Right now, depends on the kind of bee. I've got a local hive here running Linux courtesy of Beowulf. Believe it when I say that setting up a Beowulf cluster of bees was no easy task.
This is where, honestly, many ports would probably be best developed with using the GameCube controller--or the classic controller--in mind. Then, the controller issues become much less significant. Honestly, sports games and most RPGs would probably benefit from a separate team dedicated to Wii control.
Exactly. See, you can have an ad-driven website that doesn't depend on annoying stuff. Unfortunately, most advertisers and websites don't seem to understand that punch-the-monkey ads are damn annoying, and that nobody wants them.
A well-written native frontend for Windows would probably help in that regard. Also, that is a beta version, which is, by definition, half finished and buggy.
Have you ever stopped to think that, perhaps instead of being simply obnoxious, the Mac developers that make some pretty damn good software have difficulty in porting to Windows simply due to fundamental differences in what ships with the platform? You do realize that a lot of Mac stuff is written in Java, which is entirely unsupported in Windows, right? Adium, once again, is simply libgaim with a frontend using OS X's native widgets--not something that can be ported to Windows, as the widget set does not exist there. It would take a great deal of work to actually port Adium to Windows, from people that have lots of experience in Windows development. Windows and Mac are very different development platforms. Your ire is entirely misdirected.
Now that Gaim's frontend and backend are separate, the development of a better frontend for Windows (and KDE, as Gaim looks like shit there, too) should be much easier.
To be fair, it looks much better in an entirely GTK+ environment. Adium would also look like crap in Windows, and I should probably mention that Adium is simply a frontend for Gaim.
No, what we need in Windows is a frontend of libgaim that uses the native Windows widget set--or something that looks better on Windows than GTK+.
I've been playing around with the 2.0 tree of Gaim for a while now, and now that the legal issues are fixed, it'll be nice to finally see a stable release version of Gaim with a reasonable feature set. I don't care what it's called.
Also, AOL needs to go off and die. The previous sentence is nothing but pandering to the/. crowd.
Personally, I want to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (which was an extended edition of the arcade game). That was a superior game in every way imaginable. I remember loving that game as an 8-year-old boy who had to play video games as a part of his physical therapy. Man, those were the days: doctor-mandated video games before doing my homework.
See, this is where I just change my window manager to Beryl (or, for those less into 3D bling, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or IceWM) and forget about Kwin. Once I learned to configure window managers in GNOME, Metacity went away very quickly.
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The biggest problem I have with GNOME as a user is Evolution. Simply put, Evolution needs to be scrapped in favor of something else. Its Exchange functionality is non-functional, and its calendar could be easily replaced by something else. Why not just do what they did with the default browser and fork from Mozilla? Surely, it'd suck less.
Nautilus is in dire need of a code audit, just to ensure that everything in there is up to par. Hells, if I were in charge at GNOME, I'd probably stop developing new features in Nautilus and work on the audit for the next cycle.
Honestly, though, the one thing that hurts GNOME the most is the six month release cycle. If they'd even just use a single one-year release cycle, just to clean things up, they'd be in much better shape.
All that said, though, GNOME is my desktop. It's what I learned first, and honestly, KDE's configurability just scares me. Also, I remember too well a time when KDE looked like shit out of the box. Thankfully, that's no longer a problem.
For all I'll complain about, most Linux distros these day have one thing that they without argument do better than any other OS - install.
You can say that again. After years of being told how beautiful the OS X installer is, I must say that I was mildly disappointed. It took an hour and a half to run on a MacBook that I hadn't even gotten home from the Apple Store yet (what, the mall had power drops and open wireless). On the other hand, I'm done with the installer disc after about 20 minutes with the average stock Linux install (well, not on the MacBook, as that's not really a stock install yet).
Actually, you do have to format your iPod if you're using Windows. Out of the box, it'll work, sure, but only with a Mac, unless you happen to be sitting on some Windows HFS+ drivers that I don't know about.
Most people already do work on one single desktop OS and a single GUI. Unfortunately, it's Windows--which is where a lack of choice gets you. Keep the choices available so that nobody can screw you over somewhere down the line.
I'm not so certain I'd trust them to do that. It's the Geek Squad: they'll probably hose the machine.
Whatever happened to the days of "build it yourself, bitch"? And editing programs in a hex editor, just to make sure things worked properly? Why are the good old days gone?
With the SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit, it didn't cost a damn thing in the game. That's how I confirmed the myth, which occurs at 250. Someone needs to fix the Wikipedia bit.
This is almost like Paris Hilton switching from Slackware to Gentoo and Slashdot covering it as a major story.
Well, actually, that would be kinda cool, seeing as Miss Hilton is the epitome of mainstream. The only thing that would make it even cooler is if she managed to pull off a Gentoo stage 1 install (I know, this isn't recommended anymore) without any help, and then saying that it was easier to do than setting up her old Windows computer. Just think of the positive mindshare that not only the Gentoo project, but desktop Linux and free and open source software would get if such a thing happened.
ESR, on the other hand, isn't that newsworthy anymore, even if I have to agree with him on the state of RPM, which has had major problems for years now (longer than I've been using Linux) that haven't been fixed.
Yes, it will boot. Simply put, without root, you just can't do either of those commands, and I don't run as root. Of course, put an su or sudo in front of those lines, and you've got a different story.
I have seen this behavior. And generally, these people are faking it--if you can get past the troll persona that they're adopting.
When I do catch such a troll, I'm usually the one running them out of town with the torch and pitchfork, because nobody is going to belittle something I have to live with in order to get "lulz".
Well, dinner comes to $25 for two. Club cover and drinks depend on where you go and what you're drinking, though I'm the driver and my not-quite-significant-other is underage, so the drinks are out--not that we're clubbers anyway. Lastly, I do have a car. It ain't much, but it can get me around town. Admittedly, though, I hate to drive, so anything that gets me out of that is fine by me. This leads to nights in more often than not--I don't have the money to drive the damn thing anyway, and wish my parents hadn't pawned it off onto me after they were done with it (300,000 miles and 20 years later).
You're absolutely right though about the car and smoking. Unfortunately, life without a car where I live is not an option, as cab service is incredibly expensive and public transportation is damn near non-existent. Sure, I live in a metro area of 5 million, but it's spread out over 10,000 square miles.
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Right now, depends on the kind of bee. I've got a local hive here running Linux courtesy of Beowulf. Believe it when I say that setting up a Beowulf cluster of bees was no easy task.
This is where, honestly, many ports would probably be best developed with using the GameCube controller--or the classic controller--in mind. Then, the controller issues become much less significant. Honestly, sports games and most RPGs would probably benefit from a separate team dedicated to Wii control.
Exactly. See, you can have an ad-driven website that doesn't depend on annoying stuff. Unfortunately, most advertisers and websites don't seem to understand that punch-the-monkey ads are damn annoying, and that nobody wants them.
OpenOffice is not under the GPL. It's under the LGPL, which allows for most of it to be in the proprietary StarOffice, which is still around.
Yes, it has. So have shit, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Blame George Carlin.
A well-written native frontend for Windows would probably help in that regard. Also, that is a beta version, which is, by definition, half finished and buggy.
Have you ever stopped to think that, perhaps instead of being simply obnoxious, the Mac developers that make some pretty damn good software have difficulty in porting to Windows simply due to fundamental differences in what ships with the platform? You do realize that a lot of Mac stuff is written in Java, which is entirely unsupported in Windows, right? Adium, once again, is simply libgaim with a frontend using OS X's native widgets--not something that can be ported to Windows, as the widget set does not exist there. It would take a great deal of work to actually port Adium to Windows, from people that have lots of experience in Windows development. Windows and Mac are very different development platforms. Your ire is entirely misdirected.
Now that Gaim's frontend and backend are separate, the development of a better frontend for Windows (and KDE, as Gaim looks like shit there, too) should be much easier.
To be fair, it looks much better in an entirely GTK+ environment. Adium would also look like crap in Windows, and I should probably mention that Adium is simply a frontend for Gaim.
No, what we need in Windows is a frontend of libgaim that uses the native Windows widget set--or something that looks better on Windows than GTK+.
And good riddance to it! Then, we might see more Jabber uptake.
I've been playing around with the 2.0 tree of Gaim for a while now, and now that the legal issues are fixed, it'll be nice to finally see a stable release version of Gaim with a reasonable feature set. I don't care what it's called.
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Also, AOL needs to go off and die. The previous sentence is nothing but pandering to the
News site? You must be new here.
Personally, I want to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (which was an extended edition of the arcade game). That was a superior game in every way imaginable. I remember loving that game as an 8-year-old boy who had to play video games as a part of his physical therapy. Man, those were the days: doctor-mandated video games before doing my homework.
See, this is where I just change my window manager to Beryl (or, for those less into 3D bling, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or IceWM) and forget about Kwin. Once I learned to configure window managers in GNOME, Metacity went away very quickly.
The biggest problem I have with GNOME as a user is Evolution. Simply put, Evolution needs to be scrapped in favor of something else. Its Exchange functionality is non-functional, and its calendar could be easily replaced by something else. Why not just do what they did with the default browser and fork from Mozilla? Surely, it'd suck less.
Nautilus is in dire need of a code audit, just to ensure that everything in there is up to par. Hells, if I were in charge at GNOME, I'd probably stop developing new features in Nautilus and work on the audit for the next cycle.
Honestly, though, the one thing that hurts GNOME the most is the six month release cycle. If they'd even just use a single one-year release cycle, just to clean things up, they'd be in much better shape.
All that said, though, GNOME is my desktop. It's what I learned first, and honestly, KDE's configurability just scares me. Also, I remember too well a time when KDE looked like shit out of the box. Thankfully, that's no longer a problem.
For all I'll complain about, most Linux distros these day have one thing that they without argument do better than any other OS - install.
You can say that again. After years of being told how beautiful the OS X installer is, I must say that I was mildly disappointed. It took an hour and a half to run on a MacBook that I hadn't even gotten home from the Apple Store yet (what, the mall had power drops and open wireless). On the other hand, I'm done with the installer disc after about 20 minutes with the average stock Linux install (well, not on the MacBook, as that's not really a stock install yet).
Ah, but I prefer the GNU food compilers. I don't have the money for that Microsoft crap. Besides, with them, I know what I'm getting.
Actually, you do have to format your iPod if you're using Windows. Out of the box, it'll work, sure, but only with a Mac, unless you happen to be sitting on some Windows HFS+ drivers that I don't know about.
Ein volk, ein reich, ein GUI!
Most people already do work on one single desktop OS and a single GUI. Unfortunately, it's Windows--which is where a lack of choice gets you. Keep the choices available so that nobody can screw you over somewhere down the line.
I'm not so certain I'd trust them to do that. It's the Geek Squad: they'll probably hose the machine.
Whatever happened to the days of "build it yourself, bitch"? And editing programs in a hex editor, just to make sure things worked properly? Why are the good old days gone?
With the SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit, it didn't cost a damn thing in the game. That's how I confirmed the myth, which occurs at 250. Someone needs to fix the Wikipedia bit.
Oh, that's our shortstop.
Now, if you would please tell me, who's on first?
This is almost like Paris Hilton switching from Slackware to Gentoo and Slashdot covering it as a major story.
Well, actually, that would be kinda cool, seeing as Miss Hilton is the epitome of mainstream. The only thing that would make it even cooler is if she managed to pull off a Gentoo stage 1 install (I know, this isn't recommended anymore) without any help, and then saying that it was easier to do than setting up her old Windows computer. Just think of the positive mindshare that not only the Gentoo project, but desktop Linux and free and open source software would get if such a thing happened.
ESR, on the other hand, isn't that newsworthy anymore, even if I have to agree with him on the state of RPM, which has had major problems for years now (longer than I've been using Linux) that haven't been fixed.
Yes, it will boot. Simply put, without root, you just can't do either of those commands, and I don't run as root. Of course, put an su or sudo in front of those lines, and you've got a different story.
I have seen this behavior. And generally, these people are faking it--if you can get past the troll persona that they're adopting.
When I do catch such a troll, I'm usually the one running them out of town with the torch and pitchfork, because nobody is going to belittle something I have to live with in order to get "lulz".
It exists. It's called Blackjack's Law.
Well, dinner comes to $25 for two. Club cover and drinks depend on where you go and what you're drinking, though I'm the driver and my not-quite-significant-other is underage, so the drinks are out--not that we're clubbers anyway. Lastly, I do have a car. It ain't much, but it can get me around town. Admittedly, though, I hate to drive, so anything that gets me out of that is fine by me. This leads to nights in more often than not--I don't have the money to drive the damn thing anyway, and wish my parents hadn't pawned it off onto me after they were done with it (300,000 miles and 20 years later).
You're absolutely right though about the car and smoking. Unfortunately, life without a car where I live is not an option, as cab service is incredibly expensive and public transportation is damn near non-existent. Sure, I live in a metro area of 5 million, but it's spread out over 10,000 square miles.