"I can't count the number of nights spent trying to get that sexy new E build to work, and what fun it was!"
And people wonder why Linux is (still) only for geeks!
This is such a ludicrous statement. I, like a lot of people, use my computer to do *stuff*, not just messing around trying to get it to work at all.
Development on window managers has slowed because: Despite all the gripes etc about Microsoft, their "window manager", while crude in some aspects, works. It just works when you install it. You don't have to mess around with editing config files and libs and all that. So why create new ones?
I recall installing drivers for my ati rage 128 a few months back:
Windows 98: 10 minutes
Xfree86: 4 full evenings
Linux will never be accepted by the mainstream until its developers realize that, to normal people, CONFIGURING YOUR WINDOW MANAGER is NOT FUN. It's infuriating. Most users just want to get on with whatever task they want to do.
Our operation runs completely on Windows 2000. However, I have set up one old PC with Linux (Redhat 7.1) so that everyone who wants to can give it a spin.
Presumably, QNX will run on these as well? I guess if you can install Linux, QNX will go on as well. Hopefully the QNX install process with be easier than the Linux one.
One of my co-op students last year went to work for Steve Mann. He said it was a very strange experience - Mann had him come in to work at 11 pm, say, and work until 7 the next morning. Then two days later he would change it to 9-5.
Mann sometimes puts on ALL his gear and wanders around downtown Toronto. I saw him once, and talked to him for a bit. Also a very strange experience - he was acting as though nothing was unusual about what he was doing.
Check out that recent movie called "The Dish", about the radio dish in Australia. I watched it last weekend, it restored some of my faith in humanity:) Ordinary people contributing to the Apollo missions, with lots of video+audio clips, of course.
I remember when images.google.com was first announced, somebody noticed that if you searched for "CmdrTaco" you got a hilarious page with "Mr.T vs. Slashdot Geeks."
Isn't this the same Mike Harris who refused to investigate unfair competition with regard to Ontario's (unexplained) high gas prices a while back? I recall the reasoning was basically that "businesses can and should do what they want."
1) Don't just ask for Bin Laden, ask for Bin Laden and 500 of his followers. That's right, FIVE HUNDRED. I'm sure there are plenty in his group to take his place: We want all of them, to cripple the group completely.
2) I'm surprised Bush's reaction wasn't more emotional. Sure, he cried a bit. It would have been interesting (not to mention highly motivating) if he had just flipped out on seeing the remains of the WTC. "Bin Laden you PIECE OF SHIT, when we catch you I will PERSONALLY rip off your balls and stuff them and your beard down your slimy neck!!!!" Image the American People's reaction to THAT!
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The major television networks suspended competition, agreeing to share all footage gathered during the terrorist attacks and their aftermath, on suggestion of "60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt.
On the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, there is a HUGE billboard showing a Mac and the slogan: "RIP. MIX. BURN!" So why doesn't the RIAA tackle the computers themselves too?
I'm an independent musician on mp3.com, and I want people to download my music and spread it on Napster (well I did, until Napster started to suck. OK, WinMx then.) It's all about exposure. Nobody will hear my music on the radio, mp3.com and Napster et al are my best venues to advertise.
MP3.com made compressed copies of about 900,000 songs, which it placed on its computer servers -- without obtaining the rights to do so.
I wish they gave more details, this makes no sense. mp3.com makes you click-sign an agreement saying that this is all OK.
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My favorite Microsoft games are Minesweeper and Regedit.
So, you want the Slashdot community to do your homework for you?
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"I can't count the number of nights spent trying to get that sexy new E build to work, and what fun it was!"
And people wonder why Linux is (still) only for geeks!
This is such a ludicrous statement. I, like a lot of people, use my computer to do *stuff*, not just messing around trying to get it to work at all.
Development on window managers has slowed because: Despite all the gripes etc about Microsoft, their "window manager", while crude in some aspects, works. It just works when you install it. You don't have to mess around with editing config files and libs and all that. So why create new ones?
I recall installing drivers for my ati rage 128 a few months back:
Windows 98: 10 minutes
Xfree86: 4 full evenings
Linux will never be accepted by the mainstream until its developers realize that, to normal people, CONFIGURING YOUR WINDOW MANAGER is NOT FUN. It's infuriating. Most users just want to get on with whatever task they want to do.
Thank you.
It seems we have performed one of the first Indirect Slashdot Effects.
OSnews is fine, but the sites the article links to are Slashdotted...
Our operation runs completely on Windows 2000. However, I have set up one old PC with Linux (Redhat 7.1) so that everyone who wants to can give it a spin.
Presumably, QNX will run on these as well? I guess if you can install Linux, QNX will go on as well. Hopefully the QNX install process with be easier than the Linux one.
One of my co-op students last year went to work for Steve Mann. He said it was a very strange experience - Mann had him come in to work at 11 pm, say, and work until 7 the next morning. Then two days later he would change it to 9-5.
Mann sometimes puts on ALL his gear and wanders around downtown Toronto. I saw him once, and talked to him for a bit. Also a very strange experience - he was acting as though nothing was unusual about what he was doing.
Check out that recent movie called "The Dish", about the radio dish in Australia. I watched it last weekend, it restored some of my faith in humanity
I remember when images.google.com was first announced, somebody noticed that if you searched for "CmdrTaco" you got a hilarious page with "Mr.T vs. Slashdot Geeks."
Doesn't return that one anymore, though.
Isn't this the same Mike Harris who refused to investigate unfair competition with regard to Ontario's (unexplained) high gas prices a while back? I recall the reasoning was basically that "businesses can and should do what they want."
You mean, like this?
Blab blah blah random text to get past the lameness filter
1) Don't just ask for Bin Laden, ask for Bin Laden and 500 of his followers. That's right, FIVE HUNDRED. I'm sure there are plenty in his group to take his place: We want all of them, to cripple the group completely.
2) I'm surprised Bush's reaction wasn't more emotional. Sure, he cried a bit. It would have been interesting (not to mention highly motivating) if he had just flipped out on seeing the remains of the WTC. "Bin Laden you PIECE OF SHIT, when we catch you I will PERSONALLY rip off your balls and stuff them and your beard down your slimy neck!!!!" Image the American People's reaction to THAT!
The major television networks suspended competition, agreeing to share all footage gathered during the terrorist attacks and their aftermath, on suggestion of "60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt.
Well done.
Finally, a useful suggestion. Go for it everyone!
Let's go back to the barter system. I'll trade you for some blank CDR's and the latest Blink 182 mp3s.
Well, presumably, in the good old days anyway (think Mongols) the whole idea was to take over the other's land, and make it your own.
We can drive our robotic mining vehicles, located in Germany, from here in Canada.
On the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, there is a HUGE billboard showing a Mac and the slogan: "RIP. MIX. BURN!" So why doesn't the RIAA tackle the computers themselves too?
I'm an independent musician on mp3.com, and I want people to download my music and spread it on Napster (well I did, until Napster started to suck. OK, WinMx then.) It's all about exposure. Nobody will hear my music on the radio, mp3.com and Napster et al are my best venues to advertise.
MP3.com made compressed copies of about 900,000 songs, which it placed on its computer servers -- without obtaining the rights to do so.
I wish they gave more details, this makes no sense. mp3.com makes you click-sign an agreement saying that this is all OK.
Subject says it all. Bastard!
Will the same thing happen with Lord of the Rings??
Also check out Engineers Without Borders.
(A Canadian Slash site)
Don't they cancel each other out and leave you with a right-handed PDA again?
2001-07-06 18:02:46 Linux+PlayStation for developing Countries (articles,linux) (rejected)