I've never used either of the other x servers mentioned, but i've never had a problem with running either gnome or kde (or knome--both at the same time;). In fact, both run slightly faster on my remote xserver than on my 1ghz machine, i guess because that machine only has to handle processing while my other handles displaying. I've been using the cygwin XServer for about four months now, and I have to say, it really is pretty damn nice. aside from issues noted elsewhere (no multimonitor support, poor clipboard integration, no way to serve "rootless" windows) its an outstanding piece of software you should take another look at.
if you're just looking for a fixture around the apartment, go with something like a guinea pig or a fish... ferrets stink. literally. i mean, given that you're on slashdot, your chances of getting a girl to voluntarily come over are already halved, but if you do by some miracle score one for the home team, ferret-stink is a big turn-off.
if you're really looking for a companion with some personality, go with a cat, or to a lesser extent, a dog... personally, i'm a dog kinda guy, but its hard to find a good sedate breed of dog that won't get in your way while coding. if you do opt for a dog, definitely get obedience training. its indispensible for any dog owner, coder or not.
By that rationale, we wouldn't have linux either... after all, we already had windows, and everybody knows its the BEST OS out there, or else why would 95% of desktops be running it?
In spite of its futility at becoming THE BEST music software out there, freeamp has some interesting features, which is why I use it over winamp. For one thing, its got the same featureset on linux as on windows, and runs well on both... its got a song fingerprinting feature which can recommend new music streams for you, although it doesn't really work right now as far as i can see. all the more reason for everyone to pitch in and write some code.
When was the last time you saw a refrigerator with a big sticker that said "RTFM"? Or a sink? or a door?, a lightswitch?, a television? a hot water heater? an air-conditioner? a fork? a pizza? a beer? (ok, guinness in a can DOES come with directions...) a dildo? a condom? (uh, forget that last one, or i wouldn't be here talking now...)
My point is, THOSE are things that are easy to use. They're APPLIANCES, which is what TiVo pretends to be. But from my pov, if you need a manual to use its basic functions, its not an appliance.
You picked a bad time to go into a bad market, my friend. If you're in a small town, you can probably make it selling computers to people who don't know enough to buy online and that sort of thing. but margins are too tight even for big players like dell, gateway, walmart, etc...
my advice is to use service to generate revenue. fix computers, get certified by companies like gateway and dell to service their systems, and sell training. networking for businesses is also a good play. basically, though, don't try to compete against players who are in a league of their own.
Well, if you integrate a bluetooth chip in the phone as well, you've got a wireless optical mouse for your laptop, as well as a wireless modem. and, as has been noted, there's the replacement for a scroll thing, and as screens increase in size and UI's in complexity, easier selection of options.
Yup, that's what M$ intended alright... contaminate as many programmers as possible by exposing them to the rotor libraries, so they can claim copyright infringement on anyone working on free implementations. not a bad plan, actually...
Honestly, I don't think they're too worried about winning mindshare--they don't want to compete with open source developers. i'm guessing they want to develop their own products and sell them. And anyway, it sounds like UL's problem, not ours; I don't see why we should get our panties in a wad simply because "OHMYGODICANTTESTONTHATPLATFORM". There's plenty enough to do in the opensource world without throwing another "standard driven" distribution into the mix.
oh, and moderators: my first comment wasn't flamebait, it was a troll. learn the friggin difference.
So what? as everyone else has already noted, why are binaries a requirement? sure, they're convenient--that's why they're charging for them. its the basis for value-added resellers. I don't see anything wrong with that at all.
I don't particularly think this distribution is going to go anywhere--just what the world needs, another flavor of linux. geez folks, why don't you do something original and make a new BSD distribution? that would actually be worth something--make sure all the linux binaries can run on it, and all the necessary stuff is ready, like java, etc. that's one i might pay for.
Golf is NOT a SPORT. I'm as unbiased as it gets, considering my family owns a golf course. I say golf is not a sport based on the following reasoning:
1.) no sweat through exertion (not summer heat, for instance), no sport 2.) if there's a scoring component based on artistic merit, no sport 3.) external source of locomotion, no sport (rules out NASCAR--sorry rednecks!)
there was another one, but i forgot it... these rules are not to say that a particular game doesn't take skill--chess for instance takes a high degree of intelligence, and far be it from me to disparage players of the game. but golf is basically a game of aiming a ball at a target; you can't count carrying your bag around as part of the physical exertion because there is no scoring component for it (the use of a caddy also counts as external locomotion). Were we to consider golf a sport, we'd also have to look at hunting and archery as a sport--neither of which is true, IMHO.
Lautier: Do you think chess and Shogi are sports ?
Habu: Chess is certainly a sport....
Ok, this is my pet peeve I get on when I've got too much time on my hands. Chess is not a SPORT. Its a game--a rather complex and intricate game, but a game nonetheless. Neither is golf a sport. (actually, this argument usually starts with someone saying golf is a sport--I use chess as a comparison). Just because something shows up on ESPN doesn't mean its a sport. Pool and poker, for example...
Actually, underexposure to bacteria is BAD for you... current medical studies indicate that a large percentage of allergies come from not having your immune system stimulated as a child. Coupled with the fact that many "illnesses" confer a degree of immunity after initial exposure, and I'm quite happy to keep my keyboard, crumbs and all.
You're right about the exclusivity; however, the issue here is representation without authorization. If i understand the writer's problem correctly, a headhunting agency with whom he did not voluntarily list himself took his resume and represented him as being one of their clients to a prospective company, when in fact he had never dealt with the headhunters before. So when he applied to the same company the exclusivity clause you mentioned kicks in, and he's out of a perfectly good job.
depending on the state in which you live, you'd have a decent case against the headhunters. I would contact a lawyer in your area who is versed in contract and business law.
you might try something like TightVNC (www.tightvnc.com) with the remote keyboards locked so you're the only one driving the presentation. We've used this at my company to train doctors on our web-based medical systems and it works pretty well for us.
How does this allow you to "steal" a credit card? You still need the exp. date, the cardholder's name, possibly address, and sometimes even the three digit number found on the signature panel. the only thing that the luhn algorithm is good for is validating that the card *might* be a valid card number, not a valid card.
actually, medical billing really is a whole 'nother ballgame... Its not a matter of coding hours or something like that. there is all kind of bureaucracy involved, between government regs, insurance approval, pre-approval, etc... that's why medical billing programs are so expensive. there's a veritable minefield of regulations to put up with.
well, take this for what its worth, but at my last company, I was the company co-op for two years, and hence, low bitch on the totem pole... all new computers from oem's went to full-time employees (never mind the fact that i had worked there practically full-time for longer than most of those bozos). the first four months I was there, i worked on a pentium II laptop ~350mhz (i was doing 3d graphics--that's a woefully underpowered platform). When i finally got my own desktop, they brought me a big cardboard box full of parts--unassembled. so i put it together, and used it the rest of the time i was there. Never crashed on me once.
all the OEM desktops? well, anytime one of them crashed, they'd snag my desktop for a replacement while i was out of the office and I had to go track it down when i came back. this happened at least once a month, sometimes more frequently. there was this one time, (at band camp;), six or seven machines died in the same week and people were fighting over my box:)
moral of the story? don't be afraid of a generic desktop, just don't buy shit parts. as long as you buy stuff that's fairly easy to get a driver for--nics and so forth--you'll have no problems.
i may be mistaken, but i believe that using gcc's output for whatever purpose is allowed; its merely using the gpl'ed source code that makes up gcc that wouldn't be allowed. for instance, if they used gpl'ed gcc code in their visual c++ compiler, that would be a violation.
Now, if you were speaking in more metaphoric terms, i agree, its completely unethical. but its no secret that microsoft is the worlds most morally bankrupt company. i wouldn't expect any less of them.
a. play an MP3/WAV/AU whatever over the sound card, which in turn is plugged into the speaker
Yeah, that's great until some wiseass replaces/etc/alarm/buzzer.mp3 with/path/to/pirated/music/beastie_boys_fight_for _your_right.mp3... see how long the plant manager has his job when the company president hears that one going off at 17:00...
Slashdot Mirror
iron sights on a rifle to me... billg watch out!
no, that about sums it up.. i'll try that, thanks for the tip.
I've never used either of the other x servers mentioned, but i've never had a problem with running either gnome or kde (or knome--both at the same time ;). In fact, both run slightly faster on my remote xserver than on my 1ghz machine, i guess because that machine only has to handle processing while my other handles displaying. I've been using the cygwin XServer for about four months now, and I have to say, it really is pretty damn nice. aside from issues noted elsewhere (no multimonitor support, poor clipboard integration, no way to serve "rootless" windows) its an outstanding piece of software you should take another look at.
if you're just looking for a fixture around the apartment, go with something like a guinea pig or a fish... ferrets stink. literally. i mean, given that you're on slashdot, your chances of getting a girl to voluntarily come over are already halved, but if you do by some miracle score one for the home team, ferret-stink is a big turn-off.
if you're really looking for a companion with some personality, go with a cat, or to a lesser extent, a dog... personally, i'm a dog kinda guy, but its hard to find a good sedate breed of dog that won't get in your way while coding. if you do opt for a dog, definitely get obedience training. its indispensible for any dog owner, coder or not.
By that rationale, we wouldn't have linux either... after all, we already had windows, and everybody knows its the BEST OS out there, or else why would 95% of desktops be running it?
In spite of its futility at becoming THE BEST music software out there, freeamp has some interesting features, which is why I use it over winamp. For one thing, its got the same featureset on linux as on windows, and runs well on both... its got a song fingerprinting feature which can recommend new music streams for you, although it doesn't really work right now as far as i can see. all the more reason for everyone to pitch in and write some code.
When was the last time you saw a refrigerator with a big sticker that said "RTFM"? Or a sink? or a door?, a lightswitch?, a television? a hot water heater? an air-conditioner? a fork? a pizza? a beer? (ok, guinness in a can DOES come with directions...) a dildo? a condom? (uh, forget that last one, or i wouldn't be here talking now...)
My point is, THOSE are things that are easy to use. They're APPLIANCES, which is what TiVo pretends to be. But from my pov, if you need a manual to use its basic functions, its not an appliance.
You picked a bad time to go into a bad market, my friend. If you're in a small town, you can probably make it selling computers to people who don't know enough to buy online and that sort of thing. but margins are too tight even for big players like dell, gateway, walmart, etc...
my advice is to use service to generate revenue. fix computers, get certified by companies like gateway and dell to service their systems, and sell training. networking for businesses is also a good play. basically, though, don't try to compete against players who are in a league of their own.
Well, if you integrate a bluetooth chip in the phone as well, you've got a wireless optical mouse for your laptop, as well as a wireless modem. and, as has been noted, there's the replacement for a scroll thing, and as screens increase in size and UI's in complexity, easier selection of options.
Yup, that's what M$ intended alright... contaminate as many programmers as possible by exposing them to the rotor libraries, so they can claim copyright infringement on anyone working on free implementations. not a bad plan, actually...
Touche`; true enough. except afaik, darwin doesn't run linux binaries any better than anyone else--not that it really matters.
Honestly, I don't think they're too worried about winning mindshare--they don't want to compete with open source developers. i'm guessing they want to develop their own products and sell them. And anyway, it sounds like UL's problem, not ours; I don't see why we should get our panties in a wad simply because "OHMYGODICANTTESTONTHATPLATFORM". There's plenty enough to do in the opensource world without throwing another "standard driven" distribution into the mix.
oh, and moderators: my first comment wasn't flamebait, it was a troll. learn the friggin difference.
So what? as everyone else has already noted, why are binaries a requirement? sure, they're convenient--that's why they're charging for them. its the basis for value-added resellers. I don't see anything wrong with that at all.
I don't particularly think this distribution is going to go anywhere--just what the world needs, another flavor of linux. geez folks, why don't you do something original and make a new BSD distribution? that would actually be worth something--make sure all the linux binaries can run on it, and all the necessary stuff is ready, like java, etc. that's one i might pay for.
Ok, you took the bait... :)
Golf is NOT a SPORT. I'm as unbiased as it gets, considering my family owns a golf course. I say golf is not a sport based on the following reasoning:
1.) no sweat through exertion (not summer heat, for instance), no sport
2.) if there's a scoring component based on artistic merit, no sport
3.) external source of locomotion, no sport (rules out NASCAR--sorry rednecks!)
there was another one, but i forgot it... these rules are not to say that a particular game doesn't take skill--chess for instance takes a high degree of intelligence, and far be it from me to disparage players of the game. but golf is basically a game of aiming a ball at a target; you can't count carrying your bag around as part of the physical exertion because there is no scoring component for it (the use of a caddy also counts as external locomotion). Were we to consider golf a sport, we'd also have to look at hunting and archery as a sport--neither of which is true, IMHO.
I consider baseball a sport only in the strictest sense... I think its a stupid game.
Lautier: Do you think chess and Shogi are sports ?
Habu: Chess is certainly a sport....
Ok, this is my pet peeve I get on when I've got too much time on my hands. Chess is not a SPORT. Its a game--a rather complex and intricate game, but a game nonetheless. Neither is golf a sport. (actually, this argument usually starts with someone saying golf is a sport--I use chess as a comparison). Just because something shows up on ESPN doesn't mean its a sport. Pool and poker, for example...
Anybody disagree?
Actually, underexposure to bacteria is BAD for you... current medical studies indicate that a large percentage of allergies come from not having your immune system stimulated as a child. Coupled with the fact that many "illnesses" confer a degree of immunity after initial exposure, and I'm quite happy to keep my keyboard, crumbs and all.
You're right about the exclusivity; however, the issue here is representation without authorization. If i understand the writer's problem correctly, a headhunting agency with whom he did not voluntarily list himself took his resume and represented him as being one of their clients to a prospective company, when in fact he had never dealt with the headhunters before. So when he applied to the same company the exclusivity clause you mentioned kicks in, and he's out of a perfectly good job.
depending on the state in which you live, you'd have a decent case against the headhunters. I would contact a lawyer in your area who is versed in contract and business law.
Uh, hello???!! anybody here ever see The Matrix?
you might try something like TightVNC (www.tightvnc.com) with the remote keyboards locked so you're the only one driving the presentation. We've used this at my company to train doctors on our web-based medical systems and it works pretty well for us.
How does this allow you to "steal" a credit card? You still need the exp. date, the cardholder's name, possibly address, and sometimes even the three digit number found on the signature panel. the only thing that the luhn algorithm is good for is validating that the card *might* be a valid card number, not a valid card.
Shameless plug of course, as I conducted the interview. I think it is a good fit for Slashdot, though
the number of comments here would tend to say otherwise...
actually, medical billing really is a whole 'nother ballgame... Its not a matter of coding hours or something like that. there is all kind of bureaucracy involved, between government regs, insurance approval, pre-approval, etc... that's why medical billing programs are so expensive. there's a veritable minefield of regulations to put up with.
well, take this for what its worth, but at my last company, I was the company co-op for two years, and hence, low bitch on the totem pole... all new computers from oem's went to full-time employees (never mind the fact that i had worked there practically full-time for longer than most of those bozos). the first four months I was there, i worked on a pentium II laptop ~350mhz (i was doing 3d graphics--that's a woefully underpowered platform). When i finally got my own desktop, they brought me a big cardboard box full of parts--unassembled. so i put it together, and used it the rest of the time i was there. Never crashed on me once.
;), six or seven machines died in the same week and people were fighting over my box :)
all the OEM desktops? well, anytime one of them crashed, they'd snag my desktop for a replacement while i was out of the office and I had to go track it down when i came back. this happened at least once a month, sometimes more frequently. there was this one time, (at band camp
moral of the story? don't be afraid of a generic desktop, just don't buy shit parts. as long as you buy stuff that's fairly easy to get a driver for--nics and so forth--you'll have no problems.
i may be mistaken, but i believe that using gcc's output for whatever purpose is allowed; its merely using the gpl'ed source code that makes up gcc that wouldn't be allowed. for instance, if they used gpl'ed gcc code in their visual c++ compiler, that would be a violation.
Now, if you were speaking in more metaphoric terms, i agree, its completely unethical. but its no secret that microsoft is the worlds most morally bankrupt company. i wouldn't expect any less of them.
a. play an MP3/WAV/AU whatever over the sound card, which in turn is plugged into the speaker
/etc/alarm/buzzer.mp3 with /path/to/pirated/music/beastie_boys_fight_for _your_right.mp3... see how long the plant manager has his job when the company president hears that one going off at 17:00...
Yeah, that's great until some wiseass replaces