What if the application takes a screenshot every five seconds? And then pattern matches each one for the dialog? I'm not saying this will work. I've no idea if it's possible for an application to take a screenshot without UAC priveleges itself.
Easy, tell them if they don't care about privacy then they won't mind installing video cameras in all rooms of their house. Or they wouldn't mind sharing their intimate details with anyone. Seriously, privacy is a basic human right, and it's natural to want some things private.
I do have many things to hide. Everyone does. Those things aren't necessarily bad.
It's in the article but non-infectious here does not mean it's impossible for HIV transmission during sex. It's only improbable and of course the probability of transfer is unknown - as even in the studies done with these drugs other protection measures were used (of course). Furthermore this is not new; rather it's a statement made by a few experts based on older research. The statement is meant to be a standard taken throughout the healthcare world.
"Well, yeah, I agree that it's marketing. My objection is that it's verging on the dishonest and that seems to permeate much of the enthusiasm behind Ubuntu. For instance their parent company Canonical still has not released the sourcecode to Launchpad! How absolutely hypocritical is that?"
How is that hypocritical? It's not because Canonical is helping the spread of open source. It's helping the popularity of Linux. Perhaps one of the best things any company can give to the open source community is more users, and Canonical is doing that. Of course they didn't make most of the components themselves - they put them together and advertised it right.
Launchpad is their product; what's wrong with their doing with it what they think is best for it? Whether or not it's best for the community is not the issue; it's their business. Besides, they have already open sourced one component of Launchpad, namely, Storm.
It's much easier to measure OS X adoption since most of it is just purchases of Mac computers. It's impossible to do the same with Linux. Who knows how many Linux users there are out there. I've never registered my copy of Linux, for one.
I've tried these three games. I'm a FPS fan and when I moved to Linux I wanted some free shooters, so I took a look at these three, in the order in the subject.
Nexuiz: Good but gameplay doesn't seem solid. The sound effects were pretty bad on my system at least and the weapons are weaker that Q3 I think. After a while I had this problem where all the textures were replaced by weird looking patterns and I gave up trying to fix it. An ok game but nothing really special.
Alien Arena: This is the first free game that I played that I actually like and would play seriously. The controls are solid and the weapons are well-balanced. Graphics are good although on my main system they sucked cause of graphics card drivers. I had to play on lowest res and lowest detail settings though. Great level design and pretty good bots.
WoP: I hated this game. The weapons were unintuitive and the levels were too dark, and adjusting the gamma didn't help. The sound effects were annoying and most of the levels were of the open type where bot aim held superior. even on the easiest level I was wiped out.
I also have a valid copy of Q3 which I tried a while ago and it ran the same as it did on Windows. Alien Arena is the only one I found worth it.
Looks good on Windows and Mac but still looks like classic TK under X11 - i.e. it will _not_ match your GTK / QT themes. From the site:
New and complementary widgets that make use of platform-specific theming on Mac OS X and Windows to better fit in with those environments, and feature an improved look and feel under X11. (screenshots)
Don't like some of the search results? Create your custom google search page then. Just write up a quick page in HTML that posts to the google search form and then just add the string -whatever (google has domain specifiers) with the page. So when you type "pointers" in your page it will submit to the google search:
Here's why I never used Facebook in the first place: policy. I checked it out and started to sign up (not really knowing what it was) over a year ago and read:
By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
There's no way I'd sign up for a service like that!
Okay, when will the Linux world realise that vertical space on the screen is at a premium? i.e. don't waste it. This huge taskbar/panel at the bottom wastes too much vertical space. So do almost every GTK theme. So whenever I find one I like I open the gtkrc file and reduce some of the y-thickness values. Look at the GTK file dialog. Vertical space is important. Why, in the default GNOME install of Ubuntu the buttons are just huge vertically. Sigh.
Macintosh leads the pack of Vista alternatives, with support from 28% of respondents. About a quarter said they would opt for Red Hat Linux, with SUSE Linux and Ubuntu each garnering 18% of the vote. Another 9% cited other Linux operating systems and 4% were unsure.
28 + 18 + 9 = 55. However, 44% was the claimed number considering alternatives (that 4% doesn't count). Perhaps each was allowed to cite multiple choices?
This is classic behaviour on Slashdot. I point out this might not be a big of a problem as it seems (as they only tested Windows 2000, and not XP or Vista, both combined are far more used than 2000), and I'm modded as troll, only because (I presume) that I'm providing evidence that a problem with Microsoft isn't as serious as it seems (i.e. I'm getting in the way of MS bashing).
According to the researchers, who have already notified the Microsoft security response team about their discovery, although they only checked "Windows 2000" (which is currently the third most popular operating system in use) they assume that newer versions of "Windows", XP and Vista, use similar random number generators and may also be vulnerable.
I don't see how you can complain about that. They can do what they want with their money. They're giving away a free browser that thousands of people use, and now they can to do what they want with their success. They even gave 300K back - could have been worse, could have been nothing. I'm not saying it's fair. I think CEOs and other top dogs get paid way too much (sure they ought to be paid more but not _that_ much more).
Our university president gets a quarter of a million a year - how is that fair? It's not for what he does it seems. Yet that's how the system works.
Moreover, why is ANYONE "against" convergence? Seriously? Do you really WANT to be carrying around a camera, a phone, a PDA, and a laptop?
No. I don't want to carry any of that stuff, except a phone. I want my phone to make phone calls and have only hardware for making phone calls with a long-lasting battery. This makes it as small as possible. This is also the philosophy behind Unix small utilities that do their job very well.
Here, if you want to use Ubuntu and don't like the default configuration, do what I always do - download the alternative install CD, then:
1) Do a minimal command line install 2) Install fluxbox/lightweight manager of your choice + some basic GTK libraries/or whatever you want 3) Download some of your favorite programs
There, minimal install with no extraneous daemons whatsoever. At first there will be a lot of downloading because it has very little on it, but in the end you will be left with a clean system that has a quick bootup and shutdown time and doesn't include anything you don't want (shutdown time for me is about 12 seconds).
Perhaps it's only for nerds, but if a trackerd daemon bothers you that much, you're a nerd. There are some things you might not know with such a minimal install. So here's some tips:
- Shutting down: sudo shutdown -h now - Rebooting: sudo shutdown -r now - Starting X: startx (if you install fluxbox, startx will be configured automatically) If you want to customize startx, put an.xinitrc in your home directory and put the command of your WM in there:
exec gkrellm & exec fluxbox
This also starts gkrellm for my desktop as well.
-Logging in: you won't see a prompt - just type your username and hit enter, or hit enter + username +enter if you want to see a promot -Search the package manager for cursor and human to get the default cursor -Install eterm to have a background setter. -File manager -install thunar -Terminal - I like xfce4-terminal
I tried with Firefox to upload an XML document with an XSL stylesheet but because it was served as plain text, it was displayed as plain text. That's really annoying actually. Why do webservers even need to tell the browser what kind of file it is?
Honestly, I might be in the classification of people who don't understand, but I resent the implication of "incompetent". I really hate the idea that you have to be an all-knowledgeable ubergeek, or else stay completely away from computers.
This is a general thing: most people when they know something that other people obviously do not, they call those people incompetent or stupid, even though they are ignorant of many things that other people are not. People do it to make them feel better and compensate for their inadequacies. People who are very capable in a single area are especially known for this partially because their lack of self confidence drove them to that area of expertise in the first place.
Spreadsheets (when designed properly), are quick in rolling out simple applications where you have to, say, repeatedly calculate a statistic from a set of data like a weighted average, and the data is not stored in file but on paper (like from a lab book).
I know a fair amount of programming and the spreadsheet design which allows you to see your data is far superior than rolling some custom thing out in R (or Octave if you use it).
Bad analogy. Sports require physical attributes that are well-known to deteriorate over time. Mental skills, unless degraded by disease or advanced age, do not.
Not true about mental skills. Many mental abilities seem to stay the same: often authors write their best books in their older age. But creative intelligence: the ability to come up with new ideas slowly goes away. G.H. Hardy remarked "young men prove theorems, old men write books", and although this is not evidence of my thesis, it's his own observation that he did his best work when he was younger (in mathematics).
Older people have more trouble learning new ideas. Someone in their late 40s will have much more difficulty learning a new language than they would have in their 20s. Their reaction time is slowed. Creativity slowly disappears, unfortunately.
Slashdot Mirror
I think we ought to formulate the Slashdot law, in a similar spirit to Godwin's law:
Slashdot Law: As a conversation on Slashdot grows longer, the probability of comparing someone to or bashing Microsoft approaches 1.
And they say Linux is harder to use than Windows.
What if the application takes a screenshot every five seconds? And then pattern matches each one for the dialog? I'm not saying this will work. I've no idea if it's possible for an application to take a screenshot without UAC priveleges itself.
Easy, tell them if they don't care about privacy then they won't mind installing video cameras in all rooms of their house. Or they wouldn't mind sharing their intimate details with anyone. Seriously, privacy is a basic human right, and it's natural to want some things private.
I do have many things to hide. Everyone does. Those things aren't necessarily bad.
Put up a sign on your door - "no flyers or pennysavers".
If it has nothing to do with the operating system then why is it in the OS? Why not have a userspace application to handle the DRM business?
It's in the article but non-infectious here does not mean it's impossible for HIV transmission during sex. It's only improbable and of course the probability of transfer is unknown - as even in the studies done with these drugs other protection measures were used (of course). Furthermore this is not new; rather it's a statement made by a few experts based on older research. The statement is meant to be a standard taken throughout the healthcare world.
"Well, yeah, I agree that it's marketing. My objection is that it's verging on the dishonest and that seems to permeate much of the enthusiasm behind Ubuntu. For instance their parent company Canonical still has not released the sourcecode to Launchpad! How absolutely hypocritical is that?"
How is that hypocritical? It's not because Canonical is helping the spread of open source. It's helping the popularity of Linux. Perhaps one of the best things any company can give to the open source community is more users, and Canonical is doing that. Of course they didn't make most of the components themselves - they put them together and advertised it right.
Launchpad is their product; what's wrong with their doing with it what they think is best for it? Whether or not it's best for the community is not the issue; it's their business. Besides, they have already open sourced one component of Launchpad, namely, Storm.
It's much easier to measure OS X adoption since most of it is just purchases of Mac computers. It's impossible to do the same with Linux. Who knows how many Linux users there are out there. I've never registered my copy of Linux, for one.
I've tried these three games. I'm a FPS fan and when I moved to Linux I wanted some free shooters, so I took a look at these three, in the order in the subject. Nexuiz: Good but gameplay doesn't seem solid. The sound effects were pretty bad on my system at least and the weapons are weaker that Q3 I think. After a while I had this problem where all the textures were replaced by weird looking patterns and I gave up trying to fix it. An ok game but nothing really special. Alien Arena: This is the first free game that I played that I actually like and would play seriously. The controls are solid and the weapons are well-balanced. Graphics are good although on my main system they sucked cause of graphics card drivers. I had to play on lowest res and lowest detail settings though. Great level design and pretty good bots. WoP: I hated this game. The weapons were unintuitive and the levels were too dark, and adjusting the gamma didn't help. The sound effects were annoying and most of the levels were of the open type where bot aim held superior. even on the easiest level I was wiped out. I also have a valid copy of Q3 which I tried a while ago and it ran the same as it did on Windows. Alien Arena is the only one I found worth it.
Don't like some of the search results? Create your custom google search page then. Just write up a quick page in HTML that posts to the google search form and then just add the string -whatever (google has domain specifiers) with the page. So when you type "pointers" in your page it will submit to the google search:
pointers -site:tech-republic, etc.
Not hard
There's no way I'd sign up for a service like that!
Okay, when will the Linux world realise that vertical space on the screen is at a premium? i.e. don't waste it. This huge taskbar/panel at the bottom wastes too much vertical space. So do almost every GTK theme. So whenever I find one I like I open the gtkrc file and reduce some of the y-thickness values. Look at the GTK file dialog. Vertical space is important. Why, in the default GNOME install of Ubuntu the buttons are just huge vertically. Sigh.
28 + 18 + 9 = 55. However, 44% was the claimed number considering alternatives (that 4% doesn't count). Perhaps each was allowed to cite multiple choices?
This is classic behaviour on Slashdot. I point out this might not be a big of a problem as it seems (as they only tested Windows 2000, and not XP or Vista, both combined are far more used than 2000), and I'm modded as troll, only because (I presume) that I'm providing evidence that a problem with Microsoft isn't as serious as it seems (i.e. I'm getting in the way of MS bashing).
I don't see how you can complain about that. They can do what they want with their money. They're giving away a free browser that thousands of people use, and now they can to do what they want with their success. They even gave 300K back - could have been worse, could have been nothing. I'm not saying it's fair. I think CEOs and other top dogs get paid way too much (sure they ought to be paid more but not _that_ much more).
Our university president gets a quarter of a million a year - how is that fair? It's not for what he does it seems. Yet that's how the system works.
No. I don't want to carry any of that stuff, except a phone. I want my phone to make phone calls and have only hardware for making phone calls with a long-lasting battery. This makes it as small as possible. This is also the philosophy behind Unix small utilities that do their job very well.
Here, if you want to use Ubuntu and don't like the default configuration, do what I always do - download the alternative install CD, then:
.xinitrc in your home directory and put the command of your WM in there:
1) Do a minimal command line install
2) Install fluxbox/lightweight manager of your choice + some basic GTK libraries/or whatever you want
3) Download some of your favorite programs
There, minimal install with no extraneous daemons whatsoever. At first there will be a lot of downloading because it has very little on it, but in the end you will be left with a clean system that has a quick bootup and shutdown time and doesn't include anything you don't want (shutdown time for me is about 12 seconds).
Perhaps it's only for nerds, but if a trackerd daemon bothers you that much, you're a nerd. There are some things you might not know with such a minimal install. So here's some tips:
- Shutting down: sudo shutdown -h now
- Rebooting: sudo shutdown -r now
- Starting X: startx (if you install fluxbox, startx will be configured automatically) If you want to customize startx, put an
exec gkrellm &
exec fluxbox
This also starts gkrellm for my desktop as well.
-Logging in: you won't see a prompt - just type your username and hit enter, or hit enter + username +enter if you want to see a promot
-Search the package manager for cursor and human to get the default cursor
-Install eterm to have a background setter.
-File manager -install thunar
-Terminal - I like xfce4-terminal
I tried with Firefox to upload an XML document with an XSL stylesheet but because it was served as plain text, it was displayed as plain text. That's really annoying actually. Why do webservers even need to tell the browser what kind of file it is?
This is a general thing: most people when they know something that other people obviously do not, they call those people incompetent or stupid, even though they are ignorant of many things that other people are not. People do it to make them feel better and compensate for their inadequacies. People who are very capable in a single area are especially known for this partially because their lack of self confidence drove them to that area of expertise in the first place.
Spreadsheets (when designed properly), are quick in rolling out simple applications where you have to, say, repeatedly calculate a statistic from a set of data like a weighted average, and the data is not stored in file but on paper (like from a lab book). I know a fair amount of programming and the spreadsheet design which allows you to see your data is far superior than rolling some custom thing out in R (or Octave if you use it).
Not true about mental skills. Many mental abilities seem to stay the same: often authors write their best books in their older age. But creative intelligence: the ability to come up with new ideas slowly goes away. G.H. Hardy remarked "young men prove theorems, old men write books", and although this is not evidence of my thesis, it's his own observation that he did his best work when he was younger (in mathematics).
Older people have more trouble learning new ideas. Someone in their late 40s will have much more difficulty learning a new language than they would have in their 20s. Their reaction time is slowed. Creativity slowly disappears, unfortunately.
The brain gets older.The "fluid" intelligence as defined in psychology decreases with age: for references please see the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence.
The headline title says error, but obviously it was intentional. You don't just exclude a group of people by accident.