I have several machines with multiple monitors: two desktops and a laptop with a dock. They each have a different graphics card: Nvidia, ATI, and Intel. Each one supports multiple monitors flawlessly without having to do that annoying twinview thing anymore. Docking and undocking with the laptop automatically adds or removes the second screen; I even configured Gnome 3 to move the applications bar to the larger secondary monitor when I'm docked and back to the laptop when I'm not. On one machine I have the secondary screen have an independent workspace and another I have it change with the workspace: I'm still trying to work out which I like better.
So in summary, my experience is just the opposite of what you claim: multiple monitor support, on different chips, out of the box with no configuration.
I just wanted to respond to some of the claimed "holes" that the parent mentions and I've also seen mentioned in other posts.
.. the hero (Van De Merwe) I had a hard time rooting for instead of rooting that we would just get shot. He was weak and pathetic, and only had courage while in the exo-suit, and even then, he was wishy-washy.
The story makes a big point of pointing out his indecision. The strength of the story is that he changes because of his experience, but doesn't magically become a cartoon action hero is the course of 3 days.
... I just couldn't believe the government would allow the Nigerians to become so powerful inside the district, especially when they knew how dangerous they were.
The example of modern slums would counter your point.
...The father in law was evil for no apparent reason, and his wife suddenly believes Wilkus without explanation why?
The movie makes a point of showing scenes before his transformation that the father-in-law doesn't respect Wikus and I inferred that he didn't believe Wikus good enough for the daughter. The fact that Wikus is put in charge of the highly dangerous task of evicting the aliens would seem to hint to the viewer that the FIL didn't have his safety in mind in the first place.
.. why weren't the aliens using the weapons to revolt instead of selling them to the Nigerians?
Again the film explains that aliens seem to be part of a low-intelligence worker class that tends to be gullible and do what they are told. The movie mentions that one of the mysteries is where the leaders went.
I went to see the movie with my 14-year old daughter and we both found the plot much more interesting and compelling then any SF we've seen all year; though I haven't seen moon and we would give a shout out for the horror flick "Let the Right One In".
I'm a linux user that recently installed Fedora 10, Fedora 11, Ubuntu 9.04, Vista Basic, Windows XP. I basically did fresh installs on a Dell studio hybrid.
Fedoras - used live cd and added packages I wanted over the net. Due to open source restrictions I had to do command line magic to enable wireless.
Ubundu - again a live cd over the internet. Had to enable the non-free repos to get wireless
Vista - after guided install I had no ethernet (wired or wireless) and simple VGA display. I had to use Dells not so obvious "additional software" CD to get these drivers.
XP - after guided install I had no ethernet (wired or wireless) and simple VGA display. I was using a developer copy of XP, so I had to go to another machine to get the proper drivers from the DELL suport site, put them on a USB stick to get the network up in order to update the rest of the system
Which was the easiest system to install? Well Vista of course because that was the OS that was PREINSTALLED! When I had to do the install I would just say tha all had their challenges, but an OS that installs out of the box with no ethernet drivers is a PITA.
(swtiching to old timer voice) "Well I've been living in and around the Bay Area for over 35 years. 5.0 Hah, I don't even wake up from my nap for that!"
Actually my wierdest 'quake story happened in the mid to late 70's. I had come home from school and was watching the "3:30 movie" on KGO (7). That day it happened to be a particularly bad film about a town in the middle of the desert that is eventually swallowed up by a massive earthquake. This climactic scene happens in the last 5 minutes of the show, just around 4:45pm. Sure enough, exactly when the fictional town is sinking, a small (5.0) quake hits, centered relatively close to where I lived (San Mateo).
At 5:00pm the news starts "No we didn't install new special effects, that really was an earthquake !"
I was having a discussion with a CTO about Microsoft's.NET and whether it would be successful. My take on it was that the crux of Microsofts success for this is to take control of key data services like authentication.
So what would happen if an open source version of these serives appeared that hooked into the.NET infrastructure? Think of something similar to SAMBA where one reverse engineers the service so that it become feasable to use an alternative to Microsoft servers.
I believe this would be devistating to Microsoft since they will have committed the world to a networked web services where the platform doesn't matter, but lost the control of the key services.
The rest of the.NET infrastructure seems to be easily reproducable by third-party vendors (Microsoft even gives lipservice to this). This opens the door for Linux and other vendors to integrate with this infrastructure and commoditizes it.
Hey, why don't we put the nuke plant right next to your house. The waste too! You don't seem to mind.
Don't get me wrong, I actually think nuclear power is a viable option if proper precautions are taken. However this analysis of the situation isn't "interesting" (score 2) it's just simplistic (score Mr. Rogers).
Do some reading on deregulation. It succeeds when you have competition (wireless, long distance telephone, cell phone). It doesn't succeed when you take off price controls but still have a monopoly on distribution. A lot of the "we are losing money boo hoo" by companies like PG&E is that deregulation allowed them to split distribution out from production. As a result if you look at the whole picture PG&E production is making money hand over fist, but distribution to the customer is losing money. As a result it wouldn't matter if there were more nuclear plants, the deregulated production arm of PG&E would still be charging big prices to the distribution arm.
Does this sound familiar? Yes, the telephone companies do it too. Notice how the local bell company handling your land line to the house is always strapped for cash and needs a rate increase? However, the wireless or long distance arms of the parent company which are in a true compentative environment are constantly outdoing each other with better rates.
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I have several machines with multiple monitors: two desktops and a laptop with a dock. They each have a different graphics card: Nvidia, ATI, and Intel. Each one supports multiple monitors flawlessly without having to do that annoying twinview thing anymore. Docking and undocking with the laptop automatically adds or removes the second screen; I even configured Gnome 3 to move the applications bar to the larger secondary monitor when I'm docked and back to the laptop when I'm not. On one machine I have the secondary screen have an independent workspace and another I have it change with the workspace: I'm still trying to work out which I like better.
So in summary, my experience is just the opposite of what you claim: multiple monitor support, on different chips, out of the box with no configuration.
I just wanted to respond to some of the claimed "holes" that the parent mentions and I've also seen mentioned in other posts.
.. the hero (Van De Merwe) I had a hard time rooting for instead of rooting that we would just get shot. He was weak and pathetic, and only had courage while in the exo-suit, and even then, he was wishy-washy.
The story makes a big point of pointing out his indecision. The strength of the story is that he changes because of his experience, but doesn't magically become a cartoon action hero is the course of 3 days.
... I just couldn't believe the government would allow the Nigerians to become so powerful inside the district, especially when they knew how dangerous they were.
The example of modern slums would counter your point.
...The father in law was evil for no apparent reason, and his wife suddenly believes Wilkus without explanation why?
The movie makes a point of showing scenes before his transformation that the father-in-law doesn't respect Wikus and I inferred that he didn't believe Wikus good enough for the daughter. The fact that Wikus is put in charge of the highly dangerous task of evicting the aliens would seem to hint to the viewer that the FIL didn't have his safety in mind in the first place.
.. why weren't the aliens using the weapons to revolt instead of selling them to the Nigerians?
Again the film explains that aliens seem to be part of a low-intelligence worker class that tends to be gullible and do what they are told. The movie mentions that one of the mysteries is where the leaders went.
I went to see the movie with my 14-year old daughter and we both found the plot much more interesting and compelling then any SF we've seen all year; though I haven't seen moon and we would give a shout out for the horror flick "Let the Right One In".
I'm a linux user that recently installed Fedora 10, Fedora 11, Ubuntu 9.04, Vista Basic, Windows XP. I basically did fresh installs on a Dell studio hybrid.
Fedoras - used live cd and added packages I wanted over the net. Due to open source restrictions I had to do command line magic to enable wireless.
Ubundu - again a live cd over the internet. Had to enable the non-free repos to get wireless
Vista - after guided install I had no ethernet (wired or wireless) and simple VGA display. I had to use Dells not so obvious "additional software" CD to get these drivers.
XP - after guided install I had no ethernet (wired or wireless) and simple VGA display. I was using a developer copy of XP, so I had to go to another machine to get the proper drivers from the DELL suport site, put them on a USB stick to get the network up in order to update the rest of the system
Which was the easiest system to install? Well Vista of course because that was the OS that was PREINSTALLED! When I had to do the install I would just say tha all had their challenges, but an OS that installs out of the box with no ethernet drivers is a PITA.
Except, the TdF never goes down L'alpe D'Huez only up, but I suspect you already knew that.
(swtiching to old timer voice) "Well I've been living in and around the Bay Area for over 35 years. 5.0 Hah, I don't even wake up from my nap for that!"
Actually my wierdest 'quake story happened in the mid to late 70's. I had come home from school and was watching the "3:30 movie" on KGO (7). That day it happened to be a particularly bad film about a town in the middle of the desert that is eventually swallowed up by a massive earthquake. This climactic scene happens in the last 5 minutes of the show, just around 4:45pm. Sure enough, exactly when the fictional town is sinking, a small (5.0) quake hits, centered relatively close to where I lived (San Mateo).
At 5:00pm the news starts "No we didn't install new special effects, that really was an earthquake !"
I wish I could remember the movie title.
So what would happen if an open source version of these serives appeared that hooked into the .NET infrastructure? Think of something similar to SAMBA where one reverse engineers the service so that it become feasable to use an alternative to Microsoft servers.
I believe this would be devistating to Microsoft since they will have committed the world to a networked web services where the platform doesn't matter, but lost the control of the key services.
The rest of the .NET infrastructure seems to be easily reproducable by third-party vendors (Microsoft even gives lipservice to this). This opens the door for Linux and other vendors to integrate with this infrastructure and commoditizes it.
Don't get me wrong, I actually think nuclear power is a viable option if proper precautions are taken. However this analysis of the situation isn't "interesting" (score 2) it's just simplistic (score Mr. Rogers).
Do some reading on deregulation. It succeeds when you have competition (wireless, long distance telephone, cell phone). It doesn't succeed when you take off price controls but still have a monopoly on distribution. A lot of the "we are losing money boo hoo" by companies like PG&E is that deregulation allowed them to split distribution out from production. As a result if you look at the whole picture PG&E production is making money hand over fist, but distribution to the customer is losing money. As a result it wouldn't matter if there were more nuclear plants, the deregulated production arm of PG&E would still be charging big prices to the distribution arm.
Does this sound familiar? Yes, the telephone companies do it too. Notice how the local bell company handling your land line to the house is always strapped for cash and needs a rate increase? However, the wireless or long distance arms of the parent company which are in a true compentative environment are constantly outdoing each other with better rates.