out of curriousity, and cause im too lazy to look it up, what does RM stand for (other than "the malaysian currency" cause im not a dumbass) and about how many us dollars (plus any other currency you feel like adding)is it worth?
well, cant speak for your area, but i was visiting familly in new york city this christmas, and there was an add on just about every other phone booth, plus transit busses, etc.
perhaps this means that they were already running out of money by the time they started up in LA who knows. it did look like a good service, although i never did much research on it. oh well, maybe if the equipment doesnt get sold, we can set up a free ricochet network (only in my dreams)...
but if you download the iso to a boxed distro, its the same, unless you use one of those mollested versions like redhat or suse.
ok, mollested was a harsh word. i use suse sometimes, i even admit it has its advantages (or i wouldnt use it), but still, nothing beats slackware... (damn, is this going to get modded down)
does anybody know of an internal 802.11 card that is linux compatable that supports an external antena? basically, ive heard that you cant really use the things without an external antena on at least one end.
id like to setup my firewall/gateway w/ a card and a nice, big antena and get a pcmcia card for my ipaq, that would be the ultimate web pad.
while i do agree with you on the usability issue, dont you think that a more stable os would also be more userfriendly? i just recently (within the last 6 months) set up my grandparents on both sides of my family with computers (both laptops) and internet access. i also seem to be the computer tech of the house, so most of my family expects me to "fix the computer" if its broken.
the thing ive found from this experience, is that the main problem people have with using windows is when the computers freezes (or otherwise, generally fails). certainly, having a easy to use interface helps, but thats something that you can learn to deal with. every time you check your email, you go through the same steps, whether there are 50 steps, or 2 steps, they are always the same. however, when the computer starts flaking out, or crashes, its always different. you are hardly ever doing the same thing (with windows anyway) and the error message is never "user-friendly" (the first time i saw the "illegal operation" i thought the cops were on their way (i was kinda young)) and it is usually at least slightly different each time. most of the times somebody has problems with their computer seems to be when the computer is having problems.
so the point of all that rambling, is that, while it is vitally important that linux be more "user-friendly" if it ever needs mainstream acceptance, stability is a major factor in that "user-friendlyness."
ok, i see a little irony concerning my sig, and the nature of the article, but oh well...
not to belittle this persons post, but wouldnt mice/trackballs (especially trackballs) be more important to be made left handed, since they are used more? im not left handed, but my father is, and we were just looking for a trackball for him to use (no desk space for a mouse, less wrist strain)
its pretty easy to find mice that are symetrical, and you can always change what the buttons do in software, so that the left click can be click w/ your index finger, and the mouse can be on either side of the desk.
but most of the new "ergonomic" trackballs are designed for right handed people, and its impossible to find a left handed version from the major manufacturers (ms, logitech come to mind). the best we could find is an abidextrous trackball, but im sure its not as good as having one that is designed for use w/ the left hand.
does anybody know of any good left handed trackballs?
(Yeah, I'm sure there's a Linux port of aim, but since when are official linux ports anything near serious ventures?)
actually, (and suprisingly) the linux version of aim performs just about as well as the windows version. not that im trying to disprove you, but in this case, the official version isnt that bad.
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i got the blender book last christmas, and was pretty pleased with what it offered. since id been using blender (and other 3d programs) for a while, i already knew some of what the book was talking about, but, as with any piece of software that is that complex, there was a whole lot that i didnt know.
the only problem that i had with it was that it seemed to be a collection of tutorials, and a lot of them looked very similar to ones that i had already seen on the internet. that being said, it is convinient to have a hardcopy of the tutorials, so that you dont have to switch windows (or desktops). they also seemed to be well written, which cant always be said about tutorials (hey, they do it for free).
all in all, if you have the money, and are willing to spend it, it would be a good purchase. but the blender communitiy is very strong, and you can probably find enough to at least help you get started for free, online.
and i dont think that the people who run slashdot are "journalists". more like newgroup moderators. they dont write the stories, they dont find the news, and they make no pretense of being objective. the simply bring order to the mass chaos that is slashdot. nothing more, nothing less.
if you dont like slashdot, dont read it, but dont wast server space bitching about it. we dont really care
"Solaris 2.8 and Linux both ship with Browsers. So surely it has to be OK for Microsoft to also ship an operating system with a browser. "
umm... linux does not ship w/ anything but linux... linux is a kernel, nothing else. your distrobution may come w/ a browser (almost all do) but linux does not...
thats the point, with linux you dont have to have anything, you dont even have to have the unix commands (mostly), or even a shell. you can just have a kernel running on your computer, wasting cpu cycles. its all up to you.
with microsoft, you dont get to choose. certainly, you can use another browser, but you can free up the space that ie is wasting, even if you dont use it. you dont get to choose which gui you want, or if you want one (well, with windows xp, supposedly you cant use dos). you are completely locked into what they have chosen for you. thats what a lot of people dont like about windows, they have no controll over what is happening, what is wasting their cpu cycles (even if they never use it) and what is taking up 300 mb of their hardrive space (windows 98)
thats a total load of bullshit. THAT inconsistancy made you stop watching? there were plenty of other inconsitencies that were just as blaring, if not more so, and yet you either didnt mind, or didnt notice the others. i think that you need to take the whole thing a lot less seriously. there are so many problems in the original series, its not even funny, but i still like it. all the characters are great, there is a good amount orf humor (in the beggining) and its got enough cheesy crap to make me want to keep watching. have a heart, and wake up...
my asus a7v has software that monitors the cpu temp, and then clocks down if it goes above a certain level, of course, in this case, you can set the level, and i dont think it works the same way...
i believe it actually lowers the clock speed, but im not sure how much...
if there was more controll, this would be a good feature for overclockers, or people who have to operate their computers in a hot environment. i would rather have my computer run slower, than have to buy a new one because i burnt it out
i can see how what the article is saying at the end (the censorship will be at the user level, not the game level), but i dont really think this is gonna work...
the thing is, will parents be able to set *how* vilent a video games they let their kids play or will it just be all or none... also who will do the rating... and will this console really have enough effect on the market to influence whether or not games are changed to censored version before they come over here...
as to the people that want to talk about "youth violence" its down from previous years and its still going down... the only difference is it happens to be being commited in a more mediagenic way...
what seems more important than the os (which probably wont be that visible) is the cpu the pda is running...
palm devices run on such a crappy little cpu, they cant really have "multimedia" capabilities, which is fine if all you want is a calander program and a calculator (i might as well run my ti-83 with its z80)...
the ipaq runs on a 200 some odd mghz chip, which is what you need to do things like decode mp3's etc... unfortunately its $500 and you cant find it anywhere... oh well...
hope this thing is a little more reasonably priced and has some decent oomph behind it...
well, im not looking for a job, but i do know that when i do, local life will be a mojor factor. i guess living in a crappy little town with nothing but bars is my problem (just the oposite of what your guys problems seem to be...)
i really need to be able to get out and do things, maybe find a town with a local music scene, a museum or two, someplace i can hang out...
as far as im concerned, you have to be able to spend the money for it to be worth the work...
ive havent used graffiti enough to make a completely fair argument, but i prefer ce's multi-stroke (ie you can lift the pen up to write a letter) to graffiti's single stroke, it seemed more natural and was faster to learn...
but then my nino got stolen, so i dont have a pda anymore... but i really miss having one...
also, blender is NOT a raytracer... it uses opengl to do the final rendering, not just the realtime display stuff...
also, having a good 3d card doesnt mean much once you hit the render button on a raytracer... thats why blender renders so fast, cause the 3d card still matters...
i dont see what the big deal here is moraly, i mean, obviously he wants to know if its legal or not, but who cares if he uses the code and doesnt release ALL of his code... it is, after all, his code...
all the people that are getting on to this guy for wanting to keep his code to himself need to grow up... have any of you considered the fact that he may not be allowed to release the code if he is writing it for someone else (like his employer)...
he clearly isnt wanting to take credit (he posted on fucking slashdot!) but he also isnt interested in reinventing the wheel. and for those of you saying "if your customers pay, so should you, use a commercial lib" did you ever stop to think it may not be sold (ie free-as-in-beer, or in house software)...
as long as he gives credit where its due, i say more power to him (even if it were my code)...
And, as it turns out, one of my hobbies is audio/video production -- a big market for apple. Having a quiet computer really is an asset. But you probably didn't think about that.
okay, i know this is incredibly off topic, but if you are doing any a/v work that requires an environment that is so quiet a cpu fan disrupts your abillity to hear you should buy a pair of nice headphones...
that way you can block out other background noise, as well as other sounds the computer makes, like hard drive access (macs do have hard drives, right?) in fact, not having a fan is a really stupid idea when you could easilly put one in. even if the prcessor doesnt really need a fan, its always a good idea to have one, if you can, just in case...
i mean, what if someone turned off their ac in 100 degree weather so they could hear for their audio video production?
okay, i know this sounds silly, but could the windows branch of the company end up with.NET if someone could prove that.NET is a kind of distributed operating system...
think about it....NET is really just a common framework for applications to run on, without them having to be rewritten for every machine, which is exactly the point of an os... so all youre really doing is running an os on a lot of separate machines that are networked together, sorta like a cluster, except without the advantage of being able to distribute the processes amongst machines and have them run faster, but with the network overhead still in place, which sounds like a shitty idea to me, but hey, its M$
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although, i guess since you arent a "nerd" you wouldnt know about something as technologically innovative as a telephone...
that was pointless, oh well
perhaps this means that they were already running out of money by the time they started up in LA who knows. it did look like a good service, although i never did much research on it. oh well, maybe if the equipment doesnt get sold, we can set up a free ricochet network (only in my dreams)...
ok, mollested was a harsh word. i use suse sometimes, i even admit it has its advantages (or i wouldnt use it), but still, nothing beats slackware... (damn, is this going to get modded down)
id like to setup my firewall/gateway w/ a card and a nice, big antena and get a pcmcia card for my ipaq, that would be the ultimate web pad.
so, any ideas?
the thing ive found from this experience, is that the main problem people have with using windows is when the computers freezes (or otherwise, generally fails). certainly, having a easy to use interface helps, but thats something that you can learn to deal with. every time you check your email, you go through the same steps, whether there are 50 steps, or 2 steps, they are always the same. however, when the computer starts flaking out, or crashes, its always different. you are hardly ever doing the same thing (with windows anyway) and the error message is never "user-friendly" (the first time i saw the "illegal operation" i thought the cops were on their way (i was kinda young)) and it is usually at least slightly different each time. most of the times somebody has problems with their computer seems to be when the computer is having problems.
so the point of all that rambling, is that, while it is vitally important that linux be more "user-friendly" if it ever needs mainstream acceptance, stability is a major factor in that "user-friendlyness."
ok, i see a little irony concerning my sig, and the nature of the article, but oh well...
its pretty easy to find mice that are symetrical, and you can always change what the buttons do in software, so that the left click can be click w/ your index finger, and the mouse can be on either side of the desk.
but most of the new "ergonomic" trackballs are designed for right handed people, and its impossible to find a left handed version from the major manufacturers (ms, logitech come to mind). the best we could find is an abidextrous trackball, but im sure its not as good as having one that is designed for use w/ the left hand.
does anybody know of any good left handed trackballs?
actually, (and suprisingly) the linux version of aim performs just about as well as the windows version. not that im trying to disprove you, but in this case, the official version isnt that bad.
the only problem that i had with it was that it seemed to be a collection of tutorials, and a lot of them looked very similar to ones that i had already seen on the internet. that being said, it is convinient to have a hardcopy of the tutorials, so that you dont have to switch windows (or desktops). they also seemed to be well written, which cant always be said about tutorials (hey, they do it for free).
all in all, if you have the money, and are willing to spend it, it would be a good purchase. but the blender communitiy is very strong, and you can probably find enough to at least help you get started for free, online.
just my two cents
and i dont think that the people who run slashdot are "journalists". more like newgroup moderators. they dont write the stories, they dont find the news, and they make no pretense of being objective. the simply bring order to the mass chaos that is slashdot. nothing more, nothing less.
if you dont like slashdot, dont read it, but dont wast server space bitching about it. we dont really care
umm... linux does not ship w/ anything but linux... linux is a kernel, nothing else. your distrobution may come w/ a browser (almost all do) but linux does not...
thats the point, with linux you dont have to have anything, you dont even have to have the unix commands (mostly), or even a shell. you can just have a kernel running on your computer, wasting cpu cycles. its all up to you.
with microsoft, you dont get to choose. certainly, you can use another browser, but you can free up the space that ie is wasting, even if you dont use it. you dont get to choose which gui you want, or if you want one (well, with windows xp, supposedly you cant use dos). you are completely locked into what they have chosen for you. thats what a lot of people dont like about windows, they have no controll over what is happening, what is wasting their cpu cycles (even if they never use it) and what is taking up 300 mb of their hardrive space (windows 98)
if there isnt a computer/geek related movie out, he has to review something, give the guy a fucking break, moron
i believe it actually lowers the clock speed, but im not sure how much...
if there was more controll, this would be a good feature for overclockers, or people who have to operate their computers in a hot environment. i would rather have my computer run slower, than have to buy a new one because i burnt it out
what a bunch of fucking hypocrites(sp?)
the thing is, will parents be able to set *how* vilent a video games they let their kids play or will it just be all or none... also who will do the rating... and will this console really have enough effect on the market to influence whether or not games are changed to censored version before they come over here...
as to the people that want to talk about "youth violence" its down from previous years and its still going down... the only difference is it happens to be being commited in a more mediagenic way...
palm devices run on such a crappy little cpu, they cant really have "multimedia" capabilities, which is fine if all you want is a calander program and a calculator (i might as well run my ti-83 with its z80)...
the ipaq runs on a 200 some odd mghz chip, which is what you need to do things like decode mp3's etc... unfortunately its $500 and you cant find it anywhere... oh well...
hope this thing is a little more reasonably priced and has some decent oomph behind it...
i really need to be able to get out and do things, maybe find a town with a local music scene, a museum or two, someplace i can hang out...
as far as im concerned, you have to be able to spend the money for it to be worth the work...
but then my nino got stolen, so i dont have a pda anymore... but i really miss having one...
also, having a good 3d card doesnt mean much once you hit the render button on a raytracer... thats why blender renders so fast, cause the 3d card still matters...
doesnt look as good though
does the linux apm software support this, or is there another program that supports this, is there any program that supports this?
all the people that are getting on to this guy for wanting to keep his code to himself need to grow up... have any of you considered the fact that he may not be allowed to release the code if he is writing it for someone else (like his employer)...
he clearly isnt wanting to take credit (he posted on fucking slashdot!) but he also isnt interested in reinventing the wheel. and for those of you saying "if your customers pay, so should you, use a commercial lib" did you ever stop to think it may not be sold (ie free-as-in-beer, or in house software)...
as long as he gives credit where its due, i say more power to him (even if it were my code)...
okay, i know this is incredibly off topic, but if you are doing any a/v work that requires an environment that is so quiet a cpu fan disrupts your abillity to hear you should buy a pair of nice headphones...
that way you can block out other background noise, as well as other sounds the computer makes, like hard drive access (macs do have hard drives, right?) in fact, not having a fan is a really stupid idea when you could easilly put one in. even if the prcessor doesnt really need a fan, its always a good idea to have one, if you can, just in case...
i mean, what if someone turned off their ac in 100 degree weather so they could hear for their audio video production?
think about it... .NET is really just a common framework for applications to run on, without them having to be rewritten for every machine, which is exactly the point of an os... so all youre really doing is running an os on a lot of separate machines that are networked together, sorta like a cluster, except without the advantage of being able to distribute the processes amongst machines and have them run faster, but with the network overhead still in place, which sounds like a shitty idea to me, but hey, its M$