I had the same thought as you, tepples. I suppose in the modern PC world a MS Windows install CD is a specialist's tool. But in the Mac and Linux worlds it's a OMFG they didn't include it!? WTF is wrong with these people!?!?! The cheap bastards!!!!!
I agree with you, but lets work in theory for a moment. I could see someone releasing an OS in the future that IS the browser. It would be useless without an internet connection, but not having an internet connection is like not having power; so in the longer term that argument is moot.
Picture this: You boot your computer to a web browser that takes up your whole screen. No desktop. No windows. Maybe tabs. Suppose that your hard drive usage is replaced by ftping to your ISP. Your email is webmail. Your Office Suite is through a web program than can save to ftp. There are lots of online games already.
This online only word suddenly starts to sound a lot more possible. The thing holding us back are old paradigms from a pre-online world.
...the day that I first see a robot with a hard-on. It's always a bit awkward saying you're not gay to man or beast or robot or whatever. Not that I know about the last two.
Does that 2 hour flight time from New York to Japan include the time to accelerate and slow down from the 10,000 miles an hour speed? Somehow I am skeptical. Speaking of which, I wonder what the ideal acceleration speed is for plane so that it gets to max speed relatively quickly without endangering the health of it's passengers.
"obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop" and to "require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities." It sounds to me like the first idea of forcing the unbundling IE is to muddy the waters. After that, forcing Microsoft into Web standards seems all the more like a reasonable proposition by everybody involved.
I think I figured out how we code around this. First we need an algorithm to determine usefulness of stored files. It would categorize them by last modification date, whether an application exists to open them or not, and total amount of modification time. Using these guidelines, a special type of shortcut will be created in a folder on the desktop called, "Items candidate for deletion when required". The only way to get items out of the folder will be by pressing the delete key after selecting them. The OS will then make note of this in a special white list.
Then, when the magical time comes when your disk becomes full, windows can pop up a dialog along the lines of:
Your hard drive is running out of space which is needed for the next operation (copy). Windows has designated some files as being less important to you. Do you mind if DX10 setup.exe is deleted? This operation is not reversable.
[Yes][No][Cancel]
Repeat the previous dialog on the next file in "Items candidate for deletion when required" until there is enough space or the user cancels.
Firefox 3 will pass the acid 2 test. You can try a nightly build if your curious and flame me later if it's currently broken. I believe Firefox 1.0 through 2.0 used the same Gecko branch (1.8?) which was why there weren't very many display changes between the browser versions. Firefox 3 will use Gecko 1.9.
I agree with you whole heartedly. But don't forget new users can just boot from the install CD to get to Disk Utility to check their disks when all hell breaks loose. Well, that is...uh...assuming that they notice the special menus at the top prior to the install screens.
Disk Utility is supposed to run the fsck command anyway. So if you are in the know, single user mode is easier and faster.
I just got the memo, guys. Apparently there was some confusion between the Java department and the higher ups. When Java Version 5 Release 6 was released, the developers were shifted to help work on the next iPod release. Yesterday the mistake was realized, and Java Version 6 work has begun. Expect it included with the next OS release.
Please don't hit me...well not hard anyway. I first started doing object oriented programming on Mac OS X with Java so this story does hit a cord. I can't help but wonder if Java 6 will be available to older releases of Mac OS X than 10.5.
Just wait until next week when KDE finds out that he is actually Icaca's and Microsoft's illegitimate son. But when Microsoft tries to get child support payments, Gnome baulks and says, "You don't touch my honey b!"
Those were the exact reasons why Ubuntu tried setting PulseAudio to default a year or two ago. But then it was so buggy they were forced to return to just Alsa. Let's hope that Fedora doesn't suffer the same fate.
You're very lucky if movies didn't go out of sync with esd when playing movies. It's latency had a tendency to be horrible. While PulseAudio fixes this, I can't help but wonder if it is as needed as it once was. ALSA has matured and few programs only offer OSS output anymore. All of my installed programs use ALSA for output and can play sound effects etc without cutting each other out.
OSS blocking audio is a classic Linux problem. Though nowadays most programs have switched over to alsa anyway including Flash etc. If you have no dsp, then OSS is not your problem. You would get an error dialog every time an OSS program tried to access dsp.
I have never had a problem with audio blocking on alsa, but I have heard of something like it happening. Polypaudio might be your eventual savior. Polypaudio was made to be a drop in replacement for the very very old enlightenment sound daemon. esd was used so that multiple sound sources could be played at the same time on OSS.
You might want to research alsa dmix in your local distributions forums. Good luck.
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I assume you are talking about some programs using OSS, which actually has little to do with PulseAudio. With Linux boxes you are generally best off searching out at least Alsa when possible. OSS...is just about as bad as esd.
They copied a bunch of stuff Windows has had for years (policy) or just got (advanced audio). Exactly. And when Ubuntu switched off of pulseaudio (then known as polypaudio) back to ALSA a few years ago, they reverse-copied. You should have seen the time space vacuum gravitate all sorts of the popularity!
If you really want to feel better, go to the go to the nearest Time Machine thread thread ( http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/0656212 ) and complain to kingdom come about how time machine is a copy of Windows.
I don't know. I have always found paperback a bit too ruff for my tastes. Plus there is the problem with getting the pages out Once out, they never seem to flush down the toilet right either.
The point is you don't NEED a special program to teach typing dipwad. In a school setting, your sources for learning information are usually not limited to a computer screen. Yes you can have a program baby you though everything, but it is not strictly needed. A teacher can teach you how to use the home row. (It's usually the teachers job to teach by the way.) Spell check usually does a great job of finding mistyped keys. My school actually had physical printouts that you had to touch type into the computer. The printouts were designed to match the level you're at, getting progressively harder. I swear, kids these days.
Sort of, kind of, not really? Schools are supposed to teach children skills that they can apply in the real world. One of these skills is keyboarding, and honestly, how many typing training packages have you seen on 'nix? Or even Mac? Special software? They taught keyboarding in my school though Microsoft Works. But of course we all knew Microsoft Works is special software. *snicker*
Region locking is the bane of my existence. I just want to study some Japanese but now I have to buy two different DVD players, two different Wiis, two different residential addresses for my Steam account...
Gimp's UI makes more sense on a XWindows system where you can set the individual sections of the UI to stay on top. For instance, I can keep the image full-screen on one monitor while using the editing tools on a second monitor. I'd like to see a single-window app like Photoshop do that! You can on Photoshop on the Mac. The GIMPs little toolbar windows resemble the Photoshop toolbar windows except that the Photoshop windows are much smarter. They automagically always float above the document and automatically hide themselves when no document windows of Photoshop are active so as not to cause unneeded clutter. I wish GIMP would do this, but I don't think linux has this class of window.
Personally don't like the single window mode of Photoshop on windows. Its like an odd hack of the program to get it to be usable on an operating system that doesn't group windows by application. But if they didn't do it, then Photoshop on Windows would probably have the same usability problems as the gimp.
Argument still stands. Once the punishment starts to get ridiculous, the thought pattern becomes "I feel bad, but his karma sorta had it coming." It's an unconscious part of human nature.:p
I hate to tell you this, but laughing when an "evil" person (or company) has their karma come back to haunt them is a part of human nature. It's a bit like when the person who punched you in the face steps in some dog crap. It just kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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I had the same thought as you, tepples. I suppose in the modern PC world a MS Windows install CD is a specialist's tool. But in the Mac and Linux worlds it's a OMFG they didn't include it!? WTF is wrong with these people!?!?! The cheap bastards!!!!!
Otherwise I don't think a feat like this would be remotely possible with the one action button ipod, no?
I agree with you, but lets work in theory for a moment. I could see someone releasing an OS in the future that IS the browser. It would be useless without an internet connection, but not having an internet connection is like not having power; so in the longer term that argument is moot.
Picture this: You boot your computer to a web browser that takes up your whole screen. No desktop. No windows. Maybe tabs. Suppose that your hard drive usage is replaced by ftping to your ISP. Your email is webmail. Your Office Suite is through a web program than can save to ftp. There are lots of online games already.
This online only word suddenly starts to sound a lot more possible. The thing holding us back are old paradigms from a pre-online world.
Somehow that come out more questionable than I thought. Time to hide under a rock!
...the day that I first see a robot with a hard-on. It's always a bit awkward saying you're not gay to man or beast or robot or whatever. Not that I know about the last two.
Does that 2 hour flight time from New York to Japan include the time to accelerate and slow down from the 10,000 miles an hour speed? Somehow I am skeptical. Speaking of which, I wonder what the ideal acceleration speed is for plane so that it gets to max speed relatively quickly without endangering the health of it's passengers.
I think I figured out how we code around this. First we need an algorithm to determine usefulness of stored files. It would categorize them by last modification date, whether an application exists to open them or not, and total amount of modification time. Using these guidelines, a special type of shortcut will be created in a folder on the desktop called, "Items candidate for deletion when required". The only way to get items out of the folder will be by pressing the delete key after selecting them. The OS will then make note of this in a special white list.
Then, when the magical time comes when your disk becomes full, windows can pop up a dialog along the lines of:
Your hard drive is running out of space which is needed for the next operation (copy). Windows has designated some files as being less important to you. Do you mind if DX10 setup.exe is deleted? This operation is not reversable.
[Yes][No][Cancel]
Repeat the previous dialog on the next file in "Items candidate for deletion when required" until there is enough space or the user cancels.
So....anyone else have any bright ideas?Slight correction: Apparently Firefox 1.0 used Gecko 1.0. I finally found a page that lists Firefox versions against Gecko versions.
Firefox 3 will pass the acid 2 test. You can try a nightly build if your curious and flame me later if it's currently broken. I believe Firefox 1.0 through 2.0 used the same Gecko branch (1.8?) which was why there weren't very many display changes between the browser versions. Firefox 3 will use Gecko 1.9.
I agree with you whole heartedly. But don't forget new users can just boot from the install CD to get to Disk Utility to check their disks when all hell breaks loose. Well, that is...uh...assuming that they notice the special menus at the top prior to the install screens.
Disk Utility is supposed to run the fsck command anyway. So if you are in the know, single user mode is easier and faster.
I just got the memo, guys. Apparently there was some confusion between the Java department and the higher ups. When Java Version 5 Release 6 was released, the developers were shifted to help work on the next iPod release. Yesterday the mistake was realized, and Java Version 6 work has begun. Expect it included with the next OS release.
Please don't hit me...well not hard anyway. I first started doing object oriented programming on Mac OS X with Java so this story does hit a cord. I can't help but wonder if Java 6 will be available to older releases of Mac OS X than 10.5.
Just wait until next week when KDE finds out that he is actually Icaca's and Microsoft's illegitimate son. But when Microsoft tries to get child support payments, Gnome baulks and says, "You don't touch my honey b!"
Those were the exact reasons why Ubuntu tried setting PulseAudio to default a year or two ago. But then it was so buggy they were forced to return to just Alsa. Let's hope that Fedora doesn't suffer the same fate.
You're very lucky if movies didn't go out of sync with esd when playing movies. It's latency had a tendency to be horrible. While PulseAudio fixes this, I can't help but wonder if it is as needed as it once was. ALSA has matured and few programs only offer OSS output anymore. All of my installed programs use ALSA for output and can play sound effects etc without cutting each other out.
OSS blocking audio is a classic Linux problem. Though nowadays most programs have switched over to alsa anyway including Flash etc. If you have no dsp, then OSS is not your problem. You would get an error dialog every time an OSS program tried to access dsp. I have never had a problem with audio blocking on alsa, but I have heard of something like it happening. Polypaudio might be your eventual savior. Polypaudio was made to be a drop in replacement for the very very old enlightenment sound daemon. esd was used so that multiple sound sources could be played at the same time on OSS. You might want to research alsa dmix in your local distributions forums. Good luck.
I assume you are talking about some programs using OSS, which actually has little to do with PulseAudio. With Linux boxes you are generally best off searching out at least Alsa when possible. OSS...is just about as bad as esd.
If you really want to feel better, go to the go to the nearest Time Machine thread thread ( http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/0656212 ) and complain to kingdom come about how time machine is a copy of Windows.
I don't know. I have always found paperback a bit too ruff for my tastes. Plus there is the problem with getting the pages out Once out, they never seem to flush down the toilet right either.
The point is you don't NEED a special program to teach typing dipwad. In a school setting, your sources for learning information are usually not limited to a computer screen. Yes you can have a program baby you though everything, but it is not strictly needed. A teacher can teach you how to use the home row. (It's usually the teachers job to teach by the way.) Spell check usually does a great job of finding mistyped keys. My school actually had physical printouts that you had to touch type into the computer. The printouts were designed to match the level you're at, getting progressively harder. I swear, kids these days.
You could throw your vote away voting for conventional candidates, but why? There is no chance they could win.
Region locking is the bane of my existence. I just want to study some Japanese but now I have to buy two different DVD players, two different Wiis, two different residential addresses for my Steam account...
Don't they have a striking resemblance?
http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/photoshopx.jpg
http://developer.gimp.org/screenshots/gimp-svg-import.png
Personally don't like the single window mode of Photoshop on windows. Its like an odd hack of the program to get it to be usable on an operating system that doesn't group windows by application. But if they didn't do it, then Photoshop on Windows would probably have the same usability problems as the gimp.
Argument still stands. Once the punishment starts to get ridiculous, the thought pattern becomes "I feel bad, but his karma sorta had it coming." It's an unconscious part of human nature. :p
I hate to tell you this, but laughing when an "evil" person (or company) has their karma come back to haunt them is a part of human nature. It's a bit like when the person who punched you in the face steps in some dog crap. It just kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.