Hey, the Ubuntu project has an all-libre version of the distribution as well. But if you've got hardware you can't support without some restricted stuff that makes you feel icky... I'm not sure what distribution developers are expected to do. Tell users what hardware they should buy so that their distros will work?
At what point did you read into this that Sony was going to enable things like replacing video cards and sound boards? I certainly didn't get that from the article - but then, my UID isn't as low as yours.;)
The most impressive parts of Vista functionally are (would be) the security "enhancements" (don't need them, thanks) and WinFS, which they've left out.
If Tom's review is a good list of the new features, well... I'm significantly underwhelmed. You have the option of running your swap on a flash drive! Well hoo-fucking-ray! I guess I also have the option of burning out the cells in the span of a month!
Microsoft is entirely capable of producing a next-generation OS with lots of new, innovative technology. Vist isn't it.
but I agree. Vista has *not* impressed me so far. xgl is just as impressive (or at least, just as useful) as Aero Glass, and with Dapper being as gorgeous and capable as it is...
By the time Vista comes out, Edgy will have been released. I'm seriously considering thoroughly forsaking Microsoft when Vista rolls around.
Parent is a bit off his rocker. There's no reason to assume you can't do a fresh OS install on a laptop. This is why the manufacturer provides you with drivers. I've done this on my old laptop several times. Only reason I can't do it on my new one is because it's a tablet and you basically *can't buy* a copy of Windows XP Tablet anywhere unless you're an OEM.
Boys need to chase boobs. Silly and immature, maybe, but you need to crawl before you can walk. If you don't look for girls, learn to talk to them when you're young, when will you learn to have a realistic and mature relationship with one? If you don't make your mistakes when you're young, you just end up making them later.
Couldn't have put it better myself. You win the Internets for today.
There is no objective evidence other than poorly-interpreted excerpts from the Bible that having sex with someone of the same gender is "what we ought not to do."
The same cannot be said for, say, murder.
This poor woman has lumped all of the wild indelicacies of her past into one horrible thing to be avoided at all costs. That's not logical or even ethically sound, it's emotional backlashing.
Expect Intel toilet-graphics in all but the most powerful MacBook, if even that. Remember, this is their budget machine. The toilet-graphics will allow them to drop the price OR make more of a margin on the computer. Either way, they win.
This is super disappointing to me. I was really hoping Apple would come out with a small tablet with a discrete graphics controller. I love mine, but would get rid of it in a second if Apple came out with something just like it.
Dick Butkus didn't choose to be called Dick Butkus.
Nintendo thought of ALL the names they could have picked for their console, and they chose "Wii." It's a fucking stupid name, man. Nintendo fans have as much of a right to complain as Nintendo does to tell them "fuck you, we're doing it our way."
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Hey, the Ubuntu project has an all-libre version of the distribution as well. But if you've got hardware you can't support without some restricted stuff that makes you feel icky... I'm not sure what distribution developers are expected to do. Tell users what hardware they should buy so that their distros will work?
At what point did you read into this that Sony was going to enable things like replacing video cards and sound boards? I certainly didn't get that from the article - but then, my UID isn't as low as yours. ;)
Personally I have been copying my bookmarks.html to ~/public_html for years.
This is precisely what a "home page" originally was.
Hey, just because she's almost completely illiterate doesn't mean I wouldn't hit that like Babe Ruth.
I'd drive that like a truck.
I lost my cell phone in a cab twice in NYC and got it back twice.
We're good people.
That's what I do. I let my downstairs neighbor hop on my AP and I don't even know who he is.
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The most impressive parts of Vista functionally are (would be) the security "enhancements" (don't need them, thanks) and WinFS, which they've left out.
If Tom's review is a good list of the new features, well... I'm significantly underwhelmed. You have the option of running your swap on a flash drive! Well hoo-fucking-ray! I guess I also have the option of burning out the cells in the span of a month!
Microsoft is entirely capable of producing a next-generation OS with lots of new, innovative technology. Vist isn't it.
but I agree. Vista has *not* impressed me so far. xgl is just as impressive (or at least, just as useful) as Aero Glass, and with Dapper being as gorgeous and capable as it is...
By the time Vista comes out, Edgy will have been released. I'm seriously considering thoroughly forsaking Microsoft when Vista rolls around.
I really, really feel that's a bad attitude which is really hurting the hobby.
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I can think of a very large category of user for whom that isn't true. "Student." :)
If by "for everything" you mean "across platforms," what if I don't care about platforms other than x86 and PPC?
NOW what does Debian have over Ubuntu? An older kernel and worse hardware support? No thanks.
Try 16 or 32. I used to run Win95 on a Pentium/133 with 16MB of RAM and it worked fine. With 98Lite, 98 is essentially 95 with bugfixes.
Parent is a bit off his rocker. There's no reason to assume you can't do a fresh OS install on a laptop. This is why the manufacturer provides you with drivers. I've done this on my old laptop several times. Only reason I can't do it on my new one is because it's a tablet and you basically *can't buy* a copy of Windows XP Tablet anywhere unless you're an OEM.
... which is fine, but please don't pretend that a Shuttle mini-PC plus a monitor plus an external power source is as portable as a laptop.
What does Debian have over Ubuntu?
Boys need to chase boobs. Silly and immature, maybe, but you need to crawl before you can walk. If you don't look for girls, learn to talk to them when you're young, when will you learn to have a realistic and mature relationship with one? If you don't make your mistakes when you're young, you just end up making them later.
Couldn't have put it better myself. You win the Internets for today.
Hope you figure your shit out, man.
There is no objective evidence other than poorly-interpreted excerpts from the Bible that having sex with someone of the same gender is "what we ought not to do."
The same cannot be said for, say, murder.
This poor woman has lumped all of the wild indelicacies of her past into one horrible thing to be avoided at all costs. That's not logical or even ethically sound, it's emotional backlashing.
Ever heard of SpeedStep?
What kind of price are we talking about? I got mine refurbished for $1100. :) It IS a two-year-old model.
Expect Intel toilet-graphics in all but the most powerful MacBook, if even that. Remember, this is their budget machine. The toilet-graphics will allow them to drop the price OR make more of a margin on the computer. Either way, they win.
This is super disappointing to me. I was really hoping Apple would come out with a small tablet with a discrete graphics controller. I love mine, but would get rid of it in a second if Apple came out with something just like it.
You have failed to address how referer links make Slashdot a worse place.
You fail at flaming.
Dick Butkus didn't choose to be called Dick Butkus.
Nintendo thought of ALL the names they could have picked for their console, and they chose "Wii." It's a fucking stupid name, man. Nintendo fans have as much of a right to complain as Nintendo does to tell them "fuck you, we're doing it our way."
Why do you give a shit about the copyrights of the members of the ??AA?