I can't say for sure but I kind of doubt that it can do that at the momemt. This is a 0.1 release and is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else.
Who knows though. It might be there. If it's not I'm sure it will be eventually. They are going to have a hard time increasing performance if they don't.
This will provide millions of people who cannot get wired broadband with an alternative along with a possible cheaper alternative for those of us who can but are too cheap to get it.
Perhaps it will drive the wired broadband prices down as well. That way whoever wins the election can take credit for it.
I don't use webmail myself, but I like having a constantly running, huge storage vault of mail that I don't want going to my main address. Gmail seems to be able to do this better than its competitors.
As much as I hate when people plug stuff in posts, I am going to do one myself.
www.fastmail.fm is THE best webmail service I have seen. It has a simple unobtrusive text interface with no banners or ads. There are both free and paid versions. With the paid versions, you can buy extra space as you need it at $20 per 100 MB. It has excellent spam protection and you can also set up alias mail addresses which can then be filtered to a folder in your main account. This is another very useful tool against spam.
Is for the big important games to start coming out for Linux instead of Windows.
Well that's not going to happen unless Linux is the dominant OS. Not company is going to spend millions of dollars to create a game and then release it for only an OS with a user base of only 2 or 3 percent.
Additionally, D has no macro preprocessing. I know some people out there consider this a feature, others will consider it a failing.
You have to remember that this language is still in development. A preprocessor can be added as a step after a standard is developed. Many older languages had preprocessors added as an optional compiler pass. I believe g77 even has one for FORTRAN though it's been a while since I used it.
Do we really need screenshots to see that KDE and gnome on SUSE? I have never understood the purpose of putting screenshots in distro reviews. If it was screenshots of YaST It wouldn't be such a big deal.
I guess there are more important things to be concerned about then reviews of distros putting screenshots though...
Kerry didn't seem to make any empty promises. Bush said that he wants universal broadband by 2007. Kerry merely said that he will spur broadband technologies in order to make it more affordable and widespread. He didn't promise a time like Bush. And Bush didn't seem to have any plan for universal broadband, and didn't even seem to say that he would push money into that area like Kerry said.
I think it's a little too early to be saying whether or not empty promises are being made by Kerry. If you look at those two statements, the success of only one of them can actually be measured. Bush is giving a goal date Kerry is giving a very vague statement about trying to make it more affordable.
I don't know much about the plans of either candidate on broadband but I give a little more credence to claims that give a date. If bush is re-elected and 2007 comes around, we can look and say whether he succedded or not. You can't really do that with Kerry's claims as of yet.
I don't think that is a far fetched promise for either candidate. I suspect that it's more of a prediction so that when it happens, they can say they took credit for it.
And the year before, and the year before that, and so on? Or are these all new ones that we're going to start posting every year even though they never come true?
Thank you. I'll believe it when I see it.
Anyone want to post the 12 reasons that WMD will be found in Iraq? Both sides are doing pretty close to the same thing from my viewpoint.
It would be nice but like I said I'd have to see it to believe it. Besides, what would happen to the elitist linux community?
I think there needs to be a standard definition of a planet. I don't really think this or pluto qualifies as a planet when you compare them with the others.
I don't think that size should be the only determining factor but it should be a factor. I guess you could start with something that specified a minimum diameter and if it was less then that then you could say it is a planet if it has an atmosphere. That'd probably be to complicated though.
I don't know a whole lot about astronomy and I'm not pretending to. I just don't think pluto measures up with the rest of the planets.
Btw, Finder > View > Connect to server is a lot less typing than command K.;)
Most people (including myself) can do it faster with keyboard shortcuts. It's two buttons as opposed to moving the mouse and waiting for menus to appear. To each his own though.
No mod points today, but this is right on target. Very few people buy a desktop for games. Most buy consoles. The vast majority of people buy home pc's to do books, surf web, do some digital photography, etc. Concentrate on the fact that Linux is safer, more secure, more stable than others.
I agree as well. If Linux is ever going to make it as a common desktop OS, I think companies will first have to bring linux into the workplace for security reasons. That way people will be able to compare it to what they used previously or have at home. If people decide that Linux has enough of a benefit to use instead of windows, they'll do that at home. If they are happier using windows, so be it.
You aren't going to get new linux users by saying, "look you can play a few games on here" when they can do that on their windows boxes already.
from what I've heard, OOo is a lot better on OS X these days than it was even those 4 months ago. That said, I've not used it for even longer, so I can't vouch for this personally.
And next... What do you mean you use OOo via an Xterminal? Do you mean to say that you actually use OO via an xterm window, that is, within one? Or, do you mean you have an Xterminal box, some ditty by NEC or something that you use to run a remote OOo session? *Or* do you mean to say you run OOo remotely on your Mac using X11.app or Xfree on the Mac, running OOo either remotely displaying on the Mac, or running the X11 version locally.
Last time I checked there was no cocoa/carbon version of OOo. If you are going to use it you have to run it from the command line using apple's X11. It almost appears as a normal OSX application except the menu bar is in the X11 position (on the window) and not in the standard OSX position (at the top of the screen) and it does not have the standard look of OSX. It is not in an nested X window if that's what you are asking.
I am assuming that you don't know much about OSX by your question so forgive me if I come across as condescending.
I have not used OOo on the mac so I cannot say whether it is decent or not but I do know that if you aer using the standard apple mouse, trying to emulate the right click in X11 applications can be a problem for some applications. I don't know if that applys here or not.
If Gnome is meant to provide a familiar "window's like" environment for those who switch to linux, it is going to have to take advantage of the available RAM and CPU. Computers keep getting more powerful and memory is getting much cheaper. I'd say the majority of people have above 128 MB of RAM and RAM is cheap.
There are alternative environments for older systems out there. I think Gnome should definitely focus on efficieny but I don't think they should focus so much as to not incorporate new features.
They have to find a median between having top-notch features and compatibility with older machines and can never please everybody.
I want an objective search engine, not one where companies can pay for placement
I agree with you, but that doesn't happen with google? It seems with all the google ads everywhere, that something, somewhere is being affected.
as well, more and more my google searches disappoint me in that my first 20 results (give or take) are almost always commercial sites. Yes, I know there's ways to "hack around" that, but that's not the point.
as well, i swear i've read stories about certain sites vying in random ways to have their site come up higher than the compeition's in google searches.
Google does do this but their paid links are clearly marked and not insidiously mixed with the search results. Try searching for a7n8x. There are 4 one line links at the top of the page from their product search (not sure if this is paid or not) then links on the right of the page that are paid. These are in different colors and not mixed with the regular search results. It would hard to confuse the paid/non-paid results.
Companies sidestep this by putting up a bunch of dummy pages that only link
Well I know for that google uses thousands of linuxs machines for cost and reliability reasons. I would suspect that yahoo does the same but I can't say for sure.
I wouldn't think that they would have to replace the hardware but you never know. With the power of todays even bargain machines, I suspect that the bottleneck would be the bandwidth. I could be mistaken though.
I sat in on a short talk by a guy from google. From what I remember, google has several starting pages for their crawlers. They just travel though all the links of the pages and every subsequent link, recording how many links go to a particular site to use in configuring the sites page rank. This continues until they have a full cached copy of most of the web.
As the parent pointed out, AGP cards may come down in price. So if you just bought the latest Radeon 9800 at $500, you'll have to watch helplessly as others buy it at $50 bargain bin prices a couple years from now.
This is true anyway. This year's top of the line card will be the low-end "bargain card" in two or three years. Anytime you buy the top-of-the-line anything you have to be aware of that. The only difference in this is that you will need a new motherboard for the new cards. But since these cards aren't available yet, what's the big deal?
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I can't say for sure but I kind of doubt that it can do that at the momemt. This is a 0.1 release and is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else.
Who knows though. It might be there. If it's not I'm sure it will be eventually. They are going to have a hard time increasing performance if they don't.
This will provide millions of people who cannot get wired broadband with an alternative along with a possible cheaper alternative for those of us who can but are too cheap to get it.
Perhaps it will drive the wired broadband prices down as well. That way whoever wins the election can take credit for it.
I don't use webmail myself, but I like having a constantly running, huge storage vault of mail that I don't want going to my main address. Gmail seems to be able to do this better than its competitors.
As much as I hate when people plug stuff in posts, I am going to do one myself.
www.fastmail.fm is THE best webmail service I have seen. It has a simple unobtrusive text interface with no banners or ads. There are both free and paid versions. With the paid versions, you can buy extra space as you need it at $20 per 100 MB. It has excellent spam protection and you can also set up alias mail addresses which can then be filtered to a folder in your main account. This is another very useful tool against spam.
I have nothing but praise for them.
This is old news - software that finds faces has been available for years.
Yeah, but face-recognition has never worked very well. Whether this does or not is yet to be seen.
Is for the big important games to start coming out for Linux instead of Windows.
Well that's not going to happen unless Linux is the dominant OS. Not company is going to spend millions of dollars to create a game and then release it for only an OS with a user base of only 2 or 3 percent.
Games need to be released for both OSs.
Yeah, but you only need to do it once every 5 years when the new release comes out :)
slackers...
Have you tried wine???? One of my buddies got it working under wine. had to do a little work but he did it.
That says it all. I don't want to nor have the time to do work to get my applications to run.
Additionally, D has no macro preprocessing. I know some people out there consider this a feature, others will consider it a failing.
You have to remember that this language is still in development. A preprocessor can be added as a step after a standard is developed. Many older languages had preprocessors added as an optional compiler pass. I believe g77 even has one for FORTRAN though it's been a while since I used it.
Do we really need screenshots to see that KDE and gnome on SUSE? I have never understood the purpose of putting screenshots in distro reviews. If it was screenshots of YaST It wouldn't be such a big deal.
I guess there are more important things to be concerned about then reviews of distros putting screenshots though...
Kerry didn't seem to make any empty promises. Bush said that he wants universal broadband by 2007. Kerry merely said that he will spur broadband technologies in order to make it more affordable and widespread. He didn't promise a time like Bush. And Bush didn't seem to have any plan for universal broadband, and didn't even seem to say that he would push money into that area like Kerry said.
I think it's a little too early to be saying whether or not empty promises are being made by Kerry. If you look at those two statements, the success of only one of them can actually be measured. Bush is giving a goal date Kerry is giving a very vague statement about trying to make it more affordable.
I don't know much about the plans of either candidate on broadband but I give a little more credence to claims that give a date. If bush is re-elected and 2007 comes around, we can look and say whether he succedded or not. You can't really do that with Kerry's claims as of yet.
I don't think that is a far fetched promise for either candidate. I suspect that it's more of a prediction so that when it happens, they can say they took credit for it.
And why didn't they use black scroll bars? I just love those things...
...but so to does the Apple web browser Safari! It is also the standard browser.
It is but pop-ups are not blocked by default.
And the year before, and the year before that, and so on? Or are these all new ones that we're going to start posting every year even though they never come true?
Thank you. I'll believe it when I see it.
Anyone want to post the 12 reasons that WMD will be found in Iraq? Both sides are doing pretty close to the same thing from my viewpoint.
It would be nice but like I said I'd have to see it to believe it. Besides, what would happen to the elitist linux community?
I can already feel my karma burning....
I think there needs to be a standard definition of a planet. I don't really think this or pluto qualifies as a planet when you compare them with the others.
I don't think that size should be the only determining factor but it should be a factor. I guess you could start with something that specified a minimum diameter and if it was less then that then you could say it is a planet if it has an atmosphere. That'd probably be to complicated though.
I don't know a whole lot about astronomy and I'm not pretending to. I just don't think pluto measures up with the rest of the planets.
Btw, Finder > View > Connect to server is a lot less typing than command K. ;)
Most people (including myself) can do it faster with keyboard shortcuts. It's two buttons as opposed to moving the mouse and waiting for menus to appear. To each his own though.
No mod points today, but this is right on target. Very few people buy a desktop for games. Most buy consoles. The vast majority of people buy home pc's to do books, surf web, do some digital photography, etc. Concentrate on the fact that Linux is safer, more secure, more stable than others.
I agree as well. If Linux is ever going to make it as a common desktop OS, I think companies will first have to bring linux into the workplace for security reasons. That way people will be able to compare it to what they used previously or have at home. If people decide that Linux has enough of a benefit to use instead of windows, they'll do that at home. If they are happier using windows, so be it.
You aren't going to get new linux users by saying, "look you can play a few games on here" when they can do that on their windows boxes already.
from what I've heard, OOo is a lot better on OS X these days than it was even those 4 months ago. That said, I've not used it for even longer, so I can't vouch for this personally.
And next... What do you mean you use OOo via an Xterminal? Do you mean to say that you actually use OO via an xterm window, that is, within one? Or, do you mean you have an Xterminal box, some ditty by NEC or something that you use to run a remote OOo session? *Or* do you mean to say you run OOo remotely on your Mac using X11.app or Xfree on the Mac, running OOo either remotely displaying on the Mac, or running the X11 version locally.
Last time I checked there was no cocoa/carbon version of OOo. If you are going to use it you have to run it from the command line using apple's X11. It almost appears as a normal OSX application except the menu bar is in the X11 position (on the window) and not in the standard OSX position (at the top of the screen) and it does not have the standard look of OSX. It is not in an nested X window if that's what you are asking.
I am assuming that you don't know much about OSX by your question so forgive me if I come across as condescending.
I have not used OOo on the mac so I cannot say whether it is decent or not but I do know that if you aer using the standard apple mouse, trying to emulate the right click in X11 applications can be a problem for some applications. I don't know if that applys here or not.
If Gnome is meant to provide a familiar "window's like" environment for those who switch to linux, it is going to have to take advantage of the available RAM and CPU. Computers keep getting more powerful and memory is getting much cheaper. I'd say the majority of people have above 128 MB of RAM and RAM is cheap.
There are alternative environments for older systems out there. I think Gnome should definitely focus on efficieny but I don't think they should focus so much as to not incorporate new features.
They have to find a median between having top-notch features and compatibility with older machines and can never please everybody.
In addition to the cash settlement, the defendants in the suit are also giving 5.6 million CD's to educational programs."
Why not sell those 5.6 million cds and give the profit to educational programs instead?
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So that's why they need the paid links...
I want an objective search engine, not one where companies can pay for placement I agree with you, but that doesn't happen with google? It seems with all the google ads everywhere, that something, somewhere is being affected.
as well, more and more my google searches disappoint me in that my first 20 results (give or take) are almost always commercial sites. Yes, I know there's ways to "hack around" that, but that's not the point.
as well, i swear i've read stories about certain sites vying in random ways to have their site come up higher than the compeition's in google searches.
Google does do this but their paid links are clearly marked and not insidiously mixed with the search results. Try searching for a7n8x. There are 4 one line links at the top of the page from their product search (not sure if this is paid or not) then links on the right of the page that are paid. These are in different colors and not mixed with the regular search results. It would hard to confuse the paid/non-paid results. Companies sidestep this by putting up a bunch of dummy pages that only link
Well I know for that google uses thousands of linuxs machines for cost and reliability reasons. I would suspect that yahoo does the same but I can't say for sure.
I wouldn't think that they would have to replace the hardware but you never know. With the power of todays even bargain machines, I suspect that the bottleneck would be the bandwidth. I could be mistaken though.
I sat in on a short talk by a guy from google. From what I remember, google has several starting pages for their crawlers. They just travel though all the links of the pages and every subsequent link, recording how many links go to a particular site to use in configuring the sites page rank. This continues until they have a full cached copy of most of the web.
I haven't checked this site but I found it by googling "how google works". http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html
Yeah well mine was modded off topic as well.
As an aside...is your sig a reference to Super Mario World?
Nope "Aqua Teen Hunger Force"
As the parent pointed out, AGP cards may come down in price. So if you just bought the latest Radeon 9800 at $500, you'll have to watch helplessly as others buy it at $50 bargain bin prices a couple years from now.
This is true anyway. This year's top of the line card will be the low-end "bargain card" in two or three years. Anytime you buy the top-of-the-line anything you have to be aware of that. The only difference in this is that you will need a new motherboard for the new cards. But since these cards aren't available yet, what's the big deal?