I just want to add myself to the club on heartbroken Linux ex-users.
While in the University [around 1996/1999] I was the pro-Linux guy (I started the Linux User Group in my Uni.), I loved to spend weekends compiling and playing with./configure;make;make install, or dependency hells (those days RPM hell was teh shit).
After I graduated and went to work for about a year, I continued playing with Linux a bit (not as much as before, given the lack of time).
I tried installing different versions when they came out with the promise of being "as easy to use as Windows" (Mandrake, Suse, Ubuntu, Mandriva, etc) but there is always *something* that just does not work the right way.
Then I started my PhD and I asked that my workstation had Linux (Red Hat), it worked just OK for the "boring things" I had to do during my PhD (I could have done them in Windows, but WTH I like do the things the difficult way I guess).
During that time, I kept trying some Linux version in my personal computer and it just never worked as it should, I kept returning to Windows XP every time. I am not a gamer, thus the lack of them is not an issue for me.
The last time, I remember installing a distro with Gnome and trying to position the desktop toolbar (with the window list) on a vertical position. Unfortunately, there look of that setting on Gnome was horrible and there was a 5 year old bug that made it unusable (CPU became at 100% use if you had more than 5 windows open) which was marked as low-priority in Bugzilla.
Nowadays my only contact I had with Linux is a Xubuntu installation I have in a virtual machine to use some of the GNUtils (awt, grep, etc) and KMyMoney. And to play with whatever I fancy. I also have andLinux in other machine which is also running Windows XP. For me, XP is the best right now, I do not plan to upgrade to Windows 7 until I get a new computer which comes preloaded with it. Personally, I do not need the UI bells and whistles (the first thing I do after installing XP is to turn the windows classic theme)
Only when "your OS" is Windows. I've found most other OSs upgrade just fine.
I would say, only when your OS is Windows or Linux.
Try doing an upgrade of Ubuntu from one to the next consecutive version and everything will break. Specially those things that you had to manually configure when you installed given Linux problems* with hardware incompatibility.
not only the number of elements on a page but the type of data that constitute those elements as well as the virtual location of them. With ads being more bloated as time goes on and various Java/Flash components being added to webpages over time webpages in general tend to load slower.
All that is completely irrelevant once you block the bloat elements (flash, ads, etc). And, it seems even in this new service they are still a problem: Take this story. Looking at it (after disabling Ad-block) shows two ads, and an incomplete article.
Once you press the link, you get into this page which shows the complete article infested with blinking and moving ad-banners.
I have been using Adblock Plus since maybe 5 years (used Adblock before), and nowadays I cannot stand browsing the internet in its "native" form.
A service like this could be good if it re-paginated the web pages in a way easier to read for the eye (something like Microsoft Word reader mode, or Acrobar Reader fullscreen-two-pages, with a big enough monitor).
That would be nice and good, except that Go-OO is not a fork
Marveled at Slashdot's inflation of the go-oo.org mess; a few points
* This is hardly a fork - and it's not even something very new in practical terms. As I said very clearly, we're still contributing the majority of our work to Sun, (and hence OO.o) under the JCA, and will continue doing so for the bits that touch their code.
If there is any nation willing to do this, it certainly won't be the US.
I agree with that, I am also sure it won't be Mexico (my motherland, besides the technological impossibility). I think a country like Russia or Japan may have a better suited culture to achieve what the original article suggested
I believe there is more of a "die for the good of my country" sentiment in those countries... maybe it is getting lost, but I have read of more contemporary actions from Russians that share the same nationalist feeling.
If I recall correctly (from my visit to Nottingham, Liverpool and other UK museums), England used to send death-sentenced criminals to a far away island full of violent natives. For the criminals it was either that, or face death.
I think it may a good idea to give death sentenced people the choice between being murdered or going to mars.
Of course this would have to be *very* well planned (we do not want a insurgence of wannabe martians going postal just to get in the "mars-row").
This should be a one-of shot where they choose 10 or 20 of some people who have "life in prison" or death sentences. The problem is they should also find females to send along (aren't there less female in deat row?).
Honestly, in a few ways we might be considered to be going backwards: I have seen the end of supersonic passenger aircraft (for the time being, with no resumption in sight).
The last time man was on the moon was before I was born.
Well, Some people had done great discoveries that could revolutionize our "flying" process.
However, a combination of greed, lack of funds and skepticism have prevented men from continuing the development. I always think were would we be if Tesla or other great inventors had stopped after people laughed at them... OTOH, without money, it is not possible to continue development.
The fact that the "underlying P2P" technology was not property of Skype made me wonder about the possibility of the technology owners enabling eavesdropping mechanisms behind closed doors... while everybody concentrates on whether Skype is good or evil... the background company in charge of moving all the p2p bytes goes unnoticed.
I hope the new owners make it better and re-incorporate the functionality it had before.
I really miss Skypecasts, it was a really useful tool for practicing languages and having informal meetings (moderation, talk turns, etc)...
Just today I spent about an hour looking for a skypecast alternative where I could practice my German with others (maybe first only hearing and talking a bit later).
People are dumb. They follow trends, soak up advertisements, and generally do what marketers tell them to do. You personally might be immune,
Well, slashdotters may be "immune" to IT related products but for things like personal hygiene, cars, sofas, and lots of other products which are not of utmost importance (to them), their buying decisions are based on the alternatives they *know* exist.
The fact is that the only thing separating the homebrew tools from piracy tools is what the user deem moral or not. The exact same tools used for homebrew are used for piracy.
Nope, at least not in the case of the Wii. The main homebrew community has been very cautious (and clear) on separating the war3z-related homebrew from the "original" stuff. For the later you can check wiibrew.org you will find a lot of legitimate homebrew applications and games that do not empower copyright infringement (I agree that emulators are a gray area, specially in the light of the VC)
What Microsoft has to do is to improve their console QA and production quality to decrease their 33% (to 50%) failure rate.
I do not own an Xbox360nor a PS3, I own a Wii. However, I have started thinking in buying one of the two consoles. I was starting to lean towards the Xbox but after browsing the net a bit I read about all the failure rates (I was half aware before about that). On the other hand I just read (in a comment on slashdot) that I would have to pay for the the online playing option! and on top of that, the console power is *less* than the PS3!
Both of them have the same games (Army of Two for PS3 FTW Yay!!), so for me it is a no brainer to get the PS3.
On a related issue, I *hate* that Europe (e.g. Germany) will get the PS3 at 300 Euro while the UK will get it at 250 GBP (285 Euro)! what a ripoff for the EU
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That's why I use portable apps. I have a "programs" directory in "My documents" and just paste my programs over there.
Oh, and you should also use a separate partition for your documents. (i use it for docs and games, I usually do not have to reinstall games).
Honestly, it's rare to find a driver that you cannot download for Windows. Very rare.
Hah!, tell that to my piece of plastic I've got sitting here.
After I lost the small disc it came with, no drivers for Linux, Windows or anything else, no nada.
Yup,
I just want to add myself to the club on heartbroken Linux ex-users.
While in the University [around 1996/1999] I was the pro-Linux guy (I started the Linux User Group in my Uni.), I loved to spend weekends compiling and playing with ./configure;make;make install, or dependency hells (those days RPM hell was teh shit).
After I graduated and went to work for about a year, I continued playing with Linux a bit (not as much as before, given the lack of time).
I tried installing different versions when they came out with the promise of being "as easy to use as Windows" (Mandrake, Suse, Ubuntu, Mandriva, etc) but there is always *something* that just does not work the right way.
Then I started my PhD and I asked that my workstation had Linux (Red Hat), it worked just OK for the "boring things" I had to do during my PhD (I could have done them in Windows, but WTH I like do the things the difficult way I guess).
During that time, I kept trying some Linux version in my personal computer and it just never worked as it should, I kept returning to Windows XP every time. I am not a gamer, thus the lack of them is not an issue for me.
The last time, I remember installing a distro with Gnome and trying to position the desktop toolbar (with the window list) on a vertical position. Unfortunately, there look of that setting on Gnome was horrible and there was a 5 year old bug that made it unusable (CPU became at 100% use if you had more than 5 windows open) which was marked as low-priority in Bugzilla.
Nowadays my only contact I had with Linux is a Xubuntu installation I have in a virtual machine to use some of the GNUtils (awt, grep, etc) and KMyMoney. And to play with whatever I fancy. I also have andLinux in other machine which is also running Windows XP. For me, XP is the best right now, I do not plan to upgrade to Windows 7 until I get a new computer which comes preloaded with it. Personally, I do not need the UI bells and whistles (the first thing I do after installing XP is to turn the windows classic theme)
Only when "your OS" is Windows. I've found most other OSs upgrade just fine.
I would say, only when your OS is Windows or Linux.
Try doing an upgrade of Ubuntu from one to the next consecutive version and everything will break. Specially those things that you had to manually configure when you installed given Linux problems* with hardware incompatibility.
*It's not Linux Fault, but it is Linux Problem.
My first computer came with it [Windows 95] preloaded.
Wow, how old are you? 15?
Kids these days, my first computer came with Cassette Basic as the "operating system".
not only the number of elements on a page but the type of data that constitute those elements as well as the virtual location of them. With ads being more bloated as time goes on and various Java/Flash components being added to webpages over time webpages in general tend to load slower.
All that is completely irrelevant once you block the bloat elements (flash, ads, etc). And, it seems even in this new service they are still a problem:
Take this story. Looking at it (after disabling Ad-block) shows two ads, and an incomplete article.
Once you press the link, you get into this page which shows the complete article infested with blinking and moving ad-banners.
I have been using Adblock Plus since maybe 5 years (used Adblock before), and nowadays I cannot stand browsing the internet in its "native" form.
A service like this could be good if it re-paginated the web pages in a way easier to read for the eye (something like Microsoft Word reader mode, or Acrobar Reader fullscreen-two-pages, with a big enough monitor).
For example try to run a presentation to another computer with different version of powerpoint or different windows (home/prof/sp1/sp2/sp999 etc)
No problem there, you can blame Microsoft for doing shitty products.
Whereas if you try to open some presentation in OpenOffice and it doesn't work, everybody will blame you for using obscure hippy software.
That would be nice and good, except that Go-OO is not a fork
Marveled at Slashdot's inflation of the go-oo.org mess; a few points
* This is hardly a fork - and it's not even something very new in practical terms. As I said very clearly, we're still contributing the majority of our work to Sun, (and hence OO.o) under the JCA, and will continue doing so for the bits that touch their code.
Try again.
OOOOooor!
You can use an Operating System that will not have those problems...
It is not Linux Fault, however it is a Linux Problem.
The idea of recalling the game is to give a message to kids:
Do not dare to play a video game where you simulate making love with a woman, GO OUT AND DO IT!!.
This isn't about children, this is about stopping sex from happening in society all the places violence does.
Yeah, this is even gayer than all the men getting in a big pile and having sex with each other.
How the hell would the post office function if people would just quit and it turns into a big damned orgy? School orgies?!
Okay, sorry, my bad, e-everyone back in the pile!
Hey! I saw that porn flick too!
of course, what happens between "ooookay" and "thank you. You are such a sweetie" gets quite nasty.... I am glad you didn't describe it in /.
If there is any nation willing to do this, it certainly won't be the US.
I agree with that, I am also sure it won't be Mexico (my motherland, besides the technological impossibility). I think a country like Russia or Japan may have a better suited culture to achieve what the original article suggested
I believe there is more of a "die for the good of my country" sentiment in those countries... maybe it is getting lost, but I have read of more contemporary actions from Russians that share the same nationalist feeling.
If I recall correctly (from my visit to Nottingham, Liverpool and other UK museums), England used to send death-sentenced criminals to a far away island full of violent natives. For the criminals it was either that, or face death.
I think it may a good idea to give death sentenced people the choice between being murdered or going to mars.
Of course this would have to be *very* well planned (we do not want a insurgence of wannabe martians going postal just to get in the "mars-row").
This should be a one-of shot where they choose 10 or 20 of some people who have "life in prison" or death sentences. The problem is they should also find females to send along (aren't there less female in deat row?).
All this time, and you STILL use a comma for pluralizing an acronym. What is with that??
All this time, and you STILL call an apostrophe a "coma". What is with that?
Where is my flying car?
Honestly, in a few ways we might be considered to be going backwards:
I have seen the end of supersonic passenger aircraft (for the time being, with no resumption in sight).
The last time man was on the moon was before I was born.
Well, Some people had done great discoveries that could revolutionize our "flying" process.
However, a combination of greed, lack of funds and skepticism have prevented men from continuing the development. I always think were would we be if Tesla or other great inventors had stopped after people laughed at them... OTOH, without money, it is not possible to continue development.
The fact that the "underlying P2P" technology was not property of Skype made me wonder about the possibility of the technology owners enabling eavesdropping mechanisms behind closed doors... while everybody concentrates on whether Skype is good or evil... the background company in charge of moving all the p2p bytes goes unnoticed.
I hope the new owners make it better and re-incorporate the functionality it had before.
I really miss Skypecasts, it was a really useful tool for practicing languages and having informal meetings (moderation, talk turns, etc)...
Just today I spent about an hour looking for a skypecast alternative where I could practice my German with others (maybe first only hearing and talking a bit later).
People are dumb. They follow trends, soak up advertisements, and generally do what marketers tell them to do. You personally might be immune,
Well, slashdotters may be "immune" to IT related products but for things like personal hygiene, cars, sofas, and lots of other products which are not of utmost importance (to them), their buying decisions are based on the alternatives they *know* exist.
The fact is that the only thing separating the homebrew tools from piracy tools is what the user deem moral or not. The exact same tools used for homebrew are used for piracy.
Nope, at least not in the case of the Wii. The main homebrew community has been very cautious (and clear) on separating the war3z-related homebrew from the "original" stuff. For the later you can check wiibrew.org you will find a lot of legitimate homebrew applications and games that do not empower copyright infringement (I agree that emulators are a gray area, specially in the light of the VC)
That's because they make so much money on selling systems and accessories. DS profits are primarily software related.
Nintendo profits from that, but 3rd party developers profit only from the number of games sold.
What Microsoft has to do is to improve their console QA and production quality to decrease their 33% (to 50%) failure rate.
I do not own an Xbox360nor a PS3, I own a Wii. However, I have started thinking in buying one of the two consoles. I was starting to lean towards the Xbox but after browsing the net a bit I read about all the failure rates (I was half aware before about that). On the other hand I just read (in a comment on slashdot) that I would have to pay for the the online playing option! and on top of that, the console power is *less* than the PS3!
Both of them have the same games (Army of Two for PS3 FTW Yay!!), so for me it is a no brainer to get the PS3.
On a related issue, I *hate* that Europe (e.g. Germany) will get the PS3 at 300 Euro while the UK will get it at 250 GBP (285 Euro)! what a ripoff for the EU
and the U.S doesn't ban videogames which is the
Only when they show a tit, or a couple making love while "drinking coffee".
Hey, I don't know about you but I passed the best times of my childhood playing the Trompo with my friends in Mexico.
It is a really cool group game. Everyone gets a trompo and you can do "fights" between them, to see which gets out of the "ring"
Too bad such types of typical games are being lost in the current society.
It's tragic. South America was always such a peaceful place before those damned video games came in!
Yeah, that surely was before USA got his nose into Latin America. Read it, it is quite insightful. Oh! but it is in Spanish :(