Well...why? What kind of integration are you looking for? Kontact/KOrganizer is pretty nifty already (and should be available for Windows later this year). What information would they share?
1) x64 is a Microsoft marketing term. The architecture is x86-64, or AMD64.
2) Things are already moving in the right direction; more and more software is being compiled and released for both 32-bit and 64-bit. This isn't going to be another IPv6. And if you're using only FOSS, you should be able to put together a pure 64-bit system without too much trouble. But for desktop users that may need binary-only drivers, video codecs, etc, there's no sense in going 64-bit just for the hell of it.
if you do an install of an OS without a firewall you are an idiot
No no, I'd say it's you who's hilariously stupid. Not every OS opens up all sorts of services by default, you know. A decent Linux workstation will have sshd, if anything. Most Linux installs should have a network source so that the latest package version gets installed. Not every OS installer is so poorly designed that it installs old, vulnerable packages, you know.
Exactly. You don't need to be fluent in x86 assembly, but if you're completely ignorant of the inner workings of computer architecture, you're at a disadvantage to those who have been exposed to it and written, say, a bit of old MIPS assembly code.
GP's point, I'm sure, is that Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. I'm no law-talking guy, so beyond that I'm not sure. PayPalSucks.com has been around for a while, but I vaguely recall some other sites being sued or threatened.
Absolutely. It doesn't have to involve work; see Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door (which sounds like gay porn, but isn't) for guidebooks based on the philosophy of living as the locals do when you travel. He's geared more towards older people who travel with suitcases and stay in modest hotels, but backpacking is the way to go especially if you're under 26.
While nothing beats Paludis-flavored Gentoo for me, I remain surprised that no one has made a usable package manager for Windows. It's one of those things that have been perpetually on my "gee, I wish I had the time to write that" list. There are a wide variety of open-source apps for Windows, and there will be many many more when KDE4 is released later this year. It's an enormous pain in the ass to have to individually download and run installers, and keep on top of updates for Gaim, Eclipse, Azureus, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, VLC, Audacity, GIMP, etc, when you know there's a better way.
You've never actually played Dune 2, have you? Or you've never played Warcraft. C&C and Warcraft are comparable, but Dune 2 was very primitive. It's not clear that Warcraft was influenced by Dune 2 at all; the resource gathering, construction, unit control, sense of humor, etc. is all very different.
Look at the reason stated: "The first three Warcraft games represent the introduction of real-time strategy overlaid on a narrative"
As I recall, Dune 2 didn't really have a plot. Command & Conquer would be a more appropriate comparison, but came slightly later than Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.
Yes, I agree that "meme" can be useful in its original context, just as every serious field has its own set of jargon. But it certainly has become as meaningless as "thing" or "idea" to the general web-browsing public.
Is anyone still supporting Mach? The last time I checked the mailing list, it seemed like the general consensus was for Coyotos, so nearly all development had stopped until the kernel is in some usable form. Mach seems like a dead-end; it lacks the speed of L4 (which at least exists) and the features of Coyotos or L4.sec (both vaporware for now).
(It actually irritated me too, until I realized that my irritation was a symptom of my "over 30" age, and then promptly got over it)
This is the second time in about a week I've referenced my age on Slashdot, but...I'm 21, and I think "mashup" is just as moronic, overused, and meaningless as "meme". It's a fad, hopefully, and it will go away in favor of more precise words (like "overlay" in this case), or existing words like "combination" that mean the same damn thing. I have no problem with new useful words; I do have a problem with the attitude of "I've just learned a cool word and must use it at every opportunity".
*tap tap* ntfs-3g -- I'm using it now, and it's performing nicely even under pretty heavy BitTorrent load. ntfs.fsck still needs to be written, but the situation is now vastly better than it was less than a year ago.
1) He has apparently been involved with a number of successful games.
2) Maxis did some great stuff, pre-Sims. Sim{City 2000,Ant,Farm,Earth,Tower} were all unique, enjoyable games.
I'm 21, and as my lame sig probably indicates, I played C64 games as a kid. And yeah, I've been building my own PCs since the early Athlons were around.
You managed to get to college (I assume) without realizing that no encyclopedia should be cited in a paper? They even tell you this themselves. You wouldn't cite a textbook either; they're tertiary sources, and mostly useless for getting a deep, accurate view of any topic. They're starting points for research that will give you a broad overview and sometimes a few sources to follow up on. For many topics, Wikipedia is quite appropriate for this role.
Well except for bad hardware, that's certainly how it should be. Sadly, there are no microkernel OSes usable as a desktop. A bad NIC driver was freezing my Linux system every night until it was fixed in 2.6.21-rc1. That shouldn't happen. But don't wait for the Hurd; they scrapped their work on L4, shortly after ditching Mach, and now they're sitting around twiddling their thumbs while Coyotos is being developed.
Come on, if you're going to troll, at least put some effort into it. Nowhere in the summary is it mentioned that Tor is an acronym. It's not written as TOR. Those ignorant of the project would assume that it was just a silly name.
Yeah, that was my impression too. The index file gets ridiculously large, and apparently it has no mechanism for detecting when a file has been deleted. Garbage. Vista's built-in search is probably superior for most users, even though it doesn't index the contents of files. KDE 4 will have some nifty search technology (Tenor), but time will tell if it's done right.
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Ick. GP should file a bug; there are too many Gentoo devs that need a kick in the ass before they bother to do basic QA.
Well...why? What kind of integration are you looking for? Kontact/KOrganizer is pretty nifty already (and should be available for Windows later this year). What information would they share?
1) x64 is a Microsoft marketing term. The architecture is x86-64, or AMD64. 2) Things are already moving in the right direction; more and more software is being compiled and released for both 32-bit and 64-bit. This isn't going to be another IPv6. And if you're using only FOSS, you should be able to put together a pure 64-bit system without too much trouble. But for desktop users that may need binary-only drivers, video codecs, etc, there's no sense in going 64-bit just for the hell of it.
Exactly. You don't need to be fluent in x86 assembly, but if you're completely ignorant of the inner workings of computer architecture, you're at a disadvantage to those who have been exposed to it and written, say, a bit of old MIPS assembly code.
GP's point, I'm sure, is that Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. I'm no law-talking guy, so beyond that I'm not sure. PayPalSucks.com has been around for a while, but I vaguely recall some other sites being sued or threatened.
Absolutely. It doesn't have to involve work; see Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door (which sounds like gay porn, but isn't) for guidebooks based on the philosophy of living as the locals do when you travel. He's geared more towards older people who travel with suitcases and stay in modest hotels, but backpacking is the way to go especially if you're under 26.
Sad but true. For me, the most memorable example is Black & White; nearly everyone gave that pile of shit obscenely high ratings.
While nothing beats Paludis-flavored Gentoo for me, I remain surprised that no one has made a usable package manager for Windows. It's one of those things that have been perpetually on my "gee, I wish I had the time to write that" list. There are a wide variety of open-source apps for Windows, and there will be many many more when KDE4 is released later this year. It's an enormous pain in the ass to have to individually download and run installers, and keep on top of updates for Gaim, Eclipse, Azureus, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, VLC, Audacity, GIMP, etc, when you know there's a better way.
Look at the reason stated: "The first three Warcraft games represent the introduction of real-time strategy overlaid on a narrative"
As I recall, Dune 2 didn't really have a plot. Command & Conquer would be a more appropriate comparison, but came slightly later than Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.
Yes, I agree that "meme" can be useful in its original context, just as every serious field has its own set of jargon. But it certainly has become as meaningless as "thing" or "idea" to the general web-browsing public.
Is anyone still supporting Mach? The last time I checked the mailing list, it seemed like the general consensus was for Coyotos, so nearly all development had stopped until the kernel is in some usable form. Mach seems like a dead-end; it lacks the speed of L4 (which at least exists) and the features of Coyotos or L4.sec (both vaporware for now).
I don't agree with his idiotic statements, but:
1) He has apparently been involved with a number of successful games.
2) Maxis did some great stuff, pre-Sims. Sim{City 2000,Ant,Farm,Earth,Tower} were all unique, enjoyable games.
I'm 21, and as my lame sig probably indicates, I played C64 games as a kid. And yeah, I've been building my own PCs since the early Athlons were around.
Dear god...is it parody? I honestly can't tell anymore.
What geek likes bland, undersized, overpriced pizza?
You managed to get to college (I assume) without realizing that no encyclopedia should be cited in a paper? They even tell you this themselves. You wouldn't cite a textbook either; they're tertiary sources, and mostly useless for getting a deep, accurate view of any topic. They're starting points for research that will give you a broad overview and sometimes a few sources to follow up on. For many topics, Wikipedia is quite appropriate for this role.
Well except for bad hardware, that's certainly how it should be. Sadly, there are no microkernel OSes usable as a desktop. A bad NIC driver was freezing my Linux system every night until it was fixed in 2.6.21-rc1. That shouldn't happen. But don't wait for the Hurd; they scrapped their work on L4, shortly after ditching Mach, and now they're sitting around twiddling their thumbs while Coyotos is being developed.
IANAL, but I do believe you could patent it (well not this one, since it's not novel). A particular implementation can of course be copyrighted.
Come on, if you're going to troll, at least put some effort into it. Nowhere in the summary is it mentioned that Tor is an acronym. It's not written as TOR. Those ignorant of the project would assume that it was just a silly name.
Yeah, that was my impression too. The index file gets ridiculously large, and apparently it has no mechanism for detecting when a file has been deleted. Garbage. Vista's built-in search is probably superior for most users, even though it doesn't index the contents of files. KDE 4 will have some nifty search technology (Tenor), but time will tell if it's done right.