Isn't half the attraction to OS X for geeks how its not that much different from Linux or BSD from the console? And that many/most Linux/BSD scripts and apps would work with just a few, if any changes? I don't see how making it more different really helps it. Not trying to be a troll, but I got to assume if all or most the other Unixes work with what launchd replaced just fine, that OS X could as well.
I would kind of disagree. Plugins are nice, but it can be a pain to have to get four or five different plugins to get FF to be able to do what Opera can out of the box. As long as the features are actually useful and they're not just adding stuff so they can say they added something, I think its a good thing.
Does a call to MS support cost so much that one free call is worth mentioning in the summary?
It costs $35 for a "basic" call for a home user. An advanced support call costs $245.
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=e n-us&x=5&y=3&gprid=6794&
The problem is, that there are soooooo many theats that its impossible to take all of them seriously. If we did, then people would bitch more about having their liberties taken away, yada yada yada. Hindsight is 20 20. I don't think one intellegience briefing is enough to mandate massive security changes.
That happened here in Wichita several years ago. Several people were abducted, forced to take money out of their bank accounts via ATM and then killed. The killers are now on death row.:)
Actually they will be docked to the ISS for a good part of the mission(according to STS-114 project manager on NASA TV). They will be transferring a lot of stuff to and from the ISS and be making numerous spacewalks to fix some of the things that have been broken on the ISS and add some new things(can't remember off the top of my head what they were).
The Russians have built lots of things. A carrier(Kuznetsov), a shuttle like space craft(Buran, it might be even better than the shuttle), and a lunar rocket(N1). What they haven't done is actually use those things more than a few times.
One of the biggest things that keeps me from considering an LCD (in addition to the extra cost of course), is that equally sized LCD's can't do anywhere near the resolution of the same sized CRTs(that cost less). My 17" CRT does up to 1600x1200. The max I've seen a 17" LCD do is 1280x1024, which is fine for desktop work but for gaming/design/etc it is really lacking. I haven't even seen a 19" that can do more than that, which really makes them pointless, because if you stretch 1280x1024 pixels out over a 19" screen vs a 17" screen its gonna look worse. The few 21" LCD's I've looked at can only do 1600x1200. While that isn't any worse than most 21" CRT's can do, a 21" CRT will cost atleast 1/3 the price, probably closer to 1/4. I don't move my monitor around too much, so I don't think the weight is that big of a deal.
So, basically, to get an LCD that can do what my CRT can, I'm going to have to pay 7 to 8 times as much, and it still won't have the pixels/in. that my CRT can do.
And honestly, my eyes hurt when I use an LCD, not a CRT oddly enough.
By any chance will the Fedora RPM work w/ SuSE? If not, is someone working on it? (Is it easy to compile the source to get it working on SuSE?)
Sounds cool, I really like Photoshop, much more familiar with it than GIMP, and like it or not Photoshop is the standard as far as image editing apps go.
I don't think the legal issues can be that serious because pretty much every other distribution out there supports MP3 with their audio packages, and quite a few support NTFS. I think its more of RH not wanting to admit their wrong.
Regardless I'll go happily along with SuSE. It has new packages, great hardware detection and is usable as an everyday desktop.
Why does Gnome keep using spatial Nautilus as default? I mean, people hated it a decade ago in Win95/NT4, and they still hate it now. I know you can change it with gconf-editor but why do they keep using something as the default that so many people absolutely detest? (Can you find one sane person outside of the Gnome dev's who likes spatial Nautilus?)
And while I'm at it, why does Gnome have icons that look really dull?(color wise) I'm not fond of everything in KDE, but atleast their icons look somewhat eye appealing.
It talks about the Phone and Smart Phone Edition, so will it run on the regular version(accessing the internet via wifi?) If so, then I'd love to use it on my Axim. It can do so much more than my old Palm. If only Palm could get their act together and introduce native wifi(like, not through a $100 card you also have to buy from them), and could have a RAD IDE(flame away but using VS.NET to develop Compact.NET Framework apps is rather nice), their stuff wouldn't be that bad.
That would be something to see. Future Headline: "Microsoft Claims Open Office not a Threat".)
Maybe six months ago, M$ pretty much that. They released a PDF showing the so called advantages of MS Office vs OOo. What was ironic about it was that the PDF was made on a Mac, and that while they had to use an external program to convert the document to PDF, OOo can do it natively.
Soyuz doesn't have the robotic arm like the shuttle does. It might be possible for them to do it, but it wouldn't be nearly as easy. It also doesn't have a way to take it back down to Earth.
While, you're probably not serious about that, I would highly disagree. Yes Rutan has done/sponsored some amazing things, but with all due respect to him, you can't compare flying around the world and taking a little rocket ride with sending a probe to Saturn and driving rovers around Mars.(JPL has managed both the Cassini mission as well as the MER - Mars Exploration Rovers, and both have been extremely sucessful thus far).
Out of curiosity, how/why can judges overturn convictions? Isn't the whole point of having a jury so that one biased/stupid person doesn't have the ability to single-handedly find guilty/acquit someone?
Personally I think the government would be well suited to do this sort of thing. Maybe provide them when you get a drivers license or a business license. Its not like it takes massive amounts of money to see if you really are who you say you are. And why the expiration dates(well, of course, they're another way to screw people out of $$, but what's the certificate providers excuse/reason for them?)
Submarines and other nuclear warships(carriers) have crew members that their entire job is to take care of the reactor. Those crew members go through a lot of training, and a very competent at their job. On the other hand, your everday Joe Sixpack is a complete idiot. I can guarantee you that even if the nuclear reactor could withstand a collision, somehow, someway, some idiot would cause a very, very bad mess. And refueling would be rather tricky. It would probably be easier to just buy a new car and somehow dispose of the old one than refueling it.
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Isn't half the attraction to OS X for geeks how its not that much different from Linux or BSD from the console? And that many/most Linux/BSD scripts and apps would work with just a few, if any changes? I don't see how making it more different really helps it. Not trying to be a troll, but I got to assume if all or most the other Unixes work with what launchd replaced just fine, that OS X could as well.
I would kind of disagree. Plugins are nice, but it can be a pain to have to get four or five different plugins to get FF to be able to do what Opera can out of the box. As long as the features are actually useful and they're not just adding stuff so they can say they added something, I think its a good thing.
I guess your company doesn't filter for spelling/grammar...
Yes, but that's for Itanium.
Does a call to MS support cost so much that one free call is worth mentioning in the summary? It costs $35 for a "basic" call for a home user. An advanced support call costs $245. http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=e n-us&x=5&y=3&gprid=6794&
What exactly is gonig to be OSS'ed? The entire thing or just bits and pieces of it?
The problem is, that there are soooooo many theats that its impossible to take all of them seriously. If we did, then people would bitch more about having their liberties taken away, yada yada yada. Hindsight is 20 20. I don't think one intellegience briefing is enough to mandate massive security changes.
That happened here in Wichita several years ago. Several people were abducted, forced to take money out of their bank accounts via ATM and then killed. The killers are now on death row. :)
Actually they will be docked to the ISS for a good part of the mission(according to STS-114 project manager on NASA TV). They will be transferring a lot of stuff to and from the ISS and be making numerous spacewalks to fix some of the things that have been broken on the ISS and add some new things(can't remember off the top of my head what they were).
Yeah it would be until it crashes and kills a bunch of people on the ground.
The Russians have built lots of things. A carrier(Kuznetsov), a shuttle like space craft(Buran, it might be even better than the shuttle), and a lunar rocket(N1). What they haven't done is actually use those things more than a few times.
Its not exactly what you're looking for, but there is a space elevator addon for Orbiter. Its pretty neat, and Orbiter is a very nice game.
Maybe they're Brits?(I dunno, its not like I actually RTFA)
One of the biggest things that keeps me from considering an LCD (in addition to the extra cost of course), is that equally sized LCD's can't do anywhere near the resolution of the same sized CRTs(that cost less). My 17" CRT does up to 1600x1200. The max I've seen a 17" LCD do is 1280x1024, which is fine for desktop work but for gaming/design/etc it is really lacking. I haven't even seen a 19" that can do more than that, which really makes them pointless, because if you stretch 1280x1024 pixels out over a 19" screen vs a 17" screen its gonna look worse. The few 21" LCD's I've looked at can only do 1600x1200. While that isn't any worse than most 21" CRT's can do, a 21" CRT will cost atleast 1/3 the price, probably closer to 1/4. I don't move my monitor around too much, so I don't think the weight is that big of a deal.
So, basically, to get an LCD that can do what my CRT can, I'm going to have to pay 7 to 8 times as much, and it still won't have the pixels/in. that my CRT can do.
And honestly, my eyes hurt when I use an LCD, not a CRT oddly enough.
By any chance will the Fedora RPM work w/ SuSE? If not, is someone working on it? (Is it easy to compile the source to get it working on SuSE?)
Sounds cool, I really like Photoshop, much more familiar with it than GIMP, and like it or not Photoshop is the standard as far as image editing apps go.
I don't think the legal issues can be that serious because pretty much every other distribution out there supports MP3 with their audio packages, and quite a few support NTFS. I think its more of RH not wanting to admit their wrong.
Regardless I'll go happily along with SuSE. It has new packages, great hardware detection and is usable as an everyday desktop.
Looks like somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning...
Why does Gnome keep using spatial Nautilus as default? I mean, people hated it a decade ago in Win95/NT4, and they still hate it now. I know you can change it with gconf-editor but why do they keep using something as the default that so many people absolutely detest? (Can you find one sane person outside of the Gnome dev's who likes spatial Nautilus?)
And while I'm at it, why does Gnome have icons that look really dull?(color wise) I'm not fond of everything in KDE, but atleast their icons look somewhat eye appealing.
It talks about the Phone and Smart Phone Edition, so will it run on the regular version(accessing the internet via wifi?) If so, then I'd love to use it on my Axim. It can do so much more than my old Palm. If only Palm could get their act together and introduce native wifi(like, not through a $100 card you also have to buy from them), and could have a RAD IDE(flame away but using VS.NET to develop Compact .NET Framework apps is rather nice), their stuff wouldn't be that bad.
That would be something to see. Future Headline: "Microsoft Claims Open Office not a Threat".)
Maybe six months ago, M$ pretty much that. They released a PDF showing the so called advantages of MS Office vs OOo. What was ironic about it was that the PDF was made on a Mac, and that while they had to use an external program to convert the document to PDF, OOo can do it natively.
Soyuz doesn't have the robotic arm like the shuttle does. It might be possible for them to do it, but it wouldn't be nearly as easy. It also doesn't have a way to take it back down to Earth.
While, you're probably not serious about that, I would highly disagree. Yes Rutan has done/sponsored some amazing things, but with all due respect to him, you can't compare flying around the world and taking a little rocket ride with sending a probe to Saturn and driving rovers around Mars.(JPL has managed both the Cassini mission as well as the MER - Mars Exploration Rovers, and both have been extremely sucessful thus far).
Out of curiosity, how/why can judges overturn convictions? Isn't the whole point of having a jury so that one biased/stupid person doesn't have the ability to single-handedly find guilty/acquit someone?
Personally I think the government would be well suited to do this sort of thing. Maybe provide them when you get a drivers license or a business license. Its not like it takes massive amounts of money to see if you really are who you say you are. And why the expiration dates(well, of course, they're another way to screw people out of $$, but what's the certificate providers excuse/reason for them?)
Submarines and other nuclear warships(carriers) have crew members that their entire job is to take care of the reactor. Those crew members go through a lot of training, and a very competent at their job. On the other hand, your everday Joe Sixpack is a complete idiot. I can guarantee you that even if the nuclear reactor could withstand a collision, somehow, someway, some idiot would cause a very, very bad mess. And refueling would be rather tricky. It would probably be easier to just buy a new car and somehow dispose of the old one than refueling it.