Gutsy broke sound on my HP laptop and I couldn't fix it to save my life. It didn't work in Fiesty either but I was able to build a new version of alsa to get it working. And let's not mention wireless. I love using Gusty on my desktops, but for my HP Pavilion laptop, it's just not there yet.
I ended up switching back to XP, and I had to friggin' buy a copy because those bastards at Microsoft stuck Visturd on the laptop. Friggin' monopoly. If there was real competition I wouldn't have to pay because Microsoft decides to stop bundling a good product and bundle a crappy one solely because they hate the fact that they can't charge a subscription for their OS and are taking it out on customers. I'm sick and tired of those arrogant, hateful bastards.
Now that's something I haven't thought about in years. I eventually picked up Windows 95 when there was too much software I couldn't run on Windows 3 that I actually wanted, but after a few months I switched over to NT... and booted Win 9x only for games, until XP came out and I didn't need Win 9x any more for anything.
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Really, no one seems to think Perl is "peculiar", when it's practically a write-only language, pre-obfuscated for your convenience. Tcl is incredibly simple once you understand it.
If you're using Vista, that's probably true, but after the first thousand times, giving a program permission to run becomes a reflex and no one will pay attention to it any more, and the one thing Microsoft actually seems to have accomplished with Vista, improved security, becomes moot. Thanks, Microsoft, you managed to invest about as much time and energy into Vista as the entire Apollo program and have nothing to show for it.
We're scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates who are intelligent, even for politicians. That they could make smart decisions about technology and science seems very unlikely.
Well yeah. It IS the "Most Secure Windows" EVAR. Says so right on the box.
And you know what? It's actually true.
But the "most secure Windows ever" is kind of like the "most stylish haircut Bill Gates has ever had" or "most evolved species that Steve Ballmer resembles".
Bearing in mind that the bill to pay off all the people involved in the moon landings hoax is decreasing every year now they've started to die off, it's likely that the US Dept of Coverups has plenty of budget to spare for this kind of thing now.
Clearly you're forgetting about the bill to pay off all the people involved in the 9/11 cover-ups, which is much bigger than the Apollo cover-ups ever required.
First point - if you're reading a geek gift list and it suggests a simple GPS unit, then they don't know what they're talking about. Any real geek is on his thrid GPS by now or else doesn't see the point because he never goes outside.
Or maybe he never gets lost. Or maybe he's like me and likes getting lost because then you learn your way around and discover new places in the meantime.
I'm a total gadget freak, but unless I was driving in strange cities on a weekly basis, I see no need for a GPS, nor do I have any interest in one.
I'm a little unsure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I do live near D.C. and have been there many times, plus the antics of the D.C. government are often in the local news.
To some extent this is true of many big cities in the U.S., like Philadelphia and Detroit, but you are right... D.C. is out of touch with the rest of the nation, which is particularly sad since it is surrounded by some of the fastest growing and highest standard-of-living areas in the whole country. Good schools, non-horrible government, good roads (well, at least in Maryland), attractive to business (well, at least in Virginia).
The problem is that D.C. isn't really like part of the U.S., it's like a corrupt third-world country that has almost nothing in common with the rest U.S. except the language they speak.
We're talking about voluntary purchasing of software products here.
Until recently you practically couldn't buy a system without paying for bundled copy of Windows, and even now your choices are extremely limited. Microsoft has a long history of strongarming OEM into bundling Windows and not allowing them to bundle software from competitors.
Right now, for the majority of consumers and businesses, the perceived pain of switching is less than the perceived cost of staying.
And again, Microsoft has a long history of preventing people from creating competing software (especially back in the Windows 3.0 days), doing everything in their power to lock people in to Microsoft products today (undocumented and constantly changing file formats, claiming to follow standards, but deliberately breaking them in subtle ways), and spreading ridiculously bald-faced lies about competing software.
Microsoft won't compete fairly because they can't compete fairly. The market suffers because of this. Innovation falters, and a lot of people are stuck with software that is just plain awful.
What about XP Embedded or some variation? Once upon a time, Windows NT ran on at least 4 different architectures (Intel, PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha). Isn't it possible that some variant of XP could run on the ARM? WinCE does...
Oh, I don't think you said anything unclear, I just love a chance to bash Vista. I think KDE is very exciting, and although I've moved back to XP because I was having just too many problems with Linux on my laptop (hardware issues), I'm very excited about the fact that KDE4 will offer official support for Windows. I think Konqueror is vastly superior to Explorer, and is a decent web-browser to boot, although Firefox is my browser of choice. If KDE4 has birth pangs it seems to me it's because it's a little too ambitious, but I'd rather see that than the minor improvements that you see from many whole number increments. On the third hand, overly ambitious plans gave us DOS 4, Windows 95, Netscape 4 and host of other software that was huge, bloated and/or overly unstable.
Regardless, it's exciting stuff and I wish the team well.
The difference with Vista is that the KDE team really has some major interesting new technologies now, though most of them are rather invisible from the common user's perspective.
Except for "interesting" this seems to describe Vista exactly. It doesn't do anything new, but because of all the "new technologies" it runs at a small fraction of the speed of XP. Plus there's eye candy.
The difference, I realize, is that KDE's new technologies will allow it to do new things, something I think Microsoft has completely given up on, except for Microsoft Research, but none of their stuff ever gets used.
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Gutsy broke sound on my HP laptop and I couldn't fix it to save my life. It didn't work in Fiesty either but I was able to build a new version of alsa to get it working. And let's not mention wireless. I love using Gusty on my desktops, but for my HP Pavilion laptop, it's just not there yet.
I ended up switching back to XP, and I had to friggin' buy a copy because those bastards at Microsoft stuck Visturd on the laptop. Friggin' monopoly. If there was real competition I wouldn't have to pay because Microsoft decides to stop bundling a good product and bundle a crappy one solely because they hate the fact that they can't charge a subscription for their OS and are taking it out on customers. I'm sick and tired of those arrogant, hateful bastards.
Let's face it, modern recordings suck
It only sucks when it's produced and engineered by idiots, which is common, but not universal.
For some incredibly good sounding recordings check out records produced by Rich Mouser.
Ah, Trumpet Winsock...
Now that's something I haven't thought about in years. I eventually picked up Windows 95 when there was too much software I couldn't run on Windows 3 that I actually wanted, but after a few months I switched over to NT... and booted Win 9x only for games, until XP came out and I didn't need Win 9x any more for anything.
Um, everything?
Really, no one seems to think Perl is "peculiar", when it's practically a write-only language, pre-obfuscated for your convenience. Tcl is incredibly simple once you understand it.
One of the most popular shows is The Biggest Loser, educating people about health.
Not to mention educating people on how to spell the word "Loser", which is apparently also a real problem.
If you're using Vista, that's probably true, but after the first thousand times, giving a program permission to run becomes a reflex and no one will pay attention to it any more, and the one thing Microsoft actually seems to have accomplished with Vista, improved security, becomes moot. Thanks, Microsoft, you managed to invest about as much time and energy into Vista as the entire Apollo program and have nothing to show for it.
Slashdot has editors?!
Cure. Obviously I meant to say "cure".
We're scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates who are intelligent, even for politicians. That they could make smart decisions about technology and science seems very unlikely.
So is John Edwards still claiming he can sure Christopher Reeve?
And I bet the second sentence started with something like "We've adopted the latest in 1950's East German war-surplus software technology..."
Maybe He doesn't even determine the path. Maybe all paths exist. Then the only unknown, from our point of view, is which path we happen to be on.
Well yeah. It IS the "Most Secure Windows" EVAR. Says so right on the box.
And you know what? It's actually true.
But the "most secure Windows ever" is kind of like the "most stylish haircut Bill Gates has ever had" or "most evolved species that Steve Ballmer resembles".
Bearing in mind that the bill to pay off all the people involved in the moon landings hoax is decreasing every year now they've started to die off, it's likely that the US Dept of Coverups has plenty of budget to spare for this kind of thing now.
Clearly you're forgetting about the bill to pay off all the people involved in the 9/11 cover-ups, which is much bigger than the Apollo cover-ups ever required.
First point - if you're reading a geek gift list and it suggests a simple GPS unit, then they don't know what they're talking about. Any real geek is on his thrid GPS by now or else doesn't see the point because he never goes outside.
Or maybe he never gets lost. Or maybe he's like me and likes getting lost because then you learn your way around and discover new places in the meantime.
I'm a total gadget freak, but unless I was driving in strange cities on a weekly basis, I see no need for a GPS, nor do I have any interest in one.
I'm a little unsure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I do live near D.C. and have been there many times, plus the antics of the D.C. government are often in the local news.
To some extent this is true of many big cities in the U.S., like Philadelphia and Detroit, but you are right... D.C. is out of touch with the rest of the nation, which is particularly sad since it is surrounded by some of the fastest growing and highest standard-of-living areas in the whole country. Good schools, non-horrible government, good roads (well, at least in Maryland), attractive to business (well, at least in Virginia).
Actually, it would be $200,020.
The problem is that D.C. isn't really like part of the U.S., it's like a corrupt third-world country that has almost nothing in common with the rest U.S. except the language they speak.
Edlin rules. Edlin FTW. Edlin all the way.
What part of "50 years ago" hasn't clicked for you yet?
New punctuation update "~" (no quotes) at the end of a line to indicate sarcasm.
That's a brilliant idea.~
We're talking about voluntary purchasing of software products here.
Until recently you practically couldn't buy a system without paying for bundled copy of Windows, and even now your choices are extremely limited. Microsoft has a long history of strongarming OEM into bundling Windows and not allowing them to bundle software from competitors.
Right now, for the majority of consumers and businesses, the perceived pain of switching is less than the perceived cost of staying.
And again, Microsoft has a long history of preventing people from creating competing software (especially back in the Windows 3.0 days), doing everything in their power to lock people in to Microsoft products today (undocumented and constantly changing file formats, claiming to follow standards, but deliberately breaking them in subtle ways), and spreading ridiculously bald-faced lies about competing software.
Microsoft won't compete fairly because they can't compete fairly. The market suffers because of this. Innovation falters, and a lot of people are stuck with software that is just plain awful.
What about XP Embedded or some variation? Once upon a time, Windows NT ran on at least 4 different architectures (Intel, PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha). Isn't it possible that some variant of XP could run on the ARM? WinCE does...
Oh, I don't think you said anything unclear, I just love a chance to bash Vista. I think KDE is very exciting, and although I've moved back to XP because I was having just too many problems with Linux on my laptop (hardware issues), I'm very excited about the fact that KDE4 will offer official support for Windows. I think Konqueror is vastly superior to Explorer, and is a decent web-browser to boot, although Firefox is my browser of choice. If KDE4 has birth pangs it seems to me it's because it's a little too ambitious, but I'd rather see that than the minor improvements that you see from many whole number increments. On the third hand, overly ambitious plans gave us DOS 4, Windows 95, Netscape 4 and host of other software that was huge, bloated and/or overly unstable.
Regardless, it's exciting stuff and I wish the team well.
The difference with Vista is that the KDE team really has some major interesting new technologies now, though most of them are rather invisible from the common user's perspective.
Except for "interesting" this seems to describe Vista exactly. It doesn't do anything new, but because of all the "new technologies" it runs at a small fraction of the speed of XP. Plus there's eye candy.
The difference, I realize, is that KDE's new technologies will allow it to do new things, something I think Microsoft has completely given up on, except for Microsoft Research, but none of their stuff ever gets used.