I'm going to wait and see what stuff gets 'broken' as a result of this sp that ms will blame on 'app hiding'. Then they can say 'see? we told you that you can't remove Internet Explorer!!!'
We all know that windows has become inbred and overdependant with its own apps to provide functionality. Most of us are trying to move on to better things and the rest are trying to sell us MS products.
I know but that defeats any speed increase. I guess I want a training wheels mode with the labels and the icons by default. Its slower than a linear menu if you have to wait for tooltips. After a week or so I'll be used to it and turn the labels off, maybe or at least not need them anymore.
How long before someone tries to sue slashdot for DDOS. Perhaps the default link to sites should point to the google cache (they are at least prepared for this sort of bandwidth). Or automatic caching of the site by slashdot - this would at least be responsible.
The average person doesn't care about their freedoms because they assume that they would always have them and that no-one could take them away. This is becuase most (western)people think that they live in a fair and just society and that criminals and liars and cheats would never ever get into power. This is mostly because the powers that be have told them so.
This perspective won't change until it is too late. And then, well its too late.
>>cheap Solaris hardware to mix in with their SPARC stuff.
Are you kidding have you seen the pricing on the LX50. I thought it was expensive and then I realised I was seeing $US and nearly died. The.au catalogue site is giving errors. For a rackmount server. My god you could buy a nice amd whitebox for that and use it as a server or a workstation.
#2: your spies at MIT report that someone has found a way to by pass our XBOX security #1: excellent. Now that they can mod them, perhaps someone will buy one.
should an application have one interface which works the same way on all platforms thus reducing learning curve if you have to use different machines at a different office/school/house, or using the native methods on each platform to reduce the learning curve when the application is introduced to a user for the first time.
I think the former is a more valuable, long term investment.
Tired of the DMCA and other possible moves of American Corporatism?
Are you skilled and experienced in OpenSource/FreeSoftware development?
Then contact your local Peruvian embassy and let them know of your skills and talent and that you would love to live and work in Peru if they mandate opensource.
Why live in a country in which the government ridicules your ideals? Just imagine if all the US's OSS/FS developers and companies moved to Peru. Pretty funny really;-)
Re:Flash-only unfortunate?
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hmmm, it had a look at this with moz which flash is broken in for me at the moment and it seemed ok, and when I looked at it with ie the flash turned out only to be additional eye-candy, which is the way it should be - its a bonus if you've got it but not an impediment if you don't.
You have to take into account the fact that their target audience is running win9x-XP something on at average at least 1gighertz machine - not linuxer's using lynx via ssh on a 486. Not that there's anything wrong with that;-)
I really should finish reading articles before posting. But my dial-up is so slow I had to do something while waiting for the second half of the article.;-)
"...formula is the ability to play as different characters, actors if you will..."
reminds me of quake
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oddly enough this reminds me of Quake. I got the shareware off a magazine cdrom and enjoyed the first episode so much I bought the remaining episodes. Now if I could have bought only the second episode instead of having to buy all of them at once perhaps the last three episodes wouldn't have sucked so much compared to the first.
I like this idea - I think it would also be interesting to have occasional episodes where you play different characters, maybe the bad guys for a little bit.
...people ask what can we put in to fix it rather than what to take out to fix it. The distros need to take things back to basics instead of trying to fix it on the run.
If this prevents people copying their dvds, mp3s, ebooks etc then it would be the single most motivating factor to make the average person move to Linux.
That would be Linux's killer app - freedom, ironically enough
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going to wait and see what stuff gets 'broken' as a result of this sp that ms will blame on 'app hiding'. Then they can say 'see? we told you that you can't remove Internet Explorer!!!'
We all know that windows has become inbred and overdependant with its own apps to provide functionality. Most of us are trying to move on to better things and the rest are trying to sell us MS products.
Bruce Boxleitner in spandex. What more do you need?
"Who the hell would like to view an unfinished, probably mostly-SFX-free, score-free, unperfect version of the Two Towers ?"
;-)
Sounds like the cinema equivalent of running windows...
I know but that defeats any speed increase. I guess I want a training wheels mode with the labels and the icons by default. Its slower than a linear menu if you have to wait for tooltips. After a week or so I'll be used to it and turn the labels off, maybe or at least not need them anymore.
needs option to have text labels in stead of icons or both at once as well as tooltips
How long before someone tries to sue slashdot for DDOS. Perhaps the default link to sites should point to the google cache (they are at least prepared for this sort of bandwidth). Or automatic caching of the site by slashdot - this would at least be responsible.
The average person doesn't care about their freedoms because they assume that they would always have them and that no-one could take them away. This is becuase most (western)people think that they live in a fair and just society and that criminals and liars and cheats would never ever get into power. This is mostly because the powers that be have told them so.
This perspective won't change until it is too late. And then, well its too late.
>>cheap Solaris hardware to mix in with their SPARC stuff.
.au catalogue site is giving errors. For a rackmount server. My god you could buy a nice amd whitebox for that and use it as a server or a workstation.
Are you kidding have you seen the pricing on the LX50. I thought it was expensive and then I realised I was seeing $US and nearly died. The
maybe if they bundle Nicole Kidman?
why isn't this .jpg slashdotted yet?
you can all bite me.
jeez some people are touchy
1 - Look down at your feet ...
2 - Jump and fire rocket at same time
3 - ???
4 - PROFITS!!!
(sorry couldn't resist)
#2: your spies at MIT report that someone has found a way to by pass our XBOX security
#1: excellent. Now that they can mod them, perhaps someone will buy one.
However the speed of lint continues to accelerate.
Along with the speed of spam it would seem.
Court case at 11
should an application have one interface which works the same way on all platforms thus reducing learning curve if you have to use different machines at a different office/school/house, or using the native methods on each platform to reduce the learning curve when the application is introduced to a user for the first time. I think the former is a more valuable, long term investment.
Tired of the DMCA and other possible moves of American Corporatism?
;-)
Are you skilled and experienced in OpenSource/FreeSoftware development?
Then contact your local Peruvian embassy and let them know of your skills and talent and that you would love to live and work in Peru if they mandate opensource.
Why live in a country in which the government ridicules your ideals? Just imagine if all the US's OSS/FS developers and companies moved to Peru. Pretty funny really
hmmm, it had a look at this with moz which flash is broken in for me at the moment and it seemed ok, and when I looked at it with ie the flash turned out only to be additional eye-candy, which is the way it should be - its a bonus if you've got it but not an impediment if you don't.
;-)
You have to take into account the fact that their target audience is running win9x-XP something on at average at least 1gighertz machine - not linuxer's using lynx via ssh on a 486. Not that there's anything wrong with that
I really should finish reading articles before posting. But my dial-up is so slow I had to do something while waiting for the second half of the article. ;-)
"...formula is the ability to play as different characters, actors if you will..."
oddly enough this reminds me of Quake. I got the shareware off a magazine cdrom and enjoyed the first episode so much I bought the remaining episodes. Now if I could have bought only the second episode instead of having to buy all of them at once perhaps the last three episodes wouldn't have sucked so much compared to the first.
I like this idea - I think it would also be interesting to have occasional episodes where you play different characters, maybe the bad guys for a little bit.
Linux is dead!! Long live Linux!!
...people ask what can we put in to fix it rather than what to take out to fix it. The distros need to take things back to basics instead of trying to fix it on the run.
If this prevents people copying their dvds, mp3s, ebooks etc then it would be the single most motivating factor to make the average person move to Linux. That would be Linux's killer app - freedom, ironically enough