Considering this is a "beta" - I can wholeheartedly say this is nothing impressive. Its already looking "so last year" and it isnt even out to retail yet - its hardly the DOOM3 of desktop engines. Certainly not going to be switching back to M$ on the strength of those screens!
Of course they could ! but the same can be said for many open source projects. That said, I havent seen a spyware infested version of firefox yet. Open Source is supposed to protect against this kind of thing from happening - having the ability to evaluate the source code kinda makes it difficult to hide things!
IHMO ReactOS is cool and all - but if it ever does reach a high enough level of compatibility to replace the OS it is trying to be we can also expect other OS'es to benefit via the WINE project, as I understand it they share a lot of core code.
"the Macintosh design team crammed an unbelievable amount of power into the 64K bytes of ROM in the form of tightly written, highly optimized machine code. In doing so, the team provided standard user interfaces, so that most application programs on the Mac will be used in similar forms."
While certainly not just applying to the Mac's of yore. What happened to those days where the true art of bare metal programming was the pinnacle of geekdom? Just think how much faster and efficient todays software would be if we applied this philosophy to programming.
Of course things are more complex and hardware considerably more variable in these days of Open Source , cross - platform development etc. Wouldnt it be nice if we at least tried a little harder to avoid the bloat - just because machines get more powerful it doesnt mean you should let your code slip... does it ?
nothing has ever surpassed elite in terms of hours spent playing. Populous and Powermonger on the amiga came very close. But I've found nothing in recent times that sucks me in anything like those games did. Maybe that's because im older or have less time on my hands , but i'd sure as hell like to see those games brought bang up to date!
Unlike some open-source office suites, NeoOffice/J users can drag and drop as well as copy and paste data to and from other applications.
Hmmm... what other "open-source" "office suites" are available for OSX ?
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MS has Office, Apple has iTunes. The second MS kills Office for Mac, Apple kills iTunes for Windows...
urm.... i doubt it, i suspect Microsoft would be quite happy for that to happen. After all they are planning on offering a competing product any day soon.
Ogg is not just about whether its better or worse sound quality than other codecs - that is open to opinion. In most cases some codecs are better at encoding certain things than others. The great thing about Ogg is that is open and not encumbered by patents, which most alternatives carry.
Why would the "Highly Publicised" security flaws affect the adoption rate? Internet Explorer has far worse and far more "Highly Publicised" security flaws than ever Firefox could hope to achieve.
Anyone who decides not to install firefox basing their decision on security concerns and instead continues to use IE on the same basis is just plain stupid
If anyone is interested in getting Gentoo up and running on a box quickly using a graphical installer, maybe you are just frightened by the stock method of installing gentoo. If you are not bothered about tweaking the config files for uber optimisation they provide pre compiled/ optimised versions for different processor AMD or Intel etc.
The main install is made from binaries with a good selection of packages and the benefits of portage. If you so desire you can change your config files for optimisation after the installation and compile from source whatever you need afterwards. Its also great if you want to run gentoo on an older machine and dont have six months to go through the bootstrap / compile shebang. Im running with KDE 3.4 an old T22 with all the candy and trimmings i could possibly want. I cant reccommend it highly enough.
Rekall holds much promise - but I've tried it several times over the past few years under various distro's and found it to be unstable to the point of completely unusable.
there are companies out there already freezing people - problem is we dont 'yet know how to defrost ans resusitate them. If a technology such as this were to replace cryonics is'nt their a danger that cyrogenically frozen people may never be resusitated? Could this create a new industry with the same promise that cryonics offered?
Lets not forget that Macromedia were planning on porting their apps to linux - where this leaves us now I have no idea. But something's telling me that adobe wont be selling Macromedia products - why sell two competing products? Removing competition from the marketplace in one foul sweep like this isnt good for anyone - even people who dont really use these products.
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Considering this is a "beta" - I can wholeheartedly say this is nothing impressive. Its already looking "so last year" and it isnt even out to retail yet - its hardly the DOOM3 of desktop engines. Certainly not going to be switching back to M$ on the strength of those screens!
Of course they could ! but the same can be said for many open source projects. That said, I havent seen a spyware infested version of firefox yet. Open Source is supposed to protect against this kind of thing from happening - having the ability to evaluate the source code kinda makes it difficult to hide things!
IHMO ReactOS is cool and all - but if it ever does reach a high enough level of compatibility to replace the OS it is trying to be we can also expect other OS'es to benefit via the WINE project, as I understand it they share a lot of core code.
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"the Macintosh design team crammed an unbelievable amount of power into the 64K bytes of ROM in the form of tightly written, highly optimized machine code. In doing so, the team provided standard user interfaces, so that most application programs on the Mac will be used in similar forms." ... does it ?
While certainly not just applying to the Mac's of yore. What happened to those days where the true art of bare metal programming was the pinnacle of geekdom? Just think how much faster and efficient todays software would be if we applied this philosophy to programming.
Of course things are more complex and hardware considerably more variable in these days of Open Source , cross - platform development etc. Wouldnt it be nice if we at least tried a little harder to avoid the bloat - just because machines get more powerful it doesnt mean you should let your code slip
at first glance i thought that read "Microsoft in talks to buy China"
Does anyone know of any good resources / tutorials for AJAX. Do O'Reilly have a book yet?
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nothing has ever surpassed elite in terms of hours spent playing. Populous and Powermonger on the amiga came very close. But I've found nothing in recent times that sucks me in anything like those games did. Maybe that's because im older or have less time on my hands , but i'd sure as hell like to see those games brought bang up to date!
An article about eye cany with no screenshots ? ... bah!
Move it away from india , back home.
Unlike some open-source office suites, NeoOffice/J users can drag and drop as well as copy and paste data to and from other applications.
... what other "open-source" "office suites" are available for OSX ?
Hmmm
MS has Office, Apple has iTunes. The second MS kills Office for Mac, Apple kills iTunes for Windows...
urm.... i doubt it, i suspect Microsoft would be quite happy for that to happen. After all they are planning on offering a competing product any day soon.
This is the coolest place to go visit - would have been a seat of government for the uk during a nuclear war scenario. Lots of cool stuff to see.
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Not quite on the scale of this one but I thought someone here might find this of use.
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Ogg is not just about whether its better or worse sound quality than other codecs - that is open to opinion. In most cases some codecs are better at encoding certain things than others. The great thing about Ogg is that is open and not encumbered by patents, which most alternatives carry.
Might be true
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The original poster should have included a bit more info really
Nick
Why would the "Highly Publicised" security flaws affect the adoption rate? Internet Explorer has far worse and far more "Highly Publicised" security flaws than ever Firefox could hope to achieve.
Anyone who decides not to install firefox basing their decision on security concerns and instead continues to use IE on the same basis is just plain stupid
I think that the KHTML team ought to get their fair share of the glory since this is on what safari is based.
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Nick
If anyone is interested in getting Gentoo up and running on a box quickly using a graphical installer, maybe you are just frightened by the stock method of installing gentoo. If you are not bothered about tweaking the config files for uber optimisation they provide pre compiled/ optimised versions for different processor AMD or Intel etc.
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The main install is made from binaries with a good selection of packages and the benefits of portage. If you so desire you can change your config files for optimisation after the installation and compile from source whatever you need afterwards. Its also great if you want to run gentoo on an older machine and dont have six months to go through the bootstrap / compile shebang. Im running with KDE 3.4 an old T22 with all the candy and trimmings i could possibly want. I cant reccommend it highly enough.
http://www.vidalinux.org/
Nick
Rekall holds much promise - but I've tried it several times over the past few years under various distro's and found it to be unstable to the point of completely unusable.
It'll take that long to copy all the cool features in mozilla firefox!
"Being a fat geek may not increase your risk of death after all." No .. but it sure as hell reduces your chances with the chicks!
india ?
there are companies out there already freezing people - problem is we dont 'yet know how to defrost ans resusitate them. If a technology such as this were to replace cryonics is'nt their a danger that cyrogenically frozen people may never be resusitated? Could this create a new industry with the same promise that cryonics offered?
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Nick
Lets not forget that Macromedia were planning on porting their apps to linux - where this leaves us now I have no idea. But something's telling me that adobe wont be selling Macromedia products - why sell two competing products? Removing competition from the marketplace in one foul sweep like this isnt good for anyone - even people who dont really use these products.
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I own that bit of the moon, i have a certificate to prove it.
Ironically the problem with optical computers using this method is the same as that of silicon based systems - cooling!