Most Linux DEs run slower than Windows because anti-aliasing is turned on.
Wait, what? Haven't we had thread after thread here, where one of the main complaints the Windows people had was the fonts on Linux, and how bad they looked, because Linux didn't have anti-aliasing support? Are you telling us that, all this time, Windows didn't have it, either?
It's OK to make Christians into second-class citizens as long as being second-class isn't too nasty?
Umm, who's doing most of the persecuting, here? Last I checked, liberals weren't trying to pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit Christians from getting married.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are reasonable people who are nothing like the extremist nutjobs portrayed on TV, and our biggest downfall will be ignoring that fact.
Agreed, but how are we going to fix that, if the moderates won't vote?
Makes it hard to be a moderate who believes in both God and science.
Don't let the bible-thumpers get to you. They're making a big show, insisting that, if you don't take the Bible literally, word for word, you must be an atheist. It's a fairly smart plan, since most recent polls show that atheists are the least-trusted group in the country, right now. If that's true, and the average person has a choice between siding with a Christian who's a little too conservative for them and an atheist, who are they going to choose? In reality, plenty of Christians accept science, including evolution.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, a handfull of scientists are suggesting that we should get rid of religion, entirely. If they keep it up, the bible-thumpers are guaranteed to win. The majority of scientists are perfectly okay with religion.
There are plenty of people out there, in the middle, who believe the way you do. I just wish we could get more of them to vote.
Don't get me wrong - I think vinyl is silly, too, but now you're just being stupid. CDs have a fixed number of samples per second. If you have analog media, you can use any sampling rate you want, thereby increasing the accuracy of the sound. (Yes, I know CDs are accurate enough to be indistinguishable from analog by the vast majority.)
What you should have done is pointed out that the cheapest turntable at that web site is 15 thousand dollars.
What you want is a scanner with a sheet feeder and a GOOD one at that.
Absolutely.
I tried this, myself, a few years ago. I guarantee that, using a camera, you'll get through, maybe, 100 pages. I got a decent scanner (HP something or other) with a sheet feeder. It does about 12ppm and that turned out to be too slow. I got tired of it in a day or two.
I tried a bunch of different solutions, but I finally had to take it all to work. We had a Fujitsu M4097D and an enormous Ricoh Copier/Scanner/Fax machine. Both did 60ppm, both sides (120 images a minute). I actually made some headway with that setup, but I still didn't finish.
As far as OCR is concerned, don't bother. Even today, it's nowhere near accurate enough. In my experience, the best software out there get an average of one error per page on a really good scan. Trust me: it will take a lot more of your time than you think to fix that. Assuming you're doing mostly black and white text, G4 compression will compress a 300dpi, 8.5x11 image down to about 100k. At that rate, you can store close to 7000 pages on one CD.
get everything integrated with Active Directory, so there is only 1 password to manage.
That's fine for your internal passwords, but having a single password on systems that are less secure - say, those in your DMZ - is risky, especially if it's the same password on your internal systems. If someone hacks just one machine, they'll be able to access them all.
Yeah, TiVo's really beginning to irritate me with their inability to keep up. About a month ago, I bought a wireless adapter for my Series 2, only to find out my TiVo didn't support WPA. How long has WPA been out, now, two years?
Last week (or was it the week before?) they announced they'll be supporting WPA, finally, but only on their special adapter. Needless to say, I am not a happy customer.
Umm, wrong. I used to do everything you said, and the only reason I was able to buy my first house is because my wife had a better credit rating than me. Since then, I started paying for everything I can with my Amex card and paying it off, in full, every month. We just bought our second house a few months ago and my credit rating was a little better than hers.
The point is, having a credit card doesn't count, unless you use it.
As a percentage of potential customer base, the Quest series probably rocked the Sims...
Actually, now that you mention it, I would love to see a list that had the top 100 games of all time, as a percentage of potential customer base. That would be an informative list. Any takers?
There are plenty of startups who are doing nothing but HOPING to be bought out by a larger, richer company.
I'm sure that's true and, if they are successful at it, more power to them. However, that's a pretty risky model on which to base your business, isn't it? After all, it's not really not up to you, the smaller business owner. If you start negotiating and your price is too high, or your product isn't quite ready, or the buyer is just in a bad mood that day, the deal could fall through, and the larger company will go elsewhere.
there's only a tiny chance that a fraction of those will be bought by or competed against by Microsoft.
I would argue that those products don't have a huge amount of value. I'm sure Microsoft will go from the largest targets to the smallest, so those will be last on the hit list.
Some of those companies will be put out of business indirectly - Microsoft will (probably not even deliberately) add something to Windows that will make the smaller company's product irrelevant, much like they did with Novell Netware, but on a smaller scale. How many companies that produced graphics libraries were put out of business, when Microsoft came out with Windows?
Even if Microsoft isn't targeting your market now, if and when they do decide to target it, you're done. Is that really a secure enough model to pin your business on?
The point is to make more money for Microsoft by allowing them to expand into another market. Watch: in a year or two, there'll be DreamWeaver/Expression wars all over the place, much like Linux/Windows wars, today. A year or two after that, DreamWeaver will be gone.
I've said it before and I'll sat it again. I can't understand why people still develop software for Windows. People who do will have one of two futures: either Microsoft will buy them, or Microsoft will come out with a competing product and put them out of business. It's just crazy.
Hosting web services in house has some mythical attraction that i've never grasped.
For my company, it's not really practical. Between the web front-end of our service and the database server, the web front-end has the lowest bandwidth, so the database server and the web server need to be as close as possible. They also need to be fairly high-bandwidth. To get decent performance with hosting solution, we'd need to put our entire data center there.
Instead, we have multiple T1s. (They're not hosted by different companies, yet, but I hope to fix that, soon.)
I can't believe people are modding you up for that comment. At least suggest an alternative, rather than just complaining.
Personally, I have to agree with the people who are suggesting BASIC. To start with, it's easy. One advantage that no one else has mentioned, yet, is that it requires less thought about the intricacies of programming. One of the hardest things beginning programmers have to deal with is the whole "the computer does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do". Why is it necessary to throw in stuff like character vs integer vs floating point vs data structures on top of that? The good thing about BASIC is that, because there are only two data types, numeric and string, there's less to worry about - as it should be. That's why the "B" stands for "beginner".
Over the years, I've argued with a lot of people who think Pascal should be everyone's first language. I will never understand that, even if I live to be 1000.
It could also be there simply isn't much more story to tell.
I can't agree with this. As I mentioned in another Stargate thread, a few months ago, they should reveal the stargate to the general public. The social and political fallout would give them at least two more seasons of story.
On Windows (9x, 2k, XP Home, XP Pro, Vista's 7 versions), I can ship one binary package that works for everybody.
You're joking, right? If I had a dollar for every time a software vendor told me "Oh, we don't support Windows XP", or at the very least, had to be run under the Administrator account, I could retire.
For popular OSS packages, the most difficult thing you need to do is "./configure; make; make install". That's a lot easier than even messing around with some of the licensing procedures for closed-source software.
the art and passion which existed in making movies and entertaining people has been replaced by hunger for making money
I totally agree with you.
I also find it interesting you say this, especially since, when the studios are talking about piracy, they always insist that, if we don't pay for their material, quality will suffer. I'm not trying to condone piracy, or anything, but I think we all know that's a bunch of BS.
Every so often, you hear about some actor who made a big deal (walked off a set, etc.) about the "art" of making a movie or television show, or didn't want to sell out. I always used to think they were just being childish, but I'm beginning to see their point of view.
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Most Linux DEs run slower than Windows because anti-aliasing is turned on.
Wait, what? Haven't we had thread after thread here, where one of the main complaints the Windows people had was the fonts on Linux, and how bad they looked, because Linux didn't have anti-aliasing support? Are you telling us that, all this time, Windows didn't have it, either?
Thanks!
The bouncing cursor always annoyed me a little, though not enough to go to the effort to find out how to turn it off. Now I know.
Except that amanda does that. Don't believe the anti-amanda propaganda on the bacula page.
Actually, I remember reading about it on the Amanda page. How long has it had this capability?
Yeah, Amanda has all the capabilities you need to do enterprise backups, except possibly the most important one: the ability to span tapes.
It's OK to make Christians into second-class citizens as long as being second-class isn't too nasty?
Umm, who's doing most of the persecuting, here? Last I checked, liberals weren't trying to pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit Christians from getting married.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are reasonable people who are nothing like the extremist nutjobs portrayed on TV, and our biggest downfall will be ignoring that fact.
Agreed, but how are we going to fix that, if the moderates won't vote?
Makes it hard to be a moderate who believes in both God and science.
Don't let the bible-thumpers get to you. They're making a big show, insisting that, if you don't take the Bible literally, word for word, you must be an atheist. It's a fairly smart plan, since most recent polls show that atheists are the least-trusted group in the country, right now. If that's true, and the average person has a choice between siding with a Christian who's a little too conservative for them and an atheist, who are they going to choose? In reality, plenty of Christians accept science, including evolution.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, a handfull of scientists are suggesting that we should get rid of religion, entirely. If they keep it up, the bible-thumpers are guaranteed to win. The majority of scientists are perfectly okay with religion.
There are plenty of people out there, in the middle, who believe the way you do. I just wish we could get more of them to vote.
Don't get me wrong - I think vinyl is silly, too, but now you're just being stupid. CDs have a fixed number of samples per second. If you have analog media, you can use any sampling rate you want, thereby increasing the accuracy of the sound. (Yes, I know CDs are accurate enough to be indistinguishable from analog by the vast majority.)
What you should have done is pointed out that the cheapest turntable at that web site is 15 thousand dollars.
What you want is a scanner with a sheet feeder and a GOOD one at that.
Absolutely.
I tried this, myself, a few years ago. I guarantee that, using a camera, you'll get through, maybe, 100 pages. I got a decent scanner (HP something or other) with a sheet feeder. It does about 12ppm and that turned out to be too slow. I got tired of it in a day or two.
I tried a bunch of different solutions, but I finally had to take it all to work. We had a Fujitsu M4097D and an enormous Ricoh Copier/Scanner/Fax machine. Both did 60ppm, both sides (120 images a minute). I actually made some headway with that setup, but I still didn't finish.
As far as OCR is concerned, don't bother. Even today, it's nowhere near accurate enough. In my experience, the best software out there get an average of one error per page on a really good scan. Trust me: it will take a lot more of your time than you think to fix that. Assuming you're doing mostly black and white text, G4 compression will compress a 300dpi, 8.5x11 image down to about 100k. At that rate, you can store close to 7000 pages on one CD.
get everything integrated with Active Directory, so there is only 1 password to manage.
That's fine for your internal passwords, but having a single password on systems that are less secure - say, those in your DMZ - is risky, especially if it's the same password on your internal systems. If someone hacks just one machine, they'll be able to access them all.
Yeah, TiVo's really beginning to irritate me with their inability to keep up. About a month ago, I bought a wireless adapter for my Series 2, only to find out my TiVo didn't support WPA. How long has WPA been out, now, two years?
Last week (or was it the week before?) they announced they'll be supporting WPA, finally, but only on their special adapter. Needless to say, I am not a happy customer.
Keep only one credit card... Never use it
Umm, wrong. I used to do everything you said, and the only reason I was able to buy my first house is because my wife had a better credit rating than me. Since then, I started paying for everything I can with my Amex card and paying it off, in full, every month. We just bought our second house a few months ago and my credit rating was a little better than hers.
The point is, having a credit card doesn't count, unless you use it.
As a percentage of potential customer base, the Quest series probably rocked the Sims...
Actually, now that you mention it, I would love to see a list that had the top 100 games of all time, as a percentage of potential customer base. That would be an informative list. Any takers?
There are plenty of startups who are doing nothing but HOPING to be bought out by a larger, richer company.
I'm sure that's true and, if they are successful at it, more power to them. However, that's a pretty risky model on which to base your business, isn't it? After all, it's not really not up to you, the smaller business owner. If you start negotiating and your price is too high, or your product isn't quite ready, or the buyer is just in a bad mood that day, the deal could fall through, and the larger company will go elsewhere.
there's only a tiny chance that a fraction of those will be bought by or competed against by Microsoft.
I would argue that those products don't have a huge amount of value. I'm sure Microsoft will go from the largest targets to the smallest, so those will be last on the hit list.
Some of those companies will be put out of business indirectly - Microsoft will (probably not even deliberately) add something to Windows that will make the smaller company's product irrelevant, much like they did with Novell Netware, but on a smaller scale. How many companies that produced graphics libraries were put out of business, when Microsoft came out with Windows?
Even if Microsoft isn't targeting your market now, if and when they do decide to target it, you're done. Is that really a secure enough model to pin your business on?
Make your money while you can...
What's the point?
The point is to make more money for Microsoft by allowing them to expand into another market. Watch: in a year or two, there'll be DreamWeaver/Expression wars all over the place, much like Linux/Windows wars, today. A year or two after that, DreamWeaver will be gone.
I've said it before and I'll sat it again. I can't understand why people still develop software for Windows. People who do will have one of two futures: either Microsoft will buy them, or Microsoft will come out with a competing product and put them out of business. It's just crazy.
Hosting web services in house has some mythical attraction that i've never grasped.
For my company, it's not really practical. Between the web front-end of our service and the database server, the web front-end has the lowest bandwidth, so the database server and the web server need to be as close as possible. They also need to be fairly high-bandwidth. To get decent performance with hosting solution, we'd need to put our entire data center there.
Instead, we have multiple T1s. (They're not hosted by different companies, yet, but I hope to fix that, soon.)
I can't believe people are modding you up for that comment. At least suggest an alternative, rather than just complaining.
Personally, I have to agree with the people who are suggesting BASIC. To start with, it's easy. One advantage that no one else has mentioned, yet, is that it requires less thought about the intricacies of programming. One of the hardest things beginning programmers have to deal with is the whole "the computer does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do". Why is it necessary to throw in stuff like character vs integer vs floating point vs data structures on top of that? The good thing about BASIC is that, because there are only two data types, numeric and string, there's less to worry about - as it should be. That's why the "B" stands for "beginner".
Over the years, I've argued with a lot of people who think Pascal should be everyone's first language. I will never understand that, even if I live to be 1000.
It could also be there simply isn't much more story to tell.
I can't agree with this. As I mentioned in another Stargate thread, a few months ago, they should reveal the stargate to the general public. The social and political fallout would give them at least two more seasons of story.
I heard NASA wasn't planning on renewing the Voyager funding when it was supposed to expire, last October? Did they change their minds?
On Windows (9x, 2k, XP Home, XP Pro, Vista's 7 versions), I can ship one binary package that works for everybody.
You're joking, right? If I had a dollar for every time a software vendor told me "Oh, we don't support Windows XP", or at the very least, had to be run under the Administrator account, I could retire.
For popular OSS packages, the most difficult thing you need to do is "./configure; make; make install". That's a lot easier than even messing around with some of the licensing procedures for closed-source software.
As far as I'm concerned, Stinkoman has the market on platformers cornered. :-)
there's less overhead from the lack of TCP/IP
If that's what they're after, why not use HyperSCSI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperSCSI
the art and passion which existed in making movies and entertaining people has been replaced by hunger for making money
I totally agree with you.
I also find it interesting you say this, especially since, when the studios are talking about piracy, they always insist that, if we don't pay for their material, quality will suffer. I'm not trying to condone piracy, or anything, but I think we all know that's a bunch of BS.
Every so often, you hear about some actor who made a big deal (walked off a set, etc.) about the "art" of making a movie or television show, or didn't want to sell out. I always used to think they were just being childish, but I'm beginning to see their point of view.
Oh, be nice. It only just showed up on Digg 16 hours ago. :-)