Am I the first one to consider doing your own theme or modifying an existing one? It wouldn't be too tricky or difficult to download the 'revised' themes after they've had the Apple logo removed and insert your own, if you think it's really that important to the whole look and feel. I understand why Apple is spanking people for using their logo. They're not too concerned about the look (IHHO) it's the fact that the Apple logo is in it which suggests branding i.e. that Apple made it and is endorsing it. Use your heads, themers.
No offense to the homosexual readers/posters, but the old Apple logo suggested gayness. I used to have an Apple window sticker in my car, and my sister asked me about it one day. She wondered why I had a gay pride sticker in my car and thought that other people must have assumed the same that saw it. It never crossed my mind until that point, and afterwards I shamefully removed it. I guess I'll get another window sticker of the cooler, newer ice blue logo sometime.
>>...and you get blasted for bugs, particularly if you leave 6 months between releases as nVidia has. Actually they've been releasing new snapshots of their updated GLX and XFREE servers lately. They've been hitting the net about every 2-3 weeks. >>Contrast with nVidia, who currently ship abysmal drivers... If you take 5 seconds to read the README file that comes with the GLX drivers, you'd realize these drivers are experimental, developer releases that aren't ready for prime time. It even mentions that good 3d support will come in XFree4 and to check out Precision Insight's site for more info on their DRI progress. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure should be bomb. We shall see. We should all support Nvidia's decision to contribute to Linux development, regardless of whether or not they open source their drivers. We need all the vendor support we can get.
If I were to make big improvements to Redhat 6.1 I'd be changing the version number as well. It's got a new kernel, all new libraries, and everything's been optimized and compiled for Pentiums. I was kinda hoping they'd hold off until XFree4 and other Good Things were finished THEN release, but hey, it's a great distro at any time. They've added alot of new, mandrake-bred tools for hardware configuration and a badass GTK setup screen that includes visual partitioning. I've gotta get this ASAP.
Try reading the homepages for stories before you guys post, it enlightens you.
They do present a roadblock. High speed access. Where I live, Multimedia Cablevision provides cable modem access through Road Runner. Road Runner, as I understand it, is owned by MediaOne which is in turn owned by Time Warner. Or perhaps TW owns RR directly now. At any rate, Cox Cable swallowed up Multimedia. They're currently contracted with @Home which, as most net savvy geeks are aware, suck donkey schlong. 128k upload caps, only one IP and other ill deeds. So since Multimedia got owned by Cox, there's a chance my pristine RR service may be switched to @Home. Southwestern Bell provides ADSL here but it's heinously expensive. Where's the choice? What other ISP's are allowed to share the cable and fiber lines to bring me net access? If this merger goes down, high speed access here will suck. Here and other places as well.
That's great but have you actually gotten full screen 3d to work? I doubt it. Mesa still lags, even with Nvidia's new server. I can't even tell if it's calling/using the new libGL.so libraries that Nvidia released. It acts like it's still using the old Mesa libraries and rendering in software. All the GL in screen savers lags terribly. Oh well, there's always XFree 4.
I was talking to another standoffish guy today while buying a hard drive. He asked if linux was any threat to Microsoft's domination. I replied that 'it's not quite ready for everyone's desktop, but it's getting there' and cited the sudden interest of game developers in linux. Quake3 and Unreal Tournament, arguably the two biggest games of 99/2000 and they're both being done for linux as well. Not too shabby. Once XFree4 hits the net I'm guessing alot more people will convert. Think about it, half the 'users' you know just buy computers to game with. Why not have them gaming on a solid, stable, modern os? It's things like UT and Q3 being available that are gonna turn people around. World domination within the decade.
I thought it was pretty damn funny also. Some of you devoted moderators might consider getting out more. This was Andy Kauffman-style humor at it's finest.
I was a beta tester for Sonic Foundry during their revamp of Acid Pro and Vegas. What was the most requested format for encoding? Mp3. Second? Real Audio. WMA came in a distant third. Why? It's simple. WMA sounds like crap. Anyone with a pair of ears and a fresh Q-tip can tell you that. WMA files are bigger, sound worse, and the encoders are dog slow. Microsoft at it's best.
Your comment is a little short-sighted. Have you seen any embedded devices that run linux, like the car mp3 player at empeg.com? Probably not. Saying linux is only suited for a desktop environment is like saying that internal combustion engines are only suitable for full size cars.
It originated in medieval times actually. Gargoyles are typically stone statues made to resemble grotesque creatures who prop up on the top of buildings and 'watch'. It was believed in those times that gargoyles would scare evil spirits away by keeping an eye on them. Neil Stephenson adapted the watcher concept and thought the word gargoyle fit appropriately.
This is yet another example of how short sighted and frivolous the RIAA can be. As it's been said before, there are dozens of ways to exchange music online and in the real world, and they can't sue everyone for everything. Just because I can use a Slim-Jim to break into a car doesn't mean a locksmith can't use one to unlock your door after your lock your keys inside. Napster is a tool for finding music. Whether the users are scrupulous or not isn't for Napster, the RIAA or anyone else to decide. If the RIAA was smart, they'd endorse and embrace similar technologies, maybe even throw in an encoder that rips cds to their lame secure music format. Or they could create something similar but better. People flock to better alternatives..though any product made by such a lame organization would probably be frowned upon by those in-the-know. I also believe that services such as these can be beneficial to the RIAA. There have been many times when I've found music online, listened to it then gone out and bought the CD. Smart artists and labels are picking up on the trend and realizing the benefits to doing business this way. It's the old, fat dinosaurs that refuse to change their thinking that will lose their dominance.
Your point about having friends 'mastering' a game by the time you finally get it is unfounded. We've all been playing Q3Test all this time so it's not like a brand new game is bursting out on the scene. Id should have shown some love and made people wait until ALL the versions were ready for a TRUE simultaneous release. Wasn't that their intention from the start? Maybe UT is bigger competition than they anticipated... and I saw it on the shelf today.
Ever hear of swim bladders? Alot of aquatic things are equipped with them. Give the snake some balloons where real lungs would be and he'll float.
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If you're going to be a web designer for a living, you might want to change that elitist attitude. You've already alienated ALL of your possible unix/linux/freebsd/beos users in one fell swoop, coding only for a browser available for a whopping 2 flavors of Windows. Get a cgi script that records browsers and OS types (hell get a counter from thecounter.com) and watch your stats. That'll give you an idea of who is looking at your pages with what. My personal, measley site has around 800 hits and it's an even split between IE and Netscape. Using code specific to either browser is only cool if you have an index page that javascripticiously snoops the browser type and forwards the user seamlessly to the 'coded for whatever' page.
Opera is weird. It snobbily renders W3C spec HTML, and as you'll find out very soon, people don't code their pages perfectly. They code them catering to netscape and ie's idiosyncracies. Most of the pages you view on a daily basis (generally commercial sites) will look broken and funky under Opera. Don't believe me? Get it for windows95 and see for yourself. Don't get me wrong, I like Opera alot for it's quickness, stability, etc. However I think the designers were a little short-sighted by ignoring specialty tags designed for the Big Two.
Here's my take on BEos, like it or not. It's way too expensive, and it's new and unfamiliar to everyone. If they had a downloadable crippled version it'd get more exposure, more interest, and more users. They act like it's ready for the open market and a commercial release. Whatever. I saw it at Best Buy for $80, comes with a thick book. Why not sell it for $35 for awhile? Why not advertise and get noticed at trade shows? That company just confuses the @^@# outta me.
Try telling that to the moronic middle management that wanted the project finished yesterday and fails to understand the simple concept of 'a stitch in time saves nine'.
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Am I the first one to consider doing your own theme or modifying an existing one? It wouldn't be too tricky or difficult to download the 'revised' themes after they've had the Apple logo removed and insert your own, if you think it's really that important to the whole look and feel. I understand why Apple is spanking people for using their logo. They're not too concerned about the look (IHHO) it's the fact that the Apple logo is in it which suggests branding i.e. that Apple made it and is endorsing it. Use your heads, themers.
No offense to the homosexual readers/posters, but the old Apple logo suggested gayness. I used to have an Apple window sticker in my car, and my sister asked me about it one day. She wondered why I had a gay pride sticker in my car and thought that other people must have assumed the same that saw it. It never crossed my mind until that point, and afterwards I shamefully removed it. I guess I'll get another window sticker of the cooler, newer ice blue logo sometime.
Can anyone say, Jaguar? I knew you could.
320x240 is half of 640x480, which is the standard VGA resolution. Anything above that is purely up to the monitor/video card.
Um, nobody said consoles are bolted to your living room tv.
Um, hi, linux has Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. The two biggest FPS's of all time. It's games like these that cause other publishers to take note.
>>...and you get blasted for bugs, particularly if you leave 6 months between releases as nVidia has.
Actually they've been releasing new snapshots of their updated GLX and XFREE servers lately. They've been hitting the net about every 2-3 weeks.
>>Contrast with nVidia, who currently ship abysmal drivers...
If you take 5 seconds to read the README file that comes with the GLX drivers, you'd realize these drivers are experimental, developer releases that aren't ready for prime time. It even mentions that good 3d support will come in XFree4 and to check out Precision Insight's site for more info on their DRI progress. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure should be bomb. We shall see.
We should all support Nvidia's decision to contribute to Linux development, regardless of whether or not they open source their drivers. We need all the vendor support we can get.
If I were to make big improvements to Redhat 6.1 I'd be changing the version number as well. It's got a new kernel, all new libraries, and everything's been optimized and compiled for Pentiums. I was kinda hoping they'd hold off until XFree4 and other Good Things were finished THEN release, but hey, it's a great distro at any time. They've added alot of new, mandrake-bred tools for hardware configuration and a badass GTK setup screen that includes visual partitioning. I've gotta get this ASAP.
Try reading the homepages for stories before you guys post, it enlightens you.
Gives new meaning to Guinness on tap.
They do present a roadblock. High speed access. Where I live, Multimedia Cablevision provides cable modem access through Road Runner. Road Runner, as I understand it, is owned by MediaOne which is in turn owned by Time Warner. Or perhaps TW owns RR directly now. At any rate, Cox Cable swallowed up Multimedia. They're currently contracted with @Home which, as most net savvy geeks are aware, suck donkey schlong. 128k upload caps, only one IP and other ill deeds. So since Multimedia got owned by Cox, there's a chance my pristine RR service may be switched to @Home. Southwestern Bell provides ADSL here but it's heinously expensive. Where's the choice? What other ISP's are allowed to share the cable and fiber lines to bring me net access? If this merger goes down, high speed access here will suck. Here and other places as well.
..give me the Karma to moderate this trollific post down to where it belongs.
That's great but have you actually gotten full screen 3d to work? I doubt it. Mesa still lags, even with Nvidia's new server. I can't even tell if it's calling/using the new libGL.so libraries that Nvidia released. It acts like it's still using the old Mesa libraries and rendering in software. All the GL in screen savers lags terribly. Oh well, there's always XFree 4.
I was talking to another standoffish guy today while buying a hard drive. He asked if linux was any threat to Microsoft's domination. I replied that 'it's not quite ready for everyone's desktop, but it's getting there' and cited the sudden interest of game developers in linux. Quake3 and Unreal Tournament, arguably the two biggest games of 99/2000 and they're both being done for linux as well. Not too shabby. Once XFree4 hits the net I'm guessing alot more people will convert. Think about it, half the 'users' you know just buy computers to game with. Why not have them gaming on a solid, stable, modern os? It's things like UT and Q3 being available that are gonna turn people around. World domination within the decade.
I thought it was pretty damn funny also. Some of you devoted moderators might consider getting out more. This was Andy Kauffman-style humor at it's finest.
I was a beta tester for Sonic Foundry during their revamp of Acid Pro and Vegas. What was the most requested format for encoding? Mp3. Second? Real Audio. WMA came in a distant third. Why? It's simple. WMA sounds like crap. Anyone with a pair of ears and a fresh Q-tip can tell you that. WMA files are bigger, sound worse, and the encoders are dog slow. Microsoft at it's best.
Your comment is a little short-sighted. Have you seen any embedded devices that run linux, like the car mp3 player at empeg.com? Probably not. Saying linux is only suited for a desktop environment is like saying that internal combustion engines are only suitable for full size cars.
It originated in medieval times actually. Gargoyles are typically stone statues made to resemble grotesque creatures who prop up on the top of buildings and 'watch'. It was believed in those times that gargoyles would scare evil spirits away by keeping an eye on them. Neil Stephenson adapted the watcher concept and thought the word gargoyle fit appropriately.
Looks like you guys could be some potential RIAA lawyers. Sue everybody!
This is yet another example of how short sighted and frivolous the RIAA can be. As it's been said before, there are dozens of ways to exchange music online and in the real world, and they can't sue everyone for everything. Just because I can use a Slim-Jim to break into a car doesn't mean a locksmith can't use one to unlock your door after your lock your keys inside. Napster is a tool for finding music. Whether the users are scrupulous or not isn't for Napster, the RIAA or anyone else to decide.
If the RIAA was smart, they'd endorse and embrace similar technologies, maybe even throw in an encoder that rips cds to their lame secure music format. Or they could create something similar but better. People flock to better alternatives..though any product made by such a lame organization would probably be frowned upon by those in-the-know.
I also believe that services such as these can be beneficial to the RIAA. There have been many times when I've found music online, listened to it then gone out and bought the CD. Smart artists and labels are picking up on the trend and realizing the benefits to doing business this way. It's the old, fat dinosaurs that refuse to change their thinking that will lose their dominance.
Your point about having friends 'mastering' a game by the time you finally get it is unfounded. We've all been playing Q3Test all this time so it's not like a brand new game is bursting out on the scene.
Id should have shown some love and made people wait until ALL the versions were ready for a TRUE simultaneous release. Wasn't that their intention from the start? Maybe UT is bigger competition than they anticipated... and I saw it on the shelf today.
Ever hear of swim bladders? Alot of aquatic things are equipped with them. Give the snake some balloons where real lungs would be and he'll float.
If you're going to be a web designer for a living, you might want to change that elitist attitude. You've already alienated ALL of your possible unix/linux/freebsd/beos users in one fell swoop, coding only for a browser available for a whopping 2 flavors of Windows. Get a cgi script that records browsers and OS types (hell get a counter from thecounter.com) and watch your stats. That'll give you an idea of who is looking at your pages with what. My personal, measley site has around 800 hits and it's an even split between IE and Netscape. Using code specific to either browser is only cool if you have an index page that javascripticiously snoops the browser type and forwards the user seamlessly to the 'coded for whatever' page.
Opera is weird. It snobbily renders W3C spec HTML, and as you'll find out very soon, people don't code their pages perfectly. They code them catering to netscape and ie's idiosyncracies. Most of the pages you view on a daily basis (generally commercial sites) will look broken and funky under Opera. Don't believe me? Get it for windows95 and see for yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I like Opera alot for it's quickness, stability, etc. However I think the designers were a little short-sighted by ignoring specialty tags designed for the Big Two.
Here's my take on BEos, like it or not.
It's way too expensive, and it's new and unfamiliar to everyone. If they had a downloadable crippled version it'd get more exposure, more interest, and more users. They act like it's ready for the open market and a commercial release. Whatever. I saw it at Best Buy for $80, comes with a thick book. Why not sell it for $35 for awhile? Why not advertise and get noticed at trade shows? That company just confuses the @^@# outta me.
Try telling that to the moronic middle management that wanted the project finished yesterday and fails to understand the simple concept of 'a stitch in time saves nine'.