Oh yes, its old so it sucks. Agatha Christie novels do suck, but not because they're old. What is considered to be the greatest book of the 20th century (James Joyce's Ulysses) is older than that. Not everyone wants to read shit like John Grisham novels and cyberpunk.
Nope, you got it wrong. Deep Thought was the supercomputer used to find the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Deep Blue was IBM's first attempt at beating Kasparov. The second attempt was Deeper Blue. IBM was assisted by one of Kasparov's rivals when tuning Deeper Blue. It was basically tuned with the assumption that it would be playing Kasparov and so many people think that a different grandmaster could have beaten it.
What about things like Red Carpet? It's conceivable that a user could use a graphical installer and regularly upgrade through Red Carpet (and even install new software) and never touch a shell or edit any sort of config file. I can't think of anything the average user would need to get in source form.
Well, I don't think his thought deserves total dismissal. The question is whether consciousness is something peculiar to human brains (if you want you can assert that all vertebrates have consciousness, but I'm not entirely certain) or a property of any extremely complex system. I don't think the Internet would be a candidate for consciousness since information just gets sent from one end to the other without being acted on. Of course, we can never be certain because we will never have a way of asking the Internet if it is conscious.
Well I still have the Aqua themes that were taken down from themes.org. There are a lot of other Gtk and Sawfish themes that I think look far better than the Windows GUI. Granted, there are some _ugly_ themes, but I don't use them. I usually use one of the Aqua Gtk themes, but I often change to other good ones for variety.
The splash screens that come with Ximian Gnome are always stunning, but they're not a major component of the GUI so they don't count for that much. The icons that come with Gnome need to be improved but they are still fairly good.
I can't say anything for KDE since I haven't used it in a while, but I remember it looking pretty good when I did.
I don't really see how one can say that Gnome and KDE are uglier than Windows and MacOS X when you can get themes that make the widgets look identical to those in Windows and MacOS X (although its a bit harder to find the MacOS X themes).
Why ext3? I thought the only advantage of ext3 over other JFSs available for Linux was that it was easy to convert an ext2 partition to it. Does it provide an option to use ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS? I thought that all three of these offered better performance and more features than ext3.
Actually it just occurred to me that since this is a beta, it's only available in ISO form and paying for it is not even an option. However, it won't be too long before the final version of 7.2 is released and by waiting for it one avoids any problems that might come up before then.
Why on Earth would you want to download an ISO over a dial-up connection? Just update the packages that have changed and you'll end up with the essentially the same thing as the new version. Or you could pay for it. $50 is a lot less than the cost in pain involved in downloading 650MB over a dial-up connection.
The Pentium Pro was very nicely designed and was an excellent processor to use if you were running NT or Linux (and I imagine the BSDs would do just as well). It's just that Windows 95 sucked on it. But give it the right conditions (all 32 bit code) and it would fly. I remember hearing that in at least one benchmark, a Pentium Pro running NT could beat a Pentium Pro running Windows 95.
I had a duel Pentium Pro machine. Truly a kick-ass machine.
That's partly because the idea of a well-rounded education is very nearly dead. At my school anything not related to engineering or computer science is considered unimportant. As such, it is possible for people who are barely literate to graduate.
I'm majoring in discrete math (I don't want to do anything with computers, because CS majors are morons). Because I am not doing something practical, people think I'm strange. Also, I would like a degree in philosophy, but the closest thing is a degree in philosophy of science and technology which sounds pretty worthless to me.
The original purpose of college was to teach you a wide variety of things, not just to prepare you for work, but because it makes you a better person.
Oh, and my proof that CS majors are morons is pretty simple. They think that Snow Crash is a good book.
My experience with Windows 2000 is fairly limited, but it's not all "cakes and ale" as everyone says it is. Apparently certain hardware configurations don't work well with Windows 2000. I'm in a Windows 2000 lab right now (only computers I have access to since I'm out of my home country on a study abroad program) and the computers in here seem to fucking hate Windows 2000. On several occasions they have blue screened as I was logging in (I can't come up with any logical explanation for this). Internet Explorer and other programs crash frequently for no apparent reason. The computers are all Pentium II 350s with 128MB of RAM which seems like it should be enough to run Windows 2000 to me.
My other problem with Windows 2000 is that there isn't enough stuff to tinker around with. I like the fact that I can configure Sawfish to perform a merry jig for me. I won't be satisfied with any version of Windows until I am provided with a means of making it do a merry jig and other such silly things.
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Could you support your arguments? Tell me why.NET (specifically the parts being implemented by Mono and DotGNU) is a bad design.
Mono and DotGNU both have produced support for their arguments. The argument from Mono is that.NET contains some very useful ideas. Since C# and the CLI have published specifications to work from, it will be many orders of magnitude easier to implement them than to come up with a new standard and implement it. It may not be original but it is simpler to do it this way. Also, even if Microsoft breaks the standard after Mono is finished, Mono will continue to be a useful tool. Mono is not entirely dependent on compatibility with Microsoft.
Also, do you have any unique and inspiring ideas to contribute?
I believe that open source projects have done lots of innovation. People have said that both Gnome and KDE have imitated Microsoft too much. Both Gnome and KDE allow one to change aspects of the environment that can't be changed in Windows. The fact that I can go into the Sawfish settings and change every single detail of how it does things seems pretty damn impressive to me. I think the flexibility of the Gnome panel is overwhelmingly cool (it's hard not to notice that the Gnome panel is more than just a foot icon, yet many people seem to do just that when bashing Gnome).
If you can support your arguments and refute mine you might have a chance of convincing me that you are right.
I believe that the only thing that could be remotely called a Gnome dependency for Mono is glib and glib is just a library of data structures and other such things. From what I have seen, the plans are to MAYBE ONE DAY have Gnome depend on Mono but not the other way around.
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I don't care about screen space because I don't do anything that requires more screen space. I don't need to view pictures on my Visor. Keeping up with phone numbers, to do lists, appointments, taking notes in class (the Stowaway keyboard helps with this, but I am capable of taking notes through Graffiti too), and some simple games is all that I need. The Visor is simpler and cheaper than other handhelds.
Er... Well, y'know. You can't make an omelette without um... destroying a forest. Or something.
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Oh yes, its old so it sucks. Agatha Christie novels do suck, but not because they're old. What is considered to be the greatest book of the 20th century (James Joyce's Ulysses) is older than that. Not everyone wants to read shit like John Grisham novels and cyberpunk.
Your Latin is incorrect. "Primus" should agree with "postum." It should be "postum primum."
Nope, you got it wrong. Deep Thought was the supercomputer used to find the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Deep Blue was IBM's first attempt at beating Kasparov. The second attempt was Deeper Blue. IBM was assisted by one of Kasparov's rivals when tuning Deeper Blue. It was basically tuned with the assumption that it would be playing Kasparov and so many people think that a different grandmaster could have beaten it.
What about things like Red Carpet? It's conceivable that a user could use a graphical installer and regularly upgrade through Red Carpet (and even install new software) and never touch a shell or edit any sort of config file. I can't think of anything the average user would need to get in source form.
Well, I don't think his thought deserves total dismissal. The question is whether consciousness is something peculiar to human brains (if you want you can assert that all vertebrates have consciousness, but I'm not entirely certain) or a property of any extremely complex system. I don't think the Internet would be a candidate for consciousness since information just gets sent from one end to the other without being acted on. Of course, we can never be certain because we will never have a way of asking the Internet if it is conscious.
No, not really. What makes you say that?
The splash screens that come with Ximian Gnome are always stunning, but they're not a major component of the GUI so they don't count for that much. The icons that come with Gnome need to be improved but they are still fairly good.
I can't say anything for KDE since I haven't used it in a while, but I remember it looking pretty good when I did.
I don't really see how one can say that Gnome and KDE are uglier than Windows and MacOS X when you can get themes that make the widgets look identical to those in Windows and MacOS X (although its a bit harder to find the MacOS X themes).
Isn't that roughly equivalent to saying that since surgery cannot be done in a completely sterile environment, it might as well be done in a sewer?
That's pretty damned amazing. To think that weather can be determined by a simple yes or no question.
Why ext3? I thought the only advantage of ext3 over other JFSs available for Linux was that it was easy to convert an ext2 partition to it. Does it provide an option to use ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS? I thought that all three of these offered better performance and more features than ext3.
Actually it just occurred to me that since this is a beta, it's only available in ISO form and paying for it is not even an option. However, it won't be too long before the final version of 7.2 is released and by waiting for it one avoids any problems that might come up before then.
Why on Earth would you want to download an ISO over a dial-up connection? Just update the packages that have changed and you'll end up with the essentially the same thing as the new version. Or you could pay for it. $50 is a lot less than the cost in pain involved in downloading 650MB over a dial-up connection.
I believe that an old Penny Arcade strip is applicable here. http://www.penny-arcade.com/dogs.shtml
Yeah, but you can fix that by running the update tool (up2date isn't it) shortly after you first log on.
I suppose you think you're some sort of genius for figuring that out.
I had a duel Pentium Pro machine. Truly a kick-ass machine.
I have no idea where the extra 38 karma points came from though.
I'm majoring in discrete math (I don't want to do anything with computers, because CS majors are morons). Because I am not doing something practical, people think I'm strange. Also, I would like a degree in philosophy, but the closest thing is a degree in philosophy of science and technology which sounds pretty worthless to me.
The original purpose of college was to teach you a wide variety of things, not just to prepare you for work, but because it makes you a better person.
Oh, and my proof that CS majors are morons is pretty simple. They think that Snow Crash is a good book.
My other problem with Windows 2000 is that there isn't enough stuff to tinker around with. I like the fact that I can configure Sawfish to perform a merry jig for me. I won't be satisfied with any version of Windows until I am provided with a means of making it do a merry jig and other such silly things.
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Les Enfants sont les rois et ils font la loi!
Au pays de L'Emperereur Tomato-Ketchup
Les Enfants sont les rois et ils font la loi!
s in. I generally screw up at least one thing in any post I make to Slashdot.
Could you support your arguments? Tell me why .NET (specifically the parts being implemented by Mono and DotGNU) is a bad design.
Mono and DotGNU both have produced support for their arguments. The argument from Mono is that .NET contains some very useful ideas. Since C# and the CLI have published specifications to work from, it will be many orders of magnitude easier to implement them than to come up with a new standard and implement it. It may not be original but it is simpler to do it this way. Also, even if Microsoft breaks the standard after Mono is finished, Mono will continue to be a useful tool. Mono is not entirely dependent on compatibility with Microsoft.
Also, do you have any unique and inspiring ideas to contribute?
I believe that open source projects have done lots of innovation. People have said that both Gnome and KDE have imitated Microsoft too much. Both Gnome and KDE allow one to change aspects of the environment that can't be changed in Windows. The fact that I can go into the Sawfish settings and change every single detail of how it does things seems pretty damn impressive to me. I think the flexibility of the Gnome panel is overwhelmingly cool (it's hard not to notice that the Gnome panel is more than just a foot icon, yet many people seem to do just that when bashing Gnome).
If you can support your arguments and refute mine you might have a chance of convincing me that you are right.
I believe that the only thing that could be remotely called a Gnome dependency for Mono is glib and glib is just a library of data structures and other such things. From what I have seen, the plans are to MAYBE ONE DAY have Gnome depend on Mono but not the other way around.
Er... Well, y'know. You can't make an omelette without um... destroying a forest. Or something.
Er... Well, y'know. You can't make an omelette without um... destroying a forest. Or something.