In each example you quote someone makes a recommendation to stay with the market leader of the time and each of those recommendations proved to be wrong. Today Microsoft is the unquestioned market leader. Don't your examples really contradict your argument?
Don't believe it. My company's national network was shut down last week by the Slammer Worm. Yes, the IT department was behind in patches (not that it's difficult, MS released 25 + SP3 by our count since last October), but you can bet someone's chestnusts are roasting on an open fire back at head office as a direct consequence of using Microsoft product.
Re:JPEGs for font rendering examples?
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Libranet 2.8 Review
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Looks fine on this Gentoo box. In fact, I recently compared a new XP Pro notebook from work, an Nvidia Go P4, side-by-side with this AA'd P2 w/ ATI 4 meg video card and the screen rendering on the Gentoo box looked leagues better to my eye. (Am I correct that XP doesn't anti-alias, relying instead on the quality of their fonts?) This was comparing IE to Phoenix. Compared to 'links' compiled with svga support, the gap was greater still.
No troll intended, in my experience an anti-aliased xfree desktop now renders fonts as far ahead of XP as Windows once was ahead of xfree.
Rep. Joe Barton (news, bio, voting record), a member of the House Science Committee's space and aeronautics panel, wants the government to build a new, safer space vehicle or modify the shuttle so it can be flown unmanned.
It's a pure safety argument that includes pouring more 'billions' into the existing Space Shuttles. Ironic for a Congressman from a state that has no problem with liquor and firearms in moving vehicles.
Holding all of Slashdot to blame for Timothy submissions isn't fair or accurate. Of all the editors, he closest fits the goat/grits/Portman style. Need more examples, check out "Windows Security Through Annoyances?" and "RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder" from the last 24 hours.
"How is it today Canada is more free then (sic) the US?"
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely?
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Looking at Longhorn
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2000 and XP already support drive mounts. Microsfot just hid it really well, no doubt to make it easier on the support lines.
Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Disk Management
Select the partition, right click on 'Change Drice Letter and Paths' , select 'Change' and you'll be presented with two option. One is to mount the drive as a traditional letter, the other as a directory.
One sentence synopsis: Install's a pain, upkeep's a dream. The RPM version: Install's a dream, upkeep's a pain. Pick your poison. (BTW, funny, funny post. Shame to waste it as an AC.)
No one designs systems targeted at the past. The recommendations are for the next gen, not the last. Graph speed, storage capacity and computational power per $ vs. time and you'll realize you and your freinds will soon be in the tiny minority.
Microlith, could you do us all the honour of pointing out one of these 'bad attitude' linux users? The post above yours was tongue-in-cheek, doesn't count. It was humour. That's why the last line begins "But seriously..." and it's modded 'Funny'. How many hints do you need?:P
Regarding ease of installation, how's 'emerge packagname' do? Maybe FreeBSD's 'add_pkg -r packagename'? Both find the software on the Internet, download and install it while I'm watching cartoons. No need to even get out of my jammies and drive to CompuWorld.
Sounds like you need to step away from the computer and watch some cartoons too.
Not what I remember. The install docs are on the CD. Alt-F2 to open a second console, then 'less README.TXT' or 'less README' to view the instructions. The last Gentoo install I did was 1.2, so this may have changed.
Correct, emerge doesn't automatically pick 'the latest stuff'. Which distro does? The true route to madness for any distro designer is to insure all the default installs are cutting edge. Forcing a higher version is simple, use 'emerge explicit-path-to-ebuild'. Typing 'emerge icewm' builds the default, tested and solid verion, 'emerge/usr/portage/x11-wm/icewm/icewm.x.x.x.ebuild' builds whichever one you chose. There are other methods as well. On the other hand, if an exploit is found a new ebuild for the package is up almost immediately.
Regarding svga lib, Gentoo has a large number of default build parameters in/etc/make.profile/make.defaults, one of them being svga support. Links with svga support is awesome, and what I'm using to post right now (links -g). To remove it, add -svga to your USE variables in/etc/make.conf . I always do 'emerge --pretend packagename' before an emerge to see what will be installed.
Lastly, something doesn't jibe between your claim of aiming for a minimal install and a 3 day compile. My 192 meg P2-366 notebook took an evening. KDE and OpenOffice (the latter if compiled from source, instant-install binary versions are also available) are reputed to take days on slower machines.
While the Gentoo install and USE variable configs are complicated and well beyond the capabilities of new users, post-installation upkeep is a dream. It's a hard-core distro more suited to geeks and business environments. Sounds to me as if you simply didn't know enough going in.
Shielded cables or not, it's the antennas that are susceptible to interfering radiation. It's a matter of occuped frequency, not just signal strength.
An Industry Canada official once related to me how a Vancouver-bound passenger liner was thrown thirty degrees off course by the spurious radiation of a passengers's Chinese/English translator. As a result, all FM transmissions exceeding 1 watt at frequencies higher than 100 MHZ must undergo a NAVCOM testing and approval period (NAVCOM operates just above the FM band.)
My guess is that in Hans' mind team leaders of the Important Stuff (cough....cough...files systems..) deserve much more credit than the authors of XBill, Ion or Samba Swat module plugins. There is no way to credit the tens of thousands who make any one distribution possible. And what about IBM, Netscape, and Sun, corporations who devote sums and labour no one individual can match? How can this not devolve into another opportunity for commercial advertising?
The proposal is grotesquely and transparently self-serving, in my opinion incredibly short-sighted and not made with the best interest of the entire developer community in mind. Hans is beckoning developers to OSS hell.
Developers can do what they want already. They don't because they know it will alienate users, but Help>About isn't enough for Hans. Hans is proposing credit - let's be blunt: commercials for the developers - be a mandated condition of the software license, universally and continually forced on users in screensavers and splashscreens. This isn't due credit, this is megalomania. I can already hear his next argument, that the name Reiser should be displayed equal time on all distros carrying his FS, whether the user chose to activate it or not. Equal time, fair, right?
I use OSS precisely because it's not personality and marketing driven in user-land. The day Hans' proposal bears fruit is the day I buy a Mac.
Depends how old you are. The cartoons I watched as a child were originally created as theater shorts - Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, etc - before Hollywood cynics learned to cash the images in on the side of burger glasses. The first real shift from genuine attempt to entertain to crass commercialism began in the sixties. Today it infects every aspect of the entertainment industries. Think Lucas.
What no one's mentioned so far is how a company's actions off the screen ruined feelings towards their cartoons. I was never a big fan to start but, after what they've done to our fair use rights, Disney will never see another dime from my pocket.
Hey, at least you weren't destructive. My little brother's friends made a sport of playing with peek and poke commands to torch in-store display phosphors.
Rating shows which span a 30 year period is always a tricky proposition. My perspective on this is that TOS stood tall above almost all the TV fare of its time and was the unquestioned king of SF. Voyager, on the other hand, fell to the bottom amongst its peers. Give me Lexx or Babylon 5 (or DS9) any day. I found it insufferable.
To point out the painfully obvious, AbiWord doesn't open OO files because the team doesn't consider it worth the effort at this point. Word has orders of magnitude more users than OO. To draw from your own post, the Word doc format had to be reverse engineered, whereas OO is open source. If the developers really cared they could just look at the code and see what the OO doc format is. As can any others. I'm not sure what the multi-vendor relevance is, you mean I can call CompUSA when a doc doesn't open?
Arguing that the OO doc format is more closed than Word because the Abiword developers haven't implemented a filter for the former is visual misdirection, at best.
Paraphrasing: "I shudder to think on what legal basis the RIAA could be permitted doing this. If anything like that existed, it would probably be sweeping and be a threat to P2P and IM in general. "
Sounds like an accurate, if wildly understated, description of the RIAA's intent with DRM.
Intimidated? Play, break, play again. It's free. Learning? It's fun, I find more fun than having to learn and relearn Windows./usr? Pop up regedit and poke around,/usr will be transformed in your eyes into a paragon of clarity and order. W(ho)TF cares what it was called two or ten years ago?
Mozilla now and Netscape then are two completely different beasts. My understanding is Mozilla is approaching an OS in terms of power and versatility (and size!) Had the team instead done as you suggest and try to reach this level based on the code of a browser, my guesses are it wouldn't have worked and people would be ragging them for carrying legacy code a la Windows 9x and DOS.
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In each example you quote someone makes a recommendation to stay with the market leader of the time and each of those recommendations proved to be wrong. Today Microsoft is the unquestioned market leader. Don't your examples really contradict your argument?
Don't believe it. My company's national network was shut down last week by the Slammer Worm. Yes, the IT department was behind in patches (not that it's difficult, MS released 25 + SP3 by our count since last October), but you can bet someone's chestnusts are roasting on an open fire back at head office as a direct consequence of using Microsoft product.
No troll intended, in my experience an anti-aliased xfree desktop now renders fonts as far ahead of XP as Windows once was ahead of xfree.
Prove it.
Rep. Joe Barton (news, bio, voting record), a member of the House Science Committee's space and aeronautics panel, wants the government to build a new, safer space vehicle or modify the shuttle so it can be flown unmanned.
It's a pure safety argument that includes pouring more 'billions' into the existing Space Shuttles. Ironic for a Congressman from a state that has no problem with liquor and firearms in moving vehicles.
Holding all of Slashdot to blame for Timothy submissions isn't fair or accurate. Of all the editors, he closest fits the goat/grits/Portman style. Need more examples, check out "Windows Security Through Annoyances?" and "RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder" from the last 24 hours.
Is there a spoon boy? There is no spoonboy42.
In computer land, Microsoft is the corporate culture.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely?
Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Disk Management
Select the partition, right click on 'Change Drice Letter and Paths' , select 'Change' and you'll be presented with two option. One is to mount the drive as a traditional letter, the other as a directory.
One sentence synopsis: Install's a pain, upkeep's a dream. The RPM version: Install's a dream, upkeep's a pain. Pick your poison. (BTW, funny, funny post. Shame to waste it as an AC.)
No one designs systems targeted at the past. The recommendations are for the next gen, not the last. Graph speed, storage capacity and computational power per $ vs. time and you'll realize you and your freinds will soon be in the tiny minority.
Regarding ease of installation, how's 'emerge packagname' do? Maybe FreeBSD's 'add_pkg -r packagename'? Both find the software on the Internet, download and install it while I'm watching cartoons. No need to even get out of my jammies and drive to CompuWorld.
Sounds like you need to step away from the computer and watch some cartoons too.
Correct, emerge doesn't automatically pick 'the latest stuff'. Which distro does? The true route to madness for any distro designer is to insure all the default installs are cutting edge. Forcing a higher version is simple, use 'emerge explicit-path-to-ebuild'. Typing 'emerge icewm' builds the default, tested and solid verion, 'emerge /usr/portage/x11-wm/icewm/icewm.x.x.x.ebuild' builds whichever one you chose. There are other methods as well. On the other hand, if an exploit is found a new ebuild for the package is up almost immediately.
Regarding svga lib, Gentoo has a large number of default build parameters in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults, one of them being svga support. Links with svga support is awesome, and what I'm using to post right now (links -g). To remove it, add -svga to your USE variables in /etc/make.conf . I always do 'emerge --pretend packagename' before an emerge to see what will be installed.
Lastly, something doesn't jibe between your claim of aiming for a minimal install and a 3 day compile. My 192 meg P2-366 notebook took an evening. KDE and OpenOffice (the latter if compiled from source, instant-install binary versions are also available) are reputed to take days on slower machines.
While the Gentoo install and USE variable configs are complicated and well beyond the capabilities of new users, post-installation upkeep is a dream. It's a hard-core distro more suited to geeks and business environments. Sounds to me as if you simply didn't know enough going in.
An Industry Canada official once related to me how a Vancouver-bound passenger liner was thrown thirty degrees off course by the spurious radiation of a passengers's Chinese/English translator. As a result, all FM transmissions exceeding 1 watt at frequencies higher than 100 MHZ must undergo a NAVCOM testing and approval period (NAVCOM operates just above the FM band.)
The proposal is grotesquely and transparently self-serving, in my opinion incredibly short-sighted and not made with the best interest of the entire developer community in mind. Hans is beckoning developers to OSS hell.
I use OSS precisely because it's not personality and marketing driven in user-land. The day Hans' proposal bears fruit is the day I buy a Mac.
What no one's mentioned so far is how a company's actions off the screen ruined feelings towards their cartoons. I was never a big fan to start but, after what they've done to our fair use rights, Disney will never see another dime from my pocket.
Hey, at least you weren't destructive. My little brother's friends made a sport of playing with peek and poke commands to torch in-store display phosphors.
Rating shows which span a 30 year period is always a tricky proposition. My perspective on this is that TOS stood tall above almost all the TV fare of its time and was the unquestioned king of SF. Voyager, on the other hand, fell to the bottom amongst its peers. Give me Lexx or Babylon 5 (or DS9) any day. I found it insufferable.
Or a hand cut off. Ya, that's it, a hand. Works in Iran.
Arguing that the OO doc format is more closed than Word because the Abiword developers haven't implemented a filter for the former is visual misdirection, at best.
Sounds like an accurate, if wildly understated, description of the RIAA's intent with DRM.
Intimidated? Play, break, play again. It's free. Learning? It's fun, I find more fun than having to learn and relearn Windows. /usr? Pop up regedit and poke around, /usr will be transformed in your eyes into a paragon of clarity and order. W(ho)TF cares what it was called two or ten years ago?
Mozilla now and Netscape then are two completely different beasts. My understanding is Mozilla is approaching an OS in terms of power and versatility (and size!) Had the team instead done as you suggest and try to reach this level based on the code of a browser, my guesses are it wouldn't have worked and people would be ragging them for carrying legacy code a la Windows 9x and DOS.