it's true especially in the comp sci world. Most comp sci girls that I've delt with are quite shy and definitely subtle with their feelings, which is a bit stupid because you could hit some of the guys here with crowbars and they wouldn't know they were being talked to.
I'm not sure that there's really a market for this in the home - most people get large tvs or use flat walls/screens for a home theatre and I don't see that changing, if only because it looks better normally.
Also I'm wondering (I don't actually know, this isn't a smart-arsed answer) what happens when you just put a single character before or after the dictionary word. (say Total8)
Surely the dictionary checkers don't check this...
I am an Australian, so I do know that slashdot is read around the world. I'm also a realist, so I also realise that the executives in America won't know or care about a complaint made in Australia.
I'm not sure what your methodology that linux won't be ready for the desktop unless you install some microsoft programs on it. Perhaps you should instead criticise Microsoft Office for not rendering OpenOffice documents at all, and Internet Explorer for not rendering the actual HTML standard properly, making people having to adapt with hard-coding their web-pages. Perhaps you mean that it just won't beat Microsoft unless it mimics it in every way.
As for this comment:
All the applications he lists (OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNU Cash) are no where near the level of their Windows counterparts. They are close but they are not the same. Yeah, you can always get stuff to work with your Linux software and I spent years doing just that. Regular Joe Blow User does not want to do anything but point, click, and go.
I just habitually picked up last (or was it the month before? It says July anyway) months PC User Magazine and looked at the scores in a huge software-comparison test they had. I turned to the browsers page and, what was this? Internet Explorer gets 6/10. It's described as "relic" and "outdated". They mention at the "porous security" (and I don't even know what "porous" means, but it sounds bad). Mozilla Firefox 0.8 get's 8/10 (Firefox has since been updated . . . IE hasn't), and normal Mozilla 1.7 gets 9/10.
I then turned to the office suite page. My faith was restored - Works Suite got 7/10, and Open Office got 6.5/10. Wasn't exactly a flogging though was it?
Unfortunately GNU Cash wasn't reviewed - this is a windows magazine, not that I use either it or Money or Quicken anyway.
I then tried installing them on an old computer that didn't have them automatically installed on debian. I tried it two ways. One of them was just typing "apt-get install openoffice gnucash mozilla". A half-hour later it was done without any input (shocking time amount I know - it said it had to download 80 megabytes! DOWNLOAD I say!). I tried doing the same thing on a windows machine, and it said "bad command"! I actually had to go on the internet, DOWNLOAD (shock horror), then find and run the file for firefox (I'd since abandoned Internet Explorer after reading the article above that said it was crap)! I also had to go to the store and (uhem pretend to) buy Office and Quicken and put the cd in and find out what the hell they meant with their supposed "wizards".
The other way with linux, incidentely, was to open up synaptec, point and click on gnucash, mozilla, and openoffice. The hardest part was remembering the root password.
Note also that I had to do this on debian - the other distros that I had already had them installed.
Incidentely a trusty google search of "DVD Shrink Linux" showed that it works on linux under wine though admittedly not without work. But there's your program.
I also managed to test this comment here:
Right and when you get new hardware, plug it in, and restart, what does XP do? Hey, holy shit user, you have new hardware, we need drivers! Oh wait, we have them right here, no recompiles or modules need to be loaded. It's a digital camera you say? Wow, would you like to open the files on the camera and work with Photoshop or some random preloaded Windows software or would you like to save them to a directory on your HD?
I decided to install two different pieces of hardware, one of them a NetComm Network Card (my old one broke down) and one of them a Canon S200SPx printer.
The NetComm network card did just as you said. It looked for drivers on the Windows system and found them - worked fine after a few seconds. The Linux system skimped with the dialog - it just worked (a bit of an anticlimax there) . . . I think I'd give that to linux.
So even after one test. Here goes the printer, which I previously looked on the internet which said it was incompatable with linux. Anyways, in linux unexpectedly I
I'm not sure what the point of calling penguin in any country other than america (or perhaps England) is. The poor help-desk people won't immediately write to Katie T and tell her of the travesty somone in Australia discovered.
Just stick to where it may actually faesably matter, and not make a poor underpaid kid's working life a bit more of a hell.
Couldn't she sue for emotional damages or something of the like? It's a bitter irony that Katie T writes a book about being a victom of internet anomosity then victomises a stranger herself. Surely Katie J should get something under law for her suffering!
Unfortunately I can't as of a month ago when I bought a 120gb drive. It went like this: 512kb, 4mb, 50mb, 512mb, 1.18GB, 8.6GB, 40GB (37.7GB), 80GB (77GB), 120 GB.
Before you try assuming ("which I am certain), yes I have actually looked at the source code. Let's look at this. Doom was released in 1993. The source code was released in 1997, and now you're saying in 2004 that they didn't get the algorithms that have now been used for over ten years perfectly the first time? It's not like there was tutorials on "how to make a 3d (ok psuedo-2d) game on the internet, they were doing it from scratch. (slight exaggeration!) I think a better piece of source code is that of hexen, when they were actually confident about what they were doing.
I think you've proven my point.
And no, I don't think that I've exaggerated his effect - he pioneered 3D games - and since about 95% of modern games are 3D now, I think that's a rather large effort.
Following up: Here's a quote I like from the Time article
As radical as it was 11 years ago, Doom looks pathetically crude compared with Carmack's new brainchild. A first glance at a computer screen running Doom 3 is confusing to the eye: the illusion the game creates is so realistic. The secret? Light. Carmack has spent the past four years painstakingly studying optics, and he has figured out how to make photons bounce around in a virtual space in much the same way that they do in the real world. Suddenly, pebbly surfaces cast pebbly shadows. Air ripples from the heat of a broken steam pipe. There is a crispness to details, a weight and solidity to objects and figures, a lifelike sheen to surfaces in Doom 3 that is unlike anything we've seen before.
As a budding (I'm not a world leader by any standards) software engineer, I feel obliged to respond.
There's an enormous difference between a "good" programmer and a "bad" programmer, especially in the gaming and graphics industries.
A "bad" programmer does this: He programs just what he has to do. He doesn't critically analyze his programs. He has no sence of programming style, and follows the General bad programming rules.
A "good" programmer strives to innovate. Not only does he have good style, optimises his work, comments his work (basically the opposite of the advice given in the link above), but he also thinks about new ways to do something. The main differences between the "good" mechanic or the "good" plumber, and a "good" programmer, is that a mechanic and plumber is taught to do everything exactly the same every time, and the more exact you have it, the better the job that's considered to be done. While there are differences between a mechanic fifty years ago and a mechanic now (mostly because of the computerization of cars now-a-days), it's still a very similar job. A good programmer constantly tries to think of new ways to do things.
John Carmack writing Laberynth figured out a new way of making games look 3D. He pioneered a new genre with a one (notably unsuccessful game). This took enormous innovative skills. In every one of his games he's done something new and creative - even in Doom 3 he made several new routines: the Z-Fail algorithm, the Carmack Mirror (I might be wrong with the name there - I'm doing this adlib), as well as a couple of geometry-reduction algorithms etc. That's what makes him a good programmer.
I've been using linux for the desktop for years now. After it's set up properly (which is indeed an ordeal) things run wonderfully. Programs are updated automatically. News reports (including slashdot) are beamed to my desktop. Everything runs like it should, and the functionality is more than windows would be after weeks and hundreds of dollars of effort. Windows users just look it and scream "AAH it's different!!!"
Please don't tell me that linux is not ready for the desktop.
I know the feeling. I typed my credit card number into Internet Explorer and it still sent my money to Microsoft, even though Microsoft isn't even developing IE anymore.
I have linux on my desktop. My favourite game at the moment is Unreal Tournament 2004, which goes no problems on the linux desktop. I'm waiting quite patiently for Doom 3 which will go no problems on the linux desktop.
Yes the frame rates are slightly lower (about 5fps, not nearly enough to detect without a fps counter) on UT2004, but I don't care. Using linux is alot better at the moment than my windows system ever was. It runs more reliably, it has almost no TCO, and it looks alot better than what I got with windows XP after trying ten times harder.
You obviously haven't used linux on a desktop in the last couple of years. Trust me, it isn't overblown.
I like using AdBlock with the setting to just hide the ads instead of not download them at all activated. This doesn't really hurt anyone (I don't usually look at the ads anyway, and refuse to click it even if it is tempting and catching my eye, so the ad companies don't really lose money, and the site still gets their view).
The Adelaide O-Bahn has been around for years, going on the road in the inner city but gliding around on tracks at over 100km/h on tracks to destinations.
It's supposedly (according to their advertising) the fastest bus service in the world, as well as extremely cost-efficient. I think that it's fun as well and a great tourist attraction!
Slashdot Mirror
heh, and since people entering in comp university courses are at a low . . .
it's true especially in the comp sci world. Most comp sci girls that I've delt with are quite shy and definitely subtle with their feelings, which is a bit stupid because you could hit some of the guys here with crowbars and they wouldn't know they were being talked to.
I'm not sure that there's really a market for this in the home - most people get large tvs or use flat walls/screens for a home theatre and I don't see that changing, if only because it looks better normally.
damn, it must have already been taken offline as I'm getting a "domain name could not be found" error.
hey, I deleted dos when I was about 8 years old . . . so yes.
Also I'm wondering (I don't actually know, this isn't a smart-arsed answer) what happens when you just put a single character before or after the dictionary word. (say Total8) Surely the dictionary checkers don't check this...
I am an Australian, so I do know that slashdot is read around the world. I'm also a realist, so I also realise that the executives in America won't know or care about a complaint made in Australia.
To Mr Gates,
I'm not sure what your methodology that linux won't be ready for the desktop unless you install some microsoft programs on it. Perhaps you should instead criticise Microsoft Office for not rendering OpenOffice documents at all, and Internet Explorer for not rendering the actual HTML standard properly, making people having to adapt with hard-coding their web-pages. Perhaps you mean that it just won't beat Microsoft unless it mimics it in every way.
As for this comment:
All the applications he lists (OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNU Cash) are no where near the level of their Windows counterparts. They are close but they are not the same. Yeah, you can always get stuff to work with your Linux software and I spent years doing just that. Regular Joe Blow User does not want to do anything but point, click, and go.
I just habitually picked up last (or was it the month before? It says July anyway) months PC User Magazine and looked at the scores in a huge software-comparison test they had. I turned to the browsers page and, what was this? Internet Explorer gets 6/10. It's described as "relic" and "outdated". They mention at the "porous security" (and I don't even know what "porous" means, but it sounds bad). Mozilla Firefox 0.8 get's 8/10 (Firefox has since been updated . . . IE hasn't), and normal Mozilla 1.7 gets 9/10.
I then turned to the office suite page. My faith was restored - Works Suite got 7/10, and Open Office got 6.5/10. Wasn't exactly a flogging though was it?
Unfortunately GNU Cash wasn't reviewed - this is a windows magazine, not that I use either it or Money or Quicken anyway.
I then tried installing them on an old computer that didn't have them automatically installed on debian. I tried it two ways. One of them was just typing "apt-get install openoffice gnucash mozilla". A half-hour later it was done without any input (shocking time amount I know - it said it had to download 80 megabytes! DOWNLOAD I say!). I tried doing the same thing on a windows machine, and it said "bad command"! I actually had to go on the internet, DOWNLOAD (shock horror), then find and run the file for firefox (I'd since abandoned Internet Explorer after reading the article above that said it was crap)! I also had to go to the store and (uhem pretend to) buy Office and Quicken and put the cd in and find out what the hell they meant with their supposed "wizards".
The other way with linux, incidentely, was to open up synaptec, point and click on gnucash, mozilla, and openoffice. The hardest part was remembering the root password.
Note also that I had to do this on debian - the other distros that I had already had them installed.
Incidentely a trusty google search of "DVD Shrink Linux" showed that it works on linux under wine though admittedly not without work. But there's your program.
I also managed to test this comment here:
Right and when you get new hardware, plug it in, and restart, what does XP do? Hey, holy shit user, you have new hardware, we need drivers! Oh wait, we have them right here, no recompiles or modules need to be loaded. It's a digital camera you say? Wow, would you like to open the files on the camera and work with Photoshop or some random preloaded Windows software or would you like to save them to a directory on your HD?
I decided to install two different pieces of hardware, one of them a NetComm Network Card (my old one broke down) and one of them a Canon S200SPx printer.
The NetComm network card did just as you said. It looked for drivers on the Windows system and found them - worked fine after a few seconds.
The Linux system skimped with the dialog - it just worked (a bit of an anticlimax there) . . . I think I'd give that to linux.
So even after one test. Here goes the printer, which I previously looked on the internet which said it was incompatable with linux. Anyways, in linux unexpectedly I
And as an addon, you have to look no further than the Great Firewall of China to see that free speech isn't constitutional everywhere.
I'm not sure what the point of calling penguin in any country other than america (or perhaps England) is. The poor help-desk people won't immediately write to Katie T and tell her of the travesty somone in Australia discovered.
Just stick to where it may actually faesably matter, and not make a poor underpaid kid's working life a bit more of a hell.
Couldn't she sue for emotional damages or something of the like? It's a bitter irony that Katie T writes a book about being a victom of internet anomosity then victomises a stranger herself. Surely Katie J should get something under law for her suffering!
Unfortunately I can't as of a month ago when I bought a 120gb drive. It went like this: 512kb, 4mb, 50mb, 512mb, 1.18GB, 8.6GB, 40GB (37.7GB), 80GB (77GB), 120 GB.
I'm sorry, I'm a programmer - I also never claimed to be grammatically correct or consistent with any writing I do!
My intent was to say that a good programmer should do those things, but what makes a programmer a good one is that he can innovate.
Before you try assuming ("which I am certain), yes I have actually looked at the source code. Let's look at this. Doom was released in 1993. The source code was released in 1997, and now you're saying in 2004 that they didn't get the algorithms that have now been used for over ten years perfectly the first time? It's not like there was tutorials on "how to make a 3d (ok psuedo-2d) game on the internet, they were doing it from scratch. (slight exaggeration!) I think a better piece of source code is that of hexen, when they were actually confident about what they were doing.
I think you've proven my point.
And no, I don't think that I've exaggerated his effect - he pioneered 3D games - and since about 95% of modern games are 3D now, I think that's a rather large effort.
stop complaining - here in Australia we'll be getting it for around $110 (look at exchange rates you're looking at about US$80).
I hope I've proven my point
As a budding (I'm not a world leader by any standards) software engineer, I feel obliged to respond.
There's an enormous difference between a "good" programmer and a "bad" programmer, especially in the gaming and graphics industries.
A "bad" programmer does this: He programs just what he has to do. He doesn't critically analyze his programs. He has no sence of programming style, and follows the General bad programming rules.
A "good" programmer strives to innovate. Not only does he have good style, optimises his work, comments his work (basically the opposite of the advice given in the link above), but he also thinks about new ways to do something. The main differences between the "good" mechanic or the "good" plumber, and a "good" programmer, is that a mechanic and plumber is taught to do everything exactly the same every time, and the more exact you have it, the better the job that's considered to be done. While there are differences between a mechanic fifty years ago and a mechanic now (mostly because of the computerization of cars now-a-days), it's still a very similar job. A good programmer constantly tries to think of new ways to do things.
John Carmack writing Laberynth figured out a new way of making games look 3D. He pioneered a new genre with a one (notably unsuccessful game). This took enormous innovative skills. In every one of his games he's done something new and creative - even in Doom 3 he made several new routines: the Z-Fail algorithm, the Carmack Mirror (I might be wrong with the name there - I'm doing this adlib), as well as a couple of geometry-reduction algorithms etc. That's what makes him a good programmer.
I've been using linux for the desktop for years now. After it's set up properly (which is indeed an ordeal) things run wonderfully. Programs are updated automatically. News reports (including slashdot) are beamed to my desktop. Everything runs like it should, and the functionality is more than windows would be after weeks and hundreds of dollars of effort.
Windows users just look it and scream "AAH it's different!!!"
Please don't tell me that linux is not ready for the desktop.
I know the feeling. I typed my credit card number into Internet Explorer and it still sent my money to Microsoft, even though Microsoft isn't even developing IE anymore.
C'mon - lets get more nostalgic. How bout Doomsday?
I have linux on my desktop. My favourite game at the moment is Unreal Tournament 2004, which goes no problems on the linux desktop. I'm waiting quite patiently for Doom 3 which will go no problems on the linux desktop.
Yes the frame rates are slightly lower (about 5fps, not nearly enough to detect without a fps counter) on UT2004, but I don't care. Using linux is alot better at the moment than my windows system ever was. It runs more reliably, it has almost no TCO, and it looks alot better than what I got with windows XP after trying ten times harder.
You obviously haven't used linux on a desktop in the last couple of years. Trust me, it isn't overblown.
I like using AdBlock with the setting to just hide the ads instead of not download them at all activated. This doesn't really hurt anyone (I don't usually look at the ads anyway, and refuse to click it even if it is tempting and catching my eye, so the ad companies don't really lose money, and the site still gets their view).
I can hear it now:
"Oh god, Oh god, Longhorn is supporting HD DVD!"
read it - it said INTEGER intersection in the article.
You could at least take the time to copy and paste your quotes.
The Adelaide O-Bahn has been around for years, going on the road in the inner city but gliding around on tracks at over 100km/h on tracks to destinations.
It's supposedly (according to their advertising) the fastest bus service in the world, as well as extremely cost-efficient. I think that it's fun as well and a great tourist attraction!