I assume that the proprietary plugins, XML support and the odd XUL oddity are holding it back, but this is a friggin' great browser.
Still itching for when we can call it the IE killer. At this rate, though, it's totally possible that it'll be a superior browser at 1.0 than IE is in its sixth generation.
I'm sitting at home with my fresh install of RH 7.1 and I'm wondering what kernel to upgrade it to. Any suggestions? Is there a stable one in there somewhere that I should go with? Should I stick with the default kernel that's on their now?
If I'm regularly compiling new programs using gcc or g++, is it safe to go from one tree to another, as long as they're all 2.4.x, or what? Do I need to recompile with a new kernel? Or is that a red herring?
The library is a dream to code with. I haven't messed around with any of the c++ permutations, nor have I tried mixing in the straight c library with a c++ project...
A good point, but you also need to understand that the major media outlets don't get any direct benefit from publishing such anecdotal stories about this sort of thing. If we don't have them here, we won't have them anywhere.
And if we don't have them at all, people won't know that this sort of migration is a viable option, and as such we have a viscious circle where people stay with the expensive options that they have merely because they don't know about any others.
No offence to the guys coding Unreal, but I've always believed Id to be at the forefront of games that take advantage of hardware. I'd really like to know what they think about all this, and since he's been so up front with us before...
Carmack, are you listening? How long before we start seeing engines that are going to take advantage of all these whizzbang features in the GF3? Are you still thinking (like what you wrote that got posted on linuxgames) that the GF3 is still the best card of the lot? Tested any Doom builds on the latest ATIs or GFs, and got any insight for us?
Truth is that linux is a horrible gaming platform.
It's actually underrated. It's where Windows was at before all the convergence that resulted from DirectX. That's still a few years behind, sure, but that's not to say that the platform itself is horrible.
I'm assuming these guys are experts in porting, right? If they could just take some of their experience and translate it into enterprise software porting instead of games porting (read, go from an expensive proprietary system to a free one), they could probably earn their weight in gold. Even if the software itself is different, I'm sure a lot of the problem-solving experience and testing ability and intuition and insight would probably come in handy...
And to demonstrate how true it is, he's going to launch the Eiffel Tower to the moon! All he needs is someone to come up with several billion dollars to purchase the tower, to be given to his partne- um, that little man with the false-looking mustache and glasses over there...
I gave "Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours" a 5.5 rating. That was only two book reviews ago.
To be honest, the rating is a bit of an afterthought. The first book review I did for Slashdot had a rating assigned for me.
It's easy to say whether or not a piece of work is good or bad. It's much harder to evaluate it in terms of who it would be helpful for, since all but the crappiest of the crappy books are helpful to somebody. Not speaking for other reviewers, but I try to read the book and review it in terms of what the book is trying to be, who it is geared for, and how close to success it gets.
It's one of the bad things about science fiction, everything that gets written has a chance of being made incorrect with the passage of time.
For instance, look at the graphics HAL is capable of providing on his terminals (crap), versus the fact that they're on a manned mission to Jupiter (far, far ahead of us).
Some things haven't changed, I guess, like the paranoid secret-keeping between nations, or the fact that we still fear our machines (one of the themes Kubrick was playing with), or the fact that our evolution as a race needs to be proven by crushing those less advanced than we are... But those are all thematic and you can rationalize relevence into any of them. It's kind of hard to explain away some of HAL's technological shortcomings.
I guess I just wonder what would happen if people post-2001 were to come upon this movie for the first time. How would we explain the disparities?
If we're talking about creative work, that's the sort of thing copyright is meant for. If you want to combat the forces of evil, getting a copyright is the ultimate control over the work and how it is used -- with it you can distribute it as you see fit, including as freely as you want, no?
That may be the case for a corporate customer relying on RedHat in 2001. But we're talking about a poll for university students here, who don't have access to such immediate help. Instead, if they wanted Linux support, they had USENET or silly plans like Mandrake's we'll-respond-to-your-email-in-24hrs. Not exactly enough to make the idea that MS has better customer service seem "laughable", if you ask me.
Microsoft contends the company, which plans to formally release its product next year, purposely is trying to confuse Lindows with Windows.
That's odd. I thought they ripped off the "Lin" in Lindows from Linux. In fact, because it's the first half of the word, I'd say Linus Thorvalds has the better case.
Now, if only Linus could sue these guys for the grand total of, say, a dozen doughnuts, and beat Microsoft to the punch on the whole trademark-stealing-thing, maybe we could get these boys off the hook?
...I still see KDE pumping out releases whereas it still looks to me like the Gnome folks are refining their developing bureaucratic institution. I'm ambivalent on it, myself, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the Slashdot crowd would be annoyed.
Compare Ximian's story list with KDE's. Ximian's is all marketing smoke and mirrors (oh yeah, and release updates on a FILE BROWSER and TIME SCHEDULER (woo-hoo!)), whereas KDE can't stop churning out stuff.
Basically, if KDE were to throw this $9.95 service fee out there, I don't think people would complain as much, because they know what they're getting in return. Me, I haven't changed my GNOME in over a year (even though it's my primary X environment) because I haven't been impressed enough with all the wonderful things I'm supposed to upgrade to.
One of the funnier myths perceived to be true is that 'Microsoft's technical support is the best in the industry and is superior to that offered by the Linux community.' It just goes to show how little real world experience students have.
This is a myth? I'm sorry, but it's only recently that Linux distributors stopped trying to sell us on the bloody stupid idea that one of the great things about support for Linux is that you have all of USENET available to help you out.
Don't get me wrong, that works fine for me, but being able to phone a 1-800 number works way better for others. I LOVE Linux, but let's not get unrealistic about its strengths. It may be the best OS out there, but if we're going to get all smug about what we think is better about it than Windows then we're turning a blind eye to those things that Windows DOES do better than Linux.
Conceivably, yeah. You could produce a sort of MS Office plug-in that would have a Save As XML file or a Import XML file, and use VBA (or VB with the various MS Office objects) to handle the conversions for you.
Problems:
I can't imagine it would be very quick.
The different MS Office objects can be a real pain in the ass to navigate, even in stupid-proof languages like VB, and techniques that you'd think would be similar between the different Objects (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) really aren't at all.
Implementation of such a plug-in would be a pain. Do-able, but managing MS Office applications in this way is really frustrating (look no further than Word's template system, blech).
Conversion policies. In the end, it would take a long time and a lot of research to not only figure out how it would be done, but determine what sort of end-product you wanted to end up with. Converting to and from a common and open file format would be the best, but designing that file format would be a pain.
VBA. Unless you've got something on the other end that has identical scripting to Word's, importing and exporting macros would be a pain. And it doesn't take long for someone to discover how helpful macros can be and lock them into MS Office for life.
Microsoft itself. All they have to do is tweak the file format a little, or leave out a few goodies in its API, or decide not to document everything about its core objects, or service pack their latest releases, and all of a sudden we're back at square one. Well, maybe not square one, but can you think of any company out there who's going to dedicate their entire existence to keeping us up to date on this sort of stuff? Not when there's the (unfortunately) more practical choice to just keep everything MS Office...
OLE. I can't imagine that there's going to be any easy way to have a Word office with an Excel spreadsheet embedded in it and convert it to a KWord document with a KSpread object embedded in it.
I remember thinking this would be a great idea if people could embrace an XML based office-software-based data file format. But then again, it would also be great if there were no war, no starvation, free beer, etc. etc.
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... and then goes on to mention the 6 new bugs introduced with this.
Eesh. Art imitating life, what?
Okay, maybe not.
I assume that the proprietary plugins, XML support and the odd XUL oddity are holding it back, but this is a friggin' great browser.
Still itching for when we can call it the IE killer. At this rate, though, it's totally possible that it'll be a superior browser at 1.0 than IE is in its sixth generation.
Sorry for the dumb, offtopic questions.
I'm sitting at home with my fresh install of RH 7.1 and I'm wondering what kernel to upgrade it to. Any suggestions? Is there a stable one in there somewhere that I should go with? Should I stick with the default kernel that's on their now?
If I'm regularly compiling new programs using gcc or g++, is it safe to go from one tree to another, as long as they're all 2.4.x, or what? Do I need to recompile with a new kernel? Or is that a red herring?
Keeping someone hooked on something you're doing artistically requires suspended disbelief. This is precious and needs to be managed delicately.
Anything that snaps someone back to the real world from a fantasy runs the risk of breaking suspended disbelief.
Anything that does this to me using the word "Coke" is likely to make me want to buy Pepsi out of spite. And I hate Pepsi.
Come on! This story's been up almost an hour and nary a Hot Grits joke in sight!
Technology has gone too far. "South Pole" indeed.
We already mentioned that Mandrake and HP are working on Linux on the desktop...
Finally! You know, we really need to talk about this issue more.
Sam Lantinga, I think his name is.
Website here.
The library is a dream to code with. I haven't messed around with any of the c++ permutations, nor have I tried mixing in the straight c library with a c++ project...
A good point, but you also need to understand that the major media outlets don't get any direct benefit from publishing such anecdotal stories about this sort of thing. If we don't have them here, we won't have them anywhere.
And if we don't have them at all, people won't know that this sort of migration is a viable option, and as such we have a viscious circle where people stay with the expensive options that they have merely because they don't know about any others.
No offence to the guys coding Unreal, but I've always believed Id to be at the forefront of games that take advantage of hardware. I'd really like to know what they think about all this, and since he's been so up front with us before...
Carmack, are you listening? How long before we start seeing engines that are going to take advantage of all these whizzbang features in the GF3? Are you still thinking (like what you wrote that got posted on linuxgames) that the GF3 is still the best card of the lot? Tested any Doom builds on the latest ATIs or GFs, and got any insight for us?
If it isn't visual, it won't be long before it is. They'll probably incorporate the same toolkit that Kylix has.
Truth is that linux is a horrible gaming platform.
It's actually underrated. It's where Windows was at before all the convergence that resulted from DirectX. That's still a few years behind, sure, but that's not to say that the platform itself is horrible.
I'm assuming these guys are experts in porting, right? If they could just take some of their experience and translate it into enterprise software porting instead of games porting (read, go from an expensive proprietary system to a free one), they could probably earn their weight in gold. Even if the software itself is different, I'm sure a lot of the problem-solving experience and testing ability and intuition and insight would probably come in handy...
There's all kinds of misinformation out there.
No kidding. If I have to put up with any more "I aM l33t w3avr!" kiddies I may throw up.
Trolling by Haiku?
Haven't seen that one yet. Good stuff.
And to demonstrate how true it is, he's going to launch the Eiffel Tower to the moon! All he needs is someone to come up with several billion dollars to purchase the tower, to be given to his partne- um, that little man with the false-looking mustache and glasses over there...
I gave "Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours" a 5.5 rating. That was only two book reviews ago.
To be honest, the rating is a bit of an afterthought. The first book review I did for Slashdot had a rating assigned for me.
It's easy to say whether or not a piece of work is good or bad. It's much harder to evaluate it in terms of who it would be helpful for, since all but the crappiest of the crappy books are helpful to somebody. Not speaking for other reviewers, but I try to read the book and review it in terms of what the book is trying to be, who it is geared for, and how close to success it gets.
It's one of the bad things about science fiction, everything that gets written has a chance of being made incorrect with the passage of time.
For instance, look at the graphics HAL is capable of providing on his terminals (crap), versus the fact that they're on a manned mission to Jupiter (far, far ahead of us).
Some things haven't changed, I guess, like the paranoid secret-keeping between nations, or the fact that we still fear our machines (one of the themes Kubrick was playing with), or the fact that our evolution as a race needs to be proven by crushing those less advanced than we are... But those are all thematic and you can rationalize relevence into any of them. It's kind of hard to explain away some of HAL's technological shortcomings.
I guess I just wonder what would happen if people post-2001 were to come upon this movie for the first time. How would we explain the disparities?
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If we're talking about creative work, that's the sort of thing copyright is meant for. If you want to combat the forces of evil, getting a copyright is the ultimate control over the work and how it is used -- with it you can distribute it as you see fit, including as freely as you want, no?
That may be the case for a corporate customer relying on RedHat in 2001. But we're talking about a poll for university students here, who don't have access to such immediate help. Instead, if they wanted Linux support, they had USENET or silly plans like Mandrake's we'll-respond-to-your-email-in-24hrs. Not exactly enough to make the idea that MS has better customer service seem "laughable", if you ask me.
Microsoft contends the company, which plans to formally release its product next year, purposely is trying to confuse Lindows with Windows.
That's odd. I thought they ripped off the "Lin" in Lindows from Linux. In fact, because it's the first half of the word, I'd say Linus Thorvalds has the better case.
Now, if only Linus could sue these guys for the grand total of, say, a dozen doughnuts, and beat Microsoft to the punch on the whole trademark-stealing-thing, maybe we could get these boys off the hook?
...I still see KDE pumping out releases whereas it still looks to me like the Gnome folks are refining their developing bureaucratic institution. I'm ambivalent on it, myself, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the Slashdot crowd would be annoyed.
Compare Ximian's story list with KDE's. Ximian's is all marketing smoke and mirrors (oh yeah, and release updates on a FILE BROWSER and TIME SCHEDULER (woo-hoo!)), whereas KDE can't stop churning out stuff.
Basically, if KDE were to throw this $9.95 service fee out there, I don't think people would complain as much, because they know what they're getting in return. Me, I haven't changed my GNOME in over a year (even though it's my primary X environment) because I haven't been impressed enough with all the wonderful things I'm supposed to upgrade to.
One of the funnier myths perceived to be true is that 'Microsoft's technical support is the best in the industry and is superior to that offered by the Linux community.' It just goes to show how little real world experience students have.
This is a myth? I'm sorry, but it's only recently that Linux distributors stopped trying to sell us on the bloody stupid idea that one of the great things about support for Linux is that you have all of USENET available to help you out.
Don't get me wrong, that works fine for me, but being able to phone a 1-800 number works way better for others. I LOVE Linux, but let's not get unrealistic about its strengths. It may be the best OS out there, but if we're going to get all smug about what we think is better about it than Windows then we're turning a blind eye to those things that Windows DOES do better than Linux.
Problems:
I remember thinking this would be a great idea if people could embrace an XML based office-software-based data file format. But then again, it would also be great if there were no war, no starvation, free beer, etc. etc.