Thing is, the installer on (insert mainstream desktop distro here) is better than the installer on (insert NT4, 2000, or XP here).
Nonsense. You need to look at two things during installation: the top of the screen and the bottom of the screen.
Most of the time you can get by just by pressing "enter" and "I agree". Partitioning may look intimidating but is amazingly easy. On a blank drive you just press enter twice and it partitions the whole drive and formats it using NTFS. It then copies the base system to the drive and reboots into the graphical portion of the setup.
Just because its blue and white text mode for the first part doesn't make it a bad installer. Once you get to the hard stuff, most of it can be done automatically or includes information only the biggest of morons wouldn't know (like a timezone or location).
Longhorn will probably be exactly the same but with pretty graphics and nice HTML "what the fuck does this do?" buttons.
If sufficient people stop purchasing games that restrict their ability to play them, then it's a simple business decision for the company to make - stop over-restricting the user.
No.
Blame it on the pirates, toughen up the DMCA and declare consumer hunting season open.
I'm hardly ever an advertiser or a believer in crazy Linux zealot excuses but there is one important and completely valid reason for this to exist.
People who have come over from Windows to Linux with a fairly large library of iTunes tracks. It would be much easier to grab the keys for their entire collection and then just use the music on their Linux box than burning and re-encoding (with subsequent quality loss).
you literally have to sit there so you can click all those damned "ok", "I agree", and "next" buttons.
Back the fuck up. Thats funny. I just installed my machine from scratch, ran the autoupdater and I had to click "I Agree" once. The rest downloaded in under half and hour and installed itself without incidence.
Just to be sure, I checked for updates on my g/f's machine and no "I agree" there either.
Repair #6 -- summary: Had to load motherboard-specific XP drivers on kids' machine -- time spent: 4 hours
4 hours?!? You've got to be kidding me. I've never encountered a motherboard thats required more than an fifteen minutes of my time to install chipset, sound, network and onboard graphics drivers.
I don't agree. The problem, from my perspective, is that Vorbis was the answer to a question that nobody asked. They released the codec and the general public went "so?".
IMHO, the only reason why AAC and WMA are gaining in popularity is that there are end-to-end solutions out there promoting these formats. Once people realise the superiority of these next-gen formats over MP3, they will probably start migrating over in droves.
Although, this is going to cause some nasty format wars. iTunes can't play WMA easily and WMP can't play AAC easily meaning that you're going to be locked in to your player unless you're using something like Winamp.
At any rate, its my opinion that Vorbis is going to hell in a handbasket quickly. Nobody (bar FOSS supporters) out there in the real world gives a shit whether "it's free" or "it's royalty free" because they already have a perfectly good defacto standard and the other newer standards out there are perfectly positioned to replace them.
FYI, DVD-RAM Type 2(?) comes in a protective casing and you can get 8cm DVDs if you're really desperate. Prepare to shop around though.
In my opinion, pure optical solutions are just plain awful. I remember when I was 12 and 128MB MO drives hit the market. They took the best of magnetic storage and the best of optical and turned it into a super format.
Almost impossible to destroy the data under normal conditions (unaffected by magnetic fields), able to withstand hundreds of thousands (even millions) of rewrites, can be treated like a plain ordinary floppy disc.
It gained some inroads as the technology is used for Sony's MiniDisc format but in general people have prefered the disposable 10 cent CD blanks over 5 dollar MO disks.
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Lucite hardening ... must end life in classic Lorne Greene pose from "Battlestar Galactica." Best ... death ... ever!
XFree 3.4 from Debian/experimental
:D
I know Debian is supposed to be behind but thats just plain ridiculous!
Bogus. I'll say.
Now, since it costs $US0.90 to provide a downloadable music track,
Apple says iTMS does not make much money. At most, Apple gets about 10 cents of the 99 cents a single song costs - about $US20 million ($A27.7 million) so far.
Uh Oh... Spaghetti-Os!
It's one thing to infringe copyright with additional creative material to create a parody.
It's another thing to do a 5 minute knock off of a popular website and stick a giant adult store behind it.
Thing is, the installer on (insert mainstream desktop distro here) is better than the installer on (insert NT4, 2000, or XP here).
Nonsense. You need to look at two things during installation: the top of the screen and the bottom of the screen.
Most of the time you can get by just by pressing "enter" and "I agree". Partitioning may look intimidating but is amazingly easy. On a blank drive you just press enter twice and it partitions the whole drive and formats it using NTFS. It then copies the base system to the drive and reboots into the graphical portion of the setup.
Just because its blue and white text mode for the first part doesn't make it a bad installer. Once you get to the hard stuff, most of it can be done automatically or includes information only the biggest of morons wouldn't know (like a timezone or location).
Longhorn will probably be exactly the same but with pretty graphics and nice HTML "what the fuck does this do?" buttons.
If sufficient people stop purchasing games that restrict their ability to play them, then it's a simple business decision for the company to make - stop over-restricting the user.
No.
Blame it on the pirates, toughen up the DMCA and declare consumer hunting season open.
Reminds me of the Futurama episode "Kif gets knocked up a notch".
Hi-yah!
Whats up? Ate your cell phone again?
My God.
That page made me appreciate rendezvous infinitely more.
(what's next? Gallium?
Nah. The new G5s will be made of Palladium
I'm hardly ever an advertiser or a believer in crazy Linux zealot excuses but there is one important and completely valid reason for this to exist.
People who have come over from Windows to Linux with a fairly large library of iTunes tracks. It would be much easier to grab the keys for their entire collection and then just use the music on their Linux box than burning and re-encoding (with subsequent quality loss).
But... But...
Without rewriting the wheels we wouldn't have so many iTunes clones!
Sort of.
IIRC, Bluecurve is a theme for both QT and GTK2 and wasn't applied to original GTK apps.
you literally have to sit there so you can click all those damned "ok", "I agree", and "next" buttons.
Back the fuck up. Thats funny. I just installed my machine from scratch, ran the autoupdater and I had to click "I Agree" once. The rest downloaded in under half and hour and installed itself without incidence.
Just to be sure, I checked for updates on my g/f's machine and no "I agree" there either.
Let's not forget:
Repair #6 -- summary: Had to load motherboard-specific XP drivers on kids' machine -- time spent: 4 hours
4 hours?!? You've got to be kidding me. I've never encountered a motherboard thats required more than an fifteen minutes of my time to install chipset, sound, network and onboard graphics drivers.
I don't agree. The problem, from my perspective, is that Vorbis was the answer to a question that nobody asked. They released the codec and the general public went "so?".
IMHO, the only reason why AAC and WMA are gaining in popularity is that there are end-to-end solutions out there promoting these formats. Once people realise the superiority of these next-gen formats over MP3, they will probably start migrating over in droves.
Although, this is going to cause some nasty format wars. iTunes can't play WMA easily and WMP can't play AAC easily meaning that you're going to be locked in to your player unless you're using something like Winamp.
At any rate, its my opinion that Vorbis is going to hell in a handbasket quickly. Nobody (bar FOSS supporters) out there in the real world gives a shit whether "it's free" or "it's royalty free" because they already have a perfectly good defacto standard and the other newer standards out there are perfectly positioned to replace them.
The integer is signed. So it can go forwards from the epoch and backwards from the epoch.
FYI, DVD-RAM Type 2(?) comes in a protective casing and you can get 8cm DVDs if you're really desperate. Prepare to shop around though.
In my opinion, pure optical solutions are just plain awful. I remember when I was 12 and 128MB MO drives hit the market. They took the best of magnetic storage and the best of optical and turned it into a super format.
Almost impossible to destroy the data under normal conditions (unaffected by magnetic fields), able to withstand hundreds of thousands (even millions) of rewrites, can be treated like a plain ordinary floppy disc.
It gained some inroads as the technology is used for Sony's MiniDisc format but in general people have prefered the disposable 10 cent CD blanks over 5 dollar MO disks.
Crying shame really.
Ahead, the makers of Nero, have created an IP phone for the PC. It's called Sippstar and you can get a free 2 month demo.
I was using it to talk to a friend on his Cisco IP phone. Took up a bit of bandwidth (8K/sec in both directions) but the quality was fairly good.
nVidia use mixed 128-bit and 64-bit datatypes while ATi use 96-bit datatypes
All three are enough for double floats and the top two precisions are good enough for 80-bit reals that x87 uses.
I live in Australia and we're Zone 4 as well!
How fucking stupid is that?
Actually the highest speed things are baseband. Mainly because you don't have to waste bandwidth sharing it between different transmission methods.
Margaret River isn't Perth. It's like 250 miles from Perth.
It's like saying Los Angeles is the same as Sanfransisco.
What is it with the all or nothing logic of you people.
If SGI want XFS in 2.4 then let them. IIRC, there's an option in the kernel compilation stuff to turn off unstable and experimental software.
Any manufacturer of compact flash memory cards or digital cameras may end up paying Microsoft as much as $250,000 for the use of the file format.
If you RTFA you'd see that they want $0.25 per device. At that rate you'd have to sell 1 million devices and after that the royalties are capped.
Perfectly reasonable really. They do own the technology after all.
Australia is like technology backwater and we're killing off analog TV by the end of 2008.