>UNIX traditionally hasn't needed resolution switching because the >graphics cards people were usually using supported acceleration and >bit depths at the highest resolution. > > You're talking to a *PC GAMER*. These guys think that only hi-res monitors showed up on the market when Windows 95 did. They don't have a clue about when or where these monitors were first widely used.
> trust Linux with its X Window environments that just got the ability >to change resolutions or would you rather pick us, MS. We accomplished >this task 10 years ago". > > No you didn't. Linux's ability to change resolutions implements features that Windows doesn't and most likely never will support.
>Funny how as Linux becomes more and more popular, more and more worms >and viruses appear for it, eventhough it is supposed to be almost >infinitely more secure than Windows. How's the Slapper worm doing, >BTW? > > It's dead,Jim.
>Maybe not the best use of this... but don't some arcade video games >have a display that is reversed and you actually look at a mirror >image of the display? > > There were a couple of arcade space shooters that came out of japan that used the mirror trick to give the illusion that the display was floating in space, but I can't remember the names of them. The people running MAME might know what they were called.
>What does Mac OS X use? Something different. Maybe we (the rest of the >*nix world) should see HOW MUCH they gained from doing that - it may >be that rewriting a lot of apps (or doing some sort of backwards >compatibility mode) would be worth it. > > They gained absolutely nothing from it, except a bunch of losers from the Amiga and BE userbase who having pretty much run their respective platform around, are now flocking towards Mac OS X. If the Apple users were smart, they would do what the Linux and BSD users have done and chase these idiots off with pichforks and burning torches.
>The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to >be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated >needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that the properties of X server >screens might need to change dynamically, as occurs frequently with >desktops, laptops and hand held computers not envisioned in the >1980's. > > Not surprising when you had all the "Tech Reporters" over at ZDNET and other mags and so called "pundants" like Jerry Pournell running around claiming everything including your dog's fleas would be running a version of Microsoft Windows and that UNIX along other non-Microsoft OS's was dead.
>I'm sure that all of the various programmers, IT people, marketers, >etc. working at other companies that make rendering software aren't >too happy. Another open sourced product means fewer people will get >paid for IT related work. Imagine... a world where *nobody* gets paid >for writing software! I don't know about everybody else, but I think >that this really sucks. > > Make up your mind. First people like you moan and bitch about software piracy. So people decide to migrate to Open Source/Free Software after listening to your whining. Now idiots like you moan and bitch about that. I personally wouldn't pay.01 for software from *ANYONE* stupid enought to hire someone as stupid as you.
>Not to discourage, but it won't really matter to the masses until >there's a native, easy-to-use Windows client. > > Your mistake is in assuming we care about the Windows-using masses. Most of us don't.
>As a technical person that works with lots of pisschology and etno >people in an academic setting, they are pretty useless in terms of >input into the design, as their only interest is to publish their
>crap, yet again, in some journal/conference/book. academic HCI is
>stuck (not substantial changes in 20 years...) since all these
>multidisciplinary people got involved in it, they just talk about
>stuff, never do anything. > > Pretty much sums up the UI people I've run across.
>Better fireproofing [technologyreview.com] on the steel beams, or even >if the rumours are true, absestos fireproofing above the 64th floor >[npri.org] could have prevented many deaths. > > Bullshit. The shockwaves from the impact and explosions of the two planes still would've blown it off the beams. No spray-on coating could survive what happend.
Why you ask? The first reason is his idoitic claim that the "geeks" are liberatarians. BZZZT. Wrong. The Pro-Microsoft/Brett Glass wing of the BSD movement are Libertarians. The rest of of us are Democrats,Republicans,Greens,Commies, or What-Have-You. "Geekdom" split into many parts *YEARS* ago. After all you had your Pro-Amiga and Pro-St geeks. You had the Pro-Mac and Anti-Mac geeks. There was the Pro-Dos and Anti-Windows geeks. Never mind the Pro-Windows and Anti-Dos geeks.
The only thing dying out is the Tom Steinberg brand of Geekdom, and that's a *GOOD* thing if you stop and think about it.
>If your TV has only one S-video connector, get yourself an A/V switch >box that lets you plug in multiple sources (VCR, PS2, XBox, Camcorder, >etc) and then just hit a button on the switch box to switch the source >going to your TV. I bought one made by Pelican that has 5 inputs (RCA >video & audio & S-video options for each input) and even RF in/out if >you really need it for only $25 at Best Buy. > > $25.00 at Best Buy? I bought the same box for $19.99 at Wal-mart. You also forgot to mention that it comes with both a S-video AV cable and a RF cable and the labels for the buttons can be popped out and changed very easily. This thing is better than so of the $40-$50 A/V swicthes that I've seen at places like Circuit City and Sears
>Second, and more importantly, they have replaced KDE apps with
equivalent apps, either from GNOME or independent projects. For
example, they replaced konqueror with Mozilla, Koffice with
OpenOffice, KMail with Evolution. > > What you really *bitching* about? That there will be a larger usersbase for Mozilla,Evolution and OpenOffice? Sure as hell sounds like it. I think the RedHat's replacing the KDE gargage with software that's cross-platform like Mozilla and OpenOffice is a great idea and it's something you KDE morons should seriously consider. After all Mozilla and OpenOffice will be running on 3 of the major Unix or Unix like OS's (Linux,BSD,OSX). *NOBODY* to speak of will be using konqueror,Koffice or KMail. If you KDE to go the route of the Amiga and it's software packages, by all means stick with konqueror,Koffice or KMail and watch as you hit the same brick wall Amiga users ran into.
>app. This guy is making a big deal about nothing. Have you seen the >default theme of KDE? ITS UGLY! The new look doesnt make kde look like >gnome2! > > No the default theme of KDE isn't ugly, it's *LAME*. But it's pretty much what you get when a bunch of UI designers who think and act like they are *GOD'S GIFT TO HUMANITY* like you see within the KDE userbase get a chance to stick their fingers in a pie.
>And Linux as a name is about ten times more widespread than redhat. I >don't think this will do anyone any harm, except redhat users >prefering KDE. > > And given the fact that the vast majority of RedHat users don't like or use KDE to begin with I don't see how Bero leaving affects RedHat or people like me who don't install KDE to begin with one way or the other. It's a non-issue.
>Sure, double-clicking on desktop items makes no sense. Unless you are >aiming your product at a market filled with about 900 bazillion people >who have spent the last 12 years (since Win 3.0, at least) > > It's more than that. What the single-click UI adovactes refuse to acknowlege is that single-clicking is like sticking a loaded pistol in your pants pocket with the safety off. Sooner or later you're gonna end up blowing your foot off.
>Konqueror is not just a file manager. It's also a web browser. Are you
advocating that double-click shoudl be the standard for accessing HTML
links? > > Hell yes. How many times have you been sent to some site because you accidently clicked on a ad or some badly-colorored/hidden link ?
>I'm posting this with Konqueror.. > > Konqueror? What a piece of utter garabage. Too bad it's days are numbered with the release of Mozilla,Phoenix and Dillo.
>because they didn't come up with DK. All Nintendo supplied was the DK >name...the games got popular because Rare made great games. A mascot >on its own is worthless and Nintendo doesn't deserve any credit for >any of Rare's successes. > > You sir, are a total idoit. Rare had *NOTHING* to do with the sucess of Donkey Kong. DK was an stand-up arcade/character game owned by Nintendo long before Rare came into extistance.
>And while you're pressing the d-pad right or left, slowly turning, >waiting for the integral to approach the target (turning in video >games is based on integrating the vector produced by the directional >pad or stick), your target has already moved the mouse toward you and >shot you. And if you turn up your D-pad sensitivity, how are you >supposed to aim your head shots without moving right past the target? > > Do you know anything about the PS2 controller? It's a hybrid digital/analog controller. The d-pad is faster because it is digital. Using the d-pad the same as using keys on a keyboard or an Atari joystick moron.
>I find it somewhat odd that each advisory from an anti-virus vendor >concerning the slapper worm advises to not only patch your software, >but also keep your antivirus software current. >If the software is patched then antivirus software is irrelevent. >How big is the antivirus software market for linux? > > There isn't one and there still won't be one after this, because you don't need antivirus software to either detect or fix the problem. That's the big problem the anti-virus outfits are running into. The open source movement still doesn't need them.
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>UNIX traditionally hasn't needed resolution switching because the
>graphics cards people were usually using supported acceleration and
>bit depths at the highest resolution.
>
>
You're talking to a *PC GAMER*. These guys think that only hi-res monitors showed up on the market when Windows 95 did. They don't have a clue about when or where these monitors were first widely used.
> trust Linux with its X Window environments that just got the ability
>to change resolutions or would you rather pick us, MS. We accomplished
>this task 10 years ago".
>
>
No you didn't. Linux's ability to change resolutions implements features that Windows doesn't and most likely never will support.
This is a improvement over X? Give me a break.
>Funny how as Linux becomes more and more popular, more and more worms
>and viruses appear for it, eventhough it is supposed to be almost
>infinitely more secure than Windows. How's the Slapper worm doing,
>BTW?
>
>
It's dead,Jim.
>Maybe not the best use of this... but don't some arcade video games
>have a display that is reversed and you actually look at a mirror
>image of the display?
>
>
There were a couple of arcade space shooters that came out of japan that used the mirror trick to give the illusion that the display was floating in space, but I can't remember the names of them. The people running MAME might know what they were called.
>What does Mac OS X use? Something different. Maybe we (the rest of the
>*nix world) should see HOW MUCH they gained from doing that - it may
>be that rewriting a lot of apps (or doing some sort of backwards
>compatibility mode) would be worth it.
>
>
They gained absolutely nothing from it, except a bunch of losers from the Amiga and BE userbase who having pretty much run their respective platform around, are now flocking towards Mac OS X. If the Apple users were smart, they would do what the Linux and BSD users have done and chase these idiots off with pichforks and burning torches.
>The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to
>be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated
>needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that the properties of X server
>screens might need to change dynamically, as occurs frequently with
>desktops, laptops and hand held computers not envisioned in the
>1980's.
>
>
Not surprising when you had all the "Tech Reporters" over at ZDNET and other mags and so called "pundants" like Jerry Pournell running around claiming everything including your dog's fleas would be running a version of Microsoft Windows and that UNIX along other non-Microsoft OS's was dead.
>I'm sure that all of the various programmers, IT people, marketers, .01 for software from *ANYONE* stupid enought to hire someone as stupid as you.
>etc. working at other companies that make rendering software aren't
>too happy. Another open sourced product means fewer people will get
>paid for IT related work. Imagine... a world where *nobody* gets paid
>for writing software! I don't know about everybody else, but I think
>that this really sucks.
>
>
Make up your mind. First people like you moan and bitch about software piracy. So people decide to migrate to Open Source/Free Software after listening to your whining. Now idiots like you moan and bitch about that. I personally wouldn't pay
>Not to discourage, but it won't really matter to the masses until
>there's a native, easy-to-use Windows client.
>
>
Your mistake is in assuming we care about the Windows-using masses. Most of us don't.
>As a technical person that works with lots of pisschology and etno
>people in an academic setting, they are pretty useless in terms of
>input into the design, as their only interest is to publish their
>crap, yet again, in some journal/conference/book. academic HCI is
>stuck (not substantial changes in 20 years...) since all these
>multidisciplinary people got involved in it, they just talk about
>stuff, never do anything.
>
>
Pretty much sums up the UI people I've run across.
>Better fireproofing [technologyreview.com] on the steel beams, or even
>if the rumours are true, absestos fireproofing above the 64th floor
>[npri.org] could have prevented many deaths.
>
>
Bullshit. The shockwaves from the impact and explosions of the two planes still would've blown it off the beams. No spray-on coating could survive what happend.
>Seems like the KDE group is kind of chaotic or something.
>
>
No they're just a bunch of RedHat-hating slimeballs.
Why you ask? The first reason is his idoitic claim that the "geeks" are liberatarians. BZZZT. Wrong. The Pro-Microsoft/Brett Glass wing of the BSD movement are Libertarians. The rest of of us are Democrats,Republicans,Greens,Commies, or What-Have-You. "Geekdom" split into many parts *YEARS* ago. After all you had your Pro-Amiga and Pro-St geeks. You had the Pro-Mac and Anti-Mac geeks. There was the Pro-Dos and Anti-Windows geeks. Never mind the Pro-Windows and Anti-Dos geeks.
The only thing dying out is the Tom Steinberg brand of Geekdom, and that's a *GOOD* thing if you stop and think about it.
>If your TV has only one S-video connector, get yourself an A/V switch
>box that lets you plug in multiple sources (VCR, PS2, XBox, Camcorder,
>etc) and then just hit a button on the switch box to switch the source
>going to your TV. I bought one made by Pelican that has 5 inputs (RCA
>video & audio & S-video options for each input) and even RF in/out if
>you really need it for only $25 at Best Buy.
>
>
$25.00 at Best Buy? I bought the same box for $19.99 at Wal-mart. You also forgot to mention that it comes with both a S-video AV cable and a RF cable and the labels for the buttons can be popped out and changed very easily. This thing is better than so of the $40-$50 A/V swicthes that I've seen at places like Circuit City and Sears
>Second, and more importantly, they have replaced KDE apps with
equivalent apps, either from GNOME or independent projects. For
example, they replaced konqueror with Mozilla, Koffice with
OpenOffice, KMail with Evolution.
>
>
What you really *bitching* about? That there will be a larger usersbase for Mozilla,Evolution and OpenOffice? Sure as hell sounds like it. I think the RedHat's replacing the KDE gargage with software that's cross-platform like Mozilla and OpenOffice is a great idea and it's something you KDE morons should seriously consider. After all Mozilla and OpenOffice will be running on 3 of the major Unix or Unix like OS's (Linux,BSD,OSX). *NOBODY* to speak of will be using konqueror,Koffice or KMail. If you KDE to go the route of the Amiga and it's software packages, by all means stick with konqueror,Koffice or KMail and watch as you hit the same brick wall Amiga users ran into.
>Why the heck would you want i*5*86 optimization?
>
>
Especially when you have an *i686*? Oh well, idiots will be idiots....
>app. This guy is making a big deal about nothing. Have you seen the
>default theme of KDE? ITS UGLY! The new look doesnt make kde look like
>gnome2!
>
>
No the default theme of KDE isn't ugly, it's *LAME*. But it's pretty much what you get when a bunch of UI designers who think and act like they are *GOD'S GIFT TO HUMANITY* like you see within the KDE userbase get a chance to stick their fingers in a pie.
>And Linux as a name is about ten times more widespread than redhat. I
>don't think this will do anyone any harm, except redhat users
>prefering KDE.
>
>
And given the fact that the vast majority of RedHat users don't like or use KDE to begin with I don't see how Bero leaving affects RedHat or people like me who don't install KDE to begin with one way or the other. It's a non-issue.
>Sure, double-clicking on desktop items makes no sense. Unless you are
>aiming your product at a market filled with about 900 bazillion people
>who have spent the last 12 years (since Win 3.0, at least)
>
>
It's more than that. What the single-click UI adovactes refuse to acknowlege is that single-clicking is like sticking a loaded pistol in your pants pocket with the safety off. Sooner or later you're gonna end up blowing your foot off.
>Konqueror is not just a file manager. It's also a web browser. Are you
advocating that double-click shoudl be the standard for accessing HTML
links?
>
>
Hell yes. How many times have you been sent to some site because you accidently clicked on a ad or some badly-colorored/hidden link ?
>I'm posting this with Konqueror..
>
>
Konqueror? What a piece of utter garabage. Too bad it's days are numbered with the release of Mozilla,Phoenix and Dillo.
>because they didn't come up with DK. All Nintendo supplied was the DK
>name...the games got popular because Rare made great games. A mascot
>on its own is worthless and Nintendo doesn't deserve any credit for
>any of Rare's successes.
>
>
You sir, are a total idoit. Rare had *NOTHING* to do with the sucess of Donkey Kong. DK was an stand-up arcade/character game owned by Nintendo long before Rare came into extistance.
>And while you're pressing the d-pad right or left, slowly turning,
>waiting for the integral to approach the target (turning in video
>games is based on integrating the vector produced by the directional
>pad or stick), your target has already moved the mouse toward you and
>shot you. And if you turn up your D-pad sensitivity, how are you
>supposed to aim your head shots without moving right past the target?
>
>
Do you know anything about the PS2 controller? It's a hybrid digital/analog controller. The d-pad is faster because it is digital. Using the d-pad the same as using keys on a keyboard or an Atari joystick moron.
>I find it somewhat odd that each advisory from an anti-virus vendor
>concerning the slapper worm advises to not only patch your software,
>but also keep your antivirus software current.
>If the software is patched then antivirus software is irrelevent.
>How big is the antivirus software market for linux?
>
>
There isn't one and there still won't be one after this, because you don't need antivirus software to either detect or fix the problem. That's the big problem the anti-virus outfits are running into. The open source movement still doesn't need them.
>I weep for the loss of all future Rare products to the XBox.
>
>
What Rare products? Nintendo took all their licensed stuff with them.