Well, you could have read the Xouvert FAQ before posting to educate yourself on what they actually plan on improving. That way, you wound't sound like you have no idea what you are talking about. Anyway, from the FAQ:
2.5) So why is X so slow on my machine if not for network transparency?
Yes, XFree86/can/ be slow, especially on uniprocessor machines, but network transparency is NOT at fault. More common culprits appear to be toolkits, video drivers, and font rendering/render. Render really needs to DMA driven. Right now it pulls bits from the framebuffer using the CPU which with PCI is abysmally slow.
Lets face it. It may not be true for all but I'm sure a small percentage of children are going to be affected by viewing violent media over and over again. Its only common sense. You pretty much don't need a study to figure that out.
Not every child would be affected of course. Most would probably ALREADY HAVE SOME TYPE OF MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL ISSUE. The question is, would that mental issue cause them to kill on their own or does repeated images of violence act as some type of catalyst? How would a store clerk know if the kid buying the game has issues or not?
Studies show that it does act as a catalyst. You might not agree but many people smarter than us have proven it. Different stimuli affect different poeple in different ways. Most people will not be affected. Most people don't have emotional/mental defects as well. Most people are not treated like those kids were at Columbine HS.
There are many factors that contribute to teenagers becoming violent. Bad home life, bad social life, mental/emotional problems, drugs, alcohol, etc. No need to throw violent media in what could already be a bad mixture.
This law pretty much has no effect on most people and it gets game companies off the hook. The blame is set squarely on the parents shoulders where it belongs. Isn't that what we want? If kids get ahold of a violent game and use it as an excuse for commiting violent acts then the parents should be blamed for buying them the violent game and being bad parents, not the game company who made the game for adults.
I don't have kids but I know that when I do I won't want them playing games that I dont think are appropriate for their age. I can't follow them around everywhere they go so I won't know what they are spending their money on. Its nice to know they can't buy smokes, porno, beer, and video games I don't want them to play until they are older. I will make the decision if they are mature enough or not after I play it myself. This law gives the parents more of that control Right now the control is in the hands of the piply face youth working at Best Buy.
Even if the kid goes through another avenue to get the game, its still the parents fault because as a parent you should be aware of what your children are up to on the computer. Knowing what I know about the Internet, I don't even know if I want my kids using the it.
I loved the companion interactions and definitely made the store much more enjoyable and meaningful.
I hated their incessant whining. Nothing is worse the NPCs in the party stopping you every 5 minutes to tell you their personal diatribe. That crap is in KoToR as well. Your walking along and it says "Bob looks upset, you should talk to him." Bob should know we are on an important mission from THE JEDI COUNCIL!!! He should deal with his problems on his own and not bother me with them. Your telling me they don't have shrinks in the Star Wars Universe.
It would be cool if you could pump up your party members with Xanex or Riddlin or something so they shut the hell up.
Ok....so, writing file names greater than 8 characters is an invention some how? Basically doing a string replace on filename char[8] to filename char[32] or whatever is an invention?
:Apparent authority: That which, though not actually granted, the principal knowingly permits the agent to exercise, or which he holds him out as possessing. The power to affect the legal relations of another person by transactions with third persons, professedly as agent for the other, arising from and in accordance with the others manifestations to such third persons. Restatement, Second, Agency s. 8.
These prisoners of the US Government were held for a year or more.
Aren't those dudes prisoners of war? Didn't we pick them up from a country we were at war with? What happened in China is the same as someone here saying something bad about Bush then being sent to Guantanamo Bay. Those guys are POWs. They were fighting a war against us and lost. I think there is a fundamental difference.
If you think someone is so dangerous you need to publish this type of information, why are they on the streets in the first place? Seems like crewl and unusual punishment after they have already paid theirt debt to society in jail. If they are a danger,keep them in jail for life or some other place.
I played Super Mario Brothers when I was a kid, constantly. It was my favorite game. My ability to distinguish between real life and Super Mario Brothers vanished and I was suspended from school three times for jumping on someone's head. To this day, I have a serious mushroom addiction.
Actually, thats how you know its just media FUD. SCO's stick has been dropping lately so they needed some big news. Whats bigger than suing one of the most successful companies who uses Linux? Now that Boise practically owns 10% of the company he needs to get that stock price up.
If you look around at all the pro-linux desktop sites out there you will usually find the KDE desktop running mostly GTK/GNOME applications.
For example, these apps are what I consider to be the best in their class: Web Browser: Firebird/Mozilla Mail: Evolution Graphics: Gimp Aim: Gaim Music: XMMS
The problem is the GNOME desktop has very little functionality compared to KDE and ever since the release of KDE 3.0, the GNOME desktop feels somewhat 80's. I use KDE for work only, and I work a lot. These are some of the things that I feel help my productivity that I don't think GNOME has.
1. more COMPLETE apps. Apps that when you run them work as advertised. I think GNOME has some of the more polished apps but KDE definately has a larger selection of complete applications and many polished apps itself, like KDevelop for example or K3B.
2. A file dialog that is very customizable. This is important to me. As a developer I have lots of stuff and lots of directories. Being able to customize the side bar on the file dialog to pop into my most used directories with 1 click is great. I am a Linux user after all, I can handle an advanced file dialog.
3. A 'file explorer' that is far better in my opinion feature wise to Nautilus. It might not be as fast but I think the 3200+ ca handle it. Although I use the console a lot, its nice to have the Konqueror when needed.
4. Maybe GNOME has this, I've never been able to find it. A decent graphical menu editor for the 'start menu'. I like to get hide all the stuff I don't need and reorganize it a little. With the menu editor, this takes like 3 min tops when I first install.
5. Unified system configuration panel. Sometimes I feel that since GNOME can run on any window manager there is a seperation that makes having a unified configuration manager (like KDE Control Center) impossible. In KDE, to do anything, you can look in 1 place and find it which is good because there is a lot you can do.
6. The right click dialog in the Konqueror. I can do things like automatically create and add a file to a tarball with 1 click, right click on a file or dir and have it create a new K3B project with that file ready to be burned,the 'Move To' and 'Copy To' dialogs are nice too. Also, the customizable navigation panel. This can be invaluable at times.
7. The panel applets are actually useful and are of better quality. Granted, the good old Xeyes is still there, that and 15 pieces seem to be the only non-useful panel apps. I remember GNOME having a ton of crap. Maybe that has changed. The color picker has actually turned out to be really useful for me.
8. This never worked for me in GNOME and was actually the reason I switched. I have many commerical apps that are neither KDE/GNOME. They are usually like Motif looking or some other toolkit. In GNOME they cover up toolbars and cover up 'always on top' windows. One of my apps called C-Forge also tended to constantly crash the taskbar under GNOME. In KDE, they all work perfectly and follow all the rules.
9. The taskbar. I like to only show the tasks on the current desktop and save room by grouping similar tasks when the bar is near full. I run a lot of apps and I use the taskbar so being able to customize what a right, middle, and left click on the taskbar does was cool. It seems there is just more room saving features than GNOME has.
This doesn't have to do with productivity but its an annoyance. All the different versions of libraries I need to run GNOME stuff. When you install KDE 3.0 to 3.1, every app it comes with has been updated and has a standard set of features that all work the same with each app. With GNOME stuff there is a major difference in quality between applications and some of them need older versions of this or that to actually compile or run.
So, my complaint really is that the GNOME desktop itself is not providing enough of the base libraries. The GUI toolkit is just not enough to create
Yeah, after that paper, things are likely to get more bizarre. Although, at this point, I'm not sure what else they can possibly announce to make that stock price climb any higher.
The powers granted by the Patriot Act have helped to uncover and break up Al Queda cells and even prevent the detonation of a dirty bomb in New York by Jose Padilla.
Didn't they find out Jose Padilla was full of shit and didn't have ways or the means of building a dirty bomb?
I consider the Patriot Act a massive violation and abuse of real American patriotism. I guess its hard to uncover any illegal violations of citizens rights when they simply make it legal to violate citizens rights.
Noone can stop it because as long as we're getting our daily dose of Starbucks and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' we believe we have freedom. Where else in the world can you drink good coffee and watch funny shows whenever you want?
1. Tell us about how much work Caldera did on the Linux kernel. What did Caldera contribute?
2. How was LKP written with no GPL code at all? Must have been difficult to do so quickly.
3. Tell us about your thoughts when you released the "the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license." Did you think that code would make it into other operating systems?
GNOME has always been the commerical desktop of choice. It has long been focussed on getting the basics right and building from there.
Yeah, too bad they are still trying to master the basics.
pointless eye-candy.
At least show some link or give an example or something. you can't just say there is eyecandy and then not show the eyecandy. I can't find any of this eyecandy. I want eyecandy!!!
True, but Apache isn't Linux, nor GPL. And many installations are actually on windows, since apache 2.0.
Define many? Where can I see the actual breakdown?
What about this from the Netcraft site:
Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously.
Over 1 million domains moved to Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, you could have read the Xouvert FAQ before posting to educate yourself on what they actually plan on improving. That way, you wound't sound like you have no idea what you are talking about. Anyway, from the FAQ:
2.5) So why is X so slow on my machine if not for network transparency?
Yes, XFree86 /can/ be slow, especially on uniprocessor machines, but network transparency is NOT at fault. More common culprits appear to be toolkits, video drivers, and font rendering/render. Render really needs to DMA driven. Right now it pulls bits from the framebuffer using the CPU which with PCI is abysmally slow.
Lets face it. It may not be true for all but I'm sure a small percentage of children are going to be affected by viewing violent media over and over again. Its only common sense. You pretty much don't need a study to figure that out.
Not every child would be affected of course. Most would probably ALREADY HAVE SOME TYPE OF MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL ISSUE. The question is, would that mental issue cause them to kill on their own or does repeated images of violence act as some type of catalyst? How would a store clerk know if the kid buying the game has issues or not?
Studies show that it does act as a catalyst. You might not agree but many people smarter than us have proven it. Different stimuli affect different poeple in different ways. Most people will not be affected. Most people don't have emotional/mental defects as well. Most people are not treated like those kids were at Columbine HS.
There are many factors that contribute to teenagers becoming violent. Bad home life, bad social life, mental/emotional problems, drugs, alcohol, etc. No need to throw violent media in what could already be a bad mixture.
This law pretty much has no effect on most people and it gets game companies off the hook. The blame is set squarely on the parents shoulders where it belongs. Isn't that what we want? If kids get ahold of a violent game and use it as an excuse for commiting violent acts then the parents should be blamed for buying them the violent game and being bad parents, not the game company who made the game for adults.
I don't have kids but I know that when I do I won't want them playing games that I dont think are appropriate for their age. I can't follow them around everywhere they go so I won't know what they are spending their money on. Its nice to know they can't buy smokes, porno, beer, and video games I don't want them to play until they are older. I will make the decision if they are mature enough or not after I play it myself. This law gives the parents more of that control Right now the control is in the hands of the piply face youth working at Best Buy.
Even if the kid goes through another avenue to get the game, its still the parents fault because as a parent you should be aware of what your children are up to on the computer. Knowing what I know about the Internet, I don't even know if I want my kids using the it.
No, Darl needs to go straight to jail where his new name will be "Darling". I wonder if Darl will prefer peanut butter or jelly?
I loved the companion interactions and definitely made the store much more enjoyable and meaningful. I hated their incessant whining. Nothing is worse the NPCs in the party stopping you every 5 minutes to tell you their personal diatribe. That crap is in KoToR as well. Your walking along and it says "Bob looks upset, you should talk to him." Bob should know we are on an important mission from THE JEDI COUNCIL!!! He should deal with his problems on his own and not bother me with them. Your telling me they don't have shrinks in the Star Wars Universe. It would be cool if you could pump up your party members with Xanex or Riddlin or something so they shut the hell up.
The letter serves one purpose. When Darl goes down for fraud he can pull out that letter and present it as proof he is insane.
Ok....so, writing file names greater than 8 characters is an invention some how? Basically doing a string replace on filename char[8] to filename char[32] or whatever is an invention?
This is good. Now maybe the standard will be ext2 o something similiar. MS needs to realize, there are viable alternatives now.
:Apparent authority: That which, though not actually granted, the
principal knowingly permits the agent to exercise, or which he holds him
out as possessing. The power to affect the legal relations of another
person by transactions with third persons, professedly as agent for
the other, arising from and in accordance with the others
manifestations to such third persons. Restatement, Second, Agency s. 8.
Aren't those dudes prisoners of war? Didn't we pick them up from a country we were at war with? What happened in China is the same as someone here saying something bad about Bush then being sent to Guantanamo Bay. Those guys are POWs. They were fighting a war against us and lost. I think there is a fundamental difference.
If you think someone is so dangerous you need to publish this type of information, why are they on the streets in the first place? Seems like crewl and unusual punishment after they have already paid theirt debt to society in jail. If they are a danger,keep them in jail for life or some other place.
I played Super Mario Brothers when I was a kid, constantly. It was my favorite game. My ability to distinguish between real life and Super Mario Brothers vanished and I was suspended from school three times for jumping on someone's head. To this day, I have a serious mushroom addiction.
Actually, thats how you know its just media FUD. SCO's stick has been dropping lately so they needed some big news. Whats bigger than suing one of the most successful companies who uses Linux? Now that Boise practically owns 10% of the company he needs to get that stock price up.
Someone needs to rewrite KDE in GNOME. The KDE desktop/window manager is awesome. GNOME API is good, the desktop is shit.
More bribe money, down the Hatch.
If you look around at all the pro-linux desktop sites out there you will usually find the KDE desktop running mostly GTK/GNOME applications.
For example, these apps are what I consider to be the best in their class:
Web Browser: Firebird/Mozilla
Mail: Evolution
Graphics: Gimp
Aim: Gaim
Music: XMMS
The problem is the GNOME desktop has very little functionality compared to KDE and ever since the release of KDE 3.0, the GNOME desktop feels somewhat 80's. I use KDE for work only, and I work a lot. These are some of the things that I feel help my productivity that I don't think GNOME has.
1. more COMPLETE apps. Apps that when you run them work as advertised. I think GNOME has some of the more polished apps but KDE definately has a larger selection of complete applications and many polished apps itself, like KDevelop for example or K3B.
2. A file dialog that is very customizable. This is important to me. As a developer I have lots of stuff and lots of directories. Being able to customize the side bar on the file dialog to pop into my most used directories with 1 click is great. I am a Linux user after all, I can handle an advanced file dialog.
3. A 'file explorer' that is far better in my opinion feature wise to Nautilus. It might not be as fast but I think the 3200+ ca handle it. Although I use the console a lot, its nice to have the Konqueror when needed.
4. Maybe GNOME has this, I've never been able to find it. A decent graphical menu editor for the 'start menu'. I like to get hide all the stuff I don't need and reorganize it a little. With the menu editor, this takes like 3 min tops when I first install.
5. Unified system configuration panel. Sometimes I feel that since GNOME can run on any window manager there is a seperation that makes having a unified configuration manager (like KDE Control Center) impossible. In KDE, to do anything, you can look in 1 place and find it which is good because there is a lot you can do.
6. The right click dialog in the Konqueror. I can do things like automatically create and add a file to a tarball with 1 click, right click on a file or dir and have it create a new K3B project with that file ready to be burned,the 'Move To' and 'Copy To' dialogs are nice too. Also, the customizable navigation panel. This can be invaluable at times.
7. The panel applets are actually useful and are of better quality. Granted, the good old Xeyes is still there, that and 15 pieces seem to be the only non-useful panel apps. I remember GNOME having a ton of crap. Maybe that has changed. The color picker has actually turned out to be really useful for me.
8. This never worked for me in GNOME and was actually the reason I switched. I have many commerical apps that are neither KDE/GNOME. They are usually like Motif looking or some other toolkit. In GNOME they cover up toolbars and cover up 'always on top' windows. One of my apps called C-Forge also tended to constantly crash the taskbar under GNOME. In KDE, they all work perfectly and follow all the rules.
9. The taskbar. I like to only show the tasks on the current desktop and save room by grouping similar tasks when the bar is near full. I run a lot of apps and I use the taskbar so being able to customize what a right, middle, and left click on the taskbar does was cool. It seems there is just more room saving features than GNOME has.
This doesn't have to do with productivity but its an annoyance.
All the different versions of libraries I need to run GNOME stuff. When you install KDE 3.0 to 3.1, every app it comes with has been updated and has a standard set of features that all work the same with each app. With GNOME stuff there is a major difference in quality between applications and some of them need older versions of this or that to actually compile or run.
So, my complaint really is that the GNOME desktop itself is not providing enough of the base libraries. The GUI toolkit is just not enough to create
With this system how are they supposed to fix elections? This will never work.
Yeah, after that paper, things are likely to get more bizarre. Although, at this point, I'm not sure what else they can possibly announce to make that stock price climb any higher.
Didn't they find out Jose Padilla was full of shit and didn't have ways or the means of building a dirty bomb?
I consider the Patriot Act a massive violation and abuse of real American patriotism. I guess its hard to uncover any illegal violations of citizens rights when they simply make it legal to violate citizens rights.
Noone can stop it because as long as we're getting our daily dose of Starbucks and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' we believe we have freedom. Where else in the world can you drink good coffee and watch funny shows whenever you want?
I mean..the obvious questions are:
1. Tell us about how much work Caldera did on the Linux kernel. What did Caldera contribute?
2. How was LKP written with no GPL code at all? Must have been difficult to do so quickly.
3. Tell us about your thoughts when you released the "the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license." Did you think that code would make it into other operating systems?
not even worth the read.
I think the patent specifically mentions NOT using a credit card but some kind of electronic walltet...like Paypal.
Yeah because a couple hundred years means something to earth.
GNOME has always been the commerical desktop of choice. It has long been focussed on getting the basics right and building from there. Yeah, too bad they are still trying to master the basics. pointless eye-candy. At least show some link or give an example or something. you can't just say there is eyecandy and then not show the eyecandy. I can't find any of this eyecandy. I want eyecandy!!!
True, but Apache isn't Linux, nor GPL. And many installations are actually on windows, since apache 2.0. Define many? Where can I see the actual breakdown? What about this from the Netcraft site: Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously. Over 1 million domains moved to Linux.