It would be worth modifying my Thinkpad 600X to a PHKL, just to see the face of the IM guy when I return it next year for memory upgrade. That'd be priceless!
I have been developing on Unix for 3 years now, and Linux is my tool since 1996. But I don't feel comfortable with Linux, and this is why:
I would like to be able to swap the graphics card, boot the computer and have Linux working, no questions asked, not even a "New Hardware found, please reboot". The same goes for soundcard, motherboard, mouse, videograbber (and for a network card, I at least hope to have it recognized and drivers loaded).
I would like the user interface well integrated with the OS, and to be able to copy/paste objects and sets of different types.
Finally, I would like it to boot in less than 20 seconds on a Duron 700 MHz.
Additionally, I would like this OS NOT to be associated with a crowd of rabid zealots that will eat you alive if you point out any flaws or bugs of this OS.
So, while I do use Linux everyday at work, because it's the best choice for what I do, I would never use it at home, or anyplace, for fun and relaxation or any sort of creative work (except C or Perl programming or shell scripting. I didn't mean that kind of creative work.).
If you read my post carefully, and see that there are many others that share my view, you will understand why Linux is not making big strides in user's homes. You will see why the Linux market is now already saturated.
..was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I don't know what was the name in US, maybe Timex Spectrum. Fact is, it sold more pieces than Amstrad and TRS together, by almost an order of magnitude.
When you add Spectrum, Spectrum 48 and Spectrum +, that is. However, the Spectrum was much cheaper than the Amstrad (also sold under the Schneider brand), and might have made less money to the vendor (Sinclair/Timex).
Gosh, I can't believe there will be no Z-80! That's the only assembler I know....
How about looking up LNUX instead? Hmmmm.. all of a sudden, LNUX doesn't look that hot anymore. OK, let's make the same comparison and see if it makes you feel so comfortable. Looks like a shit stock to me...
Good job at engineering with the scale, though. The sad thing is, some people with mod points actually bought your stuff!
this post was about 1000 more truthful than the parent, that was obviously just hyping LNUX.
If you think that by modding down people who say the truth, you can conceal that VA had a TERRIBLE performance so far, then you are more stupid than you seem. Same goes for moderating up this little hypster.
Now go on and mod me down, but don't think that people are so stupid as to not check the full graph of LNUX. And that graph is revealing a lot, a lot of painful truth, that VA Linux Systems or whatever it's called, is a piece of shit and should be avoided like weaponized anthrax.
You have a very good point there. In fact, lasers are very susceptible to air pollutants, expecially aerosols. This means that they would be very ineffective in urban areas, expecially in China and US.
That may be true, or may not, but it's certainly NOT the answer to the original post. There are reasons why a laser wouldn't be able to shoot down an approaching tactical missile, one is the fading and dispersion of the light beam. The other, as someone posted already, is that the missiles would be out of optical sight for most of their journey. Etc.
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Delicate or not, this system is in use right now as we blabber on/.
I have actually read, about a year ago, an article about THAL and how it's used on the border with Lebanon, to defend against katyusha shells and other missiles. I saw pictures of the laser turrets. Pretty neat stuff, actually.
Man, that was embarrassing... surely many fellow Civilization I afficionados will sympathize with me when I tell "my story": first time I saw Civ was at a friend's home where I was guest for a week. I happened to sleep in the room with the PC (a 286/10 MHz, enough for Civ 1). The first game lasted about an hour, and the computer beat the socks off me. I didn't let myself down, and started a new game... and played it without stopping for 3 days. I was pretending I would go to sleep, but then I would sneak out of the bed, turn on the PC, and play until people started waking up in the morning. Then, I would pretend "I just wake up, so I turned on the PC to play a little bit..".
When I finally finished with the game (I will never forget the replay of my game, seeing my Roman empire expand and take over all the land, ahhh, the pleasure...), I had all those settlers, phallanx, chariots, cannons, roads, irrigation etc. in front of my eyes, and as I fell asleep I was dreaming of the wholething!
Since then, I still have "addiction nights" where I spend one whole night playing FreeCiv. Now, this is maybe not real addiction, but when I start playing, nobody better interrupt me!
It still does. I set up the playlist, and then I enjoy it. Since my apartement is small, it's not that hard to move my butt from one room to the other.
And what I lose in comfort because of moving, I gain in the much more functional and easier to use UI of the player on the PC, compared to the little shit on that appliance.
It's called shielded stereo cable, and it runs from my PCs soundcard, to the hi-fi system's amplifier.
Really, folks, what's the point of this box, except that it's cool to have something shiny with debian in it? I mean, who gives a fuck when you just don't need it. The calbe costs me 5 bucks, preassembled 10-meter, 3.5 mm stereo plug to RCA. It's actually cheaper than a CAT 5 cable of the same lenght!!! And the PC has a much better "interface" to control my playing list, than this tiny little box.
If you have money to spend on little amenities, that's OK, but this is simply nonsensical.
Now, I know that 99,99% of Slashdot readers couldn't care less about the Bible or other sacred writings, but being an intelligent and informed crowd, it would be nice if they got informed about these things, as well: nowhere in the Bible has ever been mentioned that angels have wings. Neither is this the case in the Kur'an. So what's the idea of winged angels? Just because some renaissance painter decided to add wings to angels doesn't mean he was right.
(BTW, cherubs are supposed to have wings, but that's a different story..)
As I said, O.T.
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Didn't convince you to what? To buy an XBox? That wasn't the point of my reply. Very stupid way of putting words in my mouth. No, of course I didn't mean that you were trying to convince me to buy an Xbox. The word "convince" is not exclusively used in that context, you know? But obviously your world seems to be split into two neatly distinct categories: those who do and those who don't buy an Xbox. And you found it relevant to point out that you clearly belong to the former category. I pity you.
What I meant, and an average english speaking person understands, is that you did not convince me in your argument's validity.
And since now you gave just more of the same, I stay unconvinced.
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Considering the fact that the way to make money in the video game console business is to take a cut on each game sold, this doesn't make sense. It does when you have enough money and want to push your competitors out of business.
And Sony doesn't have an advertising budget? Or Nintendo? Or Sega, back when they were a contender? So maybe they never spent quite as much, but I'd expect Sony spent close with the PS2. The difference is in the amount, and it's considerable.
Hello? Anybody in there? This is HOW THE MARKET WORKS for video game consoles. Nintendo does this. Sony does this. Sega even did this, up to the point where they bailed out on the Dreamcast. Hell, even Indrema was going to have to do this if they wanted to be competitive. Now, I could see this argument if Microsoft were selling the XBox for $100 or $150 right out of the gate, but when it's being priced at a competitive $299 (same as PS2, $100 more than GameCube), I don't see where this is relevant. The specs of the Xbox are much higher than the PS/2. MS is losing much more money per unit than does Sony. And that might make all the difference.
Incidently, all your contraarguments didn't convince me one bit. But have a nice day nevertheless.
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I see one reason why people on Slashdot are biased against the Xbox: they understand that Microsoft is using a visious strategy to get the competitiors out. Simply, MS has a lot of money generated from other markets (software) which it uses to
a) pay developers to make games (direct or inidrect payment, like waiving the license costs)
b) putting US$ 500.000.000 into advertising
c) keeping the price of the Xbox artificially low
MS can do this, it can afford to lose 3 to 4 billions in the first year. 3 to 4 billions will KILL Sony. MS makes it in one quarter.
That's visious, the typical Slashdot reader understands this mechanism, hence the hatred.
...as long as it's an open-source company that makes it. I still remember the criticism that Novell was subjected to, for not open-sourcing NDS. That's called hypocrisy.
I just happened to buy a copy last week, and it was great. For example, there was an article about a journalist that managed to get fake IDs in Afghanistan, including documents that make her eligiable to polical asile in the west. (freaking scary, means many of the political refugees in the west may well be terrorists).
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Also, whatever happened to Ctrl+Tab window switching? That was one feature I really like with Navigator. It actually rocks so much that I have a hard time switching to IE just because of that. Netscape 6.2 without Ctrl+Tab is like sex without a dick.
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I have an IBM Thinkpad with that red scrollpoint, which functions as a mouse pointer usually, nad as a scrolling device when you press a blue botton on the laptop. Anyway, if you have a Thinkpad, you know what I'm talking about. Scrolling is not working for me, in Netsape 6.2. What should I do to enable it?
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It would be worth modifying my Thinkpad 600X to a PHKL, just to see the face of the IM guy when I return it next year for memory upgrade. That'd be priceless!
That's some gross shit there, I must say.
I don't know what's worse: to imagine that it's the hand of a woman (but a woman with such manly hands is an unsetting thought) or a man (gross).
I have been developing on Unix for 3 years now, and Linux is my tool since 1996. But I don't feel comfortable with Linux, and this is why:
I would like to be able to swap the graphics card, boot the computer and have Linux working, no questions asked, not even a "New Hardware found, please reboot". The same goes for soundcard, motherboard, mouse, videograbber (and for a network card, I at least hope to have it recognized and drivers loaded).
I would like the user interface well integrated with the OS, and to be able to copy/paste objects and sets of different types.
Finally, I would like it to boot in less than 20 seconds on a Duron 700 MHz.
Additionally, I would like this OS NOT to be associated with a crowd of rabid zealots that will eat you alive if you point out any flaws or bugs of this OS.
So, while I do use Linux everyday at work, because it's the best choice for what I do, I would never use it at home, or anyplace, for fun and relaxation or any sort of creative work (except C or Perl programming or shell scripting. I didn't mean that kind of creative work.).
If you read my post carefully, and see that there are many others that share my view, you will understand why Linux is not making big strides in user's homes. You will see why the Linux market is now already saturated.
..was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I don't know what was the name in US, maybe Timex Spectrum. Fact is, it sold more pieces than Amstrad and TRS together, by almost an order of magnitude.
When you add Spectrum, Spectrum 48 and Spectrum +, that is. However, the Spectrum was much cheaper than the Amstrad (also sold under the Schneider brand), and might have made less money to the vendor (Sinclair/Timex).
Gosh, I can't believe there will be no Z-80! That's the only assembler I know....
How about looking up LNUX instead? Hmmmm.. all of a sudden, LNUX doesn't look that hot anymore. OK, let's make the same comparison and see if it makes you feel so comfortable. Looks like a shit stock to me...
Good job at engineering with the scale, though. The sad thing is, some people with mod points actually bought your stuff!
this post was about 1000 more truthful than the parent, that was obviously just hyping LNUX.
If you think that by modding down people who say the truth, you can conceal that VA had a TERRIBLE performance so far, then you are more stupid than you seem. Same goes for moderating up this little hypster.
Now go on and mod me down, but don't think that people are so stupid as to not check the full graph of LNUX. And that graph is revealing a lot, a lot of painful truth, that VA Linux Systems or whatever it's called, is a piece of shit and should be avoided like weaponized anthrax.
You have a very good point there. In fact, lasers are very susceptible to air pollutants, expecially aerosols. This means that they would be very ineffective in urban areas, expecially in China and US.
That may be true, or may not, but it's certainly NOT the answer to the original post. There are reasons why a laser wouldn't be able to shoot down an approaching tactical missile, one is the fading and dispersion of the light beam. The other, as someone posted already, is that the missiles would be out of optical sight for most of their journey. Etc.
Delicate or not, this system is in use right now as we blabber on /.
I have actually read, about a year ago, an article about THAL and how it's used on the border with Lebanon, to defend against katyusha shells and other missiles. I saw pictures of the laser turrets. Pretty neat stuff, actually.
Man, that was embarrassing... surely many fellow Civilization I afficionados will sympathize with me when I tell "my story": first time I saw Civ was at a friend's home where I was guest for a week. I happened to sleep in the room with the PC (a 286/10 MHz, enough for Civ 1). The first game lasted about an hour, and the computer beat the socks off me. I didn't let myself down, and started a new game... and played it without stopping for 3 days. I was pretending I would go to sleep, but then I would sneak out of the bed, turn on the PC, and play until people started waking up in the morning. Then, I would pretend "I just wake up, so I turned on the PC to play a little bit..".
When I finally finished with the game (I will never forget the replay of my game, seeing my Roman empire expand and take over all the land, ahhh, the pleasure...), I had all those settlers, phallanx, chariots, cannons, roads, irrigation etc. in front of my eyes, and as I fell asleep I was dreaming of the wholething!
Since then, I still have "addiction nights" where I spend one whole night playing FreeCiv. Now, this is maybe not real addiction, but when I start playing, nobody better interrupt me!
Insightful? This post is offtopic. Lineo has opensourced CP/M, not DOS!
It still does. I set up the playlist, and then I enjoy it. Since my apartement is small, it's not that hard to move my butt from one room to the other.
And what I lose in comfort because of moving, I gain in the much more functional and easier to use UI of the player on the PC, compared to the little shit on that appliance.
It's called shielded stereo cable, and it runs from my PCs soundcard, to the hi-fi system's amplifier.
Really, folks, what's the point of this box, except that it's cool to have something shiny with debian in it? I mean, who gives a fuck when you just don't need it. The calbe costs me 5 bucks, preassembled 10-meter, 3.5 mm stereo plug to RCA. It's actually cheaper than a CAT 5 cable of the same lenght!!! And the PC has a much better "interface" to control my playing list, than this tiny little box.
If you have money to spend on little amenities, that's OK, but this is simply nonsensical.
Oh yes, you're from USA... did you know that in the rest of the world it's the caller who pays the charge?
Now, I know that 99,99% of Slashdot readers couldn't care less about the Bible or other sacred writings, but being an intelligent and informed crowd, it would be nice if they got informed about these things, as well: nowhere in the Bible has ever been mentioned that angels have wings. Neither is this the case in the Kur'an. So what's the idea of winged angels? Just because some renaissance painter decided to add wings to angels doesn't mean he was right.
(BTW, cherubs are supposed to have wings, but that's a different story..)
As I said, O.T.
Didn't convince you to what? To buy an XBox? That wasn't the point of my reply.
Very stupid way of putting words in my mouth. No, of course I didn't mean that you were trying to convince me to buy an Xbox. The word "convince" is not exclusively used in that context, you know? But obviously your world seems to be split into two neatly distinct categories: those who do and those who don't buy an Xbox. And you found it relevant to point out that you clearly belong to the former category. I pity you.
What I meant, and an average english speaking person understands, is that you did not convince me in your argument's validity.
And since now you gave just more of the same, I stay unconvinced.
Considering the fact that the way to make money in the video game console business is to take a cut on each game sold, this doesn't make sense.
It does when you have enough money and want to push your competitors out of business.
And Sony doesn't have an advertising budget? Or Nintendo? Or Sega, back when they were a contender? So maybe they never spent quite as much, but I'd expect Sony spent close with the PS2.
The difference is in the amount, and it's considerable.
Hello? Anybody in there? This is HOW THE MARKET WORKS for video game consoles. Nintendo does this. Sony does this. Sega even did this, up to the point where they bailed out on the Dreamcast. Hell, even Indrema was going to have to do this if they wanted to be competitive. Now, I could see this argument if Microsoft were selling the XBox for $100 or $150 right out of the gate, but when it's being priced at a competitive $299 (same as PS2, $100 more than GameCube), I don't see where this is relevant.
The specs of the Xbox are much higher than the PS/2. MS is losing much more money per unit than does Sony. And that might make all the difference.
Incidently, all your contraarguments didn't convince me one bit. But have a nice day nevertheless.
I see one reason why people on Slashdot are biased against the Xbox: they understand that Microsoft is using a visious strategy to get the competitiors out. Simply, MS has a lot of money generated from other markets (software) which it uses to
a) pay developers to make games (direct or inidrect payment, like waiving the license costs)
b) putting US$ 500.000.000 into advertising
c) keeping the price of the Xbox artificially low
MS can do this, it can afford to lose 3 to 4 billions in the first year. 3 to 4 billions will KILL Sony. MS makes it in one quarter.
That's visious, the typical Slashdot reader understands this mechanism, hence the hatred.
I know them, and I like their music! Cool, they got rid of the RIAA!
And why on earth don't other artists do the same? It's not like it takes that much money.
...as long as it's an open-source company that makes it. I still remember the criticism that Novell was subjected to, for not open-sourcing NDS. That's called hypocrisy.
I just happened to buy a copy last week, and it was great. For example, there was an article about a journalist that managed to get fake IDs in Afghanistan, including documents that make her eligiable to polical asile in the west. (freaking scary, means many of the political refugees in the west may well be terrorists).
Also, whatever happened to Ctrl+Tab window switching? That was one feature I really like with Navigator. It actually rocks so much that I have a hard time switching to IE just because of that. Netscape 6.2 without Ctrl+Tab is like sex without a dick.
Didn't work.
I have an IBM Thinkpad with that red scrollpoint, which functions as a mouse pointer usually, nad as a scrolling device when you press a blue botton on the laptop. Anyway, if you have a Thinkpad, you know what I'm talking about. Scrolling is not working for me, in Netsape 6.2. What should I do to enable it?
Mod up parent.
This is exactly the reason I feel much more comfortable using an Athlon, than I was right after the original, alarming Tom's article.