1) Moderators: fscking QUIT IT. The parent post of this was NOT Offtopic. It may have not been particularly inspired but did not deserve to get modded DOWN.
2) He's right; Mozilla's rendering engine is faster than any other I've seen, probably even faster than Opera's. I have high hopes for the project laying the smack down on Internet Explorer's current majority.
Someone mod the parent post Underrated until it's back to 1, please.
Not bad, but the "Talking about improbabilities!" line really sort of gave you away. You get a 9 for effort but only a 7 for implementation.
Nevertheless, well-crafted despite that one caveat.
Oh, and there is plenty of evidence....take for example the enormous, absolutely perfect circle engraved in stone which is several miles wide in the Mesopotamian Basin (that's where I think it is, anyway). Oh, and did I mention it was several thousand years old?
ANONYMOUS EMILY DICKINSON BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE POETRY POST!
Heh. OK, that was pretty damn funny.
Ahem. That said, it seems highly unlikely that we are the only form of intelligent life in the universe, but the question remains: why haven't we heard from them yet?
You know why I was so sure that they'd never port it? Piracy. You know M$ (I guess up until now) thought that the user base of Linux would certainly USE MS Office for Linux, they just wouldn't pay for it. Their picture of the average Linux user is a Gnutella-leechin', software pir8in', Microsoft-hatin' hacker punk who don't respect no authority!
I suppose the threat of Linux moving to the desktop and expanding its roles for business (which is where their REAL money is) finally became serious enough for them to move into the early "embrace" mode of their embrace-extend-extinguish assimilation process. Personally I didn't think the threat to their business sector from Linux was even close to "serious" yet, but hey, whatever. That's up to the Microsoft analysts.
My God, what will be next....Microsoft Linux 2005?
How likely do you think a Microsoft Linux distro is? The more I think about it, actually....the more evil sense it makes. Other than the fact that they'd have to keep the source open to everything that was GPLed before. I suppose they COULD develop a window manager (explorer-like?) that wasn't opensource and include it in a distro, couldn't they?
IANAWF (I Am Not A Windows Freak), but I have never had Windows lock up on me when installing hardware.
I _HATE_ Explorer in all its incarnations, though - shell, file manager, and browser.
Having never played with SuSE, I don't know about how easy it is to configure graphically (though I've heard songs sung in praise here and there). Are they always at the CLI or in the GUI?
Really. Did your 3-year-old install the OS? (Not that I had a problem installing any distro of Linux, but I think it must have been the way I installed it that made it so inflexible suddenly). Did he/she connect the mouse and then try to change it? Are your kids installing/compiling kernel modules?
Somehow I doubt they're doing much more than playing some games and doing some homework (except for the 12-year-old, he/she might be doing a bit of configuring).
What I'm saying is that Linux is not Plug and Play in the literal sense. Until it gets that way, it will not be in widespread consumer desktop use.
Yep, Toshiba came up with this. Apparently it uses the SRAM to prevent the screen from needing to be refreshed when the picture is static. (Think of the difference between SRAM, which does not to be refreshed, and your standard stick of DRAM, which does) Check out the eetimes article he re. The problem I see with this is that SRAM can get mighty expensive in large quantities....I don't see them making even an 8" screen with this technique.
I believe many liquors have small amounts of methanol in them....this is what is "purified out" when you hear about purified spirits. The methanol actually often gives flavor, but will get you sicker faster in large quantities and contributes greatly to hangovers.
I've been using Microsoft since I was 8. I'm now 21. Linux is NOT proving even SLIGHTLY easy for me to pick up, and I'm not a newbie, nor am I an idiot.
Things do not "just work" with Linux. Let me provide an example: mice. I had a serial mouse attached to my Linux box when I installed the OS, and now it refuses to see the PS/2 mouse I hook up to it (yes, I detached the serial one). A Windows box would not have this problem.
Until things "just work," and have a consistent GUI with familiar widgets, Linux will not make many inroads to the consumer desktop.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's hysterical! I ESPECIALLY like the icon screenshot bit!
This reminds me of my own pranking way back in the day....
When I was in HS my friends and I r00led this little closed token-ring network that the school used for programming classes....in PASCAL. All the machines were 286s except for the server which was a 386sx. It was a NetWare 2.21 (.12?.22? I don't remember) shop and we had more access than the principal in about two weeks. We thought we were so 133t. Ah, the old days...
The answer isn't to stone the people that dare to say it and go into denial (that's an IBM behaviour), but to say, OK - how do we address this issue.
Might I suggest that a system for "locking down" a Linux installation might be the trick. To enable a site to force any system changes to/go/ through due process.
Indeed. From what I know of Linux (admittedly not much), it is real short on central manageability features. A lockdown system like you suggest would go a long way toward getting the OS deeply entrenched in business, both on the desktop and in a server capacity - without violating its open source nature.
Ever seen a tech tell a manager how to do his job?
Yep. In fact, I've done it myself (though not overtly, of course). The key is to steer the manager in the direction you want him to be thinking.
Techs are qualified to tell managers how to do their jobs because they are on a lower level and can see how certain managerial styles / actions simply aren't going to jive with reality. Managers, on the other hand, are (usually, provided they don't come from a tech background) unqualified to tell techs how to do their jobs because they often have quite an incomplete understanding of what the tech's job is.
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Re:actually there is a sort of port to this.
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No, actually the 80386 was the first Intel CPU that supported protected mode. Hence Windows 3.1's "386 Enhanced Mode."
IMO it shouldn't be out for public use yet. It's pre-Alpha-quality software. It's not that it's poorly designed, it's that right now it's very, very incomplete. No search feature (yet), no GUI (yet), protocol needs work....but I expect that once it hits its stride it will blow right by Gnutella. Alls we got to do is encrypt transmissions and it will be unstoppable:)
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1) Moderators: fscking QUIT IT. The parent post of this was NOT Offtopic. It may have not been particularly inspired but did not deserve to get modded DOWN.
2) He's right; Mozilla's rendering engine is faster than any other I've seen, probably even faster than Opera's. I have high hopes for the project laying the smack down on Internet Explorer's current majority.
Someone mod the parent post Underrated until it's back to 1, please.
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This would prove to me that there is indeed a God.
What a wonderful, wonderful universe it would be.
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Not bad, but the "Talking about improbabilities!" line really sort of gave you away. You get a 9 for effort but only a 7 for implementation.
Nevertheless, well-crafted despite that one caveat.
Oh, and there is plenty of evidence....take for example the enormous, absolutely perfect circle engraved in stone which is several miles wide in the Mesopotamian Basin (that's where I think it is, anyway). Oh, and did I mention it was several thousand years old?
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- ANONYMOUS EMILY DICKINSON BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE POETRY POST!
Heh. OK, that was pretty damn funny.Ahem. That said, it seems highly unlikely that we are the only form of intelligent life in the universe, but the question remains: why haven't we heard from them yet?
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Actually, I think this conspiracy theory has some weight to it.
I'm willing to bet this is EXACTLY what M$ will do.
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Buy it?
You know why I was so sure that they'd never port it? Piracy. You know M$ (I guess up until now) thought that the user base of Linux would certainly USE MS Office for Linux, they just wouldn't pay for it. Their picture of the average Linux user is a Gnutella-leechin', software pir8in', Microsoft-hatin' hacker punk who don't respect no authority!
I suppose the threat of Linux moving to the desktop and expanding its roles for business (which is where their REAL money is) finally became serious enough for them to move into the early "embrace" mode of their embrace-extend-extinguish assimilation process. Personally I didn't think the threat to their business sector from Linux was even close to "serious" yet, but hey, whatever. That's up to the Microsoft analysts.
My God, what will be next....Microsoft Linux 2005?
How likely do you think a Microsoft Linux distro is? The more I think about it, actually....the more evil sense it makes. Other than the fact that they'd have to keep the source open to everything that was GPLed before. I suppose they COULD develop a window manager (explorer-like?) that wasn't opensource and include it in a distro, couldn't they?
Frightening thought.
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IANAWF (I Am Not A Windows Freak), but I have never had Windows lock up on me when installing hardware.
I _HATE_ Explorer in all its incarnations, though - shell, file manager, and browser.
Having never played with SuSE, I don't know about how easy it is to configure graphically (though I've heard songs sung in praise here and there). Are they always at the CLI or in the GUI?
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How clever! Glad that's only a forward.
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Really. Did your 3-year-old install the OS? (Not that I had a problem installing any distro of Linux, but I think it must have been the way I installed it that made it so inflexible suddenly). Did he/she connect the mouse and then try to change it? Are your kids installing/compiling kernel modules?
Somehow I doubt they're doing much more than playing some games and doing some homework (except for the 12-year-old, he/she might be doing a bit of configuring).
What I'm saying is that Linux is not Plug and Play in the literal sense. Until it gets that way, it will not be in widespread consumer desktop use.
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If it doesn't have an AGP 3D accelerator with 8MB or more of texture RAM, I don't want it.
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::tsk:: A meager attempt at best. Come now, you can do better than that! Try to come a few more feet out from under the bridge, next time.
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Yep, Toshiba came up with this. Apparently it uses the SRAM to prevent the screen from needing to be refreshed when the picture is static. (Think of the difference between SRAM, which does not to be refreshed, and your standard stick of DRAM, which does) Check out the eetimes article he re. The problem I see with this is that SRAM can get mighty expensive in large quantities....I don't see them making even an 8" screen with this technique.
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This isn't really a troll, it's just sort of silly.
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"What about an X-server?"
You are running a server, which is in violation of our Terms of Service! Prepare to get bitchslapped, fuX0r!
I guarantee we'll hear about this next. So much Linux persecution still in the world....::sigh::
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I believe many liquors have small amounts of methanol in them....this is what is "purified out" when you hear about purified spirits. The methanol actually often gives flavor, but will get you sicker faster in large quantities and contributes greatly to hangovers.
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My bad, you're completely right....I was thinking of virtual 86 mode.
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Nice troll. A bit obvious, but hey, it worked.
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Okay, I'll say it, since no one else is:
I've been using Microsoft since I was 8. I'm now 21. Linux is NOT proving even SLIGHTLY easy for me to pick up, and I'm not a newbie, nor am I an idiot.
Things do not "just work" with Linux. Let me provide an example: mice. I had a serial mouse attached to my Linux box when I installed the OS, and now it refuses to see the PS/2 mouse I hook up to it (yes, I detached the serial one). A Windows box would not have this problem.
Until things "just work," and have a consistent GUI with familiar widgets, Linux will not make many inroads to the consumer desktop.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's hysterical! I ESPECIALLY like the icon screenshot bit!
.22? I don't remember) shop and we had more access than the principal in about two weeks. We thought we were so 133t. Ah, the old days...
This reminds me of my own pranking way back in the day....
When I was in HS my friends and I r00led this little closed token-ring network that the school used for programming classes....in PASCAL. All the machines were 286s except for the server which was a 386sx. It was a NetWare 2.21 (.12?
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- The answer isn't to stone the people that dare to say it and go into denial (that's an IBM behaviour), but to say, OK - how do we address this issue.
Might I suggest that a system for "locking down" a Linux installation might be the trick. To enable a site to force any system changes to
/go/ through due process.
Indeed. From what I know of Linux (admittedly not much), it is real short on central manageability features. A lockdown system like you suggest would go a long way toward getting the OS deeply entrenched in business, both on the desktop and in a server capacity - without violating its open source nature.Email me.
Don't trust anyone over 90000.
Yep. In fact, I've done it myself (though not overtly, of course). The key is to steer the manager in the direction you want him to be thinking.
Techs are qualified to tell managers how to do their jobs because they are on a lower level and can see how certain managerial styles / actions simply aren't going to jive with reality. Managers, on the other hand, are (usually, provided they don't come from a tech background) unqualified to tell techs how to do their jobs because they often have quite an incomplete understanding of what the tech's job is.
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No, actually the 80386 was the first Intel CPU that supported protected mode. Hence Windows 3.1's "386 Enhanced Mode."
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How should the Gnutella protocol be modified, i.e. what is wrong with it now?
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IMO it shouldn't be out for public use yet. It's pre-Alpha-quality software. It's not that it's poorly designed, it's that right now it's very, very incomplete. No search feature (yet), no GUI (yet), protocol needs work....but I expect that once it hits its stride it will blow right by Gnutella. Alls we got to do is encrypt transmissions and it will be unstoppable :)
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You built your own brain?
Would that mean you were a self-made man?
::rimshot::
Thank you, thank you, I be here all de week. </beckscommercial>
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