a PC with a "level 5" designation might have a medium processor speed, amount of RAM, and mid-range video card, while a "level 7" PC might have a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher-end video card."
It'd be great if some big guy, who can really 'decide' standards, comes up with a good classification like this. That'd save a lot of people from confusion due to the differences in the chip makers' terminologies like those of Intel and AMD about their processor speeds.
However how this classification'd include newer powerful configurations and update the classes would be interesting to see
companies generally don't let beta software available for public, as people might get turned off by bugs/things-to-be-worked-upon and cause bad publicity
So unless there are some huge extremely-hard-to-crack problems that the developers stumble upon, I am sure 4 months (may be only 3 before going gold) would be pretty good time for ironing out minor problems and polishing the game.
You might be trying to be funny. But Yahoo! doesn't definitely mean just the search engine. They do have other good services like mail and messenger. While gmail might have stolen have a big chunk of their email base, their messenger is definitely not sub-par (not that it'd matter much for users of gaim)
Add things like launch, games, news, groups, geocities, mobile.... and you have a pretty impressive list
"This in turn enables the attacker to capture unencrypted usernames and passwords, which can be used to compromise additional machines on the network. "
What would one gain looking at unencrypted passwords!?! They would anyway be strings of *s only. right!?!?
Or can someone look through these *s as they look through the matrix code!!
The post says "This story from Infoworld.com talks about IBM's new low priced POWER5 based servers which will ship with Red Hat or Suse Linux, but not IBM's AIX."
Does a 'low priced' linux-only server without AIX mean that AIX actually is the reason for the higher pricing of the other IBM servers!?!
I am not qualified to suggest any distro, as I am still glued to my windowmaker on RH8, while booting up knoppix now and then in vmware, but I can tell you that if you can take the pain of explaining people, the real eye-candy one can have with some effort, I am sure anyone would get convinced.
The biggest turnoff with linux for me till a few years ago, was the non-availability of good looking fonts, which made IE look like a god-send. But with the bitstream-vera and msttcorefonts, anything in X looks just cool. Actually the bitstream-vera fonts themselves'd be sufficient. Setting a single font for different styles might sound awful, but once you get used to the anti-aliasing, everything else'd look like garbage, including the venerable good looking fonts in Windows. Opera + xterm with anti-aliasing should be sufficient for ppl like me who don't use many other apps, that use mouse a lot.
Damn, just a console with bootsplash installed would be more than enough, to trick people that fonts in linux aren't bad:p
People might find it surprising, but there are thousands of servers (in production, that is) that still use older versions of Redhat, for which updates have been discontinued a looong time ago. So far, atleast with the kernel, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem updating, as the 2.4 series had been getting stable officially-stable patches.
Looks like it is going to take a much longer time for people to switch over to the 2.6 series on productions systems as that might probably require a re-installation with a much newer distribution
Experience tells me that when you're quoting from TFA, you should clearly say
From TFA...... blah blah blah
Reason being that not every mod here'd have the time to actually go through the articles ( or care to remember, supposing some mod by accident does read the article)
I am only a kid on/. but I wouldn't believe that one can know whether someone's male or female just from their posts when even looking at people,in many cases, it's extremely difficult to tell whether they are males or females
The shortened article in the/. home has the link for 'Pudge reviewed the original' pointing to only slashdot.org and not to the exact review. The article which you see in this page has the correct link though.
Slashdot Mirror
From the interview
I had met a girl at the beach that used AIM, and I had no way to talk to her, so, I joined the project to help development.
Now I know why I don't have any good projects to my name.
Time to spend more time on the beach I suppose.
Here in India, we have been having parrots that tell your fortune from hundreds of years
and ppl say it's actually them that decide who the prime ministers'd be over here
Do these guys also have some association with Ferrari like acer has for one of their laptop models!?!
This box's awfully red and am sure'd hurt anyone's eyes
I, Sir, tried to be funny
But it turned out to be insightful 8-| for some
If the version released for the public itself is that comprehensive, think of the view of the big brother out there.
Hope my thick black hair and beard'd consume all the light rays and reflect nothing.
a PC with a "level 5" designation might have a medium processor speed, amount of RAM, and mid-range video card, while a "level 7" PC might have a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher-end video card."
It'd be great if some big guy, who can really 'decide' standards, comes up with a good classification like this. That'd save a lot of people from confusion due to the differences in the chip makers' terminologies like those of Intel and AMD about their processor speeds.
However how this classification'd include newer powerful configurations and update the classes would be interesting to see
May be it's time the US has two presidents
One for the people of the US and the other for the world
Everyone'd be happy
companies generally don't let beta software available for public, as people might get turned off by bugs/things-to-be-worked-upon and cause bad publicity
So unless there are some huge extremely-hard-to-crack problems that the developers stumble upon, I am sure 4 months (may be only 3 before going gold) would be pretty good time for ironing out minor problems and polishing the game.
We can atleast say that the results would be sweet for all the billions we are spending on space research
Too bad you've posted as an AC
Interesting way to mention GPL.
Even more interesting is the fact that this article's on msnbc that is owned by microsoft.
Good to see an article that doesn't take any side in particular
You might be trying to be funny.
.... and you have a pretty impressive list
But Yahoo! doesn't definitely mean just the search engine.
They do have other good services like mail and messenger. While gmail might have stolen have a big chunk of their email base, their messenger is definitely not sub-par (not that it'd matter much for users of gaim)
Add things like launch, games, news, groups, geocities, mobile
I hope the experiments triggered by the X-prize would lead to 'real' low-cost space flights soon.
This new flight though would give one the experience, wouldn't be as thrilling as a real flight i suppose.
I don't know if it's a proper example, but it, in my opinion, this would just be like wearing the special goggles and watching a 3d movie.
Damn! What is reality?!?!
The article says
"This in turn enables the attacker to capture unencrypted usernames and passwords, which can be used to compromise additional machines on the network. "
What would one gain looking at unencrypted passwords!?!
They would anyway be strings of *s only. right!?!?
Or can someone look through these *s as they look through the matrix code!!
This guy's smart, but that wouldn't work with ppl like me who run apps like these from dummy guest accounts.
.... Oh wait!! dd:w
If only Microsoft too deletes the users' home directories when they try to install pirated Office XP copies would
The post says
"This story from Infoworld.com talks about IBM's new low priced POWER5 based servers which will ship with Red Hat or Suse Linux, but not IBM's AIX."
Does a 'low priced' linux-only server without AIX mean that AIX actually is the reason for the higher pricing of the other IBM servers!?!
I am not qualified to suggest any distro, as I am still glued to my windowmaker on RH8, while booting up knoppix now and then in vmware, but I can tell you that if you can take the pain of explaining people, the real eye-candy one can have with some effort, I am sure anyone would get convinced.
:p
The biggest turnoff with linux for me till a few years ago, was the non-availability of good looking fonts, which made IE look like a god-send. But with the bitstream-vera and msttcorefonts, anything in X looks just cool. Actually the bitstream-vera fonts themselves'd be sufficient. Setting a single font for different styles might sound awful, but once you get used to the anti-aliasing, everything else'd look like garbage, including the venerable good looking fonts in Windows.
Opera + xterm with anti-aliasing should be sufficient for ppl like me who don't use many other apps, that use mouse a lot.
Damn, just a console with bootsplash installed would be more than enough, to trick people that fonts in linux aren't bad
Considering the quality of HTML that Microsoft Word generates,
For me, almost always the quantity of html, the damned thing generates, itself had been the problem.
People might find it surprising, but there are thousands of servers (in production, that is) that still use older versions of Redhat, for which updates have been discontinued a looong time ago. So far, atleast with the kernel, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem updating, as the 2.4 series had been getting stable officially-stable patches.
Looks like it is going to take a much longer time for people to switch over to the 2.6 series on productions systems as that might probably require a re-installation with a much newer distribution
I don't think you can run OSX on x86 using any emulator/vm yet
but you can use vmware and an iso of knoppix to check out different browsers available for linux
what does uninstalling this 841873 patch do then?!
switch back to incorrect reporting of the system memory as 512M even when it's 512K !?!
Hell, I am surprised this guy has managed to get a 512K for a P4
Experience tells me that when you're quoting from TFA, you should clearly say
...... blah blah blah
From TFA
Reason being that not every mod here'd have the time to actually go through the articles ( or care to remember, supposing some mod by accident does read the article)
I am only a kid on /. but I wouldn't believe that one can know whether someone's male or female just from their posts when even looking at people,in many cases, it's extremely difficult to tell whether they are males or females
But in Market Speak both of them'd get pronounced the same; so that can't possibly be the reason
This is off-topic, but as is obvious I am too lazy to go to the sourceforge site for slash to submit a bug
/. home has the link for 'Pudge reviewed the original' pointing to only slashdot.org and not to the exact review. The article which you see in this page has the correct link though.
Pudge reviewed the original (USB, NTSC) EyeTV nearly two years ago;
The shortened article in the