Agreed. The main reason Open Office is supplied simply because at the moment (correct me if im wrong because I am not sure) because it has the best compatibility with M$ Word. Open Office kinda looks like an old version of M$ word and the M$ document is supported. I have seen a little bit of Edubuntu, but I have never actually used it. I do know that most of the bundled software with is it education games and such. I guess that it still leaves it up to the IT guy to look around and find the best applications to install.
The trick to Linux is finding productive programs. There are millions of choices (check www.sourceforge.net for tons of open source projects and the repositories for some) for every application in Linux. If you don't like Open Office, then look for a new one and try that one. If you don't like that one, move on to a new one. Personally, I don't think Open Office is that bad, but it's all about preference. Linux is also a really great development enviroment. There are numerous IDEs and tools for developing in Linux. Again, just like before, if you don't like emacs, try something else, and keep trying till you find something you like. Eventually, you'll have a list of applications that you use, and everytime you install Linux, you will know exactly what to install. It is the same way with Microsoft Windows. Not every application for that OS is a gem. It took searching to find good applications (firefox didn't come with windows). Don't worry, once you find the right tools, your productivity will increase dramatically.
Using Linux in colleges provides two benefits. First, colleges can provide very powerful applications such as blender, bluefish, etc to college students without the cost involved. Secondly, if these students, after using Linux in college, begin to realize the stigmas about Linux are wrong, they are more likely to use the distributions on their own, if at least to run the software they are used to using, thus expanding the OSS community.
I think that most casual gamers want easy to play, less complicated games like tetris and bejeweled rather then Madden and Quake. I don't see these kinds of games on the Xbox360. This of course of assuming that most mothers are at most casual gamers.
Microsoft is definately entering this field way too late. They already allowed Apple to dominate the field. Had they wanted to seriously compete with the ipod, they would have released something a long time ago. Microsoft is much better trying to dominate a new field that Apple hasn't entered, then wasting money on this hopeless endeavor. This, unfortunately, is what leads to companies making products that just copy off each other and provide nothing new.
If you notice, that game is not about bullying anyone, its about standing up to bullies. Rockstar is known for making controversial games because they know people will buy them and Rockstar gets free advertisement (there's no such thing as bad press). Therefore, they name the game Bully and hope that people at first glance think that the game is about bullying people.
Looking back at the past, IBM was probably one of the most influential computer companies. Their Thinkpad notebook line was considered possibly the best notebook in existance. It's a shame that they were purchased by Lenovo, even if Lenovo continues making good Thinkpads.
Wow, am I just really behind in the times, or do those graphics cards in the picture look exceptionally massive. Even if they have liquid cooling on them, they still look huge.
Making drivers open is always a step in the right direction, and wil help tons of people running integrated graphics cards on their linux laptops. Now all Intel needs to do is start producing a line of workstation cards.
Microsoft knows that no matter how many people use Firefox and Opera, there will always be the average Joes out there that will use IE simply because it's already installed. Also, what does Microsoft really have to lose in this battle. IE costs no money, people get it with Windows no matter what, so I don't see why Microsoft cares whether people really use it or not.
Do you have any major surprises in store for Fedora Core 6? Have you considered releasing a home version of red hat again? Come on, non-corporate workers like the Shadowman too:)
I see way too many programmers running around, writing the most ineffective code possible, and relying on fast machines to hide the fact that their code uses 1 gig of ram to display "hello world". That being said, I think that programmers should try to strive for the most effective coding strategy possible, simply because it is good practice. You may only have to make small programs for your company now, but in the future you could be making hardware intensive applications, and if that time comes, effective coding strategies need to be implemented. The main problem I think with Java's memory management is that it doesn't let you control enough. It allows the JRE to control too much memory allocation. That is one of the main reasons that people think that Java is slow. I think that adding GC to objective-C will give developers another option to try when tweaking for speed.
Aren't the majority of Dell consumer machines set with media center edition
Yes, you are right, almost any computer nowadays bought from any major OEM comes with Xp media center instead of Xp home. However that only provides the capability for people to use their machine as a media center, it does not mean that people will actually use it as one. I doubt that most average people even know that their computer can be used to watch tv and such.
I'm actually all for the ESRB actually being required to play the games they rate
While I don't think that people actually check the rating other then parents, I do believe that the ratings should at least be accurate. If they don't play the entire game, they miss out on a lot of things that would change the rating. I am sure that parents would be upset if they bought their children a game rated T and it contains brief nudity that the raters missed, or other things intended for an adult audience.
After all these years, I really hope that Microsoft finally releases an OS that is comparable in security to it's competition. Hopefully however, these securities won't come at too much of a price as to what the user can do.
Also, cross platform libraries do exist. Say you want to make a game for linux, mac and xp, well, if you use glut persay, porting is much much simplier. If developers start using these cross platform libraries and toolkits, then development and porting becomes profitable again.
I agree with you that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should be tried and punished legally and I never said that he shouldn't be. Unfortunately, if nothing is done about terrorists, how do you expect countries like Iraq and Afghanistan to grow and develop into thriving countries. Most of the deaths in this war are caused by terrorists. Terrorists bombing cafes and markets and assasinating government officials. If these terrorists are not stopped, then no progress will ever be made. It is impossible to prove the ideology to be wrong. Try to convince a bunch of brainwashed suicide bombers that what they are doing is wrong. They will just kill you for blasphemy. The only true way to stop the spread of ideology is to remove the twisted clerics from power and destroy their training grounds. By killing the root of the weed, the rest of the weed shrivels and dies. If you keep striking at the leaves, the weed only grows back.
To actually make such a ridiculous statement makes you look like a fool.
Haha, you keep saying that even though you have yet to provide any proof of your point. You can post over and over again saying I am blind, but time and time again, you have yet to prove me wrong. In fact, all you do is spew vile rhetoric and buzzwards.
Really? I would love to see some proof of this. I didn't realize that you were in charge of interpreting the Constituion, oh wait, thats right, thats the Supreme Court. You assume then that your interpretation of the Constituion is correct, and therefore you seek to destroy Republicans. Hmmm, sounds a lot like your trying to repress someone else's views, and you call Republicans fascist. In reality, you're the fascist.
Every tinme they pass laws promoting business against the people. When they give massively profitable oil companies billions of dollars stolesn from the citizens. When they continually hype the threat of terrorism in order to further undermine the constitution.
Wow, first off, Republicans have NEVER passed laws promoting businesses against the people. In fact, Republicans have passed laws promoting small businesses. Next off, I would love to see proof of Republicans "stealing" money from citizens or proof of the government giving oil companies money. Wow, sounds like someone has a grudge about paying taxes. You say I have had my head in the sand, and you claim that the threat of terrorism is hyped. Well tell that to the victims of terrorism each day, whether it be in our country, or in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Spain, or England. You hear on the news of a few soldiers killed in Iraq on a certain day, most likely they were killed by a suicide bomber, or a road side bomb set up by terrorists. Terrorism is a very real and true threat to not only our country, but to the free world
I have yet to see any form of a centralized autocratic governement form.
Open your eyes then. That isn't even recent.
Actually, Liberals support a form of centralized autocratic government, not Republicans. Anyone with even a slightest knowledge of politics or our governement knows that.
I gave you two links already to examples of exactly that. The fact that you are not even aware of one of the biggest scandals in American politics today is truly illustrative of your general ignorance which you repeatedly demonstrate.
There was no connection between the Republican party and Guantanamo Bay. Trying to use what a few soldiers did against the Republican party shows your ignorance. Pretty just about everyone knows the United States does not have murder camps. The more you talk, the dumber you appear.
Unpleasant facts are still facts. Burying your head in the sand and pretending they aren't happening is the hallmark of a coward.
You dare to call me a coward, when you would let your countrymen die just so you can gain some votes. You are the lowest coward of all. An enemy challenges our country, commits and act of war against our country, and you want to run away and ignore the reality of our world.
What exactly do you think the entire freaking debate about criminal warrantless spying on Americans, the treasonous outing of a CIA agent and most of the other scandals of this administration are about.
Like I said, open your eyes and pay attention. It is your most important responsibility and you have totally failed to do so.
Again, going back to what I said before, there is no debate, there is just biassed media attacks to paint impressionable people (like you) lies and propoganda about our government. Why don't you actually read the Patriot act before you talk, instead of being force fed lies.
do use it as an excuse to strip away the protections of the bill of rights will your willing assistance. The Republicans *are
First, yes I know Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the WTC attacks. Even if he is punished the point here is that terrorism is an ideology. The only way to deal with an ideology is to kill it at its roots. Everyone knows that the Muslim faith is a religion which does not preach hate or violence. The problem exists with the radical clerics who are twisting the religion into a controling one that they use to push their own agenda. These clerics need to be stopped or the United States will never be safe.
Like I said, you are unable to refute simple basic fact
Those "facts" are the arguments I would expect of a 3rd grade child. They are the dumbest possible "facts" I have ever heard in my life. But if I must, then allow me to humor you. First off, the definition of a fascist -a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition [Webster's Online Dictionary]. There is absolutely no link between that definition and the Republican party. I have yet to see Republicans promote a certain race above the individual. I have yet to see any form of a centralized autocratic governement form. I have yet to see a dictorial leader (President Bush has the same amount of power as presidents before him). There are no severe economic and social regimentation, and definately not any forcible supression of opposition. In fact, you may not want to admit this, but guess what, the Republicans are working under the same Constitution and guidelines that everyone else is. So if you plan on calling Republicans facists, I expect some real reasons not just some namecalling. The real fascists are the people who mod me down because they don't agree with me and think that by moding me down they can make the facts disappear. Your next fact: Republicans "torture and murder people". Name one example of when the Republican party supported torture and/or murder. These are just more unsupported buzzwords in your argument to make you sound justified. I would also like to see how the Republicans are destroying your freedom, while their primary objective is to protect our country from people who want to take away our freedoms. Again, I think you have confused Republicans and the terrorists again.
Sure, We're all good and Eurasia (or is it Eastasia) are all bad. That's a really sane proposition.
Well, for one, actually, we are pretty good. Our government does not authorize the use of torture and/or murder camps. In fact, I have never even heard of one instance of our government setting up a murder camp. Show me one if you can.
I would have invaded Afghanistan. I would have actually finished the job there
You do realize that terrorism would not have stopped. You would have finished up in Afghanistan and you would have solved nothing other then do something that looked good to voters.
willingly taken to promote their fascist agenda. You have yet to refute one of them
I can not refute something that you have yet to provide. You have never once given an example or anything, your arguments stops after namecalling.
There is no other reason to keep supporting the Republicans at this point when their lies have put us where we are.
If you are going to blame Republicans for where we are, then I guess you are just going to ignore the other million ACTUAL reasons why people hate us. Like a)our previous administrations support of Israel (which has always caused tension in the Middle East), b)previous adminstrations lack of effort to do anything so they can suck up to voters (Under President Clinton's administration Osama bin Laden bombed the World Trade Center, yet he was reluctant to do anything due to the risk of losing votes.) There are countless others that you seem to just not want to accept.
Wars on concepts are doomed to failure
Apparently you do not believe that the United States has the right to defend itself. WW II was a prime example of this. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor sparked the U.S. into a war against them. That is no different then 9/11. The terrorists did the equivalent of bombing Pearl Harbor, and anything less then total defeat of the terrorists is a los
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Why would the prime purpose of this be cameras and cell phones, rather then computers.
Agreed. The main reason Open Office is supplied simply because at the moment (correct me if im wrong because I am not sure) because it has the best compatibility with M$ Word. Open Office kinda looks like an old version of M$ word and the M$ document is supported. I have seen a little bit of Edubuntu, but I have never actually used it. I do know that most of the bundled software with is it education games and such. I guess that it still leaves it up to the IT guy to look around and find the best applications to install.
The trick to Linux is finding productive programs. There are millions of choices (check www.sourceforge.net for tons of open source projects and the repositories for some) for every application in Linux. If you don't like Open Office, then look for a new one and try that one. If you don't like that one, move on to a new one. Personally, I don't think Open Office is that bad, but it's all about preference. Linux is also a really great development enviroment. There are numerous IDEs and tools for developing in Linux. Again, just like before, if you don't like emacs, try something else, and keep trying till you find something you like. Eventually, you'll have a list of applications that you use, and everytime you install Linux, you will know exactly what to install. It is the same way with Microsoft Windows. Not every application for that OS is a gem. It took searching to find good applications (firefox didn't come with windows). Don't worry, once you find the right tools, your productivity will increase dramatically.
Using Linux in colleges provides two benefits. First, colleges can provide very powerful applications such as blender, bluefish, etc to college students without the cost involved. Secondly, if these students, after using Linux in college, begin to realize the stigmas about Linux are wrong, they are more likely to use the distributions on their own, if at least to run the software they are used to using, thus expanding the OSS community.
I think that most casual gamers want easy to play, less complicated games like tetris and bejeweled rather then Madden and Quake. I don't see these kinds of games on the Xbox360. This of course of assuming that most mothers are at most casual gamers.
Microsoft is definately entering this field way too late. They already allowed Apple to dominate the field. Had they wanted to seriously compete with the ipod, they would have released something a long time ago. Microsoft is much better trying to dominate a new field that Apple hasn't entered, then wasting money on this hopeless endeavor. This, unfortunately, is what leads to companies making products that just copy off each other and provide nothing new.
If you notice, that game is not about bullying anyone, its about standing up to bullies. Rockstar is known for making controversial games because they know people will buy them and Rockstar gets free advertisement (there's no such thing as bad press). Therefore, they name the game Bully and hope that people at first glance think that the game is about bullying people.
Looking back at the past, IBM was probably one of the most influential computer companies. Their Thinkpad notebook line was considered possibly the best notebook in existance. It's a shame that they were purchased by Lenovo, even if Lenovo continues making good Thinkpads.
Wow, am I just really behind in the times, or do those graphics cards in the picture look exceptionally massive. Even if they have liquid cooling on them, they still look huge.
Making drivers open is always a step in the right direction, and wil help tons of people running integrated graphics cards on their linux laptops. Now all Intel needs to do is start producing a line of workstation cards.
. . .not to buy a new keyboard.Ever.
Microsoft knows that no matter how many people use Firefox and Opera, there will always be the average Joes out there that will use IE simply because it's already installed. Also, what does Microsoft really have to lose in this battle. IE costs no money, people get it with Windows no matter what, so I don't see why Microsoft cares whether people really use it or not.
Do you have any major surprises in store for Fedora Core 6? Have you considered releasing a home version of red hat again? Come on, non-corporate workers like the Shadowman too :)
I see way too many programmers running around, writing the most ineffective code possible, and relying on fast machines to hide the fact that their code uses 1 gig of ram to display "hello world". That being said, I think that programmers should try to strive for the most effective coding strategy possible, simply because it is good practice. You may only have to make small programs for your company now, but in the future you could be making hardware intensive applications, and if that time comes, effective coding strategies need to be implemented. The main problem I think with Java's memory management is that it doesn't let you control enough. It allows the JRE to control too much memory allocation. That is one of the main reasons that people think that Java is slow. I think that adding GC to objective-C will give developers another option to try when tweaking for speed.
After all these years, I really hope that Microsoft finally releases an OS that is comparable in security to it's competition. Hopefully however, these securities won't come at too much of a price as to what the user can do.
even if so, that doesn't discredit his work.
Also, cross platform libraries do exist. Say you want to make a game for linux, mac and xp, well, if you use glut persay, porting is much much simplier. If developers start using these cross platform libraries and toolkits, then development and porting becomes profitable again.
How easy that is depends on what sites are needed for the job.
I agree with you that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should be tried and punished legally and I never said that he shouldn't be. Unfortunately, if nothing is done about terrorists, how do you expect countries like Iraq and Afghanistan to grow and develop into thriving countries. Most of the deaths in this war are caused by terrorists. Terrorists bombing cafes and markets and assasinating government officials. If these terrorists are not stopped, then no progress will ever be made. It is impossible to prove the ideology to be wrong. Try to convince a bunch of brainwashed suicide bombers that what they are doing is wrong. They will just kill you for blasphemy. The only true way to stop the spread of ideology is to remove the twisted clerics from power and destroy their training grounds. By killing the root of the weed, the rest of the weed shrivels and dies. If you keep striking at the leaves, the weed only grows back.
Haha, you keep saying that even though you have yet to provide any proof of your point. You can post over and over again saying I am blind, but time and time again, you have yet to prove me wrong. In fact, all you do is spew vile rhetoric and buzzwards.
Really? I would love to see some proof of this. I didn't realize that you were in charge of interpreting the Constituion, oh wait, thats right, thats the Supreme Court. You assume then that your interpretation of the Constituion is correct, and therefore you seek to destroy Republicans. Hmmm, sounds a lot like your trying to repress someone else's views, and you call Republicans fascist. In reality, you're the fascist.
Wow, first off, Republicans have NEVER passed laws promoting businesses against the people. In fact, Republicans have passed laws promoting small businesses. Next off, I would love to see proof of Republicans "stealing" money from citizens or proof of the government giving oil companies money. Wow, sounds like someone has a grudge about paying taxes. You say I have had my head in the sand, and you claim that the threat of terrorism is hyped. Well tell that to the victims of terrorism each day, whether it be in our country, or in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Spain, or England. You hear on the news of a few soldiers killed in Iraq on a certain day, most likely they were killed by a suicide bomber, or a road side bomb set up by terrorists. Terrorism is a very real and true threat to not only our country, but to the free world
Actually, Liberals support a form of centralized autocratic government, not Republicans. Anyone with even a slightest knowledge of politics or our governement knows that.
There was no connection between the Republican party and Guantanamo Bay. Trying to use what a few soldiers did against the Republican party shows your ignorance. Pretty just about everyone knows the United States does not have murder camps. The more you talk, the dumber you appear.
You dare to call me a coward, when you would let your countrymen die just so you can gain some votes. You are the lowest coward of all. An enemy challenges our country, commits and act of war against our country, and you want to run away and ignore the reality of our world.
Again, going back to what I said before, there is no debate, there is just biassed media attacks to paint impressionable people (like you) lies and propoganda about our government. Why don't you actually read the Patriot act before you talk, instead of being force fed lies.
First, yes I know Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the WTC attacks. Even if he is punished the point here is that terrorism is an ideology. The only way to deal with an ideology is to kill it at its roots. Everyone knows that the Muslim faith is a religion which does not preach hate or violence. The problem exists with the radical clerics who are twisting the religion into a controling one that they use to push their own agenda. These clerics need to be stopped or the United States will never be safe.
Those "facts" are the arguments I would expect of a 3rd grade child. They are the dumbest possible "facts" I have ever heard in my life. But if I must, then allow me to humor you. First off, the definition of a fascist -a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition [Webster's Online Dictionary]. There is absolutely no link between that definition and the Republican party. I have yet to see Republicans promote a certain race above the individual. I have yet to see any form of a centralized autocratic governement form. I have yet to see a dictorial leader (President Bush has the same amount of power as presidents before him). There are no severe economic and social regimentation, and definately not any forcible supression of opposition. In fact, you may not want to admit this, but guess what, the Republicans are working under the same Constitution and guidelines that everyone else is. So if you plan on calling Republicans facists, I expect some real reasons not just some namecalling. The real fascists are the people who mod me down because they don't agree with me and think that by moding me down they can make the facts disappear. Your next fact: Republicans "torture and murder people". Name one example of when the Republican party supported torture and/or murder. These are just more unsupported buzzwords in your argument to make you sound justified. I would also like to see how the Republicans are destroying your freedom, while their primary objective is to protect our country from people who want to take away our freedoms. Again, I think you have confused Republicans and the terrorists again.
Well, for one, actually, we are pretty good. Our government does not authorize the use of torture and/or murder camps. In fact, I have never even heard of one instance of our government setting up a murder camp. Show me one if you can.
You do realize that terrorism would not have stopped. You would have finished up in Afghanistan and you would have solved nothing other then do something that looked good to voters.
I can not refute something that you have yet to provide. You have never once given an example or anything, your arguments stops after namecalling.
If you are going to blame Republicans for where we are, then I guess you are just going to ignore the other million ACTUAL reasons why people hate us. Like a)our previous administrations support of Israel (which has always caused tension in the Middle East), b)previous adminstrations lack of effort to do anything so they can suck up to voters (Under President Clinton's administration Osama bin Laden bombed the World Trade Center, yet he was reluctant to do anything due to the risk of losing votes.) There are countless others that you seem to just not want to accept.
Apparently you do not believe that the United States has the right to defend itself. WW II was a prime example of this. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor sparked the U.S. into a war against them. That is no different then 9/11. The terrorists did the equivalent of bombing Pearl Harbor, and anything less then total defeat of the terrorists is a los