Facts? Who needs facts when you're a left wing nut...or a right wing nut for that matter. The media repeatedly reports stories and doesn't bother checking the facts. I found this list leaning over to the left, and so I think they're censoring articles that could be on that list that would support the right.
Everyone has some bias and the media and the people who made this list aren't immune to it. The media should always be to report the facts so the viewer can make the opinion about the story. Commentators have a special purpose, but they should not be the ones delivering the story, that should be done by someone who is not allowed to give opinion on the matter.
With the exception of local movie times, I can do that with my xbox running xbox media center. I know this article is about a pvr and so I won't blabber on about the benefits of xbmc, but it's a great program. Playing music and movies off my linux box is a cinch. I can also play any early nintendo or sega game with ease. Weather and RSS feeds also. Plus it connects up to internet radio stations. For college kids, it's a good investment.
DirectX is a bunch of APIs that are intended to make game development easier for developers. While microsoft fiddles around with the name and marketing brochures on this for a while, would this be a good time to develop a set of standards for running games on linux? A combination of graphics, sound, controllers, and network handling might sound good for a developer trying to get games to run on linux, but is worried about the costs of trying to find each component and hope it works on most people's computer.
Then again, if wineX can fit the bill for now, maybe developers should just try to make sure their products work with that. It's cheaper and probably not the best for linux in the long run, but it takes care of the need now and at lower costs.
Any set of standards would have to work then with windows or else developers probably wouldn't be interested. Does anyone know of any projects that aimed to do this with some success?
I'm sure they know what they're doing. Maybe they're hedging for when costs of production go up. If oil goes up unexpectedly, so does costs of production. Maybe it's cheaper to store excess chips now than pay higher costs of production later. Any business who's been as successful and around as long as they have probably knows what they're doing.
People can offer their opinions for or against this, but I think that any innovation benefits linux. I've read about WinFS and it sounds like a good idea, but who knows when it will be ready. If people working in their spare time can get something like this working in linux before Microsoft can get it out, I think that would just be another reason to trust the open source model of developing code and squash Ballmer's FUD.
I don't have too much trouble using a hierarchy file system. I keep my stuff pretty organized, but computers are supposed to save time, not create more problems. If this database can do a good job, I'll give it a shot.
Well I know that. The similarity I was trying to make is comparing situations where the heat can be maintained easily and situations where lots of heat is generated and it's difficult to keep things cool. If I had a desktop 1.8 ghz p4, it wouldn't be too difficult to keep it cool. But in a laptop, it's much harder and thus makes the user aware when the fans start cranking.
And like in this case, a 3.2 ghz might just require a few fans to properly keep cool, but this is going to require a complex system which the user might be aware of.
The counter argument to that example is usually this discussion only comes up when someone is caught with evidence like a bloody knife and the cop arrests him. His lawyer will try and argue this guy had a reasonable expectation of privacy and the evidence should be thrown out.
I've yet to see where someone lost their privacy and complained, but had no damages to sue. What are all the tin foil hat wearers (not to say you're one of them) afraid of?
However, I believe Apple is using samba also, so they've got money to defend its patent. There are a lot of technologies that big companies either help developed or support and they're not going to let microsoft pull the rug out from under them.
While this is 10.1 up from 10, it might seem like a small step. However, most of the updates are in the packages and not nessesarily in mandrake specific stuff. People are probably going to upgrade because it's easier than loading on all new packages. Plus, it looks like they've got some nicer automatic hardware support. I'll give mandrake that, their hardware support is pretty good.
I'm not berating Mandrake. I've used both Mandrake and Gentoo and I'm giving my person opinions on their packaging systems. I had times with mandrake when I couldn't find precompiled binaries for packages and I had to go back to hunting down dependencies and dealing with "./config" errors.
I've found that portage offers a lot more packages that are more up to date.
My concern is people hear mandrake is the easiest distro, try it out, and go back to windows prematurely because they figured if they had trouble with mandrake, they'd surely have more trouble with other distros. I just want people to experiment around. I did, and I feel my opinions on the matter could help people out if they were frustrated with mandrake as I was.
I don't think so much it's a move away from integration, but just keeping the actual programs separate. Mozilla Suite was one huge application that had all these little bits and pieces of programs. They were integrated because they shared the same internal structures. However, this led to bloat when you had to waste memory for a program you weren't using. I think mozilla's new strategy is to make the programs totally independent, but work together in a more abstract sense. This is more difficult, but it leads to better and more stable products.
Now if only I could rely on copy and pasting to work on all my linux programs.
While windows update is generally good, one can see with SP2 that's part of windows update that it can break your computer. If this happened in linux, you might have a chance in fixing it. If this happens in windows, your chances of fixing it are less because of the lower free support. In effect, you're system becomes a hostage.
While it's more difficult to set up a system with Gentoo than Windows 2000, it's easier to maintain.
This is probably because of portage. Precompiled packages coming from all differnet sources can be a bitch to maintain. Mandrake is my example for this if you ever want to update a package they don't have RPMs for. And as for compile time, I'd rather let the computer sit for a hour or two overnight compiling a huge package than having to deal with the dependencies myself.
You don't need the playlists, but a lot people do. I've seen many examples of people just downloading songs into one directory. They end up with a thousand files that are horribly labeled. They need this jukebox ability to keep track of their music.
I catagorize all my music by artist and then album, but I still prefer using a jukebox program to manage it. I use JuK which is included in KDE. Unless you want to jump through hoops, it requires aRTs. Other than that though, it's a good simple program.
This is like those celebrities that go on tv and when asked why they're voting for John Kerry reply with "because he's not Bush." Use linux because you like it, not because you dislike windows. I don't use KDE because it's not like GNOME, I like it because it's easy to use and easy on the eyes.
While I agree that installing software on a good distro is just a matter of typing one command (portage in my case) I think some other aspects aren't as nice as in windows. With windows, almost all the time the program will install the files in "C:\Program Files". With linux, it's a guess half the time./bin,/usr/bin,/usr/local/bin/...this could go on forever. Although with portage, I never have to worry about where the files go. I can install and uninstall without having to worry about much.
this page mentions his viewpoints on nuclear (or nuclular as he'd sometimes say:P) energy. Also remember the idea to store that nuclear waste in mountains? I saw a show on the history channel a while ago about how they tested those containers for transferring and storing the waste. They put them on a locomotive with a rocket engine and blasted them into a brick wall and they didn't break. These things are very durable.
These people protest and call this a "war for oil". Well when they fight like hell to prevent expansion for nuclear energy, it doesn't leave Bush many options. Remember how Bush wanted to drill in the frozen tundras of Alaska? The Alaskans were on television saying what a good idea this was and that the land they were going to drill was just a frozen tundra anyway.
Bush and his cabinet have been pushing for nuclear power and moving off foreign dependency for oil all along and people who just jump on the eco bandwagon don't know what they're talking about half the time.
More radiation has leaked into the environment from burning coal then nuclear waste. More people have died as a result of coal mining and oil drilling than from nuclear power. We spent all this money years ago to develop nuclear power and now no new plants are being built because of these enviro-nuts.
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I think at least the top heads at Microsoft are running macs with os X over there. They really have no clue about how windows or linux works for the end user. I'm sure when you're at that level of any company you end up becomming so disconnected from the details of the product you sell. I doubt the Ford executives test drive every new model of a car, but if these cars' tired suddenly blew out on the highway, they'd call in their engineers and ask them what the hell's going on. I don't have any inside sight on how Microsoft works, just a view from the outside like many. For anyone who works there, do these managers at least look at how their products are working and the amount of headaches they cause people all over the world? Or is it all just to get it out the door and market the hell out of it?
The army and DOD "go together like peas and carrots" and the DOD is microsoft's largest customer. I think this is the bigger aspect of this story. If they're willing to try a shift like this in the army that means later on they'll have the confidence to switch desktops all over the country running windows. The US government is a huge buyer of microsoft products. This will only enhance FOSS's reputation as a legitimate player in the battle field (yes, pun intended).
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Facts? Who needs facts when you're a left wing nut...or a right wing nut for that matter. The media repeatedly reports stories and doesn't bother checking the facts. I found this list leaning over to the left, and so I think they're censoring articles that could be on that list that would support the right.
Everyone has some bias and the media and the people who made this list aren't immune to it. The media should always be to report the facts so the viewer can make the opinion about the story. Commentators have a special purpose, but they should not be the ones delivering the story, that should be done by someone who is not allowed to give opinion on the matter.
With the exception of local movie times, I can do that with my xbox running xbox media center. I know this article is about a pvr and so I won't blabber on about the benefits of xbmc, but it's a great program. Playing music and movies off my linux box is a cinch. I can also play any early nintendo or sega game with ease. Weather and RSS feeds also. Plus it connects up to internet radio stations. For college kids, it's a good investment.
DirectX is a bunch of APIs that are intended to make game development easier for developers. While microsoft fiddles around with the name and marketing brochures on this for a while, would this be a good time to develop a set of standards for running games on linux? A combination of graphics, sound, controllers, and network handling might sound good for a developer trying to get games to run on linux, but is worried about the costs of trying to find each component and hope it works on most people's computer.
Then again, if wineX can fit the bill for now, maybe developers should just try to make sure their products work with that. It's cheaper and probably not the best for linux in the long run, but it takes care of the need now and at lower costs.
Any set of standards would have to work then with windows or else developers probably wouldn't be interested. Does anyone know of any projects that aimed to do this with some success?
I'm sure they know what they're doing. Maybe they're hedging for when costs of production go up. If oil goes up unexpectedly, so does costs of production. Maybe it's cheaper to store excess chips now than pay higher costs of production later. Any business who's been as successful and around as long as they have probably knows what they're doing.
People can offer their opinions for or against this, but I think that any innovation benefits linux. I've read about WinFS and it sounds like a good idea, but who knows when it will be ready. If people working in their spare time can get something like this working in linux before Microsoft can get it out, I think that would just be another reason to trust the open source model of developing code and squash Ballmer's FUD.
I don't have too much trouble using a hierarchy file system. I keep my stuff pretty organized, but computers are supposed to save time, not create more problems. If this database can do a good job, I'll give it a shot.
Well I know that. The similarity I was trying to make is comparing situations where the heat can be maintained easily and situations where lots of heat is generated and it's difficult to keep things cool. If I had a desktop 1.8 ghz p4, it wouldn't be too difficult to keep it cool. But in a laptop, it's much harder and thus makes the user aware when the fans start cranking.
And like in this case, a 3.2 ghz might just require a few fans to properly keep cool, but this is going to require a complex system which the user might be aware of.
My dell inspiron 8200 gets very hot at 1.8 ghz. When I'm compiling, all the fans are on and this thing sounds like a jet engine.
Something about overclocking and watercooling on a laptop scares me.
I was mistaken. I didn't realize it. Thank you for your insight. Everyone has a certain personal expectation of privacy to some point.
The counter argument to that example is usually this discussion only comes up when someone is caught with evidence like a bloody knife and the cop arrests him. His lawyer will try and argue this guy had a reasonable expectation of privacy and the evidence should be thrown out.
I've yet to see where someone lost their privacy and complained, but had no damages to sue. What are all the tin foil hat wearers (not to say you're one of them) afraid of?
Yeah, it'll be called "Fearer Dot Com"
However, I believe Apple is using samba also, so they've got money to defend its patent. There are a lot of technologies that big companies either help developed or support and they're not going to let microsoft pull the rug out from under them.
While this is 10.1 up from 10, it might seem like a small step. However, most of the updates are in the packages and not nessesarily in mandrake specific stuff. People are probably going to upgrade because it's easier than loading on all new packages. Plus, it looks like they've got some nicer automatic hardware support. I'll give mandrake that, their hardware support is pretty good.
No, they just find the open source versions and copy them.
I'm not berating Mandrake. I've used both Mandrake and Gentoo and I'm giving my person opinions on their packaging systems. I had times with mandrake when I couldn't find precompiled binaries for packages and I had to go back to hunting down dependencies and dealing with "./config" errors.
I've found that portage offers a lot more packages that are more up to date.
My concern is people hear mandrake is the easiest distro, try it out, and go back to windows prematurely because they figured if they had trouble with mandrake, they'd surely have more trouble with other distros. I just want people to experiment around. I did, and I feel my opinions on the matter could help people out if they were frustrated with mandrake as I was.
I don't think so much it's a move away from integration, but just keeping the actual programs separate. Mozilla Suite was one huge application that had all these little bits and pieces of programs. They were integrated because they shared the same internal structures. However, this led to bloat when you had to waste memory for a program you weren't using. I think mozilla's new strategy is to make the programs totally independent, but work together in a more abstract sense. This is more difficult, but it leads to better and more stable products.
Now if only I could rely on copy and pasting to work on all my linux programs.
While windows update is generally good, one can see with SP2 that's part of windows update that it can break your computer. If this happened in linux, you might have a chance in fixing it. If this happens in windows, your chances of fixing it are less because of the lower free support. In effect, you're system becomes a hostage.
While it's more difficult to set up a system with Gentoo than Windows 2000, it's easier to maintain.
This is probably because of portage. Precompiled packages coming from all differnet sources can be a bitch to maintain. Mandrake is my example for this if you ever want to update a package they don't have RPMs for. And as for compile time, I'd rather let the computer sit for a hour or two overnight compiling a huge package than having to deal with the dependencies myself.
You don't need the playlists, but a lot people do. I've seen many examples of people just downloading songs into one directory. They end up with a thousand files that are horribly labeled. They need this jukebox ability to keep track of their music.
I catagorize all my music by artist and then album, but I still prefer using a jukebox program to manage it. I use JuK which is included in KDE. Unless you want to jump through hoops, it requires aRTs. Other than that though, it's a good simple program.
"1. It wasn't Windows"
This is like those celebrities that go on tv and when asked why they're voting for John Kerry reply with "because he's not Bush." Use linux because you like it, not because you dislike windows. I don't use KDE because it's not like GNOME, I like it because it's easy to use and easy on the eyes.
While I agree that installing software on a good distro is just a matter of typing one command (portage in my case) I think some other aspects aren't as nice as in windows. With windows, almost all the time the program will install the files in "C:\Program Files". With linux, it's a guess half the time. /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin/...this could go on forever. Although with portage, I never have to worry about where the files go. I can install and uninstall without having to worry about much.
http://www.georgewbush.com/Energy/Brief.aspx
:P) energy. Also remember the idea to store that nuclear waste in mountains? I saw a show on the history channel a while ago about how they tested those containers for transferring and storing the waste. They put them on a locomotive with a rocket engine and blasted them into a brick wall and they didn't break. These things are very durable.
this page mentions his viewpoints on nuclear (or nuclular as he'd sometimes say
Ever hear of iTunes?
Exactly.
These people protest and call this a "war for oil". Well when they fight like hell to prevent expansion for nuclear energy, it doesn't leave Bush many options. Remember how Bush wanted to drill in the frozen tundras of Alaska? The Alaskans were on television saying what a good idea this was and that the land they were going to drill was just a frozen tundra anyway.
Bush and his cabinet have been pushing for nuclear power and moving off foreign dependency for oil all along and people who just jump on the eco bandwagon don't know what they're talking about half the time.
More radiation has leaked into the environment from burning coal then nuclear waste. More people have died as a result of coal mining and oil drilling than from nuclear power. We spent all this money years ago to develop nuclear power and now no new plants are being built because of these enviro-nuts.
I think at least the top heads at Microsoft are running macs with os X over there. They really have no clue about how windows or linux works for the end user. I'm sure when you're at that level of any company you end up becomming so disconnected from the details of the product you sell. I doubt the Ford executives test drive every new model of a car, but if these cars' tired suddenly blew out on the highway, they'd call in their engineers and ask them what the hell's going on. I don't have any inside sight on how Microsoft works, just a view from the outside like many. For anyone who works there, do these managers at least look at how their products are working and the amount of headaches they cause people all over the world? Or is it all just to get it out the door and market the hell out of it?
The army and DOD "go together like peas and carrots" and the DOD is microsoft's largest customer. I think this is the bigger aspect of this story. If they're willing to try a shift like this in the army that means later on they'll have the confidence to switch desktops all over the country running windows. The US government is a huge buyer of microsoft products. This will only enhance FOSS's reputation as a legitimate player in the battle field (yes, pun intended).