This helicopter, which HASN'T crashed, is made out of the bits of a plane that did. A Boeing 747, that is made with all that modern tech and those high safety standards. Only two 747's have ever crashed in Nigeria, neither of which was anywhere near Kano so I doubt the article is correct, but assuming it is, which plane do you mean? The one that had 80500 flight hours, and crashed almost certainly due to pilot error, or the one that was instructed to land on a runway that was being repaired without the knowledge of flight control and hit obstructions?
So tell me again, what is riskier? Ask again when that helicopter been in use for over twenty years and actually in air for what amounts to over NINE YEARS. I doubt it gets even one percent of that.
An Action RPG is like Diablo or Dungeon Siege: pure combat, very little (if any!) non-combat interaction. You really can't say that the Elderscrolls series falls into that group. The Lore is huge, there's a definite focus on NPC interaction, and they don't railroad you around. If you don't want to complete the main quest, well fine! Don't. They may not be pure combat, but they sure as hell don't have any interaction either. There are lots of NP"C"'s to talk to, yes, but they all say the same things and what you say to them doesn't matter at all. The lore is huge, but it's just background, they always lack a good story that draws you IN to that background.
So if I don't want to play the crappy main quest, pray tell what do I do instead? Playing a role in pure sandbox without any plot elements is about as exciting as playing D&D without a DM. That's what Bethesda games are.
Re:Still can't open a CSV file in Calc. Sigh.
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You totally misunderstood the problem and gave a very bad response. No, you totally misunderstood the problem and gave a very bad response.
He does not care what the extension is used at all. He wants to use Calc to edit csv files. It won't let him do this. Of course it lets him do this, it just does not do it automatically because the file is wrongly named and calc can't read his mind to know that it's actually in csv format and not text as it claims. Therefore he has to select "text csv" file type from the open dialog, or rename the file as others suggested.
You can use some features with "unsigned" (self-signed) app, but if you want to access more "sensitive" capabilities, you NEED the official signature. Nokia has divided it into layers, users can install the most trivial apps trough the warning dialog, but that's it.
This is like whining that Microsoft doesn't support people running Window-Blinds or some other hack. No, this is like whining about Windows Update formatting your hard drive if you have window blinds or some other hack installed.
True enough, it takes a certain amount of effort, but then again, so does complaining about it on slashdot.
FWIW, someone had taken the effort, looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415675, it's already fixed and even backported to 2.18.x branch (happens in Feisty with 2.18.0 but not in F7 with 2.18.3), so better start looking for new tricks;)
It's reproducible, doesn't have anything to with splash screens, but dragging windows that do not exist any more (as you say, it won't work if you drop it while it's there). But gnome does not crash, just the panel, or in distros that compile that applet as a module, just the applet.
Certainly a bug, but you didn't answer his question so I take it you have not reported it. Seriously, bugs don't get fixed by magic, and developers can't fix things they don't know about. Something like that is not what most people will ever do so will ever be hit, if you don't tell someone, IT CAN NOT BE FIXED.
I'll file it, if kmaraas didn't already, but for crying out loud, if something troubles you, let the developers know.
Re:IMHO Gnome 1.4 was the best
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Yeah, right.... You do know what ps -aux columns mean? Do _YOU_? Well, stupid question, obviously not.
As Rudd said, 12.5M is VSZ. 2.2M is RSS, and yes, it _does_ include shared memory (which ps doesn't show, see top for example).
When a greeter is not running, total amount of non-shared memory taken by GDM is few hundred kilobytes. Here, it's 1148kB RSS, 748 SHR. That's 400 kilobytes. Memory hungry my ass.
The greeter is pretty hungry, but it is not in use when someone is signed on.
I think we have all heard about this one, and the ECMA guys already know that they have to provide more information about this. I hope you will be contributing the code to OOo and AbiWord to support this tag as you seem to care about it so much (it is an optional tag that can be ignored). ECMA does not have those specifications. They refer to behavior of quite a few ancient closed applications and file formats, all of which are not even Microsoft's.
So, pray tell, how are they going to provide the information they do not have? Sing and dance and magic fairies?
Others already made it clear that the "optional" tag is hardly optional, so I don't go into that.
Assertions and handwaving are nice, but until they put their money where your mouth is, and really describe those tags, or remove them, the standard is not open. We'll be waiting.
Ignorance is certainly an excuse when you have no way of knowing the consequences of your action. You're held responsible when your car crashes due to your negligence Those are directly contradictory. If you are (and you are) held responsible when your car crashes even if you didn't know you were being negligent, then ignorance was not an excuse, despite having no clue about consequences.
I'm going to say it one last time, then I'm going to get on with my life: not everybody is a computer geek. You can keep repeating that for all your life for all I care, but nobody is saying everyone needs to be a geek. But if they're not, they need to get their computer serviced by someone who is, just like they need to take their car to a mechanic if they're incapable of working on it themselves.
But an automotive idiot can't necessarily tell when their tires have too worn treads or brakes are sub-par before shit happens, ignorance is not an excuse and they damn well get punished for that as they should.
Thirdly, in what sense would a cure be "bad for business"?! A cure is one-shot deal. Once you're cured, you're cured and no longer cash cow. Bad for business.
In fact they could stand to make a good deal of money if a cure could be found! Only if it's cure or nothing, but when you're comparing a cure and treatment it's pretty obvious which makes good deal more money. One injection, or one daily for twenty years?
He acknowledges that the drawings are fanciful, but also emphasizes that the book does make an important point, that development of an organism is an interplay of the mechanics of an organism with the genes that direct the development and organization of tissues in of an organism. The scathing review does not deny the point (one which, unlike the other review purports, is hardly new or buried). Quite the contrary, it starts with:
I'm actually sympathetic to the ideas of developmental structuralism. This is the concept that physical, mechanical, and chemical properties make a significant and underappreciated contribution to the acquisition of organismal form;
Just because the author uses something that may have an element of truth as a starting point does not mean that what he writes is not pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Do you really think that Apple's engineers couldn't manage to make the phone unlocked? Or that they couldn't make allow native apps for the platform? Of course they could. Management didn't ask/let them, the question is why management had that policy. You're saying it had to be telecoms.
But when the very same operators have no qualms about letting unlocked Linux, Symbian, Palm and Windows phones that allow native apps on their networks, or even selling them, the argument that they did it tends to look bit strange.
But people still manage to get drunk on ordinary 5% beer. I doubt that reducing the alcohol by 50% makes it impossible to get drunk. They manage to get drunk because they TRY. But it really requires intent, if you don't keep downing several bottles in hour you're fine, and with half the alcohol you can double that time. Impossible? Certainly not, but hard to do by accident.
And even that's without considering tolerance buildup, something that would have a modern weenie totally wasted wouldn't likely have any noticeable effect on someone who has drunk nothing but beer for his whole life.
1. You download a RPM (Let's say). Then you have to open a RPM manager, and use that to install. That is (at least) one extra step more than windows. Actually there are one or more step less. When you download the package it runs the package manager and with that package automatically, which doesn't work on windows because all sane browsers refuse to run.exe files directly.
You save few more steps if you use windows like you should (not as administrator), because you have to switch users.
And of course, once you really learn to use the system, and realize that you don't HAVE to hunt down things from web any more, because it's all in one place, behind one command, it gets much easier still. Which also addresses "point" 2.
That, and the lack of Symbian entirely, preferably tested with both Opera and the new Webkit based browser. I didn't exactly get the excuse either, why is it not in the "pony race"? E61i, E70 and E90 don't count, because... ?
Unless, of course, they really aren't available in the US, but I'm not buying that...
Apache on the other hand has its own flat file format, that nothing else knows how to parse. If you want to install support for a new language or something, the installer usually include a script that either nukes your old httpd.conf or appends something to the end of it. Either way, that's a good way to break things. Usually? On what century?
I can't even recall the last time I saw apache set up without conf.d style system, in which the installer just drops it's own file to conf.d directory, and everything there is automatically included. It doesn't need to touch the existing httpd.conf at all.
I've seen a website refer to this as "coma/death" before, but I'd love to be corrected. It's not absolute scale. There differences between people to begin with, and you build tolerance for alcohol, so heavy drinkers can be just moderately drunk at.4 even though a person not used to it could be in coma or even dead.
And how long before RedHat back pedals and screws us, like they did those of us who bought support contracts for RH9? The support schedule was announced long before RH9 was released. You knew exactly how long they were going to support it when you bought that contract, or if you didn't, it was only because you didn't bother to look. What the hell did you expect? That they send someone and force you to read through those papers at gunpoint?
I got to explain to the owner Which, I presume is the real reason for your venom. You fucked up, you got in trouble (as you damn well should), and you've wanted a scapegoat ever since. It's been four years now, and you still come out of the woodwork on every freaking RH article to bitch and moan and it's getting rather tiresome. It's time to admit to yourself that you screwed up and stop the goddamn whining.
The people that own MP3 are quite happy to let you obtain free ones, because it standardizes the format, and lets them get a royalty out of MP3 players and windows. That may be status quo. It may even be officially unofficial policy.
But unless you have a contract saying otherwise, it's still an infringement, and nobody is going to risk it. Especially anyone who is, in effect, selling the "free" player as part of distro.
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So if I don't want to play the crappy main quest, pray tell what do I do instead? Playing a role in pure sandbox without any plot elements is about as exciting as playing D&D without a DM. That's what Bethesda games are.
Well, you can see what they think about file browsers now.
Bullshit.
You can use some features with "unsigned" (self-signed) app, but if you want to access more "sensitive" capabilities, you NEED the official signature. Nokia has divided it into layers, users can install the most trivial apps trough the warning dialog, but that's it.
Even Microsoft is not that evil.
From the stacktrace I get in ubuntu (bit harder to do since they build wncklet into the panel, not as separate executable) it looks like 415675.
True enough, it takes a certain amount of effort, but then again, so does complaining about it on slashdot.
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FWIW, someone had taken the effort, looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415675, it's already fixed and even backported to 2.18.x branch (happens in Feisty with 2.18.0 but not in F7 with 2.18.3), so better start looking for new tricks
It's reproducible, doesn't have anything to with splash screens, but dragging windows that do not exist any more (as you say, it won't work if you drop it while it's there). But gnome does not crash, just the panel, or in distros that compile that applet as a module, just the applet.
Certainly a bug, but you didn't answer his question so I take it you have not reported it. Seriously, bugs don't get fixed by magic, and developers can't fix things they don't know about. Something like that is not what most people will ever do so will ever be hit, if you don't tell someone, IT CAN NOT BE FIXED.
I'll file it, if kmaraas didn't already, but for crying out loud, if something troubles you, let the developers know.
As Rudd said, 12.5M is VSZ. 2.2M is RSS, and yes, it _does_ include shared memory (which ps doesn't show, see top for example).
When a greeter is not running, total amount of non-shared memory taken by GDM is few hundred kilobytes. Here, it's 1148kB RSS, 748 SHR. That's 400 kilobytes. Memory hungry my ass.
The greeter is pretty hungry, but it is not in use when someone is signed on.
Certainly, Microsoft (probably) has the information. ECMA does not.
Yet we're always being told ECMA will fix it, nobody ever promised Microsoft will.
So, pray tell, how are they going to provide the information they do not have? Sing and dance and magic fairies?
Others already made it clear that the "optional" tag is hardly optional, so I don't go into that.
Assertions and handwaving are nice, but until they put their money where your mouth is, and really describe those tags, or remove them, the standard is not open. We'll be waiting.
But an automotive idiot can't necessarily tell when their tires have too worn treads or brakes are sub-par before shit happens, ignorance is not an excuse and they damn well get punished for that as they should.
I'm actually sympathetic to the ideas of developmental structuralism. This is the concept that physical, mechanical, and chemical properties make a significant and underappreciated contribution to the acquisition of organismal form;
Just because the author uses something that may have an element of truth as a starting point does not mean that what he writes is not pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Yes, one well-documented and full-featured autospace function is enough.
It's there because Microsoft does not want anyone to be able to do a full implementation. It's there because "OO"XML is not open standard.
But when the very same operators have no qualms about letting unlocked Linux, Symbian, Palm and Windows phones that allow native apps on their networks, or even selling them, the argument that they did it tends to look bit strange.
And even that's without considering tolerance buildup, something that would have a modern weenie totally wasted wouldn't likely have any noticeable effect on someone who has drunk nothing but beer for his whole life.
You save few more steps if you use windows like you should (not as administrator), because you have to switch users.
And of course, once you really learn to use the system, and realize that you don't HAVE to hunt down things from web any more, because it's all in one place, behind one command, it gets much easier still. Which also addresses "point" 2.
That, and the lack of Symbian entirely, preferably tested with both Opera and the new Webkit based browser. I didn't exactly get the excuse either, why is it not in the "pony race"? E61i, E70 and E90 don't count, because ... ?
Unless, of course, they really aren't available in the US, but I'm not buying that...
I can't even recall the last time I saw apache set up without conf.d style system, in which the installer just drops it's own file to conf.d directory, and everything there is automatically included. It doesn't need to touch the existing httpd.conf at all.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/05/2
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/01/04/drunk-bu
The latter is close enough that I bet many have had >1.0 and lived, especially since he wasn't even passed out.
But unless you have a contract saying otherwise, it's still an infringement, and nobody is going to risk it. Especially anyone who is, in effect, selling the "free" player as part of distro.