If someone wanted to apply a mass amount of computing power at a problem, they couldn't do it distributedly because you rely on geeks interested in your cause.
Or rely on the money to build a nice sized cluster of 4.7 Ghz pentiums or even just a large number of 2ghz Athalons as a previous poster mentioned.
Oh no.. I've joined the ranks of those who post links to slashdot articals in the discussions of other slashdot articles...
Must.. get... dirt... off....
My appoligies to those at OEone. My comment was in no way directed at you. I was attempting to criticize slashdot, as this is by far not the first time I've seen some single product be repeatidly brought up in the main description of other articals that it has little or nothing to do with.
Can someone please tell me how much money oeone payed slashdot for all the publicity?
Maybe it is just me but slashdot seems to be saying an awfull lot of positive things about it even when the artical has nothing to do with it and shouldn't mention it at all.
Atleast Apple and Microsft both had "their" ideas they stole stolen by someone else. But poor Xerox... Poor NeXt... Poor guy who got rich when he should have gotten richer.
Atleast xerox can be blamed for showing off the stuff before they even released it and that guy DID get something...
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AAAHHH!!! Power failure! lights are off! Alarm clock is off! Cordless phone charger quit chargine. Wait a second... Hmmm... My computer is still on... WTF?!?!?
* AMD ATHLON XP 2000+
* 256MB DDR PC2700
* 40GB 7200rpm ATA133
* nVidia MX400 AGP 64MB
* Goldstar 32x10x40 CD-RW
* Windows XP Home
* 90 Days DIT Online Free
* One year part and labor warranty
Includes 17" Flat Screen monitor
$800
available from my local computer store, DIT.
Oh, I guess that $1100 mac you talked about had dvd, DIT will upgrade to include the dvd for $49. Which still leaves the PC $250 cheaper for a better machine.
Thanks for the luck, but I didn't need it. PCs are cheaper than you think.
If their reason for supporting only one resolution had anything to do with grandma's poor vision they would have chosen 800x600. My not-so-blind grandmother has a 19" monitor, and I doubt many grandmothers would have a bigger one, and she often has to look closely to read at 800x600.
That aside, I do agree with you that only supporting the one resolution is not a bad thing.
Emerge checks the md5 sums against what they should be (downloaded off of the portage mirrors I believe) I assume that would be verification correct?
And I consider gentoo a bigger distribution.
Oooohh... so sorry for my spelling mistake at 3 am.
And maybe I should make a timeline to help clear things up for you?
Xerox makes gui ---> Apple copies idea from Xerox ---> Microsoft copies idea from Apple ---> NeXT creates a better way of doing a gui interface ---> Apple, Microsoft, and others, copy NeXT's designs into their products.
I hope in some small way I have help to de-ignorant-ify the ACs who so quickly troll./
Just like how the windows and macOS were based on the NeXt look way back when?
In case you aren't aware of your history, most big computer GUI innovations were stolen from a companies that are no longer around, or have left the GUI business... (Mouse and the GUI concept from Zerox, current GUI designs almost always based on NeXt...)
I agree with you completly though. We need new ideas.
Hardest part for me was getting enough money to buy all the parts...;p
oh.. wait...now I feel poor:(
But you'll all see... One of these days I'll win the lottery and will be able to afford that 800mhz pentium 3 and then I will finally have a fast computer!!!.......
Or burn the captured videos to VCD and watch them on your DVD player?
Ooooh.... you mean that ps2 I bought to play games AND watch DVDs on that doesn't play VCD's?;)
So... how long is it until a freeware GPL'd clone of the software is created that is good enough for most people, causing no one to buy the comercial software?
Too fast for comercial software to be profitable, and too slow for it to be around to stop people yelling about the comercial software not available.
What I would really like to know, why don't some of these companies test their apps under WINE and put a big sticker on the box saying "WINE compatible" ?
Unfortunatly, the companies would then have no idea how many people were buying the software to use on linux or on windows, and IMHO would assume that nearly all copies were bought for windows use.
And in this wonderful capitolist society of ours, since there isn't a huge jump in profit from adding linux support, that will be the last time we see that company support linux.
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So by hiding it in a EULA that no one reads in a way no one would understand, they have violated a user agreement they prolly didn't read either...
Or rely on the money to build a nice sized cluster of 4.7 Ghz pentiums or even just a large number of 2ghz Athalons as a previous poster mentioned.
Oh no.. I've joined the ranks of those who post links to slashdot articals in the discussions of other slashdot articles...
Must.. get... dirt... off....
My appoligies to those at OEone. My comment was in no way directed at you.
I was attempting to criticize slashdot, as this is by far not the first time I've seen some single product be repeatidly brought up in the main description of other articals that it has little or nothing to do with.
Is this a virus based upon a bug in an old version that has been patched and gotten quite a bit of publicity not to long ago?
It seems like a great flight sim, but you apparently need a pretty fast computer (either that or I don't have opengl set up where it can find it)
Maybe it is just me but slashdot seems to be saying an awfull lot of positive things about it even when the artical has nothing to do with it and shouldn't mention it at all.
Atleast Apple and Microsft both had "their" ideas they stole stolen by someone else. But poor Xerox... Poor NeXt... Poor guy who got rich when he should have gotten richer.
Atleast xerox can be blamed for showing off the stuff before they even released it and that guy DID get something...
-1 Offtopic.....
AAAHHH!!! Power failure! lights are off! Alarm clock is off! Cordless phone charger quit chargine. Wait a second... Hmmm... My computer is still on... WTF?!?!?
(though really, how many mac virii are there?)
Not as many as windows, but from my experience doing tech support for my school... A lot more than you think there are.
* AMD ATHLON XP 2000+ * 256MB DDR PC2700 * 40GB 7200rpm ATA133 * nVidia MX400 AGP 64MB * Goldstar 32x10x40 CD-RW * Windows XP Home * 90 Days DIT Online Free * One year part and labor warranty Includes 17" Flat Screen monitor $800 available from my local computer store, DIT. Oh, I guess that $1100 mac you talked about had dvd, DIT will upgrade to include the dvd for $49. Which still leaves the PC $250 cheaper for a better machine. Thanks for the luck, but I didn't need it. PCs are cheaper than you think.
If their reason for supporting only one resolution had anything to do with grandma's poor vision they would have chosen 800x600. My not-so-blind grandmother has a 19" monitor, and I doubt many grandmothers would have a bigger one, and she often has to look closely to read at 800x600. That aside, I do agree with you that only supporting the one resolution is not a bad thing.
Emerge checks the md5 sums against what they should be (downloaded off of the portage mirrors I believe) I assume that would be verification correct? And I consider gentoo a bigger distribution.
Apple and Microsoft have a history of begging, borrowing, or stealing from other products as well. Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
Oooohh... so sorry for my spelling mistake at 3 am. And maybe I should make a timeline to help clear things up for you? Xerox makes gui ---> Apple copies idea from Xerox ---> Microsoft copies idea from Apple ---> NeXT creates a better way of doing a gui interface ---> Apple, Microsoft, and others, copy NeXT's designs into their products. I hope in some small way I have help to de-ignorant-ify the ACs who so quickly troll ./
Just like how the windows and macOS were based on the NeXt look way back when? In case you aren't aware of your history, most big computer GUI innovations were stolen from a companies that are no longer around, or have left the GUI business... (Mouse and the GUI concept from Zerox, current GUI designs almost always based on NeXt...) I agree with you completly though. We need new ideas.
oh.. wait...now I feel poor:(
But you'll all see... One of these days I'll win the lottery and will be able to afford that 800mhz pentium 3 and then I will finally have a fast computer!!! .......
Wow, not only that but you were modded up for the comment you admitted was wrong!
Or burn the captured videos to VCD and watch them on your DVD player? Ooooh.... you mean that ps2 I bought to play games AND watch DVDs on that doesn't play VCD's? ;)
So... how long is it until a freeware GPL'd clone of the software is created that is good enough for most people, causing no one to buy the comercial software? Too fast for comercial software to be profitable, and too slow for it to be around to stop people yelling about the comercial software not available. What I would really like to know, why don't some of these companies test their apps under WINE and put a big sticker on the box saying "WINE compatible" ?
Unfortunatly, the companies would then have no idea how many people were buying the software to use on linux or on windows, and IMHO would assume that nearly all copies were bought for windows use. And in this wonderful capitolist society of ours, since there isn't a huge jump in profit from adding linux support, that will be the last time we see that company support linux.