Is it a cool future of gadgets and super powerful, helpful AIs, antigravity, alien societies, incredibly advanced technology from mysterious lost races, see-thru tank tops, holographic projection and bionic augmentation,
According to the e-Reader website (flash required), "with e-Reader technology, the code for an entire NES game can be stored on a stack of just five cards!"
And so this is probably where the collectible trading card aspect really comes into play: you need a complete set of 5 cards in order to play the game! Very clever, but I'm not surprised considering this is the company responsible for the Pokemon craze.
Actually, if it was a single-sided drive, it's not entirely inconcievable that the disk could have been read with another one sandwiched above it.
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I found that Ximian's "Red Carpet" software had a nasty habit of screwing up the RPM dependencies on my system, and while visually appealing, I didn't really like its interface (for example, the way you need to click on every single package you want upgraded even if there are 50, 60, or 100 of them).
Umm... I guess you could upgrade each package individually... but why not just click the little "update now" button in the lower right-hand corner of the main screen which applies all pending updates, without having to select or enter anything?
Just because you can't handle many seemingly contradictory things being true doesn't make them not true.
Personally, I handle "seemingly contradictory" things by determining whether they really are or are not contradictory. And if they are, then one or none of them is true, because that's the definition of contradictory.
Then there's the shizters out there that claim to be OSS that have these so-called Open Licenses (*cough* Apple) that are really trying to use code for free. And there are the projects that were open source and free (*cough* MySQL) that turn into payware developed by the community.
Thanks to Transgaming, there will be no port of such games like WarCraft 3, the publisher will ignore Linux market.
[sarcasm] Yes, previously Blizzard was not ignoring Linux, in fact they expressed a lot of interest in porting their games! It's really a shame that Transgaming is allowing people to make more use of Linux! [/sarcasm]
Any games that require 3D just hang or fail with different errors. (Freespace II complains that you cannot launch it directly and when trying a start with the game's autorun launcher nothing happens)
But i'd prefer if the game ran in full screen!
I find that if I set UseDGA="Y" and Managed="N" in my ~/.transgaming/config, then games will switch to fullscreen (Starcraft does, anyway).
I finally "upgraded" the OS from Win95 to WinME (I know I know but I was told that it was basically Win98 3rd edition... anyhow) WordPerfect would not function. Uninstall, reinstall. Nothing... the only added functionality I needed was the ability to work under the operating system I had bought to fix the Microsoft glitch of not recognizing AMD processors in Win95 that were faster than 300MHz.
Give me a product, open source or not, that provides my clients (on whose interests I act) with the functionality of Exchange, and I'll get the Purchase Order ready by close of business today.
I don't have any experience with it, but at LinuxWorld last week Oracle demonstrated their Oracle Collaboration Suite. It works with Outlook and they also demonstrated doing email and group calendering on the KDE desktop.
Sure, if you define superior as "slower, non standards compliant, and with fewer features, such as proper PNG support"
We have a tab system as well, runs along a bar on the bottom of our screen.
Why yes, it certainly is convenient to have my browser windows mixed in with windows from other programs. Even the munged program-grouping in Windows XP is inferior to Mozilla's tab feature. Of course, as usual you can get around Microsoft's inferior software by using a third-party product such as Netcaptor.
I generally don't visit that many gay pr0n sites, so annoying pop-ups aren't really an issue. If I ever do face them, I know how to kill windows with a simple keystroke. Don't confuse "tricks for lazy people" with "superior features".
Unfortunately popups are a fact of the modern web; they appear not just on porn sites but on every kind of site, including many of the most popular news and information sites. Popup-blocking is a convenient, some would say necessary, feature in a modern web browser. Mozilla has it, Opera has it, IE doesn't. Once again, you must install additional third-party tools to account for missing or broken functionality in Microsoft's product.
What, you're go and stop buttons blow mine out the water? 99% of my commands are keystrokes followed by the enter key.
I can download or create any number of different themes for Mozilla to customize it to my needs. What can you do in IE, drag some bars around?
Never really noticed a problem, even after browsing for hours on end.
If you've never had a crash or hang in Explorer, then please share the secret with us, because you've found something whose elusiveness is on par with the Fountain of Youth.
I'll give you that one, the mail sucks, never chatted using I.E., and their news reader blows, just because it's hard to download files and it's a pain getting it to list every post in a group.
You missed one: the gaping security holes in Microsoft's mail programs that allowed for the Internet Virus renaissance.
Problem 1. Connect to the Internet. The customer calls his local internet provider, Cable, DSL, or dial-up and says he want's to setup his system to connect to the net. The Internet provider sends him the software. Hmmm, where's the Linux install. Call back the provider. The provider asks what Operating system he's running. Customer repsonds "Linux". Click!
While it's true that most ISP's don't provide "official" support for Linux, very few disallow it or actively discourage it. I'm sure that if Joe Shmoe called Mandrake Support they could instruct him in the ways of the Internet Connection Druid.
Problem 2. Swapping files. The customer's best friend just downloaded this cool program and wants him to try it. Hmmm, just stick the disk in and and run setup?
"Swapping Files" is not really a problem, the included StarOffice can read/write Office files quite well. "Running Windows Programs", which you describe, won't fly out of the box... but it's just a purchase of Crossover Office away.
Problem 3. U.S. Federal Income Tax Software, Quicken for Linux, MS Office for Linux, Wheel of Fortune for Linux? While there are alternatives, they aren't mainstream.
I filed my taxes on the web this year. Doesn't get much more mainstream than that.
Problem 4. Computer crashes. No problem take it to the local computer repair center. Ooops, they don't support Linux.
Call up Mandrake; support is included. Of course, since this is Linux, it's highly unlikely the user is going to experience a crash, anyway.
Problem 5. Ohhh, there's a new cool USB 2.0 gadget out for the computer at my local store. I'll buy it and connect it to my system. Hmmm, Linux doesn't recognize the new hardware and there's no Linux install software included with the gadget.
If the user doesn't make sure the device will be supported before plunking down money, that's just stupid. That would be like purchasing something that clearly states "For Macintosh Only" on the box.
Although USB support used to be a point of contention, it got much better with the 2.4 kernel.
The point is, that Linux, at this time, is only for people that want to download it/buy it, install it, and spend alot of time learning Linux. It's not for people that just want to use it as part of their computer and don't really care what's running in the background as long as they can e-mail, surf, do finances, play games, etc.
On the contrary, I think Linux (especially a user-friendly distro such as Mandrake) is ideal for someone who just wants to e-mail, surf, and play games... the reason being, the e-mail, browsing, and several games, as well as Office software and other tools are included and ready to go! Linux's immunity to Windows viruses and Mozilla's ability to browse without popups make it a superior experience in many respects.
It's the power users, especially heavy gamers, for whom Linux isn't such a great choice... although WineX and "mainline" Wine have made great strides in that department.
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Is it a cool future of gadgets and super powerful, helpful AIs, antigravity, alien societies, incredibly advanced technology from mysterious lost races, see-thru tank tops, holographic projection and bionic augmentation,
No. No aliens, no latex in 'Firefly,'
or a dark future where a relative of GW's is still running the rights of the consumer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizens into the ground?
No, if it fits into any existing category, it's "Western", actually.
According to the e-Reader website (flash required), "with e-Reader technology, the code for an entire NES game can be stored on a stack of just five cards!"
And so this is probably where the collectible trading card aspect really comes into play: you need a complete set of 5 cards in order to play the game! Very clever, but I'm not surprised considering this is the company responsible for the Pokemon craze.
Actually, if it was a single-sided drive, it's not entirely inconcievable that the disk could have been read with another one sandwiched above it.
I found that Ximian's "Red Carpet" software had a nasty habit of screwing up the RPM dependencies on my system, and while visually appealing, I didn't really like its interface (for example, the way you need to click on every single package you want upgraded even if there are 50, 60, or 100 of them).
Umm... I guess you could upgrade each package individually... but why not just click the little "update now" button in the lower right-hand corner of the main screen which applies all pending updates, without having to select or enter anything?
Just because you can't handle many seemingly contradictory things being true doesn't make them not true.
Personally, I handle "seemingly contradictory" things by determining whether they really are or are not contradictory. And if they are, then one or none of them is true, because that's the definition of contradictory.
Then there's the shizters out there that claim to be OSS that have these so-called Open Licenses (*cough* Apple) that are really trying to use code for free. And there are the projects that were open source and free (*cough* MySQL) that turn into payware developed by the community.
You mean the MySQL that's licensed under the GPL? That MySQL?
You should do something about that cough, it might become embarrassing.
IBM's JVM is indeed excellent. My experience has been that it is much faster and also more compatible than Sun's. Here's some links:
t ml n ux130/jre-info.html n _us/java13/f-feat.htm
Windows:
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/wspvtjre-info.h
Linux:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/li
OS/2:
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/e
Download link is in the sidebar.
Thanks to Transgaming, there will be no port of such games like WarCraft 3, the publisher will ignore Linux market.
[sarcasm] Yes, previously Blizzard was not ignoring Linux, in fact they expressed a lot of interest in porting their games! It's really a shame that Transgaming is allowing people to make more use of Linux! [/sarcasm]
Any games that require 3D just hang or fail with different errors. (Freespace II complains that you cannot launch it directly and when trying a start with the game's autorun launcher nothing happens)
Umm... You do know that there's an open-source Linux port of Freespace II, right?
But i'd prefer if the game ran in full screen! I find that if I set UseDGA="Y" and Managed="N" in my ~/.transgaming/config, then games will switch to fullscreen (Starcraft does, anyway).
Even if it didn't, there's always the Linux native port!
I finally "upgraded" the OS from Win95 to WinME (I know I know but I was told that it was basically Win98 3rd edition... anyhow) WordPerfect would not function. Uninstall, reinstall. Nothing ...
the only added functionality I needed was the ability to work under the operating system I had bought to fix the Microsoft glitch of not recognizing AMD processors in Win95 that were faster than 300MHz.
Umm.... Microsoft did release a patch for this problem.
Give me a product, open source or not, that provides my clients (on whose interests I act) with the functionality of Exchange, and I'll get the Purchase Order ready by close of business today.
I don't have any experience with it, but at LinuxWorld last week Oracle demonstrated their Oracle Collaboration Suite. It works with Outlook and they also demonstrated doing email and group calendering on the KDE desktop.
"I was hoping to find a copy of SimCity 3000 Unlimited by Loki [lokigames.com], but as most of you know Loki is no more."
That's true, but tuxgames.com has it in stock.