Yeah, I bet you must feel really sorry for poor little Sony. Big bad Microsoft has soooo much more money then Sony. Sony are just the little guy trying to make an honest buck.
Jeez, open your eyes people, Sony has much more of a monopoly over Joe Public's possesions than MS do. Sony can piss money away on a loss leader just as well as Microsoft can.
nvidia's cg is an assult on MS, trying to leverage away their control of the API.
I would have thought the idea was that nVidia and co could then license (read "$$$$") the technology to MS to integrate into DirectX?
Such a brand, such a dream, and all they come up with a beige box.
Oh, I'm sure there's some sweet chips in that big beige box, but I was really expecting to see something that caught my eye, in the same way that an iMac (or even one of the beefier macs) does.
But no, it looks like a PC. And if it looks like a PC, then people are going to think it is a PC. That just puts one more misunderstanding for non-geeks thinking of getting a new bit of kit.
Answer (not a troll, though sounds like one) - A lot of people will use MySQL because it has a sensible name. No really, I'm not kidding. How the hell do you pronounce PostgreSQL anyway? MySQL sounds like the sort of thing that can be used be a mere mortal. Spikey haird dilbertesque managers like that sort of thing.
I've said similar things before (and get modded down half the time, heheh), and I'm sure that it's true.
I have every window maximized. Alt-Tab switches between them in a least-recently-used pattern. You could call it a set of "virtual desktops" if you will, but that, of course, would be flamebait.:)
They wanted outlook to be possible to be used both ways. That's why it has icons aplenty and keyboard shortcuts.
Don't knock me for having to use Windows at my place of work. All I'm trying to state is that there's a helluva difference between a desktop that looks fast and one that actually is fast.
When you navigate in Explorer, you type the first few characters of what you want, and that file/directory becomes selected. It's just like tab autocompletion, but you don't actually have to bother pressing tab.
(This is not flamebait; I just want to show that you don't need plain black to be fast).
I use Windows 2000. My desktop is a mess of icons. I don't look at them, and I don't click on them either. I just hit Windows-D, type in the first couple of characters for the one I want, and press return.
For example, "i" launches Internet Exploer, "ou" launches Outlook, "ba" launches bash in cygwin, "v" launches vi... you get the picture. This has the advantage that anybody else can still use the computer.
For example, to type an email, I would do the following:
As far as I know, wardriving is the only war* term related to 802.11 technologies.
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I also know a good deal of friends who are using KaZaA(lite), Freenet, LimeWare, et al, in protest of the death of Napster.
And in my case who are also discovering (and buying) a load of tracks by people they'd never heard of before.
In the few months I've been using p2p socftware, my CD collection has doubled. The CD's I'm buying now are stuff that I've always been looking for, but could never previously find..
Some albums I've bought after downloading them:
Goldfrapp; felt mountain
Handsome boy modelling school
Dr. Octagon
NIN; downward Spiral.
Jill Scott
Spoooks; S.I.O.S.O.S
Roots Manuva
etc.
You would never hear any of those on mainstream radio. Thanks to p2p, I have discovered them, bought them, and hopefully given the artists some royalties.
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Yeah, I bet you must feel really sorry for poor little Sony. Big bad Microsoft has soooo much more money then Sony. Sony are just the little guy trying to make an honest buck.
Jeez, open your eyes people, Sony has much more of a monopoly over Joe Public's possesions than MS do. Sony can piss money away on a loss leader just as well as Microsoft can.
nvidia's cg is an assult on MS, trying to leverage away their control of the API. I would have thought the idea was that nVidia and co could then license (read "$$$$") the technology to MS to integrate into DirectX?
Oh, I'm sure there's some sweet chips in that big beige box, but I was really expecting to see something that caught my eye, in the same way that an iMac (or even one of the beefier macs) does.
But no, it looks like a PC. And if it looks like a PC, then people are going to think it is a PC. That just puts one more misunderstanding for non-geeks thinking of getting a new bit of kit.
*Apple breathes a sigh of relief*
Graphics card manufacturers need ID games (i.e. Doom3) to run well on their cards. If the latest card sucks running Doom3, it will hurt sales.
ATI could really have shot themselves in the foot if Carmack and co give competing hardware more attention.
I was going to write a sensible response, but I haven't trolled in ages, so first post or something.
I've said similar things before (and get modded down half the time, heheh), and I'm sure that it's true.
vi is better.
Step 4) Profit!
If they were Exchange killers then we wouldn't need yet another one.
Much as the work on getting fonts to work on X is to be commended, I don't think we're ready to start showing off just yet.
Get back to me in a few years when something approaching a workable standard is around.
Thought I was the only one on /.
I have every window maximized. Alt-Tab switches between them in a least-recently-used pattern. You could call it a set of "virtual desktops" if you will, but that, of course, would be flamebait. :)
Don't knock me for having to use Windows at my place of work. All I'm trying to state is that there's a helluva difference between a desktop that looks fast and one that actually is fast.
When you navigate in Explorer, you type the first few characters of what you want, and that file/directory becomes selected. It's just like tab autocompletion, but you don't actually have to bother pressing tab.
My left pinkie is saved from RSI :)
I use Windows 2000. My desktop is a mess of icons. I don't look at them, and I don't click on them either. I just hit Windows-D, type in the first couple of characters for the one I want, and press return.
For example, "i" launches Internet Exploer, "ou" launches Outlook, "ba" launches bash in cygwin, "v" launches vi... you get the picture. This has the advantage that anybody else can still use the computer.
For example, to type an email, I would do the following:
Windows-D
o (return)
CTRL-n
(to)
tab tab
(subject)
tab
(content)
CTRL-enter
... and the email is sent.
Command lines are all good and well, and I love bash to death, but don't knock GUIs if you're just using them wrong.
J/K
I predict that Apple will use the chip in a high end personal computer.
I think he sums it up pretty well with that comment.
Warchalking
And in my case who are also discovering (and buying) a load of tracks by people they'd never heard of before.
In the few months I've been using p2p socftware, my CD collection has doubled. The CD's I'm buying now are stuff that I've always been looking for, but could never previously find..
Some albums I've bought after downloading them:
You would never hear any of those on mainstream radio. Thanks to p2p, I have discovered them, bought them, and hopefully given the artists some royalties.
I used to spend fucking hours tweaking my C64 tape drive to load some of the more difficult loaders.
Install apache 1.3.x then. (Am I feeding a troll here?)
All together now...
FreeBSD!