Discounting ALL online reviews is a mistake
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I'm not an online journalist by any means, but I am aware that people who make broad generalizations like that don't help anything. By helping to tear down the reputation of anyone who tries to put up good, honest, unbiased reviews (like ArsTechnica), you take away some of their credibility and their motivation.
The analogy anyone (meaning non-wired people) can understand, is: would you trust one of those news magazines at the checkout counters that have stories about the return of Elvis on the cover? Of course not. Well, how about if your local Sun or Tribune started selling out? You'd find another one. So yeah, there are bad news sources online, but don't hurt the good ones by making blanket statements like that.
We need less careful people pouring over what money goes where and what ads they can get and what focus groups want... We need the passion from the first series!
If you want MS users to feel at home in Linux and you hope StarOffice will help in that aim, you should help Sun rewrite the interface to be less onerous, clumsy and confusing (or realize you're out of your depth && shut the fuck up, heh)
So only coders good enough to write entire interfaces should be able to have input on user interfaces? Um, so that's why the Linux desktops are so user friendly and why Windows users are converting eh?
but it is not enough for Linux to ape whatever MS and MacOS does.
This wording unfortunately shows the popular way of thinking. Did MS write your sound programs, or are they just there because of market share?
Please don't misinterpret this to read that I think MS RULEZ! or that LINUX SUX!
We won't, if you promise to remember not to be loyal (by saying things like "Microsoft has better sound programs") to a company who gains loyalty by market share.
Okay so I have a Voodoo 2, and every time I start Quake 1, 2, or 3, or UT, something breaks and I have to reboot because I can't see anything even if I try switching consoles. If I try this snapshot will it use my Voodoo 2 in a different way so it might work?
It's out of print now, but borrowing this series from the library was one of my fondest memories as a child. These are the books that taught me to love reading. They're definitely lighter reading than most of the suggestions here, but depending on whether or not your daughter can get in to something like Foundation, maybe she could try this too. I'm pretty sure they're written for teens. They're like Piers Anthony but sci-fi instead of fantasy.. except I hate Piers Anthony:P
If I'm not mistaken, they were broadcasting raw Canadian TV too. I would kill to watch Canadian TV. While the US doesn't care if Canadians see our stations, for whatever reason no companies are allowed to broadcast Canadian TV down here. Show me CBC and real (not re-packaged-for-US-consumption) MuchMusic and a few other popular stations and I'll be happy:-)
Here at my university, the computer graphics TA always says stuff like "well if you're working with _Mesa_, I'm sorry but you're going to get visual artifacts, and see how this shading happens here, that's because you're using _Mesa_. When you compile on the NT's it'll look all pretty". And I thought Mesa was still lots slower because the algorithms aren't as tight. Will it be easy to incorporate what's needed into Mesa and turn it into the same quality OpenGL implementation as is on any NT box?
On CNBC, they showed MS with two "strong buy"s and four "buy" recommendations right around when trading started. Who knows why, but that might've either helped or have been a good indicator of what was going on. Well, okay, I know why.. because they knew it wouldn't fall too hard and they don't think anything will happen to MS, just like the Clinton impeachment analogy.
And it was also said this morning that any money that companies will get from MS will take 5-6 years to get. While the govt. and competition wait around trying to do something, Microsoft is still moving and profiting.
On CNBC, they showed MS with two "strong buy"s and four "buy" recommendations right around when trading started. Who knows why, but that might've either helped or have been a good indicator of what was going on.
And it was also said this morning that any money that companies will get from MS will take 5-6 years to get. While the govt. and competition wait around trying to do something, Microsoft is still moving and profiting.
I was wondering this when linux q3test came out.. it would sometimes die and hold on to my sound modules. I was wondering if there was a way to get them back by force, like maybe a "soundoff --force" (doesn't actually exist) or "rmmod --force sound" (doesn't exist either afaik).
So if something won't let go of your sound card there really is no recourse?
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The analogy anyone (meaning non-wired people) can understand, is: would you trust one of those news magazines at the checkout counters that have stories about the return of Elvis on the cover? Of course not. Well, how about if your local Sun or Tribune started selling out? You'd find another one. So yeah, there are bad news sources online, but don't hurt the good ones by making blanket statements like that.
If it will, people looking at a GeForce who can wait might want to see how far off the Radeon's shipping date is.
That's what I'm interested in anyway.
We need less careful people pouring over what money goes where and what ads they can get and what focus groups want... We need the passion from the first series!
then the holy music :)
Oh, yes, of course.. three!
*holy music*
:)
I have you both beat.
I can't remember where, if someone does please post, but aren't there libraries that render anti-aliased fonts at a decent speed?
If so, are they fast enough and robust enough to be used as a standard? Or can they be incorporated into GTK+ and Qt?
Okay so I have a Voodoo 2, and every time I start Quake 1, 2, or 3, or UT, something breaks and I have to reboot because I can't see anything even if I try switching consoles. If I try this snapshot will it use my Voodoo 2 in a different way so it might work?
Why is there still no slashdot forum to talk about stuff like this? :/
- Feature-complete drivers released by the companies themselves, because their business depends on us
- Applications released simultaneously on both platforms at the same level of quality (except ours would crash less)
- More development in general at all levels of Linux
I can't wait!sup!? thanks for updating your suckage :)
It's out of print now, but borrowing this series from the library was one of my fondest memories as a child. These are the books that taught me to love reading. They're definitely lighter reading than most of the suggestions here, but depending on whether or not your daughter can get in to something like Foundation, maybe she could try this too. I'm pretty sure they're written for teens. They're like Piers Anthony but sci-fi instead of fantasy.. except I hate Piers Anthony :P
If I'm not mistaken, they were broadcasting raw Canadian TV too. I would kill to watch Canadian TV. While the US doesn't care if Canadians see our stations, for whatever reason no companies are allowed to broadcast Canadian TV down here. Show me CBC and real (not re-packaged-for-US-consumption) MuchMusic and a few other popular stations and I'll be happy :-)
That's what sleep is for, of course.. overnight downloads :-)
Here at my university, the computer graphics TA always says stuff like "well if you're working with _Mesa_, I'm sorry but you're going to get visual artifacts, and see how this shading happens here, that's because you're using _Mesa_. When you compile on the NT's it'll look all pretty". And I thought Mesa was still lots slower because the algorithms aren't as tight. Will it be easy to incorporate what's needed into Mesa and turn it into the same quality OpenGL implementation as is on any NT box?
I was pretty impressed when I saw it...
http://www.linuxcare.com/support/
Make a thermometer based on the day the milk in your fridge expires, and once in a while it'll be right.
Listen to a software company who cares about money and not what's The Right Thing To Do, and once in a while it'll be right.
On CNBC, they showed MS with two "strong buy"s and four "buy" recommendations right around when trading started. Who knows why, but that might've either helped or have been a good indicator of what was going on. Well, okay, I know why.. because they knew it wouldn't fall too hard and they don't think anything will happen to MS, just like the Clinton impeachment analogy.
And it was also said this morning that any money that companies will get from MS will take 5-6 years to get. While the govt. and competition wait around trying to do something, Microsoft is still moving and profiting.
On CNBC, they showed MS with two "strong buy"s and four "buy" recommendations right around when trading started. Who knows why, but that might've either helped or have been a good indicator of what was going on.
And it was also said this morning that any money that companies will get from MS will take 5-6 years to get. While the govt. and competition wait around trying to do something, Microsoft is still moving and profiting.
When will the sentencing be done if MS is guilty?
I just can't live without swallowed apps in my Gnome and Window Maker docks. Will KDE ever get these?
I was wondering this when linux q3test came out.. it would sometimes die and hold on to my sound modules. I was wondering if there was a way to get them back by force, like maybe a "soundoff --force" (doesn't actually exist) or "rmmod --force sound" (doesn't exist either afaik).
So if something won't let go of your sound card there really is no recourse?