I used to be a Gentoo guy after rolling my own LFS install. A lot of people go on and on about how Gentoo "teaches" them about Linux due to the install process, but what exactly are you learning? At most, you learn how to partition correctly. Everything else is handled with automated scripts that you just set flags for if you want to customize. When you install packages, you just emerge it, and it does all the compilation for you. So what exactly is being taught here? Just curious.
For a real good time, Linux From Scratch will actually give you insight into what's going on. No automated scripts there (though there are some available for LFS veterans who don't want to do it all again).
The solution is quite simple: don't run the other DEs apps
That's a non-solution. You're essentially saying, "We will never progress, so you may as well save your time and go somewhere else." That's not a message we want to be sending.
Unfortunately, benchmarks show that there is no marked performance boost compiling everything. Mostly, the things that affect performance most from compilation are the kernel and libc.
The "choice" obsessed people would beat them down. They want every OSS effort to be splintered and fragmented, so that I have to install and load two entire desktop environments just to be able to run each other's apps.
In addition, if I dare load up Firefox and OpenOffice, that's two more GUI libraries in memory, so now I get to have four entire GUI libraries all doing the same thing.
And before someone replies with "Microsoft Office does that too," no it doesn't. Those are called owner-drawn controls, where you override a standard Windows control's draw event with your own function. It's still a standard Windows control and not an entire desktop GUI library.
Hmm. I just drag the icon to my Applications folder. Or if it's a plugin, to its relevant/Library/Components/Appname folder. And so on.
It would be great if Linux actually implemented drag-and-drop install. OS X already does it, and.NET allows for it (eliminating the use of the registry).
This, the Apple Easter Egg post, and the PSP post, signify a typical weekend of stories around here. Sigh.
Before the corporate buyout, Slashdot would have posted cool stories all the time no matter the day. But since OSTG took over, they save the good stories for weekdays just because they know they'll get more adviews on a Monday. Blah!
After meteor hits, a parallel dimension will be opened up where Windows will flee and evolve into an advanced civilization run by a man named Koopa. He will turn a girl's father into slime and fall to the hands of two Italian guys in colored suspenders. There will also be an robotic Yoshi.
I don't have any issues with the PSP technically, and I almost picked one up last week. $250 is just too rich for my blood for a portable. I do own a DS, and I felt much better about that purchase because not only did I get Super Mario 64, but I was able to play all of my vast library of GBA games on a brighter and clearer screen.
Personally, I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto to come out before I decide if I want a PSP or not.
It was one fucking statement, at the very bottom of a well-written review, tucked away in parentheticals. It didn't even advocate a position either way and was non-inflammatory, despite its current "0 Flamebait" moderation.
If you guys are so non-political, you wouldn't even bat an eye at such a statement. Are you so insecure in your position that you see someone dare mention something in a parenthetical at the very bottom of their post and jump to the forefront in a firey political rage? You're the one being political. If you were really so apolitical, the statement wouldn't have meant anything to you either way. It's like preaching tolerance through intolerance. I mean, wtf?
It was a well-written review. It was one little non-relevant statement tucked away at the bottom. You know, just like everybody's signatures. Get over yourselves! And why do I have a feeling if the position had been more toward the side of the husband (i.e., the "left-wing" position), fewer people would be complaining and the post wouldn't have been modded down so much?
Just had to get that off my chest. It was a harmless apolitical statement at the bottom of a long, well-written post. Only on Slashdot will that get a bunch of knee-jerk downmods and flames from people yelling at you to be non-political. Meanwhile, any Bush joke gets +5 funny in any article, no matter the topic. Lame.
I'll second that. For christ's sake, it was one little line. Is Slashdot really that political that a single line brings people's wrath upon them?
It didn't bother me. What's funny is the people criticizing the post for being political. However, if the critics were really so apolitical, they wouldn't have batted an eye at the remark. It's like preaching tolerance while being intolerant. I don't get it. Whatever.
If it had been sold for 50 bucks less at $199, I guarantee it would be selling a lot better this weekend. I can justify 200, but getting up to 250 has crossed that invisible line for a portable in my mind.
The full standalone consoles don't even cost that much at my local store, particularly the PS2.
The PSP is currently burning up the charts in Japan, though, where the console has been out for a while. Early adopters on a holiday weekend may not be the best yardstick. Official numbers from the first weekend of sales likely available on Monday.
Translation: As a former editor of the Slashdot games section, I spent hundreds of dollars on a PSP last week and feel the need to defend it in a front page article.:)
How interesting. Last week, there was an image of a white dialog box with the user account's picture and a message text that explained that you needed to enter the administrator password. Below the entry box, there was a classic Microsoft "Why do I need to enter this password?" help link. This graphic was embedded in the text of the article.
It appears Paul Thurrot has removed it from the page. Since he's in close contact with sources at Microsoft, I wonder if they requested that he remove the image. Nonetheless, I have it saved on my hard drive. It looks very much like OS X's.
Looking at the article, it seems there were three images removed. Here they are for all to see:
1) There is a drop in windows already. you might not be noticeing it.
No, there isn't. Only menus and the mouse cursor cast shadows in Windows XP. I'm referring to the large drop shadow cast by windows that are in focus, which gives depth and visual cue to that fact. It's an OS X thing.
2) OS X, did not exactly make that feature, it is just sudo, with a pretty face. Windows has runAs which similar to su.
I never said OS X invented the feature of entering an admin password to install software. You're attacking a strawman.
What I said was that OS X has that very same dialog which asks you to enter a password before installing software. Microsoft's dialog is nearly identical. They could have done any number of ways to ask for the password, from for instance one of their popup balloons to, well, anything else. But they instead chose to use an OS X-alike dialog.
3) Unlike sudo in longhorn, the system actually uses lowest priviledge, as in even if you are logged in as an admin, your applications lauch with lower priviledges, unless you authorize them.
I have no idea what relevance this has for my post.
4) Aero i dont is backported....
Nobody really cares. This preview of Aero isn't impressive at all. Nobody upgrades Microsoft products for their interface design. All of Longhorn's technologies will be backported, so there's no reason to switch to an operating system that will require at least 3ghz and 512MB of RAM to function properly. I have a Powerbook running Jaguar that has 256MB of RAM and is 400mhz. I get my work done just fine on that thing.
This isn't the final Aero interface (the one that will be full 3D accelerated DirectX). Microsoft will be revealing that at their next developer conference.
Weird, I submitted this story last week and it was rejected.
Anyway, anyone notice a few things?
1.) The dialog that appears asking for an admin password to install software. Directly ripped from OS X.
2.) The titlebars and status bars have gotten bigger for seemingly no good reason. However, the minimize/maximize buttons have been horizontally stretched. This should help alleviate the infamouse "accidentally-close" clicking everybody does now and again. They're still touching each other, though. Weirdly, OS X's are also sitting beside each other but I never accidentally hit the close box. There is space between them.
3.) More shiny blue. Since this isn't the final Aero 3D-accelerated interface, expect more of this but using DirectX.
4.) Drop-shadow from windows in focus. Again, directly ripped from Apple.
Longhorn is shaping up how I sort of guessed. More and more, the Explorer windows are being made to look like web pages, with lists and shortcuts running everywhere.
Since Longhorn will be out in 2006, there's a potential release for another OS X that same year. I predict Steve Jobs will have his designers reimplement Aqua using Quartz/CoreImage. I don't see Apple making everything 3D, but I do see them fully converting everything to vector-based widgets and OpenGL shader effects (that's what CoreImage is based on). Apple has already stated that they have seen no developer interest in integrating full polygonal 3D into the desktop like that, and that developers usually just create a custom OpenGL view.
Note: I compare to OS X because I'm a recent convert and don't plan to ever go back to Windows again. OS X feels five years ahead of everybody. Since every bit of new Longhorn technology is being backported to Windows XP, the only selling point Longhorn will have is its interface, which is something Microsoft has never been known for excelling at. It should be interesting watching Microsoft attempt to pull off aesthetics. Last time they tried that, we got Luna. Blech.
"There is little to no market demand for 2D games in North America."
So, to sum it up because you apparently really are this dense:
1.) There is no ban, signified by the fact that 2D games exist. 2.) The fact there are few 2D games is the same reason there are few 2D games for the PC, X-Box, Gamecube, and other systems. Little market demand for them.
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I used to be a Gentoo guy after rolling my own LFS install. A lot of people go on and on about how Gentoo "teaches" them about Linux due to the install process, but what exactly are you learning? At most, you learn how to partition correctly. Everything else is handled with automated scripts that you just set flags for if you want to customize. When you install packages, you just emerge it, and it does all the compilation for you. So what exactly is being taught here? Just curious.
For a real good time, Linux From Scratch will actually give you insight into what's going on. No automated scripts there (though there are some available for LFS veterans who don't want to do it all again).
The solution is quite simple: don't run the other DEs apps
That's a non-solution. You're essentially saying, "We will never progress, so you may as well save your time and go somewhere else." That's not a message we want to be sending.
Unfortunately, benchmarks show that there is no marked performance boost compiling everything. Mostly, the things that affect performance most from compilation are the kernel and libc.
Do you realize how many submissions Slashdot gets every day? There is plenty of news they could be posting.
The "choice" obsessed people would beat them down. They want every OSS effort to be splintered and fragmented, so that I have to install and load two entire desktop environments just to be able to run each other's apps.
In addition, if I dare load up Firefox and OpenOffice, that's two more GUI libraries in memory, so now I get to have four entire GUI libraries all doing the same thing.
And before someone replies with "Microsoft Office does that too," no it doesn't. Those are called owner-drawn controls, where you override a standard Windows control's draw event with your own function. It's still a standard Windows control and not an entire desktop GUI library.
Nintendo's Gamecube controllers sell with vibration by default. Is Nintendo somehow exempt?
They've already said their next console won't even use the standard directional pad and buttons, so I guess they're in the clear for Revolution...
Hmm. I just drag the icon to my Applications folder. Or if it's a plugin, to its relevant /Library/Components/Appname folder. And so on.
.NET allows for it (eliminating the use of the registry).
It would be great if Linux actually implemented drag-and-drop install. OS X already does it, and
This, the Apple Easter Egg post, and the PSP post, signify a typical weekend of stories around here. Sigh.
Before the corporate buyout, Slashdot would have posted cool stories all the time no matter the day. But since OSTG took over, they save the good stories for weekdays just because they know they'll get more adviews on a Monday. Blah!
Play videogames and watch anime, then pretend they'll all come true. Bingo.
After meteor hits, a parallel dimension will be opened up where Windows will flee and evolve into an advanced civilization run by a man named Koopa. He will turn a girl's father into slime and fall to the hands of two Italian guys in colored suspenders. There will also be an robotic Yoshi.
Best movie ever.
I don't have any issues with the PSP technically, and I almost picked one up last week. $250 is just too rich for my blood for a portable. I do own a DS, and I felt much better about that purchase because not only did I get Super Mario 64, but I was able to play all of my vast library of GBA games on a brighter and clearer screen.
Personally, I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto to come out before I decide if I want a PSP or not.
Okay, I just have to speak up.
It was one fucking statement, at the very bottom of a well-written review, tucked away in parentheticals. It didn't even advocate a position either way and was non-inflammatory, despite its current "0 Flamebait" moderation.
If you guys are so non-political, you wouldn't even bat an eye at such a statement. Are you so insecure in your position that you see someone dare mention something in a parenthetical at the very bottom of their post and jump to the forefront in a firey political rage? You're the one being political. If you were really so apolitical, the statement wouldn't have meant anything to you either way. It's like preaching tolerance through intolerance. I mean, wtf?
It was a well-written review. It was one little non-relevant statement tucked away at the bottom. You know, just like everybody's signatures. Get over yourselves! And why do I have a feeling if the position had been more toward the side of the husband (i.e., the "left-wing" position), fewer people would be complaining and the post wouldn't have been modded down so much?
Just had to get that off my chest. It was a harmless apolitical statement at the bottom of a long, well-written post. Only on Slashdot will that get a bunch of knee-jerk downmods and flames from people yelling at you to be non-political. Meanwhile, any Bush joke gets +5 funny in any article, no matter the topic. Lame.
What Slashdot's summary fails to mention is last year's DS sales were 1.5 million......
I'll second that. For christ's sake, it was one little line. Is Slashdot really that political that a single line brings people's wrath upon them?
It didn't bother me. What's funny is the people criticizing the post for being political. However, if the critics were really so apolitical, they wouldn't have batted an eye at the remark. It's like preaching tolerance while being intolerant. I don't get it. Whatever.
What if you've got a DS and tell them it's got two heads?
If it had been sold for 50 bucks less at $199, I guarantee it would be selling a lot better this weekend. I can justify 200, but getting up to 250 has crossed that invisible line for a portable in my mind.
The full standalone consoles don't even cost that much at my local store, particularly the PS2.
From the summary:
:)
The PSP is currently burning up the charts in Japan, though, where the console has been out for a while. Early adopters on a holiday weekend may not be the best yardstick. Official numbers from the first weekend of sales likely available on Monday.
Translation: As a former editor of the Slashdot games section, I spent hundreds of dollars on a PSP last week and feel the need to defend it in a front page article.
Apple Spotlight Patent Reveals 3-Year Head Start on Microsoft
Apple Spotlight patent predates Microsoft's Longhorn announcement by three years
Last week when I submitted this story, there were three other images embedded in the text of the article. It appears they are gone now.
Here they are:
OS X-alike password request for program installation
New "not responding" message and blurry translucent window borders
Sync manager
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2
3
How interesting. Last week, there was an image of a white dialog box with the user account's picture and a message text that explained that you needed to enter the administrator password. Below the entry box, there was a classic Microsoft "Why do I need to enter this password?" help link. This graphic was embedded in the text of the article.
It appears Paul Thurrot has removed it from the page. Since he's in close contact with sources at Microsoft, I wonder if they requested that he remove the image. Nonetheless, I have it saved on my hard drive. It looks very much like OS X's.
Looking at the article, it seems there were three images removed. Here they are for all to see:
1) There is a drop in windows already. you might not be noticeing it.
No, there isn't. Only menus and the mouse cursor cast shadows in Windows XP. I'm referring to the large drop shadow cast by windows that are in focus, which gives depth and visual cue to that fact. It's an OS X thing.
2) OS X, did not exactly make that feature, it is just sudo, with a pretty face. Windows has runAs which similar to su.
I never said OS X invented the feature of entering an admin password to install software. You're attacking a strawman.
What I said was that OS X has that very same dialog which asks you to enter a password before installing software. Microsoft's dialog is nearly identical. They could have done any number of ways to ask for the password, from for instance one of their popup balloons to, well, anything else. But they instead chose to use an OS X-alike dialog.
3) Unlike sudo in longhorn, the system actually uses lowest priviledge, as in even if you are logged in as an admin, your applications lauch with lower priviledges, unless you authorize them.
I have no idea what relevance this has for my post.
4) Aero i dont is backported....
Nobody really cares. This preview of Aero isn't impressive at all. Nobody upgrades Microsoft products for their interface design. All of Longhorn's technologies will be backported, so there's no reason to switch to an operating system that will require at least 3ghz and 512MB of RAM to function properly. I have a Powerbook running Jaguar that has 256MB of RAM and is 400mhz. I get my work done just fine on that thing.
This isn't the final Aero interface (the one that will be full 3D accelerated DirectX). Microsoft will be revealing that at their next developer conference.
Weird, I submitted this story last week and it was rejected.
Anyway, anyone notice a few things?
1.) The dialog that appears asking for an admin password to install software. Directly ripped from OS X.
2.) The titlebars and status bars have gotten bigger for seemingly no good reason. However, the minimize/maximize buttons have been horizontally stretched. This should help alleviate the infamouse "accidentally-close" clicking everybody does now and again. They're still touching each other, though. Weirdly, OS X's are also sitting beside each other but I never accidentally hit the close box. There is space between them.
3.) More shiny blue. Since this isn't the final Aero 3D-accelerated interface, expect more of this but using DirectX.
4.) Drop-shadow from windows in focus. Again, directly ripped from Apple.
Longhorn is shaping up how I sort of guessed. More and more, the Explorer windows are being made to look like web pages, with lists and shortcuts running everywhere.
Since Longhorn will be out in 2006, there's a potential release for another OS X that same year. I predict Steve Jobs will have his designers reimplement Aqua using Quartz/CoreImage. I don't see Apple making everything 3D, but I do see them fully converting everything to vector-based widgets and OpenGL shader effects (that's what CoreImage is based on). Apple has already stated that they have seen no developer interest in integrating full polygonal 3D into the desktop like that, and that developers usually just create a custom OpenGL view.
Note: I compare to OS X because I'm a recent convert and don't plan to ever go back to Windows again. OS X feels five years ahead of everybody. Since every bit of new Longhorn technology is being backported to Windows XP, the only selling point Longhorn will have is its interface, which is something Microsoft has never been known for excelling at. It should be interesting watching Microsoft attempt to pull off aesthetics. Last time they tried that, we got Luna. Blech.
Did you even read what you quoted from my post?
"Market demand."
I'll repeat it again.
"Market demand."
Again.
"Market demand."
And again, in a more verbose description.
"There is little to no market demand for 2D games in North America."
So, to sum it up because you apparently really are this dense:
1.) There is no ban, signified by the fact that 2D games exist.
2.) The fact there are few 2D games is the same reason there are few 2D games for the PC, X-Box, Gamecube, and other systems. Little market demand for them.
Get it? Got it? Has it sunk in yet?
Good.
Again.
"Market demand."