The only thing that Xbox hasent got is... *gasp* good games. Halo is about the only thing that i hear my gamer friends ranting about. GTA Vice city was an incredible game, and i think is the one thingg that could convice me to purchase a playstation.
The fact that Rockstar has already given sony exclusive rights to the gta franchise until late 2004 is a sign that ps2 is gonna have at least one more mega hit.
it is the mega hits that make game consoles worth it. and the gta franchise makes it all worth is.
I have looked at Y before and i am sorry, but the idea of having complete standardization in interfaces is a windows like idea, and frankly not a very good one.
I have tried out 17 window managers before settling on one that i liked (Fluxbox). If you standardize the wm, the next big thing will be hacks to over ride the default wm , and a windows like situation will ensue.
Yes, dropping alot of the baggage from X would be nice, but i dont thing that Y is the right idea.
Ireally wish i hadnt posted earlier so i could wait for my moderator aces and mod this dumbass into the ground. Christ, after being on slashdot for less than an hour you could have figured out that Xouvert is not an os , and neither is XFree.
There is a comment in the article that we buy video cards to play games. This i agree is true for most, but they should at least make a mention to those who do high end 3d rendering and programming. For these individuals use their card to put out some of the most amazing images in computer history. FOr these people frame rates are not iportatn, it is render times, which even on the best cards in the best system , for complex effects can take hours.
When is it that game developers are oging to finally realize that people who use linux (and *nix) are also games not just code junkies?
Or there gonna be a Fud capaing like sco is trying?
Why would one assume that your university is going to give you legal representation. The only way i can see someone being represented by their university for somthing like this would be to hand the case over to their law department and let the stdents chew on it.
When is the american government going to say that this is too far. I mean come on , for each embedded deviec, what about all those device that run linux that they dont know about?
Just a quick secondary question, What happens if you run 1.00, does this mean you have to pay sco as well? if not, then i dont see why someone doesnt take the 1.00 kernel and fork it?
Fortunantly no, this does not mean that RIM is out of business, and your beloved black berry will stay alive.
What this really means is that RIM will become a slave to NTP because they will put execcive licencing reqs. on RIM, and RIM will simply be bought out by an AMERICAN conglomerate.
I pity the fact that this amazing little canadian company that could is going to be kicked out of a major market, especially since it was offering a service that was unique. Despite the fact there were patents, no one was ever putting out a service based on those patents... exept RIM.
THat is unless of course you just so happen to be getting a job as a traslator at a publisher for the Lord of the rings and some star trek literature (yes Star Trek is Literature). Then the Elvin card would be perfect
I meant that Windows XP is quite sufficent for the average user (eg. Mom et. Dad) however for a power user like me (My mother cant understand how i can have 12 browser windows open at the same time, an openoffice doc and winamp, all at once. She has only one or two windows open ever) i need to have stability. the fact that i have had to reboot at least 5 times within the past week is not a testament to good testing (again, i dont blame coders they have way too much on their hands already).
If this OS had been tested against the most demanding of users loads, i doubt we would be running a system that resembled windows today. I personally dont mind winxp, it is kinda purdy with a little tweaking, and with many third party apps you can get it to be more operable.
I would like to see windows progress beyond what it is now, where a single app can lock it so badly that it needs to have the power plug pulled.
Again, FreeBSD, i have crashed lots of apps, and the worst thing that has ever happened is that i get a huge core file being dumped onto my nearly empty home partition.
I'm sorry for sounding as if software writing is easy, i know for a fact that it is not, but the least that microsoft could do is at least realize that it has made mistakes and offer to fix them instead of lording them over the common user waiting for him to send in a credit card number.
What Mr.Bill wants us to do is to pay for the updates that are technicly a result of his own screwups. HOw many of you out there think that this is a cash grab? If this backfires, it could end up with thousands of users migrating to somthing that is less costly to keep "Up to date"
I personally am a big fan of FreeBSD, however i have tried out windows xp and found that for the most part it is sufficent for the average user. But if this happeness that i have to pay to uppgrade, i dont think there will be many who pay, just pirated copies that will circualate.
Perhaps panthers implimentation is easier, but again Unix beat the both to the punch. Fast user swiotching on windows sucks so bad, and couldnt nearly be called functional.
I am in a gifted grade nine class right now, and let me tell you, i have read over the symtoms of ADHD and most of us have some if not all of the symptoms. None of us concentrate, half cant sit still, yet all of us kick our hard stuying "normal" peers asses on all tests. The most normal, and if i may say slowest in our classes are those who have been put onto the meds.
I dont think that the meds are a good idea for in school because teachers should simply learn to work around the inabilities of their kids. People work around the fact that johnny cannot deal with stresses in school all the time, why not deal with the fact that james cannot sit his freaking ass down and listen for half an hour.
Another thing is that io start projects and never keep up on them (See blog below). I get bored very easily and dont keep to a project for more than a couple hours at a time at most, and even then ui only usually du 15 minute frenzies of work.
One thing i have to point out, is that for those children like me who have disabilities (Like me, i have a from of disgraphia, where i have weaknesses in my hands) who cannot write, or whose writing is illegible to anyone other than them, keyboards are a godsend. I can type about twice as fast as i write, if not more, and i want to learn the Dvorak keybord so i can be even faster.
Besides, in todays day and age, i thnk that the emphasis that they used to put on cursive writing was misplaced. Kids who could have the writing recognized were lucky. I used to have to practice day and night my writing because a teacher was dissatisfied with it and i think that that was not as important as math or even just proper grammer
Freebsd is an amazing system for those who want to run an Open source OS, but dont really want to get down and uber dirty during the install. I loved the install of freebsd, it was increddibly simple, and one of my favorite things that freebsd has to offer.
The support group surpasses any linux on i ever tried to use, (FreeBSD forums) and they have helped me with any problem i have ever had.
FreeBSD is becoming both more powerful and easier to use as it ages, (I point to devfs) and kicks any linux distro for ease of use. the major features that to me seperate the men from the boys here are...
Sysinstall- useless as you get better, but beautifull for the newb and install
Devfs- I dont know how i would live without it
The ports and packages system. I know debian systems have somthing simmilar, but i havent yet had the chance to use it. To me make install is a lot simpler than both rpms, and dpkgs.
just the stability and compatability. I run linux binarys regualary and all but a couple run even faset on my 166 fbsd machne than my friends 200 red hat.
Yes keyboards suck, however until they do come out with a cheap (lke $15-$99) inputdevice that still has all the fucntionality and speed that my regular keyboard has, I'll stick to my keyboard.
I actually really lie the touchstream, however again, there is so much cost, compared to use value. when the touchstream comes down alot i'll be the first in line to buy one.
Nmap is probably a god send to low budgeted network admins, who have little idea about why they are contiuously being hacked. Instead of having to go to their superior to funding to buy an expensive commercial product, they can easily download and install a free and well written alternative.
Hmm, when will SCO start going after our friends at Apple for incudind a UNIX base in its OS, Then they will really get their asses handed to them on a plate becaus OSX is based on Freebsd
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The fact that Rockstar has already given sony exclusive rights to the gta franchise until late 2004 is a sign that ps2 is gonna have at least one more mega hit.
it is the mega hits that make game consoles worth it. and the gta franchise makes it all worth is.
I have tried out 17 window managers before settling on one that i liked (Fluxbox). If you standardize the wm, the next big thing will be hacks to over ride the default wm , and a windows like situation will ensue.
Yes, dropping alot of the baggage from X would be nice, but i dont thing that Y is the right idea.
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There is a comment in the article that we buy video cards to play games. This i agree is true for most, but they should at least make a mention to those who do high end 3d rendering and programming. For these individuals use their card to put out some of the most amazing images in computer history. FOr these people frame rates are not iportatn, it is render times, which even on the best cards in the best system , for complex effects can take hours.
When is it that game developers are oging to finally realize that people who use linux (and *nix) are also games not just code junkies? Or there gonna be a Fud capaing like sco is trying?
What if its hackers? WOuldnt that be interesting? Then what, the war on hackers?
IF you could afford your own PDP-11, then you were the king hobbist. Unix started out as someones fork of MULTACS and then progressed from there .
PArdon you like to screw oses? Now thats a fetish i havent heard of.
When is the american government going to say that this is too far. I mean come on , for each embedded deviec, what about all those device that run linux that they dont know about? Just a quick secondary question, What happens if you run 1.00, does this mean you have to pay sco as well? if not, then i dont see why someone doesnt take the 1.00 kernel and fork it?
What this really means is that RIM will become a slave to NTP because they will put execcive licencing reqs. on RIM, and RIM will simply be bought out by an AMERICAN conglomerate.
I pity the fact that this amazing little canadian company that could is going to be kicked out of a major market, especially since it was offering a service that was unique. Despite the fact there were patents, no one was ever putting out a service based on those patents... exept RIM.
poor little canadian company.
THat is unless of course you just so happen to be getting a job as a traslator at a publisher for the Lord of the rings and some star trek literature (yes Star Trek is Literature). Then the Elvin card would be perfect
Twice less expensive? I'm ashamed that he is canadian.
If this OS had been tested against the most demanding of users loads, i doubt we would be running a system that resembled windows today. I personally dont mind winxp, it is kinda purdy with a little tweaking, and with many third party apps you can get it to be more operable.
I would like to see windows progress beyond what it is now, where a single app can lock it so badly that it needs to have the power plug pulled.
Again, FreeBSD, i have crashed lots of apps, and the worst thing that has ever happened is that i get a huge core file being dumped onto my nearly empty home partition.
What Mr.Bill wants us to do is to pay for the updates that are technicly a result of his own screwups. HOw many of you out there think that this is a cash grab? If this backfires, it could end up with thousands of users migrating to somthing that is less costly to keep "Up to date" I personally am a big fan of FreeBSD, however i have tried out windows xp and found that for the most part it is sufficent for the average user. But if this happeness that i have to pay to uppgrade, i dont think there will be many who pay, just pirated copies that will circualate.
Perhaps panthers implimentation is easier, but again Unix beat the both to the punch. Fast user swiotching on windows sucks so bad, and couldnt nearly be called functional.
I want someone to give me one good reason why we cant just use anonomous ballots (government numbers) and a secure connection
What in gods name was he smoking?
I am in a gifted grade nine class right now, and let me tell you, i have read over the symtoms of ADHD and most of us have some if not all of the symptoms. None of us concentrate, half cant sit still, yet all of us kick our hard stuying "normal" peers asses on all tests. The most normal, and if i may say slowest in our classes are those who have been put onto the meds.
I dont think that the meds are a good idea for in school because teachers should simply learn to work around the inabilities of their kids. People work around the fact that johnny cannot deal with stresses in school all the time, why not deal with the fact that james cannot sit his freaking ass down and listen for half an hour.
Another thing is that io start projects and never keep up on them (See blog below). I get bored very easily and dont keep to a project for more than a couple hours at a time at most, and even then ui only usually du 15 minute frenzies of work.
Besides, in todays day and age, i thnk that the emphasis that they used to put on cursive writing was misplaced. Kids who could have the writing recognized were lucky. I used to have to practice day and night my writing because a teacher was dissatisfied with it and i think that that was not as important as math or even just proper grammer
The support group surpasses any linux on i ever tried to use, (FreeBSD forums) and they have helped me with any problem i have ever had.
FreeBSD is becoming both more powerful and easier to use as it ages, (I point to devfs) and kicks any linux distro for ease of use. the major features that to me seperate the men from the boys here are ...
- Sysinstall- useless as you get better, but beautifull for the newb and install
- Devfs- I dont know how i would live without it
- The ports and packages system. I know debian systems have somthing simmilar, but i havent yet had the chance to use it. To me make install is a lot simpler than both rpms, and dpkgs.
- just the stability and compatability. I run linux binarys regualary and all but a couple run even faset on my 166 fbsd machne than my friends 200 red hat.
Try it again, and you like what you see.Yes keyboards suck, however until they do come out with a cheap (lke $15-$99) inputdevice that still has all the fucntionality and speed that my regular keyboard has, I'll stick to my keyboard. I actually really lie the touchstream, however again, there is so much cost, compared to use value. when the touchstream comes down alot i'll be the first in line to buy one.
Hmm, when will SCO start going after our friends at Apple for incudind a UNIX base in its OS, Then they will really get their asses handed to them on a plate becaus OSX is based on Freebsd