Bingo. Lockheed, Boeing or Northrup wins the contract rights in a bidding process, they take it and outsource parts of it to company X who in turn outsources parts of that offshore. If they black box the components properly, there is no problem to this approach. It's if/when they outsource secret and sensitive components of said system (a breach of the DoD contract) that it becomes a problem.
Take a look at these before and after screenshots in the Ubuntu forum on How to quickly improve X11 font rendering. You can see what a difference there is in readability. I apologize if you need a membership to view these. I have seen patches and complicated instructions on how to configure fonts to not look fuzzy, but I have never found a distro that makes it look fantastic by default. The byte code interpreter for font rendering is always off by default because of copyright issues. There are ways to make fonts look as good or better then Windows and Mac OS X but distros never just do it.
Until a Linux distro ships with fonts that don't look like I have a layer of grease on my monitor, you can count me out.
Has this guy ever heard of purging data, zeroing the hard drive? How is it possible that after he got served to appear in court that this hard drive contains any useful information on it? If I was in his position those RIAA fuckers would have a hell of a hard time finding anything useful on my hard disk.
AIM file transfers work fine with Gaim 2.0. The updated UPnP and NAT traversal support done by Adam J. Warrington has helped tremendously when you're behind a router. I would give file transfers another chance with 2.0, you might be presently surprised.
The good news is that once Microsoft releases Windows Vista x64, you can expect Adobe to finally roll out 64-bit support for flash. I would put money on Flash 10 supporting AMD64 and EM64T.
Why can't they make the parents sign waivers if they are that scared of the lawsuits? Oh you don't want to sign the waiver? Then little Johnny can't play tag with the other kids. He has to sit there and not do a damn thing during recess because he might get hurt and you (his parents) might sue us. This is nonsense.
You're giving the government wayyy to much credit here. There is no "well planned" effort to commit voter fraud. There isn't even a half-assed plan to commit voter fraud. If you've ever worked for the U.S. Government, you would realise just how hilariously nonsencicle these conspiracy theories sound. Neither one of those elections you speak of were "rigged", nor is their any evidence to the contrary that cannot be explained from shear ineptitude.
I don't need to point out to anyone here that it is still way to early to invest in a new HD format just yet. The majority of people out there still don't have an HDTV, and as such are not interrested in any type of HD media format at the moment. The early adopters are not buying because the new formats fail to deliver the WOW affect that was promised to people who see the demo playing at the store. It's just not as dramatic as the difference was between VHS and DVD. As far as the whole "format war" is concerend, whichever format does a better job of penetrating the market first will most likely win, regardless of any technical features etc. That being said, the most obvious "winner" will be Blu-ray since it's being pushed in the Blusta-- er I mean Playstation 3. It is still much too early for these formats to really be taking off.
Um, if hardware companies are going to resort to spyware tactics so you can't click the "submit crash report" button, then don't you think they should refocus their energy on fixing their drivers instead? Not to mention once they got caught doing this, Microsoft could simply revoke their endorsement for said company all together. This is all hypothetical anyway, as Vista is supposedly very much secure when it comes to spyware. Although, clicking the OK button 8 times to delete a shortcut from the desktop WILL DRIVE PEOPLE INSANE. Thank God they are still beta testing that.
This all depends on if the students are sharing inside the school LAN privately like the i2hub did, or if students are hooked up to the outside world sharing illegal files via bittorrent and gnutella protocols. I'm willing to bet that it's the latter I have grown sick and tired of the RIAA coming after everything and everyone they feel are hurting their precious bottom line. They are alienating future cursomers with their scare tactics. I could give a shit if they have a legitimate argument or not, I am so sick of them beating this dead horse to a pulp. When the hell are these MFers going to learn to adapt to the times. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. I like Microsoft more then I like the RIAA.
Does anybody remember when the MPAA was bitching and moaning about VCRs back in the day? Ohhhh nooo peple aren't going to buy movies any more. Guess what, people still buy movies because they're superior format and quality. The RIAA should be imbracing file sharing instead of trying to squash it. If they had brain one over there then they would be trying to spin this to their advantage. Good business adapt to survive. Bad ones try to muscle everyone into doing what they want, and die trying.
Apple waits until the contest is over to announce this dual booting feature, and pretends like it's a big 30th anniversary supprise. After it's already been achieved through hundreds of hours of "hacking" via the contest to dual boot XP on Mactel. Apple slaps their logo on it and calls it something cute like Boot Camp and everybody eats it up. Wow.
Isn't Apple about due for it's next "transition" to ARM or something? Maybe at the next developers conference Apple will announce that they want everyone to recode to support x64 too. Ultra-mega fat binaries from Xcode now supporting PPC, PPC 64-bit, x86, x86-64.
I would settle for a one day sale of 30% in celebration of 30 years. Every Apple product 30% off, then I would buy a MacBook Pro. They at least need to do an April Fool's joke. Like "We're making OS X available to install legally on all generic x86 harware."... Gotcha! April Fools!!
Sorry about the double post, I clipped my first response by accident.
I wasn't trying to start a flamewar or anything. I was just pointing out that the font rendering engine in Linux is unacceptable for my tastes. I have tried Fedora Core and Ubuntu, I mostly prefer Ubuntu because of apt-get simplicity and the Human interface is pleasing to me. It's also the *only* distro I was able to get the propritary ATi hardware drivers working without breaking a sweat. I had high hopes that Cairo would vastly improve font rendering, but I didn't see any improvement. Cairo did greatly help rendering of.png grapics and generally does a fantastic job of smoothing with vector based graphics, but still the fonts suffer. I have tried it with AA on, with AA off, with hinting on, with hinting off, and all combinations therein. I found some settings that were perfectly acceptable for some applications, while some where better suited for others. Generally my experience was that the smaller fonts less than 10pt are too blurry with AA on, but look hurrendous without AA unless hinting is on. It was my experience that fonts looked bad (weird) with AA and hinting both on. It appears that they don't play nice with each other. I put up with it because I love Linux. I *hate* the way fonts are rendered though. I'm sure a guru somewhere has configured a script or the "perfect settings" for fonts in Linux depending on which font faces and sizes are being displayed, but I've never been satisfied. I thought I remembered reading somewhere once that Freetype could have been so much better, but Microsoft and Apple have patents preventing Freetype from rendering fonts in a way that makes them look elligent.
Anyway, Linux is still a ways off from mainstream use, but it has made leaps and bounds since the days of Red Hat 7.0.
I wasn't trying to start a flamewar or anything. I was just pointing out that the font rendering engine in Linux is unacceptable for my tastes. I have tried Fedora Core and Ubuntu, I mostly prefer Ubuntu because of apt-get simplicity and the Human interface is pleasing to me. It's also the *only* distro I was able to get the propritary ATi hardware drivers working without breaking a sweat. I had high hopes that Cairo would vastly improve font rendering, but I didn't see any improvement. Cairo did greatly help rendering of.png grapics and generally does a fantastic job of smoothing with vector based graphics, but still the fonts suffer. I have tried it with AA on, with AA off, with hinting on, with hinting off, and all combinations therein. I found some settings that were perfectly acceptable for some applications, while some where better suited for others. Generally my experience was that the smaller fonts Anyway, Linux is still a ways off from mainstream use, but it has made leaps and bounds since the days of Red Hat 7.0.
These last few days of delay announcements at MS after 5 _years_ of development are really making them look incompetent from a business point of view. Though I highly doubt management "shakedowns" will help speed up the development process. The problem here, as has been mentioned before, is Microsoft's unwillingness to let go of the past. Do you remember when they announced that IE was a "mature product" and didn't need to be developed any further? I mean, did they think time would just sit still for them? Would Ford stop designing the Mustang because "It's a mature car"? Microsoft's IE6 is now the laughing stock of Internet browsers, and rightfully so since it's been neglected so badly. Maybe we'll see vast amounts of improvement with IE7, but I'm not holding my breath. At least MS now understands that development can never stop unless you plan on just dropping a product permenently.
Even after Microsoft wised up to their development blunders like IE, they still have a near unmanagable beast in 50+ million lines of codebase. The #1 weakness that Microsoft has is it's refusal to drop legacy support out of it's products. It may even lead to their undoing. They have allowed feature after feature to snowball into the massive clusterfuck that Windows currently is. In order to meet the demands of the future, Windows will have to simplify. I know it sounds like that is a step backwords, but think about it. How did Apple make such a successful product in OS X? They blew up OS 9 and started from scratch with a proven codebase. That is what Windows needs to do to keep up. Only after Microsoft ditches the i386 legacy and bloat that's suffocating them, will they get some much needed breathing room. Apple had to take a big step back to get ahead to where they are today, and I'm sure it wasn't easy for them, but it's already paying massive diviends. Imagine how wonderful it would be for everybody in the long run if MS took this same approach. Windows has turned into a massive out-of-control beast that has everything including the kitchen sink in it, with about 7 different variations of home and office OSes that are enough to confuse anyone in the industry, let alone the poor consumers who have to figure out which version of Windows best suits them.
That said, there is really only one roadblock for switching to Linux full time (at least for me), and that is the fonts. I've tried everything from grabbing the MS fonts from my Windows partition, to any combination of AA and/or hinting and DPI resolution I can think of. The fonts just come up weak IMO. I know a lot of you love the fonts in Linux and just wouldn't have it any other way, but I guess I have a different opinion then most of you out there. Windows and OS X fonts look about 100 times better to me. Say what you want, but when I boot up into Windows after spending a few hours in Linux, it's like cleaning a layer of grease off of my glasses.
This kid is a friend of mine, I went to Northeastern and took some classes with him. He told me once that he had the vtext address of null. I thought he was joking until he showed me his inbox. He got all kinds of crazy text messages, he said the random messages amused him so he kept the account. Some people are lucky that he's not a bad guy, because he occasionally gets "sensitive" information texted to him.
Verizon is dumb as hell for letting somebody use null as a username, and there email system is piss poor if messages with malformed headers are getting though. I'm switching to Cingular this spring, hopefully the username root is still available.
Yo Stan if you read this I'll text you when I get out of work, Hopefully you're inbox isn't bursting with SPAM.
They named it Blu-ray without the e at the end because you can't copyright a color. If they called it Blue-ray then they would have a hard time fighting legal battles of any old company naming their products "Blue-ray" compatible without the approval of the actual Blu-ray forum.
Human knowledge is biased by nature, so when you collect the sum of that knowledge, people that are experts in their fields will contribute what they know, and that information will be biased unless great care was excersized to keep it unbiased. Clearly, these politicians were out for their own benefit and purposfully sabatoged or polished articles for their own political gain. This kind of behavior shouldn't be tolerated, but if you think about it, it's kind of amusing since politicians are known as b.s. slingers in real life. So it makes sense that all of their contributions to the sum of human knowledge are 100% bullshit.
Any chance that this new 3d accelerated rendering can help make anti-aliased fonts actually look good ? Unbelieveable that OS X and Windows have better looking (smoother) anti-aliased fonts then linux ever dreamed. I thought I remember reading about something on linux that could change all that. It might be called Cairo or something? Does anybody know anything about this?
Can compare to about 17 megapixels in digital photography, but I'm guessing that the human eye can't destinguish the difference at lesser quality then that. I think it would be nice if all digital cameras outputted RAW format or a lossless codec like png. I don't really understand the obsession with jpeg either. I guess that's just what people are used to, so it's the norm.
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Bingo. Lockheed, Boeing or Northrup wins the contract rights in a bidding process, they take it and outsource parts of it to company X who in turn outsources parts of that offshore. If they black box the components properly, there is no problem to this approach. It's if/when they outsource secret and sensitive components of said system (a breach of the DoD contract) that it becomes a problem.
Where you at dawg?
It's the font rendering!
Take a look at these before and after screenshots in the Ubuntu forum on How to quickly improve X11 font rendering. You can see what a difference there is in readability. I apologize if you need a membership to view these. I have seen patches and complicated instructions on how to configure fonts to not look fuzzy, but I have never found a distro that makes it look fantastic by default. The byte code interpreter for font rendering is always off by default because of copyright issues. There are ways to make fonts look as good or better then Windows and Mac OS X but distros never just do it.
Until a Linux distro ships with fonts that don't look like I have a layer of grease on my monitor, you can count me out.
Has this guy ever heard of purging data, zeroing the hard drive? How is it possible that after he got served to appear in court that this hard drive contains any useful information on it? If I was in his position those RIAA fuckers would have a hell of a hard time finding anything useful on my hard disk.
AIM file transfers work fine with Gaim 2.0. The updated UPnP and NAT traversal support done by Adam J. Warrington has helped tremendously when you're behind a router. I would give file transfers another chance with 2.0, you might be presently surprised.
The good news is that once Microsoft releases Windows Vista x64, you can expect Adobe to finally roll out 64-bit support for flash. I would put money on Flash 10 supporting AMD64 and EM64T.
Why can't they make the parents sign waivers if they are that scared of the lawsuits? Oh you don't want to sign the waiver? Then little Johnny can't play tag with the other kids. He has to sit there and not do a damn thing during recess because he might get hurt and you (his parents) might sue us. This is nonsense.
You're giving the government wayyy to much credit here. There is no "well planned" effort to commit voter fraud. There isn't even a half-assed plan to commit voter fraud. If you've ever worked for the U.S. Government, you would realise just how hilariously nonsencicle these conspiracy theories sound. Neither one of those elections you speak of were "rigged", nor is their any evidence to the contrary that cannot be explained from shear ineptitude.
I don't need to point out to anyone here that it is still way to early to invest in a new HD format just yet. The majority of people out there still don't have an HDTV, and as such are not interrested in any type of HD media format at the moment. The early adopters are not buying because the new formats fail to deliver the WOW affect that was promised to people who see the demo playing at the store. It's just not as dramatic as the difference was between VHS and DVD. As far as the whole "format war" is concerend, whichever format does a better job of penetrating the market first will most likely win, regardless of any technical features etc. That being said, the most obvious "winner" will be Blu-ray since it's being pushed in the Blusta-- er I mean Playstation 3. It is still much too early for these formats to really be taking off.
Um, if hardware companies are going to resort to spyware tactics so you can't click the "submit crash report" button, then don't you think they should refocus their energy on fixing their drivers instead? Not to mention once they got caught doing this, Microsoft could simply revoke their endorsement for said company all together. This is all hypothetical anyway, as Vista is supposedly very much secure when it comes to spyware. Although, clicking the OK button 8 times to delete a shortcut from the desktop WILL DRIVE PEOPLE INSANE. Thank God they are still beta testing that.
I think the words you were looking for are... So long as Linux uses shitty fonts, it's never gonna attain superiority as a better platform.
This all depends on if the students are sharing inside the school LAN privately like the i2hub did, or if students are hooked up to the outside world sharing illegal files via bittorrent and gnutella protocols. I'm willing to bet that it's the latter I have grown sick and tired of the RIAA coming after everything and everyone they feel are hurting their precious bottom line. They are alienating future cursomers with their scare tactics. I could give a shit if they have a legitimate argument or not, I am so sick of them beating this dead horse to a pulp. When the hell are these MFers going to learn to adapt to the times. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. I like Microsoft more then I like the RIAA.
Does anybody remember when the MPAA was bitching and moaning about VCRs back in the day? Ohhhh nooo peple aren't going to buy movies any more. Guess what, people still buy movies because they're superior format and quality. The RIAA should be imbracing file sharing instead of trying to squash it. If they had brain one over there then they would be trying to spin this to their advantage. Good business adapt to survive. Bad ones try to muscle everyone into doing what they want, and die trying.
Apple waits until the contest is over to announce this dual booting feature, and pretends like it's a big 30th anniversary supprise. After it's already been achieved through hundreds of hours of "hacking" via the contest to dual boot XP on Mactel. Apple slaps their logo on it and calls it something cute like Boot Camp and everybody eats it up. Wow.
Isn't Apple about due for it's next "transition" to ARM or something? Maybe at the next developers conference Apple will announce that they want everyone to recode to support x64 too. Ultra-mega fat binaries from Xcode now supporting PPC, PPC 64-bit, x86, x86-64.
SS Web Agent: Mr. President The Chinese are throttling our server, we need a decision now!
President: Let's PHP-Nuke the bastards!
I would settle for a one day sale of 30% in celebration of 30 years. Every Apple product 30% off, then I would buy a MacBook Pro. They at least need to do an April Fool's joke. Like "We're making OS X available to install legally on all generic x86 harware." ... Gotcha! April Fools!!
RIAA: *compairing DRMs with the MPAA... "I see that your schwartz is as big as mine! Let's see how well you handle it."
Ballmer: What do you mean we can't patent the word "Start"?!! *picks up chair and launches across the room*
Sorry about the double post, I clipped my first response by accident.
.png grapics and generally does a fantastic job of smoothing with vector based graphics, but still the fonts suffer. I have tried it with AA on, with AA off, with hinting on, with hinting off, and all combinations therein. I found some settings that were perfectly acceptable for some applications, while some where better suited for others. Generally my experience was that the smaller fonts less than 10pt are too blurry with AA on, but look hurrendous without AA unless hinting is on. It was my experience that fonts looked bad (weird) with AA and hinting both on. It appears that they don't play nice with each other. I put up with it because I love Linux. I *hate* the way fonts are rendered though. I'm sure a guru somewhere has configured a script or the "perfect settings" for fonts in Linux depending on which font faces and sizes are being displayed, but I've never been satisfied. I thought I remembered reading somewhere once that Freetype could have been so much better, but Microsoft and Apple have patents preventing Freetype from rendering fonts in a way that makes them look elligent.
I wasn't trying to start a flamewar or anything. I was just pointing out that the font rendering engine in Linux is unacceptable for my tastes. I have tried Fedora Core and Ubuntu, I mostly prefer Ubuntu because of apt-get simplicity and the Human interface is pleasing to me. It's also the *only* distro I was able to get the propritary ATi hardware drivers working without breaking a sweat. I had high hopes that Cairo would vastly improve font rendering, but I didn't see any improvement. Cairo did greatly help rendering of
Anyway, Linux is still a ways off from mainstream use, but it has made leaps and bounds since the days of Red Hat 7.0.
I wasn't trying to start a flamewar or anything. I was just pointing out that the font rendering engine in Linux is unacceptable for my tastes. I have tried Fedora Core and Ubuntu, I mostly prefer Ubuntu because of apt-get simplicity and the Human interface is pleasing to me. It's also the *only* distro I was able to get the propritary ATi hardware drivers working without breaking a sweat. I had high hopes that Cairo would vastly improve font rendering, but I didn't see any improvement. Cairo did greatly help rendering of .png grapics and generally does a fantastic job of smoothing with vector based graphics, but still the fonts suffer. I have tried it with AA on, with AA off, with hinting on, with hinting off, and all combinations therein. I found some settings that were perfectly acceptable for some applications, while some where better suited for others. Generally my experience was that the smaller fonts
Anyway, Linux is still a ways off from mainstream use, but it has made leaps and bounds since the days of Red Hat 7.0.
These last few days of delay announcements at MS after 5 _years_ of development are really making them look incompetent from a business point of view. Though I highly doubt management "shakedowns" will help speed up the development process. The problem here, as has been mentioned before, is Microsoft's unwillingness to let go of the past. Do you remember when they announced that IE was a "mature product" and didn't need to be developed any further? I mean, did they think time would just sit still for them? Would Ford stop designing the Mustang because "It's a mature car"? Microsoft's IE6 is now the laughing stock of Internet browsers, and rightfully so since it's been neglected so badly. Maybe we'll see vast amounts of improvement with IE7, but I'm not holding my breath. At least MS now understands that development can never stop unless you plan on just dropping a product permenently.
Even after Microsoft wised up to their development blunders like IE, they still have a near unmanagable beast in 50+ million lines of codebase. The #1 weakness that Microsoft has is it's refusal to drop legacy support out of it's products. It may even lead to their undoing. They have allowed feature after feature to snowball into the massive clusterfuck that Windows currently is. In order to meet the demands of the future, Windows will have to simplify. I know it sounds like that is a step backwords, but think about it. How did Apple make such a successful product in OS X? They blew up OS 9 and started from scratch with a proven codebase. That is what Windows needs to do to keep up. Only after Microsoft ditches the i386 legacy and bloat that's suffocating them, will they get some much needed breathing room. Apple had to take a big step back to get ahead to where they are today, and I'm sure it wasn't easy for them, but it's already paying massive diviends. Imagine how wonderful it would be for everybody in the long run if MS took this same approach. Windows has turned into a massive out-of-control beast that has everything including the kitchen sink in it, with about 7 different variations of home and office OSes that are enough to confuse anyone in the industry, let alone the poor consumers who have to figure out which version of Windows best suits them.
That said, there is really only one roadblock for switching to Linux full time (at least for me), and that is the fonts. I've tried everything from grabbing the MS fonts from my Windows partition, to any combination of AA and/or hinting and DPI resolution I can think of. The fonts just come up weak IMO. I know a lot of you love the fonts in Linux and just wouldn't have it any other way, but I guess I have a different opinion then most of you out there. Windows and OS X fonts look about 100 times better to me. Say what you want, but when I boot up into Windows after spending a few hours in Linux, it's like cleaning a layer of grease off of my glasses.
This kid is a friend of mine, I went to Northeastern and took some classes with him. He told me once that he had the vtext address of null. I thought he was joking until he showed me his inbox. He got all kinds of crazy text messages, he said the random messages amused him so he kept the account. Some people are lucky that he's not a bad guy, because he occasionally gets "sensitive" information texted to him. Verizon is dumb as hell for letting somebody use null as a username, and there email system is piss poor if messages with malformed headers are getting though. I'm switching to Cingular this spring, hopefully the username root is still available. Yo Stan if you read this I'll text you when I get out of work, Hopefully you're inbox isn't bursting with SPAM.
They named it Blu-ray without the e at the end because you can't copyright a color. If they called it Blue-ray then they would have a hard time fighting legal battles of any old company naming their products "Blue-ray" compatible without the approval of the actual Blu-ray forum.
Human knowledge is biased by nature, so when you collect the sum of that knowledge, people that are experts in their fields will contribute what they know, and that information will be biased unless great care was excersized to keep it unbiased. Clearly, these politicians were out for their own benefit and purposfully sabatoged or polished articles for their own political gain. This kind of behavior shouldn't be tolerated, but if you think about it, it's kind of amusing since politicians are known as b.s. slingers in real life. So it makes sense that all of their contributions to the sum of human knowledge are 100% bullshit.
Any chance that this new 3d accelerated rendering can help make anti-aliased fonts actually look good ? Unbelieveable that OS X and Windows have better looking (smoother) anti-aliased fonts then linux ever dreamed. I thought I remember reading about something on linux that could change all that. It might be called Cairo or something? Does anybody know anything about this?
Can compare to about 17 megapixels in digital photography, but I'm guessing that the human eye can't destinguish the difference at lesser quality then that. I think it would be nice if all digital cameras outputted RAW format or a lossless codec like png. I don't really understand the obsession with jpeg either. I guess that's just what people are used to, so it's the norm.