Yeah, they'll try to cut down that unwanted traffic by buying Norton or McAfee software suites to clean up their system, which will in turn generate a lot of net traffic on their own auto-updating every day, calling home every so often, and sending you advertisements about whatever new programs or services they have. It's a lose-lose situation.
I work for Target, and we sell a DVD player that will edit explicit content out of movies for you. It's called Clearplay, and you have to subscribe to their site to use the filtering technology. You just download the Clearplay filter library to a flash drive and plug it into the Clearplay DVD player, and it will use the library to determine what content should be filtered out of whatever DVD you're watching.
A few months ago I was checking out mp3 players in the same class as the iPod Video (before the most recent generation was announced) and had settled on the Zen Vision M by Creative. From what I've seen, Creative makes really good quality mp3 players, and they're more Linux-friendly from what I read. Also, they have more features and recognize more audio and video formats than the iPod Video which the same price (back in the spring/summer).
However, I ended up getting an iPod Video. This was because I bought my wife a MacBook Pro at an authorized Apple reseller (which she happens to work at) and they were offering a $200 rebate on iPods for college students who bought a Macintosh computer. I really think the Zen Vision M is superior to the iPod Video in just about every way, but I just couldn't turn down a $50 iPod.
Application frontends should be tailored to work well with the window manager, not the other way around. Someone shouldn't have to play around with different window managers just so they can find one that works well with the GIMP.
The GIMP is definitely the most powerful image manipulation application in the free-to-$100 range, but it simply isn't as good as Photoshop, especially in the area of intuitive usibility. I pretty much self-taught myself Photoshop, but I've never been able to get the hang of the GIMP. It's difficulty curve isn't quite as bad as running into a brick wall (like when I was trying to learn blender), but it's pretty close if you're trying to do anything beyond the most basic functions.
This is basically how I got into using linux. First, I was very unsatisfied with IE and heard about Firefox, and I fell in love with it instantly. Then I heard about Open Office and decided to give it a try, and by the time OOo 2.0 came out I was using it for everything that I had used previously MS Office for. Then I did some research into linux and discovered live CDs. It wasn't too long after testing them out that I decided to actually install linux on my second hard drive. Now when I'm on my computer I'm working in openSUSE 10.2 (my preferred distro) and only use Windows for Photoshop (even though I'm getting better at GIMP, I still need to use Photoshop for some things), 3ds max, and games.
Basically, people are naturally afraid of change, so people who aren't familiar with open source need to be introduced to it gradually. A little bit of change, like trying out a different web browser or office suite, is a lot easier for people to handle then jumping directly into linux and completely leaving Windows behind.
The prototype for the controller contained a washer in the joystick that was necessary for it to center automatically. However, sometime before mass production, someone removed the washer from the prototype and all of the controllers were mass-produced without it.
I first started getting my feet wet in the Linux world a few months ago with Xandros, which included a 30 day trial version of Crossover Office. Out of all of the programs that I tried to install, the only one that worked as well as it did in Windows was IE, which was required by one of the programs I tried, unsuccessfully, to install. It's ironic that the only program I installed that I didn't really want to use was the only one that "worked" (I use the term loosely since we're talkinging about IE here). Crossover Office is still iffy. A direct port so the application can run natively under Linux would be far superior.
It's amazing how many people don't recognize this article for what it is. Anybody here ever read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal? Have you ever seen a Gilbert and Sullivan production?
In case you didn't realize, this article is SATIRE. It's not meant to be taken seriously. He's making fun of people who argue against Open Source, so calm down, reread this article, and have a good laugh at the expense of M$ and everyone else who hates Open Source.
I started out in Aerospace Engineering here at Texas A&M University. The classes were really hard and the only thing I liked about it was the computer graphics. I changed majors (they were about to kick me out of engineering anyway) to American Studies, but I'm still taking Engineering Design and Graphics (ENDG) classes because I love working with 3D graphics. It looks like ENDG is going to be offered as a minor soon, so I'll be able to use it as a minor, which my degree plan requires.
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I have played Civilization, Civ II, and CivI II. I mostly play and enjoy Civ II (it is one of my all-time favorite games) because that is the first one I ever played. One thing that I have noticed is that, with each new version, the game takes longer to complete. My Civ III games take substantially longer to complete than my Civ II games (in which I usually win via space race) and many times I don't even get into the modern age in Civ III. This can get very boring and frustrating, and this is the main reason why I prefer Civ II to Civ III. Is Civ IV going to follow this trend, or are you going to make the game play out much faster?
The reason why is so that people who are used to Windows won't be totally lost and frustrated whenever they are trying to learn a new environment. I just switched from Windows to Linux a few weeks ago, and I probably wouldn't have made the switch without starting out on Xandros, one of the most Windows-like distros out there. Personally, I think KDE is much better than the Windows desktop, and it's familiar enough that I don't have any problems using it. If you don't like using apps and environments that remind you of Windows, then you don't have to. That's the great thing about Linux and this new GimpShop thing, isn't it? You can choose your environment, which is more than what Windows and Photoshop has to offer.
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Yeah, they'll try to cut down that unwanted traffic by buying Norton or McAfee software suites to clean up their system, which will in turn generate a lot of net traffic on their own auto-updating every day, calling home every so often, and sending you advertisements about whatever new programs or services they have. It's a lose-lose situation.
I work for Target, and we sell a DVD player that will edit explicit content out of movies for you. It's called Clearplay, and you have to subscribe to their site to use the filtering technology. You just download the Clearplay filter library to a flash drive and plug it into the Clearplay DVD player, and it will use the library to determine what content should be filtered out of whatever DVD you're watching.
A few months ago I was checking out mp3 players in the same class as the iPod Video (before the most recent generation was announced) and had settled on the Zen Vision M by Creative. From what I've seen, Creative makes really good quality mp3 players, and they're more Linux-friendly from what I read. Also, they have more features and recognize more audio and video formats than the iPod Video which the same price (back in the spring/summer).
However, I ended up getting an iPod Video. This was because I bought my wife a MacBook Pro at an authorized Apple reseller (which she happens to work at) and they were offering a $200 rebate on iPods for college students who bought a Macintosh computer. I really think the Zen Vision M is superior to the iPod Video in just about every way, but I just couldn't turn down a $50 iPod.
Application frontends should be tailored to work well with the window manager, not the other way around. Someone shouldn't have to play around with different window managers just so they can find one that works well with the GIMP.
The GIMP is definitely the most powerful image manipulation application in the free-to-$100 range, but it simply isn't as good as Photoshop, especially in the area of intuitive usibility. I pretty much self-taught myself Photoshop, but I've never been able to get the hang of the GIMP. It's difficulty curve isn't quite as bad as running into a brick wall (like when I was trying to learn blender), but it's pretty close if you're trying to do anything beyond the most basic functions.
This is basically how I got into using linux. First, I was very unsatisfied with IE and heard about Firefox, and I fell in love with it instantly. Then I heard about Open Office and decided to give it a try, and by the time OOo 2.0 came out I was using it for everything that I had used previously MS Office for. Then I did some research into linux and discovered live CDs. It wasn't too long after testing them out that I decided to actually install linux on my second hard drive. Now when I'm on my computer I'm working in openSUSE 10.2 (my preferred distro) and only use Windows for Photoshop (even though I'm getting better at GIMP, I still need to use Photoshop for some things), 3ds max, and games.
Basically, people are naturally afraid of change, so people who aren't familiar with open source need to be introduced to it gradually. A little bit of change, like trying out a different web browser or office suite, is a lot easier for people to handle then jumping directly into linux and completely leaving Windows behind.
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The prototype for the controller contained a washer in the joystick that was necessary for it to center automatically. However, sometime before mass production, someone removed the washer from the prototype and all of the controllers were mass-produced without it.
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I first started getting my feet wet in the Linux world a few months ago with Xandros, which included a 30 day trial version of Crossover Office. Out of all of the programs that I tried to install, the only one that worked as well as it did in Windows was IE, which was required by one of the programs I tried, unsuccessfully, to install. It's ironic that the only program I installed that I didn't really want to use was the only one that "worked" (I use the term loosely since we're talkinging about IE here). Crossover Office is still iffy. A direct port so the application can run natively under Linux would be far superior.
It's amazing how many people don't recognize this article for what it is.
Anybody here ever read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal? Have you ever seen a Gilbert and Sullivan production?
In case you didn't realize, this article is SATIRE.
It's not meant to be taken seriously. He's making fun of people who argue against Open Source, so calm down, reread this article, and have a good laugh at the expense of M$ and everyone else who hates Open Source.
I started out in Aerospace Engineering here at Texas A&M University. The classes were really hard and the only thing I liked about it was the computer graphics. I changed majors (they were about to kick me out of engineering anyway) to American Studies, but I'm still taking Engineering Design and Graphics (ENDG) classes because I love working with 3D graphics. It looks like ENDG is going to be offered as a minor soon, so I'll be able to use it as a minor, which my degree plan requires.
I have played Civilization, Civ II, and CivI II. I mostly play and enjoy Civ II (it is one of my all-time favorite games) because that is the first one I ever played. One thing that I have noticed is that, with each new version, the game takes longer to complete. My Civ III games take substantially longer to complete than my Civ II games (in which I usually win via space race) and many times I don't even get into the modern age in Civ III. This can get very boring and frustrating, and this is the main reason why I prefer Civ II to Civ III. Is Civ IV going to follow this trend, or are you going to make the game play out much faster?
The reason why is so that people who are used to Windows won't be totally lost and frustrated whenever they are trying to learn a new environment. I just switched from Windows to Linux a few weeks ago, and I probably wouldn't have made the switch without starting out on Xandros, one of the most Windows-like distros out there. Personally, I think KDE is much better than the Windows desktop, and it's familiar enough that I don't have any problems using it. If you don't like using apps and environments that remind you of Windows, then you don't have to. That's the great thing about Linux and this new GimpShop thing, isn't it? You can choose your environment, which is more than what Windows and Photoshop has to offer.