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THIS is "The Matrix" of Anime, although I liked it more than said movie.
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Ghost in the Shell: someone said this was "The Matrix" of anime, but I think it has more to do with "Blade Runner", topic and style-wise
No, it's the other way around. The Matrix draws a great many inspirations from anime. In fact, the Wachowski brothers copied several scenes from Ghost in the Shell verbatim. check it out
I've used Opera for a while and it is quite nice, but I've found that Galeon does all of these things too, and it uses the Gecko rendering engine which is better than Operas. The only thing that Opera does better, IMHO, is Java/Javascript which which is a lot more difficult to set up. Also, you can open windows in Tabs or new windows, or both if you prefer. Opera is entirely tab-based.
You can use Quicktime and other windows plugins with Codeweavers' Crossover plugin here, well worth the $20--and don't take my word for it, theres a downloadable demo.
As much as I like Linux, and as much as I use Linux, the reality of the matter is that there are some applicatons which (hopefully only yet) do not exist for Linux.
All true. And yet, that still doesn't make the experience of using Windows any less painful.
DVD copying programs have been in existence since 1997, well before DeCSS was written. It was done mostly by hacking a Windows driver or otherwise capturing the decrypted video.
The single biggest reason I miss Napster is because it was a great resource to me for getting foreign music that isn't available in the states. Nowadays it's much harder to find that kind of thing.
Lack of an OS-based menu alongside the application menus (i.e., an equivalent to the Apple menu - Windows' Start menu appears on the taskbar, which is pretty far from the app menus and therefore involves more mousing).
take another look at the screenshot. See the menu named "System"? Thats pretty much what you just described.
Funny thing is, they were blurring out the logo on Jackson's jacket but they cut back to him once and forgot to blur it. Just some company's name. I really don't understand why they blurred those out either.
But he's not content, he was complaining about XP's activation and how he had to pirate the corporate version to escape it. I suggested he try some alternatives, but if he won't then he really has no right to complain.
Not wanting to support something you disagree with is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. But the way you go about it doesn't make sense to me. You are still supporting Microsoft--maybe not with your wallet, but by mindshare by using their software. Why? There are many alternatives to what they supply (especially in the realm of operating systems) and while you may not be completely free of Windows, you will go from being a user to an outsider who uses it when he has to. I've been running Linux exclusively for nearly three years and I still boot into Windows to place a few games, but I consider myself independent of their software and certainly don't support them in any way. If you want to protest against WPA then don't use Microsoft's software, period. Otherwise you're not really making a difference.
Does anyone know if the Ximian Destop works with 'woody'?
Yes, it works okay with woody but it's messy. I would recommend installing it under a stock potato install and then dist-upgrade to woody, that works fine. If you already have woody installed... well, prepare to fight it a little. I've had no end of trouble with libgnomeprint.
That works I guess. Although Gnome does give you more than just the panel: it also gives you the infrastructure for running Gnome programs (and some of these are quite a bit more useful than a file manager)
I've never had any of those problems you describe. Overall my Gnome experience has been overwhelmingly positive. You don't want to be running nautilus on a slow system, though. Gmc, however, doesn't run too bad at all if you don't mind a slightly less pretty shell.
Better yet, just open up your favorite gnutella client and download them. There are nice quality mpegs of them all over. I've had mpegs of One More Time and Aerodynamic for a while.
Bullshit. People are exposed to software against their will every day at their jobs. Most people have no choice of what operating system, office suite, or other programs they run. I am fortunate enough to be able to run Linux at work, but most people are not given that choice.
Is it possible to get a PPC machine without buying a off-the-shelf Mac, though? I would like to build a PPC but I don't want all the bundled software and crap--those things are expensive enough as it is.
don't render properly under Mozilla, because the web designers didn't care.
I've compared Mozilla's gecko renderer to IE's html renderer, and I have a hard time telling a difference most of the time. Mozilla is actually one of the few browser that can properly render css2, and IE isn't one of them. The only times Mozilla doesn't render properly is when someone used something like shockwave... and stupidity like that should be punished, OS be damned.
95% of all online purchases are made from Windows machines, then from a business point of view it doesn't make sense to worry about the other 1%
Who cares about the online ordering sites that don't work? Most do, so just buy from somewhere else. It's really no big deal. And commerce sites aren't the reason the Internet is cool in the first place. If that's all people wanted they'd just stick with AOL.
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Ghost in the Shell: someone said this was "The Matrix" of anime, but I think it has more to do with "Blade Runner", topic and style-wise
No, it's the other way around. The Matrix draws a great many inspirations from anime. In fact, the Wachowski brothers copied several scenes from Ghost in the Shell verbatim. check it out
I've used Opera for a while and it is quite nice, but I've found that Galeon does all of these things too, and it uses the Gecko rendering engine which is better than Operas. The only thing that Opera does better, IMHO, is Java/Javascript which which is a lot more difficult to set up. Also, you can open windows in Tabs or new windows, or both if you prefer. Opera is entirely tab-based.
Um, that is consistent cut-and-paste!
Flash for Linux can be found here
You can use Quicktime and other windows plugins with Codeweavers' Crossover plugin here, well worth the $20--and don't take my word for it, theres a downloadable demo.
All true. And yet, that still doesn't make the experience of using Windows any less painful.
Speak for yourself :-P
Jerry Stiller has been a success since long before Seinfeld.
DVD copying programs have been in existence since 1997, well before DeCSS was written. It was done mostly by hacking a Windows driver or otherwise capturing the decrypted video.
The single biggest reason I miss Napster is because it was a great resource to me for getting foreign music that isn't available in the states. Nowadays it's much harder to find that kind of thing.
I do that with DVDs I own all the time. What's the problem?
Download the Gnome 2.0 code from cvs, it's there if you want it. There's no such thing as open source vaporware.
take another look at the screenshot. See the menu named "System"? Thats pretty much what you just described.
Funny thing is, they were blurring out the logo on Jackson's jacket but they cut back to him once and forgot to blur it. Just some company's name. I really don't understand why they blurred those out either.
Actually, they've already done that in Dragonheart, and it looked pretty good. It's been years since then so they could do an even better job now.
But he's not content, he was complaining about XP's activation and how he had to pirate the corporate version to escape it. I suggested he try some alternatives, but if he won't then he really has no right to complain.
Not wanting to support something you disagree with is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. But the way you go about it doesn't make sense to me. You are still supporting Microsoft--maybe not with your wallet, but by mindshare by using their software. Why? There are many alternatives to what they supply (especially in the realm of operating systems) and while you may not be completely free of Windows, you will go from being a user to an outsider who uses it when he has to. I've been running Linux exclusively for nearly three years and I still boot into Windows to place a few games, but I consider myself independent of their software and certainly don't support them in any way. If you want to protest against WPA then don't use Microsoft's software, period. Otherwise you're not really making a difference.
Yes, Woody's libc totally breaks red-carpet. But if you're using Woody, apt-get is safer anyway.
Yes, it works okay with woody but it's messy. I would recommend installing it under a stock potato install and then dist-upgrade to woody, that works fine. If you already have woody installed... well, prepare to fight it a little. I've had no end of trouble with libgnomeprint.
That works I guess. Although Gnome does give you more than just the panel: it also gives you the infrastructure for running Gnome programs (and some of these are quite a bit more useful than a file manager)
looks perfectly fine to me
I've never had any of those problems you describe. Overall my Gnome experience has been overwhelmingly positive. You don't want to be running nautilus on a slow system, though. Gmc, however, doesn't run too bad at all if you don't mind a slightly less pretty shell.
Better yet, just open up your favorite gnutella client and download them. There are nice quality mpegs of them all over. I've had mpegs of One More Time and Aerodynamic for a while.
Bullshit. People are exposed to software against their will every day at their jobs. Most people have no choice of what operating system, office suite, or other programs they run. I am fortunate enough to be able to run Linux at work, but most people are not given that choice.
Is it possible to get a PPC machine without buying a off-the-shelf Mac, though? I would like to build a PPC but I don't want all the bundled software and crap--those things are expensive enough as it is.
I've compared Mozilla's gecko renderer to IE's html renderer, and I have a hard time telling a difference most of the time. Mozilla is actually one of the few browser that can properly render css2, and IE isn't one of them. The only times Mozilla doesn't render properly is when someone used something like shockwave... and stupidity like that should be punished, OS be damned.
95% of all online purchases are made from Windows machines, then from a business point of view it doesn't make sense to worry about the other 1%
Who cares about the online ordering sites that don't work? Most do, so just buy from somewhere else. It's really no big deal. And commerce sites aren't the reason the Internet is cool in the first place. If that's all people wanted they'd just stick with AOL.