"Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about."
He's right. If Win2k came out when 95 did, I don't think Linux would have gotten off the ground as a desktop OS.
In any event, here's what I recommend: Whenever somebody makes a bluescreen joke, somebody should reply with something like "Well at last Windows supports USB", or "At least Windows has 3D accelleration", or some other thing that at one point Linux didn't have but was upgraded within the last 4 years or so. Fight fud with fud!
" I cannot install the driver that I downloaded from their site under Win98. Maybe I would have better luck with XP, but I don't want to buy it when Linux works so well for me."
For the record, Windows 98 is not MS's flagship for stability. Lots of driver stuff was cleaned up and fixed in Win2k and WinXP. I'm not saying go buy XP, just saying I can guarantee you would have had a much better experience.
"Like the review, I can't figure out what the target market for this is, but it's still a cool device. "
I'd like to watch some stuff on HDTV, Law and Order, Enterprise, etc. But HDTV's still run >$1.000. If, for $400, I can turn my spare computer into an HDTV, I think it'd be worth it until HDTV is more wide-spread.
Is it a mass market item? No. But those of us that are short on money and space and don't want to replace our existing system would find it quite useful. If I can make a home-brew PVR out of it, then that's icing.
"Good for you and your dad. Having a calculator makes kids dumber anyway. And no, I'm not a troll, I'm just a foreign-educated guy who is persuaded calculators are detrimental to high school education."
What prevents me from agreeing with you is the increased mental capabilities people have shown in the last 50 years since the calculator became a household item. It may not necessarily come out in terms of raw mathematic ability. Instead, compare people's understanding of how far away the moon is today than they imagined it was a generation or two ago.
"not trolling, but a genuine question: advantage of open source I can understand - what benefit does linux bring to the embedded world, if they already have the core OS?"
"Don't bother with textbooks - just teach them hands-on. I had 10X as much fun combining chemicals that gave off smoke than I ever did reading some dumb paragraphs."
Says you. I lost a rather expensive TI calculator due to a former friend of mine playing with chemicals that created smoke. My dad wouldn't replace it because he thought I should have been a human shield.
"...but I guess this goes to show that Apple does make solid products that last for a while."
A friend of mine has worn the same pair of shoes for over three years now. He's got unusually proportioned feet so he can't just go to the store and pick any old pair of shoes he wants. He has to go to a specialty place.
I question whether or not you can. I was just talking about flipping a couple of letters.
What's the matter, don't have a sense of humor? Perhaps your love life is lacking, so you express hostility towards people on a virtually anonymous forum? Maybe you're frustrated because you don't have the courage to come out of the closet?
Poor guy. I hope your life grants you happiness one day.
"Yeah, they were called "slaves". Came in handy for all sorts of unpleasant things you didn't want to deal with yourself. 'Course if you were the slave your appreciation of the system was probably somewhat lacking."
Man, you really sucked the fun out of my light hearted comment. I brought that joke back all the way from the Ozarks!
Slashdot Mirror
"Linux Enhances Shakespeare"
Would Slashdot be interested if I were to create a 'woop-de-doo!' icon?
... what Field of Dreams was about?
"Of course, that could be because they were busy copying Babylon 5.... ;)"
Yeah but what'd they copy that made DS9 good?
" In the ad MS claims that they'll make the hacker extinct. "
I don't see what the problem is. It's true! Why be a hacker when you can do it all as a script kiddie?
..but it's nice to finally see a positive article about Outlook here.
"But seriously.....has /. ever been defaced by e-vandals?"
Yes. Remember that story where a Linux user happily switched to XP?
"Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about."
He's right. If Win2k came out when 95 did, I don't think Linux would have gotten off the ground as a desktop OS.
In any event, here's what I recommend: Whenever somebody makes a bluescreen joke, somebody should reply with something like "Well at last Windows supports USB", or "At least Windows has 3D accelleration", or some other thing that at one point Linux didn't have but was upgraded within the last 4 years or so. Fight fud with fud!
" I cannot install the driver that I downloaded from their site under Win98. Maybe I would have better luck with XP, but I don't want to buy it when Linux works so well for me."
For the record, Windows 98 is not MS's flagship for stability. Lots of driver stuff was cleaned up and fixed in Win2k and WinXP. I'm not saying go buy XP, just saying I can guarantee you would have had a much better experience.
... I haven't sent my rebate form in.
I hadn't considered something like that. Do they make other HDTV recievers with VGA out? I have a spare monitor...
"Like the review, I can't figure out what the target market for this is, but it's still a cool device. "
I'd like to watch some stuff on HDTV, Law and Order, Enterprise, etc. But HDTV's still run >$1.000. If, for $400, I can turn my spare computer into an HDTV, I think it'd be worth it until HDTV is more wide-spread.
Is it a mass market item? No. But those of us that are short on money and space and don't want to replace our existing system would find it quite useful. If I can make a home-brew PVR out of it, then that's icing.
"Good for you and your dad. Having a calculator makes kids dumber anyway. And no, I'm not a troll, I'm just a foreign-educated guy who is persuaded calculators are detrimental to high school education."
What prevents me from agreeing with you is the increased mental capabilities people have shown in the last 50 years since the calculator became a household item. It may not necessarily come out in terms of raw mathematic ability. Instead, compare people's understanding of how far away the moon is today than they imagined it was a generation or two ago.
"Ha! Somebody should print the source code and write an article about how they installed Linux on a ream of paper..."
hehehe
Of course, we'd get hundreds of stale 'page fault' jokes to the tune of "if it were the Windows source code..."
"not trolling, but a genuine question: advantage of open source I can understand - what benefit does linux bring to the embedded world, if they already have the core OS?"
Free advertising on Slashdot.
Heatpipes? I wonder how many people are going to find this story while searching for .. uh.. adult stories.
"Don't bother with textbooks - just teach them hands-on. I had 10X as much fun combining chemicals that gave off smoke than I ever did reading some dumb paragraphs."
Says you. I lost a rather expensive TI calculator due to a former friend of mine playing with chemicals that created smoke. My dad wouldn't replace it because he thought I should have been a human shield.
"He buys quality shoes?"
Nar, if I were implying that I would have mentioned that he had trouble finding the right color of shoe.
"...but I guess this goes to show that Apple does make solid products that last for a while."
A friend of mine has worn the same pair of shoes for over three years now. He's got unusually proportioned feet so he can't just go to the store and pick any old pair of shoes he wants. He has to go to a specialty place.
Take a minute to let that anecdote set in.
" Six years ago it was a revolutionary move to bundle the components like the classic Mac. "
You mean like a laptop? Not trying to shoot you down here, but 6 years ago is when we saw the beginning in a sharp increase in laptop sales.
"I don't know why anyone uses it anymore. I'm switching back to Morse Code. Who's with me?"
..-. up!
Shut the
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"What is the biggest hurdle, in your opinion, for Linux to be on everyone's desktop?"
My PC game library.
"Lesson: Never solve your girlfriends computer problems completely or she'll devalue your relationship."
*Sigh* It's the only real weapon us geeks have. I've yet to impress a woman with Deep Space Nine trivia.
"English Mother F*cker... Do you read it?"
I question whether or not you can. I was just talking about flipping a couple of letters.
What's the matter, don't have a sense of humor? Perhaps your love life is lacking, so you express hostility towards people on a virtually anonymous forum? Maybe you're frustrated because you don't have the courage to come out of the closet?
Poor guy. I hope your life grants you happiness one day.
"Yeah, they were called "slaves".
Came in handy for all sorts of unpleasant things you didn't want to deal with yourself.
'Course if you were the slave your appreciation of the system was probably somewhat lacking."
Man, you really sucked the fun out of my light hearted comment. I brought that joke back all the way from the Ozarks!
Man, you've got a streak of interesting comments. Heh.
Are you sure you're not the one on the crack pipe?
BTW, your website sucks. Only somebody on crack would use Tripod to post their favorite songs.