was I the one bitching to begin with? I gave multiple scenarios to purposely conceal my actual stand point. I find this way I can look at the situation a bit better.
Why do I think I have the right to this music? What right was there ever to begin with? An artificial limit placed upon thoughts/ideas/data by people and enforced by the government. I think the real question should be, what gives them the right? You made it, ok fine, but I've heard it now too, if you didn't want people to hear it, why'd you even give it out in the first place?
Wait so you made it but I can't have it unless I pay you? I've already heard it though! I just want to hear it again, what gives you the right to say so?
OK fine, so what's a fair price then? Is that really something that even has a value? It's non-physical. It holds no territorial worth, not in the traditional human/animal aspect. So humans have taking the territorial pissing contest to a new level by enforcing it onto things which aren't really there. Great. And what right do they have into forcing me to play this bizarre game? It's a little more complex then simply what I think.
indeed it's lose/lose, and I'm sure it's applicable in many more ways then the ones each of us mentioned.
I find that every time there's an article like this on slashdot, there is always a post like this, just along side that "fuck the **aa" post.
I'm going to just throw around a few scenarios which I hope will make you ponder your black and white view of copyright.
1. You like a song but not the record label it's on, as it's an RIAA one. 2. You like a song and it's label but you don't have money 3. You disagree with the copyright system in it's current form and are willing to take your chances.
Now here's a few possible reactions to those:
1. You boycott the label/copyright system by not listening. 2. You go the abstinence route and wait until you have money to buy it despite any disagreements with the system. 3. You download the song and buy it when you have money. 4. You download the song and have no plan to buy it, **AA be damned.
What we're forgetting in all this mess is that this is simple data which can be recorded and distributed with the click of a button. That wasn't the case 20 years ago, but it is now. Now we have to go around with thumbs up our asses debating what is "fair" to charge for a distribution of it, well, a "legal" distribution that is.
This distribution method is failing obviously. iTMS and all that other crap is just heading in the completely wrong direction yet again, by throwing on DRM. I don't care if it can be cracked, I know that these labels are participating in that kind of behavior and refuse to participate in it.
Your comparison to gin is ridiculous. After I listen to an mp3 it doesn't go through my digestive system and turn into piss and liver disease. An mp3 is more like photographing a picture at an art museum. Hrmm, "no photography" signs be damned! I bet that violation costs a whole lot less though.
So what do I do, not listen? Well lucky for me most of the music I listen to isn't on RIAA labels anyway, but there's an occasional thing or two which is, so this does concern me.
I also don't have the money to buy all the music which I have downloaded. That's not to mention some stuff I have is out of print and used copies are sometimes extremely rare. I have a rip of one album which would cost $10,000 or so to buy a legal copy, just because it's so rare. How do you propose I go about that one? I think the RIAA lawsuit costs less than that. I also doubt you'll find those tracks on one of those "legal" music download services. Infact most of the stuff I listen to is probably not on those services.
I do buy stuff when I have the chance, usually vinyls (most of the things I listen to only come out on vinyl anyway.) It's an occasional thing though, I really don't have the time to deal with outdated distribution methods in this day in age, and I am not going to fuss with DRM which I disagree with more than copyright itself.
As for getting sued by the RIAA, they've sued 14,000 out of millions. I can't say statistically it's a high probability, especially since not all of those millions are even sharing **AA material, thus making them not applicable anyway.
How do you propose we vote with our dollars anyway? That means supporting the current system no matter what right now. It's like the U.S. presidential elections...bush or kerry, hey we're screwed either way...why vote? Or why pay, for that matter.
You know you can sit around all day saying "it's wrong plain and simple so cry me a river" but in the end that just means you've lost any drive to try and make a difference. And I refuse to be brought down to that level by anyone.
I should probably be more specific, I didn't realize it actually used membrane sheets similar to the ones in rubber domes...i just knew it was hybrid...
(I just did a bit of googling and have now seen the membrane sheets and capacitive circuit board and etc...)
actually I did know about the hybrid thing...just not the details of it, I know it's certainly not like a rubber dome and figured it's at least as resilient, if not more.
I've heard that a few people prefer the older ones before lexmark took over...I'd like to try comparing them some day, I don't have any laying around though...I'm currently using a black customizer from pckeyboard.com so I don't have much to reference off now, I'm not exactly sure where their buckling spring keyboards fit on the map...None the less I've been quite happy with it.
at the pharmacy they usually have 70% and 99% right next to each other. I've never even seen 91%, that seems like an odd number to have. I'm sure you could get it off the internet if all else fails.
heres some I found on google: 70 and 99%
you can see they come in the same exact bottle so you have to just check the labels. I've never really had any trouble finding it though...
I use isopropyl a lot myself as well. I usually buy the 99% stuff so then I can make my own mixtures easier (just add water!) but the CD skipping is one I use it for a lot as well. However, for deep scratches, nothing works better then some metal polish. The worst is scratches from the label side, since it's not as thick as the bottom and typically means you're screwed.
I had a cellphone go through the washing machine before. And it worked OK afterwards (though there was some blotches on the screen) I wouldn't try that again...
he said it's an old IBM keyboard which means it's most likely a buckling spring keyboard and doesn't use those membrane sheets like your average rubber dome keyboard. However, not to fear, I've heard if you remove the circuit board you can simply stick the damn thing in a dish washer. That might be a little too much but the later models even had basic drainage areas in them so if you did spill something it would run off. I'm sure it's fixable, though perhaps not using the same methods. I'd probably try taking it apart as much as possible then washing down real good then blow dry it for a few minutes then let it sit for a day or so and I'd suspect it'd be ok...those old IBMs are tough.
Maybe I mis-understood you but software mixing = dmix, which requires quake3 to be using the alsa-lib interface (or a wrapper to it, none of which work very well.)
Not much on board sound can do hardware mixing, which is what I think you're talking about. Most onboard sound these days uses the intel8x0 alsa driver which has no hardware mixing support. The only onboard sound I've personally come across that could do it is my laptop which has a CS46XX based chipset in it. As for sound cards, yamaha chips, trident 4wave,and emu10k1/2, and the above mentioned cs46xx are the majority of cards that support it. There's probably a few I'm missing. Also my echo mia midi supports 8 virtual outputs (that's 4 in stereo) which is useful but it doesn't work quite the same way, though I do admit it gets me around this problem, somewhat. I then run into a bug where if your rate isn't a multiple of 22050hz, like 48000 or 96000 certain sounds will lock up quake 3.
I still think quake 3 needs alsa support. Doom 3 has it, though that's not exactly the best comparison....
Sure pure socialism or pure capitalism tends to fail, but nothing ever works out perfectly. I tend to be very left but that doesn't mean I expect some fantasy utopian society. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think that statement is a little too broad to mean much of anything.
as for the thing about the rich voting republican and the poor voting democrat, yes, that was always the impression I had too.
however I don't like republican or democratic ideals, well not the ones that any of our recent presidential candidates spout out anyway. And I don't like the original intention of such ideas much better than I do the current intentions, at this point I don't think they could be of much use anyway.
I don't expect this country to adopt my ideals though, all I can hope for is to make money and live as well as I can, without giving up too much of my integrity. I'd probably move if I had the money, there's plenty of motivation, this article is proof of that.
Too much of the population is essentially brain dead at this point to even care. I think that's the saddest part of it all. They'll continue voting for their favored party, no matter how that said party has changed over the years....
assuming your post is serious, you make a few very silly assumptions.
first...no one said anything about "wanting children to watch porn" just that it's not the end of the world if they manage to come across some. Which is true, I've never seen a kid go into a mental break down because their friend sent them goatse. Not even children are that vulnerable. Get over your silly ideas of child innocence, children are going to be the same dirty sex beast you are one day, end of story.
Worst case scenario: young johnny asks mommy what those 5 guys are doing to the asian school girl. Reminds me of the lord of the rings south park episode, which highlights this very issue in a funny matter. Kids will learn about sex one way or another, if you happen to be there for them while they're learning about it, I'd say you're lucky they even consulted you. Don't give kids stupid ideas like "abstinence until marriage" unless you are prepared for the kid to do the exact opposite to spite you. Instead, tell them something which might actually be useful like use protection.
as for the "be nervous about sex so you can meet that special person" bullshit, well, you do realize monogamy is mostly a human thing, right? Most likely because the vast amount of resources that a human child consumes as compared to other animals means that having both parents there = more people to provide for said resources.
Unlike most animals we can't just have a baby and then leave it in the wild and have it fend for itself so ideas like that were created, however to completely abide by it like a religious idea is totally missing the point.
And the US is far from the most sexual country in the world, yet it always seem to be the one making a big fuss about it.
as for beastiality, well, I'm sure a lot of people don't agree with it, but to force that opinion on other people? Where do you draw the line? I'd draw it somewhere around animal abuse. If some dog is humping away on a girl and enjoying itself I can't exactly consider that animal abuse...whether or not I agree with it is another thing, but I'd prefer to take it from the abuse stand point. After all, we're trying to stop abuse, not your opinion, right?
sometimes I think the only difference between democrats and republicans at this point in time are the responses they give to abortion and gay marriage questions.
Of course, that's just their reponses. Their actions seem about the same...
or, to quote myself "The only difference between democrats and republicans are the excuses they give when they don't keep their promises"
I propose we show kids goatse as young as possible to negate this effect.
Seriously if your kid is trying to get a hold of porn whether or not it's "violent sex, sex with animals, gang bangs, rapes, child pornography, etc." they've already past that supposed age anyway. Well, unless someones forcing them to watch it in which case you have a little more to worry about.
What age might this effect them at anyway? If someone showed me something like that at a real young age I'd have had no idea what it was. By the time I was 8 it would have just gotten an "eww" at the most.
require XXX domains? and what about all the other methods to get porn irrelevant to websites? If a kids looking for porn in the first place there's no point of trying to further censor sex from them, they're past that breaking point.
I swear if I see one more parent stuck in this whole "child innocence" delusion I'm going to go on a killing spree. Get over it, your kid will be the same dirty old sexual beast that you are one day.
sure, bluecurve does that, if you like the bluecurve theme.
the GTK-QT engine makes QT themes work on GTK. Something that did the opposite (qt-gtk engine anyone?) would fix the other end of this situation. Well, for GTK and QT anyway.
Of course the other option which you mention, making a version of the theme for all the different toolkits, works too...but that seems like a lot of work, and so only is done in the rare instances such as the one you mention. I know there's also a "keramik" and "geramik" theme, similarly that match on both toolkits...but again, I don't use/like those themes and thus we're back to step one...
well thats good to know, I somehow got the idea it was in C++ reading something on the xfce site about C++, maybe I just was reading about the bindings...
well to start gnome is written mostly in C and KDE is mostly in C++
so right there is a major difference in both coding style and what not...You couldn't exactly "integrate" them.
I also prefer the looks of gnome but I know just as many people who like the look of KDE better. It's very subjective.
My biggest concern is my programs not matching. Seeing as I like GTK themes better then most KDE themes, and nothing exists to match GTK themes on KDE (just the other way around) I'm stuck with just attempting to match my colors...Sure this is all apperance and doesn't say much about function but it's still pretty annoying...
Little annoying things like that are my main issue, and that's mostly just GTK/QT differences, not really kde/gnome....I don't actually use a DE, though I use a few gnome programs and thus have gnome installed, well partially anyway. I have konqueror installed so I can test my webpages with KHTML as well, plus I have a few apps which are QT only...etc..
so yes it's daunting but I don't see anything happening any time soon
and that's not to mention XFCE which is written in c++ but uses GTK libraries through it's own wrappers or something like that....
but in the end the question is, who do you really want using linux anyway? Do we really want your average joe on linux? Or trying to install/configure it? In the work place that's not so important, someone can set it up, put some big firefox/word processor icons on the desktop, and that's the end of it...
so what's really going on here? trying to dumb linux down enough to home users who don't want to take the effort to learn it?
I just don't see that happening.
and please note that gnome and kde are not window managers, they just include one. You can use any window manager you want with gnome or kde. Gnome uses metacity by default, and used to use sawfish before that. KDE uses kwin. There's a pretty big difference between toolkits like GTK or QT and window managers like *box,windowmaker,metacity,etc...Your comment makes me think you have no idea what a window manager does.
I've installed windows 2000 on a pentium 90 before, this article is ridiculous. 233mhz is plenty to run Win2k.
It wouldn't boot off the CD so I had to make 6 floppy boot discs just to get into the setup, but my friend and I finally got it intalled. That same install lasted on there for quite some time before the computer was finally replaced (it was business-use running old dos programs and word, essentially)
well for reference my P4 2.4ghz runs at around 37-38c idle, and around 42-43C at the most, under load. Of course, I do have a huge-ass swiftech heatsink with a 90mm fan on it. I get a bit scared when anything goes over 50C. My case stays under 30c almost always.
However, you're running in one of those tiny shuttle cases. Without a massive (noisy) fan I doubt you're going to keep it as cool as you could a normal case. If it were me, I'd be going nuts til i had the thing at least under 60, but that's just me. Current chips are designed to withstand pretty high temperatures, but things tend to work better and last longer when they aren't running so hot...
those all say they support hdcp, as I figured. Your equipment is using copy-protection. Remember, HDMI is based on the DVI spec. They both support copy-protection, though not all dvi implementations have it (most tv-related stuff does)
wow thats pretty bad. This just keeps sounding worse and worse as it goes on, and this is on stuff that's already been implemented, none the less. I don't remember the slashdot protest over dvi/hdmi/hdcp, odd.
I was only unsure about the audio stuff. DVI>HDMI and vice-versa cables have been around for a long time. This is without a doubt, they're the same format, video-wise. Just search for hdmi dvi cable on google, you'll find plenty.
I do not believe there are any HDMI>DVI cables which split the audio out, which is what I was trying to say. I'm not 100% sure what the audio is, but I read it's been based upon the dvd-audio standard, so it's not spdif. My guess is that it has copy-protection on it. Great.
we'll just have to hope that natural selection is on our side and maybe one day that will become a reality. You can't expect your average middle aged person to just all of the sudden come to see the light. It's just not in most people to begin with...and some people are colorblind, and others think the light is coming from god and thus instead of trying to understand it......
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was I the one bitching to begin with? I gave multiple scenarios to purposely conceal my actual stand point. I find this way I can look at the situation a bit better.
Why do I think I have the right to this music? What right was there ever to begin with? An artificial limit placed upon thoughts/ideas/data by people and enforced by the government. I think the real question should be, what gives them the right? You made it, ok fine, but I've heard it now too, if you didn't want people to hear it, why'd you even give it out in the first place?
Wait so you made it but I can't have it unless I pay you? I've already heard it though! I just want to hear it again, what gives you the right to say so?
OK fine, so what's a fair price then? Is that really something that even has a value? It's non-physical. It holds no territorial worth, not in the traditional human/animal aspect. So humans have taking the territorial pissing contest to a new level by enforcing it onto things which aren't really there. Great. And what right do they have into forcing me to play this bizarre game? It's a little more complex then simply what I think.
indeed it's lose/lose, and I'm sure it's applicable in many more ways then the ones each of us mentioned.
I find that every time there's an article like this on slashdot, there is always a post like this, just along side that "fuck the **aa" post.
I'm going to just throw around a few scenarios which I hope will make you ponder your black and white view of copyright.
1. You like a song but not the record label it's on, as it's an RIAA one.
2. You like a song and it's label but you don't have money
3. You disagree with the copyright system in it's current form and are willing to take your chances.
Now here's a few possible reactions to those:
1. You boycott the label/copyright system by not listening.
2. You go the abstinence route and wait until you have money to buy it despite any disagreements with the system.
3. You download the song and buy it when you have money.
4. You download the song and have no plan to buy it, **AA be damned.
What we're forgetting in all this mess is that this is simple data which can be recorded and distributed with the click of a button. That wasn't the case 20 years ago, but it is now. Now we have to go around with thumbs up our asses debating what is "fair" to charge for a distribution of it, well, a "legal" distribution that is.
This distribution method is failing obviously. iTMS and all that other crap is just heading in the completely wrong direction yet again, by throwing on DRM. I don't care if it can be cracked, I know that these labels are participating in that kind of behavior and refuse to participate in it.
Your comparison to gin is ridiculous. After I listen to an mp3 it doesn't go through my digestive system and turn into piss and liver disease. An mp3 is more like photographing a picture at an art museum. Hrmm, "no photography" signs be damned! I bet that violation costs a whole lot less though.
So what do I do, not listen? Well lucky for me most of the music I listen to isn't on RIAA labels anyway, but there's an occasional thing or two which is, so this does concern me.
I also don't have the money to buy all the music which I have downloaded. That's not to mention some stuff I have is out of print and used copies are sometimes extremely rare. I have a rip of one album which would cost $10,000 or so to buy a legal copy, just because it's so rare. How do you propose I go about that one? I think the RIAA lawsuit costs less than that. I also doubt you'll find those tracks on one of those "legal" music download services. Infact most of the stuff I listen to is probably not on those services.
I do buy stuff when I have the chance, usually vinyls (most of the things I listen to only come out on vinyl anyway.) It's an occasional thing though, I really don't have the time to deal with outdated distribution methods in this day in age, and I am not going to fuss with DRM which I disagree with more than copyright itself.
As for getting sued by the RIAA, they've sued 14,000 out of millions. I can't say statistically it's a high probability, especially since not all of those millions are even sharing **AA material, thus making them not applicable anyway.
How do you propose we vote with our dollars anyway? That means supporting the current system no matter what right now. It's like the U.S. presidential elections...bush or kerry, hey we're screwed either way...why vote? Or why pay, for that matter.
You know you can sit around all day saying "it's wrong plain and simple so cry me a river" but in the end that just means you've lost any drive to try and make a difference. And I refuse to be brought down to that level by anyone.
I should probably be more specific, I didn't realize it actually used membrane sheets similar to the ones in rubber domes...i just knew it was hybrid...
(I just did a bit of googling and have now seen the membrane sheets and capacitive circuit board and etc...)
actually I did know about the hybrid thing...just not the details of it, I know it's certainly not like a rubber dome and figured it's at least as resilient, if not more.
I've heard that a few people prefer the older ones before lexmark took over...I'd like to try comparing them some day, I don't have any laying around though...I'm currently using a black customizer from pckeyboard.com so I don't have much to reference off now, I'm not exactly sure where their buckling spring keyboards fit on the map...None the less I've been quite happy with it.
at the pharmacy they usually have 70% and 99% right next to each other. I've never even seen 91%, that seems like an odd number to have. I'm sure you could get it off the internet if all else fails.
heres some I found on google: 70 and 99% you can see they come in the same exact bottle so you have to just check the labels. I've never really had any trouble finding it though...
not only that but he should have been checking the exit status of cd before even running rm
/blah && rm ....
cd
I use isopropyl a lot myself as well. I usually buy the 99% stuff so then I can make my own mixtures easier (just add water!) but the CD skipping is one I use it for a lot as well. However, for deep scratches, nothing works better then some metal polish. The worst is scratches from the label side, since it's not as thick as the bottom and typically means you're screwed.
I had a cellphone go through the washing machine before. And it worked OK afterwards (though there was some blotches on the screen) I wouldn't try that again...
he said it's an old IBM keyboard which means it's most likely a buckling spring keyboard and doesn't use those membrane sheets like your average rubber dome keyboard. However, not to fear, I've heard if you remove the circuit board you can simply stick the damn thing in a dish washer. That might be a little too much but the later models even had basic drainage areas in them so if you did spill something it would run off. I'm sure it's fixable, though perhaps not using the same methods. I'd probably try taking it apart as much as possible then washing down real good then blow dry it for a few minutes then let it sit for a day or so and I'd suspect it'd be ok...those old IBMs are tough.
Maybe I mis-understood you but software mixing = dmix, which requires quake3 to be using the alsa-lib interface (or a wrapper to it, none of which work very well.)
Not much on board sound can do hardware mixing, which is what I think you're talking about. Most onboard sound these days uses the intel8x0 alsa driver which has no hardware mixing support. The only onboard sound I've personally come across that could do it is my laptop which has a CS46XX based chipset in it. As for sound cards, yamaha chips, trident 4wave,and emu10k1/2, and the above mentioned cs46xx are the majority of cards that support it. There's probably a few I'm missing. Also my echo mia midi supports 8 virtual outputs (that's 4 in stereo) which is useful but it doesn't work quite the same way, though I do admit it gets me around this problem, somewhat. I then run into a bug where if your rate isn't a multiple of 22050hz, like 48000 or 96000 certain sounds will lock up quake 3.
I still think quake 3 needs alsa support. Doom 3 has it, though that's not exactly the best comparison....
I hope this means someone will add native alsa sound support. Who needs oss kernel emulation w/mmap?
maybe quake 3 will finally work with dmix.
Sure pure socialism or pure capitalism tends to fail, but nothing ever works out perfectly. I tend to be very left but that doesn't mean I expect some fantasy utopian society. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think that statement is a little too broad to mean much of anything.
as for the thing about the rich voting republican and the poor voting democrat, yes, that was always the impression I had too.
however I don't like republican or democratic ideals, well not the ones that any of our recent presidential candidates spout out anyway. And I don't like the original intention of such ideas much better than I do the current intentions, at this point I don't think they could be of much use anyway.
I don't expect this country to adopt my ideals though, all I can hope for is to make money and live as well as I can, without giving up too much of my integrity. I'd probably move if I had the money, there's plenty of motivation, this article is proof of that.
Too much of the population is essentially brain dead at this point to even care. I think that's the saddest part of it all. They'll continue voting for their favored party, no matter how that said party has changed over the years....
assuming your post is serious, you make a few very silly assumptions.
first...no one said anything about "wanting children to watch porn" just that it's not the end of the world if they manage to come across some. Which is true, I've never seen a kid go into a mental break down because their friend sent them goatse. Not even children are that vulnerable. Get over your silly ideas of child innocence, children are going to be the same dirty sex beast you are one day, end of story.
Worst case scenario: young johnny asks mommy what those 5 guys are doing to the asian school girl. Reminds me of the lord of the rings south park episode, which highlights this very issue in a funny matter. Kids will learn about sex one way or another, if you happen to be there for them while they're learning about it, I'd say you're lucky they even consulted you. Don't give kids stupid ideas like "abstinence until marriage" unless you are prepared for the kid to do the exact opposite to spite you. Instead, tell them something which might actually be useful like use protection.
as for the "be nervous about sex so you can meet that special person" bullshit, well, you do realize monogamy is mostly a human thing, right? Most likely because the vast amount of resources that a human child consumes as compared to other animals means that having both parents there = more people to provide for said resources.
Unlike most animals we can't just have a baby and then leave it in the wild and have it fend for itself so ideas like that were created, however to completely abide by it like a religious idea is totally missing the point.
And the US is far from the most sexual country in the world, yet it always seem to be the one making a big fuss about it.
as for beastiality, well, I'm sure a lot of people don't agree with it, but to force that opinion on other people? Where do you draw the line? I'd draw it somewhere around animal abuse. If some dog is humping away on a girl and enjoying itself I can't exactly consider that animal abuse...whether or not I agree with it is another thing, but I'd prefer to take it from the abuse stand point. After all, we're trying to stop abuse, not your opinion, right?
hahahah that's the best idea ever. Let's tax people for violating their own religious beliefs. That'll teach 'em.
Bet that'd make a lot of athiests real quick.
but more then that the point it makes when it comes to legislating morality is an even greater one.
sometimes I think the only difference between democrats and republicans at this point in time are the responses they give to abortion and gay marriage questions.
Of course, that's just their reponses. Their actions seem about the same...
or, to quote myself "The only difference between democrats and republicans are the excuses they give when they don't keep their promises"
I propose we show kids goatse as young as possible to negate this effect.
Seriously if your kid is trying to get a hold of porn whether or not it's "violent sex, sex with animals, gang bangs, rapes, child pornography, etc." they've already past that supposed age anyway. Well, unless someones forcing them to watch it in which case you have a little more to worry about.
What age might this effect them at anyway? If someone showed me something like that at a real young age I'd have had no idea what it was. By the time I was 8 it would have just gotten an "eww" at the most.
require XXX domains? and what about all the other methods to get porn irrelevant to websites? If a kids looking for porn in the first place there's no point of trying to further censor sex from them, they're past that breaking point.
I swear if I see one more parent stuck in this whole "child innocence" delusion I'm going to go on a killing spree. Get over it, your kid will be the same dirty old sexual beast that you are one day.
sure, bluecurve does that, if you like the bluecurve theme.
the GTK-QT engine makes QT themes work on GTK. Something that did the opposite (qt-gtk engine anyone?) would fix the other end of this situation. Well, for GTK and QT anyway.
Of course the other option which you mention, making a version of the theme for all the different toolkits, works too...but that seems like a lot of work, and so only is done in the rare instances such as the one you mention. I know there's also a "keramik" and "geramik" theme, similarly that match on both toolkits...but again, I don't use/like those themes and thus we're back to step one...
well thats good to know, I somehow got the idea it was in C++ reading something on the xfce site about C++, maybe I just was reading about the bindings...
well to start gnome is written mostly in C and KDE is mostly in C++
so right there is a major difference in both coding style and what not...You couldn't exactly "integrate" them.
I also prefer the looks of gnome but I know just as many people who like the look of KDE better. It's very subjective.
My biggest concern is my programs not matching. Seeing as I like GTK themes better then most KDE themes, and nothing exists to match GTK themes on KDE (just the other way around) I'm stuck with just attempting to match my colors...Sure this is all apperance and doesn't say much about function but it's still pretty annoying...
Little annoying things like that are my main issue, and that's mostly just GTK/QT differences, not really kde/gnome....I don't actually use a DE, though I use a few gnome programs and thus have gnome installed, well partially anyway. I have konqueror installed so I can test my webpages with KHTML as well, plus I have a few apps which are QT only...etc..
so yes it's daunting but I don't see anything happening any time soon
and that's not to mention XFCE which is written in c++ but uses GTK libraries through it's own wrappers or something like that....
but in the end the question is, who do you really want using linux anyway? Do we really want your average joe on linux? Or trying to install/configure it? In the work place that's not so important, someone can set it up, put some big firefox/word processor icons on the desktop, and that's the end of it...
so what's really going on here? trying to dumb linux down enough to home users who don't want to take the effort to learn it?
I just don't see that happening.
and please note that gnome and kde are not window managers, they just include one. You can use any window manager you want with gnome or kde. Gnome uses metacity by default, and used to use sawfish before that. KDE uses kwin. There's a pretty big difference between toolkits like GTK or QT and window managers like *box,windowmaker,metacity,etc...Your comment makes me think you have no idea what a window manager does.
I've installed windows 2000 on a pentium 90 before, this article is ridiculous. 233mhz is plenty to run Win2k.
It wouldn't boot off the CD so I had to make 6 floppy boot discs just to get into the setup, but my friend and I finally got it intalled. That same install lasted on there for quite some time before the computer was finally replaced (it was business-use running old dos programs and word, essentially)
I would think the user agent would still report IE, so my guess is most likely, yes.
well for reference my P4 2.4ghz runs at around 37-38c idle, and around 42-43C at the most, under load. Of course, I do have a huge-ass swiftech heatsink with a 90mm fan on it. I get a bit scared when anything goes over 50C. My case stays under 30c almost always.
However, you're running in one of those tiny shuttle cases. Without a massive (noisy) fan I doubt you're going to keep it as cool as you could a normal case. If it were me, I'd be going nuts til i had the thing at least under 60, but that's just me. Current chips are designed to withstand pretty high temperatures, but things tend to work better and last longer when they aren't running so hot...
those all say they support hdcp, as I figured. Your equipment is using copy-protection. Remember, HDMI is based on the DVI spec. They both support copy-protection, though not all dvi implementations have it (most tv-related stuff does)
wow thats pretty bad. This just keeps sounding worse and worse as it goes on, and this is on stuff that's already been implemented, none the less. I don't remember the slashdot protest over dvi/hdmi/hdcp, odd.
I was only unsure about the audio stuff. DVI>HDMI and vice-versa cables have been around for a long time. This is without a doubt, they're the same format, video-wise. Just search for hdmi dvi cable on google, you'll find plenty.
I do not believe there are any HDMI>DVI cables which split the audio out, which is what I was trying to say. I'm not 100% sure what the audio is, but I read it's been based upon the dvd-audio standard, so it's not spdif. My guess is that it has copy-protection on it. Great.
we'll just have to hope that natural selection is on our side and maybe one day that will become a reality. You can't expect your average middle aged person to just all of the sudden come to see the light. It's just not in most people to begin with...and some people are colorblind, and others think the light is coming from god and thus instead of trying to understand it......
oh well you get the idea...