Let's see, a half dozen blinking lights vs. memtest86. I think I know which diagnostic tool I trust more. This is completely cosmetic, it serves absolutely no practical purpose.
id Software seems to be interested in just making games that work. They're friendly to older cards, work fine on both ATI and nVidia (that's why they're used as a benchmark so often), and they actually care about the Linux and Apple markets. They only games I've bought or played in recent memory have been id games, or at least based on an id engine.
If Half-Life 2 isn't going to work on nVidia cards, or if they decide to completely ignore everyone but the Windows market, I'll just wait for Doom 3. I can be sure id won't do that.
Binary only under a proprietary license. They're decent, though. On par with the Windows counterparts, and latest hardware tends to be supported. No (official) 2.6 support yet, though. There's a patch, but I haven't had much luck with it.
Broadcom has been asked. They have been asked many times. There's a petition with 3400 names and counting. Broadcom doesn't care about the Linux market. They've made that very clear. Right now, the best chance for Broadcom Linux drivers looks to be the reverse engineering project, which doesn't seem to be going very well at this point.
I bought a Linksys card with the Broadcom chipset a couple weeks ago, not knowing about the driver issue. I've since returned it and bought the (cheaper) D-Link card. Unless Broadcom changes their attitude, I'm never going to buy another product from them again, even if third party drivers are available.
Interesting. My original post was intended to be a joke, I didn't realize people switched from Windows for this reason. I originally looked into alternative operating systems because I just like playing around with different things, Windows didn't neccessarily push me into it, though it was a factor. Still, with students, the familiarity of Windows is likely to outweigh the frustration for the majority. It would be interesting to look into how many students explore alternatives after leaving a program like this one.
At least in my experience, the more one uses Microsoft products, the more one does not want to ever use any again. If we force kids to use nothing but Windows for 4 years, surely they will look for an alternative the moment the opportunity arises.
It's already easy to sneak weapons on board airplanes. When I flew to Hawaii, I forgot to take my box cutters out of my wallet. Nobody noticed. Not at the international security terminal at O'Hare, and not at the domestic security terminal in LA. Now if I'm not mistaken, box cutters are exactly what the 9/11 terrorists used. Yet they didn't notice mine, and I wasn't even trying to hide them. How much easier can it get?
7.6 miles at 12.5 MPH would take ~37 minutes. Are you suggesting they spent 4 times as much time lunching, resting, pissing, and falling over as they did riding?
And another thing, what would they possibly need rest from? All that strenuous leaning forward?
The Windows version isn't "free", it's "non-commercial". Trolltech does not see the point in releasing Qt under the GPL in Windows, since the entire Windows operating system is proprietary. They do release the latest version under the GPL for MacOS X.
The free version is released under both the QPL and the GPL, you only have to accept one of those two licenses to use it, not both. So if the QPL bothers you, just accept the terms of the GPL instead.
I'd rather spam filtering be left to myself. Any decent e-mail client has the capability for filtering, and by doing that way, I have control over what gets thrown out and what doesn't. I would not trust AOL to tell my what e-mail I should and shouldn't read. That, of course, is one of the many reasons why I would never be an AOL customer.
KDE's KPackage has an apt frontend, and I would be surprised if there wasn't an emerge frontend for Gentoo. All I have to do is go to the Special menu and choose 'APT: Debian->Upgrade'.
Most people don't use the latest version of MS Office. The vast majority are on either 97 or 2K. They'd be screwing over the majority of their user base as well as the open source community. I doubt they really care about Gnumeric, since it doesn't compete directly with MS Office. OOo is more of a problem to them.
Linksys 802.11g cards (and the new version of their 802.11b PCI card) don't work in linux. The chipset manufaturer, Broadcom, is holding back specifications on the card. If you want 802.11g in linux, the best solution is the D-Link card, or the Netgear one. Both use the Intersil Prism GT chipset. Intersil is very open about their design, and supports the development of open source drivers for Linux and other operating systems. Even if Broadcom were to open up, Intersil is more likely the company you would be wanting to give money to.
Still, drivers for the Broadcom chipset would be nice, so take a minute to sign the petition.
That's funny, when I want to install something I just open up KPackage, search through it for a program that does what I want, and install it. If it's a KDE app, it'll show up in the KDE menu. Though I find navigating through menus annoying, so I usually just hit Alt-F2 and type the name of the program.
In Windows, it's a nightmare. My start menu takes about 20 seconds to load, since every program decides it deserves two submenus of its own. I can run a command like I do in Linux, but of course Windows doesn't have a common binary directory, so %PATH% is useless, and I have to type out the whole thing.
This is their secret plan to get more slashdot subscribers. Post a bunch of geocities crap, so that anyone who wants to read it has to buy a subscription and get to it before it's posted. Of course, this plan will inevitably fail, since nobody actually bothers to RTFA.
If you testify in court that you were helping a stab victim, then it is not in question whether or not you were at the scene of the crime, you've already admitted you were. DNA evidence proving you were there is pointless.
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Let's see, a half dozen blinking lights vs. memtest86. I think I know which diagnostic tool I trust more. This is completely cosmetic, it serves absolutely no practical purpose.
id Software seems to be interested in just making games that work. They're friendly to older cards, work fine on both ATI and nVidia (that's why they're used as a benchmark so often), and they actually care about the Linux and Apple markets. They only games I've bought or played in recent memory have been id games, or at least based on an id engine.
If Half-Life 2 isn't going to work on nVidia cards, or if they decide to completely ignore everyone but the Windows market, I'll just wait for Doom 3. I can be sure id won't do that.
Sorry to disappoint, but I don't believe they do that in flight.
[Disclaimer: IANAO (I am not an ornithologist)]
Binary only under a proprietary license. They're decent, though. On par with the Windows counterparts, and latest hardware tends to be supported. No (official) 2.6 support yet, though. There's a patch, but I haven't had much luck with it.
They don't, but their children might. That was the great great grandparent's (or whatever, I forget who) point was.
Broadcom has been asked. They have been asked many times. There's a petition with 3400 names and counting. Broadcom doesn't care about the Linux market. They've made that very clear. Right now, the best chance for Broadcom Linux drivers looks to be the reverse engineering project, which doesn't seem to be going very well at this point.
I bought a Linksys card with the Broadcom chipset a couple weeks ago, not knowing about the driver issue. I've since returned it and bought the (cheaper) D-Link card. Unless Broadcom changes their attitude, I'm never going to buy another product from them again, even if third party drivers are available.
Or just say screw Broadcom and buy a D-Link or a Netgear card. The wlan-ng project supports the Prism GT 802.11g chipset.
Interesting. My original post was intended to be a joke, I didn't realize people switched from Windows for this reason. I originally looked into alternative operating systems because I just like playing around with different things, Windows didn't neccessarily push me into it, though it was a factor. Still, with students, the familiarity of Windows is likely to outweigh the frustration for the majority. It would be interesting to look into how many students explore alternatives after leaving a program like this one.
At least in my experience, the more one uses Microsoft products, the more one does not want to ever use any again. If we force kids to use nothing but Windows for 4 years, surely they will look for an alternative the moment the opportunity arises.
It's already easy to sneak weapons on board airplanes. When I flew to Hawaii, I forgot to take my box cutters out of my wallet. Nobody noticed. Not at the international security terminal at O'Hare, and not at the domestic security terminal in LA. Now if I'm not mistaken, box cutters are exactly what the 9/11 terrorists used. Yet they didn't notice mine, and I wasn't even trying to hide them. How much easier can it get?
And pens won't work either, because you can easily photocopy a signature and trace over it. Oh well, back to the drawing board...
7.6 miles at 12.5 MPH would take ~37 minutes. Are you suggesting they spent 4 times as much time lunching, resting, pissing, and falling over as they did riding?
And another thing, what would they possibly need rest from? All that strenuous leaning forward?
The Windows version isn't "free", it's "non-commercial". Trolltech does not see the point in releasing Qt under the GPL in Windows, since the entire Windows operating system is proprietary. They do release the latest version under the GPL for MacOS X.
The free version is released under both the QPL and the GPL, you only have to accept one of those two licenses to use it, not both. So if the QPL bothers you, just accept the terms of the GPL instead.
I'd rather spam filtering be left to myself. Any decent e-mail client has the capability for filtering, and by doing that way, I have control over what gets thrown out and what doesn't. I would not trust AOL to tell my what e-mail I should and shouldn't read. That, of course, is one of the many reasons why I would never be an AOL customer.
Results using this method:
www.google.com - 638,000
www.cnn.com - 624,000
www.yahoo.com - 381,000
www.msnbc.com - 199,000
www.msn.com - 76,600
www.searchking.com - 1,010
Google still has significantly more than MSN. More than Yahoo, even.
KDE's KPackage has an apt frontend, and I would be surprised if there wasn't an emerge frontend for Gentoo. All I have to do is go to the Special menu and choose 'APT: Debian->Upgrade'.
Microsoft XML and rest-of-the-world XML are two completely different things. MS uses a proprietary schema. It's no better than the old .doc format.
Most people don't use the latest version of MS Office. The vast majority are on either 97 or 2K. They'd be screwing over the majority of their user base as well as the open source community. I doubt they really care about Gnumeric, since it doesn't compete directly with MS Office. OOo is more of a problem to them.
Linksys 802.11g cards (and the new version of their 802.11b PCI card) don't work in linux. The chipset manufaturer, Broadcom, is holding back specifications on the card. If you want 802.11g in linux, the best solution is the D-Link card, or the Netgear one. Both use the Intersil Prism GT chipset. Intersil is very open about their design, and supports the development of open source drivers for Linux and other operating systems. Even if Broadcom were to open up, Intersil is more likely the company you would be wanting to give money to.
Still, drivers for the Broadcom chipset would be nice, so take a minute to sign the petition.
What do you expect? They're engineers.
That's funny, when I want to install something I just open up KPackage, search through it for a program that does what I want, and install it. If it's a KDE app, it'll show up in the KDE menu. Though I find navigating through menus annoying, so I usually just hit Alt-F2 and type the name of the program.
In Windows, it's a nightmare. My start menu takes about 20 seconds to load, since every program decides it deserves two submenus of its own. I can run a command like I do in Linux, but of course Windows doesn't have a common binary directory, so %PATH% is useless, and I have to type out the whole thing.
This is their secret plan to get more slashdot subscribers. Post a bunch of geocities crap, so that anyone who wants to read it has to buy a subscription and get to it before it's posted. Of course, this plan will inevitably fail, since nobody actually bothers to RTFA.
Explain to me how DNA demonstrates motive.
If you testify in court that you were helping a stab victim, then it is not in question whether or not you were at the scene of the crime, you've already admitted you were. DNA evidence proving you were there is pointless.