Getting sick of Slashdot bullshit though. Funny how I get modded both as a troll and as insightful. Some people just mod as troll anyway but why? Why not reply and tell me why the article was so informative.
- Everything configurable via the command line for power users
LINUX
- Non-integrated browser
LINUX
- Non-integrated media player
LINUX
- Drivers for USB 2.0, Bluetooth, and Firewire
LINUX (for some hardware, but yes Windows does win on AV stuff)
- 100% documented APIs
LINUX
- No WPA
LINUX
Easier than flying or bending metal objects anyway
For those Francophones / Germanophones amongst us, tonight on ARTE (TV channel available on terrestrial and digital satellite) has a problem "Life after Microsoft" which should make interesting viewing. around 20:45 CET I believe.
You can get a fat pipe to your house for next to nothing.
You can't get data to your house for nothing.
It's already pay for what you use on a larger scale. It's no different for broadband. Bandwidth itself costs money, infrastructures cost money, international sharing agreements cost time and money
Get real people. Having access to 2mbps is not the same as downloading at full speed all the time on it.
Internet always on != downloading all the time.
Here I pay a huge amount for 2mbps. But, I resell parts of it an calculate that I can cut costs because everyone is not using the bandwidth all the time.
Broadband users are generally bandwidth hogs and ISPs just got the pricing wrong. Live with it. The economic reality is that your real cost to your ISP is:
local loop + equipment (probably monthly fee + equipment depreciation) = not a lot
Actual KB transferred = a fixed, calculable cost to them.
Great news anyway though, true Linux hackers may never install Mandrake, they'll have their own build. But a friendly install, etc (Mandrake is good on this point) has to cost time and effort from hackers who would perhaps rather be doing something else.
Scares the hell out of me. Whoever does this should get their sites DoSsed immediately.
This is a major security issue, and clearly by default the only warning in MSIE is a dialog box, which you may already have set to just accept downloads automatically.
Yet another reason to use non-standard browsers and non Windows OS, so that you even if you end up with an executable it won't execute.
Included within the new set of laws are the Law of Continuing Growth ("The functional capability of E-type systems must be continually increased to maintain user satisfaction over the system lifetime")
- The functional capability of the OS too, since new hardware keeps coming out
and the Law of Declining Quality ("The quality of E-type systems will appear to be declining unless they are rigorously adapted, as required, to take into account changes in the operational environment").
Exactly what is happening to windows? And why Linux is so successful -> Open Source like fetchmail et al being more linear in their development, all users get a stab at getting the environment right.
But users who aren't prepared to do any work to make things better in their environment for their PC are always going to lose. But it's the same as those people who make their desks tidy and optimise them for work, and those that don't. The difference on your virtual desktop is that you can't easily hope someone else will tidy it for you...:)
What they were doing
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Lineo near Death
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.
Well, if you read the article right at the end, they made / participated in the Embedded Linux for Sharp PDAs.
Of course, bad management is what causes bankruptcies like this. 70 staff and only Sharp on the books, with royalties coming in a year later?
I bet they were all screwing around with cool Linux kernel stuff and forgetting to sell it to anyone as a practical application. Hehe.
It's not a case modification is it? In fact, most of them aren't. It's a new case (or not, in this case) built from scratch. Not a modification, but a "case concept" or a "case design", a "custom case" as opposed to a "custom modification of an existing case".
128KB I meant, i.e. Kilobytes.
However, I did have a ZX81 with 1KB... and several old machines that didn't work with practically no memory at all...
Whoever said that a real old timer would have a low slashdot user number...
time online != time since starting reading/.
Absolutely. Agree totally. I'm only 26 years old, but I remember the old days. I've been online since 1993* and I have always been active on USENET and IRC. That's what the Internet is really about anyway. Give me a console, and an Internet connection, and I have just as much fun as if I was running Windows anyway. I can still browse, email, etc.
Webpages are just handy things to put stuff like manuals and download support sites. FTP is for real downloads, and anything else is just eye candy marketing claptrap.
Hear hear to you sir.
* it helps that I have had a PC at home since I can remember, with configs like an 8086 based Ericsson PC with 128Kb Ram (yes, Kb) and one 5 1/4" disk storing 320Kb.
Make a distinction between humanoid, human-like robots and just plain robots.
The "just plain" variety are all over the place, manufacturing, sewing, blending, cooking... something with an programmable motor is more or less a robot, no?
In French, a "Kitchen robot" is a variable speed multifunction blender... they only cost a few bucks.
Well it has still changed, even if backwards compatible. You cannot share a document with someone who has added new features, and then save in 97 and kill all their work now can you? This is particularly true with Powerpoint, by the way.
Do you want support for word processing, or are you just looking for a fancy text file?
95% of documents in word are just fancy text files anyway. The 5% which are more complex would be better off being desktop published anyway.
I have been in Word Processing since systems booted from 5.25" disks only, with 320Kb of storage. Then, it was just a case of fancy text files and, more importantly, print settings (page breaks, etc). Nothing much has changed for me since those days, but people will use features in word which, for the sake of a tab stop or something equally unimportant, create files which cannot be reproduced.
Clearly the whole office issue is based around ways to stop using Microsoft Word. It's a long battle.
A) GIMP is not supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Photoshop, although it can do some stuff Photoshop can do without taking up huge amounts of memory.
B) StarOffice is not supposed to be 100% compatible. The actual shift which needs to take place is towards an open document format which everybody supports. RTF bloats a little bit too much to fit in there, there are loads of others, but anyway, progress is being made. If only I could make corporate policy force RTF or something, anything instead of MS.doc format (which changes with every bloody office release anyway).
I too am gutted that StarOffice 6 will be a pay-for app, but Sun have to justify development costs sooner or later. At the end of the day, most companies do not object to paying for Office software, and it has to be good. You don't get rid of Microsoft forced Office dominance overnight. Most of my clients think Office comes with Windows, and are shocked to find out they don't have Word when they boot a brand new machine. Wankers.
I manage over 100 domains, and I get what I consider to be SPAM from everywhere.
If it wasn't such a bitch dealing with Verisign I'd have transferred a long time ago, but they really are the worst when it comes to sorting things out.
And their domain administration screens SUCK
All new domains are registered elsewhere, of course.
Fruey reminds himself NEVER to quote film titles without checking IMDB himself.
Shame on me.
Re:LOTR will never get best picture
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LoTR Takes 4 Oscars
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· Score: 3, Funny
it's always going to be a dreary mainstream serious film.
Well, I don't think that is entirely fair. For all the hype, crap and bullshit that goes with each Oscars ceremony, what it is really about is universal appeal to a panel who all want to pick a good film that is somehow "universal".
Mainstream films are the only films that ever get a look-in at the Oscars, but comedies have won. Some people might even say that LOTR is a great book, but a dreary mainstream adaption. Visual effects aside, I didn't find the characters anywhere near as pensive or wrapped up in their world as in the book.
And, of course, no comment about your comment about changing names of films, but a couple of references for the fun of it:
The film, for most cinema goers, will be called Lord of the Rings II anyway
People made similar suggestions for SWII (The Clone Wars) because of cloning paranoia
The Madness of Richard III (British film) was renamed (without the III) in American cinemas because audiences believed it was a follow-up to Madness of Richard II which they obviously hadn't seen.
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Getting sick of Slashdot bullshit though. Funny how I get modded both as a troll and as insightful. Some people just mod as troll anyway but why? Why not reply and tell me why the article was so informative.
LINUX - Non-integrated browser
LINUX - Non-integrated media player
LINUX - Drivers for USB 2.0, Bluetooth, and Firewire
LINUX (for some hardware, but yes Windows does win on AV stuff) - 100% documented APIs
LINUX - No WPA
LINUX
Easier than flying or bending metal objects anyway
Nothing of interest there for me. He who agrees, mod up?
Seriously - give us something interesting to read about Microsoft, instead of some crappy forum post.
For those Francophones / Germanophones amongst us, tonight on ARTE (TV channel available on terrestrial and digital satellite) has a problem "Life after Microsoft" which should make interesting viewing. around 20:45 CET I believe.
You can't get data to your house for nothing.
It's already pay for what you use on a larger scale. It's no different for broadband. Bandwidth itself costs money, infrastructures cost money, international sharing agreements cost time and money
Get real people. Having access to 2mbps is not the same as downloading at full speed all the time on it.
Internet always on != downloading all the time.
Here I pay a huge amount for 2mbps. But, I resell parts of it an calculate that I can cut costs because everyone is not using the bandwidth all the time.
Broadband users are generally bandwidth hogs and ISPs just got the pricing wrong. Live with it. The economic reality is that your real cost to your ISP is:
local loop + equipment (probably monthly fee + equipment depreciation) = not a lot
Actual KB transferred = a fixed, calculable cost to them.
So that's all there is to it.
Great news anyway though, true Linux hackers may never install Mandrake, they'll have their own build. But a friendly install, etc (Mandrake is good on this point) has to cost time and effort from hackers who would perhaps rather be doing something else.
Still, I won't be in Mandrake club :)
<state the obvious> Napster is not the phenomenon, filesharing is. </state the obvious>
However, that they are ready to pay between $15 and $30 million USD makes me wish I had written a peer-to-peer with central DB software client. Yikes.
If you weren't so insulting, I might listen to you. How dare you accuse me of being a terrorist sympathiser.
How do you do it in Opera? I'm looking for how to do it, can't find it.
Scares the hell out of me. Whoever does this should get their sites DoSsed immediately.
This is a major security issue, and clearly by default the only warning in MSIE is a dialog box, which you may already have set to just accept downloads automatically.
Yet another reason to use non-standard browsers and non Windows OS, so that you even if you end up with an executable it won't execute.
- The functional capability of the OS too, since new hardware keeps coming out
and the Law of Declining Quality ("The quality of E-type systems will appear to be declining unless they are rigorously adapted, as required, to take into account changes in the operational environment").
Exactly what is happening to windows? And why Linux is so successful -> Open Source like fetchmail et al being more linear in their development, all users get a stab at getting the environment right.
But users who aren't prepared to do any work to make things better in their environment for their PC are always going to lose. But it's the same as those people who make their desks tidy and optimise them for work, and those that don't. The difference on your virtual desktop is that you can't easily hope someone else will tidy it for you...:)
Well, if you read the article right at the end, they made / participated in the Embedded Linux for Sharp PDAs.
Of course, bad management is what causes bankruptcies like this. 70 staff and only Sharp on the books, with royalties coming in a year later?
I bet they were all screwing around with cool Linux kernel stuff and forgetting to sell it to anyone as a practical application. Hehe.
No... but is it good? What is it in my sig which suggests I might be reading it?
What I want to know is who is spending time lurking on ftp sites to get scoops like this?
Not an IBM PC as such, but IBM compatible.
It's not a case modification is it? In fact, most of them aren't. It's a new case (or not, in this case) built from scratch. Not a modification, but a "case concept" or a "case design", a "custom case" as opposed to a "custom modification of an existing case".
128KB I meant, i.e. Kilobytes. However, I did have a ZX81 with 1KB... and several old machines that didn't work with practically no memory at all... Whoever said that a real old timer would have a low slashdot user number... time online != time since starting reading /.
Absolutely. Agree totally. I'm only 26 years old, but I remember the old days. I've been online since 1993* and I have always been active on USENET and IRC. That's what the Internet is really about anyway. Give me a console, and an Internet connection, and I have just as much fun as if I was running Windows anyway. I can still browse, email, etc.
Webpages are just handy things to put stuff like manuals and download support sites. FTP is for real downloads, and anything else is just eye candy marketing claptrap.
Hear hear to you sir.
* it helps that I have had a PC at home since I can remember, with configs like an 8086 based Ericsson PC with 128Kb Ram (yes, Kb) and one 5 1/4" disk storing 320Kb.
Make a distinction between humanoid, human-like robots and just plain robots.
The "just plain" variety are all over the place, manufacturing, sewing, blending, cooking... something with an programmable motor is more or less a robot, no?
In French, a "Kitchen robot" is a variable speed multifunction blender... they only cost a few bucks.
AI is a whole other ball game...
Do you want support for word processing, or are you just looking for a fancy text file?
95% of documents in word are just fancy text files anyway. The 5% which are more complex would be better off being desktop published anyway.
I have been in Word Processing since systems booted from 5.25" disks only, with 320Kb of storage. Then, it was just a case of fancy text files and, more importantly, print settings (page breaks, etc). Nothing much has changed for me since those days, but people will use features in word which, for the sake of a tab stop or something equally unimportant, create files which cannot be reproduced.
Clearly the whole office issue is based around ways to stop using Microsoft Word. It's a long battle.
The bug is closed on the link you give.
A) GIMP is not supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Photoshop, although it can do some stuff Photoshop can do without taking up huge amounts of memory.
B) StarOffice is not supposed to be 100% compatible. The actual shift which needs to take place is towards an open document format which everybody supports. RTF bloats a little bit too much to fit in there, there are loads of others, but anyway, progress is being made. If only I could make corporate policy force RTF or something, anything instead of MS .doc format (which changes with every bloody office release anyway).
I too am gutted that StarOffice 6 will be a pay-for app, but Sun have to justify development costs sooner or later. At the end of the day, most companies do not object to paying for Office software, and it has to be good. You don't get rid of Microsoft forced Office dominance overnight. Most of my clients think Office comes with Windows, and are shocked to find out they don't have Word when they boot a brand new machine. Wankers.
I manage over 100 domains, and I get what I consider to be SPAM from everywhere.
If it wasn't such a bitch dealing with Verisign I'd have transferred a long time ago, but they really are the worst when it comes to sorting things out.
And their domain administration screens SUCK
All new domains are registered elsewhere, of course.
Fruey reminds himself NEVER to quote film titles without checking IMDB himself.
Shame on me.
Well, I don't think that is entirely fair. For all the hype, crap and bullshit that goes with each Oscars ceremony, what it is really about is universal appeal to a panel who all want to pick a good film that is somehow "universal".
Mainstream films are the only films that ever get a look-in at the Oscars, but comedies have won. Some people might even say that LOTR is a great book, but a dreary mainstream adaption. Visual effects aside, I didn't find the characters anywhere near as pensive or wrapped up in their world as in the book.
And, of course, no comment about your comment about changing names of films, but a couple of references for the fun of it: