We always ask questions and ponder why Linux isn't more prevalent on the desktop. I think this post and thread is a perfect example of why it isn't.
Look at all the fuss over gcc 3.1 not being compatible with Java, other software packages and even 3.2 that is suppose to be out soon. The average user doesn't want to have to deal with that.
I myself have used Mandrake for about 3 years now and love it, and will buy the retail package when it comes out in stores. But I don't expect my 70 something year old grandfather to deal with gcc version compatibility when all he wants to do is email and look up stuff he watched on Discovery or The History Channel.
I keep trying to write something witty and insightful, but I keep getting scared thinking of installing gov. software on my computer and the only thing my fingers type is...BAD, VERY, VERY, BAD.
I'm going to be redundant and say that yes Wal Mart does sale PC's. I guess it depends on the size of the store though. The one I'm my community is/was the largest one on the Gulf Coast and it sells some low end HP laptops carries a small selection of monitors, and has the kiosk in the electronics dpt to choose the best HP desktop package for you.
So in response YES I have seen a PC for sale in a retail Wal Mart.
edition? How many of these can he do? He's already done how many special releases of the 1st trilogy on VHS? 3? 4? And none of those on DVD, yet he has done Ep 1 on DVD.
I know he's said he's waiting for all 3 new movies to come out before the original's are available on DVD but this just kinda sucks.
Ep 2 will be available on DVD by itself, then Ep 3. Then he will release all 3 as a box set with special commemorative features. Then the first 3 will be released individually, then as a box set suped up with special features for them. Then he'll release a massive box set with all the special features plus some.
If something like this happens which I'm sure it will, the fans would have spent somewhere close to...well I don't know how much, but a hell of a lot...for all of it if you want to see the extra stuff.
Lucas is evil. Actually this sounds like something Pitr from userfriendly.org would do.
I think this kind of ties in to a
post of mine several days ago. Once again M$ would rather hide their
flaws behind government sanctions rather than get their act straight and fix it.
Problem: "It's bad for the U.S. if we release our API's."
Solution: "Fix your design flaws; in the meantime we'll use Linux.
Nice doing business with you."
I agree with several other posters that if the problem is that serious then
the product should be recalled. The good thing about Linux is if you are a
programmer and there's a problem with Linux then a person can fix it. With
Windows they, as everyone knows, hide their code behind National Security,
Legislation, and other FUD's.
I haven't used AOL since...oh before you were born. Well in about 3 or 4 years so I don't remember exactly what I went through to terminate service but I do remember waiting on hold with them forever. But that's nothing new, my aunt uses iCan't Internet and I have to help her alot and it seems it's still best to call them at 3am.
Earthlink...I cancelled them recently and it was a mess at all. I had a Mindspring account and tried the old 888MSPRING "You'ld be happier using Mindspring!" number and it worked fine. Wasn't on hold for too long and when I told them I wanted to cancel they offered me 3 months free!
My experiences with Earthlink was always good but when I had my phone turned on with BellSouth and got offered $15.95/month service I had to go with the cheaper route.
I have had some bad phone experiences but Earthlink has always been good to me.
I think the concept of playing every player in a sports game is cool but in some situations it just won't work. Like with American Football. If you're not a QB or LB just how fun will it be? This could be fairly interesting with Tennis or Soccer except for the goalie. It would be interesting to develop for some situations but I wouldn't play football online.
But I want to rant about Luke Skywalker. Am I the only one that thinks he sucked overall as a Jedi in the movies?
Ok, so he did destroy the DeathStar in the first one. Great job...
But the second: 1) He gets his butt kicked by the snow monster thing. 2) He gets shot down in the attack of Hoth. 3) He quits his training to rescue his friends which leads to 4) His failed attempt to rescue his friends. 5) Darth Vader whoops his butt and cutts off his hand.
In the third I'm not convinced Luke did anything to lure Vader back to good other than just being his son. And the Emperor whooped his butt in that one. Is there anyone in the movies that didn't put the beat down on him?
This was actually asked in Opera's newsgroups. Someone was guessing around 15 but that was by using this formula:
We know there are about 100 employees at Opera Software, and that about 55 people do the coding. (I say about because the numbers at the opera web-site are from 2000, and I know Opera has 'adjusted' it's workforce since.)Out of them, I seem to recall(borderline guessing) that 30% are programming the windows version..meaning about 15 people.
Also if you're interested their news server is news.opera.no
I've been using Opera for Windows for some time now. When I can use my Linux distro I prefer to use Opera for the browser. The one thing that always gets on my nerves is when I'm entering my username and password for Yahoo! mail I always get, "A script wants to read your password." I know it's for protective reasons, it's just annoying. I will upgrade to 6.02 and hopefully this will be taken care of. If anyone knows it is, a reply to this stating so would be much appreciated.
This case is a frequent topic of debate for me and my right wing uncle. He's of the opinion that Microsoft should be at the top not only for making a supposedly better product but for their business dealings. He sees everything their doing completely legitimate for business standards.
What I can't get him to understand though is I don't consider Microsoft doing business. Isn't the point of a free economy to stimulate innovation and make sure the best product is the one being produced? I know the current business ethics aren't what my (or maybe most people's) idea should be, but does that mean we should cooperate with the status quo?
Business isn't making an inferior product then letting strong arming or legislation protect your market share, or in this case monopoly.
It's so obvious and just not to the/. crowd but maybe to the general public that MS is strong arming the computer industry. It just seems that's everyday business and good business to them.
Actually I just got off the phone with my mother about this because I was working on her work computer last week because of these viruses. She wasn't sure where they had come from and when I did a search on the Internet for them there were a lot of differing ideas on their origin.
What's kinda scary is the network admin wouldn't do anything to help. Norton Antivirus would say it had been quarantined but after she reboots all the processses are still listed in her Task Manager. I just forwarded this on to her to give to the admin so maybe he can take care of this now.
I found this article: http://news.tucows.com/cyberdummy/42345.html at Tucows.com.
I wish companies would price printers at a reasonable rate, and charge as low a price as possible on replacement ink cartidges as a way of guaranteeing that customers keep using the product instead of switching to another brand.
I wish that was the thinking of the companies but their money comes from cartridges not printers. I use a Canon and find it very convenient how Canon breaks up the ink refills by color.
When some family members needed ink refills for their HP I just had them go to Wal-Mart and get a 600 series HP for $40.00 instead of getting a black cartridge for $40, then color for $40. So much cheaper just to keep buying printers rather than cartridges.
Printers would start taking up a lot of space around the house, although you could always sell the printer on Ebay to finance the next one.
Whenever I read mainstream articles about Linux they seem to say have differing ideas on what's stopping Linux from becoming widely used on non-geek computers. The interface is brought up alot, and so is installation (although with the newer releases of Mandrake, Suse, and others installation shouldn't be an issue anymore). But do you think that any of these "usability" arguments are valid anymore? I've read article after article about Microsoft "pressuring" places about going with anyone else. Do you think that Linux is ready or almost ready for prime time just M$ strong arm tactics with vendors and business's keep it pushed back?
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His sig. is Latin for No Progression Without Regression. Not all your bases are belong to us.
Thank god the Latin I learned for my Philosophy degree finally came in handy...
I have several thoughts about this but I don't like to type alot at once so...
1) The boy already had problems. I'm sorry about what happened to him but you can't blame a game for his pre-existing condition.
2) I'm torn between different forms of online privacy. I don't want anyone peeking into what I do while I'm on the web. I don't do anything illegal, but it's no one else's business. Now with this game maybe the logs or whatever could show specifically what led to this (MAYBE!) and help his mother find closure. And it's not like this is web surfing, emails, or anything...it's a game. But then that opens all kinds of cans of worms about what should be public and not...
3) This sounds horrible but this article makes me wanna play the game. I bought Everquest awhile back but never signed up for it. I'm rather curious right now.
I truly believe LOTR should have won best picture. If you look at the history of the Oscars the film that got the most nominations always won best picture if it was nominated for that category. Yet no science fiction/fantasy movie has ever won either. I agree with one of the postings earlier that it's political. People can't seem to think of this genre of having any seriousness. I don't think they realize it's this type of movie/writing that keeps alive the myths, traditions, and legends.
The general public should read The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell just to see what is being saved.
A PS2 costs $300. This kit costs $200. Elementary math..this kit costs $500. Wasn't the reason for getting Linux on a PS2 for the cost of a cheap home computer? I can take that $500 and upgrade my PC. I was looking very forward to Linux coming out but I didn't know it would cost so much.
It also seems this price is way too high. The PS2 will use standard USB keyboard and mice, so that is unneeded for the average geek. Is any of this stuff going to be sold separately?
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"..Publish plans for making weapons of mass destruction..."
Does this mean you can't publish how to make them? Or you can publish how you just can't publish what you're planning on doing with it?
Actually those scenes were in the appendices. I don't know if you consider those "part of the book" but Tolkien did write them.
I haven't read this entire thread to know if this has been posted yet but I promise I did this and it worked within days.
Take a wheat penny and during a full moon rub it on your warts then bury the penny and don't tell anyone where you buried it.
Sounds ludicrous (sp?) but my warts were gone for my junior prom.
J
Dark, evil sounding, face hiding man...
"I'll make it legal"
We always ask questions and ponder why Linux isn't more prevalent on the desktop. I think this post and thread is a perfect example of why it isn't.
Look at all the fuss over gcc 3.1 not being compatible with Java, other software packages and even 3.2 that is suppose to be out soon. The average user doesn't want to have to deal with that.
I myself have used Mandrake for about 3 years now and love it, and will buy the retail package when it comes out in stores. But I don't expect my 70 something year old grandfather to deal with gcc version compatibility when all he wants to do is email and look up stuff he watched on Discovery or The History Channel.
I keep trying to write something witty and insightful, but I keep getting scared thinking of installing gov. software on my computer and the only thing my fingers type is...BAD, VERY, VERY, BAD.
I'm going to be redundant and say that yes Wal Mart does sale PC's. I guess it depends on the size of the store though. The one I'm my community is/was the largest one on the Gulf Coast and it sells some low end HP laptops carries a small selection of monitors, and has the kiosk in the electronics dpt to choose the best HP desktop package for you.
So in response YES I have seen a PC for sale in a retail Wal Mart.
edition? How many of these can he do? He's already done how many special releases of the 1st trilogy on VHS? 3? 4? And none of those on DVD, yet he has done Ep 1 on DVD.
I know he's said he's waiting for all 3 new movies to come out before the original's are available on DVD but this just kinda sucks.
Ep 2 will be available on DVD by itself, then Ep 3. Then he will release all 3 as a box set with special commemorative features. Then the first 3 will be released individually, then as a box set suped up with special features for them. Then he'll release a massive box set with all the special features plus some.
If something like this happens which I'm sure it will, the fans would have spent somewhere close to...well I don't know how much, but a hell of a lot...for all of it if you want to see the extra stuff.
Lucas is evil. Actually this sounds like something Pitr from userfriendly.org would do.
That would be the ultimate form of paintball for me. Laser Tag meets Paintball meets Quake III Arena.
I know I have something witty to say here but I can't stop thinking about live action first person shooter death tournaments!
Although the picture of that guy with the gun makes me wonder how many people would get shot by cops not knowing the difference.
Problem: "It's bad for the U.S. if we release our API's."
Solution: "Fix your design flaws; in the meantime we'll use Linux. Nice doing business with you."
I agree with several other posters that if the problem is that serious then the product should be recalled. The good thing about Linux is if you are a programmer and there's a problem with Linux then a person can fix it. With Windows they, as everyone knows, hide their code behind National Security, Legislation, and other FUD's.
I haven't used AOL since...oh before you were born. Well in about 3 or 4 years so I don't remember exactly what I went through to terminate service but I do remember waiting on hold with them forever. But that's nothing new, my aunt uses iCan't Internet and I have to help her alot and it seems it's still best to call them at 3am.
Earthlink...I cancelled them recently and it was a mess at all. I had a Mindspring account and tried the old 888MSPRING "You'ld be happier using Mindspring!" number and it worked fine. Wasn't on hold for too long and when I told them I wanted to cancel they offered me 3 months free!
My experiences with Earthlink was always good but when I had my phone turned on with BellSouth and got offered $15.95/month service I had to go with the cheaper route.
I have had some bad phone experiences but Earthlink has always been good to me.
If you read the last word before I go into my quote is says, "ORIGINALS" As in the first Star Wars series.
But I'm going to. I just want to see the lightsaber fights. I mean really, isn't that what everyone really wanted out of the originals?
"Come on Luke, whip out that saber and put the smack down on someone."
I'll go see this one and I'll gladly pay $8.00 as long as the lightsabre fights rock.
I think the concept of playing every player in a sports game is cool but in some situations it just won't work. Like with American Football. If you're not a QB or LB just how fun will it be? This could be fairly interesting with Tennis or Soccer except for the goalie. It would be interesting to develop for some situations but I wouldn't play football online.
But I want to rant about Luke Skywalker. Am I the only one that thinks he sucked overall as a Jedi in the movies?
Ok, so he did destroy the DeathStar in the first one. Great job...
But the second: 1) He gets his butt kicked by the snow monster thing. 2) He gets shot down in the attack of Hoth. 3) He quits his training to rescue his friends which leads to 4) His failed attempt to rescue his friends. 5) Darth Vader whoops his butt and cutts off his hand.
In the third I'm not convinced Luke did anything to lure Vader back to good other than just being his son. And the Emperor whooped his butt in that one. Is there anyone in the movies that didn't put the beat down on him?
This was actually asked in Opera's newsgroups. Someone was guessing around 15 but that was by using this formula:
We know there are about 100 employees at Opera Software, and that about 55 people do the coding. (I say about because the numbers at the opera web-site are from 2000, and I know Opera has 'adjusted' it's workforce since.)Out of them, I seem to recall(borderline guessing) that 30% are programming the windows version..meaning about 15 people.
Also if you're interested their news server is news.opera.no
I've been using Opera for Windows for some time now. When I can use my Linux distro I prefer to use Opera for the browser. The one thing that always gets on my nerves is when I'm entering my username and password for Yahoo! mail I always get, "A script wants to read your password." I know it's for protective reasons, it's just annoying. I will upgrade to 6.02 and hopefully this will be taken care of. If anyone knows it is, a reply to this stating so would be much appreciated.
This case is a frequent topic of debate for me and my right wing uncle. He's of the opinion that Microsoft should be at the top not only for making a supposedly better product but for their business dealings. He sees everything their doing completely legitimate for business standards.
/. crowd but maybe to the general public that MS is strong arming the computer industry. It just seems that's everyday business and good business to them.
What I can't get him to understand though is I don't consider Microsoft doing business. Isn't the point of a free economy to stimulate innovation and make sure the best product is the one being produced? I know the current business ethics aren't what my (or maybe most people's) idea should be, but does that mean we should cooperate with the status quo?
Business isn't making an inferior product then letting strong arming or legislation protect your market share, or in this case monopoly.
It's so obvious and just not to the
Actually I just got off the phone with my mother about this because I was working on her work computer last week because of these viruses. She wasn't sure where they had come from and when I did a search on the Internet for them there were a lot of differing ideas on their origin.
What's kinda scary is the network admin wouldn't do anything to help. Norton Antivirus would say it had been quarantined but after she reboots all the processses are still listed in her Task Manager. I just forwarded this on to her to give to the admin so maybe he can take care of this now.
I found this article: http://news.tucows.com/cyberdummy/42345.html at Tucows.com.
I wish companies would price printers at a reasonable rate, and charge as low a price as possible on replacement ink cartidges as a way of guaranteeing that customers keep using the product instead of switching to another brand.
I wish that was the thinking of the companies but their money comes from cartridges not printers. I use a Canon and find it very convenient how Canon breaks up the ink refills by color.
When some family members needed ink refills for their HP I just had them go to Wal-Mart and get a 600 series HP for $40.00 instead of getting a black cartridge for $40, then color for $40. So much cheaper just to keep buying printers rather than cartridges.
Printers would start taking up a lot of space around the house, although you could always sell the printer on Ebay to finance the next one.
Whenever I read mainstream articles about Linux they seem to say have differing ideas on what's stopping Linux from becoming widely used on non-geek computers. The interface is brought up alot, and so is installation (although with the newer releases of Mandrake, Suse, and others installation shouldn't be an issue anymore). But do you think that any of these "usability" arguments are valid anymore? I've read article after article about Microsoft "pressuring" places about going with anyone else. Do you think that Linux is ready or almost ready for prime time just M$ strong arm tactics with vendors and business's keep it pushed back?
His sig. is Latin for No Progression Without Regression. Not all your bases are belong to us.
Thank god the Latin I learned for my Philosophy degree finally came in handy...
I have several thoughts about this but I don't like to type alot at once so...
1) The boy already had problems. I'm sorry about what happened to him but you can't blame a game for his pre-existing condition.
2) I'm torn between different forms of online privacy. I don't want anyone peeking into what I do while I'm on the web. I don't do anything illegal, but it's no one else's business. Now with this game maybe the logs or whatever could show specifically what led to this (MAYBE!) and help his mother find closure. And it's not like this is web surfing, emails, or anything...it's a game. But then that opens all kinds of cans of worms about what should be public and not...
3) This sounds horrible but this article makes me wanna play the game. I bought Everquest awhile back but never signed up for it. I'm rather curious right now.
Am I morbid??
I truly believe LOTR should have won best picture. If you look at the history of the Oscars the film that got the most nominations always won best picture if it was nominated for that category. Yet no science fiction/fantasy movie has ever won either. I agree with one of the postings earlier that it's political. People can't seem to think of this genre of having any seriousness. I don't think they realize it's this type of movie/writing that keeps alive the myths, traditions, and legends.
The general public should read The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell just to see what is being saved.
A PS2 costs $300. This kit costs $200. Elementary math..this kit costs $500. Wasn't the reason for getting Linux on a PS2 for the cost of a cheap home computer? I can take that $500 and upgrade my PC. I was looking very forward to Linux coming out but I didn't know it would cost so much.
It also seems this price is way too high. The PS2 will use standard USB keyboard and mice, so that is unneeded for the average geek. Is any of this stuff going to be sold separately?