Fact is that the Nvidia drivers are the bad ones. They don't even properly detect the attached monitor (was fun searching for a solution via links, thank you very much Nvidia), when I reinstalled Ubuntu due to an hard drive change I found that "nv" works with my LCD out of the box!
A long time ago these boxes had some life in them (show old apple logo), it has been fading (fading to new apple logo). For years these boring white boxes (cut to new macs) have been runing a little colorless operating system (zoom in to screen with stripes and brushed metal). Boot (screen fades to Vista loading screen with giant Windows logo) some color into it (Vista loads with a colorful wallpaper)! Windows on a Macintosh, just imagine the possibilities...
I'm using the default Ubuntu on a Celeron 433. It worked acceptably with 128MB RAM, it works good with 256. The thing has an AT keyboard for crying out loud!
We know that Woz is a nice guy who can forgive, nothing has changed there. Why should we assume that Jobs has changed? The default is to assume he hasn't. We know he has become slicker though...
Why this facination with media anyway? Think of the trouble we go through to assemble media centers, integrating all sorts of devices, dealing with DRM, dealing with vendors who choose not to support or platforms for various mainly financial reasons. Dealing with IP laws and big-government.
Marketing. For some reason most people aren't lucid enough to counteract it even in the most obvious situations. Before internet became widely used it was a self enforcing cycle--media was mainly marketed trough it's delivery channels, so if somone managed to break away there was only friends, family and coworkers to pull you back in. Now they draw people back via net-marketing, worse, people draw other people back via file sharing.
Can you compile the source code provided by Red Hat to equivalentbinaries without using Red Hat's private keys. If the answer is 'yes' full coresponding source code has been provided.
I'm not rushing to Jobs's defense, but but I don't think we'd have Apple Computer today without the Yin and Yang of Jobs and Woz. They're both different and necessary talents.
So what if we wouldn't have had Apple Computer? Someone else would have bought WIMP to the masses, maybe a bit later, maybe a bit different. And if not it would centainly be interesting to see how the Emacs like interface RMS had in mind would have turned out.
Besides, Woz just lets Jobs think he exploited him - really Woz just wanted to do engnineering and exploited Jobs to do the business and marketing side.
From grandparent's link:
You can see why I cried deeply when I found out the truth. I get hurt and cry very easily when people don't treat others well, or when the "right" thing isn't happening.
If you can't see the distinction, then you've never been on the wrong end of the stick.
Fun vs. revenge, both to feel you make better, no I don't see much of a distiction there, except the classical: "He did it first!" Also cut back on your assumtions, I'm still dealing with what I experienced in school. Bullying bullies however is no solution, the problem that need to be dealt with is the system that allows (encourages?) it, not stupid kids.
Such were *my* fantasies back in the day when the Earth was still cooling. I desperately wanted to bleed the ones who made life miserable with a rusty icecream scoop.
I take it you're the type that likes to inflict pain, wether emotional or physical, on others.
If a miracle were broadcast from Time Square on New Year's Eve with irrefutable scientific proof that it could not possibly have occurred without a supernatural explanation [..]
If the "supernatural" in question is observable and provable it is part of our world and thus natural.
Well, we have different usage patterns. If it's not Emacs I don't open the application and use the open diaglog, I launch it from Nautilus, when working with multiple files I keep the relevant folder open in Nautilus and open/drag the things I need. What I use mostly is the save dialog and it does what's required of it.
Actually, they're not; at least in Windows you can change the view from "List" to "Details" and see file attributes.
When I need a file manager I will use one. I have never wanted to see file details in an Open or Save dialog box, not once.
This brings me back to another post of mine in this thread and I'll say it again: In their quest to simplify the user experience, the Gnome developers have rendered the environment useless.
You can repeat it as often as you like, that will not make it an universal truth. They may have rendered it useless for you, but they have made an excelent desktop enviroment for me. Most options I care about changing (thank you GNOME developers for sensible defaults!) I can change with ease.
People complained about the GTK1 file dialog, people complain about the GTK2 file dialog, yet both of them are better then the horizontal scrolling Win32 style dialogs everyone and his dog uses.
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Fact is that the Nvidia drivers are the bad ones. They don't even properly detect the attached monitor (was fun searching for a solution via links, thank you very much Nvidia), when I reinstalled Ubuntu due to an hard drive change I found that "nv" works with my LCD out of the box!
Where does Switzerland figure into that rant of yours?
That's a pasta stamp and it says "Touched".
A long time ago these boxes had some life in them (show old apple logo), it has been fading (fading to new apple logo). For years these boring white boxes (cut to new macs) have been runing a little colorless operating system (zoom in to screen with stripes and brushed metal). Boot (screen fades to Vista loading screen with giant Windows logo) some color into it (Vista loads with a colorful wallpaper)! Windows on a Macintosh, just imagine the possibilities...
I'm using the default Ubuntu on a Celeron 433. It worked acceptably with 128MB RAM, it works good with 256. The thing has an AT keyboard for crying out loud!
We know that Woz is a nice guy who can forgive, nothing has changed there. Why should we assume that Jobs has changed? The default is to assume he hasn't. We know he has become slicker though...
Can you compile the source code provided by Red Hat to equivalent binaries without using Red Hat's private keys. If the answer is 'yes' full coresponding source code has been provided.
My understanding is that a contract is binding between the signing parties...
Can Microsoft only have one goal per effort? What have they done to make Direct3D an actual standard? What about all this?
Well, we have different usage patterns. If it's not Emacs I don't open the application and use the open diaglog, I launch it from Nautilus, when working with multiple files I keep the relevant folder open in Nautilus and open/drag the things I need. What I use mostly is the save dialog and it does what's required of it.
People complained about the GTK1 file dialog, people complain about the GTK2 file dialog, yet both of them are better then the horizontal scrolling Win32 style dialogs everyone and his dog uses.