I was once fooled believing that I received a fraudulant email making me believe it came from Sony. I wrote to Sony to report the email and they told me it was legite!
What caused me to think it was fraudulant? Well, the URLs in the email was going for something like sony.<somecompany>.com. The URL did not finish with "sony.com". The only way to figure out if an email is phoney or not is to check the URLs (assuming your browser does not have the famous URL bug which shows you a legite URL but once clicked, sends you to another site while still showing the legite URL in the URL bar), but when companies use 3rd parties to email their users and provide services, they cause these confusions.
But the issue is that we have some concerns that some of the "power user" features will disappear. Also, I would not mind installing the software once, but the problem is that I would have to reinstall the extra software each time I upgrade my distribution. I have better things to do that retweaking at each upgrade. I also do not like the idea of searching the web or having to join a mailing list and ask how to set a specific feature.
Its not easy to find yourself in gconf-editor. You always need to read a FAQ to find the option you are looking for.
Even for experts, its enjoyable to have a nice gui offering all the major (not all; the major) options in a nice and intuitive manner.
Also, gconf-editor is not a solution. If there are expert features missing in Gnome, gconf-editor won't make them magically appear. They need to be implemented.
There exist more models than the single Ford T? Should all cars be the same model to avoid confusing users?
Different users have different needs. Beginner mode would be the default and simple. But options should be made available to expert to enable more advance features. Beginner would not even have to play with the multiples options presented; they would be setup by default, for beginners.
Instead of fighting for one signe UI, Gnome should have two modes: beginner and expert.
beginner mode would be where Gnome is currently heading. Export mode is where us, the experts would like to see Gnome go. For instance, why not have two types of file selector dialog? The current one, and if in export mode, a new one which allows people to actually type the full path if they want to? No spatial Nautilus when in expert mode.
Actually, in any of the modes, one should be able to easily configure a feature according to the needs. For instance, maybe a beginner would still like to type a full path, so somewhere (not in gconf only) there should be an option to enable it.
Out of the box, Gnome should be made for the common user. But we should have options for the power users.
I recall having read that over a billion people can communicate in english around the world (as 1st or 2nd language). Thus, english can be spoken by the largest amount of people compared to any other language. Moreover, I am pretty sure that these english capable people are probably part of the billion richest of the world, thus most likely to be connected and communicate internationally.
There are so many devices requiring low voltage that governments should start considering a new standard. Along the 120V/220V wall outlet, a little 12V wall outlet should become standard. This way, we would not have to provide a transformer for the telephone, the battery charger, the portable vacum cleaner, the portable CD writer, kitchen counter lighting, etc...
Obviously, retrofiting old houses is out of the question, except when major renovation. But it should be introduced for new houses. Thus, you would buy your equipment and transformer separatly, and those who already have 12V wall outlet would not need to buy the transformers.
Mozilla and Opera creating new unoffical standards? If IE does not implement them, they will be simply ignored. I cannot forsee business implementing web services designed for these standards which will only be working for Mozilla and Opera users. What is the market share for the two? 5%?
Its time for goverments to step in and force standards. The Internet must remain open and interoperability is essential.
There are many different digital music resellers that are poping up these days. With DRM comming, one must ask if the music they buy could be passed to their descendants upon their death. For me, this is an issue. I hate the idea of spending $2000 on music throughout my life and not being able to pass it down to generations.
Neophyte here. Why does nobody talk about those new reactors that automatically shutdown by design (following the laws of physic) if anything goes wrong? Like this one?
Anybody here working/studying in the nuclear field can comment on the state of these reactors and why we do not hear much from them? If the nuclear industry wants to come back, its not by proposing the old designs it will succeed.
There is alot of talk about wind energy in the province of Quebec, Canada. However, I often heard by experts that power from wind cannot be more than 20% or else the fluctuations become problematic. You state 50%. I am curious to know more and if you have any links/info about it (in english, or french please.;) ), please feel free to post.
I bet it is only more economical on long distances. I am sure that one needs to burn a lot of fuels just to go to the grocery 3 kms away. Takeoffs must not be cheap, nor landing as they are probably done slowly.
And it seam to seat only one person. Wait until you have the family size comming out (if ever).
I never believed in this flying car running on conventional engine. For a flying car to be practical, we would need a revolutionary engine, something like an "anti-gravity" engine that runs cheap. So the question is, how the inventor gets his funding for these prototypes? I have ideas that are much more realist (market wise) but still risky and I could never get funding for them. But how does this inventor get it? How can investors believe that they will eventually make money out of this flying car? I am jealous, and puzzled.
Yes, it is easy to fix, but will it be fixed? That is the question. Maybe this is how the Nautilus developers want things to be and it is possible that it will not be changed.
I assume that most Linux distributions will rollout Mono out of the box, but has there been any distributions that actually confirmed that Mono will be part of their distribution? Which version of the outcomming distributions will come with Mono?
Is there any standard drawer for Firewire drives? I never heard of that and I bet not. You are offtopic. I am talking about docking the drive within your casing. Not have a bunch of external drives and extra power cords.
A bit off topic, but I wish that the industry could settle on standard drawers for Hard Drives. Now that we have hot plugable hard drives with SATA, what we need is a standard drawer so one can take the drive and stick it in someone's else computer.
There are many IDE drawers out there on the market, but they are not mechanically compatible. Its a shame, because HDs could seriously replace floppies if we could just bring them along with us without worying about plugin them in.
I mean, who the hell has a laser printer connected to a parallel port and wants to share it over a network?
A lot more people than you think. Families have computer networks, and they sure do not want to buy a printer for each family member.
You buy cheap ink jet printers. Some prefer quality laser printers. One does not want to buy another laser just to avoid the hassle and one does expect things to just work. I have an old laser printer which connects via the parallel port that works just fine and I do not want to change it just for the heck of it, but I do expect it to become available on a network.
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(36-24)/36=0.33 or 33%. No errors there. Its not (36-24)=12%. We are calculating the decline as of where MS was standing in 2002.
See it another way. You have 100 computers, 36 are MS. A year later, its down to 18 computers, half of what it was. Thus its a 50% drop, not 18%.
Anybody knows the email of the marketing departement of Lego? We need to send them the link to this Slashdot story; there are some good comments here. But I cannot find any emails on their site.
Why not change GTK+ to provide more than one file selector, and have the user choose which file selector to use in the gnome configuration center? Application should only call a generic function to call up a file selector, and the Gnome library code would contain a factory that instantiate the FileSelector the user choose.
There is a downside to my idea though. When a person borrows someone else's computer, the user might not be familiar with the other person's file selector. Also, what file selector to choose when documenting? (probably the one set by default when Gnome is being installed).
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I was once fooled believing that I received a fraudulant email making me believe it came from Sony. I wrote to Sony to report the email and they told me it was legite!
What caused me to think it was fraudulant? Well, the URLs in the email was going for something like sony.<somecompany>.com. The URL did not finish with "sony.com". The only way to figure out if an email is phoney or not is to check the URLs (assuming your browser does not have the famous URL bug which shows you a legite URL but once clicked, sends you to another site while still showing the legite URL in the URL bar), but when companies use 3rd parties to email their users and provide services, they cause these confusions.
But the issue is that we have some concerns that some of the "power user" features will disappear. Also, I would not mind installing the software once, but the problem is that I would have to reinstall the extra software each time I upgrade my distribution. I have better things to do that retweaking at each upgrade. I also do not like the idea of searching the web or having to join a mailing list and ask how to set a specific feature.
That is what I had in mind. Thanks for clearing it.
Its not easy to find yourself in gconf-editor. You always need to read a FAQ to find the option you are looking for.
Even for experts, its enjoyable to have a nice gui offering all the major (not all; the major) options in a nice and intuitive manner.
Also, gconf-editor is not a solution. If there are expert features missing in Gnome, gconf-editor won't make them magically appear. They need to be implemented.
There exist more models than the single Ford T? Should all cars be the same model to avoid confusing users?
Different users have different needs. Beginner mode would be the default and simple. But options should be made available to expert to enable more advance features. Beginner would not even have to play with the multiples options presented; they would be setup by default, for beginners.
Instead of fighting for one signe UI, Gnome should have two modes: beginner and expert.
beginner mode would be where Gnome is currently heading. Export mode is where us, the experts would like to see Gnome go. For instance, why not have two types of file selector dialog? The current one, and if in export mode, a new one which allows people to actually type the full path if they want to? No spatial Nautilus when in expert mode.
Actually, in any of the modes, one should be able to easily configure a feature according to the needs. For instance, maybe a beginner would still like to type a full path, so somewhere (not in gconf only) there should be an option to enable it.
Out of the box, Gnome should be made for the common user. But we should have options for the power users.
I recall having read that over a billion people can communicate in english around the world (as 1st or 2nd language). Thus, english can be spoken by the largest amount of people compared to any other language. Moreover, I am pretty sure that these english capable people are probably part of the billion richest of the world, thus most likely to be connected and communicate internationally.
I just notice that my suggestion is a dup! Someone else suggested something similar and it turns out that its not such a good idea. :(
There are so many devices requiring low voltage that governments should start considering a new standard. Along the 120V/220V wall outlet, a little 12V wall outlet should become standard. This way, we would not have to provide a transformer for the telephone, the battery charger, the portable vacum cleaner, the portable CD writer, kitchen counter lighting, etc...
Obviously, retrofiting old houses is out of the question, except when major renovation. But it should be introduced for new houses. Thus, you would buy your equipment and transformer separatly, and those who already have 12V wall outlet would not need to buy the transformers.
Mozilla and Opera creating new unoffical standards? If IE does not implement them, they will be simply ignored. I cannot forsee business implementing web services designed for these standards which will only be working for Mozilla and Opera users. What is the market share for the two? 5%?
Its time for goverments to step in and force standards. The Internet must remain open and interoperability is essential.
There are many different digital music resellers that are poping up these days. With DRM comming, one must ask if the music they buy could be passed to their descendants upon their death. For me, this is an issue. I hate the idea of spending $2000 on music throughout my life and not being able to pass it down to generations.
Your former president? First, we have a prime minister in Canada, not a president, and Clinton made american politics, not canadian.
:)
You made a quick assumption about my citizenship.
Anybody here working/studying in the nuclear field can comment on the state of these reactors and why we do not hear much from them? If the nuclear industry wants to come back, its not by proposing the old designs it will succeed.
There is alot of talk about wind energy in the province of Quebec, Canada. However, I often heard by experts that power from wind cannot be more than 20% or else the fluctuations become problematic. You state 50%. I am curious to know more and if you have any links/info about it (in english, or french please. ;) ), please feel free to post.
Check section "Santa Letter Writing Program" at: http://www.postescanada.ca/corporate/about/jobs/tr aditions-e.asp
Even the german post acknowledge this, Canada being the direct link to the North Pole. :)
I bet it is only more economical on long distances. I am sure that one needs to burn a lot of fuels just to go to the grocery 3 kms away. Takeoffs must not be cheap, nor landing as they are probably done slowly.
And it seam to seat only one person. Wait until you have the family size comming out (if ever).
I never believed in this flying car running on conventional engine. For a flying car to be practical, we would need a revolutionary engine, something like an "anti-gravity" engine that runs cheap. So the question is, how the inventor gets his funding for these prototypes? I have ideas that are much more realist (market wise) but still risky and I could never get funding for them. But how does this inventor get it? How can investors believe that they will eventually make money out of this flying car? I am jealous, and puzzled.
So, what will be the impact of this kind of battery on the environment, once it is disposed? Anybody can speculate?
Yes, it is easy to fix, but will it be fixed? That is the question. Maybe this is how the Nautilus developers want things to be and it is possible that it will not be changed.
I assume that most Linux distributions will rollout Mono out of the box, but has there been any distributions that actually confirmed that Mono will be part of their distribution? Which version of the outcomming distributions will come with Mono?
Is there any standard drawer for Firewire drives? I never heard of that and I bet not. You are offtopic. I am talking about docking the drive within your casing. Not have a bunch of external drives and extra power cords.
A bit off topic, but I wish that the industry could settle on standard drawers for Hard Drives. Now that we have hot plugable hard drives with SATA, what we need is a standard drawer so one can take the drive and stick it in someone's else computer.
There are many IDE drawers out there on the market, but they are not mechanically compatible. Its a shame, because HDs could seriously replace floppies if we could just bring them along with us without worying about plugin them in.
I mean, who the hell has a laser printer connected to a parallel port and wants to share it over a network?
A lot more people than you think. Families have computer networks, and they sure do not want to buy a printer for each family member.
You buy cheap ink jet printers. Some prefer quality laser printers. One does not want to buy another laser just to avoid the hassle and one does expect things to just work. I have an old laser printer which connects via the parallel port that works just fine and I do not want to change it just for the heck of it, but I do expect it to become available on a network.
(36-24)/36=0.33 or 33%. No errors there. Its not (36-24)=12%. We are calculating the decline as of where MS was standing in 2002.
See it another way. You have 100 computers, 36 are MS. A year later, its down to 18 computers, half of what it was. Thus its a 50% drop, not 18%.
Anybody knows the email of the marketing departement of Lego? We need to send them the link to this Slashdot story; there are some good comments here. But I cannot find any emails on their site.
Why not change GTK+ to provide more than one file selector, and have the user choose which file selector to use in the gnome configuration center? Application should only call a generic function to call up a file selector, and the Gnome library code would contain a factory that instantiate the FileSelector the user choose.
There is a downside to my idea though. When a person borrows someone else's computer, the user might not be familiar with the other person's file selector. Also, what file selector to choose when documenting? (probably the one set by default when Gnome is being installed).