You really don't understand trolling, huh? What you say is supposed to inflame but be believable at the same time. A charicature (look it up) just doesn't work.
(And AR-15s are for girls. My grandmother gave hers away last year because it was too effeminate for her.)
One office - one person. You need your own creative space where your door can close, because IT people walking around with 2-way radios and electrical contractors in the hall and people from QA babbling in some foreign language and assholes from sales who can only use a phone hands-free with the door open and the general buzz of the coffee area and the spinning up noise that the laser printer makes will all distract you fairly effectively.
Gymnasium. Fit, relaxed people think better, it's a fact.
Car parking. Enough of it, close enough to the building.
Free sodas, water and perhaps pastries one day a week say "we value you" loud and clear. Fast internet connection is just not optional. Aeron chairs are perhaps too expensive, but if one person gets one then everyone should.
Apart from all that see "Peopleware" by De Marco & Lister, for good coverage of things that management often don't consider until the padlocks are on the front door and everything is being sold at auction.
AdTI and Ken Brown are the creation of bored Slashdot trolls. Isn't it obvious? Where else do you find such a collection of glaringly faulty logic, complete ignorance and unwillingness to concede even a single fact mixed with such polished grammar and pomposity?
Expect to see "YHBT. YHL. HAND." on their home page any day now.
If it's a powerful, ergonomic device with unshifted hex keys (A-F) like the 16C - even if it also has keys G-Z there's a good chance I'll buy it at almost any price under $500.
If it's a PDA/Calculator hybrid with a touch screen, forget it! I don't want to have to choose between greasy fingerprints or always fumbling for a stylus.
Learn it from Windows XP also. Same thing. It's only Linux distributions that can't get it together to make the install experience as trouble-free as the commercial OS vendors. This despite the fact that they release far more often and should be able to cover newer devices where Mac OS and Windows XP don't.
This is the case because nobody wants to make that hardware database happen. Nobody cares about it because they think that if "lusers" can't work it out then they're not good enough to be running Linux. There is no project manager identifying the problems and assigning resources to make it happen. And yet there's still this idea that Linux will one day surpass Windows in terms of user base on the desktop...
You're right, that's a big mistake. Lard Lad is right over by the springfield mall, on Michael Jackson Expressway! However Palais de Donut is on the monorail line, perhaps they just got the names wrong.
(and are you really surprised that a business that aims to have a store on every street corner in the world (according to the CEO) and doesn't mind achieving that by forcing existing stores out of business would learn something from the tobacco industry?)
No no, there are no volcanoes, the surfing on lava sequence comes right after the big Jedi song-and-dance number where they twirl their light sabers and whirl their capes in a sort of star-warsy morris dance. It's actually part of the set of Yoda's musical, set in a cave on Tatooine, which he is staging to raise money to fund Jar-Jar's orthodontic work, apparently a requirement before he can be admitted to the ranks of the Jedi (having completed his training - come on, which Jedi has bad teeth?). Oh, you're not reading any more... well, better now than losing interest half way through a $12 movie.
Seriously though, Lucas could pick up 40 random bums, give them sticks and tell them to have a swordfight, and as long as he called it episode 3 it would still gross more than just about every other film in 2005 even though you clearly remember episode 2 as a steaming pile of dung with special effects. You're all going to - no, youre all obligated to see it, having wasted so much of your lives on the other 5.
Hmmm. With the coming 64-bit processors on the Intel side and the usual stagnation of Apple's latest poster-chip looking inevitable, there may soon be no reason at all to buy a Mac.
40 times slower should be just about evened out by faster Intel hardware by mid-2005.
(unless the clause about "Apple-labelled" in the OS X license is going to stop you)
It's not the drive that kills you, it's the media. Without 12x media (+R) or 8x media (-R) it's no better than drives at half the price. I thought I was lucky having a 4x drive until I saw the price of the media compared to 1x - for that much money, I'm happy to wait.
As a home computer user I had never had a hard drive crash despite having used old drives, second hand drives and the same drives without any special cooling for years on end, beginning in the days when a 286-12 was something special. Then one day last year two drives (both less than 6 months old, made by different manufacturers, one on IDE and one in a firewire enclosure) both died. I lost important stuff that can't ever be replaced.
Don't be too confident, it will happen to you one day. If you don't have everything important on some other media stored in another location you're asking for trouble.
Pay plenty - but only pay once. It's cheaper in the long run. There is no better investment than quality tools, your grandchildren will bless you for it.
You simply do not understand emulation. Emulation in software is ALWAYS slower than running native when running on the same hardware. I know WINE is "Not an Emulator" but it is - it emulates the WIN32 API. Yes, x86 hardware emulation would probably be slower.
Your FAQ says that WINE + windows programs may be faster than native unix programs. So? This is about the fact that WINE makes Photoshop run slower than it does on Windows. That's what the whole discussion is about.
The parent is correct; you are believing what you want to believe, and arguing against a straw man. To achieve performance parity is not just a matter of "radically improving" the existing glacial WINE performance, it is a matter of making it the same as when running Windows. That's what performance parity means.
Cheapen it is exactly what Winstein did. He didn't present any good arguments, he just asked the same question over and over. And the question, and the answer to it is this:
Q. Can I watch DVDs on Linux? A. Not legally.
Why? Because there are no licensed DVD players for Linux. That should be readily understandable.
When someone produces a licensed decoder Winstein's little quandary will be over - he'll be able to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD and watch it without feeling the need to ask disingenuous questions. Why is it the MPAA's problem that nobody has yet produced this licensed Linux DVD player? Regardless of whose fault it was (and I'll tell you whose fault it is soon) why hasn't it happened yet?
Money. Or more correctly, the belief that nobody will pay for such a player. We saw what happened to Loki. Why would a Linux DVD player make money where ports of top-selling PC games failed?
Do Windows or Macintosh DVD players come free? They come bundled when you buy hardware but they don't come free. You pay for them of course, you just don't see them as line items on your invoice. Perhaps if they were line items they wouldn't generate profit either.
It is partly the fault of Linux users that they do not yet have a means of watching DVDs legally on their Linux systems. Show that you're ready to pay for software, drop the idealogical Stallman-parrot bullshit and accept that businesses are not about to give you a free lunch just because you whine and (incorrectly) claim that Windows or Mac users get one.
The lack of bundled Linux player software with DVD hardware is just a question of numbers. If Linux becomes popular enough, someone will raise the bar by providing that Linux DVD player with their hardware and then everyone else will have to. But Linux has to become more popular first, much more popular.
That's the challenge for the Linux community. Make it commercially attractive for some licensee to produce a Linux DVD player and the problem is over. Until then, every time Winstein goes to Blockbuster and rents his hypothetical DVD and plays it with a Linux player he is breaking the law. A fair law, in my opinion.
I'm looking forward to all the ACs that say something along the lines of "the MPAA is evil therefore I can do what I want" - sure you can, until they catch you and you find yourself with a large fine. Reality always catches up with you in the end.
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You really don't understand trolling, huh? What you say is supposed to inflame but be believable at the same time. A charicature (look it up) just doesn't work.
(And AR-15s are for girls. My grandmother gave hers away last year because it was too effeminate for her.)
One office - one person. You need your own creative space where your door can close, because IT people walking around with 2-way radios and electrical contractors in the hall and people from QA babbling in some foreign language and assholes from sales who can only use a phone hands-free with the door open and the general buzz of the coffee area and the spinning up noise that the laser printer makes will all distract you fairly effectively.
Gymnasium. Fit, relaxed people think better, it's a fact.
Car parking. Enough of it, close enough to the building.
Free sodas, water and perhaps pastries one day a week say "we value you" loud and clear. Fast internet connection is just not optional. Aeron chairs are perhaps too expensive, but if one person gets one then everyone should.
Apart from all that see "Peopleware" by De Marco & Lister, for good coverage of things that management often don't consider until the padlocks are on the front door and everything is being sold at auction.
I'm aware of his work!
Has it not become obvious to you all yet?
AdTI and Ken Brown are the creation of bored Slashdot trolls. Isn't it obvious? Where else do you find such a collection of glaringly faulty logic, complete ignorance and unwillingness to concede even a single fact mixed with such polished grammar and pomposity?
Expect to see "YHBT. YHL. HAND." on their home page any day now.
If it's a powerful, ergonomic device with unshifted hex keys (A-F) like the 16C - even if it also has keys G-Z there's a good chance I'll buy it at almost any price under $500.
If it's a PDA/Calculator hybrid with a touch screen, forget it! I don't want to have to choose between greasy fingerprints or always fumbling for a stylus.
It is a great shame that Metcalfe has resorted to trolling in order to get people to take notice of him these days:
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http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99
Sez Bob: "The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology."
Just like ethernet...
Why would you buy a network card when nearly every mainboard has one built-in? And even the chipsets are losing to Intel...
Learn it from Windows XP also. Same thing. It's only Linux distributions that can't get it together to make the install experience as trouble-free as the commercial OS vendors. This despite the fact that they release far more often and should be able to cover newer devices where Mac OS and Windows XP don't.
This is the case because nobody wants to make that hardware database happen. Nobody cares about it because they think that if "lusers" can't work it out then they're not good enough to be running Linux. There is no project manager identifying the problems and assigning resources to make it happen. And yet there's still this idea that Linux will one day surpass Windows in terms of user base on the desktop...
You mean "The Android's Dungeon", on the west side of Jedediah Springfield Square - just to the east of Springfield Bridge.
You're right, that's a big mistake. Lard Lad is right over by the springfield mall, on Michael Jackson Expressway! However Palais de Donut is on the monorail line, perhaps they just got the names wrong.
It would be very interesting to repost this story in a few weeks, but replacing Fedora with Windows XP. That's right, Windows killing Fedora.
The resulting comments could no doubt be sold to Oxford University Press, as filler for the entry on hypocrisy.
Yes; shrimp, crab, lobster, etc. are the cockroaches of the sea. And just like cockroaches, they're crunchy if you don't peel them!
Gourmet Coffee? Starbucks!?
What is wrong with you?
(and are you really surprised that a business that aims to have a store on every street corner in the world (according to the CEO) and doesn't mind achieving that by forcing existing stores out of business would learn something from the tobacco industry?)
No no, there are no volcanoes, the surfing on lava sequence comes right after the big Jedi song-and-dance number where they twirl their light sabers and whirl their capes in a sort of star-warsy morris dance. It's actually part of the set of Yoda's musical, set in a cave on Tatooine, which he is staging to raise money to fund Jar-Jar's orthodontic work, apparently a requirement before he can be admitted to the ranks of the Jedi (having completed his training - come on, which Jedi has bad teeth?). Oh, you're not reading any more... well, better now than losing interest half way through a $12 movie.
Seriously though, Lucas could pick up 40 random bums, give them sticks and tell them to have a swordfight, and as long as he called it episode 3 it would still gross more than just about every other film in 2005 even though you clearly remember episode 2 as a steaming pile of dung with special effects. You're all going to - no, youre all obligated to see it, having wasted so much of your lives on the other 5.
I only wish I had the strength to stay away.
Hmmm. With the coming 64-bit processors on the Intel side and the usual stagnation of Apple's latest poster-chip looking inevitable, there may soon be no reason at all to buy a Mac.
40 times slower should be just about evened out by faster Intel hardware by mid-2005.
(unless the clause about "Apple-labelled" in the OS X license is going to stop you)
It's not the drive that kills you, it's the media. Without 12x media (+R) or 8x media (-R) it's no better than drives at half the price. I thought I was lucky having a 4x drive until I saw the price of the media compared to 1x - for that much money, I'm happy to wait.
As a home computer user I had never had a hard drive crash despite having used old drives, second hand drives and the same drives without any special cooling for years on end, beginning in the days when a 286-12 was something special. Then one day last year two drives (both less than 6 months old, made by different manufacturers, one on IDE and one in a firewire enclosure) both died. I lost important stuff that can't ever be replaced.
Don't be too confident, it will happen to you one day. If you don't have everything important on some other media stored in another location you're asking for trouble.
It emulates the windows operating system - that should be obvious.
Nice display!
Mynd you, only 512M in a MP3 playr Kan be pretti nasti...
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Pay plenty - but only pay once. It's cheaper in the long run. There is no better investment than quality tools, your grandchildren will bless you for it.
You simply do not understand emulation. Emulation in software is ALWAYS slower than running native when running on the same hardware. I know WINE is "Not an Emulator" but it is - it emulates the WIN32 API. Yes, x86 hardware emulation would probably be slower.
Your FAQ says that WINE + windows programs may be faster than native unix programs. So? This is about the fact that WINE makes Photoshop run slower than it does on Windows. That's what the whole discussion is about.
The parent is correct; you are believing what you want to believe, and arguing against a straw man. To achieve performance parity is not just a matter of "radically improving" the existing glacial WINE performance, it is a matter of making it the same as when running Windows. That's what performance parity means.
You would have been much more convincing if you had kept your column width to 40...
It's a damn shame they had to discontinue "The Full Vermonty" (maple syrup flavor) ice cream due to a dispute over the name with Universal Studios.
And worse that corn syrup has crept into the mix. I don't blame them for selling out, I probably would have, but I hate corn syrup in everything.
Cheapen it is exactly what Winstein did. He didn't present any good arguments, he just asked the same question over and over. And the question, and the answer to it is this:
Q. Can I watch DVDs on Linux?
A. Not legally.
Why? Because there are no licensed DVD players for Linux. That should be readily understandable.
When someone produces a licensed decoder Winstein's little quandary will be over - he'll be able to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD and watch it without feeling the need to ask disingenuous questions. Why is it the MPAA's problem that nobody has yet produced this licensed Linux DVD player? Regardless of whose fault it was (and I'll tell you whose fault it is soon) why hasn't it happened yet?
Money. Or more correctly, the belief that nobody will pay for such a player. We saw what happened to Loki. Why would a Linux DVD player make money where ports of top-selling PC games failed?
Do Windows or Macintosh DVD players come free? They come bundled when you buy hardware but they don't come free. You pay for them of course, you just don't see them as line items on your invoice. Perhaps if they were line items they wouldn't generate profit either.
It is partly the fault of Linux users that they do not yet have a means of watching DVDs legally on their Linux systems. Show that you're ready to pay for software, drop the idealogical Stallman-parrot bullshit and accept that businesses are not about to give you a free lunch just because you whine and (incorrectly) claim that Windows or Mac users get one.
The lack of bundled Linux player software with DVD hardware is just a question of numbers. If Linux becomes popular enough, someone will raise the bar by providing that Linux DVD player with their hardware and then everyone else will have to. But Linux has to become more popular first, much more popular.
That's the challenge for the Linux community. Make it commercially attractive for some licensee to produce a Linux DVD player and the problem is over. Until then, every time Winstein goes to Blockbuster and rents his hypothetical DVD and plays it with a Linux player he is breaking the law. A fair law, in my opinion.
I'm looking forward to all the ACs that say something along the lines of "the MPAA is evil therefore I can do what I want" - sure you can, until they catch you and you find yourself with a large fine. Reality always catches up with you in the end.
You obviously have no children. Want to be REALLY disgusted? Sit through an hour of cartoons and watch all the ads targeted directly at them.