I have been doing a PhD in Maths for almost 3 years (should finish in March....in theory). Anyway, I use Kile on a Gnome desktop and its the best latex setup ive ever seen. It has forward and backward searching with KDVI. I have a dual monitor setup so that my tex is on the left and dvi preview on the right. I would say it has saved me months of time compared to the losers using winedt;)
As for distro, Ubuntu is ok for a beginner but I use Gentoo....whatever, it doesnt really matter that much.
Thats quite an interesting argument. I agree with what you are saying but on the other side, look at firefox. I personally think the more people use it (instead of IE), the better. If we have a higher percentage of alternative browsers out there, its better for us!
Heh, to be honest, I haven't contributed anything to GIMP itself (but a little to other OS projects) although I am not the evil person you describe who fills the IRC channels:D
Yes, I do know people that dont use it because of the name. Now I personally like the name for the same reason you do. I told a photographer once "I use GIMP...it does almost everything PS does but its free!" and his response was to laugh at the name and ignore me.
At the end of the day, I dont mind too much because I use GIMP and its great! I havent used PS since about 2000ish (when I made the linux switch...jeez, its improved a lot since then!)
Ahh, yes, but it depends from which side you take the limit. Not taking the limit at all means that the "bang for buck" is undefined!
However, I think you meant to say "as buck tends to zero from the right, the bang for buck tends to infinity"....however, I doubt I would want to use this free graphics card:)
Remember, firefox is stillonly 10% and I estimate about 50% of the world simply wont switch. I have experienced these silly close minded people before..."but there is nothing wrong with IE. I will continue to use it"...meh
I am a scout leader myself (In Australia though...so it may be different).
I was told right from the start that you may believe in any god. I asked about atheism and there is an alternate scout law that you can say that does not contain the word "god".
I am a strong atheist myself so our troop has nothing to do with religion but we do outdoor activities instead of having children sitting at home playing their xbox.
A lot of mp3 players out there do support WMV. Of course, the iPod doesn't, so I see your point. I would never use WMV myself, mp3 is so "portable", ogg is nice, but not portable:(
Either way, this should be very interesting to watch. The iPod has too much market share and I can't see that going away any time soon. I just bought a 30GB video one myself, works great accept for the few oggs that I have:(
400 mil in US terms is almost half a billion. Sure, in perspective it isnt that much but that money was spent on the "start ups", not all of OSS. I think you need to put things into perspective.
2005 saw overall growth in OSS. It isnt going to overtake the world, but it is a step in the right direction.
-They wanted to charge 50c for EFT's....thats a rip off (that was the real reason;))
Anyway, the first reason was about 5% because the only problem FF had was that they would display a message saying something like "you should use IE, your browser is crappy". FF did work fine once you went past that page.
The great thing about Kazaa is that it is distracting the **AA for the moment. Sure nobody uses it, but it gives the legal losers something to pat themslefs on the back about.
Bandwidth is increasing and becoming cheaper. There is nothing they can do to stop the black market of overpriced goods.
That isn't a question for me to answer. I am not an OEM;) However, I expect something like that to come along as demand increases. It's like the chicken and egg problem unfortunately.
As for your openoffice dream...I share it with you. I use mostly latex to do my work since I'm in the maths field but I believe that OOo is good enough now with 2.0 and WILL take some market share just like FF has (not enough though since people are too reluctant to change)
Linux (or should I say GNU/Linux??;)) is a totally different landscape to windows. Everything is done differently. When I switched a few years ago, I saw the large number of changes and it feels weird using a windows box now.
Software for Win98 will probably work in XP. This is not the case in Linux. We know this, but average Joe doesn't. I can personally see this as a barrier to desktop linux adoption.
Either way, it has come very far in the last decade and I see it gearing up to be competitive (I use it all the time...). Time will tell and this is a very interesting time to live.
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I have been doing a PhD in Maths for almost 3 years (should finish in March....in theory). Anyway, I use Kile on a Gnome desktop and its the best latex setup ive ever seen. It has forward and backward searching with KDVI. I have a dual monitor setup so that my tex is on the left and dvi preview on the right. I would say it has saved me months of time compared to the losers using winedt ;)
As for distro, Ubuntu is ok for a beginner but I use Gentoo....whatever, it doesnt really matter that much.
Thats quite an interesting argument. I agree with what you are saying but on the other side, look at firefox. I personally think the more people use it (instead of IE), the better. If we have a higher percentage of alternative browsers out there, its better for us!
:D
Heh, to be honest, I haven't contributed anything to GIMP itself (but a little to other OS projects) although I am not the evil person you describe who fills the IRC channels
Yes, I do know people that dont use it because of the name. Now I personally like the name for the same reason you do. I told a photographer once "I use GIMP...it does almost everything PS does but its free!" and his response was to laugh at the name and ignore me.
At the end of the day, I dont mind too much because I use GIMP and its great! I havent used PS since about 2000ish (when I made the linux switch...jeez, its improved a lot since then!)
Ahh, yes, but it depends from which side you take the limit. Not taking the limit at all means that the "bang for buck" is undefined!
:)
However, I think you meant to say "as buck tends to zero from the right, the bang for buck tends to infinity"....however, I doubt I would want to use this free graphics card
This was what I really meant.../. people can be edgy sometimes :D
I agree! Its a great source of info. However, I think we should not allow anonymous edits! I think it would help a lot. An account IS free after all.
Remember, firefox is stillonly 10% and I estimate about 50% of the world simply wont switch. I have experienced these silly close minded people before..."but there is nothing wrong with IE. I will continue to use it"...meh
When you have less blood in your body it does.
I wish! :)
I am a scout leader myself (In Australia though...so it may be different).
I was told right from the start that you may believe in any god. I asked about atheism and there is an alternate scout law that you can say that does not contain the word "god".
I am a strong atheist myself so our troop has nothing to do with religion but we do outdoor activities instead of having children sitting at home playing their xbox.
At least in Australia they give us a beer for our blood :)
:D
Gets you drunk much faster
I don't think there is anything they can do to stop it. Information transfer is now relatively free and fast.
This is the next logical step. I'm amazed that it's still taking this long!
A lot of mp3 players out there do support WMV. Of course, the iPod doesn't, so I see your point. I would never use WMV myself, mp3 is so "portable", ogg is nice, but not portable :(
:(
Either way, this should be very interesting to watch. The iPod has too much market share and I can't see that going away any time soon. I just bought a 30GB video one myself, works great accept for the few oggs that I have
400 mil in US terms is almost half a billion. Sure, in perspective it isnt that much but that money was spent on the "start ups", not all of OSS. I think you need to put things into perspective.
2005 saw overall growth in OSS. It isnt going to overtake the world, but it is a step in the right direction.
This is slashdot...nobody clicks links! :D
You are correct though.
To our US readers, gaol is the old spelling of jail...
Or AOL switches to Jabber?
I can keep dreaming...
I switched banks a few months ago for 2 reasons:
;))
-FF incompatibility
and
-They wanted to charge 50c for EFT's....thats a rip off (that was the real reason
Anyway, the first reason was about 5% because the only problem FF had was that they would display a message saying something like "you should use IE, your browser is crappy". FF did work fine once you went past that page.
The great thing about Kazaa is that it is distracting the **AA for the moment. Sure nobody uses it, but it gives the legal losers something to pat themslefs on the back about.
Bandwidth is increasing and becoming cheaper. There is nothing they can do to stop the black market of overpriced goods.
That isn't a question for me to answer. I am not an OEM ;) However, I expect something like that to come along as demand increases. It's like the chicken and egg problem unfortunately.
As for your openoffice dream...I share it with you. I use mostly latex to do my work since I'm in the maths field but I believe that OOo is good enough now with 2.0 and WILL take some market share just like FF has (not enough though since people are too reluctant to change)
Linux (or should I say GNU/Linux?? ;)) is a totally different landscape to windows. Everything is done differently. When I switched a few years ago, I saw the large number of changes and it feels weird using a windows box now.
Software for Win98 will probably work in XP. This is not the case in Linux. We know this, but average Joe doesn't. I can personally see this as a barrier to desktop linux adoption.
Either way, it has come very far in the last decade and I see it gearing up to be competitive (I use it all the time...). Time will tell and this is a very interesting time to live.
It doesn't seem to actually do much of the stuff that windows does as an OS. I don't see how they can call it "Windows Live".
I expect this to be a flop.
That already happened this year? I'm confused :(
It's so true. From my experience women tend to be smarter in certain areas. We already know most of this anyway.
Yes, I knew them. I just think that it was because I had the 6 invites for sooo long (about 4-6 months) before I got rid of them.