I know people have made this claim before, but seriously - they've demonstrated completely working prototypes and have a product line set for release this year.
In addition to the other benefits, this will allow small, PC based drives to get into the TB range.
Sadly, no. My little sister moved into her first apartment last year, and she noticed that her roommate's computer was running slower than hers, even though my sister has a P3-450 hand-me-down from me, and her roommate had a 2.4 ghz P4.
Apparently, I trained her well. She ran Spybot and Ad-Aware, and felt she just had to call and tell me when she found more than 6,000 items.
Except as has been pointed out by the IE exploit covered here on Jan. 7, it's still very much possible to install software through IE without user interaction, even with Service Pack 2, as long as Active X isn't completely disabled.
That exploit only requires that a page be viewed.
Well, a great many designers will mockup a design in Gimp or Photoshop, and after that's done, code it up - that's what I do.
I don't really care what actual text editor I use, though color highlighting is nice. I use Codewhiz or Editpad in Windows, usually GEdit, Bluefish, or Vim in Linux.
Coding and design are not mutually exclusive; I get a degree in Studio Arts in May, but it'll be followed by a desgree in computer science, and I work as a programmer right now.
When you've removed the loss associated with war from the equation, what's to stop a country from going to war as a first response, instead of when all other responses are exhausted? (and please, no political commentary on the current situation, I'm speaking generally)
Trust me, if we didn't have the superior forces and technology that allow us to fight as we do, we'd be far less likely to be in Iraq at all - no American wants us to go through the trench warfare of WWI or the jungle combat of Vietnam again. When war hurts, it's far less likely to take place. As is - we've been at war for over a year, and I don't know a single casualty personally. I'm not being callous, I'm just pointing out that a nation accepts war more easily if the perceived loss is smaller.
I'll agree the post is stupid, but I do want to make one comment - the XBox is technically number #3 - but more to the point, isn't profitable.
Microsoft loses a ton of money every year on the X-Box, and it isn't made back within the division. If it wasn't for the fact that their OS and Office divisions were so profitable, the X-Box would indeed have been the next Dreamcast, or worse.
I don't know if that counts as a hit or a miss, as they are now entrenched in the industry, but as is, if they suffered a hit in the OS or Office divisions, it could kill X-Box.
GTK guys weren't being clueless, but you are trying to use apps that were not initially designed for the platform.
I run a Gnome desktop at home (though I use everything else, too), and it's not a problem at all to have a cohesive, uniform desktop in GTK. Its only a problem when you try to run GTK apps with other apps designed with different goals.
Incidentally, Gimp has really made some pretty big strides in integrating better in Windows with Version 2 - I'd give it a try again if you haven't. You'll still have to deal with multiple windows, but the visual style, menus, and buttons should be much more like you're used to.
You should be fine in that type of circumstance...either me or someone else has probably played my DS at least an hour a day for the past week...and I think I plugged it in last Monday.
Right now, the battery meter on the main menu is showing a full green battery...
Real world is actually better; Nintendo has been under-quoting battery life since the original GBA. I haven't kept specific records, but I've played DS for days without charging it.
I will end up with one, though I still expect to do my gaming on a DS, which I already own.
The PSP looks interesting, but I've a feeling that 5 hours will end up being essentially the best possible. For games with near constant disc access, which will have to happen if people expect games that play like PS2 games, the battery life will be much lower, with or without Wi-Fi.
It really disappoints me that anyone could defend Resident Evil 2.
I was looking forward to it when I heard Paul W.S. Anderson wasn't directing and that it would have more to do with the games, being a fan of the videogames, but come on - it was a terrible movie. The effects were atrocious, the plot was laughably bad (moreso even than any of the games), the acting was non-existant, and the end was a complete joke.
Even if you just went for the action, I fail to see how this could satisfy - the action sequences were terribly choreographed, incredibly obvious, and completely unoriginal.
Indeed. But as this is slashdot, it will never get modded high enough to be seen, anyway.
I really like this site, but it's incredible how the moderators swing.
I'll agree that most of that came from the GOP; if you had been around me before the election, you would have heard me say the same thing.
In truth, up until about 3 weeks prior to the election I would have considered him. Kerry actually convinced me not to vote for him on his own in speeches leading up to the election.
That, plus I truly feel he wouldn't support Israel, and I think that is important - no one else seems to be willing to, and as much as I hate to see any people supressed, as we often see the Palestinians portrayed, I truly feel Israel is on the right in this.
Just realize that for many Americans, regardless of exit polls, it wasn't necessarily choosing Bush so much as not trusting Kerry.
I dislike both of them; Bush's environmental policies on the domestic front, and the way Iraq was handled on the foreign front. Kerry, though, would not likely support Israel, which I feel is important, and his voting record on other issues is spotty at best.
I voted Badnarik.
Very similar, except these will be driven on the hardware level with sub-pixel accuracy. Current sub-pixel rendering has to be done at the driver or higher level, which is why it's usually only used for fonts.
Why would anyone annouce this without having the product?
I'm not saying that they do or don't have a product, I'm just completely blown away when people announce products that don't exist and expect to somehow profit from them.
I don't know why you say that; My Radeon 9600 XT has can run through the video stress test at 1024x768 with full detail and still get FPS in the high forties or low fifties. Sure, there are cards that are way faster but a 9800 Pro would still be just fine.
I've been using Linux as my primary Desktop for almost three years now. I tried both KDE and Gnome of Redhat 9 and then Fedora Core 1 and 2. I always chose to use KDE; it seemed like it was more configurable, and at least when 3.2 came out, it felt like there was pretty much an app to handle everything I needed - SMB networking, for example, was fairly easy and obvious without needing a command line.
But for about the last 4 months, I've been using Gnome, and I don't even have KDE installed on my main Gentoo box. In fact, I've been writing a new visual theme for gnome over the weekend. I couldn't tell you exactly why I switched, except for a couple of pointers. For one, it seems like new technology is adopted earlier in Gnome. I'm sure some people would point to that and claim problems arise from it, but I haven't encountered anything bad. More than that, though, it's possible to have a level of polish in Gnome that I just can't get out of KDE - and I'm the type of user that designs my own themes (see here).
I don't know why for sure, but as of Gnome 2.6 and 2.8, the project just really seemed to come together. I still consider any gnome pre 2.4 to be pretty much unuseable; I didn't just change my mind. The recent builds convinced me.
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I know people have made this claim before, but seriously - they've demonstrated completely working prototypes and have a product line set for release this year.
In addition to the other benefits, this will allow small, PC based drives to get into the TB range.
That seems doubtful if they were using Java. More likely, they just had no experience with anything else, and so didn't care.
None of it is in the kernel.
I thought this was common knowledge now; the high-end graphics system is apparently called Aero Glass, while the mid-rage one is called Aero.
Apparently, I trained her well. She ran Spybot and Ad-Aware, and felt she just had to call and tell me when she found more than 6,000 items.
Not even 1,000 of them were cookies.
Except as has been pointed out by the IE exploit covered here on Jan. 7, it's still very much possible to install software through IE without user interaction, even with Service Pack 2, as long as Active X isn't completely disabled. That exploit only requires that a page be viewed.
I don't really care what actual text editor I use, though color highlighting is nice. I use Codewhiz or Editpad in Windows, usually GEdit, Bluefish, or Vim in Linux.
Coding and design are not mutually exclusive; I get a degree in Studio Arts in May, but it'll be followed by a desgree in computer science, and I work as a programmer right now.
When you've removed the loss associated with war from the equation, what's to stop a country from going to war as a first response, instead of when all other responses are exhausted? (and please, no political commentary on the current situation, I'm speaking generally)
Trust me, if we didn't have the superior forces and technology that allow us to fight as we do, we'd be far less likely to be in Iraq at all - no American wants us to go through the trench warfare of WWI or the jungle combat of Vietnam again. When war hurts, it's far less likely to take place. As is - we've been at war for over a year, and I don't know a single casualty personally. I'm not being callous, I'm just pointing out that a nation accepts war more easily if the perceived loss is smaller.
You have a very twisted view of the average soldier.
Microsoft loses a ton of money every year on the X-Box, and it isn't made back within the division. If it wasn't for the fact that their OS and Office divisions were so profitable, the X-Box would indeed have been the next Dreamcast, or worse.
I don't know if that counts as a hit or a miss, as they are now entrenched in the industry, but as is, if they suffered a hit in the OS or Office divisions, it could kill X-Box.
Funny, virtually everyone I know really liked those menus.
I'll definitely admit that they may not scale well, though.
It is a pretty good book, though. I've been happy with it.
Though in truth, both styles seem to be in full effect here.
I run a Gnome desktop at home (though I use everything else, too), and it's not a problem at all to have a cohesive, uniform desktop in GTK. Its only a problem when you try to run GTK apps with other apps designed with different goals.
Incidentally, Gimp has really made some pretty big strides in integrating better in Windows with Version 2 - I'd give it a try again if you haven't. You'll still have to deal with multiple windows, but the visual style, menus, and buttons should be much more like you're used to.
Right now, the battery meter on the main menu is showing a full green battery...
Real world is actually better; Nintendo has been under-quoting battery life since the original GBA. I haven't kept specific records, but I've played DS for days without charging it.
I will end up with one, though I still expect to do my gaming on a DS, which I already own. The PSP looks interesting, but I've a feeling that 5 hours will end up being essentially the best possible. For games with near constant disc access, which will have to happen if people expect games that play like PS2 games, the battery life will be much lower, with or without Wi-Fi.
I was looking forward to it when I heard Paul W.S. Anderson wasn't directing and that it would have more to do with the games, being a fan of the videogames, but come on - it was a terrible movie. The effects were atrocious, the plot was laughably bad (moreso even than any of the games), the acting was non-existant, and the end was a complete joke.
Even if you just went for the action, I fail to see how this could satisfy - the action sequences were terribly choreographed, incredibly obvious, and completely unoriginal.
You must have watched Resident Evil 2; I can see how, by comparison, it'd make Resident Evil one look good.
Indeed. But as this is slashdot, it will never get modded high enough to be seen, anyway. I really like this site, but it's incredible how the moderators swing.
In truth, up until about 3 weeks prior to the election I would have considered him. Kerry actually convinced me not to vote for him on his own in speeches leading up to the election.
That, plus I truly feel he wouldn't support Israel, and I think that is important - no one else seems to be willing to, and as much as I hate to see any people supressed, as we often see the Palestinians portrayed, I truly feel Israel is on the right in this.
Just realize that for many Americans, regardless of exit polls, it wasn't necessarily choosing Bush so much as not trusting Kerry. I dislike both of them; Bush's environmental policies on the domestic front, and the way Iraq was handled on the foreign front. Kerry, though, would not likely support Israel, which I feel is important, and his voting record on other issues is spotty at best. I voted Badnarik.
Very similar, except these will be driven on the hardware level with sub-pixel accuracy. Current sub-pixel rendering has to be done at the driver or higher level, which is why it's usually only used for fonts.
Why would anyone annouce this without having the product? I'm not saying that they do or don't have a product, I'm just completely blown away when people announce products that don't exist and expect to somehow profit from them.
I don't know why you say that; My Radeon 9600 XT has can run through the video stress test at 1024x768 with full detail and still get FPS in the high forties or low fifties. Sure, there are cards that are way faster but a 9800 Pro would still be just fine.
But for about the last 4 months, I've been using Gnome, and I don't even have KDE installed on my main Gentoo box. In fact, I've been writing a new visual theme for gnome over the weekend. I couldn't tell you exactly why I switched, except for a couple of pointers. For one, it seems like new technology is adopted earlier in Gnome. I'm sure some people would point to that and claim problems arise from it, but I haven't encountered anything bad. More than that, though, it's possible to have a level of polish in Gnome that I just can't get out of KDE - and I'm the type of user that designs my own themes (see here).
I don't know why for sure, but as of Gnome 2.6 and 2.8, the project just really seemed to come together. I still consider any gnome pre 2.4 to be pretty much unuseable; I didn't just change my mind. The recent builds convinced me.