With Windows I get support for almost every application under the sun, gaming support.
From reading the article (for once, I actually did) it seems like Ximian are aiming at the corporate market, rather than home users. Corporates couldn't care less about gaming support, since if you're on one of their machines, you're not being paid to play games.
With Ximian, I get what? Something for free? Is that enough to make me up and change my desktop?
With Ximian you get a consistant desktop, with an office suite that's very usable - I work for a charity that does basic computer training, and we're the process of moving from MS Office to Open Office (hacked to look like as much like MS as we can), arguably the best PIM for Linux, and for the larger types software distribution from a central location.
I'll certainly be taking a look at XD2 once it's released.
That's some nice software (hadn't heard of it before)... I may well have to write a version of it that runs in GTK (been looking for a learing project)
1. Start free P2P service with annoying adware. 2. Flood it with crap pretending to be other crap. 3. Claim you'll pay people to keep the crap. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Well... if it's gonna be the SS/. we should have a government that is randomly re-selected every day, and only has 5 votes to use in whatever issues it sees fit.
And just to keep things consistent, no one can make any sort of useful comment in meetings of government, but must instead shout a single word description of what they would have said, had they been allowed to.
They will also be barred from any further discussion of the issue.
From what I remember of something I read before, a large part of this is because they render the CG characters at a higher res to the actual live video... making the characters seem "too" real.
And hey... they can also cut down on their 8 hour/frame render time;)
Well, since I'm half way through a Gentoo install, with nothing to look at but/. in Lynx, I'll reply.
I'm perfectly aware that the *actual* use is to create honeynets without needing to buy yourself a small rackfull of physical servers to do it with. And I applaud the BSD team for making it possible natively, I may well have a play with it when I get bored someday.
And I'm very sorry you didn't find my (admittedly poor) joke to your usual standards, I'll attempt to make the next one better.
Given that you can be fined for refusing to sell goods in metric measurements (you can still have them labelled as whatever/pound, but the primary method *has* to be kilos and grams), I think you'll find it is.
And the first paragraph of it's website (obviously hosted on said web server).
"Do you think Apache is too easy to handle? And Roxen too powerful? Do you feel that your webserver is able to handle way too many requests per second? Then you may want to read further!"
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From reading the article (for once, I actually did) it seems like Ximian are aiming at the corporate market, rather than home users. Corporates couldn't care less about gaming support, since if you're on one of their machines, you're not being paid to play games.
With Ximian you get a consistant desktop, with an office suite that's very usable - I work for a charity that does basic computer training, and we're the process of moving from MS Office to Open Office (hacked to look like as much like MS as we can), arguably the best PIM for Linux, and for the larger types software distribution from a central location.
I'll certainly be taking a look at XD2 once it's released.
That's some nice software (hadn't heard of it before)... I may well have to write a version of it that runs in GTK (been looking for a learing project)
Hey... who gave you the blank check, and since you're obvously not using it, can I have it?
Well... if I *have* to.
1. Start free P2P service with annoying adware.
2. Flood it with crap pretending to be other crap.
3. Claim you'll pay people to keep the crap.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Changing the locks.
If you change your private key, then anyone with your old public key can no longer get in.
Yeah... but it's a floating bio-hazard that can then be sent in the opposite direction.
It would be worth the money for that alone.
Well... if it's gonna be the SS /. we should have a government that is randomly re-selected every day, and only has 5 votes to use in whatever issues it sees fit.
And just to keep things consistent, no one can make any sort of useful comment in meetings of government, but must instead shout a single word description of what they would have said, had they been allowed to.
They will also be barred from any further discussion of the issue.
Damn! Which sucker did *you* sell your old mac to for 4.5mil?
If it's anything like other *nix programs, it stands for FVWM (ahhh... recursive acronyms. The creator should be shot)
Ahhh... but they could have prevented having the other half of their football field reposessed.
The issue isn't Pixar staff taking home pre-releases, it's people sitting in the cinema with a camcorder.
From what I remember of something I read before, a large part of this is because they render the CG characters at a higher res to the actual live video... making the characters seem "too" real.
;)
And hey... they can also cut down on their 8 hour/frame render time
Why do I never have mod points when something like this comes up? (+1 Retro cartoon reference)
No... that would be one toilet for 700 people in a convent ;)
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This is just a load of shit.
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I believe the team that produced Gunman (a game from Valve using the Half-Life engine) didn't meet everyone in person until the release party.
Only on /. could this be insightful.
Shhh! If you don't tell anyone, we'll get it for free ;)
Unless you happen to be using a DSL line with static IP, in which case you end up paying £10 (not quite as much) per *month* for your IP address.
Ummm... why would anyone want to their welding robots to accessible over the internet.
Something tells me the techs for those things don't do much tele-commuting. Or at least if they do, it would explain why my car keeps falling apart.
Well, since I'm half way through a Gentoo install, with nothing to look at but /. in Lynx, I'll reply.
I'm perfectly aware that the *actual* use is to create honeynets without needing to buy yourself a small rackfull of physical servers to do it with. And I applaud the BSD team for making it possible natively, I may well have a play with it when I get bored someday.
And I'm very sorry you didn't find my (admittedly poor) joke to your usual standards, I'll attempt to make the next one better.
Given that you can be fined for refusing to sell goods in metric measurements (you can still have them labelled as whatever/pound, but the primary method *has* to be kilos and grams), I think you'll find it is.
Bring my crappy computer to a screeching halt?
Remaining consistently working in the same direction.
i.e. "The RIAA is on track to shoot it's self in the foot."
That's why they're moving to the Firebird (aka Phoenix) base after the next release - the UI code in it is hugely faster.
Go to http://mozilla.org/projects/firebird and download either the latest release, or the latest nightly if you don't believe me.
And the first paragraph of it's website (obviously hosted on said web server).
:P
"Do you think Apache is too easy to handle? And Roxen too powerful? Do you feel that your webserver is able to handle way too many requests per second? Then you may want to read further!"
So there you have it