Q: What is a webbrowser supposed to do? Display web pages. Q: What should most of the screen be? The websites.
How often do you really use the menubar? 90% of the time its wasting screenspace and as people push for a consistent UI across platforms it's worth making the change. The next move for them is to take after apple and remove the pointless status bar in favor of a safari style loading/link in the addressbar.
The ability to hide the menus is one of the many reasons i use KDE over gnome, if I'm having a conversation/watching a video/file managing I don't want to be wasting window space on a menubar i rarely use. The only advantage of a fixed menubar is that people are used it, well i for one welcome the menubutton revolution that will force people to get used to menu buttons and make this point moot.
I must be few people, as i doubt PC gaming needs a shot in the arm. The way i see it PC gaming has its market and consoles have theirs. For single seat games it is still (and always will be) the shit, except for a short period around the release of new consoles it is not lacking in the hardware department. The same way that the Wii didn't eat into "real" console sales, i doubt the console are eating into pc game sale, what they are doing is being played by a huge market of people who regularly enjoy playing with friends in the same room. It could be argued that PCs lack the software to play multiplayer in the same place (because the HW is there to do it with emulators), but tbh if your going to do that you need to plug it into a TV so either its expensive (laptop) or pointless (if you have a dedicated gaming box connected to you TV why not just call it a console). If you don't play with local mates -> PC gaming If you play with local mates --------> Console gaming If you only play with local mates --> Casual Gaming
Despite these categories overlapping in terms of both games and players, they do not directly compete much.
No need to argue over semantics, the fact is that the mainline kernel is where all distros pull from, just because its not official doesn't mean he doesn't get to say what goes into "linux", as a result, unless there is a major shake up, it will be a cold day in hell before any distros see BFS (or any sane scheduler) and despite continued efforts to get reiser4 into the kernel it will most probably also fail!
In practice Linus is the gatekeeper, if anybody is in a position to reject bloat it's him!
Erm please try and compile an 11 million line kernel! Oh right its impossible 11 million lines is across all arches. My point is that because you only need to compile a subset of 11M LOC and then you can remove modules your not using (modules make up the majority of an X86 kernel) that what you end up actually running is pretty small, and while adding 10% is bad, because its not big to start with 10% is not as much.
Erm actually its quite the opposite, windows XP got security patches for years, i doubt you'll find a safe 2.6.8 (~2004) kernel about. Even "slow" distros like debian only backport security fixes for 3 years after that you have to upgrade, or start maintaining your own kernel.
Linus should be the one encouraging code reuse, calling people fudgemuffins and rejecting patches until the do reuse code. If he can't go round and to this on all the arches himself, he should get the various maintainers to do it or he wont let *their* patches upstream!
the difference is make menuconfig & modprobe -r bloating in the windows kernel is compulsory! bloat in the linux kernel is optional and much of it can be removed at runtime, ofc if the whole kernel is getting worse every release then that is bad. So before making comparisons to windows it's important do remember that an extra 10% of something small (once you trim the crap you don't need) is less than an extra 10% of something big (because you can't)
If only there was somebody at the top deciding what to let it/reject in such a way to keep the bloat out! While I am a linux/gpl fanboi, i think the bsd distros don't have this problem because they have much stricter people at the top of their kernels, and i think this is yet another sign that Linus should not be the only one running the show. If Linus isn't producing the kernel desktop users need (it's bloated, has the wrong scheduler, etc) then distros should step up and work around the problem GIT makes it very easy for them to start elsewhere, their previous release tree, mm tree, etc and add the patches they require!
Before you jump at me and say that this will ruin Linux by duplicating work, it will still be the (essentially) same code that goes into the pool, its just the administration that changes, and producing incompatible distro's isn't a problem as the userspace API is fairly stable and changes to the ABI for prop drivers can be agreed on by the major players (or they can just follow linus's changes to them, or go crazy and stabilise the ABI so that the prop drivers work)
At one point we had around 150,000 troops in Iraq. 150,000 x $400 = $60 million. And that's the initial outlay and doesn't include the month-to-month cost. So it would be quite expensive, although not prohibitively so, from a cost of war prospective.
I don't suggest it for troops, AFAIK they rarely get taken hostage, I meant for the journalists, etc that the troops have to keep finding.
And thy transmit back to the parent usually by cell service, so you would need a working phone infrastructure.
Is that a limitation of all GPS locater services or just these watches.
The worst of course, would be if the enemy could tap into the signal and find the exact current location of US troops.
I don't suggest using it for troops, but under any system I would suggest only phoning home randomly and infrequently, while this would still be unacceptable for troops, I don't think giving away a journalists position a few times a day is too bad (especially as with proper encryption, you would have to be close enough to detect the actual transmition to locate them anyway)
I suppose your big 4 are still valid 1) It doesn't work from inside buildings, especially basements 2) It needs to be recharged regularly 3) They may be to big (although if it can fit in a watch it can fit in fatty tissues) 4) They may require phone signal (although there may be alternatives)
I've always wondered why reporters/contractors in Iraq & Afghanistan don't get stuff like this (preferably sub-dermal). Is it easy to detect/block/ineffective or simply too much for oil companies/news organizations to spend ~$400 on a statistically significant number of their employees?
A statistically larger percentage of child molestation/abduction coming from within the family/trusted friends, surely means this will give the attackers more of an advantage than the defenders.
Before or after her parents killed her and dumped her body?
Oh and unless she slept with her watch on it would have made fuck all difference if she was abducted. Most child abuse comes from within the family, after that the majority comes from trusted family friends and people who are expected to be with the kids, only a small amount comes from strangers, so this will only be marginally more effective at preventing abuse than snake oil and kids would be better off allowed to go out freely (they would be out of reach their family & family friends). It's not that i think this is bad technology, but its very ineffective (and users should be aware of that) and may encourage bad parenting (not letting the kids go out enough).
I would not trust any one news source in particular over any other; they are all biased in their world view.
They may all be biased, but not all biases are equal! Personally I think there is quite a line between the out and out biases (such as fabrication) you can see and being fair but simply having a different worldview, clumping together FOX,the mail,etc with bbc,al jazeera,etc is pretty disingenuous. BTW what is the particular bias you are pinning on wikinews? (or for that matter BBC/Al Jazeera?)
They cannot survive if they're expected to field a network of professional reporters, produce quality news stories and then give it away free to some other site (like Wikinews).
It seams to be working ok for al jazeera who license thier live footage under CC-BY. I believe the whole point is that the news/footage/information should be given away because: 1)It gets you a reputation and so people are more likely to use the products you make money from 2)The info/news gets out anyway
Between commercial licensed content like al jazeera, national stations (BBC), first hand journalism and press releases, the news is going to be reported. Collating the news can be done by those producing it or it can be done by others such as wikinews.
It's not worth it it only comes in lo-def and you only get a trial version that expires after a short period, but worst of all its closed source so you never know whats going on!
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There is a small (possibly non-existent) intersect. e.g give me one modable game you play with friends on the same machine (emulators do not coun't)
STFU with your facts! We all hate mozilla, now is know time for rational arguments!
Q: What is a webbrowser supposed to do? Display web pages.
Q: What should most of the screen be? The websites.
How often do you really use the menubar? 90% of the time its wasting screenspace and as people push for a consistent UI across platforms it's worth making the change. The next move for them is to take after apple and remove the pointless status bar in favor of a safari style loading/link in the addressbar.
The ability to hide the menus is one of the many reasons i use KDE over gnome, if I'm having a conversation/watching a video/file managing I don't want to be wasting window space on a menubar i rarely use. The only advantage of a fixed menubar is that people are used it, well i for one welcome the menubutton revolution that will force people to get used to menu buttons and make this point moot.
Your an ass^H^H^H mule
Yo Nominum, im really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but microsoft is one of the best trolls of all time!
I must be few people, as i doubt PC gaming needs a shot in the arm. The way i see it PC gaming has its market and consoles have theirs. For single seat games it is still (and always will be) the shit, except for a short period around the release of new consoles it is not lacking in the hardware department. The same way that the Wii didn't eat into "real" console sales, i doubt the console are eating into pc game sale, what they are doing is being played by a huge market of people who regularly enjoy playing with friends in the same room. It could be argued that PCs lack the software to play multiplayer in the same place (because the HW is there to do it with emulators), but tbh if your going to do that you need to plug it into a TV so either its expensive (laptop) or pointless (if you have a dedicated gaming box connected to you TV why not just call it a console).
If you don't play with local mates -> PC gaming
If you play with local mates --------> Console gaming
If you only play with local mates --> Casual Gaming
Despite these categories overlapping in terms of both games and players, they do not directly compete much.
Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux.
I'm not saying he should, but desktop distro's certainly need to!
No need to argue over semantics, the fact is that the mainline kernel is where all distros pull from, just because its not official doesn't mean he doesn't get to say what goes into "linux", as a result, unless there is a major shake up, it will be a cold day in hell before any distros see BFS (or any sane scheduler) and despite continued efforts to get reiser4 into the kernel it will most probably also fail!
In practice Linus is the gatekeeper, if anybody is in a position to reject bloat it's him!
Erm please try and compile an 11 million line kernel! Oh right its impossible 11 million lines is across all arches. My point is that because you only need to compile a subset of 11M LOC and then you can remove modules your not using (modules make up the majority of an X86 kernel) that what you end up actually running is pretty small, and while adding 10% is bad, because its not big to start with 10% is not as much.
Erm actually its quite the opposite, windows XP got security patches for years, i doubt you'll find a safe 2.6.8 (~2004) kernel about. Even "slow" distros like debian only backport security fixes for 3 years after that you have to upgrade, or start maintaining your own kernel.
Linus should be the one encouraging code reuse, calling people fudgemuffins and rejecting patches until the do reuse code. If he can't go round and to this on all the arches himself, he should get the various maintainers to do it or he wont let *their* patches upstream!
You could tweak your driver and improve it's code instead of spending all day chasing to keep up with the latest KBI changes.
He is the gate keeper, he decides what gets in and what does not. If bloat is getting in, its getting let in by him!
the difference is
make menuconfig & modprobe -r
bloating in the windows kernel is compulsory!
bloat in the linux kernel is optional and much of it can be removed at runtime, ofc if the whole kernel is getting worse every release then that is bad. So before making comparisons to windows it's important do remember that an extra 10% of something small (once you trim the crap you don't need) is less than an extra 10% of something big (because you can't)
If only there was somebody at the top deciding what to let it/reject in such a way to keep the bloat out! While I am a linux/gpl fanboi, i think the bsd distros don't have this problem because they have much stricter people at the top of their kernels, and i think this is yet another sign that Linus should not be the only one running the show. If Linus isn't producing the kernel desktop users need (it's bloated, has the wrong scheduler, etc) then distros should step up and work around the problem GIT makes it very easy for them to start elsewhere, their previous release tree, mm tree, etc and add the patches they require!
Before you jump at me and say that this will ruin Linux by duplicating work, it will still be the (essentially) same code that goes into the pool, its just the administration that changes, and producing incompatible distro's isn't a problem as the userspace API is fairly stable and changes to the ABI for prop drivers can be agreed on by the major players (or they can just follow linus's changes to them, or go crazy and stabilise the ABI so that the prop drivers work)
It has not been released yet, until it is we can't be sure. Perhaos it was their plan but surly it cant be anymore!
At one point we had around 150,000 troops in Iraq. 150,000 x $400 = $60 million. And that's the initial outlay and doesn't include the month-to-month cost. So it would be quite expensive, although not prohibitively so, from a cost of war prospective.
I don't suggest it for troops, AFAIK they rarely get taken hostage, I meant for the journalists, etc that the troops have to keep finding.
And thy transmit back to the parent usually by cell service, so you would need a working phone infrastructure.
Is that a limitation of all GPS locater services or just these watches.
The worst of course, would be if the enemy could tap into the signal and find the exact current location of US troops.
I don't suggest using it for troops, but under any system I would suggest only phoning home randomly and infrequently, while this would still be unacceptable for troops, I don't think giving away a journalists position a few times a day is too bad (especially as with proper encryption, you would have to be close enough to detect the actual transmition to locate them anyway)
I suppose your big 4 are still valid
1) It doesn't work from inside buildings, especially basements
2) It needs to be recharged regularly
3) They may be to big (although if it can fit in a watch it can fit in fatty tissues)
4) They may require phone signal (although there may be alternatives)
I've always wondered why reporters/contractors in Iraq & Afghanistan don't get stuff like this (preferably sub-dermal). Is it easy to detect/block/ineffective or simply too much for oil companies/news organizations to spend ~$400 on a statistically significant number of their employees?
I'll pay you $20 million if we can settle this out of court!
A statistically larger percentage of child molestation/abduction coming from within the family/trusted friends, surely means this will give the attackers more of an advantage than the defenders.
Before or after her parents killed her and dumped her body?
Oh and unless she slept with her watch on it would have made fuck all difference if she was abducted. Most child abuse comes from within the family, after that the majority comes from trusted family friends and people who are expected to be with the kids, only a small amount comes from strangers, so this will only be marginally more effective at preventing abuse than snake oil and kids would be better off allowed to go out freely (they would be out of reach their family & family friends). It's not that i think this is bad technology, but its very ineffective (and users should be aware of that) and may encourage bad parenting (not letting the kids go out enough).
I would not trust any one news source in particular over any other; they are all biased in their world view.
They may all be biased, but not all biases are equal! Personally I think there is quite a line between the out and out biases (such as fabrication) you can see and being fair but simply having a different worldview, clumping together FOX,the mail,etc with bbc,al jazeera,etc is pretty disingenuous. BTW what is the particular bias you are pinning on wikinews? (or for that matter BBC /Al Jazeera?)
They cannot survive if they're expected to field a network of professional reporters, produce quality news stories and then give it away free to some other site (like Wikinews).
It seams to be working ok for al jazeera who license thier live footage under CC-BY. I believe the whole point is that the news/footage/information should be given away because:
1)It gets you a reputation and so people are more likely to use the products you make money from
2)The info/news gets out anyway
Between commercial licensed content like al jazeera, national stations (BBC), first hand journalism and press releases, the news is going to be reported. Collating the news can be done by those producing it or it can be done by others such as wikinews.
It's not worth it it only comes in lo-def and you only get a trial version that expires after a short period, but worst of all its closed source so you never know whats going on!
Lets see Free vs Paid, I know which one I trust more.