"The first version only recognized one color. I believe the doggies recognize 3 or 4, which largely depends on the processor speed." This thing is already better than some tiny little annoying mutts in many ways. Dogs only see in black-and-white. This one is able to distinguish color. Don't have to clean up after this one, and it doesn't destroy your granny's 17th century victorian rugs.
Seems like if you were clever enough, you could make a Mindstorm set do it. Have it check for motion within a certain distance, set up a time wasting loop (so it waits before it strikes), then WHACK! No more roachie. Maybe you would make it roam around known roach-infested areas. Would it be possible to make it respond to motion only from small objects? Coz you don't want it running around whacking the dog or cat...
I usually don't respond to deliberate flamebait posts, but here's my thoughts on the doorstop macs. I used to hang out at an internet lan gaming shop (16 computers, 14 pcs 2 macs) that was placed right next door to a mac shop. When it would rain we'd prop the door open with one of the original black and white macs, because due to their size, weight, and the handle on the top, they actually made great doorstops. Anyway, this thing would get wet, accidentally kicked, etc. on a regular basis. One day, out of curiousity, I decided to plug it in (expecting it to explode or short out). After a couple of seconds of humming, it popped up with a question mark disk on the screen. It was looking for an OS boot disk! I couldn't believe my eyes. This thing actually wanted to work. Ran next door, got a super old-school boot floppy and the damn thing ran. They just don't make 'em like they used to, do they?
"If I want to play quake or download streaming media I will use NT..." Uh, don't know what cave you've been in recently but I can play quake2 or quake3 on my Linux box. Also recently Real released the G2 player as an alpha for Linux, and as far as I've used it (listening to music) it works pretty well. So with those two problems solved, what do you use NT for again?
Man, I didn't expect so many people to make my post look like a Troll. All I was asking was, why is it necessary for them to charge $30 more for their newest distribution AT THE COUNTER OF A COMPUTER STORE than Redhat 5.2 cost? Don't you think that in alot of stores (such as Best Buy or CompUSA), where Redhat and Windoze 98 upgrade sit side by side, that Redhat would look more attractive if it were cheaper? I'm not saying it should be $10 because most consumers think 'if it's cheap it's gotta suck'. But why not keep their original price and cut the price on their old distro? Weird marketing if you ask me. But then again, last time I checked, full color box graphics cost a little bit more.
"I am ocntent(sp) with my 56k access. I have had transfers from 300 to 70k with my 56k modem." Wow, that's pretty amazing, considering that with my 56k modem, which generally connects at 49.6kbps, I can't download any faster than 6.5k/sec peak. What brand of modem do you own? You can almost smell the sarcasm, can't you?:)
I don't object to Redhat making some money, but the price for Redhat 6 is really hard to believe. It's anywhere from $65-$80 everywhere I look (in stores). I remember the first time I bought Redhat 5.2, it was a MacMillan Publications release and only cost $3o. When will we see other Redhat 6 distros appearing for less cash in local software outlets? And whatever happened to Redhat's 'discount' package, that comes with only the bare bones Redhat6 disc and an installation guide?
"MS employees are so STUPID as to not be able to download a fraggin' copy of REDHAT?" They may know how to download it, but after that they're most likely totally lost. And yeah, M$ needs Linux Gurus, just like you need to check your facts before saying that "it has several thousand of them working for it already". They may have some FreeBSD guys and some Solaris guys off-site but it's doubtful that they have "thousand(s)" of them. After seeing your pro-Microsoft posts, one after another, I couldn't take it anymore. You, my friend, are the target for M$ FUD. It's guys like yourself that believe all the M$ hype and are afraid of command lines and compilers.
"...pretty limited...and are not IA-32 chips." IA-32 is Intel Architecture 32 bit; saying a Motorola PowerPC chip isn't Intel compatible is like telling someone 'wow, the sky is blue!'. The G3 chips themselves are quite powerful, and the g4 architecture combined with the Altivec extension should be something great. If only somehow I could run Linux on an affordable, cheap PC with a G3 chip at it's heart... Oh well.
Jane Dark, doubtfully a woman at all judging by her prose and fruity use of the english language, had nothing new or worthwhile to say about this issue. By her judgement, it's a non-issue and nothing should change. What s/he obviously failed to realize is that a major change needs to be made in the way people are socialized and educated. A pecking order need not be established and enforced throughout one's schooling in order to educate someone. Geeks persecuted? What's new. Anyone different in this 'be like everyone else' sheep society will get singled out and fscked with. I should know, I fought the fights and wore the bruises for being not only a skateboarder in an anti-skateboarding town but also a geek. I guess by proxy in my situation being one made me the other. At any rate, I'm putting my money on the 'jane dark has no clue what being different is like' bet and it pays 100:1. This was an inflammatory piece written by someone who didn't have an album to review that week. Stick to the music John Dark.
Yeah I totally agree. Super stereotypical stuff there. I'm surprised Mace Windu didn't have a huge fro and go around stealing hubcaps from local spaceports.
"Ahhh, so solly Princess-san. We can no ret traffic through garaxy! You stay here, you no travel! Trade sanction say so!" They could've spent an extra five minutes on the lip syncing on those dudes also.
Well spoken. That was the point I was trying to make. And I find it very hard to justify some of Lucas' decisions script-wise, considering that USA Today (I believe) estimated that american tech companies lost around 230 million dollars in lost productivity since everyone and their pod mate took off work to go see it. That's unprecedented. Maybe Lucas is indeed milking the cash cow for all it's worth (the commercial with Colonel Sanders holding the light saber, what has this world come to) but at least save something for us adults that made him rich in the first place.
I just had to stop laughing long enough to post a lengthy reply. I saw the movie on Tuesday night, after midnight, and I totally agree with all of your points. Anakin, who will eventually be Darth Vader, shouldn't be yelling Yippee every five minutes. Anakin leaving home wasn't convincing at all; I think his fate as an actor is pretty much sealed. Looking forward to some Life cereal commercials is he, says Yoda. Too many kids and disney-esque characters ruined it for me. Jar Jar was beyond annoying, to the point where I wanted to scream just to keep from hearing his retarded gibberish. I gotta give some credit to his voice actor though. It takes amazingly mad skill to sound that close to Roger Rabbit and even pull off Bill Cosby's 'going to the dentist' and 'mushmouth' (fat albert) impressions. Weak. Very weak. Fight scenes: incredible. Spaceships exploding: average. Jet pods: fast, and nice to watch tumble and explode at 300 mph. Character development: nearly nonexistant. Mace Windu: 3 lines, and none of them involved the word 'muthafucka'. I was shocked. All in all I give it a 7 out of 10. Hope the Clone Wars has no children/ewoks/wacky cg characters in it, or I just may skip it all together.
They've had Linux for quite awhile now, and be ye surprised to find out they stick all the OS software in one section. Win98 Downgrade on the right shelf, Linux distros including linux powertools on the left shelf. Too bad their slow asses haven't gotten Redhat 6.o expert pack yet. It's supposed to be the affordable one with just 2 cds and installation docs.
He brings joy to millions of computer owners worldwide. He probably grew up a total dork, parked behind his 286 for most of his childhood, didn't kiss a girl until he was 20 and you guys bag him for buying an expensive car. Weak. He's got the right idea, spend your teen years learning how to code extremely well, then get rich buy a fast car and get some action when you're older. Smart guy, this one.
Personally, I could care less about how a Glide wrapper is done for my 3dfx card. I have a Banshee and owe a debt of gratitude to Darryl Strauss for his XServer and can't wait to play Q3. I don't care who or what makes 3d possible with my card, I just want to play. Open Source? Yeah it'd be nice but I can look the other way for a minute while I'm fragging chumps on Q3.
Actually in KDE, to start Netscape or any other app, I just make a shortcut to it, much like you would in Windoze. I can of course include command switches in the shortcuts so I could have one that would launch Q3 at 8oox6oo, one for 1o24x768, etc. The only excuse for ignorance is the absence of a Readme file.
I think it's very natural for both KDE and Gnome to share lots of features and ways of doing things. Personally I haven't tried Gnome yet, I use KDE 1.1 and like it quite a bit. When I acquire Redhat 6 I'll try both. The thing to keep in mind here that generally, when a set of features is expected in ANY gui, no matter what gui it is, there will be similarities. Just as you would like your car to have air conditioning and a cd/cassette player, so too will these gui's have options that match. Flame wars? Not necessary. I like apples, you like oranges, but the thing that matters is we both like fruit.
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"The first version only recognized one color. I believe the doggies recognize 3 or 4, which largely depends on the processor speed."
This thing is already better than some tiny little annoying mutts in many ways. Dogs only see in black-and-white. This one is able to distinguish color. Don't have to clean up after this one, and it doesn't destroy your granny's 17th century victorian rugs.
Seems like if you were clever enough, you could make a Mindstorm set do it. Have it check for motion within a certain distance, set up a time wasting loop (so it waits before it strikes), then WHACK! No more roachie. Maybe you would make it roam around known roach-infested areas. Would it be possible to make it respond to motion only from small objects? Coz you don't want it running around whacking the dog or cat...
I usually don't respond to deliberate flamebait posts, but here's my thoughts on the doorstop macs. I used to hang out at an internet lan gaming shop (16 computers, 14 pcs 2 macs) that was placed right next door to a mac shop. When it would rain we'd prop the door open with one of the original black and white macs, because due to their size, weight, and the handle on the top, they actually made great doorstops. Anyway, this thing would get wet, accidentally kicked, etc. on a regular basis.
One day, out of curiousity, I decided to plug it in (expecting it to explode or short out). After a couple of seconds of humming, it popped up with a question mark disk on the screen. It was looking for an OS boot disk! I couldn't believe my eyes. This thing actually wanted to work. Ran next door, got a super old-school boot floppy and the damn thing ran.
They just don't make 'em like they used to, do they?
"If I want to play quake or download streaming media I will use NT..."
Uh, don't know what cave you've been in recently but I can play quake2 or quake3 on my Linux box. Also recently Real released the G2 player as an alpha for Linux, and as far as I've used it (listening to music) it works pretty well. So with those two problems solved, what do you use NT for again?
Tongue-in-cheek my friend, tongue in cheek.
Man, I didn't expect so many people to make my post look like a Troll. All I was asking was, why is it necessary for them to charge $30 more for their newest distribution AT THE COUNTER OF A COMPUTER STORE than Redhat 5.2 cost? Don't you think that in alot of stores (such as Best Buy or CompUSA), where Redhat and Windoze 98 upgrade sit side by side, that Redhat would look more attractive if it were cheaper? I'm not saying it should be $10 because most consumers think 'if it's cheap it's gotta suck'. But why not keep their original price and cut the price on their old distro? Weird marketing if you ask me.
But then again, last time I checked, full color box graphics cost a little bit more.
"I am ocntent(sp) with my 56k access. I have had transfers from 300 to 70k with my 56k modem." :)
Wow, that's pretty amazing, considering that with my 56k modem, which generally connects at 49.6kbps, I can't download any faster than 6.5k/sec peak. What brand of modem do you own?
You can almost smell the sarcasm, can't you?
I don't object to Redhat making some money, but the price for Redhat 6 is really hard to believe. It's anywhere from $65-$80 everywhere I look (in stores). I remember the first time I bought Redhat 5.2, it was a MacMillan Publications release and only cost $3o. When will we see other Redhat 6 distros appearing for less cash in local software outlets?
And whatever happened to Redhat's 'discount' package, that comes with only the bare bones Redhat6 disc and an installation guide?
"MS employees are so STUPID as to not be able to download a fraggin' copy of REDHAT?"
They may know how to download it, but after that they're most likely totally lost. And yeah, M$ needs Linux Gurus, just like you need to check your facts before saying that "it has several thousand of them working for it already". They may have some FreeBSD guys and some Solaris guys off-site but it's doubtful that they have "thousand(s)" of them. After seeing your pro-Microsoft posts, one after another, I couldn't take it anymore. You, my friend, are the target for M$ FUD. It's guys like yourself that believe all the M$ hype and are afraid of command lines and compilers.
"...pretty limited...and are not IA-32 chips."
IA-32 is Intel Architecture 32 bit; saying a Motorola PowerPC chip isn't Intel compatible is like telling someone 'wow, the sky is blue!'. The G3 chips themselves are quite powerful, and the g4 architecture combined with the Altivec extension should be something great. If only somehow I could run Linux on an affordable, cheap PC with a G3 chip at it's heart... Oh well.
Jane Dark, doubtfully a woman at all judging by her prose and fruity use of the english language, had nothing new or worthwhile to say about this issue. By her judgement, it's a non-issue and nothing should change. What s/he obviously failed to realize is that a major change needs to be made in the way people are socialized and educated. A pecking order need not be established and enforced throughout one's schooling in order to educate someone. Geeks persecuted? What's new. Anyone different in this 'be like everyone else' sheep society will get singled out and fscked with. I should know, I fought the fights and wore the bruises for being not only a skateboarder in an anti-skateboarding town but also a geek. I guess by proxy in my situation being one made me the other. At any rate, I'm putting my money on the 'jane dark has no clue what being different is like' bet and it pays 100:1. This was an inflammatory piece written by someone who didn't have an album to review that week. Stick to the music John Dark.
Preach on brother. I said he'd have a short career in Life cereal commercials as Mikey but the other kids would probably kick his ass first.
Yeah I totally agree. Super stereotypical stuff there. I'm surprised Mace Windu didn't have a huge fro and go around stealing hubcaps from local spaceports.
"Ahhh, so solly Princess-san. We can no ret traffic through garaxy! You stay here, you no travel! Trade sanction say so!" They could've spent an extra five minutes on the lip syncing on those dudes also.
Well spoken. That was the point I was trying to make.
And I find it very hard to justify some of Lucas' decisions script-wise, considering that USA Today (I believe) estimated that american tech companies lost around 230 million dollars in lost productivity since everyone and their pod mate took off work to go see it. That's unprecedented. Maybe Lucas is indeed milking the cash cow for all it's worth (the commercial with Colonel Sanders holding the light saber, what has this world come to) but at least save something for us adults that made him rich in the first place.
I just had to stop laughing long enough to post a lengthy reply. I saw the movie on Tuesday night, after midnight, and I totally agree with all of your points. Anakin, who will eventually be Darth Vader, shouldn't be yelling Yippee every five minutes. Anakin leaving home wasn't convincing at all; I think his fate as an actor is pretty much sealed. Looking forward to some Life cereal commercials is he, says Yoda. Too many kids and disney-esque characters ruined it for me. Jar Jar was beyond annoying, to the point where I wanted to scream just to keep from hearing his retarded gibberish. I gotta give some credit to his voice actor though. It takes amazingly mad skill to sound that close to Roger Rabbit and even pull off Bill Cosby's 'going to the dentist' and 'mushmouth' (fat albert) impressions. Weak. Very weak. Fight scenes: incredible. Spaceships exploding: average. Jet pods: fast, and nice to watch tumble and explode at 300 mph. Character development: nearly nonexistant. Mace Windu: 3 lines, and none of them involved the word 'muthafucka'. I was shocked. All in all I give it a 7 out of 10. Hope the Clone Wars has no children/ewoks/wacky cg characters in it, or I just may skip it all together.
They've had Linux for quite awhile now, and be ye surprised to find out they stick all the OS software in one section. Win98 Downgrade on the right shelf, Linux distros including linux powertools on the left shelf. Too bad their slow asses haven't gotten Redhat 6.o expert pack yet. It's supposed to be the affordable one with just 2 cds and installation docs.
He brings joy to millions of computer owners worldwide. He probably grew up a total dork, parked behind his 286 for most of his childhood, didn't kiss a girl until he was 20 and you guys bag him for buying an expensive car. Weak. He's got the right idea, spend your teen years learning how to code extremely well, then get rich buy a fast car and get some action when you're older. Smart guy, this one.
Get back to work on the Banshee glide port man. I gotta have my Q3. :)
Personally, I could care less about how a Glide wrapper is done for my 3dfx card. I have a Banshee and owe a debt of gratitude to Darryl Strauss for his XServer and can't wait to play Q3. I don't care who or what makes 3d possible with my card, I just want to play. Open Source? Yeah it'd be nice but I can look the other way for a minute while I'm fragging chumps on Q3.
Let me know when you can successfully compile the theme manager, I have redhat 5.2 (for about another week) and haven't been able to compile it.
Actually in KDE, to start Netscape or any other app, I just make a shortcut to it, much like you would in Windoze. I can of course include command switches in the shortcuts so I could have one that would launch Q3 at 8oox6oo, one for 1o24x768, etc. The only excuse for ignorance is the absence of a Readme file.
I think it's very natural for both KDE and Gnome to share lots of features and ways of doing things. Personally I haven't tried Gnome yet, I use KDE 1.1 and like it quite a bit. When I acquire Redhat 6 I'll try both. The thing to keep in mind here that generally, when a set of features is expected in ANY gui, no matter what gui it is, there will be similarities. Just as you would like your car to have air conditioning and a cd/cassette player, so too will these gui's have options that match. Flame wars? Not necessary. I like apples, you like oranges, but the thing that matters is we both like fruit.