Is this a viable replacement for Thunderbird for single user home use? I use Thunderbird with IMAP for my email, but it would be nice to have more robust PIM and calendaring features. I've tried Thunderbird with it's calendar and it's still not integrated enough. Does Evolution handle IMAP well? Seems like I remember Outlook not doing it so well. What about newsgroups or RSS feeds? Are there plugin options or enhancements?
In a statement released by Jack Thompson when the Louisiana Senate passed the bill, the lawyer commented: "The corrupted and corrupting video game industry will, of course, challenge this law once it is signed by Governor Blanco. The reason is that this industry, through the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), its developers' lobbyist, the ESA (Entertainment Software Association), and the retailers' lobbyist, IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) are involved in ongoing fraudulent conduct in marketing video games that contain adult material to children."
Good grief! How in the world does this guy maintain any kind of professional credibility?!? What kind of backwards state government would even give JT an audience? "The reason is that this industry...are involved in ongoing fraudulent conduct in marketing video games that contain adult material to children." What??? There's nothing more important going on in the world today??
I think I want to drive to Louisiana and kick this guy in the nuts.
Assuming they cut the memory requirements by 50% post beta (which is close to what we saw with XP), Vista would run just fine for "normal" use on that old Athlon. No games, probably no coding, etc.
So with those "barbones" specs (my desktop is very similar) and Vista, you'd get a glorified Internet browsing and email machine? It pains me a little that a fairly decent computer couldn't even be a development machine under this new OS, yet it does games and.NET development just fine under XP.
Male or female, geeks and nerds will be geeks and nerds. I think they need to bring in real outsiders to the project. Get some insight on what Joe Sixpack wants, or grab a panel of Mac users and ask them how GNOME should be. Things will never work if they're only designed by engineers, male OR female.
It's good and all, but I don't think we'll see much progress on the "internet video" stuff until the Internet is completely tied to the living room consumer electronics.
While it's great to watch short clips, people don't want to crowd around a PC or sit in a desk chair and watch their shows for the night. They want to plop on their couch, or sit in the easy chair, with their families, and watch content. Internet content needs to seemlessly blend into the living room. When you have instantly available, fully searchable, metadata filled Internet TV content in the living room, then we'll talk. I want to watch whatever I want to watch (WHATEVER, which includes EVERYTHING, from full historical archives of every media to current media), WHENEVER I want. Cable companies, are you listening? Sure, I can try to amass my own collection with an array of PVRs/DVRs, but if it was part of the existing cable subscription (or whatever media subscription), why bother, if EVERYTHING was available?
Is it naive to think that we shouldn't need to buy a vote? It's not like even though a govt official might get paid to pass this, that it won't affect them. Say they pass a tiered internet bill, but Google still refuses to pay the extortion fees. How long will it be before DC gets pissed off that they can't get google in at faster than 1kb/s? Don't they see that?
Yeeeeeahhhhhh.....this sounds like a good idea.
I'm all for immigration reform, and even probably have some semi-extreme views on it, but this sounds nothing short of ridiulous. Why don't we just tatoo every immigrant as they come in? Oh, wait...
Will my wireless G with WPA-PSK work on the liveCD? I've got a Dell 600m....I hate having to go upstairs and hook into the wired internet to be able to do anything.
I assume you're talking about the.NET VB, and hence comparing it to something like C#.NET. Personally, I think in the.NET world it really just comes down to preference. The syntax between VB.NET and C#.NET seem very similar. I started off on VB (in much the same fashion - my old work's custom app was written in VB6), and now at my new job develop in C#. I prefer C#, but mostly because I feel it makes me a better programmer. VB is very loose in it's structure; I feel like C# forces me to lose some of the bad habits I had from VB, and makes me have better looking and structured code. But from using both, they both can be easily used to accomplish the same things. I also think VB has some better handling of "business logic" type things like date manipulation and the like.
"I have not met a single soul outside of the medical and legal profession whose actual and typical workload could not be accomplished in 30-40 hours of real honest work."
I'm a slacker, but my dad is not. He's a farmer. His work schedule is as follows:
3:00am - Get up to milk cows (no breakfast yet)
9:00 - breakfast
12:00 lunch
6:00pm - dinner / done for day, half of the year
8:00pm - done for day, other half of year.
I don't want to hear anyone complain about how much they have to work.
I must concur, as I come from a family farm, too. Though it was more like:
4:30-5am - Get up to milk cows
8am or so - breakfast, then go back out to feed cows, work in the shop, etc.
Around noon - grab some lunch, then head back out to take care of other misc chores. If it's spring or summer, it's out to the fields
5pm - milk cows for the 2nd time
After milking (~7-8pm), if it's the summer, it's back out to the fields until dark. A bit to eat might be grabbed in between, but usually it's just a snack, and then "dinner" is around 10 or so when you get home.
If it's winter, home around 8 or so.
Jeebus H Chris....why in the world does someone post up AllofMP3 when the discussion of DRM and music comes on? I'm not going to get into the pseudo-legality of it in the US....you can argue with it all you want, but everyone knows it's a shady gray area.
Why would you pay for quasi-legal music?? Just fucking download it for free already. Don't try to justify it being "right" because you're paying "less".
I, for one, am crossing my fingers with excitement that once Vista really gets rolling, Ubuntu and the ilk will be that much further ahead from where they are now. I really don't see why I want or need Vista compared to my perfectly fine XP install. The OS requires a gaming video card?!? The OS uses that much disk space?!? That much basic RAM requirements? How much resources do you need to run Office and browse the internet (which is what 90% of the computers are going to do)??? Do you need fancy looking windows when you're typing an email? The whole thing just seems like a fluffy waste.
Maybe I'll be surprised, or change my tune, but at this point in time I don't see myself dropping XP until it doesn't do what I need it to do....and when that time comes, here's hoping the linux (or Mac?) scene is at a point where they (well, linux anyway...the Mac is just pricey) are truly a competitive option. It seems as both Vista and the PS3 have jumped the shark:-)
First mobster: Hey. They's throwin' robots.
Linguo: They are throwing robots.
Second mobster: It's disrespecting us. Shut up a'you face.
Linguo: Shut up your face.
Second mobster: Whatsa' matta you?
First mobster: You ain't so big.
Second mobster: Me an' him are gonna' whack you in the labonza.
Linguo: Mmmm... AAH!... bad grammar overload. Error. Error.
"That's why edmicman always writes in the third person" types edmicman, thoughtfully glancing out the window with a grin on his face. He is obviously happy as he writes this message. With a glint of joy in his eye, he continues: "It is much easier to describe tone and meaning if you describe things like you were writing a novel."
I totally agree. I remember playing Doom and Wolf3D completely with the keyboard, arrow keys to move, ctrl to shoot, etc. Heck, I think I even started playing Quake solely with the keyboard - pageup and pagedown to look up and down, etc. Then I stumbled across a keyboard map that turned mouselook on and used the wsad keys. It was crazy. But you got used to it, and ultimately it was better. We're on the brink of a Revolution here:-P.
Neat stuff, but not for me
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I played with gvim a long time ago, and while it seemed nice (plus it seemed quick and lightweight), I just don't want to take the time to learn it. I spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out how to change the default font, and make it stick next time I open it up. For windows users, the settings just SUCK. Crimson Editor for me, thanks.
It doesn't matter if the bandwidth or infrastructure is there or not. Outside of a tangible something that I can bury in the ground, what guarantee do I have that the media I download today will be available to me in 5 years? 10 years? 25 years? 50 years?
The point is, my grandparents have books still around that my dad read as a boy. Most likely, the publisher of that book is long gone, or a lot different than it was 50 years ago. What if they'd "subscribed" to that book - yes, it could have been available instantly to them at any point, but for how long? If you subscribe to content, how do you know you'll still have that content if someone else controls it? That's the whole problem here. The only person I trust with my possessions is me.
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Heh, my comment is already posted on the Wired story :-)
Careful, that's a slippery slope you're approaching!
Is this a viable replacement for Thunderbird for single user home use? I use Thunderbird with IMAP for my email, but it would be nice to have more robust PIM and calendaring features. I've tried Thunderbird with it's calendar and it's still not integrated enough. Does Evolution handle IMAP well? Seems like I remember Outlook not doing it so well. What about newsgroups or RSS feeds? Are there plugin options or enhancements?
My bad...I guess he's in Florida. Well, I'll drive to both states and kick everyone involved in the nuts, how about that?
I think I want to drive to Louisiana and kick this guy in the nuts.
So with those "barbones" specs (my desktop is very similar) and Vista, you'd get a glorified Internet browsing and email machine? It pains me a little that a fairly decent computer couldn't even be a development machine under this new OS, yet it does games and
Male or female, geeks and nerds will be geeks and nerds. I think they need to bring in real outsiders to the project. Get some insight on what Joe Sixpack wants, or grab a panel of Mac users and ask them how GNOME should be. Things will never work if they're only designed by engineers, male OR female.
It's good and all, but I don't think we'll see much progress on the "internet video" stuff until the Internet is completely tied to the living room consumer electronics.
While it's great to watch short clips, people don't want to crowd around a PC or sit in a desk chair and watch their shows for the night. They want to plop on their couch, or sit in the easy chair, with their families, and watch content. Internet content needs to seemlessly blend into the living room. When you have instantly available, fully searchable, metadata filled Internet TV content in the living room, then we'll talk. I want to watch whatever I want to watch (WHATEVER, which includes EVERYTHING, from full historical archives of every media to current media), WHENEVER I want. Cable companies, are you listening? Sure, I can try to amass my own collection with an array of PVRs/DVRs, but if it was part of the existing cable subscription (or whatever media subscription), why bother, if EVERYTHING was available?
On a somewhat related note, Cringely had an interesting article about PBS leading the internet TV charge.
At least Win95 is safe!
Is it naive to think that we shouldn't need to buy a vote? It's not like even though a govt official might get paid to pass this, that it won't affect them. Say they pass a tiered internet bill, but Google still refuses to pay the extortion fees. How long will it be before DC gets pissed off that they can't get google in at faster than 1kb/s? Don't they see that?
When can I get a hydrogen fuel cell hard drive? Or does it use regernative kinetic energy from the platters spinning to generate power?
But....spreadsheets are inherently full of errors! How about a google relational database? gSQL anyone?
Yeeeeeahhhhhh.....this sounds like a good idea.
I'm all for immigration reform, and even probably have some semi-extreme views on it, but this sounds nothing short of ridiulous. Why don't we just tatoo every immigrant as they come in? Oh, wait...
Seriously. We need to ditch email instead for MySpace style blogs and instant messages for our communication. For reals.
Will my wireless G with WPA-PSK work on the liveCD? I've got a Dell 600m....I hate having to go upstairs and hook into the wired internet to be able to do anything.
I assume you're talking about the .NET VB, and hence comparing it to something like C#.NET. Personally, I think in the .NET world it really just comes down to preference. The syntax between VB.NET and C#.NET seem very similar. I started off on VB (in much the same fashion - my old work's custom app was written in VB6), and now at my new job develop in C#. I prefer C#, but mostly because I feel it makes me a better programmer. VB is very loose in it's structure; I feel like C# forces me to lose some of the bad habits I had from VB, and makes me have better looking and structured code. But from using both, they both can be easily used to accomplish the same things. I also think VB has some better handling of "business logic" type things like date manipulation and the like.
Good luck!
4:30-5am - Get up to milk cows
8am or so - breakfast, then go back out to feed cows, work in the shop, etc.
Around noon - grab some lunch, then head back out to take care of other misc chores. If it's spring or summer, it's out to the fields
5pm - milk cows for the 2nd time
After milking (~7-8pm), if it's the summer, it's back out to the fields until dark. A bit to eat might be grabbed in between, but usually it's just a snack, and then "dinner" is around 10 or so when you get home.
If it's winter, home around 8 or so.
Why does it matter how many hours you put in?? Is the work getting done? If not, do it, if it is, then what is the problem?
Jeebus H Chris....why in the world does someone post up AllofMP3 when the discussion of DRM and music comes on? I'm not going to get into the pseudo-legality of it in the US....you can argue with it all you want, but everyone knows it's a shady gray area.
Why would you pay for quasi-legal music?? Just fucking download it for free already. Don't try to justify it being "right" because you're paying "less".
I, for one, am crossing my fingers with excitement that once Vista really gets rolling, Ubuntu and the ilk will be that much further ahead from where they are now. I really don't see why I want or need Vista compared to my perfectly fine XP install. The OS requires a gaming video card?!? The OS uses that much disk space?!? That much basic RAM requirements? How much resources do you need to run Office and browse the internet (which is what 90% of the computers are going to do)??? Do you need fancy looking windows when you're typing an email? The whole thing just seems like a fluffy waste.
:-)
Maybe I'll be surprised, or change my tune, but at this point in time I don't see myself dropping XP until it doesn't do what I need it to do....and when that time comes, here's hoping the linux (or Mac?) scene is at a point where they (well, linux anyway...the Mac is just pricey) are truly a competitive option. It seems as both Vista and the PS3 have jumped the shark
First mobster: Hey. They's throwin' robots.
Linguo: They are throwing robots.
Second mobster: It's disrespecting us. Shut up a'you face.
Linguo: Shut up your face.
Second mobster: Whatsa' matta you?
First mobster: You ain't so big.
Second mobster: Me an' him are gonna' whack you in the labonza.
Linguo: Mmmm... AAH!... bad grammar overload. Error. Error.
"That's why edmicman always writes in the third person" types edmicman, thoughtfully glancing out the window with a grin on his face. He is obviously happy as he writes this message. With a glint of joy in his eye, he continues: "It is much easier to describe tone and meaning if you describe things like you were writing a novel."
I totally agree. I remember playing Doom and Wolf3D completely with the keyboard, arrow keys to move, ctrl to shoot, etc. Heck, I think I even started playing Quake solely with the keyboard - pageup and pagedown to look up and down, etc. Then I stumbled across a keyboard map that turned mouselook on and used the wsad keys. It was crazy. But you got used to it, and ultimately it was better. We're on the brink of a Revolution here :-P.
I played with gvim a long time ago, and while it seemed nice (plus it seemed quick and lightweight), I just don't want to take the time to learn it. I spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out how to change the default font, and make it stick next time I open it up. For windows users, the settings just SUCK. Crimson Editor for me, thanks.
It doesn't matter if the bandwidth or infrastructure is there or not. Outside of a tangible something that I can bury in the ground, what guarantee do I have that the media I download today will be available to me in 5 years? 10 years? 25 years? 50 years?
The point is, my grandparents have books still around that my dad read as a boy. Most likely, the publisher of that book is long gone, or a lot different than it was 50 years ago. What if they'd "subscribed" to that book - yes, it could have been available instantly to them at any point, but for how long? If you subscribe to content, how do you know you'll still have that content if someone else controls it? That's the whole problem here. The only person I trust with my possessions is me.