It's a bad habit to respond to a post without reading the whole post.
It's a bad habit to place a logical falacy at the beginning of your post, eliciting a reply at that point and like losing the reader's interest. Place your logical falacy at the end instead, and may they won't notice;)
As I mentioned, the Mac OS X Terminal.app is just that -- "a new terminal program" that behaves correctly in a GUI environment, including supporting the GUI keyboard commands, including "copy".
Yes. I want one. Preferably without having to write it, however I will if I have to.
KDE's Konsole and Gnome's gnome-terminal also attempt (with a lesser degree of success) to work with rather than against the GUI.
Really, really unsuccessful, they are both really just (ba)sh wearing gui decorations. Plus they are both amazingly bloated for terminal programs. Starting with a clean sheet would be a much better idea, then graft on bash mode as a sop to power scripters.
Ctrl-C is for the terminal; it's used to enter control characters. If you allocate Ctrl-C for "copy" in the GUI standard, then one of the following three design flaws emerges:
* The terminal program doesn't support copying text, or
Terminal programs don't support standard desktop keys anyway, this is no issue. Ctrl-home etc. won't do what you expect either. Just forget about trying to get traditional terminal shells to obey desktop keys and write a new terminal program that does. Use Break for a break, the way God intended.
The decrease in unearned revenue means that people aren't locking themselves into Microsoft but it doesn't reflect at all on what Microsofts future revenue will be.
Wrong, it is a very good leading indicator. It shows that many customers are not planning to stick with Microsoft for the long term, otherwise they'd buy the lower-cost Licensing 6 subscription.
For example, many Linux zealots still have a bootable Windows partition somewhere so that they can play games. Most of these installs (at lease the ones that I'm aware of) are pirated.
Don't be silly. Most of these came with the computer, what planet do you live on?
Microsoft is trying to spin this as improved results, but they are just playing a shell game. Note that the increase revenue is more than balanced by increased expenses. Translation: Microsoft is buying sales and hiding the costs. Translation of the translation: Microsoft is being forced to offer heavy incentives to move their tired old products. Translation of the translation of the translation: a million Penguin bites really do hurt.
Last I heard, the majority of Slashdotters were posting with MS Internet Explorer. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it means there are a couple hundred thousand Windows users here receiving indoctrination, most probably already at the "I'll get around to it pretty soon" stage.
...if you're an audio engineer, video producer, or run a studio. A case like this allows you to work with instruments and other devices, while editing the sound live, with easy access to your monitor/keyboard. This is particularly useful for those who operate recording studios as a side business, out of their home or office space... or people trying to develop their own music, semi-professionally.
What you really want in this case is a small fanless (and possibly diskless) PC acting as an X Terminal.
"ie: MS Office component not installed, please insert ms office cd and click 'ok'. I'd hate to run back and forth for such a thing."
As a Windows user, are you aware that you're falling further and further behind what real usability is? These days we Linux users install everything over the net, particularly OS components. I can't remember the last time I inserted a software CD other than an initial OS install. Barbaric!
The reason posts like this get modded down isn't some conspiracy for the supression of your opinions. Rather, they get modded down because it's basically off-topic.
Troll, more like it, i.e., "doesn't succeed in the mainstream like commercial software does".
Right now saying MS is "on the tipping point" sounds like something I'd read in a supermarket tabloid headline.
You fail to distinguish between "tipping point" and "freefall". The tipping point is what we get when alternatives are just good enough to pull away enough customers from Microsoft to stop its expansion and force discounting. The tipping point is mainly of interest to Microsoft shareholders: Joe average will barely notice the shifte. Freefall is what comes later when alternatives improve further and price remains $0.00.
Simple - the only thing holding back massive deployment of Linux in the enterprise space is MS Office. Openoffice negates that obstacle. So the migration pattern becomes clear: first solve half the problem (and cut 3/4 of the cost) by switching to Openoffice, then once everybody is comfortable, solve the other half of the problem by migrating to Linux - most users will hardly notice anything changed.
It WHOOOOOSHes for about 3 seconds when you power it on, as the hardware is initialized.
Yes, and that is a stupid and irritating thing for it to do. It makes no more sense than the bad old floppy disk seek or speaker beep.
Then it goes totally and completely silent as linux boots, and stays silent during heavy use.
I don't know what your defintion of silent is, but it is not the same as mine. While quieter that the average white box, it still makes far too much noise for a living room. I use mine for a workstation so it's not as bad, but it's still irritating. It's a step in the right direciton.
While I am complaining, my SB61G2 has a couple of other flaws, one major, one minor. The major flaw is that it will not boot without a keyboard and there is no bios option to inhibit this behaviour. That makes it useless as a cluster node or headless network box. The minor flaw is that you are treated to an intrusive Intel logo/ad every time the machine boots, and there is no way to disable it. It is a pure waste of time, not to mention ugly and commercial. I already paid Intel for the processor, why should I have to watch a commercial every time I boot my machine?
All in all I don't hate this machine, but these little flaws keep me from wholeheartedly endorsing it. I certainly can't use this machine for a cluster as I had planned, until the bios is fixed. While they are at it, they should fix the stupid whoosh and provide a means of surpressing the Intel logo.
2: at some distance from the shore; "offshore oil reserves";
Most Americans don't know that there is land west of California or east of New York.
Re: Microsoft & SGI / OpenGL - AKA Farenheit
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There was a short talk at the siggraph OpenGL/Linux BOF where someone said (don't remember his name) that OpenGL might actually loose the war for
"preferred game API" within the next few month. The problem, as he stated is that changes for new extensions take way to long to pass the ARB.
Yeah, right. And if you don't write it with OpenGL how do you make it work on Linux? Like I said, we're winning.
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I use on one machine Windows 95, the very very first release. Before OSR1 and OSR2. I also use Office 2000. No problems. None.
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Re: Microsoft & SGI / OpenGL - AKA Farenheit
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I believe that Microsoft was added at the point when Farenheit was the "last best hope" for a unified graphics API. Unfortunately, the project fragmented
when SGI bailed. Last I heard, MS has continued the project in its own vision, but I haven't heard much of it lately. For any who don't know, Farenheit
was supposed to be the fusing of DirectX/Direct3D and OpenGL.
Thank god it died, imagine what an ugly platypus it would have been if it had ever been other than still-born. Farenheit was just Microsoft's face-saving strategy to quiet down an open rebellion that was going on on rec.games.programmer at the time. I boggled when SGI played along. Well, they should have known better as they can now see with 20-20 hindsight.
Today, if OpenGL doesn't quite rule the world yet, it's clearly the crown prince, and Direct3D has become the decrepit pus-ridden old emperor. John Carmack deserves a lot of credit for that, but he's far from the only one.
Just one more of the many fights we're winning these days. --
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It's a bad habit to respond to a post without reading the whole post.
;)
It's a bad habit to place a logical falacy at the beginning of your post, eliciting a reply at that point and like losing the reader's interest. Place your logical falacy at the end instead, and may they won't notice
As I mentioned, the Mac OS X Terminal.app is just that -- "a new terminal program" that behaves correctly in a GUI environment, including supporting the GUI keyboard commands, including "copy".
Yes. I want one. Preferably without having to write it, however I will if I have to.
KDE's Konsole and Gnome's gnome-terminal also attempt (with a lesser degree of success) to work with rather than against the GUI.
Really, really unsuccessful, they are both really just (ba)sh wearing gui decorations. Plus they are both amazingly bloated for terminal programs. Starting with a clean sheet would be a much better idea, then graft on bash mode as a sop to power scripters.
Ctrl-C is for the terminal; it's used to enter control characters. If you allocate Ctrl-C for "copy" in the GUI standard, then one of the following three design flaws emerges:
* The terminal program doesn't support copying text, or
Terminal programs don't support standard desktop keys anyway, this is no issue. Ctrl-home etc. won't do what you expect either. Just forget about trying to get traditional terminal shells to obey desktop keys and write a new terminal program that does. Use Break for a break, the way God intended.
The decrease in unearned revenue means that people aren't locking themselves into Microsoft but it doesn't reflect at all on what Microsofts future revenue will be.
Wrong, it is a very good leading indicator. It shows that many customers are not planning to stick with Microsoft for the long term, otherwise they'd buy the lower-cost Licensing 6 subscription.
Time to dump your MSFT stock, if you own any.
For example, many Linux zealots still have a bootable Windows partition somewhere so that they can play games. Most of these installs (at lease the ones that I'm aware of) are pirated.
Don't be silly. Most of these came with the computer, what planet do you live on?
Read the statements again. 3 month income is down, year over year.
Microsoft is trying to spin this as improved results, but they are just playing a shell game. Note that the increase revenue is more than balanced by increased expenses. Translation: Microsoft is buying sales and hiding the costs. Translation of the translation: Microsoft is being forced to offer heavy incentives to move their tired old products. Translation of the translation of the translation: a million Penguin bites really do hurt.
Last I heard, the majority of Slashdotters were posting with MS Internet Explorer. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it means there are a couple hundred thousand Windows users here receiving indoctrination, most probably already at the "I'll get around to it pretty soon" stage.
If only there were some way to have a digital output from the computer, and do the D/A conversion in a dedicated box.
Here's one
This box allows you to use spdif with your existing analog stereo.
Specs here
...if you're an audio engineer, video producer, or run a studio. A case like this allows you to work with instruments and other devices, while editing the sound live, with easy access to your monitor/keyboard. This is particularly useful for those who operate recording studios as a side business, out of their home or office space... or people trying to develop their own music, semi-professionally.
What you really want in this case is a small fanless (and possibly diskless) PC acting as an X Terminal.
"ie: MS Office component not installed, please insert ms office cd and click 'ok'. I'd hate to run back and forth for such a thing."
As a Windows user, are you aware that you're falling further and further behind what real usability is? These days we Linux users install everything over the net, particularly OS components. I can't remember the last time I inserted a software CD other than an initial OS install. Barbaric!
he seems entirely unaware of RTLinux which is a full speed RT layer that sits below Linux and has the reliable near-zero latency he calls for
Don't forget RTAI: unlike RTLinux, no patent problems.
Will my USB Camera work?
My USB camera works. In fact, it works better on Linux than Windows, it's more stable and delivers more frames/sec.
MiniITX'ers, soon. I hope to be one of them.
Me too. I am still hunting for that elusive, silent-but-powerful living room media computer.
"Linus is still employed by Transmeta."
Not any more. He now works for OSDL
Wrong, he is on sabbtical from Transmeta, he is still officially an employee.
The reason posts like this get modded down isn't some conspiracy for the supression of your opinions. Rather, they get modded down because it's basically off-topic.
Troll, more like it, i.e., "doesn't succeed in the mainstream like commercial software does".
Right now saying MS is "on the tipping point" sounds like something I'd read in a supermarket tabloid headline.
You fail to distinguish between "tipping point" and "freefall". The tipping point is what we get when alternatives are just good enough to pull away enough customers from Microsoft to stop its expansion and force discounting. The tipping point is mainly of interest to Microsoft shareholders: Joe average will barely notice the shifte. Freefall is what comes later when alternatives improve further and price remains $0.00.
I guess the politicos want to make vote-rigging more convenient for themselves.
Try this
what does OO.o have to do with Linux?
Simple - the only thing holding back massive deployment of Linux in the enterprise space is MS Office. Openoffice negates that obstacle. So the migration pattern becomes clear: first solve half the problem (and cut 3/4 of the cost) by switching to Openoffice, then once everybody is comfortable, solve the other half of the problem by migrating to Linux - most users will hardly notice anything changed.
They'll think they should all act like Al Viro
It WHOOOOOSHes for about 3 seconds when you power it on, as the hardware is initialized.
Yes, and that is a stupid and irritating thing for it to do. It makes no more sense than the bad old floppy disk seek or speaker beep.
Then it goes totally and completely silent as linux boots, and stays silent during heavy use.
I don't know what your defintion of silent is, but it is not the same as mine. While quieter that the average white box, it still makes far too much noise for a living room. I use mine for a workstation so it's not as bad, but it's still irritating. It's a step in the right direciton.
While I am complaining, my SB61G2 has a couple of other flaws, one major, one minor. The major flaw is that it will not boot without a keyboard and there is no bios option to inhibit this behaviour. That makes it useless as a cluster node or headless network box. The minor flaw is that you are treated to an intrusive Intel logo/ad every time the machine boots, and there is no way to disable it. It is a pure waste of time, not to mention ugly and commercial. I already paid Intel for the processor, why should I have to watch a commercial every time I boot my machine?
All in all I don't hate this machine, but these little flaws keep me from wholeheartedly endorsing it. I certainly can't use this machine for a cluster as I had planned, until the bios is fixed. While they are at it, they should fix the stupid whoosh and provide a means of surpressing the Intel logo.
...Swindows
2: at some distance from the shore; "offshore oil reserves";
Most Americans don't know that there is land west of California or east of New York.
There was a short talk at the siggraph OpenGL/Linux BOF where someone said (don't remember his name) that OpenGL might actually loose the war for "preferred game API" within the next few month. The problem, as he stated is that changes for new extensions take way to long to pass the ARB.
Yeah, right. And if you don't write it with OpenGL how do you make it work on Linux? Like I said, we're winning. [
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I use on one machine Windows 95, the very very first release. Before OSR1 and OSR2. I also use Office 2000. No problems. None.
Donkey dung. Win95 with no problems? Don't make me puke. Next you'll tell me the Marlboro man never got lung cancer.
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I believe that Microsoft was added at the point when Farenheit was the "last best hope" for a unified graphics API. Unfortunately, the project fragmented when SGI bailed. Last I heard, MS has continued the project in its own vision, but I haven't heard much of it lately. For any who don't know, Farenheit was supposed to be the fusing of DirectX/Direct3D and OpenGL.
Thank god it died, imagine what an ugly platypus it would have been if it had ever been other than still-born. Farenheit was just Microsoft's face-saving strategy to quiet down an open rebellion that was going on on rec.games.programmer at the time. I boggled when SGI played along. Well, they should have known better as they can now see with 20-20 hindsight.
Today, if OpenGL doesn't quite rule the world yet, it's clearly the crown prince, and Direct3D has become the decrepit pus-ridden old emperor. John Carmack deserves a lot of credit for that, but he's far from the only one.
Just one more of the many fights we're winning these days.
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