The main problem with ME was that MS tried to add more stuff than the Win9X core could handle reliably. Also, apparently ME was rushed out the door while still containing numerous known bugs, something which attributed to it's (deservedly so) poor reception.
Yep, and it's six books only because the publisher wanted to split it up -- Tolkien didn't want to this originally, but had to concede after failing to get the book publisehd in one chunk for nearly a decade.
They weren't insanely difficult, just very challenging. I felt they were a great homage to the Super Mario of old and I absolutely love playing them. I even like that funky music they play on these levels.:)
Ditto. I love the Grail movie, but I think it's overrated compared to the other Python movies, esp. Life of Brian, which has to be Pythons funniest and most coherent film.
Indeed, but Intel has a terrible history of price gouging, much more so than AMD. Anyone who lived through the time when Intel was the (seemingly) only guy on the block has experienced this.
One thing this guy doesn't understand is that the RIAA isn't a mere publisher. They actually involve themselve's quite a bit in how an album sounds and is marketed.
Riiight - and boy do they do a good job on those boy bands...
Get off it. Downloading/sharing tunes is not copyright theft, and it's not illegal either. It may be an infringement, but that's up to the courts to decide.
Windows Explorer sucks. One of the things I missed the most after migrating from the Amiga to PC in the early nineties was a good file manager tool. I suffered Windows Explorer and its patethic rivals until GPSoftware finally finished their port of Directory Opus to Windows. DOpus is so powerful, elegant and robust that it puts every other file manager to shame. So, er, just throw away that stupid Windows Explorer and try DOpus. It's a real eye opener.
Say yes but don't do it. When they ask, say you're working on it, but that it will take some more time. If they push, give them a time estimate which is at least double of whatever time you think it'll take to do the request. When you finally do it, don't tell them until they ask again.
Yeah, yeah, it sounds sleazy, but it's the only way to ease the workload without coming off as a difficult person.
Well, from your quote it could just about any movie that has a guy in a company, like, say, Office Space.:)
By the way, Total Recall was also based on one of Dick's stories (We can remember it for you wholesale).
Mr. A. Coward said:
Thanks for posting the "same news in norwegian". That is really "informative".Did you subscribe just so you could be the first to post some links just to get karma?
Hey coward, your post was really interesting. I don't really care about the karma, I mean what does it do for me? Currently, it is "good". It used to be "positive". I don't even know if I'm going up or down.:)
I'm a staffer on the norwegian site. I don't know how many norwegian readers Slashdot has, but seeing as norwegian are a pretty connected linuxloving slashdotting kind of bunch, I figured they'd appreciate a link. If you don't find it interesting, move on. I had already dug up that beaut of a pictures link posted on nature.com yesterday so I thought I'd include it as well. It's better than the two-three snaps on bbc.co.uk, and direct from the source.
Finally, the blurb essentially explains nothing, so since I had the info at hand, I wrote a short summary to explain the new findings.
If all that makes me a karma whore, so be it. I don't care.
Hehe. Well, they did talk about making small robots capable of running on water in conjunction with the research. No practical appliances so far, but who cares about that.
They move by using their mid leg pair as oars and the back pair as steering wheels. Previously, researchers thought they generated small waves, but baby water striders are too small to generate waves big enough to move on. The new research show that the waves are a biproduct of using the middle pair as oars, not the reason they move. Pictures here, same news in norwegian here.
So is it just me, or does this remind anyone else of the whole Sega kaboozle - Genesis went down, Sega released the radical Dreamcast, and... well everyone knows what happened next...
Heh, your post should be labeled Funny as well as Insightful. FreeBSD folks are not going to like your "one guy running FreeBSD brings down company" thing, but what the h*ll.;P
This is ironic. I meant to cut & paste just the section where the problem crops up, but instead got it from the start. DOH. Ok, so here is the quote:
Most of these quirks were minor. For example, there were difficulties cutting and pasting text to and from Mozilla. This can be seriously frustrating for online editorial staff, whose jobs tend, sadly, to involve lots of cutting and pasting to and from Web browsers. The problem seemed to be solvable by reloading in Mozilla or restarting the browser, but this way madness lies.
This is my single most annoying beef with Linux. In Windows, you can cut & paste from almost any app to almost any app. This has always been a big point with Microsoft, and was even a big selling point with the pre-W95 systems. It's damn annoying when systems running Linux in 2003 cannot achieve the same as MS did in the early nineties. Linux need a cut&paste that works across applications!
The article mentions problems cutting & pasting. To quote:
Operating system
SuSE Linux Desktop
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Editors' Rating:
Setup & ease of use 7.5
Features 7.5
Performance 8.0
Service & support 7.5
List Price £410 (includes maintenance program for up to 5 workstations)
ZDNet Review 28 July 2003
To investigate SuSE's Linux Desktop, which is based on the company's Linux Enterprise Server technology, we ran it alongside a number of Windows systems in a 'live' editorial production environment for around two weeks. The idea was to see how well this business-oriented operating system/application software bundle worked for a moderately technical user working in a Windows-dominated world.
We emerged from the process having had some pleasant surprises, but with some reservations too. After a challenging start, the system generally performed so well that it was easy to forget the underlying technology being used. But when problems did crop up, they tended to take some time to solve.
Installation & setup
The first troubles we ran into were in re-installing the software from scratch onto a dual-boot system with Windows XP running on a separate hard drive. This step was needed, according to SuSE, in order to install a feature that had been forgotten in an earlier installation -- the LAN browser. But several attempts to install SuSE Linux Desktop (SLD) failed to result in the appearance of the elusive feature, while other system components mysteriously disappeared, leading to much head-scratching and many further installation attempts. In the end, this seemed to be down to a combination of bad install CDs and a bad CD-ROM drive; the software installed without problems on two other systems.
Once SLD was successfully in place, we faced our next problem: finding a way to communicate on the Yahoo Messenger network used by ZDNet UK. Yahoo supplies a Unix client, but SuSE users must use a package designed for Red Hat's distribution. This does not get on at all well with SuSE's package installation tool, YaST2.
As is often the case in the Linux world, an open-source alternative to the proprietary software is available -- in this case Gaim, a chat client compatible with the messaging networks of AOL, Yahoo and others. Gaim was even included on the SLD setup CDs, allowing YaST2 to add it with a couple of mouse clicks. Unfortunately, the version on the CD was out of date, and a bug kept it from signing onto the Yahoo network.
This is where SuSE's online update feature comes into play. The online update is not designed to install new programs, but if you need a quick upgrade to an existing application, this feature will often be able to provide it, as well as the latest operating system bug fixes and security patches. Access is through a paid support deal with SuSE, which most organisations will have as a matter of course.
In our test, patches were downloaded and installed with a minimum of hassle, although we were instructed to restart a process by typing in a shell command -- something that would scare many users.
Automatic software installation
The online update tool is not guaranteed to have all the latest software, however, and does not completely solve what can still be a major headache for Linux users: installing software. Fortunately there are several alternatives available.
If Windows desktop systems are cheaply-made, assembly-line automobiles, more or less well-built, all exactly alike aside from the odd optional leather seat or cup-holder, then Linux can feel more like a hand-built Rolls Royce, using more or less the same parts as another Rolls, but fundamentally an individually-crafted machine. One of the side-effects of this situation is that an application packaged for one distribution won't necessarily install flawlessly on another, or even on another version of the same distribution -- as we discovered when poking around for a more recent Gaim package to install on SLD.
Applications can generally be found in the form of a package, using a format
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The main problem with ME was that MS tried to add more stuff than the Win9X core could handle reliably. Also, apparently ME was rushed out the door while still containing numerous known bugs, something which attributed to it's (deservedly so) poor reception.
Frodo lives.
They weren't insanely difficult, just very challenging. I felt they were a great homage to the Super Mario of old and I absolutely love playing them. I even like that funky music they play on these levels. :)
Ditto. I love the Grail movie, but I think it's overrated compared to the other Python movies, esp. Life of Brian, which has to be Pythons funniest and most coherent film.
Indeed, but Intel has a terrible history of price gouging, much more so than AMD. Anyone who lived through the time when Intel was the (seemingly) only guy on the block has experienced this.
Get off it. Downloading/sharing tunes is not copyright theft, and it's not illegal either. It may be an infringement, but that's up to the courts to decide.
Windows Explorer sucks. One of the things I missed the most after migrating from the Amiga to PC in the early nineties was a good file manager tool. I suffered Windows Explorer and its patethic rivals until GPSoftware finally finished their port of Directory Opus to Windows. DOpus is so powerful, elegant and robust that it puts every other file manager to shame. So, er, just throw away that stupid Windows Explorer and try DOpus. It's a real eye opener.
Yeah, yeah, it sounds sleazy, but it's the only way to ease the workload without coming off as a difficult person.
Well, from your quote it could just about any movie that has a guy in a company, like, say, Office Space. :)
By the way, Total Recall was also based on one of Dick's stories (We can remember it for you wholesale).
I'm a staffer on the norwegian site. I don't know how many norwegian readers Slashdot has, but seeing as norwegian are a pretty connected linuxloving slashdotting kind of bunch, I figured they'd appreciate a link. If you don't find it interesting, move on. I had already dug up that beaut of a pictures link posted on nature.com yesterday so I thought I'd include it as well. It's better than the two-three snaps on bbc.co.uk, and direct from the source.
Finally, the blurb essentially explains nothing, so since I had the info at hand, I wrote a short summary to explain the new findings.
If all that makes me a karma whore, so be it. I don't care.
Heh. Acutally, that was pretty funny. Alas, I have no mod points. Nor could I mod, since I'm a poster in this thread.
Hehe. Well, they did talk about making small robots capable of running on water in conjunction with the research. No practical appliances so far, but who cares about that.
They move by using their mid leg pair as oars and the back pair as steering wheels. Previously, researchers thought they generated small waves, but baby water striders are too small to generate waves big enough to move on. The new research show that the waves are a biproduct of using the middle pair as oars, not the reason they move. Pictures here, same news in norwegian here.
True. But who'd remember that one. ;P
So is it just me, or does this remind anyone else of the whole Sega kaboozle - Genesis went down, Sega released the radical Dreamcast, and... well everyone knows what happened next...
Usenet is still the king, no holds barred. PAN for binaries and groups.google.com for text. Perfect.
Heh, your post should be labeled Funny as well as Insightful. FreeBSD folks are not going to like your "one guy running FreeBSD brings down company" thing, but what the h*ll. ;P
Copy & paste may work occasionally, but it's pretty erratic. It doesn't always work.
Gosh - people spend less time in front of their computer in june-july. Somebody call the media! Oh wait, someone already has...
My html code got lost ;P. Here's the link:
How about windows.
Answer in a previous thread.