Try accessing your HD movie collection over a mobile connection from your propitiatory 'cloud' service of choice, then cook dinner whilst you wait, oh yeh, and i hope you have all the receipts.
I will be sticking with my local OS. And will be keen to see how Hurd develops, and what it brings, over the coming years.
Right, so there is no room for AmigaOS or Haiku, etc, etc, etc,?
We have choice and they can learn from each other, and create things their individual development paths result in, but which might not have come to be, had there only been two single tracks.
Sadly, this means there will be more of them to come here, we will be able to recognise many of them by the 'mac' they like to factor into their handles.
Lets just see how many more comments this trivial apple related tidbit garners compared to the news that GNU Hurd is about to hit, backed by Debian, no less. Lets go there, and talk about that. I'm bored of the flame war, not that i haven't let of a few blasts of my thrower.
My Linux is fun. I grew up on a PowerPC Performa and had an iBook until 2 years ago, it was dull and believe me i found every space to tinker in. Even had an alternate DE running OpenStep, with Mozilla, etc, but the packages available through Fink were so limited you really couldn't make that much out of the BSD underpinnings.
Surely there are places where innovations could be implemented, like greater network enabled collaborative features, or introducing more advanced image and page manipulation capabilities, for creating more advanced multimedia documents?
Oh yeh, and the one thing i do think that DO has over Kupfer is a better memory for the most commonly accessed item for any given letter, or combination there of.
Ahah, it is me, an AC unmasked, was using work machine earlier and couldn't remember my password.
Kupfer (and Zim) are, indeed, great. I use them both as first choice in their class. Kupfer is indeed much lighter than something like Do and i love the simple appearance (though i did try updating to the latest version at one point, and wasn't too sure of the new look, so i bumped it back to the Debian repo version).
For me it uses about 22.5MB of RAM at idle and between 1 and 5% of CPU when in use.
Personally, i have had some trouble with the Firefox plugin, that is, that it takes ages to register a new bookmark and there can, on occasion, be an annoying lag when loading a bookmark from Kupfer itself. The registering thing, i think, can be solved by storing bookmarks as HTML over JSON, or something.
So, yeh, admittedly i have not flown within the US for a couple of years and have not experienced the 'enhanced' pat-down first hand. However, i just watched some vids on Youtube, including one of a little girl getting the once over, and to say that that would traumatise a kid, i think, is hyperbole. I mean come on, the kid won't even remember it in a couple of days. For the most part children don't have a lot of the same hang-us as adults, and, because they have yet to develop ideas of sexuality, likely do not feel as though they are being "groped". They often see themselves as little adults and so may well understand the reasoning behind the procedure and see it as natural that if mum and dad get the treatment that they are next in line.
Like i said, i do find the patting down of kids more than a little absurd, though an earlier poster made the suggestion that you either pat down everybody or nobody, lest you leave a glaring hole in security. Whilst i am not sure whether i totally agree with this, it does have a rather obvious logic to it.
Besides, groping implies a certain intent. The casual use of the term throughout this thread of comments does smack of "think of the children" emotional appeals. And is, frankly, sloppy and misleading use of language.
Not that it doesn't seem a little absurd, though perfectly current, to be patting-down small children, but why are we equating pat-downs with groping, necessarily?
Like StupidKendall said:
"That is why people are against it, not of some odd pedophile fear but because it's stupid and gross."
Well, if its not paedophilia then why is it gross?
No, mate. I get that. I love my SNES, and whilst i do have zSNES and SNES9x (and will be checking out bSNES) on all my installs (including Puppy on my USB, so i can boot into the password protected machines at my work ((no, i dont have official access, i am the cleaner, and what?, i would beat you all at street fighter)), and two Super SmartJoy SNES to USB adaptors. I do also have four SNES consoles (all completely unfaded) and a (what i consider to be) vast collection of SNES and SF carts.
I am with you, the look, the feel, and you make a good point, the greater commitment to a game you have haggled over, sought out, or forked out for.
Thus i refer you to the first part of my initial reply. Do it!
Bust out my SNES, and choose from my extensive library of 60+ games. Or, if i need a 3D hit, the Dreamcast, and my far more extensive library of every good game (IMHO) for the system ever, burned to CD -R.
To be fair, it's not even nostalgia for me, as i have never owned a later system, and not played extensively any games beyond the PS2 anyway.
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Try accessing your HD movie collection over a mobile connection from your propitiatory 'cloud' service of choice, then cook dinner whilst you wait, oh yeh, and i hope you have all the receipts.
I will be sticking with my local OS. And will be keen to see how Hurd develops, and what it brings, over the coming years.
Right, so there is no room for AmigaOS or Haiku, etc, etc, etc,?
We have choice and they can learn from each other, and create things their individual development paths result in, but which might not have come to be, had there only been two single tracks.
Debian Wheezy will be the name of the next Debian Linux release. And it makes me want to quit smoking.
Sadly, this means there will be more of them to come here, we will be able to recognise many of them by the 'mac' they like to factor into their handles.
Lets just see how many more comments this trivial apple related tidbit garners compared to the news that GNU Hurd is about to hit, backed by Debian, no less. Lets go there, and talk about that. I'm bored of the flame war, not that i haven't let of a few blasts of my thrower.
For now.
Right, you just reserve the privilege to pay for it all.
Certainly not GNU Linux.
Then it's really worth forking out for one of there over priced, underspeced, unibody, yuppie magnets.
Right, because OSX is so customisable, Though i only used OSX untill 10.4, i remember the leanghts you had to go to just to auto-hide the menu bar.
My Linux is fun. I grew up on a PowerPC Performa and had an iBook until 2 years ago, it was dull and believe me i found every space to tinker in. Even had an alternate DE running OpenStep, with Mozilla, etc, but the packages available through Fink were so limited you really couldn't make that much out of the BSD underpinnings.
Let the delusional, buyers confirmation (as opposed to remorse) continue.
macs4all, how exactly is that going to work, anyways then you wouldn't like them any more.
Haha, very good, the king of irony.
Oh wait, that's me.
Bollocks!
Surely there are places where innovations could be implemented, like greater network enabled collaborative features, or introducing more advanced image and page manipulation capabilities, for creating more advanced multimedia documents?
Oh yeh, and the one thing i do think that DO has over Kupfer is a better memory for the most commonly accessed item for any given letter, or combination there of.
Ahah, it is me, an AC unmasked, was using work machine earlier and couldn't remember my password.
Kupfer (and Zim) are, indeed, great. I use them both as first choice in their class. Kupfer is indeed much lighter than something like Do and i love the simple appearance (though i did try updating to the latest version at one point, and wasn't too sure of the new look, so i bumped it back to the Debian repo version).
For me it uses about 22.5MB of RAM at idle and between 1 and 5% of CPU when in use.
Personally, i have had some trouble with the Firefox plugin, that is, that it takes ages to register a new bookmark and there can, on occasion, be an annoying lag when loading a bookmark from Kupfer itself. The registering thing, i think, can be solved by storing bookmarks as HTML over JSON, or something.
Out of interest, does it pose a greater risk of disease not mitigated by improved cleanliness?
Besides, a child might be more perturbed on receiving an honest answer to the question "why don't i get a pat-down".
So, yeh, admittedly i have not flown within the US for a couple of years and have not experienced the 'enhanced' pat-down first hand. However, i just watched some vids on Youtube, including one of a little girl getting the once over, and to say that that would traumatise a kid, i think, is hyperbole. I mean come on, the kid won't even remember it in a couple of days. For the most part children don't have a lot of the same hang-us as adults, and, because they have yet to develop ideas of sexuality, likely do not feel as though they are being "groped". They often see themselves as little adults and so may well understand the reasoning behind the procedure and see it as natural that if mum and dad get the treatment that they are next in line.
Like i said, i do find the patting down of kids more than a little absurd, though an earlier poster made the suggestion that you either pat down everybody or nobody, lest you leave a glaring hole in security. Whilst i am not sure whether i totally agree with this, it does have a rather obvious logic to it.
Besides, groping implies a certain intent. The casual use of the term throughout this thread of comments does smack of "think of the children" emotional appeals. And is, frankly, sloppy and misleading use of language.
Not that it doesn't seem a little absurd, though perfectly current, to be patting-down small children, but why are we equating pat-downs with groping, necessarily?
Like StupidKendall said:
"That is why people are against it, not of some odd pedophile fear but because it's stupid and gross."
Well, if its not paedophilia then why is it gross?
Because children are oh-so-icky to touch?
No, mate. I get that. I love my SNES, and whilst i do have zSNES and SNES9x (and will be checking out bSNES) on all my installs (including Puppy on my USB, so i can boot into the password protected machines at my work ((no, i dont have official access, i am the cleaner, and what?, i would beat you all at street fighter)), and two Super SmartJoy SNES to USB adaptors. I do also have four SNES consoles (all completely unfaded) and a (what i consider to be) vast collection of SNES and SF carts.
I am with you, the look, the feel, and you make a good point, the greater commitment to a game you have haggled over, sought out, or forked out for.
Thus i refer you to the first part of my initial reply. Do it!
Bust out my SNES, and choose from my extensive library of 60+ games. Or, if i need a 3D hit, the Dreamcast, and my far more extensive library of every good game (IMHO) for the system ever, burned to CD -R.
To be fair, it's not even nostalgia for me, as i have never owned a later system, and not played extensively any games beyond the PS2 anyway.
A SNES? Emulators?
A fuller sentence would have been, way to make up your own mind based on the evidence and not the opinions of others, and morons, at that.
"In terms of volume"
...
"I would like to note that a lot of Canadians don't supports its foreign policy."
I imagine we could all say the same for our own respective nations.