Um. remember Archimedes's Principle. Not the one about what is displaced when you put something in the water, this one: give me a positive real number, and no matter how small it is, there's an integer that I can multiply it by to make the product of the two as big as you want. Or, Senator Dirksen's more famous version: "A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Yes, if entitlements aren't killed, nothing else matters, and the US will continue its plummet into ruin. That doesn't mean that small programs should be immune. Read a book called Demosclerosis. Small programs accumulate because the parasites are highly motivated, while the hosts have to put out a lot of effort for what is admittedly a small amount per victim.
No, a union is a cartel, like OPEC or de Beers. The only difference is that the Organization of Petroleum Extorting Countries are a cartel for oil; a union is a cartel for labor. (OK, that's not quite right; OPEC doesn't have the government to coerce people on their behalf, the way the unions have the NLRB or whatever might correspond to it in your country.) Both keep the price of their product artificially high. Unions also do their best to prevent competition. I recall when the bus drivers struck here in Des Moines, and the newspaper reported rocks being tossed off overpasses where buses passed.
Kind of funny how "Microsoft can't help it if some users are stupid" gets trotted out when malware is under discussion, but "Linux is too difficult for Joe User/my grandma" is the line when the subject is Linux on the desktop.
Actually, it seems that his argument is that gdm has to start up a GNOME session so it can have power management consistent with GNOME... because surely nobody would ever use anything other than GNOME, right?
That's about as succinct a description of Project Xanadu as I can come up with. To some extent it is also like Calvin Mooers's TRAC macro processor that Nelson so effused about in _Computer Lib_, but which is pretty well unknown elsewhere. TRAC is a footnote in computer history, largely, I believe, because Mooers protected his intellectual property so darned well that everyone else shrugged and went on their own way.
"...it should work best by default and the only options that need to be available are valid preferences...."
I'll bite. Who defines "best", or "valid"? Once upon a time I'd have said being able to select which screensavers are chosen from at random is a "valid preference", because I like some of them and don't like others. The author of gnome-screensaver, who curiously is mentioned as the designer of GNOME 3, decided that what I think doesn't matter--and the gnome-screensaver FAQ reads amazingly like a defense of DRM: if the user has control he'll do something evil. GNOME considers the user the enemy.
Heck, I'd be willing to pay the channels I actually use $0.75 per month in exchange for the ability to stream their programming over the net, especially if I can stream it to my system running Linux. BS such as "TV Everywhere" is just a way for cable companies to keep as many people as possible paying for both internet service and cable TV. They are avoidable middlemen trying to preserve their government-granted monopolies.
As a happy Palm Pre user, I'm very interested in whether WebOS's UI can be well-mapped to a {desk, lap}top. IMHO it's far more intuitive than Android's, and I'd be very happy with a WebOS tablet. I refuse to buy hardware contaminated with Windows. If I can get a WebOS computer without having to buy Windows, I'm willing to give it a look.
If it's a delusion, we share it. Slashdot people, remember, there are some of us old nerds out here. It doesn't matter how pretty it is if it's hard to read.
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Um. remember Archimedes's Principle. Not the one about what is displaced when you put something in the water, this one: give me a positive real number, and no matter how small it is, there's an integer that I can multiply it by to make the product of the two as big as you want. Or, Senator Dirksen's more famous version: "A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Yes, if entitlements aren't killed, nothing else matters, and the US will continue its plummet into ruin. That doesn't mean that small programs should be immune. Read a book called Demosclerosis. Small programs accumulate because the parasites are highly motivated, while the hosts have to put out a lot of effort for what is admittedly a small amount per victim.
No, a union is a cartel, like OPEC or de Beers. The only difference is that the Organization of Petroleum Extorting Countries are a cartel for oil; a union is a cartel for labor. (OK, that's not quite right; OPEC doesn't have the government to coerce people on their behalf, the way the unions have the NLRB or whatever might correspond to it in your country.) Both keep the price of their product artificially high. Unions also do their best to prevent competition. I recall when the bus drivers struck here in Des Moines, and the newspaper reported rocks being tossed off overpasses where buses passed.
Me too--just do it in a window manager-independent way.
People change their behavior in response to changes in tax law; how can that be predicted and taken into account?
Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.
Kind of funny how "Microsoft can't help it if some users are stupid" gets trotted out when malware is under discussion, but "Linux is too difficult for Joe User/my grandma" is the line when the subject is Linux on the desktop.
Actually, it seems that his argument is that gdm has to start up a GNOME session so it can have power management consistent with GNOME... because surely nobody would ever use anything other than GNOME, right?
"Mono" is Spanish for "monkey". The people working on Mono are "Ximian" (simian). Why the monkey theme? Got me.
I would've sworn McCain did. (See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028/ns/nightly_news/, "McCain's citizenship called into question".) Sorry, Charlie, not everybody who disagrees with Obama is racist.
So, can the engine be ported to Linux? If not, I don't have any particular reason to care.
That's about as succinct a description of Project Xanadu as I can come up with. To some extent it is also like Calvin Mooers's TRAC macro processor that Nelson so effused about in _Computer Lib_, but which is pretty well unknown elsewhere. TRAC is a footnote in computer history, largely, I believe, because Mooers protected his intellectual property so darned well that everyone else shrugged and went on their own way.
"Rather than piss and moan about [the US educational system], why don't you actually get off your ass and do something about it?"
I do my best to vote for people who will get rid of the public schools' effective monopoly on K-12 education for all but the few; does that count?
Reading the introduction is kind of bizarre. Apparently the motivation for the work is to reduce the NoSQL market to a few very profitable suppliers.
"...it should work best by default and the only options that need to be available are valid preferences...."
I'll bite. Who defines "best", or "valid"? Once upon a time I'd have said being able to select which screensavers are chosen from at random is a "valid preference", because I like some of them and don't like others. The author of gnome-screensaver, who curiously is mentioned as the designer of GNOME 3, decided that what I think doesn't matter--and the gnome-screensaver FAQ reads amazingly like a defense of DRM: if the user has control he'll do something evil. GNOME considers the user the enemy.
For me, it's enough to see the fellow who brought us gnome-screensaver listed as responsible for GNOME 3. I'm not going to waste my time on it.
Heck, I'd be willing to pay the channels I actually use $0.75 per month in exchange for the ability to stream their programming over the net, especially if I can stream it to my system running Linux. BS such as "TV Everywhere" is just a way for cable companies to keep as many people as possible paying for both internet service and cable TV. They are avoidable middlemen trying to preserve their government-granted monopolies.
Cable companies want you to continue to have to pay twice.
Link to, or instructions on how to, upgrade a Pre to 2.1, please?
As a happy Palm Pre user, I'm very interested in whether WebOS's UI can be well-mapped to a {desk, lap}top. IMHO it's far more intuitive than Android's, and I'd be very happy with a WebOS tablet. I refuse to buy hardware contaminated with Windows. If I can get a WebOS computer without having to buy Windows, I'm willing to give it a look.
No, it's more that Microsoft will move in and compel the OEMs to ditch Linux, as they did with netbooks.
"Is this Nautilus spatial mode Part II?"
All it took was seeing in the comments of TFA that GNOME shell is headed up by the man who brought us gnome-screensaver. I'll be moving along, thanks.
One of the scenarios have a title that alludes to that classic movie, _The Terror of Tiny Town_.
If it's a delusion, we share it. Slashdot people, remember, there are some of us old nerds out here. It doesn't matter how pretty it is if it's hard to read.
Sigh. I'm unencumbered by grammar this morning...