I have boxes filled with old modems, ISDN routers, and Ethernet hubs that are all perfectly functional, but useless to me. I have closets filled with old computers that run like a charm...
After reading this, I sent Cringly my shipping address. Do you think this is a bit too forward?
Here's a question, not that I disagree with you, but think for a second. How often do you really USE scene selection on a DVD? Especially a rental? I know I don't often sit down to watch a half a movie, with the plan to enjoy the other half tomorrow. Even if I am inturrupted for a day or two, I always re-watch the beginning. The whole flow of the picture is lost if you don't.
Just because resources are free, does not mean they ar eunlimited. There is a finite amount of bas emetals in the earth, such as iron and soforth. Removing enough to construct the space stations you describe (enough to hold a planet's worth of people) would require the resources of more than one planet.
How do you know this scrollwheel doesnt have a tactile feedback for when you move one notch in the letter lineup? I know alot of knobbed devices that indicate when you turn up one notch with a subtile "click" feeling, including my car stereo. After practice, you could use such a knob/buttons without looking at the screen at all.
So you're telling me you can scratch Graffiti on your palm pilot while looking at / doing something else for more than 2 minutes before your stylus strays off of the scratchpad area? I seriously doubt that.
You've sort of got it, but not quite. You scroll the wheel first, then click the selected button. So there are only two operations required. I don't think this would be slow at all. As long as I was looking at the screen, I imagine I could get over 20 wpm on this thing within a half hour of picking it up. Thats vastly superior to grafitti, thats for sure
Ok, I am really going to try hard not to flame you here, but Brendan Frasier is an IDIOT (blast from the past anyone? How about Bedazzled?). He's a horrible actor. The only thing that made the mummy movies worth watching was the effects, it had nothing to do with that dolt.
After reading the article, I saw alot of comments on the price of the item, along the lines of "Too expensive, I can get Internet PC X for $300/$400/$500". You are making the wrong comparison.
This thing isn't an "internet device", it is a full fledged PC. Most of those internet devices you speak of have 16MB-32MB flash instead of a hard drive, and definatly do not have a TV tuner. You should be comparing the $800 pricetag to that of an iMac (which can range from $900 - $1100), and if you do you will see it is quite reasonable.
What kind of a remark is this? What determins a "common idea"? Would you say that polaroid's patent on self-developing film is a "common idea", just because everyone knows how it works? Protecting ideas is the whole point of patents. Just because an idea is common NOW doesn't mean it has always been so.
Not that I support this RDF patent (it's just an application of XML, and XML isn't patented. What, are we going to start patenting every DTD out there now?), but this statement is absurd.
Well, since you can print from a wine app to your linux printer, I assume there must already be some GDI to Postscript code in there. So it should not be that hard to reverse it, so that it is Postscript to GDI, maybe?
No go. Even if you use CUPS to connect to a shared printer, you still need drivers for that printer on your unix box. Currently what i do is print to PS or PDF, then open it up on a windows machine and print it. But this is a huge hassle.
.. is some kind of wine-driven printer emulation layer, that would let you use windows printer driver sin Linux. Why? Because I have a printer that I have had for 4 years now, and is still nowhere near a Linux solution. Is this idea even possible? I think it would be great if it were, since I could finally use my printer!
The reason that menu isn't showing is the previously poor JS support in Konq. This is said to be much improved in KDE 3.0, and I will be curious to try this site out under the new Konq.
And if you read this article (read through it now, dont just "skim"), you'll see that the tom-foolery that ATI has pulled with their mip-mapping in Quake3 has nothing to do with FSAA, and everything to do with cheating the user.
And if you read this article (read through it now, dont just "skim"), you'll see that the tom-foolery that ATI has pulled with their mip-mapping in Quake3 has nothing to do with FSAA, and everything to do with cheating the user.
My primary interest is Linux, and the GeForce cards use unsupported chips for TV Capture/Playback
Umm... hello? What planet do you live on? NVidia has official linux driver support for all their cards, Twinview and TV out included. There aren't really any NVidia TV capure cards available anyways, but if you really care about video quality you'd be using a seperate vid cap card anyways, so this is irrelavent to your arguement. NVidia' funcitonality under linux far surpasses ATI's, including features such as full screen anti-aliasing (FSAA). When NVidia has a superior product, I fail to see why you would support a downright dirty company such as ATI.
I'm sick of ATI's bullshit, they've been poulling this kind of crap with their drivers for years.
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As has been pointed aout alrady, this type of thing would not be hard to do for a well financed oganizatoin like AL Queda (getting someone hired t MS). And according to the article, this guy predicted the attack on the Indian Parliament which killed 7 people on thrusday. Surely this gives him a bit of credit, and his allegations should be investigated?
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I have boxes filled with old modems, ISDN routers, and Ethernet hubs that are all perfectly functional, but useless to me. I have closets filled with old computers that run like a charm...
After reading this, I sent Cringly my shipping address. Do you think this is a bit too forward?
Here's a question, not that I disagree with you, but think for a second. How often do you really USE scene selection on a DVD? Especially a rental? I know I don't often sit down to watch a half a movie, with the plan to enjoy the other half tomorrow. Even if I am inturrupted for a day or two, I always re-watch the beginning. The whole flow of the picture is lost if you don't.
Just because resources are free, does not mean they ar eunlimited. There is a finite amount of bas emetals in the earth, such as iron and soforth. Removing enough to construct the space stations you describe (enough to hold a planet's worth of people) would require the resources of more than one planet.
Mod this guy down, thats total BS. Just to be sure I just went to download.com and downloaded something. No registration at all.
How do you know this scrollwheel doesnt have a tactile feedback for when you move one notch in the letter lineup? I know alot of knobbed devices that indicate when you turn up one notch with a subtile "click" feeling, including my car stereo. After practice, you could use such a knob/buttons without looking at the screen at all.
So you're telling me you can scratch Graffiti on your palm pilot while looking at / doing something else for more than 2 minutes before your stylus strays off of the scratchpad area? I seriously doubt that.
You've sort of got it, but not quite. You scroll the wheel first, then click the selected button. So there are only two operations required. I don't think this would be slow at all. As long as I was looking at the screen, I imagine I could get over 20 wpm on this thing within a half hour of picking it up. Thats vastly superior to grafitti, thats for sure
Dump ATI, go NVidia. I have and have never looked back. NVidia's XFree86 support is amazing.
Ok, I am really going to try hard not to flame you here, but Brendan Frasier is an IDIOT (blast from the past anyone? How about Bedazzled?). He's a horrible actor. The only thing that made the mummy movies worth watching was the effects, it had nothing to do with that dolt.
After reading the article, I saw alot of comments on the price of the item, along the lines of "Too expensive, I can get Internet PC X for $300/$400/$500". You are making the wrong comparison.
This thing isn't an "internet device", it is a full fledged PC. Most of those internet devices you speak of have 16MB-32MB flash instead of a hard drive, and definatly do not have a TV tuner. You should be comparing the $800 pricetag to that of an iMac (which can range from $900 - $1100), and if you do you will see it is quite reasonable.
What kind of a remark is this? What determins a "common idea"? Would you say that polaroid's patent on self-developing film is a "common idea", just because everyone knows how it works? Protecting ideas is the whole point of patents. Just because an idea is common NOW doesn't mean it has always been so.
Not that I support this RDF patent (it's just an application of XML, and XML isn't patented. What, are we going to start patenting every DTD out there now?), but this statement is absurd.
Good thing everyone who reads slashdot uses Linux. And those who DO use windows would NEVER use AOL.
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Well, since you can print from a wine app to your linux printer, I assume there must already be some GDI to Postscript code in there. So it should not be that hard to reverse it, so that it is Postscript to GDI, maybe?
No go. Even if you use CUPS to connect to a shared printer, you still need drivers for that printer on your unix box. Currently what i do is print to PS or PDF, then open it up on a windows machine and print it. But this is a huge hassle.
.. is some kind of wine-driven printer emulation layer, that would let you use windows printer driver sin Linux. Why? Because I have a printer that I have had for 4 years now, and is still nowhere near a Linux solution. Is this idea even possible? I think it would be great if it were, since I could finally use my printer!
Yeah, and imagine you with a bullet through your head when the crook sees and hears you using your cell phone during a bank robbery!
Man, get a clue. Videophones have been available since the 60's, no one wanted them then, and no one wants them now.
The reason that menu isn't showing is the previously poor JS support in Konq. This is said to be much improved in KDE 3.0, and I will be curious to try this site out under the new Konq.
If you don't like the style, change your style engine. If you don't like the theme, change the theme. KDE is totally customizable.
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I don't really know why you want Gecko so much. KHTML is just as fast, if not faster, than Gecko. For a comparison, try loading this page (which is just straight CSS, no images, so it's a good rendering test) in the latest Konqueror (2.2.2x) and the latest Mozilla/Galeon. You'll notice that it renders much faster in KHTML. Now, I'm not saying this would be true of every page (although it may be!), but I think it goes to show that KHTML can stnd on its own, and there is really no need to use Gecko in Konqueror.
And if you read this article (read through it now, dont just "skim"), you'll see that the tom-foolery that ATI has pulled with their mip-mapping in Quake3 has nothing to do with FSAA, and everything to do with cheating the user.
And if you read this article (read through it now, dont just "skim"), you'll see that the tom-foolery that ATI has pulled with their mip-mapping in Quake3 has nothing to do with FSAA, and everything to do with cheating the user.
My primary interest is Linux, and the GeForce cards use unsupported chips for TV Capture/Playback
Umm... hello? What planet do you live on? NVidia has official linux driver support for all their cards, Twinview and TV out included. There aren't really any NVidia TV capure cards available anyways, but if you really care about video quality you'd be using a seperate vid cap card anyways, so this is irrelavent to your arguement. NVidia' funcitonality under linux far surpasses ATI's, including features such as full screen anti-aliasing (FSAA). When NVidia has a superior product, I fail to see why you would support a downright dirty company such as ATI.
Yeah, I'd rather have a video card that reduces video quality in my favorite games on purpose just to get better benchmark info too. Oh wait, no I wouldn't
I'm sick of ATI's bullshit, they've been poulling this kind of crap with their drivers for years.
As has been pointed aout alrady, this type of thing would not be hard to do for a well financed oganizatoin like AL Queda (getting someone hired t MS). And according to the article, this guy predicted the attack on the Indian Parliament which killed 7 people on thrusday. Surely this gives him a bit of credit, and his allegations should be investigated?