Most people will probably continue to have one ISP connected by a firewall. Instead of a stateful firewall that's been configured to also do NAT, they'll just have a simpler stateful firewall and skip the address translation tables.
A huge number of people are having serious problems with the KDE 4.x series.
If they're having issues, they need to file detailed bug reports. Software developers are generally neither mind readers nor are they working for the NSA.;)
Ever have a power outage while in the KDE? Good luck getting the DE back with your old preferences.
A) The loss of your preferences files is an issue with your filesystem, not KDE. B) KDE 4.x is rock solid for me, despite multiple intentional power outages *and* running it all on btrfs.
* auto-configure - what an awful idea, a recipe for disaster
It's only a disaster if you've NICs on your network that have duplicate MAC addresses. If this is the case, you'll have a disaster, regardless of what L3 protocol you use.
If the first programs that you ever thoroughly learned how to use were Blender and GIMP, you'd probably be complaining about all the other programs who won't conform to those particular examples of "completely intuitive" interfaces.
*shrug* I got hit by the "Malformed packet triggers BSOD in Win2k/XP/Server 2k3" fault before I had time to patch. 1) BSODs still happen.:D 2) Most everything that I install (even AAAA video games) requests that I reboot the machine after the installation. You and I know that when you *really* have to reboot the machine. Joe Blow doesn't.
Aside from any possible security or compatibility concerns, nothing is *wrong* with using *any* particular OS. Just as there's nothing *complicated* about using Wine to run a WIN32 app.:)
To rephrase the AC in question's suggestion; it would be if he suggested that support for ELF executables should not be in the Linux kernel, as the supporting code is much more complicated than that which supports the a.out format.
I can't see why Flash should need *any* HW accell to do video playback. A while back, I investigated performance of Flash on Linux and Windows, and mplayer on the same. I found that mplayer's *unaccelerated* [0] fullscreen playback of a particular HD video scraped from YouTube was 80-90% faster than doing the same with the latest Windows-based Flash plugin.
tl;dr: Flash *SUCKS* for video playback.
I *really* wish that my google-fu was not so weak today... I'd love to find the comment where I detailed all of this.
[0] x11 video out under Linux and -IIRC- directx:noaccel under Windows.
After such ringing endorsements, the response in the free Flash community makes for an almost comical contrast. "Our reaction is pretty much, 'Ho-hum,'" said Rob Savoye, lead developer for the Gnash project, which is creating a free Flash player. "It's a really good thing when corporations figure out that being more open to the community is important but, at the same time, it's not a huge deal." ... One reason for the lack of excitement over the project in the free software world is that it omits "huge amounts" of information needed for a complete implementation of Flash. In particular, Savoye points out that the announcement contains no mention of the Real Time Messaging Protocol(RTMP) that is required for the Flash media server. Nor does it mention the Sorenson Spark Codec that is used for video encoding in Flash 6 and 7, and remains the choice of some users still for Flash video because other formats convert easily to it. Both may be encumbered by patents but, without them, the information that Adobe has released is of limited use.
Just as important, what Adobe released is not new to the free Flash community. "Pretty much all of that stuff was known," Otte says. Savoye agrees, remarking, "We figured that all out years ago, or we wouldn't have gotten as far along as we have." Moreover, although Gnash and Swfdec are clean room implementations -- that is, developed without the aid of any information from Adobe -- Savoye suggests that, "Most of this documentation, if we really wanted it, has already leaked out on the Internet years ago."
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Most people will probably continue to have one ISP connected by a firewall. Instead of a stateful firewall that's been configured to also do NAT, they'll just have a simpler stateful firewall and skip the address translation tables.
FTFY.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1753636&cid=33243880
A huge number of people are having serious problems with the KDE 4.x series.
If they're having issues, they need to file detailed bug reports. Software developers are generally neither mind readers nor are they working for the NSA. ;)
Ever have a power outage while in the KDE? Good luck getting the DE back with your old preferences.
A) The loss of your preferences files is an issue with your filesystem, not KDE.
B) KDE 4.x is rock solid for me, despite multiple intentional power outages *and* running it all on btrfs.
So Microsoft can (successfully, in the Central District of California)
Cite, please? :D
Yes. This issue is orthogonal to the point that I was addressing.
* auto-configure - what an awful idea, a recipe for disaster
It's only a disaster if you've NICs on your network that have duplicate MAC addresses. If this is the case, you'll have a disaster, regardless of what L3 protocol you use.
* every device their own ip - um why?
Why not?
Heck. Money-hills of any sort are appreciated.
Thanks, matzahboy!
Oh, wait...
Additionally, I don't see "graphing calculators" on that list. :)
Care to give us a comprehensive list of the devices that you feel would be "fundamentally hurt by customization"?
You *can* create keys which require a passphrase to be used.
Damn. /.'s linkifier really fucked that one up!
Holy fuckging shit. Tribes 2? Actually functional?!
+5 does not begin to describe how informative this post is.
*blink*
If you're copying over internal networks or a VPN, why not use Kerberized rsh and avoid the additional processing required for SSH?
*shrug*
If the first programs that you ever thoroughly learned how to use were Blender and GIMP, you'd probably be complaining about all the other programs who won't conform to those particular examples of "completely intuitive" interfaces.
urxvt, FTW, IMO. :D
*shrug* My experience with iwl3945 disagrees with your statement.
*shrug* I got hit by the "Malformed packet triggers BSOD in Win2k/XP/Server 2k3" fault before I had time to patch. :D
1) BSODs still happen.
2) Most everything that I install (even AAAA video games) requests that I reboot the machine after the installation. You and I know that when you *really* have to reboot the machine. Joe Blow doesn't.
Show me their standardized network...
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html
...threading...
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/thread.html
...GUI...
*shrug* There's not a *standard* GUI, but there are a few high-quality ones:
http://qt.nokia.com/
http://www.wxwidgets.org/
http://www.fltk.org/
Aside from any possible security or compatibility concerns, nothing is *wrong* with using *any* particular OS. Just as there's nothing *complicated* about using Wine to run a WIN32 app. :)
To rephrase the AC in question's suggestion; it would be if he suggested that support for ELF executables should not be in the Linux kernel, as the supporting code is much more complicated than that which supports the a.out format.
(srsly. binfmt_misc must blow that AC's mind. :D )
Why all the unneeded complexity?
*stares*
I suppose that you're writing this from your Windows 3.11 (or perhaps OS/2) machine?
I love linux and I was really psyched to havee a real linux setup for once... So.. i installed Windows 7 RC1 on the device...
Instead of, say, installing a non-shitty un-crippled Linux distro? Your love doesn't seem to stretch very far.
I can't see why Flash should need *any* HW accell to do video playback. A while back, I investigated performance of Flash on Linux and Windows, and mplayer on the same. I found that mplayer's *unaccelerated* [0] fullscreen playback of a particular HD video scraped from YouTube was 80-90% faster than doing the same with the latest Windows-based Flash plugin.
tl;dr: Flash *SUCKS* for video playback.
I *really* wish that my google-fu was not so weak today... I'd love to find the comment where I detailed all of this.
[0] x11 video out under Linux and -IIRC- directx:noaccel under Windows.
After such ringing endorsements, the response in the free Flash community makes for an almost comical contrast. "Our reaction is pretty much, 'Ho-hum,'" said Rob Savoye, lead developer for the Gnash project, which is creating a free Flash player. "It's a really good thing when corporations figure out that being more open to the community is important but, at the same time, it's not a huge deal."
...
One reason for the lack of excitement over the project in the free software world is that it omits "huge amounts" of information needed for a complete implementation of Flash. In particular, Savoye points out that the announcement contains no mention of the Real Time Messaging Protocol(RTMP) that is required for the Flash media server. Nor does it mention the Sorenson Spark Codec that is used for video encoding in Flash 6 and 7, and remains the choice of some users still for Flash video because other formats convert easily to it. Both may be encumbered by patents but, without them, the information that Adobe has released is of limited use.
Just as important, what Adobe released is not new to the free Flash community. "Pretty much all of that stuff was known," Otte says. Savoye agrees, remarking, "We figured that all out years ago, or we wouldn't have gotten as far along as we have." Moreover, although Gnash and Swfdec are clean room implementations -- that is, developed without the aid of any information from Adobe -- Savoye suggests that, "Most of this documentation, if we really wanted it, has already leaked out on the Internet years ago."
Via
http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/21
You missed out:
A forcefield is not glass, duh. It's also not made of matter. :D