Let me see. I cant't get my PcTel winmodem to work with Mandrake 10.0, under kernel 2.6.3. Some people report sucess, but none seem to have the exact version of the hardware I do. I could try another distro or even a MDK upgrade, but I hven't got the time or bandwith.
On my sister's machine, OTOH, I can't get an ALS4000 sound card to work since I reinstalled XP. Funny it is that I managed to install the drivers once and followed exactly the same procedure now, and alas, nothing.
As a result, I'm not using my Linux box when I have to be online (pretty much always). And I'm using the onboard sound card on my sister's box, which sucks.
My sister won't give up on Windows, just because the soundcard works fine with Linux. And I won't give up Mandrake just because the modem won't work. A driver will come up eventually, or maybe I'll have the money to buy another one. People don't throw away they favourite OS just because a driver don't work.
Well, I didn't RTFA as well, and I was starting to agree that comments had no place in the news post. WTF, I laughed my butt out when I found it was actually a quote from the article.
Please change the name first. It reminds me of Windows ME....
I always liked GNOME looks'. It always striked me as the sleekest guy around for (GNU)Linux, but it always suffered from serious technical usability issues, especially when compared with KDE. Nowadays I use Konqueror as my file manager, inside good old Windowmaker. I'd love to see (a fork of?) GNOME reach a level that brings it up to date with KDE in usability issues. So thumbs up to your project.;)
KOTOR happens just about 1k years before the events in the prequels. Siths were abundant them. And in ep. III they're supposed to take their revenge. I am the only one that thinks TPM was a much worse title? Revenge of the Sith seems no worse than Return of the Jedi for me.
Correct if I'm wrong (and I am sure I'm not), but Build engine has nothing whatsoever to do with DOOM's, codewise. Both sourcecodes have been available for some time now. Perhaps parent meant that it had similar capabilities as DOOM's 2 engine?
oh, american coders can't code trojans, or steal proprietary code. Just forgot about that. Hadn't Valve outsourced HalfLife2 to India, we could have been playing it for months now!
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I use my MDK desktop in much the same way. If I boot up windows, I feel claustrophobic from the lack of space... I tried Nvidia virtual desktop like solution but is slow and buggy.
I use WindowMaker, so I'm not sure it's possible in Gnome, but I found that assigning the mouse wheel for changing desktops is a snap.:)
Well, from what I saw in that page, most are languages spoken by a handful of people only ( the biiger group has 25 thousand speakers, there is another of 18k, and them almost all the others are in the hundreds.
So I think my estimate was roughly correct, about 2,5M people who doesn't speak Portughese - and most of them are either foreigners or people from foreign origin, not indians mind you. Most indians today speak portughese as well. So do most of the foreigners, even those who speak their mother tongue.
As for places where a mixture of spanish and portughese is spoken, well, there are such places mostly at the southern border of Brasil, alongside Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. People there may speak "portunhol".:) I guess that may happen also at the Amazon Region, but the population at the borders there is fairly scarce. Mind that the Amazon region is not entirely brazilian, I guess some 80% perhaps. Also, there is a brazilian state named "Amazonas" which is sometime source of further confusion.
There are some influence from indigenous languages in everyday (brazilian) potughese, also. For example, Guarulhos, name of the city where the main airport of São Paulo state is located, is indigenous. It means "great myst". I wonder why the heck they build the aiport there... it's indeed covered in myst most of the time.
I'm sorry, perhaps I should have said that before... I'm brazilian and I live in Brasil (that's why I write Brasil with an s)...
I really don't have the slightest idea who are those 7M people who doesn't speak portughese. Sure there are about 100 different indigenous languages, but sadly most of them are dying (the languages I mean) and I don't think they account to 7M. I'd estimate them at 2,5M, at most... Maybe I'm wrong, I'd have to check it... Anyway, the data is from 1998 as you said it. Brasil's population is somewhere beyond the 170M now.
Other countries that speak portughese are Angola, Cabo Verde (Green Cape in English I guess), Moçambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guiné Bissau and East Timor. Angola alone has easily 12M inhabitants...
The statistics seem outdated. There are over 170M people in Brasil alone. Add Portugal, and we should have far more than 170M. Of course, other language stats may be outdated too.
Pardon me, you really wrote _should the RIAA/MPAA even adopt that technique_ ? Kazaa is full of bogus files right now. Try to download, say, an U2 song from it and you''ll see.
You're damn right. Accurately synthesizing sound is a fierce exercise in Computaional Fluid Dynamics. On the other hand, I believe game devs will come out with something that reasonably resembles reality, even if it's not physically accurate by a large margin; mainly due to the fact the we do pay much more attention to what we see than to what we hear, as somebody else have already pointed out. Doom 3 is said to have a believable sound engine. humm... does anyone remember Trespasser?;b
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Nothing prevents from installin Linux in the Mini. Heck, he can dualboot if he wants.
Let me see. I cant't get my PcTel winmodem to work with Mandrake 10.0, under kernel 2.6.3. Some people report sucess, but none seem to have the exact version of the hardware I do. I could try another distro or even a MDK upgrade, but I hven't got the time or bandwith.
On my sister's machine, OTOH, I can't get an ALS4000 sound card to work since I reinstalled XP. Funny it is that I managed to install the drivers once and followed exactly the same procedure now, and alas, nothing.
As a result, I'm not using my Linux box when I have to be online (pretty much always). And I'm using the onboard sound card on my sister's box, which sucks.
My sister won't give up on Windows, just because the soundcard works fine with Linux. And I won't give up Mandrake just because the modem won't work. A driver will come up eventually, or maybe I'll have the money to buy another one. People don't throw away they favourite OS just because a driver don't work.
Well, they could always argue Taiwan government was producing WMD. After they invade it and found nothing, they would... hummm be re-elected?
Cause I've just patented ALL "hello world" programs... let me se... 1.Patent trivial program 2.??? 3.Profit!
Well, I didn't RTFA as well, and I was starting to agree that comments had no place in the news post. WTF, I laughed my butt out when I found it was actually a quote from the article.
I am always astonished when people fail to understand that I'm being cynical. Oh well. ;)
So, this kind of means pirating is actually good for software companies? I can't wait to tell Mr. Gates that one... he hasn't heard it yet, right?
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same Gmail, but mine show new mail inside labels just fine.
Take a look at some of my filters *slightly modified due to privacy concerns... what, they read all my mail allready? damn...*
Troll? It would be a huge success with the /. folk. ;)
Please change the name first. It reminds me of Windows ME.... I always liked GNOME looks'. It always striked me as the sleekest guy around for (GNU)Linux, but it always suffered from serious technical usability issues, especially when compared with KDE. Nowadays I use Konqueror as my file manager, inside good old Windowmaker. I'd love to see (a fork of?) GNOME reach a level that brings it up to date with KDE in usability issues. So thumbs up to your project. ;)
So people who live in Lancastershire (or any other shire) have to change their address? oh my...
Not that I should care, but...
KOTOR happens just about 1k years before the events in the prequels. Siths were abundant them. And in ep. III they're supposed to take their revenge. I am the only one that thinks TPM was a much worse title? Revenge of the Sith seems no worse than Return of the Jedi for me.
Correct if I'm wrong (and I am sure I'm not), but Build engine has nothing whatsoever to do with DOOM's, codewise. Both sourcecodes have been available for some time now. Perhaps parent meant that it had similar capabilities as DOOM's 2 engine?
I cried during the 45 minutes it took Mandrake 10 to install... what are you Gentoo guys, into SM or something? ;)
oh, american coders can't code trojans, or steal proprietary code. Just forgot about that. Hadn't Valve outsourced HalfLife2 to India, we could have been playing it for months now!
I use my MDK desktop in much the same way. If I boot up windows, I feel claustrophobic from the lack of space... I tried Nvidia virtual desktop like solution but is slow and buggy. I use WindowMaker, so I'm not sure it's possible in Gnome, but I found that assigning the mouse wheel for changing desktops is a snap. :)
this is the market they wants... my precious! (please dont mod me down, Im brazilian too)
I guess it didn't meet fully this design spec to this day.
Well, from what I saw in that page, most are languages spoken by a handful of people only ( the biiger group has 25 thousand speakers, there is another of 18k, and them almost all the others are in the hundreds.
So I think my estimate was roughly correct, about 2,5M people who doesn't speak Portughese - and most of them are either foreigners or people from foreign origin, not indians mind you. Most indians today speak portughese as well. So do most of the foreigners, even those who speak their mother tongue.
As for places where a mixture of spanish and portughese is spoken, well, there are such places mostly at the southern border of Brasil, alongside Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. People there may speak "portunhol". :) I guess that may happen also at the Amazon Region, but the population at the borders there is fairly scarce. Mind that the Amazon region is not entirely brazilian, I guess some 80% perhaps. Also, there is a brazilian state named "Amazonas" which is sometime source of further confusion.
There are some influence from indigenous languages in everyday (brazilian) potughese, also. For example, Guarulhos, name of the city where the main airport of São Paulo state is located, is indigenous. It means "great myst". I wonder why the heck they build the aiport there... it's indeed covered in myst most of the time.
I'm sorry, perhaps I should have said that before... I'm brazilian and I live in Brasil (that's why I write Brasil with an s)... I really don't have the slightest idea who are those 7M people who doesn't speak portughese. Sure there are about 100 different indigenous languages, but sadly most of them are dying (the languages I mean) and I don't think they account to 7M. I'd estimate them at 2,5M, at most... Maybe I'm wrong, I'd have to check it... Anyway, the data is from 1998 as you said it. Brasil's population is somewhere beyond the 170M now.
Other countries that speak portughese are Angola, Cabo Verde (Green Cape in English I guess), Moçambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guiné Bissau and East Timor. Angola alone has easily 12M inhabitants...
The statistics seem outdated. There are over 170M people in Brasil alone. Add Portugal, and we should have far more than 170M. Of course, other language stats may be outdated too.
That's no moon, that's a space station in Latin?
Pardon me, you really wrote _should the RIAA/MPAA even adopt that technique_ ? Kazaa is full of bogus files right now. Try to download, say, an U2 song from it and you''ll see.
You're damn right. Accurately synthesizing sound is a fierce exercise in Computaional Fluid Dynamics. On the other hand, I believe game devs will come out with something that reasonably resembles reality, even if it's not physically accurate by a large margin; mainly due to the fact the we do pay much more attention to what we see than to what we hear, as somebody else have already pointed out. Doom 3 is said to have a believable sound engine. humm... does anyone remember Trespasser? ;b
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