the easiest solution would be to pay for a physical copy and then download a pirated copy. That way you get what you want, no rootkits/drm/etc. but you're also supporting the developer by paying for a copy.
NOT prejudice, experience. I want INFORMATION from the web. Flash add-ons do not provide more information, just eye-candy (like the Monster Configurator, which is a toy, oh, and I like the "bubble wrap" Flash toy, also off-line), that I have to either watch or stop before trying to get to the real data.
This sentiment is really played out these days. --> Scribd.com
linux's locate command will find new files if you use the newer rlocate utility, instead of the older, classic, slocate utility.
rlocate is an implementation of the ``locate'' command that is always up-to-date. The database that the original locate uses is usually updated only once a day, so newer files cannot be located right away. The behavior of rlocate is the same as slocate, but it also maintains a diff database that gets updated whenever a new file is created. This is accomplished with rlocate kernel module and daemon. The rlocate kernel module can be compiled only with Linux 2.6 kernels.
Once again my karma will limit the amount of people who read this comment but...
Before MS stole the word processing market years ago, i'm sure plenty of people felt the way you do, however they were proven wrong. They hire the best graduates to do exactly that; innovate and progress the market. To say there is no room for improvement goes against everything the industry stands for. Wait until the next big thing in the office market comes along, and soon we'll all be talking about how we can't live without the feature(s).
actually you don't need a chroot at all to run 32bit programs in a 64bit linux environment. Atleast with gentoo all you need are the correct 32 bit libraries installed and you can compile and run32bit programs (like firefox coupled with flash) natively.
As for running a 64bit environment, the biggest factor is memory usage. Its true that 64bit programs yield slightly faster performance boosts, they take a lot more ram (think cumulative of all programs running and you can imagine what i mean) than their 32bit counter parts.
I'm sure few will read this comment considering my karma, but i feel it necessary to point out that PCWorld erred in naming this article the 'Best'; it obviously should have been named 'Most innovative'.
To add on this, i wonder if anyone here is using Office 2007? I am and html emails are displayed just fine, css and all. The one thing i hate about/. is the prejudice shown towards MS. This article's discussion is a particularly nice example of/.'s unwarranted hate of ms. Truthiness indeed.
I think more importantly, it should be noted that for 3d gpu based systems (n64, ps1, etc.), you can actually enjoy your favorite classics in much higher resolutions with oftentime enhanced graphics (think petes opengl2 based ogl2 epsxe plugins).
Yes, this is just another issue that people pin on Microsoft when its really a problem for software developers. It's just like alt + f4 closing games. Good developers code this out... lazy one's dont. Just how TFA criticizes MS for not providing hardware drivers:|
I don't feel like there's anything wrong with organizing by "folders". I've got a strong collection of music well over 15k tracks, of which i started way before ipods or itunes existed. I like iTunes as a music player, i really do, but the fact that it refuses to sort by filename/folder makes it useless to me.
I know with my terrible karma my opinion is of little notice, however i'm loving the new system. I've been using it pretty much since it was available to me, and it's been nice to see the technology and implementation grow and mature (I remember first trying it and thinking... 'wow this needs work').
I doubt the powers that be aren't aware of the issues i've noticed, so i won't bother pointing them out. I would like to make a suggestion however. I'm one of those guys that likes reading the 0's and above, and for people like us the threads can get very long (one of the things the poster points out). My machine is more than adequate for/., so my issue isn't with rendering speed, but rather with the actual length these threads get to be. I would love to see a 'compact' mode option, perhaps wherein a users comment title, score, reply link, name, and post time are all in one line. Taking out most of the default padding we see now and of course sigs, and i think the cumulative effect would be grande.
Although i still fail to see the real world useability of a 1gb memory stick when it comes to watching films. I mean, at most you can fit one full length movie on it.
I suppose these things would be awesome for TV episodes though.
the media companies are trying to create a completely encompassing net of drm, which will, unfortunately, prevail in the long run. It doesn't matter how much users desire and/or demand drm-free (read: 'good') content, eventually they will learn to deal with it if it's all that is offered. There is piracy, but that doesn't accurately portray the majority of the viable market; and there is talk here and there about this 'revolution' of content coming... eventually that will be completely user created and distributed... but come on. Not going to happen.
The fact is drm is here to stay... in some form or another.
wga is, at this point, COMPLETELY optional. Not only has MS not forced WGA on anyone, like always its up to the consumer to decide whether or not to install these 'updates'.
hey man, i completely understand where you're coming from. I think its just a matter of the lsser of two evils. Yeah, ms probably shouldnt have announced support for these features without complete confidence that they could keep that promise; but thats in the past, and instead of rushing shoddy product to the market, they are actually admitting that their product isn't as good as they promised and are working on it.
So yes, i admit that it was shitty PR on MS's part to promise such things, but i'm sure we can both recall dozens of companies that have delayed their products because of quality concerns. I gotta tell you too, that i became a lot more confident in vista when MS made this announced because it really showed me that they actually want to release a good product and not just another useable product.
In some (read: some) respect i pity ms for the burden they have to bear. Its not too difficult to envision hundreds of software companies doing the exact same thing and not being held to the line that ms is held to.
Everybody, including (especially, lol) large corporations make mistakes. We all know and expect this from time to time. The real test however is not in making the mistake but how you handle the mistake. Considering how ms has handled mistakes in the past, i'm glad to see them handling this situation with some old fashioned honor. (Note that im not saying that ms has 'reinvented' itself in any fashion, im still just as wary of their dealings as i was when ME was released.)
Ultimately, getting back to the 'lesser of two evils' idea, its a much better world we live in when Microsoft is actually prioritizing product quality (delaying projects and scrapping others) over meeting release dates and releasing crippled products just to get it out the door and saying 'its released'. Would you disagree?
P.S. From what ive read, it seems like WinFS was a big project for ms for which they were really proud of. I doubt they would just scrap it without having something better in mind. WinFS seemed to be a cornerstone of the next generation of MS product lines (and the unified platform they so envision but can never seem to get right); I just can't see them scrapping it (which would, in turn, mean rethinking and re-assigning their long term plans) without having something better to replace it.
...ms is always 'horrible' thread. Ok, so they're not going to ship winFS. Yeah it sucks, but at the same time if MS had shipped it, and it wasn't up to the quality standard they promised it would be, they'd be getting even more shit.
Seems to me like MS just couldn't make WinFS as efficient and nice as they had promised so they just scratched it. Nothing wrong with that in my book... but of course this is slashdot, so, i'll just follow the crowd and say MS was fucked up for doing this, i just cant fathom how it could happen, and yada yada yada.
blame good games. The fact of the matter is that the whole process of development has been, for the most part, mechanized. While this is evident for all systems, its most apparent on pc. There is just so much crap being released, every day, by the bushel, and consumers are just starting to catch on. MMOs are popular not because theyre online, but because they are GOOD and FUN to play, not to mention they LAST longer than 10 hours. So yes, as long as there are good games that will stay fun for months on end, you will see a decline in the sales of shitty, 5 hour games. Hell i dont even play MMOs and i dont buy into this crap. $50 for a 10 hour game? Please.
is of course the end-user. No matter how nice and secure IE7 might be (and from using the beta, its miles ahead of IE6 already) its not going to make the end user any more intelligent. I think too many people are expecting the impossible of microsoft (or any software company for that matter). I find myself fixing other peoples computers, who are running firefox, yet are still bogged down in spyware/adware. Why? Because the largest and most efficient security measure is an intelligent and informed end-user, not a nice browser and/or anti-spyware software. No matter how great your software is, if you click yes on the box, you still end up with 'unwanted' spyware.
This reminds me of those AMD guys who automatically become Intel guys after switching procesor/motherboard sets. Ridiculous. So now that she's a 'consumer' like the rest of us she's against DRM? Right...
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the easiest solution would be to pay for a physical copy and then download a pirated copy. That way you get what you want, no rootkits/drm/etc. but you're also supporting the developer by paying for a copy.
This sentiment is really played out these days. --> Scribd.com
Once again my karma will limit the amount of people who read this comment but...
Before MS stole the word processing market years ago, i'm sure plenty of people felt the way you do, however they were proven wrong. They hire the best graduates to do exactly that; innovate and progress the market. To say there is no room for improvement goes against everything the industry stands for. Wait until the next big thing in the office market comes along, and soon we'll all be talking about how we can't live without the feature(s).
actually you don't need a chroot at all to run 32bit programs in a 64bit linux environment. Atleast with gentoo all you need are the correct 32 bit libraries installed and you can compile and run32bit programs (like firefox coupled with flash) natively.
As for running a 64bit environment, the biggest factor is memory usage. Its true that 64bit programs yield slightly faster performance boosts, they take a lot more ram (think cumulative of all programs running and you can imagine what i mean) than their 32bit counter parts.
I'm sure few will read this comment considering my karma, but i feel it necessary to point out that PCWorld erred in naming this article the 'Best'; it obviously should have been named 'Most innovative'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer
These "musicians" or so-called rappers often take parts of a song and move the words around to call it their own.
Hate to break it to you but Timbaland is a producer.
To add on this, i wonder if anyone here is using Office 2007? I am and html emails are displayed just fine, css and all. The one thing i hate about /. is the prejudice shown towards MS. This article's discussion is a particularly nice example of /.'s unwarranted hate of ms. Truthiness indeed.
I think more importantly, it should be noted that for 3d gpu based systems (n64, ps1, etc.), you can actually enjoy your favorite classics in much higher resolutions with oftentime enhanced graphics (think petes opengl2 based ogl2 epsxe plugins).
I for one welcome our new php using overlords!
I for one welcome our new PS3 buying overlords (seeing as how they can afford PS3s in the first place...)
Sounds like a good plot base for White Noise 2
Yes, this is just another issue that people pin on Microsoft when its really a problem for software developers. It's just like alt + f4 closing games. Good developers code this out... lazy one's dont. Just how TFA criticizes MS for not providing hardware drivers :|
I don't feel like there's anything wrong with organizing by "folders". I've got a strong collection of music well over 15k tracks, of which i started way before ipods or itunes existed. I like iTunes as a music player, i really do, but the fact that it refuses to sort by filename/folder makes it useless to me.
I know with my terrible karma my opinion is of little notice, however i'm loving the new system. I've been using it pretty much since it was available to me, and it's been nice to see the technology and implementation grow and mature (I remember first trying it and thinking... 'wow this needs work').
/., so my issue isn't with rendering speed, but rather with the actual length these threads get to be. I would love to see a 'compact' mode option, perhaps wherein a users comment title, score, reply link, name, and post time are all in one line. Taking out most of the default padding we see now and of course sigs, and i think the cumulative effect would be grande.
I doubt the powers that be aren't aware of the issues i've noticed, so i won't bother pointing them out. I would like to make a suggestion however. I'm one of those guys that likes reading the 0's and above, and for people like us the threads can get very long (one of the things the poster points out). My machine is more than adequate for
Although i still fail to see the real world useability of a 1gb memory stick when it comes to watching films. I mean, at most you can fit one full length movie on it.
I suppose these things would be awesome for TV episodes though.
the media companies are trying to create a completely encompassing net of drm, which will, unfortunately, prevail in the long run. It doesn't matter how much users desire and/or demand drm-free (read: 'good') content, eventually they will learn to deal with it if it's all that is offered. There is piracy, but that doesn't accurately portray the majority of the viable market; and there is talk here and there about this 'revolution' of content coming... eventually that will be completely user created and distributed... but come on. Not going to happen.
The fact is drm is here to stay... in some form or another.
wga is, at this point, COMPLETELY optional. Not only has MS not forced WGA on anyone, like always its up to the consumer to decide whether or not to install these 'updates'.
hey man, i completely understand where you're coming from. I think its just a matter of the lsser of two evils. Yeah, ms probably shouldnt have announced support for these features without complete confidence that they could keep that promise; but thats in the past, and instead of rushing shoddy product to the market, they are actually admitting that their product isn't as good as they promised and are working on it. So yes, i admit that it was shitty PR on MS's part to promise such things, but i'm sure we can both recall dozens of companies that have delayed their products because of quality concerns. I gotta tell you too, that i became a lot more confident in vista when MS made this announced because it really showed me that they actually want to release a good product and not just another useable product. In some (read: some) respect i pity ms for the burden they have to bear. Its not too difficult to envision hundreds of software companies doing the exact same thing and not being held to the line that ms is held to.
Everybody, including (especially, lol) large corporations make mistakes. We all know and expect this from time to time. The real test however is not in making the mistake but how you handle the mistake. Considering how ms has handled mistakes in the past, i'm glad to see them handling this situation with some old fashioned honor. (Note that im not saying that ms has 'reinvented' itself in any fashion, im still just as wary of their dealings as i was when ME was released.)
Ultimately, getting back to the 'lesser of two evils' idea, its a much better world we live in when Microsoft is actually prioritizing product quality (delaying projects and scrapping others) over meeting release dates and releasing crippled products just to get it out the door and saying 'its released'. Would you disagree?
P.S. From what ive read, it seems like WinFS was a big project for ms for which they were really proud of. I doubt they would just scrap it without having something better in mind. WinFS seemed to be a cornerstone of the next generation of MS product lines (and the unified platform they so envision but can never seem to get right); I just can't see them scrapping it (which would, in turn, mean rethinking and re-assigning their long term plans) without having something better to replace it.
...ms is always 'horrible' thread. Ok, so they're not going to ship winFS. Yeah it sucks, but at the same time if MS had shipped it, and it wasn't up to the quality standard they promised it would be, they'd be getting even more shit. Seems to me like MS just couldn't make WinFS as efficient and nice as they had promised so they just scratched it. Nothing wrong with that in my book... but of course this is slashdot, so, i'll just follow the crowd and say MS was fucked up for doing this, i just cant fathom how it could happen, and yada yada yada.
blame good games. The fact of the matter is that the whole process of development has been, for the most part, mechanized. While this is evident for all systems, its most apparent on pc. There is just so much crap being released, every day, by the bushel, and consumers are just starting to catch on. MMOs are popular not because theyre online, but because they are GOOD and FUN to play, not to mention they LAST longer than 10 hours. So yes, as long as there are good games that will stay fun for months on end, you will see a decline in the sales of shitty, 5 hour games. Hell i dont even play MMOs and i dont buy into this crap. $50 for a 10 hour game? Please.
is of course the end-user. No matter how nice and secure IE7 might be (and from using the beta, its miles ahead of IE6 already) its not going to make the end user any more intelligent. I think too many people are expecting the impossible of microsoft (or any software company for that matter). I find myself fixing other peoples computers, who are running firefox, yet are still bogged down in spyware/adware. Why? Because the largest and most efficient security measure is an intelligent and informed end-user, not a nice browser and/or anti-spyware software. No matter how great your software is, if you click yes on the box, you still end up with 'unwanted' spyware.
This reminds me of those AMD guys who automatically become Intel guys after switching procesor/motherboard sets. Ridiculous. So now that she's a 'consumer' like the rest of us she's against DRM? Right...
i did read the article... seems to me if he only wanted hits from danish networks, then he should incorporate some security.