RH are only *distributing* some GPL software. They package it up nicely and throw in a program which puts it all in the right places for you, but they're not selling you their software.
We've got an ancient sparc sitting near me with an optical mouse. suns have had 'em for yonks.
However, they're clunky and awkward, especially if you're used to mice with balls (thees ees a real mouse, sen~or, con cojones!) or trackballs.
MS's hardware division seems to exist on a higher plane than their software division as most of their products are pretty damn good. Of course they screwed up on the new natural keyboards.
dave "might as well face it, you're addicted to mwheelup"
This is funny. I think this should be incorporated into the posting guidelines as an Emily Postnews style article.
cid is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/01/10/08372 00&cid=9.
However, the metawronka guy is just a sad and pathethic individual with no originality. Kid, a tip: layoff the automatic complaint generator. It was only funny the first time and that was a long time ago.
It CHanges the MODulation used to encode the secret orders sent down from the Orbital Mind Control Satellites. e.g. chmod president@whitehouse.gov --paranoia=2 --horniness=9 Like, duh! Everyone knows that one, right?
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> Then, the cost of Spam is taken directly out of your pocket.
This is what happens in those places with metered internet access all the time. This is why many Europeans froth at the mouth with the 'just press delete' mentaliay.
Runners (especially distance runners), cyclist, martial artists and lone sportsmen generally probably aren't 'jocks'. I fall (or used to anyways) into the 'lone sportsman' category and still got labelled as a geek/nerd by the football mob.
"Thou shalt not subject thy God to Market Forces" -- The Book of Om, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods. "This is Religion, not Comparison Shopping!" -- The Book of Om, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
The bot coding in Q3Demo(test) is pretty good. The bots are aware of where things are, they jump and strafe, and they keep moving. Impressive stuff. Q3A is a very fast game, much much more frenetic than Q2, IMHO.
"Simplified" character support is not a watered down version of Chinese.
Mao Zedong made attempts to simplify some of the characters during the cultural revolution, so that there are slight difference between written Chinese on the mainland and Hong Kong or Taiwan, who both use the traditional character set.
If you look at some 16bit character sets you'll see ones for big5 (traditional) and simplified Chinese.
They may understand the medium, but they are coding for most of their target market. This is the nub of the argument.
IE5 is currently the best browser available. People will code for IE5 specific features. Other browsers on other platforms will not support these. Therefore other platforms will not be able to compete with win* when it comes to viewing the web.
ipso facto, quid pro quo, non illegitimi carborundum, win* becomes the only viable 'OS' with which to view the web.
Those who use lynx, maya, opera, mozilla are viewed in the same way as stone axe users at the start of the iron age.
>software that is non-traditional and non-commercial
Given that the Queen has been using email for about 30 years, she's probably used to unix-like systems. certainly more traditional than windows.
>it wouldn't be unsurprising of Her Majesty, or >the Rt Hon Tony to march down to the server >room, give the senior manager a clip round the >lughole, and tell them to shift from Microsoft >by yesterday or be fed to the royal corgis.
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RH are only *distributing* some GPL software. They package it up nicely and throw in a program which puts it all in the right places for you, but they're not selling you their software.
FearSoft
UncertaintySoft
DoubtSoft.
HTH. HAND.
dave
We've got an ancient sparc sitting near me with an optical mouse. suns have had 'em for yonks.
However, they're clunky and awkward, especially if you're used to mice with balls (thees ees a real mouse, sen~or, con cojones!) or trackballs.
MS's hardware division seems to exist on a higher plane than their software division as most of their products are pretty damn good. Of course they screwed up on the new natural keyboards.
dave "might as well face it, you're addicted to mwheelup"
This is funny. I think this should be incorporated into the posting guidelines as an Emily Postnews style article.
2 00&cid=9.
cid is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/01/10/0837
However, the metawronka guy is just a sad and pathethic individual with no originality. Kid, a tip: layoff the automatic complaint generator. It was only funny the first time and that was a long time ago.
dave
hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to pain and pain leads to excessive quoting of popular science fiction characters.
dave
It CHanges the MODulation used to encode the secret orders sent down from the Orbital Mind Control Satellites.
e.g. chmod president@whitehouse.gov --paranoia=2 --horniness=9
Like, duh! Everyone knows that one, right?
dave
>I am amazed that many people think that Microsoft will make Windows 2000.
Err, it's being released in February or so.
do keep up.
dave
The major difference between 95 and 98 are FAT32 and some changes to the interface.
The internal version strings are still 4.0.foo.
And as for more stable, I don't find that at all. If anything, it's worse, although it does recover better.
dave
The nuclear hand grenade?
1. Pull Pin
2. Throw twenty-five miles
3. Duck and Cover.
Well, I'm just wishing people a Happy Rollover.
Anyway, Millennium is that show with Lance Hendrickson.
For many people in China, a desktop would be useful mainly to shelter under when it's raining or too sunny.
As for a computer, the big barrier is literacy in English.
Handwritten input of chinese characters is big business here and that input method is something Linux needs to work on.
dave
Ummm, I think your hat needs more tin-foil.
dave
> Then, the cost of Spam is taken directly out of your pocket.
This is what happens in those places with metered internet access all the time. This is why many Europeans froth at the mouth with the 'just press delete' mentaliay.
dave "rant"
Runners (especially distance runners), cyclist, martial artists and lone sportsmen generally probably aren't 'jocks'. I fall (or used to anyways) into the 'lone sportsman' category and still got labelled as a geek/nerd by the football mob.
dave
"Thou shalt not subject thy God to Market Forces" -- The Book of Om, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods.
"This is Religion, not Comparison Shopping!" -- The Book of Om, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
dave
The bot coding in Q3Demo(test) is pretty good. The bots are aware of where things are, they jump and strafe, and they keep moving. Impressive stuff.
Q3A is a very fast game, much much more frenetic than Q2, IMHO.
dave
You gonna smoke that whole thing by yourself or are ya gonna pass it 'round?
dave ";)"
Nah, yer all wrong, it's pronounced "Throat Wobbler Mangrove"
dave
"Simplified" character support is not a watered down version of Chinese.
Mao Zedong made attempts to simplify some of the characters during the cultural revolution, so that there are slight difference between written Chinese on the mainland and Hong Kong or Taiwan, who both use the traditional character set.
If you look at some 16bit character sets you'll see ones for big5 (traditional) and simplified Chinese.
dai wai "chi shao bin dowah!"
> shooting demonstrating students.
Don't they do that in the USA as well?
dave (in china, sort of)
Not in Outlook 97 though.
dave
Man, you must have the stupidest lusers on the planet as she clearly ran fdisk when you asked her to run ie5setup.exe.
dave
They may understand the medium, but they are coding for most of their target market. This is the nub of the argument.
IE5 is currently the best browser available. People will code for IE5 specific features. Other browsers on other platforms will not support these. Therefore other platforms will not be able to compete with win* when it comes to viewing the web.
ipso facto, quid pro quo, non illegitimi carborundum, win* becomes the only viable 'OS' with which to view the web.
Those who use lynx, maya, opera, mozilla are viewed in the same way as stone axe users at the start of the iron age.
dave "ugh"
The point is not whether or not it'll *work* well, it's whether you can *buy* a laptop without paying for windows.
my laptop has run win95, win98, w2k, QNX, linux, BeOS and solaris, but I still had to pay for win95 when I bought it.
dave
>software that is non-traditional and non-commercial
Given that the Queen has been using email for about 30 years, she's probably used to unix-like systems. certainly more traditional than windows.
>it wouldn't be unsurprising of Her Majesty, or
>the Rt Hon Tony to march down to the server
>room, give the senior manager a clip round the
>lughole, and tell them to shift from Microsoft
>by yesterday or be fed to the royal corgis.
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in the Royal Deathmatch. You get the blunt spoon, she gets the Purdy.
suck my corgi,
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