they know how to use that is simple and follows the conventions that 99% of us are used to and know. Until then, all this Linux is just more pissing in the wind, and I don't care that it's in 8 million incompatible flavors. It's 8 million flavors of useless piss.
Oh yeah, and I keep trying every new distro I can, and as for the latest Hardy Heron beta, well, it puts my rather generic ViewSonic screen to out of range, and I have to reboot back into (you guessed it) Windows. The other recent distros I've tried were gOS (simple, and lacking), SymphonyOS (couldn't get it without paying a dollar, which I won't do. I only do free software period, other than windows because no Linux can displace it (yet!?!)), Vixta.org (interesting, but still suffers from lacks mentioned above), and gutsy has been completely unstable.....
If they are advertising a product people actually want to hear about. I thoroughly enjoyed the last GTA IV video. If there was a half decent American car still made (like my 1964 Dodge Dart, but electric), I would happily watch ads for that (like I do for the Tesla, and from 1964 of my actual Dart on YouTube). The problem isn't Optional Ads. The problem is Optional Ads for BULLSHIT like penis enlargement, singles online, and Spicy Ranch Doritos. Fuck those ads. Can you say fuck on/.? Mod me down! Satan said the F word! Seriously though, I just want my solar powered house and car for a reasonable price so I can drive to work without being bankrupt. Show me some fucking ads for that. And stop lending billions of dollars to people who can't afford houses. I mean, there's gotta be a cheaper house they can buy or something. Seriously. Fuck Obama and Hillary. They can suck my fed up American dick. Or was that Monica? And (this one's for the SlashDot crowd), "WHERE IS MY ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED OPEN SOURCE PHONE THAT DOES VIDEO CHAT FROM ANYWHERE OVER THE INTERNET, AND YES IT CAN CALL REGULAR PHONES JUST AS EASY?!?"
rhY
PS I don't in any way want to appear to be endorsing McCain whom I see as a bigger sell out than Hillary, which is saying something, is it not? I think the media distorts the numbers and more people like Kucinich than Fox news tells us. Or is that so hard to believe? Things have been SHIT in this country since they whacked Kennedy, and I for one am tired of it. I want my solar powered car, house, video cell phone, (Or better yet, just put all that in a luxury RV Zeppelin that drives itself via GPS)and I want it all for free from the Sun, and for cheap because every other kid on my block has 3 of each. And I want to go to the moon, and let people grow food without patents, and I want healthy organic free range birds of all type, and I want it cheap and fast, like Starbucks which basically has me on a 2 coffee a day habit now like the evil pushers they are. I want to punch Joanie Mitchell, I swear to god. Who let this happen? WHERE IS THE MEDIA?!?!?!
I believe there was some code found tainted by somebody who had read an NDA, but that it has all since been removed. My memory is ludicrously faulty though, so, take this worth less than a grain of salt.
I'm using XP now, and I've loved it for I'd say the last 5 years (though I frequently run an Ubuntu machine as well). And I WOULD be sad to see it go, except, it's not really going anywhere. I've got an sp2 disk laying around, and I doubt I will lose it or throw it away any time soon. That being said, one HUGE winner in the case of MS hosing it's entire fan base with crap (Vista) and discontinuing their more reliable/faster/easier OS (XP), is ReactOS and Winehq. I can imagine ReactOS being a lot farther along by the time the last XP boxes are coming off of the shelves, and since it will be a fully FOSS XP clone, I think the whole world might be a better place.
I'm betting on ReactOS to supplant Vista in 3 years.
Cheaper: Check Faster: Check and Check Easier: Works like XP (AKA like what everyone is already used to) Check
As it comes out of beta and into 1.0 territory, it will be a simple, strong, reliable OS with literally MILLIONS of great programs to install.
That will not be true for Mac OS, Vista, Linux, or any other OS. I'm surprised MS isn't more aware of this danger.
I'm interested in how this could work for us all. What are the advantages for electrical motors? What are the advantages in other fields?
One person already pointed out that as superconducting materials replace copper (for some uses), copper price will go down, but other than that I have a lot of blanks.
Also, what kind of pressures are we talking here? How difficult will the engineering be, and since this is a relevant breakthrough, will it lead to other lower pressure, or even "room" pressure AND room temperature super conductors?
I was on the road touring all week with my band "The LeperKhanz", and we really wanted to surf the web while we were driving, since you are usually stuck with nothing to do while you are in the car. I'd love it if technology like this allowed you to get a wifi connection while you were moving down the freeway.
I really recommend them. Nearly every one of my favorite apps is available on that site, too:
Gimp Thunderbird Firefox Pidgin Open Office
Wait a minute did I just admit that I like Open Office? Somebody kill me. I like the portable apps system so much though that I even use them on Linux under wine. I suppose I would run them natively if I didn't have to use windows sometimes though.
The FCC is actually going to do something by, for, or of the people? I think every rational constitutionalist in the country just had a collective heart attack. Aren't these the same guys that effectively gave every radio station and television network to these five corporations:
AOL/Time Warner Viacom News Corp Bertellsman Disney
?
I'll believe it when I see it. Until then I have my rifle loaded and my FM transmitter on high.
I'm also running FF3 beta 4, and I can say: IT IS FAST. It is probably the fastest browser I have used, ever. I don't necessarily like all the changes, and agree the new icons are a little homely, but the speed is undeniable, and those other quibbles are largely cosmetic.
For those of you on Windows who don't want to hose your registry with multiple Firefox installs, I highly recommend the portable version. In fact, for 20 different reasons I recommend the portable version of not only Firefox, but all your Windows apps:
It's not a real package management system, but it beats the hell out of installing and reinstalling tons of crap in Windows. I think in many ways it also beats most Linux package managers I've dealt with.
I also want to submit a complaint about a lack of x64 apps in general. There is still no Skype for 64 bit Linux, for example, and that's just plain bad form.
First, there are several ways to produce electricity cleanly and efficiently. Solar power being my personal favorite. There is no reason that a significant portion of the populace (particularly in sunny areas) couldn't tile their roof(s) with solar panels, and pump plenty of electricity into the grid all day, easily off-setting the cost of driving (as opposed to $3.40 a gallon, currently here in California, where we get TONS of sun). Tidal power plants also work in coastal areas regardless of sunlight, and there are also tons of places on the planet where geothermal energy is not being taken advantage of.
Saying there is not enough electricity is a cop out. Saying electricity production pollutes as much as fossil fuels is also a cop out, and also false, for the most part.
There are tons of different kinds of environmentalists, and I think many of them (myself included) are interested in engineering a cleaner way of life that is realistic and plausible, and offers as much convenience and comfort as available today, if not in fact more.
My guess is that the large corporations who run our economy and government aren't very interested in solar power and the like that get vastly cheaper with economies of scale, because currently they are raking in billions in profits every year by controlling oil, and control the market for power, transportation, and pretty much all goods and services short of air. If everyone had abundant and (nearly) free energy due to a deluge of solar panels, Exxon, et al would lose a LOT of money. As will SDG&E and every other power utility.
The real question is not whether we could power our lives and vehicles with free solar electricity, but how we're going to subvert the current political and economic power structure in order to do so. It is difficult for the layman to appreciate our current situation given that Viacom, AOL/Time Warner, Bertelsmann, News Corp, and Disney own every single television station, radio station, magazine, newspaper and ISP. It's no wonder people think "we're not ready for solar / solar is too expensive". The corporations who own your car, your house, your health, and employ you are not very interested in free electricity for the masses. In fact they are quite interested in stalling it and refuting it for as long as possible, and deceiving the populace into thinking that it is not realistic, when in fact the technology has been around for 40 years and only gets cheaper every single day.
They are also not very interested in the politicians who might talk about this stuff, also. Kucinich comes to mind as a perfect example. Obama/Clinton/McCain would get a lot less air time on CNN if they started talking about massive solar infrastructure investment. The corporations who own all of you, your property, your education, your information, and your legacy will stop at nothing to control all of us AND our "democracy" (with all the chicanery involving our last few elections (Diebold, Ohio, Florida, etc.) I refuse to consider this a democracy).
I for one do not welcome our new media mogul power company election stealing criminal overlords.
I recommend the now hard to find Mupen++ with the Rice Video plugin 6.1.0.0 and the high res textures off of emutalk.net. There is also a high res plugin that works even better called glide ++ or something like that. If you need further assistance, you can email me: rhy (that little a with the circle) leperkhanz (dot) com
Well, those are actually good games. For every crappy rehash game I've gotten or tried out via torrent, I've played at least ONE somewhat abysmal original, or a game you've never heard of. It's not that 90% of sequels suck, it's that 90% of all games suck.
Here is my obligatory list of games that still get played, and most of them are NOT new at all, sequel or otherwise:
Mario Kart 64 (still the best) Mortal Kombat 4 (Great in Emulation), easy controls Civilization II (still much funner than civ 4) Urban Terror (this has replaced all other FPS games except:) Golden Eye 64 (people are ecstatic the second they see it on the big screen in high res). Super Mario World & All-Stars (SNES) Super Mario 64 Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Flatout 2 (we like to hurl bodies through fire) Ocarina of Time (I got nieces and nephews that LOVE it, it's new to them!) Tetris (SNES version) Dr Mario (N64 version) Bust a Move (SNES version) Quake 2 Evolved (Sometimes I just put it on because it's pretty) Smash Brothers (I only have the n64 version, they seem to like it) Super Metroid Lego Star Wars (for the littlest guys)
I honestly can't think of another game that gets played around here. I had Stepmania set up at one point, but nobody was that into it long term.
I mean, when you zoom out a couple of decades plenty of GOOD games get completely left out of the mix. Of course, I will be first in line for the new Grand Theft Auto, though....
Yes, but my question is why wouldn't Google just invest in improving the GIMP? Seems like an easier hack than working on WINE. Though, good for wine I guess!
Is it REALLY that hard to add the bit of code that would make GIMP more like photoshop? I mean, is CMYK some kind of holy grail I don't know about?
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There's a few you forgot.
-All versions of Winamp after 2.81
-Adobe Acrobat
-AOL
-java
-99% of all "security" software (not just limited to Norton and Mcaffee, but those are the worst/most common!
-I'm sure I'm forgetting some more huge ones!
Also:
If you really want a very clean system, I suggest using Portable Apps (google it). Tons of great FOSS programs that will not touch the registry or do anything but run and only run when they are opened:
Pidgin
GIMP
Firefox 3 (Beta 5)
Open Office
Audacity
Sudoku
Texas Hold'em (Online and Free!)
UltraVNC
Infrarecorder (nearly as good as Nero now!)
Clamwin
Filezilla
Bonkenc
Virtualdub
Other than those programs, there are a few proprietary softwares that I must have, and there is sadly no open source alternative:
Winamp 2.81
uTorrent 1.5 (later versions are spyware)
Virtualbox
Urban Terror (though it is ioquake3, so I ALMOST trust it all the way (wish it was portable!)!
Joost
Cool Edit Pro 2.1
Sibelius
Dream Aquarium
Skype
And then there are a couple FOSS apps that I can't get portable versions of:
Mupen++
Zsnes
Using that list of software I can pretty much do ANYTHING on this machine, and I haven't had any spyware, malware, virii, or slowdowns at all.
Feel free to add whatever I forgot!!!
You didn't even mention China, where there is a much longer history and historical record than any of Western Civ....
Of course, I'm also trying to boycott things made in China, but I think I'll keep the history where I can, thank you very much.
There are a few reasons why Ubuntu is pretty great. First it is Free as in beer. Second it is a living, thriving software project, and probably always will be, because it is free as in Open Source. There is virtually no EOL on a big open source project like this. Beyond those reasons are:
Open Office
Firefox
Pidgin
Brasero
Compiz
Mupen+
TVtime
I recommend trying it out on a second machine, or installing it via wubi.
Much Love
Emulators are now SUPERIOR to consoles in every way. Better graphics, better controllers, easier load system (don't have to have disks, cartridges all over!). I highly recommend the emulator 1964 and Mario Kart 64. That is THE top game at this house, and we have an xbox 360, a ps2, and 5 networked computers. Doesn't matter, the people who come over always turn on the projector and start Mario Kart 64.
http://a977.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/l_ae58c1bb24714fed7fd88ce2f5283878.jpg
With this setup everybody gets their own 6' screen! We also use the high resolution texture packs, and the surround sound speakers with the sub woofer cranked. The lightning bolt is thunderous!!!
Um, yeah. It's the most stable, fastest, smallest foot print browser I've ever used.
:/
Ever.
Period.
So they went with it. Score one for Ubuntu!
Now if only Adblock Plus would update.....
Picture or it's fake!!
Now wake me up when Java stops sucking the life out of all my windows boxes, so I actually bother to install it. Until then, any java take is remaining solely in the "not on my machine!" category.
Nobody said anything about helium. Hydrogen can be stored much more safely than in 1939, and furthermore, if you do some research on the Hindenburg (of which I've done some extensive reading and studying), the problem wasn't Hydrogen. It was user error, and a HIGHLY explosive and incendiary mix of aluminum oxide (the well known incendiary), rocket fuel and gunpowder being painted on the entire exterior. The tragedy would have been just as bad with helium, probably. We don't paint our cars and airplanes with rocket fuel, gunpowder, and thermite, and honestly on the physics level they seem much more dangerous. Further, speed does not seem to be an issue, when you factor cost vs. speed. Many people drive across the country, which is infinitely slower than plane, because it is also remarkably cheaper, and they get to have their vehicle with them on arrival. If that vehicle was airborne and luxurious to live in, and remarkably cheap to operate (I'm thinking solar panel skin and a couple of big fans)....
I really don't see a niche where zeppelins wouldn't surpass every type of vehicle for nearly every purpose, except for maybe bulk freight where rail is still the optimal choice, and has been since it's inception.
I would much rather bypass all airport security by owning my own carbon fiber zeppelin. I'm looking for venture capitalists, and I'm not joking, either.
There is simply no reason we shouldn't have luxury RV zeppelins by now.
rhY
There are emulators...... :) So, I can just play it on my PC, like I do SNES and NES, and Sega, and N64, and Playstation, and PS2, and Gamecube, and DS, and........
Remind me again why anybody throws money away on consoles?!?
I am a dyed in the wool FOSS advocate, junkie, news whore, fan, fanboy, and daily user. I literally follow a dozen FOSS projects and read their news sites almost daily.
.deb for some files. Then people say don't use .deb files, only use the validated repos. Then some software only comes in an rpm, or as code I have to compile from source, and guess what, I need a specific compiler and a whole set of libraries that don't download automagically, and that I can't pronounce or remember from the error screen that doesn't stay open long enough for me to write it down so I can actually make it all work.
I have switched every person that I work with, every family member, and every girlfriend and even casual acquaintance over to Firefox.
I have installed the GIMP for tons of people, who now are used to it and don't know why they are not used to photoshop on somebody else's machine.
Teens love Pidgin. They love MySpace IM, MSN, yahoo, AIM, ICQ, and IRC in one chat window.
I wantonly champion the virtues both real and philosophical behind open source, and the open source idea.
That being said, let me give you my take on Linux, on Ubuntu, and on Hardy Heron in particular.
It sucks. It's slow, it lacks the conventions that everyone is comfortable with from Windows. It can't rip mp3s out of the box. It can't play DVDs out of the box. It can't play divx or xvid out of the box. There is no torrent client comparable to utorrent 1.5. There is no replacement that is as fast and clean and good as Winamp 2.81. Project M sucks compared to Milkdrop from 5 years ago. There is no Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The zealots who populate the IRC and forums are frequently rude, demeaning, and argue with the logic of what 95% of the world wants: A FOSS Windows replacement. xvncviewer is not as good and easy to use as UltraVNC. Skype works, but many webcams do not. No Joost. Why the hell can't I just manage my partitions like an adult? Why can't I select one partition and only format that and install Linux THERE? Why must I either choose to reformat a whole drive, resize a drive, etc.?
I am somebody who WANTS to love Linux, and Ubuntu in particular. I'm somebody who LOVES compiz, open office, and other Linux specific advantages.
But I'm on Windows. And I'm not leaving until Linux can fix the majority of those problems I've listed.
Linux fans keep trumpeting about diversity, but that's really a pain in everyone's ass. I can't find a
I WANT LINUX TO WIN. STOP TORTURING ME WITH YOUR OBSCURE POLITICAL STANCES AND PAINFUL LACK OF MP3 SUPPORT.
I'm waiting for ReactOS to mature. THAT is what people want. Something they know how to use that is simple and follows the conventions that 99% of us are used to and know. Until then, all this Linux is just more pissing in the wind, and I don't care that it's in 8 million incompatible flavors. It's 8 million flavors of useless piss.
Oh yeah, and I keep trying every new distro I can, and as for the latest Hardy Heron beta, well, it puts my rather generic ViewSonic screen to out of range, and I have to reboot back into (you guessed it) Windows. The other recent distros I've tried were gOS (simple, and lacking), SymphonyOS (couldn't get it without paying a dollar, which I won't do. I only do free software period, other than windows because no Linux can displace it (yet!?!)), Vixta.org (interesting, but still suffers from lacks mentioned above), and gutsy has been completely unstable.....
If they are advertising a product people actually want to hear about. I thoroughly enjoyed the last GTA IV video. If there was a half decent American car still made (like my 1964 Dodge Dart, but electric), I would happily watch ads for that (like I do for the Tesla, and from 1964 of my actual Dart on YouTube). The problem isn't Optional Ads. The problem is Optional Ads for BULLSHIT like penis enlargement, singles online, and Spicy Ranch Doritos. Fuck those ads. Can you say fuck on /.? Mod me down! Satan said the F word! Seriously though, I just want my solar powered house and car for a reasonable price so I can drive to work without being bankrupt. Show me some fucking ads for that. And stop lending billions of dollars to people who can't afford houses. I mean, there's gotta be a cheaper house they can buy or something. Seriously. Fuck Obama and Hillary. They can suck my fed up American dick. Or was that Monica? And (this one's for the SlashDot crowd), "WHERE IS MY ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED OPEN SOURCE PHONE THAT DOES VIDEO CHAT FROM ANYWHERE OVER THE INTERNET, AND YES IT CAN CALL REGULAR PHONES JUST AS EASY?!?"
rhY
PS I don't in any way want to appear to be endorsing McCain whom I see as a bigger sell out than Hillary, which is saying something, is it not? I think the media distorts the numbers and more people like Kucinich than Fox news tells us. Or is that so hard to believe? Things have been SHIT in this country since they whacked Kennedy, and I for one am tired of it. I want my solar powered car, house, video cell phone, (Or better yet, just put all that in a luxury RV Zeppelin that drives itself via GPS)and I want it all for free from the Sun, and for cheap because every other kid on my block has 3 of each. And I want to go to the moon, and let people grow food without patents, and I want healthy organic free range birds of all type, and I want it cheap and fast, like Starbucks which basically has me on a 2 coffee a day habit now like the evil pushers they are. I want to punch Joanie Mitchell, I swear to god. Who let this happen? WHERE IS THE MEDIA?!?!?!
I believe there was some code found tainted by somebody who had read an NDA, but that it has all since been removed. My memory is ludicrously faulty though, so, take this worth less than a grain of salt.
I'm using XP now, and I've loved it for I'd say the last 5 years (though I frequently run an Ubuntu machine as well). And I WOULD be sad to see it go, except, it's not really going anywhere. I've got an sp2 disk laying around, and I doubt I will lose it or throw it away any time soon. That being said, one HUGE winner in the case of MS hosing it's entire fan base with crap (Vista) and discontinuing their more reliable/faster/easier OS (XP), is ReactOS and Winehq. I can imagine ReactOS being a lot farther along by the time the last XP boxes are coming off of the shelves, and since it will be a fully FOSS XP clone, I think the whole world might be a better place.
I'm betting on ReactOS to supplant Vista in 3 years.
Cheaper: Check
Faster: Check and Check
Easier: Works like XP (AKA like what everyone is already used to) Check
As it comes out of beta and into 1.0 territory, it will be a simple, strong, reliable OS with literally MILLIONS of great programs to install.
That will not be true for Mac OS, Vista, Linux, or any other OS. I'm surprised MS isn't more aware of this danger.
You knew having an actual copy of the actual article in your hand would get you karma. Cheater.
I'm interested in how this could work for us all. What are the advantages for electrical motors? What are the advantages in other fields?
One person already pointed out that as superconducting materials replace copper (for some uses), copper price will go down, but other than that I have a lot of blanks.
Also, what kind of pressures are we talking here? How difficult will the engineering be, and since this is a relevant breakthrough, will it lead to other lower pressure, or even "room" pressure AND room temperature super conductors?
Thanks in advance.
rhY
I was on the road touring all week with my band "The LeperKhanz", and we really wanted to surf the web while we were driving, since you are usually stuck with nothing to do while you are in the car. I'd love it if technology like this allowed you to get a wifi connection while you were moving down the freeway.
I really recommend them. Nearly every one of my favorite apps is available on that site, too:
Gimp
Thunderbird
Firefox
Pidgin
Open Office
Wait a minute did I just admit that I like Open Office? Somebody kill me. I like the portable apps system so much though that I even use them on Linux under wine. I suppose I would run them natively if I didn't have to use windows sometimes though.
Wow, by the looks of it, that would blow my whole suburb apart, and how does that not accidentally hit the nearest wifi hotspot instead?
The FCC is actually going to do something by, for, or of the people? I think every rational constitutionalist in the country just had a collective heart attack. Aren't these the same guys that effectively gave every radio station and television network to these five corporations:
AOL/Time Warner
Viacom
News Corp
Bertellsman
Disney
?
I'll believe it when I see it. Until then I have my rifle loaded and my FM transmitter on high.
I'm also running FF3 beta 4, and I can say: IT IS FAST. It is probably the fastest browser I have used, ever. I don't necessarily like all the changes, and agree the new icons are a little homely, but the speed is undeniable, and those other quibbles are largely cosmetic.
For those of you on Windows who don't want to hose your registry with multiple Firefox installs, I highly recommend the portable version. In fact, for 20 different reasons I recommend the portable version of not only Firefox, but all your Windows apps:
http://portableapps.com/news/2008-03-11_-_firefox_portable_3_beta_4
It's not a real package management system, but it beats the hell out of installing and reinstalling tons of crap in Windows. I think in many ways it also beats most Linux package managers I've dealt with.
I also want to submit a complaint about a lack of x64 apps in general. There is still no Skype for 64 bit Linux, for example, and that's just plain bad form.
Keep rocking Mozilla! Keep rocking FOSS! Keep rocking portableapps.com!
rhY
First, there are several ways to produce electricity cleanly and efficiently. Solar power being my personal favorite. There is no reason that a significant portion of the populace (particularly in sunny areas) couldn't tile their roof(s) with solar panels, and pump plenty of electricity into the grid all day, easily off-setting the cost of driving (as opposed to $3.40 a gallon, currently here in California, where we get TONS of sun). Tidal power plants also work in coastal areas regardless of sunlight, and there are also tons of places on the planet where geothermal energy is not being taken advantage of.
Saying there is not enough electricity is a cop out. Saying electricity production pollutes as much as fossil fuels is also a cop out, and also false, for the most part.
There are tons of different kinds of environmentalists, and I think many of them (myself included) are interested in engineering a cleaner way of life that is realistic and plausible, and offers as much convenience and comfort as available today, if not in fact more.
My guess is that the large corporations who run our economy and government aren't very interested in solar power and the like that get vastly cheaper with economies of scale, because currently they are raking in billions in profits every year by controlling oil, and control the market for power, transportation, and pretty much all goods and services short of air. If everyone had abundant and (nearly) free energy due to a deluge of solar panels, Exxon, et al would lose a LOT of money. As will SDG&E and every other power utility.
The real question is not whether we could power our lives and vehicles with free solar electricity, but how we're going to subvert the current political and economic power structure in order to do so. It is difficult for the layman to appreciate our current situation given that Viacom, AOL/Time Warner, Bertelsmann, News Corp, and Disney own every single television station, radio station, magazine, newspaper and ISP. It's no wonder people think "we're not ready for solar / solar is too expensive". The corporations who own your car, your house, your health, and employ you are not very interested in free electricity for the masses. In fact they are quite interested in stalling it and refuting it for as long as possible, and deceiving the populace into thinking that it is not realistic, when in fact the technology has been around for 40 years and only gets cheaper every single day.
They are also not very interested in the politicians who might talk about this stuff, also. Kucinich comes to mind as a perfect example. Obama/Clinton/McCain would get a lot less air time on CNN if they started talking about massive solar infrastructure investment. The corporations who own all of you, your property, your education, your information, and your legacy will stop at nothing to control all of us AND our "democracy" (with all the chicanery involving our last few elections (Diebold, Ohio, Florida, etc.) I refuse to consider this a democracy).
I for one do not welcome our new media mogul power company election stealing criminal overlords.
I recommend the now hard to find Mupen++ with the Rice Video plugin 6.1.0.0 and the high res textures off of emutalk.net. There is also a high res plugin that works even better called glide ++ or something like that. If you need further assistance, you can email me: rhy (that little a with the circle) leperkhanz (dot) com
Well, those are actually good games. For every crappy rehash game I've gotten or tried out via torrent, I've played at least ONE somewhat abysmal original, or a game you've never heard of. It's not that 90% of sequels suck, it's that 90% of all games suck.
Here is my obligatory list of games that still get played, and most of them are NOT new at all, sequel or otherwise:
Mario Kart 64 (still the best)
Mortal Kombat 4 (Great in Emulation), easy controls
Civilization II (still much funner than civ 4)
Urban Terror (this has replaced all other FPS games except:)
Golden Eye 64 (people are ecstatic the second they see it on the big screen in high res).
Super Mario World & All-Stars (SNES)
Super Mario 64
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Flatout 2 (we like to hurl bodies through fire)
Ocarina of Time (I got nieces and nephews that LOVE it, it's new to them!)
Tetris (SNES version)
Dr Mario (N64 version)
Bust a Move (SNES version)
Quake 2 Evolved (Sometimes I just put it on because it's pretty)
Smash Brothers (I only have the n64 version, they seem to like it)
Super Metroid
Lego Star Wars (for the littlest guys)
I honestly can't think of another game that gets played around here. I had Stepmania set up at one point, but nobody was that into it long term.
I mean, when you zoom out a couple of decades plenty of GOOD games get completely left out of the mix. Of course, I will be first in line for the new Grand Theft Auto, though....
Yes, but my question is why wouldn't Google just invest in improving the GIMP? Seems like an easier hack than working on WINE. Though, good for wine I guess!
Is it REALLY that hard to add the bit of code that would make GIMP more like photoshop? I mean, is CMYK some kind of holy grail I don't know about?