But what if something were to go wrong, and somehow radioactive goo starts leaking a mile above the Earth. Then the wind starts spreading it all over the place, and we all end up with mutant powers or three-headed pigeons or ***Insert imagination here***.
Really, you have only installed Rh as a router and then offer thoughts on things with no experience?
yeah what was I thinking, i'm only an ordinary user after all. Linux isn't for me is it ?.
Actually I was quite proud of myself that I managed to get RH8 working as a router, it took quite a bit of messing about but I got it working eventually.
I have limited experience (managed to install and set up RH 8.0 as a router for my home network) with linux but here are a few thoughts.
Linux is not ready for the dsesktop. The recent discussion about mozilla incorporating smooth scrolling illustrates a fundamental problem within the linux community. Most *nix users who want to see linux replace windows on the desktop aren't willing to compete with MS in the areas which really matter to a non techie user. Many people here laughed and scorned the screenshots of the recent longhorn builds where you had lots of new UI features, admittedly most of them will probably not amount to anything but the UI does matter.
For a non techie user the choice at the moment is windows which is very easy to use but is prone to crashes amnd viruses, alternatively they have linux which is very difficult to get the hang of when coming from a windows background. Reliability means nothing if the user can't get anything done with linux. I'm no MS fanboy but I do beleive that they have gone in the right direction with the XP interface, and I also don't think you can really argue with the fact that games, multimedia and simple office apps are all easier to use for a non techie user on a windows platform.
Now whether MS dominace is down to a genuinely more instinctive UI or whether people are just more familiar with it (and hence more productive) is down to debate. I'm sure many linux advocates will dismiss the idea that MS's windows UI is "better" that any of linux distos but they are reeally missing the point.
If you want linux on the desktop then linux developers need to compete with MS. This includes making sure there is support for all types of multimedia, improving choice of games, improving window responsiveness, and all the other little MS UI elements that most *nix users would probably consider frivolous.
#8: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea ?.
It's really a rather neat idea, if you think about it, and even plausible (except the rather obvious sentence about how it needs no external power supply).
Why would it need an external power supply ?, isn't one the features of USB is that it can draw a lot of power ?.
While the form factor on these boards are great, one gives up a lot in the way of ability to upgrade, since many parts are now soldered onto the motherboard.
From the Article...
The Mini ITX standard is not diminutive by accident and miniaturization has been achieved primarily by doing away with various components. The first victim of the red pen was the CPU socket, which simply took up too much space. That is why the processor is always soldered directly onto VIA EPIA boards.
Actually, Robocop, Total Recall and Satrship Troopers (all directed by Paul Verhoeven) all have a lot to say about soceity, corporations and how power can be abused.
And if you want to get turned on there is always Basic Instinct as well.
I think one of the biggest problems is that fair use isn't defined very well. It might make sense in law but to the average person it's difficult to know how your are legally allowed to listen to a cd that you have bought.
The sceneario of taking a cd round to a friends house is a good example of this ambiguity. Am I allowed to lend him the cd ?, is he allowed to make a copy ?, if I regularly meet with my friends and play this cd does that constitute as a public performance ?. Am I allowed to backup my cd's ? (digitally ?).
Some of those may seem obvious but under the current copyright law the legality is difficult to judge. Add in the issue of differences of copyright laws in other countries and the legal haziness just gets worse.
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is it as crdible as www.moviepoopshoot.com ?
It may be a noisy and costly anachronism
Or to put it another way, it isn't made or owned by an American firm.
apparently those weren't her boobies, everything apart from her face was CGI.
In soviet russia the data decrypts you.
But what if something were to go wrong, and somehow radioactive goo starts leaking a mile above the Earth. Then the wind starts spreading it all over the place, and we all end up with mutant powers or three-headed pigeons or ***Insert imagination here***.
Yeah but what about the drawbacks ?
If by "Windows" you mean "Dos", then yes.
Really, you have only installed Rh as a router and then offer thoughts on things with no experience?
yeah what was I thinking, i'm only an ordinary user after all. Linux isn't for me is it ?.
Actually I was quite proud of myself that I managed to get RH8 working as a router, it took quite a bit of messing about but I got it working eventually.
It's a shame he didn't continue making game engines, perhaps we would have seen Duke Forever by name, or maybe Prey.
Prey, now thats a blast from the past, was that completely scrapped ?. It looked like an unreal clone but still kinda interesting.
I have limited experience (managed to install and set up RH 8.0 as a router for my home network) with linux but here are a few thoughts.
Linux is not ready for the dsesktop. The recent discussion about mozilla incorporating smooth scrolling illustrates a fundamental problem within the linux community. Most *nix users who want to see linux replace windows on the desktop aren't willing to compete with MS in the areas which really matter to a non techie user. Many people here laughed and scorned the screenshots of the recent longhorn builds where you had lots of new UI features, admittedly most of them will probably not amount to anything but the UI does matter.
For a non techie user the choice at the moment is windows which is very easy to use but is prone to crashes amnd viruses, alternatively they have linux which is very difficult to get the hang of when coming from a windows background. Reliability means nothing if the user can't get anything done with linux. I'm no MS fanboy but I do beleive that they have gone in the right direction with the XP interface, and I also don't think you can really argue with the fact that games, multimedia and simple office apps are all easier to use for a non techie user on a windows platform.
Now whether MS dominace is down to a genuinely more instinctive UI or whether people are just more familiar with it (and hence more productive) is down to debate. I'm sure many linux advocates will dismiss the idea that MS's windows UI is "better" that any of linux distos but they are reeally missing the point.
If you want linux on the desktop then linux developers need to compete with MS. This includes making sure there is support for all types of multimedia, improving choice of games, improving window responsiveness, and all the other little MS UI elements that most *nix users would probably consider frivolous.
#8: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea ?.
we are at war with oceania, we have always been at war with oceania.
I've got one and have got it running linux, I'm also using it to host my webpage http://www.pleaseslashdotme.com
check it out, webcams and everything.
It's really a rather neat idea, if you think about it, and even plausible (except the rather obvious sentence about how it needs no external power supply).
Why would it need an external power supply ?, isn't one the features of USB is that it can draw a lot of power ?.
While the form factor on these boards are great, one gives up a lot in the way of ability to upgrade, since many parts are now soldered onto the motherboard.
From the Article...
The Mini ITX standard is not diminutive by accident and miniaturization has been achieved primarily by doing away with various components. The first victim of the red pen was the CPU socket, which simply took up too much space. That is why the processor is always soldered directly onto VIA EPIA boards.
Yep that will affect your ability to upgrade.
could someone buy me one ?, pretty please ?
Assuming 1 byte = 1 cubic centimetre, how many LoC's is a volswagen bug ?
Actually, Robocop, Total Recall and Satrship Troopers (all directed by Paul Verhoeven) all have a lot to say about soceity, corporations and how power can be abused.
And if you want to get turned on there is always Basic Instinct as well.
I think one of the biggest problems is that fair use isn't defined very well. It might make sense in law but to the average person it's difficult to know how your are legally allowed to listen to a cd that you have bought.
The sceneario of taking a cd round to a friends house is a good example of this ambiguity. Am I allowed to lend him the cd ?, is he allowed to make a copy ?, if I regularly meet with my friends and play this cd does that constitute as a public performance ?. Am I allowed to backup my cd's ? (digitally ?).
Some of those may seem obvious but under the current copyright law the legality is difficult to judge. Add in the issue of differences of copyright laws in other countries and the legal haziness just gets worse.
And it's not even April fools.
Oh my god. No headphone jack ?, really ?, well thats my mind made up.
Geeks comunicate better through striaght forward written words. If we had social skills we wouldn't be geeks.
It goes up to eleven, thats one louder than all the other amps.
Are We Not Ready For 64-Bit?
No.
That was easy, give me another.
I don't understand what it means tho, I need all my measurements in Library of Congress.
They die.