Riiiiight. As that would make users less dumb. A laptop is a computer, and all 'safety' rules apply to it, as to any other machine. A computer's safety is equal to its user's awareness, that's all that is to it.
Whoever wins... we win:) Personally I think PS3 will be THE product (Squeresoft will bit the sh*t out of this one with FF 13 or so), but some competition never hurt anyone, try as hard as you can MS and Nintendo:]
HP (presumably they worked on the drive side of things) are a member of the OSDL, so maybe.
It would be great if they released their own linux drivers the moment they send the drive to stores. If not, we'll have to wait a couple of months before kernel devs take time to code the thing.
I suppose that depends on how you define "value". Personally, having Free Software and using Free Software has done more to "maximize the value" of my computer far more than anything else I can think of.
My thoughts exactly. The only reason I'd need proprietary OS (ie. Windows) on my PC is to play games -- not having it saves a lot of my time:) Surely there are people who need software available only for Windows that is actually required to do their work, luckily I'm not one of them. Besides, I find Linux simply more comfortable to work on, though some things could obviously be improved, but that's a totally different topic.
Ah, Slashdot. Where even after the true culprit is unveiled, the problem somehow continues to be on Microsoft's end.
What I was reffering to was the California case, similar to this one (described in a bugtraq post). Mixing them up was of course my bad. Anyhow, the main problem was not the fact, the bug exists, but the fact, that they're using OS with known bug where people's lives depend on it, and that's what my comment was reffering to.
Just the other day, I had a friend who couldn't go to any site on the net without IE crashing and the Send Report box coming up (does anyone actually send the reports??). Anyway, she was getting frustrated, so I pointed her to Firefox's download site. She downloaded it and now uses it exclusively
How did she manage to download Firefox with IE crashing on every site?
I wonder.. how much does an average spammer earn doing his "job"? Can one make a living by sending spam and not doing any other work? Anyone knows, for example, how much does a spammer get for sending one, say, 1000 emails?
Yes, a power adapter can break after four years of usage. It should not break in such a way that it presents a fire hazard.
That depends on how lucky (or unlucky) you are. I'd like to know how the Product Safety guys tested this piece of hardware. I don't suppose IBM decided to recall ~500k adapters just because 6 of them broke in a bit more 'entertaining' fashion;)
The computers were sold between January 1999 and August 2000
They received SIX reports after 4 years since releasing this stuff and they're recalling the whole series? Weird.. A power adapter CAN break after 4 years of intense usage.. it just happens, right?:)
Gmail is neato, but I don't think it's good enough for the power user. .. because it's still in its beta?
Anyway, the filters do their job, 'labels' are neat, threading didn't fail me (yet?). The interface is cute:) They're working on mail forwarding and a better contacts list. It's FAST too. I didn't see their spam filters in action, and I hope I won't have to. But it's there. What more would a 'power user' need?
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Use xrange() for loops.
DoD is considering winmine.exe as minesweeper training software.
This code is weak. I fired it up like 20 minutes ago and still haven't r00ted my box.
Think you can fool me by posting a pic of transparent milk chocolate?
Think again!
No pics :(
Riiiiight. As that would make users less dumb. A laptop is a computer, and all 'safety' rules apply to it, as to any other machine. A computer's safety is equal to its user's awareness, that's all that is to it.
Am I the only only one starting to fear Google?
There you go
You gotta be kidding. NOW? Aren't you like 3 or 4 years late?
I use KDevelop and it works fine, thank you very much.
And people who prefer gtk look&feel over qt should try anjuta.
Whoever wins... we win :) Personally I think PS3 will be THE product (Squeresoft will bit the sh*t out of this one with FF 13 or so), but some competition never hurt anyone, try as hard as you can MS and Nintendo :]
This has got to be good. Firefox base+Google's money = The Ultimate Browser.
HP (presumably they worked on the drive side of things) are a member of the OSDL, so maybe.
It would be great if they released their own linux drivers the moment they send the drive to stores. If not, we'll have to wait a couple of months before kernel devs take time to code the thing.
I wonder if/when/how will it work under Linux?
I suppose that depends on how you define "value". Personally, having Free Software and using Free Software has done more to "maximize the value" of my computer far more than anything else I can think of.
:) Surely there are people who need software available only for Windows that is actually required to do their work, luckily I'm not one of them. Besides, I find Linux simply more comfortable to work on, though some things could obviously be improved, but that's a totally different topic.
My thoughts exactly. The only reason I'd need proprietary OS (ie. Windows) on my PC is to play games -- not having it saves a lot of my time
Ah, Slashdot. Where even after the true culprit is unveiled, the problem somehow continues to be on Microsoft's end. What I was reffering to was the California case, similar to this one (described in a bugtraq post). Mixing them up was of course my bad. Anyhow, the main problem was not the fact, the bug exists, but the fact, that they're using OS with known bug where people's lives depend on it, and that's what my comment was reffering to.
That's what you get for using a buggy and OLD OS for such important tasks. Grats!
birthday...ring...war..destroy...mordor..gollum... finger. The End.
Wireframe please.
Just the other day, I had a friend who couldn't go to any site on the net without IE crashing and the Send Report box coming up (does anyone actually send the reports??). Anyway, she was getting frustrated, so I pointed her to Firefox's download site. She downloaded it and now uses it exclusively
How did she manage to download Firefox with IE crashing on every site?
on my 'old' celeron 333 @ 400MHz, 64 MB Ram Openoffice is usable. Not fast, but I can live with it. Startup is a pain in the ass though.
I wonder.. how much does an average spammer earn doing his "job"? Can one make a living by sending spam and not doing any other work? Anyone knows, for example, how much does a spammer get for sending one, say, 1000 emails?
Yes, a power adapter can break after four years of usage. It should not break in such a way that it presents a fire hazard.
;)
That depends on how lucky (or unlucky) you are. I'd like to know how the Product Safety guys tested this piece of hardware. I don't suppose IBM decided to recall ~500k adapters just because 6 of them broke in a bit more 'entertaining' fashion
The computers were sold between January 1999 and August 2000 They received SIX reports after 4 years since releasing this stuff and they're recalling the whole series? Weird.. A power adapter CAN break after 4 years of intense usage.. it just happens, right? :)
Gmail is neato, but I don't think it's good enough for the power user.
.. because it's still in its beta? :) They're working on mail forwarding and a better contacts list. It's FAST too. I didn't see their spam filters in action, and I hope I won't have to. But it's there. What more would a 'power user' need?
Anyway, the filters do their job, 'labels' are neat, threading didn't fail me (yet?). The interface is cute