I may be an idiot (which is quite possible) but the link you found in an amazing 0.22 second (God your mom must be proud) is tools to help someone play scrabble. My mother doesn't want to increase her ability to play scrabble. She wants to play it. She wants to double click on the icon that is on the desktop (it's on the desktop since it's on of the three items ever used) and play scrabble.
And the final note, whatever scrabble game you'd find for linux might the the most amazing thing in the world but it's missing one thing. It's not Hoyle. It doesn't matter.
Another note: Linux games often (there are quite a few exception) don't look as good as their Windows counter parts. Find me a Linux Risk game that looks as good as Hasbro's Risk II (http://pc.ign.com/previews/13205.html is a good review).
Think of it this way before getting your panties in a bunch -- someone may go into a car dealership and ask for a yellow honda civic, you being the prick you are tell them that statistically white cars get in fewer accidents (it's true btw). The customer would look at you, they don't give a fuck - they what a yellow car because it's cute - it looks good.
> But don`t blame Linux for your being too lazy .
I don't blame Linux, I use Linux myself. My father couldn't set it up though and even if he did he couldn't go into Future Shop and buy a decent card, board or word game for his Linux system. He doesn't spend hours on end on the internet. He uses as a tool, not as a replacement for the lack of girlfriend that so many people here do.
Yeah, I guess you could consider me lazy - I could just write the scrabble game myself but I do have better things to do with my time. I'm not sure if many people (like yourself) get one thing. Most people use a computer like a TV. They don't want to build it from the ground up, they don't want to be a leet h4x0r. They use it for e-mail, a couple simple games and likely shut it off when not in use (so uptime as a penis measuring contest is pointless). The rest of the time these people are doing other things...going out with friends (not to LAN parties), raising their kids, going to their jobs or possibly reading a good book.
I started using Linux back in the day when every version number began with a "0." including the kernel. In those days I had such a hard time getting Linux (Slackware) working but I did with the help of a friend. Configuring things like sound meant compiling the kernel again - which took a long time on my 386.
I gave Linux up for the past 2 years or so to be using OS X and Windows XP because "they worked". I deal with computer (WinNT, Win2K and Solaris) problems all day at work - it's not something I wanted to do when I got home. Using ones home PC shouldn't be like work.
I recently got rid of XP and installed Mandrake 8.2 (on my laptop none the less) and my god how the Linux world has changed while I was gone. The PCMCIA configuration used to freeze Dell laptops (you had to edit the config.opts to make it not prob a certain range). Sound used to be much harder to configure (ESS Maestro 3 support is a newer feature). And the NVidia X server was much harder to configure.
When I loaded it up this time I went to the console ONCE after installing and following the easy instruction at nvidia.com to install X. I then edited the inittab file (although even for that the system prompted me after testing and asked to do it for me).
Upon bootup, gnome asked what I wanted the system to look like (as opposed to assuming for me and making me look for the theme configuration), asked a couple basic questions concerning mail configuration and I was in. The configuration tools in Mandrake and Gnome are MUCH better than the Windows counterparts (comparable to OS X's).
It works now, it's back to being my stable system not because I want to learn how it work like I did several years ago but because it works - it's the best tool for the job.
I'm Microsoft free (at home) now - not because of moral standings but because they don't make a product that I want to use.
Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control OR Microsoft is in control.
Actually, I saw that as: Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control OR Either the villanous attackers [M$] are in control/capable of control
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
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A few others: 5. "If you don't wait twelve hours... you'll go blind." Or... maybe six. I assume that he went blind in that eye.
Quote from movie: "In a world of the blind the one-eyed man is king." I assume that sentence was foreshadowing later on when Cruise was the one-eyed man and the one man who knew about the problem with precrime.
I can understand wanting to have different passwords on each system but that can get complicated. Where I used to work I had to use two userids on over 160 servers (all clients which I had to access for trouble shooting) and over 10 master servers (1 userid). I could have used another document to store all the passwords but then it's the same deal - one person gets that file (even if it's encrypted), cracks it and then they have access to all - same deal as if I had one password. It wouldn't have been fesible for me to remember that many passwords - I have other things to remember.
I also have a Geforce2go, 1ghz laptop and I prefer playing games on my laptop than on a desktop. I do notice a slight difference but it's very small. I play Jedi Knight II: Outcast, GTA3, Quake3, UT and pong with no problems at all.
I prefer it because LCD screens are a lot easier on the eyes. I can't use a CRT monitor for lengthy periods of time now - they're ugly and painful.
I also have a better dot pitch on my LCD screen (no surprise there). I also have a 15 inch LCD screen which is quite good for a laptop and comparable in viewing area to some 17 inch screens.
In large businesses the situation is different. Veritas will release Netbackup 4.5 but that doesn't mean everyone running a backup envornment will upgrade immediately. With a couple million dollars worth of equipment and million dollar contracts you don't try something as soon as it comes out. You put it in your lab for several months and hammer it. You don't depend on another company telling you that the new version is much better even if they have a good reputation like Veritas.
I believe that this is one of the main reasons for the easy adaptation to a Windows enviroment in large businesses. If everyone uses Office 2000 and XP comes out they test the new product for months to ensure that no difficulties are encountered. When upgrading an OS (we all use 2000, not XP) - every single application the company uses must be tested in the new environment.
Gettign to the point now. Stability and compatibility are the two most important things in the enterprise enviroment. Release dates that vary by a couple weeks for even a couple months won't really affect large scale customers since they will have it in testing for months.
The Canadian military is currently using Windows 95 and Office97. For the past couple years they have had Windows 2000 and Office 2000 under testing. They will eventually transition to the new system. They wouldn't however be upset it the release of Windows 2000 or Office 2000 wasa delayed by a couple months since they spend years testing software and hardware before being used.
Release dates affect mostly home cnmsumers. The people upset that Office XP isn't out right now. The people that will buy it and install it on their main machine - if it break they rebuild from scratch.
On another note, I think this may be a reason that a Microsoft solution is used more often than a linux solution. Microsoft has much less updates. This is bad in the respect of needing security updates, patch fixes and other such things but it is good in the fact that not much changes over time. Does anyone here have a linux system from 1995 that they use on a daily basis and haven't updated since?
In my experience Quake 3 would run about 4% slower under Linux (native linux client) with the same settings as under Windows 98. It would run faster if I compared it to 2000 (didn't have XP at the time).
I did this over multiple trials with an Nvidia card. Nothing terribly scientific just a real world test.
I would have to disagree....I would have paid a lot more attention in class if I wasn't playing Golf or Parking lot on my pda. If I hadn't my four year program would have likely only took four years.
Actually, if you use Veritas Netbackup along with an Exchange agent you can back up an exchange database at the brick level. This allows you to restore a single mailbox or even parts of the mailbox (appointments for example).
In many companies however they prefer to have a separate Exchange server and just do regular backups (fulls and differentials) and then restore the full server. Then they'd get the system administrator to restore the mailbox individually. This can be a considered a third check. It's not hard to restore the wrong thing - doing that to a production machine isn't good.
What I wonder about isn't someone registering a domain and making a spoof site similar to its victim but rather making an identical site changing minor things such as announcements (products and performance).
Would a false announcement coming from a domain that looks like microsoft.com trick anyone? Could any newspapers, news stations, magazines, etc...(except slashdot...they'll post pretty much anything) actually be fooled. Could that have any impact to stock pricing?
My favourite feature of Omniweb is the "Open Link Behind this Window". When I go to slashdot or any other news page I click the open link behind this window for everything that I wish to read then I go through the windows one by one. For Moz or IE I have to click open in new window hen click back to my original window then repeat. Not much more of a hassle it's just one little thing that I appreciate about Omniweb.
I think it was a bad decision that say that people that would buy an Xserve would also have to buy Jaguar when it came out. The Xserve is due in June, Jaguar in August.
It seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. If I was to order 40 Xserves that wouldn't arrive to June and then have to pay $1500 (Canadian) for each server in two months to get it to the updated OS then I would wait the two months and get jaguar bundled with the Xserve.
Am I missing something besides the fact that the only people that would buy it between June and August are the ones that really need the Xserves (they likely would already have another system - say with dell - in place) or the people that don't mind eating up such a large bill in two months.
I'm not sure how true this is but I've been told in the city I live in (Ottawa, Canada) we have more theatre seats than movie goers. Like I said I don't know how true it is but I have had no problems seeing Spider-Man, LOTR or Star Wars Phantom Menace on opening night without advanced tickets.
I did buy advanced tickets for Spider-Man since that was suppose to be as huge as the second comming but the theatre was only 1/3 full.
Is it actualoly difficult to get into some movies in other cities?
There was mention that Jaguar would require a 32mb video card. Being the owner of the crt iMac I obviously do not have one (16mb ATI). Does anyone know if the higher end video card would be required to update to 10.2 and just have some features turned off (the hand writting software for instance could be completely disabled).
I can see why I would need to have a 32mb 3d video card just so I can finally be able to print to a CUPS printer. Thanks.
You should probably inform Apple that they aren't supposed to be shipping systems with pc100 RAM and upgrade to the pc133 RAM since you appear to be more informed then they are.
I just check the response I got from from the radio station when I complained at it. This is what I got (I mentioned how they only seem to play that crap on MTV and not until MTV start playing it and not when the cd is released): -- the reason radio plays songs when MTV starts playing it is because its considered a "single." This means that record companys are promoting the song to radio stations and have essentially "released" it to be played over the airways.
You play the shit out of a song till the next "single" is released off the album. This is the basis of the relationship between bands and labels exist. --
So it's not the ability...that was my mistake. It's a "relationship".
In other conversations he did say allowed but you're right, it's probably the music rep determining that's allowed and in most cases I guess it would be whatever would better the relationship with the label.
> 1) Some people will pay money anyway for CD's if they like them enough. > > 2) Alot more people would buy the music if they sold them directly over the internet.
I agree with point number 1. I buy music for the bands that I enjoy. I then rip it to my iPod and place the CD in storage (don't have a CD player in the car, I use the iPod).
As for point number 2, I disagree. I think more people would buy music if they could listen to it first (which many do already but it's not endorsed). Radio stations are not allowed to play certain songs. In many cases the music label will prevent a station from playing a song on an already released CD if they plan on releasing a single or music video. I've had this debate on the XFM (local radio station) message board. They'll play one song by an artist and won't play anything else off of the CD - reason is they are allowed. That was the deal with SOAD. They'd play Chop Suey all the time but wouldn't play Toxicity until they were told they were allowed to. It's stupid I agree. My point is I hear a song by a group and I'll go on the net, download the rest of the CD to see if it's good - THEN I'll buy it. So many bands are one hit wonders. I heard the Trik Turner song Friends and Family and thought it was alright - it might be worth buying. I thought I should check out the rest of the disc first. I found out that Trik Turner is a lot harder music than Friends and Family is. I liked it and went out to buy it. In this case, the one hit that Trik Turner has is nothing like the rest of the disc (it's better) - in order cases it's much worse.
Listening to the cd before buying it is like test driving a car. Sure the dealer would be pissed off if you took a car for a test drive and never came back but no dealer in their right mind would say "Oh, you're interested in that car? It's a great car, it's blue. Would you like to buy it?.. Test drive you say? I'm afraid we don't allow test drives. You have to buy it first and if you have any problems with it you can come back and we'll shove this large screw up your ass." That doesn't work in the real world. I can't wait until the IT world starts working like the real world - where people are held accountable for their actions (most of the time anyway)
I find Virutal Desktops really helpful. I'm at work right now and must monitor 8 master servers (Terminal services). I have 3 on desktop 2, 3 on desktop 3 and 2 on desktop 4. I have a monitoring tool for batch streams running on desktop one (this usually has 4 - 16 windows itself). Desktop 5 has documents open that I have to update constantly (turnovers, procedures, recoridng utilities and contacts). On desktop 6 I have my ticketing utilities open (I have three different databases to use). On desktop 7 is slashdot and other personal use (CTRL-ALT-# to go to another screen and look like I'm working). Desktop 8 I use for e-mail (that could be put on another dekstop easily).
This is all done under windows using Cool Desk. This is also all done on a laptop witha 14.1 inch screen and a max resolution of 1024x768. If I had all these windows minimized in the task bar they are roughly 15 pixels wide and I am unable to determine one window from the others. ALT-TABing through the windows can get quite tedious. The other option is to have my taskbar being four rows high - although this leaves little space to work or auto-hide which I can't use thanks to having to use PC Anywhere (if a PC Anywhere window is at the bottom then the auto-hide doesn't work for some reason) and Exceed (same prob as PC Anywhere).
All in all, I could work without virtual desktops it's just a hassle to do so.
And yes....I do need all the windows open at the same time.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you check the link or just copy and paste?
I may be an idiot (which is quite possible) but the link you found in an amazing 0.22 second (God your mom must be proud) is tools to help someone play scrabble. My mother doesn't want to increase her ability to play scrabble. She wants to play it. She wants to double click on the icon that is on the desktop (it's on the desktop since it's on of the three items ever used) and play scrabble.
And the final note, whatever scrabble game you'd find for linux might the the most amazing thing in the world but it's missing one thing. It's not Hoyle. It doesn't matter.
Another note: Linux games often (there are quite a few exception) don't look as good as their Windows counter parts. Find me a Linux Risk game that looks as good as Hasbro's Risk II (http://pc.ign.com/previews/13205.html is a good review).
Think of it this way before getting your panties in a bunch -- someone may go into a car dealership and ask for a yellow honda civic, you being the prick you are tell them that statistically white cars get in fewer accidents (it's true btw). The customer would look at you, they don't give a fuck - they what a yellow car because it's cute - it looks good.
> But don`t blame Linux for your being too lazy .
I don't blame Linux, I use Linux myself. My father couldn't set it up though and even if he did he couldn't go into Future Shop and buy a decent card, board or word game for his Linux system. He doesn't spend hours on end on the internet. He uses as a tool, not as a replacement for the lack of girlfriend that so many people here do.
Yeah, I guess you could consider me lazy - I could just write the scrabble game myself but I do have better things to do with my time. I'm not sure if many people (like yourself) get one thing. Most people use a computer like a TV. They don't want to build it from the ground up, they don't want to be a leet h4x0r. They use it for e-mail, a couple simple games and likely shut it off when not in use (so uptime as a penis measuring contest is pointless). The rest of the time these people are doing other things...going out with friends (not to LAN parties), raising their kids, going to their jobs or possibly reading a good book.
Thanks for the comment though...
Hoyle card and board games...
Linux needs a super scrabble game then we'll get all the moms.
I started using Linux back in the day when every version number began with a "0." including the kernel. In those days I had such a hard time getting Linux (Slackware) working but I did with the help of a friend. Configuring things like sound meant compiling the kernel again - which took a long time on my 386.
I gave Linux up for the past 2 years or so to be using OS X and Windows XP because "they worked". I deal with computer (WinNT, Win2K and Solaris) problems all day at work - it's not something I wanted to do when I got home. Using ones home PC shouldn't be like work.
I recently got rid of XP and installed Mandrake 8.2 (on my laptop none the less) and my god how the Linux world has changed while I was gone. The PCMCIA configuration used to freeze Dell laptops (you had to edit the config.opts to make it not prob a certain range). Sound used to be much harder to configure (ESS Maestro 3 support is a newer feature). And the NVidia X server was much harder to configure.
When I loaded it up this time I went to the console ONCE after installing and following the easy instruction at nvidia.com to install X. I then edited the inittab file (although even for that the system prompted me after testing and asked to do it for me).
Upon bootup, gnome asked what I wanted the system to look like (as opposed to assuming for me and making me look for the theme configuration), asked a couple basic questions concerning mail configuration and I was in. The configuration tools in Mandrake and Gnome are MUCH better than the Windows counterparts (comparable to OS X's).
It works now, it's back to being my stable system not because I want to learn how it work like I did several years ago but because it works - it's the best tool for the job.
I'm Microsoft free (at home) now - not because of moral standings but because they don't make a product that I want to use.
Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control
OR
Microsoft is in control.
Actually, I saw that as:
Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control
OR
Either the villanous attackers [M$] are in control/capable of control
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
A few others:
5. "If you don't wait twelve hours... you'll go blind." Or... maybe six.
I assume that he went blind in that eye.
Quote from movie: "In a world of the blind the one-eyed man is king." I assume that sentence was foreshadowing later on when Cruise was the one-eyed man and the one man who knew about the problem with precrime.
"The US, with the least government meddling in medicine, leads the world in medical advances."
Yet those advances only help those wealthly enough to pay for them.
I can understand wanting to have different passwords on each system but that can get complicated. Where I used to work I had to use two userids on over 160 servers (all clients which I had to access for trouble shooting) and over 10 master servers (1 userid). I could have used another document to store all the passwords but then it's the same deal - one person gets that file (even if it's encrypted), cracks it and then they have access to all - same deal as if I had one password. It wouldn't have been fesible for me to remember that many passwords - I have other things to remember.
I also have a Geforce2go, 1ghz laptop and I prefer playing games on my laptop than on a desktop. I do notice a slight difference but it's very small. I play Jedi Knight II: Outcast, GTA3, Quake3, UT and pong with no problems at all.
I prefer it because LCD screens are a lot easier on the eyes. I can't use a CRT monitor for lengthy periods of time now - they're ugly and painful.
I also have a better dot pitch on my LCD screen (no surprise there). I also have a 15 inch LCD screen which is quite good for a laptop and comparable in viewing area to some 17 inch screens.
In large businesses the situation is different. Veritas will release Netbackup 4.5 but that doesn't mean everyone running a backup envornment will upgrade immediately. With a couple million dollars worth of equipment and million dollar contracts you don't try something as soon as it comes out. You put it in your lab for several months and hammer it. You don't depend on another company telling you that the new version is much better even if they have a good reputation like Veritas.
I believe that this is one of the main reasons for the easy adaptation to a Windows enviroment in large businesses. If everyone uses Office 2000 and XP comes out they test the new product for months to ensure that no difficulties are encountered. When upgrading an OS (we all use 2000, not XP) - every single application the company uses must be tested in the new environment.
Gettign to the point now. Stability and compatibility are the two most important things in the enterprise enviroment. Release dates that vary by a couple weeks for even a couple months won't really affect large scale customers since they will have it in testing for months.
The Canadian military is currently using Windows 95 and Office97. For the past couple years they have had Windows 2000 and Office 2000 under testing. They will eventually transition to the new system. They wouldn't however be upset it the release of Windows 2000 or Office 2000 wasa delayed by a couple months since they spend years testing software and hardware before being used.
Release dates affect mostly home cnmsumers. The people upset that Office XP isn't out right now. The people that will buy it and install it on their main machine - if it break they rebuild from scratch.
On another note, I think this may be a reason that a Microsoft solution is used more often than a linux solution. Microsoft has much less updates. This is bad in the respect of needing security updates, patch fixes and other such things but it is good in the fact that not much changes over time. Does anyone here have a linux system from 1995 that they use on a daily basis and haven't updated since?
That's all for now...
In my experience Quake 3 would run about 4% slower under Linux (native linux client) with the same settings as under Windows 98. It would run faster if I compared it to 2000 (didn't have XP at the time).
I did this over multiple trials with an Nvidia card. Nothing terribly scientific just a real world test.
I remember having to delete Windows because I needed the 11 mb of space it was using for Warcraft....
Wow...my video card has more memory than my second computer had hard drive space (first one didn't have a hard drive).
Times certainly have changed....
I would have to disagree....I would have paid a lot more attention in class if I wasn't playing Golf or Parking lot on my pda. If I hadn't my four year program would have likely only took four years.
Actually, if you use Veritas Netbackup along with an Exchange agent you can back up an exchange database at the brick level. This allows you to restore a single mailbox or even parts of the mailbox (appointments for example).
In many companies however they prefer to have a separate Exchange server and just do regular backups (fulls and differentials) and then restore the full server. Then they'd get the system administrator to restore the mailbox individually. This can be a considered a third check. It's not hard to restore the wrong thing - doing that to a production machine isn't good.
What I wonder about isn't someone registering a domain and making a spoof site similar to its victim but rather making an identical site changing minor things such as announcements (products and performance).
Would a false announcement coming from a domain that looks like microsoft.com trick anyone? Could any newspapers, news stations, magazines, etc...(except slashdot...they'll post pretty much anything) actually be fooled. Could that have any impact to stock pricing?
Just a thought...
My favourite feature of Omniweb is the "Open Link Behind this Window". When I go to slashdot or any other news page I click the open link behind this window for everything that I wish to read then I go through the windows one by one. For Moz or IE I have to click open in new window hen click back to my original window then repeat. Not much more of a hassle it's just one little thing that I appreciate about Omniweb.
Check out the-numbers.com. They have plenty of stats on movies. Most notably is the gross per theatre a record that is held by Spider-Man.
Even though Spider-Man opened with more screens than AOTC it is still making more per screen than AOTC.
I think it was a bad decision that say that people that would buy an Xserve would also have to buy Jaguar when it came out. The Xserve is due in June, Jaguar in August.
It seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. If I was to order 40 Xserves that wouldn't arrive to June and then have to pay $1500 (Canadian) for each server in two months to get it to the updated OS then I would wait the two months and get jaguar bundled with the Xserve.
Am I missing something besides the fact that the only people that would buy it between June and August are the ones that really need the Xserves (they likely would already have another system - say with dell - in place) or the people that don't mind eating up such a large bill in two months.
I'm not sure how true this is but I've been told in the city I live in (Ottawa, Canada) we have more theatre seats than movie goers. Like I said I don't know how true it is but I have had no problems seeing Spider-Man, LOTR or Star Wars Phantom Menace on opening night without advanced tickets.
I did buy advanced tickets for Spider-Man since that was suppose to be as huge as the second comming but the theatre was only 1/3 full.
Is it actualoly difficult to get into some movies in other cities?
Likely one that will be answered easily here.
There was mention that Jaguar would require a 32mb video card. Being the owner of the crt iMac I obviously do not have one (16mb ATI). Does anyone know if the higher end video card would be required to update to 10.2 and just have some features turned off (the hand writting software for instance could be completely disabled).
I can see why I would need to have a 32mb 3d video card just so I can finally be able to print to a CUPS printer. Thanks.
Please check the following resources
The old iMac
The new iMac
You should probably inform Apple that they aren't supposed to be shipping systems with pc100 RAM and upgrade to the pc133 RAM since you appear to be more informed then they are.
OT: Do any of the other Sci-Fi (ST, B5, whatever) stars hang around slashdot or is it just Wil?
It'd be great to know and hopefully interviews would follow.
I just check the response I got from from the radio station when I complained at it. This is what I got (I mentioned how they only seem to play that crap on MTV and not until MTV start playing it and not when the cd is released):
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the reason radio plays songs when MTV starts playing it is because its considered a "single." This means that record companys are promoting the song to radio stations and have essentially "released" it to be played over the airways.
You play the shit out of a song till the next "single" is released off the album. This is the basis of the relationship between bands and labels exist.
--
So it's not the ability...that was my mistake. It's a "relationship".
In other conversations he did say allowed but you're right, it's probably the music rep determining that's allowed and in most cases I guess it would be whatever would better the relationship with the label.
> 1) Some people will pay money anyway for CD's if they like them enough.
.. Test drive you say? I'm afraid we don't allow test drives. You have to buy it first and if you have any problems with it you can come back and we'll shove this large screw up your ass." That doesn't work in the real world. I can't wait until the IT world starts working like the real world - where people are held accountable for their actions (most of the time anyway)
>
> 2) Alot more people would buy the music if they sold them directly over the internet.
I agree with point number 1. I buy music for the bands that I enjoy. I then rip it to my iPod and place the CD in storage (don't have a CD player in the car, I use the iPod).
As for point number 2, I disagree. I think more people would buy music if they could listen to it first (which many do already but it's not endorsed). Radio stations are not allowed to play certain songs. In many cases the music label will prevent a station from playing a song on an already released CD if they plan on releasing a single or music video. I've had this debate on the XFM (local radio station) message board. They'll play one song by an artist and won't play anything else off of the CD - reason is they are allowed. That was the deal with SOAD. They'd play Chop Suey all the time but wouldn't play Toxicity until they were told they were allowed to. It's stupid I agree. My point is I hear a song by a group and I'll go on the net, download the rest of the CD to see if it's good - THEN I'll buy it. So many bands are one hit wonders. I heard the Trik Turner song Friends and Family and thought it was alright - it might be worth buying. I thought I should check out the rest of the disc first. I found out that Trik Turner is a lot harder music than Friends and Family is. I liked it and went out to buy it. In this case, the one hit that Trik Turner has is nothing like the rest of the disc (it's better) - in order cases it's much worse.
Listening to the cd before buying it is like test driving a car. Sure the dealer would be pissed off if you took a car for a test drive and never came back but no dealer in their right mind would say "Oh, you're interested in that car? It's a great car, it's blue. Would you like to buy it?
d) Americans just can't handle voting systems.
I find Virutal Desktops really helpful. I'm at work right now and must monitor 8 master servers (Terminal services). I have 3 on desktop 2, 3 on desktop 3 and 2 on desktop 4. I have a monitoring tool for batch streams running on desktop one (this usually has 4 - 16 windows itself). Desktop 5 has documents open that I have to update constantly (turnovers, procedures, recoridng utilities and contacts). On desktop 6 I have my ticketing utilities open (I have three different databases to use). On desktop 7 is slashdot and other personal use (CTRL-ALT-# to go to another screen and look like I'm working). Desktop 8 I use for e-mail (that could be put on another dekstop easily).
This is all done under windows using Cool Desk. This is also all done on a laptop witha 14.1 inch screen and a max resolution of 1024x768. If I had all these windows minimized in the task bar they are roughly 15 pixels wide and I am unable to determine one window from the others. ALT-TABing through the windows can get quite tedious. The other option is to have my taskbar being four rows high - although this leaves little space to work or auto-hide which I can't use thanks to having to use PC Anywhere (if a PC Anywhere window is at the bottom then the auto-hide doesn't work for some reason) and Exceed (same prob as PC Anywhere).
All in all, I could work without virtual desktops it's just a hassle to do so.
And yes....I do need all the windows open at the same time.