but the vast majority of the public who might actually try it once would run into one piece of hardware that didn't work and give up on it for good
Would this be the same vast majority of the public which buys a pre-packaged computer, preloaded with windows, including drivers, and who never touches the drivers, and likely wouldn't even know how to?
If so, then all that's needed is a company to sell pre-packaged computers, preloaded with linux and the drivers for whatever linux-friendly hardware it has.
No, I think the real problem is applications. Particularly games. Sure, all the games I play may exist for linux, but there are plenty of people out there still tied to windows for games or other applications.
He wasn't talking about cost so much as about the right tool for the job. Linux and other free software certainly has a place, but sometimes there's a non-free solution better suited to the problem. Maybe you can adapt or write a free program to solve it, but there's some cost to that, be it time or effort or whatever. Sometimes the closed program is worth it because it's less hassle, and you can get on with whatever it is you're doing.
If you're downloading a lot, the overhead of running the one instance of Azureus needed to do that beats that of running, say, the dozen instances of the the official client, hands down.
When you buy from the vending machine, you're not paying anything extra (except the cost of running the vending machine, but this applies to everything you buy from the vending machine).
sorry, but i can't see how it'd even be useful to sort by some arbitrarily assigned number such as address or phone number. is that supposed to put your contacts into some actual meaningful order?
so, yes, i'm serious, i do think the notes section would be just fine for storing address, phone number, etc.
you ever think to use the notes section for storing address, phone, etc? sheesh, just because they provide with something more flexible than a form with just address, phone, etc fields doesn't mean you can't use it like that if you want.
That's true, but that wasn't the point of the comment. He was saying that the majority of the services typically started on a linux box aren't even network-aware, and so aren't candidates for remote holes, as many of the (started by default!) windows services are.
Will it still support tab-completion? That's the only redeeming feature of the current dialog, and still the feature I miss most in other file selection dialogs.
How can there be "far more" perverts than intellectuals, with the majority of the perverts being intellectuals? I guess it depends on your definition of "far more," but usually I think of that as being at least twice as many, and usually more than that.
But because 2.5 wasn't immediately opened, there wasn't an experimental kernel on which experimental ideas could be tried. This led to experimental patches being applied to 2.4 kernels, the so-called stable kernels. Like in 2.4.10, when the whole virtual memory manager was rewritten.
So we don't have to wait as long for apps to appear, but that also means we don't have to wait as long for longhorn-only apps to appear, and force users to upgrade.
because, IIRC, it grabs what's on the screen before the menu pops up, and uses that. if the window, video, etc displayed under the menu changes while the menu is still shown, the menu isn't updated.
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Would this be the same vast majority of the public which buys a pre-packaged computer, preloaded with windows, including drivers, and who never touches the drivers, and likely wouldn't even know how to?
If so, then all that's needed is a company to sell pre-packaged computers, preloaded with linux and the drivers for whatever linux-friendly hardware it has. No, I think the real problem is applications. Particularly games. Sure, all the games I play may exist for linux, but there are plenty of people out there still tied to windows for games or other applications.
I'm pretty sure the PS2 doesn't use the SH4. I know the Dreamcast did though.
That's funny ... that fact that my monitor can't handle 1600x1200@76 has never been a problem when I've tried playing games ...
He wasn't talking about cost so much as about the right tool for the job. Linux and other free software certainly has a place, but sometimes there's a non-free solution better suited to the problem. Maybe you can adapt or write a free program to solve it, but there's some cost to that, be it time or effort or whatever. Sometimes the closed program is worth it because it's less hassle, and you can get on with whatever it is you're doing.
If you're downloading a lot, the overhead of running the one instance of Azureus needed to do that beats that of running, say, the dozen instances of the the official client, hands down.
When you buy from the vending machine, you're not paying anything extra (except the cost of running the vending machine, but this applies to everything you buy from the vending machine).
that should be "moddo appu site kudasai" or "moddo appu onegai simasu"
probably shouldn't keep the "me". it just doesn't fit. so even better would be "" or ""
sorry, but i can't see how it'd even be useful to sort by some arbitrarily assigned number such as address or phone number. is that supposed to put your contacts into some actual meaningful order? so, yes, i'm serious, i do think the notes section would be just fine for storing address, phone number, etc.
you ever think to use the notes section for storing address, phone, etc? sheesh, just because they provide with something more flexible than a form with just address, phone, etc fields doesn't mean you can't use it like that if you want.
That's true, but that wasn't the point of the comment. He was saying that the majority of the services typically started on a linux box aren't even network-aware, and so aren't candidates for remote holes, as many of the (started by default!) windows services are.
Will it still support tab-completion? That's the only redeeming feature of the current dialog, and still the feature I miss most in other file selection dialogs.
How can there be "far more" perverts than intellectuals, with the majority of the perverts being intellectuals? I guess it depends on your definition of "far more," but usually I think of that as being at least twice as many, and usually more than that.
No. If microsoft were to make vacuum cleaners, it would be their only product that didn't suck.
But because 2.5 wasn't immediately opened, there wasn't an experimental kernel on which experimental ideas could be tried. This led to experimental patches being applied to 2.4 kernels, the so-called stable kernels. Like in 2.4.10, when the whole virtual memory manager was rewritten.
So we don't have to wait as long for apps to appear, but that also means we don't have to wait as long for longhorn-only apps to appear, and force users to upgrade.
Kazaa is encrypted. Why do you think it took so long for the gift project to figure out how to access it?
even easier is "mplayer -dumpstream"
because, IIRC, it grabs what's on the screen before the menu pops up, and uses that. if the window, video, etc displayed under the menu changes while the menu is still shown, the menu isn't updated.
not to mention that many (most?) of them don't implement the SIMD instruction sets used to speed software decoding.
Actually, I believe edonkey uses MD4 hashes, not MD5.
to interoperate with all those people who did go past Office 97.
I just installed galeon 1.3.7 to give it another try after switching to phoenix .. err .. firebird. here's my take on some of these complaints:
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* Tab settings - how wide they are, if they should get shortened, etc.
Agree - need this feature back
* a button to erase the address bar - I don't want its content on my clipboard
Definately needed
* focus of newly opened tabs/windows - additional clicks necessary
Edit->Preferences->User Interface->Jump to new tabs Automatically
* rocker style mouse gestures - just pressing RMB and then LMB used to go back
Works for me
* stability
Haven't had any crashes yet
ssshhhhhh .. don't tell them that!
the main new dependency is module-init-tools, which replace modutils for module loading, etc.