Brightness:
I don't have numbers to back it up, but every CRT I have seen has been remarkably brighter than most LCD's. The only LCD's I have seen that could match a CRT are some of the new Sony's that are almost too bright.
Contrast Ratio:
The article mentioned something about CRT's only having a contrast ratio of 700:1. I was reading last week, and came across something that pegged a CRT's contrast ratio in the thousands to one, not hundreds to one.
Those are my biggest gripes about this article, but I agree with most what else they had to say.
Actually, yes, online play with a PS2 is absolutely free. Ok, you need to buy a network adapter, but that is a one time fee of $35 instead of a yearly fee of $50.
They actually were supported in Gnome 2.8. I remember enabling transparency on my roomate's computer. We had to specifically use Metacity 2.8.5 (IIRC) and change some settings in xorg.conf to get it all to work. There are tons of howto's on that running around the web.
Well, to pass the FAA requirement, there very well may be no usage of brakes. But, in real-life, i'd imagine that the pilot will use anything they can to slow down the plane. They have already eaten up a ton of runway accelerating, and now they need the rest to slow down.
It is called an RTO, or "Rejected Take-Off". You slam on the brakes, turn on the thrust reversers, lower the flaps, raise the airbrakes...basically anything you can do to get the plane to slow down. I just saw some pictures yesterday of an A340 that had done this. ALL the tires had been blown out, one of the landing gears was actually ripped partway out, and even a few of the wheels hubs had seperated from the landing gear and were barely hanging on. It's not pretty, but you are safe.
The thing is, there are no "tires" on these rovers, just wheels. The wheels were carved out of solid chunks of aluminum, with treads machined into the aluminum. There is no rubber whatsoever for these wheels. As you can imagine, trying to drive a car on wheels like that would not give you much traction at all, especially at the speeds that cars drive at. These rovers have been on mars now for a year, and they have moved something like 2 miles each, if I recall correctly.
They may not hold the copyright on a.torrent, but did you notice that the MPAA took the time to download the actual.torrent and see what was subsequently downloaded? They own the material that has been downloaded due to the information contained within the.torrent file.
Yeah, and I can hit ctrl-alt-backspace and easily kill any running WM. What's your point? It still didn't bring down the kernel. Whereas in Windows, I have had times where the computer is just plain non-respondent. It's hard-locked.
Yeah, but you need to look in the foreground. The background craft is Buran, which incidentally looks a crapload like the space shuttle. The energia is in the foreground, with the black area going up and over the nose. You can't tell me that this looks identical to the shuttle.
He mentions that computers shut-off without any juice. Not surprising that computers do that. I don't think this is a design flaw, simply because there are things in existence, known as UPS's, that are there to buy you time to save and close everything.
Instead they type using the "latin" keyboard in pinyin (which is the phonetic pronunciation of a written character utilizing only the 26 letters).
That was one of the coolest thing I learned from one of the Chinese grad students at my university this year. I was shocked to find out they learn the phoentic Chinese first in grade school, then learn the character.
You might not have a problem, but what about your mom? Or your grandma? Or your neighbor next door? Do their computers come pre-configured like this? I doubt it. Do those individuals know how to fix all this? Again, highly doubtful. Most/.'ers don't have to worry about spyware on their personal machines. Most/.'ers don't have to worry about viruses, etc. It's all of the millions of untrained, uninformed computer users that have these problems, not the couple hundred thousand/.ers.
To defend Apple here.....you may get a P.O.S HP or Dell for $700, but your iBook that you get for $1500 is not a P.O.S. They arent' going to bring out low-low-end products, because to do so, Apple would have to make a severe sacrifice in quality of product.
What's the difference? Hard to say, except you need to experience it. A Mac first look beautiful (IMHO), but using one is definately an experience. It's amazing how things just work, look, and interoperate on them. You really should try to find an official Apple store, Fry's Electronics, or CompUSA and sit and play around on one for about 15 minutes. It's a bit different than Windows. You are in part paying for the art of the design of the hardware. The functionality is different. It's there, but it may not be what you are thinking. It's simple, but not dumb. It's easy, but can allow control if you want (it has a CLI that you can use). Like I said, you really should just try one out.
I believe it's the other way around. All iTunes users are iPod users. I would imagine there are quite a few iPod users that don't use iTunes at all (i.e. Linux crowd, plus people that choose not to pay fees to download music)
Actually....they'd be good. See, to give one cent to every person in the world (~6.5 billion for our purposes), then it would only cost MS about $65 million. Hell, they could give each person a dollar, and they'd be out $6.5 billion. So if Microsoft really, really wanted to, they liquidate all their assets, it might be possible.
yes...but you are missing the point. he wants to install it into/opt/gimp so that he could then create the symlink. the rpm package simply will install into/usr/lib/gimp.
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I don't have numbers to back it up, but every CRT I have seen has been remarkably brighter than most LCD's. The only LCD's I have seen that could match a CRT are some of the new Sony's that are almost too bright.
Contrast Ratio:
The article mentioned something about CRT's only having a contrast ratio of 700:1. I was reading last week, and came across something that pegged a CRT's contrast ratio in the thousands to one, not hundreds to one.
Those are my biggest gripes about this article, but I agree with most what else they had to say.
Actually, yes, online play with a PS2 is absolutely free. Ok, you need to buy a network adapter, but that is a one time fee of $35 instead of a yearly fee of $50.
They actually were supported in Gnome 2.8. I remember enabling transparency on my roomate's computer. We had to specifically use Metacity 2.8.5 (IIRC) and change some settings in xorg.conf to get it all to work. There are tons of howto's on that running around the web.
Why include KDE then? Why not something lighter like fluxbox, rox, etc?
Well, to pass the FAA requirement, there very well may be no usage of brakes. But, in real-life, i'd imagine that the pilot will use anything they can to slow down the plane. They have already eaten up a ton of runway accelerating, and now they need the rest to slow down.
It is called an RTO, or "Rejected Take-Off". You slam on the brakes, turn on the thrust reversers, lower the flaps, raise the airbrakes...basically anything you can do to get the plane to slow down. I just saw some pictures yesterday of an A340 that had done this. ALL the tires had been blown out, one of the landing gears was actually ripped partway out, and even a few of the wheels hubs had seperated from the landing gear and were barely hanging on. It's not pretty, but you are safe.
The thing is, there are no "tires" on these rovers, just wheels. The wheels were carved out of solid chunks of aluminum, with treads machined into the aluminum. There is no rubber whatsoever for these wheels. As you can imagine, trying to drive a car on wheels like that would not give you much traction at all, especially at the speeds that cars drive at. These rovers have been on mars now for a year, and they have moved something like 2 miles each, if I recall correctly.
They may not hold the copyright on a .torrent, but did you notice that the MPAA took the time to download the actual .torrent and see what was subsequently downloaded? They own the material that has been downloaded due to the information contained within the .torrent file.
Yeah, and I can hit ctrl-alt-backspace and easily kill any running WM. What's your point? It still didn't bring down the kernel. Whereas in Windows, I have had times where the computer is just plain non-respondent. It's hard-locked.
Last time I checked, we didn't call it AluminIm here in the U.S.
I was forced to watch that movie a class earlier this semester. It drove me completely nuts.
Yeah, but you need to look in the foreground. The background craft is Buran, which incidentally looks a crapload like the space shuttle. The energia is in the foreground, with the black area going up and over the nose. You can't tell me that this looks identical to the shuttle.
He mentions that computers shut-off without any juice. Not surprising that computers do that. I don't think this is a design flaw, simply because there are things in existence, known as UPS's, that are there to buy you time to save and close everything.
What nationality is she when she isn't visiting?
That was one of the coolest thing I learned from one of the Chinese grad students at my university this year. I was shocked to find out they learn the phoentic Chinese first in grade school, then learn the character.
You might not have a problem, but what about your mom? Or your grandma? Or your neighbor next door? Do their computers come pre-configured like this? I doubt it. Do those individuals know how to fix all this? Again, highly doubtful. Most /.'ers don't have to worry about spyware on their personal machines. Most /.'ers don't have to worry about viruses, etc. It's all of the millions of untrained, uninformed computer users that have these problems, not the couple hundred thousand /.ers.
It does not come with one. That is an accessory that must be purchased seperately.
I will agree that remote and FM are dubious, but I use OGG regularly.
To defend Apple here.....you may get a P.O.S HP or Dell for $700, but your iBook that you get for $1500 is not a P.O.S. They arent' going to bring out low-low-end products, because to do so, Apple would have to make a severe sacrifice in quality of product.
What's the difference? Hard to say, except you need to experience it. A Mac first look beautiful (IMHO), but using one is definately an experience. It's amazing how things just work, look, and interoperate on them. You really should try to find an official Apple store, Fry's Electronics, or CompUSA and sit and play around on one for about 15 minutes. It's a bit different than Windows. You are in part paying for the art of the design of the hardware. The functionality is different. It's there, but it may not be what you are thinking. It's simple, but not dumb. It's easy, but can allow control if you want (it has a CLI that you can use). Like I said, you really should just try one out.
I believe it's the other way around. All iTunes users are iPod users. I would imagine there are quite a few iPod users that don't use iTunes at all (i.e. Linux crowd, plus people that choose not to pay fees to download music)
OGG playback, FM-Radio, and remote. Those all exist in my iRiver iHP-120.
Actually....they'd be good. See, to give one cent to every person in the world (~6.5 billion for our purposes), then it would only cost MS about $65 million. Hell, they could give each person a dollar, and they'd be out $6.5 billion. So if Microsoft really, really wanted to, they liquidate all their assets, it might be possible.
yes...but you are missing the point. he wants to install it into /opt/gimp so that he could then create the symlink. the rpm package simply will install into /usr/lib/gimp.