#'2959, it's parent and grandparent are all discussing difference in cost between CD and downloads. I don't see how the artist budget fits into the difference thing. Artist sings a song - just the same, no matter if it's a download or a CD. So the difference in cost is -- none.
Obviously you didn't notice he was talking how come downloads should be more profitable than CDs, because you disregarded opinion "without reading further".
Does everything need to be standardized, or should some things make common sense because they're widely used?
Yes, KDE is not part of GNU, but it could respect the OS it runs on*. GIMP, for example, respects Windows standards although it's not a typical Windows application.
In fact GIMP surprises me by applying Croatian language to normally English OS just because "regional settings" (locales) are set to Croatian.
However, if LANG was not specified by fdo, then I don't have a serious problem with it. But I still find it easier and more logical for KDE to set and respect LANG variable since many command line programs would also use the specified language.
By the way, "LANGuage", not "LC_NUMERIC" or whatever. Who mentioned locales? Maybe my post's parent, but not me:)
I don't blame KDE for not respecting LANG (that makes it sound so... mean), and I understand the difference in language handling; I for one find setting priorities fantastic, and quite nice for Balkans where languages are similar, but amount of translation not the same. However remember, it's easy to detect if KDE session is running or not, and if not, use LANG instead of settings from kcontrol.
* No matter what you think about name GNU/Linux, you can't say GNU isn't "typically there" with Linux. And that KDE is not typically used with Linux kernel.
Same thing happened to me when they first changed it to the single, lowercase g. I preferred the old G favicon. I really did. All this is plain... weird. These two are simply not Google's favicons. Except they are/were. I don't know what to think anymore.
So writing an algorithm on a computer is suddenly expensive and causing large costs to the university, that would justify patenting a potentially revolutionary algorithm, and not giving it back to the student? Let the Croatian universities dare patent or even copyright something I worked on, unless it was specifically for the university, or as part of university work.
In any case, this story teaches us something. Show only stupid ideas to the university, keep the others to yourself.
Not to mention "certain" people might associate it with "certain" phenomenon that predates HTTP+HTML in being called "web" by several hundred years, at least.
I only remember that ONE time I needed system restore it didn't work the way I expected it to. So, good bye, system restore, you don't exist for me.
Personally, ignoring the whole story about freedom, I don't have a big problem with Windows. Fact is, they are more often targeted by malicious software, and you can't look under the hood, and I use GNU/Linux privately, but I've known people who have grown quite annoyed during first week of use, and switched back.
Hah -- similar thing in Croatia. Sold national telco to Deutsche Telecom (T-Com, y'know). Now (almost) all our telco infrastructure is in foreign hands.
T-Com claims "DTK je u naÅem vlasniÅtvu!" - "Distribution Telecom Channels are our property!" and it's true since the government sold it along with Croatian Telecom, shortsighted and obviously not prepared for the consequences it'll have on free market.
You got point here, agreed. I was talking from my POV, and I forgot we're talking about state institutions. And in that case, true, quality is not a priority, long term storage is.
I'm not talking about having the same quality within a year. I'm talking about having the same quality in 20 years. If I continuously copy the content from DVD to DVD I will not lose the quality. And no analog material can guarantee 1:1 copy like digital storage.
Hm, although I would personally never use this, I can imagine some people actually being happy to use MS Bob. But, I never saw it in action, and who knows what kind of bugs it had, so that may be why it's hated so much.
Looks pretty friendly and "tutorialy" to me... and people mostly like tutorials.
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It's "citation needed", yknow. Oops, scratch that. It's "[citation needed]"[1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
> EU could not handle a 9/11 in their system.
No, we have 11/2
#'2959, it's parent and grandparent are all discussing difference in cost between CD and downloads. I don't see how the artist budget fits into the difference thing. Artist sings a song - just the same, no matter if it's a download or a CD. So the difference in cost is -- none.
Obviously you didn't notice he was talking how come downloads should be more profitable than CDs, because you disregarded opinion "without reading further".
Does everything need to be standardized, or should some things make common sense because they're widely used?
Yes, KDE is not part of GNU, but it could respect the OS it runs on*. GIMP, for example, respects Windows standards although it's not a typical Windows application.
In fact GIMP surprises me by applying Croatian language to normally English OS just because "regional settings" (locales) are set to Croatian.
However, if LANG was not specified by fdo, then I don't have a serious problem with it. But I still find it easier and more logical for KDE to set and respect LANG variable since many command line programs would also use the specified language.
By the way, "LANGuage", not "LC_NUMERIC" or whatever. Who mentioned locales? Maybe my post's parent, but not me :)
I don't blame KDE for not respecting LANG (that makes it sound so ... mean), and I understand the difference in language handling; I for one find setting priorities fantastic, and quite nice for Balkans where languages are similar, but amount of translation not the same. However remember, it's easy to detect if KDE session is running or not, and if not, use LANG instead of settings from kcontrol.
* No matter what you think about name GNU/Linux, you can't say GNU isn't "typically there" with Linux. And that KDE is not typically used with Linux kernel.
...and it has everything with KDE not honoring the LANG variable.
Seriously. LANG is used universally by command line tools and Gnome alike. Anything that uses libintl (gettext) reads the setting from LANG.
Same thing happened to me when they first changed it to the single, lowercase g. I preferred the old G favicon. I really did. All this is plain ... weird. These two are simply not Google's favicons. Except they are/were. I don't know what to think anymore.
In case you didn't know ... there is a separate Gmail Notifier app for OSX.
So writing an algorithm on a computer is suddenly expensive and causing large costs to the university, that would justify patenting a potentially revolutionary algorithm, and not giving it back to the student? Let the Croatian universities dare patent or even copyright something I worked on, unless it was specifically for the university, or as part of university work.
In any case, this story teaches us something. Show only stupid ideas to the university, keep the others to yourself.
Never underestimate the power of the dark side.
I call it "very well" for a hardware manufacturer.
Netbook sounds way cooler than webbook.
Not to mention "certain" people might associate it with "certain" phenomenon that predates HTTP+HTML in being called "web" by several hundred years, at least.
I only remember that ONE time I needed system restore it didn't work the way I expected it to. So, good bye, system restore, you don't exist for me.
Personally, ignoring the whole story about freedom, I don't have a big problem with Windows. Fact is, they are more often targeted by malicious software, and you can't look under the hood, and I use GNU/Linux privately, but I've known people who have grown quite annoyed during first week of use, and switched back.
Hmmm ... rangers? /insert obligatory Chuck Norris reference here/
Precisely. *****.
I meant "Shift" + "+" :)
Damn, almost made another one. Shift++, anyone?
Mine is Shift+Shift+Shift+Shift+Shift+. Croatian keyboard, plx.
Hah -- similar thing in Croatia. Sold national telco to Deutsche Telecom (T-Com, y'know). Now (almost) all our telco infrastructure is in foreign hands.
T-Com claims "DTK je u naÅem vlasniÅtvu!" - "Distribution Telecom Channels are our property!" and it's true since the government sold it along with Croatian Telecom, shortsighted and obviously not prepared for the consequences it'll have on free market.
Devour you
You got point here, agreed. I was talking from my POV, and I forgot we're talking about state institutions. And in that case, true, quality is not a priority, long term storage is.
Cthulhu!
I'm not talking about having the same quality within a year. I'm talking about having the same quality in 20 years. If I continuously copy the content from DVD to DVD I will not lose the quality. And no analog material can guarantee 1:1 copy like digital storage.
It would be perfect to use digital storage for preserving quality, and if that fails, well, fall back to analog storage :)
Maybe because it's Slashdot :D
Wordpad is like Notepad, except it can actually parse UNIX line endings :) :)
Sigh, I tried to brighten up the situation. Yes, you're right, both are crappy and annoying as hell :)
Hm, although I would personally never use this, I can imagine some people actually being happy to use MS Bob. But, I never saw it in action, and who knows what kind of bugs it had, so that may be why it's hated so much.
Looks pretty friendly and "tutorialy" to me ... and people mostly like tutorials.