Yeah well I had to make due with an etch-a-sketch. We could bearly write let alone read! The only upside was all that screen clearing built up massive triceps.
Your point also hinges on the premise that X has competition ala (netscape/microsoft) that might overtake it if it were to be rewritten. The only reason why I wouldnt want to see X redone is that we'd be throwing out just about every gui toolkit and window manager with it. Granted these things could be recoded or backwards compatibility kept but that would marginally defeat the purpose of a rewrite. I think there comes a point at which eventually you just have to chuck it all and start over, that being said, I dont think we've reached that point.
My only problem with chimera is it's stability, it crashes constantly. Once the bugs are ironed out and it gets a little more feature complete I think it'll be my browser of choice. I'd really also like to reduce the size of the icons even when they're in small mode it still takes up way to much real estate for my tastes. I'd much prefer something along the lines of ie when configured to use tiny icons.
Airborn! I spent hours and hours playing that game. Later on in that machines life I played Duel Test Drive or was it Test Drive Duel, those are fond if somewhat cloudy memories.
My point was mainly in the context of DRM which is targeted squarely at end users and will effect them the most. But even still the DRM scheme on a server might have to be different than that of an end user probably less restrictive I would guess.
The problem is that Windows is the defacto standard operating system thus becoming the rule. Until I can get something other than Windows pre-installed by a major hardware vendor it makes no difference that Linux or *BSD has no builtin nazi DRM scheme. Since there is no one to include those alternatives to Windows there is no real competition in the market that Windows exists in.
I made a decision to no longer use Windows a while ago not because of DRM but its certainly another reason for me not to.
Basically this distro's bread and butter are that it's debian with all the current packages one might want while running debian. XFree 4.2, kde 3 etc, and while I know these are avalible from unsupported apt sources not everyone who runs debian might know this or care to risk the stability and security of their system. I have no clue how stable or secure libranet is but I'm just pointing out some possible concerns. For instance my laptop requires that I have XFree 4.2.x which debian doesnt provide unless you want to install branden's not-ready-for-prime-time packages, it just makes using debian a tiny bit more difficult. That said I'm glad libranet is around it cant hurt to have a little healthy competition.
Fink. It's basically apt for os x, bringing most if not all the tools you commonly use on Linux to os x. I can literally use apt-get, which made my transition to os x that much easier as I previously used debian at home.
Good call, linux is such a moving target it makes it difficult (read: costly) to support. Especially when there are so many environmental variables to deal with. That being said, I use macosx.
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If only all documentation was as good as the php website. Seriously it's fantastic, other languages should follow in it's example. I think it's a big factor of php's success myself. Recently I had some questions about apache 2 and php, I asked them on opn in #php and who answers me but rasmus himself. How cool is that? (Ok it's irc.. it can't be that cool but you know what I mean)
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Yeah well I had to make due with an etch-a-sketch. We could bearly write let alone read! The only upside was all that screen clearing built up massive triceps.
5. Over promise, underdeliver. See 3.
Round here we like to call it ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag.
Actually apple has a 15", 17", 22" and 23" lcd all of which are exceptional, except the 15" it's far too small. The 23" is jaw droppingly nice.
Your point also hinges on the premise that X has competition ala (netscape/microsoft) that might overtake it if it were to be rewritten. The only reason why I wouldnt want to see X redone is that we'd be throwing out just about every gui toolkit and window manager with it. Granted these things could be recoded or backwards compatibility kept but that would marginally defeat the purpose of a rewrite. I think there comes a point at which eventually you just have to chuck it all and start over, that being said, I dont think we've reached that point.
I remember the races to get the guns at the beginning of the rounds, back then guns that were dropped on the ground stayed there until picked up.
First flight was in 96 which means it was designed much earlier than that, really makes one wonder what they're working on these days.
Agreed, the inside of a computer is a notoriously bad place for making sound.
What kind of time are we talking about for the average hotpocket? I'm just thinking about the immediate benefits here.
My only problem with chimera is it's stability, it crashes constantly. Once the bugs are ironed out and it gets a little more feature complete I think it'll be my browser of choice. I'd really also like to reduce the size of the icons even when they're in small mode it still takes up way to much real estate for my tastes. I'd much prefer something along the lines of ie when configured to use tiny icons.
Airborn! I spent hours and hours playing that game. Later on in that machines life I played Duel Test Drive or was it Test Drive Duel, those are fond if somewhat cloudy memories.
I agree they have weapons of mass confusion and arent afraid to use them.
Instagib with 5 or more nightmare bots on a locally hosted game. You'll be pretty slick with a rail in no time.
My point was mainly in the context of DRM which is targeted squarely at end users and will effect them the most. But even still the DRM scheme on a server might have to be different than that of an end user probably less restrictive I would guess.
I made a decision to no longer use Windows a while ago not because of DRM but its certainly another reason for me not to.
Where are the mod points when you need them... +1 funny.
Basically this distro's bread and butter are that it's debian with all the current packages one might want while running debian. XFree 4.2, kde 3 etc, and while I know these are avalible from unsupported apt sources not everyone who runs debian might know this or care to risk the stability and security of their system. I have no clue how stable or secure libranet is but I'm just pointing out some possible concerns. For instance my laptop requires that I have XFree 4.2.x which debian doesnt provide unless you want to install branden's not-ready-for-prime-time packages, it just makes using debian a tiny bit more difficult. That said I'm glad libranet is around it cant hurt to have a little healthy competition.
It's the advertisement revenue treadmill.
Fink. It's basically apt for os x, bringing most if not all the tools you commonly use on Linux to os x. I can literally use apt-get, which made my transition to os x that much easier as I previously used debian at home.
Less backfires, doesnt leak oil? Who knows?
Chimera is really making great strides in osx, the nightlies i've been trying recently are really quite fast.
Good call, linux is such a moving target it makes it difficult (read: costly) to support. Especially when there are so many environmental variables to deal with. That being said, I use macosx.
If only all documentation was as good as the php website. Seriously it's fantastic, other languages should follow in it's example. I think it's a big factor of php's success myself. Recently I had some questions about apache 2 and php, I asked them on opn in #php and who answers me but rasmus himself. How cool is that? (Ok it's irc.. it can't be that cool but you know what I mean)
My logitech dual optical worked out of the box. Scroll wheel and all that good stuff works in every app I've used thus far.
Hovercup! That was the greatest comment ever.