It's interesting because I went through severe withdrawls when I went 64 bit and couldn't get Flash to work. So much so that I went back to 32bit. Eventually I swapped back and got 32bit mplayer to work so I could play my older movies with the windows codec pack. I never got flash to work though, but as time went on I find more and more that I don't care. Some sites can't be navigated without it, but 95% of the time I can just hit the back button because they aren't important. One benefit is that google video allows me to download the movies because I don't have flash. Another benefit is that Firefox doesn't use anywhere near as much RAM and is far more stable without flash.
I got involved in MMORPGs before and it had a rather negative effect on my life. Luckily I was in college so I wasn't expected to be productive =) The first thing that cought my eye was:
70+ days "/played," and one "real" year later...
Heh, ouch. I remember how many people such as myself would refuse to every type that command because it was too scary to think about. I think when you reach that point it might be a good indicator to pull away.
Krita is already set to run them over, it's just a matter of time. The application has gone to a crash prone app with a barely useful featureset, to fairly stable with a modest featureset in a very short timespan. And it seems like it's just gaining more momentum as it goes on. For now development will probably slow as everyone works hard on porting to KDE4, but make no mistake that this app is the graphical interface many have been begging for on Linux. Many of us use the Gimp because there's no other option (or we don't feel like using photoshop in wine), but there will soon be a point where the gimp is going to end up a rather orphaned application as far as their userbase goes. With QT being cross platform, I might even be a bit conserned if I were Corel - the {now} owners of PaintShop Pro.
Surely you should be buying the products that give you the best value, no matter which supplier that may be
While I generally agree with this I eventually came to the conclusion that I would support the company that actually adressed my needs. When I wanted to pay less for a processor, AMD had a resonable price. When Intel said desktop users didn't need 64 bits, AMD found a way for additional benefits in a compatible way. When I wanted more efficent processors that used less power, AMD led the way. Some may say that Intel is now doing both, but Intel isn't listening to me, they are reacting to AMD. If there were no AMD would any of my concerns be considered? I doubt it.
I'm sticking with AMD partially out of loyalty to what they have brought me in computing and how they have addressed my needs. The other part is I've standardized on mainboards so I'm going to stick with them for at least a little while longer. Maybe 2008 I'll re-evaluate where I stand.
Personally I don't think this is a big deal, but keep in mind that Microsoft is supposed to be keeping to the "security is everything mantra". The fact that authentication is sort of bolted on afterwards makes me wonder where else MS is just stuffing in security stuff as an afterthought.
It's unfortunate that the Gimp people just don't get the fact that so many people hate their interface. Some love it, and that's fine but many such as myself hate it with a passion. The BEST thing they could do is cut the gimp into libgimp and gimp-ui. Then let others take a stab at the interface. No one is arguing that the gimp isn't functional, it's just that getting to that functionality is a pain for many. Abstracting the UI would be a good step that allows people to tune the interface to their tastes while still getting at Gimps capability.
Reality is though, that they aren't going to listen and Krita will eat up their userbase pretty damn fast as it improves.
I think this is BS besides that. The biggest feature for developers is that Firefox/Mozilla is standards compliant. This means that every browser which follows the standard renders the stuff the same. Then people can pick whatever browser they choose. That really IS one of the main points of having a standard after all. If you're going to complain that Ice Weasle is fragmenting the market, then you might as well demonize Safari and Khtml as well. I'm not sure why people would get worked up over Ice Weasle but not be concerned about someone being able to use Konqueror on Debian.
It may be wheel reinvention but so is 99% of all Linux software... or all software period for that matter. I've never used kopete myself, but judging by how well kde apps integrate I would guess that kopete is reinvented not just for the sake of doing it, but for having the engine available to all other kde apps. I'm sure they could make some sort of dcop wrapper for libgaim, but I'm sure that if they really wanted to, they could have made a wrapper for gimp as well.
The open source desktop already has enough of applications that have nothing to do with each other cobbled together for a distro. Trying to keep a consistent desktop is a good goal for the KDE project, and I think that's what they're really trying to accomplish with all of their apps that already have equivalents available.
It's a "windows"-ism. Maybe I'll call this archen's law or something, but no matter how big a monitor is at any resolution, windows users ALWAYS maximize their applications if they can.
Man, I seriously cannot believe this country anymore. Everyone sues everyone for everything. In this case the person sues someone and doesn't even CARE. Now the defendant who can't even afford a lawyer is fucked with an couple million dallar bill. And what did this woman do that is worth 11 million? You know I probably won't have a personal output of $11 million over my whole life. What is really worth taking the personal 'worth output' of a person in this way?
Day after day I'm seeing lawyers fuck this country up. People critisize the government for its inefficencies, but the thing which is truly starting to drag this country down is the inefficency of our legal system. Just about every task in this country requires some expensive lawyer to get anything accomplished. Why is it that people who are merely supposed to fascilitate the justice system getting so rich? Our country is taking massive ammounts of productivity and wealth and basically putting it to the torch every time another lawyer fee is extracted. Cases such as this are not only abserd because the punishment is out of wack with the crime, but because the system actively encourages people to pursue such suits.
Yeah that strikes me as odd. At home I switch mainboards on a regular basis (test driving them for work). I've never had a problem with Linux, aside from perhaps a different network driver or such. Windows almost ALWAYS ends up in BSOD mode - and a reinstall to fix it. I wouldn't do a mainboard swap on a windows server unless it was the very LAST option.
Think I've seen those to. It's also less true now with SAS and SATA. But I'm seriously not going to explain that to people. Come to think of it the last S in SAS is an acronym for an acronym...
I tried that, and to tell you the truth, at my age the drugs, sex and skydiving took it's toll on me after 3 years strait. Especially when you do them all at the same time.
Funny thing is I don't even know what a lot of the acronyms stand for, and some have variances for that matter. Take IDE (ATA) vs SATA vs SCSI. While I am very familiar with the technology, I can't really say what the acronym is for and I'm not sure it matters either. Often there are language work arounds, like instead of saying one computer has a SCSI drive which won't work with IDE you just say they're different types of hard drives.
But lets assume that I don't really need support but just want security updates (assuming Redhat didn't just dump support for RH7,8,9). I'm still getting updates for Win2k. Redhat wants you to pay for security updates _every year_! Over 7 years:
Win2k: $140 Redhat: $299 x 7 = $2093
Not that I like Microsoft or anything but windows seems reasonable at that price. This is of course a cherry-picked example because Redhat's expectations of payment are completely abserd. When you look at the prices, open source distros that are commercially supported should try to be on par with the microsoft price. I doubt anyone is going to feel an itching to switch to open source if the price is higher.
It could be smarter though. Kmail for instance has a button that says "check what the server supports". You click it and it figures it out for you. Maybe it doesn't work all the time, but I've never had problems with it.
I detect sarcasm in your post. Everyone knows that you must work much harder to earn money for the honor of purchasing a ps3. But you must also prove your worthyness by placing the PS3 on a air-conditioned gold plated Sony shrine. Consumers who don't understand this probably aren't ready for the gift upon humanity which is the PlayStation 3.
They'd have to sort through hours of "Micr0$0f7 suxx, lam3r!!!"
Actually if I were a top exec at MS I'd be very interested in these posts as well. When people flame windows what do they usually point out? These are the top things that you need to work on (perception wise) to change in Windows. For each argument against windows you render irrelevent, windows becames a product which is harder and harder to argue against. With Linux gaining pros and fixing cons, that's going to become more important.
What google will contribute is probably going to be arguable even 20 years down the road. However it doesn't take long for your legacy to erase itself by sheer chance. Twenty years from now google may look for that old garage only to find it had become a parking lot 5 years earlier. I sort of realized how easily history can be lost when I was looking through a Fender guitar magazine. They had wanted to produce an authentic reproduction of origonal Fender models, however no one actually remembered how they made them. I'm sure 10 years after the company was on its way people would have said, "who cares about how they were made, it's not that different now"... but 20,30,50 years down the road, just spending a few extra dollars for a bookmark in your history can make all the difference.
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It's interesting because I went through severe withdrawls when I went 64 bit and couldn't get Flash to work. So much so that I went back to 32bit. Eventually I swapped back and got 32bit mplayer to work so I could play my older movies with the windows codec pack. I never got flash to work though, but as time went on I find more and more that I don't care. Some sites can't be navigated without it, but 95% of the time I can just hit the back button because they aren't important. One benefit is that google video allows me to download the movies because I don't have flash. Another benefit is that Firefox doesn't use anywhere near as much RAM and is far more stable without flash.
Good riddance.
Heh, that would be rich. They port it to linux but drom windows 2000.
I got involved in MMORPGs before and it had a rather negative effect on my life. Luckily I was in college so I wasn't expected to be productive =) The first thing that cought my eye was:
70+ days "/played," and one "real" year later...
Heh, ouch. I remember how many people such as myself would refuse to every type that command because it was too scary to think about. I think when you reach that point it might be a good indicator to pull away.
Krita is already set to run them over, it's just a matter of time. The application has gone to a crash prone app with a barely useful featureset, to fairly stable with a modest featureset in a very short timespan. And it seems like it's just gaining more momentum as it goes on. For now development will probably slow as everyone works hard on porting to KDE4, but make no mistake that this app is the graphical interface many have been begging for on Linux. Many of us use the Gimp because there's no other option (or we don't feel like using photoshop in wine), but there will soon be a point where the gimp is going to end up a rather orphaned application as far as their userbase goes. With QT being cross platform, I might even be a bit conserned if I were Corel - the {now} owners of PaintShop Pro.
Intel
;-)
(Too bad they don't make boards for the AMD processors
Surely you should be buying the products that give you the best value, no matter which supplier that may be
While I generally agree with this I eventually came to the conclusion that I would support the company that actually adressed my needs. When I wanted to pay less for a processor, AMD had a resonable price. When Intel said desktop users didn't need 64 bits, AMD found a way for additional benefits in a compatible way. When I wanted more efficent processors that used less power, AMD led the way. Some may say that Intel is now doing both, but Intel isn't listening to me, they are reacting to AMD. If there were no AMD would any of my concerns be considered? I doubt it.
I'm sticking with AMD partially out of loyalty to what they have brought me in computing and how they have addressed my needs. The other part is I've standardized on mainboards so I'm going to stick with them for at least a little while longer. Maybe 2008 I'll re-evaluate where I stand.
My main wish is to be able to configure the mouse menu. Then I could remove crap like "send this link".
care to elaborate on what those might be? Just curious.
Personally I don't think this is a big deal, but keep in mind that Microsoft is supposed to be keeping to the "security is everything mantra". The fact that authentication is sort of bolted on afterwards makes me wonder where else MS is just stuffing in security stuff as an afterthought.
It's unfortunate that the Gimp people just don't get the fact that so many people hate their interface. Some love it, and that's fine but many such as myself hate it with a passion. The BEST thing they could do is cut the gimp into libgimp and gimp-ui. Then let others take a stab at the interface. No one is arguing that the gimp isn't functional, it's just that getting to that functionality is a pain for many. Abstracting the UI would be a good step that allows people to tune the interface to their tastes while still getting at Gimps capability.
Reality is though, that they aren't going to listen and Krita will eat up their userbase pretty damn fast as it improves.
I think this is BS besides that. The biggest feature for developers is that Firefox/Mozilla is standards compliant. This means that every browser which follows the standard renders the stuff the same. Then people can pick whatever browser they choose. That really IS one of the main points of having a standard after all. If you're going to complain that Ice Weasle is fragmenting the market, then you might as well demonize Safari and Khtml as well. I'm not sure why people would get worked up over Ice Weasle but not be concerned about someone being able to use Konqueror on Debian.
It may be wheel reinvention but so is 99% of all Linux software... or all software period for that matter. I've never used kopete myself, but judging by how well kde apps integrate I would guess that kopete is reinvented not just for the sake of doing it, but for having the engine available to all other kde apps. I'm sure they could make some sort of dcop wrapper for libgaim, but I'm sure that if they really wanted to, they could have made a wrapper for gimp as well.
The open source desktop already has enough of applications that have nothing to do with each other cobbled together for a distro. Trying to keep a consistent desktop is a good goal for the KDE project, and I think that's what they're really trying to accomplish with all of their apps that already have equivalents available.
It's a "windows"-ism. Maybe I'll call this archen's law or something, but no matter how big a monitor is at any resolution, windows users ALWAYS maximize their applications if they can.
Man, I seriously cannot believe this country anymore. Everyone sues everyone for everything. In this case the person sues someone and doesn't even CARE. Now the defendant who can't even afford a lawyer is fucked with an couple million dallar bill. And what did this woman do that is worth 11 million? You know I probably won't have a personal output of $11 million over my whole life. What is really worth taking the personal 'worth output' of a person in this way?
Day after day I'm seeing lawyers fuck this country up. People critisize the government for its inefficencies, but the thing which is truly starting to drag this country down is the inefficency of our legal system. Just about every task in this country requires some expensive lawyer to get anything accomplished. Why is it that people who are merely supposed to fascilitate the justice system getting so rich? Our country is taking massive ammounts of productivity and wealth and basically putting it to the torch every time another lawyer fee is extracted. Cases such as this are not only abserd because the punishment is out of wack with the crime, but because the system actively encourages people to pursue such suits.
Yeah that strikes me as odd. At home I switch mainboards on a regular basis (test driving them for work). I've never had a problem with Linux, aside from perhaps a different network driver or such. Windows almost ALWAYS ends up in BSOD mode - and a reinstall to fix it. I wouldn't do a mainboard swap on a windows server unless it was the very LAST option.
Think I've seen those to. It's also less true now with SAS and SATA. But I'm seriously not going to explain that to people. Come to think of it the last S in SAS is an acronym for an acronym...
I tried that, and to tell you the truth, at my age the drugs, sex and skydiving took it's toll on me after 3 years strait. Especially when you do them all at the same time.
Funny thing is I don't even know what a lot of the acronyms stand for, and some have variances for that matter. Take IDE (ATA) vs SATA vs SCSI. While I am very familiar with the technology, I can't really say what the acronym is for and I'm not sure it matters either. Often there are language work arounds, like instead of saying one computer has a SCSI drive which won't work with IDE you just say they're different types of hard drives.
But lets assume that I don't really need support but just want security updates (assuming Redhat didn't just dump support for RH7,8,9). I'm still getting updates for Win2k. Redhat wants you to pay for security updates _every year_! Over 7 years:
Win2k: $140
Redhat: $299 x 7 = $2093
Not that I like Microsoft or anything but windows seems reasonable at that price. This is of course a cherry-picked example because Redhat's expectations of payment are completely abserd. When you look at the prices, open source distros that are commercially supported should try to be on par with the microsoft price. I doubt anyone is going to feel an itching to switch to open source if the price is higher.
It could be smarter though. Kmail for instance has a button that says "check what the server supports". You click it and it figures it out for you. Maybe it doesn't work all the time, but I've never had problems with it.
I detect sarcasm in your post. Everyone knows that you must work much harder to earn money for the honor of purchasing a ps3. But you must also prove your worthyness by placing the PS3 on a air-conditioned gold plated Sony shrine. Consumers who don't understand this probably aren't ready for the gift upon humanity which is the PlayStation 3.
~ Sony Executive
Considering the number of problems that continue to be found in the Javascript engine, I wouldn't get too comfortable.
They'd have to sort through hours of "Micr0$0f7 suxx, lam3r!!!"
Actually if I were a top exec at MS I'd be very interested in these posts as well. When people flame windows what do they usually point out? These are the top things that you need to work on (perception wise) to change in Windows. For each argument against windows you render irrelevent, windows becames a product which is harder and harder to argue against. With Linux gaining pros and fixing cons, that's going to become more important.
Once they get to 20 years old
What google will contribute is probably going to be arguable even 20 years down the road. However it doesn't take long for your legacy to erase itself by sheer chance. Twenty years from now google may look for that old garage only to find it had become a parking lot 5 years earlier. I sort of realized how easily history can be lost when I was looking through a Fender guitar magazine. They had wanted to produce an authentic reproduction of origonal Fender models, however no one actually remembered how they made them. I'm sure 10 years after the company was on its way people would have said, "who cares about how they were made, it's not that different now"... but 20,30,50 years down the road, just spending a few extra dollars for a bookmark in your history can make all the difference.
Sorry dude, takes more than snow to get rid of them. Believe me :)