Will CTRL-C let you paste the data after you close the app you copied it from? Will it let you copy an image from the GIMP into Openoffice? How about rich text between ABiword and KWord? Didn't think so. The interface doesn't deviate from Windows (as long as you stick to CTRL-C), but the implementation does. And I think it's rather obvious that in this case, Windows' implementation is superior.
So if I highlight text and then close the app I highlighted it in, will it still work? No (unless you're using KDE's Klipper hack). If I want to copy rich text from Mozilla Composer to Abiword, will that work? No. If I want to replace existing text with the text I'm pasting, can I highlight it and paste over it? No.
Bull. Microsoft's primary competitor in the desktop market is Apple. Whatever MS's strengths relative to Apple may be, intuitive UI design is not one of them.
LCDs aren't light-emitting either, and that hasn't stopped anyone using them. You could backlight the "ink" wall, just like we currently backlight LCDs (unless this stuff is completely opaque). A glowing backlit wall with Winamp visualizations would be sweeet (of course, you wouldn't be able to actually render them in realtime at that resolution, but it's still a nice dream).
You can indeed hire a prostitute to regain health, however, there are a million other cheaper and easier ways to do so. You can also run over prostitutes, just as you can run over anyone else in the game. The amount of cash involved, however, is so trivial that it's not even worth the effort. The whole prostitution thing is just an Easter egg - you could play the entire game and never notice it (I did, in fact), and it's in no way necessary or a major part of the gameplay.
Also, GTA is most certainly not alone as a violent game. Every RPG I've ever seen forces you to kill people. Killing is the basis of the entire FPS genre, and most RTS games as well. The only modern video games I can think of in which you don't have to kill someone are racing games, flight simulators, and sports simulators (which have got to be the most pointless waste of a gaming machine ever).
So basically, 95% of all games out there have a "casual attitude towards killing". GTA is no more violent than Quake, Unreal, Morrowind, or Diablo. Prostitution is an extremely minor part of the game, which has been blown way out of proportion. The gameplay is brilliant, long-lasting, and you can have an enormous amount of fun without touching a weapon. If you choose not to play it because you feel you can't separate the game from reality, than that's your loss.
Abiword has proper footnotes, loads faster than KWord and OOWriter, doesn't have its own font directory, is properly integrated into the rest of GNOME, and does revision control, internationalization (w/ bidi), decent MS format support, and mail merge. Plus, it doesn't suck, and it's got a usable Windows port, neither of which can be said for KWord.
You can rename an RTF file to.doc, send it someone, and they'll never know the difference. There's really no valid reason to do a (possibly imperfect) Word export when you can do a perfect RTF export that Word will open fine anyway.
The open/save dialog is provided by the toolkit, in both GTK and QT. However, the desktop libraries do provide useful features. In GNOME's case, you have gconf (for awesome config management, for both users and developers), gnome-vfs (so you can open stuff over a network), gnome-db (for easy database access), bonobo (for embedding), and gnomeui (for displaying help, parsing config files, using i18n, and other utility functions). All of these are useful, and none are very big or bloated by themselves.
I think they'd actually do better if they raised the price (okay, maybe not now, but if they'd priced it higher at launch). The fact that the Gamecube is the cheapest of the three consoles implies that it's the least powerful and valuable of them, which is very far from the truth.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another
crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD
accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the
latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray,
as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin
to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future.
In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are
looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market
share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD
are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in
ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on
Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore
there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of
FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on,
FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled
OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick
and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will
be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
I know that terrorists are working on better weapons.
Al-Qaeda is not developing new chemical and biological weapons at this point, it's all they can do to get their hands on existing ones. If you "know" otherwise, I'd like to see your sources.
Have better weapons then the enemy is going to protect my cousin.
Nonsense. We already have atomic bombs, ICBMs, aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and all sorts of other weapons that terrorists only dream about. Our weapons are immensely superior. That doesn't keep them from hijacking planes with box cutters (can't get much lower tech than that) or blowing up buildings and people with rudimentary bombs.
The advantages the terrorists have are not in their weaponry. They're in the fact that individual terrorists are insanely difficult to find and kill without destroying massive numbers of innocents in the process. Developing new weapons isn't going to change that.
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The Audigy family is quite well supported by ALSA.
This is Linux.
Just because no one's found the holes doesn't mean they aren't there.
Will CTRL-C let you paste the data after you close the app you copied it from? Will it let you copy an image from the GIMP into Openoffice? How about rich text between ABiword and KWord? Didn't think so. The interface doesn't deviate from Windows (as long as you stick to CTRL-C), but the implementation does. And I think it's rather obvious that in this case, Windows' implementation is superior.
So if I highlight text and then close the app I highlighted it in, will it still work? No (unless you're using KDE's Klipper hack). If I want to copy rich text from Mozilla Composer to Abiword, will that work? No. If I want to replace existing text with the text I'm pasting, can I highlight it and paste over it? No.
Bull. Microsoft's primary competitor in the desktop market is Apple. Whatever MS's strengths relative to Apple may be, intuitive UI design is not one of them.
It's called a Radeon. Everything older than the 9700 PRO is well supported by open source drivers, and most of them are $100.
LCDs aren't light-emitting either, and that hasn't stopped anyone using them. You could backlight the "ink" wall, just like we currently backlight LCDs (unless this stuff is completely opaque). A glowing backlit wall with Winamp visualizations would be sweeet (of course, you wouldn't be able to actually render them in realtime at that resolution, but it's still a nice dream).
Also, GTA is most certainly not alone as a violent game. Every RPG I've ever seen forces you to kill people. Killing is the basis of the entire FPS genre, and most RTS games as well. The only modern video games I can think of in which you don't have to kill someone are racing games, flight simulators, and sports simulators (which have got to be the most pointless waste of a gaming machine ever).
So basically, 95% of all games out there have a "casual attitude towards killing". GTA is no more violent than Quake, Unreal, Morrowind, or Diablo. Prostitution is an extremely minor part of the game, which has been blown way out of proportion. The gameplay is brilliant, long-lasting, and you can have an enormous amount of fun without touching a weapon. If you choose not to play it because you feel you can't separate the game from reality, than that's your loss.
Abiword has proper footnotes, loads faster than KWord and OOWriter, doesn't have its own font directory, is properly integrated into the rest of GNOME, and does revision control, internationalization (w/ bidi), decent MS format support, and mail merge. Plus, it doesn't suck, and it's got a usable Windows port, neither of which can be said for KWord.
You can rename an RTF file to .doc, send it someone, and they'll never know the difference. There's really no valid reason to do a (possibly imperfect) Word export when you can do a perfect RTF export that Word will open fine anyway.
Your firmware can be updated even if you aren't an XBox Live subscriber and have never agreed to an EULA.
This policy is not new. Debian's been doing that since before Red Hat even existed.
Why? If it's funny, it's funny, regardless of whether there's a minor spelling/grammar error.
knoppix.org is closed. knoppix.net is still up and working fine.
Nope. That option was removed because they only wanted to maintain one desktop.
Nope. Knoppix dropped GNOME a while ago for space and ease of maintenance.
That's what apt/emerge is for. :-)
The open/save dialog is provided by the toolkit, in both GTK and QT. However, the desktop libraries do provide useful features. In GNOME's case, you have gconf (for awesome config management, for both users and developers), gnome-vfs (so you can open stuff over a network), gnome-db (for easy database access), bonobo (for embedding), and gnomeui (for displaying help, parsing config files, using i18n, and other utility functions). All of these are useful, and none are very big or bloated by themselves.
Although of course they can run on either desktop, all three of those apps are GTK-based, and gaim is quit heavily GNOME-integrated.
Actually, you can, if you're lucky enough to have a local mirror on a gigabit ethernet network. :-)
I think they'd actually do better if they raised the price (okay, maybe not now, but if they'd priced it higher at launch). The fact that the Gamecube is the cheapest of the three consoles implies that it's the least powerful and valuable of them, which is very far from the truth.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Al-Qaeda is not developing new chemical and biological weapons at this point, it's all they can do to get their hands on existing ones. If you "know" otherwise, I'd like to see your sources.
Have better weapons then the enemy is going to protect my cousin.
Nonsense. We already have atomic bombs, ICBMs, aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and all sorts of other weapons that terrorists only dream about. Our weapons are immensely superior. That doesn't keep them from hijacking planes with box cutters (can't get much lower tech than that) or blowing up buildings and people with rudimentary bombs.
The advantages the terrorists have are not in their weaponry. They're in the fact that individual terrorists are insanely difficult to find and kill without destroying massive numbers of innocents in the process. Developing new weapons isn't going to change that.
GTA3 did that long before Metroid Prime. Nintendo may have done a great job on it, but the 2D-3D translation is by no means "innovative".