I have a p2@300 w/ a tnt2... And most of the time the system is waiting for the modem to pull quake3 packets from the server. As it is, i have true color stop-motion action in quake.
But this might be the start of a new wave of FUD from mac fans.
Linux was no direct competions to macos because linux is unix and unix is complicated. Now that macos is based in unix, apple *must* set it apart other unixes.
I feel the worst is yet to come. Contrary to win users, mac users (at least the majority of the ones I know) tend to be dogmatic evangelists.
At this point isn't it questionable what are the advantages of using DVDs instead of CDs, CD burners or VHS tapes?
I mean the higher defenition of sound and image a DVD provides are highly conditioned by the quality ($$$$$) of the TV/speakers/amplifier you have.
At least for me, the combination of CDs with CD burners and mp3 provides a level of convenience which makes DVD-audio redundant. As for video, I have invested a lot of money on my VHS collection and as my TV goes, I seriously doubt the benefits of DVD for me. Besides, I can always record TV shows and duplicate video tapes easily.
I went to visit the US last month for the first time... I never had coffee that allowed you to see the bottom of the cup. YES, IT IS TRUE coffee in the US is horrible!!!
Being 7 hours jet-lagged and deprived of REAL coffee was not fun at all. After 3-5 cups (30cl cups) I had to go and sleep in the bathroom.
The strangest was seing people taking out the foam of expressos using some specialized metal cups... Expresso machines are supposed to make foam. The foam has to be thick enough to sustain a packet of sugar for a few seconds...
So, before you start knocking-in caffeine genes into the genome of your future children, please, please, please, start brewing better coffee.
For me, a proud user, the gnome foundation is meaningles in the short-term. Before any of benefits of the foundation become availiable and stable, I will be using KDE 2.1, or bigger.
People should judge these announcements on a less emotional base, and project conservatively into the future.
Remember when gnome started. Reading posts and news it sounded as if gnome would just delete KDE from the desktop in a few months in terms of features and licencing... I've tried one or two releases of gnome and I am still waiting for the gnome release that will put me off the cleaner integration of KDE.
J
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Actually I like a lot the mathematical figures. I thrive witn the expectation of what is going to be the next image on the package. I'ts much better than company-logo + marketing kind of package.
The lizard is kind of cool. (well it's not a lizard but i cannot spell the name of the beast correctly).
Also, green is ok. I mean blue would be better, but defenitly not yellow, brown or cyan.
He does say *most* of Europe. I live in Portugal and for me and most of my friends this is true.
How I would love a 100 ping to spank all those ISDN/Cable lamers (not all ISDN/Cable users are lamers) that pollute servers arround the world.
The last Q3F game I played (2forts), I escaped a rocket by jumping in the water but in the next second I was dead on the bridge... Impressive! I was already dead when I jumped in the water I just didn't realise it.
oh well... a 250-300 ping helps you improve your caracter.
Is the most difficult part of using and enjoying linux/GNU software.
All these alphas, betas, snapshots, etc make the stable versions of software look increasingly more like stale versions than anything else.
You know it doesn't work properly, you know it will crash, you know some features are missing, you know you will need to refurbish half your system to sort dependencies... You know all that and still you use it and can't wait for the next unstable/beta whatever to come out and see what has changed.
It's life on the fast lane... Well, sort of anyway;D
Well done KDE team! (Must... resist... download...)
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I agree with most of what you say... It is less expensive to me to drive to the shopping center and buy whatever I want, than it is to go online and browse e-commerce sites. Just staying online for an hour almost pays the gasoline of the trip.
I've only used e-comerce once to buy CDs from England that were not availiable where I live (Portugal). It was cirurgical: a friend gave me the URL of the site and I already had the list of CDs.
Maybe WAP cell phones will change this a bit, but I don't know if it is a practical alternative to traditional commerce or to PCs.
Does anyone remenber the sci-fi tv series space 1999? In the series a huge radioactive dump explodes and acts like a huge nuclear enjine propelling the moon out of orbit in to the unknown.
It guess the rationalle of US military was to do something like that, so that the communists would have no moon to look at.
Last night I heard this music on the radio. With all the wah-wah and 'yeaaaaahhhh's I could tell it part of a new metallica album.
I could not even listen to it let alone haaving the desire to pirate the music. I wonder if the break in revenues is more related to the quality of the music than to mp3 trading.
I dislike netscape. There, I've said it. I addmit to this sin. It crashes, it's slow and the 'buy' buttun in the place where the 'stop' button used to be is just... delightfull.
I already use KFM sometimes, when I don't want a full-featured browser. If konkeror turns out to be all of what is expected, I might as well buy^H^H^Hstop using netscape.
At least you may have ADSL. In Portugal the best thing arround is still ISDN, where you have to pay a lot for the phone calls.
Broadband in Portugal is limited to a very small percentage of the population, because the cable TV company only converted a few cable tv cells. I'll be able to have it somewhere in the next year:( The funny thing is that you have a limit of 1Gb/month of cable modem usage. So it's broad band only for a few days/month.
Did I mention that *all* communications in Portugal are dependent of Portugal Telecom? The monopoly includes the cable company as well as the major ISP.
Maybe I'll get ADSL in 5 years and it will only cost a month's pay, per month...
JBv
PS: I was trying to paste a link to the PT site... but waiting for the #!"$%#$%&#%/& applet to load has put me off.
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It's true! He was starring as a sailor in a Portuguese sitcom. Alas I had no tv capture card to document the event.
I have a p2@300 w/ a tnt2... And most of the time the system is waiting for the modem to pull quake3 packets from the server. As it is, i have true color stop-motion action in quake.
This MHz obcession is just silly.
My linux has mutated into a carnivore. It is eating windows together with a very nice WINE.
But this might be the start of a new wave of FUD from mac fans.
Linux was no direct competions to macos because linux is unix and unix is complicated. Now that macos is based in unix, apple *must* set it apart other unixes.
I feel the worst is yet to come. Contrary to win users, mac users (at least the majority of the ones I know) tend to be dogmatic evangelists.
I think that for 99.9% of the people the question is not:
"And how many of them run Windows?"
but:
"And how many of them run Word?"
In whistler, with the size of those icons and web views, VGA safe mode will be completely unusable.
In Win98 I already have to move the taskbar to press the 'ok' of display properties...
This is trully unfortunate...
At this point isn't it questionable what are the advantages of using DVDs instead of CDs, CD burners or VHS tapes?
I mean the higher defenition of sound and image a DVD provides are highly conditioned by the quality ($$$$$) of the TV/speakers/amplifier you have.
At least for me, the combination of CDs with CD burners and mp3 provides a level of convenience which makes DVD-audio redundant. As for video, I have invested a lot of money on my VHS collection and as my TV goes, I seriously doubt the benefits of DVD for me. Besides, I can always record TV shows and duplicate video tapes easily.
Velho do Restelo.
I supose it's emminent, but I seem not to find any estimate for a release date on the kde web site.
sorry for the offtopic...
I went to visit the US last month for the first time... I never had coffee that allowed you to see the bottom of the cup. YES, IT IS TRUE coffee in the US is horrible!!!
Being 7 hours jet-lagged and deprived of REAL coffee was not fun at all. After 3-5 cups (30cl cups) I had to go and sleep in the bathroom.
The strangest was seing people taking out the foam of expressos using some specialized metal cups... Expresso machines are supposed to make foam. The foam has to be thick enough to sustain a packet of sugar for a few seconds...
So, before you start knocking-in caffeine genes into the genome of your future children, please, please, please, start brewing better coffee.
JBv.
For me, a proud user, the gnome foundation is meaningles in the short-term. Before any of benefits of the foundation become availiable and stable, I will be using KDE 2.1, or bigger.
People should judge these announcements on a less emotional base, and project conservatively into the future.
Remember when gnome started. Reading posts and news it sounded as if gnome would just delete KDE from the desktop in a few months in terms of features and licencing... I've tried one or two releases of gnome and I am still waiting for the gnome release that will put me off the cleaner integration of KDE.
J
Actually I like a lot the mathematical figures. I thrive witn the expectation of what is going to be the next image on the package. I'ts much better than company-logo + marketing kind of package.
The lizard is kind of cool. (well it's not a lizard but i cannot spell the name of the beast correctly).
Also, green is ok. I mean blue would be better, but defenitly not yellow, brown or cyan.
J
PS: Gostos nao se discutem
How about year/month of release?
example:
MyDistribution 2003/6
Although informative, It has the disadvantage of stating how old is a distribution relative to others (bad marketing?)
Hopefully this is just the begining of the much desired interoperability between both desktops.
J
He does say *most* of Europe. I live in Portugal and for me and most of my friends this is true.
How I would love a 100 ping to spank all those ISDN/Cable lamers (not all ISDN/Cable users are lamers) that pollute servers arround the world.
The last Q3F game I played (2forts), I escaped a rocket by jumping in the water but in the next second I was dead on the bridge... Impressive! I was already dead when I jumped in the water I just didn't realise it.
oh well... a 250-300 ping helps you improve your caracter.
True, 'peta' is a word that means 'white lie'.
PS: Hope i spelled lie correctly. Ummm...
I think not.
WTF?!?!?!
I filtered out the 'bug' topic from preferences.
This should be in 'science' topic.
Is the most difficult part of using and enjoying linux/GNU software.
;D
All these alphas, betas, snapshots, etc make the stable versions of software look increasingly more like stale versions than anything else.
You know it doesn't work properly, you know it will crash, you know some features are missing, you know you will need to refurbish half your system to sort dependencies... You know all that and still you use it and can't wait for the next unstable/beta whatever to come out and see what has changed.
It's life on the fast lane... Well, sort of anyway
Well done KDE team! (Must... resist... download...)
I agree with most of what you say... It is less expensive to me to drive to the shopping center and buy whatever I want, than it is to go online and browse e-commerce sites. Just staying online for an hour almost pays the gasoline of the trip.
I've only used e-comerce once to buy CDs from England that were not availiable where I live (Portugal). It was cirurgical: a friend gave me the URL of the site and I already had the list of CDs.
Maybe WAP cell phones will change this a bit, but I don't know if it is a practical alternative to traditional commerce or to PCs.
Does anyone know how many fps in quake3?
(could... not... resist... posting...)
Does anyone remenber the sci-fi tv series space 1999? In the series a huge radioactive dump explodes and acts like a huge nuclear enjine propelling the moon out of orbit in to the unknown.
It guess the rationalle of US military was to do something like that, so that the communists would have no moon to look at.
I'm not sure, but i think 'ecu' was dropped beacause it seems like 'cow' (in Holland?).
Also. ECU rhymes with 'ass' in Portuguese.
Can you imagine what kind of jokes wold be arround if it was the 'ecu' going down?
Euro was a much safer bet for the future of Europe.
thanks for the tip :)
Last night I heard this music on the radio. With all the wah-wah and 'yeaaaaahhhh's I could tell it part of a new metallica album.
I could not even listen to it let alone haaving the desire to pirate the music. I wonder if the break in revenues is more related to the quality of the music than to mp3 trading.
What the hell has happened to the four horseman?
I dislike netscape. There, I've said it. I addmit to this sin. It crashes, it's slow and the 'buy' buttun in the place where the 'stop' button used to be is just... delightfull.
I already use KFM sometimes, when I don't want a full-featured browser. If konkeror turns out to be all of what is expected, I might as well buy^H^H^Hstop using netscape.
At least you may have ADSL. In Portugal the best thing arround is still ISDN, where you have to pay a lot for the phone calls.
:( The funny thing is that you have a limit of 1Gb/month of cable modem usage. So it's broad band only for a few days/month.
Broadband in Portugal is limited to a very small percentage of the population, because the cable TV company only converted a few cable tv cells. I'll be able to have it somewhere in the next year
Did I mention that *all* communications in Portugal are dependent of Portugal Telecom? The monopoly includes the cable company as well as the major ISP.
Maybe I'll get ADSL in 5 years and it will only cost a month's pay, per month...
JBv
PS: I was trying to paste a link to the PT site... but waiting for the #!"$%#$%&#%/& applet to load has put me off.