1 The ability to switch off that utterly, utterly wretched spatial mode (which looks like a bad throwback to GUIs from the 1980s) from the apps preferences. It is totally unacceptable that you have to use a seperate preferences editor to do this. It's a setting of the app and should be adjustable from within the app itself. No excuses.
So what's your excuse for whining about something that's been fixed two stable releases ago? Really. Go look it up. Gnome _2.8_ has the option in nautilus preferences dialog.
2 If I've used Ctr&C or Ctrl&V on a selection of files/directories in another Nautilus window pressing Ctrl&V or Ctrl&Ins on a second Nautilus window should paste the objects into the directory.
Ctrl-C/V work as expected. Just because windows keeps danling another set of those because it used to be that way back in 3.0 doesn't mean they should be copied by others.
Oddly enough, that's not true. Check out Finland as a destination: they're quite accomodating.
Welcome.
Yes, I'm considering it. Sure, the language is a bitch, but you can learn Swedish, which is much easier (and my route, as I already speak German).
Many of us speak pretty good English too, and especially the younger people are probably generally more adept with it than Swedish, since both are taught at schools, but Internet and TV make mastering English actually useful, and that's what counts for wanting to learn something...
ROTFL. And just what could he have done? Gone down there and piloted a helicopter himself?
Hmm, let me think. Oh yeah, how about even TRYING to coordinate the relief effort?
It takes *time* to get relief organized on this scale. It takes *time* to move people and equipment.
I suppose you're right, playing guitar with Mark Wills and keeping the vacation and PR tour going is much more important, after all, it would take time anyway, so few more days before getting started doesn't really hurt anyone.
The President doesn't have some magic wand he can wave and make everything all better - but a lot of people do have very unrealistic expectations as to how fast things can be done.
Unrealistic assumptions such as even bothering to drag his ass to a goddamn "war room" where he MIGHT, despite his obvious incompetence, have the SLIGHTEST change of getting the relevant reports from people out there for forming the "big picture" and the communications channels for even STARTING to move the people and equipment.
Yes. You apparently haven't, or you'd know that for example Java isn't available trough the repos, and flash is only in multiverse, which isn't enabled by default. Same goes for most of the stuff grand grand parent listed.
They don't "just happen" to have genomes like that, they happen to have them because they're rather "recently" (few million years ago) diverged and still very close relatives
Many closely related species are genetically compatible enough for hybridization, not just equids, large cats for example, as well as canines and bovines, so two species of humans being capable of interbreeding doesn't sound very unreasonable assumption.
Good thing you have those quotes there, Opera STILL isn't mainstream and it definitely wasn't in 2000:) But I'll grant you it's vastly less obscure of the two.
Sure it was. Opera 3 added CSS support, and where were IE and Netscape then?
Well, Gecko already existed around the time when Opera 3.5 with CSS was released, so Netscape was definitely headed towards the standards track, and back then MS still had to do something to be "good enough" to supplant Netscape, so IE4 did actually have pretty comprehensive CSS1 support slightly before Opera.
That [RSS] didn't necessarily come before Opera's.
From what I can see, first Opera with RSS support was 7.5 beta, apr 2004, aggreg8 and newsmonster both existed at least a year before.
2. These people are pioneers of key browser features. Tabbed browsing, standards support, integrated mail/news/RSS/IRC/BT client, mail labels (what Gmail did later), etc etc
Riiiight. Here's the list of these key browser features, along with their respective REAL pioneers, or at least someone who did it before Opera.
Tabbed browsing: InternetWorks standards support: Doh. Everyone, now that it's trendy? Opera wasn't the first, or even among the first. integrated mail/news: Netscape RSS: Mozilla extension IRC: Mozilla mail labels (what Gmail did later): Evolution BT client: maybe...
etc etc
Yeah, I'm sure you can invent more. Might be worth checking if they were pioneered by Opera, though, mighty embarrassing loudly "pioneering" something that was done by others years ago...
The core of.NET was submitted to an international standards body which won't let any submissions be encumbered by non-freedom-adjusted patents.
Not really.
The international standards body makes no such limitations, the only requirement is that the patent license is available under "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms. But what's reasonable for a corporation isn't always reasonable to freedom, there are bajillion ways to fulfill that and still prevent Free Software. Sub-licensing prohibition alone is quite reasonable in corporate world, but will royally screw any open implementations.
Ritalin is chemically very little different to Speed and it has the same effect. But one is legal and the other is not? Your own hypothesis for that situation would be ?;)
Even discounting the very valid "small chemical differences can make a HUGE difference in biological functions' pointed out by others, here is a hypothesis for you:
That the other is prescription drug controlled by medical experts who have the necessary knowledge about it's effects and dosage, and the other is substance of unsure purity and blending sold by random crooks with no medical background whatsoever?
Ritalin isn't any more legal than Speed if you buy it from the streets. It's not the patent, or even the drug that counts. It's the doctor.
Maxtor Atlas 15K II can sustain almost for 100MB/s outer zone transfers and drops down to 75MB/s for inner zones, so even the slowest parts of that disk sustain over 70MB/s. Granted, it's not (S)ATA drive, but you didn't say anything about that...
Do you honestly believe that I DON'T understand the science involved
If you believe BPL can be done without polluting RF, then yes, you OBVIOUSLY DON'T understand the science involved. High frequence transmission in badly insulated medium WILL radiate even if it's being transmitted by magic pixel fairies.
My vote counts the same as yours, and mine is for BPL, from now on. I hope you hear it when I'm downloading pictures of Paris Hilton's box on my BPL connection 5 years from now.
You won't be doing that because the equipment will never pass FCC limitations, no matter how many times you whine about it, or how much you think your vote counts for. End of story.
Oh, the doctors don't get it wrong. They know perfectly well antibiotics won't cure that flu, but since the patients are both stupid and stubborn, getting that trough to them is all but impossible - so they either give them the useless pills, or lose a customer.
I wish they'd rather lose that customer, but since money is the lord almighty...
The HIV cells hide in other cells while they reproduce.
There's nothing HIV specific in that, all viruses are incapable of reproducing on their own, and need to hijack cells to do it - that's what differentiates them from microbes. That also means it isn't the reason for HIV's apparent invulnerability, since there are quite a few viruses immune system thwarts easily.
Does anyone else see a contradiction here? Does anyone now how many tons of polutants are released by smokers every year?
Pretty much the exact same amount that was sucked from the ground or atmosphere by growing tobacco plants in the first place. And they would have released those back anyway when decaying.
So nothing whatsoever is released by invidual smokers. +-0.
Quite a bit is released to support the whole smoking infrastructure, though, from fertilizers, transport, etc.
Maybe a little bit rainier. Some coastal flooding that will be adapted to by those folks moving inland.
What are we really facing here? Yes, I know. THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF ALL CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT!!!11
That's pretty much what happens if "those folks", who just happen to number in billions need to move while food production is simultaneously badly disrupted. The governments of the world are not and will not be equipped to handle mass migration and famine on that scale, welcome WW3, and it will be fricking ugly.
World doesn't need to end for the utter destruction of all civilization as we know it, you know, we're perfectly capable of destroying the civilization on our own.
The RTGs (which I mentioned) do not undergo the same reaction that nuclear fission power plants use to generate energy. It's not uranium or plutonium and the output is miniscule in comparison.
The reaction is indeed different and output is miniscule, no doubt about that, but the fuel is plutonium (Pu-238) in vast majority of cases. It's not the same isotope as the bomb/reactor material, however.
If people get 10% more radiation than normal, get cancer, and sue the government for $2 billion
Background radiation varies much more than 10% worldwide, I highly doubt even 100% difference would cause any real increase in cancer rates, but then again, I suppose that's irrelevant for the suers.
Absolutely no space ship has so far used nuclear fission.
Wrong, quite a few Soviet and at least one US satellite have had true fission reactors on board. On a more nitpicky side, the natural decaying used by RTG's is fission as well.
At least three of those Soviet reactors have fallen back to Earth, and one of those three did rain down radioactive isotopes. Unsurprisingly enough, world didn't end, nor did it turn Canada into uninhabitable wasteland (well, more so than it already was, at any rate).
No. They couldn't possibly have fixed it, because it wasn't broken
You can set icon theme from config file without running g-s-d, just like you can set widget theme. And like others already mentioned, you can tell nautilus to not become desktop with a gconf setting. So neither of these problems actually exist.
I am inclined to agree that documentation for these and some other semi-common issues is less than optimal, however first google result for
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1 The ability to switch off that utterly, utterly wretched spatial mode (which looks like a bad throwback to GUIs from the 1980s) from the apps preferences. It is totally unacceptable that you have to use a seperate preferences editor to do this. It's a setting of the app and should be adjustable from within the app itself. No excuses.
So what's your excuse for whining about something that's been fixed two stable releases ago? Really. Go look it up. Gnome _2.8_ has the option in nautilus preferences dialog.
2 If I've used Ctr&C or Ctrl&V on a selection of files/directories in another Nautilus window pressing Ctrl&V or Ctrl&Ins on a second Nautilus window should paste the objects into the directory.
Ctrl-C/V work as expected. Just because windows keeps danling another set of those because it used to be that way back in 3.0 doesn't mean they should be copied by others.
If it comes to that, there are some tools that make writing C modules much simpler, Pyrex, for example.
Oddly enough, that's not true. Check out Finland as a destination: they're quite accomodating.
Welcome.
Yes, I'm considering it. Sure, the language is a bitch, but you can learn Swedish, which is much easier (and my route, as I already speak German).
Many of us speak pretty good English too, and especially the younger people are probably generally more adept with it than Swedish, since both are taught at schools, but Internet and TV make mastering English actually useful, and that's what counts for wanting to learn something...
ROTFL. And just what could he have done? Gone down there and piloted a helicopter himself?
Hmm, let me think. Oh yeah, how about even TRYING to coordinate the relief effort?
It takes *time* to get relief organized on this scale. It takes *time* to move people and equipment.
I suppose you're right, playing guitar with Mark Wills and keeping the vacation and PR tour going is much more important, after all, it would take time anyway, so few more days before getting started doesn't really hurt anyone.
The President doesn't have some magic wand he can wave and make everything all better - but a lot of people do have very unrealistic expectations as to how fast things can be done.
Unrealistic assumptions such as even bothering to drag his ass to a goddamn "war room" where he MIGHT, despite his obvious incompetence, have the SLIGHTEST change of getting the relevant reports from people out there for forming the "big picture" and the communications channels for even STARTING to move the people and equipment.
It BEGINS TO MATTER at the very instance when they output that XML declaration and DTD claiming their page is XHTML.
HTML4 is arguably fine for many things so fine, if you want to use it, use it, BUT DON'T TRY TO CLAIM OTHERWISE.
Besides, it's not valid HTML either, so that's not an excuse.
Indeed it is. should do the trick.
Ever used Ubuntu and Synaptic?
Yes. You apparently haven't, or you'd know that for example Java isn't available trough the repos, and flash is only in multiverse, which isn't enabled by default. Same goes for most of the stuff grand grand parent listed.
They don't "just happen" to have genomes like that, they happen to have them because they're rather "recently" (few million years ago) diverged and still very close relatives
Many closely related species are genetically compatible enough for hybridization, not just equids, large cats for example, as well as canines and bovines, so two species of humans being capable of interbreeding doesn't sound very unreasonable assumption.
Yeah, clearly we, the un-civilized non-Americans can't have such laws.
Oh wait, we do, and we haven't (yet) diluted them with patriot anti-boogeyman bullshit.
Obscure. Opera introduced it to the "mainstream".
:)
Good thing you have those quotes there, Opera STILL isn't mainstream and it definitely wasn't in 2000
But I'll grant you it's vastly less obscure of the two.
Sure it was. Opera 3 added CSS support, and where were IE and Netscape then?
Well, Gecko already existed around the time when Opera 3.5 with CSS was released, so Netscape was definitely headed towards the standards track, and back then MS still had to do something to be "good enough" to supplant Netscape, so IE4 did actually have pretty comprehensive CSS1 support slightly before Opera.
That [RSS] didn't necessarily come before Opera's.
From what I can see, first Opera with RSS support was 7.5 beta, apr 2004, aggreg8 and newsmonster both existed at least a year before.
2. These people are pioneers of key browser features. Tabbed browsing, standards support, integrated mail/news/RSS/IRC/BT client, mail labels (what Gmail did later), etc etc
Riiiight. Here's the list of these key browser features, along with their respective REAL pioneers, or at least someone who did it before Opera.
Tabbed browsing: InternetWorks
standards support: Doh. Everyone, now that it's trendy? Opera wasn't the first, or even among the first.
integrated mail/news: Netscape
RSS: Mozilla extension
IRC: Mozilla
mail labels (what Gmail did later): Evolution
BT client: maybe...
etc etc
Yeah, I'm sure you can invent more. Might be worth checking if they were pioneered by Opera, though, mighty embarrassing loudly "pioneering" something that was done by others years ago...
You're ignorant idiot and proud of it? Wow. Probably running unpatched 10.0 too, since after all it can't have any security holes, it's OS X.
OS X has had remote code execution bugs before, and there's no reason whatsoever to assume that it won't have more in the future.
BTW, I've got a bridge to sell, interested? I can paint Apple logo to it, if you want.
The core of .NET was submitted to an international standards body which won't let any submissions be encumbered by non-freedom-adjusted patents.
Not really.
The international standards body makes no such limitations, the only requirement is that the patent license is available under "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms. But what's reasonable for a corporation isn't always reasonable to freedom, there are bajillion ways to fulfill that and still prevent Free Software. Sub-licensing prohibition alone is quite reasonable in corporate world, but will royally screw any open implementations.
Why is it that all the pro-ipod posts are modded up, and all the pro-rio posts are modded down?
This is nothing new, the "Apple mafia" moderation can be noticed on any story even slightly scratching the topic.
"Should" unfortunately doesn't equal "is" when it comes to impartiality.
Ritalin is chemically very little different to Speed and it has the same effect. But one is legal and the other is not? Your own hypothesis for that situation would be ? ;)
Even discounting the very valid "small chemical differences can make a HUGE difference in biological functions' pointed out by others, here is a hypothesis for you:
That the other is prescription drug controlled by medical experts who have the necessary knowledge about it's effects and dosage, and the other is substance of unsure purity and blending sold by random crooks with no medical background whatsoever?
Ritalin isn't any more legal than Speed if you buy it from the streets. It's not the patent, or even the drug that counts. It's the doctor.
Serious coders/admins refuse to get suckered by the crooks selling "energy drinks" and get their caffeine from coffee.
Maxtor Atlas 15K II can sustain almost for 100MB/s outer zone transfers and drops down to 75MB/s for inner zones, so even the slowest parts of that disk sustain over 70MB/s. Granted, it's not (S)ATA drive, but you didn't say anything about that...
Want ketchup with that hat?
Do you honestly believe that I DON'T understand the science involved
If you believe BPL can be done without polluting RF, then yes, you OBVIOUSLY DON'T understand the science involved. High frequence transmission in badly insulated medium WILL radiate even if it's being transmitted by magic pixel fairies.
My vote counts the same as yours, and mine is for BPL, from now on. I hope you hear it when I'm downloading pictures of Paris Hilton's box on my BPL connection 5 years from now.
You won't be doing that because the equipment will never pass FCC limitations, no matter how many times you whine about it, or how much you think your vote counts for. End of story.
Oh, the doctors don't get it wrong. They know perfectly well antibiotics won't cure that flu, but since the patients are both stupid and stubborn, getting that trough to them is all but impossible - so they either give them the useless pills, or lose a customer.
I wish they'd rather lose that customer, but since money is the lord almighty...
The HIV cells hide in other cells while they reproduce.
There's nothing HIV specific in that, all viruses are incapable of reproducing on their own, and need to hijack cells to do it - that's what differentiates them from microbes. That also means it isn't the reason for HIV's apparent invulnerability, since there are quite a few viruses immune system thwarts easily.
Does anyone else see a contradiction here? Does anyone now how many tons of polutants are released by smokers every year?
Pretty much the exact same amount that was sucked from the ground or atmosphere by growing tobacco plants in the first place. And they would have released those back anyway when decaying.
So nothing whatsoever is released by invidual smokers. +-0.
Quite a bit is released to support the whole smoking infrastructure, though, from fertilizers, transport, etc.
Maybe a little bit rainier. Some coastal flooding that will be adapted to by those folks moving inland.
What are we really facing here? Yes, I know. THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF ALL CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT!!!11
That's pretty much what happens if "those folks", who just happen to number in billions need to move while food production is simultaneously badly disrupted. The governments of the world are not and will not be equipped to handle mass migration and famine on that scale, welcome WW3, and it will be fricking ugly.
World doesn't need to end for the utter destruction of all civilization as we know it, you know, we're perfectly capable of destroying the civilization on our own.
The RTGs (which I mentioned) do not undergo the same reaction that nuclear fission power plants use to generate energy. It's not uranium or plutonium and the output is miniscule in comparison.
The reaction is indeed different and output is miniscule, no doubt about that, but the fuel is plutonium (Pu-238) in vast majority of cases. It's not the same isotope as the bomb/reactor material, however.
If people get 10% more radiation than normal, get cancer, and sue the government for $2 billion
Background radiation varies much more than 10% worldwide, I highly doubt even 100% difference would cause any real increase in cancer rates,
but then again, I suppose that's irrelevant for the suers.
Absolutely no space ship has so far used nuclear fission.
Wrong, quite a few Soviet and at least one US satellite have had true fission reactors on board. On a more nitpicky side, the natural decaying used by RTG's is fission as well.
At least three of those Soviet reactors have fallen back to Earth, and one of those three did rain down radioactive isotopes. Unsurprisingly enough, world didn't end, nor did it turn Canada into uninhabitable wasteland (well, more so than it already was, at any rate).
You can set icon theme from config file without running g-s-d, just like you can set widget theme. And like others already mentioned, you can tell nautilus to not become desktop with a gconf setting. So neither of these problems actually exist.
I am inclined to agree that documentation for these and some other semi-common issues is less than optimal, however first google result for would've gotten you this http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004