I understand where the "just donate through PayPal" guys are coming from but they're forgetting one important fact: people are lazy.
There are a lot of very competent computer users that have no idea that free/OSS software that is often superior to it's proprietary cousins is available... and rather than looking all over the internet for the best free/oss app for their needs, then downloading a crapload of disparate parts, then the documentation, then some HowTo they'd rather pluck down their cash on an all in one package. This does nothing if not add noteriety to the products LuLu or whatever thinks is best and it can only be good for the community. Feel free to hit the "Donate through PayPal" button if you like.
Yes, yes... MS bought out Virtual PC. That was a sad day. There's also VMWare and Virtuozzo if you're looking for any way to "run" 2 OSes at once. I'd have to say that VMWare and VirtualPC are in a class seperate from Xen if for no other reason than performance.
Xen is designed to run the client operating system as peers. No single vm can steal the whole machine away from the others and the performance overhead of the virtulization is almost nothing as indicated here. No Virtual PC in that graph but in my experience VMWare performs slightly better than Virtual PC and my observations are supported by these guys. VMWare and VirtualPC run the OS as just another processes in the real OS. Something terrible happens to the host OS and the VPC/VM slows to a crawl. Something major happens in the virtual OS and the host slows to a crawl. They're more emulation that virtualization.
innovation- You say yourself that both candidates stifle this which is true. But at least there was a glimmer of hope with Kerry. He stated that parts of the Patriot Act (you know, the one driving away scientists) must be recinded and hinted and rolling back some of the DMCA.
Personal Responsibility- I'm assuming you're using this mantra like the Repubs use it as well; as an attack on Social Security. Yes, that system is dated and messed up but tell the thousands of people who lost their pentions due to Enron's collapse they don't deserve social security. As for those personal savings plans, they aren't a 'savings' plan, they're a stock market gamble. I'm sure the people crushed by the dot com bubble bursting were glad they had *something* the day their stocks died. There is room for middle ground here but claiming that privatizing social security somehow makes someone more 'personally responsible' is propaganda.
The gap? It is a sad thing, but, and from the way the majority/. opinion seems to go, being rich is an evil thing and you should be ashamed of yourself for being successful. Even if that 5% or so of the population pays for 75% of the tax burden... they just arent paying enough!! This is one good reason for abolishing the income tax completely and just going with a national sales tax or VAT that EVERYONE pays... rich, poor, whatever.
What? The gap between rich and poor has nothing to do with taxes. You're talking about something else. The fact is the rich are getting a lot richer while the middle class and the poor are getting poorer regardless of taxation. The fact is the Ken Lays and Michael Eisners of the world are making a hell of a lot more than ever while those on the lower end of the scale aren't keeping up with inflation.
the national deficit balloons even higher,
Why is that? Its because both dems and republicans alike add useless porkbarrel spending to unrelated bills...
Pork Barrel like huge tax cuts, in fact the only tax cuts ever during war time. Pork Barrel like huge sums paid to no-bid contracts. We all know that the Bush administration spends poorly. At least we had a chance with Kerry. Until Bush is gone you're just attacking a straw man.
the average wage drops even lower,
I dont know about you, but my average salary over the last 4 years has gone up by 10 grand...
Ok, almost everyone is making more than they did year over year. There are few times in history when wages actually went down over a 4 year period. The number people look at is wage increase over inflation. If inflation is outgaining wages then you're making less money. Easy math. In 2003 the average wage rose 2.4%. That ties 2001 for Bush's strongest year. The average wage is 5.9% higher than it was in 2000 when Bush took office. Contrast that with Clinton's last term: in 2000 the wage rose 5.5%, 99 was 5.4%. The wage in 2000 was 17.6% higher than in 96. People were (!)3 times(!) as prosperous. The average inflation from 2000 - 2003 (2004 data is unavailable) is 2.52%. Not once during Bush's watch did wages outpace inflation.
the trade deficit continues to soar,
Which only exists because we allow foreign companies with VERY CHEAP labor to sell their very cheap items here, while they either prevent or heavily tax US made producs in their countries...
That is true in addition to the increibly weak dollar spurred on by a huge national deficit. And at least Kerry reconizes a problem with the rate of outsourcing and job loss and, while not presenting a plan, at least showed signs he'd do something about it.
the air and water go to shit,
That has been happeneing for years, and while I dont like it any more than you do, its not Bush's fault, nor is it the Republicans fault... Democrats are also responsible for that one...
Come on... the president doesn't even believe in glo
...the country will be ready to stand for the things that made it great. Maybe if the gap between rich and poor keeps expanding, the national deficit balloons even higher, the average wage drops even lower, the trade deficit continues to soar, the air and water go to shit, civil rights are further eroded in the name of 'safety', enough troops die for weapons that don't exist and fake ties to terrorism... maybe then this country will open its eyes and make a change.
Until then, just keep standing on your stump yelling 'Terrorism! Terrorism! Terrorim! Patriot! Patriot! Patriot!' and 51% of America will really believe you're a patriot fighting terrorism. This day is sad.
Not to say it's what parent did but you can buy a friggin video camera for the Archos. And how is it more illegal to rip DVDs to Divx than it is to rip CDs to mp3s? Furthermore, are you seriously proposing all these iPod weenies with 40 gig full of mp3s downloaded them all at 99c a pop?
We have a missile defense system that uses 'advanced rocketry techniques' to shoot inbound nukes out of the sky...
... at least 1 in 48.
For some reason I don't think this has the rest of the world shaking in their boots. I'd say the outcome of tomorrow's election is more scary than some phantom 'we can stop your rays but we ain't saying how' technology.
By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now.
Eh? Since when does architecture have anything to do with how easy it is to port a game... OK, I'll tell you, not since games relied on large amounts of assembly. Hell, i386 Linux is 100% processor compatible with Windows and porting windows games is still a bitch. If the XBox 2 is anything like the XBox 1 it'll use some form of DirectX. Screw the architecture, port DirectX and you're golden. Unfortunately that's a constantly changing target with almost no window into its underpinnings... not to mention a patent minefield.
Re:PC users should read this...
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I'm sure proud of the house I bought back in March. Sure, I could've gotten a better house for cheaper but it would've been in a worse neighborhood...
But I'm not going to go to 'homebuyer conventions' and tattoo the builder's logo on my ass.:)
Face it, there's a large vein of Mac pretentiousness regardless of the individual logic you used when making your purchase. I'm a programmer. I used to be a bench tech and a computer sales associate. I constantly get Mac weenies that know nothing beyond the iBook they bought last summer giving my crap for not buying into the leetness. And honestly, I think Asus, nVidia, Kingston, and Maxtor are doing a better job. I'd rather toss them my cash for a machine that's going to run Linux than tossing a lot more cash at Jobs for a machine that will run Linux just the same.
Then the service provider in the US dries up and forces you to register with them every 3 months with looming promises of having to pay for the right to access it.
You can switch back to the old method... it's right there in setup. The datadirect method is just faster and more reliable.
Myth has been doing multiple tuners for quite a while now. If you do want to upgrade to Myth but the install and set up seems daunting first check out the website called "Fedora Mythology". If you still need help, feel free to contact me personally and I'll give any assistance I can.
It's almost as if they WANT the players to move onto WoW.
Of course they do. Essentially, the first month of any MMORPG you have to pay up front for is $50+. That's a f'n racket if you ask me: Asking an up front cost and then expecting a monthly payment. What are they trying to sell, Windows?
You just ask the f'n place to turn off the TV you self-centered dolt. If a place has a TV in it it's probably because people like it. I doubt any place is trying to annoy or drive people nuts for shits and giggles... they at least percieve people enjoying the televisions. If that perception is wrong, fix it by asking them to turn it off!
Tell you what... let me turn off all of the street lights cause they shine in my window at night.
At any given time there are thousands of infected drones out there scanning for an open Windows PC to infect. You don't need to be running anything unusual or install any software. Merely hooking your Windows box directly up to the internet will have it infected in minutes. Most likely you will start getting RPC errors when you DO try and do something and your machine will reboot. You are now one the thousands of drones also trying to infect other people's Windows boxen.
The RPC error stems from an infection of the Blaster worm that exploits a DCOM RPC bug. You don't have to be running IIS or anything goofy. Just a vanilla install of 2000 or XP.
With the staunch stances against stem-cell reseach biomed is fleeing quickly. Government supported pigopolists (RCIA, MPAA) hinder the advancement of software and technology here and abroad as much as possible. Idiotic software patents make the independent software house a dying breed. A well hated monopoly (Microsoft) is the only tech company the government will listen to and they're trying everything they can to get in bed with the RIAA/MPAA.
Let's face it, the US is selling out our technological superiority to the highest bidder. Is it any wonder Joe Schmuck with a basic business degree can make more filing TPS reports than decent code-gurus?
About this OQO...
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I don't know why the news kept pointing to some arbitrary handtops site but the actual site for the device is OQO.com. Basically, the thing is a 1ghz laptop with a 20GB HD, 256MB RAM, and 800x480 LCD. It's been shrunk to the size of a PDA but runs full Windows XP home. So, for the unreasonably high price of $1900 you can get a laptop from 2 years ago running an OS that isn't designed for the size of the device. There is no market for this thing.
The question, "Does it run free software?" is not a joke, it's important to me.
As far as PalmOS devices go, the answer is yes. The PRC-Tools toolchain is all GPL and can take full advantage of PalmOS. Honestly, Palm has decently embraced open source while not actually using Linux on their devices. On the other hand, I'm not familiar with any way to get an app onto an Axim without using a Microsoft compiler. That is until they get Linux running on them and as quickly as the Axim target is moving, I wouldn't hold your breath.
HP 4795, Toshiba e805, Sharp Zaurus SL-6000, C-7xx, and C-8xx series all have VGA screens. The Toshiba e830 is coming out soon, Dell has a VGA Axim in the Chute and Asus has a VGA MyPal coming soon. In all fairness it is one of only 2 *Pocket PC* devices that have a VGA screen right now.
This has the aire of a paid shilling. Honestly, the unique part about this PDA is the touch pad instead of the standard 5 way controller. The rest is a been there, done that +1 type of deal.
On another note, I also had the e805 and it was an excellent PDA although the button lag did it in for me. This damn touch pad thing won't work for gaming either so as far as a VGA gaming *Pocket PC*, there is none that is sufficient and the MyPal will probably be the first.
Hey, I'm agreeing with you. It's the parent that I'm disagreeing with. The fact that a person died doesn't make this newsworthy, at least here. The fact that one of the people in that car (although not at the time of the accident) was extremely influential to many of our lively hoods does.
I suppose I should've quoted parent to put the comment in context.
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I understand where the "just donate through PayPal" guys are coming from but they're forgetting one important fact: people are lazy.
There are a lot of very competent computer users that have no idea that free/OSS software that is often superior to it's proprietary cousins is available... and rather than looking all over the internet for the best free/oss app for their needs, then downloading a crapload of disparate parts, then the documentation, then some HowTo they'd rather pluck down their cash on an all in one package. This does nothing if not add noteriety to the products LuLu or whatever thinks is best and it can only be good for the community. Feel free to hit the "Donate through PayPal" button if you like.
Yes, yes... MS bought out Virtual PC. That was a sad day. There's also VMWare and Virtuozzo if you're looking for any way to "run" 2 OSes at once. I'd have to say that VMWare and VirtualPC are in a class seperate from Xen if for no other reason than performance.
Xen is designed to run the client operating system as peers. No single vm can steal the whole machine away from the others and the performance overhead of the virtulization is almost nothing as indicated here. No Virtual PC in that graph but in my experience VMWare performs slightly better than Virtual PC and my observations are supported by these guys. VMWare and VirtualPC run the OS as just another processes in the real OS. Something terrible happens to the host OS and the VPC/VM slows to a crawl. Something major happens in the virtual OS and the host slows to a crawl. They're more emulation that virtualization.
I'll bite...
/. opinion seems to go, being rich is an evil thing and you should be ashamed of yourself for being successful. Even if that 5% or so of the population pays for 75% of the tax burden... they just arent paying enough!! This is one good reason for abolishing the income tax completely and just going with a national sales tax or VAT that EVERYONE pays... rich, poor, whatever.
innovation- You say yourself that both candidates stifle this which is true. But at least there was a glimmer of hope with Kerry. He stated that parts of the Patriot Act (you know, the one driving away scientists) must be recinded and hinted and rolling back some of the DMCA.
Personal Responsibility- I'm assuming you're using this mantra like the Repubs use it as well; as an attack on Social Security. Yes, that system is dated and messed up but tell the thousands of people who lost their pentions due to Enron's collapse they don't deserve social security. As for those personal savings plans, they aren't a 'savings' plan, they're a stock market gamble. I'm sure the people crushed by the dot com bubble bursting were glad they had *something* the day their stocks died. There is room for middle ground here but claiming that privatizing social security somehow makes someone more 'personally responsible' is propaganda.
The gap? It is a sad thing, but, and from the way the majority
What? The gap between rich and poor has nothing to do with taxes. You're talking about something else. The fact is the rich are getting a lot richer while the middle class and the poor are getting poorer regardless of taxation. The fact is the Ken Lays and Michael Eisners of the world are making a hell of a lot more than ever while those on the lower end of the scale aren't keeping up with inflation.
the national deficit balloons even higher,
Why is that? Its because both dems and republicans alike add useless porkbarrel spending to unrelated bills...
Pork Barrel like huge tax cuts, in fact the only tax cuts ever during war time. Pork Barrel like huge sums paid to no-bid contracts. We all know that the Bush administration spends poorly. At least we had a chance with Kerry. Until Bush is gone you're just attacking a straw man.
the average wage drops even lower,
I dont know about you, but my average salary over the last 4 years has gone up by 10 grand...
Ok, almost everyone is making more than they did year over year. There are few times in history when wages actually went down over a 4 year period. The number people look at is wage increase over inflation. If inflation is outgaining wages then you're making less money. Easy math. In 2003 the average wage rose 2.4%. That ties 2001 for Bush's strongest year. The average wage is 5.9% higher than it was in 2000 when Bush took office. Contrast that with Clinton's last term: in 2000 the wage rose 5.5%, 99 was 5.4%. The wage in 2000 was 17.6% higher than in 96. People were (!)3 times(!) as prosperous. The average inflation from 2000 - 2003 (2004 data is unavailable) is 2.52%. Not once during Bush's watch did wages outpace inflation.
the trade deficit continues to soar,
Which only exists because we allow foreign companies with VERY CHEAP labor to sell their very cheap items here, while they either prevent or heavily tax US made producs in their countries...
That is true in addition to the increibly weak dollar spurred on by a huge national deficit. And at least Kerry reconizes a problem with the rate of outsourcing and job loss and, while not presenting a plan, at least showed signs he'd do something about it.
the air and water go to shit,
That has been happeneing for years, and while I dont like it any more than you do, its not Bush's fault, nor is it the Republicans fault... Democrats are also responsible for that one...
Come on... the president doesn't even believe in glo
...the country will be ready to stand for the things that made it great. Maybe if the gap between rich and poor keeps expanding, the national deficit balloons even higher, the average wage drops even lower, the trade deficit continues to soar, the air and water go to shit, civil rights are further eroded in the name of 'safety', enough troops die for weapons that don't exist and fake ties to terrorism... maybe then this country will open its eyes and make a change.
Until then, just keep standing on your stump yelling 'Terrorism! Terrorism! Terrorim! Patriot! Patriot! Patriot!' and 51% of America will really believe you're a patriot fighting terrorism. This day is sad.
Not to say it's what parent did but you can buy a friggin video camera for the Archos. And how is it more illegal to rip DVDs to Divx than it is to rip CDs to mp3s? Furthermore, are you seriously proposing all these iPod weenies with 40 gig full of mp3s downloaded them all at 99c a pop?
We have a missile defense system that uses 'advanced rocketry techniques' to shoot inbound nukes out of the sky...
... at least 1 in 48.
For some reason I don't think this has the rest of the world shaking in their boots. I'd say the outcome of tomorrow's election is more scary than some phantom 'we can stop your rays but we ain't saying how' technology.
If they'd get Myth running and eliminate the need for disk swapping a GameCube would be my next Myth Frontend.
By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now.
Eh? Since when does architecture have anything to do with how easy it is to port a game... OK, I'll tell you, not since games relied on large amounts of assembly. Hell, i386 Linux is 100% processor compatible with Windows and porting windows games is still a bitch. If the XBox 2 is anything like the XBox 1 it'll use some form of DirectX. Screw the architecture, port DirectX and you're golden. Unfortunately that's a constantly changing target with almost no window into its underpinnings... not to mention a patent minefield.
I'm sure proud of the house I bought back in March. Sure, I could've gotten a better house for cheaper but it would've been in a worse neighborhood...
:)
But I'm not going to go to 'homebuyer conventions' and tattoo the builder's logo on my ass.
Face it, there's a large vein of Mac pretentiousness regardless of the individual logic you used when making your purchase. I'm a programmer. I used to be a bench tech and a computer sales associate. I constantly get Mac weenies that know nothing beyond the iBook they bought last summer giving my crap for not buying into the leetness. And honestly, I think Asus, nVidia, Kingston, and Maxtor are doing a better job. I'd rather toss them my cash for a machine that's going to run Linux than tossing a lot more cash at Jobs for a machine that will run Linux just the same.
Then the service provider in the US dries up and forces you to register with them every 3 months with looming promises of having to pay for the right to access it.
You can switch back to the old method... it's right there in setup. The datadirect method is just faster and more reliable.
I'm in the same boat. 1 backend + frontend + 2 other PCs that are frontends + an XBox frontend. Wife loves the blue button (commercial skip).
Myth + Fedora is really a 3 step process.
:)
1. install fedora 2. install atrpms apt 3. apt-get install mythtv-suite.
I guess for the Debian smart-asses it's only 2
Myth has been doing multiple tuners for quite a while now. If you do want to upgrade to Myth but the install and set up seems daunting first check out the website called "Fedora Mythology". If you still need help, feel free to contact me personally and I'll give any assistance I can.
I can tell you're full of shit 'cause if you had been playing San Andreas you'd be addressing everyone as 'nigga'. :)
Peh... where do you think Yoda got it?!
Notice the ears... can anyone say 'ancestry'.
It's almost as if they WANT the players to move onto WoW.
Of course they do. Essentially, the first month of any MMORPG you have to pay up front for is $50+. That's a f'n racket if you ask me: Asking an up front cost and then expecting a monthly payment. What are they trying to sell, Windows?
... a little more polish on that turd!
You just ask the f'n place to turn off the TV you self-centered dolt. If a place has a TV in it it's probably because people like it. I doubt any place is trying to annoy or drive people nuts for shits and giggles... they at least percieve people enjoying the televisions. If that perception is wrong, fix it by asking them to turn it off!
Tell you what... let me turn off all of the street lights cause they shine in my window at night.
Dude... you're posting on slashdot with a sig about hating Linux and your calling that guy confused?
At any given time there are thousands of infected drones out there scanning for an open Windows PC to infect. You don't need to be running anything unusual or install any software. Merely hooking your Windows box directly up to the internet will have it infected in minutes. Most likely you will start getting RPC errors when you DO try and do something and your machine will reboot. You are now one the thousands of drones also trying to infect other people's Windows boxen.
The RPC error stems from an infection of the Blaster worm that exploits a DCOM RPC bug. You don't have to be running IIS or anything goofy. Just a vanilla install of 2000 or XP.
With the staunch stances against stem-cell reseach biomed is fleeing quickly. Government supported pigopolists (RCIA, MPAA) hinder the advancement of software and technology here and abroad as much as possible. Idiotic software patents make the independent software house a dying breed. A well hated monopoly (Microsoft) is the only tech company the government will listen to and they're trying everything they can to get in bed with the RIAA/MPAA.
Let's face it, the US is selling out our technological superiority to the highest bidder. Is it any wonder Joe Schmuck with a basic business degree can make more filing TPS reports than decent code-gurus?
I don't know why the news kept pointing to some arbitrary handtops site but the actual site for the device is OQO.com. Basically, the thing is a 1ghz laptop with a 20GB HD, 256MB RAM, and 800x480 LCD. It's been shrunk to the size of a PDA but runs full Windows XP home. So, for the unreasonably high price of $1900 you can get a laptop from 2 years ago running an OS that isn't designed for the size of the device. There is no market for this thing.
The question, "Does it run free software?" is not a joke, it's important to me.
As far as PalmOS devices go, the answer is yes. The PRC-Tools toolchain is all GPL and can take full advantage of PalmOS. Honestly, Palm has decently embraced open source while not actually using Linux on their devices. On the other hand, I'm not familiar with any way to get an app onto an Axim without using a Microsoft compiler. That is until they get Linux running on them and as quickly as the Axim target is moving, I wouldn't hold your breath.
the cheap ads were in the back. You know, the non-glossy pages. :)
HP 4795, Toshiba e805, Sharp Zaurus SL-6000, C-7xx, and C-8xx series all have VGA screens. The Toshiba e830 is coming out soon, Dell has a VGA Axim in the Chute and Asus has a VGA MyPal coming soon. In all fairness it is one of only 2 *Pocket PC* devices that have a VGA screen right now.
This has the aire of a paid shilling. Honestly, the unique part about this PDA is the touch pad instead of the standard 5 way controller. The rest is a been there, done that +1 type of deal.
On another note, I also had the e805 and it was an excellent PDA although the button lag did it in for me. This damn touch pad thing won't work for gaming either so as far as a VGA gaming *Pocket PC*, there is none that is sufficient and the MyPal will probably be the first.
Hey, I'm agreeing with you. It's the parent that I'm disagreeing with. The fact that a person died doesn't make this newsworthy, at least here. The fact that one of the people in that car (although not at the time of the accident) was extremely influential to many of our lively hoods does.
I suppose I should've quoted parent to put the comment in context.