It's likewise not MY fault that Microsoft is not delivering superior products with accessible source code at reasonable prices. If Microsoft's perception of its long term self interest is flawed (and I think it is) why blame the messengers?
Exactly. When measures are taken to protect the local industry, more often than not it results in that industry relaxing and delivering a mediocre product, because they don't have to compete.
not enough time is spent on Slashdot Stating The Obvious With HTML Formatting
Regardless of the formatting, there really are people blind with convictions that stop them from seeing facts, also known as fanboys, who will assert things that just aren't true (at the moment). Greatest example is people saying windows is only good for games.
So, if it's not VS or Windows, what's your reason?
because he's no bright enough to do so? he is using visual studio, a windows desktop and windows web server afterall...
I thought of writing an ironic reply but thought I might get modded down unless I write it in UPPERCASE. So I'll say it like this: using windows does not make you dumb. using visual studio does not make you dumb.
1. Why switch to vista until your editing programs run natively or designed for it? When they are "vista ready", you can switch without worries.
2.I have a feeling this whole vista drm downgrading thing will be like windows XP activation or the year 2000 bug. pure hype.
just brute force it (ie make EVERY CONCIEVABLE KEY and try it against that), have the computer spit out solutions it thinks might be the one (test for words formed) and have the user tell it which is correct and which ones just happened to form words. It'd take a long long time with todays computing power, but its not IMPOSSIBLE.
But you will get EVERY CONCIEVABLE MESSAGE. That's right, you'll get any possible message of that length. From a spy message to a cookie recipe. Maybe it'd be more effective to look for spy messages on/dev/random
I was wrong when I said we made the whole hell thing clear, since some say gay people, non believers, etc. go to hell.
I don't know canon law but what we were taught is more along the lines of jesus forgives anyone, but if you choose to reject his forgiveness then you go to hell... which isn't eternal fire but rather solitude and stuff. We're not some sect, I was taught this at a jesuit catholic school.
However, you're right about the clarity: there are a lot of mixed messages, but it really helps if you get a good teacher (instead of some fundamentalist who doesn't back up what he says).
I assume the post is referring to capacity and not physical size. These young punks today.Seriously, 30gb -> 4 hours in HD! How can anyone complain (although I like the mod)
Why in my day we had 10MB drives and we were happy with them! And we had to walk to and from school in the driving snow uphill BOTH WAYS!
I supose you didn't have Eucledian (sp?) geometry back then.
Hehe
Over here they have the network's logo, and they are often locked too. However, you can go to your nearest shady cellphone shop and get it unlocked for free, or a small fee. Yay not having laws dictated by the telecoms!
I would truly love it if someone could produce a Swiss timepiece that could operate in the gigahertz range, because I have absolutely no friggin' doubt it would be vastly more accurate than the normal clock chips in PCs. It would make life hell for the overclockers, though.
Why would you want a nuclear-clock-accurate PC clock when you can just synchronize to one of the time servers on the net?
Oh, and anyone know why there isn't yet a game that tries to find your wiimote's absolute location at all times by integrating accelerations from the last known data from the sensor bar?
An interesting note is that the makers of Autocad would probably be pretty receptive to a Linux port if any of their significant customers requested it. Another product of theirs - Maya - not only has Linux binaries, but is actively supported on two different Linux distros.
I guess many companies don't port to linux not because they have too much windows-specific code, but because they don't want their developers spending any time on that linux thing they've never heard of before.
I think the only thing stopping the adoption of linux at home by the computer-literate is games. I read an article about the piracy rate here in Argentina and it was around 80%. It would be great for companies to program for linux too, so businesses could switch. But I don't see it hapenning any time soon.
've been running games on the PC for at least twenty years, and I've tried a shitload of gamepads. In all that time, none has been decent. Not a single one. I'm quite happy about MS finally forcing a standard here. The Xbox controller is a hell of a lot better than decent, and it's not hard for Logitech or any other producer to create a pad using the X360-controllers control scheme.
Actually, there's a PC gamepad that's like the playstation 2 controller. Works great, has analog and arrows, r1 r2 l1 l2 and the four buttons on the right. They are packaged under many brands but the one I got is cheap and works great. It also has rumble, not that I like it much.
You've nailed it right on the head. The reason why I don't even bother with PC games even though I DO have a decent graphics card is that it requires way too much tweaking and jumping through hoops to get a decent play experience. You either have to spend $500+ on a video card or wait until decent video cards are cheap before running a game well than came out 6 months ago. What developers really need to do is to make their games AWARE of the state of the computer. If a game is only running at 25FPS because HDR is on, give a cue to turn it off. What would be really nice is a to have a playtest of your system for 5 minutes or so and then have the game figure out what settings would be best to maintain 30FPS (for eye-candy) or 60FPS (for smooth framerates).
Pessimistic? I have nothing near a 500$ card yet I can run battlefield 1942 at a good resolution, without lag. It didn't take any tweaking at all. San Andreas runs fine too, after playing with the graphics bar for a minute (no restart needed)...
First, I'll make it clear we're talking about using the pc for work, for which you said windows was useless.
Most people don't run extremely obscure almost-custom software when they use their computer - they run normal desktop apps like a word processor and a video player - and for those things there's no good reason to favor Windows over the other options.
Yet many areas of work require not obscure, custom made legacy apps but apps which are well known (autocad, spice, microwave office) yet not multi-OS. There are other areas (such as financial, where you don't need as much and as diverse a knowledge as in CAD) where you can find decent or great works in progress for linux.
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1. Why switch to vista until your editing programs run natively or designed for it? When they are "vista ready", you can switch without worries.
2.I have a feeling this whole vista drm downgrading thing will be like windows XP activation or the year 2000 bug. pure hype.
I was wrong when I said we made the whole hell thing clear, since some say gay people, non believers, etc. go to hell.
I don't know canon law but what we were taught is more along the lines of jesus forgives anyone, but if you choose to reject his forgiveness then you go to hell... which isn't eternal fire but rather solitude and stuff. We're not some sect, I was taught this at a jesuit catholic school.
However, you're right about the clarity: there are a lot of mixed messages, but it really helps if you get a good teacher (instead of some fundamentalist who doesn't back up what he says).
Hehe
Over here they have the network's logo, and they are often locked too. However, you can go to your nearest shady cellphone shop and get it unlocked for free, or a small fee. Yay not having laws dictated by the telecoms!
Makes me wonder whether Nintendo would win more money by selling thousands of wiimotes for PC or by sticking to the wii.
That kind of controller is probably patented (bold for no particular reason)
Don't tell anyone, but I know a certain company where employees organize Quake matches late at night, at work :)
I think the only thing stopping the adoption of linux at home by the computer-literate is games. I read an article about the piracy rate here in Argentina and it was around 80%. It would be great for companies to program for linux too, so businesses could switch. But I don't see it hapenning any time soon.