The Unix Haters book is very, very old, it dates before Linux, and should only be considered an historic purpose document now. But then again, seeing as you judge the state of Linux on the number of pages a Red Hat book has, I'm not expecting you to be a very rationnal person.
You're talking as if open source drivers would be automagically better than the drivers made by the company who makes the cards itself. There's a reason why NVidia's drivers are the best: they come from the same codebase than the Windows version, which means there's many years of hard work behind it (and probably a lot more than all of the DRI project's drivers together). Not to mention their XRender support is vastly greater than any open source driver there currently is. Besides, looking at how DRI never managed to get performance comparable to the ATI Windows drivers, even though they supposedly had all specs, it's been a while that I lost faith in DRI.
The problem here is the fact that people have gotten so used to the "free beer" aspect of Linux that they're having trouble reaching for the wallet even when they should. They think nothing about buying software for Windows, but under Linux they're used to clicking their way on to freshmeat or freshrpms and grabbing it completely free. And when somebody expects money for Linux software it just seems so odd that they'd rather go pirate it.
So you're saying Linux users have a tendancy for piracy while Windows users don't pirate anything? In what kind of alternate universe are you living in?!
Well, I'm glad KDE got chosen. With the upcoming 3.2 release approaching, it's a good opportunity for the KDE guys to show how good a Linux desktop can be, and that the idea of Linux on the desktop is not so farfetched anymore.
"It never fails, mention Flash here and you get a couple hundred posts bashing Flash as nothing more than an annoyance."
The fact that Flash does more than being fucking annoying does not invalidate the fact that it's fucking annoying in the first place.
I don't think I'm the only one who hates browsing the Web and stumbling into stupid Flash content that completely wastes my CPU cycles and RAM. Seriously, when I browse the Web, I want a crisp, responsive interface that I can alongside run with other apps without wasting any CPU cycles those other apps may need. And that is not to mention Flash is TOO FUCKING STUPID TO PAUSE ITSELF WHEN OUT OF FOCUS and continues WASTING AWAY my CPU time if I'm working in another app or checking another web page simultaneously in another tab of my browser. Macromedia and its horde of Flash fanboys obviously don't grasp the meaning of the work "multitasking".
In short, Flash on Web pages is a pure waste of a computer's ressources.
"So for alll you who think flash is only used for annoying ads, well, why don't you switch to text based browsers instead? Because ads are still made as.gif and.jeg as well."
You don't seem to understand the problem. Images don't waste CPUs, use up only a small amount of RAM and can't take over your whole screen (unless you have lax Javascript rules, but if you run a decent, modern browser (ie. not IE) Javascript should be very limited in its power by default anyway)
Why wait for an ambulance? All you had to do was beating up someone in the street to near-death (or death, your choice) then call an ambulance and HIDE!
Why the hell would Sony "transform and restructure" itself? Sony freaking OWNS the console market (maybe expect in North America, but then again they still are #1 there).
While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.
Ironically, that's the same amount of money Mr. Strauss got from Microsoft for spreading such FUD.
Fun?? Hahahaha. It's been almost a decade now that videogames aren't made for fun. Now it's FMVs, poly counts, physics engines and all that marketable junk.
1. Sell Linux Desktop solutions to the enterprise market.
2. Have CEO say "Linux on the desktop is not ready, stick with Windows".
3. ???
4. Profit! (what the?)
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The Unix Haters book is very, very old, it dates before Linux, and should only be considered an historic purpose document now. But then again, seeing as you judge the state of Linux on the number of pages a Red Hat book has, I'm not expecting you to be a very rationnal person.
You're talking as if open source drivers would be automagically better than the drivers made by the company who makes the cards itself. There's a reason why NVidia's drivers are the best: they come from the same codebase than the Windows version, which means there's many years of hard work behind it (and probably a lot more than all of the DRI project's drivers together). Not to mention their XRender support is vastly greater than any open source driver there currently is. Besides, looking at how DRI never managed to get performance comparable to the ATI Windows drivers, even though they supposedly had all specs, it's been a while that I lost faith in DRI.
If the time comes that ATI's Linux drivers actually get as good as NVidia's, there won't be any reason to buy NVidia cards anymore.
The problem here is the fact that people have gotten so used to the "free beer" aspect of Linux that they're having trouble reaching for the wallet even when they should. They think nothing about buying software for Windows, but under Linux they're used to clicking their way on to freshmeat or freshrpms and grabbing it completely free. And when somebody expects money for Linux software it just seems so odd that they'd rather go pirate it.
So you're saying Linux users have a tendancy for piracy while Windows users don't pirate anything? In what kind of alternate universe are you living in?!
Ugh, seeing Keanu Reeves' bare ass pretty much ruined this scene for me.
How could you say SJ captures anime Samurai swordfighting when the most important element of all -- BLOOD -- is nonexistent?
Well, I'm glad KDE got chosen. With the upcoming 3.2 release approaching, it's a good opportunity for the KDE guys to show how good a Linux desktop can be, and that the idea of Linux on the desktop is not so farfetched anymore.
"It never fails, mention Flash here and you get a couple hundred posts bashing Flash as nothing more than an annoyance."
.gif and .jeg as well."
The fact that Flash does more than being fucking annoying does not invalidate the fact that it's fucking annoying in the first place.
I don't think I'm the only one who hates browsing the Web and stumbling into stupid Flash content that completely wastes my CPU cycles and RAM. Seriously, when I browse the Web, I want a crisp, responsive interface that I can alongside run with other apps without wasting any CPU cycles those other apps may need. And that is not to mention Flash is TOO FUCKING STUPID TO PAUSE ITSELF WHEN OUT OF FOCUS and continues WASTING AWAY my CPU time if I'm working in another app or checking another web page simultaneously in another tab of my browser. Macromedia and its horde of Flash fanboys obviously don't grasp the meaning of the work "multitasking".
In short, Flash on Web pages is a pure waste of a computer's ressources.
"So for alll you who think flash is only used for annoying ads, well, why don't you switch to text based browsers instead? Because ads are still made as
You don't seem to understand the problem. Images don't waste CPUs, use up only a small amount of RAM and can't take over your whole screen (unless you have lax Javascript rules, but if you run a decent, modern browser (ie. not IE) Javascript should be very limited in its power by default anyway)
Why wait for an ambulance? All you had to do was beating up someone in the street to near-death (or death, your choice) then call an ambulance and HIDE!
Why the hell would Sony "transform and restructure" itself? Sony freaking OWNS the console market (maybe expect in North America, but then again they still are #1 there).
While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.
Ironically, that's the same amount of money Mr. Strauss got from Microsoft for spreading such FUD.
Fun?? Hahahaha. It's been almost a decade now that videogames aren't made for fun. Now it's FMVs, poly counts, physics engines and all that marketable junk.
1. Sell Linux Desktop solutions to the enterprise market.
2. Have CEO say "Linux on the desktop is not ready, stick with Windows".
3. ???
4. Profit! (what the?)