She was also David Bowie's bassist and backup singer when I saw him in 2000. She sang Freddy Mercury's part in "Pressure" (yes, with the "Ice Ice Baby" riff). I can't believe I'm saying this, but her version was far better than Freddy's.
She had a pretty big single with "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" from 1993's Plantation Lullabies
I've talked to almost everyone in my lab and at least 20% are using Linux.
In a lab, sure. I'd expect >20% to be using Linux on the desktop. And if I asked my friends in the fine arts department of my university I'd probably find a 60/40 split between Mac and Windows with no *nix to be seen (no OSX here... most are running System 8 or 9). It all depends on who you poll.
Your claiming Linux has a 20% adoption rate is like me claiming Mac is at 60%. They're just meaningless numbers taken out of context.
Actually, if you want to be really anal about this, it should be 1990s or '90s. The apostrophe goes at the front to indicate the missing 19. So sayeth The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press Stylebook[insert choir of angels here].
IE6 fast?... the right-click context menus... take a good ten seconds to appear.
Do you happen to be using McAfee anti-virus? There's a bug in version 5 that causes an incredible lag in context-menu pop-up time. Try updating the engine - it seems to be fixed.
I read an interview with Douglas Adams, shortly before the release of Starship Titanic, where he proposed a game like that. It would have absolutely no graphics and all output would be done with 3d audio. Input would have been handled by microphone.
It would have been a neat experiment in usability and accessibility but I don't think it ever got out of the proposal stage - especially after the delay and subsequent commercial flop of Starship Titanic.
The $50 mentioned in the original article was in Canadian funds. CDN$50 ~= US$32 which is quite a bit cheaper than the prices you list (FreeDSL excluded).
And it's often cheaper than that. The cheapest service in Saskatchewan (that I know of) is 1Mbps both ways, 2 static IPs, 5 e-mail addresses, and unlimited bandwidth for around US$25.
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She was also David Bowie's bassist and backup singer when I saw him in 2000. She sang Freddy Mercury's part in "Pressure" (yes, with the "Ice Ice Baby" riff). I can't believe I'm saying this, but her version was far better than Freddy's.
She had a pretty big single with "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" from 1993's Plantation Lullabies
I've talked to almost everyone in my lab and at least 20% are using Linux.
In a lab, sure. I'd expect >20% to be using Linux on the desktop. And if I asked my friends in the fine arts department of my university I'd probably find a 60/40 split between Mac and Windows with no *nix to be seen (no OSX here... most are running System 8 or 9). It all depends on who you poll.
Your claiming Linux has a 20% adoption rate is like me claiming Mac is at 60%. They're just meaningless numbers taken out of context.
It's "90's" or maybe "9'ties"... Sigh.
Actually, if you want to be really anal about this, it should be 1990s or '90s. The apostrophe goes at the front to indicate the missing 19. So sayeth The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press Stylebook [insert choir of angels here].
I do agree that 90'ties is just silly.
IE6 fast? ... the right-click context menus ... take a good ten seconds to appear.
Do you happen to be using McAfee anti-virus? There's a bug in version 5 that causes an incredible lag in context-menu pop-up time. Try updating the engine - it seems to be fixed.
I read an interview with Douglas Adams, shortly before the release of Starship Titanic, where he proposed a game like that. It would have absolutely no graphics and all output would be done with 3d audio. Input would have been handled by microphone.
It would have been a neat experiment in usability and accessibility but I don't think it ever got out of the proposal stage - especially after the delay and subsequent commercial flop of Starship Titanic.
The $50 mentioned in the original article was in Canadian funds. CDN$50 ~= US$32 which is quite a bit cheaper than the prices you list (FreeDSL excluded).
And it's often cheaper than that. The cheapest service in Saskatchewan (that I know of) is 1Mbps both ways, 2 static IPs, 5 e-mail addresses, and unlimited bandwidth for around US$25.