The problem is that the open-source implementations of Java tend to be a version or two behind the official Java, which can be a problem for some Linux users (such as CS students like myself).
Are you shitting me? If Microsoft releases a new console (depricating their old one), a year from this Christmas, they'll be laughed out of the fucking market.
To be fair, that's 600 MHz on MIPS, which is quite a bit more clock-efficient than a Pentium 4. Saying "zomg, the P4 has four times the gigahurtz!" is not exactly a fair comparison.
I'm curious to know your reasoning. No-one's talking about adding KDE packages to Ubuntu by default, so I'm afraid I can't understand why you think that developing KDE as an alternative to Gnome would add bloat to the distro.
Um.
It is developed as an alternative. It's called Kubuntu. I think you mentioned it earlier. You can even just apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.
I love how we always hear "the big secret is Apple has full control of the hardware" even though this "big secret" is "revealed" (usually more than once) every goddamn time an OSX article gets posted.
(sidenote: my FreeBSD install is pretty fucking stable on commodity PC hardware, why wouldn't OSX be?)
From other companies, however, you can purchase a PowerPC-based workstation with either no operating system or some form of PPC Linux. It's not a PowerPC Mac, but it's essentially the same hardware (without the motherboard that will tell the OSX discs that it's okay to install, of course.)
With Apple moving to Intel, the entire discussion is academic anyway.
Not really. What if, when the price of the hardware went down, Apple decided that the free ride was over? What if Apple stripped it down to a crippled edition, like Windows XP Starter (or whatever Microsoft's braindead scheme to compete with rampant piracy in second-world nations is called this week)? What if Apple didn't feel like rooting out hardware bugs, and nobody else can because they own the source?
Or, most likely, what if Apple refused to allow the device to be sold in the US? That would be an excellent way to raise money for the project, of course: sell the laptop for $250-$299 over here, and bang, every sale over here is one more laptop you can give to the poorer countries.
No, it's much better to deal with software that you control on a device such as this.
Well, it's not like it's running from straight ROM. It has a gig or two of flash space. A hard drive would be too fragile for the conditions this thing is built to endure.
Sidenote: If they throw a single USB port on that thing, I'll buy one in the US for whatever they'll sell them to us at (probably roughly $250).
It's not "they put in the ability to host video/images". It's "they put in the ability to host data." Bits are bits, and if Clarke built it Usenet-style, only explicitly supporting text, people would use some kind of yenc-type system to host whatever they wanted.
You seriously think web browsers are "among the most complex programs ever written"?
The Mozilla suite is (measured in SLOC) what, the third largest package in Debian? The fourth? Either way, it's right up there.
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No internet? So when I want to back up my legally purchased stuff over FTP (or hell, even Samba), I won't be able to?
The problem is you're saying the line needs to be drawn in one place, the bastards I mean "content providers" are saying it needs to be drawn in another, and I can grab quite literally whatever I want off the internet with no lines drawn anywhere.
Everything on my laptop works perfectly under Linux except for standby/hibernate, which don't work at all. It's a bit of a pain in the ass.
Intel's wireless cards (specifically the 2200BG) have good open-source drivers, although this wasn't always the case (and certainly wasn't when I got this machine).
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The problem is that the open-source implementations of Java tend to be a version or two behind the official Java, which can be a problem for some Linux users (such as CS students like myself).
Have you ever heard of a euphamism before?
Are you shitting me? If Microsoft releases a new console (depricating their old one), a year from this Christmas, they'll be laughed out of the fucking market.
To be fair, that's 600 MHz on MIPS, which is quite a bit more clock-efficient than a Pentium 4. Saying "zomg, the P4 has four times the gigahurtz!" is not exactly a fair comparison.
Get a Gamecube instead. I got one with RE 4 and a memory card for like $60, used. (ebay).
It's not like there are any original XBox games worth playing that aren't also on PC. (except maaaaaybe Halo 2)
Or you could try the one in Cryptonomicon. The details elude me, but I recall it being something like RC4 with a deck of cards.
The current situation, however, where we get half-assed binary drivers, pleases no one.
Me neither.
On Dapper, however, it works out of the box.
I'm curious to know your reasoning. No-one's talking about adding KDE packages to Ubuntu by default, so I'm afraid I can't understand why you think that developing KDE as an alternative to Gnome would add bloat to the distro.
Um.
It is developed as an alternative. It's called Kubuntu. I think you mentioned it earlier. You can even just apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.
I love how we always hear "the big secret is Apple has full control of the hardware" even though this "big secret" is "revealed" (usually more than once) every goddamn time an OSX article gets posted.
(sidenote: my FreeBSD install is pretty fucking stable on commodity PC hardware, why wouldn't OSX be?)
Are you retarded? Future versions of windows will run just fine on good ol' IA-32.
From other companies, however, you can purchase a PowerPC-based workstation with either no operating system or some form of PPC Linux. It's not a PowerPC Mac, but it's essentially the same hardware (without the motherboard that will tell the OSX discs that it's okay to install, of course.) With Apple moving to Intel, the entire discussion is academic anyway.
Um. You posted in this thread. That means you can't mod comments in this thread (unless you're CmdrTaco in disguise or something).
And I certainly can't do much with either without, say, X, a desktop environment, or a web browser with which to post on Slashdot.
Debates like this are why I usually refer to my operating system by the name of the distribution.
That said, the name of the operating system, from the only source that matters, uname -o, is indeed GNU/Linux.
They haven't built in that functionality yet.
(Wait for the next revision.)
Not really. What if, when the price of the hardware went down, Apple decided that the free ride was over? What if Apple stripped it down to a crippled edition, like Windows XP Starter (or whatever Microsoft's braindead scheme to compete with rampant piracy in second-world nations is called this week)? What if Apple didn't feel like rooting out hardware bugs, and nobody else can because they own the source?
Or, most likely, what if Apple refused to allow the device to be sold in the US? That would be an excellent way to raise money for the project, of course: sell the laptop for $250-$299 over here, and bang, every sale over here is one more laptop you can give to the poorer countries.
No, it's much better to deal with software that you control on a device such as this.
And I'll fucking vote for him, as he's a fuckton better than Pataki, the incumbent.
Well, it's not like it's running from straight ROM. It has a gig or two of flash space. A hard drive would be too fragile for the conditions this thing is built to endure.
Sidenote: If they throw a single USB port on that thing, I'll buy one in the US for whatever they'll sell them to us at (probably roughly $250).
According to TFA, they hold a patent on watching one show and recording another at the same time?
I dunno about you guys, but I've had a VCR that could do that since before anyone had come up with the name "TiVo".
(And if this case succeeds, you can kiss any open-sourc PVR software goodbye, you know)
It's not "they put in the ability to host video/images". It's "they put in the ability to host data." Bits are bits, and if Clarke built it Usenet-style, only explicitly supporting text, people would use some kind of yenc-type system to host whatever they wanted.
You mean, just like any other kind of digital storage media?
You seriously think web browsers are "among the most complex programs ever written"?
The Mozilla suite is (measured in SLOC) what, the third largest package in Debian? The fourth? Either way, it's right up there.
No internet? So when I want to back up my legally purchased stuff over FTP (or hell, even Samba), I won't be able to? The problem is you're saying the line needs to be drawn in one place, the bastards I mean "content providers" are saying it needs to be drawn in another, and I can grab quite literally whatever I want off the internet with no lines drawn anywhere.
Everything on my laptop works perfectly under Linux except for standby/hibernate, which don't work at all. It's a bit of a pain in the ass. Intel's wireless cards (specifically the 2200BG) have good open-source drivers, although this wasn't always the case (and certainly wasn't when I got this machine).
It has one cutscene at the very beginning of the game, before character generation, and one at the very end, for the outro. That's all.