I used to play linux unreal tournament against mac unreal tournament players...That was in 2000. why it doesn't happen with consoles I will never understand.
I can't help but laugh at how funny people would look wearing headphones tethered to each other's ears. Is this a new trend? Love will bind us together, and also our headphones?
If you don't know if it has DivX, it probably doesn't. It's still a niche feature. Players are getting more common, but still only a very small proportion of the market.
He got the part about Jon Johansen all wrong. He made it sound like he was trying to defeat region coding by making region coding sound even worse than it is. Jon wasn't trying to defeat region coding. He was trying to defeat CSS, an entirely different beast altogether. Region encoding ensures you only play DVDs from your region, CSS ensures only licensed players can play DVDs regardless of region. I don't like to see misinformation propagated during the "winning people to our cause" phase...Incidentally, Norway and France share a region code.
Where I live, many people do not speak a word of English, however the radio is almost entirely English songs. People will be singing a song in English, and you can try to speak to them and they have no idea what it's saying, just how it sounds. Hearing two teenagers singing "HOO LET ZE DOGS OUT WOO WOO" still leaves me in stitches.
In the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics where I am a sysadmin, we have about 300 Macs. It's supposed to be Mac-only, but some of our microscopes only run Windows.
The thing is that you can install any of the big Linux distros and install a lightweight desktop environment. I'm sure if you were using older versions of GNOME or KDE they had less hardware requirements as well. You have the choice-eye candy/ease of use/interoperability versus speed. This choice is as old as GUIs themselves. I still run Windowmaker on Debian on a 2.8GHz P4 because I don't use a file manager or any of the other modern niceties of GNOME or KDE. But can I fault them for that? GNOME and KDE are quite fast on my machine. I don't use them because of choice. I used the same setup on my Pentium 133 with 56MB RAM and it was just as usable. It's STILL just as usable. It's like complaining Doom 3 requires a much faster machine than Quake 3, when Quake 3 was written for the fastest hardware of the time, which now is considered dog slow. Quake 3 still runs on it though, and Windowmaker 0.8 with 2.6 is faster on that P133 than Wmaker 0.6 with 2.2.
You're that lazy? I find myself VNCing to my desktop machine (connected to my TV 3 meters away) when I watch a movie to pause it or turn up the volume from my laptop over wireless so I don't have to get up off the couch.
Try that. I'm beginning to think America's problem is not guns or violence or liberals or conservatives, it's trying to preach to the choir that your side has it all right.
From what I know (living in Dresden) many of the AMD employees here are foreigners, and many you can find on Friday night at Jim Beam's American Bar in Dresden Neustadt. All the AMD employees I met seem to be quite well paid, and it seems the company benefits are quite good as well.
but he obviously didn't "review" it objectively. If it's linux-certified, why did parts not work but he still gave it a high score because "it could work with another distro?" The mods have given you flamebait, but i'll bite. Why would you make a totally unsubstantiated claim like he did if his goal was only to review as provided? If he believes it's "up to the manufacturer to make things work, not the end-user", why would he even make a comment on using another distro?
He recommends the laptop "with another distribution", but doesn't actually try it with another distribution. There are no pictures of the laptop, and a very poor description of it. I smell "reviewer who got a free laptop if he would write a review but wasn't qualified to do so".
Good analogy with nintendo and x-box and so on, but did anyone else notice the juxtaposition of microsoft and linux in this analogy? Quite unexpected. Like Apple is to Linux as Nintendo is to Microsoft. But wait, is Sony to Microsoft as Microsoft is to Linux? Is Aiwa to JVC as JVC is to Panasonic? This is heavy.
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I used to play linux unreal tournament against mac unreal tournament players...That was in 2000. why it doesn't happen with consoles I will never understand.
I can't help but laugh at how funny people would look wearing headphones tethered to each other's ears. Is this a new trend? Love will bind us together, and also our headphones?
haha...I just live in Germany. I'm from a state that looks like a hand.
I'm not going to make the "grammar" joke...
i seen it in a documentary on bbc2.
IE use would be higher on UserFriendly, right? Have you ever read the forums?
"I plan on switching to Firefox and Linux when I get a chance. Accept me into your microsoft-hating club!"
or even better "I would be using Firefox, but I just had to format and reinstall. I'll download it tomorrow!"
(These quotes are based on real quotes but have been paraphrased to protect the innocent)
I run linux, solaris, and mac os x on my desk.
what's this windows you speak of?
If you don't know if it has DivX, it probably doesn't. It's still a niche feature. Players are getting more common, but still only a very small proportion of the market.
that's the one without vga. the one with vga has the blue screen with the white icons.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Where I live, many people do not speak a word of English, however the radio is almost entirely English songs. People will be singing a song in English, and you can try to speak to them and they have no idea what it's saying, just how it sounds. Hearing two teenagers singing "HOO LET ZE DOGS OUT WOO WOO" still leaves me in stitches.
In the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics where I am a sysadmin, we have about 300 Macs. It's supposed to be Mac-only, but some of our microscopes only run Windows.
The thing is that you can install any of the big Linux distros and install a lightweight desktop environment. I'm sure if you were using older versions of GNOME or KDE they had less hardware requirements as well. You have the choice-eye candy/ease of use/interoperability versus speed. This choice is as old as GUIs themselves. I still run Windowmaker on Debian on a 2.8GHz P4 because I don't use a file manager or any of the other modern niceties of GNOME or KDE. But can I fault them for that? GNOME and KDE are quite fast on my machine. I don't use them because of choice. I used the same setup on my Pentium 133 with 56MB RAM and it was just as usable. It's STILL just as usable. It's like complaining Doom 3 requires a much faster machine than Quake 3, when Quake 3 was written for the fastest hardware of the time, which now is considered dog slow. Quake 3 still runs on it though, and Windowmaker 0.8 with 2.6 is faster on that P133 than Wmaker 0.6 with 2.2.
You're that lazy? I find myself VNCing to my desktop machine (connected to my TV 3 meters away) when I watch a movie to pause it or turn up the volume from my laptop over wireless so I don't have to get up off the couch.
Dude...Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. They prefer "Asian-American".
OVER THE LINE!
Bowling for Truth Bank Scene.
Try that. I'm beginning to think America's problem is not guns or violence or liberals or conservatives, it's trying to preach to the choir that your side has it all right.
From what I know (living in Dresden) many of the AMD employees here are foreigners, and many you can find on Friday night at Jim Beam's American Bar in Dresden Neustadt. All the AMD employees I met seem to be quite well paid, and it seems the company benefits are quite good as well.
but he obviously didn't "review" it objectively. If it's linux-certified, why did parts not work but he still gave it a high score because "it could work with another distro?" The mods have given you flamebait, but i'll bite. Why would you make a totally unsubstantiated claim like he did if his goal was only to review as provided? If he believes it's "up to the manufacturer to make things work, not the end-user", why would he even make a comment on using another distro?
He recommends the laptop "with another distribution", but doesn't actually try it with another distribution. There are no pictures of the laptop, and a very poor description of it. I smell "reviewer who got a free laptop if he would write a review but wasn't qualified to do so".
Good analogy with nintendo and x-box and so on, but did anyone else notice the juxtaposition of microsoft and linux in this analogy? Quite unexpected. Like Apple is to Linux as Nintendo is to Microsoft. But wait, is Sony to Microsoft as Microsoft is to Linux? Is Aiwa to JVC as JVC is to Panasonic? This is heavy.
apparently Alderaan is not that obvious :)
Now they fixed the story. Now my joke just seems obscurely incorrect.
"SGI on Thursday announced it has agreed to sell its Alias subsidiary for $57.5 in cash to Accel-KKR."
I'll pay $58!!