That, is the most sensible comment I've read all week. An Operating System is just a container. It should have a configuration tool, an application launcher and a window manager. That's it. You run an OS to run applications.
MS keeps bloating the OS, making apps ever less convenient and usable. MS seems hell-bent on "developing" itself out of business.
The fact that people need to upgrade their computer regularly, and forcibly buy the latest version of Windows isn't doing MS any harm.
Longhorn will run fine on a 1GHz computer with 256 MB of RAM
Following on from what you said, considering that the system requirements for XP Pro state a 300MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM, the real requirements for this thing could be huge. I'm sure many of you would strongly disagree with the idea that XP can run acceptably with 128MB of RAM.
Yeah, I'm sorry for that previous comment. It was all total shit. IE doesn't really have a spyware problem at all, and Windows only uses IE to view websites, and nothing else.
Third, could you actually put something in there to block ads and popups, and any other crap that I don't want on my screen. Al least temporairly. Eg NO AD.DOUBBLECLICK.NET !!!!!
Putting an ad-blocker (pop-ups are fair game) on something as popular as IE would cause very serious disruptions to many, many websites (ie their revenue stream gets completely cut). Not to mention the inevitable lawsuit if doubleclick.net was in by default.
I think the request for it being GPL'd is wishful thinking too. Maybe you need to calm down?
To fix IE, Microsoft must first fix Windows. Most (all?) of the holes in the browser are carried over through holes in the OS, and its the unrestricted access to OS functions that allow the OS holes to be exploited through explorer.
Yes. This is the problem with IE. Most people don't notice its lack of standards. What they do notice however, is when they get flooded with popup ads, and 'extras' get added to IE as soon as they connect to the Internet. If people knew exactly what spyware was doing (keyloggers, reporting browsing habits, etc), I'm sure most would go apeshit.
The very idea of directly attaching something like a web browser to an OS is fucking insane. If anything, it should be put in a jail of some description. That is why I'll continue to recommend Firefox to anyone running Windows.
I think that there is a Layout for positioning with exact coordinates. Either that or you can use a Java IDE.
However, the more common GridLayout, BorderLayout and FlowLayout can all be used to make perfectly acceptable GUIs, it just takes a bit of practice. The main advantage with it is that it allows your windows to be a range of different sizes without repositioning anything, and is less likely to screw up when you change look and feel.
Solaris isn't going to be closed for long. When it is opened up, I'd imagine that the hardware incompatiblity problem will go away very, very quickly as people start to write drivers for it.
Anyone who's used Solaris will know it's a really, really good OS which is arguably more stable and secure than Linux (flame-proof suit on), and has good backwards compatibility.
Competition is always a good thing. In the long run this will be good for both Linux and Solaris.
Well it obviously is for Dell. Don't be fooled by all these fanboys thinking Dell and Intel are in bed together. Dell doesn't give a flying fuck about Intel and would supply AMDs if they could make more money from it. Just like any business, there is only one thing that Dell cares about, and that's money.
No, it certainly should not be necessary, but it's becoming a more and more increasing trend with Windows to write applications which take over the whole OS. For example, why does Quicktime, a movie player need a system tray icon? Don't even get me started on RealPlayer.
Interestingly enough though, the same companies create Linux software in a totally different way. Try using RealPlayer on Linux. It's a minimal, sensible application which adheres to the look and feel of Gnome. Is it that people who use Windows don't want that, or that they can't get away with it on Linux? A bit of both I'd imagine.
I think the difference here is that not only is there no direct link on the article to his blog, but his blog doesn't seem to contain his submitted stories. Maybe he just has too much free time.
Roland, however, has a link to his blog relating to the story on every article, which has ads based on traffic, so he's obviously making money every time he posts.
Yes, the system doesn't work, but that doesn't mean we should treat them like animals - not everyone in prison is a rapist or murderer. The purpose of prison is to punish people for what they have done and integrate them back into society. The fact that hard-working people pay for it seriously sucks, but the alternative to that is to kill them all, which isn't exactly a brilliant solution either.
Personally, I think that community service is one of the better options, and should be used as often as possible.
Raised some excellent points there, but you forgot two:
When a criminal has spent several years in prison with absolutely fuck-all hope for any sort of decent employment, yet all of the above has happened to them, they are quite obviously going to turn to crime again.
The people in prison who have committed the smaller, non-violent crimes are going to have a much worse time in prison than those who have committed serious violent crimes - which defeats the whole purpose in a way.
how many students nowadays can write a paper by hand and proofread it themselves?
Spell checkers and grammar checkers don't do a good enough job. If someone wants to get a decent mark, they have to proofread it.
While it's important to teach students to write by hand, making them write large documents that way is pointless. A document on a computer always looks neater and is much, much easier to correct. Writing long documents by hand is much like doing long division without a calculator - it's good to know as a background, but in practical terms, it's almost useless.
There is one possible way around that. That would be to find out the server that the spyware is sending to or retrieving adverts from, and simply block it at the ISPs firewall.
Spyware is like a trojan. Treat it that way. If a company tricks you into installing a piece of instrusive software that monitors the actions on your computer, then they should be punished in the same way as if it was a virus.
Enforcing this internationally is a bit more tricky though.
To get SLI on an Intel CPU, you need an nVidia chipset. Given Dell's relationship with Intel it could be that Dell are either forced to use Intel chipsets, or gets them very cheaply.
Yes. The next Nintendo console will be PowerPC-based, and the PS3 will use the Cell, which is PowerPC-based (I think). The PS3 also claims to be using multiple CPUs.
What I can't understand is how these companies are planning to deal with the enormous amount of heat that will be dissipated from a multi-CPU system, and not make the console sound like a jet engine at the same time. Anyone able to shed any light on that?
So it's worth buying an insanely expensive CPU so you can encode DVDs while doing something else? Unless you do an awful lot of DVD encoding it seems like a waste of money to me. Better spending that money elsewhere.
The original poster was correct. A >= 3GHz P4 or any AMD64 will be more than enough for normal games as long as you have a decent graphics card. And yes, that includes Doom 3.
Couldn't agree with you more, but if a site is letting me download a large game patch at a decent speed (as I was doing tonight), it's only fair they stick a few adverts on. I don't mind at all, and as far as I'm concerned it's a really good deal. Shit, I'll click on one if I have any interest in it. Anything that keeps the site going is fine by me.
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That, is the most sensible comment I've read all week. An Operating System is just a container. It should have a configuration tool, an application launcher and a window manager. That's it. You run an OS to run applications.
MS keeps bloating the OS, making apps ever less convenient and usable. MS seems hell-bent on "developing" itself out of business.
The fact that people need to upgrade their computer regularly, and forcibly buy the latest version of Windows isn't doing MS any harm.
Longhorn will run fine on a 1GHz computer with 256 MB of RAM
Following on from what you said, considering that the system requirements for XP Pro state a 300MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM, the real requirements for this thing could be huge. I'm sure many of you would strongly disagree with the idea that XP can run acceptably with 128MB of RAM.
Yeah, I'm sorry for that previous comment. It was all total shit. IE doesn't really have a spyware problem at all, and Windows only uses IE to view websites, and nothing else.
Third, could you actually put something in there to block ads and popups, and any other crap that I don't want on my screen. Al least temporairly. Eg NO AD.DOUBBLECLICK.NET !!!!!
Putting an ad-blocker (pop-ups are fair game) on something as popular as IE would cause very serious disruptions to many, many websites (ie their revenue stream gets completely cut). Not to mention the inevitable lawsuit if doubleclick.net was in by default.
I think the request for it being GPL'd is wishful thinking too. Maybe you need to calm down?
To fix IE, Microsoft must first fix Windows. Most (all?) of the holes in the browser are carried over through holes in the OS, and its the unrestricted access to OS functions that allow the OS holes to be exploited through explorer.
Yes. This is the problem with IE. Most people don't notice its lack of standards. What they do notice however, is when they get flooded with popup ads, and 'extras' get added to IE as soon as they connect to the Internet. If people knew exactly what spyware was doing (keyloggers, reporting browsing habits, etc), I'm sure most would go apeshit.
The very idea of directly attaching something like a web browser to an OS is fucking insane. If anything, it should be put in a jail of some description. That is why I'll continue to recommend Firefox to anyone running Windows.
On the current version of Swing:
label.setFont(new Font("dialog",Font.PLAIN,12));
Obviously doesn't look as pretty as a regular anti-aliased font, but infinitely better than that disgusting bold font that is used by default.
I think that there is a Layout for positioning with exact coordinates. Either that or you can use a Java IDE.
However, the more common GridLayout, BorderLayout and FlowLayout can all be used to make perfectly acceptable GUIs, it just takes a bit of practice. The main advantage with it is that it allows your windows to be a range of different sizes without repositioning anything, and is less likely to screw up when you change look and feel.
GTK has very similar layouts to Java as well.
Because it will get an article on slashdot and encourage an awful lot of people to try out Opera. Seems to be working.
Solaris isn't going to be closed for long. When it is opened up, I'd imagine that the hardware incompatiblity problem will go away very, very quickly as people start to write drivers for it.
Anyone who's used Solaris will know it's a really, really good OS which is arguably more stable and secure than Linux (flame-proof suit on), and has good backwards compatibility.
Competition is always a good thing. In the long run this will be good for both Linux and Solaris.
Well, there's no point then. In fact this is not an issue for anyone outside the US.
Remember that bittorrent works by uploading and downloading at the same time - ie if you download a torrent of a film, you're also distributing it.
Well it obviously is for Dell. Don't be fooled by all these fanboys thinking Dell and Intel are in bed together. Dell doesn't give a flying fuck about Intel and would supply AMDs if they could make more money from it. Just like any business, there is only one thing that Dell cares about, and that's money.
No, it certainly should not be necessary, but it's becoming a more and more increasing trend with Windows to write applications which take over the whole OS. For example, why does Quicktime, a movie player need a system tray icon? Don't even get me started on RealPlayer.
Interestingly enough though, the same companies create Linux software in a totally different way. Try using RealPlayer on Linux. It's a minimal, sensible application which adheres to the look and feel of Gnome. Is it that people who use Windows don't want that, or that they can't get away with it on Linux? A bit of both I'd imagine.
Don't worry. Anyone can make that mistake. Including NASA.
I think the difference here is that not only is there no direct link on the article to his blog, but his blog doesn't seem to contain his submitted stories. Maybe he just has too much free time.
Roland, however, has a link to his blog relating to the story on every article, which has ads based on traffic, so he's obviously making money every time he posts.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
Delete anything you don't like apart from anti-virus. All that crap that runs on startup isn't necessary, and the software will run without it.
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Yes, the system doesn't work, but that doesn't mean we should treat them like animals - not everyone in prison is a rapist or murderer. The purpose of prison is to punish people for what they have done and integrate them back into society. The fact that hard-working people pay for it seriously sucks, but the alternative to that is to kill them all, which isn't exactly a brilliant solution either.
Personally, I think that community service is one of the better options, and should be used as often as possible.
Raised some excellent points there, but you forgot two:
When a criminal has spent several years in prison with absolutely fuck-all hope for any sort of decent employment, yet all of the above has happened to them, they are quite obviously going to turn to crime again.
The people in prison who have committed the smaller, non-violent crimes are going to have a much worse time in prison than those who have committed serious violent crimes - which defeats the whole purpose in a way.
how many students nowadays can write a paper by hand and proofread it themselves?
Spell checkers and grammar checkers don't do a good enough job. If someone wants to get a decent mark, they have to proofread it.
While it's important to teach students to write by hand, making them write large documents that way is pointless. A document on a computer always looks neater and is much, much easier to correct. Writing long documents by hand is much like doing long division without a calculator - it's good to know as a background, but in practical terms, it's almost useless.
There is one possible way around that. That would be to find out the server that the spyware is sending to or retrieving adverts from, and simply block it at the ISPs firewall.
Spyware is like a trojan. Treat it that way. If a company tricks you into installing a piece of instrusive software that monitors the actions on your computer, then they should be punished in the same way as if it was a virus.
Enforcing this internationally is a bit more tricky though.
To get SLI on an Intel CPU, you need an nVidia chipset. Given Dell's relationship with Intel it could be that Dell are either forced to use Intel chipsets, or gets them very cheaply.
Yes. The next Nintendo console will be PowerPC-based, and the PS3 will use the Cell, which is PowerPC-based (I think). The PS3 also claims to be using multiple CPUs.
What I can't understand is how these companies are planning to deal with the enormous amount of heat that will be dissipated from a multi-CPU system, and not make the console sound like a jet engine at the same time. Anyone able to shed any light on that?
So it's worth buying an insanely expensive CPU so you can encode DVDs while doing something else? Unless you do an awful lot of DVD encoding it seems like a waste of money to me. Better spending that money elsewhere.
The original poster was correct. A >= 3GHz P4 or any AMD64 will be more than enough for normal games as long as you have a decent graphics card. And yes, that includes Doom 3.
Couldn't agree with you more, but if a site is letting me download a large game patch at a decent speed (as I was doing tonight), it's only fair they stick a few adverts on. I don't mind at all, and as far as I'm concerned it's a really good deal. Shit, I'll click on one if I have any interest in it. Anything that keeps the site going is fine by me.