Anyone with half an ass for a brain knows that almost every picture of a computer with a desktop graphic is Photoshopped. What, did you actually think they took a digital picture of it?
1. You CAN run Linux on a MS Tablet PC. No one's stopping you. Woo hoo.
2. These have TOUCH SCREENS. MS Tablets have electomagnetic pens, kinda like a Wacom tablet. NOT pressure sensitive like a touch screen.
3. MS Tablets have XP Tablet Edition, with the handwriting recognition/Ink software. Linux doesn't, and seeing the state Linux fonts are currently in ("Linux fonts are fine!! Just copy the TrueType fonts from Windblo... um, nevermind"), I don't think handwriting recognition software is on its way anytime soon (and before anyone brings it up, SourceForge projects below stage 3 or 4 DON'T COUNT).
So what we have here is a glorified Palm running linux or WinXP. Glue a touchscreen LCD onto a brick PC and you're done. Wahoo. I can go back to sleep now, because this in no way offers competition to the MS-based tablets. HAND.
Hey, no matter how many times a day you do it, you're not a professional wanker unless you do like Ralphie on The Sopranos and... um... "use a cheese grater on your dong."
Welcome to the club. 2002-09-01 22:46:39 Greek Government Bans *All* Video Games (yro,censorship) (rejected) 2002-09-02 02:10:17 MLB Wants to Shut Down Fan Web Sites (yro,censorship) (rejected) 2002-09-03 15:37:59 N'Sync Star Replaced With Cargo on Soyuz Mission (articles,humor) (rejected) 2002-09-04 23:30:12 "Smart" Furniture (articles,tech) (rejected) 2002-09-05 08:17:26 First Commercial Moon Trip OKed (science,space) (rejected) 2002-09-06 17:02:22 RIAA Shuts Down Aimster (yro,censorship) (rejected) 2002-09-08 09:50:52 Japan to Test Space Shuttle Technology (articles,space) (rejected) 2002-09-10 23:43:26 Man Jailed For Playing Tetris On Airplane (articles,humor) (rejected) 2002-09-11 08:30:34 How to Cook With Lava (articles,humor) 2002-09-16 09:12:31 Saturn V Space Junk Could Strike Moon (articles,space) (rejected) 2002-10-19 06:00:31 Jesse Helms Freezes Bill, Saves Small Webcasters (articles,news) (rejected) 2002-10-21 03:04:41 Windows NT 6 (Longhorn) Screenshots Revealed (articles,microsoft) (rejected) 2002-10-27 16:34:33 World's Smallest Computer (articles,tech) (rejected) 2002-11-05 16:49:13 Self-Healing Battle Tanks (articles,tech) (rejected) 2002-11-06 01:38:02 Google's 'Compute' takes on Distributed Computing (articles,security) (rejected)
An interesting story is that a good 4 or 5 of those stories were posted A WEEK or more LATER. Note the one about cooking with lava is still 'pending.' Hemos might post that one; it's evident from this story that he's a tree-hugger. =)
1) I don't like the RIAA. They're just as bad as the parent poster, just the opposite extreme.
2) I don't condone the shutting down of P2P networks.
3) At the same time, I'm trying to unmask this facade that "it's perfectly okay to steal music." It's not. Most people have probably pissed on the side of a public building sometime in their life. Is that legal? No. But you still did it, right? Do the cops go around town looking for people pissing on buildings? No, they're too busy with murderers and rapists and the like. Such is that with music. Yeah, it's wrong to the artists, yes the music moguls are blood-sucking whores, but we can sweep it under the run and the world would be perfectly fine. It's just sad that many "open source advocates" that frequent this board don't believe in having a steady job and getting paid for it. People that write and play music for a living do.
Wow, that statement was so the way out in left field, you just earned a permanent trip to my foes list.
Get this through your skulls: it's ILLEGAL to use ILLEGALY OBTAINED music. Sure I do it, everyone does it, but I for one am gradually replacing my music with authentic copies that I paid for. You may not like the fact that some people make their money off of making and distributing music, but hey, you're such a head-up-your-ass liberal it doesn't really make a difference to you does it?
They are simply helping their friends to avoid paying for the media
Media is irrelevant in this situation. It's the actual sound recording (lyrics + music) that you're paying (or should be paying for), asshole.
These guys are obviously smart, and can be writing software to find cures for cancer and AIDS. But, hey, why do any of that when you can be working on HURD?
On another note, does anyone know how HURD benchmarks against linux?
Currently, the HURD doesn't support benchmarking software. But they hope to add that functionality within the next few years, if that answers your question.
Wow, this has been in the works since when, 1985? Does it support IDE hard drives too, or are they still on the MFM/RLL standards?
Jeez... there is a point you reach when you just GIVE UP.
"Hi, welcome to the GNU/HURD homepage. We enourage you to use our software, cause it's free as in freedom, y'know? Oh, but it doesn't support sound, any video cards, etc."
Will all the HURD users please stand up so that I may fart in their general direction? I have one question: WHAT are you trying to desperately prove? That you can eventually make something that's "not quite Linux?" I'd like to know your motivation.
There's no sex on the Geek Cruise. None. Oh, there's geeks on the Geek Cruise -- but you don't want geeks. You want sex. And there's no sex on the Geek Cruise.
You get the idea. I still remember running System 1 and System 6.7 on one of those refrigerator-yellow 512K Macs back in the day. And it ran fast. Damn fast. And it all ran off a 700K floppy disk. It was one of the fastest GUIs around... it beats CDE and all those dozen sorrier-than-shit window managers that ship with Linux. (Think TWM. Puh-Leeze.) It's sad to see where we've progressed.
For example, when you click an app on the panel in OSX, the icon "bounces" up and down in place. I mean, is that really necessary? I think OS X is more of a "let's see what we CAN do" OS instead of a "let's see how productive we can be while conserving as much memory and processor cycles as possible."
It's 2002, and a Mac Classic still runs System 7 pretty quickly, will fit in the corner of your desk, and run its apps perfectly fine.
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Someone didn't get the joke.
Oooooh! The picture is faked?!?! Dear God!
Anyone with half an ass for a brain knows that almost every picture of a computer with a desktop graphic is Photoshopped. What, did you actually think they took a digital picture of it?
Shouldn't you be reading the book instead of using Sparknotes?
They should have used the money to repair the potholes on Main Street.
Don't want the prostitutes tripping and falling into holes, now do ya?
Well, while we were switching things around here at the ad agency
And in doing so, it got a front-page link on Slashdot, direct to the Microsoft Tablet PC demo / info page. Thanks, Slashdot!
I mean in the handwriting recognition capability. Realize that it is that feature that sets it apart from everything else portable PC-wise.
Otherwise all you've got is a laptop with a touch screen, which is different from a "tablet."
A few things of note:
1. You CAN run Linux on a MS Tablet PC. No one's stopping you. Woo hoo.
2. These have TOUCH SCREENS. MS Tablets have electomagnetic pens, kinda like a Wacom tablet. NOT pressure sensitive like a touch screen.
3. MS Tablets have XP Tablet Edition, with the handwriting recognition/Ink software. Linux doesn't, and seeing the state Linux fonts are currently in ("Linux fonts are fine!! Just copy the TrueType fonts from Windblo... um, nevermind"), I don't think handwriting recognition software is on its way anytime soon (and before anyone brings it up, SourceForge projects below stage 3 or 4 DON'T COUNT).
So what we have here is a glorified Palm running linux or WinXP. Glue a touchscreen LCD onto a brick PC and you're done. Wahoo. I can go back to sleep now, because this in no way offers competition to the MS-based tablets. HAND.
Antibacterial soap contains Triclosan, a disinfectant. It doesn't contain antibiotics.
Hey, no matter how many times a day you do it, you're not a professional wanker unless you do like Ralphie on The Sopranos and... um... "use a cheese grater on your dong."
Sound support! You can now have it play a sound on receipt of any incoming mail.
You're kidding, right?
I just tend to look for the box on the wall plugged into an ethernet cable with the two antennae sticking out of it.
2002-08-30 09:02:14 Melting Arctic Ice May Open Northwest Passage (science,science) (rejected)
I submitted this OVER TWO MONTHS AGO. What will I be reading on Slashdot tomorrow? Linux Kernel 2.0.35 out?
And if someone trips over the cable, there goes your 2 gigs of data!
Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stick with mah good ole Winchester disks.
So on to more important things... like how is the HURD doing these days?
Welcome to the club.
2002-09-01 22:46:39 Greek Government Bans *All* Video Games (yro,censorship) (rejected)
2002-09-02 02:10:17 MLB Wants to Shut Down Fan Web Sites (yro,censorship) (rejected)
2002-09-03 15:37:59 N'Sync Star Replaced With Cargo on Soyuz Mission (articles,humor) (rejected)
2002-09-04 23:30:12 "Smart" Furniture (articles,tech) (rejected)
2002-09-05 08:17:26 First Commercial Moon Trip OKed (science,space) (rejected)
2002-09-06 17:02:22 RIAA Shuts Down Aimster (yro,censorship) (rejected)
2002-09-08 09:50:52 Japan to Test Space Shuttle Technology (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-09-10 23:43:26 Man Jailed For Playing Tetris On Airplane (articles,humor) (rejected)
2002-09-11 08:30:34 How to Cook With Lava (articles,humor)
2002-09-16 09:12:31 Saturn V Space Junk Could Strike Moon (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-10-19 06:00:31 Jesse Helms Freezes Bill, Saves Small Webcasters (articles,news) (rejected)
2002-10-21 03:04:41 Windows NT 6 (Longhorn) Screenshots Revealed (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
2002-10-27 16:34:33 World's Smallest Computer (articles,tech) (rejected)
2002-11-05 16:49:13 Self-Healing Battle Tanks (articles,tech) (rejected)
2002-11-06 01:38:02 Google's 'Compute' takes on Distributed Computing (articles,security) (rejected)
An interesting story is that a good 4 or 5 of those stories were posted A WEEK or more LATER. Note the one about cooking with lava is still 'pending.' Hemos might post that one; it's evident from this story that he's a tree-hugger. =)
Hey, in my high school biology class, we made these! I'm waiting on a story on coke-bottle terrariums next week!
Let's make a few things clear:
1) I don't like the RIAA. They're just as bad as the parent poster, just the opposite extreme.
2) I don't condone the shutting down of P2P networks.
3) At the same time, I'm trying to unmask this facade that "it's perfectly okay to steal music." It's not. Most people have probably pissed on the side of a public building sometime in their life. Is that legal? No. But you still did it, right? Do the cops go around town looking for people pissing on buildings? No, they're too busy with murderers and rapists and the like. Such is that with music. Yeah, it's wrong to the artists, yes the music moguls are blood-sucking whores, but we can sweep it under the run and the world would be perfectly fine. It's just sad that many "open source advocates" that frequent this board don't believe in having a steady job and getting paid for it. People that write and play music for a living do.
Wow, that statement was so the way out in left field, you just earned a permanent trip to my foes list.
Get this through your skulls: it's ILLEGAL to use ILLEGALY OBTAINED music. Sure I do it, everyone does it, but I for one am gradually replacing my music with authentic copies that I paid for. You may not like the fact that some people make their money off of making and distributing music, but hey, you're such a head-up-your-ass liberal it doesn't really make a difference to you does it?
They are simply helping their friends to avoid paying for the media
Media is irrelevant in this situation. It's the actual sound recording (lyrics + music) that you're paying (or should be paying for), asshole.
Ok, I'm sitting in front of an XP box. Doing nothing, the CPU usage evens out at...(waits)...1%.
Now I'm moving the mouse back and forth fast. CPU usage evens out at...2%.
Now I'm playing with the taskbar. Back and forth, fast. CPU evens out at...7%.
so yes, the GUI takes resources, but 50% of your available power is __way too much__
Aqua is a hog. Too bad you can't disable it and go back to the Classic GUI.
Of course not. Writing operating systems is fun.
These guys are obviously smart, and can be writing software to find cures for cancer and AIDS. But, hey, why do any of that when you can be working on HURD?
On another note, does anyone know how HURD benchmarks against linux?
Currently, the HURD doesn't support benchmarking software. But they hope to add that functionality within the next few years, if that answers your question.
Wow, this has been in the works since when, 1985? Does it support IDE hard drives too, or are they still on the MFM/RLL standards?
Jeez... there is a point you reach when you just GIVE UP.
"Hi, welcome to the GNU/HURD homepage. We enourage you to use our software, cause it's free as in freedom, y'know? Oh, but it doesn't support sound, any video cards, etc."
Will all the HURD users please stand up so that I may fart in their general direction? I have one question: WHAT are you trying to desperately prove? That you can eventually make something that's "not quite Linux?" I'd like to know your motivation.
There's no sex on the Geek Cruise. None. Oh, there's geeks on the Geek Cruise -- but you don't want geeks. You want sex. And there's no sex on the Geek Cruise.
OK, I'll have a go at your post. For someone with a UID in the 100,000's, I'd assume you'd have the brains to know what "Score +1 Bonus" means.
You get the idea. I still remember running System 1 and System 6.7 on one of those refrigerator-yellow 512K Macs back in the day. And it ran fast. Damn fast. And it all ran off a 700K floppy disk. It was one of the fastest GUIs around... it beats CDE and all those dozen sorrier-than-shit window managers that ship with Linux. (Think TWM. Puh-Leeze.) It's sad to see where we've progressed.
For example, when you click an app on the panel in OSX, the icon "bounces" up and down in place. I mean, is that really necessary? I think OS X is more of a "let's see what we CAN do" OS instead of a "let's see how productive we can be while conserving as much memory and processor cycles as possible."
It's 2002, and a Mac Classic still runs System 7 pretty quickly, will fit in the corner of your desk, and run its apps perfectly fine.