Because folks just hit "rename" when they want to change the name of something and every version of Windows(don't know about Vista, customers hate it so i don't stock it) allows you to rename the file AND the file extension by default.
Great fix! Just great! Nautilus automatically marks the name of the file and leaves the."filetype" unmarked when you hit rename. When you begin typing you will only replace the name and the."filetype" will be left untouched on the right side of your marker. Was that so fucking difficult? That's called a fix. If it leaves a hole bigger than it fills it's a flaw.
Am I the only one whom read this sentense with an emphasis on the word "even"? I'm asking because it was funny and even funnier if it wasn't intentional.
I was making fun of the post before me as he was simply dropping synonyms. Nobody caught this? Seems I overestimated you once again Slashdot. You win this round.
No the reason that it's an article worth mentioning is that for those of us whom really didn't swallow the whole fuss about the amazing differences between Vista and 7 now know, but more importantly those of you that did, hopefully now know better. What goes for your theory, that XP is faster because it did less, it doesn't hold water. OS development must be parallel to hardware development.
Last benchmarks I saw of the BSDs and two Linux versions wasn't in OpenBSDs favour either..
I don't really know where you're going with this sentence but I'm guessing that if OpenBSD isn't faster than a Linux distribution it's ok that 7 isn't much faster than Vista, which of course makes perfect sense since the official ISO measurement standard between OS speeds is measured in OpenBSD-seconds per Linux-seconds.
I never said it wasn't entirely possible, I simply said that the task is not all that easy as the parents fundamental argument is based on this assumption. In addition to this you have to consider another factor. There's a reason that for example you (as you used yourself as an example), even with the alleged resources, don't conduct this, right? Once again I'm not saying the opposite is impossible but it's worth taking to account that educated people generally tend to think things through, at least for a project with this magnitude. And in the end most of us simply leave it as a slashdotted article, since criminal masterplans aren't really our thing, even if we would be able to execute them. This is called profiling. I'll give you an example. If you would go to your university and ask every person that you consider competent for this task, how many would you actually (honest now) get on board? Now what would happen if you would conduct the same test but instead in a prison (let's say that hypothetically the prison holds the same percentage of competent peers). What would you estimate the outcome to be? Of course the paradox that I'm talking about is that statisticly education != crime. Thus the university would be both a good and a bad source. However as mentioned before, I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would go so far to say that it's highly unlikely, and definetly not as easy as the parent claims.
... wouldn't you think that at least one group of criminals would be buying as many of these drives as possible?
Well the black market is a quite complicated. The only groups with enough funding and enough motive to even try to obtain this information (disregarding the middlemen that you're mentioning) would be other nations. Let's say you're an exceptional nerd with enough skills to extract this data into usable form (I think it would be fair to say that many/.-ers fit or could fit this profile given some time to research). How would you go about selling this information to let's say North Korea? Who would you contact? Better yet, who would they allow you to speak to? I doubt you can just pick up the phone and ask the operator to "hook you up with the illest of Kim Jongs". But let's say you actually do get to speak with him (or anybody of importance really). How's your Korean? Ok final hypothesis, let's say you actually do speak Korean. What are you going to say? It's not like you're calling from AT&T to offer him 5$ less monthly fee if he subscribes to the service for 24 additional months.
Basically I see where you're coming from but I wouldn't take the procedure so lightly. Plus there's possibly a lot more important information floating around somewhere that never "got in the wrong hands" as well.
"The vehicle inside that bubble thinks that it's not moving at all. It's the space-time that's moving."
Worst analogy ever. You can't imagine spacetime as a bubble. Spacetime is everything, thus the ship inside the "bubble" is a part of and the "bubble" itself. In theory you could curve spacetime and create wormholes, which is not exactly news, allowing you to travel at "warp speeds". The problem is that wormholes as we know them exist for extremely short periods of time and as far as I know mere particles may hitch a short ride during this brief point.
It's true that banning VoIP makes friends with the carriers. A good alt.store some place will deliver those apps soon. Then things are out of the carrier's gouging control again, and so much the better.
So basically you're saying that it's ok for them to treat the consumers in this way because someone else won't? By that logic you can even justify murder. Don't glorify it, this is horrible. This is just as bad as McDonalds employees spitting in your food. That's exactly the way you should feel. I don't understand how people can be so easilly manipulated to accept these things. People wake the hell up, it's NOT ok for companies to shit all over your head, not even Microsoft. So don't even begin to justify it. Fucking hell, you have power, consumer force. Don't compromise, it's just self destructive and as always (not different from this case in any way) someone else will leech on YOU. If you continue supporting companies taking advantage you will always pick the shortest straw.
Who's to say the next IPhone won't stab users in the face with a fork?
Doesn't it do that already? No wait that was locking in users to force them to use their approved products instead of anybody elses allowing them to completely control the market leaving the consumer helpless when it comes to anything else than what Apple considers "in the line of their business". Well in all fairness I'd take a fork in the face any day over that.
In their defense, this rule makes sense. In no company should one promote the activities of another rival company, this is natural. However it's another thing to Hitler things around, such as prohibiting VoIP. This is such a natural step in communication that it hurts to see that Microsoft kills innovation like this. I really admire the ignorance of those that support this store. This is no longer even about opinions, this is a plain fucking fact, do you want to pay your carrier for a service that you can get for free with another service you're already paying for? To me it's simple, get as far away from such a company as possible. They clearly have no interest in pleasing you, their interest lies in pleasing AT&T and Vodafone etc. That's where they get their income, by allowing other companies to fuck you over and then charge them for the service.
Like alot of other medical researches they just might find a cure for something else. There's an important difference between testing substances on animals and growing body parts from their own tissues. The prior requires DNA similarities whilst the latter doesn't. You experiment on animals to understand how to do it on humans best, not experiment on animals and hope that the effects of the substance will be the same for humans. Either way I'm putting my buck 'o' five on stem cell research.
I have a question that I would like as many to answer as possible. If the world was infected by a virus and slowly dying while I was the only one in the world with the vaccine that prevents this. Would you say that I'm a murderer if I don't provide people with this vaccine?
I'm asking because religion, but mostly christianity in this case, has prevented millions and millions of people from surviving such diseases. Everyday there's a breakthrough with stem cell research, which is not so difficult to understand as they're the founding bricks of our bodies and thus you can rebuild anything, and everyday christians make us believe that it's actually justified to not use medication because it's not the way "God" wanted. My guess is you answered yes on my first question. So how is this different? How can we tolerate that people "believe" and because of their "belief" others must die. Mothers, fathers, children die in vain because people "believe". Now you might argue that not all christians think this way and that I'm flamebaiting. Fair enough, but remember that the justification for this lies within christianity (remember, "God" didn't want this), so I don't see how it wouldn't be fair to blame christianity. I don't see how it's fair that my children, or your parents or our friends should die because diluted people are believed to be sane.
Woah woah, slow down there. There's a difference between your end purpose and the end purpose of the tool. You can't say that the monkey wrenchs end purpose is to fix a plane, that's your end purpose, its end purpose is to screw bolts. Google is made to find pages, however you use it to find answers within the pages it shows you. It never gives you answers (except for the maths thing), it gives you hits and you have to find the answer yourself, presuming there even is one. So no, you're wrong brother. It's a very, very, very poor comparison not even worth spending another post on.
Your part about comparing to people doesn't make sense either. Of course you have to pick a person, what makes you say you have to find the ultimate man for this? Is google the ultimate search engine? Or even WA? What makes it ok to compare them? There are others, just like there are other people. You've got it all wrong brother. My last post as this is getting boring.
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I'd like to see you try. Hell I'd even pay to watch.
Poor Britney. Now she's even getting compared to Windows.
Hmm, I have some K6/K6-2 processors left from old times. This gave me an idea. I need a fire extinguisher first though.
Go home dad, you're drunk.
All it does is mess up the OS
Oh! Well in that case I guess it's ok.
+7, Reality check
Bitmap = fail. Scalable vector graphics = success.
Because folks just hit "rename" when they want to change the name of something and every version of Windows(don't know about Vista, customers hate it so i don't stock it) allows you to rename the file AND the file extension by default.
Great fix! Just great! Nautilus automatically marks the name of the file and leaves the ."filetype" unmarked when you hit rename. When you begin typing you will only replace the name and the ."filetype" will be left untouched on the right side of your marker. Was that so fucking difficult? That's called a fix. If it leaves a hole bigger than it fills it's a flaw.
Fortunately, their software is much better than their web design.
Thanks for the seizure.
Even Apple is designing its own chips these days.
Am I the only one whom read this sentense with an emphasis on the word "even"? I'm asking because it was funny and even funnier if it wasn't intentional.
I was making fun of the post before me as he was simply dropping synonyms. Nobody caught this? Seems I overestimated you once again Slashdot. You win this round.
Last benchmarks I saw of the BSDs and two Linux versions wasn't in OpenBSDs favour either ..
I don't really know where you're going with this sentence but I'm guessing that if OpenBSD isn't faster than a Linux distribution it's ok that 7 isn't much faster than Vista, which of course makes perfect sense since the official ISO measurement standard between OS speeds is measured in OpenBSD-seconds per Linux-seconds.
I never said it wasn't entirely possible, I simply said that the task is not all that easy as the parents fundamental argument is based on this assumption. In addition to this you have to consider another factor. There's a reason that for example you (as you used yourself as an example), even with the alleged resources, don't conduct this, right? Once again I'm not saying the opposite is impossible but it's worth taking to account that educated people generally tend to think things through, at least for a project with this magnitude. And in the end most of us simply leave it as a slashdotted article, since criminal masterplans aren't really our thing, even if we would be able to execute them. This is called profiling. I'll give you an example. If you would go to your university and ask every person that you consider competent for this task, how many would you actually (honest now) get on board? Now what would happen if you would conduct the same test but instead in a prison (let's say that hypothetically the prison holds the same percentage of competent peers). What would you estimate the outcome to be? Of course the paradox that I'm talking about is that statisticly education != crime. Thus the university would be both a good and a bad source. However as mentioned before, I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would go so far to say that it's highly unlikely, and definetly not as easy as the parent claims.
Plus it's LEGO parts or LEGO components or LEGO units or LEGO bits or...
... wouldn't you think that at least one group of criminals would be buying as many of these drives as possible?
Well the black market is a quite complicated. The only groups with enough funding and enough motive to even try to obtain this information (disregarding the middlemen that you're mentioning) would be other nations. Let's say you're an exceptional nerd with enough skills to extract this data into usable form (I think it would be fair to say that many /.-ers fit or could fit this profile given some time to research). How would you go about selling this information to let's say North Korea? Who would you contact? Better yet, who would they allow you to speak to? I doubt you can just pick up the phone and ask the operator to "hook you up with the illest of Kim Jongs". But let's say you actually do get to speak with him (or anybody of importance really). How's your Korean? Ok final hypothesis, let's say you actually do speak Korean. What are you going to say? It's not like you're calling from AT&T to offer him 5$ less monthly fee if he subscribes to the service for 24 additional months.
Basically I see where you're coming from but I wouldn't take the procedure so lightly. Plus there's possibly a lot more important information floating around somewhere that never "got in the wrong hands" as well.
"The vehicle inside that bubble thinks that it's not moving at all. It's the space-time that's moving."
Worst analogy ever. You can't imagine spacetime as a bubble. Spacetime is everything, thus the ship inside the "bubble" is a part of and the "bubble" itself. In theory you could curve spacetime and create wormholes, which is not exactly news, allowing you to travel at "warp speeds". The problem is that wormholes as we know them exist for extremely short periods of time and as far as I know mere particles may hitch a short ride during this brief point.
... in Drepper's words it was 'for the sole benefit of this embedded crap.'"
Aurelien Jarno has just uploaded a fork of glibc called eglibc...
I love FOSS.
It's true that banning VoIP makes friends with the carriers. A good alt.store some place will deliver those apps soon. Then things are out of the carrier's gouging control again, and so much the better.
So basically you're saying that it's ok for them to treat the consumers in this way because someone else won't? By that logic you can even justify murder. Don't glorify it, this is horrible. This is just as bad as McDonalds employees spitting in your food. That's exactly the way you should feel. I don't understand how people can be so easilly manipulated to accept these things. People wake the hell up, it's NOT ok for companies to shit all over your head, not even Microsoft. So don't even begin to justify it. Fucking hell, you have power, consumer force. Don't compromise, it's just self destructive and as always (not different from this case in any way) someone else will leech on YOU. If you continue supporting companies taking advantage you will always pick the shortest straw.
Who's to say the next IPhone won't stab users in the face with a fork?
Doesn't it do that already? No wait that was locking in users to force them to use their approved products instead of anybody elses allowing them to completely control the market leaving the consumer helpless when it comes to anything else than what Apple considers "in the line of their business". Well in all fairness I'd take a fork in the face any day over that.
In their defense, this rule makes sense. In no company should one promote the activities of another rival company, this is natural. However it's another thing to Hitler things around, such as prohibiting VoIP. This is such a natural step in communication that it hurts to see that Microsoft kills innovation like this. I really admire the ignorance of those that support this store. This is no longer even about opinions, this is a plain fucking fact, do you want to pay your carrier for a service that you can get for free with another service you're already paying for? To me it's simple, get as far away from such a company as possible. They clearly have no interest in pleasing you, their interest lies in pleasing AT&T and Vodafone etc. That's where they get their income, by allowing other companies to fuck you over and then charge them for the service.
Windows is adding negative value to the system
You're saying it as if it was a positive thing.
Those swines and their labs.
Like alot of other medical researches they just might find a cure for something else. There's an important difference between testing substances on animals and growing body parts from their own tissues. The prior requires DNA similarities whilst the latter doesn't. You experiment on animals to understand how to do it on humans best, not experiment on animals and hope that the effects of the substance will be the same for humans. Either way I'm putting my buck 'o' five on stem cell research.
In animal models, they routinely cure diabetes.
I have a question that I would like as many to answer as possible. If the world was infected by a virus and slowly dying while I was the only one in the world with the vaccine that prevents this. Would you say that I'm a murderer if I don't provide people with this vaccine?
I'm asking because religion, but mostly christianity in this case, has prevented millions and millions of people from surviving such diseases. Everyday there's a breakthrough with stem cell research, which is not so difficult to understand as they're the founding bricks of our bodies and thus you can rebuild anything, and everyday christians make us believe that it's actually justified to not use medication because it's not the way "God" wanted. My guess is you answered yes on my first question. So how is this different? How can we tolerate that people "believe" and because of their "belief" others must die. Mothers, fathers, children die in vain because people "believe". Now you might argue that not all christians think this way and that I'm flamebaiting. Fair enough, but remember that the justification for this lies within christianity (remember, "God" didn't want this), so I don't see how it wouldn't be fair to blame christianity. I don't see how it's fair that my children, or your parents or our friends should die because diluted people are believed to be sane.
Woah woah, slow down there. There's a difference between your end purpose and the end purpose of the tool. You can't say that the monkey wrenchs end purpose is to fix a plane, that's your end purpose, its end purpose is to screw bolts. Google is made to find pages, however you use it to find answers within the pages it shows you. It never gives you answers (except for the maths thing), it gives you hits and you have to find the answer yourself, presuming there even is one. So no, you're wrong brother. It's a very, very, very poor comparison not even worth spending another post on.
Your part about comparing to people doesn't make sense either. Of course you have to pick a person, what makes you say you have to find the ultimate man for this? Is google the ultimate search engine? Or even WA? What makes it ok to compare them? There are others, just like there are other people. You've got it all wrong brother. My last post as this is getting boring.