Though in VLC's favour, they do have a checkbox where advanced users can go to tinker with whatever they like. Not so with a great many GNOME applications, these days.
The fucked up thing here is that the average user no longer has the base knowledge. This used to be very different back in, say, the 1980s -- my father, working in the regional VAT administration, then in his fifties, learned command line UNIX just fine so he could send E-mail from his terminal and so forth. That was considered basic knowledge, so people studied it and it worked and everything worked just fine.
So in the end what GUIs have given us is pseudo-WYSIWYG (which never comes out like it looks), and dumb users who think that drooling on a mouse is all they should have to learn. Fucking _duh_.
Worst part of it all? It turns out that there's a very significant percentage of a post-industrialized nation's population for whom double clicking with the mouse is a very difficult task, mainly because _dragging_ and _single clicking_ are very similar to double clicking. Those people do far better with a typewriter-like interface, because they've damn well used typewriters in the past (because it used to be part of basic schooling). They're perfectly OK with typing "oowriter" on a command line. Now they can't, because pointing and drooling is the Officially Dominant Interaction Style.
No law from Brussels takes precendence over national laws of the EU member countries. The reason is simple. The EU cannot make _laws_, only _directives_.
These do obligate member states to pass laws to the effect of something, but implementations vary very very widely: for instance Italy is infamous for wiping their arses with just about every directive that they don't happen to like (though they mostly have to do with Berlusconi's corruption rather than something righteous like legalized pot). This is the reason why e.g. laws passed in accordance to the EUCD can be very different in their anti-circumvention clauses across the EU members.
Except when killing children is rejoiced over in a Iraq War thread. Then it's +5, Funny.
Poor taste, perhaps. Tagging it as "troll" is most definitely censorship however: trolling is a different matter altogether, which entirely excludes honest poor taste.
Anyway, those kids were only Americans. Those lives will be like, a dozen for ten euros in ten years' time. Chickenboner white trash. You won't see me crying over their passing.
I'm typing this on a second-generation macbook that's running Debian GNU/Linux. It does have ACPI, only coupled with EFI and a BIOS emulation layer so that lilo will run.
BIOS is not going away anytime soon. I hear Apple's EFI implementation is about as faithful as their implementation of OpenBoot, i.e. as purposefully shitty as money can buy.
Did you or did you not read the actual forum thread? The Linux-specific paths contain repeated invalid ACPI code which passes through the pathologically permissive Windows ACPI implementation, but hangs a the more compliant Linux implementation. Grep for "mutes", if you want to. Tell me, why the fuck would a machine need its serial ports (IO port range from 0x3f8, about the oldest hardware on a PC, present from before the IBM XT) disabled on Linux and not on Windows?
Furthermore, the Windows side of the ACPI code checks repeatedly that it is indeed running on Windows. And not from any information provided by the ACPI interpreter, oh no: they poke the hardware as a sort of a secret handshake. This is clearly written with intent to prevent Linux from impersonating Windows to the ACPI code.
If that is not evidence of malice, then I do not know what is.
This may be. I definitely agree with the "mostly made" answer to all "born or made?" type issues.
In any case it appears that I rejoiced prematurely: it seems he only wounded his other daughter, and a surviving infant was recovered from their car. Still, even they wouldn't have been too high a price to pay for one dead spammer.
(also, I'm rated "Troll"? are the moderators on their collective period or something, or are they suffering from the five geek social fallacies?)
They do not. Microwave ovens operate on the same band as wireless LANs and Bluetooth, which is unregulated in most parts of the world precisely because microwave ovens operate on it. This band is near 2.4 gigahertz.
Conversely, a GSM phone operates either at 900 MHz or 1800 MHz. Those are a far cry from microwave radiation. They most certainly will not cause an energy transfer to water molecules, as microwave radiation does (which is why it's so useful in heating yesterday's leftovers).
... until Russia starts routing packets through Sweden using encrypted IP tunneling? Just cooperate with some network operator(s) in Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands and boom, all's cool. Of course communication to parties within Sweden would have to be excluded from the automatic VPN, but everyone already knows that Sweden is Big Brother country so buyer beware.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Finland, Estonia and Norway did this too. Sweden seems well on its way to becoming another of those countries where no one except parties that're cushy with the CIA will invest.
Yet no contract says that one isn't supposed to make all and any use of the connection. Thus the customer is, in fact, sold a 100/100 up/down pipe and nothing less.
You, sir, are bowing down like a power fanboy. Snap the hell out of it.
Well surprise, no one is forcing you. If you don't want to play by the rules, you don't have to touch GPL'd software.
I don't see what you mean by my mentioning market economics. Free Software does not exist in a vacuum, and the software market is obviously affected by Free Software. In general attempting to compete with an established Free Software project with proprietary software is tantamount to business suicide.
Well if you don't like it, you don't have to touch GPL'd software. Simple as that.
You'll get outcompeted in short order though. Of course that's just market economics isn't it. Free Software has changed the landscape in that way. It's not the seventies anymore.
Your quips about Linus' work being a "blind and aggressive campaign" aside, you're ignoring quite a bit of history. Microcomputers did not spring fully-formed from Bill Gates' forehead! At the time of the 16-bit IBM PC many cheaper and more functional alternatives existed, though it is not surprising that no one remembers them today.
Do names like Amiga, Apple and Atari ring any bells? What about Sinclair? The various MSX-compatibles? All of these were very credible competitors for the PC, despite the MSX platform having a bit of a bogdown due to difficulties in making the 8-bit to 16-bit transition. The Amiga and Atari's ST lines were 32-bit from the start, and Apple never had a 16-bit stage.
Microsoft did not invent the personal computer. They did not invent the operating system. They did not even popularize personal computing: that happened inadvertently when PC clones came about and the prices started tumbling. For instance, personal computer terminals were par for the course in many companies and government offices throughout the western world quite a bit before IBM's 286-powered AT.
Really, it is an oligarchy run by elitists, and is not terribly different from feudalism.
Amusingly enough, Mussolini was called "il Duce" in his time and afterward, much like Hilter was and sometimes still is called "der Führer". Il Duce translates to "the Duke", a title that would only have relevance in a feudal system.
The point in rms' article (which the Beeb specifically requested) is that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exists solely to whitewash Bill Gates' image. Members of the less critical public are expected to go "oh he funds research into medicine for the poor, can't be that bad can he" and not notice how Microsoft has held back development in software for an entire generation of people.
Also he didn't make any statements that weren't backed up. The LA times article is pretty easy to find, and you can go check it out if you want to.
Unless of course you don't believe in the existence of whitewashing.
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Aion, taken as finnish, means "I intend [something]".
Not nearly as funny as Orkut though.
Though in VLC's favour, they do have a checkbox where advanced users can go to tinker with whatever they like. Not so with a great many GNOME applications, these days.
The fucked up thing here is that the average user no longer has the base knowledge. This used to be very different back in, say, the 1980s -- my father, working in the regional VAT administration, then in his fifties, learned command line UNIX just fine so he could send E-mail from his terminal and so forth. That was considered basic knowledge, so people studied it and it worked and everything worked just fine.
So in the end what GUIs have given us is pseudo-WYSIWYG (which never comes out like it looks), and dumb users who think that drooling on a mouse is all they should have to learn. Fucking _duh_.
Worst part of it all? It turns out that there's a very significant percentage of a post-industrialized nation's population for whom double clicking with the mouse is a very difficult task, mainly because _dragging_ and _single clicking_ are very similar to double clicking. Those people do far better with a typewriter-like interface, because they've damn well used typewriters in the past (because it used to be part of basic schooling). They're perfectly OK with typing "oowriter" on a command line. Now they can't, because pointing and drooling is the Officially Dominant Interaction Style.
Fuck it all. Fuck it all in the ass.
No, we just hate juice.
My second-gen Macbook has an AR5184 chip in it. That's supported by the ath9k driver, though I haven't tried.
No law from Brussels takes precendence over national laws of the EU member countries. The reason is simple. The EU cannot make _laws_, only _directives_.
These do obligate member states to pass laws to the effect of something, but implementations vary very very widely: for instance Italy is infamous for wiping their arses with just about every directive that they don't happen to like (though they mostly have to do with Berlusconi's corruption rather than something righteous like legalized pot). This is the reason why e.g. laws passed in accordance to the EUCD can be very different in their anti-circumvention clauses across the EU members.
Hide your daughters!
Best hide your sons, too.
Except when killing children is rejoiced over in a Iraq War thread. Then it's +5, Funny.
Poor taste, perhaps. Tagging it as "troll" is most definitely censorship however: trolling is a different matter altogether, which entirely excludes honest poor taste.
Anyway, those kids were only Americans. Those lives will be like, a dozen for ten euros in ten years' time. Chickenboner white trash. You won't see me crying over their passing.
I'm typing this on a second-generation macbook that's running Debian GNU/Linux. It does have ACPI, only coupled with EFI and a BIOS emulation layer so that lilo will run.
BIOS is not going away anytime soon. I hear Apple's EFI implementation is about as faithful as their implementation of OpenBoot, i.e. as purposefully shitty as money can buy.
Did you or did you not read the actual forum thread? The Linux-specific paths contain repeated invalid ACPI code which passes through the pathologically permissive Windows ACPI implementation, but hangs a the more compliant Linux implementation. Grep for "mutes", if you want to. Tell me, why the fuck would a machine need its serial ports (IO port range from 0x3f8, about the oldest hardware on a PC, present from before the IBM XT) disabled on Linux and not on Windows?
Furthermore, the Windows side of the ACPI code checks repeatedly that it is indeed running on Windows. And not from any information provided by the ACPI interpreter, oh no: they poke the hardware as a sort of a secret handshake. This is clearly written with intent to prevent Linux from impersonating Windows to the ACPI code.
If that is not evidence of malice, then I do not know what is.
This may be. I definitely agree with the "mostly made" answer to all "born or made?" type issues.
In any case it appears that I rejoiced prematurely: it seems he only wounded his other daughter, and a surviving infant was recovered from their car. Still, even they wouldn't have been too high a price to pay for one dead spammer.
(also, I'm rated "Troll"? are the moderators on their collective period or something, or are they suffering from the five geek social fallacies?)
On the other hand, the customer did pay money. It's basically his duty to demand value for it.
Or are you some kind of a power fanboy?
HA HA!
At least his children won't grow up to be sociopaths like their father.
They do not. Microwave ovens operate on the same band as wireless LANs and Bluetooth, which is unregulated in most parts of the world precisely because microwave ovens operate on it. This band is near 2.4 gigahertz.
Conversely, a GSM phone operates either at 900 MHz or 1800 MHz. Those are a far cry from microwave radiation. They most certainly will not cause an energy transfer to water molecules, as microwave radiation does (which is why it's so useful in heating yesterday's leftovers).
... until Russia starts routing packets through Sweden using encrypted IP tunneling? Just cooperate with some network operator(s) in Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands and boom, all's cool. Of course communication to parties within Sweden would have to be excluded from the automatic VPN, but everyone already knows that Sweden is Big Brother country so buyer beware.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Finland, Estonia and Norway did this too. Sweden seems well on its way to becoming another of those countries where no one except parties that're cushy with the CIA will invest.
Current CAP Acronym Proposal.
Yet no contract says that one isn't supposed to make all and any use of the connection. Thus the customer is, in fact, sold a 100/100 up/down pipe and nothing less.
You, sir, are bowing down like a power fanboy. Snap the hell out of it.
Well surprise, no one is forcing you. If you don't want to play by the rules, you don't have to touch GPL'd software.
I don't see what you mean by my mentioning market economics. Free Software does not exist in a vacuum, and the software market is obviously affected by Free Software. In general attempting to compete with an established Free Software project with proprietary software is tantamount to business suicide.
Well if you don't like it, you don't have to touch GPL'd software. Simple as that.
You'll get outcompeted in short order though. Of course that's just market economics isn't it. Free Software has changed the landscape in that way. It's not the seventies anymore.
Your quips about Linus' work being a "blind and aggressive campaign" aside, you're ignoring quite a bit of history. Microcomputers did not spring fully-formed from Bill Gates' forehead! At the time of the 16-bit IBM PC many cheaper and more functional alternatives existed, though it is not surprising that no one remembers them today.
Do names like Amiga, Apple and Atari ring any bells? What about Sinclair? The various MSX-compatibles? All of these were very credible competitors for the PC, despite the MSX platform having a bit of a bogdown due to difficulties in making the 8-bit to 16-bit transition. The Amiga and Atari's ST lines were 32-bit from the start, and Apple never had a 16-bit stage.
Microsoft did not invent the personal computer. They did not invent the operating system. They did not even popularize personal computing: that happened inadvertently when PC clones came about and the prices started tumbling. For instance, personal computer terminals were par for the course in many companies and government offices throughout the western world quite a bit before IBM's 286-powered AT.
Really, it is an oligarchy run by elitists, and is not terribly different from feudalism.
Amusingly enough, Mussolini was called "il Duce" in his time and afterward, much like Hilter was and sometimes still is called "der Führer". Il Duce translates to "the Duke", a title that would only have relevance in a feudal system.
The point in rms' article (which the Beeb specifically requested) is that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exists solely to whitewash Bill Gates' image. Members of the less critical public are expected to go "oh he funds research into medicine for the poor, can't be that bad can he" and not notice how Microsoft has held back development in software for an entire generation of people.
Also he didn't make any statements that weren't backed up. The LA times article is pretty easy to find, and you can go check it out if you want to.
Unless of course you don't believe in the existence of whitewashing.
eh criticizes Bill Gates and doesn't afraid of anything
Well cache reloads are the other major slowdown in multitasking OSes these days. TLB flush? pah, it's in the L2 cache anyhow.
No. I/O is the slowdown in multitasking OSes.