I didn't mean to say they planned anything, more like they just wanted to imitate office 07 in a somewhat lazy manner and took each of the existing toolbars and turned them into tabs...
For those that don't know and don't feel like using Wikipedia, it's basically OpenOffice 1.1.4 at the core with some extended features, most noticeably that it uses a tabbed toolbar in the manner of MS Office 07's "Ribbon" but instead of randomly putting menu items onto tabs, each existing toolbar has been turned into a tab...
With so much crap like this, why doesn't Boeing make such rescue techniques cost effective and safe enough to do regularly and then offer it as a service = Your satellite dies, we rescue it for a decent fee.
While launching a satellite might cost less than the rescue mission, I would think that figuring building another of the doomed satellite into the cost of launching another would make a rescue mission more attractive...
BTW: don't take it too much to heart, I'm only an armchair astronaut...
Considering that Linux is more popular, or rather even known, amongst hobby computer nerds. Also, they don't have to do R&D for the entire OS, only a few drivers at most - and even then, if it behaves unexpectedly, they can half claim it's not their fault.
Not many companies that I know of make money on selling *nix OS's anymore, they make it by selling companies support contracts. HP will make just as much money off of Linux support contracts as they would HP-UX, if not more because of all the amateur Linux admins out there that need just a bit more training compared to an HP-UX admin's salary...
Other than it'll be a Linux laptop - Synaptic and/or apt-get install openarena xxx-porn-browser every_package_in_the_repo etc
Even on Windows, optical only really matters when teachers/parents get those frogger learning software packages, but seeing as kids as early as middle school (at the least) download every single piece of crap that comes up on screen
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his point is that the quality of these sorts of F/OSS releases is often on par with a commercial product that would now be release 8.12 - not just 8.0 feature-wise, but.12 because of the stability. when you go to show your phb why your company should use wireshark, tell them its only 1.0 and yet already has tons of features and stability not found in commercial products at 8.12 releases
ya - fork it into the Mozilla Suite 2.0 - which is why the Mozilla Suite exists, to make that bloated version of Firefox with features that none of the people here on/. want... If I want an email client, I'll download Thunderbird, not use my web-browser, which is meant for browsing the web...
this might or might not be true, and is certainly off-topic - but my personal opinion is that the only visible reasons for a company to choose RHEL is so they can buy support and have somebody to blame and a receipt to prove it, or because they're using some software package that only comes prepackaged in RPM format...
As I read it, the GP didn't dismiss any kind of literature as not having artistic value. He put the artistic value and "cheerleading" aspect of Clarke's work next to each other on a bar graph and said that the inspirational value is higher than the artistic value. In other words, if the artistic value is a fantastic contribution to society, the inspirational value to society would then be astronomical...
Because each major distro, while they use the same base kernel, GNU command line tools, and same GNOME/KDE environment, can have radically different kernel extensions and drivers implemented by one distro doing development but not another. If you're using whatever GUI tools a distro provides, they can each configure the same backend very differently, which depending on how the tool writes the config file can also effect stability, security, and other functions. Also Fedora/RHEL and tends to use tools created or modified by Red Hat specifically while those aren't easily available for Debian or SuSe, which have their own tools in the same manner.
Nobody in with any kind of experience with computers and gaming would who's in their right mind would even expect any sort of onboard or hybrid gpu to excel at gaming, so why even mention it? What, because it gives the summary and article an extra bit of filler to make it look longer?
Yes, as its being made with themes to better integrate with the OS its installed on - Linux gets Tango by default, Windows gets some weird ass Vista inspired theme, and Mac gets an Aqua style... so yes, if you like Aqua...
First off, Toshiba was the third main company in on the Cell from the start (first two being Sony and IBM) - if I recall, the processor fabrication plants were Toshiba's to begin with (Sony contracted IBM to design it and Toshiba producing the Cell). Anybody that thinks this is some kind of payoff must have been too young to read the news 3 or 4 years ago when the Cell was first announced...
Blu-Ray won - get over the fact that you spent thousands to be an early adopter only to see your choice not make it...
What does that mean? It means they decided they became irrelevant to the industry at some point or another, and they know they can't get back up there with superior technology and code, so they'll just buy the competition out so that people in the market have no choice but to go to them.
Everybody always says they get these insane memory leaks? Personally I've never had these problems - I've got to wonder, just what the damned hell is everybody doing that causes this? Typically I only have 5 tabs open per window multiplied by 3 instances at the most. I close tabs I'm not using, and if I'm done with the browser for more than 5 or 10 minutes. I have about 8 extensions right now - and I typically only see about 60 or 70 megabytes of RAM usage (still not ideal, but not what some people say). I think the most I've ever seen Firefox 2.0.x consume is about 150MiB of memory. This is on my home desktop running WinXP Pro SP2, with an AMD Athlon 4200x2 and 2 GiB of RAM...
Like I said, just what the damned hell are people doing that their Firefox sessions consume 300+ MiB of RAM? For god's sake people, close tabs you haven't used in an hour, if you're leaving the house for 3 hours, close Firefox entirely (unless you're using it to download something)...
You realize they'd be giving up sex with a British housewife. I can see how the TV would be more appealing.
You realize they'd be giving up sex with a British housewife. Not to mention that being over 40, they only get it once every 4 months anyway - whats an extra 2 months, especially when its that British housewife? I can see how the TV would be more appealing.
So basically its the new paid version of Geocities?
Oh well, I guess at least for the next month or so before people start being told that there actually are bandwidth limits, every torrent in the world will have like an extra 5 web-hosts...
obviously it's gonna have a clause that says no illegal activities, but you know people would try anyway...
Even if its not entirely text, or because there's audio too, you don't need to pay as much attention to the text, but Final Fantasy 10 has enormous amounts of dialog. Even if you can only grasp 2/3's of how deep the story goes, I saw a lot more romantic, social, and moral values in the characters and overall plot than I got out of Romeo and Juliet in high school (played the game and went the Shakespear about the same time).
Even F.E.A.R. has a plot-line worth looking at. A lot of people will only see pretty effects and a shooter thats fun to play in FEAR, but if they'd look deeper and pick up all of the the answering machines and pay attention to the story, they'd see how sick the plot is...
I think the monsters were a direct mix between the monster faces of Resistance: Fall of Man, the bodies of Gears of War, and the minion types falling off were a lot like Final Fantasy 10 when Sin or various Sin-spawn shed scales/minions...
I thought the first 15 minutes or so (at the party mostly) was boring - the action started getting good with the scenes where the military shows up and things start going boom. Sounds like just about everybody hates the retarded camera thing - I got used to it enough to watch the movie, but that doesn't change that the camera sucked 90% of the time. I think it would have been a much better movie if they had used traditional camera crews, then the audience could focus more on the action and interactions/relationships of the group(s) of people. Using the handy-cam for a few parts of the movie would be good though, such as when Rob films waking up with Beth and the scene through the tunnel where they use the night vision on the camera.
As for the Star Trek movie, I'm barely even like Star Trek, but at least the trailer got my attention, and they made the Enterprise look pretty cool during construction - I saw that and was happy to see a space exploration movie in the works...
Not only that, but this story was covered back in October. In fact, the old one was even better, since it was more descriptive and not misleading in the title or description...
At least the old article mentioned that it was Asus to be first making these boards (the dupe only has a screenshot of the bootloader having an Asus logo. Or that it would first be available on Asus's Intel X38 motherboards...
I think along with myself, a lot of people are getting tired of dupes on stories from months ago, with "articles" by "IT companies/magazines" that read old stories on/., but because all the PHB's out there that think these magazines are a good source of information on upcoming technology, one of 'em posts it to here, where we've known about it for months...
In other words, it would probably fill the needs of a lot of people, but you can't purchase it (unless you're a system builder) - otherwise you'll have to download it illegally, and since some people act like you're a devil worshipper if you mention software piracy, its often better to just not mention it.
To clarify - it exists and there's a chance that Windows Fundamentals would fulfill your needs, but you most likely won't be able to *legally* obtain it...
Sure, its already out even - Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's. The catch is you actually can't have it, since its meant for "system builders" only. While it claims the bare minimum memory is 64MB of RAM and a Pentium 2, you'd have the same experience as using a Vista machine on under-spec hardware.
I can see what he's thinking somewhat - I used to be stuck between console and PC, but then went largely PC only. Back when the PS3 and the Cell chip-set first started getting decent amounts of attention, I had figured the PS3 would be far better than it is, close to on par with high end desktop gaming pc's. That was about 4 or 5 years ago now - when the PS3's target specs would have been actually impressive. I played the crap outta Rainbow Six: Vegas, back when it came out on PC - so when I tried it on a relative's PS3 after recommending it due to the PC version, I noticed a number of downgrades over the PC version. Scenes such as flying over Vegas in a chopper textures are noticeably lower quality than the PC version.
Basically, for what the systems where hyped to be, it doesn't help when I had a better experience with the PC version of a game long before playing it on a PS3...
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I didn't mean to say they planned anything, more like they just wanted to imitate office 07 in a somewhat lazy manner and took each of the existing toolbars and turned them into tabs...
For those that don't know and don't feel like using Wikipedia, it's basically OpenOffice 1.1.4 at the core with some extended features, most noticeably that it uses a tabbed toolbar in the manner of MS Office 07's "Ribbon" but instead of randomly putting menu items onto tabs, each existing toolbar has been turned into a tab...
With so much crap like this, why doesn't Boeing make such rescue techniques cost effective and safe enough to do regularly and then offer it as a service = Your satellite dies, we rescue it for a decent fee.
While launching a satellite might cost less than the rescue mission, I would think that figuring building another of the doomed satellite into the cost of launching another would make a rescue mission more attractive...
BTW: don't take it too much to heart, I'm only an armchair astronaut...
Considering that Linux is more popular, or rather even known, amongst hobby computer nerds. Also, they don't have to do R&D for the entire OS, only a few drivers at most - and even then, if it behaves unexpectedly, they can half claim it's not their fault.
Not many companies that I know of make money on selling *nix OS's anymore, they make it by selling companies support contracts. HP will make just as much money off of Linux support contracts as they would HP-UX, if not more because of all the amateur Linux admins out there that need just a bit more training compared to an HP-UX admin's salary...
Other than it'll be a Linux laptop - Synaptic and/or apt-get install openarena xxx-porn-browser every_package_in_the_repo etc
Even on Windows, optical only really matters when teachers/parents get those frogger learning software packages, but seeing as kids as early as middle school (at the least) download every single piece of crap that comes up on screen
his point is that the quality of these sorts of F/OSS releases is often on par with a commercial product that would now be release 8.12 - not just 8.0 feature-wise, but .12 because of the stability. when you go to show your phb why your company should use wireshark, tell them its only 1.0 and yet already has tons of features and stability not found in commercial products at 8.12 releases
ya - fork it into the Mozilla Suite 2.0 - which is why the Mozilla Suite exists, to make that bloated version of Firefox with features that none of the people here on /. want... If I want an email client, I'll download Thunderbird, not use my web-browser, which is meant for browsing the web...
its called Foxmarks - create a free account, upload to their servers (or setup and specify your own) then download/sync changes to other machines
if this is what Mozilla is going to do, they might as well just use the majority of the work Foxmarks has done
the upside of using it as an extension instead of including it with the browser, is that if people don't wanna use it, they don't have to...
this might or might not be true, and is certainly off-topic - but my personal opinion is that the only visible reasons for a company to choose RHEL is so they can buy support and have somebody to blame and a receipt to prove it, or because they're using some software package that only comes prepackaged in RPM format...
This also applies to SuSe as far as I can see...
As I read it, the GP didn't dismiss any kind of literature as not having artistic value. He put the artistic value and "cheerleading" aspect of Clarke's work next to each other on a bar graph and said that the inspirational value is higher than the artistic value. In other words, if the artistic value is a fantastic contribution to society, the inspirational value to society would then be astronomical...
Because each major distro, while they use the same base kernel, GNU command line tools, and same GNOME/KDE environment, can have radically different kernel extensions and drivers implemented by one distro doing development but not another. If you're using whatever GUI tools a distro provides, they can each configure the same backend very differently, which depending on how the tool writes the config file can also effect stability, security, and other functions. Also Fedora/RHEL and tends to use tools created or modified by Red Hat specifically while those aren't easily available for Debian or SuSe, which have their own tools in the same manner.
Nobody in with any kind of experience with computers and gaming would who's in their right mind would even expect any sort of onboard or hybrid gpu to excel at gaming, so why even mention it? What, because it gives the summary and article an extra bit of filler to make it look longer?
Yes, as its being made with themes to better integrate with the OS its installed on - Linux gets Tango by default, Windows gets some weird ass Vista inspired theme, and Mac gets an Aqua style... so yes, if you like Aqua...
First off, Toshiba was the third main company in on the Cell from the start (first two being Sony and IBM) - if I recall, the processor fabrication plants were Toshiba's to begin with (Sony contracted IBM to design it and Toshiba producing the Cell). Anybody that thinks this is some kind of payoff must have been too young to read the news 3 or 4 years ago when the Cell was first announced...
Blu-Ray won - get over the fact that you spent thousands to be an early adopter only to see your choice not make it...
What does that mean? It means they decided they became irrelevant to the industry at some point or another, and they know they can't get back up there with superior technology and code, so they'll just buy the competition out so that people in the market have no choice but to go to them.
Everybody always says they get these insane memory leaks? Personally I've never had these problems - I've got to wonder, just what the damned hell is everybody doing that causes this? Typically I only have 5 tabs open per window multiplied by 3 instances at the most. I close tabs I'm not using, and if I'm done with the browser for more than 5 or 10 minutes. I have about 8 extensions right now - and I typically only see about 60 or 70 megabytes of RAM usage (still not ideal, but not what some people say). I think the most I've ever seen Firefox 2.0.x consume is about 150MiB of memory. This is on my home desktop running WinXP Pro SP2, with an AMD Athlon 4200x2 and 2 GiB of RAM...
Like I said, just what the damned hell are people doing that their Firefox sessions consume 300+ MiB of RAM? For god's sake people, close tabs you haven't used in an hour, if you're leaving the house for 3 hours, close Firefox entirely (unless you're using it to download something)...
There, fixed that for ya...
So basically its the new paid version of Geocities?
Oh well, I guess at least for the next month or so before people start being told that there actually are bandwidth limits, every torrent in the world will have like an extra 5 web-hosts...
obviously it's gonna have a clause that says no illegal activities, but you know people would try anyway...
Ya, if its not malware, I'll buy a bridge from somebody, and then go bungee jumping without a chord...
Even if its not entirely text, or because there's audio too, you don't need to pay as much attention to the text, but Final Fantasy 10 has enormous amounts of dialog. Even if you can only grasp 2/3's of how deep the story goes, I saw a lot more romantic, social, and moral values in the characters and overall plot than I got out of Romeo and Juliet in high school (played the game and went the Shakespear about the same time).
Even F.E.A.R. has a plot-line worth looking at. A lot of people will only see pretty effects and a shooter thats fun to play in FEAR, but if they'd look deeper and pick up all of the the answering machines and pay attention to the story, they'd see how sick the plot is...
I think the monsters were a direct mix between the monster faces of Resistance: Fall of Man, the bodies of Gears of War, and the minion types falling off were a lot like Final Fantasy 10 when Sin or various Sin-spawn shed scales/minions...
I thought the first 15 minutes or so (at the party mostly) was boring - the action started getting good with the scenes where the military shows up and things start going boom. Sounds like just about everybody hates the retarded camera thing - I got used to it enough to watch the movie, but that doesn't change that the camera sucked 90% of the time. I think it would have been a much better movie if they had used traditional camera crews, then the audience could focus more on the action and interactions/relationships of the group(s) of people. Using the handy-cam for a few parts of the movie would be good though, such as when Rob films waking up with Beth and the scene through the tunnel where they use the night vision on the camera.
As for the Star Trek movie, I'm barely even like Star Trek, but at least the trailer got my attention, and they made the Enterprise look pretty cool during construction - I saw that and was happy to see a space exploration movie in the works...
Not only that, but this story was covered back in October. In fact, the old one was even better, since it was more descriptive and not misleading in the title or description...
/., but because all the PHB's out there that think these magazines are a good source of information on upcoming technology, one of 'em posts it to here, where we've known about it for months...
At least the old article mentioned that it was Asus to be first making these boards (the dupe only has a screenshot of the bootloader having an Asus logo. Or that it would first be available on Asus's Intel X38 motherboards...
I think along with myself, a lot of people are getting tired of dupes on stories from months ago, with "articles" by "IT companies/magazines" that read old stories on
In other words, it would probably fill the needs of a lot of people, but you can't purchase it (unless you're a system builder) - otherwise you'll have to download it illegally, and since some people act like you're a devil worshipper if you mention software piracy, its often better to just not mention it.
To clarify - it exists and there's a chance that Windows Fundamentals would fulfill your needs, but you most likely won't be able to *legally* obtain it...
Sure, its already out even - Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's. The catch is you actually can't have it, since its meant for "system builders" only. While it claims the bare minimum memory is 64MB of RAM and a Pentium 2, you'd have the same experience as using a Vista machine on under-spec hardware.
I can see what he's thinking somewhat - I used to be stuck between console and PC, but then went largely PC only. Back when the PS3 and the Cell chip-set first started getting decent amounts of attention, I had figured the PS3 would be far better than it is, close to on par with high end desktop gaming pc's. That was about 4 or 5 years ago now - when the PS3's target specs would have been actually impressive. I played the crap outta Rainbow Six: Vegas, back when it came out on PC - so when I tried it on a relative's PS3 after recommending it due to the PC version, I noticed a number of downgrades over the PC version. Scenes such as flying over Vegas in a chopper textures are noticeably lower quality than the PC version.
Basically, for what the systems where hyped to be, it doesn't help when I had a better experience with the PC version of a game long before playing it on a PS3...