Hah. I'm not. Only in Slashdot can people get obsessed by some silly Linux thing. PS3's main function is a game console and for that purpose it has always worked more than fine. However if PS3 or PS4 wouldn't perform properly as a gaming machine, then I would completely understand not supporting Sony.
Do you think that Wayland or Mir could add speed and smoothness to the Linux 3D-accelerated desktop? Because that's the feature I'm anticipating the most. When you turn on a little bit of effects there's always that slight jerky feeling you start getting. And it eats the performance too much. There's little delays in things happening, or some animation might pause for a little while. The icing of the cake, the fine responsivity of Win/Mac is currently not there with Linux.
Last few days? He's been posting this stuff since 2009 or maybe even earlier.
So is the "$10,000 challenge" guy the same person as "apk"? At least a few months ago "apk" wrote almost sane comments, has he forgotten to take his medication again?
The "cal" program checks if it has been called exactly with the lower-case command "cal" and displays the horizontal format. Otherwise it displays the vertical format. The reason why the other commands such as "CAL" work are due to the case-insensitive filesystem in Mac.
That's bullshit. It does take a minimal amount of intelligence to do useful coding, but I'm willing to bet that the requirement on that is less than 100 IQ. What programming requires is experience and interest, just like anything else.
Agreed with. You'll probably need some seed of basic problem solving, but that can be expanded greatly by learning stuff.
Why do you even have to ask? The control panel icon arrangement and the GNOME top bar come immediately to mind. The shutdown dialog is similar. There's gotta be more, as this comes from a guy that hasn't even used a Mac almost at all.
All I see are a lot of people complaining about the Windows 8 UI. But let me ask you a serious question, why do you feel like you are forced to use Windows?. Let's get real, it's not the 90's anymore, perfectly usable alternatives now exist. Instead of dealing with whatever UI Microsoft forces upon you, why not at least TRY an alternative OS, you can have whatever UI you take a fancy to.
You don't have to worry about switching yet, as Windows 7 has a long future still ahead.
Please don't start on the Games and Office software, that's an old argument that isn't valid.
Things have improved, but that argument is still somehow valid. It is still too likely that LibreOffice will screw up the formatting in your documents. With Steam for Linux, the games department is now in pretty nice health: if you don't have to try every AAA title, you will find lots of good games to play.
Then I had 7 forced upon me, I hated the over-sized and ugly new taskbar and set out to see what Linux had to offer.
Right-click the taskbar and select "Properties". Check "Use small icons", and you have the slim taskbar back. I also have "Taskbar buttons: Never combine" so I get the labels back. I pin everything to the Start menu (you can configure it to use small items too).
And, as the cherry on the top, Linux runs much slower than Windows. Of course you can go disabling compositing and effects, but with Windows you don't have to make that sacrifice, and it still runs smoothly on low-end hardware.
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Cyprus has set a €300 withdrawal limit per day for their banks, to tame a bit the money escaping.
Do you plan to infect many Windows boxen?
It's viruses, not virii.
You die, and it turns out you were wrong and there is a God. What do you say?
I punch God in the face.
A corrupt slashdot luser has infiltrated the moderation system to downmod all my posts while impersonating me.
Then create an account to prevent this from happening.
Hah. I'm not. Only in Slashdot can people get obsessed by some silly Linux thing. PS3's main function is a game console and for that purpose it has always worked more than fine. However if PS3 or PS4 wouldn't perform properly as a gaming machine, then I would completely understand not supporting Sony.
There was also models of PS3 which had the PS2 "Emotion Engine" CPU emulated in the software, but included the PS2 GPU as an ASIC.
Some interesting cooking talk: Chefs at Google: Nathan Myhrvold.
Do you think that Wayland or Mir could add speed and smoothness to the Linux 3D-accelerated desktop? Because that's the feature I'm anticipating the most. When you turn on a little bit of effects there's always that slight jerky feeling you start getting. And it eats the performance too much. There's little delays in things happening, or some animation might pause for a little while. The icing of the cake, the fine responsivity of Win/Mac is currently not there with Linux.
Actually, it's Unreal Tournament 2004. Quake III Arena runs great too. Excellent hardcore deathmatch, both!
Okay, this "now on the Raspberry Pi" craze is getting really ridiculous.
No, it isn't. Let's have it become a stable platform with a flourishing software and hardware ecosystem.
Many of us have played through the DOS classics a million times and could just grab a PC with DOSBox if we wanted to play any DOS games.
So my question is: where did the author find all the motivation to create this? It's not really a weekend project either.
Then you might also like Wadjet Eye Games . Very old school.
Last few days? He's been posting this stuff since 2009 or maybe even earlier.
So is the "$10,000 challenge" guy the same person as "apk"? At least a few months ago "apk" wrote almost sane comments, has he forgotten to take his medication again?
Well, yeah. With the mess that Win8 brought, my next computer might have a picture of an apple with a piece bitten off of.
I have sometimes used this too with good results. :)
Oh, the "assburger" again. Now it can be used to explain songs playing in your head too?
Since taking up Linux and forcing myself to use it on the desktop, I've really gotten a good grasp of computer internals.
To really learn about computers and digital technology, try this book: William Stallings - Computer Organization and Architecture Design (PDF, torrent).
The "cal" program checks if it has been called exactly with the lower-case command "cal" and displays the horizontal format. Otherwise it displays the vertical format. The reason why the other commands such as "CAL" work are due to the case-insensitive filesystem in Mac.
Here's a book more suited for the modern times.
Wait, why is this comment modded down?
How can sole number crunching power find the actual oil/gas reservoirs?
That's bullshit. It does take a minimal amount of intelligence to do useful coding, but I'm willing to bet that the requirement on that is less than 100 IQ. What programming requires is experience and interest, just like anything else.
Agreed with. You'll probably need some seed of basic problem solving, but that can be expanded greatly by learning stuff.
Why do you even have to ask? The control panel icon arrangement and the GNOME top bar come immediately to mind. The shutdown dialog is similar. There's gotta be more, as this comes from a guy that hasn't even used a Mac almost at all.
All I see are a lot of people complaining about the Windows 8 UI. But let me ask you a serious question, why do you feel like you are forced to use Windows?. Let's get real, it's not the 90's anymore, perfectly usable alternatives now exist. Instead of dealing with whatever UI Microsoft forces upon you, why not at least TRY an alternative OS, you can have whatever UI you take a fancy to.
You don't have to worry about switching yet, as Windows 7 has a long future still ahead.
Please don't start on the Games and Office software, that's an old argument that isn't valid.
Things have improved, but that argument is still somehow valid. It is still too likely that LibreOffice will screw up the formatting in your documents. With Steam for Linux, the games department is now in pretty nice health: if you don't have to try every AAA title, you will find lots of good games to play.
Then I had 7 forced upon me, I hated the over-sized and ugly new taskbar and set out to see what Linux had to offer.
Right-click the taskbar and select "Properties". Check "Use small icons", and you have the slim taskbar back. I also have "Taskbar buttons: Never combine" so I get the labels back. I pin everything to the Start menu (you can configure it to use small items too).
And, as the cherry on the top, Linux runs much slower than Windows. Of course you can go disabling compositing and effects, but with Windows you don't have to make that sacrifice, and it still runs smoothly on low-end hardware.
If Metro is so friggin' brilliant how come VS2012 isn't native?
Let's start with something simpler, why is NOTEPAD not native?