We have some things similar to those at my high school, and while we rarely use them(maybe three or four times a year), I think they're atleast fairly useful. We've used them a few times for reviewing for state assessments/finals. It makes sure that people don't just sit around and jack off for an hour(the ones we have show what #'s have answered). They aren't perfect as far as reception, but they're not too bad. I think ours are infared or something of that nature. They let the teachers know what questions/topics people are having trouble on as well as the students. And most of us like using them, its more fun then filling in bubbles on a sheet.
Can your food processor fly at 7 km/s? And does it have liquid fuel that is kept at very very cold temperatures(creates ice)?
And for the chance to go into orbit, I think I would be willing to accept a 2/113 chance that I might not be coming back.
Yeah but more people probably want KDE/Gnome than any of the littler WM's. Just having either KDE OR Gnome would probably just turn either the KDE or Gnome people away from their distro. I'm not saying that there's anything (horribly) wrong with the smallers WM's, but not that many people use them on a day-to-day basis(compared to KDE/Gnome), especially considering that Mandrake, err Mandriva's target audience is probably more of the people that are newer to Linux(and would want more of a "complete package" feel that KDE/Gnome/Windows gives).
Its stable(atleast for me it has been), but its like Outlook Express as far as functionality. Thats fine for most home users and stuff, but for businesses(who use/need groupware to work well with their PIM software), its not really anywhere near Outlook or Evolution.
The thing I like best about M$ stuff is that they all(well with a few exceptions) work together. Exchange/Live Comm Srv/Windows clients/Sharepoint/Webmail/Terminal Services/etc can all authenticate to Active Directory and get users information from there. Calendaring, meeting requests, web access all work out of the box. To set up something similar on Linux, it would take quite a while. And with commercial things(like Open-Xchange, ), you'll probably end up paying as much or more as you will for Exchange. Take Opengroupware for example. Its free-unless you want to use Outlook. Then it'll cost you quite a bit. About $180 for each connector license. That's three times the price of a Exchange CAL. And I'm sorry, but there is not real alternative(right now atleast) to Outlook for groupware on Windows. Until a Linux vendor can supply something that works as well as M$'s server things do, and that includes integration with Windows clients, M$ will continue to rule this area. Groupwise might be an exception to this, but Novell's stuff still seems a little overly complicated to setup compared to M$'s. Maybe GW7 is better in this respect.
The bottom line is that its just a lot easier to use Windows Server stuff. You don't have to spend hours configuring clients to authenticate with LDAP not AD, and for miscellaneous services to look at LDAP and not their own little thing. Its not that I don't like Linux, I love it, its just that some of the integration between different services just isn't there yet.
Another problem with OOo is that it comes with very few(if any templates). I mean, I could live with that for Calc and maybe Writer, but it really hurts with Impress. Even the themes Impress does include aren't anywhere near as polished and professional looking as PowerPoint ones do. That same sort of problem also exsists in diagramming apps(think Visio equivalent). Kivio and Dia are both very nice programs, that would be just fine for most people coming from Visio. But they don't have anywhere enough stencils, and the ones they do have aren't even on the same level as Visio's.
$50 a year is a lot if you are just wanting a domain to run a personal website or play around with a server. Its not a lot if you are running a business(like spammers are). I'm sure most spammers make more than $50 a year.
They need to launch in the daylight to make sure they can see what/if anything comes off the external tank during launch. They want to make sure that if something falls off and hits Discovery, they know about it.
Well in all fairness(though I haven't RTFA), I think Photoshop plugins are kind of standard in the graphics community. I'm pretty sure they work with Paint Shop Pro and a few other important ones(though I could be wrong, I'm just think I remember hearing something about that one time).
I know its not 100% necessary to run on AMD64/EM64T processors, and it may or may not even give performance advantages yet, but I think its kind of odd that they have binaries available for pretty minor platforms but don't have any specifically for probably the second most popular after regular x86. I mean RH/Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, and even Debian-based distros like Ubuntu have x86_64 support, its kind of surprising that Debian doesn't. (And I'm not saying I don't like Debian. I mean apt seriously kicks ass.)
Will x86_64 be "supported" in whatever will be the next Debian testing? And will Sarge's release mean that testing will rapidly be modernized? If so, I'm looking forward to it.
The problem is that it is cold on Mars. And there may not be enough air pressure to really hold lots of water down for a long time. And any water vapor in the atmosphere would probably be taken away by solar winds due to Mars's lack of a magnetic field.
Yeah, I have Atheros 11g integrated into my Toshiba laptop, it works great on SuSE(even with WPA). It didn't work with Fedora, but that didn't surprise me(what does work with Fedora?). I think it worked after about a half an hour of trouble on Mandrake 10.0.
I would agree. While the drag 'n drop is very nice(even works in Opera!), and its nice to see there will finally be a way to integrated Google News/Gmail/etc, this is lacking a lot of functionality.
Is there any remote chance that you will be able to upgrade from Windows Mobile 2003? If not, then it'll be a long time before large numbers of people actually start using this.
I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to determine if they are very similar to anything that is found on earth. I'm sure NASA/ESA would take that possibility very seriously, since it would be without a doubt the greatest discovery in human history.
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We have some things similar to those at my high school, and while we rarely use them(maybe three or four times a year), I think they're atleast fairly useful. We've used them a few times for reviewing for state assessments/finals. It makes sure that people don't just sit around and jack off for an hour(the ones we have show what #'s have answered). They aren't perfect as far as reception, but they're not too bad. I think ours are infared or something of that nature. They let the teachers know what questions/topics people are having trouble on as well as the students. And most of us like using them, its more fun then filling in bubbles on a sheet.
In what areas do you think that Windows/MS could learn from Linux? And in what areas do you think that Linux could learn from Windows/MS?
Can your food processor fly at 7 km/s? And does it have liquid fuel that is kept at very very cold temperatures(creates ice)? And for the chance to go into orbit, I think I would be willing to accept a 2/113 chance that I might not be coming back.
Yeah but more people probably want KDE/Gnome than any of the littler WM's. Just having either KDE OR Gnome would probably just turn either the KDE or Gnome people away from their distro. I'm not saying that there's anything (horribly) wrong with the smallers WM's, but not that many people use them on a day-to-day basis(compared to KDE/Gnome), especially considering that Mandrake, err Mandriva's target audience is probably more of the people that are newer to Linux(and would want more of a "complete package" feel that KDE/Gnome/Windows gives).
Neat! :) I don't suppose there is anything for Linux that will do the same thing (yet) is there?
Its stable(atleast for me it has been), but its like Outlook Express as far as functionality. Thats fine for most home users and stuff, but for businesses(who use/need groupware to work well with their PIM software), its not really anywhere near Outlook or Evolution.
The thing I like best about M$ stuff is that they all(well with a few exceptions) work together. Exchange/Live Comm Srv/Windows clients/Sharepoint/Webmail/Terminal Services/etc can all authenticate to Active Directory and get users information from there. Calendaring, meeting requests, web access all work out of the box. To set up something similar on Linux, it would take quite a while. And with commercial things(like Open-Xchange, ), you'll probably end up paying as much or more as you will for Exchange. Take Opengroupware for example. Its free-unless you want to use Outlook. Then it'll cost you quite a bit. About $180 for each connector license. That's three times the price of a Exchange CAL. And I'm sorry, but there is not real alternative(right now atleast) to Outlook for groupware on Windows. Until a Linux vendor can supply something that works as well as M$'s server things do, and that includes integration with Windows clients, M$ will continue to rule this area. Groupwise might be an exception to this, but Novell's stuff still seems a little overly complicated to setup compared to M$'s. Maybe GW7 is better in this respect. The bottom line is that its just a lot easier to use Windows Server stuff. You don't have to spend hours configuring clients to authenticate with LDAP not AD, and for miscellaneous services to look at LDAP and not their own little thing. Its not that I don't like Linux, I love it, its just that some of the integration between different services just isn't there yet.
While I'd hate to defend M$, I'm fairly sure that Entourage on OS X will work with Exchange.
Another problem with OOo is that it comes with very few(if any templates). I mean, I could live with that for Calc and maybe Writer, but it really hurts with Impress. Even the themes Impress does include aren't anywhere near as polished and professional looking as PowerPoint ones do. That same sort of problem also exsists in diagramming apps(think Visio equivalent). Kivio and Dia are both very nice programs, that would be just fine for most people coming from Visio. But they don't have anywhere enough stencils, and the ones they do have aren't even on the same level as Visio's.
$50 a year is a lot if you are just wanting a domain to run a personal website or play around with a server. Its not a lot if you are running a business(like spammers are). I'm sure most spammers make more than $50 a year.
They need to launch in the daylight to make sure they can see what/if anything comes off the external tank during launch. They want to make sure that if something falls off and hits Discovery, they know about it.
Well in all fairness(though I haven't RTFA), I think Photoshop plugins are kind of standard in the graphics community. I'm pretty sure they work with Paint Shop Pro and a few other important ones(though I could be wrong, I'm just think I remember hearing something about that one time).
Well I'm sure it doesn't cost anywhere near as much. I mean 100% redundancy isn't necessary for everything.
I know its not 100% necessary to run on AMD64/EM64T processors, and it may or may not even give performance advantages yet, but I think its kind of odd that they have binaries available for pretty minor platforms but don't have any specifically for probably the second most popular after regular x86. I mean RH/Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, and even Debian-based distros like Ubuntu have x86_64 support, its kind of surprising that Debian doesn't. (And I'm not saying I don't like Debian. I mean apt seriously kicks ass.)
Will x86_64 be "supported" in whatever will be the next Debian testing? And will Sarge's release mean that testing will rapidly be modernized? If so, I'm looking forward to it.
The problem is that it is cold on Mars. And there may not be enough air pressure to really hold lots of water down for a long time. And any water vapor in the atmosphere would probably be taken away by solar winds due to Mars's lack of a magnetic field.
The problem I have with Ubuntu is that it has a fairly limited set of packages. That and the half naked people.
Don't give the PRC(People's Republic of China) any ideas...
Yeah, I have Atheros 11g integrated into my Toshiba laptop, it works great on SuSE(even with WPA). It didn't work with Fedora, but that didn't surprise me(what does work with Fedora?). I think it worked after about a half an hour of trouble on Mandrake 10.0.
I would agree. While the drag 'n drop is very nice(even works in Opera!), and its nice to see there will finally be a way to integrated Google News/Gmail/etc, this is lacking a lot of functionality.
Wouldn't Amaya (W3C's browser) be compliant? Granted, it sucks horribly, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't totally compliant.
Does anyone have any info to back this up? If this actually has some truth to it, then there goes my interest in a Mac Mini.
An error occurred transferring exectuion. I guess M$ isn't even using developers who know English?
Is there any remote chance that you will be able to upgrade from Windows Mobile 2003? If not, then it'll be a long time before large numbers of people actually start using this.
Can't people use BSD code in non-OSS projects?(Why I don't like BSD licenses personally, because they will be abused.)
I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to determine if they are very similar to anything that is found on earth. I'm sure NASA/ESA would take that possibility very seriously, since it would be without a doubt the greatest discovery in human history.