For the average computer user this is a very good thing as it should drastically improve browser performance in a short period of time.
More like drastically increase Microsoft's unfair market practices... They'll just find more ways to integrate IE with Longhorn so that you literally can't do anything in the OS without it... I can also see them adding more online interaction with the OS and Windows Update or whatever on microsoft.com that can only be done through IE's ActiveX Controls.
Installing Linux "all the way to where granny can use it" would take about as long as the Kubuntu installation. Seriously, what are they going to do besides use Email and Firefox, plus maybe a few games that can be found in the KDE menu?
I personally believe that the easiest Linux converts are non-PC-gaming high-end users and the really low-end users that only need web browsing and email. The hard converts are those in the middle who might have some niche program or hardware that has no equivalent (perhaps better, but not what they're used to) alternative in Linux.
Lindows laptops are almost always the lowest-end laptops possible. Surely the author meant high-end laptops, as that's what Slashdotters are interested in.
If they want to make the console more expensive fine, but the only way to win me back would be to lower the price of the games....
Sadly, the price of a console and the price of games for it are fairly directly related. If the console costs more, it follows that it should be more powerful, so the games for it probably cost more to make than they would on a lower-end console. This cost is, of course, made up for by charging more for the game.
(don't even get me started on XBox360's connectivity to the MediaCenterPC.... does anyone even own one?)
Surprise, MS is trying to take this opportunity to take their fairly successful console and use it to promote their not-at-all successful Media Center. Let's just say that if MS becomes a de facto standard in the living room as well, I'll be scared for the future of our civilization.
what is Pascal used for these days? What are it's inherent advantages over other languages?
In all practicality, nothing. It is no longer needed in much of anything, even the niche it used to occupy, and this is illustrated by the fact that this project has apparently taken five years or development to reach 2.0. When there's a serious lack of interest in a project, there are usually one of three reasons:
The need or niche for it is not yet realized.
Not enough potential users know about it
The need for it does not exist
I have a feeling the case for this project is the third, especially in the F/OSS world.
Yes, anybody could start their own compiler, but if they have the backing of a well-known organization with a history for creating good software, I do not see why it would not be a newsworthy event.
In short Nintendo don't neccesarily have to shift more consoles than Sony and MS to stay in the console game.
This very realization was what made me stop worrying about how Nintendo was doing in comparison with their competitors. For awhile, I thought that if Nintendo didn't keep up with Sony and MS, they would go the way of Sega and the quality of Nintendo franchises would quickly deterioriate. However, if they can turn a profit by selling less than Sony and MS, they can continue to make quality games and I have no reason to worry about their first party games.
The only bad thing that does result from low sales is less third party support, but I'm hoping that this problem will be mitigated in the next generation by lower development costs on the Revolution than, for example, Sony's new cell-based architecture.
However, you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows.
I have been wondering why they haven't fixed this... All they would have to do is check the registry for "Mozilla Firefox (*)" in the directory of the registry where add/remove programs entries are kept (I think it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Unin stall, but I'm not on Windows right now so I can't check.). Seriously, would it be too hard to add this? Firefox needs to look clean and polished, and multiple entries in Add/Remove Programs is likely to give people the opposite impression.
I have the same setup, but I cannot say that I'm not missing anything. Although almost everything I use is open source and can therefore be ported and, for the most part, has been ported, there are a few closed programs whose binaries haven't been ported that I miss a little bit.
Macromedia Flash. I know this will be among the first ported when average people actually start using 64-bit CPUs, but at the moment it is very annoying to have to switch to my 32-bit machine once a week to see the new Strongbad email!
ATI Drivers. It was probably a bad idea to get an ATI card for a Linux system, but when the drivers not only don't work, but don't exist for my architecture, I really feel like a dumbass.
Sun Java. I hate Java and really dislike Sun, but applets are currently used on far too many web pages. I am patietly awaiting Apache's eventual F/OSS implementation of Java!
There are more, but those are the basics... I hope the move of the general public to 64-bit is quick so that the few closed-source programs that I still use will be ported!
"Will IE still work with the rest of Windows? It does? Great, going back to my cave."
Would you consider such a situation good? If a browser is the default browser for an OS, it should have been designed to work flawlessly with other parts of the OS, not designed in isolation and fixed up to work at the end of development. Not that I'm saying that a better-designed IE would be good for us, since it would be harder to convince users to convert, but in an ideal development situation, the product is designed to work well, not just barely.
(Or, maybe the "Revolution" will be that Nintendo decides that online gaming is a pretty good idea, what with Microsoft and that whole "Live" thing. ^_^)
Or maybe Nintendo has been in discussion with Warp Pipe all along and their new console will be perfect for Demasked. After all, Warp Pipe Technologies is calling Demasked a revolution for online social gaming. Then again maybe not!;)
I have had almost the same experience. The amount of entertainment I can get from playing and replaying a single Zelda or Metroid came cannot be beaten. However, I cannot live without Final Fantasy (and, if Kingdom Hearts 2 lives up to the first, I might not be able to live without that series either, though they can't do as much with it since it has to reuse the same Disney characters), so I will be getting the PS3 after a few price drops as well as the Revolution.
That's exactly what I was thinking! But wasn't Ender's communication with Jane done through a jewel in his ear? I never really understood how the jewel in his ear could provide two way communication...
How many teachers do you think are going to hear about this and react as following: "hacker highshool? why would we want to teach our kids to be hackers (computer criminals)". Perhaps they could have called it something involving the word security or protection.
This is exactly how my school would react. My district just came out with a new Internet Usage Policy that explictly bans "hacking." It's more than a little bit sad when those writing the rules about Internet usage don't know the first thing about computers and the hacker community...
I'm not one to change my lifestyle just to make myself more hireable. I often post/blog some controversial opinions online, and if my potential employer doesn't like it, I'm not so sure I want to work for her. I'm not going to keep my mouth shut just to be hired by someone I won't end up agreeing with anyway.
Don't worry, it's ok! Notice they used "internet" in the singular, not plural, form! As our dear president would have you know, Slashdot is quite safe, as it has an internet of its own!
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For the average computer user this is a very good thing as it should drastically improve browser performance in a short period of time.
More like drastically increase Microsoft's unfair market practices... They'll just find more ways to integrate IE with Longhorn so that you literally can't do anything in the OS without it... I can also see them adding more online interaction with the OS and Windows Update or whatever on microsoft.com that can only be done through IE's ActiveX Controls.
"all the way to where granny can use it"
Installing Linux "all the way to where granny can use it" would take about as long as the Kubuntu installation. Seriously, what are they going to do besides use Email and Firefox, plus maybe a few games that can be found in the KDE menu?
I personally believe that the easiest Linux converts are non-PC-gaming high-end users and the really low-end users that only need web browsing and email. The hard converts are those in the middle who might have some niche program or hardware that has no equivalent (perhaps better, but not what they're used to) alternative in Linux.
Lindows laptops are almost always the lowest-end laptops possible. Surely the author meant high-end laptops, as that's what Slashdotters are interested in.
The song is already out... http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
If they want to make the console more expensive fine, but the only way to win me back would be to lower the price of the games....
Sadly, the price of a console and the price of games for it are fairly directly related. If the console costs more, it follows that it should be more powerful, so the games for it probably cost more to make than they would on a lower-end console. This cost is, of course, made up for by charging more for the game.
(don't even get me started on XBox360's connectivity to the MediaCenterPC.... does anyone even own one?)
Surprise, MS is trying to take this opportunity to take their fairly successful console and use it to promote their not-at-all successful Media Center. Let's just say that if MS becomes a de facto standard in the living room as well, I'll be scared for the future of our civilization.
what is Pascal used for these days? What are it's inherent advantages over other languages?
In all practicality, nothing. It is no longer needed in much of anything, even the niche it used to occupy, and this is illustrated by the fact that this project has apparently taken five years or development to reach 2.0. When there's a serious lack of interest in a project, there are usually one of three reasons:
I have a feeling the case for this project is the third, especially in the F/OSS world.
Yes, anybody could start their own compiler, but if they have the backing of a well-known organization with a history for creating good software, I do not see why it would not be a newsworthy event.
In short Nintendo don't neccesarily have to shift more consoles than Sony and MS to stay in the console game.
This very realization was what made me stop worrying about how Nintendo was doing in comparison with their competitors. For awhile, I thought that if Nintendo didn't keep up with Sony and MS, they would go the way of Sega and the quality of Nintendo franchises would quickly deterioriate. However, if they can turn a profit by selling less than Sony and MS, they can continue to make quality games and I have no reason to worry about their first party games.
The only bad thing that does result from low sales is less third party support, but I'm hoping that this problem will be mitigated in the next generation by lower development costs on the Revolution than, for example, Sony's new cell-based architecture.
Just FYI, Kubuntu means "towards humanity." Source: Kubuntu Wikipedia article.
However, you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows.
I have been wondering why they haven't fixed this... All they would have to do is check the registry for "Mozilla Firefox (*)" in the directory of the registry where add/remove programs entries are kept (I think it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Unin stall, but I'm not on Windows right now so I can't check.). Seriously, would it be too hard to add this? Firefox needs to look clean and polished, and multiple entries in Add/Remove Programs is likely to give people the opposite impression.
I have the same setup, but I cannot say that I'm not missing anything. Although almost everything I use is open source and can therefore be ported and, for the most part, has been ported, there are a few closed programs whose binaries haven't been ported that I miss a little bit.
There are more, but those are the basics... I hope the move of the general public to 64-bit is quick so that the few closed-source programs that I still use will be ported!
"Will IE still work with the rest of Windows? It does? Great, going back to my cave."
Would you consider such a situation good? If a browser is the default browser for an OS, it should have been designed to work flawlessly with other parts of the OS, not designed in isolation and fixed up to work at the end of development. Not that I'm saying that a better-designed IE would be good for us, since it would be harder to convince users to convert, but in an ideal development situation, the product is designed to work well, not just barely.
IIRC, Ubuntu ships with vim as well as Emacs, but Emacs is in the GNOME menu by default while vim is not.
("Oh, you use a web browser in Linux to connect to our bank? Sorry, we don't support that...")
I think you're giving these support people too much credit. I'm thinking it would go more like "Oh, you use Linux? What the hell is that?"
(Or, maybe the "Revolution" will be that Nintendo decides that online gaming is a pretty good idea, what with Microsoft and that whole "Live" thing. ^_^)
Or maybe Nintendo has been in discussion with Warp Pipe all along and their new console will be perfect for Demasked. After all, Warp Pipe Technologies is calling Demasked a revolution for online social gaming. Then again maybe not! ;)
I have had almost the same experience. The amount of entertainment I can get from playing and replaying a single Zelda or Metroid came cannot be beaten. However, I cannot live without Final Fantasy (and, if Kingdom Hearts 2 lives up to the first, I might not be able to live without that series either, though they can't do as much with it since it has to reuse the same Disney characters), so I will be getting the PS3 after a few price drops as well as the Revolution.
Pfft. I nearly made it from my sandbox to China with nothing but buckets back in my preschool days!
That's exactly what I was thinking! But wasn't Ender's communication with Jane done through a jewel in his ear? I never really understood how the jewel in his ear could provide two way communication...
How many teachers do you think are going to hear about this and react as following: "hacker highshool? why would we want to teach our kids to be hackers (computer criminals)". Perhaps they could have called it something involving the word security or protection.
This is exactly how my school would react. My district just came out with a new Internet Usage Policy that explictly bans "hacking." It's more than a little bit sad when those writing the rules about Internet usage don't know the first thing about computers and the hacker community...
I'm not one to change my lifestyle just to make myself more hireable. I often post/blog some controversial opinions online, and if my potential employer doesn't like it, I'm not so sure I want to work for her. I'm not going to keep my mouth shut just to be hired by someone I won't end up agreeing with anyway.
One solution to this problem:
Boot a LiveCD and tunnel a proxy over an SSH connection to your home computer!
Those figures are for all language versions. For just English, these are the figures (further down on the same page):
Seriously, this is getting rediculous. Last year, there were jokes, but they weren't every 3 minutes...
Don't worry, it's ok! Notice they used "internet" in the singular, not plural, form! As our dear president would have you know, Slashdot is quite safe, as it has an internet of its own!