1) AFAIK you can't go into a google bar (or it's replacements) with a keyboard shortcut, and if that's indeed the case, then it's DOG SLOW compared to hitting CTRL-L and typing "gg query" into url bar.
2) built-in...
3) True, this is handy, not critical though, at least any more with type-ahead.
If anything, that's even more pronounced these days when all the game publishers tend to think that customers are GREAT beta testers and deadlines are WAY more important than quality.
They are like a serial number, used for identifying where and when the illegal copy was made. RTFA.
Encoding that "serial number" as a brown dots probably makes it bit harder to edit it out of the pirated copies.
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... for compiling things.
If he wants the install to be easy, why not just install an rpm (he was using RH9) and be done with it?
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Good thing that not all of us live in the promised land of nutcase patents.
MPlayer doesn't have problems, it's not developped in the US. People who distribute where it's encumbered may have problems, which is why it and lots of other software in same position (mp3 players) is absent from redhat for example.
No, it's not. You cannot boot Linux or Windows into it without performing some kind of hack.
So, if you need to perform a hack to disable DRM BIOS in the future pc to boot "untrusted" Linux (that's the only hack you need to do on xbox) on it, it is magically no longer ibm pc compatible, even if there is NO OTHER difference?
Wish you guys would take a minute to listen to me instead of jumping to the conclusion that it's a PC simply because it shares some components with it.
If it shared "some components" with it, you might have a point. But the fact is that it doesn't share "some components", it shares ALL significant components with a nForce motherboard.
sh is (maybe, server system with nobody logged in doesn't have sh in memory. full desktop with granny isn't going to have any shells open either) going to be there after the system boots.
There is absolutely no need for it during the init, especially not tens if not hundreds of different bash processes each adding to bloat. ONE python interpreter can handle all that with WAY less overhead.
The standard Linux init system is based on sysvinit and is slow precisely _because_ it is interpreted (it's basically a ton of shell scripts).
You're seriosly trying to bundle python's speed into the same league with _SHELL SCRIPTS_ because both are "interpreted"? Get real, please?.
The other reason why it's so slow is because glibc is slow and the init system starts several hundred processes during the init process.
This is probably the main reason it's slow, those tons of shell scripts are ran by a ton of different bash processes and each rans tons of daemons they are supposed to start. Those billions of bash processes are eliminated, one python interpreter can run all scripts.
Have you ever even used python, or just bashing something because it's interpreted without any real knowledge about it's performance?
And cost you it again when you turn the system on again and all the capacitors have to refill with juice.
That's bullshit. And you know it. Typical (used for mostly only, they're not batteries or anything...) caps hold a miniscule amount of juice.
If an average setup draws 200W of power, then over-the-night amount would be around 1.6kWh, if you've got caps that can store that in few cm^3 and be loaded in few seconds, you'd be an instant billionaire. PC power supply would take hours to load them, thouh, or more probably be overloaded and you'd be left with a smoldering wreck.
Boil an egg and take it directly out of the boiling water and throw in ice water. Note the effect on the shell. Then remember you do that to the most critical components of your computer everday.
No you don't. Temperature of CPU core on hottest systems might be near boiling point, but rest of the system is not even half of that, and the "throw in the ice water" part is mysteriosly missing.
How about: boil and egg and take it out of the water. Leave it on the table to cool, wait. Nothing happens.
Sure. Heat expansion probably does lessen the life expectansy of components somewhat (probably not enough to be significant, you're going to swap it in few years anyway), but you're overstating it so much it's not even funny, only stupid.
Most of the savings probably are from compressiong, but that doesn't make them any less real. How often you see compressed docs? Never, people won't bother compressing those themselves, it has to be small straight from the app.
Just tried OOo-ifying largest doc file I happened to have at hand (12.5M, part of vs.net documentation), and it shrank to 366k. 2x? Ha! Try 34x saving:)
And yes, it's a zip file. No weird uncompression knowledge required for opening and searching. But the content file itself is not really human readable, unless you strip all the xml tags.
Anyway, it's an open format all the way, not only the zip part, so your search tool is bazillion times more likely to know how to open up the OOo files than.docs...
Linksys may not have the right to GPL those drivers, but it is perfectly within their rights to not put them there in the first place or remove them from kernel when they learn it is illegal. Not only is it their right, but they are OBLIGATED to do it.
Of course that means a firmware upgrade that cripples the whole damn thing, or recalling the product line and replacing it with something else, tough, but that's what you get from not playing nice.
What makes you think it must be either, instead of both, or even more multi-purpose trojan that can be made to do almost anything, with remote controlled additional downloads if need be.
I've wondered about this every now and then, as it seems to become more common all the time. "There" and "their" are easy words to recognize and distinquish, even for a foreigner that doesn't have english as mother tongue.
Is that mix-up deliberate, trying to be some kind of "cool" dialect, or don't these people REALLY know what those words mean?
Installing all the patches might be a nightmare, but slipstreaming latest SP directly into windows installation files isn't very hard, or they might even be able to get that kind of distribution directly from m$.
Frankly, I can't understand why Linux has problems with USB Mass Storage.
Umm. It doesn't.
Did you even read those journal entries (oh, yes, this is slashdot. Of course you didn't.), this is not really a driver and he didn't have any trouble getting that USB Mass Storage to work Out Of The Box(tm), he just didn't like having to mount it manually and wrote a hotplug script that does that. No big deal.
Reading something makes you automagically give permission to whatever it says? Rrrrright.
Neither does pushing shiny click'n'wrap buttons. Unless he has signed his name under a written contract (and even then only if it's terms are lawful) he hasn't given permission to anything. Nada. Zilch. Nothing at all.
Hey, by the way, this post is a contract. By reading it you agree to pay me ten million dollars. I'm waiting...
None of the complaints you have are Flash's fault.
None of those mentioned, no, but I think any UI implementation in Flash as a plugin will be in some way inferior no matter how great the designer, if for no other reason, because it's embedded but never perfectly integrated. Two programs with totally different UI's no matter how fine, running inside each other can cause nothing but confusion, and unfortunately macromedia is actively advertising and even using it themselves for just this very abomination instead of any art.
Only way it could work good as an UI element was if browser supported flash natively and even then lot of freedoms flash allows should be ripped off and the UI would need to be designed for that one implementation instead of trying to be generic.
Still, though, the point of my post was that Flash , as an art/entertainment medium, would be missed if it were to disappear. You need far too much bandwidth to get similar quality via DivX or related codecs.
That might very well be true, but only if it really did vanish.
But ultimately, something like this patent probably wouldn't cause it to disappear or die, but actually force everyone to use that stand-alone version, which would still allow it to be used for art, while neatly disposing all the horrible UI kludges. And at some point in the future, someone might incorporate it (or something comparable, SVG perhaps if it matures and/or will have enough tools available) directly into a browser allowing the maybe bit less horrible UI kludges speculated above...
I have cookies enabled. The nutcases think it's nice to warn me about needing them anyway, and in most cryptical message ever ask to open yet another popup window so I can set something it is about to save in that cookie. Woo-hoo.
There would be nothing hard about clicking the movie button, if only it'd PLAY the movie instead of whining about cookies that are already enabled, or relocating those "important" controls to yet another useless page.
Or maybe I'd actually like to navigate that page, which is pretty damn near impossible when those stupid javascript menus open half a page misaligned from mouse cursor, and automatically close when you try to move the cursor towards them? I didn't realize web was supposed to be navigated by digging around the source code to see what the links are supposed to be pointing to - assuming of course they haven't been obfuscated so badly even that is impossible.
And yes, the web's like that whether or not I use flash or not - it's like that because other morons use flash and javascript exclusively for things they should never be used for - the point is, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY.
You can do nifty little movies in flash? That's mighty fine, do those nifty movies, but why wouldn't you rather watch those with a standalone flash player. Not only you can watch them just as (or more) easily but you could save the swf:s and watch them anytime, anywhere, with or without internet connection, and could do so with a player much better suited for video than a web browser. One that could, for example take advatage of supposedly vector graphic format of Flash and show it on full screen. Have ANY advangates in mind that result from having that flash forcefully embedded in something that's not designed for it?
Parts on the upper left are northern coast of Norway, those fsckin' HUGE fissures reaching tens of kilometers to inland (into the middle of scandic mountains) are fjords. See anything even remotely resembling those in any part of Finland (for the clinically stupid, that's the part in dark green)? Thought so...
Went there. Got greeted by a misaligned horrible dhtml-kludge menu. Popups.
Decided to try anyway, click on any one of chapters, Results? One of those oh-so-hateful modal javascript "alert boxes": "The Ninjai site requires cookies in order to play the chapters. Please select your media preferences by clicking the 'Change Preferences' Button"
This is supposed to convince me that Flash et all annoyances I have to wade trough are useful? Congratulations on finding something that proves the exact opposite.
I can't even get to the fsckin movie that's supposed to be SO good without all this crap!
You're right, GDP has nothing to do with standard of living of your average citizen.
GDP/capita would do, and we'd probably see quite a different figure.
And there's no need to go down for place 19 to find a nation where a John Doe is going to be very poor, China is at second place, after all... and India coming for 4th.
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It doesn't log even your posts if you don't want it to, Google Groups acknowledges X-No-Archive header.
Anyway, usenet is a public forum, if you con't want your dumb stuff to haunt you five years in to the future, you'd better not say it in public.
1) AFAIK you can't go into a google bar (or it's replacements) with a keyboard shortcut, and if that's indeed the case, then it's DOG SLOW compared to hitting CTRL-L and typing "gg query" into url bar.
2) built-in...
3) True, this is handy, not critical though, at least any more with type-ahead.
Too young?
If anything, that's even more pronounced these days when all the game publishers tend to think that customers are GREAT beta testers and deadlines are WAY more important than quality.
They are like a serial number, used for identifying where and when the illegal copy was made. RTFA.
Encoding that "serial number" as a brown dots probably makes it bit harder to edit it out of the pirated copies.
... for compiling things.
If he wants the install to be easy, why not just install an rpm (he was using RH9) and be done with it?
Good thing that not all of us live in the promised land of nutcase patents.
MPlayer doesn't have problems, it's not developped in the US. People who distribute where it's encumbered may have problems, which is why it and lots of other software in same position (mp3 players) is absent from redhat for example.
No, it's not. You cannot boot Linux or Windows into it without performing some kind of hack.
So, if you need to perform a hack to disable DRM BIOS in the future pc to boot "untrusted" Linux (that's the only hack you need to do on xbox) on it, it is magically no longer ibm pc compatible, even if there is NO OTHER difference?
Wish you guys would take a minute to listen to me instead of jumping to the conclusion that it's a PC simply because it shares some components with it.
If it shared "some components" with it, you might have a point. But the fact is that it doesn't share "some components", it shares ALL significant components with a nForce motherboard.
sh is (maybe, server system with nobody logged in doesn't have sh in memory. full desktop with granny isn't going to have any shells open either) going to be there after the system boots.
There is absolutely no need for it during the init, especially not tens if not hundreds of different bash processes each adding to bloat. ONE python interpreter can handle all that with WAY less overhead.
The standard Linux init system is based on sysvinit and is slow precisely _because_ it is interpreted (it's basically a ton of shell scripts).
You're seriosly trying to bundle python's speed into the same league with _SHELL SCRIPTS_ because both are "interpreted"? Get real, please?.
The other reason why it's so slow is because glibc is slow and the init system starts several hundred processes during the init process.
This is probably the main reason it's slow, those tons of shell scripts are ran by a ton of different bash processes and each rans tons of daemons they are supposed to start. Those billions of bash processes are eliminated, one python interpreter can run all scripts.
Have you ever even used python, or just bashing something because it's interpreted without any real knowledge about it's performance?
And cost you it again when you turn the system on again and all the capacitors have to refill with juice.
That's bullshit. And you know it. Typical (used for mostly only, they're not batteries or anything...) caps hold a miniscule amount of juice.
If an average setup draws 200W of power, then over-the-night amount would be around 1.6kWh, if you've got caps that can store that in few cm^3 and be loaded in few seconds, you'd be an instant billionaire. PC power supply would take hours to load them, thouh, or more probably be overloaded and you'd be left with a smoldering wreck.
Boil an egg and take it directly out of the boiling water and throw in ice water. Note the effect on the shell. Then remember you do that to the most critical components of your computer everday.
No you don't. Temperature of CPU core on hottest systems might be near boiling point, but rest of the system is not even half of that, and the "throw in the ice water" part is mysteriosly missing.
How about: boil and egg and take it out of the water. Leave it on the table to cool, wait. Nothing happens.
Sure. Heat expansion probably does lessen the life expectansy of components somewhat (probably not enough to be significant, you're going to swap it in few years anyway), but you're overstating it so much it's not even funny, only stupid.
Most of the savings probably are from compressiong, but that doesn't make them any less real. How often you see compressed docs? Never, people won't bother compressing those themselves, it has to be small straight from the app.
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.docs...
Just tried OOo-ifying largest doc file I happened to have at hand (12.5M, part of vs.net documentation), and it shrank to 366k. 2x? Ha! Try 34x saving
And yes, it's a zip file. No weird uncompression knowledge required for opening and searching. But the content file itself is not really human readable, unless you strip all the xml tags.
Anyway, it's an open format all the way, not only the zip part, so your search tool is bazillion times more likely to know how to open up the OOo files than
Linksys may not have the right to GPL those drivers, but it is perfectly within their rights to not put them there in the first place or remove them from kernel when they learn it is illegal. Not only is it their right, but they are OBLIGATED to do it.
Of course that means a firmware upgrade that cripples the whole damn thing, or recalling the product line and replacing it with something else, tough, but that's what you get from not playing nice.
What makes you think it must be either, instead of both, or even more multi-purpose trojan that can be made to do almost anything, with remote controlled additional downloads if need be.
What the HELL are you smoking? Can I have some of that stuff, please, it's strong...
Price-performance ratio of mid-range XP's (2xxx+) still kick the living daylights of ANY other customer CPU out there.
I've wondered about this every now and then, as it seems to become more common all the time. "There" and "their" are easy words to recognize and distinquish, even for a foreigner that doesn't have english as mother tongue.
Is that mix-up deliberate, trying to be some kind of "cool" dialect, or don't these people REALLY know what those words mean?
Installing all the patches might be a nightmare, but slipstreaming latest SP directly into windows installation files isn't very hard, or they might even be able to get that kind of distribution directly from m$.
Not really, i686 (ppro and it's derivatives) would've been sextium, but that series is already dead and buried.
Frankly, I can't understand why Linux has problems with USB Mass Storage.
Umm. It doesn't.
Did you even read those journal entries (oh, yes, this is slashdot. Of course you didn't.), this is not really a driver and he didn't have any trouble getting that USB Mass Storage to work Out Of The Box(tm), he just didn't like having to mount it manually and wrote a hotplug script that does that. No big deal.
Reading something makes you automagically give permission to whatever it says? Rrrrright.
Neither does pushing shiny click'n'wrap buttons. Unless he has signed his name under a written contract (and even then only if it's terms are lawful) he hasn't given permission to anything. Nada. Zilch. Nothing at all.
Hey, by the way, this post is a contract. By reading it you agree to pay me ten million dollars. I'm waiting...
None of the complaints you have are Flash's fault.
None of those mentioned, no, but I think any UI implementation in Flash as a plugin will be in some way inferior no matter how great the designer, if for no other reason, because it's embedded but never perfectly integrated. Two programs with totally different UI's no matter how fine, running inside each other can cause nothing but confusion, and unfortunately macromedia is actively advertising and even using it themselves for just this very abomination instead of any art.
Only way it could work good as an UI element was if browser supported flash natively and even then lot of freedoms flash allows should be ripped off and the UI would need to be designed for that one implementation instead of trying to be generic.
Still, though, the point of my post was that Flash , as an art/entertainment medium, would be missed if it were to disappear. You need far too much bandwidth to get similar quality via DivX or related codecs.
That might very well be true, but only if it really did vanish.
But ultimately, something like this patent probably wouldn't cause it to disappear or die, but actually force everyone to use that stand-alone version, which would still allow it to be used for art, while neatly disposing all the horrible UI kludges. And at some point in the future, someone might incorporate it (or something comparable, SVG perhaps if it matures and/or will have enough tools available) directly into a browser allowing the maybe bit less horrible UI kludges speculated above...
I have cookies enabled. The nutcases think it's nice to warn me about needing them anyway, and in most cryptical message ever ask to open yet another popup window so I can set something it is about to save in that cookie. Woo-hoo.
There would be nothing hard about clicking the movie button, if only it'd PLAY the movie instead of whining about cookies that are already enabled, or relocating those "important" controls to yet another useless page.
Or maybe I'd actually like to navigate that page, which is pretty damn near impossible when those stupid javascript menus open half a page misaligned from mouse cursor, and automatically close when you try to move the cursor towards them? I didn't realize web was supposed to be navigated by digging around the source code to see what the links are supposed to be pointing to - assuming of course they haven't been obfuscated so badly even that is impossible.
And yes, the web's like that whether or not I use flash or not - it's like that because other morons use flash and javascript exclusively for things they should never be used for - the point is, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY.
You can do nifty little movies in flash? That's mighty fine, do those nifty movies, but why wouldn't you rather watch those with a standalone flash player. Not only you can watch them just as (or more) easily but you could save the swf:s and watch them anytime, anywhere, with or without internet connection, and could do so with a player much better suited for video than a web browser. One that could, for example take advatage of supposedly vector graphic format of Flash and show it on full screen. Have ANY advangates in mind that result from having that flash forcefully embedded in something that's not designed for it?
It's in Finland. This is a very flat country, no steep cliffs along there.
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Salmi means inlet. If anyone here thought it was a Fjord, then it would be "Vehmasvuono". Besides it's veeery small.
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/images/finland.
Parts on the upper left are northern coast of Norway, those fsckin' HUGE fissures reaching tens of kilometers to inland (into the middle of scandic mountains) are fjords. See anything even remotely resembling those in any part of Finland (for the clinically stupid, that's the part in dark green)? Thought so...
Given the PR impact of that after all they've been trying to do to make Open Source and GPL in particular look bad?
$500 million. And that'd be easy decision.
Went there. Got greeted by a misaligned horrible dhtml-kludge menu. Popups.
Decided to try anyway, click on any one of chapters, Results? One of those oh-so-hateful modal javascript "alert boxes":
"The Ninjai site requires cookies in order to play the chapters. Please select your media preferences by clicking the 'Change Preferences' Button"
This is supposed to convince me that Flash et all annoyances I have to wade trough are useful? Congratulations on finding something that proves the exact opposite.
I can't even get to the fsckin movie that's supposed to be SO good without all this crap!
You're right, GDP has nothing to do with standard of living of your average citizen.
GDP/capita would do, and we'd probably see quite a different figure.
And there's no need to go down for place 19 to find a nation where a John Doe is going to be very poor, China is at second place, after all... and India coming for 4th.