Well PostgeSQL is (technically speaking) slower than death. The performance advantages of MySQL outweigh the (obvious) feature advantages of PostgreSQL. At least for the stuff I do...
And all you have to do to get a copy is join MSDN. 'Managing to get a copy' is about as challenging as scrounging together 500 bucks and clicking your way to msdn.microsoft.com
I'm not talking about posts, I'm talking about account numbers.
You for example, are slashdotter #84343
The idea being the people who have been reading and contributing to slashdot since it was just rob's news page, and later chips and dips, and finally this monstrosity, would have something essentially worthless but cool to hold up. It's for the hardcore groupies.
GTK+ with Anti Aliased Fonts (and not even MS's crappy implementation). I never thought I'd see the day...
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They do it because it's the feature that more people ask for than anything else. THEMES! THEMES! we scream. After years of ugly motif and ugly TK and uglier still Xaw, everyone wants their environment to be jsut a little more fun.
And it doesn't neccesarily make things much slower.
Really? Check the developer version for the features you want. It just recently surpassed photoshop for MY purposes.
If there are still things missing for you, you should suggest them as improvements.
The UI is different so sometimes you have to relearn how to do things, but there's a lot of stuff hidden in there. It's probably more tuned to a new user than to one who is expecting all of photoshops ideosynchrocies.
But the developers need to know what is still missing to make the gimp even cooler.
And what precautions exist to prevent someone from hacking into your redhat mirror site and putting malicious scripts in the stock bootdisk.
And that disk you bought from cheapbytes? They downloaded a CD image from somewhere too...
The reality is that even with the standard disk you can't be sure. If you are running a critical system then you need to check even if you're using the standard disks.
The rest of us, we take our chances. Decide what level of risk you are willing to accept. I like to checksum all my packages. But does that do any good? Anyone can generate checksums, do I validate the origin fully? PGP signatures help there. But anybody can sign a message, do I know that I really have the originators fingerprint?
You have examined every line of kernel source for trojans haven't you?
The great thing about Linus is he IS an average joe. He's just another cool friendly approachable guy. He did something really cool, which admittedly others among us could have done. But Linus chose to remain an "average joe," who is still the driving force in Linux without signifigant personal gain. In the century which has seen computing become one of its driving forces, I think that is truly visionary.
Yes, Woz and steve were portrayed well. Most of us accept that, or acept Woz's statement of that 'cause we all think he's way cool and stuff.
But it was HISTORICALLY inaccurate. They changed a lot of things to make the story work. And Cringely is right to be concerned that people will start to take this version as fact.
While the Apple guys were portrayed accurately, the Microsoft side was both weak and inaccurate. I'm not saying that because I think Bill Gates should have been portrayed as a monster or something. Hell, I like the man -- as long as I don't have to use any of the software his company produces. I respect his business abilities, even though they don't mesh with my personal philosophy on software. I would have like to see more about him and his personality.
Finally, what I felt to be the big moment of the whole thing -- when Bill tells jobs that he too is a thief, is completely baseless since Apple licensed the GUI stuff from Xerox for cash and stock. I could just chalk that up to historical inaccuracy, but when the culminating point of the whole movie is based on something so false it raises concerns.
All in all I think Cringely makes very valid points. Comparing Pirates and Triumph is probably a mistake since they have different intents and different audiences, but it's important for people to understand that they completely warped history to get the ending they wanted. Sure the characters were presented accurately, but things just didn't happen that way.
My first thought was sweeping all those little pieces of class off of the car floor though.
I don't think I said digital is always better. Quite the opposite, I actually am a tube amp fan for hi-fi.
My point was only that it's unlikely to find a "cheap tube amp" in a car stereo nowadays, since you can buy solid state amps on chips (practically) off the shelf for way cheap.
Heh, I think any cheap amp you get nowadays is going to be digital internally. Admitedly there are good and bad from both groups, but it's hard to find bad cheap tube amps anymore becuase better transistor amps are so much cheaper. Tube amps generally mean audiophiles. Or guitars =] I'm guessing the empeg has some amplification internally, so drop some cash on a standard second stage and some decent speakers (and a sub if you are one of those types =) An actual full digital amp would require a digital output, which the empeg doesn't appear to have. In fact I know of few pc devices (alesis, sb gold) that have such an output...
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Well PostgeSQL is (technically speaking) slower than death. The performance advantages of MySQL outweigh the (obvious) feature advantages of PostgreSQL. At least for the stuff I do...
'GENERAL TERMS THAT APPLY TO COMPILED PROGRAMS AND REDISTRIBUTABLES'
Compiled programs and redistributables. Not the source code to which you own the copyright and can do with what you wish.
About 32-35 hours a week. So that statistic must be right on.
Of course I'm also a full time student (20 credit hours).
Hrmm...
And all you have to do to get a copy is join MSDN. 'Managing to get a copy' is about as challenging as scrounging together 500 bucks and clicking your way to msdn.microsoft.com
... But it's a NIGHTMARE to be an IRIX administrator.
Where's that PAM support SGI???
just use 'potato' as yr source. That way you don't have to change it as the mirrors update.
Taking criticism by calling every single question you recieved 'stupid?' Some of those looked valid to me...
Yeah, whatever, I'm not wasting any more of my day on you.
GNUChess + XBoard. A very serious contender. Better than Chessmaster in MY experience, which is seriously limited since I suck at chess.
I'm not talking about posts, I'm talking about account numbers.
You for example, are slashdotter #84343
The idea being the people who have been reading and contributing to slashdot since it was just rob's news page, and later chips and dips, and finally this monstrosity, would have something essentially worthless but cool to hold up. It's for the hardcore groupies.
(hmmm... I miss eplus)
Yeah! Issue a share or two to the first 1000 slashdotters or something! A 'just for fun' kind of thing.
Oh wait, you're 1093, bummer.
Anyway, I'll buy.
-- James Taylor
GTK+ with Anti Aliased Fonts (and not even MS's crappy implementation). I never thought I'd see the day...
They do it because it's the feature that more people ask for than anything else. THEMES! THEMES! we scream. After years of ugly motif and ugly TK and uglier still Xaw, everyone wants their environment to be jsut a little more fun.
And it doesn't neccesarily make things much slower.
Yes. By design.
Um... the trainers are professionals. The birds are slaves.
Really? Check the developer version for the features you want. It just recently surpassed photoshop for MY purposes.
If there are still things missing for you, you should suggest them as improvements.
The UI is different so sometimes you have to relearn how to do things, but there's a lot of stuff hidden in there. It's probably more tuned to a new user than to one who is expecting all of photoshops ideosynchrocies.
But the developers need to know what is still missing to make the gimp even cooler.
(fsck spelling)
And what precautions exist to prevent someone from hacking into your redhat mirror site and putting malicious scripts in the stock bootdisk.
And that disk you bought from cheapbytes? They downloaded a CD image from somewhere too...
The reality is that even with the standard disk you can't be sure. If you are running a critical system then you need to check even if you're using the standard disks.
The rest of us, we take our chances. Decide what level of risk you are willing to accept. I like to checksum all my packages. But does that do any good? Anyone can generate checksums, do I validate the origin fully? PGP signatures help there. But anybody can sign a message, do I know that I really have the originators fingerprint?
You have examined every line of kernel source for trojans haven't you?
I shall forego a constructive comment, and just say: "Oh, and we really give a shit whether you use linux too."
Yeah, base you use of a tool on how it's promoted rather than how it works. That's smart!
The great thing about Linus is he IS an average joe. He's just another cool friendly approachable guy. He did something really cool, which admittedly others among us could have done. But Linus chose to remain an "average joe," who is still the driving force in Linux without signifigant personal gain. In the century which has seen computing become one of its driving forces, I think that is truly visionary.
Bladerunner? Another movie that pales next to the book it was (not really much) based on.
Johnny Mn. is a great flick IMHO. But taste is personal. Rollins was really great in that though.
Well, a lot of us had the old dacta stuff, which was like this but instead of a programable brick it used you apple II or PC as the host controllor.
Lego and Logo have mixed together a few times in the past.
Yes, Woz and steve were portrayed well. Most of us accept that, or acept Woz's statement of that 'cause we all think he's way cool and stuff.
But it was HISTORICALLY inaccurate. They changed a lot of things to make the story work. And Cringely is right to be concerned that people will start to take this version as fact.
While the Apple guys were portrayed accurately, the Microsoft side was both weak and inaccurate. I'm not saying that because I think Bill Gates should have been portrayed as a monster or something. Hell, I like the man -- as long as I don't have to use any of the software his company produces. I respect his business abilities, even though they don't mesh with my personal philosophy on software. I would have like to see more about him and his personality.
Finally, what I felt to be the big moment of the whole thing -- when Bill tells jobs that he too is a thief, is completely baseless since Apple licensed the GUI stuff from Xerox for cash and stock. I could just chalk that up to historical inaccuracy, but when the culminating point of the whole movie is based on something so false it raises concerns.
All in all I think Cringely makes very valid points. Comparing Pirates and Triumph is probably a mistake since they have different intents and different audiences, but it's important for people to understand that they completely warped history to get the ending they wanted. Sure the characters were presented accurately, but things just didn't happen that way.
I tired to take a look but apparently my browser is evil and wishes harm to a bunch of other equally shoddy software products.
Sad that someone would destroy the platform / browser independent potential of a web site by rejecting certain browsers.
But hey, probably cuts down on the flames when you only let people who already think like you into your website...
but it is SMALL
the part that decodes and plays mp3's is exactly the size of a 5.25 inch drive bay. It will fit in your car easily.
that's the point. small == ca$h
Oh I agree completely, tube amps rock.
My first thought was sweeping all those little pieces of class off of the car floor though.
I don't think I said digital is always better. Quite the opposite, I actually am a tube amp fan for hi-fi.
My point was only that it's unlikely to find a "cheap tube amp" in a car stereo nowadays, since you can buy solid state amps on chips (practically) off the shelf for way cheap.
Heh, I think any cheap amp you get nowadays is going to be digital internally.
Admitedly there are good and bad from both groups, but it's hard to find bad cheap tube amps anymore becuase better transistor amps are so much cheaper.
Tube amps generally mean audiophiles. Or guitars =]
I'm guessing the empeg has some amplification internally, so drop some cash on a standard second stage and some decent speakers (and a sub if you are one of those types =)
An actual full digital amp would require a digital output, which the empeg doesn't appear to have. In fact I know of few pc devices (alesis, sb gold) that have such an output...