There are invitation-only torrent sites (that are well know but whose existance I shall not spell out, use google) that have about 50 new torrents A DAY for the mac. That's about as many PC apps come out at suprnova per day. Not bad.
The purchase price thing is a joke. A Mac is worth 200-300USD more of your paycheck. It really is a superior machine.
INSIGHTGUL?? MD5 sums do not "protect" from anything. You choose to trust whoever gave you the sum as a valid and trustworthy source, that is all. If someone can hack their server and place a different binary package in it, do you think they cannot hack a web server and display the new MD5 sum?
I actually did, I opened some of my University papers (some 10 years old), written in what I think was Word 2.0 and they all worked fine. Access was different, though. In fact, a VBA program I had written in Excel in 93 and in Windows 3.1 iirc worked fine in Office 2003.
What exactly is your point?
I mean, if you are willing to put your post in the queue, please try to at least sound like you know what you are talking about. It is the DMCA. Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Not DCMA, not YMCA.
The screenshot you linked to was to the Spectrum version of the game. As far as I can remember, the C64 version was significantly better-looking. Also, I don't remember the game being so boring, but I do remember that it was hailed as the best game ever when it came out...
What you fail to understand is that a 50k income is irrelevant to EA. However, a 2 month delay of your competitor's hit title because of a sudden alteration in the rendering engine is not.
I agree with you that most people arguing with you are psychotics who should understand how businesses work, however, this specific argument of yours is hollow.
Gentoo does not "move" anywhere. You make your own choices, if you want to go on using Xfree and the ebuilds are maintained, you can very much keep on using it. XFree is not installed during stage3, so you have a choice of xfree or xorg after stage3.
Also, were gentoo to take a decision regarding the default X server, it'd be a simple matter of rewriting the ebuild so that Xorg updates Xfree.
I swear, this place has the worst group-think imaginable. Every crackpot exagerates a worst case scenario into a future everyday reality for a mere miserable +1 insightful.
What bugs would that be then? Also, Linux and *BSD work fine in countless architectures, so perhaps the problem is not really the BIOS but the megalomania approach that the HURD project had since the begining.
The "treacherous computing" essay is irrelevant to most people, much like most of RMS's ramblings.
When I was running Windows (1Gb of RAM) I routinely had AT LEAST 600Mb of memory free, no matter how many applications I was running at the same time. The only time I reached the limit was when I used a Premiere filter on a 90 minute dv file, but even then I could very much use my computer. In Linux I have much the same experience with a properly configured swap policy. So what do you do that taxes even one giga of memory? Do you run oracle databases at home?
The fact that you have not heard of Naguib Mahfouz, a fucking NOBEL PRIZE winner makes me lose all hope for ever encountering any form of intelligent life in slashdot.
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The purchase price thing is a joke. A Mac is worth 200-300USD more of your paycheck. It really is a superior machine.
ibooks are slightly bigger than powerbooks, actually.
Perhaps for the next Ask Slashdot we could have a question about free web browsers? Or maybe a free Linux C compiler?
INSIGHTGUL?? MD5 sums do not "protect" from anything. You choose to trust whoever gave you the sum as a valid and trustworthy source, that is all. If someone can hack their server and place a different binary package in it, do you think they cannot hack a web server and display the new MD5 sum?
I actually did, I opened some of my University papers (some 10 years old), written in what I think was Word 2.0 and they all worked fine. Access was different, though. In fact, a VBA program I had written in Excel in 93 and in Windows 3.1 iirc worked fine in Office 2003. What exactly is your point?
I mean, if you are willing to put your post in the queue, please try to at least sound like you know what you are talking about. It is the DMCA. Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Not DCMA, not YMCA.
The screenshot you linked to was to the Spectrum version of the game. As far as I can remember, the C64 version was significantly better-looking. Also, I don't remember the game being so boring, but I do remember that it was hailed as the best game ever when it came out...
Well, I searched for Linux on MSN and got 19,208,530 results. Google gave 103,000,000. It is CLEARLY a Microsoft conspiracy!
I agree with you that most people arguing with you are psychotics who should understand how businesses work, however, this specific argument of yours is hollow.
You're new here. I just want to tell you that you'll fit right in.
Also, were gentoo to take a decision regarding the default X server, it'd be a simple matter of rewriting the ebuild so that Xorg updates Xfree.
I swear, this place has the worst group-think imaginable. Every crackpot exagerates a worst case scenario into a future everyday reality for a mere miserable +1 insightful.
The "treacherous computing" essay is irrelevant to most people, much like most of RMS's ramblings.
When I was running Windows (1Gb of RAM) I routinely had AT LEAST 600Mb of memory free, no matter how many applications I was running at the same time. The only time I reached the limit was when I used a Premiere filter on a 90 minute dv file, but even then I could very much use my computer. In Linux I have much the same experience with a properly configured swap policy. So what do you do that taxes even one giga of memory? Do you run oracle databases at home?
a few paragraphs after writing this:
The point, of course, being that DRM is an option to ripping CDs in Media player...
You'd think the +4 Funny would have given away that I'm not Derek Smart...
Hello. I am Derek Smart. The papers are on their way.
emerge -e world re-compiles all packages installed to your updated flags. That should take about a couple of days...
A CD-ROM to boot????? Ever heard of LILO? Grub?
You must be new here...
Can I have your girlfriend's phone number please?
I believe you are either replying to the wrong post or you are confused.
Windows is obsolete? Excuse me while I run to tell this to the 90% of the PC users still using it.
BEEF Vindaloo???? I think you're doing something wrong there...
The fact that you have not heard of Naguib Mahfouz, a fucking NOBEL PRIZE winner makes me lose all hope for ever encountering any form of intelligent life in slashdot.