1) Driver Support: Maybe what you say is true, but my personal experience has been otherwise -- Linux picked up all my hardware automatically, while Windows (XP) didn't.
2)Hey, there are enough games on Linux already! Doom3, Counterstrike, and um, a few others work on Linux. And besides,
A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. ``Excuse me,'' he said, ``may I examine it?''
The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the master.
``I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium and Hard,'' said the master. ``Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human.''
``Pray, great master,'' implored the novice, ``how does one find this mysterious settings?''
The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it underfoot. And suddenly the novice was enlightened.
-- The Tao of Programming, 8.2
:)
3) Openoffice, Kword, Abiword, antiword... all open Word files. The reason most Linux users hate to receive Word attachments is a philosophy thing, not that they can't open them.
A not-direct quote FTFS: It's a product that will appeal to a select bunch of users that value silence above all else. If you happen to be one of them, it will appeal to you."
Yes, if you happen to be one of the people to whom it will appeal, then it will appeal to you.
This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher
Bring up the usage stats, or maybe, thanks to the websites that don't even serve you if you're not using IE, bring down the usage itself? (Hopefully not the latter!)
...will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera.
More aware of the standards, you mean. Anyway, Opera has much fewer users than Firefox, so I think any difference that Opera makes will be much less than what Firefox would.... still, it's a good thing; I wonder if Opera users weren't ashamed all this while to be identified as IE users?:P
Mean anything for the STL? I mean, is SGI still working on the STL, and will it continue to keep its excellent documentation publicly (freely) available, etc?
Um, Nobel Prize?
There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics (and it has nothing to Alfred Nobel's wife).
But yes, the mathematicians might get a Nobel for "Physiology/Medicine". Cool! The only other Mathematician I know who has won a Nobel Prize is of course John Nash, for economics.
The obvious stuff that has been known for millenia -- eat healthy, exercise (your body and your brain), don't abuse yourself.
Sad that this is so forgotten that it is news.
If so, he may turn it into a soft-core porn with the conceiving of Anakin. Anakin was supposed to be conceived by the force, which brought out disturbing thoughts that perhaps Yoda got his mother drunk and... I'm sure you can imagine the rest *cringes*
Yoda: Anakin, I'm your father! Come over to the light side, and together we shall rule the galaxy as father and son!
Hey, that was good. Perfect, in fact.
And to the poster above me: LOL! I just saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail today, and the movie rocks!
Anyway, here's an Alternate Scene about Han and Greedo, and it's... different.
What you immediately need to do is go the nearest video store, grab copies of "Star Wars", "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back", "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", and "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", and watch them in that order. Skip the last two, maybe. Then, hurry to the nearest theatre showing "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", and watch it. Only then will your life be complete. You cannot escape your destiny and all that.
After you're done with that, read this. And you will know why everyone hates the new Lucas so much.
You haven't actually said it, but I've heard many people say "Han shot first". That makes no sense, "Greedo shot first" does.
I mean, when you say "Greedo shot first", you can then go on and say "...And then Han shot back and killed him/it". But you just can't say "Han shot first"... and what, Greedo shot next?
So my advice to you, my dear friends, is to quit saying "Han shot first". You should instead be saying "Only Han shot" or "Greedo never shot", or pointing people to the Top 10 Other Things that Han Shot that Didn't Shoot at Him First page.
I understand what you are saying, but there's a slight difference here.
If a spyware company itself moves off US soil, then what you say is perfectly right. Not being a US company, it would possibly not be subject to the same legislation.
On the other hand, what he said was " now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?", referring to a US-based companyoutsourcing the development of its spyware to some cybercoolies in India or anywhere else. In this case, the company would continue to be affected by the legislation, irrespective of where the actual development of the spyware programs occurred.
now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?
Yes of course. Because the law says that if the spyware has been developed in India instead of the US, it's perfectly legal for it to install itself, right?
I know you're always looking for an opportunity to whine about outsourcing, but try to keep it on topic. Whether or not the spyware companies outsource to India does not affect these Spyware Bills in any way; so your post is just offtopic.
Surely, you've never heard of PacManhattan, then?
The images on the site are down at the moment, sadly, for there were some real good pics.
Anyway, here's Wired reporting on it.
I just don't get it. Why should talking about P2P networks be considered illegal, and why was he forbidden in the first place? Of course, after being forbidden once, he should have fought with the authorities and argued his case until he got permission, not ignored them and gone on to speak.
Yeah. BTW, who wants to bet on how long it will be before Microsoft asserts that Desktop search is an "integral part of the operating system", and makes it impossible to uninstall MSDesktopSearch that will come preinstalled with every copy of Longhorn?
But not all of us have reflexes quick enough to notice AND click on the stop button before it runs through all six (or howmanyever) slides.
You might, though.
Ok, I found a way to slow it down: Click here. It doesn't stop the slide show, just gives you 600 seconds per page instead of 6. That should be enough time (and you can always click next and previous, anyway).
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2)Hey, there are enough games on Linux already! Doom3, Counterstrike, and um, a few others work on Linux. And besides,
3) Openoffice, Kword, Abiword, antiword... all open Word files. The reason most Linux users hate to receive Word attachments is a philosophy thing, not that they can't open them.
Confirmed, it does work splendidly on Linux with Wine :)
A not-direct quote FTFS:
It's a product that will appeal to a select bunch of users that value silence above all else. If you happen to be one of them, it will appeal to you."
Yes, if you happen to be one of the people to whom it will appeal, then it will appeal to you.
This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher
...will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera. :P
Bring up the usage stats, or maybe, thanks to the websites that don't even serve you if you're not using IE, bring down the usage itself? (Hopefully not the latter!)
More aware of the standards, you mean.
Anyway, Opera has much fewer users than Firefox, so I think any difference that Opera makes will be much less than what Firefox would.... still, it's a good thing; I wonder if Opera users weren't ashamed all this while to be identified as IE users?
Mean anything for the STL? I mean, is SGI still working on the STL, and will it continue to keep its excellent documentation publicly (freely) available, etc?
The greatest thing is, this program actually converts what you type to Morse code.
Um, Nobel Prize?
There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics (and it has nothing to Alfred Nobel's wife).
But yes, the mathematicians might get a Nobel for "Physiology/Medicine". Cool! The only other Mathematician I know who has won a Nobel Prize is of course John Nash, for economics.
The obvious stuff that has been known for millenia -- eat healthy, exercise (your body and your brain), don't abuse yourself.
Sad that this is so forgotten that it is news.
If so, he may turn it into a soft-core porn with the conceiving of Anakin. Anakin was supposed to be conceived by the force, which brought out disturbing thoughts that perhaps Yoda got his mother drunk and... I'm sure you can imagine the rest *cringes*
Yoda: Anakin, I'm your father! Come over to the light side, and together we shall rule the galaxy as father and son!
Russian pr0n? Unless you are Russian, the only porn you can see in a mirror is your own porn.
Hey, that was good. Perfect, in fact.
And to the poster above me: LOL! I just saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail today, and the movie rocks!
Anyway, here's an Alternate Scene about Han and Greedo, and it's... different.
What you immediately need to do is go the nearest video store, grab copies of "Star Wars", "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back", "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", and "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", and watch them in that order. Skip the last two, maybe. Then, hurry to the nearest theatre showing "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", and watch it. Only then will your life be complete. You cannot escape your destiny and all that.
After you're done with that, read this. And you will know why everyone hates the new Lucas so much.
You haven't actually said it, but I've heard many people say "Han shot first". That makes no sense, "Greedo shot first" does.
I mean, when you say "Greedo shot first", you can then go on and say "...And then Han shot back and killed him/it". But you just can't say "Han shot first"... and what, Greedo shot next?
So my advice to you, my dear friends, is to quit saying "Han shot first". You should instead be saying "Only Han shot" or "Greedo never shot", or pointing people to the Top 10 Other Things that Han Shot that Didn't Shoot at Him First page.
Tom and Jerry were extremely violent.
I wonder what you would say about Itchy and Scratchy!
I understand what you are saying, but there's a slight difference here.
If a spyware company itself moves off US soil, then what you say is perfectly right. Not being a US company, it would possibly not be subject to the same legislation.
On the other hand, what he said was " now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?", referring to a US-based company outsourcing the development of its spyware to some cybercoolies in India or anywhere else. In this case, the company would continue to be affected by the legislation, irrespective of where the actual development of the spyware programs occurred.
now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?
Yes of course. Because the law says that if the spyware has been developed in India instead of the US, it's perfectly legal for it to install itself, right?
I know you're always looking for an opportunity to whine about outsourcing, but try to keep it on topic. Whether or not the spyware companies outsource to India does not affect these Spyware Bills in any way; so your post is just offtopic.
Surely, you've never heard of PacManhattan, then?
The images on the site are down at the moment, sadly, for there were some real good pics.
Anyway, here's Wired reporting on it.
I just don't get it. Why should talking about P2P networks be considered illegal, and why was he forbidden in the first place? Of course, after being forbidden once, he should have fought with the authorities and argued his case until he got permission, not ignored them and gone on to speak.
I can imagine Microsoft's campaign against Linux: "Would you want to use an operating system written by a dictator?
Yeah. BTW, who wants to bet on how long it will be before Microsoft asserts that Desktop search is an "integral part of the operating system", and makes it impossible to uninstall MSDesktopSearch that will come preinstalled with every copy of Longhorn?
Nope, they run FreeBSD, according to Netcraft.
So, Netcraft confirms it?
No, it now smells like shit.
But not all of us have reflexes quick enough to notice AND click on the stop button before it runs through all six (or howmanyever) slides.
You might, though.
Dear LucaBrasi,
You couldn't defend yourself against three guys strangling you, so you have no right to comment about others.
Ok, I found a way to slow it down: Click here. It doesn't stop the slide show, just gives you 600 seconds per page instead of 6. That should be enough time (and you can always click next and previous, anyway).