One was a k6-2 laptop, one was an athlon with scsi drives, one was a pentium three. Bad luck, I think - I wish I could have figured it out - having galeon lock up repeatedly was quite annoying.
Yeah, I agree that my experience is anecdotal - I tried to convey that in the original critique. I was just kind of fishing to see if I was the only one. Keep in my this one a bad experience with _one_ user on _three_ machines.
And I thought 8.2 was buggy - if 9 is worse, that is some serious bad news. I was surprised with 8.2 - I thought 8.0 and 8.1 worked really well, even some of the betas I tried. But with 8.2, I had consistent problems with galeon and mozilla freezing, the gnome control panel wouldn't always start, evolution would freeze on me. Konqueror and other kde apps would just freeze. I always thought that there was something wrong with my setups - perhaps Java or javascript for the web stuff, but the same problems occured on 3 different isntalls, 2 of them fresh, 1 an upgrade, and I tried to upgrade pieces that were obvious candidates for being broken. Other people didn't see the same problems, as far as I could tell.
I decide to go back to redhat - 7.3 is better than 8, IMO, but neither one has the crashes or hangs I saw with Mandrake 8.2.
It happens in gnome-terminals and other apps on my system. The text is sometimes written on top of the root window, on my panel, or anywhere else, really. I'm using xinerama, don't know if that has anything to do with it.
As far as lack of configuration, I've read the arguments, and I disagree with them. Linux has over the years attracted users that like having the ability to control their software (all the way from the kernel to the desktop). To piss on these users in favor of the proverbial joe six pack is shortsighted, IMO. If my companies business plan was to piss off existing customers in the hopes of attracting potential customers, I'd find another company to work for
Metacity, in particular (referenced in your url), is an interesting beast. There are umpteen million window managers out there, some guy rejects them all as too buggy or too configurable, so writes yet another window manager. Great. But in metacity, I can't turn off opaque move. This is unacceptable on slower systems. I also can't vertically or horizontally resize windows. This might seem like fluff to you, but it is very powerful and useful on a large (multi-headed) desktop. Keybinds in general suck in metacity. Sawfish, the now-ugly-stepchild of the gnome project, had all of this. Instead of writing YAWM (yet-another-window-manager), why couldn't the author of metacity work with the sawfish (or other existing WM) to work out sensible defaults and cleaner preference system? You can argue that all the configurations of existing window managers make them buggy, bu t this flies in the face of my experience. A new project like metacity is likely more buggy than a project that has been around, has all the features you want, and has been tested by thousands. A classic case of not-invented-here-syndrome, IMO, which plagues linux like a bad STD.
There are lots of nice things about gnome2 and redhat8. Lack of configuration is not one of them. Thank god you can still replace metacity with sawfish (although they've made it *HARDER* than in previous release - sheesh).
I have Red Hat 8, and among its other problems(*), the xft stuff seems to be broken. Text is written to random parts of the screen (on top of other windows, etc), some text doesn't show up until you move the window or scroll the text, etc. The fonts look nice (when they're drawn in the right place), but the rendering is noticibly slower (800MHZ p3), for example, when text scrolls in a terminal window.
* - Lack of configuration to a fault, for example.
Interesting. There are some systems with 64bit instructions though (e.g. Cray MTA). Perhaps they are not worried about program space - it's probably a minute fraction of the data space used by your typical supercomputer application.
That's a good question. Maybe they're knowledge of the indended lockout came after they already did the slowdown? Maybe the union is so entrenched in it's operating procedures that they went with "plan A" because that's what they already do? Maybe the slowdown didn't really happen (the workers are just that lazy;) )? Whatever is going on, I don't think the media has the full picture (or at least the reality is some fusion of the opposite claims made).
BTW, regarding your other message, I could see a bunch of the ships waiting in the bay out here (mostly seem to have dispersed, now).
If you're so interested in calling a spade a spade, why not start by calling it what it really is "copyright infringement", not "stealing" or "theft".
You put a lot of faith in the ability of the entertainment industry to accurately read markets, foreacast trends, determine cause and effect in a world with an intractible number of variables. This faith is unjustified, IMO, and I wonder why you would give them so much credit? This is the same industry that fought the VCR tooth and nail (before realizing how profitable that market is), puts out innumerable movies that bomb at the box office, spits out records that make no money, fashions copy-cat acts that just don't seem to make it. Compare the number of winners to losers when it comes to television series. Consider the multi-album contracts for pop singers that seem to be able to repeat their performances, but somehow just don't appeal to the audiences anymore.
BTW, I buy virtually all my music; I've downloaded mabye 100-200 mp3s - some of which inspired me to buy more albums, all of which I eventually delete. Damn me to hell if you must. I've probably given $25,000 directly to the music industry in my life. Yet still, the artists I like are getting booted off of the mainstream labels, struggling to get by, why the recrod label executives are having their schlongs botoxed and have their way with hot young harlots. Defend them to your death, that's your right.
Yeah, I heard up here (I live in Seattle) that the companies were claiming a slow down. Other sources indicated that the companies were planning the lockout before the slow down went into effect. Those other sources were either workers or union reps. Who you going to believe? I don't know, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
It was my impression that the dock workers were not striking, but were instead, locked out of work by the corporation(s). In these days when strikes improve the bottom line for corporate officers (see Boeing), it is my guess that the lock out was done because the workers were taking too long to strike.
Or does your sig refer to something other than the long shoreman situation happening on the US west coast?
I don't think that having a perpetual motion machine would guarantee
that you could extract useful work from the machine, certainly not in an efficient and compact enough manner to serve as an automobile engine;)
Insightful? Try (-1: Wrong). The slingshot effect is useful for changing the magnitude of (increasing or decreasing) velocity. Why the hell do you think NASA missions use all those flybys of the earth, venus, mars, etc? The slingshot effect speeds up the probe while slowing down the planet. Don't make me break out my astrodynamics book on you;)
IIRC, the pressure altitude in most commercial aircraft is like 5 or 6 thousand feet, lower than where I used to live in colorado. Beer wouldn't burn there either. Airline temperatures aren't exceptional. Don't know about oxygen content (this would have a big effect - with enought O2, your body and just about everythin else becomes a fire hazard), but I'm guessing the airliners keep it low to keep things safe, costs down, and everbody nice and sleepy. On the other, hand, if a distillery is not banned equipment, then you could use that, and more would be better (for the questionable activity of making something go boom).
All you are doing is re-stating the facts in this particular lawsuit. That's what this case is all about: SWA, by making their website only visually oriented, is not allowing accessibility. Somehow, you have the idea that the presentation is more important on its own that the information provided.
Is there something fundamentally visual about the content of the SWA website (reservations, flight status, etc)? You be the judge.
Frankly, I don't really give a fuck about the topic anymore. Apparently, there are many slashdot readers that think the ADA is bullshit, that societal concession made to the disabled are a waste of resources, that racial, sexual, and other discrimination shouldn't be prevented by law, that somehow, the free market will work these situations out for the best. Because, obviously, we were doing so well just letting things work themselves out before the civil rights movement. Anyway, my power to convince is low, and my motivation, dipping lower. HAND.
Come back when you learn the difference between an analogy (and a direct response to an unreasonable assertion) and the strawman argument you've constructed, asshole.
Original comment:
Does anyone have the right to force a company to spend money on a minority, or accept customers they wouldn't otherwise accept? I don't believe they do.
My response:
Yeah!! Any (sic) why should companies have to hire blacks and women if they don't want to?
Come back when you learn the difference between an analogy (and a direct response to an unreasonable assertion) and the strawman argument you've constructed, asshole.
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I decide to go back to redhat - 7.3 is better than 8, IMO, but neither one has the crashes or hangs I saw with Mandrake 8.2.
I frequently boo loudly when those commercials come one. No one seems to mind, in fact, people tend to join in the booing. Try it, it's fun.
6. Profit?
Thanks, I will - I've been planning to, I looked a bit at the xft and gnome sites, but haven't found anything yet. I do have a matrox card, btw.
As far as lack of configuration, I've read the arguments, and I disagree with them. Linux has over the years attracted users that like having the ability to control their software (all the way from the kernel to the desktop). To piss on these users in favor of the proverbial joe six pack is shortsighted, IMO. If my companies business plan was to piss off existing customers in the hopes of attracting potential customers, I'd find another company to work for
Metacity, in particular (referenced in your url), is an interesting beast. There are umpteen million window managers out there, some guy rejects them all as too buggy or too configurable, so writes yet another window manager. Great. But in metacity, I can't turn off opaque move. This is unacceptable on slower systems. I also can't vertically or horizontally resize windows. This might seem like fluff to you, but it is very powerful and useful on a large (multi-headed) desktop. Keybinds in general suck in metacity. Sawfish, the now-ugly-stepchild of the gnome project, had all of this. Instead of writing YAWM (yet-another-window-manager), why couldn't the author of metacity work with the sawfish (or other existing WM) to work out sensible defaults and cleaner preference system? You can argue that all the configurations of existing window managers make them buggy, bu t this flies in the face of my experience. A new project like metacity is likely more buggy than a project that has been around, has all the features you want, and has been tested by thousands. A classic case of not-invented-here-syndrome, IMO, which plagues linux like a bad STD.
There are lots of nice things about gnome2 and redhat8. Lack of configuration is not one of them. Thank god you can still replace metacity with sawfish (although they've made it *HARDER* than in previous release - sheesh).
* - Lack of configuration to a fault, for example.
Interesting. There are some systems with 64bit instructions though (e.g. Cray MTA). Perhaps they are not worried about program space - it's probably a minute fraction of the data space used by your typical supercomputer application.
Ahh, this I did not know - I assumed that 64bit architectures would use 64bit instructions. I'm surprised that none of them do.
With 64bit insrructions, you can cram bigger number into the instructions themselves (constants and what not).
I care - my house is very small.
BTW, regarding your other message, I could see a bunch of the ships waiting in the bay out here (mostly seem to have dispersed, now).
You put a lot of faith in the ability of the entertainment industry to accurately read markets, foreacast trends, determine cause and effect in a world with an intractible number of variables. This faith is unjustified, IMO, and I wonder why you would give them so much credit? This is the same industry that fought the VCR tooth and nail (before realizing how profitable that market is), puts out innumerable movies that bomb at the box office, spits out records that make no money, fashions copy-cat acts that just don't seem to make it. Compare the number of winners to losers when it comes to television series. Consider the multi-album contracts for pop singers that seem to be able to repeat their performances, but somehow just don't appeal to the audiences anymore.
BTW, I buy virtually all my music; I've downloaded mabye 100-200 mp3s - some of which inspired me to buy more albums, all of which I eventually delete. Damn me to hell if you must. I've probably given $25,000 directly to the music industry in my life. Yet still, the artists I like are getting booted off of the mainstream labels, struggling to get by, why the recrod label executives are having their schlongs botoxed and have their way with hot young harlots. Defend them to your death, that's your right.
Or does your sig refer to something other than the long shoreman situation happening on the US west coast?
I don't think that having a perpetual motion machine would guarantee that you could extract useful work from the machine, certainly not in an efficient and compact enough manner to serve as an automobile engine ;)
This is one case where "loosing" would be better (at least funnier).
Insightful? Try (-1: Wrong). The slingshot effect is useful for changing the magnitude of (increasing or decreasing) velocity. Why the hell do you think NASA missions use all those flybys of the earth, venus, mars, etc? The slingshot effect speeds up the probe while slowing down the planet. Don't make me break out my astrodynamics book on you ;)
IIRC, the pressure altitude in most commercial aircraft is like 5 or 6 thousand feet, lower than where I used to live in colorado. Beer wouldn't burn there either. Airline temperatures aren't exceptional. Don't know about oxygen content (this would have a big effect - with enought O2, your body and just about everythin else becomes a fire hazard), but I'm guessing the airliners keep it low to keep things safe, costs down, and everbody nice and sleepy. On the other, hand, if a distillery is not banned equipment, then you could use that, and more would be better (for the questionable activity of making something go boom).
Is there something fundamentally visual about the content of the SWA website (reservations, flight status, etc)? You be the judge.
Frankly, I don't really give a fuck about the topic anymore. Apparently, there are many slashdot readers that think the ADA is bullshit, that societal concession made to the disabled are a waste of resources, that racial, sexual, and other discrimination shouldn't be prevented by law, that somehow, the free market will work these situations out for the best. Because, obviously, we were doing so well just letting things work themselves out before the civil rights movement. Anyway, my power to convince is low, and my motivation, dipping lower. HAND.
It seems like you detected it just fine ....
What difference does it make, coward?
Original comment:
Does anyone have the right to force a company to spend money on a minority, or accept customers they wouldn't otherwise accept? I don't believe they do.
My response:
Yeah!! Any (sic) why should companies have to hire blacks and women if they don't want to?
Come back when you learn the difference between an analogy (and a direct response to an unreasonable assertion) and the strawman argument you've constructed, asshole.