I don't care really what it looks like as long as it is quiet and is outta of the way... I have two mahcines.. an Aopen MiniPC (915-B) and a do it yourself Athlon ATX case and the Mini is much more enjoyable to sit at just because it is quiet..
That is the highest selling point for me on my next desktop.
With a 64bit firefox 64 bit plugins are needed. However, since mplayerplug-in does not load mplayer (it forks it). mplayer can be a 32bit binary and can use the 32bit dlls. What could be a problem is that mplayer is being passed a 64bit window id and mplayer doesn't know what to do with it. So using 32bit browser, 32bit plugins and a 32bit mplayer is your best option.
I recently purchased this monitor as well and I am very pleased with it. I like all the adjustments that can be physically made to the monitor (up down, tilt, swivel and pivot). Picked it up at Circuit City. Only thing that was annoying is that it did not come with a DVI cable. So I had to pick one of those up.
Yes, but you neighbor may be downloading financial data, music, movies or porn that might use more bandwidth than you.. He just isn't advertising that he is doing all that. People do a lot of things at home that you would never expect them to do otherwise. If they ever do a tier service, I would expect the flat rate service would be at least what I am getting over broadband today. In fact Comcast already has two tiers and Qwest has 3 or 4 depending on where you are and how much you want to spend. But so far the tiers are at the bandwidth level and not the # of packets level.
Amen! A good school with a good CS program will make sure that you just don't do everything in a single language. I had once class where the final exam was to write a program in a language we were given the BNF of the language during the final. (yes, write a program in a language you have never seen using only the docs to the language). While you may not know every trick about a particular language, being able to read code and understand what is going on is a big plus for any new graduate. Try inheriting some PERL code and groking it after working a couple of years only in C and you'll get an idea.
I have been a professional programmer for at least 9 years now and I've had to maintain or write code in nearly a dozen languages in my career. If I had only had C or Java skills, I would not have been able to complete the work I was assigned.
I could see a Binary API with the following conditions.
1. Bug reports for kernel issues where a driver is using the Binary API are rejected or given very low priority just like now when the Kernel is tainted 2. Vendors who use the ABI are REQUIRED to open the driver within a period of time.. say 18 months. If they do not comply the vendor will be blacklisted from the kernel 3. Some other additional conditions that I have not though of.
Point #2 is something that really ticks me off. Spyware is a virus in my opinion, but since A/V companies don't consider it a virus you have to buy another product to remove the spyware. Good for them, but a total rip off of the consumer who has to buy and update two products where one should do it all.
I agree, this did seem odd after seeing episode 3 and then watching episode 4. ObiWan should have called him Vader and never Darth. However, by using "Darth" at that time gave a feeling a familiarity, like this did know one another on a first name basis.
The scene you are talking about is in the hanger on the Death Star when ObiWan and Vader are beginning the duel.
Wireless device the supports: voice, internet, calendar, alarm, screen big enough to be usable, tough enough to be dropped and still work, keyboard so I can enter text (stylist is no good) or very good recognition. And costs less than $25/month with unlimited voice and data... Until then.. I don't want one.
I think copyrights should expire 5 to 10 years after the last day of use by the copyright owner. That way if something is abandoned then eventually it would be released into the public domain, but something like Mickey Mouse would be held by Disney for as long as they kept using him.
My wife is a Community College math teacher and the documents she creates in Word and MathType routinely have errors in them when they are imported into OOo. She posts these documents on her class website so that the students can download them and have them for class notes.
I have been submitting these documents to the OOo team so that the errors can be corrected. I had one document of hers that generated two or three major issues (OOo crashed when the document was imported) with OOo 2.0 that the OOo team has corrected. Format compatibility with Word is good but not perfect in OOo.
Well I hope with all these companies using open source applications that they give back to the community. Either by funding some of the developers or donating to project.
It would be unfortunate to see companies taking the results and making a profit, but not giving back to those that put the time in to make the product.
Notes 6.5.1 works perfectly on current Wine. I use it everyday.. you just have to install it on a windows machine and then move the entire Lotus Directory to the Fake Windows drive in Wine.
Interesting thing with the Google SMTP server. Is that you login to the SMTP server and not matter what email address you send it from it replaces it with username@gmail.com.
Not really what I want, but I understand why they do that.
Well I'm glad BASIC exists because I probably would not have started programming without it. Can you imagine trying to learn C or something like that when you are 13 (circa 1984) and have no other programmer friends and no internet or BBS to get sample code from. Also C and Pascal compilers cost big money back then. Borland's Turbo Pascal was probably the other big hobby language back the as well. It probably damaged my skills, but I think I have overcome most of the damage.
And Windows 3.1 never would have been as accepted as it was if not for VB 1.0. I think VB was probably the thing that got a lot of people on Windows because programming Windows in C at that point was very complicated for the home hobbiest.
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I don't care really what it looks like as long as it is quiet and is outta of the way... I have two mahcines.. an Aopen MiniPC (915-B) and a do it yourself Athlon ATX case and the Mini is much more enjoyable to sit at just because it is quiet..
That is the highest selling point for me on my next desktop.
With a 64bit firefox 64 bit plugins are needed. However, since mplayerplug-in does not load mplayer (it forks it). mplayer can be a 32bit binary and can use the 32bit dlls. What could be a problem is that mplayer is being passed a 64bit window id and mplayer doesn't know what to do with it. So using 32bit browser, 32bit plugins and a 32bit mplayer is your best option.
Have you ever submitted a bug to the mplayerplug-in project about a website that does not work? Perhaps I could fix the problem.
If they put GPL code in a movie is the movie then GPL'd?
Think about it....
I recently purchased this monitor as well and I am very pleased with it. I like all the adjustments that can be physically made to the monitor (up down, tilt, swivel and pivot). Picked it up at Circuit City. Only thing that was annoying is that it did not come with a DVI cable. So I had to pick one of those up.
Yes, but you neighbor may be downloading financial data, music, movies or porn that might use more bandwidth than you.. He just isn't advertising that he is doing all that. People do a lot of things at home that you would never expect them to do otherwise. If they ever do a tier service, I would expect the flat rate service would be at least what I am getting over broadband today. In fact Comcast already has two tiers and Qwest has 3 or 4 depending on where you are and how much you want to spend. But so far the tiers are at the bandwidth level and not the # of packets level.
Amen! A good school with a good CS program will make sure that you just don't do everything in a single language. I had once class where the final exam was to write a program in a language we were given the BNF of the language during the final. (yes, write a program in a language you have never seen using only the docs to the language). While you may not know every trick about a particular language, being able to read code and understand what is going on is a big plus for any new graduate. Try inheriting some PERL code and groking it after working a couple of years only in C and you'll get an idea.
I have been a professional programmer for at least 9 years now and I've had to maintain or write code in nearly a dozen languages in my career. If I had only had C or Java skills, I would not have been able to complete the work I was assigned.
Ummmmm .... NO!
I could see a Binary API with the following conditions.
1. Bug reports for kernel issues where a driver is using the Binary API are rejected or given very low priority just like now when the Kernel is tainted
2. Vendors who use the ABI are REQUIRED to open the driver within a period of time.. say 18 months. If they do not comply the vendor will be blacklisted from the kernel
3. Some other additional conditions that I have not though of.
Point #2 is something that really ticks me off. Spyware is a virus in my opinion, but since A/V companies don't consider it a virus you have to buy another product to remove the spyware. Good for them, but a total rip off of the consumer who has to buy and update two products where one should do it all.
I agree, this did seem odd after seeing episode 3 and then watching episode 4. ObiWan should have called him Vader and never Darth. However, by using "Darth" at that time gave a feeling a familiarity, like this did know one another on a first name basis.
The scene you are talking about is in the hanger on the Death Star when ObiWan and Vader are beginning the duel.
I read it first as Mandrival... which leads to drivel.
drivel - a worthless message.
Wireless device the supports: voice, internet, calendar, alarm, screen big enough to be usable, tough enough to be dropped and still work, keyboard so I can enter text (stylist is no good) or very good recognition. And costs less than $25/month with unlimited voice and data... Until then.. I don't want one.
Who cares about SVN when SourceForge's statistics engine has been down for 4 months. Really difficult to know what is being downloaded.
I think copyrights should expire 5 to 10 years after the last day of use by the copyright owner. That way if something is abandoned then eventually it would be released into the public domain, but something like Mickey Mouse would be held by Disney for as long as they kept using him.
Challege Accepted...
My wife is a Community College math teacher and the documents she creates in Word and MathType routinely have errors in them when they are imported into OOo. She posts these documents on her class website so that the students can download them and have them for class notes.
I have been submitting these documents to the OOo team so that the errors can be corrected. I had one document of hers that generated two or three major issues (OOo crashed when the document was imported) with OOo 2.0 that the OOo team has corrected. Format compatibility with Word is good but not perfect in OOo.
Sharper Image of course...
I wrote mplayerplug-in. I also submit patches to other projects when I can.
Well I hope with all these companies using open source applications that they give back to the community. Either by funding some of the developers or donating to project.
It would be unfortunate to see companies taking the results and making a profit, but not giving back to those that put the time in to make the product.
Well I'm #4 so I guess there are a few more. I know of at least a dozen people at work that have Linux only laptops as well.
Notes 6.5.1 works perfectly on current Wine. I use it everyday.. you just have to install it on a windows machine and then move the entire Lotus Directory to the Fake Windows drive in Wine.
I totally agree with parent. Copyrights are worth protecting. Software patents are not.
Also, if copyrights are eliminated this could affect more than the GPL. Isn't the music and movie industry protected by copyright?
Interesting thing with the Google SMTP server. Is that you login to the SMTP server and not matter what email address you send it from it replaces it with username@gmail.com.
Not really what I want, but I understand why they do that.
My favorite description for a computer problem:
DFU - Dumb, Fscking User
Well I'm glad BASIC exists because I probably would not have started programming without it. Can you imagine trying to learn C or something like that when you are 13 (circa 1984) and have no other programmer friends and no internet or BBS to get sample code from. Also C and Pascal compilers cost big money back then. Borland's Turbo Pascal was probably the other big hobby language back the as well. It probably damaged my skills, but I think I have overcome most of the damage.
And Windows 3.1 never would have been as accepted as it was if not for VB 1.0. I think VB was probably the thing that got a lot of people on Windows because programming Windows in C at that point was very complicated for the home hobbiest.