Perhaps all you lack is the crack for your product. My father had the same predicament, and I found some very useful resources online - try http://astalavista.box.sk and http://andr.net
If the Steam network dies, does that mean I get a refund? Asking as more a point of intellectual curiosity, since the Steam network has been down for some time now.. and the poor suckers who paid good money for HL2 are now unable even to play single-player mode without "authentication" that they won't get until Valve fixes their entire system. Which won't happen anytime soon.
So basically, you think everybody should be fucked. How intriguing.
waste? redundant packages? I just installed FireFox on XandrOS, and it took 35MB. The Windows installer is 4MB. I think that Linux is the king of wasteful redundant libraries; it seems that every program wants to install its own version of some arcane widgets. Look at the big, important projects for example:
Clearly there's something wrong here. Only OSX binaries are even more gigantic than the Linux ones, and that's only because of the Apple RISC hardware.
after a bit of thought, I don't see why they can't solve both problems at once;) Why not pack all the criminals/cripples/hungry/AIDS-wracked into a giant rocket and press the trigger? Make it one-way for the moon. Saves the expense of ensuring return-trip safety, and gets India into the space race all in one glorious shot! Maybe pack a lion or three on board, that'll sell the TV rights in a microsecond. Sounds good, eh? Win-win-win all 'round.
You don't realize the crux of things here: Disney's demographic is not 30-something nerds with no kids. Their market is actually real kids, and kids are notoriously stupid. The parents will buy, as they always do, and the kids will watch mindlessly - largely unaware that the Toy Story III has been totally George Lucased.
That was at the Council of Jamnia, ca. 90AD. There was even a vote taken on certain books (apocrypha) like Maccabees, Bel and the Dragon, etc.
I find it a little tricky to put much faith in something that was essentially a political event, especially after seeing recent American election results. Who can trust ANY kind of voting process after watching the last 8 years in America?
gmail.google.com still won't work with Opera. It just hangs there. On a funny note, I've noticed the same behaviour from IE 6SP1 (yes, I was just testing:)) on several different machines... however a quick refresh always fixes it.
There's no Opera browser for Windows Mobile 2003. It's only available for smart phones (which is an oxymoron) and those are about useless for anything internet-ish.
Dell estimates that Windows OEM installation licenses are worth $10 each. That's a tiny, meager amount. Compared to the pain and hassle of the average Linux install (check the support forums for any distro, mailing lists, etc) I'd say that it's $10 well spent. I don't mind paying that much more for the "Microsoft tax." And I always install Firefox for free, so it's an even better deal. However, and more on topic, I also wouldn't mind paying something for the Opera browser if it became available on my iPaq.
There'll be no port of Firefox or Mozilla any time soon, and the Opera is fantastic on small screens. I mean it farking kicks ass. Check out the Treo to see what I'm talking about. I wish Opera would more aggressively pursue the OEM market, work with HP, do whatever it takes to get Opera on every pocket PC. Right now the only semi-worthy competitor is NetFront.
Standards and Linux are oil and water. Never the twain shall mingle.
Can you imagine the chaos if each minor point release of the kernel somehow didn't break binary compatibility with every driver and most libraries like glibc?
gentoo users would spontaneously combust! no NEED to recompile everything??!! What to do with all those extra CPU cycles? and weekends? weekdays too, formerly spent fiddling and dinking around until things magically congeal into a semi-working anger-powered kludge-ball? Not pretty.
users, too, would be universally flummoxed. i know I'd be amazed and confused if my devices still worked after an upgrade! and that's all i need to say about that.
Standards are the bane of linux.
WE DON'T NEED 'EM!!!!
IE performs completely different functions from FireFox. FF doesn't deliver the adware features that users want, nor will it blindly open popups at random for any given site. Clearly these two programs are not even comparable. This article is saying nothing new.
After using MSN Search to find (or, rather, attempt to find) MS security bulletins, I came to the conclusion that a) MSN Search is not really a search engine, nor does it index any meaningful content; and b) Google is the only search engine that returns results about MS bulletins. Try it. What I'm saying here: Microsoft couldn't write a high performance ANYthing, much less something as complex as a search engine that could in any way rival Google. NO BLOODY WAY.
1) install FireFox, 2) import EVERYTHING from IE, 3) install Flash plugin, java, QT plugin, etc 4) then make FF the default browser.
Since a lot of people use hotmail, and FF doesn't work well with hotmail, I just label the IE links "Hotmail" (or "POPUPS") and set the default page to hotmail.com Then I label Firefox "Internet" or "No POPUPS" and let the user decide what to do with it. Of course I explain that the only difference is that hotmail and popups are mutually exclusive. Can't have 'em both in one program, so they get to choose.
who pays for the homework? probably the same people who pays you when grub fucks your boot sector and then dies. And the same people who want to fix kernel panics after your new sound driver fails to install.
Dear Apple Employee, the iPod actually has a crippled chipset (PortalPlayer PB5502B-C) with the WMA decoder disabled, and the MP3 decoder is virtually identical to every other embedded decoder, including the Rio Karma (which uses the identical PortalPlayer embedded chipset). The disparity between iPod sound quality and eg. iRiver iHP-140 is small, and most people seem to agree that iPods don't feature the best sound quality. Read reviews, check it out.
The true reason that iPod's battery life stinks (and it's quite a lot worse than the official specs indicate, unless you just sit quietly in a corner and don't touch iPod) is that AAC decoding penalty is higher than MP3, the firmware isn't very good and the battery itself is garbage.
Apple hasn't actually created any kind of standard, save only in a narrowly defined sub-range of portable music devices.
The iPod has too many drawbacks, which means that players like this Jens unit are in a completely different category: iPod requires the terrible iTunes software hard-drive based, so you can't take it jogging terrible battery life on the iPod iPod requires all kinds of extras to do basic things (record from radio, etc) iPod doesn't act as UMS device iPods are huge, even when called "Mini." Jens is tiny. iPods don't broadcast in FM radio w/o an add-on (expensive too) iPods don't just plug in to the computer - they need docks or cables
I think it's kinda stupid to hold this Jens unit to any 'standard' set by apple. They're not even remotely comparable, but for completely different buyers.
Property is stuff you own. Ideas are something people can share, but not exclusively own - it is a fiction (yes, a legal one) that permits/espouses the notion of ownership of ideas, or "intellectual property." Patents discourage a lot of excellent products from ever forming. Ever notice that the most successfulo patent holders often 'lie in wait' until the patent is nearly expired, and then pounce on infringers? Like Fraunhofer, etc. Or else patent holders screw everybody, like the drug companies. How do you like paying 20 bucks for a pill when it costs 8 cents to manufacture? Shit, you gotta use some sense somewhere to draw the line, and IP laws don't help.
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Perhaps all you lack is the crack for your product. My father had the same predicament, and I found some very useful resources online - try http://astalavista.box.sk and http://andr.net
If the Steam network dies, does that mean I get a refund? Asking as more a point of intellectual curiosity, since the Steam network has been down for some time now.. and the poor suckers who paid good money for HL2 are now unable even to play single-player mode without "authentication" that they won't get until Valve fixes their entire system. Which won't happen anytime soon.
So basically, you think everybody should be fucked. How intriguing.
waste? redundant packages? I just installed FireFox on XandrOS, and it took 35MB. The Windows installer is 4MB. I think that Linux is the king of wasteful redundant libraries; it seems that every program wants to install its own version of some arcane widgets. Look at the big, important projects for example:
Openoffice.org 1.1.3:
Linux -- 78246 KB
Windows -- 46100 KB
FireFox 1.0:
Linux -- 8422 KB
Windows -- 4803 KB
AbiWord 2.0.12:
Linux -- 21.16MB
Windows -- 4.8MB
Clearly there's something wrong here. Only OSX binaries are even more gigantic than the Linux ones, and that's only because of the Apple RISC hardware.
Sure it's an ugly hack, but if it allows me to install MPlayer on Ubuntu and have it actually WORK, then I'll be happy. Hooray for us all.
Time to email google and ask for the porn site to be delisted from Google.com
He could have done it long ago.
after a bit of thought, I don't see why they can't solve both problems at once ;)
Why not pack all the criminals/cripples/hungry/AIDS-wracked into a giant rocket and press the trigger? Make it one-way for the moon. Saves the expense of ensuring return-trip safety, and gets India into the space race all in one glorious shot! Maybe pack a lion or three on board, that'll sell the TV rights in a microsecond.
Sounds good, eh? Win-win-win all 'round.
mass starvation, rampant disease and the highest AIDS rate in the world are valid counters to your argument.
Unless you are about to propose that we simply blast all the diseased, homeless & hungry Indians into orbit.
I've been to CNN a million times. No crashes.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
It would appear only to affect your linux system.
DUDE -- that is NO CHICK. Have another drink quick before you pass out.
You don't realize the crux of things here: Disney's demographic is not 30-something nerds with no kids. Their market is actually real kids, and kids are notoriously stupid. The parents will buy, as they always do, and the kids will watch mindlessly - largely unaware that the Toy Story III has been totally George Lucased.
i didn't know 7.60 was out of beta. thanks.
That was at the Council of Jamnia, ca. 90AD. There was even a vote taken on certain books (apocrypha) like Maccabees, Bel and the Dragon, etc.
I find it a little tricky to put much faith in something that was essentially a political event, especially after seeing recent American election results. Who can trust ANY kind of voting process after watching the last 8 years in America?
gmail.google.com still won't work with Opera. It just hangs there. :)) on several different machines... however a quick refresh always fixes it.
On a funny note, I've noticed the same behaviour from IE 6SP1 (yes, I was just testing
There's no Opera browser for Windows Mobile 2003. It's only available for smart phones (which is an oxymoron) and those are about useless for anything internet-ish.
Dell estimates that Windows OEM installation licenses are worth $10 each. That's a tiny, meager amount. Compared to the pain and hassle of the average Linux install (check the support forums for any distro, mailing lists, etc) I'd say that it's $10 well spent. I don't mind paying that much more for the "Microsoft tax." And I always install Firefox for free, so it's an even better deal.
However, and more on topic, I also wouldn't mind paying something for the Opera browser if it became available on my iPaq.
There'll be no port of Firefox or Mozilla any time soon, and the Opera is fantastic on small screens. I mean it farking kicks ass. Check out the Treo to see what I'm talking about.
I wish Opera would more aggressively pursue the OEM market, work with HP, do whatever it takes to get Opera on every pocket PC. Right now the only semi-worthy competitor is NetFront.
well-written, properly spelled out: it's the only way to do business with EA.
Try it.
Standards and Linux are oil and water. Never the twain shall mingle.
Can you imagine the chaos if each minor point release of the kernel somehow didn't break binary compatibility with every driver and most libraries like glibc?
gentoo users would spontaneously combust! no NEED to recompile everything??!! What to do with all those extra CPU cycles? and weekends? weekdays too, formerly spent fiddling and dinking around until things magically congeal into a semi-working anger-powered kludge-ball? Not pretty.
users, too, would be universally flummoxed. i know I'd be amazed and confused if my devices still worked after an upgrade! and that's all i need to say about that.
Standards are the bane of linux.
WE DON'T NEED 'EM!!!!
That's pathetic. You're a moron.
IE performs completely different functions from FireFox. FF doesn't deliver the adware features that users want, nor will it blindly open popups at random for any given site.
Clearly these two programs are not even comparable. This article is saying nothing new.
After using MSN Search to find (or, rather, attempt to find) MS security bulletins, I came to the conclusion that a) MSN Search is not really a search engine, nor does it index any meaningful content; and b) Google is the only search engine that returns results about MS bulletins. Try it.
What I'm saying here: Microsoft couldn't write a high performance ANYthing, much less something as complex as a search engine that could in any way rival Google. NO BLOODY WAY.
Steps to success:
1) install FireFox,
2) import EVERYTHING from IE,
3) install Flash plugin, java, QT plugin, etc
4) then make FF the default browser.
Since a lot of people use hotmail, and FF doesn't work well with hotmail, I just label the IE links "Hotmail" (or "POPUPS") and set the default page to hotmail.com
Then I label Firefox "Internet" or "No POPUPS" and let the user decide what to do with it. Of course I explain that the only difference is that hotmail and popups are mutually exclusive. Can't have 'em both in one program, so they get to choose.
Done.
who pays for the homework? probably the same people who pays you when grub fucks your boot sector and then dies. And the same people who want to fix kernel panics after your new sound driver fails to install.
Dear Apple Employee,
the iPod actually has a crippled chipset (PortalPlayer PB5502B-C) with the WMA decoder disabled, and the MP3 decoder is virtually identical to every other embedded decoder, including the Rio Karma (which uses the identical PortalPlayer embedded chipset). The disparity between iPod sound quality and eg. iRiver iHP-140 is small, and most people seem to agree that iPods don't feature the best sound quality. Read reviews, check it out.
The true reason that iPod's battery life stinks (and it's quite a lot worse than the official specs indicate, unless you just sit quietly in a corner and don't touch iPod) is that AAC decoding penalty is higher than MP3, the firmware isn't very good and the battery itself is garbage.
Apple hasn't actually created any kind of standard, save only in a narrowly defined sub-range of portable music devices.
The iPod has too many drawbacks, which means that players like this Jens unit are in a completely different category:
iPod requires the terrible iTunes software
hard-drive based, so you can't take it jogging
terrible battery life on the iPod
iPod requires all kinds of extras to do basic things (record from radio, etc)
iPod doesn't act as UMS device
iPods are huge, even when called "Mini." Jens is tiny.
iPods don't broadcast in FM radio w/o an add-on (expensive too)
iPods don't just plug in to the computer - they need docks or cables
I think it's kinda stupid to hold this Jens unit to any 'standard' set by apple. They're not even remotely comparable, but for completely different buyers.
Property is stuff you own. Ideas are something people can share, but not exclusively own - it is a fiction (yes, a legal one) that permits/espouses the notion of ownership of ideas, or "intellectual property."
Patents discourage a lot of excellent products from ever forming. Ever notice that the most successfulo patent holders often 'lie in wait' until the patent is nearly expired, and then pounce on infringers? Like Fraunhofer, etc.
Or else patent holders screw everybody, like the drug companies. How do you like paying 20 bucks for a pill when it costs 8 cents to manufacture?
Shit, you gotta use some sense somewhere to draw the line, and IP laws don't help.