What needs to happen is for gaming companies to write Linux versions of games so that there won't be any performance issues due to running in some Windows environment or emulator.
I think the fact that many are buying Cedega and other Windows environment programs to play Windows games under Linux shows that there is a need for Linux native games.
My brother is a Gamehead and the only reason that he uses Windows XP still is because running the Windows games under Linux gives him great lag and performance issues. He says that if they wrote Linux native versions of the games, he'd switch to Linux.
Your competition can use anonymous proxies and tor servers to go online with sockpuppet accounts and totally trash your name or your company's name and there is nothing you can do about it!
Even better if they recruit people from colleges and other message boards to go about and repeat their libel about you and your company so that their hands don't get dirty.
The Democrats do this quite a bit against Republicans, more so than the Republicans do it against Democrats. Simply because public schools and colleges are staffed mostly by left-wing political zealots pretending to be teachers and teaching left-wing dogma. Then when their students get on the Internet, they trash everything that is not left-wing and form sites like Wikipedia, The Daily Kos, blogs, forums, whatever they want.
There ought to be laws against that sort of thing, and there are for commercials on TV and radio, but not for the Internet because you cannot police the Internet with the level of anonymous users from anywhere in the world.
How can you discuss what you don't even know and are not an expert on? I'll bet you've never even been to Thailand or even know what their Constitution says because obviously you don't know what the US Constitution or EU Constitution (being voted on) say either.
If you don't happen to like something, you want to force your changes on it even if you don't fully understand it, and that is why you are a tyrant trying to force your views and opinions on others even if you are ignorant of the facts.
the man who defaced pictures of the King is a vandal who defaced government property. It is no different than throwing rocks at government windows.
How would you like the man to come into your house as a guest and then vandalize all of your pictures of you and your family? He has the freedom of speech, and you claim that gives him the right to vandalize property that isn't his? He was a guest of the Thai government and he decided to vandalize government property and was found guilty of that by a jury of his peers.
It isn't about freedoms and rights, it is about laws and customs. You cannot go into another country and just say "I am not a Thai citizen, your Mickey Mouse laws don't apply to me!" because they do apply to you.
If you don't agree with that or can't understand that, then you are not qualified to discuss it.
PETA has a history of comparing animal rights to human rights and is basically saying that animals need human rights and that slaughterhouses are just as bad as the holocaust and that chickens deserve human rights protection. Proven, next time do a little research before you call something illogical you seem to suffer from the false authority fallacy and the common belief fallacy.
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You are not an expert and you don't know what you are talking about. This is not about freedom and rights, it is about law and customs of a foreign nation. I call you on it and you go on a rant and show that it is you who are in the intellectual sewer. You don't care about anyone's rights or freedoms, just on your ability to attack and threaten and allowing others to attack and threaten and violate culture and laws of a foreign nation. Most racists and bigots talk about specific things all of the time. You are one total waste of a human being and are totally pathetic and useless, lucky for you that you have rights and freedoms that you abuse to harm others with. You can hide behind them like the coward that you are, and it still dosen't change who and what you are.
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If you have to ask why then you have failed at international diplomacy. If you don't know anything about the subject, then you should not claim to be an expert at it.
If you want to disrespect and trash a foreign nation just because they are not the same as you, that makes you a bigot and a racist.
Only if you can prove that chickens and other animals will not eventually be given the same rights as chimps. Which you have not done. Yet you seem to ignore the agenda of PETA, giving all animals the same rights as humans, and that is not a fallacy, and it proved my statement is not a fallacy either.
I have a nervous disorder and my hands shake when I write. It is like Parkison's disease. Really bad handwriting.
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They have laws against making the King look bad, putting feet on his head is a taboo and a sign of disrespect. Unlike the rest of the free world, Thailand has freedom of speech but only if it is responsible. If it is not responsible it is against the law. That is the way it should be in the USA and Europe. You cannot use it to attack and threaten people and when you do you lost your right to the freedom of speech.
I have family in Thailand and my wife is from there, but she was born in the USA and her mother moved back to Thailand when she was 3.
Don't judge Thailand by western standards, it really shows how ugly you are. That is why some of Asia does not like westerners, but the Thai people are an exception they like everyone as long as they respect their culture.
I write a presentation and I get told I use too many words, sum it up take some out and make it shorter and the words bigger. Until it is bullet points, five per page, with pictures. Of course some information will be lost that way. If I do it the way I want to do it, I get a lower grade and people get bored and lose interest in the presentation. The presentation is an important part of some college classes.
Because we knew about it since 1995 or earlier and had at least five years to fix it. Time enough to make the Y2K changes to make sure everything worked.
How much notice was given on the DST change? Five years or less? I think the former.
first chimps are given human rights, and then cows/bulls, chickens/roosters, pigs, etc. Before you know it the whole animal kingdom is given human rights and then meat is outlawed. Not that anyone would eat a chimp, but it makes sense to give a chimp the rights first and then the other animals later using the chimp case as a reference for the other cases.
Actually if you strip out all of the spyware/adware and useless features of Vista and get with the core of the OS it can run in 256M of RAM. I heard that the Internet Pirates had a stripped down version of Vista that was 400M in side on a CD-ROM that ran the basics for the OS. No Media Player, no Aero, no annoying security thing, etc. Then I wonder to myself, why didn't Microsoft just sell a stripped down version of Vista for those who don't want all of the extra stuff and call it Vista Core Edition or something? Maybe that BartPE tool will find a way to make a Live CD version of Vista the same way it made a Live CD version of XP?
Yeah with all of the extra stuff it needs 1G of RAM. Even more if you have a crappy video adapter on the motherboard that shares system RAM with video RAM, and then you need at least 1.5G of RAM.
I got a friend who tried to patch an Exchange Server and had nothing but headaches from trying to patch it. Microsoft made it so complex that it required a small book to read in order to figure out. Simple patches like that should be easier to use and not require reading more than two pages of information.
My Tivo messed up my viewing schedule and it refused to download that 6.2 update and stayed on the 6.1 update.
So who do we send the bill to for all of the lost time and productivity it took to solve this DST/Y2K7 Issue?
Text to speech software mispronounces "C"'s as "S"'s and makes other mistakes and are unfair to the blind, and double unfair to the deaf and blind.
I suppose next you give third world nations our unused 286 and 386 systems with Windows 3.0 and MS-DOS 5.0 on them? Perhaps they would care for OS/2 2.0 instead?
Electronic Books, there are eBook devices with better features and about the same or lower prices on the market. Not to mention there are a $99 PalmOS devices that have better features than the OLPC device.
You are stupid enough to think that this BS actually does people in third world nations a favor? More the fool you! Just STFU because you don't know what the heck you're talking about and I've visited Thailand and I know what they want more than you do. I actually did my research and you didn't. I studied international management and foreign relations, and I graduates with honors from college. That proves that I am not stupid, but you are.
So go die in a fire, and use your "real" laptop for yourself, because chances are even you wouldn't use that XO OLPC piece of sh*t that you are defending as your primary computer, hypocrite!
Don't worry about a black market, even thieves are not that desperate that they would want to steal an obvious POS like that pathetic thing. I think they'd rather steal a "real" laptop than some "toy" laptop. A pity that the "toy" laptop will make the child using it, wish he or she had a "real" laptop like those students not in third world nations. Way to discriminate against third world students and give them an inferior product to that in the first world.
I am not the one calling it a laptop, the OLPC program has the "L" in it that stands for laptop. So if you want to call someone stupid for calling it a laptop, blame the company that makes it.
OEBPC makes better sense as One Electronic Book Per Child.
The only ones stupid here is you and people who made the thing.
I had a blind grandfather who fought for books to be printed in braille in public libraries, such books exist if you ask for them. So I ask if a blind person can use this "electronic book" and wonder if the screen has bumps that can rise up, because when you start replacing paper books with this thing, it is really going to hurt blind students if it does not.
For $300 you can get a Vista Basic system with MS-Works on it. The Mac Mini costs $599.
PC makers give a good discount and also rebates to get lower than Apple on system prices.
Besides Vista Home Basic sells for like $199 or $99 for the upgrade, now show me a Macintosh that runs OSX and costs $199 new and I'll buy one.
True that the Vista Ultimate version is expensive, but not everyone needs the Ultimate version and can make do with Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium and Businesses make do with Vista Business.
If you want to compare prices of MS-Office on a PC to a Mac, be sure to include the cost of MS-Office for the Mac as well.
Perhaps I got the wrong person breaking the crank but the crank did break. But at least I don't resort to name calling like a 4 year-old child would when I disagree with someone.
Thailand says they don't want the OLPC, and so does India critics from those countries have cited that the OLPC is not mature enough and doesn't have the quality that they need for their education system.
433Mhz processor 7.5 inch LCD display No rotating media (no floppies, CDs, DVDs) No hard drive but a 1024Mbyte flash drive.
The quality of this laptop is far below the standard that other laptop makers use, while this quality might have been good for 1993, times have changed. India, Thailand, and other nations want a more mature OLPC program with a better quality laptop that can compete with modern laptops. Students want to use CDs and DVDs on the laptops, and be able to bring data to them from older systems that use floppy disks. They want to store media files and that 1024M of storage will fill up fast. I mean for the modern student that wants to record a video presentation for class, this laptop will not do. Not only that but the 7.5 inch screen is tiny and hard to read.
This looks like the type of Laptop that Mattel or some other toy maker might make. Are you kidding me?
If anyone should have their intelligence questioned it is the people in the OLPC program.
any more that McDonald's is afraid of Longhorn Steakhouse taking away all of their business.
Microsoft and McDonald's cater to the low cost, good enough crowd who don't care too much for quality. Apple and Longhorn Steakhouse cater to the high cost, best effort crowd who does care for quality. They are both competing in two totally different markets.
This gives a great opportunity to allow Visual Studio developers to port code to Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, etc by having Dotnet and Mono synch up to be 100% compatible in the code and CIL, CLR used.
It also would allow Microsoft to more easily port Visual Studio to Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, and other platforms that Microsoft claims is too hard to port Visual Studio over to. After that is done, Microsoft can port their application software to those platforms more easily rather than rewriting code for a separate Windows and Mac version of MS-Office, etc. Then it would be one code base, and recompiled for each platform using Dotnet/Mono libraries. If Mono is finally 100% compatible with Dotnet, then the CIL and CLR code will run under Mono as well as it does under Dotnet on Windows. Since Mono exists for multiple operating systems, all that is needed is to compile the code for that OS and it makes cross-compiling easy and less costly.
Think of all the money in R&D that Microsoft would save, if it partners up with Novell and Mono just on the R&R of OSX applications that Microsoft writes if the same code can be used for Windows and OSX with just being recompiled.
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for running Windows games under Linux.
What needs to happen is for gaming companies to write Linux versions of games so that there won't be any performance issues due to running in some Windows environment or emulator.
I think the fact that many are buying Cedega and other Windows environment programs to play Windows games under Linux shows that there is a need for Linux native games.
My brother is a Gamehead and the only reason that he uses Windows XP still is because running the Windows games under Linux gives him great lag and performance issues. He says that if they wrote Linux native versions of the games, he'd switch to Linux.
I hope this cuts down on their R&D costs and allows them to make cheaper Palm Pilot PDAs as a result.
you cannot control message boards.
Your competition can use anonymous proxies and tor servers to go online with sockpuppet accounts and totally trash your name or your company's name and there is nothing you can do about it!
Even better if they recruit people from colleges and other message boards to go about and repeat their libel about you and your company so that their hands don't get dirty.
The Democrats do this quite a bit against Republicans, more so than the Republicans do it against Democrats. Simply because public schools and colleges are staffed mostly by left-wing political zealots pretending to be teachers and teaching left-wing dogma. Then when their students get on the Internet, they trash everything that is not left-wing and form sites like Wikipedia, The Daily Kos, blogs, forums, whatever they want.
There ought to be laws against that sort of thing, and there are for commercials on TV and radio, but not for the Internet because you cannot police the Internet with the level of anonymous users from anywhere in the world.
How can you discuss what you don't even know and are not an expert on? I'll bet you've never even been to Thailand or even know what their Constitution says because obviously you don't know what the US Constitution or EU Constitution (being voted on) say either.
If you don't happen to like something, you want to force your changes on it even if you don't fully understand it, and that is why you are a tyrant trying to force your views and opinions on others even if you are ignorant of the facts.
the man who defaced pictures of the King is a vandal who defaced government property. It is no different than throwing rocks at government windows.
How would you like the man to come into your house as a guest and then vandalize all of your pictures of you and your family? He has the freedom of speech, and you claim that gives him the right to vandalize property that isn't his? He was a guest of the Thai government and he decided to vandalize government property and was found guilty of that by a jury of his peers.
It isn't about freedoms and rights, it is about laws and customs. You cannot go into another country and just say "I am not a Thai citizen, your Mickey Mouse laws don't apply to me!" because they do apply to you.
If you don't agree with that or can't understand that, then you are not qualified to discuss it.
PETA has a history of comparing animal rights to human rights and is basically saying that animals need human rights and that slaughterhouses are just as bad as the holocaust and that chickens deserve human rights protection. Proven, next time do a little research before you call something illogical you seem to suffer from the false authority fallacy and the common belief fallacy.
You are not an expert and you don't know what you are talking about. This is not about freedom and rights, it is about law and customs of a foreign nation. I call you on it and you go on a rant and show that it is you who are in the intellectual sewer. You don't care about anyone's rights or freedoms, just on your ability to attack and threaten and allowing others to attack and threaten and violate culture and laws of a foreign nation. Most racists and bigots talk about specific things all of the time. You are one total waste of a human being and are totally pathetic and useless, lucky for you that you have rights and freedoms that you abuse to harm others with. You can hide behind them like the coward that you are, and it still dosen't change who and what you are.
If you have to ask why then you have failed at international diplomacy. If you don't know anything about the subject, then you should not claim to be an expert at it.
If you want to disrespect and trash a foreign nation just because they are not the same as you, that makes you a bigot and a racist.
Only if you can prove that chickens and other animals will not eventually be given the same rights as chimps. Which you have not done. Yet you seem to ignore the agenda of PETA, giving all animals the same rights as humans, and that is not a fallacy, and it proved my statement is not a fallacy either.
I have a nervous disorder and my hands shake when I write. It is like Parkison's disease. Really bad handwriting.
They have laws against making the King look bad, putting feet on his head is a taboo and a sign of disrespect. Unlike the rest of the free world, Thailand has freedom of speech but only if it is responsible. If it is not responsible it is against the law. That is the way it should be in the USA and Europe. You cannot use it to attack and threaten people and when you do you lost your right to the freedom of speech.
I have family in Thailand and my wife is from there, but she was born in the USA and her mother moved back to Thailand when she was 3.
Don't judge Thailand by western standards, it really shows how ugly you are. That is why some of Asia does not like westerners, but the Thai people are an exception they like everyone as long as they respect their culture.
so how are we supposed to give a presentation?
I write a presentation and I get told I use too many words, sum it up take some out and make it shorter and the words bigger. Until it is bullet points, five per page, with pictures. Of course some information will be lost that way. If I do it the way I want to do it, I get a lower grade and people get bored and lose interest in the presentation. The presentation is an important part of some college classes.
Because we knew about it since 1995 or earlier and had at least five years to fix it. Time enough to make the Y2K changes to make sure everything worked.
How much notice was given on the DST change? Five years or less? I think the former.
first chimps are given human rights, and then cows/bulls, chickens/roosters, pigs, etc. Before you know it the whole animal kingdom is given human rights and then meat is outlawed. Not that anyone would eat a chimp, but it makes sense to give a chimp the rights first and then the other animals later using the chimp case as a reference for the other cases.
Actually if you strip out all of the spyware/adware and useless features of Vista and get with the core of the OS it can run in 256M of RAM. I heard that the Internet Pirates had a stripped down version of Vista that was 400M in side on a CD-ROM that ran the basics for the OS. No Media Player, no Aero, no annoying security thing, etc. Then I wonder to myself, why didn't Microsoft just sell a stripped down version of Vista for those who don't want all of the extra stuff and call it Vista Core Edition or something? Maybe that BartPE tool will find a way to make a Live CD version of Vista the same way it made a Live CD version of XP?
Yeah with all of the extra stuff it needs 1G of RAM. Even more if you have a crappy video adapter on the motherboard that shares system RAM with video RAM, and then you need at least 1.5G of RAM.
I am calling DST the Y2K7 Bug.
I got a friend who tried to patch an Exchange Server and had nothing but headaches from trying to patch it. Microsoft made it so complex that it required a small book to read in order to figure out. Simple patches like that should be easier to use and not require reading more than two pages of information.
My Tivo messed up my viewing schedule and it refused to download that 6.2 update and stayed on the 6.1 update.
So who do we send the bill to for all of the lost time and productivity it took to solve this DST/Y2K7 Issue?
Equal rights for equal laptops!
Text to speech software mispronounces "C"'s as "S"'s and makes other mistakes and are unfair to the blind, and double unfair to the deaf and blind.
I suppose next you give third world nations our unused 286 and 386 systems with Windows 3.0 and MS-DOS 5.0 on them? Perhaps they would care for OS/2 2.0 instead?
Electronic Books, there are eBook devices with better features and about the same or lower prices on the market. Not to mention there are a $99 PalmOS devices that have better features than the OLPC device.
You are stupid enough to think that this BS actually does people in third world nations a favor? More the fool you! Just STFU because you don't know what the heck you're talking about and I've visited Thailand and I know what they want more than you do. I actually did my research and you didn't. I studied international management and foreign relations, and I graduates with honors from college. That proves that I am not stupid, but you are.
So go die in a fire, and use your "real" laptop for yourself, because chances are even you wouldn't use that XO OLPC piece of sh*t that you are defending as your primary computer, hypocrite!
Don't worry about a black market, even thieves are not that desperate that they would want to steal an obvious POS like that pathetic thing. I think they'd rather steal a "real" laptop than some "toy" laptop. A pity that the "toy" laptop will make the child using it, wish he or she had a "real" laptop like those students not in third world nations. Way to discriminate against third world students and give them an inferior product to that in the first world.
I am not the one calling it a laptop, the OLPC program has the "L" in it that stands for laptop. So if you want to call someone stupid for calling it a laptop, blame the company that makes it.
OEBPC makes better sense as One Electronic Book Per Child.
The only ones stupid here is you and people who made the thing.
I had a blind grandfather who fought for books to be printed in braille in public libraries, such books exist if you ask for them. So I ask if a blind person can use this "electronic book" and wonder if the screen has bumps that can rise up, because when you start replacing paper books with this thing, it is really going to hurt blind students if it does not.
I was talking about the systems.
For $300 you can get a Vista Basic system with MS-Works on it. The Mac Mini costs $599.
PC makers give a good discount and also rebates to get lower than Apple on system prices.
Besides Vista Home Basic sells for like $199 or $99 for the upgrade, now show me a Macintosh that runs OSX and costs $199 new and I'll buy one.
True that the Vista Ultimate version is expensive, but not everyone needs the Ultimate version and can make do with Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium and Businesses make do with Vista Business.
If you want to compare prices of MS-Office on a PC to a Mac, be sure to include the cost of MS-Office for the Mac as well.
Perhaps I got the wrong person breaking the crank but the crank did break. But at least I don't resort to name calling like a 4 year-old child would when I disagree with someone.
Thailand says they don't want the OLPC, and so does India critics from those countries have cited that the OLPC is not mature enough and doesn't have the quality that they need for their education system.
Have you seen the OLPC specs?
433Mhz processor
7.5 inch LCD display
No rotating media (no floppies, CDs, DVDs)
No hard drive but a 1024Mbyte flash drive.
The quality of this laptop is far below the standard that other laptop makers use, while this quality might have been good for 1993, times have changed. India, Thailand, and other nations want a more mature OLPC program with a better quality laptop that can compete with modern laptops. Students want to use CDs and DVDs on the laptops, and be able to bring data to them from older systems that use floppy disks. They want to store media files and that 1024M of storage will fill up fast. I mean for the modern student that wants to record a video presentation for class, this laptop will not do. Not only that but the 7.5 inch screen is tiny and hard to read.
This looks like the type of Laptop that Mattel or some other toy maker might make. Are you kidding me?
If anyone should have their intelligence questioned it is the people in the OLPC program.
any more that McDonald's is afraid of Longhorn Steakhouse taking away all of their business.
Microsoft and McDonald's cater to the low cost, good enough crowd who don't care too much for quality. Apple and Longhorn Steakhouse cater to the high cost, best effort crowd who does care for quality. They are both competing in two totally different markets.
and has plans to make their own low cost laptop.
Many techno-savvy people have also criticized the laptop and Nelson Mandela demonstrated it to the UN and the crank handle broke off in his hand.
I heard it is very poor quality.
This gives a great opportunity to allow Visual Studio developers to port code to Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, etc by having Dotnet and Mono synch up to be 100% compatible in the code and CIL, CLR used.
It also would allow Microsoft to more easily port Visual Studio to Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, and other platforms that Microsoft claims is too hard to port Visual Studio over to. After that is done, Microsoft can port their application software to those platforms more easily rather than rewriting code for a separate Windows and Mac version of MS-Office, etc. Then it would be one code base, and recompiled for each platform using Dotnet/Mono libraries. If Mono is finally 100% compatible with Dotnet, then the CIL and CLR code will run under Mono as well as it does under Dotnet on Windows. Since Mono exists for multiple operating systems, all that is needed is to compile the code for that OS and it makes cross-compiling easy and less costly.
Think of all the money in R&D that Microsoft would save, if it partners up with Novell and Mono just on the R&R of OSX applications that Microsoft writes if the same code can be used for Windows and OSX with just being recompiled.
The red screen of death was dropped in Vista Beta 1, and it is blue now. You must be using an old Beta or Alpha version.