Uh, people have been working hard to understand how the hardware works in order to write open source drivers. See here for example. The problem is that ATI doesn't open up the specs for their recent cards so there are very few and tedious avenues to having open source drivers (eg. reverse engineer the binary drivers, probing hardeware settings, etc). As far as I know, there's practically full opne source 3D drivers for R100-R200 based cards, somewhat full 3D drivers for R300 based cards, and no support for later models. So the OSS community is working on the driver issues, it takes time without documentation.
When those tasks broaden and become more general and adaptive, there's a risk a certain threshold will be passed where we truly no longer fully comprehend these machines capabilities and will find ourselves one day no longer in control of our creations.
That's what my parents said about me when I was a teenager...
But there's a lesson here - if you break a CFL, open the windows and clean it up yourself. Don't lick the floor where it broke. Don't gnaw on the pieces of broken glass. Don't scrape the coating from the inside of the bulb, dissolve it in vodka, and inject it into your neck. Use common sense.
Where were you when my CFL broke? Now I have broken teeth and this weird feeling like I'm drunk...
You know, these new-fangled computers that we have can be started in 16-bit mode thereby acting just like an original IBM PC, but gigahertz faster. What you mean to say is that modern operating systems abstract everything for you. You can still boot these new computers into DOS if you wanted to and remove all of that abstraction. On the other hand, there's a good reason most people left DOS behind...
If I only had mod points to mod parent up. Where's the outrage with only being able to run Mac OS X on Apple hardware only? At least with Windows, you don't need a more expensive machine.
Look, I learned everything I need to know about the Great Western Expansion by playing Oregon trail. Such as, it is very easy to die of dysentery.
The part that irks me is that no textbook I've seen ever mentions that farmers who made the trip successfully were awarded triple bonus points at the end.
It was on slashdot a few months ago. Basically, a developer was giving one of the in-game corporations (somewhat like a guild in other games) blueprints to powerful ships and other things.
Well at least the convertor coupons benefit anyone who wants one. The bridge to nowhere benefits almost no one but the corrupt politician who demanded it.
I'll grant you that StarOffice was "crappy" in terms of user-interface although it was still functional. Doesn't sound like you've used Wordperfect Office though since it is by no means lousy. For the average user, any office suite would theoretically do. Look at all the unwanted crap that gets installed by default. In the minds of the average user, the bundled office program will be lumped in with all the other unwanted crap and thus be considered inferior. And since the upgrade to MS Office costs money, it must be better.
As for Open Office being competitive with MS Office, for me that would only apply to the word processing program. I find the Open Office presentation program still inferior to MS Office.
I remember when StarOffice was installed by default on eMachines computers. No one used it. Instead they pirated MS Office and used that instead. This was just a few years ago too. So people won't necessarily use something just because it's installed by default unless they're familiar with it (ie Windows).
Existing treaties that are overly idealistic have had the bad side effect of limiting or halting the development of other projects (as mentioned before: Orion).
While the nuclear test ban treaty ultimately shelved Orion, launching an Orion-type craft from Earth is still a bad idea due to the resulting nuclear fallout.
How is that a result of monopoly? There are free 3rd party patches that work. Now if Microsoft prevented 3rd party patches, that would be another issue.
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Uh, people have been working hard to understand how the hardware works in order to write open source drivers. See here for example. The problem is that ATI doesn't open up the specs for their recent cards so there are very few and tedious avenues to having open source drivers (eg. reverse engineer the binary drivers, probing hardeware settings, etc). As far as I know, there's practically full opne source 3D drivers for R100-R200 based cards, somewhat full 3D drivers for R300 based cards, and no support for later models. So the OSS community is working on the driver issues, it takes time without documentation.
That's what my parents said about me when I was a teenager...
I agree. Want to buy some Guild Wars gold with Runescape gold?
It is if you're General Electric or Proctor and Gamble. Almost everything you buy or use is stamped with GE or PG on it.
Where were you when my CFL broke? Now I have broken teeth and this weird feeling like I'm drunk...
Exactly! It's about time we did a file system check!
Hmmm... you've just described lawyer speak...
Is it a valid assumption though? I know several people who own a corporation, and each one is the only employee of his respective corporation.
You know, these new-fangled computers that we have can be started in 16-bit mode thereby acting just like an original IBM PC, but gigahertz faster. What you mean to say is that modern operating systems abstract everything for you. You can still boot these new computers into DOS if you wanted to and remove all of that abstraction. On the other hand, there's a good reason most people left DOS behind...
If I only had mod points to mod parent up. Where's the outrage with only being able to run Mac OS X on Apple hardware only? At least with Windows, you don't need a more expensive machine.
That's what "underrated" is for dammit!!!
The part that irks me is that no textbook I've seen ever mentions that farmers who made the trip successfully were awarded triple bonus points at the end.
If she lived in a state with good state schools (eg, UC Berkeley), it'd more than pay for 4 years.
Oops! Gave the wrong link. Here's the actual link.
It was on slashdot a few months ago. Basically, a developer was giving one of the in-game corporations (somewhat like a guild in other games) blueprints to powerful ships and other things.
...or one that you can eat!
Well at least the convertor coupons benefit anyone who wants one. The bridge to nowhere benefits almost no one but the corrupt politician who demanded it.
I'll grant you that StarOffice was "crappy" in terms of user-interface although it was still functional. Doesn't sound like you've used Wordperfect Office though since it is by no means lousy. For the average user, any office suite would theoretically do. Look at all the unwanted crap that gets installed by default. In the minds of the average user, the bundled office program will be lumped in with all the other unwanted crap and thus be considered inferior. And since the upgrade to MS Office costs money, it must be better.
As for Open Office being competitive with MS Office, for me that would only apply to the word processing program. I find the Open Office presentation program still inferior to MS Office.
I wouldn't be too sure of that. In the past few years, Dell did come preinstalled with Wordperfect Office. No one used that either.
I remember when StarOffice was installed by default on eMachines computers. No one used it. Instead they pirated MS Office and used that instead. This was just a few years ago too. So people won't necessarily use something just because it's installed by default unless they're familiar with it (ie Windows).
Well, where else are you supposed to brake?
While the nuclear test ban treaty ultimately shelved Orion, launching an Orion-type craft from Earth is still a bad idea due to the resulting nuclear fallout.
Done and done. Would you like to be billed now or later?
How is that a result of monopoly? There are free 3rd party patches that work. Now if Microsoft prevented 3rd party patches, that would be another issue.
Or a snob