Screw dot com right up the yahoo. Dot pro is where all the real information is going to end up. No, seriously. A lot of people rag icann but they did the right thing: all the suffixes people wanted are already well represented in the dot com space..xxx and.sex!? Please, -1 Redundant. We need _less_ namespaces polluted with junk, not more. Its come to the point where I think twice before following anything that isnt edu.
I wouldnt give yahoo a wooden nickel - its not my fault there's a hundred search engines out there competing for a diminishing advertising purse. They can index fuckedcompany.com from now until yesterday for all I care. In fact, I recomend they do.
The day every tom, dick and harry can do things with linux is the day i turn to freebsd. If I wanted a dumbed down idiot box, I'd turn on the tv. Windows is useless to me but you are more than welcom to have. Please reciprocate.
Developers _underestimate_ lusers' intelligence by the same proportion that they _overestimate_ their own. That's why behind every successful software project there is (good) management. "Oh, but linux doesnt have management." Oh, but Linux has a dictator, which is close enough.
Its slow compare to windows because windows gdi is kernel mode and doesnt suffer context switches. So what? Its still more than fast enough for anything but the most demanding games.
You may also want to consider X4 instead X3 which is meant to address this windows "advantage." (It isnt an advantage if you need the machine to positively, absolutely always be up, by the way.)
Old!? Dont be an idiot. Its younger than MS windows. Check your computing history. Do you expect the gui codebase for w2k is the same as that of w3.1? So why do you think so for X.
The problem with windows is that it has no decent window manager. I simply cannot get anything done on windows. It is not possible for me to work multiple shells, browsers and compiles at once. And I cant configure it to do so. And its institutional ugly. All these UI advantages Windows or the Mac has over X are median advantages that mean dick in my particular case. I dont care how easy it is for computer illiterates to use windows or a mac. Their ease is my torture.
It took me 3 days to configure x/helix to look, feel and act the way I like but at least it now takes its orders from me, not the other way around. And it looks damn good.
Add to that network transparency (W2K professional doesnt have a terminal server) and its no contest. But hey, its not for everyone. You can use whatever the fuck you want but dont rag on the rest of just because you dont understand the technology. Its too bad X cant change color depth on the fly but I can live with that considering its been ages since I've had to run anything that didnt agree with 24+ bits. If you need to switch between old dos vga games and kde or gnome, I guess X isnt for you then.
That's EXACTLY why they release a bug infested browser. Bad press is better than no press at all. All the tech and news sites lambasting Netscape today are only setting themselves up for future comeback kid stories. Netscape knows it has a good browser and they are scripting themselves into a publicity bonanza when 6.1 is released 2 months from now. You heard it here first.
I wont be surprised if they arent sitting on 6.1 right now.
Oh yeah, and a free clue to the Netscape rebadgers: I'm already online, so WHY THE F**K WOULD I WANT AN AOL ICON ON MY DESKTOP?
AOL went from 0 to one of the biggest companies in the world in less than 10 short years. You, you're just another whiner on slashdot. Clearly one of you has the better grasp of marketing. I WONDER WHO THE F**K THAT WOULD BE?
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I wouldnt give yahoo a wooden nickel - its not my fault there's a hundred search engines out there competing for a diminishing advertising purse. They can index fuckedcompany.com from now until yesterday for all I care. In fact, I recomend they do.
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You may also want to consider X4 instead X3 which is meant to address this windows "advantage." (It isnt an advantage if you need the machine to positively, absolutely always be up, by the way.)
Old!? Dont be an idiot. Its younger than MS windows. Check your computing history. Do you expect the gui codebase for w2k is the same as that of w3.1? So why do you think so for X.
The problem with windows is that it has no decent window manager. I simply cannot get anything done on windows. It is not possible for me to work multiple shells, browsers and compiles at once. And I cant configure it to do so. And its institutional ugly. All these UI advantages Windows or the Mac has over X are median advantages that mean dick in my particular case. I dont care how easy it is for computer illiterates to use windows or a mac. Their ease is my torture.
It took me 3 days to configure x/helix to look, feel and act the way I like but at least it now takes its orders from me, not the other way around. And it looks damn good.
Add to that network transparency (W2K professional doesnt have a terminal server) and its no contest. But hey, its not for everyone. You can use whatever the fuck you want but dont rag on the rest of just because you dont understand the technology. Its too bad X cant change color depth on the fly but I can live with that considering its been ages since I've had to run anything that didnt agree with 24+ bits. If you need to switch between old dos vga games and kde or gnome, I guess X isnt for you then.
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I wont be surprised if they arent sitting on 6.1 right now.
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AOL went from 0 to one of the biggest companies in the world in less than 10 short years. You, you're just another whiner on slashdot. Clearly one of you has the better grasp of marketing. I WONDER WHO THE F**K THAT WOULD BE?
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No they do not.
this means writing the code to use multiple threads.
No it does not. It is the path of least resistance, though. Unfortunately, it tends to be the buggiest path, as well.
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