When you install Linux and everything else that you need to run a Linux based desktop PC, how long does it last until you make software upgrades? When a new stable version of Xorg comes out? When ever a new version of the kernel comes out? People do not realize that software DOES NOT stay the same, it evolves by means of new versions of the same software. Therefore if you LEASE a version of some software, you could you it until a new version comes out. Then you could make the selection of upgrading automatically your software.
Stop whining. No one is forcing you to buy your precious GNU/Linux systems. I bet most people complaining here are those freeloaders that think ALL software should be free of charge, yet they themselves either can't or won't contribute anything to Open Source community.
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Average person, who only reads email and uses web browsers and writes an occasional document, does learn new stuff about computers all the time. He/She doesn't want to do that, either. Many if not most people drive a car every day. Do you learn something new about your car every day? Of course not. When a certain level of knowledge is reached, it is "good enough" if it gets you through most difficulties. Human brain has a wonderful habit of learning mostly what the person finds interesting. How the computer or the OS works or how to use one's computer more efficiently is usually not among those interesting things.
So it's pretty fair to say you are acting like a little Hitler yourself towards your kids? Or did you ask them if they support your "cause"? Blizzard had every right in the world to shut bnetd down for good. And they didn't just try, they naturally succeeded. Deal with it. If you are actually serious about your statement, and think bnetd is justified, have you continued to develop or support it by some other means yourself?
Yeah it maybe well documented, but how much of that documentation is still valid? The FAQs talk about excellent support for i386 architecture - for 80386 and 80486 chips! How many OpenBSD systems still use those CPUs?
Quick! Everyone who has a habit of smoking: After reading this Slashdot article, when you are worrying that you might catch this disease, go for a relaxing smoke.
You can still buy a perfectly good solution in the form of earlier generation adapters, like Radeon 9800Pro. They are quite cheap now. What amazes me that all the hardware sites foam about the latest and greates nVidia and ATI have to offer, but what I would like to see is how much it actually benefits me if I get a new adapter.
How about publishing an article about realism in games or about scary games that DOES NOT reference System Shock 2? Yes, the game is way cool but it seems editors are just showing off their game knowledge here by name dropping.
Uhhh...so every trash in YOUR OWN FUCKING TRASH CAN may have a rfid chip associated to you? On a side note, why would I care about this? I pay virtually everything with plastic. So just about everything I buy already leaves a trace. I don't even care about that, and I doubt no ordinary person does. I guess we don't live in constant fear.
And just how fast does the battery on a 80 gigabyte iPod last when you are using it for transferring large files? Can you actually do a full circle (fill the iPod, then copy contents back to your computer) before the battery gives in?
No, you are still not getting the picture. The question is not whether Java is slower or faster than native C. The question is: Is it so slow that it actually matters? I guess you think you can justify your case by saying Java is "MASSIVELY slow". But if allocation of memory and deallocation is 10 times slower in Java than in C, does it still matter?
We had the IDEs you describe already 10 years ago. I don't think creating modern games like World of Warcraft is any less demanding, it's just an entirely different thing and takes a lot of different work than creating those first arcade game classics.
Well, just about every Linux distribution has the same components. X, kernel, the same Window managers, KDE or Gnome, etc. What is the difference for a regular end user? They all look the same and do the same. 99% of users are happy with surfing the net, reading email and writing an occasional document and printing it. They just wanrt that to work. And Windows does this rather perfectly. Oh, and if you already have paid for that 16 CPU machine, I'm sure Windows license for it is relatively cheap.
...isn't Linux just used here as a replacement for a Unix core kernel? That way companies don't have to pay for commercial Unix implementations. I admin a Linux server myself, and don't care one bit it runs Linux. It could be any Unixish system for all I care. I am also pretty sure Linux alone does not run much software. It takes a lot of other software component to achieve that.
I guesss no one can argue Linus is a very good prorammer... YEAH RIGHT. Is Linux kernel development done at a professional level? Many people complain that Microsoft changes APIs every once in a while. How often does this happen with Linux? I guess since Linus doesn't care about specs, he can change Linux specs (APIs) as he pleases. Never mind all the stuff that gets broken. Oh yeah, and doesn't Linux aim for POSIX compliance? Isn't that a spec also? Huh? Maybe Linus should also write his own ATAPI, SCSI and USB command stuff? Take that ALSA also out. In fact, lets just forget about the whole x86 architecture.
So which of the following is more probable? A: It's actually you who have no sense of humor. B: Finnish people in general really have no sense of humor. Pick one. Yeah I'm from Finland also.
Since many of the people reading this thread probably are p2p lusers of sorts, why don't we combine out forces and create a p2p network which distributes only legal material. I'm absolutely sure that kind of network would get many, many, fine and outstanding users (*spoken with the voice of captain Lassard from Police Academy*) that would rush in and put up streams of their cats, dogs and small children. Not to mention those Linux distributions, which by golly already make up for probably 30 percent of all p2p activity.
Great logic there, buddy. If you take this a bit further, you find out that you cannot actually own ANYTHING, since all consumer objects break down and many things are, in fact, infinitely reproducable, from a rational perspective. So you really can not own anything, you just buy a privilege to use the object as you see fit. Does this ring a bell? It's called communism.
Just buy a low end Radeon like 9250 or something similar. Very cheap, very small. They have no fan and yet keep pretty cool, and 2d picture quality is pretty good. Yes the 3d performance is abysmal, buy who cares. Please don't comment me about the state of ATI drivers for Linux, I pretty much know the situation there...
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When you install Linux and everything else that you need to run a Linux based desktop PC, how long does it last until you make software upgrades? When a new stable version of Xorg comes out? When ever a new version of the kernel comes out? People do not realize that software DOES NOT stay the same, it evolves by means of new versions of the same software. Therefore if you LEASE a version of some software, you could you it until a new version comes out. Then you could make the selection of upgrading automatically your software. Stop whining. No one is forcing you to buy your precious GNU/Linux systems. I bet most people complaining here are those freeloaders that think ALL software should be free of charge, yet they themselves either can't or won't contribute anything to Open Source community.
Or, at least 25 bit color?
Average person, who only reads email and uses web browsers and writes an occasional document, does learn new stuff about computers all the time. He/She doesn't want to do that, either. Many if not most people drive a car every day. Do you learn something new about your car every day? Of course not. When a certain level of knowledge is reached, it is "good enough" if it gets you through most difficulties. Human brain has a wonderful habit of learning mostly what the person finds interesting. How the computer or the OS works or how to use one's computer more efficiently is usually not among those interesting things.
So it's pretty fair to say you are acting like a little Hitler yourself towards your kids? Or did you ask them if they support your "cause"? Blizzard had every right in the world to shut bnetd down for good. And they didn't just try, they naturally succeeded. Deal with it. If you are actually serious about your statement, and think bnetd is justified, have you continued to develop or support it by some other means yourself?
Yeah it maybe well documented, but how much of that documentation is still valid? The FAQs talk about excellent support for i386 architecture - for 80386 and 80486 chips! How many OpenBSD systems still use those CPUs?
Quick! Everyone who has a habit of smoking: After reading this Slashdot article, when you are worrying that you might catch this disease, go for a relaxing smoke.
You can still buy a perfectly good solution in the form of earlier generation adapters, like Radeon 9800Pro. They are quite cheap now. What amazes me that all the hardware sites foam about the latest and greates nVidia and ATI have to offer, but what I would like to see is how much it actually benefits me if I get a new adapter.
How about publishing an article about realism in games or about scary games that DOES NOT reference System Shock 2? Yes, the game is way cool but it seems editors are just showing off their game knowledge here by name dropping.
Uhhh...so every trash in YOUR OWN FUCKING TRASH CAN may have a rfid chip associated to you? On a side note, why would I care about this? I pay virtually everything with plastic. So just about everything I buy already leaves a trace. I don't even care about that, and I doubt no ordinary person does. I guess we don't live in constant fear.
And just how fast does the battery on a 80 gigabyte iPod last when you are using it for transferring large files? Can you actually do a full circle (fill the iPod, then copy contents back to your computer) before the battery gives in?
No, you are still not getting the picture. The question is not whether Java is slower or faster than native C. The question is: Is it so slow that it actually matters? I guess you think you can justify your case by saying Java is "MASSIVELY slow". But if allocation of memory and deallocation is 10 times slower in Java than in C, does it still matter?
Uhh.... yeah but are your MP3 songs getting bigger every year???? No they are not. And no one said that about 5 gig Ipods.
I mean a whopping 80 gigabytes of storage for just static pictures and music. What's the point of that?
We had the IDEs you describe already 10 years ago. I don't think creating modern games like World of Warcraft is any less demanding, it's just an entirely different thing and takes a lot of different work than creating those first arcade game classics.
Well, just about every Linux distribution has the same components. X, kernel, the same Window managers, KDE or Gnome, etc. What is the difference for a regular end user? They all look the same and do the same. 99% of users are happy with surfing the net, reading email and writing an occasional document and printing it. They just wanrt that to work. And Windows does this rather perfectly. Oh, and if you already have paid for that 16 CPU machine, I'm sure Windows license for it is relatively cheap.
Doesn't it suck to live in such fear? Maybe you should start thinking about living in some other country.
Oh please do tell us, why SOAP sucks. I get the popcorn ready.
I guesss no one can argue Linus is a very good prorammer... YEAH RIGHT. Is Linux kernel development done at a professional level? Many people complain that Microsoft changes APIs every once in a while. How often does this happen with Linux? I guess since Linus doesn't care about specs, he can change Linux specs (APIs) as he pleases. Never mind all the stuff that gets broken. Oh yeah, and doesn't Linux aim for POSIX compliance? Isn't that a spec also? Huh? Maybe Linus should also write his own ATAPI, SCSI and USB command stuff? Take that ALSA also out. In fact, lets just forget about the whole x86 architecture.
So which of the following is more probable? A: It's actually you who have no sense of humor. B: Finnish people in general really have no sense of humor. Pick one. Yeah I'm from Finland also.
Since many of the people reading this thread probably are p2p lusers of sorts, why don't we combine out forces and create a p2p network which distributes only legal material. I'm absolutely sure that kind of network would get many, many, fine and outstanding users (*spoken with the voice of captain Lassard from Police Academy*) that would rush in and put up streams of their cats, dogs and small children. Not to mention those Linux distributions, which by golly already make up for probably 30 percent of all p2p activity.
Great logic there, buddy. If you take this a bit further, you find out that you cannot actually own ANYTHING, since all consumer objects break down and many things are, in fact, infinitely reproducable, from a rational perspective. So you really can not own anything, you just buy a privilege to use the object as you see fit. Does this ring a bell? It's called communism.
all your source code are belong to us. Well, luckily I use Resin instead of Apache.
Just buy a low end Radeon like 9250 or something similar. Very cheap, very small. They have no fan and yet keep pretty cool, and 2d picture quality is pretty good. Yes the 3d performance is abysmal, buy who cares. Please don't comment me about the state of ATI drivers for Linux, I pretty much know the situation there...
There's an alternative! Just create your own protocol for sharing files and get many people to use it. Sound difficult? Well, it probably is.