Another example of Yahoo not being best of the breed is their auctions site. Of course it is rather hard to compete with eBay but Yahoo is barely trying. Their auction site has been home to many rip offs (like people in former USSR selling laptops with payment via PayPal and then disappearing). You'd need to be a fool to part with your money because the chances of getting a Pentium III 650 notebook with 14-15" LCD for $400 is minimal. But people still bid and get ripped off. Yahoo should spend more time going over the quality of their auction submissions.
Yahoo should spend more time innovating instead of simply copying other sites ideas and putting them into the big Yahoo picture. There is a ton of potential there...
Memory interleaving gives some interesting results and kinda throws your arguement out the window...
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Instead of argueing over semantics why not just look at the spirite of the comment - if you are a Windows person, give Linux a spin, and then complain your ass off just shut the fuck up. *nix has a high learning curve and requires quite a bit of digging by the user to become proficient. Many people don't have the time or the will and enjoy simply lambasting *nix because it makes them feel better about their lack of knowledge.
Some of your will argue that Linux is now easy to use, etc. etc... Well, whatever. I'm all for making it easier to use but at the moment I think we still have a long way to go.
(note: if the Windows person is giving constructive criticism that is one thing, simply trolling is another...).
Er... No - it's just that the BSD distribs do pretty much everything via email lists. Go check out freebsd.org, openbsd.org, etc... Tons 'o mailing lists.
Do you actually ever get to any ROMs? What exactly is the deal with all these link exchange places anyway? Seems like everything on these sites is structure at maximum ads per attempted ROM download...
Obviously we're not scientists here with little measurements for blood shot eyes, fatigue, and general wasting away. It's all just supposition and personal experience. If you can't deal with that then don't worry about it. The rest of the reasonable folks will continue on with life.
If you aren't trolling then simply don't worry about our fatigure/eye strain and go play with KDE w/ AA and see how it feels to you.
I agree with you on KDE 2.1 100% (if not 120%). I hadn't tried it in years (didn't really use X and when I did whatever lightwieght wm was fine) and I was astonished at how much it has improved. It is a completely different beast - extremely usable, looks good, feels good, works good. There are still a few annoyances but they are very minor. If you haven't tried KDE recently check out 2.1!
Pretty much what the other poster replied to you said... Part of it is that the AA font setup in KDE 2.1 is a bit of a crapper. I'm sure it'll improve drastically. It was basically sitting there comparing browsing the net in KDE/Qt Anti-Aliased compared to Windows 2000. My eyes just didn't get as tired in the evil OS. This was over multiple days too so no 15 minute comparision:).
Without that font pack all my truetype fonts where bold when => 8 point size. Yes I did setup all the font.scale/alias crap... Probably occurred because I was missing the Xft* doc in the font archive mentioned above (not the config, a file that goes in the font dir).
This was all with the "nvidia" X server so perhaps the problem is there and not Qt/KDE...
I used a beta of Qt for a while with KDE 2.1 and while the anti-aliasing looks very good it seems to create more eyestrain than the anti-aliasing in Windows (2000 at the moment). Too much of a good thing...
Yeah, the most annoying part of the standard mail template is that all your email is sorted oldest->newest and you have to scroll down to get the new stuff. Quickly fixed with a simple edit of the template but that should be a menu choice for all the non-"programmers" (can we really count editing forms as programming? hehe). Ah well... Notes is a biotch to program. Just a major pain in the rump compared to anything else...
Hotline sucks. I just tried it out and lemme say it doesn't get much worse than that... Give me IRC/Usenet anyday over some crappy "lets make software so people can share files and we'll make money off the annoying ad banners" type of deal.
Yeah, I did a focus group on Lotus Notes and kinda ended up dissing IBM pretty bad... Felt bad about it afterwords when I remembered all the open source stuff they are contributing and the fact that they play fair. Ah well, it wasn't the end of the world, I just said they were too conservative I suppose (living in their own towers and all that)... I don't that is true these days anymore either.
Postgres 7.x is supposed to be dramatically faster... I haven't had a chance to do any benchmarks - has anyone else? Personally I'm hoping Postgres takes off and we can switch to it from MySQL (for triggers, transactions, etc).
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Yahoo should spend more time innovating instead of simply copying other sites ideas and putting them into the big Yahoo picture. There is a ton of potential there...
Memory interleaving gives some interesting results and kinda throws your arguement out the window...
Some of your will argue that Linux is now easy to use, etc. etc... Well, whatever. I'm all for making it easier to use but at the moment I think we still have a long way to go.
(note: if the Windows person is giving constructive criticism that is one thing, simply trolling is another...).
Er... No - it's just that the BSD distribs do pretty much everything via email lists. Go check out freebsd.org, openbsd.org, etc... Tons 'o mailing lists.
They let go everybody! Did you read the article?
Well I was being kinda cynical :)... The server was knocked over when there was only one reply posted (some troll) here.
Nope... They must have one weak ass jsp-based server...
I'm glad everyone has decided to just drop this copyright thing and move along with the P2P developement. Now I feel we can all get something done...
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Do you actually ever get to any ROMs? What exactly is the deal with all these link exchange places anyway? Seems like everything on these sites is structure at maximum ads per attempted ROM download...
The laws on obtaining evidence don't apply to private citizens...
Lets not forget the cost of shipping or local tax...
For those of us who don't speak French - does free this "free-provider" actually give away colocation spots? Sounds kinda interesting...
If you aren't trolling then simply don't worry about our fatigure/eye strain and go play with KDE w/ AA and see how it feels to you.
I agree with you on KDE 2.1 100% (if not 120%). I hadn't tried it in years (didn't really use X and when I did whatever lightwieght wm was fine) and I was astonished at how much it has improved. It is a completely different beast - extremely usable, looks good, feels good, works good. There are still a few annoyances but they are very minor. If you haven't tried KDE recently check out 2.1!
For those wanting to play with AA fonts in KDE make sure you grab the truetype font package from here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/truetype.tar.gz
Without that font pack all my truetype fonts where bold when => 8 point size. Yes I did setup all the font.scale/alias crap... Probably occurred because I was missing the Xft* doc in the font archive mentioned above (not the config, a file that goes in the font dir).
This was all with the "nvidia" X server so perhaps the problem is there and not Qt/KDE...
I used a beta of Qt for a while with KDE 2.1 and while the anti-aliasing looks very good it seems to create more eyestrain than the anti-aliasing in Windows (2000 at the moment). Too much of a good thing...
Yeah, the most annoying part of the standard mail template is that all your email is sorted oldest->newest and you have to scroll down to get the new stuff. Quickly fixed with a simple edit of the template but that should be a menu choice for all the non-"programmers" (can we really count editing forms as programming? hehe). Ah well... Notes is a biotch to program. Just a major pain in the rump compared to anything else...
Hotline sucks. I just tried it out and lemme say it doesn't get much worse than that... Give me IRC/Usenet anyday over some crappy "lets make software so people can share files and we'll make money off the annoying ad banners" type of deal.
Yeah, I did a focus group on Lotus Notes and kinda ended up dissing IBM pretty bad... Felt bad about it afterwords when I remembered all the open source stuff they are contributing and the fact that they play fair. Ah well, it wasn't the end of the world, I just said they were too conservative I suppose (living in their own towers and all that)... I don't that is true these days anymore either.
Postgres 7.x is supposed to be dramatically faster... I haven't had a chance to do any benchmarks - has anyone else? Personally I'm hoping Postgres takes off and we can switch to it from MySQL (for triggers, transactions, etc).
You had to pay $50k a while back to purpose a TLD to ICANN...
Hrm, that is odd. I can't explain that too you at all - I actually wasn't being sarcastic when I asked you explain...
Erm... It is standards compliant, has https, and also has java... Please try to cough something else out of your lungs.
That SGI 1600SW is where it's at... $1500 for the screen + multilink adapter and another $200 for a DVI video card...