That was my point really, I've spent a long time learning which windows ones do exactly what I want, so moving to a new os is an uphill struggle.
It's not about what is pre-installed or not, if I don't know what application on linux is like/equivalent etc to what on windows, it doesn't matter if they are installed or not. Yes, I could just try them all but that would take a lot of time I don't really wish to spend. Hence my orignal point of making some kind of catalog of windows -> linux applications, not about saying what they do but rather what they do in a similar matter to windows programs. And not because windows applications are better necessarily, just because it would ease the transition. For example search for winamp and it spits out a list top is xmms - similar interface.
Applications are the reason I've not switched to linux. I'm used to the windows ones I have, finding linux applications that do what I want takes time, and with names like xmms and kopete and gimp its not easy to find them. Maybe there should be some kind of catalog of linux applications, broken down into catagories that explains what they do, how they differ and a link to install/launch them.
It's not just about having nothing to hide though, that much power in the hands of a few is just an abuse waiting to happen. What if just one of the technicians working on the system is crooked? What could they do? Trivial example: they could monitor when people take car trips long enough to warrante staying away from home over night, then send their mates to clean your house out.
I call shenannigans. It's a big load of crap. Fighting terrorism? Didn't the 7/7 terrorists use public transport?
Seeing as we are forced to have a system like this, I'd like to make it damn clear what it implies to the people in charge. Someone should start a website that tracks every movement of as many people in government and the police force as is humanly possible. I bet they'd scream bloody murder if their privacy was laid waste like that.
The current version of opera starts out almost identical to firefox. If you have trouble with it computers really might not be your thing. All the opera ui elements are customisable from a right click menu. Opera just works how I want it. Firefox makes me search for a dozen extensions at least to get it up and running. I like not having to switch to another application to read my email. I've not really noticed a difference in the performance of the two really.
From what I've heard all the people on it are more interested in being famous and on tv than going into space. Your usual loud, annoying and incredibly talentless fare. I refuse to watch any reality tv.
The premise for both films was very good, and they both started out well. Aeon Flux didn't deliver in the plot department I felt really. It built it up well, the whole killer virus, survivors left in one city, everything outside is unknown, evil goodchild regime, people disappearing thing gave me high hopes for the plot being interesting. But then they fubared it really. The whole matrix idea of our minds are trapped in a computer, lets fight the machines has been done before, but that at least the matrix felt fresh. The whole clones thing in aeon came across in a cliched way really: we're clones? thats bad. lets blow up the cloning facilities. I just felt they could have done a lot more with the plot, rather than almost entirely ignoring the back story.
I call bullshit. Built the infrastructure? Laid all the cable globally did they? Came up with every innovation associated with it did they? Attitudes like that sicken me. If thats how you feel, go fuck off and be isolationist. But give back all the foreign stuff you rely on. I suggest you start with linux, you arrogant motherfucker.
The internet is a global resource. Why should ANY government have control of it? Why not hand control of it over to a non-profit global charity of some sort...
B5 painted a far more realistic believable version of the future than Star Trek ever did. Trek was too sterile really. One thing I liked about it was the sense of continuity. I'm too young to know much about the shows that came before it really, but I know that Star Trek didn't seem to bother at all. You'd get stupid things in Trek like the classic going back in time one episode by emitting chronoton particles from the warp emitters and then convienently forgetting about it when something bad happened.
And then theres the charactors. In babylon 5 they had charactors that were believable again, not all of them were perfect. Alcoholics, workoholics etc. Believable passtimes too. Garibaldi liked watching cartoons for example. Compare that to ST:TNG. Every bloody one of them liked classic music, jazz, or shakespeare. Occasionally there were exceptions like Dixon Hill, but no that often. You see it a lot more in show nowadays. Crichton with his pizza and beer. Walsh with his toy dinosaurs. O'Neill with the simpsons. Teal'c watching star wars. It endears the charactors to you because it's the kind of thing you'd do yourself.
All this will end up doing is forcing all companies and organisations to register another domain to stop squatters, microsoft.asia, intel.asia, redhat.asia or whatever. And most likely these will just point to their main page which will have a map on it in flash telling you to click your country. God I hate websites with flash interfaces...
Wouldn't it really be a lot easier to have less tlds rather than more? If you can have say, two different web based with the same name, one having comapnyx.com and another having companyx.asia, is this really making things easier to understand?
I know, it would be a stupid hack. It's very much a personal preference, I've just gotten used to being about to see the layout of a class I've written it a certain way. I'm sure it'd be possible to write a plugin or something for an IDE to show a class overview that way in other languages, but why bother, C++ already does things the way I like. These constant arguements over which language is better are pointless. Most of them are designed for different purposes and each is better at different things. Neither C++ or java are going to die anytime soon, people will be using each for a long time to come. Both will continue to mature.
Yes, it runs the demo as perfect as the accelerated original on my machine. But then my machine now is an AMD 3200 with a GeForce 6800GT, whereas my machine then was a K6 350 with a 3dfx voodoo. I'm willing to bet my current machine can run the original native demo at a fair pace. And this is a game that is what, 10 years old? Now if they wrote a java version of the doom3 demo or the quake 4 demo, then I would agree java performance for games is just as good as in C++.
I'm one of those who haven't dabbled in java in a number of years. I was put off somewhat by the performance, I remember using IDEs written in java for uni, they were awfully slow. I'm sure that has changed a lot, but I've now been using C++ for many years, it's a language I like and enjoy using. But the thing I didn't like about java most was that I couldn't seperate class definition and declaration. I always found that confusing and messy.
I don't know how this all works, but will this result in any money going to the people who bought the cds? Or will the lawyer and the texas authorities pocket it all?
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That was my point really, I've spent a long time learning which windows ones do exactly what I want, so moving to a new os is an uphill struggle.
It's not about what is pre-installed or not, if I don't know what application on linux is like/equivalent etc to what on windows, it doesn't matter if they are installed or not. Yes, I could just try them all but that would take a lot of time I don't really wish to spend. Hence my orignal point of making some kind of catalog of windows -> linux applications, not about saying what they do but rather what they do in a similar matter to windows programs. And not because windows applications are better necessarily, just because it would ease the transition. For example search for winamp and it spits out a list top is xmms - similar interface.
Applications are the reason I've not switched to linux. I'm used to the windows ones I have, finding linux applications that do what I want takes time, and with names like xmms and kopete and gimp its not easy to find them. Maybe there should be some kind of catalog of linux applications, broken down into catagories that explains what they do, how they differ and a link to install/launch them.
It's not just about having nothing to hide though, that much power in the hands of a few is just an abuse waiting to happen. What if just one of the technicians working on the system is crooked? What could they do? Trivial example: they could monitor when people take car trips long enough to warrante staying away from home over night, then send their mates to clean your house out.
I call shenannigans. It's a big load of crap. Fighting terrorism? Didn't the 7/7 terrorists use public transport?
Seeing as we are forced to have a system like this, I'd like to make it damn clear what it implies to the people in charge. Someone should start a website that tracks every movement of as many people in government and the police force as is humanly possible. I bet they'd scream bloody murder if their privacy was laid waste like that.
Regardless of whether it is or not, the tech industry is viewed as being very unsociable. That's more of a problem for women than men.
How do you jump to the right?
The current version of opera starts out almost identical to firefox. If you have trouble with it computers really might not be your thing. All the opera ui elements are customisable from a right click menu. Opera just works how I want it. Firefox makes me search for a dozen extensions at least to get it up and running. I like not having to switch to another application to read my email. I've not really noticed a difference in the performance of the two really.
From what I've heard all the people on it are more interested in being famous and on tv than going into space. Your usual loud, annoying and incredibly talentless fare. I refuse to watch any reality tv.
The premise for both films was very good, and they both started out well. Aeon Flux didn't deliver in the plot department I felt really. It built it up well, the whole killer virus, survivors left in one city, everything outside is unknown, evil goodchild regime, people disappearing thing gave me high hopes for the plot being interesting. But then they fubared it really. The whole matrix idea of our minds are trapped in a computer, lets fight the machines has been done before, but that at least the matrix felt fresh. The whole clones thing in aeon came across in a cliched way really: we're clones? thats bad. lets blow up the cloning facilities. I just felt they could have done a lot more with the plot, rather than almost entirely ignoring the back story.
I call bullshit. Built the infrastructure? Laid all the cable globally did they? Came up with every innovation associated with it did they? Attitudes like that sicken me. If thats how you feel, go fuck off and be isolationist. But give back all the foreign stuff you rely on. I suggest you start with linux, you arrogant motherfucker.
The internet is a global resource. Why should ANY government have control of it? Why not hand control of it over to a non-profit global charity of some sort...
They make those kind of jokes with almost every geeky charactor on tv now. Didn't they imply that a lot in xfiles with mulder?
The real question is how long will it take virus writers to use it to replace system dlls with new infected ones?
I never said it wasn't good. I'm saying that not everyone likes it, and most people on tng seemed to.
B5 painted a far more realistic believable version of the future than Star Trek ever did. Trek was too sterile really. One thing I liked about it was the sense of continuity. I'm too young to know much about the shows that came before it really, but I know that Star Trek didn't seem to bother at all. You'd get stupid things in Trek like the classic going back in time one episode by emitting chronoton particles from the warp emitters and then convienently forgetting about it when something bad happened.
And then theres the charactors. In babylon 5 they had charactors that were believable again, not all of them were perfect. Alcoholics, workoholics etc. Believable passtimes too. Garibaldi liked watching cartoons for example. Compare that to ST:TNG. Every bloody one of them liked classic music, jazz, or shakespeare. Occasionally there were exceptions like Dixon Hill, but no that often. You see it a lot more in show nowadays. Crichton with his pizza and beer. Walsh with his toy dinosaurs. O'Neill with the simpsons. Teal'c watching star wars. It endears the charactors to you because it's the kind of thing you'd do yourself.
All this will end up doing is forcing all companies and organisations to register another domain to stop squatters, microsoft.asia, intel.asia, redhat.asia or whatever. And most likely these will just point to their main page which will have a map on it in flash telling you to click your country. God I hate websites with flash interfaces...
Wouldn't it really be a lot easier to have less tlds rather than more? If you can have say, two different web based with the same name, one having comapnyx.com and another having companyx.asia, is this really making things easier to understand?
I know, it would be a stupid hack. It's very much a personal preference, I've just gotten used to being about to see the layout of a class I've written it a certain way. I'm sure it'd be possible to write a plugin or something for an IDE to show a class overview that way in other languages, but why bother, C++ already does things the way I like. These constant arguements over which language is better are pointless. Most of them are designed for different purposes and each is better at different things. Neither C++ or java are going to die anytime soon, people will be using each for a long time to come. Both will continue to mature.
I'm not talking in the object design sense, I'm talking purely how the classes are laid out in the files.
What will they use to write these languages and frameworks?
Yes, it runs the demo as perfect as the accelerated original on my machine. But then my machine now is an AMD 3200 with a GeForce 6800GT, whereas my machine then was a K6 350 with a 3dfx voodoo. I'm willing to bet my current machine can run the original native demo at a fair pace. And this is a game that is what, 10 years old? Now if they wrote a java version of the doom3 demo or the quake 4 demo, then I would agree java performance for games is just as good as in C++.
I'm one of those who haven't dabbled in java in a number of years. I was put off somewhat by the performance, I remember using IDEs written in java for uni, they were awfully slow. I'm sure that has changed a lot, but I've now been using C++ for many years, it's a language I like and enjoy using. But the thing I didn't like about java most was that I couldn't seperate class definition and declaration. I always found that confusing and messy.
It changed it's name to snickers.
Isn't it a general theme in nature?
Or just have the standard white bar mean no encryption.
The MS version actually makes more sense. Yellow should be a warning colour, green for ok and red for error.
I don't know how this all works, but will this result in any money going to the people who bought the cds? Or will the lawyer and the texas authorities pocket it all?
I can't be the only one wondering where Transformers the movie is on that list...