I'm glad to see the GNOME team still plugging along. Even though KDE is at 3.1 and has already won Germany over, it isn't too late for GNOME to grab a nice market. I just hope they spent the time and effort to get it right this time and that their early release isn't an attempt to "appear relevant" in the face of KDE's overwhelming lead. I really hate that kind of rat race mentality.
This is all interesting information, but it doesn't sound like he really learned anything. He still advocates illegal activity and seems oblivious to the basic idea of penal theory. We don't lock up people based on how much damage THEY think they can do, we lock them up based on how much damage WE think they can do. The people who kept him from a payphone back in 1990 (or whenever) were fearful, and rightly so, that his "social engineering" (which sounds like "lying" to me, btw) was pulling the wool over their eyes and nobody knew what he could really do. Better safe than sorry.
Perhaps I would have gone down a different path if I had legitimate access to technology as young people have today.
Oh yes, be sure to blame society. Even worse, you appear to be saying that if we'd "given you what you wanted" after your first crime, the other crimes would have been avoided. Perhaps if you'd been locked up after your first "hack" your life would have gone down a different as well.
Itanium/2 is a 64 bit processor. So it needs 64 bit software, including the OS. That's the beauty of Linux--it already exists on 64 bit platforms (such as Alpha and RS/6000). It's just a simple recompile to get the OS running and then maybe a few tweaks for the apps on top of that.
Whereas in the case of Windoze, the 32 bit stuff (and even some 16 bit stuff) is built right in to the API. It's gonna take years to get that all straightened out and that's just for the OS. Then the millions of apps that people use, right now an excellent way to lock customers in, are going to turn into a lodestone around their necks.
I'm sure Micro$oft is pissed as hell, but Linux is going to take a huge upswing when Itaniums start flying off the shelves.
I have broadband and I love it. I can download my pr0n at speeds unheard of in the 18th century. I would sooner give up TV and cellphone (including all the girls' numbers I have recorded in there) than my DSL.
Which is why I don't like this development one bit. More cable and DSL users == less bandwidth for me. There's only a certain amount of backboniness available for the customer base and I want as much as I can get. In fact, I've taken to telling people to stay on dialup because broadband is such a boondongle.
How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?
I don't think he's saying what it sounds like he's saying. I think the right way to phrase this would have been: "How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to people who just use Evolution without Ximian?" That is, he's wondering if people use the product, regardless of how many people use "something" from the company.
Germany is going to be using KDE and I'm sure other countries will follow suite once they compare the ease of the use and TCEO. It's over. KDE won.
*Restriction* of choice?
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KDE, and by ex tension the rest of Linux, is all about creating choice. When I install KDE on my Mom's old desktop, that's creating choice. When I eventually have a girlfriend, get married and have kids, all of them will use KDE--more choice! And when the German government man dates the use of KDE, once again that's more choice being created in the marketplace.
By converting to tried and tested technologies used to keep the net running, Nasa believes it can cut the numbers of staff needed to ensure spacecraft stay in touch.
I'm sure the people who are left will love working with Linux as much as we do, but the folks that are laid off might find it a sour grape to swallow. Worse, when the market is flooded more high-tech workers, jobs will become even more scarce, which is bad for us all. Rather than send welfare checks to all these unemployed spacemen, maybe the government should subsidize the use of an inferior O$ (if you follow me) along the lines of JFK's Depression Era work programs.
It's a great book about a terrific subject
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Perl and XML. XML and Perl. It's a marriage made in heaven. One of them uses a cryptic, machine-readable-only encoding to concisely depict data and programs. The other is a markup language.
What on Middle Earth does JRR have to do with Bernard-Lee? Nothing. And what does Semantic Web have to do with Lord of the Ring? Even less.
Tom Berners-Lee will undoubtedly and correctly be remembered as the Father of the Interweb, but not a single thing of his since then has caught on even a tiny bit. We can stop talking about him now.
As for Tolkein, he'd surely be rotating in his grave if he knew claims being made on his name and work. His anti-technology stance is made very clear in his works and thrown vividly on the screen by Peter Johnson's recent hit movies. It is only orcs and Uruk Hi that use machines, everyone else is "in touch with nature".
After they finish that vital piece of entertainment-oriented law-making, I hope they will turn their attention to legislation aimed at getting Joey to date Phoebe.
Once again, Slashdot is posting wild claims about a new compression scheme. This one claims to have a 50% compression ratio while losing no data. Earth to Slashdot, that's not possible! Either you are getting rid of data (and a filesize that's half the original indicates they are) or you aren't. There's no such thing as "lossless compression" by definition.
The dust I have is hard enough to get rid of. I don't want it to be smarter.
This is actually kind of scary. I mean, the advantage is that the enemy doesn't know their being spied on, right? So how soon until this is used for "civilian surveillance"? Next election I'm voting for Nadir.
These have been around for quite some time
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That doesn't make them any less fun, though. For Xmas I got Backyard Ballistics which documents how to create a potato gun as well as many other loud and violent ballistic weaponry for children of all ages. Highly recommended.
I'm not a programmer, so maybe I don't understand the question here. Why would YOU want to learn anything about 3D at all? Surely that's the job of the graphic artist or level designer. The programmer just writes a program to install the game and parse the highscores.txt file, right?
I found this earlier via K5[1]. There's a lot of satire out on the web but mostly it's ham-handed and obvious. So it was refreshing when this subtle, deeply-insightful piece came along. Here's an example:
Netcraft has announced that Windows 2000 server has finally gone for over 2 years without a reboot.
Here we find a nuanced jibe at Windows' stability with a faint but discernable reference to the "BSD is dying" troller. Another:
...XP has the best colors on any OS I've ever seen. Why would you use an OS with inferior colors?
Here the author, with tum in cheek, seems to be advocating an OS based on the desktop colors even though very few people (Mac users excepted) care about how their PC looks. The underlying message is that XP is more about eye-candy than real computing power. Once again, a nugget wisdom with a veil of humor. Well-done.
[1]Whatever else you say about them, they have a more open and democratic story submission system than Slashdot.
That's not such a great plan, gyroscopic precession is going to amplify the jitters.
As for your question, the reason they don't allow more than an hour on each media is that you shouldn't be recording more than that. Live your life when it happens, not while boring your friends with your vacation videos and Baby's First Diaper.
While it's interesting that these companies have internal conflict over which way they want to swing, I'd like to remind everyone that we really don't care what they eventually decide. Corporations do not run the country (yet). We need to decide what's right first and then companies have to adapt to that. Crossing our fingers and hoping that "they make the right decision" is worse than useless, as it puts the decision into the hands of the capitalists.
mplayer -- doesn't like the UI
gstreamer -- doesn't want to install the required libs
xine -- doesn't know how to use a file browser (or pass args on the CL)
ogle -- doesn't do what he wants, even though it makes no claims that it does
This is a review of "video on Linux" how exactly?
When JWZ left the Moz project in a huff, I was alarmed because I'd heard what a great programmer he was and I thought Mozilla was never going to be released. The above review (and the amazing state of Mozilla) only bolster my belief that JWZ is a primo donna past his prime. All that's left is the rage and none of the talent.
The world was relatively innocent of IP disputes back in 1990 or so, but the rise of the Internet and the possibility of digital copying has made things worse. The horse is probably out of the bottle already and there may be nothing that can be done. I only hope that Congress acts quickly and decisively to protect the rights of artists and content producers over computer-based pirates.
I've been using Linux since 1995. Back in the day, it was a subversive, underground, hackerish thing. It was cool and the only people who had even heard the word "Linux" were highly technical people, like me.
Now I read about Linux Banking Conferences, "vendors" and "mission statements". Some take this as a sign that Linux is in the big leagues. To me it feels like selling out. Of all the people at that conference, how many could construct a valid find command?
Are there any OSii out there that still understand the needs of people who need more powerful software and less marketing hype?
First, none of the many helium-containing compounds are lighter than air. Helium doesn't cancel gravity, it just happens to have a low density. When you combine it with other elements, obviously it's going to weight more. Second, I would assume the "Gi" was a typo. He clearly meant "HeGI", which is Helium Gallium Iridide and is widely used in chip manufacture.
Not that it matters, you are a known trollbuster and should be modded down.
MonsterHut is not a restaurant, the similarity of names notwithstanding. If you had RTFA, you would know that it's a big name job search site and they were spamming applicants.
That's a very good plan. They claimed to be opt-in but weren't, so sue them. Nice. Kind of how they got Al Capone for tax avoision, not racketeering or murder. It's a lot easier to prove the former.
The best of it is that they can put these guys behind bars while skipping right by the free speech issue. While normally I hold the first amendment to the highest standards, I favor suspending it for spammers.
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I'm glad to see the GNOME team still plugging along. Even though KDE is at 3.1 and has already won Germany over, it isn't too late for GNOME to grab a nice market. I just hope they spent the time and effort to get it right this time and that their early release isn't an attempt to "appear relevant" in the face of KDE's overwhelming lead. I really hate that kind of rat race mentality.
Perhaps I would have gone down a different path if I had legitimate access to technology as young people have today.
Oh yes, be sure to blame society. Even worse, you appear to be saying that if we'd "given you what you wanted" after your first crime, the other crimes would have been avoided. Perhaps if you'd been locked up after your first "hack" your life would have gone down a different as well.
Whereas in the case of Windoze, the 32 bit stuff (and even some 16 bit stuff) is built right in to the API. It's gonna take years to get that all straightened out and that's just for the OS. Then the millions of apps that people use, right now an excellent way to lock customers in, are going to turn into a lodestone around their necks.
I'm sure Micro$oft is pissed as hell, but Linux is going to take a huge upswing when Itaniums start flying off the shelves.
Which is why I don't like this development one bit. More cable and DSL users == less bandwidth for me. There's only a certain amount of backboniness available for the customer base and I want as much as I can get. In fact, I've taken to telling people to stay on dialup because broadband is such a boondongle.
I don't think he's saying what it sounds like he's saying. I think the right way to phrase this would have been: "How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to people who just use Evolution without Ximian?" That is, he's wondering if people use the product, regardless of how many people use "something" from the company.
Germany is going to be using KDE and I'm sure other countries will follow suite once they compare the ease of the use and TCEO. It's over. KDE won.
KDE, and by ex tension the rest of Linux, is all about creating choice. When I install KDE on my Mom's old desktop, that's creating choice. When I eventually have a girlfriend, get married and have kids, all of them will use KDE--more choice! And when the German government man dates the use of KDE, once again that's more choice being created in the marketplace.
Is that how many hertz it has? I still have a 333 and it works just fine. Can somebody tell me why I'd need a higher numbers of hertz?
I'm sure the people who are left will love working with Linux as much as we do, but the folks that are laid off might find it a sour grape to swallow. Worse, when the market is flooded more high-tech workers, jobs will become even more scarce, which is bad for us all. Rather than send welfare checks to all these unemployed spacemen, maybe the government should subsidize the use of an inferior O$ (if you follow me) along the lines of JFK's Depression Era work programs.
Perl and XML. XML and Perl. It's a marriage made in heaven. One of them uses a cryptic, machine-readable-only encoding to concisely depict data and programs. The other is a markup language.
Tom Berners-Lee will undoubtedly and correctly be remembered as the Father of the Interweb, but not a single thing of his since then has caught on even a tiny bit. We can stop talking about him now.
As for Tolkein, he'd surely be rotating in his grave if he knew claims being made on his name and work. His anti-technology stance is made very clear in his works and thrown vividly on the screen by Peter Johnson's recent hit movies. It is only orcs and Uruk Hi that use machines, everyone else is "in touch with nature".
After they finish that vital piece of entertainment-oriented law-making, I hope they will turn their attention to legislation aimed at getting Joey to date Phoebe.
Once again, Slashdot is posting wild claims about a new compression scheme. This one claims to have a 50% compression ratio while losing no data. Earth to Slashdot, that's not possible! Either you are getting rid of data (and a filesize that's half the original indicates they are) or you aren't. There's no such thing as "lossless compression" by definition.
This is actually kind of scary. I mean, the advantage is that the enemy doesn't know their being spied on, right? So how soon until this is used for "civilian surveillance"? Next election I'm voting for Nadir.
That doesn't make them any less fun, though. For Xmas I got Backyard Ballistics which documents how to create a potato gun as well as many other loud and violent ballistic weaponry for children of all ages. Highly recommended.
I'm not a programmer, so maybe I don't understand the question here. Why would YOU want to learn anything about 3D at all? Surely that's the job of the graphic artist or level designer. The programmer just writes a program to install the game and parse the highscores.txt file, right?
Netcraft has announced that Windows 2000 server has finally gone for over 2 years without a reboot.
Here we find a nuanced jibe at Windows' stability with a faint but discernable reference to the "BSD is dying" troller. Another:
Here the author, with tum in cheek, seems to be advocating an OS based on the desktop colors even though very few people (Mac users excepted) care about how their PC looks. The underlying message is that XP is more about eye-candy than real computing power. Once again, a nugget wisdom with a veil of humor. Well-done.
[1]Whatever else you say about them, they have a more open and democratic story submission system than Slashdot.
As for your question, the reason they don't allow more than an hour on each media is that you shouldn't be recording more than that. Live your life when it happens, not while boring your friends with your vacation videos and Baby's First Diaper.
While it's interesting that these companies have internal conflict over which way they want to swing, I'd like to remind everyone that we really don't care what they eventually decide. Corporations do not run the country (yet). We need to decide what's right first and then companies have to adapt to that. Crossing our fingers and hoping that "they make the right decision" is worse than useless, as it puts the decision into the hands of the capitalists.
mplayer -- doesn't like the UI
gstreamer -- doesn't want to install the required libs
xine -- doesn't know how to use a file browser (or pass args on the CL)
ogle -- doesn't do what he wants, even though it makes no claims that it does
This is a review of "video on Linux" how exactly?
When JWZ left the Moz project in a huff, I was alarmed because I'd heard what a great programmer he was and I thought Mozilla was never going to be released. The above review (and the amazing state of Mozilla) only bolster my belief that JWZ is a primo donna past his prime. All that's left is the rage and none of the talent.
The world was relatively innocent of IP disputes back in 1990 or so, but the rise of the Internet and the possibility of digital copying has made things worse. The horse is probably out of the bottle already and there may be nothing that can be done. I only hope that Congress acts quickly and decisively to protect the rights of artists and content producers over computer-based pirates.
Now I read about Linux Banking Conferences, "vendors" and "mission statements". Some take this as a sign that Linux is in the big leagues. To me it feels like selling out. Of all the people at that conference, how many could construct a valid find command?
Are there any OSii out there that still understand the needs of people who need more powerful software and less marketing hype?
Not that it matters, you are a known trollbuster and should be modded down.
MonsterHut is not a restaurant, the similarity of names notwithstanding. If you had RTFA, you would know that it's a big name job search site and they were spamming applicants.
The best of it is that they can put these guys behind bars while skipping right by the free speech issue. While normally I hold the first amendment to the highest standards, I favor suspending it for spammers.