Gentoo has great documentation outlining the entire installation. If you are incapable of following clear step by step instructions, then I suppose gentoo isn't the distro for you. I attribute almost everything I know about linux to Gentoo. I started out with "easy" distros like redhat, but didn't really learn too much about linux until I did the gentoo install process. You learn very quickly the command line, how things fit together and work. It gives you a good understanding of partitions, the kernel, its modules and such. You see the more advanced side of things, especially if building your system from stage 1. I've since switched to Ubuntu, because I don't have the time to be configuring every part of the operating system, but that certainly is not a knock against gentoo. Anyone serious about learning Linux NEEDS to mess with gentoo for a bit.
I installed linux on my XBOX, and play all sorts of 10 year old games. With all sorts of fancy filters to make the graphics smooth. On a real tv. With a real controller. With real people. Oh, and I can check e-mail too, all in the time it takes you to jerk off to your 3D Mark score.
I've been saying this for years. Case in point, Halo 2 on Xbox vs Halo 2 on PC. You need damn near twice the processing power to get the same results. Windows is a horribly inneficient OS to run games on top of. Also, the value of computer hardware depreciates MUCH faster than that of console hardware. 10 months ago, the XBOX 360 cost $400. Depreciation over the last year? $0. Now, take that $400 video card you bought 10 months ago. You're lucky if its worth half that.
I agree with you for the most part. There is a bit of a difference however. Dell's batteries actually had reports of starting fires. Apple's batteries would swell, and as far as I know never actually combusted, and as a result they recalled batteries in their pre-intel notebook line-up. Apple has also "silently" recalled batteries for their MacBook Pro lineup, not for heat issues but performance issues. Regardless, I see your point. I have not had any issues with the battery in my MBP, but I was pleased to see that I qualified for the recall, so I have a new battery coming my way.
Yeah, these ad's disgust me. What has Windows done to you? Besides maybe being negligent when it comes to security, installing services without your permission (WGA), forcing you and the rest of the world to use their standards for so many years, and so on. It's not Microsofts fault that they need to break antitrust laws to keep a tight hold on the marketplace with a clearly inferior OS. And I'm not speaking only in comparison to OS X, but to many of the Desktop Linux distros that are really starting to shine. Hey, Goliath has feelings too.
Come on, what better way to advertise your OS than to show how much better it is than your competitor? Bonus for the fact that its funny. I suppose they could come out with some scary music and footage of the twin towers burning, with an ominous voice proclaiming, "Bill Gates eats babies for breakfast. Is this the operating system you want running your computer?"
Every single one of google's products incorporate google text ads. They are unobtrusive and relevent. Next time you're using gmail, and you're looking at an invoice for say, a hard drive you purchased. On the side bar, it will have text ads for hard drives, not only that, but if there is a tracking number in the email, gmail will offer a link to track the shipment. If there is an address in the email, gmail will offer to map it for you. Insanely useful, simple, and unobtrusive. This is why google is so successful.
It's too bad this got marked as flamebait. I think some good points are made and this guy shouldn't be cast off as a flamer just because he isn't jumping on the Microsoft bashing bandwagon. What is slashdot becoming if you can't have a good two-sided argument?
Just to clarify, Hemp is not a weed. The term weed refers to any unwanted vegetative growth, which of course is in the eye of the beholder. But I see where you're coming from, cuz hemp comes from the same place as weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed maaaaaaan.
The cow-like public is perfectly happy believing whichever bias news source they prefer. Generally, people tune into whichever Newscast will further enforce their preconceived opinions, rather than trying to get information in which to base an opinion on.
After sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours the last thing I wanna do is put some sort of screen even closer to my face and focus on it for an extended period of time.
Wouldn't that force you to write your applications in Java? The beauty of ajax is being able to do so much with just an HTTP server, a server side scripting language, javascript and html.
I assume you are indicating that it may be a security issue on the client side, but I don't see it allowing for any more malicious activity than there already is. The onLoad tag of the body element can fire up an XMLHTTPRequest that gets a response from the server automatically. This would be no different than the server polling the client if such a connection were possible. I think it would be more of a performance issue on the server end, having to host so many live connections.
With the growing popularity of AJAX does anyone think it's time to update the HTTP spec? AJAX is cool tech but still hindered by the fact that the client has to initiate every request. Yes, there are ugly hacks to keep a connection alive, but it is exactly that, a hack, and introduces problems of it's own.
Are you kidding? What is the most common technology device carried by the 16 to 30-something demographic BESIDES the mp3 player? The cell phone of course. The only cellphone with brand recognition anywhere close to Apple is Motorola's RAZR and it's knockoffs. The cellphone market has seen little innovation in the past couple years and Apple is definatly capable of delivering a product that could open up some eyes. Consider the fact that such a phone, if it did exist, would use a familiar-Ipod like interface that millions of people have become comfortable with. Also consider the fact that it would easily interface with Apple's iLife suite and iTunes and suddenly a lot of people have a pretty compelling reason to buy a Mac. Apple's entrance into the cellphone market makes too much sense for it not to happen.
Porting games to Mac just got a whole lot easier now that they've switched to intel. Porting games to Mac isn't such a bad idea now that their market share is growing and Vista is having all sorts of issues.
A lot of people who bash PHP are perl zealots or come from a strictly typed language like C and see loosely-typed code and lazy and ugly. Being loosely-typed makes it easy to use and as a result, the layperson can pick it up and write scripts. Of course, anyone doing professional work will looks at these scripts and their vulnerabilities and scoff at it, but they fail to realize that a lot of PHP that is floating around is not written by professionals. It is not a fault of PHP but the people who use it. Generally people using perl come from a *nix background and have better practice, but that does not make it a better language in itself.
In 2003 Walden O'Dell CEO of Diebold said in a letter to Ohio Republican officials that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidentia l_election_controversy,_voting_machines
Of course, no matter what line of work you're in you have a right to support whoever you wish, but as the head of a company in charge of making voting machines, it may be in your best interest to appear bipartisan. Stupid stupid stupid...
Any company with devotion to a fair and secure voting system would not make such an obvious oversight. If it was in fact an oversight, it shows that Diebold is far too incompetent to be creating voting machines. You would also think that a company in charge of something so important wouldn't show blatant partisanship either. Why are they still employed?
I don't know who makes me more sick to my stomach, prescription drug companies or oil companies. It seems as if drug companies have looked past all practical use of medicine and have begun making up symptoms to cure. I know this to be the case when I see prescription medication for "Restless Leg Syndrome." No shit. Then a story like this comes along, from the same companies lobbying against medicinal uses of marijuana because of it's "devastating" effects. Of course, they must be reffering to the devastating effects it may have on their profits, because I don't know of anyone losing toes and fingers from sparking a j.
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Gentoo has great documentation outlining the entire installation. If you are incapable of following clear step by step instructions, then I suppose gentoo isn't the distro for you. I attribute almost everything I know about linux to Gentoo. I started out with "easy" distros like redhat, but didn't really learn too much about linux until I did the gentoo install process. You learn very quickly the command line, how things fit together and work. It gives you a good understanding of partitions, the kernel, its modules and such. You see the more advanced side of things, especially if building your system from stage 1. I've since switched to Ubuntu, because I don't have the time to be configuring every part of the operating system, but that certainly is not a knock against gentoo. Anyone serious about learning Linux NEEDS to mess with gentoo for a bit.
I installed linux on my XBOX, and play all sorts of 10 year old games. With all sorts of fancy filters to make the graphics smooth. On a real tv. With a real controller. With real people. Oh, and I can check e-mail too, all in the time it takes you to jerk off to your 3D Mark score.
I've been saying this for years. Case in point, Halo 2 on Xbox vs Halo 2 on PC. You need damn near twice the processing power to get the same results. Windows is a horribly inneficient OS to run games on top of. Also, the value of computer hardware depreciates MUCH faster than that of console hardware. 10 months ago, the XBOX 360 cost $400. Depreciation over the last year? $0. Now, take that $400 video card you bought 10 months ago. You're lucky if its worth half that.
I agree with you for the most part. There is a bit of a difference however. Dell's batteries actually had reports of starting fires. Apple's batteries would swell, and as far as I know never actually combusted, and as a result they recalled batteries in their pre-intel notebook line-up. Apple has also "silently" recalled batteries for their MacBook Pro lineup, not for heat issues but performance issues. Regardless, I see your point. I have not had any issues with the battery in my MBP, but I was pleased to see that I qualified for the recall, so I have a new battery coming my way.
Good lord, did anyone read past the first sentence of my post? It's SARCASM FOLKS.
Yeah, these ad's disgust me. What has Windows done to you? Besides maybe being negligent when it comes to security, installing services without your permission (WGA), forcing you and the rest of the world to use their standards for so many years, and so on. It's not Microsofts fault that they need to break antitrust laws to keep a tight hold on the marketplace with a clearly inferior OS. And I'm not speaking only in comparison to OS X, but to many of the Desktop Linux distros that are really starting to shine. Hey, Goliath has feelings too. Come on, what better way to advertise your OS than to show how much better it is than your competitor? Bonus for the fact that its funny. I suppose they could come out with some scary music and footage of the twin towers burning, with an ominous voice proclaiming, "Bill Gates eats babies for breakfast. Is this the operating system you want running your computer?"
Every single one of google's products incorporate google text ads. They are unobtrusive and relevent. Next time you're using gmail, and you're looking at an invoice for say, a hard drive you purchased. On the side bar, it will have text ads for hard drives, not only that, but if there is a tracking number in the email, gmail will offer a link to track the shipment. If there is an address in the email, gmail will offer to map it for you. Insanely useful, simple, and unobtrusive. This is why google is so successful.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm mentally retarded.
It's too bad this got marked as flamebait. I think some good points are made and this guy shouldn't be cast off as a flamer just because he isn't jumping on the Microsoft bashing bandwagon. What is slashdot becoming if you can't have a good two-sided argument?
Just to clarify, Hemp is not a weed. The term weed refers to any unwanted vegetative growth, which of course is in the eye of the beholder. But I see where you're coming from, cuz hemp comes from the same place as weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed maaaaaaan.
What do you base this on? I run WoW on my MacBook Pro and it runs great. Better in fact, than i've seen it run on an acer laptop with identical specs.
Steve Balmer will be giving his victory speech shortly.
The cow-like public is perfectly happy believing whichever bias news source they prefer. Generally, people tune into whichever Newscast will further enforce their preconceived opinions, rather than trying to get information in which to base an opinion on.
After sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours the last thing I wanna do is put some sort of screen even closer to my face and focus on it for an extended period of time.
Wouldn't that force you to write your applications in Java? The beauty of ajax is being able to do so much with just an HTTP server, a server side scripting language, javascript and html.
I assume you are indicating that it may be a security issue on the client side, but I don't see it allowing for any more malicious activity than there already is. The onLoad tag of the body element can fire up an XMLHTTPRequest that gets a response from the server automatically. This would be no different than the server polling the client if such a connection were possible. I think it would be more of a performance issue on the server end, having to host so many live connections.
With the growing popularity of AJAX does anyone think it's time to update the HTTP spec? AJAX is cool tech but still hindered by the fact that the client has to initiate every request. Yes, there are ugly hacks to keep a connection alive, but it is exactly that, a hack, and introduces problems of it's own.
Are you kidding? What is the most common technology device carried by the 16 to 30-something demographic BESIDES the mp3 player? The cell phone of course. The only cellphone with brand recognition anywhere close to Apple is Motorola's RAZR and it's knockoffs. The cellphone market has seen little innovation in the past couple years and Apple is definatly capable of delivering a product that could open up some eyes. Consider the fact that such a phone, if it did exist, would use a familiar-Ipod like interface that millions of people have become comfortable with. Also consider the fact that it would easily interface with Apple's iLife suite and iTunes and suddenly a lot of people have a pretty compelling reason to buy a Mac. Apple's entrance into the cellphone market makes too much sense for it not to happen.
I don't think so. Ted Stevens said what he did because he is an expert on the internet and has genuine concerns.
Porting games to Mac just got a whole lot easier now that they've switched to intel. Porting games to Mac isn't such a bad idea now that their market share is growing and Vista is having all sorts of issues.
A lot of people who bash PHP are perl zealots or come from a strictly typed language like C and see loosely-typed code and lazy and ugly. Being loosely-typed makes it easy to use and as a result, the layperson can pick it up and write scripts. Of course, anyone doing professional work will looks at these scripts and their vulnerabilities and scoff at it, but they fail to realize that a lot of PHP that is floating around is not written by professionals. It is not a fault of PHP but the people who use it. Generally people using perl come from a *nix background and have better practice, but that does not make it a better language in itself.
In 2003 Walden O'Dell CEO of Diebold said in a letter to Ohio Republican officials that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidentia l_election_controversy,_voting_machines
Of course, no matter what line of work you're in you have a right to support whoever you wish, but as the head of a company in charge of making voting machines, it may be in your best interest to appear bipartisan. Stupid stupid stupid...
Any company with devotion to a fair and secure voting system would not make such an obvious oversight. If it was in fact an oversight, it shows that Diebold is far too incompetent to be creating voting machines. You would also think that a company in charge of something so important wouldn't show blatant partisanship either. Why are they still employed?
I don't know who makes me more sick to my stomach, prescription drug companies or oil companies. It seems as if drug companies have looked past all practical use of medicine and have begun making up symptoms to cure. I know this to be the case when I see prescription medication for "Restless Leg Syndrome." No shit. Then a story like this comes along, from the same companies lobbying against medicinal uses of marijuana because of it's "devastating" effects. Of course, they must be reffering to the devastating effects it may have on their profits, because I don't know of anyone losing toes and fingers from sparking a j.
DirectX and openGL aren't high level API's? Either way there is an abstraction layer.