This looks like nothing more than the hard left-wing blogosphere having a hissy fit in numerical order. These aren't censored stories just tired old conspiracy theories reduced to 25 bumper stickers.
Please don't get testy (snicker)
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Many in the Mandrake community help by sending in bug reports during the RC process. It's important that we know when this process begins. I for one appreciate this story.
If you are in the "Mandrake community" why would you need Slashdot to inform you of the release. I assume you would follow their website, forums, mailing lists, etc.
I wasn't "dissin'" Mandrake, I was curious why an RC was a good story for the homepage of Slashdot. I was hoping that it was something really cool they failed to mention in the story brief. From reading the changelog posted, I guess there really wasn't anything to mention. Just another distro upgrade to inflate the version number, not that there is anything wrong with that -- RedHat does that every 3 to 6 months.
What's new with Mandrake in this release? I didn't see anything in the story brief and I am too lazy to search for the info. I don't follow this distro (Im a RedHat user) but I would like to know what warrants a RC release story on the front of Slashdot. Is there some sort of whizbang feature that I don't know I need to have? Enlighten me!
Yeah, there are some things that are tough to find, like payroll software. We found something, and it works well. But the developers need to start writing the real-world applications people need to run a business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something new.
Good points. I still would not trade my Canon EOS 10D for a SONY F828. All you need is two lenses from Canon to surpass the range of the F828 lens. Spend less than $500 for both. A 28-125mm IS and a 70-300mm. Both are good quality lenses plus you can use them on your Canon EOS film cameras as well.
I bought my EF 28-135mm IS for $350. Great moderately priced lens. The problem with the SONY camera is that you are stuck with the lens that comes with it. If you own a Canon EOS Film Camera, you can use the lens from that on your 10D.
The 10D is worth every penny of its price! My jaw drops every time I move photos from it to my Mac. I can't scan film from Elan 7 in to look better. It's a great amateur digital camera that makes you feel like a pro.
I personally love my Canon EOS 10D. Pictures from it require the use of profanity to describe their amazing clarity, i.e., fucking great. It uses the EOS lens system and is a true SLR. However, if I had the money, I would get a Canon EOS 1D.(DROOL) It has a full size 35mm sensor where the 10D is about 80% the size of a 35mm sensor.
Mac OS X. Most Apple applications have fairly generic names, "Mail", "iTunes", "iPhoto", "iMovie", "iDVD", "Preview", "Disk Utility", "Image Capture", "CPU Monitor" and "Safari" (You know that's a web browser, right?). As for burning CDs, you stick a blank CD in the drive and the Mac will ask you what you want to do with it, copy files, burn songs, copy pictures, etc. Real ease of use that neither Windows XP or Linux have.
That's why I bought my mother and mother-in-law an iBook. It's cheaper to buy them a Mac than listen to them bitch about their PC. They can do everything they need, it doesn't crash, no scary viruses and the only downside is they have learned attachments.
I'm still not giving up my dual boot p4, but I find myself spending more time on the g4.
I was a RCN customer in Manhattan that was told I was getting "high speed" internet access. Ended up with a one-way cable modem (telco upstream) that cost 10 cents (price of a local call) every time RCN's crappy PPP internet lines dropped the connection. Then they decided that the local number it dialed was long distance four months in a row. Wanted me to pay $1,000+ for local phone service in month for their faulty equipment and blamed me for their problems. I finally dropped them (another nightmare -- customer service idiots) and moved on.
If you are contemplating RCN, rub your face with a cheese grater instead, it will be a much more pleasant experience.
I have a Tivo DVR and love it. However, I think people are getting a little bit too much into it. We must be getting close to the apocalypse when there is finally a convention for people that refuse to watch live television and feel the need to discuss it while gambling and eating at buffets. I don't think I will be hanging out in Vegas that week.
Makes you wish that terrorism futures market was still running. Damn you, Poindexter!
Ever notice that human technological evolution closely mirrors our desire to more efficiently kill our neighbor? Or at least take his stuff for less than the cost of taking his stuff. GPS is a major advance for economical, global force projection. Instead of a squadron of big, lumbering, gas guzzling bombers, you need one little black jet to hit a target. Kill more, spend less. With most military technological advances, they have civilian applications. GPS is a shining example. My favorite is the computer. It was first built to help calculate military equations so mankind could kick his fellow mankind in the ass faster.
What will ever happen to human progress if we start all being nice to each other?
The pigeon slide was a great find. The first item, "Pigeons will be available on a first come first served basis in the Hangers." is great, military humor. Notice it only says you can't shoot them -- even with a stun gun. That's what the plastic sheeting is for. Create a plastic net and "shoo" them out (non-lethal arms merchants) or snare them and make a nice soup.
Adam Smith (L-ECON) would not be happy with Adam Smith's (D-WA) manipulation of the free market through the passing of artificial governmental regulation.
I have the key to time series on DVD. It's amazing how much of "The Pirate Planet" is shared with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It sounds like Douglas Adams was in the habit of recycling story lines. Think he was writing HGTG radio play at the same time he wrote "The Pirate Planet".
The Pirate Planet is the best of the Key To Time series.
I have noticed that SONY uses Windows ME on a lot of their unique notebooks. The PictureBook uses it as well -- they are almost impossible to upgrade to Win 2k. I never understood SONY's passion for the quirkiest Windows release with its notebook.
Look, we can all bitch and moan about the state of the GUI on all the popular desktop windowing systems -- Xfree86, Windows 95/98/2000/Srv/XP, Quartz, etc -- but they all do the same thing with basically the same methods but different variations of bewitching accuracy in ease of use. I work with all on a daily basis. The reason I can stand all of them is due to 3rd party developers and open source standards creeping in the mainstream. They can all be made to behave in a roughly common manner.
With XML and other future standards of data storage and organization, the OS is devolving into a commodity had by desire instead of function. The imagination of the altruistic programer and the true hacker for profit (rightly so) have enhanced all major 'GUI Environments'. People that have convinced you that default isn't good enough and taking advantage of open source commonalty in that sales pitch.
We will all have preferences in style, function and initial capability. As long as the information that preference in system can generate is cross compatible, the form and feedback can be left up to human desire instead of program requirements. In the end, the only reason we are stabbing our fingers around is to get some sort of understandable response back from a cold, inanimate object. If you can design an input system that limits that interaction and produces the same or more work, I'll be using it. That's why my #1 interface to a computer is the CLI.
As I always say, "Strive for Utopia, but deal with today".
Then why don't the police, FBI, and John Ashcroft go and pick up Snoop Dogg and all of the others in the entertainment industry who obviously advocate the usage of illegal drugs blatently in their songs and movies?
I have no problem from advocation, just the profit from that advocation. Fight the law but keep your nose clean.
This is a wake-up call to all US-based websites that advocate the violation of US State and Federal Law and profit from the sale of the tools that assist in that advocation. With so many people involved in the use of these sort of websites, its easy to prove conspiracy bringing out major penalties. The law is the law. Even if you weasel your way out, its going to cost you. The best way not to be eaten by a Tiger is not to stand in front of it and debate your right to exist unharmed at the top of your lungs. If you are going to do something illegal, its best not publishing it for public consumption on the Internet. Common sense -- which appears to be in short supply on the web.
No matter the politics, its one thing to advocate illegal activity, its another to assist and profit in that advocation. Think people...
Not to be a troll, but I can think of better ways of running Linux than on a game console. About the best idea I can come up for it is a MAME box for your TV. The TV Screen has a horrible resolution and joysticks make for horrible keyboards (j/k). I would rather a Shuttle SS51G running linux than an Xbox and play MAME on a HDTV.
I don't know why someone would donate mega-$$$ for this to be accomplished. Seems like an egotrip. The money could be put some truly worthy cause. I hear cancer hasn't been cured yet...
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This looks like nothing more than the hard left-wing blogosphere having a hissy fit in numerical order. These aren't censored stories just tired old conspiracy theories reduced to 25 bumper stickers.
I wasn't "dissin'" Mandrake, I was curious why an RC was a good story for the homepage of Slashdot. I was hoping that it was something really cool they failed to mention in the story brief. From reading the changelog posted, I guess there really wasn't anything to mention. Just another distro upgrade to inflate the version number, not that there is anything wrong with that -- RedHat does that every 3 to 6 months.
What's new with Mandrake in this release? I didn't see anything in the story brief and I am too lazy to search for the info. I don't follow this distro (Im a RedHat user) but I would like to know what warrants a RC release story on the front of Slashdot. Is there some sort of whizbang feature that I don't know I need to have? Enlighten me!
Take one bourbon glass, fill it with ice, add two shots of Jim Beam and top off with Coke. I learned that from a nutramatic machine...
Yeah, there are some things that are tough to find, like payroll software. We found something, and it works well. But the developers need to start writing the real-world applications people need to run a business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something new.
Good points. I still would not trade my Canon EOS 10D for a SONY F828. All you need is two lenses from Canon to surpass the range of the F828 lens. Spend less than $500 for both. A 28-125mm IS and a 70-300mm. Both are good quality lenses plus you can use them on your Canon EOS film cameras as well.
I bought my EF 28-135mm IS for $350. Great moderately priced lens. The problem with the SONY camera is that you are stuck with the lens that comes with it. If you own a Canon EOS Film Camera, you can use the lens from that on your 10D. The 10D is worth every penny of its price! My jaw drops every time I move photos from it to my Mac. I can't scan film from Elan 7 in to look better. It's a great amateur digital camera that makes you feel like a pro.
You are right! I was thinking of the 1Ds. I forgot about the old 1D when I was typing that message. Thanks for catching that.
I personally love my Canon EOS 10D. Pictures from it require the use of profanity to describe their amazing clarity, i.e., fucking great. It uses the EOS lens system and is a true SLR. However, if I had the money, I would get a Canon EOS 1D.(DROOL) It has a full size 35mm sensor where the 10D is about 80% the size of a 35mm sensor.
Mac OS X. Most Apple applications have fairly generic names, "Mail", "iTunes", "iPhoto", "iMovie", "iDVD", "Preview", "Disk Utility", "Image Capture", "CPU Monitor" and "Safari" (You know that's a web browser, right?). As for burning CDs, you stick a blank CD in the drive and the Mac will ask you what you want to do with it, copy files, burn songs, copy pictures, etc. Real ease of use that neither Windows XP or Linux have. That's why I bought my mother and mother-in-law an iBook. It's cheaper to buy them a Mac than listen to them bitch about their PC. They can do everything they need, it doesn't crash, no scary viruses and the only downside is they have learned attachments. I'm still not giving up my dual boot p4, but I find myself spending more time on the g4.
Let's cut to the skinny. How much can you bench press?
I have no complaints about the speed of my neighbor's wifi access point.
If you are contemplating RCN, rub your face with a cheese grater instead, it will be a much more pleasant experience.
I have a Tivo DVR and love it. However, I think people are getting a little bit too much into it. We must be getting close to the apocalypse when there is finally a convention for people that refuse to watch live television and feel the need to discuss it while gambling and eating at buffets. I don't think I will be hanging out in Vegas that week. Makes you wish that terrorism futures market was still running. Damn you, Poindexter!
Am I the only one left on SlashDot who doesn't even run Windows for gaming? Yes.
What will ever happen to human progress if we start all being nice to each other?
The pigeon slide was a great find. The first item, "Pigeons will be available on a first come first served basis in the Hangers." is great, military humor. Notice it only says you can't shoot them -- even with a stun gun. That's what the plastic sheeting is for. Create a plastic net and "shoo" them out (non-lethal arms merchants) or snare them and make a nice soup.
Adam Smith (L-ECON) would not be happy with Adam Smith's (D-WA) manipulation of the free market through the passing of artificial governmental regulation.
I have the key to time series on DVD. It's amazing how much of "The Pirate Planet" is shared with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It sounds like Douglas Adams was in the habit of recycling story lines. Think he was writing HGTG radio play at the same time he wrote "The Pirate Planet". The Pirate Planet is the best of the Key To Time series.
I have noticed that SONY uses Windows ME on a lot of their unique notebooks. The PictureBook uses it as well -- they are almost impossible to upgrade to Win 2k. I never understood SONY's passion for the quirkiest Windows release with its notebook.
Anyone know why?
With XML and other future standards of data storage and organization, the OS is devolving into a commodity had by desire instead of function. The imagination of the altruistic programer and the true hacker for profit (rightly so) have enhanced all major 'GUI Environments'. People that have convinced you that default isn't good enough and taking advantage of open source commonalty in that sales pitch.
We will all have preferences in style, function and initial capability. As long as the information that preference in system can generate is cross compatible, the form and feedback can be left up to human desire instead of program requirements. In the end, the only reason we are stabbing our fingers around is to get some sort of understandable response back from a cold, inanimate object. If you can design an input system that limits that interaction and produces the same or more work, I'll be using it. That's why my #1 interface to a computer is the CLI.
As I always say, "Strive for Utopia, but deal with today".
I have no problem from advocation, just the profit from that advocation. Fight the law but keep your nose clean.
Yea, Cops like to hear that one. It always changes their mind. "Oh, you know, you're right! Sorry to bother you. Have a nice day."
No matter the politics, its one thing to advocate illegal activity, its another to assist and profit in that advocation. Think people...
I don't know why someone would donate mega-$$$ for this to be accomplished. Seems like an egotrip. The money could be put some truly worthy cause. I hear cancer hasn't been cured yet...