I don't see the nexus, frankly. Judges voice criticism over cases all the time, and are famous for getting pissed off when it appears that their time has been wasted by frivilous motions/continuances, etc.
This guy is a district judge in Utah? I don't expect him to be on the Ct of Appeals anytime soon.
You could start playing 10 minutes after the game was released
Wait . . . I'm doing the math here . . . I'm sure I'm going to get the numbers wrong . . .
To play HL2 via steam 10 minutes after release, you would need a 10 megabyte per second connection to the internet. Cox, are you listening? Gimme what this guy has.
I don't think it's just validation problems. I've read about all kinds of corruption problems, goofy workarounds, recommendations to replace your state-of-the-art dvd burner with a cdrom drive, and the creation of a virtual drive on top of the validation errors.
The retail purchasers seem to be hosed for the time being, and I'm not sure what Valve intends to do with those users who have corrupted files on their cd's . . .
I was a RH - then Mandrake - junkie from 1998 until 2003. Then I tried SuSE and found it to be a very nice distro, and it became my desktop distro of choice. I had only minimal exposure to Debian/potato.
I just upgraded my server to the testing/sarge distro, and have to wonder why any experienced user would live with the many issues I encountered in the above distros, including utilities that didn't work, poorly tested packages, and unresolveable system slowdowns. All of the above distros are very nice if you have little or no experience with gnu/linux, but I can't tell you how impressed I am with debian. It still has a lot of legs left in it, and kde has advanced to the point where many of the Mandrake Control Center/YaST tools are redundant. The only extra package I installed for convenience was synaptic. I have also replaced my desktop with debian. debian testing, and unstable for that matter, seems more stable than Mandrake or FC (I haven't tried FC2 or SuSE 9.1 so can't comment on them).
And to the writer of the article, enough of the gnome 2.6 bashing. We all get the point - a lot of people don't like it, but it is a matter of choice isn't it? And a lot of the nautilus issues have been worked out, such as browsing SMB shares. Lighten up Francis!
It isn't pretty, but it sure works well. My server went from potato to SuSE (don't ask why . . . I got lazy), and while it has been stable, it has also been a bit on the slow side.
I have been running a test install of sarge for a couple of weeks and have found it to be both the fastest distro I've encountered and rock-solid in the stability dept.
apt-get/aptitude still work like a charm, and web pages/squirrelmail/dns are all instantaneous.
They can relax about their social contract. Its very nice that they have such "morality," but I really don't see why it should prevent at least some kind of release in the near future. They need to make sure it's stable, no more no less IMHO.
Mandrake gaming edition was a wash.
These things just don't work well for the majority of users. I've been amazed at what I could get running with WineX, but it took hours of tweaking per game. I can't imagine a console emulator working much better.
If you want to primarily play games, get Windows. It's just about the only thing it excels at;-D
That's the only problem they have. They have been literally forcing windows and mac users to upgrade every 6-12 months for years, to a more bloated, buggier product. People stopped using their junk unless they had to.
Meanwhile WMP went from an utter piece of shite to an ok player. People would actually choose to use it occasionally if it wasn't so riddled with Microsoft spyware.
Thunderbird has many things going for it as a pure email/nntp app that Evolution doesn't (yet). 1) Spam controls need to be built into Evolution. 2) Customizable icons. Evolution's UI is too big and wastes desktop space. It also looks a bit too Gnome 1.4 . .. 3) Threaded messages don't work particularly well. 4) Pilot syncing is hit or miss for most people (I've gotten it working in the past, but not since 1.2). 5) IMAP controls are a bit weird. Either you empty your trash upon exit, or messages marked for deletion stay that way until you do so. Thunderbird is more intuitive, allowing the DEL key to move messages to the Trash folder. 6) Consistency on each platform. It's nice having the same mail app on Windows, Mac linux and PC linux.
The big plus for Evolution is the groupware features, which I never use. It has a nice calendar as well. Better integration with the Gnome desktop would be nice.
I think you are all off base here. True, the MPAA is fighting piracy of their products. True, they and the RIAA are doing it with draconian methods. But they are leading advocates of 1st Amendment rights. They have both been fighting censorship since the inception of their businesses, and it is rather ignorant to say they are otherwise solely because they are lashing out at movies and music being freely available on the internet. Pornographers have also felt the sting of the internet and are taking measures to protect their property - are they any less pro-freedom?
You have all confused two issues, as has this senator in his above statement.
Seems that all laptops that come out these days have weird resolutions that have no bearing on how your text will be outputted to a printer. This one will have text that is too large onscreen, while others (Dell is particularly guilty of this) have super-hi res screens where everything is too small.
Back when I was a Mac guy (13 years ago) having WYSIWYG was important to most users, but no one appears to care any more.
I wouldn't flame you. 3 years of my life wasted as a linux newb - searching the web like a maniac to find answers; becoming a regular on the redhat, debian and linux.powerpc newsgroups. All could have been avoided if they let someone other than a Computer Science student from Czechoslovakia write those man pages. Talk about limiting your audience!
Whatever. I used linux, and plan to buy a new mac to replace my aging powerbook because it's unix and shields the user from unix if it's so desired. Nothing personal on the linux world, but installation of software should not require access to the command line unless it's in the CVS tree. I might be able to./configure make make install, but I shouldn't expect my wife to. OS X allows us both to enjoy the computer, and your BSD sux Linux rulz is just childish nitpicking, plain and simple. BSD has matured just as linux has.
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Transparency . . . Icons that preview the docs . . . sounds like KDE circa 2002. Really impressive, MS.
Good question. Unfortunately, Apple will require the upgrade for continued use of the iTMS.
I don't see the nexus, frankly. Judges voice criticism over cases all the time, and are famous for getting pissed off when it appears that their time has been wasted by frivilous motions/continuances, etc. This guy is a district judge in Utah? I don't expect him to be on the Ct of Appeals anytime soon.
You could start playing 10 minutes after the game was released Wait . . . I'm doing the math here . . . I'm sure I'm going to get the numbers wrong . . . To play HL2 via steam 10 minutes after release, you would need a 10 megabyte per second connection to the internet. Cox, are you listening? Gimme what this guy has.
I don't think it's just validation problems. I've read about all kinds of corruption problems, goofy workarounds, recommendations to replace your state-of-the-art dvd burner with a cdrom drive, and the creation of a virtual drive on top of the validation errors. The retail purchasers seem to be hosed for the time being, and I'm not sure what Valve intends to do with those users who have corrupted files on their cd's . . .
Nope. They listen to Crystal Method.
I was a RH - then Mandrake - junkie from 1998 until 2003. Then I tried SuSE and found it to be a very nice distro, and it became my desktop distro of choice. I had only minimal exposure to Debian/potato. I just upgraded my server to the testing/sarge distro, and have to wonder why any experienced user would live with the many issues I encountered in the above distros, including utilities that didn't work, poorly tested packages, and unresolveable system slowdowns. All of the above distros are very nice if you have little or no experience with gnu/linux, but I can't tell you how impressed I am with debian. It still has a lot of legs left in it, and kde has advanced to the point where many of the Mandrake Control Center/YaST tools are redundant. The only extra package I installed for convenience was synaptic. I have also replaced my desktop with debian. debian testing, and unstable for that matter, seems more stable than Mandrake or FC (I haven't tried FC2 or SuSE 9.1 so can't comment on them). And to the writer of the article, enough of the gnome 2.6 bashing. We all get the point - a lot of people don't like it, but it is a matter of choice isn't it? And a lot of the nautilus issues have been worked out, such as browsing SMB shares. Lighten up Francis!
It isn't pretty, but it sure works well. My server went from potato to SuSE (don't ask why . . . I got lazy), and while it has been stable, it has also been a bit on the slow side. I have been running a test install of sarge for a couple of weeks and have found it to be both the fastest distro I've encountered and rock-solid in the stability dept. apt-get/aptitude still work like a charm, and web pages/squirrelmail/dns are all instantaneous. They can relax about their social contract. Its very nice that they have such "morality," but I really don't see why it should prevent at least some kind of release in the near future. They need to make sure it's stable, no more no less IMHO.
Mandrake gaming edition was a wash. These things just don't work well for the majority of users. I've been amazed at what I could get running with WineX, but it took hours of tweaking per game. I can't imagine a console emulator working much better. If you want to primarily play games, get Windows. It's just about the only thing it excels at ;-D
That's the only problem they have. They have been literally forcing windows and mac users to upgrade every 6-12 months for years, to a more bloated, buggier product. People stopped using their junk unless they had to. Meanwhile WMP went from an utter piece of shite to an ok player. People would actually choose to use it occasionally if it wasn't so riddled with Microsoft spyware.
Moron. Other than threaded messages, you're wrong on all fronts. The UI is decent in outlook, though.
Thunderbird has many things going for it as a pure email/nntp app that Evolution doesn't (yet). .
1) Spam controls need to be built into Evolution.
2) Customizable icons. Evolution's UI is too big and wastes desktop space. It also looks a bit too Gnome 1.4 . .
3) Threaded messages don't work particularly well.
4) Pilot syncing is hit or miss for most people (I've gotten it working in the past, but not since 1.2).
5) IMAP controls are a bit weird. Either you empty your trash upon exit, or messages marked for deletion stay that way until you do so. Thunderbird is more intuitive, allowing the DEL key to move messages to the Trash folder.
6) Consistency on each platform. It's nice having the same mail app on Windows, Mac linux and PC linux.
The big plus for Evolution is the groupware features, which I never use. It has a nice calendar as well. Better integration with the Gnome desktop would be nice.
I think you are all off base here. True, the MPAA is fighting piracy of their products. True, they and the RIAA are doing it with draconian methods. But they are leading advocates of 1st Amendment rights. They have both been fighting censorship since the inception of their businesses, and it is rather ignorant to say they are otherwise solely because they are lashing out at movies and music being freely available on the internet. Pornographers have also felt the sting of the internet and are taking measures to protect their property - are they any less pro-freedom? You have all confused two issues, as has this senator in his above statement.
Seems that all laptops that come out these days have weird resolutions that have no bearing on how your text will be outputted to a printer. This one will have text that is too large onscreen, while others (Dell is particularly guilty of this) have super-hi res screens where everything is too small. Back when I was a Mac guy (13 years ago) having WYSIWYG was important to most users, but no one appears to care any more.
I wouldn't flame you. 3 years of my life wasted as a linux newb - searching the web like a maniac to find answers; becoming a regular on the redhat, debian and linux.powerpc newsgroups. All could have been avoided if they let someone other than a Computer Science student from Czechoslovakia write those man pages. Talk about limiting your audience!
Uh, correct the above. I meant to say "I use linux". I use it regularly, but doesn't mean the other os'es are junk.
Whatever. I used linux, and plan to buy a new mac to replace my aging powerbook because it's unix and shields the user from unix if it's so desired. Nothing personal on the linux world, but installation of software should not require access to the command line unless it's in the CVS tree. I might be able to ./configure make make install, but I shouldn't expect my wife to. OS X allows us both to enjoy the computer, and your BSD sux Linux rulz is just childish nitpicking, plain and simple. BSD has matured just as linux has.