I think the guy was referring to the way WMP can embed into the web browser. Since the usual default for Linux distros doesn't include a browser with an embedded video player, having full screen *video* will be a problem. The video doesn't play if you don't want it to.
The only thing I could think of happening is that the sites detect that you are using Linux, and then tell you to download a plugin that pings the site to tell it that you have the plugin, and only after which you can visit the site.
Considering that it's MSN, Lycos, ESPN... that are doing this, I don't really give a shit. I don't expect many people that hit/. really visit MSN, and I can think of better sports sites than ESPN, and/. serves as my portal in place of Lycos.
UI-wise, the only problem I have with KDE is the staticity of the program menu items. In Gnome and Windows, I can drag items from sub-menus to the desktop, launchers, or to other sub-menus. KDE is stuck on this "Menu-editor" thing, which is really really inconvenient.
The Menu-editor is nice if you have a million corporate desktops that you don't want other people messing with, but as far as at home... there has to be some kind of switch that I can throw to turn on menu flexibility.
That's really the only UI problem that I've ever had with KDE.
And in war, if the enemy attacks you, are you then right to fight back? If the allies had played by your rules, we would probably be beneath the thumb of German Nazism.
No kidding. Boy meets girl who is supposed to be about 12 years older than him, but miraculously looks the same age. Boy is a big whiner, and a murderer. Boy doesn't talk much. Girl still falls in love with Boy.
Well, it was necessary for the rest of the story, right?
9x->XP has a rather large learning curve... All of those new "features" that they added really cause confusion among most people. Changing configuration settings in XP, for instance, has been muddled in the effort to make them "clear." You can set this back to the 9x way, of course, but most people are not going to do that.
I don't quite understand how there is a "war" between Linux and Microsoft. Look at it from this perspective: Linux will always be there, will always be built by the community, and will always be an alternative choice for all businesses. Microsoft products, on the other hand, require the company to be intact for them to be maintained and offered.
Microsoft worries about losing business to a non-company entity, which is rightly should worry about. Microsoft trying to compete against a non-company entity like it is a company will not work, though. The only way that anyone could "kill" the Linux kernel is by way of IP and prosecution. This is already being attempted, and will probably not pan out for the ones pursuing that end.
Perhaps, if you knew what ignorance meant, you wouldn't use it in an incorrect way. The parent post of your comment knows what ignorance means, but it seems that you do not.
Being ignorant isn't a bad thing. There are a lot of things that I am ignorant about. I would probably prefer to be ignorant of them, if I ever found them out.
The word "ignorant" has been misused, typically within the race card. It probably started as "you are ignorant of what my people went through," but it somehow morphed into a cuss word akin to the "N"-word.
That depends on your diet. By now, everyone should be aware of the way your metabolism switches from burning glucogen to burning ketones when the presence of sugar is extremely low.
People that go on Atkins do metabolize fats (or at least the broken down form of them). The body is more efficient in this state as well.
Besides, people with 5% body fat are usually eating small amounts of carbs all the time, and drinking tons of water. This keeps their metabolism up and keeps the fuel in the body.
I don't think that it's as much a matter of ignorance as it is of apathy instead. Management doesn't care whether you're a good developer or not. If you are, ok, if not... well, as long as you come up with something that functions in a reasonable amount of time, that's ok too.
You'll only find real appreciation of developer strength in the small businesses, OS vendors, OSS community, and game houses. Small businesses are also suspect, since I've seen a whole lot of crap fly through the small businesses that I work with. Hell, I work at a "small-ish" business, and some of the programmers here are damn crappy. In fact, I probably have spent more time walking them through the process of research and self-sufficiency than I get to spend writing good code (or posting on/.).
Those Windows 3.1 machines were probably hooked to big iron somewhere. Mainframes remain on the bleeding edge of technology, even if they are old. Why? Because there is nothing else that can handle massive amounts of data, in addition to a massive number of user acccounts, as well as a massive number of transactions without going up in smoke.
The package management / library dependency hell has been handled rather nicely by.NET, of all things. I'm surprised that the OSS community didn't come up with something as simple as a tree that had the ability to manage all versions of a library ever made. Yeah, it might eat up space, but at least it'd be easy to check if you've got the dependency that you need...
It should be like/lib/libpng/1.0,/lib/libpng/1.1,/lib/libpng/1.2, and so on. Then, just search the tree, looking for the appropriate version of libpng that you need, and if it isn't there, just copy it over. I believe that is how.NET handles it. Java doesn't quite have that, since you mostly ship all libraries that you're going to use in jar files... which is another nice way to handle the problem.
You can't use a theory as basis for such a statement. There are many other theories out there that can explain human evolution in the given amount of time much better than the/dev/random theory.
What's scary is the link image in the bottom left hand corner for "Real Doll Porn." The last thing I want to see is some guy getting his rocks off into a heap of plastic and rubber.
He said that he moved it from one hard disk to another. In times of upgrades, this is normal. XP doesn't have any restriction against upgrading hard disks.
I frequently hear the sound clip that occurs when you fall off a ledge in Dark Forces II. It's long, and gets louder toward the end... kinda like aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrhhhhHHHHHHHHHHH!
I hear that in various video games, movie previews, etc.
You're talking about e-mail as we know it, and not as how MS sees the future of it. I know that sometimes, I send an e-mail to someone that my boss wanted to be copied on. Usually, it's a continuation of some topic that involves everyone. Say, I developed tic-tac-toe, and sent it to Judy and Ron to test. They reply to eachother a couple times, then get back to me on the subject. As the developer, it's better for me to know everything that they think about the application.
If there's a private message that you need to send, then you would just have to create a new thread with that person only. Otherwise, the discussion is shared among all people that the subject originally included, or people that have been brought into the subject along the way. Then again, in business, there is no privacy.
This makes sense from a business perspective, since you're always trying to find a way to communicate among many people without getting tied up in meetings.
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I think the guy was referring to the way WMP can embed into the web browser. Since the usual default for Linux distros doesn't include a browser with an embedded video player, having full screen *video* will be a problem. The video doesn't play if you don't want it to.
The only thing I could think of happening is that the sites detect that you are using Linux, and then tell you to download a plugin that pings the site to tell it that you have the plugin, and only after which you can visit the site.
Considering that it's MSN, Lycos, ESPN ... that are doing this, I don't really give a shit. I don't expect many people that hit /. really visit MSN, and I can think of better sports sites than ESPN, and /. serves as my portal in place of Lycos.
UI-wise, the only problem I have with KDE is the staticity of the program menu items. In Gnome and Windows, I can drag items from sub-menus to the desktop, launchers, or to other sub-menus. KDE is stuck on this "Menu-editor" thing, which is really really inconvenient.
The Menu-editor is nice if you have a million corporate desktops that you don't want other people messing with, but as far as at home... there has to be some kind of switch that I can throw to turn on menu flexibility.
That's really the only UI problem that I've ever had with KDE.
And in war, if the enemy attacks you, are you then right to fight back? If the allies had played by your rules, we would probably be beneath the thumb of German Nazism.
No kidding. Boy meets girl who is supposed to be about 12 years older than him, but miraculously looks the same age. Boy is a big whiner, and a murderer. Boy doesn't talk much. Girl still falls in love with Boy.
Well, it was necessary for the rest of the story, right?
9x->XP has a rather large learning curve... All of those new "features" that they added really cause confusion among most people. Changing configuration settings in XP, for instance, has been muddled in the effort to make them "clear." You can set this back to the 9x way, of course, but most people are not going to do that.
IIRC, it's not the censorship as much as it is rigid copyright control. There's a difference.
It's so ridiculous that you almost have to invent a new word to correctly describe it.
I like other words like:
According to the Urban dictionary, Recoculous means "Incredibly fucking stupid."
I don't quite understand how there is a "war" between Linux and Microsoft. Look at it from this perspective: Linux will always be there, will always be built by the community, and will always be an alternative choice for all businesses. Microsoft products, on the other hand, require the company to be intact for them to be maintained and offered.
Microsoft worries about losing business to a non-company entity, which is rightly should worry about. Microsoft trying to compete against a non-company entity like it is a company will not work, though. The only way that anyone could "kill" the Linux kernel is by way of IP and prosecution. This is already being attempted, and will probably not pan out for the ones pursuing that end.
Read the post lower down, that was posted half an hour earlier.
Moderate accordingly.
let alone a city block seem like a great distance
And that is why American culture came up with the Rascal!
I thought "speed bin" was just the long name of "/sbin." Yeah... the kind that every user should share.
Perhaps, if you knew what ignorance meant, you wouldn't use it in an incorrect way. The parent post of your comment knows what ignorance means, but it seems that you do not.
Being ignorant isn't a bad thing. There are a lot of things that I am ignorant about. I would probably prefer to be ignorant of them, if I ever found them out.
The word "ignorant" has been misused, typically within the race card. It probably started as "you are ignorant of what my people went through," but it somehow morphed into a cuss word akin to the "N"-word.
That depends on your diet. By now, everyone should be aware of the way your metabolism switches from burning glucogen to burning ketones when the presence of sugar is extremely low.
People that go on Atkins do metabolize fats (or at least the broken down form of them). The body is more efficient in this state as well.
Besides, people with 5% body fat are usually eating small amounts of carbs all the time, and drinking tons of water. This keeps their metabolism up and keeps the fuel in the body.
Yeah, doesn't he live in one of the most socialist countries on Earth?
Have you seen most of the Wal-Mart greeters? They'd have to really lean on those canes in order to get their kicks that high.
I don't think that it's as much a matter of ignorance as it is of apathy instead. Management doesn't care whether you're a good developer or not. If you are, ok, if not... well, as long as you come up with something that functions in a reasonable amount of time, that's ok too.
You'll only find real appreciation of developer strength in the small businesses, OS vendors, OSS community, and game houses. Small businesses are also suspect, since I've seen a whole lot of crap fly through the small businesses that I work with. Hell, I work at a "small-ish" business, and some of the programmers here are damn crappy. In fact, I probably have spent more time walking them through the process of research and self-sufficiency than I get to spend writing good code (or posting on /.).
Those Windows 3.1 machines were probably hooked to big iron somewhere. Mainframes remain on the bleeding edge of technology, even if they are old. Why? Because there is nothing else that can handle massive amounts of data, in addition to a massive number of user acccounts, as well as a massive number of transactions without going up in smoke.
For those that didn't RTFA, including the mods, Omid is the guy who wrote the article.
Hmm... That's just Emerge with the no-compile option.
The package management / library dependency hell has been handled rather nicely by .NET, of all things. I'm surprised that the OSS community didn't come up with something as simple as a tree that had the ability to manage all versions of a library ever made. Yeah, it might eat up space, but at least it'd be easy to check if you've got the dependency that you need...
It should be like /lib/libpng/1.0, /lib/libpng/1.1, /lib/libpng/1.2, and so on. Then, just search the tree, looking for the appropriate version of libpng that you need, and if it isn't there, just copy it over. I believe that is how .NET handles it. Java doesn't quite have that, since you mostly ship all libraries that you're going to use in jar files... which is another nice way to handle the problem.
You can't use a theory as basis for such a statement. There are many other theories out there that can explain human evolution in the given amount of time much better than the /dev/random theory.
What's scary is the link image in the bottom left hand corner for "Real Doll Porn." The last thing I want to see is some guy getting his rocks off into a heap of plastic and rubber.
He said that he moved it from one hard disk to another. In times of upgrades, this is normal. XP doesn't have any restriction against upgrading hard disks.
I frequently hear the sound clip that occurs when you fall off a ledge in Dark Forces II. It's long, and gets louder toward the end... kinda like aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrhhhhHHHHHHHHHHH!
I hear that in various video games, movie previews, etc.
You're talking about e-mail as we know it, and not as how MS sees the future of it. I know that sometimes, I send an e-mail to someone that my boss wanted to be copied on. Usually, it's a continuation of some topic that involves everyone. Say, I developed tic-tac-toe, and sent it to Judy and Ron to test. They reply to eachother a couple times, then get back to me on the subject. As the developer, it's better for me to know everything that they think about the application.
If there's a private message that you need to send, then you would just have to create a new thread with that person only. Otherwise, the discussion is shared among all people that the subject originally included, or people that have been brought into the subject along the way. Then again, in business, there is no privacy.
This makes sense from a business perspective, since you're always trying to find a way to communicate among many people without getting tied up in meetings.