At present, women are believed to make up only about 1.5% of the FOSS community. Is that finally set to change?
As long as you keep creating special "women" foundations, this isn't going to change. Women are people just like us, why can't they be in the current foundations along men treated equally?
You don't see a "Fedora Men" foundation.
This is stupid.
Face it, women are less attracted to IT than men, just like men are less attracted to fashion decoration than women.
This release is buggy. The "dom inspector" and "livetalk" extension (the ones that come with firefox itself if you choose to install them" get disabled when updating due to incompatibility with the new version.
However, at work the update went file, so i dont know what exactly triggers it.
LILO sucks. GRUB even sucks more. You know what's a good boot loader? NTLoader. Yes, the one that comes with 2K and up.
GRUB can't run off a partition if it isn't on the first drive, so i install LILO on the boot partition of my linux drive, then with dd i just write the boot sector to a file, and let NTLoader boot it.
The result? I can reinstall windows OR linux, and no one overwrites the other.
Yes. Java flickers too much, and it doesn't have a decent php plugin. I tried to like it but it is too barebone. Are you using it? What plugins do you have installed?
I can almost guarantee that Apple will go the activation route
I don't think so. They are a hardware company. They don't have serial keys or activation for a reason. Suppose you pirate OSX and give it to a friend. Your friend needs a mac in order to use OSX, therefore your friend has already paid for the hardware AND the software.
If the machine of your friend is too old, the OS won't run fine, so he will need to buy a new one, which of course would come with it.
As long as OSX needs a mac (not counting emulating it, but a "boot camp" style would count), Apple needs to do nothing.
Apple does a great job of making products people want to buy.
That's true, i want to buy their products. But after seeing the problems the recent line of portables have (whine noises, overheating, etc) and even in not so new hardware (my september 2003 g4 laptop hard drive died) i don't think apple quality is higher than the models of other vendors.
Their products STILL need more ram installed by default. A "Pro" machine shouldn't come with just 512MB of ram, especially when you have OSX, which eats ram like candy.
I don't think comparing stock Firefox with anything is very relevant. You need to compare Firefox loaded with some extensions to show the true power of the platform.
Are you reading what you are saying? That's like saying it isn't fair to compare a stock small sedan with a stock ferrari because the sedan can be retrofitted with a ferrari engine.
Browsers should be compared on their stock versions, because that's what you will see when you download it. Sure you may be geeky enough to search for extensions, download and install them, but most people aren't like that.
The fact is that Opera 9 has tons of more features than firefox built-in without the need to hunt for extensions. Every time i see a user whine "but...but there's an extension!!one!" i want to cry
*Better printing support. Whenever i want to print something, fonts, tables, everything look bigger than they look in IE or opera, and the page is html and css complaint
*Memory reduction. I disabled the cache and it still sucks over 200MB after my typical browsing
Cars are wierd... not usre why people use them so much...they make you fat...
Because:
*You sweat (not good for dating/going to work) *No place to store your groceries (or for the slashdot crowd, taking your rig to a lan party) *No place for the girlfriend to sit *No air conditioning *Sun *Rain
Seriously though, I'm curious about the technology that makes this possible (no I didn't download the PDF yet). It would be pretty slick to incorporate this into other devices.
It's actually pretty easy, and shipping in actual real products. Lot of watches have an option to make the light turn on when the watch is on a specific angle. It's like a tilt sensor.
I am amazed to see Australia playing this well. The previous Australia i saw was eliminated by Uruguay 4 years ago. This year they got even, and eliminated them.
They came from behind in their first game, and played "mano a mano" against Brasil today, and i would say they even played better. They had bad luck with the score.
I think they will win their next game against croacia and go to the next round.
This game had "decent" in-game advertising. Computers you "hacked" into had an AMD or Nokia screensaver. As long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game, using signs and such isn't that bad.
Now, it would be good if in-game advertising lowered game prices. But i guess they are using it to "recover from piracy loses"
And would like Apple to increase the quality of their products not only at first revision levels, but with further revisions as well.
You know what an apple employee told me when i said my hard drive in my powerbook died after 2.5 years?
"Laptop drives die between 2.5 and 3 years after use, it's normal"
Overheating in all their laptops^Wportables (no longer can be called laptops),core logic boards fail, bad hard drives, lids that don't close properly, chipped paint off the latch button, whine sounds,need to repair permissions after each update (why macs need this?)...
Where's the old "macs cost more because they are made for better components, and last longer so you don't have to upgrade often" line i was getting 3 years ago in this forum?
There are good violent games that are also funny. San Andreas is the last one i remember. Damn, it was too funny when smoke was eating while being drived-by gangs. Or Truth the hippy. Or Mike Toreno when you stole the jet.
Vista will be the biggest OS release they have done so far. Almost everything has changed. The problem is that most of these things are under the hood, so the casual user (even uninformed slashdotters) think Vista is just Aero.
Fact is: -New directx, will mean prettier games (and faster too, they said it is faster than dx9) -New networking stack -Sandboxed IE7 -Better firewall and now spyware tool. -IIS 7 -New included games
I myself will get it, even if it is only to play the newest games. That said, halo 2 is not one of them. I only hope drm isn't that bad.
Let them ship quad-slot zillion transistors sli whatchamacallit kilowatt-sucking video cards. They drive down the price of decent cards that can play todays games at mediam quality for less than 200$.
I can play oblivion on medium quality with my 6600gt, 768mb, athlon64 3400 rig.
Java classes get compiled to native code with machine-specific optimizations at runtime. If you had done any research on the subject, you would find that Java out-performs other languages at times. Java is fast. This argument is over, so please can it.
Java can be almost as fast a C code, and in some weird cases even more. The problem is that java requires a jvm, and loading the jvm plus having the garbage collector running means your program will start slower, and use more ram. Also the fact that it is not easy to write a good UI while keeping threading under consideration makes your program look even slower.
Java may be "fast enough" but your typical java app needs bigger system requirements than it would need in other languages.
So in theory, java is as fast as C, but in practice it is probably slower, especially for desktop applications.
Glossy screen can be annoying under certain circumstances (i.e., with any direct lighting)
Integrated graphics siphon off system RAM, slower than dedicated graphics card
I wonder what hard drives they use. My powerbook's hard drive died in just a little over 2 years. Between whine noises, power adapters that fall away too easily, notebook latches that don't close properly, logic board issues, overheating, display glitches, dead hard drives and more, i think that apple hardware is just as error-prone as regular pc hardware.
Digg had this more than a week ago. The referenced article even had an interview with one of the victims, who played the game. If he can accept and play the game, others can.
So, a bigger, better screen, with double the amount of RAM (which OSX would definitely need, 512 isn't enough), isn't worth 340$? Especially with the first revision of the hardware, as now apple hardware is not solid rock like it used to be (my powerbook's hard drive went dead after just 2 years)
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At present, women are believed to make up only about 1.5% of the FOSS community. Is that finally set to change?
As long as you keep creating special "women" foundations, this isn't going to change. Women are people just like us, why can't they be in the current foundations along men treated equally?
You don't see a "Fedora Men" foundation.
This is stupid.
Face it, women are less attracted to IT than men, just like men are less attracted to fashion decoration than women.
This release is buggy. The "dom inspector" and "livetalk" extension (the ones that come with firefox itself if you choose to install them" get disabled when updating due to incompatibility with the new version.
However, at work the update went file, so i dont know what exactly triggers it.
LILO sucks. GRUB even sucks more. You know what's a good boot loader?
NTLoader. Yes, the one that comes with 2K and up.
GRUB can't run off a partition if it isn't on the first drive, so i install LILO on the boot partition of my linux drive, then with dd i just write the boot sector to a file, and let NTLoader boot it.
The result? I can reinstall windows OR linux, and no one overwrites the other.
The world needs a stable distribution for servers. Seems Debian is risking its default model for stability in order to appear being updated often.
I wonder if Ubuntu has got something to do with it...
How many years passed between debian 3.0 and 3.1? The changes were big, and now in so much less time a whole number (4.0) gets released.
What are the differences besides using a recent kernel for the first time?
Yes. Java flickers too much, and it doesn't have a decent php plugin. I tried to like it but it is too barebone. Are you using it? What plugins do you have installed?
I can almost guarantee that Apple will go the activation route
I don't think so. They are a hardware company. They don't have serial keys or activation for a reason. Suppose you pirate OSX and give it to a friend. Your friend needs a mac in order to use OSX, therefore your friend has already paid for the hardware AND the software.
If the machine of your friend is too old, the OS won't run fine, so he will need to buy a new one, which of course would come with it.
As long as OSX needs a mac (not counting emulating it, but a "boot camp" style would count), Apple needs to do nothing.
There is an upcoming fully supported php ide coming to the eclipse platform.
There is also a eclipse plugin for php development, but i haven't tested it.
I want a fast editor with basic project management, API integration and code completion.
Apple does a great job of making products people want to buy.
That's true, i want to buy their products. But after seeing the problems the recent line of portables have (whine noises, overheating, etc) and even in not so new hardware (my september 2003 g4 laptop hard drive died) i don't think apple quality is higher than the models of other vendors.
Their products STILL need more ram installed by default. A "Pro" machine shouldn't come with just 512MB of ram, especially when you have OSX, which eats ram like candy.
I don't think comparing stock Firefox with anything is very relevant. You need to compare Firefox loaded with some extensions to show the true power of the platform.
Are you reading what you are saying? That's like saying it isn't fair to compare a stock small sedan with a stock ferrari because the sedan can be retrofitted with a ferrari engine.
Browsers should be compared on their stock versions, because that's what you will see when you download it. Sure you may be geeky enough to search for extensions, download and install them, but most people aren't like that.
The fact is that Opera 9 has tons of more features than firefox built-in without the need to hunt for extensions. Every time i see a user whine "but...but there's an extension!!one!" i want to cry
*Better printing support. Whenever i want to print something, fonts, tables, everything look bigger
than they look in IE or opera, and the page is html and css complaint
*Memory reduction. I disabled the cache and it still sucks over 200MB after my typical browsing
Cars are wierd... not usre why people use them so much...they make you fat...
Because:
*You sweat (not good for dating/going to work)
*No place to store your groceries (or for the slashdot crowd, taking your rig to a lan party)
*No place for the girlfriend to sit
*No air conditioning
*Sun
*Rain
Need i say more?
Seriously though, I'm curious about the technology that makes this possible (no I didn't download the PDF yet). It would be pretty slick to incorporate this into other devices.
It's actually pretty easy, and shipping in actual real products. Lot of watches have an option
to make the light turn on when the watch is on a specific angle. It's like a tilt sensor.
I am amazed to see Australia playing this well. The previous Australia i saw was eliminated by Uruguay 4 years ago. This year they got even, and eliminated them.
They came from behind in their first game, and played "mano a mano" against Brasil today, and i would say they even played better. They had bad luck with the score.
I think they will win their next game against croacia and go to the next round.
So maybe this software is actually helping them
This game had "decent" in-game advertising. Computers you "hacked" into had an AMD or Nokia screensaver. As long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game, using signs and such isn't that bad.
Now, it would be good if in-game advertising lowered game prices. But i guess they are using it to "recover from piracy loses"
I see they have tweaked the CSS. Read more now appears to the left, score isn't right aligned. Opera 9 beta no longer crashes.
Good stuff
And would like Apple to increase the quality of their products not only at first revision levels, but with further revisions as well.
,core logic boards fail, bad hard drives, lids that don't close properly,
You know what an apple employee told me when i said my hard drive in my powerbook died after 2.5 years?
"Laptop drives die between 2.5 and 3 years after use, it's normal"
Overheating in all their laptops^Wportables (no longer can be called laptops)
chipped paint off the latch button, whine sounds,need to repair permissions after each update (why macs need this?)...
Where's the old "macs cost more because they are made for better components, and last longer so you don't have to upgrade often" line i was getting 3 years ago in this forum?
Mac quality isn't superior anymore.
There are good violent games that are also funny. San Andreas is the last one i remember. Damn, it was too funny when smoke was eating while being drived-by gangs. Or Truth the hippy. Or Mike Toreno when you stole the jet.
Last time they were "shut down", turns out they were redesigning the page, and soon became grand theft pirate bay, when they released san andreas.
They sure got a laugh out of that
Vista will be the biggest OS release they have done so far.
Almost everything has changed. The problem is that most of these things are under the hood, so the casual user (even uninformed slashdotters) think Vista is just Aero.
Fact is:
-New directx, will mean prettier games (and faster too, they said it is faster than dx9)
-New networking stack
-Sandboxed IE7
-Better firewall and now spyware tool.
-IIS 7
-New included games
I myself will get it, even if it is only to play the newest games. That said, halo 2 is not one of them. I only hope drm isn't that bad.
Let them ship quad-slot zillion transistors sli whatchamacallit kilowatt-sucking video cards. They drive down the price of decent cards that can play todays games at mediam quality for less than 200$.
I can play oblivion on medium quality with my 6600gt, 768mb, athlon64 3400 rig.
There is no reason to _not_ preinstall Java. It is free and it doesn't use resources unless you use it.
Except it installs an auto-update utility without prompting the user, and always is load on memory at startup
Java classes get compiled to native code with machine-specific optimizations at runtime. If you had done any research on the subject, you would find that Java out-performs other languages at times. Java is fast. This argument is over, so please can it.
Java can be almost as fast a C code, and in some weird cases even more. The problem is that java requires a jvm, and loading the jvm plus having the garbage collector running means your program will start slower, and use more ram. Also the fact that it is not easy to write a good UI while keeping threading under consideration makes your program look even slower.
Java may be "fast enough" but your typical java app needs bigger system requirements than it would need in other languages.
So in theory, java is as fast as C, but in practice it is probably slower, especially for desktop applications.
Cons:
I wonder what hard drives they use. My powerbook's hard drive died in just a little over 2 years. Between whine noises, power adapters that fall away too easily, notebook latches that don't close properly, logic board issues, overheating, display glitches, dead hard drives and more, i think that apple
hardware is just as error-prone as regular pc hardware.
Digg had this more than a week ago. The referenced article even had an interview with one of the victims, who played the game. If he can accept and play the game, others can.
So, a bigger, better screen, with double the amount of RAM (which OSX would definitely need, 512 isn't enough), isn't worth 340$? Especially with the first revision of the hardware, as now apple hardware is not solid rock like it used to be (my powerbook's hard drive went dead after just 2 years)