Linux doesn't come with any applications. Go ahead and download the Linux kernel at kernel.org, and tell me, do any versions of the Linux kernel provide any additional applications? Nope.
Time and distance get distorted noticeably only at high velocities (i.e., a significant per cent of the speed of light), so we can simply define the metre as the distance light travels in vacuum in 1/299792458 s on Earth. Since we also have a good definition for the second, it works out.
Considering I just read a book about this, I'd like to point you to the variable speed of light theory (which is a cosmology theory that tries to explain the Big Bang problems that cosmic inflation couldn't).
By "years of effort", you probably mean somewhere along the timeframe of billions of years. Modern cryptography isn't exactly something that can be broken within a relatively short time (e.g., within the lifetime of the owner of the data).
Stop bullshitting around with your statistics to make it seem like the ones who don't follow your vision of the world don't matter. Not only does it make you sound like a dumbass when you use the phrase incorrectly, you also discredit your argument when you say things like IE having the "vast majority" of the web browser "market". Seven years ago you would have been completely right, but nowadays IE barely makes up 3/4 of web browsers. Sure, Windows users may make up a huge amount of the market, but certainly not the "vast majority" you make it seem. You bring up the topic of alternatives and discredit them due to not being the most widely-used PDF readers out there which is a bit of a logical fallacy (probably a dicto simpliciter). Of course, you forget that the number of people using programs such as KPDF, Xpdf, Preview.app (Mac OS X default PDF viewer), Evince, Okular, Foxit (quite popular on Windows due to being a very lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader) etc., do indeed make up a large number of people, and I seriously doubt that corporate environments allow Adobe Reader to execute JavaScript in PDF documents for security reasons, so the overall amount of people who would be affected by the ads in TFA isn't nearly as large as you make it seem.
tl;dr: your statistics are way off, so stop saying "vast majority" when you just mean "I use $x, and since nobody else I know uses $x without me telling them about it, nearly nobody must use $x" or some other equally fallacious argument.
Ugly women are too insecure to play video games considering they're such a "guy" thing to do... Also, have you ever heard of a country called Japan? Lots of women there that are into video games, anime, etc.
Ever read the EULA for proprietary software? They give no warranty and all other sorts of legalese which translates to, "You can't sue us even if our software causes a nuclear catastrophe."
This is one of the most insightful comments I've ever read on Slashdot. There's no way all these cases of "stupidity" are truly stupidity and not malice. It reminds me of the reverse quote I've seen occasionally:
Never attribute to incompetence/stupidity what can be easily attributed to malice.
In fact, I think these specs are more along the line of laptops from 2004 or 2005. I've got a laptop here from around then, and it came with 512 MB of RAM, 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor, and an 80 GB harddrive. It ran XP fine back when I used XP, and it runs Kubuntu (KDE) perfectly fine. However, I do have a bit more RAM than I originally started with, but I don't think it's that much of an issue considering most of it is filled with file cache and whatnot rather than actual application memory usage.
You're forgetting about Azureus which is both open source and cross platform. I'd imagine that combined, Azureus and muTorrent take up most of the share of which client people use, but there are still plenty of others out there.
Speaking from experience, there are many songs in Guitar Hero that are easier to play on guitar than in expert. There are many "tricks" and techniques one can use while playing guitar that can't be done on a GH controller.
I heard that Harmonix preferred to do covers of the songs because it made developing the game more fun. Also, since the game puts the player as the lead guitarist of a new band doing covers of other bands' music, it seems to make more sense that your band doesn't sound exactly like the original. I guess Rock Band might follow along that line considering you're getting a band together in the first place rather than just one instrument.
GTK was created for a reason; back then, the leading open source GUI toolkit used by KDE, Qt, was not actually fully free or open source. Due to that, some people came together (or however it started; I don't remember) and wrote a fully free graphical toolkit licensed under the LGPL. Later on, however, Qt was dual-licensed via the GPL and QPL, so the original need for GTK vanished. The only need I see nowadays from GTK is that it allows proprietary software to be developed using the toolkit without needing to pay expensive license fees like one would have to do with Qt.
Have you tried out Krita yet? As of the latest KOffice 1.6.3 release, I know for a fact that Krita supports several colour spaces including RGB (8-bit int, 16-bit int, 16-bit float, and 32-bit float per channel), CMYK (8-bit and 16-bit per channel), greyscale (8-bit and 16-bit), L*a*b (16-bit per channel), LMS cone space (32-bit float per channel), watercolours, and YCbCr (8-bit and 16-bit per channel). Apparently, Krita is designed such that supporting different colour spaces (and profiles along with each one) is trivial and thus supports all the common ones (as far as I can tell).
Oh yeah, and the bit Krita has going over GIMP when it comes to competing with Photoshop: its interface is remarkably similar to Photoshop's.
Don't worry; only GNOME applications follow that version standard for the most part. The Linux kernel used to, but now they have their own crazy scheme which is stuck in 2.6.*. KDE, on the other hand, just does massive.major.minor releases.
You're almost guaranteed to find a video game no matter how popular it is on release due to the relative ease of manufacturing DVDs compared to any other sort of hardware. If SMG was a cartridge-based game, sure, I'd recommend that you pre-order it, but there's generally never a shortage of games when they come out.
Computers are supposed to automate things for us, not make us work for the computer. Having to jump through a bunch of hoops just to do something is completely unacceptable when there are far easier and more efficient ways of doing things.
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Besides Kopete, what other clients support video-chat via MSN?
Linux doesn't come with any applications. Go ahead and download the Linux kernel at kernel.org, and tell me, do any versions of the Linux kernel provide any additional applications? Nope.
Run your own recursive DNS server. I doubt the root ICANN servers belong to anyone selling NXD data.
Time and distance get distorted noticeably only at high velocities (i.e., a significant per cent of the speed of light), so we can simply define the metre as the distance light travels in vacuum in 1/299792458 s on Earth. Since we also have a good definition for the second, it works out.
Considering I just read a book about this, I'd like to point you to the variable speed of light theory (which is a cosmology theory that tries to explain the Big Bang problems that cosmic inflation couldn't).
By "years of effort", you probably mean somewhere along the timeframe of billions of years. Modern cryptography isn't exactly something that can be broken within a relatively short time (e.g., within the lifetime of the owner of the data).
Stop bullshitting around with your statistics to make it seem like the ones who don't follow your vision of the world don't matter. Not only does it make you sound like a dumbass when you use the phrase incorrectly, you also discredit your argument when you say things like IE having the "vast majority" of the web browser "market". Seven years ago you would have been completely right, but nowadays IE barely makes up 3/4 of web browsers. Sure, Windows users may make up a huge amount of the market, but certainly not the "vast majority" you make it seem. You bring up the topic of alternatives and discredit them due to not being the most widely-used PDF readers out there which is a bit of a logical fallacy (probably a dicto simpliciter). Of course, you forget that the number of people using programs such as KPDF, Xpdf, Preview.app (Mac OS X default PDF viewer), Evince, Okular, Foxit (quite popular on Windows due to being a very lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader) etc., do indeed make up a large number of people, and I seriously doubt that corporate environments allow Adobe Reader to execute JavaScript in PDF documents for security reasons, so the overall amount of people who would be affected by the ads in TFA isn't nearly as large as you make it seem.
tl;dr: your statistics are way off, so stop saying "vast majority" when you just mean "I use $x, and since nobody else I know uses $x without me telling them about it, nearly nobody must use $x" or some other equally fallacious argument.
He should also learn how to use Slashdot's signature feature rather than spamming his website, but apparently he must be new here.
Or far worse, 2 girls 1 cup. "What's in the cup?" you ask? A fresh turd.
I'd gladly support that decision! *is using that setup right now*
Ugly women are too insecure to play video games considering they're such a "guy" thing to do... Also, have you ever heard of a country called Japan? Lots of women there that are into video games, anime, etc.
This is why 1080p TV displays are so huge while computer displays capable of 1080p are much smaller in comparison.
Ever read the EULA for proprietary software? They give no warranty and all other sorts of legalese which translates to, "You can't sue us even if our software causes a nuclear catastrophe."
That'll teach you to be an early adopter!
In fact, I think these specs are more along the line of laptops from 2004 or 2005. I've got a laptop here from around then, and it came with 512 MB of RAM, 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor, and an 80 GB harddrive. It ran XP fine back when I used XP, and it runs Kubuntu (KDE) perfectly fine. However, I do have a bit more RAM than I originally started with, but I don't think it's that much of an issue considering most of it is filled with file cache and whatnot rather than actual application memory usage.
You're forgetting about Azureus which is both open source and cross platform. I'd imagine that combined, Azureus and muTorrent take up most of the share of which client people use, but there are still plenty of others out there.
Speaking from experience, there are many songs in Guitar Hero that are easier to play on guitar than in expert. There are many "tricks" and techniques one can use while playing guitar that can't be done on a GH controller.
I heard that Harmonix preferred to do covers of the songs because it made developing the game more fun. Also, since the game puts the player as the lead guitarist of a new band doing covers of other bands' music, it seems to make more sense that your band doesn't sound exactly like the original. I guess Rock Band might follow along that line considering you're getting a band together in the first place rather than just one instrument.
GTK was created for a reason; back then, the leading open source GUI toolkit used by KDE, Qt, was not actually fully free or open source. Due to that, some people came together (or however it started; I don't remember) and wrote a fully free graphical toolkit licensed under the LGPL. Later on, however, Qt was dual-licensed via the GPL and QPL, so the original need for GTK vanished. The only need I see nowadays from GTK is that it allows proprietary software to be developed using the toolkit without needing to pay expensive license fees like one would have to do with Qt.
Have you tried out Krita yet? As of the latest KOffice 1.6.3 release, I know for a fact that Krita supports several colour spaces including RGB (8-bit int, 16-bit int, 16-bit float, and 32-bit float per channel), CMYK (8-bit and 16-bit per channel), greyscale (8-bit and 16-bit), L*a*b (16-bit per channel), LMS cone space (32-bit float per channel), watercolours, and YCbCr (8-bit and 16-bit per channel). Apparently, Krita is designed such that supporting different colour spaces (and profiles along with each one) is trivial and thus supports all the common ones (as far as I can tell).
Oh yeah, and the bit Krita has going over GIMP when it comes to competing with Photoshop: its interface is remarkably similar to Photoshop's.
Don't worry; only GNOME applications follow that version standard for the most part. The Linux kernel used to, but now they have their own crazy scheme which is stuck in 2.6.*. KDE, on the other hand, just does massive.major.minor releases.
You're almost guaranteed to find a video game no matter how popular it is on release due to the relative ease of manufacturing DVDs compared to any other sort of hardware. If SMG was a cartridge-based game, sure, I'd recommend that you pre-order it, but there's generally never a shortage of games when they come out.
Computers are supposed to automate things for us, not make us work for the computer. Having to jump through a bunch of hoops just to do something is completely unacceptable when there are far easier and more efficient ways of doing things.