Firefox cannot uninstall plugins that are installed to "sensitive" areas, like the actual Program Files folder. Skype does this also. It shouldn't prevent you from disabling the add-on though.
Thats why some of us just use suspend. I'm pretty sure that is what it was meant for. The only reason I see this catching on in mainstream distro's is because suspend/hibernate are perpetually too flakey to be relied on.
True, but the whole point is, its RC, it is planned to be release worth. By this very nature, to plan for more than 1 makes no sense, since you already think you are ready to release. Planning for 2 RCs is like you are planning for your QA team and Betas to have failed. Granted, it happens, and then you change you plans, but, simply put, there is no reason to plan for more than 1 RC, since you already think you are ready if you are putting it out.
I don't know if there is a good way of doing it as you suggest, since I believe each element in the pipeline is a seperate process, as you might expect in traditional unix utilities. I guess you could do something clever with shared memory, but you don't lose anything this way, since in the traditional model the text has to flow the the different i/o buffers anyway to get between processes. Also, it is my understanding (though I could be completely wrong) that for objects with few fields it might actually be faster than passing text.
PowerShell is actually an intriguing concept. Granted, it's not bash, but there is something to be said for the idea of constructing pipelines through which objects flow instead of text. That and being able to cd around inside the registry and environment is an intriguing concept.
No matter how scathing you opening comment is, it doesn't make what you are saying any more true. Plasma, by its definition, cannot provide a common appearance across the entire desktop (at least not by itself). Some of us like to have windows open in addition to gazing upon the gooey goodness that we have configured our desktop to be. I'm sure the situation has improved with QGraphicsCanvas (or whatever it is called) and widget embedding, but don't you dare tell me that Qt widgets follow an identical theme to plasma components. They have to be configured separately even...
You speak true. Which is fascinating, since I think the trend is towards notebooks and smaller devices. Ooops! KDE can look great on my laptop when its plugged into the external monitor. When it's not, everything seems absurdly large.
Ah, but the problem is those widget's aren't descendants of all of the themed stuff in Qt, which means they are completely unable to leverage most of Qts theme support. Instead, they reinvented the wheel with some kind of SVG system, so hooray, KDE now gets to maintain its own theme engine when Qt provides a good one for free.
There is absolutely no reason that the API couldn't have been stabilized independently of the actual shell. If the shell was so abysmally behind, they should have just split the development of kdelibs and the rest of it. Much in the way that Gtk+ doesn't follow the same release schedule as Gnome does.
This is particularly true in the world we live in now, where everyone uses google services that are listed in beta and experiences a nominal amount of glitches.
Maybe because one of the problems with Linux is that there is always some little nagging problem. The answer is always next release, next release, it will be fixed, so everyone goes out and upgrades as soon as they can.
Or, Linus is a nerd. Nerds like new shiney to play with, thus upgrade frequently.
This is patently false (at least across the US College system). Specifically, of the 4 schools I am familiar with, there is no such requirement. Furthermore, there is no body that stands over Colleges/Universities in the US that could make such a pronouncement.
Or it might be a sign that his administration wasn't as bad as everyone would like to beleive. After all, Obama is the chosen one, and if he is following in W's footsteps, something must be right...
Seriously though, its been less than a week, give the guy a chance. Its not his job to follow the collective masses' every whim.
In situations with this though, I'd not see an issue for the Cylon's pulling the trigger then finding another puppet, or just doing it themselves.
From the other perspective, the people on the lists are as good as dead anyway, there is no reason to die along with them, even though it is a noble gesture, nothing is gained and more is lost.
AC has a point. The colonial military in BSG during the New Caprica occupation sent their bombers to attack Cylon installations and the training camp of what basically amounted to Cylon Paramilitary (the collaborators). Morally, I find no dilemma with using suicide bombers as an effective tactive. What I find morally repugnant, is the use of suicide bombers against blatantly civilian targets.
I fail to understand why people don't grasp the fact that detonating one's self inside a crowded market is the moral equivalent of rolling a howitzer onto a nearby hill and shelling said market. If we were do to that, there would be no end to the grief it would bring, but when insurgents do it they are "fighting for their freedom"
Thats big round Office icon that pulses on first launch until you click it. Its so obnoxious I can't fathom how anyone could miss it. I saw it within 2 seconds. Maybe its a sign you haven't actually invested any mental energy into figuring how the ui works.
Indeed. This is a republic. We should elect representatives because we believe they have the wisdom to guide our nation to its best possible future. Instead we elect those whom we believe will slavishly follow our views of what is right and proper, disqualifying some with statements like "He does not believe x therefore I could never vote for him."
Some people feel that if you don't learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them.
Lets see...
1) A man walked onto a plane with a bomb in his shoe and attempted to detonate it.
2) Some men (can't remember exactly who) attempted to mix chemicals onboard an airplane, in order to construct a bomb and detonate it.
I'm all for common sense to. And to me, common sense says that when an attack is barely averted or averted through luck and bravado, actions need to be taken to reduce the likelihood such a thing is possible in the future. Stop whining because you don't like the TSA and propose alternate solutions that decrease inconvenience while maintaining security.
Fortunately for you, you don't have to install something from microsoft, you have to install something from an open source project.
Granted, they lag behind, but its hard to have lock-in when they are pseudo-complete competing implementations for "left-out platforms".
Even though its a different stream, the fact that the website was willing to put up support for other systems sets an excellent precedent.
Silverlight in and of itself cannot be anti-competetive. It is a content delivery platform, by this very nature it must compete in its space against the incumbent flash, as well as other content delivery systems. Whenever someone pushes out a video in flash, you don't hear the BSD crowd moaning. Whenever someone pushes out a video in Ogg (all 5 of them) you don't hear the rest of the world moaning.
Silverlight is being used. Deal with it. Whoever planned this decided that Silverlight was their best option despite the fact it isn't the dominant delivery platform.
Chill, stop being inflamatory, or if you really are that angry, go poke the mono guys, their work is blessed by MS afterall.
Shennanigans!
8.10, instead of being able to use the terminal to make it work, it just won't function at all. The problem remains on the Linux side that components are poorly integrated into each other. My favorite case being WEP with 802.1x auth just doesn't work. No errors, nothing.
I particularly like your case in point about features not working for a graphics card made on Tuesday. How about features not working if your graphics card manufacturer's name starts in n and ends in vidia. Case in point. That new fangled xrandr frontend that flat out doesn't work on nVidia cards. Maybe I'm bitter from all the times I've been personally failed by linux software and heard how it would be fixed eventually
Sure, your need directions to understand Windows, just like all the different Linux shells, but at least all the components can talk to each other.
In the meantime, enjoy beating your head on your desk because something foolishly isn't working, when all the good programs available on Linux, also run on Windows and OS X, and those systems actually work in most of the foreseeable use cases.
So, you berate your sister for following directions. Its absurd to blame the user when they have justifiable cause to believe they have all the resources needed to perform setup one way, but magically can't.
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Firefox cannot uninstall plugins that are installed to "sensitive" areas, like the actual Program Files folder. Skype does this also. It shouldn't prevent you from disabling the add-on though.
Thats why some of us just use suspend. I'm pretty sure that is what it was meant for. The only reason I see this catching on in mainstream distro's is because suspend/hibernate are perpetually too flakey to be relied on.
Also, to chime in. They are find, I can run Aero on an Intel 945, and we all know how excessive Aero's requirements are.
And here I think you should have been modded insightful instead of funny.
True, but the whole point is, its RC, it is planned to be release worth. By this very nature, to plan for more than 1 makes no sense, since you already think you are ready to release. Planning for 2 RCs is like you are planning for your QA team and Betas to have failed. Granted, it happens, and then you change you plans, but, simply put, there is no reason to plan for more than 1 RC, since you already think you are ready if you are putting it out.
I don't know if there is a good way of doing it as you suggest, since I believe each element in the pipeline is a seperate process, as you might expect in traditional unix utilities. I guess you could do something clever with shared memory, but you don't lose anything this way, since in the traditional model the text has to flow the the different i/o buffers anyway to get between processes. Also, it is my understanding (though I could be completely wrong) that for objects with few fields it might actually be faster than passing text.
PowerShell is actually an intriguing concept. Granted, it's not bash, but there is something to be said for the idea of constructing pipelines through which objects flow instead of text. That and being able to cd around inside the registry and environment is an intriguing concept.
No matter how scathing you opening comment is, it doesn't make what you are saying any more true. Plasma, by its definition, cannot provide a common appearance across the entire desktop (at least not by itself). Some of us like to have windows open in addition to gazing upon the gooey goodness that we have configured our desktop to be. I'm sure the situation has improved with QGraphicsCanvas (or whatever it is called) and widget embedding, but don't you dare tell me that Qt widgets follow an identical theme to plasma components. They have to be configured separately even...
You speak true. Which is fascinating, since I think the trend is towards notebooks and smaller devices. Ooops! KDE can look great on my laptop when its plugged into the external monitor. When it's not, everything seems absurdly large.
Ah, but the problem is those widget's aren't descendants of all of the themed stuff in Qt, which means they are completely unable to leverage most of Qts theme support. Instead, they reinvented the wheel with some kind of SVG system, so hooray, KDE now gets to maintain its own theme engine when Qt provides a good one for free.
There is absolutely no reason that the API couldn't have been stabilized independently of the actual shell. If the shell was so abysmally behind, they should have just split the development of kdelibs and the rest of it. Much in the way that Gtk+ doesn't follow the same release schedule as Gnome does.
This is particularly true in the world we live in now, where everyone uses google services that are listed in beta and experiences a nominal amount of glitches.
Does thou spread FUD? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell_replacement
There are tons of 3rd party shells available for windows, some proprietary and even a few open source ones I believe.
Maybe because one of the problems with Linux is that there is always some little nagging problem. The answer is always next release, next release, it will be fixed, so everyone goes out and upgrades as soon as they can.
Or, Linus is a nerd. Nerds like new shiney to play with, thus upgrade frequently.
This is patently false (at least across the US College system). Specifically, of the 4 schools I am familiar with, there is no such requirement. Furthermore, there is no body that stands over Colleges/Universities in the US that could make such a pronouncement.
Or it might be a sign that his administration wasn't as bad as everyone would like to beleive. After all, Obama is the chosen one, and if he is following in W's footsteps, something must be right...
Seriously though, its been less than a week, give the guy a chance. Its not his job to follow the collective masses' every whim.
In situations with this though, I'd not see an issue for the Cylon's pulling the trigger then finding another puppet, or just doing it themselves.
From the other perspective, the people on the lists are as good as dead anyway, there is no reason to die along with them, even though it is a noble gesture, nothing is gained and more is lost.
AC has a point. The colonial military in BSG during the New Caprica occupation sent their bombers to attack Cylon installations and the training camp of what basically amounted to Cylon Paramilitary (the collaborators). Morally, I find no dilemma with using suicide bombers as an effective tactive. What I find morally repugnant, is the use of suicide bombers against blatantly civilian targets.
I fail to understand why people don't grasp the fact that detonating one's self inside a crowded market is the moral equivalent of rolling a howitzer onto a nearby hill and shelling said market. If we were do to that, there would be no end to the grief it would bring, but when insurgents do it they are "fighting for their freedom"
Thats big round Office icon that pulses on first launch until you click it. Its so obnoxious I can't fathom how anyone could miss it. I saw it within 2 seconds. Maybe its a sign you haven't actually invested any mental energy into figuring how the ui works.
Indeed. This is a republic. We should elect representatives because we believe they have the wisdom to guide our nation to its best possible future. Instead we elect those whom we believe will slavishly follow our views of what is right and proper, disqualifying some with statements like "He does not believe x therefore I could never vote for him."
Some people feel that if you don't learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. Lets see... 1) A man walked onto a plane with a bomb in his shoe and attempted to detonate it. 2) Some men (can't remember exactly who) attempted to mix chemicals onboard an airplane, in order to construct a bomb and detonate it.
I'm all for common sense to. And to me, common sense says that when an attack is barely averted or averted through luck and bravado, actions need to be taken to reduce the likelihood such a thing is possible in the future. Stop whining because you don't like the TSA and propose alternate solutions that decrease inconvenience while maintaining security.
Fortunately for you, you don't have to install something from microsoft, you have to install something from an open source project. Granted, they lag behind, but its hard to have lock-in when they are pseudo-complete competing implementations for "left-out platforms".
Even though its a different stream, the fact that the website was willing to put up support for other systems sets an excellent precedent.
Silverlight in and of itself cannot be anti-competetive. It is a content delivery platform, by this very nature it must compete in its space against the incumbent flash, as well as other content delivery systems. Whenever someone pushes out a video in flash, you don't hear the BSD crowd moaning. Whenever someone pushes out a video in Ogg (all 5 of them) you don't hear the rest of the world moaning.
Silverlight is being used. Deal with it. Whoever planned this decided that Silverlight was their best option despite the fact it isn't the dominant delivery platform.
Chill, stop being inflamatory, or if you really are that angry, go poke the mono guys, their work is blessed by MS afterall.
Shennanigans! 8.10, instead of being able to use the terminal to make it work, it just won't function at all. The problem remains on the Linux side that components are poorly integrated into each other. My favorite case being WEP with 802.1x auth just doesn't work. No errors, nothing.
I particularly like your case in point about features not working for a graphics card made on Tuesday. How about features not working if your graphics card manufacturer's name starts in n and ends in vidia. Case in point. That new fangled xrandr frontend that flat out doesn't work on nVidia cards. Maybe I'm bitter from all the times I've been personally failed by linux software and heard how it would be fixed eventually
Sure, your need directions to understand Windows, just like all the different Linux shells, but at least all the components can talk to each other.
In the meantime, enjoy beating your head on your desk because something foolishly isn't working, when all the good programs available on Linux, also run on Windows and OS X, and those systems actually work in most of the foreseeable use cases.
So, you berate your sister for following directions. Its absurd to blame the user when they have justifiable cause to believe they have all the resources needed to perform setup one way, but magically can't.