Remember the C3D company? They invented a CD which could hold a nearly infinite number of layers because each of them is completely transparent, but if the laser is focused on a layer and shining on it, the layer is self-illuminating. C3D presented this technology back in 1999 or even earlier, they even had working prototypes. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/1999/11/29/BU19966.DTL These discs could hold as much as 140 gigabytes of data! Compared to this, blu-ray looks kind of outdated. But the company went banckrupt (I think), and now in 2005 we are presented a technology IMHO less advanced than C3D.
They know that a child's mind is more vulnerable than an adult's and less defended from propaganda.
Now this kid will be talking at school how cool it is to be MS-certified, how cool MS products are and how cool it is to be written about on Slashdot. Of course, other kids will want to do that too and get addicted to MS products. The certificate isnt's not only the knowledge of the product, but, as someone pointed out, the "MS-like way of doing things". And that means that to copy photos from a digital camera you should use the Camera Wizard or what's its name. Not because it's better than using any file manager, but because Microsoft made it and put into Windows XP. If it exists, you should use it, right?
Who knows, maybe MS is giving away certificates just to make sure everybody has one. And if a person has a certificate with a well-knows company name on it, will he/she use any non-MS product? I guess not.
... they've done that with the release of Windows 95, and that's 10 years ago. I've tried OS/2 Warp back in 1999. I think the version was something between 4.5 and 5.0 It got installed in about three hours (or possibly even longer), looked like Windows 3.11 with extensions to make it look like '95. It was SLOW (the PC was a 486). It was actually slower than Windows 2000. It was swapping all the time. I don't like Windows at all, but my OS/2 experience was even worse. It is definetly not a desktop OS, and it's too outdated for a server one. More difficult to configure than Windows 2003 Server and more expensive than Linux/*BSD.
...they've patented the CaO+H2O (don't remember the exact formula of calcium oxide) chemical reaction. Wait... I'll patent all reactions which create C2H5OH and sue every alcohol-making company out there. Nice invention though. Shame about the patent.
No, I'm not talking about KDE (KDE's great!), but if I see a component I can instantly tell whether it's from KDE or from Mandrake or some third-party bundled app. Like the tea-cooker thing which is bundled with KDE-Games. It just doesn't fit. However Fedora Core 3's KDE looks even more inconsistent - some icons are from Gnome, some are Bluecurve and some KDE.
> What's wrong with the "install software" section in Mandrake Control Center?
Well, the only things I could find were the software updates for the stuff which comes bundled. Maybe I was just being stupid and couldn't attach additional repos besides the 4 standard CDs, but that's the exact target audience Mandriva is targeting! People who don't want to know what their PCs are doing but rather just get the job done.
I haven't been able to find a decent GUI frontend for installing apps via urpmi. Personally, I think the Synaptic-like package manager would be better. IMO urmpi just doesn't feel right.
However personally I don't like Mandriva's general look&feel. Some things look cool while others suck. Their website looks as if it was drawn in Paint back in the old Win98 days. There's no easy way of installing software like apt-get install foo or yum install foo. Or having segfaults all the time while using Mandrake 10.1. Or having to use KDE 3.2 when 3.3 is out just because the guys have screwed something up and nearly made a fork of KDE (or why did it take so long to stay up to date?)
Hope they'll learn how to make their products look really professional, that's probably one of the main reasons which keeps me from using it.
And is Lycoris Debian-based or does it use RPM?
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Remember the C3D company? They invented a CD which could hold a nearly infinite number of layers because each of them is completely transparent, but if the laser is focused on a layer and shining on it, the layer is self-illuminating.h ronicle/archive/1999/11/29/BU19966.DTL
C3D presented this technology back in 1999 or even earlier, they even had working prototypes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c
These discs could hold as much as 140 gigabytes of data!
Compared to this, blu-ray looks kind of outdated.
But the company went banckrupt (I think), and now in 2005 we are presented a technology IMHO less advanced than C3D.
They know that a child's mind is more vulnerable than an adult's and less defended from propaganda. Now this kid will be talking at school how cool it is to be MS-certified, how cool MS products are and how cool it is to be written about on Slashdot. Of course, other kids will want to do that too and get addicted to MS products. The certificate isnt's not only the knowledge of the product, but, as someone pointed out, the "MS-like way of doing things". And that means that to copy photos from a digital camera you should use the Camera Wizard or what's its name. Not because it's better than using any file manager, but because Microsoft made it and put into Windows XP. If it exists, you should use it, right? Who knows, maybe MS is giving away certificates just to make sure everybody has one. And if a person has a certificate with a well-knows company name on it, will he/she use any non-MS product? I guess not.
... Tatooine-like planet discovers YOU!
... they've done that with the release of Windows 95, and that's 10 years ago.
I've tried OS/2 Warp back in 1999. I think the version was something between 4.5 and 5.0
It got installed in about three hours (or possibly even longer), looked like Windows 3.11 with extensions to make it look like '95. It was SLOW (the PC was a 486). It was actually slower than Windows 2000. It was swapping all the time.
I don't like Windows at all, but my OS/2 experience was even worse. It is definetly not a desktop OS, and it's too outdated for a server one. More difficult to configure than Windows 2003 Server and more expensive than Linux/*BSD.
In Soviet Russia, shuttles launch NASA!
...they've patented the CaO+H2O (don't remember the exact formula of calcium oxide) chemical reaction.
Wait... I'll patent all reactions which create C2H5OH and sue every alcohol-making company out there.
Nice invention though. Shame about the patent.
No, I'm not talking about KDE (KDE's great!), but if I see a component I can instantly tell whether it's from KDE or from Mandrake or some third-party bundled app. Like the tea-cooker thing which is bundled with KDE-Games. It just doesn't fit.
However Fedora Core 3's KDE looks even more inconsistent - some icons are from Gnome, some are Bluecurve and some KDE.
> What's wrong with the "install software" section in Mandrake Control Center?
Well, the only things I could find were the software updates for the stuff which comes bundled. Maybe I was just being stupid and couldn't attach additional repos besides the 4 standard CDs, but that's the exact target audience Mandriva is targeting! People who don't want to know what their PCs are doing but rather just get the job done.
I haven't been able to find a decent GUI frontend for installing apps via urpmi. Personally, I think the Synaptic-like package manager would be better. IMO urmpi just doesn't feel right.
However personally I don't like Mandriva's general look&feel. Some things look cool while others suck. Their website looks as if it was drawn in Paint back in the old Win98 days. There's no easy way of installing software like apt-get install foo or yum install foo. Or having segfaults all the time while using Mandrake 10.1. Or having to use KDE 3.2 when 3.3 is out just because the guys have screwed something up and nearly made a fork of KDE (or why did it take so long to stay up to date?) Hope they'll learn how to make their products look really professional, that's probably one of the main reasons which keeps me from using it. And is Lycoris Debian-based or does it use RPM?