Gotta love how insulting generalizations are "Insightful" around here when you're referring to a MS product. Just because some MSN users are ignorant, does not mean all of them are.
That's like saying "All Linux users are elitist snobs", just because there's some jerks mixed in out there.
I don't know anyone who uses downloading/P2P for classical
I wouldn't let that kid you into believing nobody does it, though. With the ripping programs out there, it's incredibly easy to find a good streaming classical/jazz station, and leave the ripper on for a day or two, after which you have a massive collection of nicely labeled MP3 music at decent quality.
I agree that MP3's will never measure up to a real CD or live performance, though.
BTW - I can understand this approach better for a long-range craft, just not an orbital satellite.
Seems like testing it on something in orbit would be a good idea before sending it off on a long-range mission with much less tolerance for failure. Just my opinion, though.
Ever seen a movie on regular tv with no adverts? its heaven! and also no adverts during programs either. They wont split up a 1/2 hour program to show 5 mins of adverts in the middle! did you know an episode of the simpsons lasts only 20 minutes without adverts?
Yeah, it's called buying DVDs or a PVR. Americans can pay for the privilige too. Except we're not forced to pay regardless of whether we want it or not:)
so I have to run it on my G3 iBook 900. And Windows XP isn't so fast when you're emulating it on a CPU that could barely run it natively very well (if it were native to this architecture).
Funny, i'm running XP on a P3 667, and it works at a very passable speed. Have you actually used XP on native X86 hardware?
Latest rumor out of a major games house (Not sure which one as I got the "tip" at the Linuxshow) is that the game companies are working on using LiveCD technology for games.
Maybe it's just me, but just one "major games house" or even 2 or 3 or 4 or what have you isn't going to cut it.
Personally, i'd love to dump Windows completely, but until the day when I can just grab (almost) any game off the shelf and play it natively in Linux/OSX, the dual boot stays.
That is the goal. A visable presidential candidate gives legitimacy to those smaller candidates. I here about the presidential candidates all the time. Most people don't know who is running locally. When (if) they research the presidentail candidate they will discover the local candidate.
Maybe I just don't read the right newspapers/websites, but aside from knowing their names and seeing some posters up at my university, the most publicaly visible thing i've seen about these canidates is this arrest, sadly. I can't say it makes me want to support their cause(s) at all, really.
And what about people who didn't even know they existed before hearing of the arrest? What kind of first impression and support is that going to cultivate?
I guess some people think any publicity is good publicity.
It seems to me that they're setting their sights too high to start. They should be trying to get their party members elected as senators (for example), or other local/county/state offices.
Out of you, how many have lost their stylus at one time or another? All of you?
I know 5 people atm that regularly use a PDA (including myself). None of them has ever lost a stylus.
Anyway, if you can think of a reliable and easy way to get precise control out of a touchscreen without a stylus, i'm sure Nintendo would love to hear from ya.
You aren't thinking then. Imagine, you use openoffice today, but who's to say something better isn't coming out nextweek? Well, given OO's open format, you can switch fairly painlessly ( given the programmer knows his job ).
Very true, but the problem is getting people to start using OO in the first place, and more what I was commenting on:)
The format being as open as it is ( you can read, in the code, the format if all else fails ), you can do a great many things that just aren't possible with ms office.
I think the question to ask would be, is the normal home or business user going to need or want to do those "great many things"?
There's a lot of stuff that may be pretty damn cool if you're a geek or hacker type, but I think you're going to have to find more relevant selling points if you want wider exposure than those limited circles.
And guess who lost money in Kodak stock when the bubble collapsed?
I'd venture to say that the whole city of Rochester is losing these days, as Kodak's downturn will or already has had a major effect on the fortunes of the city.
I, for one, will be getting the hell out of here after graduating RIT in 6 months - the job market is horrible if you don't have a moderate to large amount of work experience already, and even then it probably doesn't match up to a lot of other places.
While you wait to see how major publishers will jerk you around next, games for linux keep getting better and better!
Gimme a call when happypenguin isn't full of clones and remakes. Or at least one example of blatant copyright infringement. Not saying there aren't any good Linux games, but if what you link to is any indication, there's a long way to go compared to the major publishers.
No, I haven't read the rules. However, this is the common understanding of the rules that has been given to the public via the media. Thus it is a good question to have answered here, is it not?
I hate to sound like a jerk, but it's like the people on game discussion boards that ask questions you could read out of the instruction manuals - you're just wasting time and space.
Unless you think they've already got one in the wings, otherwise you have to wait 6 months or a year or however long for a killer app to be released. With the DS, there's innovation to play with immediately.
Maybe it's just me, but hoping that a great exclusive might come out in the future is not enough to warrant a purchase.
Trolls save mod points for such occasions these days, it seems. Last few times I posted warning about a link, it was immediately bombed to -1, for example.
MS Outlook et al tend to use the attachment filename to determine which external application to launch. If he's sending files out with a non-standard extension, this might be confusing the e-mail program.
Well, I can open them outside Outlook just fine as well. You're right, though, that sounds like the most likely cause.
Wouldn't be too hard to fix, just have the user associate that extension with Notepad/Word as well, when it asks them what program to use to open the file.
If I have the ability to create a document in OpenOffice.org and I send it to you, and you open it in Microsoft Word, add something, and then send it on to your buddy who is using StarOffice and nobody notices the difference, then that is powerful.
Yes, that would be awesome. As a ton of people have said already, though, there needs to be a much more compelling reason for the common home user to switch to Open/StarOffice than a new file format standard.
That's the point of open source and open standards: choice.
I don't mean to attack you personally, but after using a lot of OSS programs, especially games and apps that are supposed to replace a Windows program, I have to say that sometimes it looks like choice is all that matters to some developers.
I guess you have to start somewhere, but there's a lot of apps (OO.org NOT included) out there right now that are being touted as replacements or clones, when they're really utterly lacking in quality compared to the real thing.
I send out flat text files to co-workers, and they complain that they cannot open them because they don't have the appropriate reader on their (Microsoft) E-mail system. Yes, I know that notepad and Word and probably other applications can "open" a text file, but none of the defaults are set to do this automagically.
I don't know what your co-workers are using, but my copy of Win XP (and 2000, and 98, and 95 before that) and the various versions of Outlook i've used all opened text files just fine in Notepad without any fuss - always have, never had to change anything.
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Okay, didn't read quite close enough, but still - these kind of comments are asinine. Hardly insightful.
Gotta love how insulting generalizations are "Insightful" around here when you're referring to a MS product. Just because some MSN users are ignorant, does not mean all of them are.
That's like saying "All Linux users are elitist snobs", just because there's some jerks mixed in out there.
The pain of early adoption at its purest.
Indeed. My other thought upon reading that was "God, I wish I could afford to blow that much on leisure electronics".
All that stuff together costs more than the total worth of my car and all the computer/video game/TV/DVD stuff I own atm.
I don't know anyone who uses downloading/P2P for classical
I wouldn't let that kid you into believing nobody does it, though. With the ripping programs out there, it's incredibly easy to find a good streaming classical/jazz station, and leave the ripper on for a day or two, after which you have a massive collection of nicely labeled MP3 music at decent quality.
I agree that MP3's will never measure up to a real CD or live performance, though.
BTW - I can understand this approach better for a long-range craft, just not an orbital satellite.
Seems like testing it on something in orbit would be a good idea before sending it off on a long-range mission with much less tolerance for failure. Just my opinion, though.
Ever seen a movie on regular tv with no adverts? its heaven! and also no adverts during programs either. They wont split up a 1/2 hour program to show 5 mins of adverts in the middle! did you know an episode of the simpsons lasts only 20 minutes without adverts?
:)
Yeah, it's called buying DVDs or a PVR. Americans can pay for the privilige too. Except we're not forced to pay regardless of whether we want it or not
so I have to run it on my G3 iBook 900. And Windows XP isn't so fast when you're emulating it on a CPU that could barely run it natively very well (if it were native to this architecture).
Funny, i'm running XP on a P3 667, and it works at a very passable speed. Have you actually used XP on native X86 hardware?
Latest rumor out of a major games house (Not sure which one as I got the "tip" at the Linuxshow) is that the game companies are working on using LiveCD technology for games.
Maybe it's just me, but just one "major games house" or even 2 or 3 or 4 or what have you isn't going to cut it.
Personally, i'd love to dump Windows completely, but until the day when I can just grab (almost) any game off the shelf and play it natively in Linux/OSX, the dual boot stays.
That is the goal. A visable presidential candidate gives legitimacy to those smaller candidates. I here about the presidential candidates all the time. Most people don't know who is running locally. When (if) they research the presidentail candidate they will discover the local candidate.
Maybe I just don't read the right newspapers/websites, but aside from knowing their names and seeing some posters up at my university, the most publicaly visible thing i've seen about these canidates is this arrest, sadly. I can't say it makes me want to support their cause(s) at all, really.
And what about people who didn't even know they existed before hearing of the arrest? What kind of first impression and support is that going to cultivate?
I guess some people think any publicity is good publicity.
It seems to me that they're setting their sights too high to start. They should be trying to get their party members elected as senators (for example), or other local/county/state offices.
Out of you, how many have lost their stylus at one time or another? All of you?
I know 5 people atm that regularly use a PDA (including myself). None of them has ever lost a stylus.
Anyway, if you can think of a reliable and easy way to get precise control out of a touchscreen without a stylus, i'm sure Nintendo would love to hear from ya.
You aren't thinking then. Imagine, you use openoffice today, but who's to say something better isn't coming out nextweek? Well, given OO's open format, you can switch fairly painlessly ( given the programmer knows his job ).
:)
Very true, but the problem is getting people to start using OO in the first place, and more what I was commenting on
The format being as open as it is ( you can read, in the code, the format if all else fails ), you can do a great many things that just aren't possible with ms office.
I think the question to ask would be, is the normal home or business user going to need or want to do those "great many things"?
There's a lot of stuff that may be pretty damn cool if you're a geek or hacker type, but I think you're going to have to find more relevant selling points if you want wider exposure than those limited circles.
And guess who lost money in Kodak stock when the bubble collapsed?
I'd venture to say that the whole city of Rochester is losing these days, as Kodak's downturn will or already has had a major effect on the fortunes of the city.
I, for one, will be getting the hell out of here after graduating RIT in 6 months - the job market is horrible if you don't have a moderate to large amount of work experience already, and even then it probably doesn't match up to a lot of other places.
Read the X-Prize rules before making comments like that, weight equaling 3 adults is accepted in lieu of actual people :)
Hence why the first flight was the pliot plus ~180kg of ballast.
While you wait to see how major publishers will jerk you around next, games for linux keep getting better and better!
Gimme a call when happypenguin isn't full of clones and remakes. Or at least one example of blatant copyright infringement. Not saying there aren't any good Linux games, but if what you link to is any indication, there's a long way to go compared to the major publishers.
No, I haven't read the rules. However, this is the common understanding of the rules that has been given to the public via the media. Thus it is a good question to have answered here, is it not?
You could just read the rules, maybe?
I hate to sound like a jerk, but it's like the people on game discussion boards that ask questions you could read out of the instruction manuals - you're just wasting time and space.
Useless? It's working perfectly, as far as I can see.
If you're running Linux or otherwise don't have WMP/Real installed and can't watch the stream, that's your problem.
Ignore it or find a solution, but don't whine.
And there was also this, which might also be what he was referring to.
An exceptional game you can't get on PS2?
Unless you think they've already got one in the wings, otherwise you have to wait 6 months or a year or however long for a killer app to be released. With the DS, there's innovation to play with immediately.
Maybe it's just me, but hoping that a great exclusive might come out in the future is not enough to warrant a purchase.
Why was this modded up?
Trolls save mod points for such occasions these days, it seems. Last few times I posted warning about a link, it was immediately bombed to -1, for example.
Do not click link in parent post, link to goatse.cx, you know the drill.
MS Outlook et al tend to use the attachment filename to determine which external application to launch. If he's sending files out with a non-standard extension, this might be confusing the e-mail program.
Well, I can open them outside Outlook just fine as well. You're right, though, that sounds like the most likely cause.
Wouldn't be too hard to fix, just have the user associate that extension with Notepad/Word as well, when it asks them what program to use to open the file.
If I have the ability to create a document in OpenOffice.org and I send it to you, and you open it in Microsoft Word, add something, and then send it on to your buddy who is using StarOffice and nobody notices the difference, then that is powerful.
Yes, that would be awesome. As a ton of people have said already, though, there needs to be a much more compelling reason for the common home user to switch to Open/StarOffice than a new file format standard.
That's the point of open source and open standards: choice.
I don't mean to attack you personally, but after using a lot of OSS programs, especially games and apps that are supposed to replace a Windows program, I have to say that sometimes it looks like choice is all that matters to some developers.
I guess you have to start somewhere, but there's a lot of apps (OO.org NOT included) out there right now that are being touted as replacements or clones, when they're really utterly lacking in quality compared to the real thing.
I send out flat text files to co-workers, and they complain that they cannot open them because they don't have the appropriate reader on their (Microsoft) E-mail system. Yes, I know that notepad and Word and probably other applications can "open" a text file, but none of the defaults are set to do this automagically.
I don't know what your co-workers are using, but my copy of Win XP (and 2000, and 98, and 95 before that) and the various versions of Outlook i've used all opened text files just fine in Notepad without any fuss - always have, never had to change anything.