I wonder how many of the improvements can be attributed to the Crossover code. IIRC, the Crossover people release all their changes back to the WINE tree after a time. IMHO, this is a good example of a company staying alive while helping out the community.
Anyway, running Office smoothly is a great thing. This and Photoshop are two very important steps to getting Linux on more desktops (last time I tried Photoshop, it crashed after a while and Office complained about some access violation).
Yeah, but cloning people in a white lab under sterile conditions is MUCH more exciting than doing it the old-fashioned way! I mean you get cool instruments and get to work with all these geeks! It's Slashdot, after all:)
1. Honesty. This is a challenge: the most important thing is to be honest with yourself which is _really_ difficult. I'm lucky enough to have been with women who've told me honestly what I needed to improve on. I'm still working on it;)
Dude, I can help you, today I received this GREAT email that has PROVEN techniques for enlarging your penis! Seriously, just give me your email and I'll forward it to you!
Let me see: Are you viewing a site with huge images? Tons of animations? Flash, Java programs? Are you running 10 tabs with such programs? Remember, a browser has to render all those data onto memory before displaying.
"Best viewed with..." ads are evil, even if the browser you're supporting is great. People should be coding according to the standard because the web exists to present information, not tell you what you should be running. I prefer the any browser and W3 logos.
What you might want to do instead, is to have a 'tested with' list somewhere on your page, which lists the browsers you tested your page with. It shows that you take your work seriously, and mentions a lot of browsers people might want to try.
When my GF was designing a webpage for a university department, I installed Mozilla on her computer to test how well her page worked on other browsers (she's not a programmer and uses Dreamweaver). Several months later, I noticed that she was using Mozilla instead of IE and Outlook Express, because of the benefits it provides. The best way to evangelise is to introduce it to them and just let them try it out for a while.
...when Mozilla was the poster child for how NOT to run a project: hopelessly behind schedule, slow, bloated, leaking memory left and right. And there were people who kept saying that the Mozilla guys would get it working and that it would be a kickass browser.
Guess what? They were right after all. Congratulations to the Mozilla team and thanks for the excellent browser(s)!
Look for a used one. You can usually get them for almost nothing and they're quite basic. Something like Siemens C25 or Nokia 3210. If you're looking for a new one, each manufacturer has a low-price model. Examples are Siemens A-class, Nokia 3xxx. Not too familiar with other brands' cheap models, sorry.
These are European, so they might not be available in the Americas.
If you don't need these features, then this phone is not meant for you. There are people who do. You, on the other hand, are in luck, because you can get one of the turbo-cheap models that does nothing but voice and SMS.
Mobile phones are great. Sure, you don't need all the fancy 3d-games and some ridiculous functionality, but they're very useful for a number of things:
- phone/address books - alarm clock (for when you're travelling) - calender - reading email on the go
All this in a very small device which still fulfills its primary purpose: making phone calls. In many European countries, you can also use phones to:
- pay for parking (convenient!) - get the timetable for the next bus connection - get the cinema programme per SMS...
Of course, if you start using the web, there's plenty more that you can do. For most of these things, a PDA would have to use your mobile anyway, so there's no need for buying an extra device. Mobiles are cool, get over it.
Actually, hip-hop is by far the most popular music style in Germany now. It's a part of a larger fascination with 'black' music, where 'black' music covers stuff like rap, soul, RnB, reggae etc.
There are many German rappers singing in German, too, but it's too slow, watered down and bland for my taste.
I completely agree that blaming the Linux community for this virus is ridiculous. I'm just pointing the similarity to other stories which get biased reporting from the media.
Step 1: Define a group of people (Muslims, Linux/Free Software crowd, anti-globalisation protesters, anarchists, punks...) as a crazy, extremist bunch set out to destroy the world goodness and bring about eternal evil.
Step 2: Wait for the first idiot from one of these groups to do something stupid (as it is bound to happen)
Step 3: Point and shout: See, we were right all along, they ARE all crazy extremists. Everybody believes you.
See, the Free Software community have been labelled anti-business communist hacking lunatics for so long that now nobody who reads the mainstream media will have any doubt that it WAS in fact the Linux community that stands behind the MyDoom virus.
Dude, go back and count the number of terrorist acts done by the IRA in Great Britain in the last 50 years before you start talking statistics. Hint, nobody from the IRA is Muslim.
When I was in Britain, no train station in London had bins for garbage. People were expected to throw rubbish on the floor. Why? Because of the many times the IRA placed bombs in such bins.
They blew up the building in Oklahoma city. And then it was blamed on the Muslims too. But nobody made a point of their religion. They weren't Muslim, so the religion wasn't important. What about the gas attack in Japan? What about IRA? ETA? There are many many terrorist organisations which aren't Muslim, but you don't hear about 'Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland' or 'Extreme Christians in Basque country'. Yes, there is a slant in the media reporting.
It's the slant that big media houses put on the stories. That's why you always hear about Muslim terrorists and Islamic extremists, and not about Christian, scientologist, Jewish, or any other type (although they certainly exist).
That's why you hear about Linux communists, Linux hackers (crackers) and Linux virus writers. If they use Microsoft, then it's something else that made them do it. If they use Linux -- why, of course, Linux made them do it.
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I wonder how many of the improvements can be attributed to the Crossover code. IIRC, the Crossover people release all their changes back to the WINE tree after a time. IMHO, this is a good example of a company staying alive while helping out the community.
Anyway, running Office smoothly is a great thing. This and Photoshop are two very important steps to getting Linux on more desktops (last time I tried Photoshop, it crashed after a while and Office complained about some access violation).
Can't you get stem cells from liposuction...
Yeah, but the result would look a bit like this..
No, sorry, but the technology is simply not advanced enough yet. In the meantime, you can try alternatives. Spread the love, my friend.
Yeah, but cloning people in a white lab under sterile conditions is MUCH more exciting than doing it the old-fashioned way! I mean you get cool instruments and get to work with all these geeks! It's Slashdot, after all :)
put apache on it, post a link to slashdot and see how long it lasts. That will surely impress... Errr. Maybe not.
1. Honesty. This is a challenge: the most important thing is to be honest with yourself which is _really_ difficult. I'm lucky enough to have been with women who've told me honestly what I needed to improve on. I'm still working on it ;)
Dude, I can help you, today I received this GREAT email that has PROVEN techniques for enlarging your penis! Seriously, just give me your email and I'll forward it to you!
Yes, but thinking is not one of the things that women do more poorly. That's the argument.
I know. If IE supported CSS 2.0 properly (like other browsers do), we would be seeing much less of the horrible table-based layout mess on the web.
Firefox is the Artist Formerly Known as Firebird aka Phoenix. The name change is to avoid confusion with the Open Source Firebird database.
Let me see: Are you viewing a site with huge images? Tons of animations? Flash, Java programs? Are you running 10 tabs with such programs? Remember, a browser has to render all those data onto memory before displaying.
"Best viewed with..." ads are evil, even if the browser you're supporting is great. People should be coding according to the standard because the web exists to present information, not tell you what you should be running. I prefer the any browser and W3 logos.
What you might want to do instead, is to have a 'tested with' list somewhere on your page, which lists the browsers you tested your page with. It shows that you take your work seriously, and mentions a lot of browsers people might want to try.
When my GF was designing a webpage for a university department, I installed Mozilla on her computer to test how well her page worked on other browsers (she's not a programmer and uses Dreamweaver). Several months later, I noticed that she was using Mozilla instead of IE and Outlook Express, because of the benefits it provides. The best way to evangelise is to introduce it to them and just let them try it out for a while.
...when Mozilla was the poster child for how NOT to run a project: hopelessly behind schedule, slow, bloated, leaking memory left and right. And there were people who kept saying that the Mozilla guys would get it working and that it would be a kickass browser.
Guess what? They were right after all. Congratulations to the Mozilla team and thanks for the excellent browser(s)!
Trolltech isn't a Canopy company. Thanks for the troll!
There is a life-size Lunokhod model in the technical museum in Zagreb, Croatia. All kids see it during their school visit.
Dude, that's the funniest sig I've seen on Slashdot :)
Look for a used one. You can usually get them for almost nothing and they're quite basic. Something like Siemens C25 or Nokia 3210. If you're looking for a new one, each manufacturer has a low-price model. Examples are Siemens A-class, Nokia 3xxx. Not too familiar with other brands' cheap models, sorry.
These are European, so they might not be available in the Americas.
If you don't need these features, then this phone is not meant for you. There are people who do. You, on the other hand, are in luck, because you can get one of the turbo-cheap models that does nothing but voice and SMS.
Mobile phones are great. Sure, you don't need all the fancy 3d-games and some ridiculous functionality, but they're very useful for a number of things:
- phone/address books
- alarm clock (for when you're travelling)
- calender
- reading email on the go
All this in a very small device which still fulfills its primary purpose: making phone calls. In many European countries, you can also use phones to:
- pay for parking (convenient!)
- get the timetable for the next bus connection
- get the cinema programme per SMS...
Of course, if you start using the web, there's plenty more that you can do. For most of these things, a PDA would have to use your mobile anyway, so there's no need for buying an extra device. Mobiles are cool, get over it.
Actually, hip-hop is by far the most popular music style in Germany now. It's a part of a larger fascination with 'black' music, where 'black' music covers stuff like rap, soul, RnB, reggae etc.
There are many German rappers singing in German, too, but it's too slow, watered down and bland for my taste.
I completely agree that blaming the Linux community for this virus is ridiculous. I'm just pointing the similarity to other stories which get biased reporting from the media.
Step 1: Define a group of people (Muslims, Linux/Free Software crowd, anti-globalisation protesters, anarchists, punks...) as a crazy, extremist bunch set out to destroy the world goodness and bring about eternal evil.
Step 2: Wait for the first idiot from one of these groups to do something stupid (as it is bound to happen)
Step 3: Point and shout: See, we were right all along, they ARE all crazy extremists. Everybody believes you.
See, the Free Software community have been labelled anti-business communist hacking lunatics for so long that now nobody who reads the mainstream media will have any doubt that it WAS in fact the Linux community that stands behind the MyDoom virus.
Dude, go back and count the number of terrorist acts done by the IRA in Great Britain in the last 50 years before you start talking statistics. Hint, nobody from the IRA is Muslim.
When I was in Britain, no train station in London had bins for garbage. People were expected to throw rubbish on the floor. Why? Because of the many times the IRA placed bombs in such bins.
They blew up the building in Oklahoma city. And then it was blamed on the Muslims too. But nobody made a point of their religion. They weren't Muslim, so the religion wasn't important. What about the gas attack in Japan? What about IRA? ETA? There are many many terrorist organisations which aren't Muslim, but you don't hear about 'Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland' or 'Extreme Christians in Basque country'. Yes, there is a slant in the media reporting.
It's the slant that big media houses put on the stories. That's why you always hear about Muslim terrorists and Islamic extremists, and not about Christian, scientologist, Jewish, or any other type (although they certainly exist).
That's why you hear about Linux communists, Linux hackers (crackers) and Linux virus writers. If they use Microsoft, then it's something else that made them do it. If they use Linux -- why, of course, Linux made them do it.
...he means this hard cop.