price (you still pay a lot less for a crt) resolution (you can use any resolution on a crt, on lcd's you are limited to the built in resolution, important especially for newer games if you dont want to buy every half year a new pc)
i still prefer the "old" mozilla suite for my daily work as browser, email-client, calendar, and whatnot are directly integrated into the browser and with the "keep in memory" option they all pop up in an instant
besides that i just dislike the ie-like layout of firefox and that 90% of the options are hidden (yea i know about:config, but i still prefer the old preferences window)
the real problem with nightly builds is not the possible instability but who wants to download ~5-11MB daily for a simple upgrade?
if the mozilla team does not offer some sort of incremental upgrade system thats not really an option for many people
i have a nice broadband connection but downloading a whopping 11MB to upgrade mozilla (the suite not firefox) everyday is quite much, especially if the actual changes are far below 1MB (just guessing)
...that they seemed to run only processor-native code. Even Linux-Quake: Linux IS ported to the Mac;-)
you got a little flaw in your example... quake and linux might be ported to the mac but still, the linux version of quake3 is afaik x86 which is quite a bit different to a ppc, so either they cheated (gimp is available for windows and quake3 for mac) or they do more than just slap on some wrappers
i cant remember how 'open' this game is but i remember that atleast a great (if not all) amount of code is gpl'd by nevrax.
besides some balancing issues in the early beta (when i played it) it seems to become a really great game. (the open beta just started on 30th august so maybe ill check back soon)
Now the DMCA makes it illegal to decode those signals.
well im surely not an expert here (and neither do i live in the states), but ist the dmca about breaking encryption?
so if the signal was protected by a lame 64 bit wep, it would be applicable (like css and friends) but not if its unencrypted, as you are still allowed to copy unprotected (i.e not css'ed) dvds.
there is absoluely no problem running linux on that spec, the real "problem" is windowmanagers like kde and gnome
you can easily work with windowmaker, icewm, or whatever "small" wm is around but kde is imho VERY much like xp: has almost everything onboard needs huge amounts of processing power/ram is (what many say) "userfriendly"
while i do use kde on my workstation (which is advanced enough to run it without slowdown) i would never use it on an old computer like a PII with 64MB. i guess (almost) no one would whine if his 20 year old golf cant carry a 10 ton trailer.
so use the right tool for the job, its your choice (yea we all know thats what linux is all about)
hmm there's mozilla...
years ahead, only a fraction of ie's bugs, 10M other features, and... open source!
so why ie if there's obviously a (much) better choice?
software which installs itself on a bug in your system, wreaks some havoc there, severely misuses your internet connection to spread itself fits in a few kb...
Slashdot Mirror
how often are ie's released and their service packs? i bet not daily.
the patches (ie) are much smaller...
which is imho because of a two simple reasons:
price (you still pay a lot less for a crt)
resolution (you can use any resolution on a crt, on lcd's you are limited to the built in resolution, important especially for newer games if you dont want to buy every half year a new pc)
i still prefer the "old" mozilla suite for my daily work as browser, email-client, calendar, and whatnot are directly integrated into the browser and with the "keep in memory" option they all pop up in an instant
besides that i just dislike the ie-like layout of firefox and that 90% of the options are hidden (yea i know about:config, but i still prefer the old preferences window)
security improvements? ah ok i see
but on the other hand wasnt the aol integrated browser switched to mozilla some time ago?
and for features: ie still hasnt tabs, which are vital for anybody who switched (atleast the people i know of)
the real problem with nightly builds is not the possible instability but who wants to download ~5-11MB daily for a simple upgrade?
if the mozilla team does not offer some sort of incremental upgrade system thats not really an option for many people
i have a nice broadband connection but downloading a whopping 11MB to upgrade mozilla (the suite not firefox) everyday is quite much, especially if the actual changes are far below 1MB (just guessing)
i understand that quite some people need stuff like that, but my comment was targeted at using it for coding, not at its general use.
sometimes the subject line IS important to understand the context of a post...
you got a little flaw in your example... quake and linux might be ported to the mac but still, the linux version of quake3 is afaik x86 which is quite a bit different to a ppc, so either they cheated (gimp is available for windows and quake3 for mac) or they do more than just slap on some wrappers
this would be nothing more than a nice wow-effect, because most coders write code much faster than speaking it
maybe because not everyone wants to use reiser4?
no problems here with mozilla 1.7.1
the last step is perfectly ok, the second is the dubios one
wouldnt it be much more fit for doom3?
come on who wants 2 naked astronauts?
:)
200kg is also the weight of me with 2 hot chicks (naked of course), which i'd prefer over any 100kg (probably male) ones
i cant remember how 'open' this game is but i remember that atleast a great (if not all) amount of code is gpl'd by nevrax.
besides some balancing issues in the early beta (when i played it) it seems to become a really great game.
(the open beta just started on 30th august so maybe ill check back soon)
Now the DMCA makes it illegal to decode those signals.
well im surely not an expert here (and neither do i live in the states), but ist the dmca about breaking encryption?
so if the signal was protected by a lame 64 bit wep, it would be applicable (like css and friends) but not if its unencrypted, as you are still allowed to copy unprotected (i.e not css'ed) dvds.
now thats a system i'd like to install gentoo on :)
there is absoluely no problem running linux on that spec, the real "problem" is windowmanagers like kde and gnome
you can easily work with windowmaker, icewm, or whatever "small" wm is around but kde is imho VERY much like xp:
has almost everything onboard
needs huge amounts of processing power/ram
is (what many say) "userfriendly"
while i do use kde on my workstation (which is advanced enough to run it without slowdown) i would never use it on an old computer like a PII with 64MB. i guess (almost) no one would whine if his 20 year old golf cant carry a 10 ton trailer.
so use the right tool for the job, its your choice (yea we all know thats what linux is all about)
as it offers pop3 access the interface is as elegant and userfriendly as your mail client
you can use anything from mutt to outlook and even store your mail locally (for backup, reference, or whatnot) which is afaik not possible with gmail
...upgrading and replacing some incompatible hardware...
as linux runs on (almost) everything (i'm still trying to get binaries fo my toaster) replacement/upgrading wont be an issue
i guess windows wont "run" on any hardware
it is trash and really servers no purpose but a beehive for spyware, virueses, and trojans.
;)
oh come on... script iddies also want their playground
hmm there's mozilla... years ahead, only a fraction of ie's bugs, 10M other features, and... open source! so why ie if there's obviously a (much) better choice?
what about just "stuff"?
now THAT would be general
software which installs itself on a bug in your system, wreaks some havoc there, severely misuses your internet connection to spread itself fits in a few kb...
is THAT comforting?
nono the bank was happy.. i was broke