I'm not condoning violence.
But if a series of incredibly improbable, non-related events of M$ infiltrators getting smacked with a trout - or squashed by a piano - took place, it would make them think twice whether to fsck up other people's sincere efforts for money.
Didn't read the article. Just read the post header and jumped to this:
We already commonly use the same nickname in different games. That's as far as it will go in pre-Matrix era.
Since the game worlds are totally different, obey different set of laws, have different physics, history, ideology... there is NO WAY there ever will be an "online avatar" that could carry traits from one game to another - only the way to REGISTER to those games would be the same - and that is already happening! Name, credit card number, address, etc.
To combine virtual worlds is like the "Electronic Battlefield" hype we heard from the makes of Falcon in mid-90's. Nothing real ever materialized. The first thing that was close to their original "electronic battlefield" vision was Operation Flashpoint.
Russians excel not only in avionics, they have had better Air-to-Air missile systems since the 70's. American Sidewinders have played catchup for 30 years. Now, the longer range AA missiles (of AMRAAM etc variety) are better on american side, and are quite cool when you shoot down some Vietnam-era opposition from safe distance;-I
Targeting systems that follow the head were pioneered by soviets. Heck, soviets even have had AA missiles that can launch in opaque angles from fighters for a couple of decades... americans are only just now incorporating this for copters and jets.
At work, this is the FIRST year when I have met ppl who have voluntarily installed Linux at home, or even wanted dualboot or vmware for their work laptop to run Linux, or actively ask questions about Linux as an XP replacement for some home machine. Distro of choise? 100% Ubuntu. Only my bosses want SUSE.
XP just has become too much of a hassle to keep alive, if you need it once or twice a month - the first 30mins is spent patching and booting, then possibly cursing and fixing.
For servers, they are nearly all Red Hat, various versions from 7.2 to RHEL4. Some little servers debian 3.0/3.1, some hacked-together kludge servers ubuntu. SUSE has too many SUSE-specific ways to configure things, and YAST in server environment is painful.
SUSE 10 is nice, but it's nowhere as polished for desktop as Ubuntu is, and nowhere as familiar for servers as RH.
Disclaimer: Python is excellent. I loathe Java, I love C but hate C++ in earnest.
For the beginner, learning C is the best thing. Just what is memory? What is a pointer? Referencing? Dereferencing? Variable types? Get all that, and learn the functional paradigm, and make the poor bastards program some.. AFTER that teach them about the OO paradigm. The most important thing, in the beginning, is to get visible results. THEN explain how those came to be. And so on. Keep them clear away from proprietary, dead bullshit like VB.
OO is not the end-all either. It all depends on where and how the end product is used... I can use/bin/sh and netcat for most stuff:-)
Bad combination.
I've personally seen just one infected S60 phone. The owner had hit 'No' a couple of times, then just "yes yes yes really yes ok ok ok yes" to get rid of the requesters.
Stupid people should not have ANY control over their hardware.
Windoze. Everything that the article covers is winblows.
Oh yeah, mod me troll - use of 'Winshit', 'Winblows', 'Windoze' or 'Wincrap' result in insta- -5
The reason I and 3 of my friends bought X-Box 1 was XBMC.
Sadly, XBox 1 lacks the power to render HDTV res DivX properly. 360 has the power, but first needs to be cracked, modded, customized, and the price for used unit has to drop to 100 or less.
Why not use MSN, or ICQ on phone?
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Agile Messenger has done it for years.
You just need a GPRS-capable phone.
It's also the cheapeast way to mass-send photos etc, much cheaper than using MMS.
- Brand new networking stack that is 100% IPv6 internally
Remains to be seen how well it performs in reality. Most competing OSes have had IPv6 for years.
- New ACPI subsystem including a hybrid STR/STD support, faster suspend/resume, and a more robust mechanism for dealing with bad drivers
OS X already has extremely fast suspend/resume.
I bet the "dealing with bad drivers"-feature is more kludgework that relies on keeping snapshots of older drivers Just In Case.
- New audio subsystem with per-application mixing
Just what is this? Something like the sound servers that are part of gnome and KDE?
Or a sound mixer on OS level that remembers per-application settings?
- UAP support (not running as admin all the time) with automatic privelage elevation (with user
approval) for installers and other programs that need admin access
Sounds like the UNIX metaphor + desktop tweaks on top of that. We have that in KDE/Gnome.
- Major memory manager tweaks
- Kernel tweaks to improve streaming performance
Windows scheduler blows chunks right now, and it swaps when it should not. Fixed bugs are not features.
- New programming framework (WinFX) based on.NET 2.0, WPF, and a host of other new technologies
More crud on top of obsoleted APIs. Has MS officially abandoned any old API yet?
Have they promised old programs using old APIs CANNOT touch the wonder that is the new secure Vista?
- 3D accelerated UI / window manager
Mac already did this, years ago, with style. MS is notorious for its lack of style. Will MS now start forcing Nvidia and ATI to make drivers that sacrifice 1% speed increase for 15% stability increase?
- New Media Center and Tablet PC features
Null statement, could mean anything.
- Fast User Switching on AD Domains
Does this mean.. switching from one user to another on a box that has a session open?
Or something? Unixes, OS X included, already do this.
- Integrated AntiSpyware
Retroactive "solution" for a problem that only exists on Windows.
- Integrated indexing / search (ala Spotlight) including extensive metadata and tagging support
Re-invented feature.
- New Windows Media Player
- New version of IE with CSS fixes, phishing filter, tabbed browsing, native XMLHTTP, freform resize (ala Opera), and many security enhancements
So, new versions of old crud again. Something concrete, please!
- Support for auxiliry LCD displays (windows SideShow)
Multiple display support is in Windows (and all virtually all competitors) already.
For those nice little gadgets like Logitech G-15 LCD, there is no common API yet. If Vista pulls this one off, we all HAVE to upgrade to see inky, blinky and twinky get eaten by Pacman on our keyboard LCD. Killer feature.
- New, faster install system (no more text-mode 'copying files')
- New Windows Installer version
But decent package management? Need of user-intervention when installing? Way to check what the install will DO? Way to completely remove installed software, registry entries included? Way to check, afterhand, accurately, what the installer did?
- New printing system / PDF alternative (Metro)
This we do not need. Existing solutions (except SMB) work fine, thanks.
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My WLAN AP / router runs Linux. My nokia 770 internet tablet runs Linux. Many many media player type devices run Linux.
Birthday picture.
As long as it's not perverted and has midget tentacles.
I'm not condoning violence.
But if a series of incredibly improbable, non-related events of M$ infiltrators getting smacked with a trout - or squashed by a piano - took place, it would make them think twice whether to fsck up other people's sincere efforts for money.
I'd say SSH over most things.
It does not fit in commodity stores who sell milk, minced meat and sucking, proprietary end-used-software with no warranty or service.
We already commonly use the same nickname in different games. That's as far as it will go in pre-Matrix era.
Since the game worlds are totally different, obey different set of laws, have different physics, history, ideology... there is NO WAY there ever will be an "online avatar" that could carry traits from one game to another - only the way to REGISTER to those games would be the same - and that is already happening! Name, credit card number, address, etc.
To combine virtual worlds is like the "Electronic Battlefield" hype we heard from the makes of Falcon in mid-90's. Nothing real ever materialized. The first thing that was close to their original "electronic battlefield" vision was Operation Flashpoint.
Hottest Trek female after Kirstey Alley in Wrath of Khan.
Then all three shops in Helsinki, Finland stopped selling psytrance.
I ordered mine from Sweden or Holland for a while... but why wait 2 weeks for something you can have in 2 hours?
I'm willing to pay. I'm not willing to wait.
When there are no psy shops in Finland, it's morally ok to ware everything. Well, some domestic psy bands exist but Finnish psy is too psy :-)
Targeting systems that follow the head were pioneered by soviets. Heck, soviets even have had AA missiles that can launch in opaque angles from fighters for a couple of decades... americans are only just now incorporating this for copters and jets.
XP just has become too much of a hassle to keep alive, if you need it once or twice a month - the first 30mins is spent patching and booting, then possibly cursing and fixing.
For servers, they are nearly all Red Hat, various versions from 7.2 to RHEL4. Some little servers debian 3.0/3.1, some hacked-together kludge servers ubuntu. SUSE has too many SUSE-specific ways to configure things, and YAST in server environment is painful.
SUSE 10 is nice, but it's nowhere as polished for desktop as Ubuntu is, and nowhere as familiar for servers as RH.
One in VMware, one in game box, one unused. Selling the unused XP key would probably break some idiotic EULA. Oh the joys of proprietary crap.
For the beginner, learning C is the best thing. Just what is memory? What is a pointer? Referencing? Dereferencing? Variable types? Get all that, and learn the functional paradigm, and make the poor bastards program some.. AFTER that teach them about the OO paradigm. The most important thing, in the beginning, is to get visible results. THEN explain how those came to be. And so on. Keep them clear away from proprietary, dead bullshit like VB.
OO is not the end-all either. It all depends on where and how the end product is used... I can use /bin/sh and netcat for most stuff :-)
Besides, Kylix3 sucks ass and is unsupported, so Delphi remains Win32-only-area.
It's proprietary, runs on one platform only, and it's basic (on steroids).
Will be sheets of paperlike (but unwritable) material that does not bend until 2008.
I've personally seen just one infected S60 phone. The owner had hit 'No' a couple of times, then just "yes yes yes really yes ok ok ok yes" to get rid of the requesters.
Stupid people should not have ANY control over their hardware.
slashdot is educational.
Windoze. Everything that the article covers is winblows. Oh yeah, mod me troll - use of 'Winshit', 'Winblows', 'Windoze' or 'Wincrap' result in insta- -5
I reckon OS X on some shitty commodity PC will be less stable than ubuntu on the same box.
The reason I and 3 of my friends bought X-Box 1 was XBMC. Sadly, XBox 1 lacks the power to render HDTV res DivX properly. 360 has the power, but first needs to be cracked, modded, customized, and the price for used unit has to drop to 100 or less.
It's also the cheapeast way to mass-send photos etc, much cheaper than using MMS.
The Kylix IDE used winelibs but was not a win32 executable.
Remains to be seen how well it performs in reality. Most competing OSes have had IPv6 for years.
- New ACPI subsystem including a hybrid STR/STD support, faster suspend/resume, and a more robust mechanism for dealing with bad drivers
OS X already has extremely fast suspend/resume. I bet the "dealing with bad drivers"-feature is more kludgework that relies on keeping snapshots of older drivers Just In Case.
- New audio subsystem with per-application mixing
Just what is this? Something like the sound servers that are part of gnome and KDE? Or a sound mixer on OS level that remembers per-application settings?
- UAP support (not running as admin all the time) with automatic privelage elevation (with user approval) for installers and other programs that need admin access
Sounds like the UNIX metaphor + desktop tweaks on top of that. We have that in KDE/Gnome.
- Major memory manager tweaks
- Kernel tweaks to improve streaming performance
Windows scheduler blows chunks right now, and it swaps when it should not. Fixed bugs are not features.
- New programming framework (WinFX) based on .NET 2.0, WPF, and a host of other new technologies
More crud on top of obsoleted APIs. Has MS officially abandoned any old API yet? Have they promised old programs using old APIs CANNOT touch the wonder that is the new secure Vista?
- 3D accelerated UI / window manager
Mac already did this, years ago, with style. MS is notorious for its lack of style. Will MS now start forcing Nvidia and ATI to make drivers that sacrifice 1% speed increase for 15% stability increase?
- New Media Center and Tablet PC features
Null statement, could mean anything.
- Fast User Switching on AD Domains
Does this mean .. switching from one user to another on a box that has a session open?
Or something? Unixes, OS X included, already do this.
- Integrated AntiSpyware
Retroactive "solution" for a problem that only exists on Windows.
- Integrated indexing / search (ala Spotlight) including extensive metadata and tagging support
Re-invented feature.
- New Windows Media Player
- New version of IE with CSS fixes, phishing filter, tabbed browsing, native XMLHTTP, freform resize (ala Opera), and many security enhancements
So, new versions of old crud again. Something concrete, please!
- Support for auxiliry LCD displays (windows SideShow)
Multiple display support is in Windows (and all virtually all competitors) already. For those nice little gadgets like Logitech G-15 LCD, there is no common API yet. If Vista pulls this one off, we all HAVE to upgrade to see inky, blinky and twinky get eaten by Pacman on our keyboard LCD. Killer feature.
- New, faster install system (no more text-mode 'copying files')
- New Windows Installer version
But decent package management? Need of user-intervention when installing? Way to check what the install will DO? Way to completely remove installed software, registry entries included? Way to check, afterhand, accurately, what the installer did?
- New printing system / PDF alternative (Metro)
This we do not need. Existing solutions (except SMB) work fine, thanks.
They won't NEED it. Unix and OS X typically don't spend CPU time and waste electricity retroactively battling trojans.