Exactly. I'm an American taking Calculus, and I try to avoid calculators for everything except the occasional arithmatic - that's just pointless to do by hand when you don't have to. If Euler did it without a calculator, then I should be able to do it too, dammit.
Oh, I see how it is. You don't want to pay taxes for stuff YOU don't like, but you want EVERYONE to play taxes for NASA because YOU think it is a good thing. Well screw you for encouraging the government to force me at gun-point to pay for some wasteful programs that would be better done in the private sector. You think NASA is perfect? Have you seen all the missions they fsck up? All the Mars probes and things?
Oh, but you're insightful and I'll once again be modded down as flamebait for having a different opinion.
But if a poor person spends 95% of their paycheck on needs they will be taxed on all of it, while someone like me who spends about 10% will only be taxed on that 10%.
Although that's true, the money won't do you any good until you spend it. So eventually you will be taxed on all 100%, because eventually you'll spend money.
I don't know.. I don't think this looks too good. It will be months before Mozilla 1.0, and that's if "we're lucky," according to the timeline (which looks a little unprofessional, but hey, whatever.) However, they haven't really gone over what their criteria is for 1.0 - that's supposed to come later.
I feel the Mozilla project will never yield a great browser. In their quest for market share and compatibility on many platforms, thus prohibiting the use of many useful C++ features, they've ended up with not only a bloated, slow browser on anything but new computers, but, as Galeon proves, the Gecko rendering engine lacks speed as well. Although KDE's Konquerer is looking good, I'm not sure how tied into KDE that is. Hopefully my pessimism will turn out to be unnecessary, but I don't think things look good for the alternative browsers.
A few extra points to consider about the G450. First of all, the Rainbow Runner G-Series is an addon card for the G400 (possibly the G200 as well) that adds TV input to the mix. This is nice because you don't have to deal with overlay cables and whatnot, and it is supported on Linux. Unfortunately, according to an e-mail I received from Matrox, there will be no RRG for the G450.
Also, the G450 requires that you compile in a binary library to the standard G400 drivers in order to get dual head support, and this driver is only for x86 Linux AFAIK. However, if that doesn't bother you and you don't what TV input, you'll probably be happy with the G450.
Yeah, just like in real life, when something is moving, and you just can't quite touch it because you touch the blurs. Oh wait, you're not stupid. The brain recognizes motion blur because we experience it in real life.
And another thing, how can you judge this by the screenshots? Hmm? You don't know what motion blur would be like to play with. It could be a great experience, but you're an NVidia bigot, so you'll never try it.
Of course you don't use their precompiled binaries for anything! Jeez! And good god, they aren't out to get you here. They just wanted a good secure OS that they could modify, so they modified an open OS and gave the changes back, possibly as thanks for writing the OS to begin with. Stop being paranoid.
Sorry, chumpy, but more secure doesn't necessarily mean less usable. There are much better methods for security than those used today. Also, do you REALLY think NSA wrote Security Linux for the average desktop user? Can't use IRC.. give me a break.
Pfft. We'll be ready in plenty of time. Do you really think in 5 years we'll still be tooling around with some dinky 128 meg video card. RAM is ultra-cheap these days; 3 gigs will be nothing in 5 years.
Very frickin simple. Read the frickin description of xsane. At the bottom of the description for xsane (apt-cache show xsane), it says "If you wish to use xsane with the package gimp1.1, you should install the package xsane-gimp1.1." Now, to me, that would imply that you would type apt-get install xsane-gimp1.1. However, you claim that it's only for gimp-1.1.17. Perhaps you're running an old version of Woody, but they don't have gimp 1.1.17. There's only one version of gimp 1.1 available buddy. That's how it works for all the packages. So you're mistaken somewhere. Try again.
Yeah, because we all know IDE's highest RPM, 7200, is much higher than SCSI's, 15000... Wait...
Sure, IDE cannot disconnect from the bus while seeking, but that's not important. Why? People that do IDE right don't put more than one drive on a bus, and you get two for most motherboards. So you buy more cards, or get a motherboard that has 4 (usually 2 are RAID.) And all this is STILL much cheaper than SCSI. And speed? Well, with UltraDMA66 and 100, you can no longer complain about lack of speed on the bus, nor can you complain about the CPU being bogged down controlling the hard drives. It doesn't happen anymore, unless you set the drive in PIO mode. So don't spread your FUD about IDE.
Yes, SCSI has its place. That place is servers. Even most scanners don't really need SCSI these days, although I admit the better scanners at least support SCSI if they don't require it. It's also true that the fastest drives are only on SCSI. But even for hard core users, IDE is enough.
Part of this has to do with our number of fingers. As Petr Beckman said, nature should have given us 12 digits, which is nice - it's a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. 60 would get us 5, but it tacks on another 48 numbers to the base, so it's a poor tradeoff.
What? Did you read my post? I didn't say Meiji was or was not a city. I'm saying it was hardly the feudal-samurai period that KTB was making it out to be.
Yeah, and those fantasy RPGs? They're there because we want to return to medieval times. Nope, I don't buy it. Face it, people are facinated by violence, especially with cool weapons, whether they be physical or an ability of the user. Now, if anime was instead a want to return to old Japan, why would it be popular with Americans, hmm? Especially with many technical people, the exact people who enjoy the technical world and lifestyle.
By the way, what do you mean by the "old certainties" of Meiji Japan? IIRC, Meiji was the period of Westernization in Japan, not some feudal shoganate period. Culture ripped away? Are you nuts? These suits are just some cool suits used to promote some anime.
My god, you're serious. Are you kidding me? Do you really think the Slashdot readership makes up very much of the New York Times online readership. Hint, it doesn't. Here's another hint, what is the problem with the free login. Sure, it's annoying, but speak for yourself, I don't hate it. Free the net? What kind of crap is that? Maybe if you read a few other posts, btw, you would know that you can just change the www to channel and ignore the whole process.
People like you sicken me; you act like something like this is a direct attack on your personal freedom and must be stopped. How about this? If you don't like NYTimes, you don't click on the links? I happen to like their content, so I want Slashdot to continue posting stories from them.
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Exactly. I'm an American taking Calculus, and I try to avoid calculators for everything except the occasional arithmatic - that's just pointless to do by hand when you don't have to. If Euler did it without a calculator, then I should be able to do it too, dammit.
(Tip: it was bull.)
Oh, I see how it is. You don't want to pay taxes for stuff YOU don't like, but you want EVERYONE to play taxes for NASA because YOU think it is a good thing. Well screw you for encouraging the government to force me at gun-point to pay for some wasteful programs that would be better done in the private sector. You think NASA is perfect? Have you seen all the missions they fsck up? All the Mars probes and things?
Oh, but you're insightful and I'll once again be modded down as flamebait for having a different opinion.
Hmmm... seems to support English pretty damn well.
But if a poor person spends 95% of their paycheck on needs they will be taxed on all of it, while someone like me who spends about 10% will only be taxed on that 10%.
Although that's true, the money won't do you any good until you spend it. So eventually you will be taxed on all 100%, because eventually you'll spend money.
I don't know.. I don't think this looks too good. It will be months before Mozilla 1.0, and that's if "we're lucky," according to the timeline (which looks a little unprofessional, but hey, whatever.) However, they haven't really gone over what their criteria is for 1.0 - that's supposed to come later.
I feel the Mozilla project will never yield a great browser. In their quest for market share and compatibility on many platforms, thus prohibiting the use of many useful C++ features, they've ended up with not only a bloated, slow browser on anything but new computers, but, as Galeon proves, the Gecko rendering engine lacks speed as well. Although KDE's Konquerer is looking good, I'm not sure how tied into KDE that is. Hopefully my pessimism will turn out to be unnecessary, but I don't think things look good for the alternative browsers.
A few extra points to consider about the G450. First of all, the Rainbow Runner G-Series is an addon card for the G400 (possibly the G200 as well) that adds TV input to the mix. This is nice because you don't have to deal with overlay cables and whatnot, and it is supported on Linux. Unfortunately, according to an e-mail I received from Matrox, there will be no RRG for the G450.
Also, the G450 requires that you compile in a binary library to the standard G400 drivers in order to get dual head support, and this driver is only for x86 Linux AFAIK. However, if that doesn't bother you and you don't what TV input, you'll probably be happy with the G450.
Yeah, just like in real life, when something is moving, and you just can't quite touch it because you touch the blurs. Oh wait, you're not stupid. The brain recognizes motion blur because we experience it in real life.
And another thing, how can you judge this by the screenshots? Hmm? You don't know what motion blur would be like to play with. It could be a great experience, but you're an NVidia bigot, so you'll never try it.
Heh, at first I thought you said 'my old mother's 3d card she got 3 years ago.'
Of course you don't use their precompiled binaries for anything! Jeez! And good god, they aren't out to get you here. They just wanted a good secure OS that they could modify, so they modified an open OS and gave the changes back, possibly as thanks for writing the OS to begin with. Stop being paranoid.
Sorry, chumpy, but more secure doesn't necessarily mean less usable. There are much better methods for security than those used today. Also, do you REALLY think NSA wrote Security Linux for the average desktop user? Can't use IRC.. give me a break.
Why would that suck?
Good job, you killed the joke!
Pfft. We'll be ready in plenty of time. Do you really think in 5 years we'll still be tooling around with some dinky 128 meg video card. RAM is ultra-cheap these days; 3 gigs will be nothing in 5 years.
Very frickin simple. Read the frickin description of xsane. At the bottom of the description for xsane (apt-cache show xsane), it says "If you wish to use xsane with the package gimp1.1, you should install the package xsane-gimp1.1." Now, to me, that would imply that you would type apt-get install xsane-gimp1.1. However, you claim that it's only for gimp-1.1.17. Perhaps you're running an old version of Woody, but they don't have gimp 1.1.17. There's only one version of gimp 1.1 available buddy. That's how it works for all the packages. So you're mistaken somewhere. Try again.
impressed by high RPM numbers
Yeah, because we all know IDE's highest RPM, 7200, is much higher than SCSI's, 15000... Wait...
Sure, IDE cannot disconnect from the bus while seeking, but that's not important. Why? People that do IDE right don't put more than one drive on a bus, and you get two for most motherboards. So you buy more cards, or get a motherboard that has 4 (usually 2 are RAID.) And all this is STILL much cheaper than SCSI. And speed? Well, with UltraDMA66 and 100, you can no longer complain about lack of speed on the bus, nor can you complain about the CPU being bogged down controlling the hard drives. It doesn't happen anymore, unless you set the drive in PIO mode. So don't spread your FUD about IDE.
Yes, SCSI has its place. That place is servers. Even most scanners don't really need SCSI these days, although I admit the better scanners at least support SCSI if they don't require it. It's also true that the fastest drives are only on SCSI. But even for hard core users, IDE is enough.
Part of this has to do with our number of fingers. As Petr Beckman said, nature should have given us 12 digits, which is nice - it's a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. 60 would get us 5, but it tacks on another 48 numbers to the base, so it's a poor tradeoff.
You mean GTK+? GNOME is just a desktop environment, get over it.
I'm serious. This is the kind of thing I like to be hearing - parents who understand their role in relation to their children.
Yes! High five, you the man!
What? Did you read my post? I didn't say Meiji was or was not a city. I'm saying it was hardly the feudal-samurai period that KTB was making it out to be.
Yeah, and those fantasy RPGs? They're there because we want to return to medieval times. Nope, I don't buy it. Face it, people are facinated by violence, especially with cool weapons, whether they be physical or an ability of the user. Now, if anime was instead a want to return to old Japan, why would it be popular with Americans, hmm? Especially with many technical people, the exact people who enjoy the technical world and lifestyle.
By the way, what do you mean by the "old certainties" of Meiji Japan? IIRC, Meiji was the period of Westernization in Japan, not some feudal shoganate period. Culture ripped away? Are you nuts? These suits are just some cool suits used to promote some anime.
Ah, but now there's a least some precident for future court cases. Or I might be stupid. I don't pretend to know much about law.
My god, you're serious. Are you kidding me? Do you really think the Slashdot readership makes up very much of the New York Times online readership. Hint, it doesn't. Here's another hint, what is the problem with the free login. Sure, it's annoying, but speak for yourself, I don't hate it. Free the net? What kind of crap is that? Maybe if you read a few other posts, btw, you would know that you can just change the www to channel and ignore the whole process.
People like you sicken me; you act like something like this is a direct attack on your personal freedom and must be stopped. How about this? If you don't like NYTimes, you don't click on the links? I happen to like their content, so I want Slashdot to continue posting stories from them.
though the rewind on it no longer works
So what do you do after you watch a tape? Throw it out? Can I have your unrewound tapes?