Thanks! Yes, that's less than ideal. I guess it's only professional wordsmiths that really rely no it, but (as has been pointed out elsewhere) it's the first thing that a reviewer will notice.
No, I'm afraid that more than just professional wordsmiths rely on word count. A family member of mine flat out refuses to use StarOffice and its derivatives for exactly that reason. It's something I would like to see fixed in future versions, but until then AbiWord works just fine for me (not to mention it's lighter with much less cruft).
Given the relative slowness of the dreamcast, even at less than a $100 buck it still can't compete with a PC. You can easily put together a Duron sytem for around the same cost and have a far more useful Linux box. Being able to run binaries and not recomiling to run on the dreamcast will save a boatload of time in the long run too.
You missed the point. This isn't about "useful," "practial." or "cheap." This is Good ol fashioned hardware hacking. (see look, it even says it on the site. neeener.) It has much less to do with how usable it is as it does with its coolness factor.
That's bloody scary. I'm sure this is exactly the thing my gamer addict friends need to help them kick the habit. um..no.
What with mobile gaming, instant messaging, and various other communication devices a veritable electronic culture is right on the horizon - it seems a bit like the navi-obsessed youth in Lain. The question is if it's better, worse, or somewhere to the side.
In states that haven't explicitly allowed these bugges on the sidewalks, can you use them in bikelanes? What conditions does your vehicle need to meet to be a bike? How about a moped or something of that nature- open, wheeled, anything else?
In a corporate environment, wouldn't all your computers be talking to the internet through a router, anyway? Wouldn't it make sense to have the "firewall" on the borders of your network, rather than in the middle? Isn't that what the term "firewall" means?
Or is this to implement security against other clients on the same local network?
It's for use against other clients on the same network. I think the intended use is to keep employess/keyboard wielding monkeys/schoolchildren from hax0ring each other.
Now firewalls area available to the masses who don't know what they are!
No news threre. Windows XP has a bundled software firewall and many consumer routers toute built in firewalls as well. The main significange is the NIC taking the (nominal) load off the rest of the system and allowing greater control of user terminals, I believe. Now, the article:-) says a selling point of this dealy is that computers with it installed can only connect to trusted adresses/on the hardware level/. "The device also makes it harder to misuse corporate equipment by plugging it in in the wrong place" or CONTROL, you be the judge. Somebody correct me if [when] I'm wrong.
Many shops were using linux on the back end - that's how you get your number of boxes it took to render. This is a significant switch on the front end, the servers and workstations that the human work gets done on.
This is great news if it means having quality graphics software available under linux. The Gimp just doesn't provide a compelling alternative for serious professional shops. Adobe ports to linux would be a Good Thing and then some.
Too bad the Linux "d00ds" will not enjoy as great a gaming experience with this bad boy as us "Windows" d00ds. I could never see Everquest, Camelot, or anything like it as open source. Would ruin the game totally.
It's called Nethack, duh - which is why us Linux "d00ds" need to buy geForce4s to make text mode games..even faster! er...../me mutters incoherently and runs to corner.
Charles Babbage, the pioneer of the mechanical computer, was another famous opponent; he lost two games to the Turk. Babbage was certain it was under human control, though he was not sure how. But he started to wonder whether a genuine chess-playing machine could, in fact, be constructed.
That is why it's here, not so much news but definately of interest to the slashdot computing crowd.
[Yes among webservers] which are (mostly) run by people who know what they're doing - however the general public has yet to embrace this concept and have open source OSes running at home & in the workplace in numbers big enough to matter.
It matters that the concept has been adopted by people who know what they are doing. The ellusive 'desktop market' may or may not follow suit, but that doesn't really have to be an issue. A community composed primarily of competent members can survive without the masses. (Do i sound like a linux elitist? Bah. I appreciate efforts like Lycoris to bring FS to the general public, but I realize that their success or failure won't affect me or my computing future.)
Good to see stuff we've known / suspected for some time backed up by real data....
Looking at a bunch of graphs deoesn't explain why I use Free Software solutions. Apache's market share might be impressive, but that's not the reason I use Apache on my server and linux on every box. I use Free Software because I like what Free Software has to offer. Even the article's "Non-Quantitative Issues" doesn't adress user preference. Gnome just Feels Good to use and would likely be my choice regardlesss of any superiority of licensing or cold hard technical superiority.
This is the sort of "because we CAN" geek project that needs no practical justification. You don't see the inate brilliance of cutting things out of their boxes and putting them in other boxes? Tough.
Same with ie on wine. When I pressed back it just gave me a segfault....much better.:-) truth.
by the way, the 'please close all aplications and restart your computer' error window really cracks me up when the app was run under wine in the first place.
Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is."
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Thanks! Yes, that's less than ideal. I guess it's only professional wordsmiths that really rely no it, but (as has been pointed out elsewhere) it's the first thing that a reviewer will notice.
No, I'm afraid that more than just professional wordsmiths rely on word count. A family member of mine flat out refuses to use StarOffice and its derivatives for exactly that reason. It's something I would like to see fixed in future versions, but until then AbiWord works just fine for me (not to mention it's lighter with much less cruft).
I hope you realize your "CHEAP, but Uber Kewl Workstation" would only have 16 megs of ram.
Given the relative slowness of the dreamcast, even at less than a $100 buck it still can't compete with a PC. You can easily put together a Duron sytem for around the same cost and have a far more useful Linux box. Being able to run binaries and not recomiling to run on the dreamcast will save a boatload of time in the long run too.
You missed the point. This isn't about "useful," "practial." or "cheap." This is Good ol fashioned hardware hacking. (see look, it even says it on the site. neeener.) It has much less to do with how usable it is as it does with its coolness factor.
That's bloody scary. I'm sure this is exactly the thing my gamer addict friends need to help them kick the habit. um..no.
What with mobile gaming, instant messaging, and various other communication devices a veritable electronic culture is right on the horizon - it seems a bit like the navi-obsessed youth in Lain. The question is if it's better, worse, or somewhere to the side.
I think the actual law (Newton's 4th) went something along the lines of "A body on segway stays on segway unless presented with sufficient coinage."
In states that haven't explicitly allowed these bugges on the sidewalks, can you use them in bikelanes? What conditions does your vehicle need to meet to be a bike? How about a moped or something of that nature- open, wheeled, anything else?
1)Create client for swaping music
2)?
3)Profit!!!
In a corporate environment, wouldn't all your computers be talking to the internet through a router, anyway? Wouldn't it make sense to have the "firewall" on the borders of your network, rather than in the middle? Isn't that what the term "firewall" means?
Or is this to implement security against other clients on the same local network?
It's for use against other clients on the same network. I think the intended use is to keep employess/keyboard wielding monkeys/schoolchildren from hax0ring each other.
Now firewalls area available to the masses who don't know what they are!
No news threre. Windows XP has a bundled software firewall and many consumer routers toute built in firewalls as well. The main significange is the NIC taking the (nominal) load off the rest of the system and allowing greater control of user terminals, I believe. Now, the article :-) says a selling point of this dealy is that computers with it installed can only connect to trusted adresses /on the hardware level/. "The device also makes it harder to misuse corporate equipment by plugging it in in the wrong place" or CONTROL, you be the judge. Somebody correct me if [when] I'm wrong.
Many shops were using linux on the back end - that's how you get your number of boxes it took to render. This is a significant switch on the front end, the servers and workstations that the human work gets done on.
This is great news if it means having quality graphics software available under linux. The Gimp just doesn't provide a compelling alternative for serious professional shops. Adobe ports to linux would be a Good Thing and then some.
Too bad the Linux "d00ds" will not enjoy as great a gaming experience with this bad boy as us "Windows" d00ds. I could never see Everquest, Camelot, or anything like it as open source. Would ruin the game totally.
It's called Nethack, duh - which is why us Linux "d00ds" need to buy geForce4s to make text mode games..even faster! er...../me mutters incoherently and runs to corner.
Charles Babbage, the pioneer of the mechanical computer, was another famous opponent; he lost two games to the Turk. Babbage was certain it was under human control, though he was not sure how. But he started to wonder whether a genuine chess-playing machine could, in fact, be constructed.
That is why it's here, not so much news but definately of interest to the slashdot computing crowd.
It matters that the concept has been adopted by people who know what they are doing. The ellusive 'desktop market' may or may not follow suit, but that doesn't really have to be an issue. A community composed primarily of competent members can survive without the masses. (Do i sound like a linux elitist? Bah. I appreciate efforts like Lycoris to bring FS to the general public, but I realize that their success or failure won't affect me or my computing future.)
Looking at a bunch of graphs deoesn't explain why I use Free Software solutions. Apache's market share might be impressive, but that's not the reason I use Apache on my server and linux on every box. I use Free Software because I like what Free Software has to offer. Even the article's "Non-Quantitative Issues" doesn't adress user preference. Gnome just Feels Good to use and would likely be my choice regardlesss of any superiority of licensing or cold hard technical superiority.
Better yet, throw all that inside a mac. ^_^
If you have to ask why, don't.
This is the sort of "because we CAN" geek project that needs no practical justification. You don't see the inate brilliance of cutting things out of their boxes and putting them in other boxes? Tough.
Same with ie on wine. When I pressed back it just gave me a segfault....much better. :-) truth.
by the way, the 'please close all aplications and restart your computer' error window really cracks me up when the app was run under wine in the first place.
what's that, im addicts??
$wine /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/Iexplore.exe
:-D)
would you like any _more_ details? (and by the way, i'm using mozilla. Does that make me locked in to the evils of Unix?
It might not improve their resistence specifically, but it sure as hell could improve the overall fitness of the fly population.
If kill off most of the fly population, the remaining flys will be the strongest portion of the gene pool. Subsequent generations reap the benefits.
Ditto in San Diego. It's a cellery 733, 20bg, 128 pc100 for $299, with Linux mentioned prominently.
RMS "explicitly confrontational?" Surely you jest!
;-)
...named Passport and Windows. ^_^