There is always room for a contender with a price tag of zero and up. About TFA, I've switched to Ubuntu 9.04 myself from Windows XP. Here's my data point:
It's pretty close to desktop-itude, far more so than last year, but perhaps not out-of-the-box. Hence most real issues left are installation issues.
I still haven't found anything important that couldn't be configured via some GUI or other.
There ARE games for Linux: Wine works surprisingly well, but there should be an automatic way of getting the needed libraries for any particular app
OpenOffice load times: Draw and Calc start in 5 seconds, Writer in 6. It works fast under use as well. I used OO on Windows as well, and the Linux version beats it quite handily. I have no comparison with MSOffice, though.
It boots slower than a fresh Windows install, and about twice as fast as the actual real-life Windows install I had. It also shuts down faster.
KDE vs. Gnome needs to get more standardized, but I haven't been bitten by anything terrible yet.
Some sudo tasks require the command line. DO NOT FIX.
Mind you, I've used linux here and there since the 1.3 kernel (slackware then), and I've tried out just about every version of Ubuntu. This is the first time it stays in use.
Some things in TFA make me wonder though, like "Enterprise: no standard way of software distribution". How hard is it to set up a local repository(-ies), from where workstations get updates?
Finally, the next time someone posts and article about Linux and the desktop, please be clear which desktop we're talking about. This article seems to talk about all of them at once.
That's precisely the point: English pronunciation is so screwed up, there's no point in getting riled up in trying to harmonize it anymore. I pronounce it with a 'g' in English because that's how it's pronouced in all other languages I know.
This all sounds like peak oil. Addresses won't run out, but the business case will magically spring up when IPv4 addresses become more expensive than implementing alternatives.
Regarding the cover image, as a general resource for most children it's good, but I would agree that handing this book to children whose parents were killed in 9/11 sounds like a bad idea. My point is just that that's a special case.
Isn't FEMA precisely the agency that should have some resources on dealing with a disaster? (Note: disaster, as in the book, not terrorism specifically)
Though I think the book has been published many years too late for it to be of any benefit.
I looked through the book itself, and the twin towers "scene" is just featured as a cover page. The actual colouring book is more generic, about tornadoes, house fires, etc. The first page asks the reader to draw him/herself before it happened, and further on there's an outline of a face where you can draw how you felt afterwards, also explaining that it can happen without warning, the repeated news on TV, feeling ill afterwards, and eventually getting better. I think it's an excellent resource, and pulling it because of the twin towers is just bogus.
FPS numbers for human eyes are not trivially measured. There's a big difference in a moving image, and a flickering image. For instance, almost nobody will see the difference between video at 100fps and 120fps. Even so, you would immediately notice if a white screen at 120Hz turned black for just one refresh, then white again.
Keeping in mind the market that exists for in game items I'd say that's not really a good distinction
And how much value does that market produce? The distinction still holds, not between games and the real world, but between "useless" and "useful" activities.
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Or perhaps they smoked the meat, but didn't inhale.
Mind you, I've used linux here and there since the 1.3 kernel (slackware then), and I've tried out just about every version of Ubuntu. This is the first time it stays in use.
Some things in TFA make me wonder though, like "Enterprise: no standard way of software distribution". How hard is it to set up a local repository(-ies), from where workstations get updates?
Finally, the next time someone posts and article about Linux and the desktop, please be clear which desktop we're talking about. This article seems to talk about all of them at once.
Max Payne 1+2 was developed by Remedy Entertainment. Prey was in development hell until given out to Humanhead Studios, who finished it.
Stereotypes are for narrow people anyway. I prefer wider 5.1-types.
Not anymore they don't, they record in solid-state memory. It's 2009 now.
That's precisely the point: English pronunciation is so screwed up, there's no point in getting riled up in trying to harmonize it anymore. I pronounce it with a 'g' in English because that's how it's pronouced in all other languages I know.
I would think history says it's pronounced with a hard 'g', specifically greek history.
There was exceptional technology, didn't you see the boobies?
You sound like you've done this twice already.
Rather, it comes faster.
This all sounds like peak oil. Addresses won't run out, but the business case will magically spring up when IPv4 addresses become more expensive than implementing alternatives.
Regarding the cover image, as a general resource for most children it's good, but I would agree that handing this book to children whose parents were killed in 9/11 sounds like a bad idea. My point is just that that's a special case.
It's not a colouring book about a terrorist attack at all, just FYI. Check it out if you like.
Isn't FEMA precisely the agency that should have some resources on dealing with a disaster? (Note: disaster, as in the book, not terrorism specifically)
Though I think the book has been published many years too late for it to be of any benefit.
I looked through the book itself, and the twin towers "scene" is just featured as a cover page. The actual colouring book is more generic, about tornadoes, house fires, etc. The first page asks the reader to draw him/herself before it happened, and further on there's an outline of a face where you can draw how you felt afterwards, also explaining that it can happen without warning, the repeated news on TV, feeling ill afterwards, and eventually getting better. I think it's an excellent resource, and pulling it because of the twin towers is just bogus.
CmdrTaco is a plain white-bread murriken
It's a little known fact that he's actually multi-grain.
They had the predecessors: the Jeep and the Kübelwagen.
FPS numbers for human eyes are not trivially measured. There's a big difference in a moving image, and a flickering image. For instance, almost nobody will see the difference between video at 100fps and 120fps. Even so, you would immediately notice if a white screen at 120Hz turned black for just one refresh, then white again.
Christian Bale isn't dumb enough to star in a stinker
Bale isn't a star anyway. He's the actor Hollywood needs, just not right now...
Once again, we see that Perl is the tool of the demons.
Keep the Olympics as they are. I could go without shaved men rubbing olive oil on themselves and fucking each other up the ass as it went in Greece.
What has changed since then?
Keeping in mind the market that exists for in game items I'd say that's not really a good distinction
And how much value does that market produce? The distinction still holds, not between games and the real world, but between "useless" and "useful" activities.
The difference is whether you create value or not, and how much.
Holy green screen jaggies, Batman! I might expect something like this in the early morning on some tv-shopping channel.
Where do the faxes come out when you receive one?
Yellow-on-white in wintertime.