I've found that the best thing to do is to stick with a non-Palm yet Palm OS variant. I have a Sony Cliè and it is wondrous. The Picsel viewer that comes standard with the Cliè handles images, plain text, office documents, and PDF files wonderfully. There is also an MS-Office compatible application called "Documents to go" which allows you to create and open documents accessible by a variety of PC applications. The data import application allows you to connect the Cliè via USB to any computer and use it as a USB hard drive using default mass storage device drivers allowing you to copy arbitrary files to and from the Cliè with very little hassle. I've owned a fair number of PDAs, everything from the old pocket organizers from "back in the day" to clamshell full keyboard devices like the Psion Revo and Jornada 680 but by far my Cliè has been the most satisfying and useful PDA I've owned. Unfortunately, Sony has pulled out of the US PDA market (at least for now, one can hope can't they?) and you'd have to procure one via import or an auction site like e-bay.
On another note, it's disturbing to me that Sony's PDAs did so poorly in North America. In terms of ergonomics and ease of use, I've found the Cliè line to be outstanding. The only reasons that I can muster to explain their poor sales could be the price... they were on average a bit pricier than other models, but as the axiom goes, you get what you pay for. The other might be the relatively conservative design of the devices themselves. PDAs made by other companies are often exotic shapes and covered in lots of prominent buttons and such. They stand out, that's for certain, but they also get turned on in your pocket and are much more uncomfortable to use. The Cliè sports a hold switch which prevents any of the face buttons from turning the device on, and the face buttons themselves are recessed enough to prevent accidental operation anyway.
The jog dial of the Cliè is another example of superior design, whilst the majority of palm devices sport directional pads; the Cliè has a wheel-mouse like jog dial which makes navigation far faster.
Also worth noting would be the media fidelity of the device. The sound-rendering abilities of the Cliè rival any portable digital media player I've seen and the internal speaker is surprisingly capable when it comes to playback. (There is also a headphone port which makes it a suitable portable MP3 player as well. Start up the built-in media player with a playlist of MP3s and put the device on hold to save power) There is a lot to be said for the display as well, the screen is bright and the colors are rich and true. The Cliè has a higher resolution screen than most all PDAs of its class which means that images, websites, and games look much cleaner than they would on other devices. The higher resolution means that it's generally possible to scale a website designed for a 1024x768 PC display and still be able to read it without the need for tedious left-right scrolling.
Also worth noting is the wireless networking capabilities of the Cliè. It is convenient to be able to connect to your inbox when in a pinch. However, it is important to note that the use of WiFi is a major drain on the battery of the device. This is a minor pratfall, but I think it is also safe to say that PDAs are decidedly not the ideal device for casual web-surfing. If your intention is to surf the web at your local coffee shop or book emporium, it might be a better idea to invest in a laptop rather than a PDA. Even if somewhat dated, a laptop with a USB 802.11b adapter would be sufficient for mobile web surfing. (802.11b is inferior to G, I realize, but it seems fairly unlikely that you will be finding a WAP willing to give you a 54MBps internet connection)
There are downsides to the Cliè, I will admit. First off, the price is a bit daunting, especially for those who aren't looking for a device they plan to use constantly. You are also bound to using Sony accessori
Precisely, they are an ireputable "company" who deals in the sale of personal information. It's almost incredible the amount of gaul they have to try to sell themselves as something legitimate. It's almost like a drug dealer setting up a damned stand on the street corner.
I thank you for the support however, I do wish to point out (whilst hoping to avoid a futile debate on religion) that all major faiths subscribe to a core set of morals and values and that is what the founders of this country set out to behold. In order to remain true to the impartiality they valued so much, they set their personal religious beliefs aside so that they could forge a universal document that would not oppress any group of people.
I don't want to offend you for your faith, and if I have, I am deeply regretful. However, I personally am not Christian and feel that in spite of that, I still hold good and true values about how we should treat one another. I feel my values are just as righteous and good as yours or anyone elses' and I see the conflict not as "godless vs. faithful" but more of "ethical vs. non-ethical." I feel that the ethicality of a decision or action hinges on the fulcrum of reason and the common good. We as people must act in a way that does not harm others and in a manner that follows unbiased and clear reasoning. I feel that it is wrong to simply take one side of an issue without observing all of the facts and deciding on one's own accord.
I again thank you for your support, however I do wish to point out that my use of the word "ungodly" was not to be confused with "unGodly." Just because someone does not subscribe to the Christian faith does not make them wrong or invalid, it is when one acts in a manner that is selfish, harms others, and results in no positive outcome that they are unjust and must be stopped.
I hope I have not offended you or anyone else. I assure you, this was not my intent. I merely wanted to post my point of view in a (hopefully) constructive manner so that we may all learn from one another.
Could we have forgotten the roots upon which this country was founded and hand over such ungodly power to a corporation. The RIAA (and MPAA for that matter) is a profit-hungry organization, and sees people as merely profit generators. They don't care about provisions such as fair use. If they had their ideal situation, they would charge us every time we hear or see some of their "intellectual property" whether it was willingly or not. The common people need to stand up for their rights before they don't have them anymore, and contrary to what the placid images on our televisions tell us, that time is rapidly approaching.
Prepare to become even more of a faceless number than you already are.
Of course you realize that this decision is a moot point, as depending on what romanization system you use it is spelled either way. The dictionary you are using uses the older format, the dictionary I am using uses the newer format. Both renderings, however, are indeed acceptable.
Simple, while open source code, garners stability from being examined and evolved by many programmers. GNU code has a nasty habit of picking up large numbers of undocumented and otherwise unecessary "features" that are conducive to its relative slowness. Also GNU is a broken Unix standard, things designed to the GNU specification are not necessarily compliant in Unix (which Linux does seek to replicate) Take a look at popular GNU applications such as EMacs, EMacs is quite possibly the largest simple text editor ever concieved, it is practically its own operating system and that's hardly necessary. EMacs is like using an atomic bomb to get rid of a tree stump. Like it or not, though Linux has a good deal of stability, it's quite sluggish in many aspects and will continue to be until some standardized Linux is created (IE Linus stepping forward and saying "this is Linux, all Linux has these" and sets forth a set of applications and features, the option to add more in various distros would still be there, but they would all be based off the standard)
Really? well it says right here on page 185 of the Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese dictionary:
Ronin, n. (Kanji spelling) 1.Masterless samurai. 2.unemployed person. 3.High school person who has not yet passed a college entrance examination.
(Random House Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionary / Compiled by Nakao Seigo. 1997 Random House, Inc. New York NY. ISBN# 0-679-78001-7)
Actually there is an accented 'o' in there, but I'm unable to render that character as well, so I guess that you're technically correct that I misspelled it.
A lot of things can be said for or against the windows UI. Personally, I have few complaints with windows 2000 and lesser in terms of UI. I dislike XP mostly because I prefer things to be compact and streamlined and that, my friends is something XP is not. I dislike frivilous graphics and frivilously large toolbars etc. I understand that some computer users may like that, but an option to shut off "all the fruity colors" should have been made available. Sure, XP is skinnable, but the "classic" skins are still bogged down by the fact that the windows XP environment habitually sacrifices user efficiency for initial usability. Sure, lil' sis can save and open files without any real help, but in about a year once she's matured a bit and knows a little more, will she not be frustrated by the fact it takes twice as long to do it than in other UIs?
Lets not leave out Linux, I enjoy Linux as a hobby, but as far as the most popular UI's go, it's just as bad. KDE and GNOME aren't horrible, but they could be a lot better. It takes just as long to accomplish something in either of them as windows XP simply because you often get too much detail, when I click my task bar, I don't want to be assaulted by the 8000 or so selections that you get even in a fairly bare-bones GUI install. Granted, they can be removed, but not easily. Linux will not take off as a desktop system until it can take reliability and combine it with ease of use. I'll admit right now, I'd MUCH rather install new hardware on a Windows system. Why? because even when installing hardware that I know nothing about and don't have the drivers for is a hell of a lot easier than doing so in Linux.
I know full well that this will get tucked at the bottom and ranked as a one because I'm reiterating a lot of points as well as being simply irrate, but the solution to all of this isn't Linux aquiring a few traits or Windows aquiring (or losing) a few others, what it amounts to is in order for the OS market to work there need to be more than two or three OSes available. (Fanboys, now is the time to mention WHEATONEX or whatever off the wall OS you run, but I'm talking mainstream here, not ecclectic little known ones)
The market should aim to be like that of cars, car companies produce many models, each one with a particular type of user in mind. Small economy cars are aimed at people who just need something reliable to get around, they don't have to be amazingly fast or have a lot of features, it just needs to work and be fairly safe. Larger family sedans are aimed at people who have a lot of things to do, they are more task oriented. They aren't necessarily fast, but they are very safe and very reliable. Trucks are aimed at the purely utilitarian user, they are durable and very powerful, but at the same time they are big and slow. Sports cars are aimed at the flashy user, they are fast and look nice, but they offer little protection in an accident and are really only suitable for city or highway driving, you can't drive them in the winter and you certainly should drive them in the country where stones and potholes will damage them. But most of all, more than anything else, no matter what kind of car you drive (bear with me, I know I'm about to get hit with "but I drive an electric" or "well, I converted my 1987 chevy celebrity to run on LP!") they all run on gas, they all take oil and other fluids. *in case you didn't get it, the fluids are the software in this case, not electricity or something*
The computer industry has a lot of changing to do before it truly matures, first thing that needs to be done is money grubbing organizations like the MPAA, RIAA, and others need to be put in their place and made to deal with the times just like all the other companies out there. Secondly, we need to dismiss socialist computing notions like networking every item in your house. I know it seems cool in Sci-Fi, but it's a bad idea unless computers are 100% safe, reliable, and infallable. Until then, we need to stick with, for the most part, having to flip the light switch ourself. Lastly, we need to get it out of our heads that computers are just Microsoft vs. *nix, and that something as frivilous as a UI change will change the computing world, it's going to take a total paradigm shift in order to do that.
Yeah, speaking of problems that just won't fix no matter how long you mess with them:
I have three separate video cards, two ATi's and an NVidia and XFree86 refuses to run them correctly ever, I've put countless hours into finely configuring every configurable configuration file and yet to no avail.
Oddly enough, I can install BSD and it will work fine right off the disc... unfortunately, it did me no good for linux concerns. Linux simply hates my video cards and refuses to use all three in any resolution above 320x480:(
I've checked tutorials, manuals, howtos, the necronomicon, and all have left me with nothing but headahce and some pesky daemons running about;)
I just use RAR compression for everything I compress just because it gets such better compression rates than.ZIP. After a little testing with various file types, I found that RAR won all contests for compression size. I tried compressing executables, small plain text files, spreadsheets, databases, raw music, compressed music, large, structured text files, images, etc. etc. just about everything I could get my hands on and RAR was smaller (albeit, sometimes only by a few bytes as in the case with small text files. However differences were huge in the case of some such as a ~500MB MSAccess database compressed down to 32MB with RAR and 120MB with.ZIP).
The only time I use PkZip or WinZip is when I'm opening something that someone else has compressed, and even then, if I save the archive onto a backup, I usually like to uncompress it then recompress it as a RAR file. Personally, I'm not very worried about the change.
After extensive thread-reading I've come to the conclusion that nearly everything that could be said about SCO has been said but one and that is simply:
Trigun is an excellent series, i'm glad that CN is signing another decent series (inuyasha, yu yu hashuko, yu gi oh, pokemon, all of these are hardly anime in my opinion (though inuyasha has its moments)) Cowboy Bebop is an obvious classic as is Trigun. As for the other two shows i've not seen any of them. Personally i think they should sign on Visions of EscaFlowne, Ruruoni Kenshin, Evangelion, and once a year play all six FLCL OAVs... Hack Sign would be nice too but not likely to happen for quite a while considering it just aired in japan:-p
a pretty decent ham. I can't complain they did hire me as a freshman in college banking on the skills i demonstrated as an intern for three months this summer. In six months they are paying for the rest of my education and are buying me a badass fujitsu lifebook for personal use (as in i own it, it isnt' company property) They are paying my bills and it's a nice enough job that a ham is a good enough bonus for me.
Microsoft fan boys say what you will, your operating system is unreliable. So is every other operating system on the market it just so happens that microsoft makes a target out of themself with restrictive licensing agreements and outlandish business tactics. Any hell they catch is their own fault.
Secondly, KDE looked like it does now back when windows XP was just a figment in bill's evil mind.
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, we will end the discussion of who is copying whom with this: the GUI was created by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center back in the 70's it ran on a tiny machine that also featured the first ethernet, and the first instance of Object Oriented Programming. Xerox also is responsible for producing fonts as we know them today.
So there you have it, the pure ironic beauty of it all, everyone is copying Xerox.
What keeps me using windows? A few things, first would be that i have software modem... evil things created to make life hard in linux.
sure, i play games too, but the biggest thing that keeps me from being on linux all the time is i can't get on the internet without windows...
On top of that, i have dialup because i can neither afford or recieve DSL or cable (can't afford cable anyway) so until one of those three are cleared, i will be doing my slashdottery in windows:(
When will the MPAA realize that their profit loss isn't because of piracy but more because of the fact that with a few marked exceptions, most movies suck?
-not intended as a bash at harry potter, i think any movie that gets kids aquanted with alternative philosophies such as magick and witchcraft is good. Most people are far too closed-minded these days.
What does Microsoft expect when they are practically advertising for Linux.
You have a lot of companies that are blissfully ignorant of Linux and then Microsoft comes to them and assures them that they are much much better than Linux and that those companies needn't bother even looking at Linux as an option.
All Microsoft is doing by claiming they are infinately superior to Linux is getting companies to examine the potential use of Linux who wouldn't have otherwise.
In other words, they are advertising for Linux, isn't that nice of them;)
*commence pro-Linux rant* You can change whatever you want about the appearance and operation of it. Who cares if Red Hat wants to make their GUI look like windows XP. It might get more people using Linux which is a good thing no matter how you look at it. And as for the rest of us, Linux is customizable we can make it look like whatever we want, again that's just part of the beauty of Linux and open source in general: 'if you don't like it, change it!' *end pro-linux rant*
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I've found that the best thing to do is to stick with a non-Palm yet Palm OS variant. I have a Sony Cliè and it is wondrous. The Picsel viewer that comes standard with the Cliè handles images, plain text, office documents, and PDF files wonderfully. There is also an MS-Office compatible application called "Documents to go" which allows you to create and open documents accessible by a variety of PC applications. The data import application allows you to connect the Cliè via USB to any computer and use it as a USB hard drive using default mass storage device drivers allowing you to copy arbitrary files to and from the Cliè with very little hassle. I've owned a fair number of PDAs, everything from the old pocket organizers from "back in the day" to clamshell full keyboard devices like the Psion Revo and Jornada 680 but by far my Cliè has been the most satisfying and useful PDA I've owned. Unfortunately, Sony has pulled out of the US PDA market (at least for now, one can hope can't they?) and you'd have to procure one via import or an auction site like e-bay.
On another note, it's disturbing to me that Sony's PDAs did so poorly in North America. In terms of ergonomics and ease of use, I've found the Cliè line to be outstanding. The only reasons that I can muster to explain their poor sales could be the price... they were on average a bit pricier than other models, but as the axiom goes, you get what you pay for. The other might be the relatively conservative design of the devices themselves. PDAs made by other companies are often exotic shapes and covered in lots of prominent buttons and such. They stand out, that's for certain, but they also get turned on in your pocket and are much more uncomfortable to use. The Cliè sports a hold switch which prevents any of the face buttons from turning the device on, and the face buttons themselves are recessed enough to prevent accidental operation anyway.
The jog dial of the Cliè is another example of superior design, whilst the majority of palm devices sport directional pads; the Cliè has a wheel-mouse like jog dial which makes navigation far faster.
Also worth noting would be the media fidelity of the device. The sound-rendering abilities of the Cliè rival any portable digital media player I've seen and the internal speaker is surprisingly capable when it comes to playback. (There is also a headphone port which makes it a suitable portable MP3 player as well. Start up the built-in media player with a playlist of MP3s and put the device on hold to save power) There is a lot to be said for the display as well, the screen is bright and the colors are rich and true. The Cliè has a higher resolution screen than most all PDAs of its class which means that images, websites, and games look much cleaner than they would on other devices. The higher resolution means that it's generally possible to scale a website designed for a 1024x768 PC display and still be able to read it without the need for tedious left-right scrolling.
Also worth noting is the wireless networking capabilities of the Cliè. It is convenient to be able to connect to your inbox when in a pinch. However, it is important to note that the use of WiFi is a major drain on the battery of the device. This is a minor pratfall, but I think it is also safe to say that PDAs are decidedly not the ideal device for casual web-surfing. If your intention is to surf the web at your local coffee shop or book emporium, it might be a better idea to invest in a laptop rather than a PDA. Even if somewhat dated, a laptop with a USB 802.11b adapter would be sufficient for mobile web surfing. (802.11b is inferior to G, I realize, but it seems fairly unlikely that you will be finding a WAP willing to give you a 54MBps internet connection)
There are downsides to the Cliè, I will admit. First off, the price is a bit daunting, especially for those who aren't looking for a device they plan to use constantly. You are also bound to using Sony accessori
BOOZE
BOOZE.
But what do you do if they have a really annoying ring?
Precisely, they are an ireputable "company" who deals in the sale of personal information. It's almost incredible the amount of gaul they have to try to sell themselves as something legitimate. It's almost like a drug dealer setting up a damned stand on the street corner.
Cost of privacy = 150,000,000 / Claria's victims
I think I'd much rather just carve my name in the moon... C H A I R F... damn, foiled again.
I thank you for the support however, I do wish to point out (whilst hoping to avoid a futile debate on religion) that all major faiths subscribe to a core set of morals and values and that is what the founders of this country set out to behold. In order to remain true to the impartiality they valued so much, they set their personal religious beliefs aside so that they could forge a universal document that would not oppress any group of people.
I don't want to offend you for your faith, and if I have, I am deeply regretful. However, I personally am not Christian and feel that in spite of that, I still hold good and true values about how we should treat one another. I feel my values are just as righteous and good as yours or anyone elses' and I see the conflict not as "godless vs. faithful" but more of "ethical vs. non-ethical." I feel that the ethicality of a decision or action hinges on the fulcrum of reason and the common good. We as people must act in a way that does not harm others and in a manner that follows unbiased and clear reasoning. I feel that it is wrong to simply take one side of an issue without observing all of the facts and deciding on one's own accord.
I again thank you for your support, however I do wish to point out that my use of the word "ungodly" was not to be confused with "unGodly." Just because someone does not subscribe to the Christian faith does not make them wrong or invalid, it is when one acts in a manner that is selfish, harms others, and results in no positive outcome that they are unjust and must be stopped.
I hope I have not offended you or anyone else. I assure you, this was not my intent. I merely wanted to post my point of view in a (hopefully) constructive manner so that we may all learn from one another.
Could we have forgotten the roots upon which this country was founded and hand over such ungodly power to a corporation. The RIAA (and MPAA for that matter) is a profit-hungry organization, and sees people as merely profit generators. They don't care about provisions such as fair use. If they had their ideal situation, they would charge us every time we hear or see some of their "intellectual property" whether it was willingly or not. The common people need to stand up for their rights before they don't have them anymore, and contrary to what the placid images on our televisions tell us, that time is rapidly approaching.
Prepare to become even more of a faceless number than you already are.
They seek to make apps that are as smart as outlook? That's like saying they seek to make apps that are as safe as the Titanic.
Of course you realize that this decision is a moot point, as depending on what romanization system you use it is spelled either way. The dictionary you are using uses the older format, the dictionary I am using uses the newer format. Both renderings, however, are indeed acceptable.
Simple, while open source code, garners stability from being examined and evolved by many programmers. GNU code has a nasty habit of picking up large numbers of undocumented and otherwise unecessary "features" that are conducive to its relative slowness. Also GNU is a broken Unix standard, things designed to the GNU specification are not necessarily compliant in Unix (which Linux does seek to replicate) Take a look at popular GNU applications such as EMacs, EMacs is quite possibly the largest simple text editor ever concieved, it is practically its own operating system and that's hardly necessary. EMacs is like using an atomic bomb to get rid of a tree stump. Like it or not, though Linux has a good deal of stability, it's quite sluggish in many aspects and will continue to be until some standardized Linux is created (IE Linus stepping forward and saying "this is Linux, all Linux has these" and sets forth a set of applications and features, the option to add more in various distros would still be there, but they would all be based off the standard)
Really? well it says right here on page 185 of the Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese dictionary:
Ronin, n. (Kanji spelling) 1.Masterless samurai. 2.unemployed person. 3.High school person who has not yet passed a college entrance examination.
(Random House Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionary / Compiled by Nakao Seigo. 1997 Random House, Inc. New York NY. ISBN# 0-679-78001-7)
Actually there is an accented 'o' in there, but I'm unable to render that character as well, so I guess that you're technically correct that I misspelled it.
Go ahead fanboys, rate me down, but GNU is bloated, OpenOffice is bloated, and Windows is bloated. Don't try to deny it.
A lot of things can be said for or against the windows UI. Personally, I have few complaints with windows 2000 and lesser in terms of UI. I dislike XP mostly because I prefer things to be compact and streamlined and that, my friends is something XP is not. I dislike frivilous graphics and frivilously large toolbars etc. I understand that some computer users may like that, but an option to shut off "all the fruity colors" should have been made available. Sure, XP is skinnable, but the "classic" skins are still bogged down by the fact that the windows XP environment habitually sacrifices user efficiency for initial usability. Sure, lil' sis can save and open files without any real help, but in about a year once she's matured a bit and knows a little more, will she not be frustrated by the fact it takes twice as long to do it than in other UIs?
Lets not leave out Linux, I enjoy Linux as a hobby, but as far as the most popular UI's go, it's just as bad. KDE and GNOME aren't horrible, but they could be a lot better. It takes just as long to accomplish something in either of them as windows XP simply because you often get too much detail, when I click my task bar, I don't want to be assaulted by the 8000 or so selections that you get even in a fairly bare-bones GUI install. Granted, they can be removed, but not easily. Linux will not take off as a desktop system until it can take reliability and combine it with ease of use. I'll admit right now, I'd MUCH rather install new hardware on a Windows system. Why? because even when installing hardware that I know nothing about and don't have the drivers for is a hell of a lot easier than doing so in Linux.
I know full well that this will get tucked at the bottom and ranked as a one because I'm reiterating a lot of points as well as being simply irrate, but the solution to all of this isn't Linux aquiring a few traits or Windows aquiring (or losing) a few others, what it amounts to is in order for the OS market to work there need to be more than two or three OSes available. (Fanboys, now is the time to mention WHEATONEX or whatever off the wall OS you run, but I'm talking mainstream here, not ecclectic little known ones)
The market should aim to be like that of cars, car companies produce many models, each one with a particular type of user in mind. Small economy cars are aimed at people who just need something reliable to get around, they don't have to be amazingly fast or have a lot of features, it just needs to work and be fairly safe. Larger family sedans are aimed at people who have a lot of things to do, they are more task oriented. They aren't necessarily fast, but they are very safe and very reliable. Trucks are aimed at the purely utilitarian user, they are durable and very powerful, but at the same time they are big and slow. Sports cars are aimed at the flashy user, they are fast and look nice, but they offer little protection in an accident and are really only suitable for city or highway driving, you can't drive them in the winter and you certainly should drive them in the country where stones and potholes will damage them. But most of all, more than anything else, no matter what kind of car you drive (bear with me, I know I'm about to get hit with "but I drive an electric" or "well, I converted my 1987 chevy celebrity to run on LP!") they all run on gas, they all take oil and other fluids. *in case you didn't get it, the fluids are the software in this case, not electricity or something*
The computer industry has a lot of changing to do before it truly matures, first thing that needs to be done is money grubbing organizations like the MPAA, RIAA, and others need to be put in their place and made to deal with the times just like all the other companies out there. Secondly, we need to dismiss socialist computing notions like networking every item in your house. I know it seems cool in Sci-Fi, but it's a bad idea unless computers are 100% safe, reliable, and infallable. Until then, we need to stick with, for the most part, having to flip the light switch ourself.
Lastly, we need to get it out of our heads that computers are just Microsoft vs. *nix, and that something as frivilous as a UI change will change the computing world, it's going to take a total paradigm shift in order to do that.
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:(
;)
Yeah, speaking of problems that just won't fix no matter how long you mess with them:
I have three separate video cards, two ATi's and an NVidia and XFree86 refuses to run them correctly ever, I've put countless hours into finely configuring every configurable configuration file and yet to no avail.
Oddly enough, I can install BSD and it will work fine right off the disc... unfortunately, it did me no good for linux concerns. Linux simply hates my video cards and refuses to use all three in any resolution above 320x480
I've checked tutorials, manuals, howtos, the necronomicon, and all have left me with nothing but headahce and some pesky daemons running about
[/Rant]
I just use RAR compression for everything I compress just because it gets such better compression rates than .ZIP. After a little testing with various file types, I found that RAR won all contests for compression size. I tried compressing executables, small plain text files, spreadsheets, databases, raw music, compressed music, large, structured text files, images, etc. etc. just about everything I could get my hands on and RAR was smaller (albeit, sometimes only by a few bytes as in the case with small text files. However differences were huge in the case of some such as a ~500MB MSAccess database compressed down to 32MB with RAR and 120MB with .ZIP).
The only time I use PkZip or WinZip is when I'm opening something that someone else has compressed, and even then, if I save the archive onto a backup, I usually like to uncompress it then recompress it as a RAR file. Personally, I'm not very worried about the change.
After extensive thread-reading I've come to the conclusion that nearly everything that could be said about SCO has been said but one and that is simply:
SCO can blow me.
That will be all.
Trigun is an excellent series, i'm glad that CN is signing another decent series (inuyasha, yu yu hashuko, yu gi oh, pokemon, all of these are hardly anime in my opinion (though inuyasha has its moments)) Cowboy Bebop is an obvious classic as is Trigun. As for the other two shows i've not seen any of them. Personally i think they should sign on Visions of EscaFlowne, Ruruoni Kenshin, Evangelion, and once a year play all six FLCL OAVs... Hack Sign would be nice too but not likely to happen for quite a while considering it just aired in japan :-p
a pretty decent ham. I can't complain they did hire me as a freshman in college banking on the skills i demonstrated as an intern for three months this summer. In six months they are paying for the rest of my education and are buying me a badass fujitsu lifebook for personal use (as in i own it, it isnt' company property) They are paying my bills and it's a nice enough job that a ham is a good enough bonus for me.
Microsoft fan boys say what you will, your operating system is unreliable. So is every other operating system on the market it just so happens that microsoft makes a target out of themself with restrictive licensing agreements and outlandish business tactics. Any hell they catch is their own fault.
Secondly, KDE looked like it does now back when windows XP was just a figment in bill's evil mind.
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, we will end the discussion of who is copying whom with this: the GUI was created by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center back in the 70's it ran on a tiny machine that also featured the first ethernet, and the first instance of Object Oriented Programming. Xerox also is responsible for producing fonts as we know them today.
So there you have it, the pure ironic beauty of it all, everyone is copying Xerox.
What keeps me using windows? A few things, first would be that i have software modem... evil things created to make life hard in linux.
:(
sure, i play games too, but the biggest thing that keeps me from being on linux all the time is i can't get on the internet without windows...
On top of that, i have dialup because i can neither afford or recieve DSL or cable (can't afford cable anyway) so until one of those three are cleared, i will be doing my slashdottery in windows
When will the MPAA realize that their profit loss isn't because of piracy but more because of the fact that with a few marked exceptions, most movies suck?
-not intended as a bash at harry potter, i think any movie that gets kids aquanted with alternative philosophies such as magick and witchcraft is good. Most people are far too closed-minded these days.
What does Microsoft expect when they are practically advertising for Linux.
;)
You have a lot of companies that are blissfully ignorant of Linux and then Microsoft comes to them and assures them that they are much much better than Linux and that those companies needn't bother even looking at Linux as an option.
All Microsoft is doing by claiming they are infinately superior to Linux is getting companies to examine the potential use of Linux who wouldn't have otherwise.
In other words, they are advertising for Linux, isn't that nice of them
*commence pro-Linux rant*
You can change whatever you want about the appearance and operation of it. Who cares if Red Hat wants to make their GUI look like windows XP. It might get more people using Linux which is a good thing no matter how you look at it. And as for the rest of us, Linux is customizable we can make it look like whatever we want, again that's just part of the beauty of Linux and open source in general: 'if you don't like it, change it!'
*end pro-linux rant*